July 15, 2025 • 32 mins
KFI – Monks –The number of people living on the streets dropped nearly 10% countywide this year. ICE declares millions of undocumented immigrants ineligible for bond hearings. L.A. County’s charter reform accidentally repealed anti-incarceration ballot measure. 2025 Emmy Awards nominations live updates: ‘Severance’ and ‘The Studio’ top the list.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon, and you're listening to k
if I Am six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app. In the dream, I
was still doing this job, but then also working in
the deli in the evenings.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
You have to supplement your radio income, right.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I've long had this dream of returning to the deli life,
and I've toyed with the idea of applying at the
Jersey Mikes near where I live.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Do you think you could do customer service now?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I loved customer service. I loved meeting people, love talking
to people. I love getting their order done quickly. I
was really big at efficiency.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Are you good at register?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I'm great at register.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I could do register right now. If k if I
had a register, I would work the register.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I think we may be onto something.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
When they do the sales upstairs, why don't they have
them come in for register.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
You're on the wrong track.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I'm on the track if we take your confectionery dream
and my deli dream and we unite them.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
And make them meat candy, and it could be called
meat candy.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Let's get here, Okay, Gary and Chen kaf I am
six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and Michael
Monks has joined us for the Michael Monks Local Power Hour.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
This is what we have branded this and I'm gonna
be sad when i have to break up with it.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
You have to, You're right, I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
You mentioned yesterday that the homelessness count was coming out
for LA County yesterday afternoon and that it did.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
What did this report tell us?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
What we've learned is that for the second year in
a row, the total number of people classified as homeless
in both LA County and the City of Los Angeles
has declined. And that's significant because it had continued to
go up for years and years and years. Last year
was the first time they saw any decline at all.
They were hoping for another decline this year so that
they could call it a trend, and that is what
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LA Homeless Services Authority CEO of Alicia Adams Kellum did
call it, because this is now a trend and they
got what they were hoping for.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Where do you stand with people who have three names
or name?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Look, if it's a merry name, I mean, I'm not
going to tell you what to call yourself. It's also
very common in the Latino world, to be sure.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Aside from that, just.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Like white people or black people white people, she's black,
so I don't know if I am allowed to comment
on it.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I think that's okay, I don't know. Yeah, anyway, let's
move well she is she's also doctor Felicia has squeeze?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Is it another one there?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It's a mouthful in other words, as she's leaving her
job of course, because of the problems that the LA
Homeless Services Authority has had with properly accounting for the
many billions of dollars that have been funneled through it
to other ages.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Is this Karen Bass's BFF or one of her personal
relationship indeed?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, okay, go on, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So what we've seen is now a trend, a modest decrease,
but really overshadowing this announcement, whether they wanted to acknowledge
this or not, and they really didn't, is that we're
seeing a very modest decrease. We peaked at about seventy
five thousand homeless people in Los Angeles County, more than
half of whom have always been in LA City proper
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six years ago when this count was done in twenty nineteen.
There were fifty eight thousand, fifty nine thousand homeless people
in the county. That's sixteen thousand fewer than there were
a couple of years ago. And now we are very
slowly starting to come down from the peak. So whether
this is calls for full celebration, that's a debate to
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be had. You want to see a decline, but this
is not going fast enough.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Do they account for COVID with the numbers twenty nineteen
versus twenty twenty one versus where we're at now.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
COVID seems to have happened at the same time as
this significant increase what we saw in Los Angeles, and
I wasn't living here at the time, but what I've learned,
especially in the downtown area, is when everything shut down,
there was no policing of this sort of thing. And
I don't mean police in the literal sense. I mean
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just anybody who could have operated a business or lived
in a home down there to say, shoe, you know,
you can't stop here, you can't lay down here. And
also the government here became very lenient towards a lot
of things, a lot of things, you know, it's illegal
in the city of Los Angeles to camp on the sidewalk.
So when you know that and you think about what
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you see, even now, years after COVID is the pandemic
is pretty much over, what do you feel, you know,
because you're really not allowed to be there, You impede
access to pedestrians, you obstruct traffic visibility.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I think there was very much.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I think you hit the nail on the head a
lase fair anything goes attitude in the during COVID. In
the couple of years that followed, you know, we were
buying cocktails and putting them in our cars to go,
I mean, and everything was drunk tear. No you can
get to go drinks, drunks could from restaurants. Anybody could,
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and so I mean, I remember thinking that's kind of
that was for me, the threshold of oh, we're just
doing this. Now you can go to your favorite Mexican
place or whatever, pick up dinner and pick up to Margarita's,
put them in your cup holder, and you're cool to
drive home with that.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
It was interesting the way, and we could talk hours
on this. I think there will be a lot to
be said about COVID once the politics kind of wear
off from it and it's in a distant memory and
people can look at it a little more objectively. But
what our priorities were at the height of COVID was
very strange.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
They were ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I mean they were comical looking back on them, and
we talked at nauseum and you weren't here, But I mean,
Gary and I spent a lot of time talking about
the guidelines that came out from the state. You can
go outside and you can play cat, but you have
to use a miniature American sized football. I mean that
was one of the regulations from the state. You can't
use a regulation football, but you can't use a miniature
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Well behind that, I have no idea. I'm just saying
that's how crazy the rule making was.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And you also learned what federalism means like as a
form of American democracy because each state was able to
approach this differently, and I know California was probably crazier
than most.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
It was.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
It was just interesting how they came up with what
was legal now and what was frowned upon legally in California.
But my point is that with this lase a fair
attitude of you can take cocktails to go, you can
sleep on the streets, you can do whatever, because we're
in these strange times. I think that now especially and
we'll get into the new ice rules, but I think
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especially now with Trump coming in and saying, you know what,
we're following the rules and we're getting rid of all
illegal immigrants and we're hardlining here, it's it's a whiplash
for especially here in California, especially here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Wait, what, We've been thumbing our.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Nose at the laws for the past five years and
now suddenly you're enforcing them.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Well, keep in mind, he was president when all of
this started. I mean he was president when COVID started,
and a lot of these actions, both at the federal
and the state level, occurred while he was in the
White House. Still, so there is a relationship between President
Trump and the American response to COVID. Additionally, when you
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reference the pendulum, I don't know if there was a
time in American history where it has swung repeatedly so quickly.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah, is that our lack of tension span, Is that
the TikTok gaization of us?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
It could be, But what I mean is that the
pendulum swings fast and far, and it will swing back.
But at some point, can it just kind of remember
when it used to swing between it does George W.
Bush and Bill Clinton.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
It hasn't found the middle in quite some time.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Right, and there will never be the There's always a
reason that you vote for a Democrat or Republican because
you want the pendulum to be left or right of
that center move but to be completely open border, to
be completely allowing for homelessness on the streets, to no
more illegal immigration, no more illegal immigrants in the country.
