January 17, 2025 • 31 mins
Gary and Shannon are out and Mark Thompson and Marla Tellez fill in. Mark and Marla talk about the Supreme Court upholding the TikTok ban, Trump’s inauguration being moved inside and Trump naming special ambassadors for a ‘very troubled’ Hollywood.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
It's time let's check out the swamp.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
The swamp is horrible.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
Government man make it's like a reality TV show.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Corp was a bad news.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Always a pleasure to be anywhere from Washington, DC.
Speaker 5 (00:21):
Hey, Joey, it's just a town hall too, clearly built
on a swamp and in so many ways.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Still a swamp. That's a bunch of malarkey.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Nobody said drained the swamp. I said, Oh, that's so oh,
keep happens.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Well. Thing this happened this morning. It Friday mornings.
Speaker 6 (00:40):
You were coming on the air with some breaking news
from the Supreme Court. The High Court has just declined
to stop a ban of TikTok now set to take
effect on Sunday. TikTok is, of course, one of the
most popular social media apps in this country, with some
one hundred seventy million users in the US alone, but
(01:02):
the app is owned by a Chinese company, and lawmakers
on both sides of the aisle have said that it
is a national security risk. Today's decision comes after the
Court heard arguments from TikTok against the law that essentially
forces its parent company Byte Dance to sell its operations here.
Speaker 7 (01:21):
Yeah, and that is supposed to take effect, and that
was Craig Melvin of the Today Show. By the way,
you cannot mistake his voice, at least I can't. So
the ban is to go into effect Sunday in January
the nineteenth, and by all accounts it will. The only
thing that would stop it is if in fact it
was purchased, if it's able to be sold.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Well, I mean that would be you know, you talk about,
you know, an eleventh hour shale. It would have to
happen between now and then, exact same extraordinary. But the
other thing, and I think that shale might have to
be approved by any number of government entities. I just
don't think it can happen that quickly. But the other
thing that is going to happen, and it's been indicated
by the Biden administration, is they're not going to enforce
(02:04):
the law ahead of the inauguration.
Speaker 7 (02:06):
No, and that's only amount of hours because this is
Biden's last day. Trump takes over on Monday with the inauguration,
and his first official day is on Tuesday, and he
says he's not going to enforce it either. But we
had on a lawyer to kick us off in the
nine o'clock hour who said, well, you have to you
(02:27):
can't just not enforce it, and you have to have
congressional approval to overturn the law in the first place.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Well, if you want to turn the law back, if
you want to erase the law, undo the law, you'll
need to do it in Congress. That's right. But looking
the other way on it for the moment, it seems
as though that may be what happens with both the
Biden administration outgoing and Trump administration incoming. Meanwhile, their takeaways
(02:55):
from the hearings, the confirmation hearings continue, as you know,
hegseets was earlier this week. It was contentious him Caine
of Virginia pressing him on infidelities coming from that incident
moderray in that hotel room that prompted a sexual assault
investigation by local cops. They also questioned, I mean, in
addition to his public drunkenness and being carried out of
(03:16):
a number of different everything from conferences to workplaces, he
was talked about in ways that would suggest from Democratic
senators that he's incompetent, that he just can't do the job.
He's never had any experience.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
I mean, yeah, his resume isn't thick enough, exactly, it's
impressive enough. And he dismisses the allegations as a coordinated
smear campaign. He was also pressed about the comments he
made over women in combat. He has since walked those back,
especially since meeting with Ernst. Of course, Jony Ernst out
of Iowa, who served.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
In the military. She's a veteran.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
And what's interesting is after tuesdays hearing with him, she
said that she will support him.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah. Well, I mean she was under a lot of
pressure from the Trump administration and from Elon Musk, who,
as we mentioned to you a couple of days ago,
during those hearings, began a heavy media blitz in her
home district to encourage calls from her constituents. And I
think she was worried about being primary. Frankly, I think
she's worried about losing her job. And really, the other
(04:25):
woman who serves on that committee, Tammy Duckwoarres of Illinois,
she's a combat veteran. She lost her legs in that
Blackhawk shot. They shot down her chopper, and she essentially
laid bare the fact that HEXA didn't know a bunch
of basic stuff that the Pentagon and the Department of
Events is associated with. So I think that confirmation will
(04:47):
sale through. But there was definitely there were sparks flying
during that. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
I mean, Republicans have a fifty three to fourties of
a majority in the Senate, meaning he does not need
any Democratic support to win confirmation.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
No fireworks from the ernest questioning, and there was, as
we know, additional hearings. There are key roles in the
coming administration that will be occupied by Pam Bondi for example,
of the Department of Justice, Marco Rubio at the State Department.
So there is quite a it's quite a busy week
(05:21):
in Washington. As these confirmations containd Yeah.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Another name we've heard of recently, of course, because he
wanted to be president for some time, as Doug Burgham
he is nominated for at the Interior and Lee Zelden
at the Environmental Protection Agency the EPA. They appear to
be in no danger of, you know, not getting confirmed.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, I mean, I think most presidents get most of
what they want and in terms of these nominees, and
I think this president will likely be no different, despite
the fact that there are tremendous questions around some of
these nominees.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Yeah, I mean, we know what happened with Matt Gates.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
Yeah, but point though about Trump getting on the line
and pressuring.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I see that happening with TikTok too.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Oh yeah, but this is a little different because you
can't pick up the phone and call anybody on the
TikTok thing. I mean, he's gonna have to that will happen,
and his personal lobbying, if that's what it'll come down to,
it will have to happen once he's president. You know.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Well, once he's president is Monday exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And speaking of that, the inauguration will be indoors. The
inaugurational weather will be the coldest in forty years, and
they are moving the inauguration inside. It'll be about twenty
degrees and I gotta say they should probably. I have
two things to say offer this, just respectfully. One is
(06:43):
you know that if it was Biden and he had
won or whatever. Let's let's just say it was now
twenty twenty, they would go look at Biden he's got
to move it indoors. He's a you know, the media
would make a big thing, certainly right wing media, but
I think Trump and as people are doing the right
thing here. It should be moved indoors. It never should
have been outdoors.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
It's always cold in January.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
It is, but on Monday, the expected high is twenty
degrees with a low of six degrees with strong wins.
Mind you, when JFK was sworn in, it was twenty
two degrees.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, and Jimmy Carter his inauguration, the wind show was
in the teens. So it's not unprecedented to have this
kind of situation developed. As you say, in January, it's
cold in Washington.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Yeah, and someone who's cold right now in Washington is
my colleague Alex Michaelson. He is there. He will join
us because he's covering the inauguration. Of course, he will
join us a little bit later this hour. All right,
it's Friday.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
You know what that means.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
Let us know what you learned on the Gary and
Shannon Show without Gary and Shannon this week. Hit us
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Speaker 4 (07:50):
You got thirty seconds. Let us know what you learned.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
In the meantime, We're watching Fox eleven right now from
our studio here in Burbank, and we have a stolen
equipment pursuit.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I think stolen equipment truck pursuit would probably be the
better way to say that.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Why is that it's an equipment truck or is it
the truck carrying stolen equipment?
