January 22, 2025 • 26 mins
Gary and Shannon begin the second hour of the show with the news of DEI layoffs. Gary and Shannon also talk about church and schools are no longer safe for migrants.
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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
on the iHeartRadio app. Coming up in our wellness segment
later on in the show, eight everyday tasks that will
give you eleven extra healthy years.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Let me guess.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Stretch no no walk, partly drink water.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
I don't think that's on the list.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Fireball also not on the list.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
If you want to see fun fireball antics, you'll have
to check out our social media at Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
That's all. I'll say.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
That's probably more than enough.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
We do expect some rain this weekend, as Amy's been
telling us, rain is in the forecast for Saturday. Because
of the potential threat to the new Burn areas, Mayor
Bass has to shoot an emergency executive order for the
City of La to shore up Burn area, stem the
flow of toxic debris and the event of rain this weekend,
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So they're going to more city resources to help clear
the hillsides, specifically her area, which is of course going
to be the Palisades area, And she said she was
going to be working with the county to make sure
that areas in the eaten fire are going to be
taken care of as well. But our weather pales in
comparison to what's going on in the South. At least
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nine people have died across the central and eastern US
because of wintery weather. One of one crash in Batesville,
Texas killed five people, and they said they've set snow
records in places like New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I was going to say, these are places that are
not used to this kind of weather. So people are
just told, basically what you tell your daughter to do
in Texas, just stay home, stay home. You don't have
you don't have a snowplow, you're not equipped to deal
with snow.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Just wait this one out.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, Pensacola. My wife actually grew up spent a lot
of time as a kid in Pensacola. Pensacola got seven
more than seven and a half inches of snow. Their
previous record was three inches from twenty some odd years ago.
Louis Are thirty years ago. I guess it was Louisiana
shut down a one hundred mile stretch of I ten
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because of the snow in that in that area.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
So is your wife a big Jimmy Buffett fan. No,
Frankie and Lola on their second honeymoon in Pensacola.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
No, I don't even I've never I don't know that
one before.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
No, you should spend more time with my husband.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
DEEI is in the bull's eye right now. President Trump's
administration took aim at the government DEI programs, ordering all
federal Diversity Equity and Inclusion employees to be placed on
paid leave no later than tonight close of business, and
that all DEI offices will be closed down for review. Eventually,
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these employees will be laid off or reassigned following the
execut orders that have been signed in the OPM's acting director,
Charles Azel, sent his memo to federal department and agency
heads instructing them to inform all employees of any DEI
office in the federal government that they were being placed
on paid administrative leave, effective immediately and by next Friday.
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Those agency heads to have to provide a written plan
for executing a reduction enforce action of all of those
DEI employees. And again, this is not people who have
been hired under diversity Equity and Inclusion programs.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
These are program.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
These are people who have been hired just specifically to
carry out a dei agenda in X, Y and Z departments. Yes,
it is fluff, It is blubber. It is not common sense.
If you want to have a dei agenda, fine, then
then put out the literature to Hooever the powers may
be in the hiring protocols for every department. Right, it's
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important that our workforce looks like the population whatever however
you want to say that. But to bloat these agencies
with somebody specifically put in to make sure this is
happening is just that it's blown.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
This is the title. I mean, think of the job
titles that this targets. It's like the director of microaggression
policy or I mean, that's the kind of thing. It's
not the guy who got hired under the policy itself,
it's those administrators of those policies.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I was listening to a meditation this morning. I like
to meditate in the morning and meditate in the evening.
And you'll look at me and say, that's fufu.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I didn't say the fo.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Your face is saying fuf foo. That's fine. It grounds me.
I like it anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Today in my morning meditation, the person leading the minute
in they're like eight minutes.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
It's not a big deal. It's daily j if you
know it.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
And I use the com app anyway, He says at
the end, when we're doing our breathing, if you have
a complicated relationship with your breath, and I said, what
the and I said the word in my car during
the meditation, what the f comply? If you can't handle breathing, folks,
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that's a real problem. That's a real sad state of
affairs we're in this world. If we are too weak
and don't feel safe in breathing, we are screwed as
a people. You cannot honestly look at me and tell
me you have a complicated relationship with your breath. With breathing,
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it's one thing if your mind wanders when you're trying
to meditate.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
That's not what he was saying. He was saying, if you.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Have a bad relationship with breathing, that is ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Can I suggest a different motive, motivational speaker, meditational guy
for you because it doesn't seem Jaysh Shetty doesn't seem
to fit your style.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I'm just well, I'm trying to move away from my style.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I know, Greg Williams just yeah, something along those lines.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
See, that's the lane I live in.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I'm trying to get a wave to another lane of
peace and breathing. Okay, it's okay, but you know what,
the whole country collectively needs to grow a pair, and
this is one way to get into that lane.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
A bunch of stories that we are following.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Of course, a day two, second full day of the
Trump presidency brings with it some more exciting news. I
suppose they directed federal prosecutors to investigate and potentially prosecute
state and local officials who don't cooperate with the president's
plans to carry out mass deportations. In a moment of
Justice Department employees, the acting Deputy Attorney General wrote that
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the supremacy Clause of the Constitution and other legal authorities
require state and local actors to comply with the executive
branches immigration enforcement initiatives.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Well, people enforcing immigration laws, they say, will now be
able to arrest people at places like schools and churches,
will turn out.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I forgot to mention this. We just saw this during
the break. A spokesperson, We'll get back. Metro Nashville Public
School spokesperson has confirmed shots were fired at a high
school at Antioch High School in the southeast portion of
Davidson County in the Nashville area. Antioch High School is
on lockdown. They said shots were fired inside the school building.