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It's a lot, really fast.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I think you're so right to bringing up the George
HW to Bill Clinton, and so much talk has been
made about the letter, you know that they wrote to
each other, that HW wrote to Bill Clinton, and it
was such a different civilized time, Right. Do you remember how
upset Democrats were with George W.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Like he was the.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Devil incarnate George W. Was the devil incarnate Democrats in California.
And it's like, well, now he's looking pretty good.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
He's best he's with Michelle Obama. Yeah, that's how far
we've strayed.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
We are.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
We are crazy people, all right.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Coming up next, Ice declares immigrants, illegal immigrants ineligible for
bond hearings.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Michael will break that down for us when we return.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
All right, if you are in the valley, we do
have an LAPD pursuit. This is a white suv and
this person is driving a fool. It is in van
eyes and the rate of speed we're looking at is
I would say fifteen at least fifteen miles per hour
over the speed limit for these surface straights here and
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it is on surface strates. This person and I can't
nail down what kind of vehicle do you think that is?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
You know, it looks like a white suv of some sort.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Duh, But I felt like making model.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Oh what are you looking at me? Have we met who?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
You're a guy? Yeah? But anyway, Yeah, it is a.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Lot all the other white SUVs you see it?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Okay, Now, I know not to go to you for
make and model, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
They do say that this person has multiple firearms, so
you're not seeing any black and whites in the wake
of this white suv for a couple reasons. Number one,
they have multiple firearms so you kind of want to
take a wait and see approach. You don't want to
play with this person. Number two, they're doing way too
high of a speed to follow them on these surface streets.
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If you've got five guys trailing you and everyone's doing
sixty and a thirty, that obviously raises the risk of
complete catastrophe. Stop signs, stop lights yielding. This guy's doing
none of it.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
He's got through parking lots in some of these shopping
areas to get back on these streets to evade traffic
much less police. He's evading any type of stompage. And
he's now going about seventy down Van Nights Boulevard. That's terrifying.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, now you're seeing a black and white suv in
per suit behind him. Of course they've got him overhead.
That's how we're watching. They've got their eyes in the sky,
their law enforcement. But they are moving in on this
guy again. It looks like he is on at Van Owen.
He's on Van Owen, so we know that, and he's
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approaching Vesper. He was in some industrial areas. Now it
looks like residential areas. But like Michael said, yeah, he's
cutting in and out of strip mall parking lots, to
avoid stopping at traffic lights when there is a backup
in that intersection. In those intersections, but this person is
showing no disregard for anybody else on the street.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I always wonder what the plan is feats driver, You know, like,
what is your end goal here? Obviously to get away,
but do you have an immediate plan as your GPS open?
What are you looking at as you're trying to navigate
your way out of these situations?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I think oftentimes when we see chases like this that
remain in the same area at least until this point
in Van Ey's, they know the area, they know the neighborhood,
maybe they lived there, grew up there, what have you,
and they're waiting to see if they can get into
any of the nooks and the crannies, whether it be
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an overpass where they can ditch the car under and
take off on foot, whether it be a covered parking
spot somewhere at an apartment complex and underground parking spot
that I think is the endgame for at least for me,
if I put myself in the shoes of someone leaving
police on a chase. The few times I've seen them
get away with it. It's one of those like park
the car underground garage, get out, hopefully go unnoticed type
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of situations. They always catch up to them because this
day and age, there's cameras everywhere. They got the license plate.
They probably got you doing whatever you did before you
jack that car, if you jacked it. And we have
no information that it's a stolen vehicle at this point,
just that the person has multiple firearms. But yeah, the
endgame is always a big question because we're all watching,
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you know, it's a show.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Two things. One, the streets are never this clear when
I'm trying to come to work, and they are always
clear when these pursuits happen. They can make it through
any neighborhood. I'm getting stopped on random neighborhood streets backed
up because of nobody around here can drive well and
the streets are so poorly designed.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Two.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Los Angeles loves a pursuit, and I think every market
would love a pursuit if they also had this many
helicopters in the air to broadcast it live so effectively
with the technology you see on the screen. But here
here in Los Angeles, it is such a production. It's exciting,
it's thrilling, and it is well.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Produced for bar Danna.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
He's driving on the wrong side of van oh and
now he's driving head on opposing traffic doing forty five
and what appears to be a thirty zone, taking lefts
indiscriminately across the lanes of traffic. Very dangerous situation. You
almost wonder what's more dangerous. I guess it's a real
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ding dong when it comes to these residential areas where
like you said, there's not much traffic as opposed to
the way, and you know it could be because you've
got people in the street usually, but it is the
middle of the day, so maybe not as many. But
you know, when he's operating around all those other cars
and those heavily trafficked areas, that looks like a more
dangerous situation almost in terms of him having no disregred
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and I keep saying him it could be her. Now
we've got him reversing one to three black and whites.
He just reversed past them, hoping to he.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Did a turn about there is cla back into a driveway,
turned about to go the other way, and is now
being pursued by them. Again.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
They're as close as they've gotten to him. Again, there's
three black and whites in pursuit. He's on Heartland, just
turned left onto Kester there in Van Eyes again, driving
on the wrong side of traffic, hugely popular intersection. He
just took a left at barely avoiding contact here.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I can't believe he hasn't hit anyone.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Oh, this is a very jarring to watch because even
when you're not on the main road, he does look
like he's on a Sherman Is a Sherman way he's
on right now. He's just turned again onto Is that?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I think Currito's Or is he back on ben ellen
CROs Excuse me, I'm not sure. Well, he's back on
a residential street. And so why they might not be
heavy vehicular traffic. You're gonna have grandma's and kids. It's summer.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I mean, I haven't seen one grandma nor one child.
But you know they're gonna be out there. Someone's gonna
be out there. That's the middle of the day.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
That's what's so scary about it. But he seems committed.
He's staying in the same general area.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
All right, we will take a break on this for
news and come back. Hopefully the LAPD will put a
quick end of this before anyone gets hurt.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Michael Monks has joined us. The chase has come to
an end with the man Starfish on the pavement as
LAPD officers took him into custody. So a nice clean
ending to that one. We were about to talk about
ICE declaring millions of undocumented immigrants ineligible for bond hearings.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Michael, what does this mean?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
It means something pretty significant for immigrants who came here
illegally years and years ago. This was common practice for
people that were captured shortly after arriving in the country illegally.