Speaker 7 (08:13):
I think that that one. Okay, Yeah, yeah, it's a
black a black truck. Where we were on the five
southbound in Pomona right there and sky Falk's over. It's
about eighty miles per hour. It was getting a little
hairy there with the speeds weaving in and out of traffic.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
You know, we call these all the time on Fox eleven.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I know used to be the weather guy who was told, listen,
just if you could just hang out for a while,
this chase is going to go on, and then at
the end of the newscast you'd go on and do
forty seconds of weather.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Yeah, or you wouldn't get any.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Time or not at all.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Yeah, so, oh oh, almost clipped a big rig.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
No authorities from this vantage point, I don't know who
the lead agency is, probably CHP at this point because
once it gets onto the highway, that is when and
now we're on the ten westbound by the way, that
is when HP usually takes over. So whether this started
with LAPD or the Sheriff's Department don't know, but this
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can be a multi agency thing, but usually on the
highway it is HP.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
So we're westbound ten, just passing. Should we listen to.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Too much alb The lawyer is concerned about that as well.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Now you have to remember also nobody is behind this vehicle.
Does he know the helicopters are following him?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
How? That's my question.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
The windows aren't down, So this continuous reckless driving is
not because law enforcement is right behind him. This reckless
driving is just the drive that driver driving reckless and
is being a.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Problem for a lot. He's going to get off the freeway.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Is it is unnerving to watch? Wow, he's not a.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Shot, so we're not going to lose it between the buildings.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
So the anchors are and a Roxya Carpadian. Now this
has been called a grand theft suspect.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, because there's nothing in the bet of the truck.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
It has to be about game traffic. But you gotta
wonder also is he impaired or this driver impaired. You
don't know the state of mind and the emotional state
as well as the possible physical state of these drivers
right what they're thinking or when we cover things like that,
or if.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
There are really just really erratic.
Speaker 8 (10:28):
It would be scary to be in that situation, stuck
in traffic with him because he almost took out a
couple of cars or at least broadsided kind of nip them.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, there's nothing in the bet of the truck, so
the better. The truck is empty, which means that there's
a teddy Bear. Jacob congrects me. There is a stuffed
Teddy Bear in the back of the truck. But I'm
guessing that's not what this chase.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Is about vehicles right now, the.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Grand Teddy Bear, I can't have anything stuffed.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
In it, taking that if it's a grand theft aspect
that he stole the car tru.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Trust Freeway.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
So it is a CSP pursuit.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Which is good and is bad because if the law enforce.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Could be illegal narcotics as what Jacob suggesting in the Teddy.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Bear, Jacob has a point.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Look, Jacob, let's just hope for the safe return of
that teddy bear. Okay, that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Dangerous is happening or could be happening at any moment.
It looks like now we're getting over.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
To the right.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
So as soon as I said it, I wonder if
we're going to try to get off the front.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
One of the scariest things about when you cover these
is all the unsuspected drivers, of.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Course, and that's why the CHP is laid back. I mean,
that's why he's not really being pursued by any law
enforcement vehicles behind.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
It will be a possible so just exit here.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
They don't want to sort of supercharge this change they
try to is going to lay back. Even though obviously
there's helicopter coverage of it.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
It seems like, well I was going to say, it's
getting congested more cars now it's harder to make these crazy,
which I guess is a good thing, but also, uh,
the chances of someone getting hit.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
And hurt or higher as well.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
There he goes again, getting up, yeah, running, running some
red lights.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
And what always worries me when we're on.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
The streets is, as you say, traffic, Like if somebody
has just stopped and this thing plows into that person.
You know, there's a real good chance there's going to
be injuries and then of course wrongedestrians. Whenever we go
through anything like that, like that red light that we
just saw, I'm always worried that there's going to be
somebody and I and we're just getting from Melissa from
(12:36):
our assignment death saying that it's confirmed that this is
a stolen vehicle, so it definitely is a stolen vehicle.
First opportunity I could actually get to actually look into that, uh,
into the windscreen, and I'm just wanting to see if
there's somebody in the passenger seat. I think I missed
my opportunity right there. But this pursuit continuing right there
in the downtown area.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
I believe.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I'm just I'm actually looking at the map. We're off,
we're by Maple, so we're getting into that fashion district
area out here, which is going to be a lot
tighter and there's a good possibility a lot more pedestrians.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
So that's a truck, all right, So just to if
you're just joining, if there's a pickup truck, it's bed
is empty except for a stuffed Teddy bear, and it
would appear that the truck is the reason that's this
is a grand theft situation, and they are trailing from
the air. There are no law enforcement vehicles behind him,
even as he aggressively makes maneuvers on the opposite side
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of the street, et cetera, and is moving at a
pretty good rate of speed. Now he's down an alley.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
Yeah, it gets harry when they go into the downtown
area in particularly and the.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Oh gosh goodband in the car.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
Yeah, the passenger gets out, hooded sweatshirt, We got the
driver same thing, hooded sweatshirt. They make a run for it,
so clearly this was their m They're going to go downtown.
Where's more justed in footbail as it's called, and there
are no authorities around.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
They are being tracked from the sky, so there.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah, I mean we can expect the vehicle's being tracked
from the sky. I don't know that those guys will
be you know, be apprehended or not. Among the things
that we will watch will continue to be this, but
it would appear for the moment that, as Marla was saying,
both passenger and driver abandoned the vehicle in downtown La
And of course.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
When they return on Monday, that is also Inauguration Day.
We'll be talking more about that coming up in just
a few minutes with my colleague Alex Michaelson, who is
reporting from Washington.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yeah, there's a story out of Moderay County that's sort
of I didn't realize you used to work up there.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
I did. That was my first on air general assignment
reporting gig.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
There's a place called Moss Landing there and there's a
power plant in mouse Moss Landing called the Vistra power Plant,
and there's a fire there. There's a Vista power Plant
is a battery plant, and it's the largest battery plant
in the world. Okay, and it's on fire. They evacuated
the building when the fire started. All the employees and
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the people around there, meaning law on fire people are safe,
but they continue to evacuate those in the surrounding area,
and those evacuations are still in the fight. Again, this
is not in southern California. It is in Monterey County.
