November 19, 2025 • 27 mins
Gary teams up with KFI’s Michael Monks for a fiery hour, starting with Thanksgiving traffic misery across LA and quickly jumping into a political thunderstorm.
They break down the FBI’s reported monitoring of Newsom’s campaign, the indictment tied to his former chief of staff, and why the fallout may hit Xavier Becerra even harder.
Then it’s the escalating Larry Summers mess, billionaire Tom Steyer launching his governor bid by dropping “bull s&t” in the first seconds of his announcement, and a rapid-fire look at the growing 2028 field: including Rick Caruso’s connection to the Palisades fires. All that, plus Michael’s demand: someone finally fix LA traffic!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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provides more than twenty five thousand meals every week to
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We'll go to Katerina's Club. Also go to Yamavah Resort
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Speaker 3 (01:18):
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Pick Katerina's Club from those four options that pop up.
We'll continue to talk about pastapon as we get a
little bit closer to the actual date of Postathon. On
December second, Michael Monks was walking in the halls and
I said, Hey, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
And he said nothing? And I said, why don't you
come and sit down?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
And now I'm doing something, And now you're sitting down
as Timus Shannon like I was on Friday for you
guys at the live event, and I'm happy to.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Be back shining.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I'd say, shine, Shine, Yeah, or a great value brand Shannon. Yeah,
it tastes similar, but isn't the same. You couldn't you know,
there's a difference. You might not be able to quite
put your finger on exactly what the difference is, but
you know, it's slightly different. I can be profane and
giggle a lot just like she can, but it's not
exactly the same. I would I don't think I've ever
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heard you say the word nipples. Would you like to No,
I'm just saying that's you know, keep that in your
back pocket. If you ever feel like you're straying away
from the Shannon this, just shout it out, yell it out.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I will, and uh, we'll see where it takes.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I don't usually speak that way in the holiday season,
but we can make exceptions for the show. What's what's
your What do you consider holiday season?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Well, it's almost Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, but it wouldn't wouldn't holiday season be like Thanksgiving
through New Year's Day? I treat Thanksgiving as a standalone,
beautiful holiday, a wonderful, wonderful gathering of friends and family,
football on the television, a feast to be had, no
expectation of gifts, just an opportunity to eat a lot
and feel grateful for all that you have.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Wow, good gracious.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
That was like you're supposed to say, good gravy. That's
it was quite a speech. I've got a lot on
my mind today. If you want to blow out the rundown,
I am sure, all out top I would love that Thanksgiving.
I'm a little upset at the traffic situation outside. Well,
welcome to lay Well, this is what I mean. Can
I I don't want to be bad. Sure, if you'd
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like it, here's the deal musical accompanyment for you.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I'll tell you this much.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I do not understand why the people of Los Angeles accept.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
This traffic situation here.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Like you said, welcome to La Well, why why do
we say that's okay with me? You know, today my
usual drive from downtown Los Angeles you take the one
ten to the five to the one thirty four westbound,
and today the one thirty four off ramp the truck
hanging over the side of it, right, it already has
a lane shut down because of you know, the state
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is doing some work, and then you have the truck
accident on top of it.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
It's impossible to get through.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
If one thing goes wrong on any of our already
disastrous roads, it becomes an absolute spectacle that trickles out
all across the region and no one can get anywhere.
Gary Hoffman, when I am mayor of this city. Go on,
we are going to address traffic head on, because Angelina's
and I'll have to say Angelino's as mayor, we do
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not have to settle for this.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
We can take action. This does not have to be
the way we look.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Come on, what's the first thing you do as mayor
to take on traffic head on? I will assemble every
neighborhood council across the city, and together we will compile
the ten biggest choke points in our neighborhood. Find out
whish ones are caused by freeway overflow, find out which
ones are caused by poor signal control. Find out where
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turn should be either restricted or better facilitated to get
people moving through our city better. And then we'll move
up to the state and address those issues as they
relate to the freeways. I believe that together we can
solve traffic and get Los Angeles moving again. And now,
as is political protocol in Los Angeles, I will deliver
the same remarks in Spanish means a helinos, you've got
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the game down. I will tell you that thank you
for that. The FBI has notified some current and former
members of the Governor's office that they have been listening
into their communications. This is an important step, I should say,
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potential anchor around the neck of whatever Gavin Newsom's presidential
campaign is going to look like. This is not going
to bode well for that. It's not the kind of
news you want if you're the sitting governor with maybe
higher aspirations. But this still looks like worse news for
Javier Bessera, who also has higher aspirations of his own,
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and even worse for the woman who used to work
for him who triggered this mess, Dana Williams c We'll
talk about that when we come back, because I do
have questions about the difference in the anchor around the
neck of each of those two guys. We'll talk about
it when we come back.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six four.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Some sunny skies today.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Another storm expected into southern California tomorrow through Friday. Thursday's
storm that is tomorrow expected to drop somewhere half an
inch to an inch depending where you are, maybe one
or two inches in some of the mountains or the hills. Also,
we found out a couple of different media reports that
David Singer. David has been identified as a suspect in
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connection with the death of Celeste Reevas, the fifteen year
old whose remains were found in September inside a car
in an LA tow yard. That same source told NBC
Today that the twenty year old Singer was not cooperating
in the investigation, despite what his attorneys have been saying.
Police said that Celeste's this is the most disturbing part.
