May 28, 2025 • 25 mins
Trans Athletes and CIF's Bold New Policy: A Game-Changer? The New York Times highlights a pressing concern—are we truly prepared for the 2028? Meanwhile, on KFI, Michael Monks sheds light on Mayor Bass's ongoing legal battles. And in a bizarre twist, LA seems to be dealing with some rather unusual issues. It’s a captivating time for the city!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yesterday we told you about President Trump's demand that California
follow its federal dictate, his federal dictate that boys not
be allowed to participate in girl sports. And the reason
this is getting publicity is there is a sixteen year
old junior at Yurupa Valley High School born a boy
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competing as a girl, won the girl's long jump and
triple jump events at the Southern Section Masters last weekend,
so qualifies for the state championship that takes place this weekend.
What happened is yesterday the CIF announced a change. There's
still some question about when the actual policy was changed.
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According to the Governor's office, it was changed over the
weekend before Trump came out on Truth Social, but they
didn't announce it until after Trump's post on Truth Social.
And this new process, they say it's confusing. This new process,
they say, would allow any biological female student athlete girl
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who would have earned the next qualifying mark for one
of their sections automatic qualifying entries in the CIF state
meet and did not achieve the CIF State at Large
mark in the finals at their section meet to compete
in the state track and field finals coming up this weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Okay, the way I.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Understand that is any biological female, any girl who didn't
initially qualify for the event because someone who is transgender
beat them out, they still get to qualify for the
state event and then compete, And as has been reported
multiple times, the CIF is also looking at scoring those
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events differently. So the CIF is going so far out
of its way to bend over backwards to try to
allow transgender girls to compete with biological girls.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I want to know, and I never find the ausire
found it. I know exactly what you're gonna say. How many?
How many?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
There are approximately seventeen point three million high school students
in the United States. Seventeen million and change.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
How many are we talking about? Does this effect?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
There is a study out of UCLA that suggests there
are one hundred and twenty two thousand transgender student athletes
one hundred and twenty two thousand nationwide. That is seven
tenths of one percent of the entire high school population
in the United States.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Which is why I never like to spend a hell
of a lot of time talking about this.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Well, what I don't I feel like.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
The megaphone here makes this a much bigger issue than
it is in real life.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Now that said, I know.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
People because I don't have kids, so this is all
very it's a blind spot for me. But like I
know people who do have kids, and there are transgender
kids in the classrooms. I just didn't know how prevalent
it was. I mean, I thought it was much fewer
than one hundred and twenty two thousand.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well that specifically, it's good to absoltes, right, so that
which is also seems high to me, But that you
can have two solid things that you believe that can
be true. Number one, that everybody transgender, non transgender, it's cisgendered,
however you take that term straight whatever. Every person deserves
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respect and dignity period.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Absolutely. You can also say I.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Want my daughter or daughters or whatever, my sisters, but
to have protection and dignity in those spaces that we've
carved out for them. And by carved out, I just
mean girls compete in sporting events and boys compete in
sporting events. There's a reason why we don't do combined
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sporting events. There's just a biological, physiological reason why we
don't do that when it comes to something like track
and field or something like baseball softball.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
One, and it's to protect the boys, because if you
know a student athlete who's a female, she'll kick the
hell out. I mean, my goodness, I've never feared for
my life more than on that girl's high school basketball court.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Those girls are vicious. It would never people.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
But would never rasure up against me six foot six
two and seventy pound junior in high school.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
No, And that's the difference there.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
There has to be a space for girls to be fair,
to be protected, a fair space for them to have
and this rule wins that. And I don't I don't
understand the mentality of.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
What are they gonna do though, what's CIF gonna do.
CIF needs to ensure fairness, but they can't. They can't
govern what what athletes can or cannot compete.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
CIF can't get involved in that. That's exactly what they
can do.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
They can say, listen, if there's a question, if you
if you're biologically born a female, you can compete in
girls sports. If you're biologically a boy, or born a boy,
I should say you cannot compete in girl sports. And
if there's any question or do then they have to
come up with a third a third leg pardon the pun.
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They have to come up with a third category for
people to compete in the open category where anybody can
choose to compete if they so wish.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, but who's cif run by it's run by all
the people in the education system that are hamstrung with
California politics.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Right and listen there following the state law that was
signed in by Jerry Brown, I understand that part of it,
but there's nothing that says they can't amend the situation.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
They can talk to the legislature, they can figure this.
I think everyone's hoping this kind of.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Just passes, which raises the next question, did we peak
on this already?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
And is this sort of the dying throes of this
kind of I don't.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Know enough to know the answer to that, but I
do know that I feel like this is this generation's
for older people.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Clutch your pearls. Look at what the kids are doing. Now,
there's an aspect of that.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, high school kids don't think the same way. No, no,
but they also eat tide pods and have.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
You ever had one?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
My god, the colors so bright there and this yum yum.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Even the New York Times thinks we're not going to
be ready for the Olympics in twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
The New York Times has been doing some unnw York
Times things lately. When it comes to Los Angeles in
San Francisco as well, The New York Times is like,
y'all are crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
And if The New York Times says it might start listening.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 2 (07:14):
Sidelight to Homelessness is the ongoing preparations for Olympics twenty
eight here in LA and it's not getting pushed out
by any They are still going to do it. August
of twenty eight is when they're going to do this.