Moss Landing.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
Yeah, the fire broke out yesterday at three pm, so
we're almost twenty four hours into this, and the firefighters
they're not engaging the fire right now, they're just waiting
for it to burn out on its own, but in
the meantime because they don't know how long the fire
will actually last. And talk about we're talking about the
air quality here and the toxins et cetera. Oh my god,
that is a mess up there in central California.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Absolutely, So now these.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
Evacuations are being ordered for the local community.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah, I mean, they've eleven families, they say, thirty seven
people stayed at the emergency shelter there overnight. And the
smoke and you know, Marlosori, it's so toxic, but it
is going up high enough that officials are saying that
there's no danger to the public right now. I mean,
in other words, the winds are have sort of slackened
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to the point that the smoke and the plume is
just going straight up.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
And when I mentioned that, they're just waiting for it
to burn itself out. As of this morning, the county
officials say that seventy five percent of that battery plant
has burned at this point.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
That's extraordinary, as they say, this is an immense plant
and a supplier. So we'll continue to watch that. There
is a big announcement out of the Trump administration. Yes,
an odd announcement. I mean, I haven't really seen past.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
Presidents, and as one writer put it, this is not
the cast of Expendables five.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
They don't make pronouncements like this regularly other presidents, but
apparently the coming president feels this is important. Donald Trump has,
it would seem, tap that list of cast members from
the Expendables and has named Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson, and
John Voight as ambassadors to what he calls troubled detensil Town.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Yeah, he wants to save Hollywood. What their role will
be though, as.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
Special envoys, as Trump says, First of all, according to Trump,
the purpose of their ambassadorships is to bring back Hollywood,
which has, according to him, lost much business over the
last four years to foreign countries, to build back Hollywood bigger, better,
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and stronger than ever before. But what their actual duties
will be aren't immediately clear.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Those aren't necessarily laid out.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Often with Trump. But it's more about the announcement then
about the actual duties are about actual strategies to bring
back any business. Would be great if we could bring
back business to the movie and television industry here. I mean,
the reality is that production has been decimated in Hollywood.
I mean that's just the reality, and that so much
production has moved overseas, has moved north of the border.
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It's and moved honestly, even domestically like stayed here in
the US. Has gone to Atlanta, It's gone to other states, Kentucky.
They're remarkable production entities that exist in all of these
states because they're getting such tremendous tax breaks. Louisiana is
a New Mexico.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
Yeah, yeah, known as Balywood now, I mean yeah or
not Bollywood. Pardon me, Tamaley would And I say this
because I lived there for some time, and you know,
the show is like Breaking Bad. They're shot there, so many,
so many productions are there.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Well, I mean, at least Breaking Bad that's where it
took place. I mean like like that was the location.
I mean, what's happening is these different locations that we've mentioned,
they're doubling for places, even in Los Angeles. You know,
so La is now in California is now trying to compete.
But back to the announcement, Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and
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John Voyd are not going to change any kind of
tax benefit that Hollywood production companies are getting in all
of these different places. And that's just domestically, I mean worldwide.
These productions are moving to Australia, they're moving to New Zealand,
They're moving to places where they can just produce various
offerings films and television for so much less money.
Speaker 7 (19:39):
Well, they could have an influence though over where things
are shot. I mean for his own purposes. You know,
Stallone's still very active. Mel Gibson hasn't done a lot lately,
has he.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I don't think so, but I mean, yeah, I mean
as a director and producer, I don't think so.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
And of course, I mean this goes without saying. I'll
say it anyway. They're all three or outs Trump fans.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
We know that.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I mean, it strikes me that this is like a
little ball ball. It's like a little gift that was
given to them, and it's cool to get an announcement
and be declared ambassadors. I just don't see anything really
in the follow through here. I'd love to see it,
as I say, I'd love to see this region, you know,
sure sort of reinvigorated, especially in the shadow of the fires.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
Yeah, I mean, because we've seen the decimation the devastation
out there. So yes, and Trump says he wants to
bring back the golden age of Hollywood. Stallone, does he
still even have a home here? I'm a huge Sevester
Stallone fan. By the way, The original Rocky nineteen seventy
six one of my well, my favorite movie.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I love all these guys. I mean, you can disagree
with their politics, but man, they're really impressive in terms
of their body at work.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
But we know that Stallone sold his home. I believe
it was in Beverly Park and then moved to Florida.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I didn't know that. I used to see Sylvester Stallone
there in Hollywood, rather in the Beverly Hills on that tay.
You know, he used to hang out.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
At I know, the Palm, oh at the Palm.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Once in a while. I was thinking of Cafe Roma.
I think it's called right there on Beverly. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Oh, I could have stalked him there.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Beverly or Cannon. I don't know where the van I
think it's anyway. Yeah, he was a frequent visitor there,
so I don't know. I don't know where his new pace.
It sounds like you follow the real estate comings and
goings of these people more than I do.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Well, that's just because I had a real estate segment.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Yes, so you a high.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
End yes, yeah, then more aspirational.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yes, it's cool aspirational.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
And also because I love here's.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Here's another home you can't afford. Everyone, let me show you.
There's a wine cellar in the theater.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
And yes, you sound like Katherine Hepburn.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I did love that segment, though I used to love
watching your segment.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
It was called top property.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
All the infinity pools in this place has got a
bowling alley and it's like, oh my.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
God, everything.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
It was an amazing court. Anyway, that's the kind of
place that Stallone had. You're right, though he bought a
place in Florida. He may still have a crash pad here.
I don't sure anyway, he Mel Gibson and John Boyd
ambassadored to what Trump is calling troubled Hollywood. Next week
there will be a new president. The inauguration is Monday,
and joining us from Washington is Fox eleven's Alex Michaelson. Hey, Alex,
(22:19):
Hi Alex.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
I'm Markai Marlin. This is fun. Yeah with the two
of you.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Really, So, I said, I know somebody who's there covering
the inauguration.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Let me see if he can fit us into his
busy schedule.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Out he would have returned my calls. I'm glad it
was you.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Yeah, you've been there.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
You've been there for what about twenty four hours now,
and this big news that the inauguration moving indoors.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
What have you learned about that?
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Well, it's kind of interesting because we were in the
process of interviewing lawmakers and a lot of them were
caught off guard and not really having a lot of
insight because they spend all this time, you know, getting
all these tickets. It's been this huge thing, and the
lawmakers each get like a few hundred tickets, and thousands
and thousands of people have flown here from around the country.
We were on the plane with all these people from SOCOM.
(23:06):
They save up money and time. It's the first time
in DC and all the rest of it, and then
they get here and it's like, oh, you can't see it.
So I think they're working on potential contingency plans, one
maybe involving having him go to the basketball arena nearby
where they're going to have people watching it on screens.
