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Speaker 1: The article out today also in the Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 1: about Americans being obsessed with wellness and I was reading
Speaker 1: an article about this, and in conjunction with the White Lotus,
Speaker 1: I watched the latest episode last night.
Speaker 2: Great show.
Speaker 1: It kind of just makes fun of the uber rich
Speaker 1: and the way they vacation and it's hilarious and it's
Speaker 1: it's so rich because not only is it making fun
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Speaker 1: which is making fun of the people that buy their
Speaker 1: clothes and selling them to the point of being sold out.
Speaker 1: So the people the show is making fun of are
Speaker 1: embracing it. They're embracing being made fun of. They're embracing
Speaker 1: the show. It's kind of fun that way. So we'll
Speaker 1: get into America's wellness obsession coming up in the next hour.
Speaker 2: Well, the fire fallout continues, doesn't it.
Speaker 1: The fires that happened in the Palisades, the fight that
Speaker 1: ensued between Mayor Karen Bass and outgoing La Fire Department
Speaker 1: chief Kristin Crowley. Where we left you last Kristin Crowley,
Speaker 1: of course, had been shown the door a couple weeks ago,
Speaker 1: a couple fridays ago.
Speaker 2: It was overdue.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, I thought that this was going to
Speaker 1: be a relationship that was going to break up, so
Speaker 1: to speak. As soon as Kristin Crowley called out the
Speaker 1: fire chief, excuse me, the mayor and the City of
Speaker 1: La for failing the La Fire Department. I'm not one
Speaker 1: to ask somebody to fall on the sword publicly. I
Speaker 1: do enjoy it when they do. It shows great character,
Speaker 1: it shows great accountability. That was not what Kristin Crowley
Speaker 1: did in that moment. She blamed city Hall and she
Speaker 1: blamed Mayor Bass. Now was there enough blame to go around?
Speaker 1: I would argue, yes, there was blame for all of them.
Speaker 1: There were cuts to the fire department where there should
Speaker 1: not be cuts.
Speaker 2: This is a.
Speaker 1: Fire department that is the most tax We're talking about
Speaker 1: the nine to one to one system in La being
Speaker 1: the most tax This fire department, you could argue, is
Speaker 1: one of the most taxed when you talk about La City,
Speaker 1: La County cowfire. This is a state where fire season
Speaker 1: does not end. We all know this, and the people
Speaker 1: in La City Hall know this. Also, how many friends
Speaker 1: do you really make cutting fire? You might make some
Speaker 1: friends cutting police, but you make no friends cutting fire. Oh,
Speaker 1: they just showed a close up of the crack in
Speaker 1: the egg Amy on the live cam. This. I know
Speaker 1: it's big. It's big. It's not just a crack, you guys.
Speaker 1: It's a crack where like a little hand has come
Speaker 1: out and made it bigger. What did they call the
Speaker 1: hands on the on the eglitz wings? Maybe a wing,
Speaker 1: but maybe a claw.
Speaker 2: Talent the talent.
Speaker 1: It looks like a talent has gotten in there. Oh,
Speaker 1: and there's Jackie in shadow and she's like checking up
Speaker 1: on that crack.
Speaker 2: There's enough set of talent in the crack, right.
Speaker 1: Oh, she just kind of covered it up because she
Speaker 1: saw we went in for the close up and now
Speaker 1: she's being a pretective mom of eagle.
Speaker 2: And I'm not sure. I'm looking at the feet. I
Speaker 2: haven't seen the any comments, but I think there's another pip.
Speaker 2: I think another other crack. It looks like at another egg.
Speaker 1: Has we got two cracks and percent sure on that
Speaker 1: one two cracks in the next Yeah, and that one
Speaker 1: egg I felt like I saw because the crack has
Speaker 1: become more of a bit of a hole, not just
Speaker 1: a crack, but a hole. And I think I saw
Speaker 1: a little talent, little baby talent in there. I don't
Speaker 1: know anyway was I talking about right?
Speaker 2: Fire? So some more interesting? They really are, They really are.
Speaker 1: There's so much more lovable than anything going on at
Speaker 1: city Hall. But there was enough blame. There was a
Speaker 1: lot of pointed fingers and what have you. And while
Speaker 1: I was on the mountain of yeah, Karen Bass handled
Speaker 1: this the wrong way. We knew there was a bad
Speaker 1: weather event coming. Gary and I sat here on that
Speaker 1: Monday before the fires, and we said, this seems like
Speaker 1: the real deal. We're gonna have some real fire danger.