And The New York Times finally got a whiff of
the potential consternation that exists in the people who are
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trying to get LA ready for twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
We do have a couple of things in our favor.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
We've done it before the Olympics, that is, and we
have some world class facilities. When it comes to the
potential hosting of events for the Olympics iconic locations as well.
I mean, you've already got baseball stadiums, you've already got
major shorts arenas that you can use for track and
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field or, in sofar as case, they're going to use
it for swimming. The problem is there's more to it
than just the sports venues. You've got to have an active, healthy,
functional infrastructure to handle the influx of people. La and,
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according to Adam mcgurney, writer for the La Times, LA
struggling to recover from the calamitous fires in January, girding
for a shortage of workers and supplies just as preps
for the Games reach their height. City government is confronting
a projected deficit of a billion dollars. And I don't
know why this is in there, but the mayor facing
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the thought of a tough reelection campaign. The mayor's office.
That doesn't matter, That position doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Eric gar said he dreamed big when he put this
vision before the powers that be ten years ago. It
was an ambitious plan. That's what you have to do
when you're pitching to get the Olympics right. You've got
to promise the Moon, and that's what they did. They
promised a billion dollar Olympic village which would then be
turned into permanent housing. That plan was abandoned. Why because
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it's a billion dollars. The athletes will be housed instead
at UCLA, which was what they did in eighty four.
The volleyball competition was supposed to be on the beach
in Santa Monica, beautiful at the Ferris Wheels a backdrop
the whole bit.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
No, no, no, that is going to.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Be at the Alamedos Beach in Long Beach where exactly Yeah,
that's because Santa Monica backed out. The canoe slalom originally
envisioned to be at the Supulvita Base and wreck area,
and Encino has been moved to Oklahoma City.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Okay, perfect, makes perfect sense.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
And furthermore, this whole carless Olympics that was pitched sounds great.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
They said that.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
What was meant by that, well, let's just say what
they said originally in the original bid, they said it
would be a car free Olympics, and they pledged to
have one hundred percent of the ticketed spectators traveled to
competition venues by public transport, walking or cycling. Now if
you're Eric Garcetti, that works for you, Like, that's who
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that guy is. I mean, he is the guy who
takes public transit. He is the guy who would walk
or cycle to those events. That is not what we
have built here in Los Angeles in the past ten
or so years when it comes to public transport, and
we certainly haven't built that in our mind as yes,
I will take my bike there, we still haven't evolved
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that much as humans to take our bikes places because
it's better for us.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
It almost sounds as if the package and the plan
was put together by someone who didn't know La, who
didn't realize how far away, for example, downtown LA would
be from the beach in Santa Mania or how fie well.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Public back then ten years ago, they had I remember
covering it. They had the public transport for the Purple
Line or whatever it was from downtown to Santa Monica
and that's where it goes. And also the walking and
cycling that was very big in Garcetti's days because they
that's when they put it into all those green, those
bright green lanes downtown. And he's a cyclist, and it
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was put together by someone who lives in Los Angeles
who rides public transit and is a cyclist, and that's
great for those people, but it does not mean that
it's great for the majority of people in Los Angeles.
And like the whole car list thing has happened, Metro
just has not.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Evolved the way that they thought it would be.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
So now they're backing off that, and bass Karen Bassen
now saying, well, what we met there, what we meant
to say is not that there will be no cars
during the Olympics, but that you.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Could take public transit. You could could.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I mean, I remember, it's just when public transit works,
it's it's so convenient, it's so wonderful. But not only
is it disjointed. And I haven't written in public transit
for a while, so I'm kind of uneducated, not kind of,
I am uneducated when it comes to this in terms
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of how easy it would be for me to go
from the valley to downtown to Santa Monica, what have you.
