March 4, 2025 • 27 mins
Gary is out all week. Shannon hosts the show solo and starts off by talking with KFI’s Michael Monks about former LA City Fire Chief Kristin Crowley meeting with LA City Council about her appeal. Shannon also talks about Trump’s tariffs, Ukraine’s US aid money being paused and why swearing is good for you.
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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 Tons of news to get to
stocks tanking. After Trump made good on his threat to
levy tariffs on Canada and Mexico. We've got Canada, Mexico
and China retaliating.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
What will cost more? And when I've got those.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Answers for you as we embark on this what appears
to be at least the beginning of a global trade war.
Kyrie Irving is out in Dallas. Poor Dallas went to
hell real quick. There for the Mavericks. We've got new
egletz to talk about. But as ABC seven writes up,
and I think this is a funny way to say it,
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former La Fire Department chief Kristin Crowley will appear publicly
for the first time since being fired by Mayor Karen
Bass over how she handled the Palisades fire.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Very La opening line, isn't it, Michael Monks that.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
She'll appear publicly for the first time like she's a
starlet who has.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Been broiled in scandal.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Anyway, Michael, you're at La City Hall to set the
scene for what could be a bit of a showdown today.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Oh yeah, me and the rest of the paparazzi standing
outside the red carpet to see who shows up for
this thing today. I can assure you there are far
more media folks down here than you see at a
typical La City Council meeting. I mean, I'm one of
the geeks that's here pretty frequently, or at least monitoring
it pretty frequently. Today we're all down here watching because yes,
as you noted, it will be a significant appearance by
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the ousted LAFD chief Kristen Crowley, who is going to
come crawling into the council chamber and hope to find
ten of fifteen council members to say we disagree with
mayor Bash you should not have been fired. Here is
your job back.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Will council members ask questions? Will this become a lengthy
thing or is this procedural?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Well, I tell you if there's one thing the city
Council does well, it's prolonged their meetings. So I can
tell you I've sat through many lengthy meetings about nothing.
This is a meeting about something, so I would expect
that it could be lengthy. The strange thing about this is,
despite all of the drama surrounding and all the attention
that it's getting, it's simply an item on the agenda today.
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There's not any dramatic language describing what's supposed to happen.
In fact, I reached out yesterday to the council President's office.
Marquise Harris Dawson, a spokesperson, tells me, Look, it's something
on the agenda, and just like any other item, a
council member can call that to be separately discussed so
as to the formalities of the process to be determined.
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But I imagine we're going to hear a lot about it today.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
City councilwoman Tracy Park, who represents the Palisades, of course,
the area where the fire that started all the controversy erupted.
She said that it's unfortunate the council's being forced to
make what she calls a political decision, and it certainly
feels that way.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
What is the protocol here?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Say that Kristin Crowley had the votes, which I don't
believe she does, But say she had the votes, then
what happens is this just the end all be all,
whatever the council decides or is there another step in
the process if they did decide to reinstate her.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I spent some time yesterday with the Los Angeles City
Charter and it outlines this process rather plainly. It says
the mayor has the right to fire department heads, including
the chief of the LA Fire Department, but there is
an approach that can be taken by the ousted employee,
including Kristin Crowley, who can appeal to the city Council
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and would need ten to fifteen votes, And that's pretty
much it. So if she is reinstated, I imagine that
it would be awkward. Like you, I don't think a
lot of anticipate she has ten votes. But this is
definitely a political event at this point, because there are
the politics of these city unions and the politics of
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the city budget, and all of that is going to
be factoring in to the discussion today. And I mean,
I just can't imagine getting fired from a job by
a boss, being reinstated by a committee and then working
with that boss again. I imagine that would be awkward. And
then you have to consider the political ramifications of any
damaged relationships between council members and the mayor should they
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go opposite ways on this.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Where is Karen Bass? Is she around lately? Has she
been talking about this? Has anybody asked her?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
You know what's interesting about what I've observed of Mayor
Karen Bass is that she seems to just be tweeting
through it. As we say, she's going about her daily
business as mayor. She posts on social media about, you know,
the oscars or other things that are happening. A couple
weeks ago, she posted about the ci Ciklavilla event, the
bicycle community event, you know, just posting as if this
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disaster had not happened. And so that is an interesting
strategy to take. She is not bending to any pressure
from folks at her comments section, and certainly not from
public officials. Yet she's not being combative in any way.
She's just tweeting through it.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Well, And that's kind of what our point has been
all along, at least my point, I guess I should say.
Don't want to put words in people's mouths, but Karen
Bass is a political political heavyweight in California and locally,
and she's just brushing the dirt off her shoulder at
this point in the.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Fly.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
That is Kristin Crowley like when they had that meeting
after Kristin Crowley went out and laid out the mayor
and city Hall for cutting into the fire budget, and
Bass had her behind closed doors. You know, it was
a bless your heart, sweetheart, like where do you think
you're going to go?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Taking me on?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Kind of a thing, almost like Zelensky and Trump in
the Oval office. Karen Bassis, it's like it's apples and
oranges to her. She's not going to consider Kristin Crowley
a political opponent, or at least somebody who should be
vaunted as such. Of course, Bass firing the chief, and
here were her reasons that it was Kristin Crowley on
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watch when the thousand firefighters could have been on duty
the day the Palisades fire erupted but were sent home. Also,
Kristin Crowley never got to the bureaucratic step of that
After Act report that the City Council subsequently ordered as well. So, Michael,
the council meeting starts at ten. As you and I
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know that we've spent years off of our lives covering
these meetings. They can be lengthy. There are a number
of items on the agenda. Then there's the public comment
as well. Do we have any timetable for when fireworks
could be had at City Hall?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Unfortunately no, and I hope that we can find that out.
