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 --> 00:00:09.080 on the iHeartRadio app. President Biden is addressing the cease 4 00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:12.039 fire deal that has just been forged between Israel and Hamas. 5 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:13.839 Here we we'll dip in for a minute. 6 00:00:13.839 --> 00:00:18.359 Strongest supporter Iran launched the tax in Israel, and those 7 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:22.399 attacks failed. After my administration organized the Coalition of nations 8 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:25.800 to stop them, and after I ordered the US ships 9 00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:27.320 and planes to come to Zita's defense. 10 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:30.039 We also shaped Israel's. 11 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:36.159 Strong and calibrated response, destroying Iran's air defenses but avoiding 12 00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:40.799 an escratory cycle of an all war. The United States 13 00:00:40.880 --> 00:00:44.479 also organized the coalition of twenty countries to stand up 14 00:00:44.479 --> 00:00:48.439 to a tax by the Huthis, including their missile attacks 15 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:55.960 in Israel. Then Hesblah, another Hamas' strongest backers, was significantly 16 00:00:56.039 --> 00:01:00.320 weakened on the battlefield, and this leadership is destroyed. With 17 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:05.480 our support, Israel negotiated cease fire with them, and after 18 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:10.239 that Lebanon finally elected a new president who's not who's 19 00:01:10.239 --> 00:01:13.560 not beholding hesblog and he can begin a new chapter 20 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:19.159 for the Lebanese people. All told these developments in the region, 21 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:22.400 which the United States helped to shape, change the equation. 22 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:26.280 And so now the terror network that once protected and 23 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:31.519 sustained to Moss is far weaker. Iran is weaker. Iran 24 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:34.480 is weaker than it has been in decades. Hesblaw is 25 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:38.439 badly degraded. And after more than fifteen months of war, 26 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:43.000 A Moss's senior leaders are dead, thousands of MOSS fighters 27 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:48.000 are dead, and the military formations have been destroyed. With 28 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:54.239 nowhere to turn, Moss finally agreed to releasing hostages. You know, 29 00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:57.719 there was no other way for this war to end 30 00:01:58.599 --> 00:02:02.920 than with a hostage deal. And I'm deeply satisfied this 31 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:05.640 day has come, finally come for the sake of the 32 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:09.439 people Israel and the families waiting in agony. 33 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:13.439 So that's a bit of Joe Biden. And what essentially 34 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:16.159 he's saying is that there was the drip drip, and 35 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:18.840 you might expect that it comes from this perspective of 36 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:23.599 American support in the Middle East, such that there were 37 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:28.280 pressure on there was pressure a on those involved directly 38 00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:31.240 with the hostagens. And also he identified the whot easing diues, 39 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:35.680 identified a Husbal Law and Iran and he's saying, look, 40 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:39.199 we in America, through my administration, which is what you'd 41 00:02:39.199 --> 00:02:42.520 expect this president to say, put pressure on all of 42 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:46.680 these other groups through American support for Israeli military incursions, 43 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:50.919 and that all helped collectively to bring this about. Now again, 44 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:53.479 there'll be a bunch of different interpretations on this, but 45 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:55.960 that's essentially what Joe Biden is saying right now. 46 00:02:56.080 --> 00:02:58.120 Yeah, in phase one the last six weeks, and that 47 00:02:58.199 --> 00:03:03.400 will include US hostages being released. Within that first phase, 48 00:03:03.800 --> 00:03:06.639 you talk about the administration, the administration that has four 49 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:10.120 days left on its watch, because of course the Trump 50 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:13.680 administration comes in and we know how strong he has 51 00:03:13.719 --> 00:03:16.680 been in his words when it comes to the Israel 52 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:19.240 Hamas War and also Ukraine and Russia. 