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 --> 00:00:07.240 on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:07.400 --> 00:00:08.359 Let's talk about hurricanes. 5 00:00:08.439 --> 00:00:12.279 Hurricane Helene will's strengthen into a hurricane. It's right now 6 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:15.359 tropical storm, but eighty mile an hour sustained winds hurricane 7 00:00:15.359 --> 00:00:19.039 force gusts have been measured in some places. They're talking 8 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:23.800 about this right now, still northeast northeast, say of Cosamel, 9 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:26.640 but making its way through the Gulf of Mexico up 10 00:00:26.679 --> 00:00:31.120 towards the Florida coastline. We're expecting parts of the western 11 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:33.520 part of the Florida Panhandle is where it's it's expected 12 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:37.359 to make landfall some point. The Big Bend area is 13 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:40.759 what they're calling it. The vast majority. I think sixty 14 00:00:40.799 --> 00:00:43.600 seven counties in Florida, and sixty four of them are 15 00:00:43.679 --> 00:00:46.200 under some sort of watch or warning as a result 16 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:50.119 of this. Some of those early bands of rain have 17 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:54.159 already spread as far north as South Florida as a 18 00:00:54.159 --> 00:00:54.759 result of this. 19 00:00:54.799 --> 00:01:00.399 Hey, Gary Trucker branded here. I remember going to an 20 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:03.759 A's game up in the Coliseum. Had the best time 21 00:01:04.120 --> 00:01:05.000 Craft stadium. 22 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:06.040 Great game. 23 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:11.000 Also remember going to see Aretha Franklin and Prince over 24 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:16.040 at Oracle Arena back then and had the best time. 25 00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:19.959 Gonna miss those people, gonna miss those places. It was 26 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:20.680 a great time. 27 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:22.719 Yeah. 28 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:26.159 Well, there is a new report that details a stunning 29 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:28.879 Secret Service leadership mess. 30 00:01:29.319 --> 00:01:30.840 That's where we kick off swamp watch. 31 00:01:31.319 --> 00:01:34.239 Swamp is horrible, The government doesn't work. 32 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:39.640 Make it like a reality TV sho bad deus. 33 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:42.920 Always a pleasure to be anywhere from Washington, d C. Hey, Joe. 34 00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:47.280 A town hall too, clearly built on a swamp in 35 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:49.640 so many ways, still a swamp to watching. 36 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:52.159 Malarkey said, dream the swamp. I said, Oh, that's so, 37 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:56.280 I'll keep you know the thing. 38 00:01:57.719 --> 00:02:01.640 So there was a mypartisan Senate that released a report 39 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:06.680 today that says Secret Service agents failed to take charge 40 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:10.240 of decision making for security at the rally where Trump 41 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:14.240 was shot in July. There were key lapses in preparation 42 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:18.120 and communication that day. The locals were on a separate 43 00:02:18.159 --> 00:02:21.879 frequency than the Secret Service. The guy running the drones 44 00:02:21.919 --> 00:02:24.560 had no experience and was on the phone with tech support. 45 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:29.439 It's a what is it called the Keystone cops. 46 00:02:29.479 --> 00:02:30.479 That's what this sounds like. 47 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:31.520 Some of the problems. 48 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:34.719 They also pointed out the failure to set up visual 49 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:37.840 barriers around the rally that might have blocked the view 50 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:40.680 from the rooftop all the way to. 51 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:43.360 Where the president was. 52 00:02:43.479 --> 00:02:46.400 Joe Cahill is on the story and joins us now 53 00:02:46.439 --> 00:02:48.120 with more details about this report. 54 00:02:48.199 --> 00:02:50.919 Joe, how are you say? 55 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:51.240 Good? 56 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:52.400 How are you guys great? 57 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:55.560 We're just going through some of these things, some of 58 00:02:55.560 --> 00:02:59.439 the very very simple measures that appeared should have been 59 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:00.680 taken that weren't taken. 60 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:02.919 So who's the one person to blame? 61 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:07.280 You know, I don't think that there is any one person. 