At about ten o'clock when the meeting starts. That's usually
when they run through the agenda and council members decide,
you know, wish items they want to pull separately, either
for a separate vote or for comments. And there's also
some technical pieces of the agenda like what has had
a public hearing previously and can that be voted on
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before we go to public comment and all that sort
of thing, So it could be early. It could be
the last thing they take. It is the last thing
on the agenda.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Let me ask, Yeah, let me ask.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
It's just because this is how I take the temperature
being in your shoes or when I was in your shoes.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
What's the media presence there? So far?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
It's big, big, we're all here. I mean, I did
get my lucky media parking spot. That's secret and I
won't tell you where it is, but there's a few
other people that found it.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I know where is Is it still painted green or
is it yellow?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
It's it's painted orange for Ko Orange.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Okay, gotcha that little placard'll get you out of so
many sins, a lot of things you can do for it.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
But not a speeding ticket, trust me on that one now.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
So usually if there's a big media presence there, you're
gonna find out real quickly who on that city council
wants to make a name for themselves. Maybe that vice
mayor there who's going to try and pull this item
out of the agenda and get to it right quick
while all the cameras are there and on board.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
So I think that's where it goes back to what
you were saying about the political powerhouse that is Karen Bass,
because she's definitely taken a hit, to say the least,
from the fires and the aftermath of it. And I
I don't know whether the council members are calculating politically
or insincerity on behalf of their constituencies, but she is
not as strong as she was. I think we can
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say that pretty flatly, and some council members have felt
very emboldened to speak out against her for seemingly the
first time.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah, it's going to be interesting, all right.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Michael Monks will be there to cover it all for
KFI News. We will take you there live. Should there
be any fireworks as well? Michael, thanks my pleasure, all right,
talk to you soon. Talked about Dolly Parton meeting her
husband Dean at the Wishy Washy when she had moved
to Nashville. She was just eighteen years old. Of course,
she said goodbye to Deani has died age eighty two
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years old, sixty years of marriage. About you didn't hear
a lot about Dean, and she says she recalled I
think it was during a Johnny Carson show. She said
that after the two went to an awards show in
nineteen sixty six that Dean said to her, I love you.
I will support you in your career anyway I can,
but I am not going to any more of these
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wing dings. Since then, he's been a supporting character to
her main act. She said he never wanted to be
any part of that, never did interviews. He would just
run like a scalded dog. If somebody said, are you
Carl Dean? Can you answer a few questions? He would
say no, I don't answer questions.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I'm not going to any more of these wing dings.
How often does your spouse or do you as the spouse.
Realize you don't want to go to your your spouse's
work stuff. I don't want to these wing dings. I
think wing ding, we should bring that back. I think
it's a font. I think that's a font now. But
I like that adjective for things Dog and Pony shows,
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things where I have to smile and nod about, a
nod to people where I don't want to anyway. More
fun facts about Dolly Parton and her little known husband
Dean Carl Dean throughout the show.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Today we do have Eglitz.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Amy is recording the news right now, but Amy is
who I go to for all eaglet and I'm back.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Oh good, I heard you say eagles. POV loves dog
eagles and somebody say eagles. Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
So yesterday at this time we were saying, all right,
we've got a hole, we've got a crack.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
This is happening.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
It could take three to five days, but we kind
of hypothesized that this was a bird that wanted to
come out, And in fact the bird has come out.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Yes, the first one hatched late last night overnight, and
then at about four point thirty this morning, the second one.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Was out of his shell.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Is there a crack on the third shell? Not that
I'm being greedy. I'm happy with the two baby eagles.
No pipping yet.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
But here's the deal.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Sandy Steers with Friends of Big Bear Valley says, you
got to remember, so the eggs were laid. There were
three of them, and they were laid. There was one
on like the twenty second, and then the twenty fifth,
and then the twenty eighth right around those days. So
pip watch hasn't even officially started for that third egg.
So it takes thirty five to thirty nine days to incubate,
so we're just getting to the point where it could
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start hatching.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Okay, all right, so we're on top of it. Producer
Michelle handed me a picture of the newborn eglet.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
They're so cute, oh my goodness.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
And they're trying to sit up now because they they're little,
they're very weak and their little necks can't even hold
their heads up, so they have to sit up and
then they flap their what will be wings, and then
that's when Jackie and in Shadow can start feeding them.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
This is the cutest picture she handed me.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
It's a baby eaglet which is just covered in white fur,
and the eglet, like to your point, Amy, has its neck,
Its neck is pretty long, its head's pretty big for
its little body.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
It doesn't have those muscles formed yet.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
And a little baby eagle is resting its head on
the egg of its brother or sister that has not
hatched yet because it's not hatch time for that egg.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
But how sweet is that?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
And they're actually they're up right now. Jackie just stood up,
so you can see one egg and you can see
both of the little babies. And maybe Shadow might be
taking over again because now their job is to keep
warm and keep them dry. We got rain on the
way tomorrow, but they can protect them and then of
course start feeding them.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Oh my gosh, and we are so invested. We're really
screwed as a people. If these these ba baby eglets
don't make it, it becomes very very becomes very sad
very quick.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah. The last eaglet these two made, Spirit I think
just had a birthday, just turned three or something like that.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
The last time they had a successful hatching was in
twenty twenty two. Remember last year she laid three eggs
and none of them hatched, didn't even start hatching.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Is it is it sadder that none of them hatched,
or would it be sad or if like one of
them hatched.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
It's more sad when they hatch and they grow up
and then they die because the first year they've got
about a fifty percent chance of survival. And the first
year two that I watched, they had two of them
hatch and they're grown up and they're getting fed and
they're getting bigger, and I'm like going, you know what,
that one was looking a little smaller than the other
one and doesn't seem to be as aggressively eating as
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the other one. And then like two days later it died. God,
I'm sorry, I asked Amy.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
It was devastating. It was deficult Angel of Death.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Right because you, like you said, you get invested in them.
