Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
Speaker 1: I AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
Speaker 1: demand on the iHeartRadio app. And we haven't solicited anybody
Speaker 1: on the talkback yet.
Speaker 2: Oh that's right, Yeah, there's talk towna. Didn't we have
Speaker 2: a thing yesterday about the talkback where.
Speaker 3: I said I missed that part?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I said, well you want to do the
Speaker 2: talkbacker's up there? This talkback thing, if you're just joining us,
Speaker 2: is a way that you can lead comments for us
Speaker 2: and we can share those comments on the show. I
Speaker 2: think most people are familar with who know the show.
Speaker 2: And you d of look at me and you said, yeah,
Speaker 2: if you I can go. If you want me to
Speaker 2: monitor the talk back, I can do that. And I
Speaker 2: felt like, grudgingly, Well no, it wasn't begrudging. It was
Speaker 2: just like I felt like she was already overwhelmed. Remember
Speaker 2: we had all the fire stuff, et cetera, so I
Speaker 2: kind of just laid off it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well okay, yeah, well that's to that point. We've
Speaker 1: been pretty much wall the wall of the wildfires. But
Speaker 1: we want to bring back at least a segment that
Speaker 1: Gary and Shannon do to help you feel more at home.
Speaker 3: It is time for what's happening. Time for what's happening.
Speaker 2: A ceasefire deal has been reached between Israel and hal Mos,
Speaker 2: more than fifteen months into that conflict. The Katari Prime
Speaker 2: Minister speaking from Doha on the deal, and according to
Speaker 2: the Hamas delegation in Doha, the provisions of this deal
Speaker 2: include the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza
Speaker 2: Strip and handing over thirty three Israeli prisoners dead and
Speaker 2: alive in exchange for the release of one thousand Palestinian prisoners.
Speaker 1: President Biden spoke within the hour about this, of course,
Speaker 1: to lay out sort of how the US is involvement
Speaker 1: and what it means moving forward. It could be a
Speaker 1: six month deal where it's in phases. Let me get
Speaker 1: that out of my mouth. This will be happening in phases,
Speaker 1: and that first phase could take six months, and that
Speaker 1: would include the release of hostages, many of whom are
Speaker 1: American as well.
Speaker 2: And the President, Joe Biden, still president for a few
Speaker 2: more days, is going to deliver a farewell address to
Speaker 2: the nation from the Oval Office. It'll be tonight at
Speaker 2: eight o'clock Eastern, so five o'clock out here.
Speaker 3: I'm sure that you're going to carry it here at Canfi.
Speaker 2: No, I'm sure it will be a well, it's a
Speaker 2: self assessment, and let me guess the assessment will be positive.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's got the Chips and Science Act that
Speaker 2: he'll talk about with fifty two billion dollars to build
Speaker 2: factories and create institutions domestically to make computer chips. The
Speaker 2: American Rescue Plan Act. He'll point to that that was
Speaker 2: coming off one of the most devastating global health crises
Speaker 2: in years, right, and that was a one point nine
Speaker 2: trillion dollar stimulus package. He's got the Inflation Reduction Act
Speaker 2: and various climate initiatives, and that is transformational. I'm sure
Speaker 2: he'll talk about that. And then you know, the other
Speaker 2: side of Biden's presidency has has been talked about, and
Speaker 2: the Afghanistan withdrawal would lead that. I don't think you'll
Speaker 2: hear a lot about that. I don't think you'll hear
Speaker 2: a lot about the Ukraine War and Gazo or border security.
Speaker 2: I just think that you're going to hear about the positives.
Speaker 1: Well, and in that is his fifty years, five decades
Speaker 1: worth of serving this nation. He's going to talk a
Speaker 1: lot about that, so he actually already released a farewell letter.
Speaker 1: The other thing that we're looking at, of course, is
Speaker 1: the extreme fire danger in southern California. It does remain
Speaker 1: today and we're still looking at those wins. May not
Speaker 1: be too bad in the La Basin, but that's not
Speaker 1: the area that is of concern right now. So this
Speaker 1: National Weather Service Particularly Dangerous situation, it's the highest warning
Speaker 1: that the National Weather Service issues that is in effect today.
Speaker 1: This includes areas like Phillmore, Simi Valley, came Rio, Thousand
Speaker 1: Oaks in Northridge that depending on where you live, is
Speaker 1: in effect till three pm or six pm tonight. So
Speaker 1: let's just get through six o'clock tonight before we can
Speaker 1: kind of breathe a sigh of relief.