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Celeste's death likely occurred last spring, and that this guy
at the very least may have had some help in
dismembering and disposing of for Bob's horrible story.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Awful story. So hopefully that guy has brought to justice.
Michael Monks has joined us.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
We're talking about the new information that the FBI has
been intercepting some communications of current and former members of
the Newsom administration.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Now, let's set the stage.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Now, we know from last week the Dana Williamson, who
was Newsom's chief of staff for about a year, was
arrested last week and dieted by federal grand juria on
charges that she and four other people stole about two
hundred and twenty five thousand dollars from a campaign account
held by Hobby or Basera, former AG Sean mccusky. Apparently,
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the indictment alleges that she conspired with Basera's chief of staff,
Sean McCluskey, mcclusky's wife, and two other prominent lobbyists to
steal this money. There is also she's writing off these
lavish trips and big handbags, et cetera as work expenses,
So she appears to be a dirt bag if the
federal indictment is true. But there's an issue here that
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comes with the ripple effect of a federal indictment, especially
when it comes to somebody at the level of governor
or in this also in this case the level of
Attorney General. Javey Arbsarah and Michael, you've covered politics local
to and above, and this issue of having somebody in
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your office specific I'm talking newsome First, having somebody in
your office who is accused of corruption to this degree,
whether or not she did it while she was in
your office, has got to be an anchor around your
neck whatever future political plans you have, especially when the
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story is complicated like that. And in journalism, you want
to be as thorough and detailed as possible, and so
every time this woman's name is mentioned, the governor's name
is going to be mentioned, and it will be in
the content that she is someone who was trusted with
a lot of power and authority. This is a big
position that she held and went on to do what
she has been alleged to have done. My understanding is that,
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you know, DC is a lot like LA as it
relates to how much it costs to live somewhere. It's expensive,
and so the concern was that the new salary in Washington,
d C. Was not going to be enough. So this
scheme was concocted to funnel ten thousand dollars a month
out of a dormant campaign account belonging to Javier Basera
into the personal coffers in order to amplify the lifestyle.
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But this this investigation reveals that there were a lot
of luxury purchases made with this money. So it's one
thing to say I need more money to survive and
fair rent, but it's another to say I have a
lifestyle that I'm a company too. So let's figure something out.
There is one point of credit, and I don't know
if this is just a pr move or this was
actually the way it went down. She resigned from her
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post in the Governor's office when she found out she
was under invent investigation. And I don't know if that
was just a good thing, the goodness of her heart,
she didn't want to taint the governor's office. But your
point is well taken that every time we mentioned Dana Williamson,
we're gonna mention that she was Governor Newsom's chief of staff,
even if these allegations aren't necessarily tied directly to her time.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
In the governor's office.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
And well, the investigation has reached the governor's office, it
does not mean that Governor Newsom is under investigation, of course,
But this is what we're talking about, how you kind
of jumbled in to this mess here because of her connection,
her deep, strong, powerful connection to the governor's office. As
this investigation was unfolding, the communications intercepted, so and we
don't know yet exactly what they were looking, what the
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agents were looking for, what the Department of Justice was
sniffing around the Governor's office for in the event that
it is connected to Governor Newsom.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
And somehow we just don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I mean, because the FBI is very tight lipped about
especially ongoing investigations. The other question, and Gavin Newsom obviously
will be running for president, it's a he may not
have made anything official yet we all know that that's
where his noses pointing, shall we say, Jabi Arbissera. On
the other hand, this is clearly more closely attached to him,
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and in the event that he knew anything about this,
his political career is over. You were the attorney general.
If anybody should know the law and the ins and
outs therein, it should be the attorney general, not of California,
of the entire country. I mean, you should know a
thing or two about I'm sorry, he was a secretary
of He was the attorney general here and then served
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in the Biden administration. I mean, if you are that
level of legal profession, you should know a thing or two.
You've served at the state level in the attorney general's post,
and then you've been a cabinet secretary for a president,
and for you to fumble the bag as they say
like this, it's absolutely career ending. Well, and there is
a possibility, I mean, we all have to leave the
door open that both of these guys both Gavenusom and
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Jave Arbsera knew nothing about what was going on. There
is that possibility, and there's a possibility that Dana Williamson,
the way she's been described is very good at her job,
which is a positive, but being good at that job,
being good at political operatives, slash lobbyists, state employee, or
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a combination of all three, that's I mean generally, that's
considered an evil creature that is put upon this earth
by the devil himself to just steal and rape people.
That's it, and that's apparently how she was making money.
And the people that are connected to her all live
in that weird, swampy world of crossover between those three
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pillars of what is a state capital. And it's got
to be more alluring if you have any bit of
criminality flowing through your veins to be close to power,
to be close to wealth, and want a little bit
more for yourself. But I know that probably even in
our either personal lives or just in our civic lives
where we live in a city, or we go to
a church, we're part of a sports league, there are
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people who get caught stealing and it comes as an
absolute shock because you know this person and you see
how they behave and to know that they were doing
this behind the scenes is a shock. So there is
a benefit of doubt to give and grace to give
to just about anyone, because there are folks who get
the keys to power like this and use them when
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you're not looking, and it does paint you in a
poor light as well. But there is still some shock
that is I think, to be believed from folks who
might have known this woman and did not know what
she was up to. Now we'll see if it comes
out exactly what the FBI sniffing around.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Again.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
We do know some of the information because of the
indictment that was filed last week against Dana Williamson and
some of these co conspirators. But phone call log records
dates to the calls, how many minutes that lasted, does
not contain direct quotations or details about the subjects that
we're discussed during those calls, but does establish at least
the communication between the people. All right, oh, we didn't
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get to the Tom Steyer thing. We'll do that when
we come back. Another guy joining this race for the
governor's race, and clearly somebody who brings with him a
smidge of name recognition, not a lot considering who he is,
but a smidge of name recognition and kind of a
funny attitude when it comes to California.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
And we'll talk about that when we come back.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Shannon's out on vacation today, but Michael Monks has joined
us for a bit to talk about all kinds of
stuff that is going on. I mentioned earlier that Larry Summers,
the former Treasury Secretary and president of Harvard University, has
now resigned from the board of Open AI that's the
company that's behind shat GPT, because of his ties to
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Jeffrey Epstein. This is before the big trove of documents
is supposed to come out from the Department of Justice.