It's still kind of unclear exactly what it means for
the parade, which also had been scheduled all of that outside,
(23:30):
but definitely disappointment. I mean, you know a lot of
the Trump supporters are so behind him, they say, you know,
we'll make whatever work. You know, this is part of
the deal. We understand. But you know, for sure people
are disappointed after going through all this, and there's sort
of once in a lifetime experience.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
So yeah, okay, so I wasn't clear on that.
Speaker 7 (23:50):
So in other words, literally just the process will be
moved inside, but that doesn't necessarily mean that what couple
hundred thousand to three hundred thousand people will be able
to I knew not all of them would be able to,
but there wouldn't even be a crowd inside.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
They're expecting three hundred thousand people. Is that right?
Speaker 4 (24:09):
I was hearing this morning, and correct me if I'm wrong, Alex,
go ahead.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Yeah, I mean that seems about right. I mean Obama's
crowd was in the millions when he was here, and
so it's a yeah. I mean, so if you have
three hundred thousand people, say that's what the crowd is,
and you move things to a basketball arena, that's twenty
thousand people. Where's everybody else around? Are they going to
(24:35):
be still standing outside? I mean the reason they're moving
it inside is because it's really cold, dangerously cold. And
when you go to these inaugurations, and I've covered you know,
three or four of them now, you have to you
start lining up at five o'clock in the morning and
then you're there through one o'clock in the afternoon. So,
I mean, I remember when I covered the Obama inauguration,
(24:57):
I actually got frostbite on my feet because I was
out on cold ground for so long, even wearing shoes
and socks.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
It was just so.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
It was in the twenties and there was a wind show.
It was freezing.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I always feel as though it's the worst, it's the
worst invite in Washington. I mean, I grew up in
d C. And I've said this a couple of times
this week. I just it's always frigid, although this apparently
is really otherworldly frigid. But as model is sort of hinting,
and as you're saying, you know, the logistics of this
may be excruciatingly difficult, especially on short notice.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Like this, right, and where do all these people go?
I mean some of them are going to go to balls,
but not everybody goes to balls, and the balls are
you know, some of those are a little overrated. So
I mean the big moment is to see him take
to take the oath of office and be there to
witness history. And now it's you know, it doesn't seem
like that's going to happen for most people. I mean,
(25:51):
fitting inside is a very very small group.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
What does this mean for you and your reporting?
Speaker 5 (25:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Yeah, there's still a lot.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Or or how that works. I mean, look to me,
the inauguration itself and the moment that he swears in
is just a part of the reporting that you know.
I mean, I've spent the day in various lawmakers' offices,
talking to different people, traveling different parts of the town.
There's all sorts of other events, So you know, I'm
still going to go forward with all of that. We
(26:26):
just may I don't know if we'll be outside that
day or maybe we try to move inside or I
don't know. It's still a lot of work in progress.
Speaker 7 (26:34):
So when you flew there yesterday, you filed a great
report that we of course have aired on Fox eleven,
and obviously you talked to officials who were on the plane.
But to your point earlier, there were a lot of
people from southern California on your plane that made the trip,
and man, they are enthusiastic for mister Trump.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
And today what's going on in Congress is you have
to show up to pick up your tickets for the
inauguration in person. They don't mail those two. You have
to come to Congress. So the halls are full of
people in their maga hats, full of Trump gear and
they love them. And you know, it's a very different
(27:16):
vibe though than twenty seventeen when Trump was first inaugurated,
when there was this shock where there was this strong
sense of resistance. When we remember they had the Women's March,
which had more people than Trump's inauguration itself. You don't
see a lot of protesters here that The vibe here
now is much more joyous and not as acrimonious as
(27:39):
it was the last time around for him.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
And security wise, there's a.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Lot of security and most of it hasn't even started yet.
But maybe that's another thing. Some of that may be
tamped down a little bit if everything's inside and you know,
he's not as much, there isn't as much of a
threat for him. Bloodies are to control being inside like that.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
The victory of Donald Trump, I'm just remembering the Hillary
Clinton being defeated by Donald Trump was a surprise and
it caught a lot of people, including I'd just addressed
the Trump people kind of you know, really by flat footed.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
They didn't know Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Yeah, exactly. I think he really the idea was, you
could argue, as a brand builder, he never really intended
to be present. But anyway, to the point, so the
as you say, the acrimony and the questions around his administration,
he kind of led to a sort of tentative nature
of the inauguration. Now, this one, I just wanted to
kind of set it against that backdrop is totally different
(28:35):
because they are getting soaked in record donations for his
inauguration from corporate America. I mean, it seems as though
every entity that is controlled by government, social media companies,
et cetera, are all stepping up with big donations.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
And you don't see a lot of the protests or
the signs of that. I mean, it almost feels like,
you know, Jeezil's start trick phrase, you know, resistance is futile, right, right,
that that version of resistance didn't work. I mean, think
about everything that Donald Trump has either gone through or
(29:13):
been thrown at him, or you know, just justified to fight,
depending on your perspective. But you're looking at you know,
two impeachments, ninety one criminal counts, four different cases on
top of all of the political people coming out, and
from Rond De Santis to Nicky Haley, to Hillary Clinton
and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. I mean, everybody, what
(29:36):
more can you throw at this guy? And none of
it stopped him. So I think there's a lot of
people that are sort of just throwing their hands up
in the air and saying, you know, we did the
best we could.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Well, they're throwing money at him now. The world's five
biggest tech firms each gave a million either directly or
through their chief executives. The CEOs of Uber and open Ai,
also the.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
CEO of TikTok will be front Zuckerber.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
All the automakers who are you know who face regulations
from the fence, Toyota, four General Motors, they all gave
a million dollars to it, and the Pfizer gave a
million dollars, and I could go on and on and on.
I mean, you know this inauguration is soaked in corporate cash.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Yeah, now that there's not going to be one outside,
they may not even get a seat, not even get
a chair.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yeah, maybe they'll send them some merch or something.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
Look, I mean you can argue, you can argue about
about the value. I mean that that when Joe Biden
talked about an oligarchy the other night in his farewell speech,
which was a word that a lot of people, you know,
took notice of. I mean, that's exactly what he's talking about,
this idea. But that being said, a lot of these
same corporations gave when Obama had his inauguration too. I mean,
(30:51):
four years ago was weird, the height of COVID people
weren't allowed here. It was a whole other thing. But
you know they've they've given to democrats.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
That's a great point. The one difference I would say
is these are very high profile donations. They are like
these pronouncements that we're going to support it, And I
think that might be the difference. So Alex will watch
for your stuff on Fox eleven.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
That was fun. Thank you, Alex.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah, and watch of course for the issue is and
all of your good work at Fox eleven. Good stuff,
Alex Michaelson from Washington, DC. It's the Gary and Shannon Show.