Speaker 2: And I should mention that there are warnings that include
Speaker 2: red flag warnings in Orange County and the Inland Empire,
Speaker 2: and again those are continuing till six pm for winds
Speaker 2: of seventy miles an hour. FDI banning The FDA is
Speaker 2: banning red dye number three in food and drinks. This
Speaker 2: is weird because I thought they banned red dye number
Speaker 2: three already, but I guess not. The agency saying that
Speaker 2: it is amending its Color Additive Regulations to no longer
Speaker 2: allow the use of red dye number three in food,
Speaker 2: beverages and ingested drugs. This is a twenty twenty two
Speaker 2: petition from health groups and activists. This should remind all
Speaker 2: of the various groups who try to make enough noise
Speaker 2: to get government change that it really does work. The
Speaker 2: Red number three, it's also known as red three, is
Speaker 2: a synthetic food dye that gives foods and drinks that
Speaker 2: bright cherry red color. It's used primarily in like candy
Speaker 2: and cakes and cupcakes and you know, frozen desserts, but
Speaker 2: some ingested drugs as well, and now the FDA is
Speaker 2: banning it. I remind you know, we always talk about regulations,
Speaker 2: and regulations are so cumbersome. These are protections, many of them.
Speaker 2: And when you get to some of these things that
Speaker 2: can cause cancer. That's what FD the FDA is saying
Speaker 2: in red number three is it's called or red three,
Speaker 2: You're talking about protections against the cancers that may emerge
Speaker 2: in the human population. So FDA making that ban.
Speaker 1: All right, we have our second sewage spill in Orange County,
Speaker 1: the second in as many months. So this is a
Speaker 1: stretch of Laguna Beach that has been closed after four
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five thousand gallons.
Speaker 3: Of sewage spilled into.
Speaker 1: The coastal waters off Laguna Beach between Treasure Island and
Speaker 1: Table Rock at Aliso Beach.
Speaker 3: So they're now closed.
Speaker 1: Orange County Health officials confirmed this last night, and they
Speaker 1: put out a statement of course saying please don't go,
Speaker 1: don't visit, we have to test the waters. In December,
Speaker 1: I mentioned this is the second one in two months.
Speaker 1: In December, the coastal area around Salt Creek and Data
Speaker 1: Point was closed after about thirty three hundred dollars of
Speaker 1: sewage spilled into the area.
Speaker 2: So and in both cases it was the same thing
Speaker 2: with sewage line.
Speaker 1: Broke, sewage line break, yes, yeah, mis wild it's and
Speaker 1: that break, by the way, has been patched. So the
Speaker 1: sewer line breach has since been patched. Area beaches remained
Speaker 1: closed though for the obvious reasons that just stated.
Speaker 2: The other thing I was just going to mention is
Speaker 2: this is happening as people scramble for a place to live.
Speaker 2: There are signs of rent gouging spikes all over the
Speaker 2: city and all over the region. I mean, I'm talking
Speaker 2: about sixty percent jack rents. You go from you know,
Speaker 2: five thousand dollars to eight thousand dollars to rent you
Speaker 2: know someplace that would be this two bedroom condo in
Speaker 2: LA for example.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and in a time of an emergency crisis, you
Speaker 1: cannot hike it more than ten percent. I mean ten
Speaker 1: percent even seems like a lot, but anything above ten
Speaker 1: percent is illegal.
Speaker 3: This is a g.
Speaker 1: Bonta's territory, the Attorney General, Rob Bonta, this is his territory.
Speaker 3: But this is happening so much. I'm glad you brought
Speaker 3: that up.
Speaker 1: We had a real estate agent joining us on Fox
Speaker 1: eleven News and he was talking about how he was
Speaker 1: literally he was online and he was seeing all of
Speaker 1: these apartment complexes suddenly boost their rents astronomically, even one
Speaker 1: hundred percent.
Speaker 2: It's completely predatory.
Speaker 3: It's so predatory.
Speaker 2: Happening. And so as you know, as you say, it'll
Speaker 2: have to be Bonto who cracks down. You need to
Speaker 2: just make a few examples of people and businesses and
Speaker 2: a couple of one offs, and it'll have a chilling
Speaker 2: effect on that all.
Speaker 1: Of the looters and burglaries that are happening in the
Speaker 1: evacuation zones, the fire zones.
Speaker 2: You know mentioned iHeartRadio, and the political analyst for iHeartRadio
Speaker 2: based in Sacramento is joining us.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: So many California issues that relate to the federal government
Speaker 2: now in ways that are so very serious and so
Speaker 2: very immediate. Welcome Gary Dietrich to KFI. Hi Gary, Hey, Mark,
Speaker 2: good to be with you.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I mean outside of Washington, there's absolutely no question.
