WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.839 Am six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:07.200 on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:09.720 Just joining us. You're an hour late. If you miss any. 5 00:00:09.519 --> 00:00:12.160 Part of the show, catch up with our podcast on 6 00:00:12.199 --> 00:00:16.039 the iHeartRadio app. Just follow us at Gary and Shannon, 7 00:00:16.719 --> 00:00:19.320 and we are asking you to use that iHeartRadio app 8 00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:22.760 today using the talkback feature. Just tap that microphone there 9 00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:25.120 and let us know what chores turn you on. 10 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:27.640 Okay, that sounded odd. 11 00:00:28.280 --> 00:00:31.320 The story is about Americans, and more than half of 12 00:00:31.399 --> 00:00:33.840 us say that we are turned on when our partner 13 00:00:33.880 --> 00:00:36.920 does chores. That that is a thing that makes you 14 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:41.320 love them even more because well, they're doing something. They're 15 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:43.560 doing something to make your life easier too. So let 16 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:45.560 us know what chore it is for you. If this 17 00:00:45.679 --> 00:00:47.479 is the case, if it's not the case, if you 18 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:49.640 wish your partner would do more all of those things, 19 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:51.759 we will be happy to listen to your calls and 20 00:00:51.799 --> 00:00:54.320 we'll get to them coming up in the eleven o'clock 21 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:57.960 hour again using that talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. 22 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:00.679 The article out today also in the Wall Street Journal, 23 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:04.760 about Americans being obsessed with wellness and I was reading 24 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:08.799 an article about this, and in conjunction with the White Lotus, 25 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:10.680 I watched the latest episode last night. 26 00:01:10.760 --> 00:01:11.359 Great show. 27 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:13.760 It kind of just makes fun of the uber rich 28 00:01:14.239 --> 00:01:17.359 and the way they vacation and it's hilarious and it's 29 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:21.560 it's so rich because not only is it making fun 30 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:24.879 of the rich and how they vacation, the rich and 31 00:01:24.959 --> 00:01:27.519 the vacationing rich have kind of taken ownership of this 32 00:01:28.040 --> 00:01:31.519 to the tune of Banana Republic having a White Lotus 33 00:01:31.640 --> 00:01:38.959 vacation clothing line that they are featuring fashions on this show, 34 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:40.920 which is making fun of the people that buy their 35 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:44.239 clothes and selling them to the point of being sold out. 36 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:46.799 So the people the show is making fun of are 37 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:49.959 embracing it. They're embracing being made fun of. They're embracing 38 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:52.400 the show. It's kind of fun that way. So we'll 39 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:56.159 get into America's wellness obsession coming up in the next hour. 40 00:01:57.239 --> 00:02:00.000 Well, the fire fallout continues, doesn't it. 41 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:02.760 The fires that happened in the Palisades, the fight that 42 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:06.799 ensued between Mayor Karen Bass and outgoing La Fire Department 43 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:11.039 chief Kristin Crowley. Where we left you last Kristin Crowley, 44 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:14.879 of course, had been shown the door a couple weeks ago, 45 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:16.199 a couple fridays ago. 46 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:17.840 It was overdue. 47 00:02:17.879 --> 00:02:19.919 In my opinion, I thought that this was going to 48 00:02:19.960 --> 00:02:23.680 be a relationship that was going to break up, so 49 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:26.400 to speak. As soon as Kristin Crowley called out the 50 00:02:26.439 --> 00:02:29.879 fire chief, excuse me, the mayor and the City of 51 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:34.840 La for failing the La Fire Department. I'm not one 52 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:37.120 to ask somebody to fall on the sword publicly. I 53 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:40.080 do enjoy it when they do. It shows great character, 54 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:43.719 it shows great accountability. That was not what Kristin Crowley 55 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:46.639 did in that moment. She blamed city Hall and she 56 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:50.199 blamed Mayor Bass. Now was there enough blame to go around? 