But the reason I stopped writing Metro and I really
only rode the gold Line to Dodger Stadium is because
there was a man who whipped out his penis at
about three point thirty on a Thursday afternoon and started
touching himself on the platform. And then when I got
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on the train after watching the public masturbation, there were
people that were zombies, and I was scared if they
woke up from their pasted out nature, would they be agitated,
would they be armed?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I don't know what kind of I don't know what
kind of crazy they they have. So that's why I
stopped writing. So that's a problem that's not even talked
about in this article, right, like we've forgotten about the
zombie trains that we have.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
There is some.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Reason for hope. In nineteen eighty three, LA was in
a depression. They turned it around in nineteen eighty four
and pulled off the greatest show that LA has probably
ever seen in the nineteen thirty two Olympics. Obviously the
entire country was dealing with the depression and they were
able to pull off in Olympics. I don't know if
this one has all of that. I mean, the thing is,
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we're not also a depression.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
We're in a people in power have no effing idea
what they're doing, and they're fighting each.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Other over it. Yea depression.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
It's not an economic depression necessarily, and we do have
plenty of practice coming up because obviously we've got the
World Cup matches coming in twenty six, super Bowl in
twenty seven, so there are big events that we can
maybe iron out some of these things we won't.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
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Speaker 1 (14:07):
In the meantime, it finally is happening where La Mayor
Karen Bass and other city officials are going to be
forced to answer questions about how they have mismanaged all
the taxpayer dollars we have given them to. I'm not
going to say solve homelessness. I'm not that much of
a Pollyanna, but do something. We have thrown money at
this issue for a very long time and it seems
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like they can't get it together to make any sort
of dent and the problem, and in fact, have mismoney
managed that money. So now they are going to probably
take the stand this week at a federal hearing to
determine whether the city breached its legal obligations to fix
this issue. Michael Monks from KFI News is on the
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story per usual, joins us now with all of the
latest details.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Yeah, you're probably aware that we've got a bit of
a homeless problem in Los Angeles and LA County. I
don't know if you I've seen it lately, but it's
not good. And this court situation dates back to twenty
twenty when a group of business owners and civic activists
in downtown La sued the city, sued the county and said,
you got to do something about this because this is disgusting,
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it's crazy, and it's really inhumane to the people living
the county and the city agreed to create a certain
amount of beds. So the city has not been able
to prove that they are doing their end of the bargain.
They've not been able through audits to demonstrate that they've
created the number of beds that they said that they
would create, or that they're spending the money the way
that they say that they would. Two months ago, there
was an update a hearing, and you may recall this.
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Mayor Bass had a haultail to get down there to
the courthouse because Judge David Carter had lost his mind
at how much of a lack of forthcoming the city
was that you guys are not being open about this,
and Mayor had a rush down to the courthouse to
be visible because he was so mad that she wasn't there.
So now she's been subpoena and apparently we'll take the
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stand tomorrow. But what I think is most interesting are
the two council members who have apparently been subpoena to
possibly take the stand today, and that's Monica Rodriguez and
Tracy Park. These are not homeless spending apologists like some
people you have on council. These are staunch critics against
the way the city has been doling out cash with
very limited results to show.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
So what they I know that the potential is that
Judge Carter decides that this goes to a receiver, a
special receiver, as opposed to the hands of the city.
Are they advocating for that? They that they also want
to see this homelessness spending taken out of the city's hands.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
I have not heard either of them directly say that
that's what they want, but both of them mentioned that
possibility and their remarks last week when the city Council
gave its first vote of approval to the city budget.
Both of them were really upset that they were that
the council basically voted to a divert money from public
safety i e. The Fire department and the police department,
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and to maintain a little bit of a status quo
when it comes to homeless spending. They're adding some oversight,
they've reduced inside Safe, but for the most part its
status quo. And they talked about how we are probably
headed to a receivership. But Tracy Park Council member Tracy
Park directly said that this budget is an embarrassment and
cited homeless spending as part of that.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
She also said that it's a bottomless pit. Yeh, that's right, Michael.
Can you hold on for a segment? I guess so.
I mean that was not the enthusiasm, that's all.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
I was really excited to get to the freeze dried pet.
But I'll stick around and talk more about homelessness.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Okay, wonderful, because I want to get to the fact
that they have hired the people that have taken your
tax dollars and squandered them on this issue, have hired
the most expensive law firm in the country pretty much
to defend themselves. And guess where that money's coming from
to pay those fancy lawyers. It's coming from you. We'll
talk about that when we come back.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
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Speaker 1 (17:58):
We have held Michael Monk's cap of here. We are
Captain Phillips. Oh no, he is Captain Phillips and we're
the Somali Pirates.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Right?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Is that the smell you keep bringing up? The smell Michael,
smell something in here? No, I smell success. Yeah, that's
a lie go smell. Smell friendship, whiffs of something. Smell
me with that.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
It's good.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Showered, It's good. You guys are good. You always are
you looking for me to also say that I showered.
His hair is always wet when he comes in. That
means nothing. I did shower as well.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
You did like a full one. Yeah, like you got
into the shower and everything.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Like yeah, turn it on and I used so yes,
all the hot spots, everything's clean, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
All right? How many hot spots do you think we're? Eleven?
Eleven eleven? Or okay? Okay, I was more thorough this morning.
I'm sorry. You got a lot of spots? Do you count?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Like?
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Never mind?
