Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: For the second time in as many attempts, Twitter blew
Speaker 3: it yesterday.
Speaker 4: The social media site was glitchy.
Speaker 3: A bunch of people couldn't listen to the interview that
Speaker 3: Elon Musk was doing with Donald Trump when he started
Speaker 3: about forty five minutes late. Elon Musk said there appeared
Speaker 3: to be a massive d doos attack on Twitter and
Speaker 3: working on shutting it down, and that they were going
Speaker 3: to proceed with the interview, but it started about forty
Speaker 3: five minutes late.
Speaker 4: It did go for about two hours.
Speaker 1: Protesters with the with an organization that I will not
Speaker 1: name AH took over the four oh five this morning
Speaker 1: in West LA terrible move, demanding a ceasefire in the
Speaker 1: Israel Hamas war colin to it arms embargo, so they
Speaker 1: shut it down just south of the ten. If you
Speaker 1: want to piss people off and get them further against you,
Speaker 1: shut down the four five. That'll really ingratiate you to
Speaker 1: the greater Los Angeles area.
Speaker 3: Moron, Oh, we have got to do the Gavenusom story
Speaker 3: which one the photographer.
Speaker 5: I do not know this story.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, we'll do it later this hour and
Speaker 3: expand on it. But I will just say this. The office,
Speaker 3: the Governor's office is defending the hiring of a director
Speaker 3: of photography m A two hundred thousand dollars a year
Speaker 3: director of photography.
Speaker 5: Wow to the Governor's office. That's incredible.
Speaker 1: But if there's something that he likes, it's favorable lighting
Speaker 1: and good hair.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1: So two former La County Sheriff's deputies and two former
Speaker 1: foreign military officials have been charged with threatening a Chinese
Speaker 1: national and his family with violence and deportation. It was
Speaker 1: a sham raid at this guy's home in Orange County
Speaker 1: five years ago. They demanded thirty seven million dollars and
Speaker 1: the rights to the man's business. So they've been a
Speaker 1: ragin this week on charges of conspiracy to commit extortion,
Speaker 1: attempted extortion, conspiracy against rights, and deprivation of rights under
Speaker 1: the color of law.
Speaker 5: All I pleaded not guilty.
Speaker 3: So these two sheriff's deputies and the two former soldiers
Speaker 3: from Australia and Great Britain go to this guy's house
Speaker 3: in June of twenty nineteen and they force him, his wife,
Speaker 3: and their two kids into a single room for several hours.
Speaker 3: They take their phones, and they threaten to deport him
Speaker 3: unless he complies with their demands.
Speaker 4: Now he's a legal permanent resident. Keep that in mind.
Speaker 5: They said.
Speaker 1: The man slammed the business guy against the wall, choked him.
Speaker 1: Fearing for his and his family's safety, he signed documents
Speaker 1: relinquishing his multi million dollar interest in a tech firm,
Speaker 1: a China based company that makes rubber chemicals.
Speaker 3: The money behind all of this, by the way, was
Speaker 3: his business partner, a Chinese woman, not indicted, but they
Speaker 3: said that all of this was her idea.
Speaker 5: Ah.
Speaker 3: I see, they had been fighting legal disputes over the
Speaker 3: company in the United States and China for more than
Speaker 3: a decade.
Speaker 1: So she hired these guys as hit men, financial hit men,
Speaker 1: so to speak. Basically, now here's the problem. One of
Speaker 1: the men charged is a guy by the name of
Speaker 1: Stephen Langford. He retired from the La County Sheriff's Department
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, but he was a pretty big deal
Speaker 1: in the Sheriff's department. Had his hands on a lot
Speaker 1: of big cases. And now all the people that he
Speaker 1: helped put Away get to raise their hands and say this.
Speaker 5: Guy is not above board, he is dirty.
Speaker 1: It's a Brady violation, and it puts all those cases
Speaker 1: in jeopardy, creates a lot more work for the current
Speaker 1: law enforcement structure that exists.
