August 5, 2025 • 32 mins
Trump to Create Security Task Force for L.A. Olympics. Why companies born and raised in California are leaving the state. Documents reveal Los Angeles County’s meager budget for disaster response. What Kids Told Us About How to Get Them Off Their Phones.
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Keyword AM five seventy LA Sports. And tonight it's the
Hello Kitty crossbody Bag.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I'd kill for one of these things. I love Hello Kitty.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Do you love a cross body bag too?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I don't have one, but I've been thinking about it.
Everybody got a body I've been thinking about it across
for football games, just having a cross body thing where
I can keep my nuts like a squirrel. I have
my little bags of cashews. Oh, I got into amends
while you were gone, which.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Is between a cross body bag and a fanny pack.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Everything, but you're making emotion bodies here. It's like a
fanny pack, but you put across your body, so it's
much cooler than a fanny pack.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Oh right, I mean, duh. I would never think of
speaking of almonds. Did you know that Bitch and Sauce
is made with almonds?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
No? I didn't to either. Eye opening.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I got into almonds while you're away.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I got into that those.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I think this is what you eat, the granola bars,
but they've got almonds and dark chocolate and peanuts in them.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yes, yeah, they're pretty good.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Those are really good, very nut heavy, And for some
people didn't.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I wasn't bothered by the almonds. I thought I would be.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
But maybe I've reached an almond period of life, an
almond era.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
It comes with age, does it.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Really.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
You start embracing almonds, and.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
You got to do it now before your teeth start
weakening and they start cracking every time you.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Eat almonds and then I'm just in the face.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Yeah, then you got to get somebody to pre chew
the amas and spit them in your own Oh my god,
like a bird, like a baby bird. House Oversight Committee
has subpoened the Justice Department for files in the Jeffrey
Epstein's sex trafficking investigation looking for depositions with former President
Clinton and former Secretary of State Clinton and some former
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law enforcement officials. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin net Yahoo is
hinting at some wider military action in areas of Gaza,
even as a former Israeli army and intelligence chiefs call
for an end to all of this. This new pressure
on net Yahoo came as the Gaza Health Ministry says
that the Palestinian death toll is now up over sixty
one thousand in that war.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Well, we've got the Olympics coming to town twenty twenty eight,
and Trump now says.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
He will be in charge of security.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Well, he is going to order the establishment of a
White House task force, i should say, for the security
for the Olympic Games in La. Caroline Levitt said, the
President plans on creating this task force by executive order today.
He considers it a great honor to oversee this global
sporting spectacle.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
In her words, this may be great news.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
May be great news for the city of La and
everybody who's trying to get these Olympics off the ground
without a hitch. The executive order does secure about a
billion dollars for security and planning some other costs for
the LA Games, which the assumption was that it was coming.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
This just makes it official.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Hey, we were going to ask for the money from
the federal government and Trump was going to be like,
California is asking you for something?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Absolutely not screw them.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
So the fact that he's coming out and putting his
name on this, because that's what he likes to do,
put his name on things, just do not look a
gift horse in the mouth. Take the money. Let him
have his name on the umbrella that is the security
for the Olympics. I get there's a lot of egos
at play here that are going to be pissed off.
He's interjecting himself in something that is Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
But just take the money, yeah, stop it.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Just to let the dog hump your leg.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Get over with dog hump your leg and throw a
great party, have a great time. They're still negotiating with
they the Olympic organizers are still negotiating negotiating with the
city in terms of using police, traffic officers, and other
employees during the Olympics and Paralympics. Things like security, trash removal,
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traffic control, paramedics all that will be needed during the
Olympics and the Paralympics.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
When it comes up in twenty eight and under an
agreement between LA twenty eight and the city, the Olympics
must reimburse the city for any of the services to
go beyond what the city would provide on a normal day,
So they have to agree by October first on what
would be enhanced services, figuring out the rates, the repayment timelines,
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the audit rights, and other processes, et cetera. Overtime for LAPD,
which would obviously be through the roof, would be felt
by the city government, especially since they can't seem to
balance a budget and they're dealing with a billion dollar.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Shortfalls coming up a little next more proof that California
is bad for business, unfortunately, but maybe we turn it around.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
That'd be a great idea.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
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Speaker 1 (05:30):
Oh boy, I'm in kidnap me. Crypto bros are are douchebags.
These guys are These guys take that whole thing to
a next level upper Achalan Dbag.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
We'll do that with when we get into true crime Tuesday,
the two crypto bros that ended up behind bars, including
allegations of kidnapping and torture.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, I don't know what you mean when you say
Champagne Caviare and then it ends and tour like in
what world?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Texas Democrats prevented their state's House representatives from moving forward,
at least for now, with a redrawn congressional map. We
know that the Democrats left the state so that there
wouldn't be quorum, But the Texas House is due to
reconvene just a little less than an hour from now.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
We'll see what happens today.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
And the testimony the interview with Gallaine Maxwell last month,
that two day interview where they brought up one hundred
different people. They're thinking about maybe releasing the transcript publicly.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
That would be.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Incredible, maybe or maybe not. Maybe it's just boring, Maybe
she doesn't know anything.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I don't know, or maybe this is another one of
those Pam Bondie Dog and Pony shows with the binders
and we've got all this information and we can release
it and then nothing.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Ever comes of it.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
But I feel like they've learned their lesson in that
regard that if there's a transcript with any information and
they're thinking about releasing it, they're going to have to
give us something.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Last month, Lindsay Snyder, the billionaire owner of in and Out,
announced that she was moving from California to Tennessee. She
specifically referred to family reasons why she wants to move,
and the headquarters for the company isn't necessarily moving. But
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it was a it was an embarrassment for state lawmakers.