Speaker 1: We talked to Henry, Henry to car from Katla, who said,
Speaker 1: this is not a boy who cried wolf situation. The
Speaker 1: way the winds are coming down from the top of
Speaker 1: the cold mountains, and the way that they're going to
Speaker 1: run right into the homes and the urban wildlife interface.
Speaker 2: We are screwed.
Speaker 1: We all know, We knew we were screwed, and Karen
Speaker 1: still kept her trip to Africa.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: I always thought that there was blame to be had
Speaker 1: by Kristin Crowley as well.
Speaker 2: The optics not great with her.
Speaker 1: She didn't seem like this is unfair, maybe, but it
Speaker 1: didn't seem like she had the gravitas to lead the
Speaker 1: LA Fire Department. And what I said last week still
Speaker 1: rings true in my opinion. If you don't have the
Speaker 1: poll to get the funding at city Hall, you don't
Speaker 1: have the pole, period and you shouldn't be the head
Speaker 1: of a major department like the LA Fire Department. If
Speaker 1: you can't get the money that your department needs, part
Speaker 1: of that lands on your shoulders.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, it's just the way the world works.
Speaker 1: And now we're getting the text messages that happened at
Speaker 1: the fire times. This is thanks to ABC investigative reporter
Speaker 1: Kevin O.
Speaker 2: Excuse me if I'm screwing up his name.
Speaker 1: Kevin was able to obtain text messages to and from
Speaker 1: the fire chief in the moments leading up to the
Speaker 1: Palisades fire and in the moments after we knew the
Speaker 1: fire had erupted.
Speaker 2: Kevin went out and.
Speaker 1: Filled out a public records request, which is a pain
Speaker 1: in the arse. If you are a reporter, you know
Speaker 1: what a big pain in the arse it is. He
Speaker 1: weeded through all of these documents, he found the text messages,
Speaker 1: and they do shed light on our hypothesis that maybe
Speaker 1: she was not the chief to be at the helm
Speaker 1: during this disaster. Just like Mayor Karen Bass dropped the ball,
Speaker 1: seems like Kristen Crawley dropped the ball as well, or
Speaker 1: at least maybe not up to the task of leading
Speaker 1: a department in a catastrophe this large. We'll get into
Speaker 1: those text messages when we come back. Here's a tease.
Speaker 1: One of the La County fire chiefs texted her the
Speaker 1: morning of these fires and said, not good. This was
Speaker 1: at eleven eighteen broke news of that fire, which was
Speaker 1: spotted by one of our listeners, one of the first
Speaker 1: people who spoted that fire. I want to say about
Speaker 1: ten twenty seven am when it broke out. This was
Speaker 1: a message that came in about an hour later. He
Speaker 1: Tony Morony texted Kristin Crowley, this fire County fire chief
Speaker 1: tested the La City fire chief not good. She just
Speaker 1: wrote back one word, no, you want a little bit
Speaker 1: more than that from your fire chief. Do you not
Speaker 1: watching the Big Bear bald eagle live cam? Because Jackie
Speaker 1: and shadow of got three eggs there in their nest
Speaker 1: and they are being very protective I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's Jackie or's Shadow, but he or she has put
Speaker 1: herself squarely between the camera and her baby eggs, which
Speaker 1: goes to my problem. If I did have a problem
Speaker 1: with the Big Bear Bald Eagle live cam, I've had
Speaker 1: it from go so for years now. They never consented
Speaker 1: to this. They never signed the release that put them
Speaker 1: on the Real Life or whatever. They never signed on
Speaker 1: for Big Brother, They never signed on for any of this.
Speaker 1: They wanted to just live their lives as eagles, making
Speaker 1: their babies, doing their thing, sitting on the eggs, waiting
Speaker 1: until they hatch, and here all we are just watching
Speaker 1: this all play out. It's kind of perverse, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Whoever was guarding the eggs has flown off and now
Speaker 1: it's either Jackie or Shadow who's laying on set eggs.