57 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:52.800 I would argue, yes, there was blame for all of them. 58 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:56.599 There were cuts to the fire department where there should 59 00:02:56.639 --> 00:02:57.400 not be cuts. 60 00:02:57.800 --> 00:02:58.400 This is a. 61 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:01.680 Fire department that is the most tax We're talking about 62 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:03.439 the nine to one to one system in La being 63 00:03:03.439 --> 00:03:06.360 the most tax This fire department, you could argue, is 64 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:09.240 one of the most taxed when you talk about La City, 65 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:13.199 La County cowfire. This is a state where fire season 66 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:16.319 does not end. We all know this, and the people 67 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:19.400 in La City Hall know this. Also, how many friends 68 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:23.000 do you really make cutting fire? You might make some 69 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:27.240 friends cutting police, but you make no friends cutting fire. Oh, 70 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:29.759 they just showed a close up of the crack in 71 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:32.759 the egg Amy on the live cam. This. I know 72 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:36.759 it's big. It's big. It's not just a crack, you guys. 73 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:39.360 It's a crack where like a little hand has come 74 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:41.240 out and made it bigger. What did they call the 75 00:03:41.319 --> 00:03:44.800 hands on the on the eglitz wings? Maybe a wing, 76 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:45.960 but maybe a claw. 77 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:47.159 Talent the talent. 78 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:49.280 It looks like a talent has gotten in there. Oh, 79 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:51.639 and there's Jackie in shadow and she's like checking up 80 00:03:51.639 --> 00:03:52.199 on that crack. 81 00:03:52.759 --> 00:03:56.039 There's enough set of talent in the crack, right. 82 00:03:56.199 --> 00:03:57.759 Oh, she just kind of covered it up because she 83 00:03:57.800 --> 00:03:59.319 saw we went in for the close up and now 84 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:02.199 she's being a pretective mom of eagle. 85 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:04.680 And I'm not sure. I'm looking at the feet. I 86 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:08.120 haven't seen the any comments, but I think there's another pip. 87 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:11.120 I think another other crack. It looks like at another egg. 88 00:04:11.159 --> 00:04:13.719 Has we got two cracks and percent sure on that 89 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:17.040 one two cracks in the next Yeah, and that one 90 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:20.279 egg I felt like I saw because the crack has 91 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:22.600 become more of a bit of a hole, not just 92 00:04:22.639 --> 00:04:24.560 a crack, but a hole. And I think I saw 93 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:28.240 a little talent, little baby talent in there. I don't 94 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:30.480 know anyway was I talking about right? 95 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:35.279 Fire? So some more interesting? They really are, They really are. 96 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:37.519 There's so much more lovable than anything going on at 97 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:40.120 city Hall. But there was enough blame. There was a 98 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:43.079 lot of pointed fingers and what have you. And while 99 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:46.480 I was on the mountain of yeah, Karen Bass handled 100 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:48.399 this the wrong way. We knew there was a bad 101 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:51.639 weather event coming. Gary and I sat here on that 102 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:53.959 Monday before the fires, and we said, this seems like 103 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:56.480 the real deal. We're gonna have some real fire danger. 104 00:04:56.800 --> 00:05:01.360 We talked to Henry, Henry to car from Katla, who said, 105 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:04.399 this is not a boy who cried wolf situation. The 106 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:06.600 way the winds are coming down from the top of 107 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:08.279 the cold mountains, and the way that they're going to 108 00:05:08.399 --> 00:05:11.920 run right into the homes and the urban wildlife interface. 109 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:13.000 We are screwed. 110 00:05:13.279 --> 00:05:15.560 We all know, We knew we were screwed, and Karen 111 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:19.399 still kept her trip to Africa. 112 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:19.839 Well. 113 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:22.560 I always thought that there was blame to be had 114 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:24.199 by Kristin Crowley as well. 115 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:26.319 The optics not great with her. 116 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:29.720 She didn't seem like this is unfair, maybe, but it 117 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:31.959 didn't seem like she had the gravitas to lead the 118 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:35.079 LA Fire Department. And what I said last week still 119 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:37.639 rings true in my opinion. If you don't have the 120 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:40.040 poll to get the funding at city Hall, you don't 121 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:41.920 have the pole, period and you shouldn't be the head 122 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:44.720 of a major department like the LA Fire Department. If 123 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:47.279 you can't get the money that your department needs, part 124 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:48.560 of that lands on your shoulders. 