Mark and Marlon is sitting in on this Friday, January seventeenth,
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
It's time let's check out the swamp.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
The swamp is horrible.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
Government man make it's like a reality TV show.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Corp was a bad news.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Always a pleasure to be anywhere from Washington, DC.
Speaker 5 (00:21):
Hey, Joey, it's just a town hall too, clearly built
on a swamp and in so many ways.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Still a swamp. That's a bunch of malarkey.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Nobody said drained the swamp. I said, Oh, that's so oh,
keep happens.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Well. Thing this happened this morning. It Friday mornings.
Speaker 6 (00:40):
You were coming on the air with some breaking news
from the Supreme Court. The High Court has just declined
to stop a ban of TikTok now set to take
effect on Sunday. TikTok is, of course, one of the
most popular social media apps in this country, with some
one hundred seventy million users in the US alone, but
(01:02):
the app is owned by a Chinese company, and lawmakers
on both sides of the aisle have said that it
is a national security risk. Today's decision comes after the
Court heard arguments from TikTok against the law that essentially
forces its parent company Byte Dance to sell its operations here.
Speaker 7 (01:21):
Yeah, and that is supposed to take effect, and that
was Craig Melvin of the Today Show. By the way,
you cannot mistake his voice, at least I can't. So
the ban is to go into effect Sunday in January
the nineteenth, and by all accounts it will. The only
thing that would stop it is if in fact it
was purchased, if it's able to be sold.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Well, I mean that would be you know, you talk about,
you know, an eleventh hour shale. It would have to
happen between now and then, exact same extraordinary. But the
other thing, and I think that shale might have to
be approved by any number of government entities. I just
don't think it can happen that quickly. But the other
thing that is going to happen, and it's been indicated
by the Biden administration, is they're not going to enforce
(02:04):
the law ahead of the inauguration.
Speaker 7 (02:06):
No, and that's only amount of hours because this is
Biden's last day. Trump takes over on Monday with the inauguration,
and his first official day is on Tuesday, and he
says he's not going to enforce it either. But we
had on a lawyer to kick us off in the
nine o'clock hour who said, well, you have to you
(02:27):
can't just not enforce it, and you have to have
congressional approval to overturn the law in the first place.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Well, if you want to turn the law back, if
you want to erase the law, undo the law, you'll
need to do it in Congress. That's right. But looking
the other way on it for the moment, it seems
as though that may be what happens with both the
Biden administration outgoing and Trump administration incoming. Meanwhile, their takeaways
(02:55):
from the hearings, the confirmation hearings continue, as you know,
hegseets was earlier this week. It was contentious him Caine
of Virginia pressing him on infidelities coming from that incident
moderray in that hotel room that prompted a sexual assault
investigation by local cops. They also questioned, I mean, in
addition to his public drunkenness and being carried out of
(03:16):
a number of different everything from conferences to workplaces, he
was talked about in ways that would suggest from Democratic
senators that he's incompetent, that he just can't do the job.
He's never had any experience.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
I mean, yeah, his resume isn't thick enough, exactly, it's
impressive enough. And he dismisses the allegations as a coordinated
smear campaign. He was also pressed about the comments he
made over women in combat. He has since walked those back,
especially since meeting with Ernst. Of course, Jony Ernst out
of Iowa, who served.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
In the military. She's a veteran.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
And what's interesting is after tuesdays hearing with him, she
said that she will support him.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah. Well, I mean she was under a lot of
pressure from the Trump administration and from Elon Musk, who,
as we mentioned to you a couple of days ago,
during those hearings, began a heavy media blitz in her
home district to encourage calls from her constituents. And I
think she was worried about being primary. Frankly, I think
she's worried about losing her job. And really, the other
(04:25):
woman who serves on that committee, Tammy Duckwoarres of Illinois,
she's a combat veteran. She lost her legs in that
Blackhawk shot. They shot down her chopper, and she essentially
laid bare the fact that HEXA didn't know a bunch
of basic stuff that the Pentagon and the Department of
Events is associated with. So I think that confirmation will
(04:47):
sale through. But there was definitely there were sparks flying
during that. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
I mean, Republicans have a fifty three to fourties of
a majority in the Senate, meaning he does not need
any Democratic support to win confirmation.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
No fireworks from the ernest questioning, and there was, as
we know, additional hearings. There are key roles in the
coming administration that will be occupied by Pam Bondi for example,
of the Department of Justice, Marco Rubio at the State Department.
So there is quite a it's quite a busy week
(05:21):
in Washington. As these confirmations containd Yeah.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Another name we've heard of recently, of course, because he
wanted to be president for some time, as Doug Burgham
he is nominated for at the Interior and Lee Zelden
at the Environmental Protection Agency the EPA. They appear to
be in no danger of, you know, not getting confirmed.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, I mean, I think most presidents get most of
what they want and in terms of these nominees, and
I think this president will likely be no different, despite
the fact that there are tremendous questions around some of
these nominees.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Yeah, I mean, we know what happened with Matt Gates.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
Yeah, but point though about Trump getting on the line
and pressuring.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I see that happening with TikTok too.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Oh yeah, but this is a little different because you
can't pick up the phone and call anybody on the
TikTok thing. I mean, he's gonna have to that will happen,
and his personal lobbying, if that's what it'll come down to,
it will have to happen once he's president. You know.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Well, once he's president is Monday exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And speaking of that, the inauguration will be indoors. The
inaugurational weather will be the coldest in forty years, and
they are moving the inauguration inside. It'll be about twenty
degrees and I gotta say they should probably. I have
two things to say offer this, just respectfully. One is
(06:43):
you know that if it was Biden and he had
won or whatever. Let's let's just say it was now
twenty twenty, they would go look at Biden he's got
to move it indoors. He's a you know, the media
would make a big thing, certainly right wing media, but
I think Trump and as people are doing the right
thing here. It should be moved indoors. It never should
have been outdoors.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
It's always cold in January.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
It is, but on Monday, the expected high is twenty
degrees with a low of six degrees with strong wins.
Mind you, when JFK was sworn in, it was twenty
two degrees.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, and Jimmy Carter his inauguration, the wind show was
in the teens. So it's not unprecedented to have this
kind of situation developed. As you say, in January, it's
cold in Washington.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Yeah, and someone who's cold right now in Washington is
my colleague Alex Michaelson. He is there. He will join
us because he's covering the inauguration. Of course, he will
join us a little bit later this hour. All right,
it's Friday.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
You know what that means.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
Let us know what you learned on the Gary and
Shannon Show without Gary and Shannon this week. Hit us
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Speaker 4 (07:50):
You got thirty seconds. Let us know what you learned.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
In the meantime, We're watching Fox eleven right now from
our studio here in Burbank, and we have a stolen
equipment pursuit.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I think stolen equipment truck pursuit would probably be the
better way to say that.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Why is that it's an equipment truck or is it
the truck carrying stolen equipment?