Speaker 4: I mean, even now, these fiz of courses have exacerbated
Speaker 4: to Stephen mar More Mark, But the microscope is on
Speaker 4: Sacramento from Gavin Newsom on down.
Speaker 2: So what will be the course of things from here
Speaker 2: on out? I know there's no way to forecast exactly
Speaker 2: what the relationship will be between the incoming administration and
Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom and his administration. But how would you see
Speaker 2: things playing out? I mean, Donald Trump is going to come.
Speaker 4: Visit Oh, well, I don't know. I mean, is have
Speaker 4: we heard now from the president of the lex team
Speaker 4: that he's going to actually come?
Speaker 1: Well, I spoke to Hi, Gary, This is marlontez Here.
Speaker 1: I spoke to the board chair of Ellie County Supervisors
Speaker 1: Katherine Barker. She's the one who penned the letter to
Speaker 1: Trump over the weekend asking him to come.
Speaker 3: She was online with me last night.
Speaker 1: She says she hasn't had official word, but she says,
Speaker 1: knowing everything she's been told that she is very confident
Speaker 1: that he will be here next week. Of course, just
Speaker 1: it would have to be. I would imagine Wednesday or Thursday, after.
Speaker 2: They sweep up, after the inauguration parties, you'll get on
Speaker 2: a plane and come to California.
Speaker 1: Maybe, yeah, to see the devastation. So not officially confirmed,
Speaker 1: but I'm being told he will be here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, mar I don't want to surprise me, Mark. It
Speaker 4: won't surprise me and he comes, because Trump has done this.
Speaker 4: I mean, he was up at the Paradise fires during
Speaker 4: his first term, right, So I wouldn't be surprised at
Speaker 4: all if he comes. The question is going to be
Speaker 4: what is said now? Typically, as you guys know, it
Speaker 4: comes to Trump and newsom it is. It is the proverbial.
Speaker 4: It is the quick essential love hate relationship. Okay. I
Speaker 4: would expect there to be lots and lots of fire
Speaker 4: works up and until the moment he walks up those
Speaker 4: stairs and gets on Trump, Well, at that point will
Speaker 4: be air Force one right and flies into lax. But
Speaker 4: when they have been on the ground together, and this
Speaker 4: was true, and he came out to view the fire
Speaker 4: zones here in northern California, that is Trump. You know,
Speaker 4: there's a lot of cordiality, a lot of mutual respect,
Speaker 4: but there's also a lot of consternation, I dare say, competition,
Speaker 4: and certainly you know, conflict. I mean that is going
Speaker 4: to be if you want to say overarching mark, what
Speaker 4: is the next four years? Well, for Newsom, it's going
Speaker 4: to be two years until he's done as governor. What
Speaker 4: is it going to look like? It's going to look
Speaker 4: just like that. It's going to be. Hey, look, you know,
Speaker 4: I don't like you. I don't like the way you govern.
Speaker 4: I don't like the priorities you're setting. Oh, but when
Speaker 4: we got to work together, we're going to make it happen.
Speaker 4: And that's what I'm going to expect to see more
Speaker 4: than likely next week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean this all comes under the backdrop of
Speaker 1: the special session that Newsome call to Trump proof California,
Speaker 1: if you will, for the incoming Trump administration.
Speaker 3: Of course, the political fallout with.
Speaker 1: The House Speaker Mike Johnson saying Monday that Congress should
Speaker 1: place conditions on aid for California.
Speaker 3: So there is all of that to contend with.
Speaker 1: What's the vibe in Sacramento as it relates to Speaker
Speaker 1: Johnson's comments.
Speaker 4: Well, it's that's the president kong No, just kidding Bill Well.
Speaker 4: I think the fallout is what you might expect, and
Speaker 4: that is, you know, every jurisdiction that's getting dollars for
Speaker 4: whatever purpose from the level above it, the local to state,
Speaker 4: state to federal, never wants any strings attached, right. But
Speaker 4: I take people back to things like, for example, Gavin
Speaker 4: Newssan's homelessness funds MARKO Marlow, where he said, look, we're
Speaker 4: not giving carte blanche money to local government's local entities
Speaker 4: anymore unless you're more accountable for results. And that's what
Speaker 4: I'm hearing out of Washington. I don't know all and
Speaker 4: I don't think they yet now all the specific quote
Speaker 4: unquote conditions, but I think what they want to see is, look,
Speaker 4: we can't just keep funding disaster relief unless we see
Speaker 4: some more preventative measures put in place. I think that's
Speaker 4: where the discussion is going to revolve around. You guys,
Speaker 4: and I don't know what the devil is always in
Speaker 4: the details, but I would expect that to be part
Speaker 4: of it now. Not for some immediate relief, I expect
Speaker 4: a FEMA dollars and other things to flow when he
Speaker 4: comes to longer term dollars, particularly in the rebuild effort.