But when the House Oversight Government Reform Committee released twenty
thousand documents last week, Larry Summer's name came up over
and over again.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
And it's again.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
One of the things we've said about these Epstein files
that are coming out is there will be people whose
names are in there that have nothing to do with
the sex trafficking.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
But in Larry Summers case.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
It goes to the absolute awful judgment and poor character
this guy has, because even after Epstein was convicted and
spent time in prison for sex trafficking, even after he
was arrested in twenty nineteen on the federal charges, Larry
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Summers continued to email back and forth with this guy
and let me down play it a little bit. But
it was dating advice. Well maybe Larry Summers was he
was president of school. What school was Harvard? Oh no,
there's no excuse. Yeah, and he's he's said he was
president of Harvard when Epstein was giving millions of dollars
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to Harvard, so he was overseeing that they were friendly.
There's no doubt about that. He has now realized that
was probably a bad idea, he said, he deeply regrets
the communications. That's that goes beyond that goes there's a
certain human person that does something like that and is
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able to look past the obvious problems with Jeffrey Epstein.
This is not this is not early two thousands Jeffrey Epstein,
where you may have wait a minute, that girl look
really young. Ah, but I'll give him the benefit of
the doubt. This is after he had been popped. This
is after he had been charged federally for all of this,
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and before he committed to side.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I mean, just anyway, Larry Summers dead to me, not that.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I ever knew the guys coming to things, not coming
to Thanksgiving. Tom Steyer, billionaire from San Francisco, has announced
that he is entering the race to become the next
governor of the great state of California.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Let me get this, the.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Richest people in America. I think that they earned everything themselves. Man,
that's so ridiculous. Okay, he says, that's BS. We had
to bleeve it because obviously.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah, let's start with the basics. What do you think
about people seeing BS in their kickoff video for the
governor's campaign. You want them to just say the word well,
I mean he did, actually I beleeved it.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
He did, he said it in the video. He heard
he did abbreviate it.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I think we live in a more profane society where
you look, it's like we see in the mean culture
that has infiltrated political communications in a way that is
making me increasingly uncomfortable. I think swearing is now something
they feel like they have to do to look human.
Because we pleads, we swear I heard you during the
commercial breaking was vile.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
At that secret time. We don't talk about that vile.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
He also he also used a phrase that is credited
to Barack Obama quite a bit. It's not anywhere near
the exact wording, but Barack Obama saying to rich people,
you didn't make that money all by yourself. You use
the roads, you use the you know, the infrastructure of
whatever community you're in to raise the money that you did.
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Tom Steyer tech money is where he's from. He ran
for president before in twenty twenty, and I mean he
was one of those guys that faded quickly, very quickly
for the first four states in fact, and is somebody
from that elite billionaire, extremely wealthy class that feels like,
you know, I got nothing left to do in business,
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so I might as.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Well be president of the United States.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
It's a very strange route to go, especially if you
don't have Donald Trump. Well, Donald Trump is a unique
figure because he was embedded in the culture in a
way Tom Steyer, for example, is not correct. I mean
Tom Steyer popped up and ran for president. Everyone's like,
who is this Donald Trump? Ran for president. It's like,
we've been watching this guy for thirty five years. You know,
we know this guy, and he's been in our homes
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every week, you know, through the Apprentice. It's a different
relationship with Trump. This Tom Stier character. You mentioned Barack
Obama in the messaging that seems like a similar message,
but Barack Obama did not communicate that as effectively, or
maybe the media tore it up a little bit too
much to make it sound like nobody earns anything in
this country. Everything is given to you by the state,
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which was really not what he was trying to say.
Like you kind of added the nuance to it that
there are there's a society here that everybody puts themselves
into and we all benefit from that somehow. If Barack
Obama could not communicate that effectively enough for us all
to shake our heads like, yeah, that's right, mister president,
how is Tom Stier going to come along and do this?
We have evidence gary of tom Steyer's poor communication efficacy
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very recently. In fact, he got involved in the Prop
fifty campaign right and came out very strongly for it
and independently produced a couple of ads, including the one
that got a lot of attention because it was this
parody of Donald Trump in the Oval office, watching California
news and just throwing ketchup and being crazy and making
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a lot of grunts. There was some polling done on
all of the ads about Prop fifty. Gavin Newsom's ads dominated,
and it showed whether it convinced you or made you
feel more inclined to vote in favor of Prop fifty.
Some of the independent ones, like the League of Women Voters,
were in the middle of the road, didn't really affect
people one way or another. Tom Stier's ads made people
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less likely to vote for Prop fifty, and it encapsulated
the foundational message of Prop fifty. Donald Trump is terrible.