But if you had been here a while and you
were taken into federal immigration custody, you could appear for
a bond hearing. But the federal government has decided to
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change that position. The Washington Post reports that just last week,
Todd M. Lyons, who's the acting Director of Immigration and
Customs Enforcement ICE, he told the officers that such immigrants
should be detained for the duration of their removal proceedings,
even though that can take months. Even though that can
take years.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
It seems unconstitutional.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
That is what the immigrant lawyers are saying. Not only
should they be eligible for bond hearings, but they say
this policy will apply to millions of immigrants and overcrowd
and overwhelm these detention facilities.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I'm not a lawyer, but don't we have a right
to a bond hearing if we are in custody.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I don't know how it works specifically to people who
are not Americans, but I know there are a lot
of constitutional applications for people in the country, regardless.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Of your duty of the constitution.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
It is an interesting document, is it not.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yea?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
So this, the Post reports The sweeping new detention policy
comes days after Congress passed a spending package. We know
there's forty five billion dollars over the next four years
to lock up immigrants for civil deportation proceedings. The measure
will allow ICE to roughly double the nation's immigrant detention
capacity to one hundred thousand people a day. And so
this plays into that they're not going to let anyone
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get away for a moment.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Now, the Board of Supervisors has four motions on the
table that they are going to address at today's meeting.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
They are. Indeed, we know that a lot of local
governments are doing what they feel like they can in
support of illegal immigrants in the community. The La County
Board of Supervisors, their meeting is underway, but their meetings
are atrociously long, so be going on all day. They're
currently an executive session, will probably be there until after twelve.
I'm going to have this covered for you. But Supervisor
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Hilda so Lease will introduce these four emotions that will
be considered related to the federal government's crackdown unillegal immigrants.
The first would create a cash aid fund within thirty
days for workers and families impacted by immigration raids. It
also calls for expansion of the Small Business Interruption Fund,
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to expand the county's pet foster program, and promoting resources
for pet owners who are impacted by the immigration raids.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Well, yes, that was a big article in the La
Times about what happens to the pet. Now the Board
of Supervisors also going to undo some sort of administrative
error that led to a big mess.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
This is I'm not a guy who just poops on
the government, right, you know, I know it's easy to do,
but boy, local government in Southern California really doesn't help.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
You don't even have they write their own story. I mean,
we're we're not pooping on them for just the sake
of yea.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Yeah, no, I know.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
They take the poop and they throw it us and
I'm like, look it, there's poop, and we're.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Like, okay, I guess we'll pay attention.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Let me take it back. You're right, there's a lot
of poop to pay attention to. If you're into poop,
this is the place to be a reporter. I can
tell you that there's a lot being hurled around. Take
it back to November, LA County voters approved Measure G.
This was somewhat controversial. It did pass narrowly, and it
expands the Board of Supervisors and also creates a new
position that I don't think we fully digested yet that
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could become the most powerful position in southern California because
this will be a county wide elected executive, basically a
county mayor. It will also expand the Board of Supervisors
from five members to nine, each of them currently represent
about two million people. They say that's too much. So
in twenty twenty eight, we're going to be voting for
a county mayor, and by twenty thirty two we'll be
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voting for those nine supervisors to join the board. But
in the process of drafting the language that voters approved,
it was called Measure G at the time, it seems
that inadvertently we also repealed Measure J, which was approved
in twenty twenty. We talked earlier in the program about
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the covid era and a lot of our priorities, and
a lot of our priorities, especially from local government, shifted
towards racial justice and the carceral state people who are
in jail. This is what Measure J was. We have
so many measures you've probably forgotten, only so many letters.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
But they get REMI sure fatigue.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Measure J and twenty twenty required the county to set
aside ten percent of its locally generated unrestricted money and
spend it on jailsion programs and other social services aimed
at preventing people from landing in jail. These funds were
intended to be used on programs like job training, business development,
housing services, youth developments. But and I don't mean to giggle,
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but I'm giggling. County officials recently discovered a glaring error.
The measure was never codified in the county charter. So
last year when county voters approved Measure G expanding the
Board of Supervisors, creating that county executive overhauling the county government,
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Measure J was inadvertently repealed. So now today whenever they
come out of executive session, an error. They just missed it.
So all of the supervisors are in favor of keeping
Measure J.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Do they get embarrassed at all when they do stuff
like this or no?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
The Board of Supervisors, these are not rookies, these five ladus.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
They are entrenched in their feasts.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
They've been around for a long time, and they're skilled communicators,
especially Lindsay Horvath, supervisor Horrorbath is very good.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
You don't want to make these women mad, guys, It's true.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I mean they're powerful women.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
These are powerful the supervisors arguably, And it's spent this
way forever.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Two of them used to be in Congress. Right, tell
me what what local government role is more attractive to
a politician than Congress.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
And the population and the size of La County a
lot bigger than you know, states.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
And it pays better, it pays better than yes, and
you have a little more job security.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
You know, it's it's the gig, and La County Supervisor
is the Gig's hang on to it.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
It's the gig. And you can, if you want to
take the right path to move up in local government
and just cash in on that for the rest of
your life. You spend some time, perhaps in the Assembly
because it's smaller district, you can you can network there,
get in.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Say this again, Michael, you look like a politician like you,
and I'm saying that in a nice way. Like you
look like a politician I could get behind like you
look the part, but you're also a good person and
that comes through.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I think you could have a real career.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
And I think at some point I'll spend some time
in federal prison, though wish for what probably some sort.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Of does this go back to meet Candy. No, Meet
Candy will be I could. I think I will embezzle,
but I won't do it on purpose. I'm not a
dishonest person. I think I will screw up my taxes,
or I won't report something, or I'll have you know.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
You'll rescind measure.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
J can't.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I am going to spend eighteen months in federal prison.
They're gonna let me out a.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Good one, like a nice white man, and I'll be.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Very popular there and all the right ways.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
You'll be making candy with toilet will I'll regal them
with tales of broadcast journalism.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
It'll be fun.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
You'll lie to them too and say you were once
an exotic dancer, which you were not.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I'll tell you this. They'll call me babe in prison.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Okay, all right, we'll talk about the Emmys when we
come back. Who can't sex up a board of Supervisor's story?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Yeah, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I haven't done my latest training, and this is a
workplace violence training, which I probably should fully pay attention.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I think it was created in response to some of
your own behavior. Yeah, I'm but everybody else here has
pretty much done it, and this is like the final
They give you thirty days or so to do this, Shannon. Now,
I don't like to jump on it right away because
I'm not a goodie two shoes. I like to wait
a couple of weeks. I put it in my calendar
and I always do it on the clock. I make
sure that I'm on the clock while I'm doing it,
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but I did it last week.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I'm doing it right now.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
We're doing right now, right, And this is what I
it's going to play audio.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
This is my behavior.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Now you watch these ridiculous silent I'm watching the scenario
on silent and just clicking next. You know, we have
had to do training in this building. It was years ago,
but we did have to do training because of behavior
of someone.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
And it was like.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
They brought people in and like, did those uncomfortable in
person type scenarios?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Yeah, oh my god, COVID killed that thing.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Oh, but I will take credit for the workplace violence one.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
I do believe this is geared towards me.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
It's an easy one. The questions are right hard, You'll
be fine. It does take about twenty to thirty minutes.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I always go for like, yes, yes, yes, like is
this an example of workplace violence? Even if it's not.