Speaker 1: So both of the eagles were in the nest because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of activity going on. If you missed it,
Speaker 1: there was a big crack in one of the eggs,
Speaker 1: a pip in the biz is how you say it,
Speaker 1: and it looks more like a hole than a crack,
Speaker 1: And I think I saw a little bit of a
Speaker 1: baby talon there as well. Amy King said at the
Speaker 1: eighteen degrees up there in that nest. So who knows
Speaker 1: whether that means that the baby's going to be anxious
Speaker 1: to come out already digging a hole through that crack,
Speaker 1: or maybe the hole is big enough to where the
Speaker 1: baby says hell, no, I'm waiting till summer, or at
Speaker 1: least a couple more days, three to five days. I
Speaker 1: guess after the pip happens, is when the baby is
Speaker 1: the eaglet has hatched, the baby is born, whatever you
Speaker 1: want to say, Okay, Just briefly to tie up this
Speaker 1: text message situation that happened with the chief of the
Speaker 1: fire department in the moments leading up to the Palisades fire,
Speaker 1: in the moments after. Again, this is from ABC seven.
Speaker 1: They have an investigative reporter there, Kevin Osbeck, who was
Speaker 1: able to obtain these text messages thanks to a public
Speaker 1: records request. He says that he has found these text messages,
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, the one before the break in incoming
Speaker 1: text in the first hour of the fire from La
Speaker 1: County Fire Chief Tony Moroney said not good to Kristin Crowley.
Speaker 2: She responded no. Now.
Speaker 1: One of the assertions has been that the La Mayor
Speaker 1: Karen Bass was just not here when the fires war
Speaker 1: going on, and that is true. She did not cancel
Speaker 1: her trip to Africa, but she did put a second
Speaker 1: in command, Council President Marquise Harris Dawson's office. The text
Speaker 1: messages will show you reached out to her before the
Speaker 1: fire even started. He was all hands on deck or
Speaker 1: his office was. He reached out when we were on
Speaker 1: this show talking about the weather event with Henry de
Speaker 1: Carlo a day before the fire erupted. He had texted her,
Speaker 1: according to these records, about the fire event and said
Speaker 1: we would like to be in touch with you and
Speaker 1: so to speak. And she did not really get back
Speaker 1: to him. She had a aid reach out to his office.
Speaker 1: Who is He's acting mayor at this time by the way,
Speaker 1: because Karen Bass is out of the country so the
Speaker 1: city even so to speak, so he is the acting
Speaker 1: mayor and he doesn't even get a text back from
Speaker 1: Kristin Crowley or a phone call or anything. As this
Speaker 1: weather event is about to start in just twenty four hours,
Speaker 1: the aid tells Kristin Crowley, I briefed him on our
Speaker 1: deployment in our prep efforts, also our needs for additional resources.
Speaker 2: So the fire starts to break.
Speaker 1: Out the next the next hour or so, the next day,
Speaker 1: excuse me. And as the fire is breaking out, you're
Speaker 1: seeing kind of just some vague correspondence between Kristin Crowley
Speaker 1: and other people involved with the chain of command. At
Speaker 1: one point, the LA Emergency Management Department GM Carol Parks
Speaker 1: is sending messages saying, hey, we're going to be at
Speaker 1: level three, we need people here. The text was the EOC,
Speaker 1: the Emergency Center, the brain of this operation for the
Speaker 1: for the city is in need of leadership.
Speaker 2: They wrote to the chief, please advise.
Speaker 1: Who from your department can respond to the eocasap. So
Speaker 1: this was already mismanaged from from go, from within an.
Speaker 2: Hour of after this fire started.
Speaker 1: I mean, the timeline to me shows that the acting
Speaker 1: mayor reached out to the fire chief the day before
Speaker 1: this happened and said, hey, keep us in the loop.
Speaker 1: We want to know we have this major fire event.
Speaker 1: She didn't even get back to him. She had an
Speaker 1: aid kind of get back to him with some sort
Speaker 1: of corporate speak. We've got the resources and we've got
Speaker 1: the blah blah blah, but no real communication. And then
Speaker 1: you've got the fire breaking out, and the people that
Speaker 1: are running the emergency center saying to the chief, Hey,
Speaker 1: we need someone from your department here so they can
Speaker 1: be involved in calling the shots, to which the fire
Speaker 1: chief responds, oh, there's a chief en route. There should
Speaker 1: have been someone there from the fire department the day
Speaker 1: before the fire started, prepping the brain of this response
Speaker 1: to get ready on how to respond. Instead, the fire
Speaker 1: forecast was put out, nobody came. The center was staffed
Speaker 1: to a level three thanks to the powers that be
Speaker 1: being Carol Parks, the GM at the brain of this operation,
Speaker 1: and in fact, the fire starts and in an hour
Speaker 1: or two or three go by and still no one
Speaker 1: from the fire department is there to call the shots.