62 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:07.919 I think it was. 63 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:11.479 You have to look at the leadership, generally, the advanced 64 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:14.560 team that goes in ahead of time before any other 65 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:17.560 major event and tries to do the pre planning. We've 66 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:20.400 heard that the acting director of the Ciccret Service actually 67 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:23.199 told me last week that there were some people who 68 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:25.560 are going to be held accountable. And we pressed, is 69 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:27.840 that is that being fired? And he said held accountable. 70 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:31.520 So we think that that's going to happen. But look, 71 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:33.919 it's really hard to point to one thing. That's why 72 00:03:34.039 --> 00:03:38.680 lawmakers that we talked to are so surprised shot appalled 73 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:41.879 by this because they look at it and say, if 74 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:46.280 there were one mistake or two mistakes, it's something they 75 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:49.439 would more easily digest. But this was a failure on 76 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:53.599 multiple levels before the event, during the event, and in 77 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:56.560 those crucial moments ahead of the time that Trump got shot. 78 00:03:57.080 --> 00:03:58.919 That really makes this almost hard to believe. 79 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:02.719 One of the things that the Senate did was voted 80 00:04:02.840 --> 00:04:09.520 to make sure that protectees will get the same level 81 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:14.599 of protection that an active president or an a sorry, 82 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:19.079 an actual president would have. So if you've got Protection 83 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:23.439 Equality Bill that make sure that Kamala Harris and Donald 84 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:26.279 Trump have the same kind of protection that Joe Biden 85 00:04:26.279 --> 00:04:28.680 would have as the sitting president. Is that going to 86 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:31.720 impact the campaign and the ability of candidates to actually 87 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:32.759 move about the country. 88 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:38.240 That's a great question. So the Secret Service says no. 89 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:42.279 They say that doesn't mean that their lifestyles or that 90 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:45.240 their campaigning events are going to change. What that means 91 00:04:45.319 --> 00:04:47.439 is they do what they want to do, and it 92 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:50.160 is on us to figure out, no matter what their 93 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:54.839 activities are, how we can protect them. Now, if you're wondering, well, 94 00:04:54.959 --> 00:04:56.800 we don't have much faith in the agency to do 95 00:04:56.839 --> 00:04:58.639 that at this point. You know, that is also a 96 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:01.959 concern that many lawmakers. We brought up. The Secret Service says, no, 97 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:04.079 that they're not going to You know, they can do 98 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:07.079 what they want, and the task before the agency is 99 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:10.680 you got to protect him at all costs. Here, I 100 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:13.319 want to point out one thing in the report, if 101 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:16.000 I can, that really amazed me. It jumped out and 102 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:17.839 I read the whole thing this morning, cover to cover. 103 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:22.000 The thing that stood out most was in the middle 104 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:24.160 of it. If you're reading the reports, about page fifty 105 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:27.800 five fifty six, I think they have an interview with 106 00:05:28.040 --> 00:05:33.279 the sniper teams lead that day, and he basically describes 107 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:37.360 the moment that local officers on the ground saw Thomas 108 00:05:37.399 --> 00:05:40.079 Crooks climb this building and get into position with a gun. 109 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:45.160 He saw officers local officers reacting to that. He says, 110 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:47.160 I was watching as they put their hands on their 111 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:51.480 guns and ran towards the buildings. And so the Senate committee, 112 00:05:51.480 --> 00:05:55.439 who's asking this team lead these questions, says, at that point, 113 00:05:55.639 --> 00:05:58.480 wasn't it enough that you knew there was something