Even it's like I slapped Michael Monks in the face. Yea,
And they're like, is this workplace violence? And in my
heart I'm like, no, that's a hello. But I always
say yes. I act out an abundance of cautions.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
But they're not always correct. It's not always yes right.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
But again you get three out of ten and they
still pass.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I know, but don't you have any integrity? Don't you
have any pride?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
And you've been working for iHeartMedia for two years. When
you get to twenty and you do this six times
a year, your pride will have dissipated as well.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I don't know. I'm pretty well committed to getting a's.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Tell me, okay, tell me about the Emmys.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
You know what I noticed about this list. I don't
know anything about what's on. And I'm gonna preface this
by saying I am currently rewatching for probably the eighth time,
all the way through Game of Thrones. Oh, because nothing
has connected with me the way that show did. It's
(26:16):
like my piece of culture that I can't let go of.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I tried to do this with Gossip Girl, and it
wasn't the same.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
It aged right like some of these period shows. Eight.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
It didn't do for me what it did for me
the first round.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
You're a different person, Yeah, you're a different person. So
I'm looking at this list of shows drama series. May
I read the list of one of these eight nominees
and or h I don't. I can't tell you one
thing about it in a new.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Star Wars situation, and I shouldn't be speaking about it.
The diplomat that is with the Carrie something or other.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Felicity, Felicity.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Yeah. The last Russell I do watch The Last of Us?
Is that about zombies?
Speaker 2 (26:54):
It is okay, It's based on a video game, and
it's very well acted.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
By a small problem with Pedro Pascal because in the
rom com I watched with the girl who did the
sex movie Dakota Johnson, he plays a character that goes
through something. I'll just say that not to spoil it,
and now I can never look at him the same.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
He was also in Game of Thrones and a memorable
role throughout one of the seasons and was just an
excellent character, so I can only I appreciate him for that.
So I checked out this show and I like it. It
makes me think though I'm a big Walking Dead fan,
and Walking Dead never got the industry critical love that
Last of Us is getting, and I thought Walking Dead
(27:37):
was beautiful drama, beautifully acted.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Do you think that adds to a cult following which
The Walking Dead definitely has had. Do you think that
that adds to the Colt appeal. When the industry doesn't
take notice, you.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Get a little bit of a chip on your shoulder
he as a fan. Yeah, like I will love you
even Hollywood doesn't more. Yeah, Walking Dead was so good
and they never got any acting nominations, and I thought
it could have been a I'm a series nomination. It's
a great series. Anyway, Moving on the list, after the
last of Us, we've got Paradise.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
What is that about?
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
It's the show with Oh they're in that bunker.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (28:15):
My gosh, didn't you watch it? Did I watch?
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (28:18):
I did watch it. You're right, Sterling k. Brown. That's right,
that's right, I.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Did watch Oh was that the President?
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Yeah? That was a very good show. Yeah, I see my.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
But doesn't this say something about media today, like we
don't there's so much.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
There's so much con that was like sixteen shows ago.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
And there's so much great television being made. It is
really a golden age for acting and writing.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Kiana.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
That's almost like what happened this morning with the coffee?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, for said, did you share that?
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Well?
Speaker 3 (28:52):
I know I didn't share it.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I asked her if she want anything from Phil's Coffee
They just opened up down the street here.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
She was like, yeah, let me check out the menu,
and I'm like, I swear she used to work there.
And then she's like, wait, did you say pizza or phills?
So it's kind of the same thing of like, didn't
you love Paradise? Didn't you come in here and talk
about it all the time? And now you don't even know.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
The pit is nominated in Trauma? Did you watch this yet?
It's on HBO? And I tend to watch everything HBO.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Okay, yeah, are you a hospital drama person? No?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Okay, but I'm willing to give an HBO hospital drama.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Yeah, a little bit of I need to re get
into that one. I got like halfway into the first episode.
It was too chaotic for me.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
It was stressing me.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
What scares me?
Speaker 3 (29:33):
The bank? You need that right now now?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Noah Wiley was he on er back in the nines?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Is he the hot surgeon?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Was the lead?
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
I had a big picture of him across the street
from the last guy at the Warner Brothers lot Severance,
which is gets a lot of buzz.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Yeah. I tried that. It wasn't funny.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
She's kind of like, eh, slow horses, didn't watch it,
don't know it. The White Lotus I love.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
I thought this season was a waste of I.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Thought it was an interest season. It was a different
kind of season. There was no one to root for,
that's true. It was a different kind of experience without
what's the actress's name, the blonde. The did see kind
of a crazy character doing a Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
The White Lotus is an interesting character study every time.
So even though the plot is not always yeah strong,
I care about what the characters are going to do next.
I'm invested in eavesdropping.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I'm so tired of the rich, the uber rich, and
all of their pre elections. Like it was a novelty
in the first season and now I'm just kind of
over it.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Comedy series. I know we got to wrap up here,
but the Bear is nominated again in Comedy Series. Very
controversial choice and I could only watch a couple episodes.
I think this isn't for me because I was expecting humor. Yeah,
and I didn't get any Abbot. Elementary is funny. Hacks
is a very good show. Nobody wants this. I haven't
watched yet on that, folks.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I challenge you not to fall in love with it
within ninety seconds.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Adam Adam and Kristen Bell and.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I'm already got a Nimy nomination.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
So did she.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
That's what we both did. It's a great show. My
husband even likes it.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Only murders in the building, shrinking the studio, which I
want to see, and what we do in the shadows
now the main reason I haven't seen a lot of
these shrink How do you? How do you have all
the services? I don't have the Apple.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
You don't have kids, That's what I I don't have kids,
So I have all the streams.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
You've got all of them. I just can't just don't
have all of them.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
I don't think i've done.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I got the HBO that I pay for, but I
got the You have a kid at home, you should just.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
I have my free Holes watches YouTube, which I do
subscribe to. He watches his car cut Thorus.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
When I leave my low frie Holayes alone at home,
I put on his cartoons?
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Right?
Speaker 3 (31:38):
What is the cartoon that he prefers?
Speaker 2 (31:40):
He likes any YouTube video at length that might have
games where the mice are sticking their heads up out
of the holes, or there are birds eating seeds.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Have you witnessed him watching the cartoons without you there?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Do you have a hitting camera to watch for.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
No?
Speaker 2 (31:59):
I don't survey.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Oh I see, it would be a violation of his privacy.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
He has an expectation of privacy and it is his
home too, absolutely, But I do. I do a door
watching him sit there and watch his watch his shows.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
He's captivated by it.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
None of them got any nominations.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Wow, all we need is Milo free Jules is not.