53 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:21.080 So we'll keep a watch on this. 54 00:03:21.159 --> 00:03:23.439 In the meantime, we're going to get back to our 55 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:28.120 coverage of the wildfires in southern California. We've been talking 56 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:30.719 to people who have lost everything in all of this. 57 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:34.159 We want to hear another man's perspective because he saw 58 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:39.039 his home in the Palisades burn. He watched it literally 59 00:03:39.159 --> 00:03:42.680 play by play from his Tesla camera. 60 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:43.639 He wasn't at home. 61 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:46.199 He has a wife and two kids three and five 62 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:49.919 years old. Those little girls were at school. He was 63 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:53.319 out of town at a convention for work, and meanwhile 64 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:57.120 this all erupted. James Borrow is on the line now, James, 65 00:03:57.199 --> 00:03:57.879 good to have you. 66 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:00.039 Oh your car, his car was parked in front of the house. 67 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:03.439 James, you can you can take it from there? 68 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:07.719 Yeah, yeah, Well the thanks for having me on there. 69 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:11.639 I mean, I think, yeah, I guess in terms of 70 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:13.879 of actually seeing it, you know that the whole day 71 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:16.680 was kind of just obviously you're a crazy day. But 72 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:19.759 starting at like ten thirty am, my wife actually saw 73 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:23.920 a bunch of smoke coming out of the mountains. I 74 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:26.360 think I was actually on a plane heading to the 75 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:28.639 lot of things that morning, and so she had tactically 76 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:30.800 said this looks bad, and so she went ahead and 77 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:33.639 I learned of the schools and got our kids out 78 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:36.680 of school really early in the morning. So we were 79 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:39.279 really fortunate that she was out of out of the 80 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:43.680 Dallas dates before even the evacuation notice was put in place, 81 00:04:44.439 --> 00:04:46.879 And we obviously were just watching it all day, just 82 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:49.720 trying to see, you know, really what was gonna happen, 83 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:52.680 just because you know, they were very clear, like everyone 84 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:55.959 knew these winds were coming, you know, like we could 85 00:04:55.959 --> 00:04:59.199 talk about that next, but you never could imagine that 86 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:03.319 it would get to our neighborhood, which is really far 87 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:07.319 away in terms of just in terms of just you know, 88 00:05:07.399 --> 00:05:09.279 it's like a ten to fifteen minute drive from where 89 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:12.839 it started. And anyway, as the day got worse, it 90 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:15.360 became pretty clear that this is getting out of control, 91 00:05:15.399 --> 00:05:17.079 and so I went to the airport trig get a 92 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:20.680 flight home, and a friend said, go ahead and check 93 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:23.040 your car. You know, it has cameras on it. And 94 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:25.639 so my car was parked across the street and I 95 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:30.199 logged into my car, and literally within two minutes of 96 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:33.839 pulling up those cameras, I saw a flame jump from 97 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:37.120 our neighbor's house to our sideyard, to the garage and 98 00:05:37.160 --> 00:05:40.279 then engulfed the whole house. At this point, that was 99 00:05:40.319 --> 00:05:44.639 like maybe seven thirty pm. And yeah, I watched the 100 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:49.480 whole thing. Obviously, it's a real experience. And even to 101 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:51.680 this day, I've not been back up there, but I 102 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:54.439 could still log into my car and check. And so 103 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:57.720 I've been trying to why. 104 00:05:56.920 --> 00:05:59.279 Yeah, because the evacuation is own. Just to be clear, 105 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:02.000 it's there was the evacuation zone is still such that 106 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:04.439 you can't even as a resident get back into that. 107 00:06:04.439 --> 00:06:06.360 Area, correct. 108 00:06:06.439 --> 00:06:08.920 Yeah. Yeah. We attempted the other day to get up there. 