Speaker 1: So it seems like Crowley, according to these text messages,
Speaker 1: was in over her head. And here's the best one
Speaker 1: of all of them. We talk about how politics is
Speaker 1: so dirty. We talk about what you need to do
Speaker 1: and what friends you need to make as you rise
Speaker 1: the ranks from whatever political organization you're in. And make
Speaker 1: no doubt about it, police and fire, those are political organizations.
Speaker 1: So in the days after the Palisades fire first broke out,
Speaker 1: Kristin Crowley the chief at the time, received numerous signs
Speaker 1: of support based on her text messages thanks to ABC
Speaker 1: seven's investigative reporter Kevin Osback, who went and plowed through
Speaker 1: all the paperwork to find these. Here's my favorite text
Speaker 1: that I read through. An unidentified individual texted on January eleventh.
Speaker 1: Let's see the fire broke out on what the seventh
Speaker 1: of January something like that. This is just days after
Speaker 1: she gets this text message, getting mixed news reports about
Speaker 1: your future employment. If you need expert testimony in the future,
Speaker 1: or simply a Jersey guy to come out there and
Speaker 1: straighten things out with the polls, you have my number. Now.
Speaker 1: That text message tells us three things. Number One, it
Speaker 1: wasn't just us who saw her job hanging by a
Speaker 1: thread after she came out and laid the police chief
Speaker 1: out for or the mayor. Why do I keep saying
Speaker 1: that when she laid out the mayor for not being
Speaker 1: in the country, it wasn't just us that was talking about.
Speaker 2: Eh, she probably not gonna have a job for a while.
Speaker 1: Number Two, if you need expert testimony, Expert testimony is
Speaker 1: bought and sold for Expert testimony is people that are
Speaker 1: paid tens of thousands of dollars to come in and
Speaker 1: tell the court, a jury, a judge, what you want
Speaker 1: to hear. That's how expert testimony is. It's paid, and
Speaker 1: it's paid, and it's it's bought sold for all of it.
Speaker 1: And then you need a Jersey guy to come out
Speaker 1: there and straighten things out with the polls. Do you
Speaker 1: need me to come out there and break people's knees?
Speaker 1: I mean not really, but you need a tough guy.
Speaker 1: So this person is not only saying, hey, I hear
Speaker 1: you're out of a job. You need me, but then
Speaker 1: kind of then kind of getting into the criminal territory
Speaker 1: of I will be your friend if you make me
Speaker 1: an expert witness in a case that may or may
Speaker 1: be related to this fire or your employment, and therefore
Speaker 1: I will get tons of thousands of dollars. And number three,
Speaker 1: I will create political violence for you so that you
Speaker 1: can keep your position. There's a lot in that text message, anyway,
Speaker 1: she wrote back to him, Good to hear from you.
Speaker 1: I have not been fired. Thanks for looking out for me.
Speaker 1: Read the subtext there. So those text messages kind of
Speaker 1: layout make me feel a little bit better about thinking that.
Speaker 1: Kristin Crowley may have been in over her head when
Speaker 1: this catask. A lot of people would be right. That's
Speaker 1: a tough order to get when you've got two of
Speaker 1: the biggest fires in La County history and they're happening
Speaker 1: at the same.
Speaker 2: Time, and your department is not.
Speaker 1: Staffed to the levels it needs to be, the city
Speaker 1: is not prepared where it needs to be, the water
Speaker 1: levels not where they prepared to be. That the staffing
Speaker 1: cut all of it. It's a tough order. It's a
Speaker 1: tall order, i should say, but she was definitely in
Speaker 1: over her head and now we have the text messages
Speaker 1: to prove that. Coming up next, we will get into
Speaker 1: the Huntington Park update. This is the story we talked
Speaker 1: about earlier. Huntington Park one of those areas kind of
Speaker 1: like Bell. You're kind of feeling the same vibes you
Speaker 1: felt when the Bell scandal broke a lot of money
Speaker 1: in this local government, but nobody's really paying attention, and
Speaker 1: whenever that happens, you can bet you're going to find corruption.
Speaker 2: And that is what happened.