Speaker 3: So the first person Langford wasn't apparently the first person
Speaker 3: of this group. Glenn Cozart of Upland used to be
Speaker 3: a shriff's deputy. He was the one who was originally
Speaker 3: hired and then brought on Langford, who in turn was
Speaker 3: hired by Max Samuel Bennett Turbot. That's a lot of names,
Speaker 3: thirty nine year old British citizen, former member of the
Speaker 3: British Military Prosecutors said that Turbot was hired by the
Speaker 3: Chinese businesswoman who financed the bogus rate. And then there
Speaker 3: was another guy, Matthew Hart, a forty one year old
Speaker 3: Australian citizen who's also been charged in this case. And
Speaker 3: if convicted, each of these guys could face up to
Speaker 3: twenty years in federal prison. And like you said, the
Speaker 3: repercussions of potentially the shriff's deputy having his hand in
Speaker 3: all of these all of these other cases that now
Speaker 3: are up.
Speaker 4: In the air. They're all being questioned.
Speaker 1: Right, And the law enforcement structure that exists now is
Speaker 1: a lot more flimsy than it was when he was
Speaker 1: handling cases. So it's good news for a lot of criminals.
Speaker 1: This DA doesn't do anything about pains.
Speaker 3: A reminder that next week we are going to be
Speaker 3: live in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention. It could
Speaker 3: be crazy, It could be absolutely bonkers, depending on how
Speaker 3: things go, both inside and outside the Convention Center. It's
Speaker 3: at the United Center. It's where the Chicago Bulls play,
Speaker 3: the Blackhawks play there too.
Speaker 1: We're set up right next to a magnificent Michael Jordan
Speaker 1: statue that I can't wait to climb.
Speaker 4: Probably not available for climbing.
Speaker 5: We'll see about that.
Speaker 3: I mean, maybe it's one of those like let your
Speaker 3: kids run the bases at Dodger Stadium. Maybe there's a
Speaker 3: day at United Center where they're like, let your friend
Speaker 3: climb the Michael Jordan's.
Speaker 5: Well, well, I did notice that it was roped off,
Speaker 5: but I mean.
Speaker 3: I think there were actual glass walls. It wasn't just
Speaker 3: roped off.
Speaker 5: They were not glass walls. It was just a slight roping.
Speaker 1: And there's just like Jim Harbaugh taught me, I'll walk
Speaker 1: up right to that line and I'll cross it and
Speaker 1: then blast through whatever glass walls. Hey, if I get arrested,
Speaker 1: that's good for the show. If I get arrested, it's
Speaker 1: even better, because yeah, that's true. But if I got
Speaker 1: arrested for climbing on a Michael Jordan statue, the mileage
Speaker 1: we could get out of that, that is true. I
Speaker 1: mean I got caught with a sight or at Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 1: and I've brought it up seven hundred times.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you have to get T shirts printed.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: So just so everybody knows, yes, we will be doing
Speaker 3: the show live from Chicago all week next week talking
Speaker 3: about what's going on in the convention. We'll be talking
Speaker 3: about our opinions of what's going on at the convention,
Speaker 3: et cetera. And we wanted to go to the Republican Convention.
Speaker 3: We wanted to. The financials didn't work out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the sales department didn't get it zact together.
Speaker 4: There wasn't anybody on this floor.
Speaker 5: I know that we will nobody on this floor.
Speaker 4: We wanted to go. So we are going to get
Speaker 4: to go to Chicago.
Speaker 3: So we hope that you would tune in, and of
Speaker 3: course you can follow us on social media at Gary
Speaker 3: and Shannon. We'll be posting videos, We'll be posting our experiences.
Speaker 3: We know there are going to be massive protests that
Speaker 3: are already planned, and those are the planned ones that.
Speaker 4: We know about. We could see some some other things
Speaker 4: go down.
Speaker 5: I can't believe that's next week.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, we got a lot, because what's going
Speaker 1: on all right at this A lot of this up next.
Speaker 4: Why Laguna Beach thinks tourism is destructive.
Speaker 5: Because they're Laguna Beach. They get to live there.
Speaker 1: Something to be said about living somewhere people want to
Speaker 1: visit and knowing that and being grateful that you're in
Speaker 1: that spot.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, you get to sleep there every single night.
Speaker 6: Can you guys, please please please stop with the commercials
Speaker 6: with the doorbell I work from home and it drives
Speaker 6: my dogs crazy, which drives me crazy. Please don't make
Speaker 6: me change stations. I love you guys, but no more
Speaker 6: commercials with doorbells. Please, very very frustrating.
Speaker 5: There's this station that I listen.