concerning 114 00:05:58.519 --> 00:06:01.560 to pull Donald Trump off stage? And he said no, 115 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:04.680 because we didn't know. It could have been a medical emergency, 116 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:07.079 could have also been a man with a gun. And 117 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:10.360 the committee asked, well, if it was even a possibility 118 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:12.560 that it was a man with a gun. You wouldn't 119 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:17.040 even consider calling off the former president from the stage 120 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:20.040 he was on. And the response was, well, it didn't 121 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:22.000 even cross our mind to do that. 122 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:23.519 That amazed me that there. 123 00:06:23.560 --> 00:06:26.439 Wasn't even a consideration and that he said so much 124 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:29.279 to the committee. It just blew me away reading that. 125 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:33.600 And why isn't there a separation of a medical emergency 126 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:37.399 versus someone with a gun? Those should be two different alerts. 127 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:42.000 Yeah, and you know therein lies another problem, which was communication. 128 00:06:42.920 --> 00:06:45.720 There were law enforcement on the ground at the local 129 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:50.319 level that were flagging there is a person with a 130 00:06:50.399 --> 00:06:53.959 gun climbing the roof, and they were on their radios, 131 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:58.040 but the Secret Service was not on the same frequency 132 00:06:58.519 --> 00:07:01.000 as the local officers on the ground out and I'm 133 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:04.279 told that is actually a regular thing. They don't want 134 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:08.519 to clog up each other's communication. But usually what happens 135 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:11.959 is there's one command center that's hearing all of this. Yes, 136 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:15.040 and if the command center says, hey, the local guys 137 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:17.879 see a man with a gun, that immediately gets to 138 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:21.079 the Secret Service agents who are around Donald Trump. And 139 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:24.279 that didn't happen in this case. Instead, of one command center, 140 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:27.240 they had two separate ones which were not communicating with 141 00:07:27.279 --> 00:07:31.800 each other, another major failure of many that is laid 142 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:32.800 out in this report today. 143 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:35.759 All right, Joe, thanks for your time. We appreciate it, 144 00:07:36.959 --> 00:07:38.160 of course, happy to do it. 145 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:41.959 Joe Khalil again, Washington correspondent there for News Nation on 146 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:43.839 the heels of what we talked about in the first 147 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:47.279 segment of Swamp Watch, which was this congressional report that 148 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:50.000 came out that detailed some of the failings of law 149 00:07:50.079 --> 00:07:55.079 enforcement and secret Service in the Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt 150 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:57.879 on former President Trump. He also spoke about that today 151 00:07:57.920 --> 00:07:59.959 while he was doing a rally in North Carolin. 152 00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:03.920 Really, why is it that the father of the shooter 153 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:07.920 in the Butler instance has one of the best and 154 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:12.639 most expensive lawyers in the entire state of Pennsylvania. How 155 00:08:12.639 --> 00:08:17.120 did he get to this expensive lawyer, big big law firm, 156 00:08:17.160 --> 00:08:21.360 the biggest in Pittsburgh. Where did he get this big 157 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:25.240 law firm from? It's so strange. If I were president 158 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:28.959 and a former president and a leading candidate, I'm the 159 00:08:29.079 --> 00:08:32.080 leading candidate by far to be the next president. 160 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:36.840 And hold for applause, please jeez. 161 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:41.399 That leading candidate was under threat. I was president and 162 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:45.639 the candidate was under threat, any candidate, Republican or Democrat. 163 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:47.440 And by the way, I want to thank the. 164 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:51.559 Democrats because they just increased funding for the Secret Service, 165 00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:55.480 who worked very hard. They increased funding for the Secret Service. 