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Active crime scene, active investigation. The Metro Nashville Police Department
was quoted as saying that the shooter shot two people
and then turned the gun on themselves. At this point,
we do not know anything about the condition. Again, it
appears a shooting inside Antioch High School in the Nashville area.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
They said one student shot to other students, turned the
gun on himself. It happened in the schools cafeteria, so
we'll stay on top of that. Again, they say the
shooter is no longer a threat according.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
To the school district.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Later, Okay, so.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
People enforcing immigration laws, they say, we'll be able to
go to schools and churches.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Will they be raiding schools and churches.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
No, no, no, they will not. But it is one
of those.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Policies that is going to draw the ire of people
who want to use this as a scare.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Monitoring this scare what.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
They're holding up, when what we should be holding up
is the fact that criminal illegal immigrants have been shielded
by former administrations and different sanctuary states and sanctuary cities
for a very long time, and most of the people
have had it. If you come into this country illegally
and you raise a family, and you pay taxes and
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you do you live your life, that's one thing. You
come in this country illegally, you start committing crimes, you
raise your hands so we know who you are, and
then the government she you from ice because feelings, Oh no, no, no.
If we've got a way to get rid of criminals
from our country that aren't supposed to be here to
begin with, we should be using that system to get
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rid of them post taste, and that is what this
is all about. Well, that's going to be the number
one priority, Not going and finding children and getting rid
of them and sending them across the border without their parents.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
That's all bologne.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
And it's a disservice to the public to publish articles
like this and this be the headline.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
It also has for a long time set up a
double standard. They're set up two worlds of law enforcement
where if I am convicted of insert name of violent
crime here, armed robbery, something like that, and I shoot
somebody in the leg as I'm committing my violent crime.
If I happen to have legal status in this country,
(09:53):
I'm a citizen of the United States.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
They're not going to stop.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
No one's feel our ass.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
No, they're not going to stop looking for.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
But if you're here illegally, you actually get a leg
up in our legal system under current sanctuary state city
laws and former administration ways of thinking.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Now, there's nowhere in your comments did you describe anybody's
ethnicity or race or anything to qualify whether or not
they should be looked after or looked for. It's just
a matter of the crimes that they have chosen to commit, period,
that's all.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
That's the only thing.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
The idea that twelve million people or eighteen million, whatever
the number is, would be deported is ludicrous. It's absolutely
crazy on its face. And even though the president can
talk about that, he also said he was going to
impose tariffs on day one, which he hasn't. That that's
we know that he blusters. We know that he does
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this as a negotiation tactic in every aspect of his life.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
He's not going to be able to deport that many people.
But Tom Holman, now the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
has already said we're going after the worst of the worst,
which in and of itself is going to take years
to get several hundred thousand people who have committed not
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just the crime of coming into the country illegally, but
other crimes on top of it. It will take them
years to go after and get those people. First, Did
you want some I didn't pull up Fiddler on the Roof.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Oh, well, we're going to talk about that coming up next,
So you can pick up Sunrise Sunset.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
No, no, no, let's well, maybe I kind of like that one.
It's better than if I were a rich man. Yeah,
I Sunrise Sunset is definitely more in tune with the
tone of the next story.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
We'll explain why you want me to get Sunrise sun.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Is this sacrilegious bring Fiddler on the I don't know
if I've seen Fiddler on the Roof. I feel like
I saw it as youth, but I don't really remember.
The overall takeaway is it who raises his daughters right
and like sees them off to marriages things like that.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Well, it's a family, so it's a it's a husband
and wife, right, who raised the daughters.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
And there's women in that.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
And it's funny, right, it's.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
It's funny, and it's uh, it's funny, it's sad, it's
it's really good.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Act it's sad. It does the dad die in the end?
Is that why?
Speaker 6 (12:27):
H Wow?
Speaker 5 (12:28):
I don't remember what makes it sad that you remember
just because of you know, what they go through. Their
poor family's really poor.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
All kind of living in like a house. I remember
they're being hey, yes, that's what I remember.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
I think I remember some.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
School shooting at Antioch High School in the suburbs there
around Nashville. Two students shot by another student and then
the shooter also had a self inflicted gunshot wound.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
So you have three women. We don't know the conditions.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Police said that there is no there is no longer
a threat in that school.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
But again, Antioch High.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
School in Nashville, Tennessee, and we'll keep an eye on
that and see if there's any more information that comes out.