It's so cool to watch them and it's so beautiful,
and in fact, you can watch them. We've got a
link to it on our website if I am six
forty dot com slash big Bear, if you want to watch.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
It's like it's like Hammi Tar, remember my hamster. We
were all invested with Hammi Tar. I was gonna go
pick Hammi Tar up. And then the the in the
hours between they told me where to pick them up,
and the next morning Hami Tar had died already boom,
and we are already invested as as a people. So
so these these birds don't have names yet? Am I
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right about that?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Oh? You little? And will there be? How?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
How have the other eglots been named? Is there some
sort of contest? How does it work?
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I'm trying to remember how they because it seems like
they had like Simba and Nala one year, and I
think the friends of Big Bear Valley may do it,
or they might.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
We'll find out. Do we know how many kids these
two have total? Jackie and Chef, I do not know
how many successes. This is in our first rodeo? No, no,
this is about the thing's fourth time.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, okay, all right, well, Jackie and we don't even
know what happens to the eglits once they're out of
the nest anyway, It's not like we keep tab We
don't keep tabs on all of the spawn there.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
But no, but they said that Spirit who was the
last one that had successfully he has been they think spotted.
Oh yeah, because they're brown at first, they don't get
that white crest for a couple of years. So eglts, Yeah,
are spirits out of the nest and flying around. But
it's so interesting to watch them because like they kick
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them out and then they're like, you're on your own, dude,
right right, you got to start paying rent or go
to school or do something.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Can't stay here. Well, the nest isn't big enough for
all of them, to be honest. I mean, there's a
reason why they've laid fourteen or more. Eighteen Holy hell, Jackie.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Right, so as of this was last as of last,
So now they've laid seventeen eggs seventeen and seven have
now hatched.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Wow, that is a lot.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
That is a love that that is like Dolly Parton
and Carl Dean right there, Jackie in shadow yep, my god,
although they never had kids, but you know what I mean,
and we see shadow and you never saw Carl.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
This is true, excellent point.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
We've got our eyes on city Hall as ousted fire
department chief Kristin Crowley is expected to appeal before the
city Council to get her job back after Mayor Karen
Bass said you're done. You're done, because there were a
thousand firefighters that could have been on the lines when
those fires erupted in January, and you never filled out
that after action report. Oh and ps, the loud part
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out loud. You went before the cameras while I was
out of town and said that it was my fault
that these fires got so bad. That's kind of the
real reason. So we'll see what happens between Kristin Crowley
and the city council today. KFI knew is there while
stocks are getting hammered on Wall Street.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
This was anticipated.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
The Dow fell more than eight hundred points as Trump's
tariffs on Canada Mexico Canada took effect just after midnight.
There was a sharp sell off yesterday, with the S
and P five hundred and the NASNAC also down nearly
one percent at times in early trading. The President, by
the way, with the backdrop of this trade war, the
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President is going to address a joint session of Congress tonight.
He's going to speak to lawmakers from both sides for
the first time of his second term. Very notable. President's
going to outline the goals of it. Well, this is
an opportunity. Usually presidents use this speech to outline the
goals of their administration, give their current view of the country.
It's kind of a State of the Union address without
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calling it a State of the Union address because it
falls on this year. The address will begin at six
pm hour time. But there is I mean, this could
be anything. This could be a free, willing talk. It
could be very organized. It could be the Trump with
decorum we've seen. It could be the free wheeling Trump
without any sort of filter that we see from time
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to time. So who knows at six pm our time.
But back to these tariffs. American consumers and businesses are
going to be paying the price, no doubt about that,
but just how much we will not the people in
the no say feel the effects of the tariffs immediately,
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but the import taxes could raise prices of just about everything.
When you think about the numbers alone, just this, more
than forty percent of the goods that our country imported
last year, so nearly half came from the nations that
are targeted. So nearly half of the goods that we
brought into our country came from China, Canada and Mexico.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Makes sense, doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Just how high the prices will get and when kind
of depend upon which businesses will absorb what and when
as you can imagine, some businesses are more qualified to
absorb some of the blow and some are not. You
think about small businesses and the like. When it comes
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to food, Mexico is the largest supplier of fruit and
vegetables to the US. Canada leads in terms of grain, livestock, meats, poultry,
and more.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Had no idea about that.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
By the way, I kind of thought we were on
our own when it came to grain and livestock and
meats and poultry. Probably the beautiful murals at the bejs
that led me to believe that all the great land
in the middle that we have for grazing and growing,
says somebody not born on a farm, Agricultural products from
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Mexico and Canada are going to be more expensive for
us when we go to the markets. That's what we're
going to see. Again, when it's kind of hard to predict.
The Target CEO went on CNBC today and did an
interview and said that Trump's tariffs may force Target to
raise prices on fruits and vegetables this week. There's also
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the question of which businesses will take advantage of this.
It's kind of like gas companies in California they take
advantage of the fact that we have all this rules
when it comes to our gasoline, so they hike up
the prices of the pump. But we go, oh, it's
just because of our taxes and our crazy California ways.
It's also the companies taking advantage of that, so that's
also going to be a problem as well. Target does
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rely heavily on Mexican produce imports, especially during this time
of year, during the winter, so they're kind of they're
kind of sol The US typically exports more agricultural goods
and it imports to my point about the murals, but
the value of imports has increased faster than that of
exports in the past decade. Climate change has increased our
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reliance on countries like Mexico where growing conditions are more favorable.