Let's stick it to Donald Trump. He went full throttle
with that and could convince no one.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Well.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
He is an interesting care character politically in that if
you were if I were to say to you, we're
going to write a script for a TV show and
I want you to come up with a candidate for
governor who's a billionaire, you'd go, Okay, well, probably made
his money in tech. It's California, so he probably made
his money in tech. Or in this case, Pharrell on capital,
but nobody knows what that is. He probably ran for
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some other previous political office, but there's nothing about him
that sticks out. He's not a particular listen. I know
this counts in politics. He's not a particularly handsome guy.
He's not very well known in terms of what he
looks like a guy named Tom Steyer exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
So how is this?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
How does he gain any amount of traction with billions
of dollars at his disposal?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
He did so.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I think it was about twelve million that he poured
into the Prop fifty race. He funded a lot of
his original presidential campaign. I am sixty eight million dollars
to get no votes, and he's he's going to do
that to I mean, he's going to do that as
well as we get closer and deeper into this governor's race,
because he's got to go up against guys like Javier
Basera previously mentioned. Of course, in the other story, you've
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got Katie Porter, who's still in this for some reason,
to Tony Thurman, who again may not have the name
recognition but has the Sacramento bona fides, and Tonio via
Ragosa betty Y. I mean, he's got some names that
he's got to go up again, and that's not counting
the potential ones that could come in.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
You know, you've got.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Eric Swallwell, who's apparently going to make it official at
some point. Then you've got Rick Caruso, who would probably
run as a Democrat.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
This is not that to me.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
It seems like if all I the one way to
make money is I'll go work for Tom Steyer and
control where he spends his money.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I just need a one percent take. That's it.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
My rake is one percent. I'll help you win zero
votes to become the next governor. Would have been for
that chief of staff out of Governor Newsom's office. But
there is a lane here. It's strange because California is
such an important state. It's and being governor of California
is such an attractive job for somebody who has the
capabilities and the means to wage such a campaign. I mean,
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we're larger than many, many, many countries. It's an exciting
place to be governor. For the field to look the
way it does. With those polling numbers that are coming out,
you're mentioning names, and you're not wrong. These are people
that we know. But there has not been a Democrat
to break out of the field yet, and they're all
in the latest poll kind of below Sheriff Chad Bianco
and a host Steve Hilton. The Republicans are are leading
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and nobody has great numbers, but the field is still
pretty much open. I don't know that Tom Steyer will
break it open. I don't even know if Eric Swalwell
will inspire enough people. It seems like there's still a
lane open for the former vice president to say, you
know what, this is a mess.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
I'm going to jump back in this thing.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Eric Swalwell inspires me to pull the battery out of
my TV remote.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
That's the only thing that Eric Swalwell's And again, the
potential for Rick Caruso to get in there, maybe he entertaized.
So why do we lionize Rick Caruso. With all respect
to the gentleman, I love the grove and appreciate him
as a businessman, but his only political experience is losing
the LA mayor's race. And we all talk about him like,
here's a guy who's going to get whatever he wants
to run for.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
He has a lousing record, he's.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Got well I'll tell you when we come back, because
I think there is one category, one specific thing that
he could use in order to propel himself in that
governor's race.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
We'll do I we come back.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Michael Monks here just to follow up on this conversation
about the potential for Rick Caruso to throw his hat
into the ring when it comes to the race for governor.
And you said, really the political experience that he has
as he ran for mayor and lost against the incumbent
Karen Bass. But he I think has this benefit of
the largest story of twenty twenty five has been and
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will be going forward, the fires in the Palisades and Altadena,
and he has a direct connection, not just the number
of homes that he owns there in the Palisade, specifically
the businesses that he owns there. I wouldn't be surprised
if he's able to capitalize on that and say listen,
I'm a victim of her being mayor and just basically
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saying it in very stark terms like that I am
a victim just like everybody else. Was that kind of
leadership does not work. It doesn't work at the state level,
it does not work at the city level. And therefore
we need a rebirth, a rejuvenation, or whatever, and use
that as his platform going forward. It's possible there are
lanes in both of those big great jomps California governor
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and mayor of Los Angeles, high profile gigs. You can
finish your political career holding either of those offices and
have a lovely obituary when it's all said and done.
But as my mamma always says, yes, mama s word,
or get off the pot, y'all. I mean, he's flirting
with both of these offices to pick one. By the way,
to your point, the city of Los Angeles and to
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that in the state of California are larger than Pacific Palisades. Sure,
and while that is going to be a huge part
of the next election, and how we will avoid that
type of catastrophe a catastrophe again and rebuild from that
in the future, he has to offer policies about homelessness,
about affordability, about cleanliness, about preparing for the Olympics. And
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I will bring us back to the beginning of this
hour traffic. I want to hear specifics on traffic in
this god forsaken hellhole. Well, for one, I mean, just
don't drive your truck and hang it off of the
one thirty four interchange. I mean that's one aspect of
specifically the Michael Monks.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Traffic that was affected. To me, Yeah, I guess that's true.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
But there are some proactive measures we can take to
improve traffic in this city. And I never hear anybody
talk about it. We all just accept it like it's La.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
It's La.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Get used to it. It doesn't have to beat us way LA.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
An actual campaign in LA that didn't base it, that
wasn't based on feelings, that would be a winner. Indeed,
let's treat us like adults. Thank you for filling in.