Over the course of the next couple of hours. At
least nine people have died across central and eastern US
because of the incredibly crazy winter weather. There crash near
Batesville Texas, for example, in the ice caused five fatalities
(13:29):
all times snow records set in places like New Orleans, Mobile, Alabama, Pensacola, Florida.
In fact, Louisiana had to shut down one hundred mile
stretch of I ten because of because of the snow.
Each Hero will be in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
The first Japanese born player elected to the Hall of Fame.
(13:50):
He fell one vote, shy of a unanimous decision. Who's
the one sports writer who didn't think that each hero
should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Yak?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Who is that person?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
They can remain anonymous, so we may never know they
made it.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Was he first ballot?
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Was he first ballot? I think he was.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
It's probably somebody who doesn't believe in first ballot people,
You know how people are.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Mariano Rivera was the only unanimous selection the relief pitcher,
of course for the great Yankees, the great relief pitcher,
I should say for the Yankees They're not great. And
he's second only to Derek Jeter's ninety nine point seven
eight as the highest plurality for a position player in
Hall of Fame voting.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
The Raiders fans, I've got some news for you.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Raiders expected to hire Buccaneers assistant GM John Spideck as
their new GM. So there you go, a changing of
the guard after Tom Telesco was let go. Hopefully there
will be a rise from the ashes there in Las Vegas.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Phoenix, Phoenix.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Girl.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
He was great, that actor.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
From what I remember as a youth watching this. I
remember the hey and I remember he was a very
good actor and the girls. Anyway, we have long since
told you about the unfortunate fire toll that the Altadena
fire had on homes and community centers, one of which
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was the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center. This was a
synagogue that was really a tenant of that community there.
And there was one one wall that still stood from
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the banquet hall after the fire roared through and once
the dust was cleared I guess, or not cleared, but
you know what I mean, there was a discovery that
people close to the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center recognized
on that one wall still standing, it was a mural.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
It was hidden for decades.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
This wall was by a brick wall, and on this
mural what was depicted was Semitic men and women walking
the desert with animals, some playing instruments. In the center,
this is where you get chills, was a lone palm tree,
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which of course is a symbol of triumph in the Bible.
It shone bright in the sun. They said, Now word
starts to spread about the mural and the discovery there
at the temple, and some members thought, how perfect, how
pert this is obviously portraying the Jews forty years of
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wandering through the desert as their test to the faith
in God.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Now, the history in a place like this, I mean,
southern California's history doesn't go back that far, and it's
rare to find something that goes back eighty or one
hundred years. But in this case, they said, this synagogue
has served that area for more than one hundred years
and moved to that location in Altadena in nineteen forty one,
so eighty years ago, and it took over a former
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warehouse space. A long time member of the synagogue, Christine Garaway,
has a background in archaeology and said that the mural
could date back to the twenties and may have actually
been transferred to the wall via tapestry, So they don't
know exactly where it came from, and at this point
they don't know anybody who knows of the history. They're
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just kind of spitballing at this point. And she said,
how in the world could this have survived? It is
a scene that is so hopeful and so joyful in
the middle of all of these ashes, in the middle
of all of the destruction around Altadina.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
She happens to be a professor of Hebrew history.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Others say that the depictions are supposed to evoke a
biblical scene, like the Exodus from Egypt, but they're not
quite sure exactly which story in the Bible, if that's
in fact what it was, the what was the genesis
of it? Pardon the pun. They don't know exactly what
it is displaying. The Pasadena Temple was her second home,
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she said, since she moved to the area from the
East Coast in twenty eleven. And Christine has said that
her older sons were some of the last members in
the space, playing basketball there Monday night before the fire
erupted on Tuesday, and her youngest son was supposed to
have his bar Mitzvah celebration there later this year.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
So very cool.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Well, it's a cool thing and in you know, it
doesn't it doesn't replace the synagogue, it doesn't replace the
building it's elf.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
But what a morale booster. And I hope the free building.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
It's just the meaning of everything and how it's so
much bigger than a generational fire. All right, speaking of fire,
we're gonna get some rain. Rain everybody is when water
falls from the sky. It happens in other places, hasn't
happened here for what nine months? Basically, our rain is
basically going to be a baby. Well, we put it
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in the oven nine months ago and now it's headed out.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Premature baby. It's gonna be pretty small.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
It's gonna be a little baby, a little tiny baby.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
But it's a baby.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
It is a baby. It's not gonna be a twelve pounder,
more like a six pounder.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
We'll talk about the rain that's coming in.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
And a couple supervisors calling for an investigation into the
emergency alert system.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
I don't know if you.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Saw Saturday Night Live, even they made fun of the
fact that we can't get our emergency alerts correct in
La County.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
People dealing with the aftermath of this one, people who
are not used to dealing with this kind of weather.