Speaker 1: There was this planned aquatic center that they raised a
Speaker 1: bunch of money for in the town of Huntington Park.
Speaker 1: Turns out they collected all that money, but was the
Speaker 1: aquatic center ever built?
Speaker 2: Nope.
Speaker 1: Pipping is a signal for other chicks to start pipping.
Speaker 2: Eh. So, once the first.
Speaker 1: Little baby pokes his little talent through like in Jurassic Park,
Speaker 1: the other baby's like, hey, I got to get out too.
Speaker 1: This little guy's gonna steal all the worms or whatever
Speaker 1: it is that they eat.
Speaker 2: Do they eat worms or do they eat other things?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I just know they eat out of
Speaker 2: their parents' mouths. Yeah, regurgitation.
Speaker 1: Let me chew this up for you and make it
Speaker 1: easier for you to swallow it. All sounded horrible, and
Speaker 1: I apologize. So we will keep an eye on Jackie
Speaker 1: in Shadow again if you miss the news. One of
Speaker 1: the three eggs is showing signs of hatching. It was
Speaker 1: a crack and now it looks like, at least in
Speaker 1: my estimation, a bit of a hole. We will see
Speaker 1: what goes on with the other eggs. Jackie and Shadow
Speaker 1: have been hanging out at the nest right now. I
Speaker 1: think it's just Jackie or maybe Shadow, but it looks
Speaker 1: like a smaller bird and I don't know which one's bigger,
Speaker 1: but I would assume the female smaller is sitting on
Speaker 1: those eggs. We will get to our wellness segment coming
Speaker 1: up in the next segment. Actually, because there was an
Speaker 1: article in the Wall Street Journal about the White Lotus
Speaker 1: taking on our wellness obsession, and I got to say,
Speaker 1: when I'm watching this show and I realize that they're
Speaker 1: making fun of it, and especially here in LA, it's
Speaker 1: actually not as stark as it would be if we
Speaker 1: were probably watching this in Minneapolis or something where we're
Speaker 1: not confronted with the wellness world around every corner like
Speaker 1: we are in LA. But it is obvious when you
Speaker 1: watch it, even if you're from here. And some of
Speaker 1: the stuff sounds good, the digital detoxes, the meditation, the
Speaker 1: Buddhist stuff. We'll get into that coming up next. Huntington
Speaker 1: Park is the scene of the latest public corruption investigation.
Speaker 1: And this was really rich. The mayor had to say,
Speaker 1: the mayor whose home was searched, whose offices were searched
Speaker 1: as part of this ongoing public corruption investigation, which started,
Speaker 1: by the way, in November twenty twenty two. So they've
Speaker 1: been getting high on the hog for quite some time.
Speaker 1: Now they're in Huntington Park. If there were whiffs of
Speaker 1: corruption back in November of twenty twenty two, and the
Speaker 1: searches are just being carried out now in early twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. These people have been playing dirty for quite
Speaker 1: some time and thinking they were getting away with it.
Speaker 1: Operation Dirty Pond is what it was called. And we
Speaker 1: told you about this last week. This is all centered
Speaker 1: around this planned aquatic center. It was expected to be
Speaker 1: built at Salt Lake Park. It was to include an
Speaker 1: indoor pool, twenty three acre public park. Salt Lake Park
Speaker 1: is it has several athletic fields and courts, and in
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, the City of Huntington Park released rendition of
Speaker 1: what it would look like. Well, six years later, the
Speaker 1: site where this was supposed to be this beautiful aquatic center,
Speaker 1: it's an empty lot. Vice Mayor Arturo Flores seems to
Speaker 1: be one of the good guys. He estimates about fourteen
Speaker 1: million has been spent by the city for what an
Speaker 1: empty lot, in his words, with dead grass and nothing
Speaker 1: to show for those millions of dollars. He is livid
Speaker 1: among other people in Huntington Park who are livid. On
Speaker 1: Fridays meeting, they slammed city officials. They went after them
Speaker 1: and saying you know what it's really the children you're
Speaker 1: screwing over. And it's true who uses those parks. It's
Speaker 1: elderly people looking to get some fresh air, whether it's
Speaker 1: their loved ones or their caretakers or whatever, taking them
Speaker 1: for a walk or what have you around a nice area.
Speaker 1: It's kids that are playing in the fields or the
Speaker 1: pools or.