125 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:50.839 Unfortunately, it's just the way the world works. 126 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:55.199 And now we're getting the text messages that happened at 127 00:05:55.199 --> 00:05:59.319 the fire times. This is thanks to ABC investigative reporter 128 00:05:59.439 --> 00:05:59.800 Kevin O. 129 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:01.839 Excuse me if I'm screwing up his name. 130 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:05.399 Kevin was able to obtain text messages to and from 131 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:08.199 the fire chief in the moments leading up to the 132 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:12.519 Palisades fire and in the moments after we knew the 133 00:06:12.600 --> 00:06:13.920 fire had erupted. 134 00:06:14.600 --> 00:06:15.439 Kevin went out and. 135 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:18.120 Filled out a public records request, which is a pain 136 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:20.319 in the arse. If you are a reporter, you know 137 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:22.279 what a big pain in the arse it is. He 138 00:06:22.360 --> 00:06:26.000 weeded through all of these documents, he found the text messages, 139 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:31.000 and they do shed light on our hypothesis that maybe 140 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:33.800 she was not the chief to be at the helm 141 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:37.160 during this disaster. Just like Mayor Karen Bass dropped the ball, 142 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:40.720 seems like Kristen Crawley dropped the ball as well, or 143 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:42.920 at least maybe not up to the task of leading 144 00:06:42.920 --> 00:06:46.319 a department in a catastrophe this large. We'll get into 145 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:49.160 those text messages when we come back. Here's a tease. 146 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:53.600 One of the La County fire chiefs texted her the 147 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:58.240 morning of these fires and said, not good. This was 148 00:06:58.279 --> 00:07:01.920 at eleven eighteen broke news of that fire, which was 149 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:03.959 spotted by one of our listeners, one of the first 150 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:06.120 people who spoted that fire. I want to say about 151 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:09.480 ten twenty seven am when it broke out. This was 152 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:12.519 a message that came in about an hour later. He 153 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:17.639 Tony Morony texted Kristin Crowley, this fire County fire chief 154 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:19.839 tested the La City fire chief not good. She just 155 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:23.439 wrote back one word, no, you want a little bit 156 00:07:23.439 --> 00:07:25.000 more than that from your fire chief. Do you not 157 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:29.079 watching the Big Bear bald eagle live cam? Because Jackie 158 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:31.920 and shadow of got three eggs there in their nest 159 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:34.959 and they are being very protective I don't know if 160 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:38.040 that's Jackie or's Shadow, but he or she has put 161 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:44.360 herself squarely between the camera and her baby eggs, which 162 00:07:44.519 --> 00:07:47.480 goes to my problem. If I did have a problem 163 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:50.120 with the Big Bear Bald Eagle live cam, I've had 164 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:54.199 it from go so for years now. They never consented 165 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:57.279 to this. They never signed the release that put them 166 00:07:57.399 --> 00:08:01.160 on the Real Life or whatever. They never signed on 167 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:04.680 for Big Brother, They never signed on for any of this. 168 00:08:05.079 --> 00:08:07.879 They wanted to just live their lives as eagles, making 169 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:11.920 their babies, doing their thing, sitting on the eggs, waiting 170 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:14.759 until they hatch, and here all we are just watching 171 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:17.240 this all play out. It's kind of perverse, isn't it. 172 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:21.519 Whoever was guarding the eggs has flown off and now 173 00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:24.199 it's either Jackie or Shadow who's laying on set eggs. 174 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:26.240 So both of the eagles were in the