I love filling in. Well okay, yeah, anytime you need me,
just call me.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Easy.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
If your wife is gone and you need a snuggle,
just text me. I prefer a loan time, as I
do too.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I'm just saying it's an option.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
It's not around. You're not the number two. Just to
be clear, I have a dog for that. I'm just
saying I could be Okay, Well, you're pushing a little hard.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I'm sorry. Thank you, Mike Goodbye.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
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Pick Katerina's Club from those four options that pop up.
We'll continue to talk about pastapon as we get a
little bit closer to the actual date of Postathon. On
December second, Michael Monks was walking in the halls and
I said, Hey, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
And he said nothing? And I said, why don't you
come and sit down?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
And now I'm doing something, And now you're sitting down
as Timus Shannon like I was on Friday for you
guys at the live event, and I'm happy to.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Be back shining.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I'd say, shine, Shine, Yeah, or a great value brand Shannon. Yeah,
it tastes similar, but isn't the same. You couldn't you know,
there's a difference. You might not be able to quite
put your finger on exactly what the difference is, but
you know, it's slightly different. I can be profane and
giggle a lot just like she can, but it's not
exactly the same. I would I don't think I've ever
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heard you say the word nipples. Would you like to No,
I'm just saying that's you know, keep that in your
back pocket. If you ever feel like you're straying away
from the Shannon this, just shout it out, yell it out.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I will, and uh, we'll see where it takes.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I don't usually speak that way in the holiday season,
but we can make exceptions for the show. What's what's
your What do you consider holiday season?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Well, it's almost Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, but it wouldn't wouldn't holiday season be like Thanksgiving
through New Year's Day? I treat Thanksgiving as a standalone,
beautiful holiday, a wonderful, wonderful gathering of friends and family,
football on the television, a feast to be had, no
expectation of gifts, just an opportunity to eat a lot
and feel grateful for all that you have.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Wow, good gracious.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
That was like you're supposed to say, good gravy. That's
it was quite a speech. I've got a lot on
my mind today. If you want to blow out the rundown,
I am sure, all out top I would love that Thanksgiving.
I'm a little upset at the traffic situation outside. Well,
welcome to lay Well, this is what I mean. Can
I I don't want to be bad. Sure, if you'd
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like it, here's the deal musical accompanyment for you.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I'll tell you this much.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I do not understand why the people of Los Angeles accept.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
This traffic situation here.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Like you said, welcome to La Well, why why do
we say that's okay with me? You know, today my
usual drive from downtown Los Angeles you take the one
ten to the five to the one thirty four westbound,
and today the one thirty four off ramp the truck
hanging over the side of it, right, it already has
a lane shut down because of you know, the state
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is doing some work, and then you have the truck
accident on top of it.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
It's impossible to get through.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
If one thing goes wrong on any of our already
disastrous roads, it becomes an absolute spectacle that trickles out
all across the region and no one can get anywhere.
Gary Hoffman, when I am mayor of this city. Go on,
we are going to address traffic head on, because Angelina's
and I'll have to say Angelino's as mayor, we do
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not have to settle for this.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
We can take action. This does not have to be
the way we look.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Come on, what's the first thing you do as mayor
to take on traffic head on? I will assemble every
neighborhood council across the city, and together we will compile
the ten biggest choke points in our neighborhood. Find out
whish ones are caused by freeway overflow, find out which
ones are caused by poor signal control. Find out where
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turn should be either restricted or better facilitated to get
people moving through our city better. And then we'll move
up to the state and address those issues as they
relate to the freeways. I believe that together we can
solve traffic and get Los Angeles moving again. And now,
as is political protocol in Los Angeles, I will deliver
the same remarks in Spanish means a helinos, you've got
(04:57):
the game down. I will tell you that thank you
for that. The FBI has notified some current and former
members of the Governor's office that they have been listening
into their communications. This is an important step, I should say,
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potential anchor around the neck of whatever Gavin Newsom's presidential
campaign is going to look like. This is not going
to bode well for that. It's not the kind of
news you want if you're the sitting governor with maybe
higher aspirations. But this still looks like worse news for
Javier Bessera, who also has higher aspirations of his own,
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and even worse for the woman who used to work
for him who triggered this mess, Dana Williams c We'll
talk about that when we come back, because I do
have questions about the difference in the anchor around the
neck of each of those two guys. We'll talk about
it when we come back.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six four.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Some sunny skies today.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Another storm expected into southern California tomorrow through Friday. Thursday's
storm that is tomorrow expected to drop somewhere half an
inch to an inch depending where you are, maybe one
or two inches in some of the mountains or the hills. Also,
we found out a couple of different media reports that
David Singer. David has been identified as a suspect in
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connection with the death of Celeste Reevas, the fifteen year
old whose remains were found in September inside a car
in an LA tow yard. That same source told NBC
Today that the twenty year old Singer was not cooperating
in the investigation, despite what his attorneys have been saying.
Police said that Celeste's this is the most disturbing part.
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Celeste's death likely occurred last spring, and that this guy
at the very least may have had some help in
dismembering and disposing of for Bob's horrible story.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Awful story. So hopefully that guy has brought to justice.