Speaker 2: What have you.
Speaker 1: Those are the people, the least vulnerable, the ones you
Speaker 1: want to help the most. I guess you could argue
Speaker 1: that are getting screwed over by your corruption, by you
Speaker 1: wanting to line your own pockets with money that's earmarked
Speaker 1: for the community. And again, if somebody mentioned that I
Speaker 1: mentioned last week.
Speaker 2: This is as old as time.
Speaker 1: What public dollars going to a corrupt elected official and
Speaker 1: then them spending it on themselves.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is nothing new.
Speaker 1: It's just shocking this day and age, especially after Bell
Speaker 1: and what happened, that one of these local governments would
Speaker 1: be able to think they got away with it, or
Speaker 1: that they could get away with it, and then continue
Speaker 1: to do so for years, and to the tune of
Speaker 1: fourteen million dollars in Huntington Park. You know, fourteen million
Speaker 1: can go missing in Los Angeles. Nobody bats an eye.
Speaker 1: Huntington Park fourteen million goes missing. You're pretty bold. You
Speaker 1: are pretty brazen if you think you're going to get
Speaker 1: away with that. Karina Massias is the Huntington Park and
Speaker 1: she has addressed the investigation. It was during that special
Speaker 1: city council meeting where they all caught hell that she
Speaker 1: said that it was misinformation that has surfaced, misinformation, And
Speaker 1: she even went on to say this, and this is
Speaker 1: my favorite part. She said, this is a woman whose
Speaker 1: home has been searched, her offices have been searched.
Speaker 2: By all means.
Speaker 1: Karina Massius knew all of this was going on and
Speaker 1: was the beneficiary to all of this for quite some time. So,
Speaker 1: Karina Massia says this on Friday, our hard working city
Speaker 1: staff is working diligently with authorities to make sure they
Speaker 1: received any and all information related to the Salt Lake
Speaker 1: Park Aquatic Center.
Speaker 2: So far, so good.
Speaker 1: Then she says, this information could have been easily requested
Speaker 1: via public records requests and could have prevented all of
Speaker 1: the politically driven chaos and misinformation. All right, let's give
Speaker 1: her the benefit of the doubt. Let's give Karina the
Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt. Maybe it's all a lie. Maybe
Speaker 1: there's no there there, But when the District Attorney's office
Speaker 1: launches a formal investigation three years ago and has enough,
Speaker 1: has crossed their t's and dotted their eyes enough to
Speaker 1: search your home three years later, there is there there.
Speaker 1: And for her to say that the DA's office should
Speaker 1: have filled out a public records request, this is not
Speaker 1: somebody from the Huntington Park Signal or whatever the local
Speaker 1: paper is there. This is not even the La Times
Speaker 1: it wants to get into her records. This is the
Speaker 1: DA's office. When the DA's office and the police, the
Speaker 1: guys with the badges, they come to your home, they
Speaker 1: come calling, usually they don't have to fill out a
Speaker 1: public records request, Karina. That's not how the law works.
Speaker 1: And so anyway, that's where they stand. I would love
Speaker 1: to get a hold of and we are going to
Speaker 1: effort to do so. The Vice mayor. There are turo
Speaker 1: flores because, like we saw in Bell, not everybody's a monster.
Speaker 1: Innocent people on these boards, these elected these elected city
Speaker 1: places that did not know what was going on and
Speaker 1: were kind of left out of the click the corrupt collick,
Speaker 1: shall we say, And it seems like Arturo Flores was
Speaker 1: one of those people, so we'll look to talk to
Speaker 1: him coming up later in the week, because this story
Speaker 1: is not going anywhere. You don't collect fourteen million in
Speaker 1: Huntington Park and then just urinate it away and think
Speaker 1: no one is going to raise their hand and ask
Speaker 1: questions about a little bit. It's like taking a walk
Speaker 1: after we eat the doritos. Eh, you can have best
Speaker 1: of both worlds. The watch is on at Big Bear,
Speaker 1: the Bald Eagle nest, Jackie and Shadow.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 1: There was a sign yesterday, the first sign that they
Speaker 1: may soon have a hatchling, of course, after several years
Speaker 1: of disappointment.
Speaker 2: We won't get into the details of that.