nest because 175 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:28.199 there's a lot of activity going on. If you missed it, 176 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:30.560 there was a big crack in one of the eggs, 177 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:33.200 a pip in the biz is how you say it, 178 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:35.639 and it looks more like a hole than a crack, 179 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:37.120 And I think I saw a little bit of a 180 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:40.440 baby talon there as well. Amy King said at the 181 00:08:40.480 --> 00:08:43.960 eighteen degrees up there in that nest. So who knows 182 00:08:44.120 --> 00:08:46.879 whether that means that the baby's going to be anxious 183 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:49.240 to come out already digging a hole through that crack, 184 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:51.200 or maybe the hole is big enough to where the 185 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:54.879 baby says hell, no, I'm waiting till summer, or at 186 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:57.480 least a couple more days, three to five days. I 187 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:01.759 guess after the pip happens, is when the baby is 188 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:04.639 the eaglet has hatched, the baby is born, whatever you 189 00:09:04.679 --> 00:09:08.759 want to say, Okay, Just briefly to tie up this 190 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:12.480 text message situation that happened with the chief of the 191 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:15.799 fire department in the moments leading up to the Palisades fire, 192 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:18.600 in the moments after. Again, this is from ABC seven. 193 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:21.320 They have an investigative reporter there, Kevin Osbeck, who was 194 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:24.559 able to obtain these text messages thanks to a public 195 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:31.440 records request. He says that he has found these text messages, 196 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:34.840 as I mentioned, the one before the break in incoming 197 00:09:34.919 --> 00:09:37.639 text in the first hour of the fire from La 198 00:09:37.720 --> 00:09:41.240 County Fire Chief Tony Moroney said not good to Kristin Crowley. 199 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:43.960 She responded no. Now. 200 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:48.360 One of the assertions has been that the La Mayor 201 00:09:48.440 --> 00:09:51.960 Karen Bass was just not here when the fires war 202 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:54.080 going on, and that is true. She did not cancel 203 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:57.360 her trip to Africa, but she did put a second 204 00:09:57.399 --> 00:10:02.320 in command, Council President Marquise Harris Dawson's office. The text 205 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:06.279 messages will show you reached out to her before the 206 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:09.720 fire even started. He was all hands on deck or 207 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:13.840 his office was. He reached out when we were on 208 00:10:13.879 --> 00:10:16.200 this show talking about the weather event with Henry de 209 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:20.440 Carlo a day before the fire erupted. He had texted her, 210 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:26.240 according to these records, about the fire event and said 211 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:28.600 we would like to be in touch with you and 212 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:32.600 so to speak. And she did not really get back 213 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:37.759 to him. She had a aid reach out to his office. 214 00:10:38.159 --> 00:10:40.679 Who is He's acting mayor at this time by the way, 215 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:43.399 because Karen Bass is out of the country so the 216 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:46.159 city even so to speak, so he is the acting 217 00:10:46.279 --> 00:10:50.320 mayor and he doesn't even get a text back from 218 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:52.840 Kristin Crowley or a phone call or anything. As this 219 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:56.000 weather event is about to start in just twenty four hours, 220 00:10:56.519 --> 00:10:59.120 the aid tells Kristin Crowley, I briefed him on our 221 00:10:59.159 --> 00:11:04.000 deployment in our prep efforts, also our needs for additional resources. 222 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:06.159 So the fire starts to break. 223 00:11:06.039 --> 00:11:10.759 Out the next the next hour or so, the next day, 224 00:11:10.799 --> 00:11:14.360 excuse me. And as the fire is breaking out, you're 225 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:18.639 seeing kind of just some vague correspondence between Kristin Crowley 226 00:11:19.399 --> 00:11:22.399 and other people involved with the chain of command. At 227 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:27.240 one point, the LA Emergency Management Department GM Carol Parks 228 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:29.279 is sending messages saying, hey, we're going to be at 229 00:11:29.320 --> 00:11:34.679 level three, we need people here. The text was the EOC, 230 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:39.679 the Emergency Center, the brain of this operation for the 231 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:42.440 for the city is in need of leadership. 