Speaker 5 (19:02):
No, ya, I live downtown. You get a funk on
you ah, you gotta scrub it. You go with a
loofah more than a loofah.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
These bathing habits brought to you by I live downtown.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Or we're talking about this this federal court Judge David o'carter,
who is looking at the possibility of transferring control of
homeless spending out of the hands of officials from the
City of Los Angeles to a court appointed receiver. And
among other things, the city is apparently being defended by.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Not city council, not the the attorneys the city hires
to defend the city in legal matters.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
No, no, no, an outside firm that is.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Arguably the most expensive firm to hire in Los Angeles,
Gibson done to the tune of what five eight hundred
dollars an hour? They're gonna throw a team of attorneys
at this of what seven eight nine attorneys to the
tune of, let's go on the low end five hundred
dollars an hour, not to mention all the outside work
and the studies they'll commission with their with their buddies
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they'll contract through, and the thousands of dollars that will cost.
This is all being sent to our mailboxes as taxpayers
we will pay for Karen Bass to defend herself against
allegations she's used.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Our money wrongly. How fed up is that? Very? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
No.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
And just to be clear, this is not a criminal trial,
so there's no formal charges that, hey, you've misused the money.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
No, it's civil. It's much more expensive.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
It is much more expensive, and basically, this federal judge
is saying, you can't prove how you've used your homeless dollars.
And that is what you have heard time and again,
especially from Councilmember Monica Rodriguez, more recently from Councilmember Tracy Park,
who have both been subpoena apparently to testify. Possibly today,
when you see headlines about a private law firm as
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expensive as this one being brought in, it helps illuminate
why the city has been in the budget situation that
it's been in, right, because a good chunk they can
call it, you know, tourism is down a business tax. Now,
we had the fires and all that, but months months
before the Palisades burned down, they were dealing with record
high legal settlements related to police shootings, or infrastructure failures,
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or employment discrimination all kinds of lawsuits being settled left
and right.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I was just going to say, the last time you
hear we were talking about all the settlements that they
don't even fight anything. But you know who are arranges
for those settlements lawyers.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Exactly lawyers that the city council does approve. So they
often bring in, Hey, we're going to use this firm
or to handle this sort of thing because our city
attorneys sometimes they have a conflict and that.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Can't work on us washing genitals down there. That's spot
number one.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Oh my god, the hotspot washing between city hall and
attorneys is disgusting dirt.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
But as you watch what happens this week and this
this hearing at the Federal Courthouse downtown is supposed to
be today, tomorrow, and Friday. When you're watching this, understand
that these are questions about how your homeless dollars are
being spent while questions are being raised at city Hall finally,
whether that's really the city's responsibility anymore at all. You're
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starting to see a change that the county is supposed
to be responsible for this. The county has asserted dominance. Recently,
they got that tax pushed through by the electorate last November.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Let's not forget the fight between Karen Bass and Lindsay Horrvath.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Yeah, that was a girl fight from LASSA from during
the fires when they had a little bit of a
falling out. That looks like it's settled a little bit.
I don't know how close they are. Supervisor Lindsay Horrvath
and the mayor had a little fight about, you know,
coordinating some efforts.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
What men, you won't be like it's a girl fay,
I know, I'm sorry. I regretted saying it as soon
as they came out.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
It's a massive fight and it's a power struggle that
would be taken much more seriously if it was two men.
Like that fight between those two is legit. You're right,
and there's a lot of money at stake, whether like
you're saying, whether the county's in charge of this or
the city, and that's what it's all about.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
It is, but apparently statutorily the county has more responsibility
to deal with homelessness and mental health and those sorts
of things. Yes, and you're finally seeing some members of
city Council, even the ones who voted for this budget,
say I don't know that this is the business we're
supposed to be in anymore. So what domino falls out
of this hearing, following the domino that fell out of LASA,
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following the domino that fell out of the audits. How
many dominoes have to fall before there is a complete
shift in how their priorities are aligned, how dollars are allocated.
Because the city is spending a lot of money on
homelessness and it does not look to be doing much
for so.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Long in the supervisors were, you know, the fiefdom holders
and they had the power, and the city council kind
of knew that the supervisors had the power because a
lot of people went from City Hall to the Kennethon
Board of Supervisors, like that's just what happened. And now
it seems like there's a little bit of a question
over who's run in this show. Is it the county
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still or is it now Karen Bass, who's a major
power player in her own right and wields more power
than we have seen mayors have in recent years here
in Los Angeles. So it's if you're into this kind
of thing, it's fascinating to watch, but the money to
be made from solving the homelessness problem is vast. And
the fact that they're getting away with not spending the
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money that we've even given them to legit spend on
this is it should be criminal.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
It could be.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
It could end up being that way.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
I mean, you've seen the US Attorney create this task
force Bill is Saley pointed by Trump for this district
to say we're going to to have a task force
looking at this. That's going to take some time, but
there are a lot of federal departments that are going
to be part of that task for that are part
of that task force.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Yeah, and so will charges come. We'll see, We will see.
In the meantime, it's Moore ball washing.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Watch those hot spots, a lot of hot spots.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
You said eleven.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Today, It'll be more, could be less tomorrow. I mean
it depends on where you and I just go to town.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I'm going through the checklist, speaking of which, I mean,
there's five like obvious ones.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Swamp watches coming up next. You always said four, which
was troubling. Can I leave what a pleasure? Said Michael.
We appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yesterday we told you about President Trump's demand that California
follow its federal dictate, his federal dictate that boys not
be allowed to participate in girl sports. And the reason
this is getting publicity is there is a sixteen year
old junior at Yurupa Valley High School born a boy
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competing as a girl, won the girl's long jump and
triple jump events at the Southern Section Masters last weekend,
so qualifies for the state championship that takes place this weekend.
What happened is yesterday the CIF announced a change. There's
still some question about when the actual policy was changed.
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According to the Governor's office, it was changed over the
weekend before Trump came out on Truth Social, but they
didn't announce it until after Trump's post on Truth Social.
And this new process, they say it's confusing. This new process,
they say, would allow any biological female student athlete girl
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who would have earned the next qualifying mark for one
of their sections automatic qualifying entries in the CIF state
meet and did not achieve the CIF State at Large
mark in the finals at their section meet to compete
in the state track and field finals coming up this weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Okay, the way I.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Understand that is any biological female, any girl who didn't
initially qualify for the event because someone who is transgender
beat them out, they still get to qualify for the
state event and then compete, And as has been reported
multiple times, the CIF is also looking at scoring those
(01:57):
events differently. So the CIF is going so far out
of its way to bend over backwards to try to
allow transgender girls to compete with biological girls.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I want to know, and I never find the ausire
found it. I know exactly what you're gonna say. How many?
How many?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
There are approximately seventeen point three million high school students
in the United States. Seventeen million and change.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
How many are we talking about? Does this effect?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
There is a study out of UCLA that suggests there
are one hundred and twenty two thousand transgender student athletes
one hundred and twenty two thousand nationwide. That is seven
tenths of one percent of the entire high school population
in the United States.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Which is why I never like to spend a hell
of a lot of time talking about this.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Well, what I don't I feel like.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
The megaphone here makes this a much bigger issue than
it is in real life.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Now that said, I know.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
People because I don't have kids, so this is all
very it's a blind spot for me. But like I
know people who do have kids, and there are transgender
kids in the classrooms. I just didn't know how prevalent
it was. I mean, I thought it was much fewer
than one hundred and twenty two thousand.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well that specifically, it's good to absoltes, right, so that
which is also seems high to me, But that you
can have two solid things that you believe that can
be true. Number one, that everybody transgender, non transgender, it's cisgendered,
however you take that term straight whatever. Every person deserves
(03:46):
respect and dignity period.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Absolutely. You can also say I.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Want my daughter or daughters or whatever, my sisters, but
to have protection and dignity in those spaces that we've
carved out for them. And by carved out, I just
mean girls compete in sporting events and boys compete in
sporting events. There's a reason why we don't do combined
(04:15):
sporting events. There's just a biological, physiological reason why we
don't do that when it comes to something like track
and field or something like baseball softball.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
One, and it's to protect the boys, because if you
know a student athlete who's a female, she'll kick the
hell out. I mean, my goodness, I've never feared for
my life more than on that girl's high school basketball court.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Those girls are vicious. It would never people.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
But would never rasure up against me six foot six
two and seventy pound junior in high school.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
No, And that's the difference there.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
There has to be a space for girls to be fair,
to be protected, a fair space for them to have
and this rule wins that. And I don't I don't
understand the mentality of.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
What are they gonna do though, what's CIF gonna do.
CIF needs to ensure fairness, but they can't. They can't
govern what what athletes can or cannot compete.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
CIF can't get involved in that. That's exactly what they
can do.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
They can say, listen, if there's a question, if you
if you're biologically born a female, you can compete in
girls sports. If you're biologically a boy, or born a boy,
I should say you cannot compete in girl sports. And
if there's any question or do then they have to
come up with a third a third leg pardon the pun.
(05:41):
They have to come up with a third category for
people to compete in the open category where anybody can
choose to compete if they so wish.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, but who's cif run by it's run by all
the people in the education system that are hamstrung with
California politics.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Right and listen there following the state law that was
signed in by Jerry Brown, I understand that part of it,
but there's nothing that says they can't amend the situation.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
They can talk to the legislature, they can figure this.
I think everyone's hoping this kind of.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Just passes, which raises the next question, did we peak
on this already?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
And is this sort of the dying throes of this
kind of I don't.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Know enough to know the answer to that, but I
do know that I feel like this is this generation's
for older people.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Clutch your pearls. Look at what the kids are doing. Now,
there's an aspect of that.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, high school kids don't think the same way. No, no,
but they also eat tide pods and have.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
You ever had one?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
My god, the colors so bright there and this yum yum.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Even the New York Times thinks we're not going to
be ready for the Olympics in twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
The New York Times has been doing some unnw York
Times things lately. When it comes to Los Angeles in
San Francisco as well, The New York Times is like,
y'all are crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
And if The New York Times says it might start listening.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Sidelight to Homelessness is the ongoing preparations for Olympics twenty
eight here in LA and it's not getting pushed out
by any They are still going to do it. August
of twenty eight is when they're going to do this.