He's got a massive, massive, California iconic business, doesn't want
to do it here anymore.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I'm well, they're still doing it. You said it. I
mean they're consolidating.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
They're opening a regional headquarters in Tennessee, but the headquarters
will remain in California. I am embarrassed by the exodus
of people leaving California, business owners among them. However, it
falls on deaf years when you've got Lindsay Snyder saying
raising a family is not easy here.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Get out of here.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
You're a billionaire raising a family, no idea what it
takes to raise a family in California as a normal person.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I think she means, I'm not saying I know her.
I did an interview with her one time. I don't
know her, but she had the She talked about kids,
and she talked about what kids go through, and she
talked about when, yes, she's loaded, but that she tries
to raise her kids in a not loaded way. That
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makes sense sure, and that sometimes that means, you know,
a public school. I don't think they're in public school.
But I think it's more than just the I can
afford everything in California. I think that she was talking
more specifically about social issues that she may or may
not agree with.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Like what like what are her kids going through in California?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
That's so rough. There's a lot of crime in California.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
There's a lot of pressure to be politically one sided California.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I don't know if that stuff kids worry about or
should worry about.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Well, she doesn't. Clearly the kids don't get a vote
in this.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
It's one thing if she says it's hard, raising a
family is not easy here, and then they move the
whole in and out operation out of there for their employee.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
If she went on to say, our employees.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Are here and they they they are having a hard
time making ends meet, or what have you?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Home ownership. I mean, yeah, but I mean, you know
what I.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Mean, that's all I mean coming out of her mouth.
It's just hard to wrap your head around. But yeah,
I mean you're absolutely right in that in and Out
is a quintessential California business and for them to come
out and be the voice the latest voice of California
isn't feasible is a big freaking deal.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
So the Like Times ask the question is this state
a bad place to do business? And that the answer
is never, you know, unequivocally yes or unequivocally no.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
It's it's nuanced.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
But you think about the amount of taxes that are
paid by businesses and individual here in California, the environmental
regulations that exist, the red tape that it takes to
start a business in California. We are, yes, the fourth
largest economy in the world, but that doesn't mean that
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every business does well in California.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I have a question about this because Democrats aren't Democrats
run California, right. I think we can all agree on
that stipulated right. Democrats run California aren't democrats in business.
They're not just all eaten their granola and their birkenstocks
covered in their own feces on the side of a
road with the open air drug crack pipe in their mouth.
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I mean, they do run businesses, They run small businesses.
Where is the voice of those Democrats when you come
to power in California? Why is it always the far
and left progressives that get all the attention for the
open air drug markets and the like and the effort
to put needles in Starbucks bathroom? Where are the Democrats
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that run small businesses that have a voice in Sacramento?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
They ex great question. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
I don't know if they get drummed out by the
louder lefter members of their party that they get just
they simply their voices don't get heard.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
The University of San Francisco School of Management professor guy
named William Riggs says, we continue to be a magnet
for investment in tech, in biotech, entertainment, and green energy,
agricultural hotbed for the planet, although that has been diminishing.
But that doesn't cover all of the industries. And even
in those industries, I mean, look at entertainment. One of
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the issues that we talked about yesterday was AI being
used in the movie industry, and I'm kind of a
specific example of it with Disney and the potential to
use it in the Mowana live action film.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
But I think of the.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Numbers of shows that are supposed to be set in
California that aren't even filmed in California, right, I mean
the majority of Naked Gun.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Naked Gun is literally an LA story. It's a nationale
treasure in Georgia. Yeah, outside of the you know, a
couple of.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
A couple of skyline shots, the Naked Gun was made
in Georgia because they can't do it here, and that
to me is one of the A It's a small example,
but it is sort of that canary in the coal
mine of if you can't even film an LA show
in LA. And I know it's been done for a while,
but there's gotta be there's gotta be some recognition that
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you don't do that anymore.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
But man, I gotta say, I'm I'm all in with
all these beautiful locales they're using in Hollywood, or at
least that Netflix is using, whether it's Nova, Scotia or
Idaho or New Mexico or Georgia.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
My god, it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I do not miss the sound stages across the street
at all. I mean, the scenery is the locale is
a character its own. In these shows that are doing
so well, whether it's Virgin River or Sullivan's Crossing all
that stuff, I mean, part of the reason why they
do well. It's not for the great acting or the
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dialogue that's whipped smart. It's just the beautiful locale that's
not Los Angeles. Yeah, that's why Yellowstone did is one
of these is why Yellowstone did exactly because people couldn't
believe you mean, there's a place that looks like that
in the United States of America.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
May not have all been in Montana, but out there.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
The net out migration the companies that left the state
versus those that entered the state. In California in twenty
twenty three, the net out migration was five hundred and
thirty three, so five hundred and thirty three more companies
left California then came in that year. California has ranked
among the top three states with the highest rates of
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out migration since twenty fifteen, and a lot of people,
corporate executives, etc. Have complained that the tax burden is
one of the drivers on the decisions to relocate state
tax on its highest earners at thirteen point three percent
on regular income, and unlike most states, it applies the
same rates of profits from the sale of investments or
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business assets. I've had plenty of people say to me,
you cannot retire in California. You cannot retire in California.
Family reasons maybe, but other than that, there's no reason
why you should stay in California and retire because your
money will be lost.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
No, but it is beautiful if you've got it. Look,
I put the hind quarters on the cat.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Not cool this. His feet are his feet? No, those
there's got to be No, those.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Are not his feet. Those are his ball joints.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Those are his ankles, right, got it?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Okay, yeah, the ball joints are Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
La County doesn't. Don't worry. I'm going to get your
arms on real soon. LA County doesn't have any money
for the earthquake. We're going to get your feet together.
Oh yeah. This is like. This is when you find out.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
That your kid who's like got a job and stuff like,
has five cents in a savings account and you're like.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
But what if something happens and he's like whatever.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, that's La County.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
No savings, nothing for when the disaster will hit. They're
just going to rely on other people. They're just going
to rely on the federal government or grants. They're already
relying on grants. Most of that money is from federal grants. Instead,
they have bloated salaries for all of the administration in
La County.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
It's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
They want to put more supervisors on the board, so disgusting.