Speaker 7 (08:13):
I think that that one. Okay, Yeah, yeah, it's a
black a black truck. Where we were on the five
southbound in Pomona right there and sky Falk's over. It's
about eighty miles per hour. It was getting a little
hairy there with the speeds weaving in and out of traffic.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
You know, we call these all the time on Fox eleven.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I know used to be the weather guy who was told, listen,
just if you could just hang out for a while,
this chase is going to go on, and then at
the end of the newscast you'd go on and do
forty seconds of weather.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Yeah, or you wouldn't get any.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Time or not at all.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Yeah, so, oh oh, almost clipped a big rig.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
No authorities from this vantage point, I don't know who
the lead agency is, probably CHP at this point because
once it gets onto the highway, that is when and
now we're on the ten westbound by the way, that
is when HP usually takes over. So whether this started
with LAPD or the Sheriff's Department don't know, but this
(09:17):
can be a multi agency thing, but usually on the
highway it is HP.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
So we're westbound ten, just passing. Should we listen to.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Too much alb The lawyer is concerned about that as well.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Now you have to remember also nobody is behind this vehicle.
Does he know the helicopters are following him?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
How? That's my question.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
The windows aren't down, So this continuous reckless driving is
not because law enforcement is right behind him. This reckless
driving is just the drive that driver driving reckless and
is being a.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Problem for a lot. He's going to get off the freeway.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Is it is unnerving to watch? Wow, he's not a.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Shot, so we're not going to lose it between the buildings.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
So the anchors are and a Roxya Carpadian. Now this
has been called a grand theft suspect.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, because there's nothing in the bet of the truck.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
It has to be about game traffic. But you gotta
wonder also is he impaired or this driver impaired. You
don't know the state of mind and the emotional state
as well as the possible physical state of these drivers
right what they're thinking or when we cover things like that,
or if.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
There are really just really erratic.
Speaker 8 (10:28):
It would be scary to be in that situation, stuck
in traffic with him because he almost took out a
couple of cars or at least broadsided kind of nip them.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, there's nothing in the bet of the truck, so
the better. The truck is empty, which means that there's
a teddy Bear. Jacob congrects me. There is a stuffed
Teddy Bear in the back of the truck. But I'm
guessing that's not what this chase.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Is about vehicles right now, the.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Grand Teddy Bear, I can't have anything stuffed.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
In it, taking that if it's a grand theft aspect
that he stole the car tru.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Trust Freeway.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
So it is a CSP pursuit.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Which is good and is bad because if the law enforce.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Could be illegal narcotics as what Jacob suggesting in the Teddy.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Bear, Jacob has a point.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Look, Jacob, let's just hope for the safe return of
that teddy bear. Okay, that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Dangerous is happening or could be happening at any moment.
It looks like now we're getting over.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
To the right.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
So as soon as I said it, I wonder if
we're going to try to get off the front.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
One of the scariest things about when you cover these
is all the unsuspected drivers, of.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Course, and that's why the CHP is laid back. I mean,
that's why he's not really being pursued by any law
enforcement vehicles behind.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
It will be a possible so just exit here.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
They don't want to sort of supercharge this change they
try to is going to lay back. Even though obviously
there's helicopter coverage of it.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
It seems like, well I was going to say, it's
getting congested more cars now it's harder to make these crazy,
which I guess is a good thing, but also, uh,
the chances of someone getting hit.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
And hurt or higher as well.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
There he goes again, getting up, yeah, running, running some
red lights.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
And what always worries me when we're on.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
The streets is, as you say, traffic, Like if somebody
has just stopped and this thing plows into that person.
You know, there's a real good chance there's going to
be injuries and then of course wrongedestrians. Whenever we go
through anything like that, like that red light that we
just saw, I'm always worried that there's going to be
somebody and I and we're just getting from Melissa from
(12:36):
our assignment death saying that it's confirmed that this is
a stolen vehicle, so it definitely is a stolen vehicle.
First opportunity I could actually get to actually look into that, uh,
into the windscreen, and I'm just wanting to see if
there's somebody in the passenger seat. I think I missed
my opportunity right there. But this pursuit continuing right there
in the downtown area.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
I believe.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I'm just I'm actually looking at the map. We're off,
we're by Maple, so we're getting into that fashion district
area out here, which is going to be a lot
tighter and there's a good possibility a lot more pedestrians.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
So that's a truck, all right, So just to if
you're just joining, if there's a pickup truck, it's bed
is empty except for a stuffed Teddy bear, and it
would appear that the truck is the reason that's this
is a grand theft situation, and they are trailing from
the air. There are no law enforcement vehicles behind him,
even as he aggressively makes maneuvers on the opposite side
(13:34):
of the street, et cetera, and is moving at a
pretty good rate of speed. Now he's down an alley.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
Yeah, it gets harry when they go into the downtown
area in particularly and the.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Oh gosh goodband in the car.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
Yeah, the passenger gets out, hooded sweatshirt, We got the
driver same thing, hooded sweatshirt. They make a run for it,
so clearly this was their m They're going to go downtown.
Where's more justed in footbail as it's called, and there
are no authorities around.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
They are being tracked from the sky, so there.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah, I mean we can expect the vehicle's being tracked
from the sky. I don't know that those guys will
be you know, be apprehended or not. Among the things
that we will watch will continue to be this, but
it would appear for the moment that, as Marla was saying,
both passenger and driver abandoned the vehicle in downtown La
And of course.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
When they return on Monday, that is also Inauguration Day.
We'll be talking more about that coming up in just
a few minutes with my colleague Alex Michaelson, who is
reporting from Washington.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yeah, there's a story out of Moderay County that's sort
of I didn't realize you used to work up there.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
I did. That was my first on air general assignment
reporting gig.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
There's a place called Moss Landing there and there's a
power plant in mouse Moss Landing called the Vistra power Plant,
and there's a fire there. There's a Vista power Plant
is a battery plant, and it's the largest battery plant
in the world. Okay, and it's on fire. They evacuated
the building when the fire started. All the employees and
(15:13):
the people around there, meaning law on fire people are safe,
but they continue to evacuate those in the surrounding area,
and those evacuations are still in the fight. Again, this
is not in southern California. It is in Monterey County.