166 00:08:56.679 --> 00:09:02.399 And nobody will believe this. It was a unanimous vote. Republicans, 167 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:09.000 every single Republican, every single Democrat president voted in favor. 168 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:10.960 That was a first unanimous vote. 169 00:09:10.879 --> 00:09:13.120 Get what would you do if you were president. 170 00:09:12.879 --> 00:09:16.240 And that's to increase the funding, yes, of the Secret Service. 171 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:17.720 So I thank everybody. 172 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:20.519 Back to the teleprompter, please, But if I were the president, 173 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:24.639 I would inform the threatening country in this case Iran, 174 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:27.879 that if you do anything to harm this person, we 175 00:09:27.960 --> 00:09:31.759 are going to blow your largest cities and the country 176 00:09:31.799 --> 00:09:33.799 itself to smitherines. 177 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:35.679 We're going to blow it to smitherings. 178 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:36.360 You can't do that. 179 00:09:36.759 --> 00:09:38.639 I was wondering how he's gonna end that sentence. 180 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:43.240 He also said big threats on my life by Iran. 181 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:47.399 The entire US military is watching and waiting. He wrote 182 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:49.840 that on truth Social He said moves were already made 183 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:52.000 by Iran that didn't work out, but they will try again. 184 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:54.080 Not a good situation for anything. 185 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:56.559 I'm surrounded by more men, guns and weapons than I 186 00:09:56.600 --> 00:10:01.159 have ever seen before. Okay, So, and Biden told the 187 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:03.320 co hosts of the View that he did not sense 188 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:06.600 an overwhelming reluctance from Democrats about his reelection effort. 189 00:10:06.879 --> 00:10:09.200 Says he was confident he could have beat Donald Trump. 190 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:09.679 Wow. 191 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:14.159 Sarah Griffin asked about Pelosi and about the pressure she 192 00:10:14.279 --> 00:10:18.759 put on Democrats to urge him to drop out, and 193 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:21.919 he actually had pretty natural moment of everything's fine, and 194 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:27.480 then he just goes. 195 00:10:26.360 --> 00:10:29.159 It makes sense. There are some folks who would like 196 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:31.240 to see me step aside so they have a chance 197 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:34.840 to move on. I get that that's just human nature. 198 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:38.720 But that wasn't the reason that I stepped down. I 199 00:10:38.759 --> 00:10:40.600 stepped down because I started thinking about it. 200 00:10:40.759 --> 00:10:45.240 He again, I don't know if you're a candidate like 201 00:10:45.320 --> 00:10:48.000 that and you're surround I know he's the president, but 202 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:50.720 if you're a candidate and you're running for president or 203 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:54.919 any major seat like that, you've got people around you 204 00:10:55.120 --> 00:10:59.679 who are going to lie to you about your chances 205 00:10:59.720 --> 00:11:06.000 of win. After the debate, after the assassination attempt, Joe 206 00:11:06.039 --> 00:11:09.279 Biden was going to drop so precipitously in those polls 207 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:11.799 that it wasn't It was not going to be close. 208 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:14.159 It was not going to be anywhere close to what 209 00:11:14.279 --> 00:11:19.080 he imagined an actual what he imagined the election was 210 00:11:19.120 --> 00:11:23.759 going to be, because you could not argue that all 211 00:11:23.799 --> 00:11:27.200 of the momentum was behind Trump after those two events, 212 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:30.960 all of the momentum had Joe Biden gone into Chicago 213 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:35.919 at the convention and tried to deliver the closing argument, 214 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:39.559 tried to deliver the speech that was going to rouse 215 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:43.679 all of the party and draw all of those independent 216 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:46.440 voters who didn't quite want to vote for Donald Trump 217 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:51.080 but thought that there was a better He's completely delusional 218 00:11:51.120 --> 00:11:57.320 at that point. And I'm surprised that he's doing interviews. Yeah, 219 00:11:57.399 --> 00:12:00.600 I mean, Kamala Harris has finally apparently decided she will 220 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:03.360 do an interview. I'll let you guess which network it is. 221 00:12:04.840 --> 00:12:07.840 CNN, no ABC, no CBS. 222 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:11.559 Get more obscure and left than that, I don't know, MSNBC. 