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Speaker 3 (16:06):
I mean, my goodness, how cute is this? Right? Yeah?
I mean you mean that's okay. You have to admit it.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I have to admit what look at him.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
More than eight hundred structures are going to be serious
to being in the room.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Threatened by a massive wildfire that's burning through the Les
Padres National Forest in central California.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Saw it.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
You could see the fire in the smoke pretty clearly
today from the airplane. This Gifford Fire is what they're
calling it. And the Gifford Fire is now up over
eighty two thousand acres close to eighty three thousand. They
put containment at just seven percent as of this morning,
nineteen hundred personnel fighting this fire. It grew out of
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several smaller fires started Friday right along State Route one
sixty six between Santa Maria and Bakersfield. They said three
people have been injured, including a driver with burn injuries.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Once they were overrun by the flames.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Russia is declaring that it is no longer bound by
a self imposed moratorium on developing nuclear capable intermediate range missiles.
This is this new saber rattling that's been going on.
The Russian Foreign Ministry linked the decision to efforts by
the US and its allies to develop intermediate range weapons
and preparations for their deployment in Europe and other places,
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but the Russian Foreign Ministry didn't say what specific moves
the Kremlin might take. President Putin has announced that Moscow
is planning to deploy the new missiles on the territory
of its neighbor Belarus later this year, and the Coastguard
comes out or has come out, i should say, with
a report on the Titan submersible. They said it was
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completely pro ventable and that deliberate oversight was avoided. The implosion,
of course, killed all five people on board as they
descended down towards the Titanic, including the CEO of the company,
a guy named Stockton Rush, who died, as did everybody
instantaneously in that implosion. The report just came out earlier today.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
La County has an embarrassingly small budget for the office
that manages natural disasters, major emergencies, things like cyber attacks, earthquakes,
you know, the US A Tuesday in La County.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
So let's look at the other the two only two
larger cities in the United States counties, if you will,
and how they do emergency management. New York County sits
right now. Their emergency management budget for New York County
eighty eight million dollars eighty eight Illinois, Cook County, of course,
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home to Chicago, one hundred and thirty million dollars. When
it comes to La County fifteen million, tiny compared to
those other cities counties.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Four million of that comes from federal grants. The office
has thirty six full time positions thirty six for an
office that oversees that. About nine point two million of
the fifteen million goes to salaries and employee benefits.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
That's odd. Odd. The people that.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Are going to respond to the emergency, are getting paid
all the money for the emergency response. By the time
these people are paid, there's going to be nothing to
respond to that emergency, right.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
That's very true. Nine point two.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
What do they do so the other days when we
don't have earthquakes or cyber attacks?
Speaker 3 (20:03):
So are they just sitting there playing wordle.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
That's about two hundred and fifty five thousand dollars per position,
per full time position, two fifty a quarter million dollars
to work in the county's emergency management office. That leaves
a fraction of money for the other things, the utilities
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the office expenses. The executive office is going through its
budget allocations for this year right now. One person familiar
with the grants and emergency management operation says La County
has no real emergency management budget. Essentially, all the systems
and all the projects are funded through grants. But then
they have to pick and choose and piecemeal together what
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they can work on and with to stay within the
constraints of the four million dollars that comes in from,
Like you said, those federal grants.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
This is incredibly low.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Again, I mentioned New York County has eighty eight million
cooked County has the one hundred and thirty.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Million, but we have all the disasters.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Right Soria Sutherland is a disaster management area coordinator for
a part of LA County. Again, when you're not coordinating,
it shouldn't these be roles people step into who are
doing other things. Like a disaster management area coordinator for
part of LA County? What is she doing Monday through
Friday when we don't have a disaster. But whatever, Sarah Sutherland,
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Maybe she's got many things to do, she says, we
have historically always been underfunded, redundant.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
But that's fine.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
So many emergency managers pay for their own stuff out
of pocket because there is no money. What emergency managers
pay for their own stuff out of pocket? What are
you paying for out of pocket? Chipotle? Like, what are
you talking about? There's no emergence like today, we don't
have an emergency in LA County? What are you paying
for out of your own pocket?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
But they said.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
For example, after the fires, the county in the city
were scrutinized for their failure to respond, failure to prepare,
failure to respond. The budget shows that the county switched
its alert system just last fall, shifting from one notification
system called code RED to another one called Genesis. Many
of us knew about it soon after the fires and
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downloaded it. According to somebody familiar with those systems, the
best practice for switching from one platform to another is
to have both of them running concurrently for about a year.
That way people can train. That way the systems can
be tested and practiced with. At the time of the fires,
there were only two employees.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
I'm going to.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Say that again. In a county of Los Angeles of
a ten million, eleven million people, there were two who
were trained to send the new systems Amber style wireless
emergency alerts when the fire sparked two Now there have
been deeper looks into why warning weren't sent to an
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entire subset of Altadena. Nineteen people died. The county had
some other issues that sent in sending alerts during this firestorm.
Of of course, struggling to disseminate information to the public,
the county did not immediately set up a joint information center.
The Office of Emergency Management had only one trained PIO
and then who had to evacuate, so they were affected by.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
The emergency and couldn't do anything.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Then it took a few days for the county to
find additional people to help that official field the bunch
of requests for information and to coordinate the messaging, completely
unprepared for what it is that they're supposed to do
in the Office of Emergency Management.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Today, the cat is completed. Yes, should we make this
a Harden post or a story to get a name?