That's good enough for me. Thank you, Michael. We'll see
you got it all right, we'll do some off watch
when we come back.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
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if I Am six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app. In the dream, I
was still doing this job, but then also working in
the deli in the evenings.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
You have to supplement your radio income, right.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I've long had this dream of returning to the deli life,
and I've toyed with the idea of applying at the
Jersey Mikes near where I live.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Do you think you could do customer service now?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I loved customer service. I loved meeting people, love talking
to people. I love getting their order done quickly. I
was really big at efficiency.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Are you good at register?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I'm great at register.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I could do register right now. If k if I
had a register, I would work the register.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I think we may be onto something.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
When they do the sales upstairs, why don't they have
them come in for register.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
You're on the wrong track.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I'm on the track if we take your confectionery dream
and my deli dream and we unite them.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
And make them meat candy, and it could be called
meat candy.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Let's get here, Okay, Gary and Chen kaf I am
six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and Michael
Monks has joined us for the Michael Monks Local Power Hour.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
This is what we have branded this and I'm gonna
be sad when i have to break up with it.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
You have to, You're right, I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
You mentioned yesterday that the homelessness count was coming out
for LA County yesterday afternoon and that it did.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
What did this report tell us?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
What we've learned is that for the second year in
a row, the total number of people classified as homeless
in both LA County and the City of Los Angeles
has declined. And that's significant because it had continued to
go up for years and years and years. Last year
was the first time they saw any decline at all.
They were hoping for another decline this year so that
they could call it a trend, and that is what
(01:57):
LA Homeless Services Authority CEO of Alicia Adams Kellum did
call it, because this is now a trend and they
got what they were hoping for.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Where do you stand with people who have three names
or name?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Look, if it's a merry name, I mean, I'm not
going to tell you what to call yourself. It's also
very common in the Latino world, to be sure.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Aside from that, just.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Like white people or black people white people, she's black,
so I don't know if I am allowed to comment
on it.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I think that's okay, I don't know. Yeah, anyway, let's
move well she is she's also doctor Felicia has squeeze?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Is it another one there?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It's a mouthful in other words, as she's leaving her
job of course, because of the problems that the LA
Homeless Services Authority has had with properly accounting for the
many billions of dollars that have been funneled through it
to other ages.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Is this Karen Bass's BFF or one of her personal
relationship indeed?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, okay, go on, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So what we've seen is now a trend, a modest decrease,
but really overshadowing this announcement, whether they wanted to acknowledge
this or not, and they really didn't, is that we're
seeing a very modest decrease. We peaked at about seventy
five thousand homeless people in Los Angeles County, more than
half of whom have always been in LA City proper
(03:12):
six years ago when this count was done in twenty nineteen.
There were fifty eight thousand, fifty nine thousand homeless people
in the county. That's sixteen thousand fewer than there were
a couple of years ago. And now we are very
slowly starting to come down from the peak. So whether
this is calls for full celebration, that's a debate to
(03:33):
be had. You want to see a decline, but this
is not going fast enough.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Do they account for COVID with the numbers twenty nineteen
versus twenty twenty one versus where we're at now.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
COVID seems to have happened at the same time as
this significant increase what we saw in Los Angeles, and
I wasn't living here at the time, but what I've learned,
especially in the downtown area, is when everything shut down,
there was no policing of this sort of thing. And
I don't mean police in the literal sense. I mean
(04:10):
just anybody who could have operated a business or lived
in a home down there to say, shoe, you know,
you can't stop here, you can't lay down here. And
also the government here became very lenient towards a lot
of things, a lot of things, you know, it's illegal
in the city of Los Angeles to camp on the sidewalk.
So when you know that and you think about what
(04:32):
you see, even now, years after COVID is the pandemic
is pretty much over, what do you feel, you know,
because you're really not allowed to be there, You impede
access to pedestrians, you obstruct traffic visibility.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I think there was very much.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I think you hit the nail on the head a
lase fair anything goes attitude in the during COVID. In
the couple of years that followed, you know, we were
buying cocktails and putting them in our cars to go,
I mean, and everything was drunk tear. No you can
get to go drinks, drunks could from restaurants. Anybody could,
(05:13):
and so I mean, I remember thinking that's kind of
that was for me, the threshold of oh, we're just
doing this. Now you can go to your favorite Mexican
place or whatever, pick up dinner and pick up to Margarita's,
put them in your cup holder, and you're cool to
drive home with that.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
It was interesting the way, and we could talk hours
on this. I think there will be a lot to
be said about COVID once the politics kind of wear
off from it and it's in a distant memory and
people can look at it a little more objectively. But
what our priorities were at the height of COVID was
very strange.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
They were ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I mean they were comical looking back on them, and
we talked at nauseum and you weren't here, But I mean,
Gary and I spent a lot of time talking about
the guidelines that came out from the state. You can
go outside and you can play cat, but you have
to use a miniature American sized football. I mean that
was one of the regulations from the state. You can't
use a regulation football, but you can't use a miniature
(06:10):
Well behind that, I have no idea. I'm just saying
that's how crazy the rule making was.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And you also learned what federalism means like as a
form of American democracy because each state was able to
approach this differently, and I know California was probably crazier
than most.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
It was.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
It was just interesting how they came up with what
was legal now and what was frowned upon legally in California.
But my point is that with this lase a fair
attitude of you can take cocktails to go, you can
sleep on the streets, you can do whatever, because we're
in these strange times. I think that now especially and
we'll get into the new ice rules, but I think
(06:54):
especially now with Trump coming in and saying, you know what,
we're following the rules and we're getting rid of all
illegal immigrants and we're hardlining here, it's it's a whiplash
for especially here in California, especially here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Wait, what, We've been thumbing our.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Nose at the laws for the past five years and
now suddenly you're enforcing them.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Well, keep in mind, he was president when all of
this started. I mean he was president when COVID started,
and a lot of these actions, both at the federal
and the state level, occurred while he was in the
White House. Still, so there is a relationship between President
Trump and the American response to COVID. Additionally, when you
(07:34):
reference the pendulum, I don't know if there was a
time in American history where it has swung repeatedly so quickly.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah, is that our lack of tension span, Is that
the TikTok gaization of us?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
It could be, But what I mean is that the
pendulum swings fast and far, and it will swing back.
But at some point, can it just kind of remember
when it used to swing between it does George W.
Bush and Bill Clinton.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
It hasn't found the middle in quite some time.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Right, and there will never be the There's always a
reason that you vote for a Democrat or Republican because
you want the pendulum to be left or right of
that center move but to be completely open border, to
be completely allowing for homelessness on the streets, to no
more illegal immigration, no more illegal immigrants in the country.
(08:25):
It's a lot, really fast.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I think you're so right to bringing up the George
HW to Bill Clinton, and so much talk has been
made about the letter, you know that they wrote to
each other, that HW wrote to Bill Clinton, and it
was such a different civilized time, Right. Do you remember how
upset Democrats were with George W.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Like he was the.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Devil incarnate George W. Was the devil incarnate Democrats in California.