109 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:11.360 It was a five Well I waited five hours and 110 00:06:11.720 --> 00:06:14.480 was not able to go. I know people that were 111 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:17.759 there for like thirteen hours, and so it's been the 112 00:06:17.800 --> 00:06:20.240 only way to really kind of check in for me. 113 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:24.480 Other people have got up there, I think with people 114 00:06:24.519 --> 00:06:26.319 that you know, affiliated with the press, they were able to. 115 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:27.160 So we've seen. 116 00:06:27.079 --> 00:06:33.240 Videos obviously, but yeah, yeah, so it was really really 117 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:34.399 really crazy experience. 118 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:37.560 Yeah, to see it live on your Tesla camera. 119 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:40.720 You know, I've mentioned before that, you know, we were 120 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:42.639 in the Getty fire in our neighborhood burned. I lost 121 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:46.240 my house and I also had a Tesla parked in front, 122 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:49.120 and but back then they were the old school teslas 123 00:06:49.399 --> 00:06:51.319 and you had to go in and get the chip 124 00:06:51.439 --> 00:06:53.519 out to see it, so it took a long time. 125 00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:55.720 I just it occurred to me days later that I 126 00:06:55.720 --> 00:06:57.480 could get it. When I finally got in, I got 127 00:06:57.480 --> 00:07:00.639 that chip and watch it. Afterward. We had secure cameras 128 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:02.920 at the house and I could see the embers. It 129 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:05.879 was almost like a snow globe. I could see these 130 00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:08.480 embers coming up all around the house. So I watched 131 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:11.040 it also through security cameras that were at the house. 132 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:14.879 But to see it from across the street from your car, 133 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:18.199 it had to be because again it wasn't after the fact, 134 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:21.240 you were seeing it as it happened. I can only 135 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:24.759 imagine it was an emotional experience as well to watch that. 136 00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:31.360 Yeah, I mean the motion obviously is it's profound. 137 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:31.920 I'm sure. 138 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:36.399 Yeah. And we lived a few blocks away from the 139 00:07:36.639 --> 00:07:41.480 fire station. Obviously, you know at that point the station 140 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:45.040 and the trucks were all over the place. And by 141 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:48.000 no means I like, you know, blame the fire department, 142 00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:50.040 but it was just one of the things when you know, 143 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:52.480 even as the day was unfolding, in my head, it 144 00:07:52.519 --> 00:07:54.160 was like I lived so close to the fire station, 145 00:07:54.360 --> 00:07:59.519 like eventually that you think there'd become you just assumed 146 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:06.120 that just proximity that that you were safer and and 147 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:07.480 this just wasn't the case. 148 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:10.160 Where does your frustrations lie now? 149 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:12.399 I mean I know that you are you're understanding, but 150 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:14.920 you're frustrated that you can't go into your property. I 151 00:08:14.959 --> 00:08:16.399 know a lot of people feel that way. I've heard 152 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:18.800 from a lot of homeowners, and your shoes. Where does 153 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:21.279 your frustration lie? Just though, as you're picking up the 154 00:08:21.399 --> 00:08:23.959 pieces and sort of looking back on what happened. 155 00:08:25.079 --> 00:08:30.319 Without as local government, it's totally inept and competent with 156 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:33.919 the communication from the government has been horrible. 157 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:34.960 You know. 158 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:39.399 The most valuable sort of infrastructure that we've had up 159 00:08:39.480 --> 00:08:43.039 until now it's been a week, has been WhatsApp. And 160 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:46.240 all the neighbors and friends are self organizing. I mean, 161 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:49.679 there are WhatsApp groups for how to handle lawyers and 162 00:08:49.720 --> 00:08:52.279 whatspp groups for a state farm. And you know this, 163 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:54.879 you know, and I think people don't quite It's hard 164 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:57.279 for them to wrap their heads around how devastating this 165 00:08:57.440 --> 00:08:59.919 is like for the community. Like, you know, my entire 166 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:04.159 neighborhood is gone. My five year old's school has gone, 167 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:06.320 My three year old's preschool has gone. The place that 168 00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:09.600 they got art class has gone, the place music class 169 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:12.000 has gone, place through which the gymnastics is gone, The 170 00:09:12.080 --> 00:09:14.799 library's gone. You know, I'm forty years old. I have 171 00:09:14.799 --> 00:09:16.679 a bunch of friends my age, you know, little kids 172 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:19.360 that live there. Every single one of their houses has gone. 173 00:09:19.480 --> 00:09:22.600 I don't have a single friend with a house anymore. 