And say what you will about whether climate change exists,
but you got to follow the money here. If we're
leaning on Mexico more because of their conditions, then then
you're paying for it. The biggest category of imports from
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Mexico last year was fresh fruits. Avocados is where you're
going to get hit avocados.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Man.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Sometimes when avocado prices go up, you kind of want
them more.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I felt that way with eggs.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
When somebody tells me I can't have an avocado, suddenly
I want nothing but in avocado.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Consumer electronics are among the top goods that US imported
from China last year.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
No surprise there.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
So you've got your cell phones, your TV's, laptops, video
game consoles, monitors, all the stuff that China makes nice
and cheap home appliances as well. Ninety nine percent of
shoes sold in the United States are imported. I'm gonna
repeat that one again because I hate numbers on the radio,
and unfortunately they're inescapable with this. But ninety nine percent
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of the shoes sold here are imported.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
That's insane.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
More than half of the shoes sold in the United
States are made in China. Toys, sporting equipment, we get
everything from China. Again, nothing new here. Cars in car ports.
When you look at Mexico and Canada, that that's where
you're going to get hit.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
New cars are going to take the hit. But again
we don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
When we know that the cost of producing cars throughout
North America is going to rise about thirty five hundred
to twelve thousand, you better believe that I'll be passed
on to you as well. So we'll just have to
wait and see and get through this together. Like I said,
it has been a volatile experience on Wall Street this morning.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Let's see so far. I was picking up my coffee
at Starbucks.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
There was at least three guys in the pickup line
that kept refreshing their phone to check the markets. I mean,
if this is what you do, this is your business,
this is a day where you are glued to those devices.
Right right now, the Dow is down five ninety one,
SMP five hundred, down sixty four, Nasdaq down ninety five.
There's gonna be a little bit of a correction probably
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with the S and P five hundred, and we'll be
talking to people whose business is to know more about
this than mine when we come back. It's okay to
swear it's actually good for your health. Also, what question
assesses compatibility the best? If you had a daughter or
a son who was dating someone and they were getting serious,
what do you think they should know about that person
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before they get even more serious. Tuesday, March for twenty
twenty five, Gary, by the way, is out.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
He is on vacation he'll be back next week.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
We are awaiting any sort of fire for fireworks come
out of La City Hall as Kristin Crowley, the ousted
LA Fire Chief, will appeal to the City Council to
get her job back. This is something that doesn't happen,
really taking a very political moment and putting it before
the La City Council, a political moment that stands really
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just between Kristin Crowley and Mayor Karen Bass. The two
got into it. Whose fault was it that the fires
got so out of control? Was it the cuts at
city Hall to the fire budget? Was it the staffing
levels under Kristin Crowley's watch. This is the fight the
two had, and now it's being squarely placed at the
feet of the city Council, which has not remained clean
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in all of this. They have of course dug into
this depending on which camp that they agree with, since
it all started going down. So the meeting is said
to begin in moments. It is the last item on
the agenda. Sometimes what they'll do, if you didn't hear
myself and Michael talking about it earlier, sometimes what they'll
do is they'll take an agenda item out and they
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will address it right away, especially if there are millions
of cameras. I'm exaggerating, but if all of the media
in la is there set up. Sometimes they want to
get the media item out of the way, or at
least capitalize on all the media attention. So we will
find out shortly what that will be. I'm Dolly Parton's husband,
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Carl Thomas Dean died age eighty two, and Carl Dean
stayed in the shadows for the most party. Let Dolly
have all the sunlight. This is the way he wanted it.
I was talking earlier about how they went to one
awards show in nineteen sixty six and he said, I
love you, I support you, but I'm done with those
wing dings. And that's kind of the way it stayed
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from nineteen sixty six on. If you know that, Carl
Dean actually helped birth one of the biggest songs of
Dolly's career, the nineteen seventy three hit Joelene God I
Love Joelene. It's redone seven thousand times, and of course
Jolene is about Dolly Parton begging the woman, the beautiful
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woman Joline, not to take her man. It was inspired
by a real story, real bank teller's interactions with her husband.
With Carl Dean, Dolly Parton told NPR in two thousand
and eight that this bank teller had this terrible crush
on my husband. In her words, she said, he just
loved going to the bank because she paid him so
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much attention. She says, it was kind of like a
running joke between us when I was saying, Hell, you're
spending a lot of time at the bank. I don't
believe we've got that kind of money, she said. So
it's an innocent song all around, but it sounds like
a dreadful one. But it did start with this woman's
crush on Carl Dean, Dolly's husband at the bank. There
used to be a thing about going to the bank,
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right you had a relationship with your bank teller. It
was a whole thing. That's one of those common practices
that has evaporated in twenty tweve twenty twenty five. I
think nobody goes and talks to their bank tellers anymore.
Speaking of compatibility, Dolly Parton Carl Dean together nearly sixty years,
never had kids, but she had a lot of relationship
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not so secret secrets about why it worked so well.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
They never fought.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
She said, if you start fighting back and forth, that
becomes a lifelong thing. How true is that? But anyway,
Love Is Blind is where we go to learn all
about romance, Isn't it?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
My God?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
It's so addictive and such an awful show? And I
feel so awful every time I get sucked into it.
But yet here we are in season eight. There is
a there are a therapists that the Love Is Blind
World ask about questions these people should ask each other
in the pods about compatibility? Can the right questions help
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you find the right person sooner? And we're gonna talk
about this later, but I wanted to ask you if
you could use that talkback feature if you're listening on
the iHeartRadio app. You just tap that microphone let me know.
Is there one question that you think can lead you
to understand whether you're compatible with someone or not? Like
if you have a son or a daughter they're getting
serious about someone. Is there a question you think that
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they should ask of their significant other before they take
it to the next step?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
What is that question? Is it?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
You know our conversation yesterday about do you do the dishes?
Is it something like, do you want to have kids?
How many of them? What do you think about pets?