Speaker 3: Do you want to go for a walk? You want
Speaker 3: to go for a walk? Oh no, oh, let's go
Speaker 3: for a walk. No w A l K, let's go
Speaker 3: for a walk. Stop it, you're horrible. That's worse than
Speaker 3: saying mamesa. My dog's probably freaking out right now too.
Speaker 5: Your dog's not listening to this show?
Speaker 4: Yeah, is the r one.
Speaker 1: But like, a certain annoying ad can really make you
Speaker 1: stop listening to a particular station.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Like, there's a station that I listen to from time
Speaker 1: to time, and it's got the most annoying, disgusting ad
Speaker 1: on it, and it's about a woman and she's talking
Speaker 1: about her husband's yellow, crusty toes and it's disgusting and
Speaker 1: it plays all the time, and it makes me never
Speaker 1: want to listen to that station.
Speaker 3: I'm awful. And the thing is, I don't even know.
Speaker 3: I don't know the commercial that she's talking about. I
Speaker 3: don't know the one that's got right either.
Speaker 1: But I feel bad about it because I understand how
Speaker 1: that can happen.
Speaker 3: Laguna Beach c's about six million tourists a year, but
Speaker 3: residents who live there say the challenges that these tourists
Speaker 3: bring have begun to outweigh the benefits, mostly because people
Speaker 3: don't pay attention to the rules at the beach. People
Speaker 3: wading into the water and the tide pools when they're
Speaker 3: not supposed to. Laguna officials have gone to the city
Speaker 3: council over and over again and urged officials to do
Speaker 3: something to address the challenges brought on by these tourists.
Speaker 3: And one of the things they have said is, hey,
Speaker 3: just start issuing tickets for what is already illegal, which
Speaker 3: is smoking. You can't drink in public, you can't litter,
Speaker 3: you can't bring a pop up tent that's more than
Speaker 3: six feet wide. All of those things they said, if
Speaker 3: you were able to crack down on it would make
Speaker 3: a big difference in terms of.
Speaker 4: In terms of just the likeability. Perhaps.
Speaker 3: Other people said that the influx of visitors also taxing resources,
Speaker 3: because lifeguards have had to pull twenty two hundred people
Speaker 3: from the water over the Fourth of July weekend and
Speaker 3: since Memorial Day. Ocean rescues are up four hundred percent
Speaker 3: since last year.
Speaker 1: I love the way it's written in the La Times.
Speaker 1: From the exclusive Montage resort, where an ocean view room
Speaker 1: costs upwards of one thousand dollars per night, a colony
Speaker 1: of seagulls battled over a costco retisserie Chicken carcass, like,
Speaker 1: if that's if that's your plight, is a Costco, how
Speaker 1: how dare I have to look at a five dollars
Speaker 1: still five dollars?
Speaker 4: I think?
Speaker 1: How dare I have to look at the carcass of
Speaker 1: a five dollars meal when I am paying one thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a night at the Montage? Ridiculous. I don't feel
Speaker 1: bad for you. I just don't well.
Speaker 2: And what is the.
Speaker 4: I don't know what's the what's the downside?
Speaker 3: The upside they're hoping would be more maybe tax revenue
Speaker 3: or ticket revenue than which that would be coming in.
Speaker 3: And then the downside is you get to live in
Speaker 3: one of the most beautiful places in a beautiful rich.
Speaker 1: People that complaining about the pores coming in in the
Speaker 1: summer and eating their five dollars chicken, they don't.
Speaker 5: Want to be They don't have to see the pores.
Speaker 2: That it's not that.
Speaker 7: Is that just assured me that I called.
Speaker 5: Wait, why did you play?
Speaker 1: That just assured me that.
Speaker 6: I call it speak and saw the.
Speaker 3: Cow because of your succulent Costco rotisserie chicken.
Speaker 5: Ah, my succulent Costco chicken.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: They have formed a committee dedicated to addressing visitor issues
Speaker 3: there in Laguna, They've launched an ad campaign on Google
Speaker 3: to target misbehaving tourists. These ads are going to run
Speaker 3: for the rest of the summer and talk about the
Speaker 3: common complaints, the litter of the cigarette smoke and the
Speaker 3: loud vehicle exhaust So my mother now lives in Laguna.
Speaker 4: Apparently she's the one I joke.