And The New York Times finally got a whiff of
the potential consternation that exists in the people who are
(07:37):
trying to get LA ready for twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
We do have a couple of things in our favor.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
We've done it before the Olympics, that is, and we
have some world class facilities. When it comes to the
potential hosting of events for the Olympics iconic locations as well.
I mean, you've already got baseball stadiums, you've already got
major shorts arenas that you can use for track and
(08:02):
field or, in sofar as case, they're going to use
it for swimming. The problem is there's more to it
than just the sports venues. You've got to have an active, healthy,
functional infrastructure to handle the influx of people. La and,
(08:22):
according to Adam mcgurney, writer for the La Times, LA
struggling to recover from the calamitous fires in January, girding
for a shortage of workers and supplies just as preps
for the Games reach their height. City government is confronting
a projected deficit of a billion dollars. And I don't
know why this is in there, but the mayor facing
(08:43):
the thought of a tough reelection campaign. The mayor's office.
That doesn't matter, That position doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Eric gar said he dreamed big when he put this
vision before the powers that be ten years ago. It
was an ambitious plan. That's what you have to do
when you're pitching to get the Olympics right. You've got
to promise the Moon, and that's what they did. They
promised a billion dollar Olympic village which would then be
turned into permanent housing. That plan was abandoned. Why because
(09:11):
it's a billion dollars. The athletes will be housed instead
at UCLA, which was what they did in eighty four.
The volleyball competition was supposed to be on the beach
in Santa Monica, beautiful at the Ferris Wheels a backdrop
the whole bit.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
No, no, no, that is going to.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Be at the Alamedos Beach in Long Beach where exactly Yeah,
that's because Santa Monica backed out. The canoe slalom originally
envisioned to be at the Supulvita Base and wreck area,
and Encino has been moved to Oklahoma City.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Okay, perfect, makes perfect sense.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
And furthermore, this whole carless Olympics that was pitched sounds great.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
They said that.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
What was meant by that, well, let's just say what
they said originally in the original bid, they said it
would be a car free Olympics, and they pledged to
have one hundred percent of the ticketed spectators traveled to
competition venues by public transport, walking or cycling. Now if
you're Eric Garcetti, that works for you, Like, that's who
(10:21):
that guy is. I mean, he is the guy who
takes public transit. He is the guy who would walk
or cycle to those events. That is not what we
have built here in Los Angeles in the past ten
or so years when it comes to public transport, and
we certainly haven't built that in our mind as yes,
I will take my bike there, we still haven't evolved
(10:41):
that much as humans to take our bikes places because
it's better for us.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
It almost sounds as if the package and the plan
was put together by someone who didn't know La, who
didn't realize how far away, for example, downtown LA would
be from the beach in Santa Mania or how fie well.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Public back then ten years ago, they had I remember
covering it. They had the public transport for the Purple
Line or whatever it was from downtown to Santa Monica
and that's where it goes. And also the walking and
cycling that was very big in Garcetti's days because they
that's when they put it into all those green, those
bright green lanes downtown. And he's a cyclist, and it
(11:24):
was put together by someone who lives in Los Angeles
who rides public transit and is a cyclist, and that's
great for those people, but it does not mean that
it's great for the majority of people in Los Angeles.
And like the whole car list thing has happened, Metro
just has not.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Evolved the way that they thought it would be.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
So now they're backing off that, and bass Karen Bassen
now saying, well, what we met there, what we meant
to say is not that there will be no cars
during the Olympics, but that you.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Could take public transit. You could could.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I mean, I remember, it's just when public transit works,
it's it's so convenient, it's so wonderful. But not only
is it disjointed. And I haven't written in public transit
for a while, so I'm kind of uneducated, not kind of,
I am uneducated when it comes to this in terms
(12:22):
of how easy it would be for me to go
from the valley to downtown to Santa Monica, what have you.