You guys, lt Hard post Hard Garden Post and I'll
repost it as a story and people can also fill
it in there too.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Okay, you know, I'll just let you do all of this. Okay,
I mean I could do it, but.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I just I just want to take so many pictures
of him, you know what I mean, Like it's like
having a new baby angle, I know, because he's got
so many angles. Like he's beautiful. Look at those hind quarters,
look at the mastery of that.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Hey, Shannon says, when does cats have funds?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Have? Now?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Be what you think? What are you thinking? How about
that anatomy straight?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Why don't you get your anatomy straight? Okay, I think
I'll take a view from the side. I don't know,
what do you think? Side or head on? Maybe just
like this? That's pretty good? Oh my God, he's so cute.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
All right? He should be like this? Maybe like that?
Or should I take it from above? Why aren't you talking?
I'm waiting for this to hit you?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
But this is great. What should his tail do? Should
it be pointed up or that's kind of crass? Maybe
pointed down that's more lady like.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Is it a boy or a girl?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
I don't know. Can you hear that? What you're doing?
Should I put a poll on what? Okay?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah, we're still in the air, all right, we'll do
more things when we come back.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
And there it was, there it was Gary Shannon will continue.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
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Speaker 1 (25:42):
Okay, go to Gary and Shannon on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Does it post on Facebook as well?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
But anyway, we have posted a picture of our show cat.
We need suggestions on what to name him a mark.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Look at this cat is adorable? Right, Oh my gosh.
I have to say that for it because I can
just only imagine. You don't have to imagine any longer.
You don't.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
He's right there she Do you think it's a boy
or a girl? What do you think?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I stopped caring what. I don't care what the gender
of the Oh, I just love the cat. Oh okay, yeah, okay,
you think it's a girl. Okay, okay, I think it's
a girl too. I think it's the pink. There's so
much pink involved with her, on her ears and on
her little nose. No, that's on her nose. What do
you call their mouth?
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Their mouth? Mouth? The mouth?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah, it's a girl.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Those eyes screamed.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
See Gary's eyes, he looks terrified.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I'm just just kidding around. I'm not really taking this
that seriously. You don't have to be terrified of me.
It's obviously not that big of a deal, right, It's
just it's just something that I poured my heart and
soul into for a show and a half, more than
I can say for anything else.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Kids, getting kids off their phone. We have done so
many studies about this, so many reasons. What the phones
do to the kids a whole bit. The takeaway is
they're addicted. It's easy as that. Kids stare at their devices.
They socialize using their devices because that is what tech
has trained them to want. There was a Harris poll
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that surveyed some Americans whose perspectives don't always show up
in the national data, and that is the group of children,
and they say that it offered them a comprehensive picture
of how childhood is changing. It makes me so sad.
I guess everyone's childhood is different. Everyone's childhood is different. Generationally.
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You always think your childhood it was the best childhood.
So when there's a new way of doing childhood, you
get sad. I guess a little bit. But anyway. In March,
the Harris Poles surveyed more than five hundred children ages
eight to twelve, and they were told nobody'll ever hear
about this, your answers will be private. About half of
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the ten to twelve year old said that most of
all their friends use social media. About seventy five percent
of kids ages nine to twelve regularly play an online
game Roadblocks, where they can interact with friends and strangers.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
This is the part that should break your heart.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Most of the kids in the survey said they're not
allowed to be out in public at all without an adult.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
And that is the problem. That's what they're pointing to.
That's what the poll points to. The kids point to
that when you got too protective over the kids and
not letting them outside.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
And I'm saying you, I'm saying you know people.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Yeah, that's when they were driven to the phone, so
that instantly addicted them.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Well, think about how we spend time waiting in line.
If you have a phone in your pocket, you have
to consciously leave it in your pocket or else it's
going to be in your hand.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
You're gonna look up stupid stuff.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
It's just the way we have now, you know, become
accustomed to wasting time.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
But in terms of just playing outside, since the nineteen eighties,
parents have grown more and more afraid that unsupervised time
will expose their kids to physical or emotional harm. So
parents are thinking of unsupervised time physically on supervised. Your
kid goes I'm gonna go play with Jimmy, he leaves
the front door, and you don't see.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
That kid for four hours. That was our childhood. That
must have been kidnapped.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Yeah, no, that was our childhood. Hey, I'm going over
to Amy's house.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
I'll see you. I'll see it for dinner. Be back
for dinner.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Okay, gone unsupervised. Yeah, and parents freaked out about that. Well,
now instead of leaving the house and going to Amy's.
You're on your phone up in your room and guess what,
you are unsupervised with the internet.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
They're fewer than half of the eight and nine year
olds that were in that survey, fewer than half had
been allowed to walk down a grocery store aisle alone,
not walk to the grocery store, walk down the aisle
by themselves.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Now, when you're a kid and you're scared, or you're
told that you should be scared, or if it's not
safe for you to walk down a grocery aisle, you
know what that gives you?
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Anxiety?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Yeah, unscared of everything, ungrounded, unproven, unnecessary anxiety.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Except for your phone. You're not scared of that.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Yeah, because you can control that.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
You can play roadblocks with the guy and his mom's
underwear in his basement, Wait eaten stale funions.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Why is he wearing his mom's underwear.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I'm just saying anybody can play roadblocks. They're all playing
roadblocks unsupervised in their rooms. You know where they physically are,
but you don't know where they are mentally.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Kind of gross.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
The image of the guy of the stale Funians who
wants stale funds.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Well, you made a.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Big thing out of your fundians being stale. But I've
got wearing someone else's underwear that day. You don't know
that I know what underwear.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
I don't know that. You may not in my head.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
You wear all sorts of different people's underwear.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Just randomly. Who are? Where do I get your thing?