Michael Monks has joined us.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
We're talking about the new information that the FBI has
been intercepting some communications of current and former members of
the Newsom administration.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Now, let's set the stage.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Now, we know from last week the Dana Williamson, who
was Newsom's chief of staff for about a year, was
arrested last week and dieted by federal grand juria on
charges that she and four other people stole about two
hundred and twenty five thousand dollars from a campaign account
held by Hobby or Basera, former AG Sean mccusky. Apparently,
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the indictment alleges that she conspired with Basera's chief of staff,
Sean McCluskey, mcclusky's wife, and two other prominent lobbyists to
steal this money. There is also she's writing off these
lavish trips and big handbags, et cetera as work expenses,
So she appears to be a dirt bag if the
federal indictment is true. But there's an issue here that
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comes with the ripple effect of a federal indictment, especially
when it comes to somebody at the level of governor
or in this also in this case the level of
Attorney General. Javey Arbsarah and Michael, you've covered politics local
to and above, and this issue of having somebody in
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your office specific I'm talking newsome First, having somebody in
your office who is accused of corruption to this degree,
whether or not she did it while she was in
your office, has got to be an anchor around your
neck whatever future political plans you have, especially when the
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story is complicated like that. And in journalism, you want
to be as thorough and detailed as possible, and so
every time this woman's name is mentioned, the governor's name
is going to be mentioned, and it will be in
the content that she is someone who was trusted with
a lot of power and authority. This is a big
position that she held and went on to do what
she has been alleged to have done. My understanding is that,
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you know, DC is a lot like LA as it
relates to how much it costs to live somewhere. It's expensive,
and so the concern was that the new salary in Washington,
d C. Was not going to be enough. So this
scheme was concocted to funnel ten thousand dollars a month
out of a dormant campaign account belonging to Javier Basera
into the personal coffers in order to amplify the lifestyle.
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But this this investigation reveals that there were a lot
of luxury purchases made with this money. So it's one
thing to say I need more money to survive and
fair rent, but it's another to say I have a
lifestyle that I'm a company too. So let's figure something out.
There is one point of credit, and I don't know
if this is just a pr move or this was
actually the way it went down. She resigned from her
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post in the Governor's office when she found out she
was under invent investigation. And I don't know if that
was just a good thing, the goodness of her heart,
she didn't want to taint the governor's office. But your
point is well taken that every time we mentioned Dana Williamson,
we're gonna mention that she was Governor Newsom's chief of staff,
even if these allegations aren't necessarily tied directly to her time.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
In the governor's office.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
And well, the investigation has reached the governor's office, it
does not mean that Governor Newsom is under investigation, of course,
But this is what we're talking about, how you kind
of jumbled in to this mess here because of her connection,
her deep, strong, powerful connection to the governor's office. As
this investigation was unfolding, the communications intercepted, so and we
don't know yet exactly what they were looking, what the
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agents were looking for, what the Department of Justice was
sniffing around the Governor's office for in the event that
it is connected to Governor Newsom.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
And somehow we just don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I mean, because the FBI is very tight lipped about
especially ongoing investigations. The other question, and Gavin Newsom obviously
will be running for president, it's a he may not
have made anything official yet we all know that that's
where his noses pointing, shall we say, Jabi Arbissera. On
the other hand, this is clearly more closely attached to him,
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and in the event that he knew anything about this,
his political career is over. You were the attorney general.
If anybody should know the law and the ins and
outs therein, it should be the attorney general, not of California,
of the entire country. I mean, you should know a
thing or two about I'm sorry, he was a secretary
of He was the attorney general here and then served
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in the Biden administration. I mean, if you are that
level of legal profession, you should know a thing or two.
You've served at the state level in the attorney general's post,
and then you've been a cabinet secretary for a president,
and for you to fumble the bag as they say
like this, it's absolutely career ending. Well, and there is
a possibility, I mean, we all have to leave the
door open that both of these guys both Gavenusom and
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Jave Arbsera knew nothing about what was going on. There
is that possibility, and there's a possibility that Dana Williamson,
the way she's been described is very good at her job,
which is a positive, but being good at that job,
being good at political operatives, slash lobbyists, state employee, or
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a combination of all three, that's I mean generally, that's
considered an evil creature that is put upon this earth
by the devil himself to just steal and rape people.
That's it, and that's apparently how she was making money.
And the people that are connected to her all live
in that weird, swampy world of crossover between those three
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pillars of what is a state capital. And it's got
to be more alluring if you have any bit of
criminality flowing through your veins to be close to power,
to be close to wealth, and want a little bit
more for yourself. But I know that probably even in
our either personal lives or just in our civic lives
where we live in a city, or we go to
a church, we're part of a sports league, there are
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people who get caught stealing and it comes as an
absolute shock because you know this person and you see
how they behave and to know that they were doing
this behind the scenes is a shock. So there is
a benefit of doubt to give and grace to give
to just about anyone, because there are folks who get
the keys to power like this and use them when
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you're not looking, and it does paint you in a
poor light as well. But there is still some shock
that is I think, to be believed from folks who
might have known this woman and did not know what
she was up to. Now we'll see if it comes
out exactly what the FBI sniffing around.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Again.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
We do know some of the information because of the
indictment that was filed last week against Dana Williamson and
some of these co conspirators. But phone call log records
dates to the calls, how many minutes that lasted, does
not contain direct quotations or details about the subjects that
we're discussed during those calls, but does establish at least
the communication between the people. All right, oh, we didn't
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get to the Tom Steyer thing. We'll do that when
we come back. Another guy joining this race for the
governor's race, and clearly somebody who brings with him a
smidge of name recognition, not a lot considering who he is,
but a smidge of name recognition and kind of a
funny attitude when it comes to California.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
And we'll talk about that when we come back.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Shannon's out on vacation today, but Michael Monks has joined
us for a bit to talk about all kinds of
stuff that is going on. I mentioned earlier that Larry Summers,
the former Treasury Secretary and president of Harvard University, has
now resigned from the board of Open AI that's the
company that's behind shat GPT, because of his ties to
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Jeffrey Epstein. This is before the big trove of documents
is supposed to come out from the Department of Justice.