But the reason I stopped writing Metro and I really
only rode the gold Line to Dodger Stadium is because
there was a man who whipped out his penis at
about three point thirty on a Thursday afternoon and started
touching himself on the platform. And then when I got
(12:45):
on the train after watching the public masturbation, there were
people that were zombies, and I was scared if they
woke up from their pasted out nature, would they be agitated,
would they be armed?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I don't know what kind of I don't know what
kind of crazy they they have. So that's why I
stopped writing. So that's a problem that's not even talked
about in this article, right, like we've forgotten about the
zombie trains that we have.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
There is some.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Reason for hope. In nineteen eighty three, LA was in
a depression. They turned it around in nineteen eighty four
and pulled off the greatest show that LA has probably
ever seen in the nineteen thirty two Olympics. Obviously the
entire country was dealing with the depression and they were
able to pull off in Olympics. I don't know if
this one has all of that. I mean, the thing is,
(13:35):
we're not also a depression.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
We're in a people in power have no effing idea
what they're doing, and they're fighting each.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Other over it. Yea depression.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
It's not an economic depression necessarily, and we do have
plenty of practice coming up because obviously we've got the
World Cup matches coming in twenty six, super Bowl in
twenty seven, so there are big events that we can
maybe iron out some of these things we won't.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
In the meantime, it finally is happening where La Mayor
Karen Bass and other city officials are going to be
forced to answer questions about how they have mismanaged all
the taxpayer dollars we have given them to. I'm not
going to say solve homelessness. I'm not that much of
a Pollyanna, but do something. We have thrown money at
this issue for a very long time and it seems
(14:30):
like they can't get it together to make any sort
of dent and the problem, and in fact, have mismoney
managed that money. So now they are going to probably
take the stand this week at a federal hearing to
determine whether the city breached its legal obligations to fix
this issue. Michael Monks from KFI News is on the
(14:51):
story per usual, joins us now with all of the
latest details.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Yeah, you're probably aware that we've got a bit of
a homeless problem in Los Angeles and LA County. I
don't know if you I've seen it lately, but it's
not good. And this court situation dates back to twenty
twenty when a group of business owners and civic activists
in downtown La sued the city, sued the county and said,
you got to do something about this because this is disgusting,
(15:15):
it's crazy, and it's really inhumane to the people living
the county and the city agreed to create a certain
amount of beds. So the city has not been able
to prove that they are doing their end of the bargain.
They've not been able through audits to demonstrate that they've
created the number of beds that they said that they
would create, or that they're spending the money the way
that they say that they would. Two months ago, there
was an update a hearing, and you may recall this.
(15:37):
Mayor Bass had a haultail to get down there to
the courthouse because Judge David Carter had lost his mind
at how much of a lack of forthcoming the city
was that you guys are not being open about this,
and Mayor had a rush down to the courthouse to
be visible because he was so mad that she wasn't there.
So now she's been subpoena and apparently we'll take the
(15:58):
stand tomorrow. But what I think is most interesting are
the two council members who have apparently been subpoena to
possibly take the stand today, and that's Monica Rodriguez and
Tracy Park. These are not homeless spending apologists like some
people you have on council. These are staunch critics against
the way the city has been doling out cash with
very limited results to show.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
So what they I know that the potential is that
Judge Carter decides that this goes to a receiver, a
special receiver, as opposed to the hands of the city.
Are they advocating for that? They that they also want
to see this homelessness spending taken out of the city's hands.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
I have not heard either of them directly say that
that's what they want, but both of them mentioned that
possibility and their remarks last week when the city Council
gave its first vote of approval to the city budget.
Both of them were really upset that they were that
the council basically voted to a divert money from public
safety i e. The Fire department and the police department,
(16:53):
and to maintain a little bit of a status quo
when it comes to homeless spending. They're adding some oversight,
they've reduced inside Safe, but for the most part its
status quo. And they talked about how we are probably
headed to a receivership. But Tracy Park Council member Tracy
Park directly said that this budget is an embarrassment and
cited homeless spending as part of that.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
She also said that it's a bottomless pit. Yeh, that's right, Michael.
Can you hold on for a segment? I guess so.
I mean that was not the enthusiasm, that's all.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
I was really excited to get to the freeze dried pet.
But I'll stick around and talk more about homelessness.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Okay, wonderful, because I want to get to the fact
that they have hired the people that have taken your
tax dollars and squandered them on this issue, have hired
the most expensive law firm in the country pretty much
to defend themselves. And guess where that money's coming from
to pay those fancy lawyers. It's coming from you. We'll
talk about that when we come back.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
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Speaker 1 (17:58):
We have held Michael Monk's cap of here. We are
Captain Phillips. Oh no, he is Captain Phillips and we're
the Somali Pirates.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Right?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Is that the smell you keep bringing up? The smell Michael,
smell something in here? No, I smell success. Yeah, that's
a lie go smell. Smell friendship, whiffs of something. Smell
me with that.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
It's good.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Showered, It's good. You guys are good. You always are
you looking for me to also say that I showered.
His hair is always wet when he comes in. That
means nothing. I did shower as well.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
You did like a full one. Yeah, like you got
into the shower and everything.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Like yeah, turn it on and I used so yes,
all the hot spots, everything's clean, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
All right? How many hot spots do you think we're? Eleven?
Eleven eleven? Or okay? Okay, I was more thorough this morning.
I'm sorry. You got a lot of spots? Do you count?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Like?
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Never mind?
Speaker 5 (19:02):
No, ya, I live downtown. You get a funk on
you ah, you gotta scrub it. You go with a
loofah more than a loofah.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
These bathing habits brought to you by I live downtown.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Or we're talking about this this federal court Judge David o'carter,
who is looking at the possibility of transferring control of
homeless spending out of the hands of officials from the
City of Los Angeles to a court appointed receiver. And
among other things, the city is apparently being defended by.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Not city council, not the the attorneys the city hires
to defend the city in legal matters.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
No, no, no, an outside firm that is.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Arguably the most expensive firm to hire in Los Angeles,
Gibson done to the tune of what five eight hundred
dollars an hour? They're gonna throw a team of attorneys
at this of what seven eight nine attorneys to the
tune of, let's go on the low end five hundred
dollars an hour, not to mention all the outside work
and the studies they'll commission with their with their buddies
(20:09):
they'll contract through, and the thousands of dollars that will cost.