Speaker 4: I think you're going to see some kind of very
Speaker 4: intense conversations about, Look, what are you going to do
Speaker 4: differently in California if we give you X billions of
Speaker 4: dollars going forward?
Speaker 2: I think there are a lot of us in California
Speaker 2: who want things done differently. We want the rebuild effort
Speaker 2: to be done differently. Most certainly, I want to ask
Speaker 2: you about the political fallout here in California from the
Speaker 2: fires as well. We've talked about the embattled mayor of
Speaker 2: Los Angeles. I mean she is taking on political water
Speaker 2: in a way. I don't think she can survive it
Speaker 2: my own personal opinion. But what are your thoughts about
Speaker 2: the news, administration, and key political figures as it relates
Speaker 2: to the fires.
Speaker 4: Well, Mark, I think I've told people, if you're a
Speaker 4: political person, this fire okay. Now, I don't want to
Speaker 4: take compassion out of this or understanding or any of
Speaker 4: that that comes first and foremost, But just look at
Speaker 4: raw politics. This is the exact wrong place to have
Speaker 4: a major disaster like this. Why is that Because it's
Speaker 4: the media capital of the world, it's the television capital
Speaker 4: of the United States. You have twenty four to seven coverage,
Speaker 4: and then you have all kinds of very high profile voices,
Speaker 4: particularly as you know, celebrities, Hollywood folks, who are raising
Speaker 4: these kinds of political concerns marked every day, and so
Speaker 4: it's really difficult to get out from under that bright
Speaker 4: political light when that is shining on you as brightly
Speaker 4: as not only it is as it is now, but
Speaker 4: it is going to be for months, if not years.
Speaker 4: And I agree with you Karen Bass, who, by the way,
Speaker 4: her name was thrown out even as a potential gubernatorial
Speaker 4: candidate in twenty six. I think there's widespread belief now
Speaker 4: in second that those days that ship is saaled, there's
Speaker 4: no way that's going to happen. The question now is
Speaker 4: does she survive her mayorship? And then of course when
Speaker 4: it comes to somebody like Newsom or potentially other constitutional officers,
Speaker 4: like what's going to happen with Rob Bonte he's talking
Speaker 4: about running for governor, you know, but what's going to
Speaker 4: happen with NWSOM and a potential twenty eight presidential bid.
Speaker 4: I mean, the response to disasters is always seen as
Speaker 4: job one for a politician. If you do them well,
Speaker 4: well you got kind of a leg up. For the
Speaker 4: most part. People believe Ron DeSantis handles their hurricanes fairly well.
Speaker 4: But if you don't, I'll tell you it can be
Speaker 4: a huge albatross, can be almost impossible to get beyond.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you brought it to celebrity point, and
Speaker 1: of course many of them lost their homes in the
Speaker 1: Palisades fire and particularly but by and large, Hollywood is
Speaker 1: like California, overwhelmingly royal blue. Right, But even now we're
Speaker 1: seeing some celebrities who maybe have been like that, sort
Speaker 1: of turning against that royal blue, if you will.
Speaker 2: And even within royal blue, there are options beyond Karen.
Speaker 3: Bash exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, this leadership matters, I think, is the moral
Speaker 1: of the story.
Speaker 4: Yeah. You know, Willie Brown, famous, the former Speaker Assembly,
Speaker 4: widely seen as probably the most powerful, you know, member
Speaker 4: of the of the you know chambers under the Dome
Speaker 4: here in Sacramento for decades and decades. You know, famous
Speaker 4: you said, basically, you've got to polae fifty one percent
Speaker 4: of the people in your district and you know a
Speaker 4: majority of people in your house. And I got to
Speaker 4: tell you, you know, there are a lot of these individual
Speaker 4: legislators right they're back up. The Assembly has to run
Speaker 4: every two years. House members have to run every two years.
Speaker 4: We're twenty two months away from the midterm election. These
Speaker 4: people are going to have some answering to do, you know.