Moss Landing.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
Yeah, the fire broke out yesterday at three pm, so
we're almost twenty four hours into this, and the firefighters
they're not engaging the fire right now, they're just waiting
for it to burn out on its own, but in
the meantime because they don't know how long the fire
will actually last. And talk about we're talking about the
air quality here and the toxins et cetera. Oh my god,
that is a mess up there in central California.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Absolutely, So now these.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
Evacuations are being ordered for the local community.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah, I mean, they've eleven families, they say, thirty seven
people stayed at the emergency shelter there overnight. And the
smoke and you know, Marlosori, it's so toxic, but it
is going up high enough that officials are saying that
there's no danger to the public right now. I mean,
in other words, the winds are have sort of slackened
(16:21):
to the point that the smoke and the plume is
just going straight up.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
And when I mentioned that, they're just waiting for it
to burn itself out. As of this morning, the county
officials say that seventy five percent of that battery plant
has burned at this point.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
That's extraordinary, as they say, this is an immense plant
and a supplier. So we'll continue to watch that. There
is a big announcement out of the Trump administration. Yes,
an odd announcement. I mean, I haven't really seen past.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
Presidents, and as one writer put it, this is not
the cast of Expendables five.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
They don't make pronouncements like this regularly other presidents, but
apparently the coming president feels this is important. Donald Trump has,
it would seem, tap that list of cast members from
the Expendables and has named Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson, and
John Voight as ambassadors to what he calls troubled detensil Town.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Yeah, he wants to save Hollywood. What their role will
be though, as.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
Special envoys, as Trump says, First of all, according to Trump,
the purpose of their ambassadorships is to bring back Hollywood,
which has, according to him, lost much business over the
last four years to foreign countries, to build back Hollywood bigger, better,
(17:48):
and stronger than ever before. But what their actual duties
will be aren't immediately clear.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Those aren't necessarily laid out.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Often with Trump. But it's more about the announcement then
about the actual duties are about actual strategies to bring
back any business. Would be great if we could bring
back business to the movie and television industry here. I mean,
the reality is that production has been decimated in Hollywood.
I mean that's just the reality, and that so much
production has moved overseas, has moved north of the border.
(18:22):
It's and moved honestly, even domestically like stayed here in
the US. Has gone to Atlanta, It's gone to other states, Kentucky.
They're remarkable production entities that exist in all of these
states because they're getting such tremendous tax breaks. Louisiana is
a New Mexico.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
Yeah, yeah, known as Balywood now, I mean yeah or
not Bollywood. Pardon me, Tamaley would And I say this
because I lived there for some time, and you know,
the show is like Breaking Bad. They're shot there, so many,
so many productions are there.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Well, I mean, at least Breaking Bad that's where it
took place. I mean like like that was the location.
I mean, what's happening is these different locations that we've mentioned,
they're doubling for places, even in Los Angeles. You know,
so La is now in California is now trying to compete.
But back to the announcement, Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and
(19:18):
John Voyd are not going to change any kind of
tax benefit that Hollywood production companies are getting in all
of these different places. And that's just domestically, I mean worldwide.
These productions are moving to Australia, they're moving to New Zealand,
They're moving to places where they can just produce various
offerings films and television for so much less money.
Speaker 7 (19:39):
Well, they could have an influence though over where things
are shot. I mean for his own purposes. You know,
Stallone's still very active. Mel Gibson hasn't done a lot lately,
has he.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I don't think so, but I mean, yeah, I mean
as a director and producer, I don't think so.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
And of course, I mean this goes without saying. I'll
say it anyway. They're all three or outs Trump fans.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
We know that.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I mean, it strikes me that this is like a
little ball ball. It's like a little gift that was
given to them, and it's cool to get an announcement
and be declared ambassadors. I just don't see anything really
in the follow through here. I'd love to see it,
as I say, I'd love to see this region, you know,
sure sort of reinvigorated, especially in the shadow of the fires.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
Yeah, I mean, because we've seen the decimation the devastation
out there. So yes, and Trump says he wants to
bring back the golden age of Hollywood. Stallone, does he
still even have a home here? I'm a huge Sevester
Stallone fan. By the way, The original Rocky nineteen seventy
six one of my well, my favorite movie.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I love all these guys. I mean, you can disagree
with their politics, but man, they're really impressive in terms
of their body at work.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
But we know that Stallone sold his home. I believe
it was in Beverly Park and then moved to Florida.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I didn't know that. I used to see Sylvester Stallone
there in Hollywood, rather in the Beverly Hills on that tay.
You know, he used to hang out.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
At I know, the Palm, oh at the Palm.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Once in a while. I was thinking of Cafe Roma.
I think it's called right there on Beverly. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Oh, I could have stalked him there.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Beverly or Cannon. I don't know where the van I
think it's anyway. Yeah, he was a frequent visitor there,
so I don't know. I don't know where his new pace.
It sounds like you follow the real estate comings and
goings of these people more than I do.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Well, that's just because I had a real estate segment.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Yes, so you a high.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
End yes, yeah, then more aspirational.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yes, it's cool aspirational.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
And also because I love here's.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Here's another home you can't afford. Everyone, let me show you.
There's a wine cellar in the theater.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
And yes, you sound like Katherine Hepburn.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I did love that segment, though I used to love
watching your segment.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
It was called top property.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
All the infinity pools in this place has got a
bowling alley and it's like, oh my.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
God, everything.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
It was an amazing court. Anyway, that's the kind of
place that Stallone had. You're right, though he bought a
place in Florida. He may still have a crash pad here.
I don't sure anyway, he Mel Gibson and John Boyd
ambassadored to what Trump is calling troubled Hollywood. Next week
there will be a new president. The inauguration is Monday,
and joining us from Washington is Fox eleven's Alex Michaelson. Hey, Alex,
(22:19):
Hi Alex.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
I'm Markai Marlin. This is fun. Yeah with the two
of you.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Really, So, I said, I know somebody who's there covering
the inauguration.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Let me see if he can fit us into his
busy schedule.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Out he would have returned my calls. I'm glad it
was you.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Yeah, you've been there.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
You've been there for what about twenty four hours now,
and this big news that the inauguration moving indoors.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
What have you learned about that?
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Well, it's kind of interesting because we were in the
process of interviewing lawmakers and a lot of them were
caught off guard and not really having a lot of
insight because they spend all this time, you know, getting
all these tickets. It's been this huge thing, and the
lawmakers each get like a few hundred tickets, and thousands
and thousands of people have flown here from around the country.
We were on the plane with all these people from SOCOM.
(23:06):
They save up money and time. It's the first time
in DC and all the rest of it, and then
they get here and it's like, oh, you can't see it.
So I think they're working on potential contingency plans, one
maybe involving having him go to the basketball arena nearby
where they're going to have people watching it on screens.