223 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:12.840 Ah, they're going to do. 224 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:15.039 Stephanie Rule is going to be the one who interviews her, 225 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:16.720 and it's going to be a lot of like Drew 226 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:19.799 Barrymore's we need a Mama La, Right, now it's going 227 00:12:19.879 --> 00:12:20.879 to be that kind of interview. 228 00:12:21.039 --> 00:12:24.279 I heard some recent clips of her, and she's back 229 00:12:24.279 --> 00:12:27.679 into word salad mood. 230 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:28.039 Because no one asks me. 231 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:29.279 No one's replaying it. 232 00:12:29.399 --> 00:12:33.080 If Oprah's the one asking her the questions, Oprah's never 233 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:35.399 going to press in and go wait a minute. Okay, 234 00:12:35.879 --> 00:12:38.360 you said a lot of things in forty five seconds, 235 00:12:38.440 --> 00:12:39.919 But what exactly are you. 236 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:40.600 Going to do? 237 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:40.919 Right? 238 00:12:42.519 --> 00:12:45.279 Would you like your Jeopardy question? How about that? Cheer 239 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:46.320 you up a little bit. 240 00:12:47.960 --> 00:12:48.639 Right there? Oh? 241 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:51.759 Why isn't that all? We're going to be ready? 242 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:55.480 Time to fall into autumn for one thousand dollars fall 243 00:12:56.360 --> 00:12:57.519 from the Latin. 244 00:12:57.320 --> 00:12:58.519 For fall off. 245 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:02.120 This adjective describe trees that lose their leaves in the. 246 00:13:02.080 --> 00:13:09.399 Fall, trees that lose their leaves in the floor. 247 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:14.240 Missus Twillager is not happy now. 248 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:15.279 Trees that lose their leaves? 249 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:17.240 Why are you mad at me? 250 00:13:17.960 --> 00:13:18.639 Deciduous? 251 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:20.360 What is it? I didn't I'm not you. 252 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:22.080 Can't at the answer when. 253 00:13:21.919 --> 00:13:28.120 The something right away from Missus Twilliger. And now she's 254 00:13:28.200 --> 00:13:29.919 rolling over in her graves somewhere. 255 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:36.120 I think I just saw my first glimpse of miss Patricia. 256 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:39.240 Justin Worsham is host of the Dad podcast. 257 00:13:45.159 --> 00:13:48.159 I like that, and I was waiting for you to see. 258 00:13:47.639 --> 00:13:48.720 What I was. 259 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:52.159 I'm like everyone everywhere. 260 00:13:55.879 --> 00:13:58.320 I'm still in my head about our off air conversation, 261 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:03.600 just just imagining such a manly Justine exists there. 262 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:07.799 It's altered the universe. It's just this. 263 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:14.200 If they if they're going to remake that movie Multiplicity with. 264 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:19.120 Michael exactly, I need to revisit that. I've revisited mister Mom. 265 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:20.840 And that's a that's a good one. 266 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:21.919 Problem right there. 267 00:14:22.879 --> 00:14:29.159 That's what I never had. Mister Mom was such a 268 00:14:29.159 --> 00:14:30.399 good movie. 269 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:34.639 Did you and your wife talk about childcare? Like, how 270 00:14:34.679 --> 00:14:35.799 are you guys going to handle it? 271 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:36.360 Or No? 272 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:41.279 It was never because I was so unemployed, that's true. 273 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:45.600 No schedules allowed for no, honestly. I mean when they 274 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:47.360 were infants, Yes I was. 275 00:14:47.519 --> 00:14:47.879 I was. 276 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:50.320 I was building my stand up career at that point, 277 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:53.159 and anytime I had a road gig as my schedule 278 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:56.879 is getting busier. Natalie was so successful working at the 279 00:14:56.919 --> 00:14:58.919 bank that they would let her work from home before 280 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:02.279 that was even a thing, and so and then eventually 281 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:04.919 we started taking the kids to like a preschool, and 282 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:06.639 weirdly enough, though not because. 283 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:07.679 Of the cost our preschool. 