Speaker 4: That's that's why I think there was a lot of
Speaker 4: concern here in Sakna but about tying this funding for
Speaker 4: you know, a special session for the fires to a
Speaker 4: special anti Trump funding session, because the last one was
Speaker 4: seen this primarily symbolic. It wasn't it was not imperative,
Speaker 4: in other words, guys to have a special session in
Speaker 4: order to start, you know, the anti Trump lawsuits. That
Speaker 4: was not a requirement. It was seen primarily as symbolic
Speaker 4: and political. And I think that's going to be a
Speaker 4: very fine line that the Democrats, in particular in the
Speaker 4: Capitol here in Sacramento are going to have to be
Speaker 4: very careful about because I think to your point, Mark
Speaker 4: you know, there's a lot of folks down there. Even
Speaker 4: Democrats are saying, Look, if the hydrants don't work, if
Speaker 4: we don't have water to fight fires, if we don't
Speaker 4: have proper funding for a fire department, I don't care
Speaker 4: what the letter is behind your name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, And I also think that there'll be a
Speaker 2: lot of I don't care what the details are. You're
Speaker 2: out at some point it's you know, stop with the explanations.
Speaker 2: You're done. So, Gary Dietrich, great stuff from Sacramento. Gary.
Speaker 2: Of course, the iHeartRadio political analyst to appreciate you taking
Speaker 2: a few minutes to talk to is today on KOFI.
Speaker 4: Of course, all the best to you folks and all
Speaker 4: listeners down in the LA area.
Speaker 2: Mark, thanks Carry, thanks so very much. Even as everything
Speaker 2: else that has been far shall we say forward in
Speaker 2: the foreground has been happening in southern California. In the background,
Speaker 2: TikTok is creeping toward possible shutdown on Sunday, Yeah, the.
Speaker 3: Last day of the Biden administration.
Speaker 2: The idea is that you know, TikTok is owned by
Speaker 2: at least a big part of it by Byte Dance.
Speaker 2: It's a Beijing based parent company. And the idea is
Speaker 2: that somehow China is in control of a lot of
Speaker 2: the information and data that comes out of TikTok and
Speaker 2: then makes it over to Chinese interests, intelligence, et cetera. Right,
Speaker 2: That's the notion is essentially that you're on an adversarial
Speaker 2: to be polite footing with China, and all of that
Speaker 2: data that then streams to the Chinese government can be
Speaker 2: used and weaponized against Americans.
Speaker 1: Now, if the federal ban on the app goes into effect,
Speaker 1: a scheduled TikTok appears poised to shut down the social
Speaker 1: media app in the US again this Sunday. The revelation
Speaker 1: comes after the Supreme Court appeared inclined to uphold a
Speaker 1: law that President Biden signed last spring on national security grounds,
Speaker 1: even as President elect Trump and some other lawmakers are
Speaker 1: advocating for an extension on the Sunday deadline. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: Trump really wants it because remember Trump hailed he Well,
Speaker 1: he's changed his tune a couple of times, but since
Speaker 1: he won handily in November, he attributes some of that
Speaker 1: to the TikTok world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to social media world, without question. I mean, he
Speaker 2: essentially musk weaponized x slash Twitter for him. And it's
Speaker 2: interesting because Biden, as Marla was saying, on national security grounds,
Speaker 2: this administration they signed this ban and the Supreme Court
Speaker 2: upheld it. And so now if it's conceivable that the
Speaker 2: band could go in effect on Sunday, and so when
Speaker 2: you went to the app, it would just say, I
Speaker 2: think it would refer you to a website. You wouldn't
Speaker 2: be able to get on TikTok if you went to
Speaker 2: the app.
Speaker 1: Well here, well, let's I think we should clarify. So
Speaker 1: under the law, a TikTok band was essentially make new
Speaker 1: downloads on app stores like Apple and Google no longer possible.
Speaker 1: So I'm not on TikTok, so I wouldn't be able to,
Speaker 1: but you are a TikToker.
Speaker 2: Just well, I do like TikTok, and I was a
Speaker 2: late adopter to it, like I wasn't on early, but
Speaker 2: then I got on it. And one of the great
Speaker 2: things about and Keanu can back me up on this
Speaker 2: or you know, set me straight on it, one of
Speaker 2: the things about TikTok is that they're short. So the
Speaker 2: way the videos run longer than just the sixty or
Speaker 2: ninety seconds that you'd see on Instagram reels for example,
Speaker 2: isn't that right, Kiana?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they use it.
Speaker 5: I think it used to be like thirty seconds or something,
Speaker 5: which is really quick. And then you know, during COVID
Speaker 5: everybody started using it and now it's up to like
Speaker 5: ten minutes. You could get up to ten minutes worth
Speaker 5: of video content on there on one video.