And it's like, well, now he's looking pretty good.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
He's best he's with Michelle Obama. Yeah, that's how far
we've strayed.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
We are.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
We are crazy people, all right.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Coming up next, Ice declares immigrants, illegal immigrants ineligible for
bond hearings.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Michael will break that down for us when we return.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
All right, if you are in the valley, we do
have an LAPD pursuit. This is a white suv and
this person is driving a fool. It is in van
eyes and the rate of speed we're looking at is
I would say fifteen at least fifteen miles per hour
over the speed limit for these surface straights here and
(09:39):
it is on surface strates. This person and I can't
nail down what kind of vehicle do you think that is?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
You know, it looks like a white suv of some sort.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Duh, But I felt like making model.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Oh what are you looking at me? Have we met who?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
You're a guy? Yeah? But anyway, Yeah, it is a.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Lot all the other white SUVs you see it?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Okay, Now, I know not to go to you for
make and model, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
They do say that this person has multiple firearms, so
you're not seeing any black and whites in the wake
of this white suv for a couple reasons. Number one,
they have multiple firearms so you kind of want to
take a wait and see approach. You don't want to
play with this person. Number two, they're doing way too
high of a speed to follow them on these surface streets.
(10:28):
If you've got five guys trailing you and everyone's doing
sixty and a thirty, that obviously raises the risk of
complete catastrophe. Stop signs, stop lights yielding. This guy's doing
none of it.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
He's got through parking lots in some of these shopping
areas to get back on these streets to evade traffic
much less police. He's evading any type of stompage. And
he's now going about seventy down Van Nights Boulevard. That's terrifying.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, now you're seeing a black and white suv in
per suit behind him. Of course they've got him overhead.
That's how we're watching. They've got their eyes in the sky,
their law enforcement. But they are moving in on this
guy again. It looks like he is on at Van Owen.
He's on Van Owen, so we know that, and he's
(11:16):
approaching Vesper. He was in some industrial areas. Now it
looks like residential areas. But like Michael said, yeah, he's
cutting in and out of strip mall parking lots, to
avoid stopping at traffic lights when there is a backup
in that intersection. In those intersections, but this person is
showing no disregard for anybody else on the street.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I always wonder what the plan is feats driver, You know, like,
what is your end goal here? Obviously to get away,
but do you have an immediate plan as your GPS open?
What are you looking at as you're trying to navigate
your way out of these situations?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I think oftentimes when we see chases like this that
remain in the same area at least until this point
in Van Ey's, they know the area, they know the neighborhood,
maybe they lived there, grew up there, what have you,
and they're waiting to see if they can get into
any of the nooks and the crannies, whether it be
(12:12):
an overpass where they can ditch the car under and
take off on foot, whether it be a covered parking
spot somewhere at an apartment complex and underground parking spot
that I think is the endgame for at least for me,
if I put myself in the shoes of someone leaving
police on a chase. The few times I've seen them
get away with it. It's one of those like park
the car underground garage, get out, hopefully go unnoticed type
(12:36):
of situations. They always catch up to them because this
day and age, there's cameras everywhere. They got the license plate.
They probably got you doing whatever you did before you
jack that car, if you jacked it. And we have
no information that it's a stolen vehicle at this point,
just that the person has multiple firearms. But yeah, the
endgame is always a big question because we're all watching,
(12:58):
you know, it's a show.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Two things. One, the streets are never this clear when
I'm trying to come to work, and they are always
clear when these pursuits happen. They can make it through
any neighborhood. I'm getting stopped on random neighborhood streets backed
up because of nobody around here can drive well and
the streets are so poorly designed.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Two.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Los Angeles loves a pursuit, and I think every market
would love a pursuit if they also had this many
helicopters in the air to broadcast it live so effectively
with the technology you see on the screen. But here
here in Los Angeles, it is such a production. It's exciting,
it's thrilling, and it is well.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Produced for bar Danna.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
He's driving on the wrong side of van oh and
now he's driving head on opposing traffic doing forty five
and what appears to be a thirty zone, taking lefts
indiscriminately across the lanes of traffic. Very dangerous situation. You
almost wonder what's more dangerous. I guess it's a real
(13:58):
ding dong when it comes to these residential areas where
like you said, there's not much traffic as opposed to
the way, and you know it could be because you've
got people in the street usually, but it is the
middle of the day, so maybe not as many. But
you know, when he's operating around all those other cars
and those heavily trafficked areas, that looks like a more
dangerous situation almost in terms of him having no disregred
(14:22):
and I keep saying him it could be her. Now
we've got him reversing one to three black and whites.
He just reversed past them, hoping to he.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Did a turn about there is cla back into a driveway,
turned about to go the other way, and is now
being pursued by them. Again.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
They're as close as they've gotten to him. Again, there's
three black and whites in pursuit. He's on Heartland, just
turned left onto Kester there in Van Eyes again, driving
on the wrong side of traffic, hugely popular intersection. He
just took a left at barely avoiding contact here.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I can't believe he hasn't hit anyone.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Oh, this is a very jarring to watch because even
when you're not on the main road, he does look
like he's on a Sherman Is a Sherman way he's
on right now. He's just turned again onto Is that?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I think Currito's Or is he back on ben ellen
CROs Excuse me, I'm not sure. Well, he's back on
a residential street. And so why they might not be
heavy vehicular traffic. You're gonna have grandma's and kids. It's summer.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I mean, I haven't seen one grandma nor one child.
But you know they're gonna be out there. Someone's gonna
be out there. That's the middle of the day.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
That's what's so scary about it. But he seems committed.
He's staying in the same general area.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
All right, we will take a break on this for
news and come back. Hopefully the LAPD will put a
quick end of this before anyone gets hurt.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Michael Monks has joined us. The chase has come to
an end with the man Starfish on the pavement as
LAPD officers took him into custody. So a nice clean
ending to that one. We were about to talk about
ICE declaring millions of undocumented immigrants ineligible for bond hearings.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Michael, what does this mean?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
It means something pretty significant for immigrants who came here
illegally years and years ago. This was common practice for
people that were captured shortly after arriving in the country illegally.