284 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:10.480 At most for two kids to go there, I think 285 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:12.840 it was five days a week for a few hours, 286 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:15.720 was like nine hundred bucks a month. I did some 287 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:19.440 research and the average cost here in LA because this 288 00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:22.639 article that I found is saying that people are spending 289 00:15:23.159 --> 00:15:26.960 eighty thousand dollars fifty thousand dollars for two children, eighty 290 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:29.919 thousand dollars for triplets, fifty thousand dollars for two children. 291 00:15:30.279 --> 00:15:35.200 In different areas like Chicago and the Carolinas, on average, 292 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:39.120 people are spending twenty percent of their annual income on childcare. 293 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:41.320 But here in Los Angeles it ranges from two hundred 294 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:43.440 and sixty bucks a month up to four thy two 295 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:47.039 hundred and twenty dollars a month, which averages about fifteen 296 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:49.440 hundred a month, which and they're saying it. It's also 297 00:15:49.480 --> 00:15:52.000 people are paying more for childcare in America than they 298 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:54.039 are for their rent, which is. 299 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:54.720 Kind of sense. 300 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:57.320 I know what makes sense, But it shouldn't right, Like 301 00:15:57.360 --> 00:16:01.080 that shouldn't we shouldn't be so like yeah, get well. 302 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:03.279 And I remember this would have been early inn our 303 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:06.919 parenting career, so it's twenty plus years ago. But we 304 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:11.279 watched Dateline or twenty twenty or something like that, one 305 00:16:11.279 --> 00:16:14.639 of the larger news magazine programs, and they discussed that 306 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:19.200 cost of childcare versus the cost of one of the 307 00:16:19.240 --> 00:16:20.279 parents that come home. 308 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:21.200 Yeah, and. 309 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:27.360 Almost without fail, it was cheaper for a parent to 310 00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:31.320 be home, lose that income from whatever job it was 311 00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:35.000 then to have both parents working, and then shoving all 312 00:16:35.039 --> 00:16:38.440 of that money into childcare. That's still true because you've 313 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:41.759 got the I'm sure I shouldn't say because but and 314 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:44.840 you have the impact of having a parent around all 315 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:45.279 the time. 316 00:16:45.399 --> 00:16:49.000 I have a friend whose husband she out earns him, 317 00:16:49.480 --> 00:16:54.039 she's the breadwinner, and her husband did that he stopped 318 00:16:54.039 --> 00:16:57.519 working because they would save money he wasn't making as much, 319 00:16:57.559 --> 00:17:00.440 and they would save a bunch of childcare for two kids, 320 00:17:00.919 --> 00:17:04.400 and recently has gone needed to go back to work. 321 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:07.279 Because that's a hard thing to ask. That is a 322 00:17:07.400 --> 00:17:10.160 really hard thing to ask of a mother or a 323 00:17:10.200 --> 00:17:12.440 father to stay home with the kids and not have 324 00:17:12.519 --> 00:17:18.240 that satisfaction of earning money, going somewhere, having adult interactions 325 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:21.319 all the things right, especially for a man, I think 326 00:17:21.400 --> 00:17:24.079 biologically speaking, and I don't know that's probably sexist to say, 327 00:17:24.119 --> 00:17:25.920 but especially for a man to be able to bring 328 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:29.319 home money. I think it's even harder for them, not 329 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:32.680 you justin but every other man in America to be 330 00:17:32.759 --> 00:17:33.119 the state. 331 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:36.799 Did use a keyword there what you said. I don't 332 00:17:36.799 --> 00:17:39.079 think it was empty dome. 333 00:17:39.559 --> 00:17:42.839 I'm sorry, but you did open the segment. 334 00:17:46.039 --> 00:17:46.319 Choice. 335 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:48.880 But anyway, recently he went back to workship because he 336 00:17:48.960 --> 00:17:51.160 did need that, like he needed he needed to go 337 00:17:51.240 --> 00:17:53.880 back to work and and there, and they're paying through 338 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:55.720 the nose. I mean, the kids are older now, so 339 00:17:55.759 --> 00:17:58.359 it's not as you know, labor intensive as when they 340 00:17:58.359 --> 00:18:00.000 were little, but still. 