They say that the precipitation, the freezing temperatures, it's all new.
Louisiana saw its first ever blizzard warning yesterday. Houston's two
major airports closed for the day. Seven weather related deaths
reported in Texas, five people killed in a car crash
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caused by icy conditions.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
There is an active investigation going on at Antioch High
School in the suburbs of Nashville, southwest sorry southeast of downtown.
Nashville Police actively investigating a shooting there. They said two
students were shot by someone in the cafeteria and then
the shooter turned the gun on himself and as of
the latest report from Nashville television stations, they said that
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all three were wounded, but they haven't said how serious
their condition is. About two thousand students at Antioch High
School at the time, and again Metro Nashville Police Department
said that just those three, the two who were shot
and then the shooter turned the gun on himself, were
the three wounded.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
An important k for law enforcement before the Supreme Corps.
They heard arguments today in this case that could have
a big impact on police immunity. This involves a deadly
shooting happened ten years ago out of Toll Road in Houston.
The officer pulled over a car for toll violations. The
driver tried to speed away. Officer fires two shots, kills
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the guy. Victim's family sues. If it's upheld by the
High Court, this could mean more excessive force lawsuits against
law enforcement.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
As we saw.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
The unfortunate toll from the Eton fire in the last
couple of weeks has been hard to swallow, named for
the canyon near it where it started. Started about six
o'clock January seventh, the first evacuation warnings went into place
for the east side of Lake Avenue. Within two hours,
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the hurricane force wind gusts that we saw spread that
fire very quickly from the mountain side to the neighborhoods
down below. In fact, some of the people said that
the fire was reading east and west simultaneously. And although
the east side of Altadena did get some of those
evacuation warnings quickly, the history of alerts that you can
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see from the Alert and Response Network appears to show
that an evacuation warning was never issued for the neighborhoods
west of Lake Avenue. Those areas got the first alert
at about three point thirty in the morning, and the
east side of Lake they got pretty timely orders. The
west side of Lake didn't get any orders. That is
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according to Connor Sepola, an Altadena town council member. Now
they according to CNN, this is a race issue in Altadena.
Lake Avenue had a history as a de facto dividing
line between east and west, wealthy and working class, and
before the practice of redlining was ended, black residents in
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Altadena were segregated and lived on the west and were
prevented from buying home on the east side of Lake Avenue.
And all seventeen deaths in that area occurred west of
Lake Avenue. And he said, I can't believe there isn't
any correlation here. And again that's Connor Sappola, a town
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council member for Altadena. Some Reddit users shared stories of
evacuating during the eat and fire. One of them said
they woke up with bad vibes at three thirty in
the morning and get their family to leave their home.
What that area didn't receive an evacuation order until a
couple of hours later, almost five point forty five in
the morning, and I'm not quite sure what the allegation is. Is
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the allegation that the county knew of the history of
Lake Avenue and its dividing line where residents west of
Lake Avenue had a higher black population and residents east
did not, and therefore they were going to delay on.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Purpose the evacuation orders.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Or is there some other screw up in the system, because,
by the way, there were plenty of screw ups in
the system. I mentioned this earlier, but there was a
skit that was done on Saturday Night Live about a
family that was ordered evacuate it and Dad has all
these secrets. Dad played by Dave Chappelle, has all of
these secrets. See he's unveiling to the family. And part
of the punchline was, oh, the evacuation warning was a
(24:25):
false alert and we didn't actually have to get out.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
I yes, there needs to be an investigation.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Why was there a delayed evacuation alert on one side
of the road versus the other? But is it as
simple as saying that it's a race based evacuation warning system.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
It's hard, No, And it's hard with this one because
in the Palisades and Altadena people didn't have time for
their warnings. They didn't have time to get the evacuation warning.
I mean the people that we talked to specifically in
Altadina said, looked outside, there was fire. We had to
get the hell out of there. No one's waiting for
I mean, I don't know a lot of people who
are waiting for the evacuation warning. Well, any when it
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came to how quickly these ones moved and.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Then there are people who got them and ignored them anyway,
because they wanted to save their home or do they
didn't think it was possible that a fire would behave
that way. As we mentioned, there is some good news.
Coastal areas have the potential to pick up a quarter
to a half an inch of rain this weekend. Some
of the foothills lower mountain sides could pick up an
inch to an inch and a half. Snow levels on
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Saturday going to dip between four thousand and five thousand feet,
so there's an expectation you're going to see some slippery
conditions over the Tahone Pass, especially from Saturday night into Sunday.