Speaker 5: Dixie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she doesn't live anymore. She's a hundred would have
Speaker 3: been one hundred and three right now, Dixie three.
Speaker 4: She's born in twenty one.
Speaker 5: I love that name so much. I'm so sad I
Speaker 5: never got to meet her.
Speaker 3: And what a what a just a weird thing that
Speaker 3: she was Nate, Uh, what do you call it? She
Speaker 3: was married to a guy named dick her Son, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: Dixie and Dickerson. That's some rifleman stuff.
Speaker 4: That's they were very riflemen people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I know, I.
Speaker 1: Can profile correctly. Do you have a good story to
Speaker 1: tell us about?
Speaker 3: Not only do we have a good story, it's about
Speaker 3: an old dog.
Speaker 5: What's the dog's name.
Speaker 4: The old dog's name is.
Speaker 5: Good Boy Ivy.
Speaker 4: I don't know, is it Ivy?
Speaker 5: I think?
Speaker 7: So?
Speaker 4: Okay, we'll go with that. Ivy.
Speaker 1: Are we going to have good news, good dog news,
Speaker 1: story music.
Speaker 4: We might.
Speaker 3: We might also have to get into your We might
Speaker 3: also have to get into your arrest.
Speaker 4: Well, no, your meat is American. Get over at Shannon.
Speaker 4: You don't need meat.
Speaker 1: Garbonzo beans are great, by the way, I know, get
Speaker 1: off the meat.
Speaker 5: I'm not getting off the meat, all right, Jacob, you
Speaker 5: know what to do with that, right?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 5: I mean I think garbonzo beans are great.
Speaker 4: Garbon I've one of my favorite beans.
Speaker 5: But I'm not gonna just eat them.
Speaker 4: That's silly.
Speaker 5: That's just silly.
Speaker 2: I've done that.
Speaker 5: I'm Canadian. I can I can explain to you what
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I need an explanation, Debra, how
Speaker 1: do you eat garbonzo beans?
Speaker 5: What I'm saying is you can? You know you can?
Speaker 5: You could put that creative with some rice, with some
Speaker 5: black beans. Is that a farting sound?
Speaker 1: No, us, come on it. We're much more grown up, right. Actually,
Speaker 1: the boss told me, Debra yesterday. She brought me into
Speaker 1: her office and she said, I need you to grow up.
Speaker 2: Really hysterical.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: A member of the squad elon Omar congresswoman out of Wisconsin,
Speaker 3: trying to avoid Minnesota, Minnesota, trying to avoid the fate
Speaker 3: of a couple of her closest allies. They're holding a
Speaker 3: primary election today. She's defending her a fifth district seat
Speaker 3: against a repeat challenge from former Minneapolis City council member
Speaker 3: Don Samuels, happens to be a much more centrist Democrat,
Speaker 3: whom she narrowly defeated just a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3: Tropical Storm Ernesto expected to lash the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico,
Speaker 3: other parts of the Caribbean today.
Speaker 4: That storm could reach hurricane strength later this week.
Speaker 1: Hey, we do have to get into this Gavin Newsome
Speaker 1: story coming up next, the one you alerted me to
Speaker 1: the fact that he has hired a official photographer who
Speaker 1: is going to make more than the Secretary of State.
Speaker 4: Well, it's a lot of photo editing.
Speaker 3: I assume of Gavin Newsom, we'd make him look smart
Speaker 3: and strong and tough.
Speaker 4: Guy. M tough guy, dude.
Speaker 6: I just had to chime in about Laguna Beach.
Speaker 2: I have a couple of clients that live there that
Speaker 2: I got to deal with, which means I gotta go there.
Speaker 6: Dude.
Speaker 2: Laguna sucks. It's full of Karen's no parking.
Speaker 6: It's just nonsense. Man.
Speaker 2: Other than the view, Laguna Beach is not even worth
Speaker 2: going to.
Speaker 5: Getting in there too is always a hassle.
Speaker 2: That's great, Hey guys.
Speaker 8: Gary from Santa Crita just wondering if Deborah and Shannon's
Speaker 8: lap was because the boss pulled her in and told
Speaker 8: her to grow up, or because they realized that she
Speaker 8: probably wouldn't grow up. Have a good one, see.