Speaker 1: The initial pip was confirmed yesterday at three h nine
Speaker 1: hour time a thrilling time. This is a twenty four
Speaker 1: hour webcam that shows the eagles one hundred and forty
Speaker 1: five foot high nest and a Jeffrey Pine overlooking Big
Speaker 1: Bear Lake. The vantage point is just gorgeous overlooking the
Speaker 1: lake and the snow on the shores, and it's a
Speaker 1: perfect angle on this beautiful, big, big, beautiful nest that
Speaker 1: they have built their Jackie in Shadow and it seems
Speaker 1: like one of them it's not just a crack or
Speaker 1: a pip, as they say in the industry, appears to
Speaker 1: be a hole at least one of those eggs. There
Speaker 1: are three of them total, and we have heard through
Speaker 1: the people in the know that when one egg starts
Speaker 1: to pip, the other eggs kind of catch on. So
Speaker 1: we will bring you all the developments coming out of
Speaker 1: that nest. Sometimes the words we say of this show
Speaker 1: is ridiculous. I'll bring you all the news come out
Speaker 1: of that nest. We talked about the oscars, and as
Speaker 1: I mentioned, one of my friends said, oh, you missed
Speaker 1: Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan at the end, and oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, goodness, Amy King told me I missed the
Speaker 1: wicked production at the beginning. I missed the best parts.
Speaker 1: I turned it off right before the best picture. I
Speaker 1: was just kind of bored with the whole thing. There
Speaker 1: wasn't enough people punching each other in the face or
Speaker 1: what have you. And I wanted to watch The White Lotus,
Speaker 1: which is why I turned it off for this, the
Speaker 1: latest episode of The White Lotus that dropped yesterday, Because
Speaker 1: it's fun to watch rich white people be uncomfortable and
Speaker 1: it's just such a It's why, you know, the housewives
Speaker 1: are so lucrative. It's not that we're interested in them.
Speaker 1: We're interested in the train wreck that happens when people
Speaker 1: have too much money. It's so fun to watch, isn't it,
Speaker 1: Especially when you don't have what they have.
Speaker 2: Is there just a schotten freud or what have you.
Speaker 1: It's a very human reaction, and The White Lotus makes
Speaker 1: fun of these people, and it always has.
Speaker 2: We're in season.
Speaker 1: Three and they Wall Street Journal had an article out
Speaker 1: yesterday saying that the new season tackles our wellness obsession.
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like every season of The White
Speaker 1: Lotus has done that. Our indulgence in travel and the
Speaker 1: way that people travel in America, how they go to
Speaker 1: countries in this season like Thailand and expect things like
Speaker 1: their feet to be washed upon arrival after they get
Speaker 1: off their yacht, complaining about the fact that they had
Speaker 1: to take a boat from their yacht to the resort
Speaker 1: where they wash their feet.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's all that ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Digital detox is one of the things they feature on
Speaker 1: this season of The White Lotus that kind of has
Speaker 1: appealed to me. Every episode where they bring this up.
Speaker 1: The whole premise is you get to the island or
Speaker 1: you get to the resort on Thailand, and you give
Speaker 1: them your phones so you don't have your phone for
Speaker 1: the whole week.
Speaker 2: And how freeing that's been.
Speaker 1: We've talked about study after study that says it really
Speaker 1: does make you feel less stressed not to have your
Speaker 1: phone in the same room as you. They take it
Speaker 1: for the week, and as you can imagine, that's a
Speaker 1: major sticking point for some of the rich people. But anyway,
Speaker 1: digital detox is what they call it. There are meditation sessions,
Speaker 1: specialized massage sessions, Buddhist philosophy. It seems like there is
Speaker 1: this greater wellness obsession that's been going on and they're
Speaker 1: just shining a light on it. Balding treatments, they're saying,
Speaker 1: is the new botox. This was in the cut, and
Speaker 1: every so now and again there'll become a new story
Speaker 1: about balding treatments. Once every couple years they will become
Speaker 1: in vogue again, which is always odd to me because
Speaker 1: people I know that are bald kind of embrace it.
Speaker 1: Like Neil, for example, Bald embraces it. It's part of
Speaker 1: who he is. He's badass, and the bald kind of
Speaker 1: adds to it. I never really knew anyone who was
Speaker 1: bald that didn't want to be, And I guess that's
Speaker 1: when they just completely shave it and they just live
Speaker 1: their bald life. Right. But if you're struggling with that,
Speaker 1: and I don't know anybody who is, or at least
Speaker 1: outwardly or talks about it, it sounds awful. Like this article,
Speaker 1: they profiled a guy named Daniel in his early twenties.