Where do I get it? Will? Do they? You buy
good underwear Goodwill? If you're in need of underwear, do
you get it? You go to the store.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Yeah, But if you don't have money for underwear, you
just go without.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Are you really in need of it? If you don't
have any money? For people?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Yeah, everyone needs underwear.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
You don't need it. It's nice to have. Probably nice
to have. I'll give you that.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
It gives you a little dignity if you can put
on some under ruts.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Sure, but you don't.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
You don't I know that you regularly go without.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
No.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
I was gonna say free ball, but I didn't want
to make a reference to your genitalia.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
All right, let's talk swamp watch. All right, let's clean
around here.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
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I'd kill for one of these things. I love Hello Kitty.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Do you love a cross body bag too?
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Oh right, I mean, duh. I would never think of
speaking of almonds. Did you know that Bitch and Sauce
is made with almonds?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
No? I didn't to either. Eye opening.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I got into almonds while you're away.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I got into that those.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I think this is what you eat, the granola bars,
but they've got almonds and dark chocolate and peanuts in them.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yes, yeah, they're pretty good.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Those are really good, very nut heavy, And for some
people didn't.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I wasn't bothered by the almonds. I thought I would be.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
But maybe I've reached an almond period of life, an
almond era.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
It comes with age, does it.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Really.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
You start embracing almonds, and.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
You got to do it now before your teeth start
weakening and they start cracking every time you.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Eat almonds and then I'm just in the face.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
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the amas and spit them in your own Oh my god,
like a bird, like a baby bird. House Oversight Committee
has subpoened the Justice Department for files in the Jeffrey
Epstein's sex trafficking investigation looking for depositions with former President
Clinton and former Secretary of State Clinton and some former
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law enforcement officials. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin net Yahoo is
hinting at some wider military action in areas of Gaza,
even as a former Israeli army and intelligence chiefs call
for an end to all of this. This new pressure
on net Yahoo came as the Gaza Health Ministry says
that the Palestinian death toll is now up over sixty
one thousand in that war.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Well, we've got the Olympics coming to town twenty twenty eight,
and Trump now says.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
He will be in charge of security.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Well, he is going to order the establishment of a
White House task force, i should say, for the security
for the Olympic Games in La. Caroline Levitt said, the
President plans on creating this task force by executive order today.
He considers it a great honor to oversee this global
sporting spectacle.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
In her words, this may be great news.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
May be great news for the city of La and
everybody who's trying to get these Olympics off the ground
without a hitch. The executive order does secure about a
billion dollars for security and planning some other costs for
the LA Games, which the assumption was that it was coming.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
This just makes it official.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Hey, we were going to ask for the money from
the federal government and Trump was going to be like,
California is asking you for something?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Absolutely not screw them.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
So the fact that he's coming out and putting his
name on this, because that's what he likes to do,
put his name on things, just do not look a
gift horse in the mouth. Take the money. Let him
have his name on the umbrella that is the security
for the Olympics. I get there's a lot of egos
at play here that are going to be pissed off.
He's interjecting himself in something that is Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
But just take the money, yeah, stop it.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Just to let the dog hump your leg.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Get over with dog hump your leg and throw a
great party, have a great time. They're still negotiating with
they the Olympic organizers are still negotiating negotiating with the
city in terms of using police, traffic officers, and other
employees during the Olympics and Paralympics. Things like security, trash removal,
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traffic control, paramedics all that will be needed during the
Olympics and the Paralympics.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
When it comes up in twenty eight and under an
agreement between LA twenty eight and the city, the Olympics
must reimburse the city for any of the services to
go beyond what the city would provide on a normal day,
So they have to agree by October first on what
would be enhanced services, figuring out the rates, the repayment timelines,
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the audit rights, and other processes, et cetera. Overtime for LAPD,
which would obviously be through the roof, would be felt
by the city government, especially since they can't seem to
balance a budget and they're dealing with a billion dollar.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Shortfalls coming up a little next more proof that California
is bad for business, unfortunately, but maybe we turn it around.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
That'd be a great idea.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
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Speaker 1 (05:30):
Oh boy, I'm in kidnap me. Crypto bros are are douchebags.
These guys are These guys take that whole thing to
a next level upper Achalan Dbag.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
We'll do that with when we get into true crime Tuesday,
the two crypto bros that ended up behind bars, including
allegations of kidnapping and torture.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, I don't know what you mean when you say
Champagne Caviare and then it ends and tour like in
what world?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Texas Democrats prevented their state's House representatives from moving forward,
at least for now, with a redrawn congressional map. We
know that the Democrats left the state so that there
wouldn't be quorum, But the Texas House is due to
reconvene just a little less than an hour from now.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
We'll see what happens today.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
And the testimony the interview with Gallaine Maxwell last month,
that two day interview where they brought up one hundred
different people. They're thinking about maybe releasing the transcript publicly.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
That would be.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Incredible, maybe or maybe not. Maybe it's just boring, Maybe
she doesn't know anything.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I don't know, or maybe this is another one of
those Pam Bondie Dog and Pony shows with the binders
and we've got all this information and we can release
it and then nothing.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Ever comes of it.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
But I feel like they've learned their lesson in that
regard that if there's a transcript with any information and
they're thinking about releasing it, they're going to have to
give us something.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Last month, Lindsay Snyder, the billionaire owner of in and Out,
announced that she was moving from California to Tennessee. She
specifically referred to family reasons why she wants to move,
and the headquarters for the company isn't necessarily moving. But
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it was a it was an embarrassment for state lawmakers.
He's got a massive, massive, California iconic business, doesn't want
to do it here anymore.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I'm well, they're still doing it. You said it. I
mean they're consolidating.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
They're opening a regional headquarters in Tennessee, but the headquarters
will remain in California. I am embarrassed by the exodus
of people leaving California, business owners among them. However, it
falls on deaf years when you've got Lindsay Snyder saying
raising a family is not easy here.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Get out of here.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
You're a billionaire raising a family, no idea what it
takes to raise a family in California as a normal person.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I think she means, I'm not saying I know her.