Speaker 5: Yea, probably both a little bit of both.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: A good news story to tell you about a kayaker
Speaker 3: on a cross country trip through Canada creeks and rivers,
Speaker 3: ticks a brief detour to rescue a man's dog that
Speaker 3: had been trapped under a log.
Speaker 5: I got the wrong one.
Speaker 4: I was gonna, God, I'm an idiot.
Speaker 5: That's for off the air.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say it didn't look like the right one,
Speaker 3: but I was gonna let you determine that.
Speaker 5: Why do you let me order things without help?
Speaker 3: You've never asked me for help ordering things, and you've
Speaker 3: always you've always screwed it up. Tied eyed sweatshirt is
Speaker 3: all I have to say. It's all I gotta say. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you wore at one time new Zealander.
Speaker 2: Tom Hudson was canoeing solo on the Saskatchewan River just
Speaker 2: outside the Paw when he found himself on a side quest.
Speaker 7: Okay, he doesn't look okay, And that's where I saw
Speaker 7: saw a dog stuck.
Speaker 4: I could just hear a boxing. I actually passed to
Speaker 4: and then then turned.
Speaker 7: Around and when I faintly heard the heard the bucking
Speaker 7: and churning around and went back to investigate.
Speaker 2: He struck Tom, who had been canoeing across Canada for
Speaker 2: two months.
Speaker 4: Now, by the way, this is small town Canada television.
Speaker 2: He knew he had to do something when.
Speaker 7: I found out she had a log was actually on
Speaker 7: top of the back half of her. They made sure
Speaker 7: we stayed there for a few minutes first, just to
Speaker 7: make sure she wasn't injured or spinal injuries or anything.
Speaker 2: Tom was able to bring the large white dog onto
Speaker 2: his canoe. Then they had to find its home.
Speaker 3: Now listen, he was flying to BC from his home
Speaker 3: in New Zealand, across Canada as far as Manitoba near
Speaker 3: the pause, as you heard the reporter say, when he
Speaker 3: heard this barking, decided to take a detour to investigate.
Speaker 3: Ivy is the name of this fourteen year old Great
Speaker 3: Pyrenees who was lost. The owner had been looking for
Speaker 3: her all day the previous day, but there was heavy
Speaker 3: brush that prevented him from seeing or hearing her. She
Speaker 3: was stuck just a quarter a mile away from home.
Speaker 3: And again she was stuck somehow under a log. So
Speaker 3: under a law, yeah, Tom ties up his canoe. He
Speaker 3: lifts the log off of her back. He carries her
Speaker 3: through knee deep mud and attempts to position her very
Speaker 3: comfortably on the canoe because again he wasn't certain at
Speaker 3: the time that she was okay, you know, may have
Speaker 3: been this spinal injury. She had never been afloat before,
Speaker 3: said Tom. So Tom snapped a pretty self explanatory photo
Speaker 3: of the first impressions. He paddles about four hundred yards downstream.
Speaker 3: He finds a dock, and he puts Ivy down on
Speaker 3: the dock and goes to ring a nearby doorbell, hoping, hey,
Speaker 3: whoever answers the door may have an idea at least
Speaker 3: who the dog is. So the owner, whose name is
Speaker 3: also Tom, says, she's a pretty lucky old dog that
Speaker 3: came when that He came by when he did because
Speaker 3: he could have went the other way, on the other
Speaker 3: side of the river, and he never would have seen her.
Speaker 4: I probably would have never found her. He said.
Speaker 3: It was funny because the New Zealand accent was startling
Speaker 3: to him. Even though he's Canadian, he probably has his
Speaker 3: own accent. Tom stuck around. Tom the kayaker stuck around
Speaker 3: to help wash the dog off, after which Tom the
Speaker 3: dog owner invited him to eat with.
Speaker 1: His fanis I was just going to say, is this
Speaker 1: going to be one of those stories where they have
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving together for the next twenty five years?
Speaker 4: Could be?
Speaker 3: This is where it gets really sad though, Oh no, well,
Speaker 3: I mean no, it's an overall the dog gonna die? No, no, no,
Speaker 3: dog's fine. Dog's fine. But he said, being hundreds of
Speaker 3: meters from home, probably able to hear your owner, probably
Speaker 3: able to smell your owner. I just thought it would
Speaker 3: have been a terrible way for Ivy to go.
Speaker 5: Wow when you put it like that.