Speaker 1: When he noticed he was losing his hair, he freaks out.
Speaker 1: He buys rogain. This was the only thing he could afford.
Speaker 1: He was in his twenties, and he would put it
Speaker 1: on morning and night, and he tried not to think
Speaker 1: too much about it. He avoided mirrors, he avoided looking
Speaker 1: himself in photos, like what a hard thing to go through.
Speaker 1: He would use a self checkout counter at the pharmacy
Speaker 1: so no one would see him buying the roguain. His friends,
Speaker 1: he said, started mentioning his bald spot to him. He said,
Speaker 1: it was the feeling of a knife going through me.
Speaker 1: So he starts searching for other treatments. And he went
Speaker 1: where so many of us go, and we start searching
Speaker 1: to better ourselves.
Speaker 2: He went to Reddit.
Speaker 1: And he got interested in something called PR. It's a
Speaker 1: shorthand for platelet rich plasma therapy. Platements from your blood
Speaker 1: cells are reinjected into your scalp to stimulate hair growth.
Speaker 1: And he got this discount coupon code for these type
Speaker 1: of treatments at a new you guessed it, medspa in
Speaker 1: North Hollywood, so he books an appointment. This is a
Speaker 1: medspa that one of several balding oriented startups funded and
Speaker 1: in some cases founded by venture capital firms looking for
Speaker 1: a piece of the three billion dollars that people spend
Speaker 1: here in North America to stay part of the hair community.
Speaker 1: That's twice the amount that they spend on viagra and
Speaker 1: the like. It's that big of a deal that I
Speaker 1: didn't know about three billion dollars. And those medspas they
Speaker 1: play right into that wellness obsession that's around every corner
Speaker 1: in LA, don't they.
Speaker 2: Those medspas.
Speaker 1: They are smart and they are manipulative with their mailers
Speaker 1: and with their pop up ads. You could be talking
Speaker 1: to a friend, I could be talking to Keana off
Speaker 1: the air like oh yeah, I feel really bad, like
Speaker 1: I've got like hair on my face, or I could
Speaker 1: be talking about something super private, like a woman worrying
Speaker 1: about hair on her face, and they listen to you
Speaker 1: and then they'll send me a targeted ad like worried
Speaker 1: about looking like a bearded uncle. You disgusting monster. Come
Speaker 1: to this medspa on your way home. We can get
Speaker 1: you in at one forty five. I mean, they have
Speaker 1: gotten so clever about exposing all of your insecurities that
Speaker 1: you don't even tell them about. You're they're listening to you.
Speaker 1: And there's something to be said for knowing that venture
Speaker 1: capital firms are involved in the baldness industry.
Speaker 2: That makes me want to go bald and do nothing
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, the fact that they are making that much
Speaker 1: money off your insecurity something you probably can't even fix.
Speaker 1: It's just the way God Majia is so gross and
Speaker 1: so wrong and they're capitalizing on that. And it's just
Speaker 1: I mean, don't get me wrong. I do love a medspa.
Speaker 1: I do play into all of that, do wax my
Speaker 1: face like I do all of those things.
Speaker 2: Because that's just what we do.
Speaker 1: But they don't need to be so gross and filthy
Speaker 1: about it. And the fact that this guy Daniel's friends.
Speaker 1: We're pointing out his bald spot. You need new friends, Daniel,
Speaker 1: friends should point out your bald spot.
Speaker 2: Do I have a bald spot? You're not pointing out Keana. No,
Speaker 2: not that I can tell that. It's okay. I do.
Speaker 1: Anyway, we do have an obsession with wellness, and it's
Speaker 1: okay to be well. I guess the takeaway is just
Speaker 1: don't let them steal all your money in the process
Speaker 1: of doing so, because that's the thing. It's like it
Speaker 1: started with Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop. It's all about feeling good
Speaker 1: self care, and then they mark up the price seventeen
Speaker 1: times to make you feel like you're doing something good
Speaker 1: for yourself.
Speaker 2: Target has perfectly good products.
Speaker 1: You want to feel good about yourself, you want to
Speaker 1: feel well, go to Target and spend like twenty five bucks,
Speaker 1: not three million on baldness products. Sure, that's my soapbox
Speaker 1: of the day. You're bald and you're beautiful.
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