Any rainfall that would dampen the brush in the region
is incredible. It's a godsend for the first time in
several months for here in southern California. So again, that's
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probably Saturday into Sunday that we would see some rain.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Let me guess.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Stretch no no walk, partly drink water.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
I don't think that's on the list.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Fireball also not on the list.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
If you want to see fun fireball antics, you'll have
to check out our social media at Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
That's all. I'll say.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
That's probably more than enough.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
We do expect some rain this weekend, as Amy's been
telling us, rain is in the forecast for Saturday. Because
of the potential threat to the new Burn areas, Mayor
Bass has to shoot an emergency executive order for the
City of La to shore up Burn area, stem the
flow of toxic debris and the event of rain this weekend,
(00:59):
So they're going to more city resources to help clear
the hillsides, specifically her area, which is of course going
to be the Palisades area, And she said she was
going to be working with the county to make sure
that areas in the eaten fire are going to be
taken care of as well. But our weather pales in
comparison to what's going on in the South. At least
(01:21):
nine people have died across the central and eastern US
because of wintery weather. One of one crash in Batesville,
Texas killed five people, and they said they've set snow
records in places like New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I was going to say, these are places that are
not used to this kind of weather. So people are
just told, basically what you tell your daughter to do
in Texas, just stay home, stay home. You don't have
you don't have a snowplow, you're not equipped to deal
with snow.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Just wait this one out.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, Pensacola. My wife actually grew up spent a lot
of time as a kid in Pensacola. Pensacola got seven
more than seven and a half inches of snow. Their
previous record was three inches from twenty some odd years ago.
Louis Are thirty years ago. I guess it was Louisiana
shut down a one hundred mile stretch of I ten
(02:16):
because of the snow in that in that area.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
So is your wife a big Jimmy Buffett fan. No,
Frankie and Lola on their second honeymoon in Pensacola.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
No, I don't even I've never I don't know that
one before.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
No, you should spend more time with my husband.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
DEEI is in the bull's eye right now. President Trump's
administration took aim at the government DEI programs, ordering all
federal Diversity Equity and Inclusion employees to be placed on
paid leave no later than tonight close of business, and
that all DEI offices will be closed down for review. Eventually,
(02:56):
these employees will be laid off or reassigned following the
execut orders that have been signed in the OPM's acting director,
Charles Azel, sent his memo to federal department and agency
heads instructing them to inform all employees of any DEI
office in the federal government that they were being placed
on paid administrative leave, effective immediately and by next Friday.
(03:19):
Those agency heads to have to provide a written plan
for executing a reduction enforce action of all of those
DEI employees. And again, this is not people who have
been hired under diversity Equity and Inclusion programs.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
These are program.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
These are people who have been hired just specifically to
carry out a dei agenda in X, Y and Z departments. Yes,
it is fluff, It is blubber. It is not common sense.
If you want to have a dei agenda, fine, then
then put out the literature to Hooever the powers may
be in the hiring protocols for every department. Right, it's
(04:00):
important that our workforce looks like the population whatever however
you want to say that. But to bloat these agencies
with somebody specifically put in to make sure this is
happening is just that it's blown.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
This is the title. I mean, think of the job
titles that this targets. It's like the director of microaggression
policy or I mean, that's the kind of thing. It's
not the guy who got hired under the policy itself,
it's those administrators of those policies.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I was listening to a meditation this morning. I like
to meditate in the morning and meditate in the evening.
And you'll look at me and say, that's fufu.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I didn't say the fo.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Your face is saying fuf foo. That's fine. It grounds me.
I like it anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Today in my morning meditation, the person leading the minute
in they're like eight minutes.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
It's not a big deal. It's daily j if you
know it.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
And I use the com app anyway, He says at
the end, when we're doing our breathing, if you have
a complicated relationship with your breath, and I said, what
the and I said the word in my car during
the meditation, what the f comply? If you can't handle breathing, folks,
(05:15):
that's a real problem. That's a real sad state of
affairs we're in this world. If we are too weak
and don't feel safe in breathing, we are screwed as
a people. You cannot honestly look at me and tell
me you have a complicated relationship with your breath. With breathing,
(05:36):
it's one thing if your mind wanders when you're trying
to meditate.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
That's not what he was saying. He was saying, if you.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Have a bad relationship with breathing, that is ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Can I suggest a different motive, motivational speaker, meditational guy
for you because it doesn't seem Jaysh Shetty doesn't seem
to fit your style.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I'm just well, I'm trying to move away from my style.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I know, Greg Williams just yeah, something along those lines.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
See, that's the lane I live in.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I'm trying to get a wave to another lane of
peace and breathing. Okay, it's okay, but you know what,
the whole country collectively needs to grow a pair, and
this is one way to get into that lane.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
A bunch of stories that we are following.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Of course, a day two, second full day of the
Trump presidency brings with it some more exciting news. I
suppose they directed federal prosecutors to investigate and potentially prosecute
state and local officials who don't cooperate with the president's
plans to carry out mass deportations. In a moment of
Justice Department employees, the acting Deputy Attorney General wrote that
(06:48):
the supremacy Clause of the Constitution and other legal authorities
require state and local actors to comply with the executive
branches immigration enforcement initiatives.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Well, people enforcing immigration laws, they say, will now be
able to arrest people at places like schools and churches,
will turn out.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I forgot to mention this. We just saw this during
the break. A spokesperson, We'll get back. Metro Nashville Public
School spokesperson has confirmed shots were fired at a high
school at Antioch High School in the southeast portion of
Davidson County in the Nashville area. Antioch High School is
on lockdown. They said shots were fired inside the school building.