All of those things. What's like the number one question
you have on your list when it comes to figuring
out if two people are compatible for the distance. We'll
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talk about that later, but let us know on the
iHeartRadio app. Right here on Gary and Shannon.
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on the iHeartRadio app Tons of news to get to
stocks tanking. After Trump made good on his threat to
levy tariffs on Canada and Mexico. We've got Canada, Mexico
and China retaliating.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
What will cost more? And when I've got those.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Answers for you as we embark on this what appears
to be at least the beginning of a global trade war.
Kyrie Irving is out in Dallas. Poor Dallas went to
hell real quick. There for the Mavericks. We've got new
egletz to talk about. But as ABC seven writes up,
and I think this is a funny way to say it,
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former La Fire Department chief Kristin Crowley will appear publicly
for the first time since being fired by Mayor Karen
Bass over how she handled the Palisades fire.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Very La opening line, isn't it, Michael Monks that.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
She'll appear publicly for the first time like she's a
starlet who has.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Been broiled in scandal.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Anyway, Michael, you're at La City Hall to set the
scene for what could be a bit of a showdown today.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Oh yeah, me and the rest of the paparazzi standing
outside the red carpet to see who shows up for
this thing today. I can assure you there are far
more media folks down here than you see at a
typical La City Council meeting. I mean, I'm one of
the geeks that's here pretty frequently, or at least monitoring
it pretty frequently. Today we're all down here watching because yes,
as you noted, it will be a significant appearance by
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the ousted LAFD chief Kristen Crowley, who is going to
come crawling into the council chamber and hope to find
ten of fifteen council members to say we disagree with
mayor Bash you should not have been fired. Here is
your job back.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Will council members ask questions? Will this become a lengthy
thing or is this procedural?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Well, I tell you if there's one thing the city
Council does well, it's prolonged their meetings. So I can
tell you I've sat through many lengthy meetings about nothing.
This is a meeting about something, so I would expect
that it could be lengthy. The strange thing about this is,
despite all of the drama surrounding and all the attention
that it's getting, it's simply an item on the agenda today.
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There's not any dramatic language describing what's supposed to happen.
In fact, I reached out yesterday to the council President's office.
Marquise Harris Dawson, a spokesperson, tells me, Look, it's something
on the agenda, and just like any other item, a
council member can call that to be separately discussed so
as to the formalities of the process to be determined.
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But I imagine we're going to hear a lot about it today.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
City councilwoman Tracy Park, who represents the Palisades, of course,
the area where the fire that started all the controversy erupted.
She said that it's unfortunate the council's being forced to
make what she calls a political decision, and it certainly
feels that way.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
What is the protocol here?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Say that Kristin Crowley had the votes, which I don't
believe she does, But say she had the votes, then
what happens is this just the end all be all,
whatever the council decides or is there another step in
the process if they did decide to reinstate her.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I spent some time yesterday with the Los Angeles City
Charter and it outlines this process rather plainly. It says
the mayor has the right to fire department heads, including
the chief of the LA Fire Department, but there is
an approach that can be taken by the ousted employee,
including Kristin Crowley, who can appeal to the city Council
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and would need ten to fifteen votes, And that's pretty
much it. So if she is reinstated, I imagine that
it would be awkward. Like you, I don't think a
lot of anticipate she has ten votes. But this is
definitely a political event at this point, because there are
the politics of these city unions and the politics of
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the city budget, and all of that is going to
be factoring in to the discussion today. And I mean,
I just can't imagine getting fired from a job by
a boss, being reinstated by a committee and then working
with that boss again. I imagine that would be awkward. And
then you have to consider the political ramifications of any
damaged relationships between council members and the mayor should they
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go opposite ways on this.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Where is Karen Bass? Is she around lately? Has she
been talking about this? Has anybody asked her?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
You know what's interesting about what I've observed of Mayor
Karen Bass is that she seems to just be tweeting
through it. As we say, she's going about her daily
business as mayor. She posts on social media about, you know,
the oscars or other things that are happening. A couple
weeks ago, she posted about the ci Ciklavilla event, the
bicycle community event, you know, just posting as if this
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disaster had not happened. And so that is an interesting
strategy to take. She is not bending to any pressure
from folks at her comments section, and certainly not from
public officials. Yet she's not being combative in any way.
She's just tweeting through it.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Well, And that's kind of what our point has been
all along, at least my point, I guess I should say.
Don't want to put words in people's mouths, but Karen
Bass is a political political heavyweight in California and locally,
and she's just brushing the dirt off her shoulder at
this point in the.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Fly.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
That is Kristin Crowley like when they had that meeting
after Kristin Crowley went out and laid out the mayor
and city Hall for cutting into the fire budget, and
Bass had her behind closed doors. You know, it was
a bless your heart, sweetheart, like where do you think
you're going to go?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Taking me on?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Kind of a thing, almost like Zelensky and Trump in
the Oval office. Karen Bassis, it's like it's apples and
oranges to her. She's not going to consider Kristin Crowley
a political opponent, or at least somebody who should be
vaunted as such. Of course, Bass firing the chief, and
here were her reasons that it was Kristin Crowley on
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watch when the thousand firefighters could have been on duty
the day the Palisades fire erupted but were sent home. Also,
Kristin Crowley never got to the bureaucratic step of that
After Act report that the City Council subsequently ordered as well. So, Michael,
the council meeting starts at ten. As you and I
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know that we've spent years off of our lives covering
these meetings. They can be lengthy. There are a number
of items on the agenda. Then there's the public comment
as well. Do we have any timetable for when fireworks
could be had at City Hall?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Unfortunately no, and I hope that we can find that out.