It's still kind of unclear exactly what it means for
the parade, which also had been scheduled all of that outside,
(23:30):
but definitely disappointment. I mean, you know a lot of
the Trump supporters are so behind him, they say, you know,
we'll make whatever work. You know, this is part of
the deal. We understand. But you know, for sure people
are disappointed after going through all this, and there's sort
of once in a lifetime experience.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
So yeah, okay, so I wasn't clear on that.
Speaker 7 (23:50):
So in other words, literally just the process will be
moved inside, but that doesn't necessarily mean that what couple
hundred thousand to three hundred thousand people will be able
to I knew not all of them would be able to,
but there wouldn't even be a crowd inside.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
They're expecting three hundred thousand people. Is that right?
Speaker 4 (24:09):
I was hearing this morning, and correct me if I'm wrong, Alex,
go ahead.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Yeah, I mean that seems about right. I mean Obama's
crowd was in the millions when he was here, and
so it's a yeah. I mean, so if you have
three hundred thousand people, say that's what the crowd is,
and you move things to a basketball arena, that's twenty
thousand people. Where's everybody else around? Are they going to
(24:35):
be still standing outside? I mean the reason they're moving
it inside is because it's really cold, dangerously cold. And
when you go to these inaugurations, and I've covered you know,
three or four of them now, you have to you
start lining up at five o'clock in the morning and
then you're there through one o'clock in the afternoon. So,
I mean, I remember when I covered the Obama inauguration,
(24:57):
I actually got frostbite on my feet because I was
out on cold ground for so long, even wearing shoes
and socks.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
It was just so.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
It was in the twenties and there was a wind show.
It was freezing.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I always feel as though it's the worst, it's the
worst invite in Washington. I mean, I grew up in
d C. And I've said this a couple of times
this week. I just it's always frigid, although this apparently
is really otherworldly frigid. But as model is sort of hinting,
and as you're saying, you know, the logistics of this
may be excruciatingly difficult, especially on short notice.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Like this, right, and where do all these people go?
I mean some of them are going to go to balls,
but not everybody goes to balls, and the balls are
you know, some of those are a little overrated. So
I mean the big moment is to see him take
to take the oath of office and be there to
witness history. And now it's you know, it doesn't seem
like that's going to happen for most people. I mean,
(25:51):
fitting inside is a very very small group.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
What does this mean for you and your reporting?
Speaker 5 (25:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Yeah, there's still a lot.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Or or how that works. I mean, look to me,
the inauguration itself and the moment that he swears in
is just a part of the reporting that you know.
I mean, I've spent the day in various lawmakers' offices,
talking to different people, traveling different parts of the town.
There's all sorts of other events, So you know, I'm
still going to go forward with all of that. We
(26:26):
just may I don't know if we'll be outside that
day or maybe we try to move inside or I
don't know. It's still a lot of work in progress.
Speaker 7 (26:34):
So when you flew there yesterday, you filed a great
report that we of course have aired on Fox eleven,
and obviously you talked to officials who were on the plane.
But to your point earlier, there were a lot of
people from southern California on your plane that made the trip,
and man, they are enthusiastic for mister Trump.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
And today what's going on in Congress is you have
to show up to pick up your tickets for the
inauguration in person. They don't mail those two. You have
to come to Congress. So the halls are full of
people in their maga hats, full of Trump gear and
they love them. And you know, it's a very different
(27:16):
vibe though than twenty seventeen when Trump was first inaugurated,
when there was this shock where there was this strong
sense of resistance. When we remember they had the Women's March,
which had more people than Trump's inauguration itself. You don't
see a lot of protesters here that The vibe here
now is much more joyous and not as acrimonious as
(27:39):
it was the last time around for him.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
And security wise, there's a.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Lot of security and most of it hasn't even started yet.
But maybe that's another thing. Some of that may be
tamped down a little bit if everything's inside and you know,
he's not as much, there isn't as much of a
threat for him. Bloodies are to control being inside like that.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
The victory of Donald Trump, I'm just remembering the Hillary
Clinton being defeated by Donald Trump was a surprise and
it caught a lot of people, including I'd just addressed
the Trump people kind of you know, really by flat footed.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
They didn't know Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Yeah, exactly. I think he really the idea was, you
could argue, as a brand builder, he never really intended
to be present. But anyway, to the point, so the
as you say, the acrimony and the questions around his administration,
he kind of led to a sort of tentative nature
of the inauguration. Now, this one, I just wanted to
kind of set it against that backdrop is totally different
(28:35):
because they are getting soaked in record donations for his
inauguration from corporate America. I mean, it seems as though
every entity that is controlled by government, social media companies,
et cetera, are all stepping up with big donations.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
And you don't see a lot of the protests or
the signs of that. I mean, it almost feels like,
you know, Jeezil's start trick phrase, you know, resistance is futile, right, right,
that that version of resistance didn't work. I mean, think
about everything that Donald Trump has either gone through or
(29:13):
been thrown at him, or you know, just justified to fight,
depending on your perspective. But you're looking at you know,
two impeachments, ninety one criminal counts, four different cases on
top of all of the political people coming out, and
from Rond De Santis to Nicky Haley, to Hillary Clinton
and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. I mean, everybody, what
(29:36):
more can you throw at this guy? And none of
it stopped him. So I think there's a lot of
people that are sort of just throwing their hands up
in the air and saying, you know, we did the
best we could.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Well, they're throwing money at him now. The world's five
biggest tech firms each gave a million either directly or
through their chief executives. The CEOs of Uber and open Ai,
also the.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
CEO of TikTok will be front Zuckerber.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
All the automakers who are you know who face regulations
from the fence, Toyota, four General Motors, they all gave
a million dollars to it, and the Pfizer gave a
million dollars, and I could go on and on and on.
I mean, you know this inauguration is soaked in corporate cash.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Yeah, now that there's not going to be one outside,
they may not even get a seat, not even get
a chair.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yeah, maybe they'll send them some merch or something.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
Look, I mean you can argue, you can argue about
about the value. I mean that that when Joe Biden
talked about an oligarchy the other night in his farewell speech,
which was a word that a lot of people, you know,
took notice of. I mean, that's exactly what he's talking about,
this idea. But that being said, a lot of these
same corporations gave when Obama had his inauguration too. I mean,
(30:51):
four years ago was weird, the height of COVID people
weren't allowed here. It was a whole other thing. But
you know they've they've given to democrats.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
That's a great point. The one difference I would say
is these are very high profile donations. They are like
these pronouncements that we're going to support it, And I
think that might be the difference. So Alex will watch
for your stuff on Fox eleven.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
That was fun. Thank you, Alex.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah, and watch of course for the issue is and
all of your good work at Fox eleven. Good stuff,
Alex Michaelson from Washington, DC. It's the Gary and Shannon Show.
Mark and Marlon is sitting in on this Friday, January seventeenth,
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