I did an interview with her one time. I don't
know her, but she had the She talked about kids,
and she talked about what kids go through, and she
talked about when, yes, she's loaded, but that she tries
to raise her kids in a not loaded way. That
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makes sense sure, and that sometimes that means, you know,
a public school. I don't think they're in public school.
But I think it's more than just the I can
afford everything in California. I think that she was talking
more specifically about social issues that she may or may
not agree with.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Like what like what are her kids going through in California?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
That's so rough. There's a lot of crime in California.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
There's a lot of pressure to be politically one sided California.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I don't know if that stuff kids worry about or
should worry about.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Well, she doesn't. Clearly the kids don't get a vote
in this.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
It's one thing if she says it's hard, raising a
family is not easy here, and then they move the
whole in and out operation out of there for their employee.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
If she went on to say, our employees.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Are here and they they they are having a hard
time making ends meet, or what have you?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Home ownership. I mean, yeah, but I mean, you know
what I.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Mean, that's all I mean coming out of her mouth.
It's just hard to wrap your head around. But yeah,
I mean you're absolutely right in that in and Out
is a quintessential California business and for them to come
out and be the voice the latest voice of California
isn't feasible is a big freaking deal.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
So the Like Times ask the question is this state
a bad place to do business? And that the answer
is never, you know, unequivocally yes or unequivocally no.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
It's it's nuanced.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
But you think about the amount of taxes that are
paid by businesses and individual here in California, the environmental
regulations that exist, the red tape that it takes to
start a business in California. We are, yes, the fourth
largest economy in the world, but that doesn't mean that
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every business does well in California.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I have a question about this because Democrats aren't Democrats
run California, right. I think we can all agree on
that stipulated right. Democrats run California aren't democrats in business.
They're not just all eaten their granola and their birkenstocks
covered in their own feces on the side of a
road with the open air drug crack pipe in their mouth.
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I mean, they do run businesses, They run small businesses.
Where is the voice of those Democrats when you come
to power in California? Why is it always the far
and left progressives that get all the attention for the
open air drug markets and the like and the effort
to put needles in Starbucks bathroom? Where are the Democrats
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that run small businesses that have a voice in Sacramento?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
They ex great question. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
I don't know if they get drummed out by the
louder lefter members of their party that they get just
they simply their voices don't get heard.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
The University of San Francisco School of Management professor guy
named William Riggs says, we continue to be a magnet
for investment in tech, in biotech, entertainment, and green energy,
agricultural hotbed for the planet, although that has been diminishing.
But that doesn't cover all of the industries. And even
in those industries, I mean, look at entertainment. One of
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the issues that we talked about yesterday was AI being
used in the movie industry, and I'm kind of a
specific example of it with Disney and the potential to
use it in the Mowana live action film.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
But I think of the.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Numbers of shows that are supposed to be set in
California that aren't even filmed in California, right, I mean
the majority of Naked Gun.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Naked Gun is literally an LA story. It's a nationale
treasure in Georgia. Yeah, outside of the you know, a
couple of.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
A couple of skyline shots, the Naked Gun was made
in Georgia because they can't do it here, and that
to me is one of the A It's a small example,
but it is sort of that canary in the coal
mine of if you can't even film an LA show
in LA. And I know it's been done for a while,
but there's gotta be there's gotta be some recognition that
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you don't do that anymore.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
But man, I gotta say, I'm I'm all in with
all these beautiful locales they're using in Hollywood, or at
least that Netflix is using, whether it's Nova, Scotia or
Idaho or New Mexico or Georgia.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
My god, it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I do not miss the sound stages across the street
at all. I mean, the scenery is the locale is
a character its own. In these shows that are doing
so well, whether it's Virgin River or Sullivan's Crossing all
that stuff, I mean, part of the reason why they
do well. It's not for the great acting or the
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dialogue that's whipped smart. It's just the beautiful locale that's
not Los Angeles. Yeah, that's why Yellowstone did is one
of these is why Yellowstone did exactly because people couldn't
believe you mean, there's a place that looks like that
in the United States of America.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
May not have all been in Montana, but out there.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
The net out migration the companies that left the state
versus those that entered the state. In California in twenty
twenty three, the net out migration was five hundred and
thirty three, so five hundred and thirty three more companies
left California then came in that year. California has ranked
among the top three states with the highest rates of
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out migration since twenty fifteen, and a lot of people,
corporate executives, etc. Have complained that the tax burden is
one of the drivers on the decisions to relocate state
tax on its highest earners at thirteen point three percent
on regular income, and unlike most states, it applies the
same rates of profits from the sale of investments or
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business assets. I've had plenty of people say to me,
you cannot retire in California. You cannot retire in California.
Family reasons maybe, but other than that, there's no reason
why you should stay in California and retire because your
money will be lost.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
No, but it is beautiful if you've got it. Look,
I put the hind quarters on the cat.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Not cool this. His feet are his feet? No, those
there's got to be No, those.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Are not his feet. Those are his ball joints.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Those are his ankles, right, got it?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Okay, yeah, the ball joints are Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
La County doesn't. Don't worry. I'm going to get your
arms on real soon. LA County doesn't have any money
for the earthquake. We're going to get your feet together.
Oh yeah. This is like. This is when you find out.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
That your kid who's like got a job and stuff like,
has five cents in a savings account and you're like.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
But what if something happens and he's like whatever.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, that's La County.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
No savings, nothing for when the disaster will hit. They're
just going to rely on other people. They're just going
to rely on the federal government or grants. They're already
relying on grants. Most of that money is from federal grants. Instead,
they have bloated salaries for all of the administration in
La County.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
It's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
They want to put more supervisors on the board, so disgusting.
Gary and Shannon will continue to Gary and Shannon on
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Speaker 3 (16:06):
I mean, my goodness, how cute is this? Right? Yeah?