174 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:26.039 So it's just you can't like you can't fathom how 175 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:29.639 widespread it is. And I would say just in terms 176 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:32.200 of frustration, you know a lot of people are pointing 177 00:09:32.200 --> 00:09:34.120 out the insurance companies to be fair to them. They 178 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:36.759 told us they were dropping us, right, there were sixteen 179 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:40.080 hundred of us that were state farm insured. And you know, 180 00:09:40.120 --> 00:09:42.559 over the last few months, they were transparent. They got 181 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:45.279 us into the fair plan. I had to pay you know, 182 00:09:45.320 --> 00:09:48.600 four hundred percent more, which is ridiculous, but at least 183 00:09:48.600 --> 00:09:53.080 they were I think transparent. The local officials knew that 184 00:09:53.159 --> 00:09:56.200 all of us had been dropped, and they did not 185 00:09:56.320 --> 00:09:58.679 go ahead and say, Okay, my citizens now are at 186 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:01.879 elevated risk. Let check the water pressure, Let's make sure 187 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:05.159 that the fire engines are being worked on, Let's make 188 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:10.320 sure the reservoirs filled. So it is you know, yeah, 189 00:10:10.360 --> 00:10:12.480 my take is a low government. Basically, it's been like 190 00:10:12.519 --> 00:10:16.279 a facade, like they were playing government and like this 191 00:10:16.519 --> 00:10:22.759 is just you can't imagine incompetent it is. 192 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:24.320 Yeah, this is when you need government. 193 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:26.559 James Borrow, we're out of time, but your story is 194 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:30.679 honestly one and your perspective that's shared by so many Angelinos. 195 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:35.159 I wish you so well. Building back your life, and 196 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:38.279 I am so grateful on behalf of all of us 197 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:39.960 at KFI for you sharing your story. 198 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:40.759 Thank you, thank you. 199 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:42.759 James Nice. 200 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:47.279 Yeah, just astounding talking about the Israel and Hamas deal 201 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:49.759 from time to time. We carried the remarks of the 202 00:10:49.799 --> 00:10:54.679 president live. And the new president and Trump administration begins 203 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:58.919 on Monday, and I'm sure there will be conversations around 204 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:02.600 to what degree that incoming administration was having an effect 205 00:11:02.679 --> 00:11:05.679 on fast tracking negotiations which had been under way. 206 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:06.960 For so long, Yeah, putting the pressure on. 207 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:09.360 And then also he says he's going to stop the 208 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:13.720 war in Ukraine immediately, so we'll see what happens there 209 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:14.039 as well. 210 00:11:14.240 --> 00:11:19.559 Yeah. Obviously we're focusing on the fire. And one of 211 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:24.360 the aspects of Los Angeles and Southern California fires and 212 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:28.639 disasters generally is that they're populated by celebrities. 213 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:31.039 It's an odd fact and it's a weird thing. 214 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:35.200 In the grim desperation of so many who've been displaced, 215 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:39.759 who've lost to everything, you see these stars show up, 216 00:11:39.919 --> 00:11:43.080 you know, to help out and among them, and I 217 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:46.279 saw Eva Longoria saw well, I. 218 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:48.039 Mean, Jennifer Garner was out there. 219 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:50.240 And probably the highest profile in the middle of it 220 00:11:50.279 --> 00:11:52.919 all was Gutenberg, you know, saying, you know, we've got 221 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:54.320 to move these cars out of the way. That was 222 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:58.320 during the entire inferno. Well, Jay Leno showed up yesterday 223 00:11:58.360 --> 00:12:02.600 and he brought his Hey, Bronnie's, you know, it's fire 224 00:12:02.679 --> 00:12:06.480 engine from nineteen forties. I think that was the idea, 225 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:09.840 was he was. They're not just for the personal appearance. 