Speaker 2: So it so there's a lot more information, there's a
Speaker 2: lot more.
Speaker 3: I mean it again, you could learn a lot more.
Speaker 1: But then again, I mean that's where a lot of
Speaker 1: people get their news these days, which as a news
Speaker 1: person kind of scares me, right.
Speaker 2: Right, and what we say you can learn a lot more.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not necessarily a learning tool. It could
Speaker 2: be a total just a time suck.
Speaker 3: Oh well, yeah, I mean you can.
Speaker 1: That's why brain rot was one of the words of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: You know, I mean, there is there's that.
Speaker 1: But what I want to clarify though, while the app
Speaker 1: would be banned, you as an existing user could still
Speaker 1: access and use the app, but you will not be
Speaker 1: able to update the app, so eventually it would likely
Speaker 1: degrade and stop working over time.
Speaker 2: Now, would you like me to tell you what's going
Speaker 2: to happen.
Speaker 3: Please please look into your crystal and tell.
Speaker 2: Us here's here's what I think is going to happen.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but I think for the reasons that
Speaker 2: Marla has said, there are so many users and Trump
Speaker 2: has immense buy in there with so many Trump supporters
Speaker 2: and so much Trump support generally coming from that world
Speaker 2: as well. I believe he and he's already demonstrated this
Speaker 2: in public remarks. He likes TikTok again. He went from
Speaker 2: not liking it to liking it, but now he likes it.
Speaker 2: He's going to be president on Monday, and I believe
Speaker 2: that he'll see to it that TikTok continues. And the
Speaker 2: way that it will likely happen will be in the
Speaker 2: American way. It'll be gifted to a rich guy. And
Speaker 2: you've got a lot of rich guys who are now
Speaker 2: circling like Kevin Trump.
Speaker 3: Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tank.
Speaker 2: Great example, I mean, celebrity guy like that. But you
Speaker 2: also have Elon Musk who's very close to Trump. You
Speaker 2: also have Zuckerberg, you have Base. These are all people
Speaker 2: who have encircled Trump at mar Lago and are connecting
Speaker 2: with him in a way that clearly is agenda driven.
Speaker 2: They want to make sure that they're on the right
Speaker 2: side of the incoming president. And so he could put
Speaker 2: together a consortium, a group of people, a coalition of
Speaker 2: many of these social media guys, or he could just
Speaker 2: gift it to Musk again and one way or another,
Speaker 2: TikTok would survive, and it would survive under the regime
Speaker 2: of again one or many of these guys that we've mentioned.
Speaker 1: Well, canub do you know anything about these sort of
Speaker 1: the new video apps that are trying to take its
Speaker 1: place because people are panicked about Sunday so because replacing
Speaker 1: TikTok is not going to be simple. But Lemon eight,
Speaker 1: lemon and then the number eight and red Note those
Speaker 1: became the top most downloaded downloadable apps this week as
Speaker 1: people await official news from the Supreme Court.
Speaker 3: Canon do you know anything about.
Speaker 5: The I know, so when Lemonade first came out, like
Speaker 5: I don't know, a couple of years ago, I downloaded it.
Speaker 5: And it's another version of Pinterest, but for like Instagram,
Speaker 5: it's it's like a mix of Instagram, Pinterest, and TikTok
Speaker 5: in the format of Instagram. It's really weird. I don't
Speaker 5: see like the Hap Yeah and Red No. I'm not
Speaker 5: too familiar on Red No. I just learned about that
Speaker 5: like last night when I was, you know, looking at
Speaker 5: the news and stuff and seeing you know, where people
Speaker 5: were going and flocking to with this TikTok band. The
Speaker 5: only two that I really am familiar with is YouTube shorts,
Speaker 5: Instagram or Instagram reels, and then Snapchat. A little bit
Speaker 5: about Snapchat, I kind of felt that fell off the
Speaker 5: face of the planet for me. But Instagram reels and
Speaker 5: YouTube shorts I think have the most potential to keep
Speaker 5: people posting videos, short form videos like that.
Speaker 2: One of the things that's happened is in protest because
Speaker 2: again it's because of this sort of breach of America's
Speaker 2: privacy and China's going to have all this data. There
Speaker 2: is anger among the TikTokers that it's going to be
Speaker 2: taken away. And so what they've done is they are
Speaker 2: now subscribing and downloading Chinese apps. And there are a
Speaker 2: bunch of them, and they're in Chinese, but there are
Speaker 2: millions of people who are downloading them as a kind
Speaker 2: of fu to the Supreme Court and to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you think this is bad. One app, We're going
Speaker 3: to download all of them.