(07:33):
Active crime scene, active investigation. The Metro Nashville Police Department
was quoted as saying that the shooter shot two people
and then turned the gun on themselves. At this point,
we do not know anything about the condition. Again, it
appears a shooting inside Antioch High School in the Nashville area.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
They said one student shot to other students, turned the
gun on himself. It happened in the schools cafeteria, so
we'll stay on top of that. Again, they say the
shooter is no longer a threat according.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
To the school district.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Later, Okay, so.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
People enforcing immigration laws, they say, we'll be able to
go to schools and churches.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Will they be raiding schools and churches.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
No, no, no, they will not. But it is one
of those.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Policies that is going to draw the ire of people
who want to use this as a scare.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Monitoring this scare what.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
They're holding up, when what we should be holding up
is the fact that criminal illegal immigrants have been shielded
by former administrations and different sanctuary states and sanctuary cities
for a very long time, and most of the people
have had it. If you come into this country illegally
and you raise a family, and you pay taxes and
(08:50):
you do you live your life, that's one thing. You
come in this country illegally, you start committing crimes, you
raise your hands so we know who you are, and
then the government she you from ice because feelings, Oh no, no, no.
If we've got a way to get rid of criminals
from our country that aren't supposed to be here to
begin with, we should be using that system to get
(09:11):
rid of them post taste, and that is what this
is all about. Well, that's going to be the number
one priority, Not going and finding children and getting rid
of them and sending them across the border without their parents.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
That's all bologne.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
And it's a disservice to the public to publish articles
like this and this be the headline.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
It also has for a long time set up a
double standard. They're set up two worlds of law enforcement
where if I am convicted of insert name of violent
crime here, armed robbery, something like that, and I shoot
somebody in the leg as I'm committing my violent crime.
If I happen to have legal status in this country,
(09:53):
I'm a citizen of the United States.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
They're not going to stop.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
No one's feel our ass.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
No, they're not going to stop looking for.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
But if you're here illegally, you actually get a leg
up in our legal system under current sanctuary state city
laws and former administration ways of thinking.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Now, there's nowhere in your comments did you describe anybody's
ethnicity or race or anything to qualify whether or not
they should be looked after or looked for. It's just
a matter of the crimes that they have chosen to commit, period,
that's all.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
That's the only thing.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
The idea that twelve million people or eighteen million, whatever
the number is, would be deported is ludicrous. It's absolutely
crazy on its face. And even though the president can
talk about that, he also said he was going to
impose tariffs on day one, which he hasn't. That that's
we know that he blusters. We know that he does
(10:49):
this as a negotiation tactic in every aspect of his life.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
He's not going to be able to deport that many people.
But Tom Holman, now the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
has already said we're going after the worst of the worst,
which in and of itself is going to take years
to get several hundred thousand people who have committed not
(11:18):
just the crime of coming into the country illegally, but
other crimes on top of it. It will take them
years to go after and get those people. First, Did
you want some I didn't pull up Fiddler on the Roof.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Oh, well, we're going to talk about that coming up next,
So you can pick up Sunrise Sunset.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
No, no, no, let's well, maybe I kind of like that one.
It's better than if I were a rich man. Yeah,
I Sunrise Sunset is definitely more in tune with the
tone of the next story.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
We'll explain why you want me to get Sunrise sun.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Is this sacrilegious bring Fiddler on the I don't know
if I've seen Fiddler on the Roof. I feel like
I saw it as youth, but I don't really remember.
The overall takeaway is it who raises his daughters right
and like sees them off to marriages things like that.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Well, it's a family, so it's a it's a husband
and wife, right, who raised the daughters.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
And there's women in that.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
And it's funny, right, it's.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
It's funny, and it's uh, it's funny, it's sad, it's
it's really good.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Act it's sad. It does the dad die in the end?
Is that why?
Speaker 6 (12:27):
H Wow?
Speaker 5 (12:28):
I don't remember what makes it sad that you remember
just because of you know, what they go through. Their
poor family's really poor.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
All kind of living in like a house. I remember
they're being hey, yes, that's what I remember.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
I think I remember some.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
School shooting at Antioch High School in the suburbs there
around Nashville. Two students shot by another student and then
the shooter also had a self inflicted gunshot wound.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
So you have three women. We don't know the conditions.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Police said that there is no there is no longer
a threat in that school.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
But again, Antioch High.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
School in Nashville, Tennessee, and we'll keep an eye on
that and see if there's any more information that comes out.