226 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:11.000 He was serving food. 227 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:13.240 You came by to drop off some supplies. 228 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:16.519 We're cooking for the for the crew, and well, you guys, 229 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:18.519 if you're hungry, we got we've got a big barbecue 230 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:20.960 going because you know, we're getting box lunches. We figure, 231 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:23.000 let's get some hot food. So it's kind of fun. 232 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:25.840 I drove a nineteen forty one America La France fire truck. 233 00:12:25.720 --> 00:12:26.399 So guy's got to go. 234 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:28.519 You brought your own fire, drop own fire. It's good 235 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:30.120 to have your own fire truck. Where do you live 236 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:33.080 in La and in nineteen forty one forty one? 237 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:33.320 Yeah? 238 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:35.720 Yeah, so but anyway, so we've got it loaded up 239 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:39.440 and we cooked yesterday in Pasadena at the Rose Ball 240 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:41.320 for the crew there, and we're here today and we'll 241 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:43.480 attend the locations the next two or three days. 242 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:48.000 Jay is wonderful and he's a friend of Kofi, and 243 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:50.440 it's great to see him out there. And it's again 244 00:12:50.519 --> 00:12:52.279 one of those weird aspects. 245 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:54.399 Of you know, all of the celebrity and all of 246 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:55.440 that Shutthern California. 247 00:12:55.480 --> 00:12:59.600 Yeah, and of course he was darking to Anderson Cooper, right, yeah, yeah, 248 00:13:00.279 --> 00:13:01.559 another celebrity. 249 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:03.600 And that's truely now you emerging the celebrity. 250 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:06.399 Okay, So we're going to talk about the root cause. 251 00:13:06.679 --> 00:13:10.960 Yeah, because yeah, we'll talk about it quickly, just because 252 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:14.679 something we talked about yesterday and you were getting your 253 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:20.600 maternity scan yesterday. I think it was lovely but sad 254 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:23.279 you couldn't be here. But I thought it was interesting 255 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:28.440 that they're looking at this fireworks, this illegal fireworks thing 256 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:31.720 that was going on on New Year's Eve and then 257 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:35.080 pointing to that as the thing that could produce this 258 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:37.080 fire six days later. 259 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:39.720 Well, and the fire actually happened on New Year's Day, 260 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:43.799 so it happened six days before January seventh, which of 261 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:47.360 course is when the Palisades Fire started. And so yes, 262 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:50.639 atf they have seventy five personnel on the scene. 263 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:51.960 They're investigating this. 264 00:13:51.960 --> 00:13:54.600 This is that Skull Rock trail which is a very 265 00:13:54.639 --> 00:13:59.399 popular hiking trail and there was a kids, literally kids 266 00:13:59.399 --> 00:14:01.200 out there seen the night before. 267 00:14:01.919 --> 00:14:04.080 They were able to quickly put that fire out. 268 00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:09.480 But LAFD PIO Eric Scott was asked about this and 269 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:13.399 he says, yeah, it's not unconscious, it's not You can 270 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:17.720 conceive that this could have reignited six days later. 271 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:18.919 Fires can do that. 272 00:14:19.480 --> 00:14:21.600 We will follow up on this, but that is the 273 00:14:21.679 --> 00:14:23.919 last part of what you just said is the thing 274 00:14:23.960 --> 00:14:26.720 that I'm really being educated on that something could reignite 275 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:29.279 six days later if the winds are strong enough. It's 276 00:14:29.279 --> 00:14:33.200 an extraordinary notion. The moment has come we take a 277 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:36.000 little break from some of the seriousness. Dad has called 278 00:14:36.039 --> 00:14:36.639 into the show. 279 00:14:36.840 --> 00:14:40.360 I even miss hearing Gary Hoffman. Ever, Daddy fails. 280 00:14:40.639 --> 00:14:44.360 Yeah, we need to check in Gary Hoffman. How are you, sir? 281 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:48.440 Oh, I'm appropriately sore. I'll tell you that. 282 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:51.200 Now tell everybody why, just remind. 