232 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:44.960 They wrote to the chief, please advise. 233 00:11:44.799 --> 00:11:50.360 Who from your department can respond to the eocasap. So 234 00:11:50.519 --> 00:11:55.320 this was already mismanaged from from go, from within an. 235 00:11:55.240 --> 00:11:57.120 Hour of after this fire started. 236 00:11:57.600 --> 00:12:00.320 I mean, the timeline to me shows that the acting 237 00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:05.000 mayor reached out to the fire chief the day before 238 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:07.799 this happened and said, hey, keep us in the loop. 239 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:09.679 We want to know we have this major fire event. 240 00:12:10.120 --> 00:12:12.159 She didn't even get back to him. She had an 241 00:12:12.159 --> 00:12:14.159 aid kind of get back to him with some sort 242 00:12:14.200 --> 00:12:17.039 of corporate speak. We've got the resources and we've got 243 00:12:17.080 --> 00:12:21.000 the blah blah blah, but no real communication. And then 244 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:23.840 you've got the fire breaking out, and the people that 245 00:12:23.879 --> 00:12:26.279 are running the emergency center saying to the chief, Hey, 246 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:28.879 we need someone from your department here so they can 247 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:32.480 be involved in calling the shots, to which the fire 248 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:36.159 chief responds, oh, there's a chief en route. There should 249 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:39.440 have been someone there from the fire department the day 250 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:44.279 before the fire started, prepping the brain of this response 251 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:48.720 to get ready on how to respond. Instead, the fire 252 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:52.879 forecast was put out, nobody came. The center was staffed 253 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:55.519 to a level three thanks to the powers that be 254 00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:58.879 being Carol Parks, the GM at the brain of this operation, 255 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:03.320 and in fact, the fire starts and in an hour 256 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:05.279 or two or three go by and still no one 257 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:07.759 from the fire department is there to call the shots. 258 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:11.360 So it seems like Crowley, according to these text messages, 259 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:13.840 was in over her head. And here's the best one 260 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:16.840 of all of them. We talk about how politics is 261 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:18.960 so dirty. We talk about what you need to do 262 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:23.000 and what friends you need to make as you rise 263 00:13:23.080 --> 00:13:27.519 the ranks from whatever political organization you're in. And make 264 00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:30.960 no doubt about it, police and fire, those are political organizations. 265 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:35.080 So in the days after the Palisades fire first broke out, 266 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:38.240 Kristin Crowley the chief at the time, received numerous signs 267 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:41.080 of support based on her text messages thanks to ABC 268 00:13:41.159 --> 00:13:45.600 seven's investigative reporter Kevin Osback, who went and plowed through 269 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:49.600 all the paperwork to find these. Here's my favorite text 270 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:55.159 that I read through. An unidentified individual texted on January eleventh. 271 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:57.679 Let's see the fire broke out on what the seventh 272 00:13:57.720 --> 00:14:00.320 of January something like that. This is just days after 273 00:14:00.759 --> 00:14:04.960 she gets this text message, getting mixed news reports about 274 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:08.519 your future employment. If you need expert testimony in the future, 275 00:14:08.799 --> 00:14:10.879 or simply a Jersey guy to come out there and 276 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:15.639 straighten things out with the polls, you have my number. Now. 277 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:20.120 That text message tells us three things. Number One, it 278 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:23.919 wasn't just us who saw her job hanging by a 279 00:14:23.960 --> 00:14:26.200 thread after she came out and laid the police chief 280 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:28.519 out for or the mayor. Why do I keep saying 281 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:31.480 that when she laid out the mayor for not being 282 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:34.559 in the country, it wasn't just us that was talking about. 283 00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:36.600 Eh, she probably not gonna have a job for a while. 