Over the course of the next couple of hours. At
least nine people have died across central and eastern US
because of the incredibly crazy winter weather. There crash near
Batesville Texas, for example, in the ice caused five fatalities
(13:29):
all times snow records set in places like New Orleans, Mobile, Alabama, Pensacola, Florida.
In fact, Louisiana had to shut down one hundred mile
stretch of I ten because of because of the snow.
Each Hero will be in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
The first Japanese born player elected to the Hall of Fame.
(13:50):
He fell one vote, shy of a unanimous decision. Who's
the one sports writer who didn't think that each hero
should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Yak?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Who is that person?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
They can remain anonymous, so we may never know they
made it.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Was he first ballot?
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Was he first ballot? I think he was.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
It's probably somebody who doesn't believe in first ballot people,
You know how people are.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Mariano Rivera was the only unanimous selection the relief pitcher,
of course for the great Yankees, the great relief pitcher,
I should say for the Yankees They're not great. And
he's second only to Derek Jeter's ninety nine point seven
eight as the highest plurality for a position player in
Hall of Fame voting.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
The Raiders fans, I've got some news for you.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Raiders expected to hire Buccaneers assistant GM John Spideck as
their new GM. So there you go, a changing of
the guard after Tom Telesco was let go. Hopefully there
will be a rise from the ashes there in Las Vegas.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Phoenix, Phoenix.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Girl.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
He was great, that actor.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
From what I remember as a youth watching this. I
remember the hey and I remember he was a very
good actor and the girls. Anyway, we have long since
told you about the unfortunate fire toll that the Altadena
fire had on homes and community centers, one of which
(15:30):
was the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center. This was a
synagogue that was really a tenant of that community there.
And there was one one wall that still stood from
(15:51):
the banquet hall after the fire roared through and once
the dust was cleared I guess, or not cleared, but
you know what I mean, there was a discovery that
people close to the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center recognized
on that one wall still standing, it was a mural.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
It was hidden for decades.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
This wall was by a brick wall, and on this
mural what was depicted was Semitic men and women walking
the desert with animals, some playing instruments. In the center,
this is where you get chills, was a lone palm tree,
(16:41):
which of course is a symbol of triumph in the Bible.
It shone bright in the sun. They said, Now word
starts to spread about the mural and the discovery there
at the temple, and some members thought, how perfect, how
pert this is obviously portraying the Jews forty years of
(17:04):
wandering through the desert as their test to the faith
in God.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Now, the history in a place like this, I mean,
southern California's history doesn't go back that far, and it's
rare to find something that goes back eighty or one
hundred years. But in this case, they said, this synagogue
has served that area for more than one hundred years
and moved to that location in Altadena in nineteen forty one,
so eighty years ago, and it took over a former
(17:29):
warehouse space. A long time member of the synagogue, Christine Garaway,
has a background in archaeology and said that the mural
could date back to the twenties and may have actually
been transferred to the wall via tapestry, So they don't
know exactly where it came from, and at this point
they don't know anybody who knows of the history. They're
(17:52):
just kind of spitballing at this point. And she said,
how in the world could this have survived? It is
a scene that is so hopeful and so joyful in
the middle of all of these ashes, in the middle
of all of the destruction around Altadina.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
She happens to be a professor of Hebrew history.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Others say that the depictions are supposed to evoke a
biblical scene, like the Exodus from Egypt, but they're not
quite sure exactly which story in the Bible, if that's
in fact what it was, the what was the genesis
of it? Pardon the pun. They don't know exactly what
it is displaying. The Pasadena Temple was her second home,
(18:35):
she said, since she moved to the area from the
East Coast in twenty eleven. And Christine has said that
her older sons were some of the last members in
the space, playing basketball there Monday night before the fire
erupted on Tuesday, and her youngest son was supposed to
have his bar Mitzvah celebration there later this year.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
So very cool.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Well, it's a cool thing and in you know, it
doesn't it doesn't replace the synagogue, it doesn't replace the
building it's elf.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
But what a morale booster. And I hope the free building.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
It's just the meaning of everything and how it's so
much bigger than a generational fire. All right, speaking of fire,
we're gonna get some rain. Rain everybody is when water
falls from the sky. It happens in other places, hasn't
happened here for what nine months? Basically, our rain is
basically going to be a baby. Well, we put it
(19:28):
in the oven nine months ago and now it's headed out.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Premature baby. It's gonna be pretty small.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
It's gonna be a little baby, a little tiny baby.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
But it's a baby.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
It is a baby. It's not gonna be a twelve pounder,
more like a six pounder.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
We'll talk about the rain that's coming in.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
And a couple supervisors calling for an investigation into the
emergency alert system.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
I don't know if you.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Saw Saturday Night Live, even they made fun of the
fact that we can't get our emergency alerts correct in
La County.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
People dealing with the aftermath of this one, people who
are not used to dealing with this kind of weather.