283 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:58.240 Us so my vacation is. I am playing in a 284 00:14:58.360 --> 00:15:03.080 Major League baseball fantasy came out in Scottsdale, Arizona, where 285 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:07.000 you come on out, you play five, six, seven baseball 286 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:09.240 games in the course of the week and go home 287 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:10.399 sore and happy. 288 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:14.039 I mean, how how realistic, is it? Though? 289 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:19.960 When you say MLB major league status, how dare you? 290 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:20.320 What? 291 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:23.840 What? What? It's We're playing on the real fields. We're 292 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:27.440 playing on Scottsfield Stadium field, which is where the Giants 293 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:31.519 do their spring training games. They have their their Winter 294 00:15:31.639 --> 00:15:35.440 league ball teams play here, the minor league of course, 295 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:39.840 during the during the offseason, so it's legit. We've got umpires, 296 00:15:39.879 --> 00:15:44.879 we've got our coaches are all former players. 297 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:45.360 Awesome. 298 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:48.559 Yeah. My coach on my team is J. T. Snow 299 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:51.440 Oh yeah, of course the Giants and the Angels of course. 300 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:55.159 So and it's just fun. It's a blast show you 301 00:15:55.159 --> 00:15:59.000 you hit the ball off of t No no, no. 302 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:03.639 Yesterday we did live pitching, so we just it was 303 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:05.840 our first game and it was really for a lot 304 00:16:05.840 --> 00:16:07.840 of guys the first time they had seen live pitching 305 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:13.039 since about the eighth grade. And you could tell. But 306 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:15.639 but we pitched to each other. I think as we 307 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:18.080 get later in the week, you're going to see that 308 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:22.159 fifty year old arms are not built to throw four 309 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:23.320 or five innings day. 310 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:25.480 Yeah. 311 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:28.240 Yeah, so they may turn it over and have some 312 00:16:28.279 --> 00:16:32.759 of the former Major leaguers come in and throw pitches 313 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:34.840 for us. I mean The point is we're not here 314 00:16:34.840 --> 00:16:36.879 to strike out. We're all here to hit and you know, 315 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:40.240 get the ball in the in the outfield and try 316 00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:42.639 to move around a little bit so that that that's 317 00:16:42.679 --> 00:16:45.320 the Probably the biggest change is that we're not doing 318 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:50.240 full time, full pitching like like they have in the past. 319 00:16:50.679 --> 00:16:52.240 That makes it more fun though. 320 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:57.639 Well, I got it's everybody participating. My questions about the demographic, 321 00:16:57.799 --> 00:17:00.360 like what are the ages of the people who are there. 322 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:05.720 The youngest camper is twenty he's here with his dad. 323 00:17:07.039 --> 00:17:09.039 We have a couple. We have a brother and sister 324 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:13.440 who are twenty five and twenty eight. There's another father 325 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:16.359 and son. The son is I think twenty seven and 326 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:20.119 dad is seventy three. I think that's pretty close to 327 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:22.880 the top. Seventy one, seventy two, seventy three is the 328 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:27.640 is the highest ages. Wow, and then the vast majority 329 00:17:27.640 --> 00:17:29.039 of people fifties and sixties. 330 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:31.160 Probably this is not your first rodeo. 331 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:36.599 You do this regularly, Well, I'd love to do it regularly. 332 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:38.799 It's a little cost prohibitive to do it every year, 333 00:17:39.160 --> 00:17:41.119 but it is one of those things that I have 334 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:45.279 thoroughly and I mean I get to go, I get 335 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:48.680 a full uniform tailored to well, not tailored, but I 336 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:51.400 mean my size uniform with my name on the back of. 337 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:52.000 It's cool. 338 00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:54.240 I get to play baseball with all of these guys 339 00:17:54.279 --> 00:17:57.599 that you know love playing it as well, and it's 340 00:17:57.720 --> 00:18:00.279 just I mean, it's a it's a really for me. 341 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:03.000 This is sort of that bucket list item that I've 342 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:06.400 been lucky enough to do, and it's great. I Mean, 343 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:08.240 one of the things about the sport at baseball is 344 00:18:08.279 --> 00:18:10.079 that there is a lot of downtime. And I know, 345 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:13.160 for for people who aren't smart enough to follow it, 346 00:18:13.240 --> 00:18:16.519 they think that it's boring because of that downtime. But 347 00:18:16.599 --> 00:18:21.599 there's nobody who tells stories the way baseball players tell stories. 