Speaker 3: So, he says, So there was no way I could
Speaker 3: not have done what I did. He does say he
Speaker 3: plans to return next spring to finish the voyage. He
Speaker 3: told the CBC that he left with a feeling that
Speaker 3: all the world's kind people were located in Canada, endeuring
Speaker 3: the nation him as much as the wilderness and wildlife
Speaker 3: as he had seen along his route.
Speaker 4: Where As they say in Canada, his rote.
Speaker 2: Turns out the dog is Ivy, a fourteen year old
Speaker 2: Great Pyrenees. This reporter says her owner had been looking
Speaker 2: for her for several days. Her owners fed her and
Speaker 2: gave her a thorough bath.
Speaker 4: Yeah, very bath.
Speaker 1: Very Everyone has a commercial that that bothers them.
Speaker 4: I think I think everybody's got one.
Speaker 1: The one for me from the one for me on
Speaker 1: this station is the is the singing of the diarrhea
Speaker 1: we have we've gone through at least I think two
Speaker 1: or three, right, Jacob, Different different jingles that involve diarrhea
Speaker 1: on this on this station should two or three. It's
Speaker 1: a word that should. You should not want to say
Speaker 1: sing Why are we singing diarrhea?
Speaker 4: Huh?
Speaker 5: Unless it's Steve Martin, I don't want.
Speaker 4: To hear it. And Gary, this is Mandy from Yukaipa.
Speaker 4: I would be so incredibly sad if you grew up.
Speaker 6: Shannon.
Speaker 4: You are the highlight of my morning at my pooring job.
Speaker 6: So you guys just keep on doing what you're doing.
Speaker 1: Love your show.
Speaker 5: Thank you, that was nice. Funny dea, where did you
Speaker 5: find that?
Speaker 3: Jacob?
Speaker 1: How do you keep everything but dia? Okay, stop it,
Speaker 1: it's a order of audio. It's funny though. He takes
Speaker 1: nice pictures of Steve Gregory. Oh yeah, glamor La glam shots.
Speaker 3: It's like, it's like, Jacob is Steve's two hundred thousand
Speaker 3: dollars a year photographer.
Speaker 5: That's exactly what Jacob is.
Speaker 4: How much are you making doing that?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Not enough.
Speaker 3: California Governor Gavin Newsom's office has added a two hundred
Speaker 3: thousand dollars a year director of photography to his office.
Speaker 1: That is uh, that's right in line with him getting
Speaker 1: caught at French laundry during the COVID shutdown complete. It
Speaker 1: wasn't just the fact that he was out eating when
Speaker 1: he told us that we can't go out to eat,
Speaker 1: but it was the fact that he was at a
Speaker 1: place that charges upwards of seven hundred dollars with the
Speaker 1: wine pairings for one person to have dinner. Right, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just egregious head in the sand, tone deaf about
Speaker 1: how real people live in this state behavior.
Speaker 3: The retired photojournalist, a guy named Charles o'mani is now
Speaker 3: being paid to capture Gavin Newsom's pictures in wildfire zones
Speaker 3: under the one eighteen Freeway when he's cleaning up homeless encampments.
Speaker 3: And this guy is a pretty well known photographer. A
Speaker 3: list of prominent politicians that he's worked with before, including
Speaker 3: former Presidents Obama and Bush. His LinkedIn page shows that
Speaker 3: he was a photojournalist for Newsweek. He's been published by
Speaker 3: prominent magazines like Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, the Governor's office,
Speaker 3: and again it's that same vein of tone deafness. The
Speaker 3: Governor's office issued a statement that says, unlike nearly all
Speaker 3: of his predecessors and gubernatorial counterparts, the real story here
Speaker 3: is that Governor Newsome did not have a dedicated photographer
Speaker 3: for over five years. We're thrilled that changed when Charles
Speaker 3: joined our team.
Speaker 1: Who needs a Charles this day and age where everyone
Speaker 1: can be a photographer with our iPhones, I we can
Speaker 1: all take decent pictures of other people, right, nobody takes
Speaker 1: decent pictures of us, But we could, you know, I
Speaker 1: mean they said that plenty of other governors have dedicated photographers,
Speaker 1: But I bet those other governor's photographers are not making
Speaker 1: close to two hundred thousand dollars. Yeah, you could pay
Speaker 1: an intern to take your picture, to vollow you around
Speaker 1: and take your picture.