Speaker 2: They're going to get all my data now because I'm
Speaker 2: so angry that you're taking my TikTok away. So that's
Speaker 2: being played at at the very same.
Speaker 3: Time, so the clock ticks in, it talks until we
Speaker 3: wait to hear.
Speaker 2: Very well done, thank you. You can find Marla on
Speaker 2: the Fox eleven News, ten o'clock news, and then of
Speaker 2: course the early show that you do also now.
Speaker 1: Well of late, we've been NonStop coverage from sure two
Speaker 1: pm to one am. But yes, normally you can find
Speaker 1: me at six pm and eleven pm.
Speaker 3: I'm going to confuse you to eleven.
Speaker 2: Yes, I thought it's at ten o'clock.
Speaker 3: Then, well they have the ten o'clock.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's with Christine.
Speaker 1: That's with Christine. And then we launched the eleven o'clock.
Speaker 1: It'll be one year on January twenty.
Speaker 2: No, that's right. I remember when you launched it. Now, yes,
Speaker 2: I just haven't seen it.
Speaker 3: Most people, you're either a morning person or a night person.
Speaker 2: Harry, I'm a sleep No.
Speaker 3: We have regular viewers that hear from them. You may
Speaker 3: not be one of them.
Speaker 2: I love you, you know, I will watch anything you do. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and my show is that Mark Thompson Show on YouTube.
Speaker 2: Of course you can find at anytime, so we're live
Speaker 2: every day, but it's up there forever. The deal with
Speaker 2: Karen Bass, you know, I know you'll talk about this
Speaker 2: on Fox eleven, and this will be a conversation that
Speaker 2: is going to be played out here on KFI and
Speaker 2: in many conversations around Southern California in Los Angeles. I
Speaker 2: believe Mayor Bass is taking on a lot of political water.
Speaker 2: And you know, Marla, I just don't see her surviving this.
Speaker 2: You know the details of her trip to Ghana. She
Speaker 2: said she wasn't going to take any overseas trips. Then
Speaker 2: she ends up in Ghana on this trip at an
Speaker 2: extremely critical time. The idea that you wouldn't know that
Speaker 2: it's an extremely critical time, I think that's a kind
Speaker 2: of tortured logic. Now, well she did know, what's my point? Yeah,
Speaker 2: In other words, it's torture to suggest that you wouldn't
Speaker 2: know that it's a critical time.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So you can't logically say I didn't know this
Speaker 2: is going to be such a critical time in the
Speaker 2: history of my city, you know, And so for that reason,
Speaker 2: I think this is largely indefensible I'm sure she's trying
Speaker 2: to defend it. Her people are trying to defend it,
Speaker 2: they're trying to explain it. But at some point, as
Speaker 2: I was saying before, you begin to get so much
Speaker 2: momentum against you as a politician, in this case the mayor,
Speaker 2: I don't think the details matter anymore.
Speaker 1: You're done, Yeah, I mean you personally, your opinion is
Speaker 1: you don't think that she will survive.
Speaker 3: No, what it's going to take a few months.
Speaker 1: Perhaps there is that change dot org petition that has
Speaker 1: been circulating that started off and gosh, let me just
Speaker 1: look what dated this.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: But in the last few days and already one hundred
Speaker 1: and forty three thousand plus people have signed this petition
Speaker 1: and order it for really to take on weight, it
Speaker 1: needs one hundred and eighty thousand.
Speaker 3: I think it'll get there.
Speaker 1: But it may not even need this change dot org
Speaker 1: petition to your point, because there are it just seems
Speaker 1: one each day there's sort of a new wrinkle in
Speaker 1: it for her and how she's handling it, beginning with
Speaker 1: when she first landed back from Ghana, and yes, she
Speaker 1: was ambushed by a reporter and it lasted for what
Speaker 1: two and a half minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's on that jetway. I get it. The reporter
Speaker 2: is a jerk. Okay, he's saying, don't you think you
Speaker 2: owe the people of Los Angeles an apology for a way?
Speaker 2: I get it seeing he's being a jerk, But that
Speaker 2: doesn't mean you can stonewallet you're an experienced politician. You
Speaker 2: have to blow back on situations that you can even say, Hey,
Speaker 2: I know you're being a jerk right now at a
Speaker 2: time that you're exploiting for your own media of virality.
Speaker 2: You want this to go viral, But the reality is
Speaker 2: my city's in trouble. I'm back here now to take
Speaker 2: care of business. I've been in touch with my people.