348 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:24.799 So every morning we get we get a chance to, 349 00:18:24.839 --> 00:18:27.480 you know, hang out with these former players and ask 350 00:18:27.519 --> 00:18:30.279 them all the questions that we always wanted to ask them, like, hey, 351 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:32.000 I was at that game when you hit the walk 352 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:34.119 off home runner, I remember you when you played with 353 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:36.279 the Angels, And what was it like to play with 354 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:38.920 Barry Bonds? And I mean all of these great things. 355 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:41.519 And they love coming out here too. I Mean, they 356 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:44.279 love this game. They love the camaraderie that is just 357 00:18:44.319 --> 00:18:47.599 built around this game. It's inherent in this game. So 358 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:49.359 this I mean, it's just it's fun for everybody. 359 00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:51.359 Yeah, because you're your listeners. 360 00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:53.920 By the way, you were you and Shannon, you were 361 00:18:53.960 --> 00:18:57.559 off during the holidays, deservedly so, and then you come 362 00:18:57.599 --> 00:18:59.440 back and then you abandoned them again. 363 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:01.880 And now here we are. 364 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:06.319 She went from deservedly so to abandon them again. I 365 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:06.880 noticed that. 366 00:19:07.319 --> 00:19:10.440 But now your listeners they know why. I mean, this 367 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:12.599 is what a great thing for you to be doing. 368 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:14.880 By the way, the downtime in baseball is the part 369 00:19:14.920 --> 00:19:16.720 that's the only part of baseball I'm good at, is 370 00:19:16.759 --> 00:19:20.079 the downtime. So you know, the dugouts, sitting around telling stories. 371 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:23.799 That's where I really excel. Yeah, So it continues for 372 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:25.440 the rest of the week, and then at the end 373 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:27.359 they're like trophies and presentations. 374 00:19:27.400 --> 00:19:30.640 I've heard. I know only one other person's. 375 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:32.039 Actually gone through it and goes through it regularly, and 376 00:19:32.519 --> 00:19:35.519 that's I believe how they end most of these things. 377 00:19:35.599 --> 00:19:35.799 Right. 378 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:39.759 Yeah, we're doing sort of a round robin. There's four teams. 379 00:19:39.799 --> 00:19:42.799 We're going to play each team at least once, and 380 00:19:42.799 --> 00:19:47.759 then by Friday morning they will have determined who is who. 381 00:19:47.960 --> 00:19:50.880 You know, how they rank, and we have a consolation 382 00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:54.200 game and then a championship game, and the championship game 383 00:19:54.279 --> 00:19:56.839 is played out here on the stadium field again. I mean, 384 00:19:56.880 --> 00:19:59.279 we have a full announcer, they have pictures up on 385 00:19:59.319 --> 00:20:01.720 the scoreboard each of us, They have walk up songs, 386 00:20:01.720 --> 00:20:03.839 they do everything that is so awesome. 387 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:07.440 Are you I haven't seen you haven't posted anything, have you. 388 00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:12.400 I just think keana a picture from that. I just 389 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:14.839 took this afternoon so you can see. It's just incredible, 390 00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:17.240 beautiful weather. It's actually and I know this is going 391 00:20:17.319 --> 00:20:19.160 to hit hard in the wrong way, but it's a 392 00:20:19.160 --> 00:20:23.680 little windy today, nothing like La obviously, But other than that, 393 00:20:23.759 --> 00:20:26.240 I mean, it's beautiful blue skies. It's going to be 394 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:30.720 seventy degrees today, probably seventy four tomorrow. Yeah, but I'll 395 00:20:30.720 --> 00:20:33.039 throw some pictures up there. They actually have a couple 396 00:20:33.079 --> 00:20:35.640 of photographers that are going around and have been taking 397 00:20:35.680 --> 00:20:38.519 pictures of games and people and you know, running on 398 00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:40.559 bass and batting situations. 399 00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:43.799 So what position do you like? Where are you on 400 00:20:43.839 --> 00:20:45.799 the field today? 401 00:20:45.880 --> 00:20:49.599