But when the House Oversight Government Reform Committee released twenty
thousand documents last week, Larry Summer's name came up over
and over again.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
And it's again.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
One of the things we've said about these Epstein files
that are coming out is there will be people whose
names are in there that have nothing to do with
the sex trafficking.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
But in Larry Summers case.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
It goes to the absolute awful judgment and poor character
this guy has, because even after Epstein was convicted and
spent time in prison for sex trafficking, even after he
was arrested in twenty nineteen on the federal charges, Larry
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Summers continued to email back and forth with this guy
and let me down play it a little bit. But
it was dating advice. Well maybe Larry Summers was he
was president of school. What school was Harvard? Oh no,
there's no excuse. Yeah, and he's he's said he was
president of Harvard when Epstein was giving millions of dollars
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to Harvard, so he was overseeing that they were friendly.
There's no doubt about that. He has now realized that
was probably a bad idea, he said, he deeply regrets
the communications. That's that goes beyond that goes there's a
certain human person that does something like that and is
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able to look past the obvious problems with Jeffrey Epstein.
This is not this is not early two thousands Jeffrey Epstein,
where you may have wait a minute, that girl look
really young. Ah, but I'll give him the benefit of
the doubt. This is after he had been popped. This
is after he had been charged federally for all of this,
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and before he committed to side.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I mean, just anyway, Larry Summers dead to me, not that.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I ever knew the guys coming to things, not coming
to Thanksgiving. Tom Steyer, billionaire from San Francisco, has announced
that he is entering the race to become the next
governor of the great state of California.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Let me get this, the.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Richest people in America. I think that they earned everything themselves. Man,
that's so ridiculous. Okay, he says, that's BS. We had
to bleeve it because obviously.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah, let's start with the basics. What do you think
about people seeing BS in their kickoff video for the
governor's campaign. You want them to just say the word well,
I mean he did, actually I beleeved it.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
He did, he said it in the video. He heard
he did abbreviate it.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I think we live in a more profane society where
you look, it's like we see in the mean culture
that has infiltrated political communications in a way that is
making me increasingly uncomfortable. I think swearing is now something
they feel like they have to do to look human.
Because we pleads, we swear I heard you during the
commercial breaking was vile.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
At that secret time. We don't talk about that vile.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
He also he also used a phrase that is credited
to Barack Obama quite a bit. It's not anywhere near
the exact wording, but Barack Obama saying to rich people,
you didn't make that money all by yourself. You use
the roads, you use the you know, the infrastructure of
whatever community you're in to raise the money that you did.
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Tom Steyer tech money is where he's from. He ran
for president before in twenty twenty, and I mean he
was one of those guys that faded quickly, very quickly
for the first four states in fact, and is somebody
from that elite billionaire, extremely wealthy class that feels like,
you know, I got nothing left to do in business,
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so I might as.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Well be president of the United States.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
It's a very strange route to go, especially if you
don't have Donald Trump. Well, Donald Trump is a unique
figure because he was embedded in the culture in a
way Tom Steyer, for example, is not correct. I mean
Tom Steyer popped up and ran for president. Everyone's like,
who is this Donald Trump? Ran for president. It's like,
we've been watching this guy for thirty five years. You know,
we know this guy, and he's been in our homes
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every week, you know, through the Apprentice. It's a different
relationship with Trump. This Tom Stier character. You mentioned Barack
Obama in the messaging that seems like a similar message,
but Barack Obama did not communicate that as effectively, or
maybe the media tore it up a little bit too
much to make it sound like nobody earns anything in
this country. Everything is given to you by the state,
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which was really not what he was trying to say.
Like you kind of added the nuance to it that
there are there's a society here that everybody puts themselves
into and we all benefit from that somehow. If Barack
Obama could not communicate that effectively enough for us all
to shake our heads like, yeah, that's right, mister president,
how is Tom Stier going to come along and do this?
We have evidence gary of tom Steyer's poor communication efficacy
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very recently. In fact, he got involved in the Prop
fifty campaign right and came out very strongly for it
and independently produced a couple of ads, including the one
that got a lot of attention because it was this
parody of Donald Trump in the Oval office, watching California
news and just throwing ketchup and being crazy and making
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a lot of grunts. There was some polling done on
all of the ads about Prop fifty. Gavin Newsom's ads dominated,
and it showed whether it convinced you or made you
feel more inclined to vote in favor of Prop fifty.
Some of the independent ones, like the League of Women Voters,
were in the middle of the road, didn't really affect
people one way or another. Tom Stier's ads made people
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less likely to vote for Prop fifty, and it encapsulated
the foundational message of Prop fifty. Donald Trump is terrible.
Let's stick it to Donald Trump. He went full throttle
with that and could convince no one.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Well.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
He is an interesting care character politically in that if
you were if I were to say to you, we're
going to write a script for a TV show and
I want you to come up with a candidate for
governor who's a billionaire, you'd go, Okay, well, probably made
his money in tech. It's California, so he probably made
his money in tech. Or in this case, Pharrell on capital,
but nobody knows what that is. He probably ran for
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some other previous political office, but there's nothing about him
that sticks out. He's not a particular listen. I know
this counts in politics. He's not a particularly handsome guy.