284 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:41.559 Number Two, if you need expert testimony, Expert testimony is 285 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:45.279 bought and sold for Expert testimony is people that are 286 00:14:45.320 --> 00:14:48.039 paid tens of thousands of dollars to come in and 287 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:51.399 tell the court, a jury, a judge, what you want 288 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:54.440 to hear. That's how expert testimony is. It's paid, and 289 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:58.559 it's paid, and it's it's bought sold for all of it. 290 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:01.759 And then you need a Jersey guy to come out 291 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:03.840 there and straighten things out with the polls. Do you 292 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:05.879 need me to come out there and break people's knees? 293 00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:08.639 I mean not really, but you need a tough guy. 294 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:11.759 So this person is not only saying, hey, I hear 295 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:14.399 you're out of a job. You need me, but then 296 00:15:14.519 --> 00:15:21.559 kind of then kind of getting into the criminal territory 297 00:15:21.720 --> 00:15:24.200 of I will be your friend if you make me 298 00:15:24.279 --> 00:15:26.840 an expert witness in a case that may or may 299 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:29.639 be related to this fire or your employment, and therefore 300 00:15:29.679 --> 00:15:33.080 I will get tons of thousands of dollars. And number three, 301 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:37.480 I will create political violence for you so that you 302 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:41.720 can keep your position. There's a lot in that text message, anyway, 303 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:43.879 she wrote back to him, Good to hear from you. 304 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:46.080 I have not been fired. Thanks for looking out for me. 305 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:51.279 Read the subtext there. So those text messages kind of 306 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:54.200 layout make me feel a little bit better about thinking that. 307 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:56.440 Kristin Crowley may have been in over her head when 308 00:15:56.440 --> 00:15:59.080 this catask. A lot of people would be right. That's 309 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:02.200 a tough order to get when you've got two of 310 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:05.279 the biggest fires in La County history and they're happening 311 00:16:05.320 --> 00:16:06.039 at the same. 312 00:16:05.840 --> 00:16:09.840 Time, and your department is not. 313 00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:12.399 Staffed to the levels it needs to be, the city 314 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:14.240 is not prepared where it needs to be, the water 315 00:16:14.360 --> 00:16:16.759 levels not where they prepared to be. That the staffing 316 00:16:16.799 --> 00:16:19.159 cut all of it. It's a tough order. It's a 317 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:22.279 tall order, i should say, but she was definitely in 318 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:24.799 over her head and now we have the text messages 319 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:28.960 to prove that. Coming up next, we will get into 320 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:33.600 the Huntington Park update. This is the story we talked 321 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:38.879 about earlier. Huntington Park one of those areas kind of 322 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:41.320 like Bell. You're kind of feeling the same vibes you 323 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:44.600 felt when the Bell scandal broke a lot of money 324 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:47.600 in this local government, but nobody's really paying attention, and 325 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:51.639 whenever that happens, you can bet you're going to find corruption. 326 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:52.840 And that is what happened. 327 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:55.720 There was this planned aquatic center that they raised a 328 00:16:55.720 --> 00:16:58.679 bunch of money for in the town of Huntington Park. 329 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:01.519 Turns out they collected all that money, but was the 330 00:17:01.559 --> 00:17:03.279 aquatic center ever built? 331 00:17:03.759 --> 00:17:04.160 Nope. 332 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:07.920 Pipping is a signal for other chicks to start pipping. 333 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:12.880 Eh. So, once the first. 334 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:16.559 Little baby pokes his little talent through like in Jurassic Park, 335 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:19.599 the other baby's like, hey, I got to get out too. 336 00:17:19.759 --> 00:17:22.440 This little guy's gonna steal all the worms or whatever 337 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:23.319 it is that they eat. 338 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:26.400 Do they eat worms or do they eat other things? 339 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:28.599 I don't know. I just know they eat out of 340 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:30.960 their parents' mouths. Yeah, regurgitation. 