This is all being sent to our mailboxes as taxpayers
we will pay for Karen Bass to defend herself against
allegations she's used.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Our money wrongly. How fed up is that? Very? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
No.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
And just to be clear, this is not a criminal trial,
so there's no formal charges that, hey, you've misused the money.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
No, it's civil. It's much more expensive.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
It is much more expensive, and basically, this federal judge
is saying, you can't prove how you've used your homeless dollars.
And that is what you have heard time and again,
especially from Councilmember Monica Rodriguez, more recently from Councilmember Tracy Park,
who have both been subpoena apparently to testify. Possibly today,
when you see headlines about a private law firm as
(21:08):
expensive as this one being brought in, it helps illuminate
why the city has been in the budget situation that
it's been in, right, because a good chunk they can
call it, you know, tourism is down a business tax. Now,
we had the fires and all that, but months months
before the Palisades burned down, they were dealing with record
high legal settlements related to police shootings, or infrastructure failures,
(21:31):
or employment discrimination all kinds of lawsuits being settled left
and right.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I was just going to say, the last time you
hear we were talking about all the settlements that they
don't even fight anything. But you know who are arranges
for those settlements lawyers.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Exactly lawyers that the city council does approve. So they
often bring in, Hey, we're going to use this firm
or to handle this sort of thing because our city
attorneys sometimes they have a conflict and that.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Can't work on us washing genitals down there. That's spot
number one.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Oh my god, the hotspot washing between city hall and
attorneys is disgusting dirt.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
But as you watch what happens this week and this
this hearing at the Federal Courthouse downtown is supposed to
be today, tomorrow, and Friday. When you're watching this, understand
that these are questions about how your homeless dollars are
being spent while questions are being raised at city Hall finally,
whether that's really the city's responsibility anymore at all. You're
(22:27):
starting to see a change that the county is supposed
to be responsible for this. The county has asserted dominance. Recently,
they got that tax pushed through by the electorate last November.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Let's not forget the fight between Karen Bass and Lindsay Horrvath.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Yeah, that was a girl fight from LASSA from during
the fires when they had a little bit of a
falling out. That looks like it's settled a little bit.
I don't know how close they are. Supervisor Lindsay Horrvath
and the mayor had a little fight about, you know,
coordinating some efforts.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
What men, you won't be like it's a girl fay,
I know, I'm sorry. I regretted saying it as soon
as they came out.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
It's a massive fight and it's a power struggle that
would be taken much more seriously if it was two men.
Like that fight between those two is legit. You're right,
and there's a lot of money at stake, whether like
you're saying, whether the county's in charge of this or
the city, and that's what it's all about.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
It is, but apparently statutorily the county has more responsibility
to deal with homelessness and mental health and those sorts
of things. Yes, and you're finally seeing some members of
city Council, even the ones who voted for this budget,
say I don't know that this is the business we're
supposed to be in anymore. So what domino falls out
of this hearing, following the domino that fell out of LASA,
(23:40):
following the domino that fell out of the audits. How
many dominoes have to fall before there is a complete
shift in how their priorities are aligned, how dollars are allocated.
Because the city is spending a lot of money on
homelessness and it does not look to be doing much
for so.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Long in the supervisors were, you know, the fiefdom holders
and they had the power, and the city council kind
of knew that the supervisors had the power because a
lot of people went from City Hall to the Kennethon
Board of Supervisors, like that's just what happened. And now
it seems like there's a little bit of a question
over who's run in this show. Is it the county
(24:21):
still or is it now Karen Bass, who's a major
power player in her own right and wields more power
than we have seen mayors have in recent years here
in Los Angeles. So it's if you're into this kind
of thing, it's fascinating to watch, but the money to
be made from solving the homelessness problem is vast. And
the fact that they're getting away with not spending the
(24:44):
money that we've even given them to legit spend on
this is it should be criminal.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
It could be.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
It could end up being that way.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
I mean, you've seen the US Attorney create this task
force Bill is Saley pointed by Trump for this district
to say we're going to to have a task force
looking at this. That's going to take some time, but
there are a lot of federal departments that are going
to be part of that task for that are part
of that task force.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Yeah, and so will charges come. We'll see, We will see.
In the meantime, it's Moore ball washing.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Watch those hot spots, a lot of hot spots.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
You said eleven.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Today, It'll be more, could be less tomorrow. I mean
it depends on where you and I just go to town.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I'm going through the checklist, speaking of which, I mean,
there's five like obvious ones.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Swamp watches coming up next. You always said four, which
was troubling. Can I leave what a pleasure? Said Michael.
We appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
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