I mean you mean that's okay. You have to admit it.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I have to admit what look at him.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
More than eight hundred structures are going to be serious
to being in the room.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Threatened by a massive wildfire that's burning through the Les
Padres National Forest in central California.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Saw it.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
You could see the fire in the smoke pretty clearly
today from the airplane. This Gifford Fire is what they're
calling it. And the Gifford Fire is now up over
eighty two thousand acres close to eighty three thousand. They
put containment at just seven percent as of this morning,
nineteen hundred personnel fighting this fire. It grew out of
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several smaller fires started Friday right along State Route one
sixty six between Santa Maria and Bakersfield. They said three
people have been injured, including a driver with burn injuries.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Once they were overrun by the flames.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Russia is declaring that it is no longer bound by
a self imposed moratorium on developing nuclear capable intermediate range missiles.
This is this new saber rattling that's been going on.
The Russian Foreign Ministry linked the decision to efforts by
the US and its allies to develop intermediate range weapons
and preparations for their deployment in Europe and other places,
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but the Russian Foreign Ministry didn't say what specific moves
the Kremlin might take. President Putin has announced that Moscow
is planning to deploy the new missiles on the territory
of its neighbor Belarus later this year, and the Coastguard
comes out or has come out, i should say, with
a report on the Titan submersible. They said it was
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completely pro ventable and that deliberate oversight was avoided. The implosion,
of course, killed all five people on board as they
descended down towards the Titanic, including the CEO of the company,
a guy named Stockton Rush, who died, as did everybody
instantaneously in that implosion. The report just came out earlier today.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
La County has an embarrassingly small budget for the office
that manages natural disasters, major emergencies, things like cyber attacks, earthquakes,
you know, the US A Tuesday in La County.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
So let's look at the other the two only two
larger cities in the United States counties, if you will,
and how they do emergency management. New York County sits
right now. Their emergency management budget for New York County
eighty eight million dollars eighty eight Illinois, Cook County, of course,
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home to Chicago, one hundred and thirty million dollars. When
it comes to La County fifteen million, tiny compared to
those other cities counties.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Four million of that comes from federal grants. The office
has thirty six full time positions thirty six for an
office that oversees that. About nine point two million of
the fifteen million goes to salaries and employee benefits.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
That's odd. Odd. The people that.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Are going to respond to the emergency, are getting paid
all the money for the emergency response. By the time
these people are paid, there's going to be nothing to
respond to that emergency, right.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
That's very true. Nine point two.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
What do they do so the other days when we
don't have earthquakes or cyber attacks?
Speaker 3 (20:03):
So are they just sitting there playing wordle.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
That's about two hundred and fifty five thousand dollars per position,
per full time position, two fifty a quarter million dollars
to work in the county's emergency management office. That leaves
a fraction of money for the other things, the utilities
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the office expenses. The executive office is going through its
budget allocations for this year right now. One person familiar
with the grants and emergency management operation says La County
has no real emergency management budget. Essentially, all the systems
and all the projects are funded through grants. But then
they have to pick and choose and piecemeal together what
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they can work on and with to stay within the
constraints of the four million dollars that comes in from,
Like you said, those federal grants.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
This is incredibly low.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Again, I mentioned New York County has eighty eight million
cooked County has the one hundred and thirty.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Million, but we have all the disasters.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Right Soria Sutherland is a disaster management area coordinator for
a part of LA County. Again, when you're not coordinating,
it shouldn't these be roles people step into who are
doing other things. Like a disaster management area coordinator for
part of LA County? What is she doing Monday through
Friday when we don't have a disaster. But whatever, Sarah Sutherland,
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Maybe she's got many things to do, she says, we
have historically always been underfunded, redundant.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
But that's fine.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
So many emergency managers pay for their own stuff out
of pocket because there is no money. What emergency managers
pay for their own stuff out of pocket? What are
you paying for out of pocket? Chipotle? Like, what are
you talking about? There's no emergence like today, we don't
have an emergency in LA County? What are you paying
for out of your own pocket?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
But they said.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
For example, after the fires, the county in the city
were scrutinized for their failure to respond, failure to prepare,
failure to respond. The budget shows that the county switched
its alert system just last fall, shifting from one notification
system called code RED to another one called Genesis. Many
of us knew about it soon after the fires and
(22:20):
downloaded it. According to somebody familiar with those systems, the
best practice for switching from one platform to another is
to have both of them running concurrently for about a year.
That way people can train. That way the systems can
be tested and practiced with. At the time of the fires,
there were only two employees.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
I'm going to.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Say that again. In a county of Los Angeles of
a ten million, eleven million people, there were two who
were trained to send the new systems Amber style wireless
emergency alerts when the fire sparked two Now there have
been deeper looks into why warning weren't sent to an
(23:00):
entire subset of Altadena. Nineteen people died. The county had
some other issues that sent in sending alerts during this firestorm.
Of of course, struggling to disseminate information to the public,
the county did not immediately set up a joint information center.
The Office of Emergency Management had only one trained PIO
and then who had to evacuate, so they were affected by.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
The emergency and couldn't do anything.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Then it took a few days for the county to
find additional people to help that official field the bunch
of requests for information and to coordinate the messaging, completely
unprepared for what it is that they're supposed to do
in the Office of Emergency Management.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Today, the cat is completed. Yes, should we make this
a Harden post or a story to get a name?
You guys, lt Hard post Hard Garden Post and I'll
repost it as a story and people can also fill
it in there too.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Okay, you know, I'll just let you do all of this. Okay,
I mean I could do it, but.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I just I just want to take so many pictures
of him, you know what I mean, Like it's like
having a new baby angle, I know, because he's got
so many angles. Like he's beautiful. Look at those hind quarters,
look at the mastery of that.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Hey, Shannon says, when does cats have funds?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Have? Now?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Be what you think? What are you thinking? How about
that anatomy straight?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Why don't you get your anatomy straight? Okay, I think
I'll take a view from the side. I don't know,
what do you think? Side or head on? Maybe just
like this? That's pretty good? Oh my God, he's so cute.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
All right? He should be like this? Maybe like that?