At about ten o'clock when the meeting starts. That's usually
when they run through the agenda and council members decide,
you know, wish items they want to pull separately, either
for a separate vote or for comments. And there's also
some technical pieces of the agenda like what has had
a public hearing previously and can that be voted on
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before we go to public comment and all that sort
of thing, So it could be early. It could be
the last thing they take. It is the last thing
on the agenda.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Let me ask, Yeah, let me ask.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
It's just because this is how I take the temperature
being in your shoes or when I was in your shoes.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
What's the media presence there? So far?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
It's big, big, we're all here. I mean, I did
get my lucky media parking spot. That's secret and I
won't tell you where it is, but there's a few
other people that found it.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I know where is Is it still painted green or
is it yellow?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
It's it's painted orange for Ko Orange.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Okay, gotcha that little placard'll get you out of so
many sins, a lot of things you can do for it.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
But not a speeding ticket, trust me on that one now.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
So usually if there's a big media presence there, you're
gonna find out real quickly who on that city council
wants to make a name for themselves. Maybe that vice
mayor there who's going to try and pull this item
out of the agenda and get to it right quick
while all the cameras are there and on board.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
So I think that's where it goes back to what
you were saying about the political powerhouse that is Karen Bass,
because she's definitely taken a hit, to say the least,
from the fires and the aftermath of it. And I
I don't know whether the council members are calculating politically
or insincerity on behalf of their constituencies, but she is
not as strong as she was. I think we can
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say that pretty flatly, and some council members have felt
very emboldened to speak out against her for seemingly the
first time.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah, it's going to be interesting, all right.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Michael Monks will be there to cover it all for
KFI News. We will take you there live. Should there
be any fireworks as well? Michael, thanks my pleasure, all right,
talk to you soon. Talked about Dolly Parton meeting her
husband Dean at the Wishy Washy when she had moved
to Nashville. She was just eighteen years old. Of course,
she said goodbye to Deani has died age eighty two
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years old, sixty years of marriage. About you didn't hear
a lot about Dean, and she says she recalled I
think it was during a Johnny Carson show. She said
that after the two went to an awards show in
nineteen sixty six that Dean said to her, I love you.
I will support you in your career anyway I can,
but I am not going to any more of these
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wing dings. Since then, he's been a supporting character to
her main act. She said he never wanted to be
any part of that, never did interviews. He would just
run like a scalded dog. If somebody said, are you
Carl Dean? Can you answer a few questions? He would
say no, I don't answer questions.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I'm not going to any more of these wing dings.
How often does your spouse or do you as the spouse.
Realize you don't want to go to your your spouse's
work stuff. I don't want to these wing dings. I
think wing ding, we should bring that back. I think
it's a font. I think that's a font now. But
I like that adjective for things Dog and Pony shows,
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things where I have to smile and nod about, a
nod to people where I don't want to anyway. More
fun facts about Dolly Parton and her little known husband
Dean Carl Dean throughout the show.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Today we do have Eglitz.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Amy is recording the news right now, but Amy is
who I go to for all eaglet and I'm back.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Oh good, I heard you say eagles. POV loves dog
eagles and somebody say eagles. Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
So yesterday at this time we were saying, all right,
we've got a hole, we've got a crack.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
This is happening.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
It could take three to five days, but we kind
of hypothesized that this was a bird that wanted to
come out, And in fact the bird has come out.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Yes, the first one hatched late last night overnight, and
then at about four point thirty this morning, the second one.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Was out of his shell.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Is there a crack on the third shell? Not that
I'm being greedy. I'm happy with the two baby eagles.
No pipping yet.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
But here's the deal.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Sandy Steers with Friends of Big Bear Valley says, you
got to remember, so the eggs were laid. There were
three of them, and they were laid. There was one
on like the twenty second, and then the twenty fifth,
and then the twenty eighth right around those days. So
pip watch hasn't even officially started for that third egg.
So it takes thirty five to thirty nine days to incubate,
so we're just getting to the point where it could
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start hatching.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Okay, all right, so we're on top of it. Producer
Michelle handed me a picture of the newborn eglet.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
They're so cute, oh my goodness.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
And they're trying to sit up now because they they're little,
they're very weak and their little necks can't even hold
their heads up, so they have to sit up and
then they flap their what will be wings, and then
that's when Jackie and in Shadow can start feeding them.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
This is the cutest picture she handed me.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
It's a baby eaglet which is just covered in white fur,
and the eglet, like to your point, Amy, has its neck,
Its neck is pretty long, its head's pretty big for
its little body.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
It doesn't have those muscles formed yet.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
And a little baby eagle is resting its head on
the egg of its brother or sister that has not
hatched yet because it's not hatch time for that egg.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
But how sweet is that?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
And they're actually they're up right now. Jackie just stood up,
so you can see one egg and you can see
both of the little babies. And maybe Shadow might be
taking over again because now their job is to keep
warm and keep them dry. We got rain on the
way tomorrow, but they can protect them and then of
course start feeding them.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Oh my gosh, and we are so invested. We're really
screwed as a people. If these these ba baby eglets
don't make it, it becomes very very becomes very sad
very quick.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah. The last eaglet these two made, Spirit I think
just had a birthday, just turned three or something like that.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
The last time they had a successful hatching was in
twenty twenty two. Remember last year she laid three eggs
and none of them hatched, didn't even start hatching.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Is it is it sadder that none of them hatched,
or would it be sad or if like one of
them hatched.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
It's more sad when they hatch and they grow up
and then they die because the first year they've got
about a fifty percent chance of survival. And the first
year two that I watched, they had two of them
hatch and they're grown up and they're getting fed and
they're getting bigger, and I'm like going, you know what,
that one was looking a little smaller than the other
one and doesn't seem to be as aggressively eating as
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the other one. And then like two days later it died. God,
I'm sorry, I asked Amy.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
It was devastating. It was deficult Angel of Death.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Right because you, like you said, you get invested in them.