They say that the precipitation, the freezing temperatures, it's all new.
Louisiana saw its first ever blizzard warning yesterday. Houston's two
major airports closed for the day. Seven weather related deaths
reported in Texas, five people killed in a car crash
(20:17):
caused by icy conditions.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
There is an active investigation going on at Antioch High
School in the suburbs of Nashville, southwest sorry southeast of downtown.
Nashville Police actively investigating a shooting there. They said two
students were shot by someone in the cafeteria and then
the shooter turned the gun on himself and as of
the latest report from Nashville television stations, they said that
(20:40):
all three were wounded, but they haven't said how serious
their condition is. About two thousand students at Antioch High
School at the time, and again Metro Nashville Police Department
said that just those three, the two who were shot
and then the shooter turned the gun on himself, were
the three wounded.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
An important k for law enforcement before the Supreme Corps.
They heard arguments today in this case that could have
a big impact on police immunity. This involves a deadly
shooting happened ten years ago out of Toll Road in Houston.
The officer pulled over a car for toll violations. The
driver tried to speed away. Officer fires two shots, kills
(21:20):
the guy. Victim's family sues. If it's upheld by the
High Court, this could mean more excessive force lawsuits against
law enforcement.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
As we saw.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
The unfortunate toll from the Eton fire in the last
couple of weeks has been hard to swallow, named for
the canyon near it where it started. Started about six
o'clock January seventh, the first evacuation warnings went into place
for the east side of Lake Avenue. Within two hours,
(21:51):
the hurricane force wind gusts that we saw spread that
fire very quickly from the mountain side to the neighborhoods
down below. In fact, some of the people said that
the fire was reading east and west simultaneously. And although
the east side of Altadena did get some of those
evacuation warnings quickly, the history of alerts that you can
(22:12):
see from the Alert and Response Network appears to show
that an evacuation warning was never issued for the neighborhoods
west of Lake Avenue. Those areas got the first alert
at about three point thirty in the morning, and the
east side of Lake they got pretty timely orders. The
west side of Lake didn't get any orders. That is
(22:33):
according to Connor Sepola, an Altadena town council member. Now
they according to CNN, this is a race issue in Altadena.
Lake Avenue had a history as a de facto dividing
line between east and west, wealthy and working class, and
before the practice of redlining was ended, black residents in
(22:55):
Altadena were segregated and lived on the west and were
prevented from buying home on the east side of Lake Avenue.
And all seventeen deaths in that area occurred west of
Lake Avenue. And he said, I can't believe there isn't
any correlation here. And again that's Connor Sappola, a town
(23:17):
council member for Altadena. Some Reddit users shared stories of
evacuating during the eat and fire. One of them said
they woke up with bad vibes at three thirty in
the morning and get their family to leave their home.
What that area didn't receive an evacuation order until a
couple of hours later, almost five point forty five in
the morning, and I'm not quite sure what the allegation is. Is
(23:42):
the allegation that the county knew of the history of
Lake Avenue and its dividing line where residents west of
Lake Avenue had a higher black population and residents east
did not, and therefore they were going to delay on.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Purpose the evacuation orders.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Or is there some other screw up in the system, because,
by the way, there were plenty of screw ups in
the system. I mentioned this earlier, but there was a
skit that was done on Saturday Night Live about a
family that was ordered evacuate it and Dad has all
these secrets. Dad played by Dave Chappelle, has all of
these secrets. See he's unveiling to the family. And part
of the punchline was, oh, the evacuation warning was a
(24:25):
false alert and we didn't actually have to get out.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
I yes, there needs to be an investigation.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Why was there a delayed evacuation alert on one side
of the road versus the other? But is it as
simple as saying that it's a race based evacuation warning system.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
It's hard, No, And it's hard with this one because
in the Palisades and Altadena people didn't have time for
their warnings. They didn't have time to get the evacuation warning.
I mean the people that we talked to specifically in
Altadina said, looked outside, there was fire. We had to
get the hell out of there. No one's waiting for
I mean, I don't know a lot of people who
are waiting for the evacuation warning. Well, any when it
(25:08):
came to how quickly these ones moved and.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Then there are people who got them and ignored them anyway,
because they wanted to save their home or do they
didn't think it was possible that a fire would behave
that way. As we mentioned, there is some good news.
Coastal areas have the potential to pick up a quarter
to a half an inch of rain this weekend. Some
of the foothills lower mountain sides could pick up an
inch to an inch and a half. Snow levels on
(25:31):
Saturday going to dip between four thousand and five thousand feet,
so there's an expectation you're going to see some slippery
conditions over the Tahone Pass, especially from Saturday night into Sunday.
Any rainfall that would dampen the brush in the region
is incredible. It's a godsend for the first time in
several months for here in southern California. So again, that's
(25:51):
probably Saturday into Sunday that we would see some rain.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
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