But if you had been here a while and you
were taken into federal immigration custody, you could appear for
a bond hearing. But the federal government has decided to
(16:40):
change that position. The Washington Post reports that just last week,
Todd M. Lyons, who's the acting Director of Immigration and
Customs Enforcement ICE, he told the officers that such immigrants
should be detained for the duration of their removal proceedings,
even though that can take months. Even though that can
take years.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
It seems unconstitutional.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
That is what the immigrant lawyers are saying. Not only
should they be eligible for bond hearings, but they say
this policy will apply to millions of immigrants and overcrowd
and overwhelm these detention facilities.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I'm not a lawyer, but don't we have a right
to a bond hearing if we are in custody.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I don't know how it works specifically to people who
are not Americans, but I know there are a lot
of constitutional applications for people in the country, regardless.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Of your duty of the constitution.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
It is an interesting document, is it not.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yea?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
So this, the Post reports The sweeping new detention policy
comes days after Congress passed a spending package. We know
there's forty five billion dollars over the next four years
to lock up immigrants for civil deportation proceedings. The measure
will allow ICE to roughly double the nation's immigrant detention
capacity to one hundred thousand people a day. And so
this plays into that they're not going to let anyone
(17:57):
get away for a moment.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Now, the Board of Supervisors has four motions on the
table that they are going to address at today's meeting.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
They are. Indeed, we know that a lot of local
governments are doing what they feel like they can in
support of illegal immigrants in the community. The La County
Board of Supervisors, their meeting is underway, but their meetings
are atrociously long, so be going on all day. They're
currently an executive session, will probably be there until after twelve.
I'm going to have this covered for you. But Supervisor
(18:28):
Hilda so Lease will introduce these four emotions that will
be considered related to the federal government's crackdown unillegal immigrants.
The first would create a cash aid fund within thirty
days for workers and families impacted by immigration raids. It
also calls for expansion of the Small Business Interruption Fund,
(18:49):
to expand the county's pet foster program, and promoting resources
for pet owners who are impacted by the immigration raids.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Well, yes, that was a big article in the La
Times about what happens to the pet. Now the Board
of Supervisors also going to undo some sort of administrative
error that led to a big mess.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
This is I'm not a guy who just poops on
the government, right, you know, I know it's easy to do,
but boy, local government in Southern California really doesn't help.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
You don't even have they write their own story. I mean,
we're we're not pooping on them for just the sake
of yea.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Yeah, no, I know.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
They take the poop and they throw it us and
I'm like, look it, there's poop, and we're.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Like, okay, I guess we'll pay attention.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Let me take it back. You're right, there's a lot
of poop to pay attention to. If you're into poop,
this is the place to be a reporter. I can
tell you that there's a lot being hurled around. Take
it back to November, LA County voters approved Measure G.
This was somewhat controversial. It did pass narrowly, and it
expands the Board of Supervisors and also creates a new
position that I don't think we fully digested yet that
(19:50):
could become the most powerful position in southern California because
this will be a county wide elected executive, basically a
county mayor. It will also expand the Board of Supervisors
from five members to nine, each of them currently represent
about two million people. They say that's too much. So
in twenty twenty eight, we're going to be voting for
a county mayor, and by twenty thirty two we'll be
(20:11):
voting for those nine supervisors to join the board. But
in the process of drafting the language that voters approved,
it was called Measure G at the time, it seems
that inadvertently we also repealed Measure J, which was approved
in twenty twenty. We talked earlier in the program about
(20:33):
the covid era and a lot of our priorities, and
a lot of our priorities, especially from local government, shifted
towards racial justice and the carceral state people who are
in jail. This is what Measure J was. We have
so many measures you've probably forgotten, only so many letters.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
But they get REMI sure fatigue.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Measure J and twenty twenty required the county to set
aside ten percent of its locally generated unrestricted money and
spend it on jailsion programs and other social services aimed
at preventing people from landing in jail. These funds were
intended to be used on programs like job training, business development,
housing services, youth developments. But and I don't mean to giggle,
(21:14):
but I'm giggling. County officials recently discovered a glaring error.
The measure was never codified in the county charter. So
last year when county voters approved Measure G expanding the
Board of Supervisors, creating that county executive overhauling the county government,
(21:34):
Measure J was inadvertently repealed. So now today whenever they
come out of executive session, an error. They just missed it.
So all of the supervisors are in favor of keeping
Measure J.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Do they get embarrassed at all when they do stuff
like this or no?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
The Board of Supervisors, these are not rookies, these five ladus.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
They are entrenched in their feasts.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
They've been around for a long time, and they're skilled communicators,
especially Lindsay Horvath, supervisor Horrorbath is very good.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
You don't want to make these women mad, guys, It's true.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I mean they're powerful women.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
These are powerful the supervisors arguably, And it's spent this
way forever.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Two of them used to be in Congress. Right, tell
me what what local government role is more attractive to
a politician than Congress.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
And the population and the size of La County a
lot bigger than you know, states.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
And it pays better, it pays better than yes, and
you have a little more job security.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
You know, it's it's the gig, and La County Supervisor
is the Gig's hang on to it.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
It's the gig. And you can, if you want to
take the right path to move up in local government
and just cash in on that for the rest of
your life. You spend some time, perhaps in the Assembly
because it's smaller district, you can you can network there,
get in.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Say this again, Michael, you look like a politician like you,
and I'm saying that in a nice way. Like you
look like a politician I could get behind like you
look the part, but you're also a good person and
that comes through.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I think you could have a real career.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
And I think at some point I'll spend some time
in federal prison, though wish for what probably some sort.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Of does this go back to meet Candy. No, Meet
Candy will be I could. I think I will embezzle,
but I won't do it on purpose. I'm not a
dishonest person. I think I will screw up my taxes,
or I won't report something, or I'll have you know.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
You'll rescind measure.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
J can't.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I am going to spend eighteen months in federal prison.
They're gonna let me out a.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Good one, like a nice white man, and I'll be.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Very popular there and all the right ways.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
You'll be making candy with toilet will I'll regal them
with tales of broadcast journalism.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
It'll be fun.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
You'll lie to them too and say you were once
an exotic dancer, which you were not.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I'll tell you this. They'll call me babe in prison.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Okay, all right, we'll talk about the Emmys when we
come back. Who can't sex up a board of Supervisor's story?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Yeah, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I haven't done my latest training, and this is a
workplace violence training, which I probably should fully pay attention.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I think it was created in response to some of
your own behavior. Yeah, I'm but everybody else here has
pretty much done it, and this is like the final
They give you thirty days or so to do this, Shannon. Now,
I don't like to jump on it right away because
I'm not a goodie two shoes. I like to wait
a couple of weeks. I put it in my calendar
and I always do it on the clock. I make
sure that I'm on the clock while I'm doing it,
(24:34):
but I did it last week.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I'm doing it right now.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
We're doing right now, right, And this is what I
it's going to play audio.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
This is my behavior.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Now you watch these ridiculous silent I'm watching the scenario
on silent and just clicking next. You know, we have
had to do training in this building. It was years ago,
but we did have to do training because of behavior
of someone.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
And it was like.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
They brought people in and like, did those uncomfortable in
person type scenarios?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Yeah, oh my god, COVID killed that thing.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Oh, but I will take credit for the workplace violence one.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
I do believe this is geared towards me.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
It's an easy one. The questions are right hard, You'll
be fine. It does take about twenty to thirty minutes.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I always go for like, yes, yes, yes, like is
this an example of workplace violence? Even if it's not.