Or should I take it from above? Why aren't you talking?
I'm waiting for this to hit you?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
But this is great. What should his tail do? Should
it be pointed up or that's kind of crass? Maybe
pointed down that's more lady like.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Is it a boy or a girl?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
I don't know. Can you hear that? What you're doing?
Should I put a poll on what? Okay?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah, we're still in the air, all right, we'll do
more things when we come back.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
And there it was, there it was Gary Shannon will continue.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Okay, go to Gary and Shannon on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Does it post on Facebook as well?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
But anyway, we have posted a picture of our show cat.
We need suggestions on what to name him a mark.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Look at this cat is adorable? Right, Oh my gosh.
I have to say that for it because I can
just only imagine. You don't have to imagine any longer.
You don't.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
He's right there she Do you think it's a boy
or a girl? What do you think?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I stopped caring what. I don't care what the gender
of the Oh, I just love the cat. Oh okay, yeah, okay,
you think it's a girl. Okay, okay, I think it's
a girl too. I think it's the pink. There's so
much pink involved with her, on her ears and on
her little nose. No, that's on her nose. What do
you call their mouth?
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Their mouth? Mouth? The mouth?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah, it's a girl.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Those eyes screamed.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
See Gary's eyes, he looks terrified.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I'm just just kidding around. I'm not really taking this
that seriously. You don't have to be terrified of me.
It's obviously not that big of a deal, right, It's
just it's just something that I poured my heart and
soul into for a show and a half, more than
I can say for anything else.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Kids, getting kids off their phone. We have done so
many studies about this, so many reasons. What the phones
do to the kids a whole bit. The takeaway is
they're addicted. It's easy as that. Kids stare at their devices.
They socialize using their devices because that is what tech
has trained them to want. There was a Harris poll
(27:36):
that surveyed some Americans whose perspectives don't always show up
in the national data, and that is the group of children,
and they say that it offered them a comprehensive picture
of how childhood is changing. It makes me so sad.
I guess everyone's childhood is different. Everyone's childhood is different. Generationally.
(27:58):
You always think your childhood it was the best childhood.
So when there's a new way of doing childhood, you
get sad. I guess a little bit. But anyway. In March,
the Harris Poles surveyed more than five hundred children ages
eight to twelve, and they were told nobody'll ever hear
about this, your answers will be private. About half of
(28:21):
the ten to twelve year old said that most of
all their friends use social media. About seventy five percent
of kids ages nine to twelve regularly play an online
game Roadblocks, where they can interact with friends and strangers.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
This is the part that should break your heart.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Most of the kids in the survey said they're not
allowed to be out in public at all without an adult.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
And that is the problem. That's what they're pointing to.
That's what the poll points to. The kids point to
that when you got too protective over the kids and
not letting them outside.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
And I'm saying you, I'm saying you know people.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Yeah, that's when they were driven to the phone, so
that instantly addicted them.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Well, think about how we spend time waiting in line.
If you have a phone in your pocket, you have
to consciously leave it in your pocket or else it's
going to be in your hand.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
You're gonna look up stupid stuff.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
It's just the way we have now, you know, become
accustomed to wasting time.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
But in terms of just playing outside, since the nineteen eighties,
parents have grown more and more afraid that unsupervised time
will expose their kids to physical or emotional harm. So
parents are thinking of unsupervised time physically on supervised. Your
kid goes I'm gonna go play with Jimmy, he leaves
the front door, and you don't see.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
That kid for four hours. That was our childhood. That
must have been kidnapped.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Yeah, no, that was our childhood. Hey, I'm going over
to Amy's house.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
I'll see you. I'll see it for dinner. Be back
for dinner.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Okay, gone unsupervised. Yeah, and parents freaked out about that. Well,
now instead of leaving the house and going to Amy's.
You're on your phone up in your room and guess what,
you are unsupervised with the internet.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
They're fewer than half of the eight and nine year
olds that were in that survey, fewer than half had
been allowed to walk down a grocery store aisle alone,
not walk to the grocery store, walk down the aisle
by themselves.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Now, when you're a kid and you're scared, or you're
told that you should be scared, or if it's not
safe for you to walk down a grocery aisle, you
know what that gives you?
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Anxiety?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Yeah, unscared of everything, ungrounded, unproven, unnecessary anxiety.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Except for your phone. You're not scared of that.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Yeah, because you can control that.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
You can play roadblocks with the guy and his mom's
underwear in his basement, Wait eaten stale funions.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Why is he wearing his mom's underwear.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I'm just saying anybody can play roadblocks. They're all playing
roadblocks unsupervised in their rooms. You know where they physically are,
but you don't know where they are mentally.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Kind of gross.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
The image of the guy of the stale Funians who
wants stale funds.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Well, you made a.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Big thing out of your fundians being stale. But I've
got wearing someone else's underwear that day. You don't know
that I know what underwear.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
I don't know that. You may not in my head.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
You wear all sorts of different people's underwear.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Just randomly. Who are? Where do I get your thing?
Where do I get it? Will? Do they? You buy
good underwear Goodwill? If you're in need of underwear, do
you get it? You go to the store.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Yeah, But if you don't have money for underwear, you
just go without.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Are you really in need of it? If you don't
have any money? For people?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Yeah, everyone needs underwear.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
You don't need it. It's nice to have. Probably nice
to have. I'll give you that.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
It gives you a little dignity if you can put
on some under ruts.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Sure, but you don't.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
You don't I know that you regularly go without.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
No.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
I was gonna say free ball, but I didn't want
to make a reference to your genitalia.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
All right, let's talk swamp watch. All right, let's clean
around here.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Gary and Shannon will continue, especially in front of the cat.
You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
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