341 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:03.240 It's just so driving them around to practices and things is. 342 00:18:03.279 --> 00:18:04.279 Just well, and that's all. 343 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:06.039 We could talk even more about that, I think in 344 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:08.799 the next segment, because they're about the other article about 345 00:18:08.839 --> 00:18:11.279 just people being way too stressed about parenting. 346 00:18:11.480 --> 00:18:13.119 But I think this is part of the childcare thing. 347 00:18:13.160 --> 00:18:15.400 Definitely is a thing in my experience when the kids 348 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:18.200 are younger, as they get more into school, it gets 349 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:21.839 a lot easier. I personally, this is what's weird about me. 350 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:24.319 I loved being the stay at home mom, like I 351 00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:26.599 love that, like the whole thing about the role. 352 00:18:26.920 --> 00:18:28.440 I love everything about the gig. 353 00:18:29.160 --> 00:18:31.000 But I still wrestled with the idea that I was 354 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:32.880 a sandback to my wife that I wasn't a real 355 00:18:32.920 --> 00:18:35.599 man because I couldn't bring home the majority of the money. 356 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:38.759 Now things have completely reversed, and I don't know that 357 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:44.359 I like it. I'm I don't know, being the man 358 00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:48.079 in the relationship. That kind of sucks a little bit. 359 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:51.000 But a little bit of pressure. 360 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:53.640 Can I make cookies and bread at home? I'm really 361 00:18:53.640 --> 00:18:54.759 good at it, all that pressure. 362 00:18:56.559 --> 00:18:58.519 Whenever she wants to, By the way, I am a 363 00:18:58.720 --> 00:19:01.640 very yeah, whenever she wants, guys, she barely. 364 00:19:04.680 --> 00:19:05.359 We'll come back. 365 00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:07.519 There is a new reports on the state of parenting 366 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:10.039 in America. It's like sixty minutes. 367 00:19:10.119 --> 00:19:13.839 Yeah, you dailed it. You're doing great, thank you. Everybody's stressed. 368 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:15.279 This I think goes off the heels you. 369 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:17.160 We didn't get a chance to talk about it because 370 00:19:17.160 --> 00:19:19.759 when I came back, I talked about my debt's passing 371 00:19:19.799 --> 00:19:21.960 and then no, no, why I giggled at that. Sorry 372 00:19:22.039 --> 00:19:24.880 that but anyway, then the next week, you guys are gone, 373 00:19:25.039 --> 00:19:26.400 and so we kind of hit on a little bit. 374 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:28.839 But the Surgeon General is basically put out like a 375 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:31.480 warning like they put on cigarettes, saying, hey, maybe you 376 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:33.480 shouldn't be a parent if you're not like up for 377 00:19:33.559 --> 00:19:36.720 it because it's very hard, which is fascinating to me 378 00:19:36.759 --> 00:19:38.960 on so many levels. But now they're talking about this 379 00:19:39.119 --> 00:19:41.400 new data that's showing the forty percent of US parents 380 00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:44.599 report that on most days they are so stressed they 381 00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:48.519 cannot function, which is interesting to me. 382 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:50.000 Go for it. 383 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:52.640 I want to push back on this too, because I mean, 384 00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:54.920 I'm not pushing back on the findings of the study. 385 00:19:55.319 --> 00:19:59.039 I am pushing back generally that we have allowed people 386 00:19:59.119 --> 00:20:02.039 to say things like I can't function. 387 00:20:02.519 --> 00:20:04.599 No, no, you can. You clearly can't. 388 00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:07.880 Your heart still beating, you're still drawing breath, You're not 389 00:20:09.160 --> 00:20:13.960 frozen in fear or ineptitude. You just want to say 390 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:16.720 something that makes it sound like you're the victim of 391 00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:19.119 how awful your circumstances are. 392 00:20:19.279 --> 00:20:21.480 Yeah, we want to talk about how hard everything is. 393 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:24.240 And there's there's trust me, there's lots of societal benefits 394 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:26.400 of people being open about their struggles. 395 00:20:26.440 --> 00:20:28.680 Why is that that used to not be the case? 396 00:20:28.920 --> 00:20:32.200 It's a it's is it contagious too? Or people want 397 00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:36.440 to just struggle and they want to. 398 00:20:35.319 --> 00:20:39.200 That's yes, I think that they're they're definitely in the 399 00:20:39.200 --> 00:20:41.839 mindset that is now like, I really feel like there's 400 00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:44.079 I don't like it. I don't like the words that 401 00:20:44.119 --> 00:20:46.000