He's not very well known in terms of what he
looks like a guy named Tom Steyer exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
So how is this?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
How does he gain any amount of traction with billions
of dollars at his disposal?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
He did so.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I think it was about twelve million that he poured
into the Prop fifty race. He funded a lot of
his original presidential campaign. I am sixty eight million dollars
to get no votes, and he's he's going to do
that to I mean, he's going to do that as
well as we get closer and deeper into this governor's race,
because he's got to go up against guys like Javier
Basera previously mentioned. Of course, in the other story, you've
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got Katie Porter, who's still in this for some reason,
to Tony Thurman, who again may not have the name
recognition but has the Sacramento bona fides, and Tonio via
Ragosa betty Y. I mean, he's got some names that
he's got to go up again, and that's not counting
the potential ones that could come in.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
You know, you've got.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Eric Swallwell, who's apparently going to make it official at
some point. Then you've got Rick Caruso, who would probably
run as a Democrat.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
This is not that to me.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
It seems like if all I the one way to
make money is I'll go work for Tom Steyer and
control where he spends his money.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I just need a one percent take. That's it.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
My rake is one percent. I'll help you win zero
votes to become the next governor. Would have been for
that chief of staff out of Governor Newsom's office. But
there is a lane here. It's strange because California is
such an important state. It's and being governor of California
is such an attractive job for somebody who has the
capabilities and the means to wage such a campaign. I mean,
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we're larger than many, many, many countries. It's an exciting
place to be governor. For the field to look the
way it does. With those polling numbers that are coming out,
you're mentioning names, and you're not wrong. These are people
that we know. But there has not been a Democrat
to break out of the field yet, and they're all
in the latest poll kind of below Sheriff Chad Bianco
and a host Steve Hilton. The Republicans are are leading
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and nobody has great numbers, but the field is still
pretty much open. I don't know that Tom Steyer will
break it open. I don't even know if Eric Swalwell
will inspire enough people. It seems like there's still a
lane open for the former vice president to say, you
know what, this is a mess.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
I'm going to jump back in this thing.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Eric Swalwell inspires me to pull the battery out of
my TV remote.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
That's the only thing that Eric Swalwell's And again, the
potential for Rick Caruso to get in there, maybe he entertaized.
So why do we lionize Rick Caruso. With all respect
to the gentleman, I love the grove and appreciate him
as a businessman, but his only political experience is losing
the LA mayor's race. And we all talk about him like,
here's a guy who's going to get whatever he wants
to run for.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
He has a lousing record, he's.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Got well I'll tell you when we come back, because
I think there is one category, one specific thing that
he could use in order to propel himself in that
governor's race.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
We'll do I we come back.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Michael Monks here just to follow up on this conversation
about the potential for Rick Caruso to throw his hat
into the ring when it comes to the race for governor.
And you said, really the political experience that he has
as he ran for mayor and lost against the incumbent
Karen Bass. But he I think has this benefit of
the largest story of twenty twenty five has been and
(24:55):
will be going forward, the fires in the Palisades and Altadena,
and he has a direct connection, not just the number
of homes that he owns there in the Palisade, specifically
the businesses that he owns there. I wouldn't be surprised
if he's able to capitalize on that and say listen,
I'm a victim of her being mayor and just basically
(25:20):
saying it in very stark terms like that I am
a victim just like everybody else. Was that kind of
leadership does not work. It doesn't work at the state level,
it does not work at the city level. And therefore
we need a rebirth, a rejuvenation, or whatever, and use
that as his platform going forward. It's possible there are
lanes in both of those big great jomps California governor
(25:44):
and mayor of Los Angeles, high profile gigs. You can
finish your political career holding either of those offices and
have a lovely obituary when it's all said and done.
But as my mamma always says, yes, mama s word,
or get off the pot, y'all. I mean, he's flirting
with both of these offices to pick one. By the way,
to your point, the city of Los Angeles and to
(26:05):
that in the state of California are larger than Pacific Palisades. Sure,
and while that is going to be a huge part
of the next election, and how we will avoid that
type of catastrophe a catastrophe again and rebuild from that
in the future, he has to offer policies about homelessness,
about affordability, about cleanliness, about preparing for the Olympics. And
(26:27):
I will bring us back to the beginning of this
hour traffic. I want to hear specifics on traffic in
this god forsaken hellhole. Well, for one, I mean, just
don't drive your truck and hang it off of the
one thirty four interchange. I mean that's one aspect of
specifically the Michael Monks.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Traffic that was affected. To me, Yeah, I guess that's true.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
But there are some proactive measures we can take to
improve traffic in this city. And I never hear anybody
talk about it. We all just accept it like it's La.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
It's La.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Get used to it. It doesn't have to beat us way LA.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
An actual campaign in LA that didn't base it, that
wasn't based on feelings, that would be a winner. Indeed,
let's treat us like adults. Thank you for filling in.
I love filling in. Well okay, yeah, anytime you need me,
just call me.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Easy.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
If your wife is gone and you need a snuggle,
just text me. I prefer a loan time, as I
do too.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I'm just saying it's an option.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
It's not around. You're not the number two. Just to
be clear, I have a dog for that. I'm just
saying I could be Okay, Well, you're pushing a little hard.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I'm sorry. Thank you, Mike Goodbye.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
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