Speaker 2: Whatever you want to say, you can't just stand there
Speaker 2: on the jetway. I mean, I thought that was a
Speaker 2: failing and I'm glad you mentioned it, because these things
Speaker 2: come down to key moments for politicians that will never
Speaker 2: be forgotten. And that's one of them and the other.
Speaker 2: It reminds me of Gavin Newsom at that French laundry.
Speaker 2: I mean, there are it has that feeling to Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's no getting around the French laundry. It's going to
Speaker 2: constantly come up in Gavin Newsom's political currenter.
Speaker 3: That didn't bring him down. No, well, there was a recall.
Speaker 2: It damaged him. It damaged him and it will continue
Speaker 2: to damage him. I mean, it continued. It was reputationally
Speaker 2: harmful to him.
Speaker 3: Would you say that, Yeah, I would for sure.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is he's still the governor and he
Speaker 1: will be the governor until twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: What happens next with him remains to be seen.
Speaker 2: But you know, so this Ghana trip is what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: The Ghana trip is going to be her French laundry.
Speaker 2: It's going to be the thing that leaves too big
Speaker 2: a stink on her politically for her to survive it.
Speaker 1: Well, you bring that up because the French laundry thing
Speaker 1: was captured. We broke that at Fox eleven, our reporter
Speaker 1: Bill Malusian, he's now with Fox News.
Speaker 3: He got his hands on those photos.
Speaker 1: And now there's photos that have surfaced of Bass at
Speaker 1: an embassy cocktail party in Ghana the night of or
Speaker 1: the day of when the fires erupted January the seventh,
Speaker 1: and she left to go abroad on January the fourth.
Speaker 1: And again those optics of the pictures in Ghana while
Speaker 1: her city's burning, and knowing that on January fourth, the
Speaker 1: meteorologists had already forecasted life threatening wins.
Speaker 2: That's exactly right, and that's the key. You knew on
Speaker 2: January fourth that the city and your constituents were going
Speaker 2: to be threatened by potentially an unprecedented weather event. You
Speaker 2: have to cancel your participation in that Ghana trip. I
Speaker 2: get it, the President wanted you to do it. You
Speaker 2: were reluctant, whatever you want to say, but the reality
Speaker 2: is you've got to cancel your participation in that event.
Speaker 2: You just have to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And she didn't, and now the fallout. She's back
Speaker 1: here and she's been here. She's been here since January
Speaker 1: the eighth. She came here more than twenty four hours
Speaker 1: after returning from Ghana. It took about twenty four hours
Speaker 1: for her to get home. And since then though, we
Speaker 1: have asked her for interviews and she has declined interviews,
Speaker 1: and I can only speak for us here at Fox eleven.
Speaker 1: But you know, she's been out there at the pressers
Speaker 1: and giving the information, but just sort of the splintering
Speaker 1: within her own administration and I'm including LAFD within that
Speaker 1: about the infighting between her and the chief of LAFD.
Speaker 1: Here we are in a time of crisis and it
Speaker 1: seems like everything is sort of going against Bass right now.
Speaker 2: No, you're exactly right, and I believe that these things,
Speaker 2: as you say, everything's going against her. She made this
Speaker 2: bed and she will sleep in it, and it will
Speaker 2: cost her politically, and it may cost her mayorship soon.
Speaker 2: It's another thing. The last thing I would say is
Speaker 2: her style is a very stoic style. You know, she
Speaker 2: doesn't really She's very good with the kind of a
Speaker 2: very measured approach to things. Sadly, I don't think that's
Speaker 2: going to serve her in this instance.
Speaker 1: Well, I would say that prior to this incident, before
Speaker 1: she left for Ghana, I think she had more of
Speaker 1: a warm demeanor, more approachable. I think that she was
Speaker 1: winning some political points for some of her work in homelessness.
Speaker 1: I know, John Cobalt, would you know vehement Lee disagree
Speaker 1: with me. But ever since landing back here, I think
Speaker 1: she's been more on that defensive mode, and I think
Speaker 1: she should take a page from people like a Tracy
Speaker 1: Park on the LA City Council or the Board of
Speaker 1: Supervisor's chair Catherine Barker, who's more of a straight shooter,
Speaker 1: and call a spadea spade say, I messed up. This
Speaker 1: is this is, this didn't go as it should have.
Speaker 1: That we need to do better. Call spade is paid.
Speaker 2: Yeah interesting, I would say it doesn't matter what she says.
Speaker 2: Now she's done.
Speaker 3: Too late now yeah, call Belt next.
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