341 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:33.599 Let me chew this up for you and make it 342 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:37.079 easier for you to swallow it. All sounded horrible, and 343 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:40.920 I apologize. So we will keep an eye on Jackie 344 00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:43.079 in Shadow again if you miss the news. One of 345 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:47.079 the three eggs is showing signs of hatching. It was 346 00:17:47.119 --> 00:17:49.279 a crack and now it looks like, at least in 347 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:52.599 my estimation, a bit of a hole. We will see 348 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:54.720 what goes on with the other eggs. Jackie and Shadow 349 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:56.319 have been hanging out at the nest right now. I 350 00:17:56.400 --> 00:17:58.880 think it's just Jackie or maybe Shadow, but it looks 351 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:01.720 like a smaller bird and I don't know which one's bigger, 352 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:04.559 but I would assume the female smaller is sitting on 353 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:09.480 those eggs. We will get to our wellness segment coming 354 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:13.839 up in the next segment. Actually, because there was an 355 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:17.119 article in the Wall Street Journal about the White Lotus 356 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:20.079 taking on our wellness obsession, and I got to say, 357 00:18:20.119 --> 00:18:22.799 when I'm watching this show and I realize that they're 358 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:25.480 making fun of it, and especially here in LA, it's 359 00:18:25.559 --> 00:18:28.880 actually not as stark as it would be if we 360 00:18:28.880 --> 00:18:32.039 were probably watching this in Minneapolis or something where we're 361 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:36.000 not confronted with the wellness world around every corner like 362 00:18:36.039 --> 00:18:41.079 we are in LA. But it is obvious when you 363 00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:43.680 watch it, even if you're from here. And some of 364 00:18:43.720 --> 00:18:47.839 the stuff sounds good, the digital detoxes, the meditation, the 365 00:18:47.880 --> 00:18:52.680 Buddhist stuff. We'll get into that coming up next. Huntington 366 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:56.599 Park is the scene of the latest public corruption investigation. 367 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:01.079 And this was really rich. The mayor had to say, 368 00:19:01.160 --> 00:19:04.839 the mayor whose home was searched, whose offices were searched 369 00:19:04.839 --> 00:19:09.400 as part of this ongoing public corruption investigation, which started, 370 00:19:09.440 --> 00:19:12.920 by the way, in November twenty twenty two. So they've 371 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:15.480 been getting high on the hog for quite some time. 372 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:18.839 Now they're in Huntington Park. If there were whiffs of 373 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:22.440 corruption back in November of twenty twenty two, and the 374 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:25.079 searches are just being carried out now in early twenty 375 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:28.279 twenty five. These people have been playing dirty for quite 376 00:19:28.279 --> 00:19:31.519 some time and thinking they were getting away with it. 377 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:36.720 Operation Dirty Pond is what it was called. And we 378 00:19:36.799 --> 00:19:40.160 told you about this last week. This is all centered 379 00:19:40.200 --> 00:19:43.799 around this planned aquatic center. It was expected to be 380 00:19:43.839 --> 00:19:47.880 built at Salt Lake Park. It was to include an 381 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:52.480 indoor pool, twenty three acre public park. Salt Lake Park 382 00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:56.720 is it has several athletic fields and courts, and in 383 00:19:56.880 --> 00:20:00.279 twenty eighteen, the City of Huntington Park released rendition of 384 00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:04.759 what it would look like. Well, six years later, the 385 00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:09.160 site where this was supposed to be this beautiful aquatic center, 386 00:20:10.440 --> 00:20:14.759 it's an empty lot. Vice Mayor Arturo Flores seems to 387 00:20:14.759 --> 00:20:18.039 be one of the good guys. He estimates about fourteen 388 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:23.359 million has been spent by the city for what an 389 00:20:23.359 --> 00:20:26.920 empty lot, in his words, with dead grass and nothing 390 00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:30.599 to show for those millions of dollars. He is livid 391 00:20:31.160 --> 00:20:34.720 among other people in Huntington Park who are livid. On 392 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:39.359 Fridays meeting, they slammed city officials. They went after them 393 00:20:39.960 --> 00:20:42.559 and saying you know what it's really the children you're 394 00:20:42.599 --> 00:20:46.480 screwing over. And it's true who uses those parks. It's 395 00:20:46.519 --> 00:20:49.640 elderly people looking to get some fresh air, whether it's 396 00:20:49.640 --> 00:20:52.400 their loved ones or their caretakers or whatever, taking them 397 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:55.119 for a walk or what have you around a nice area. 398 00:20:55.640 --> 00:20:58.240 It's kids that are playing in the fields or the 399 00:20:58.279 --> 00:20:58.839 pools or. 400 00:20:58.839 --> 00:20:59.359 What have you. 401 00:20:59.440 --> 00:21:02.920