It's so cool to watch them and it's so beautiful,
and in fact, you can watch them. We've got a
link to it on our website if I am six
forty dot com slash big Bear, if you want to watch.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
It's like it's like Hammi Tar, remember my hamster. We
were all invested with Hammi Tar. I was gonna go
pick Hammi Tar up. And then the the in the
hours between they told me where to pick them up,
and the next morning Hami Tar had died already boom,
and we are already invested as as a people. So
so these these birds don't have names yet? Am I
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right about that?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Oh? You little? And will there be? How?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
How have the other eglots been named? Is there some
sort of contest? How does it work?
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I'm trying to remember how they because it seems like
they had like Simba and Nala one year, and I
think the friends of Big Bear Valley may do it,
or they might.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
We'll find out. Do we know how many kids these
two have total? Jackie and Chef, I do not know
how many successes. This is in our first rodeo? No, no,
this is about the thing's fourth time.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, okay, all right, well, Jackie and we don't even
know what happens to the eglits once they're out of
the nest anyway, It's not like we keep tab We
don't keep tabs on all of the spawn there.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
But no, but they said that Spirit who was the
last one that had successfully he has been they think spotted.
Oh yeah, because they're brown at first, they don't get
that white crest for a couple of years. So eglts, Yeah,
are spirits out of the nest and flying around. But
it's so interesting to watch them because like they kick
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them out and then they're like, you're on your own, dude,
right right, you got to start paying rent or go
to school or do something.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Can't stay here. Well, the nest isn't big enough for
all of them, to be honest. I mean, there's a
reason why they've laid fourteen or more. Eighteen Holy hell, Jackie.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Right, so as of this was last as of last,
So now they've laid seventeen eggs seventeen and seven have
now hatched.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Wow, that is a lot.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
That is a love that that is like Dolly Parton
and Carl Dean right there, Jackie in shadow yep, my god,
although they never had kids, but you know what I mean,
and we see shadow and you never saw Carl.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
This is true, excellent point.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
We've got our eyes on city Hall as ousted fire
department chief Kristin Crowley is expected to appeal before the
city Council to get her job back after Mayor Karen
Bass said you're done. You're done, because there were a
thousand firefighters that could have been on the lines when
those fires erupted in January, and you never filled out
that after action report. Oh and ps, the loud part
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out loud. You went before the cameras while I was
out of town and said that it was my fault
that these fires got so bad. That's kind of the
real reason. So we'll see what happens between Kristin Crowley
and the city council today. KFI knew is there while
stocks are getting hammered on Wall Street.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
This was anticipated.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
The Dow fell more than eight hundred points as Trump's
tariffs on Canada Mexico Canada took effect just after midnight.
There was a sharp sell off yesterday, with the S
and P five hundred and the NASNAC also down nearly
one percent at times in early trading. The President, by
the way, with the backdrop of this trade war, the
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President is going to address a joint session of Congress tonight.
He's going to speak to lawmakers from both sides for
the first time of his second term. Very notable. President's
going to outline the goals of it. Well, this is
an opportunity. Usually presidents use this speech to outline the
goals of their administration, give their current view of the country.
It's kind of a State of the Union address without
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calling it a State of the Union address because it
falls on this year. The address will begin at six
pm hour time. But there is I mean, this could
be anything. This could be a free, willing talk. It
could be very organized. It could be the Trump with
decorum we've seen. It could be the free wheeling Trump
without any sort of filter that we see from time
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to time. So who knows at six pm our time.
But back to these tariffs. American consumers and businesses are
going to be paying the price, no doubt about that,
but just how much we will not the people in
the no say feel the effects of the tariffs immediately,
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but the import taxes could raise prices of just about everything.
When you think about the numbers alone, just this, more
than forty percent of the goods that our country imported
last year, so nearly half came from the nations that
are targeted. So nearly half of the goods that we
brought into our country came from China, Canada and Mexico.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Makes sense, doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Just how high the prices will get and when kind
of depend upon which businesses will absorb what and when
as you can imagine, some businesses are more qualified to
absorb some of the blow and some are not. You
think about small businesses and the like. When it comes
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to food, Mexico is the largest supplier of fruit and
vegetables to the US. Canada leads in terms of grain, livestock, meats, poultry,
and more.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Had no idea about that.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
By the way, I kind of thought we were on
our own when it came to grain and livestock and
meats and poultry. Probably the beautiful murals at the bejs
that led me to believe that all the great land
in the middle that we have for grazing and growing,
says somebody not born on a farm, Agricultural products from
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Mexico and Canada are going to be more expensive for
us when we go to the markets. That's what we're
going to see. Again, when it's kind of hard to predict.
The Target CEO went on CNBC today and did an
interview and said that Trump's tariffs may force Target to
raise prices on fruits and vegetables this week. There's also
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the question of which businesses will take advantage of this.
It's kind of like gas companies in California they take
advantage of the fact that we have all this rules
when it comes to our gasoline, so they hike up
the prices of the pump. But we go, oh, it's
just because of our taxes and our crazy California ways.
It's also the companies taking advantage of that, so that's
also going to be a problem as well. Target does
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rely heavily on Mexican produce imports, especially during this time
of year, during the winter, so they're kind of they're
kind of sol The US typically exports more agricultural goods
and it imports to my point about the murals, but
the value of imports has increased faster than that of
exports in the past decade. Climate change has increased our
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reliance on countries like Mexico where growing conditions are more favorable.