Even it's like I slapped Michael Monks in the face. Yea,
And they're like, is this workplace violence? And in my
heart I'm like, no, that's a hello. But I always
say yes. I act out an abundance of cautions.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
But they're not always correct. It's not always yes right.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
But again you get three out of ten and they
still pass.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I know, but don't you have any integrity? Don't you
have any pride?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
And you've been working for iHeartMedia for two years. When
you get to twenty and you do this six times
a year, your pride will have dissipated as well.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I don't know. I'm pretty well committed to getting a's.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Tell me, okay, tell me about the Emmys.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
You know what I noticed about this list. I don't
know anything about what's on. And I'm gonna preface this
by saying I am currently rewatching for probably the eighth time,
all the way through Game of Thrones. Oh, because nothing
has connected with me the way that show did. It's
(26:16):
like my piece of culture that I can't let go of.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I tried to do this with Gossip Girl, and it
wasn't the same.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
It aged right like some of these period shows. Eight.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
It didn't do for me what it did for me
the first round.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
You're a different person, Yeah, you're a different person. So
I'm looking at this list of shows drama series. May
I read the list of one of these eight nominees
and or h I don't. I can't tell you one
thing about it in a new.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Star Wars situation, and I shouldn't be speaking about it.
The diplomat that is with the Carrie something or other.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Felicity, Felicity.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Yeah. The last Russell I do watch The Last of Us?
Is that about zombies?
Speaker 2 (26:54):
It is okay, It's based on a video game, and
it's very well acted.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
By a small problem with Pedro Pascal because in the
rom com I watched with the girl who did the
sex movie Dakota Johnson, he plays a character that goes
through something. I'll just say that not to spoil it,
and now I can never look at him the same.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
He was also in Game of Thrones and a memorable
role throughout one of the seasons and was just an
excellent character, so I can only I appreciate him for that.
So I checked out this show and I like it. It
makes me think though I'm a big Walking Dead fan,
and Walking Dead never got the industry critical love that
Last of Us is getting, and I thought Walking Dead
(27:37):
was beautiful drama, beautifully acted.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Do you think that adds to a cult following which
The Walking Dead definitely has had. Do you think that
that adds to the Colt appeal. When the industry doesn't
take notice, you.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Get a little bit of a chip on your shoulder
he as a fan. Yeah, like I will love you
even Hollywood doesn't more. Yeah, Walking Dead was so good
and they never got any acting nominations, and I thought
it could have been a I'm a series nomination. It's
a great series. Anyway, Moving on the list, after the
last of Us, we've got Paradise.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
What is that about?
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
It's the show with Oh they're in that bunker.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (28:15):
My gosh, didn't you watch it? Did I watch?
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (28:18):
I did watch it. You're right, Sterling k. Brown. That's right,
that's right, I.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Did watch Oh was that the President?
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Yeah? That was a very good show. Yeah, I see my.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
But doesn't this say something about media today, like we
don't there's so much.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
There's so much con that was like sixteen shows ago.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
And there's so much great television being made. It is
really a golden age for acting and writing.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Kiana.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
That's almost like what happened this morning with the coffee?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, for said, did you share that?
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Well?
Speaker 3 (28:52):
I know I didn't share it.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I asked her if she want anything from Phil's Coffee
They just opened up down the street here.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
She was like, yeah, let me check out the menu,
and I'm like, I swear she used to work there.
And then she's like, wait, did you say pizza or phills?
So it's kind of the same thing of like, didn't
you love Paradise? Didn't you come in here and talk
about it all the time? And now you don't even know.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
The pit is nominated in Trauma? Did you watch this yet?
It's on HBO? And I tend to watch everything HBO.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Okay, yeah, are you a hospital drama person? No?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Okay, but I'm willing to give an HBO hospital drama.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Yeah, a little bit of I need to re get
into that one. I got like halfway into the first episode.
It was too chaotic for me.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
It was stressing me.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
What scares me?
Speaker 3 (29:33):
The bank? You need that right now now?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Noah Wiley was he on er back in the nines?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Is he the hot surgeon?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Was the lead?
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
I had a big picture of him across the street
from the last guy at the Warner Brothers lot Severance,
which is gets a lot of buzz.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Yeah. I tried that. It wasn't funny.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
She's kind of like, eh, slow horses, didn't watch it,
don't know it. The White Lotus I love.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
I thought this season was a waste of I.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Thought it was an interest season. It was a different
kind of season. There was no one to root for,
that's true. It was a different kind of experience without
what's the actress's name, the blonde. The did see kind
of a crazy character doing a Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
The White Lotus is an interesting character study every time.
So even though the plot is not always yeah strong,
I care about what the characters are going to do next.
I'm invested in eavesdropping.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I'm so tired of the rich, the uber rich, and
all of their pre elections. Like it was a novelty
in the first season and now I'm just kind of
over it.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Comedy series. I know we got to wrap up here,
but the Bear is nominated again in Comedy Series. Very
controversial choice and I could only watch a couple episodes.
I think this isn't for me because I was expecting humor. Yeah,
and I didn't get any Abbot. Elementary is funny. Hacks
is a very good show. Nobody wants this. I haven't
watched yet on that, folks.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I challenge you not to fall in love with it
within ninety seconds.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Adam Adam and Kristen Bell and.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I'm already got a Nimy nomination.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
So did she.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
That's what we both did. It's a great show. My
husband even likes it.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Only murders in the building, shrinking the studio, which I
want to see, and what we do in the shadows
now the main reason I haven't seen a lot of
these shrink How do you? How do you have all
the services? I don't have the Apple.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
You don't have kids, That's what I I don't have kids,
So I have all the streams.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
You've got all of them. I just can't just don't
have all of them.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
I don't think i've done.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I got the HBO that I pay for, but I
got the You have a kid at home, you should just.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
I have my free Holes watches YouTube, which I do
subscribe to. He watches his car cut Thorus.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
When I leave my low frie Holayes alone at home,
I put on his cartoons?
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Right?
Speaker 3 (31:38):
What is the cartoon that he prefers?
Speaker 2 (31:40):
He likes any YouTube video at length that might have
games where the mice are sticking their heads up out
of the holes, or there are birds eating seeds.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Have you witnessed him watching the cartoons without you there?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Do you have a hitting camera to watch for.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
No?
Speaker 2 (31:59):
I don't survey.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Oh I see, it would be a violation of his privacy.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
He has an expectation of privacy and it is his
home too, absolutely, But I do. I do a door
watching him sit there and watch his watch his shows.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
He's captivated by it.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
None of them got any nominations.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Wow, all we need is Milo free Jules is not.
That's good enough for me. Thank you, Michael. We'll see
you got it all right, we'll do some off watch
when we come back.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
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