Speaker 3: Rattis Doug Elmets is a Republican strategist who says this,
Speaker 3: It just doesn't make any sense. The photographer could be
Speaker 3: hired as a contractor to a newsome campaign position, and
Speaker 3: then you wouldn't have all the questions raised about taxpayer dollars,
Speaker 3: because if you hire somebody for two hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 3: a year, given that the state is has a seventy
Speaker 3: three billion dollar deficit right now, this is another one
Speaker 3: of those tone deaf, complete unforced errors that he has
Speaker 3: put himself in. By the way, the photographer makes two
Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars a year, do you know how much
Speaker 3: the governor makes in the state of California two hundred
Speaker 3: change two thirty? Yeah, he hot. Now, I don't know
Speaker 3: if that means that this guy is clearly he's a Pulitzer.
Speaker 4: Not a Pulitzer. He is an award winning.
Speaker 1: Sandra Dale O'Connor Henry Kissinger are some of the portraits
Speaker 1: featured on his Instagram. Very artful, very lot of black
Speaker 1: and Whites, George wo and the great Gavin Newsom right
Speaker 1: up there with Henry Kissinger and Sandra Dee O'Connor.
Speaker 3: I just it blows me away that there is no
Speaker 3: sense of normalcy. And listen and listen. This is why
Speaker 3: people make fun of California. This is why. Yes, if
Speaker 3: you live in Missouri, you think, why would anybody want
Speaker 3: a picture of the governor? And you have to explain
Speaker 3: to them, well, we come from the capital of narcissism,
Speaker 3: and we have a king of narcissism who lives in Sacramento,
Speaker 3: and he's gonna want this photographer again if he wants
Speaker 3: pictures of himself.
Speaker 4: I don't blame him, I don't fault him for that.
Speaker 3: But the idea that a tax payer two hundred thousand
Speaker 3: dollars salary.
Speaker 5: It's disgusting.
Speaker 1: You're gonna in one week cry out for people that
Speaker 1: work in restaurants to make twenty dollars an hour because
Speaker 1: they're having such a hard time putting food on the table,
Speaker 1: keeping the lights on right. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: you are going so you're going to pretend to know
Speaker 1: how people are living or struggling, and at the same time,
Speaker 1: in the next week, you're going to hire a photographer
Speaker 1: for two hundred thousand dollars a year?
Speaker 5: How many pictures I got taking? What do you it?
Speaker 5: Just that that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3: Maybe he's only taking a couple of day, but it
Speaker 3: takes a lot of photoshopping. I don't know. I don't know,
Speaker 3: editing after the after the I don't know. But are
Speaker 3: you just paying for the name? Like he's not doing
Speaker 3: a whole He's not, you know, digging ditches out there
Speaker 3: as far as photographer world goes, But you're paying for
Speaker 3: the name.
Speaker 5: I think you are paying for the name, which makes
Speaker 5: it even worse.
Speaker 4: I agree.
Speaker 3: A reminder, next week, we're going to be live at
Speaker 3: the Democratic Nation Convention all week doing the show live
Speaker 3: from the right there on the outskirts the concourse around
Speaker 3: United Center, the all of the candidates, a bunch of
Speaker 3: different politicians, political hacks, and a bunch of people are
Speaker 3: going to be walking around and as we did eight
Speaker 3: years ago, we're going to be interviewing everybody.
Speaker 1: We actually have a pretty impressive stage. Yeah, shall we
Speaker 1: say it's bigger. It's bigger than all the other stages.
Speaker 3: I would say most people would say that it's the
Speaker 3: most impressive, the best. Yeah, yeah, I'm not saying that,
Speaker 3: but most people.
Speaker 1: So I think we'll be able to get great guests
Speaker 1: because of our beautiful I will admit our beautiful stage.
Speaker 3: Our beautiful stage is going to make me repack. Not
Speaker 3: that I've packed, but I'm saying.
Speaker 1: If you could, if you could not just wear shorts
Speaker 1: and flip flops and dirty stained undershirts, that would be cool.
Speaker 3: And it's we're going to be in air conditioning, so
Speaker 3: I can wear like a long sleeve shirt and not
Speaker 3: be uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: That would be nice. A couple of colored shirts, maybe
Speaker 1: a jacket. Okay, all right, let's try not to look homeless.
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