And say what you will about whether climate change exists,
but you got to follow the money here. If we're
leaning on Mexico more because of their conditions, then then
you're paying for it. The biggest category of imports from
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Mexico last year was fresh fruits. Avocados is where you're
going to get hit avocados.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Man.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Sometimes when avocado prices go up, you kind of want
them more.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I felt that way with eggs.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
When somebody tells me I can't have an avocado, suddenly
I want nothing but in avocado.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Consumer electronics are among the top goods that US imported
from China last year.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
No surprise there.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
So you've got your cell phones, your TV's, laptops, video
game consoles, monitors, all the stuff that China makes nice
and cheap home appliances as well. Ninety nine percent of
shoes sold in the United States are imported. I'm gonna
repeat that one again because I hate numbers on the radio,
and unfortunately they're inescapable with this. But ninety nine percent
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of the shoes sold here are imported.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
That's insane.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
More than half of the shoes sold in the United
States are made in China. Toys, sporting equipment, we get
everything from China. Again, nothing new here. Cars in car ports.
When you look at Mexico and Canada, that that's where
you're going to get hit.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
New cars are going to take the hit. But again
we don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
When we know that the cost of producing cars throughout
North America is going to rise about thirty five hundred
to twelve thousand, you better believe that I'll be passed
on to you as well. So we'll just have to
wait and see and get through this together. Like I said,
it has been a volatile experience on Wall Street this morning.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Let's see so far. I was picking up my coffee
at Starbucks.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
There was at least three guys in the pickup line
that kept refreshing their phone to check the markets. I mean,
if this is what you do, this is your business,
this is a day where you are glued to those devices.
Right right now, the Dow is down five ninety one,
SMP five hundred, down sixty four, Nasdaq down ninety five.
There's gonna be a little bit of a correction probably
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with the S and P five hundred, and we'll be
talking to people whose business is to know more about
this than mine when we come back. It's okay to
swear it's actually good for your health. Also, what question
assesses compatibility the best? If you had a daughter or
a son who was dating someone and they were getting serious,
what do you think they should know about that person
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before they get even more serious. Tuesday, March for twenty
twenty five, Gary, by the way, is out.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
He is on vacation he'll be back next week.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
We are awaiting any sort of fire for fireworks come
out of La City Hall as Kristin Crowley, the ousted
LA Fire Chief, will appeal to the City Council to
get her job back. This is something that doesn't happen,
really taking a very political moment and putting it before
the La City Council, a political moment that stands really
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just between Kristin Crowley and Mayor Karen Bass. The two
got into it. Whose fault was it that the fires
got so out of control? Was it the cuts at
city Hall to the fire budget? Was it the staffing
levels under Kristin Crowley's watch. This is the fight the
two had, and now it's being squarely placed at the
feet of the city Council, which has not remained clean
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in all of this. They have of course dug into
this depending on which camp that they agree with, since
it all started going down. So the meeting is said
to begin in moments. It is the last item on
the agenda. Sometimes what they'll do, if you didn't hear
myself and Michael talking about it earlier, sometimes what they'll
do is they'll take an agenda item out and they
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will address it right away, especially if there are millions
of cameras. I'm exaggerating, but if all of the media
in la is there set up. Sometimes they want to
get the media item out of the way, or at
least capitalize on all the media attention. So we will
find out shortly what that will be. I'm Dolly Parton's husband,
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Carl Thomas Dean died age eighty two, and Carl Dean
stayed in the shadows for the most party. Let Dolly
have all the sunlight. This is the way he wanted it.
I was talking earlier about how they went to one
awards show in nineteen sixty six and he said, I
love you, I support you, but I'm done with those
wing dings. And that's kind of the way it stayed
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from nineteen sixty six on. If you know that, Carl
Dean actually helped birth one of the biggest songs of
Dolly's career, the nineteen seventy three hit Joelene God I
Love Joelene. It's redone seven thousand times, and of course
Jolene is about Dolly Parton begging the woman, the beautiful
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woman Joline, not to take her man. It was inspired
by a real story, real bank teller's interactions with her husband.
With Carl Dean, Dolly Parton told NPR in two thousand
and eight that this bank teller had this terrible crush
on my husband. In her words, she said, he just
loved going to the bank because she paid him so
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much attention. She says, it was kind of like a
running joke between us when I was saying, Hell, you're
spending a lot of time at the bank. I don't
believe we've got that kind of money, she said. So
it's an innocent song all around, but it sounds like
a dreadful one. But it did start with this woman's
crush on Carl Dean, Dolly's husband at the bank. There
used to be a thing about going to the bank,
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right you had a relationship with your bank teller. It
was a whole thing. That's one of those common practices
that has evaporated in twenty tweve twenty twenty five. I
think nobody goes and talks to their bank tellers anymore.
Speaking of compatibility, Dolly Parton Carl Dean together nearly sixty years,
never had kids, but she had a lot of relationship
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not so secret secrets about why it worked so well.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
They never fought.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
She said, if you start fighting back and forth, that
becomes a lifelong thing. How true is that? But anyway,
Love Is Blind is where we go to learn all
about romance, Isn't it?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
My God?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
It's so addictive and such an awful show? And I
feel so awful every time I get sucked into it.
But yet here we are in season eight. There is
a there are a therapists that the Love Is Blind
World ask about questions these people should ask each other
in the pods about compatibility? Can the right questions help
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you find the right person sooner? And we're gonna talk
about this later, but I wanted to ask you if
you could use that talkback feature if you're listening on
the iHeartRadio app. You just tap that microphone let me know.
Is there one question that you think can lead you
to understand whether you're compatible with someone or not? Like
if you have a son or a daughter they're getting
serious about someone. Is there a question you think that
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they should ask of their significant other before they take
it to the next step?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
What is that question? Is it?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
You know our conversation yesterday about do you do the dishes?
Is it something like, do you want to have kids?
How many of them? What do you think about pets?
All of those things. What's like the number one question
you have on your list when it comes to figuring
out if two people are compatible for the distance. We'll
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talk about that later, but let us know on the
iHeartRadio app. Right here on Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
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