This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Yesterday, we got a big announcement from Mountain Riverside that Sheriff Chad Bianco is going to join the governor's race. The first major Republican candidate we've seen throw his or her, in this case, his hat into the ring. Sheriff Bianco, thanks for taking time for us again today.
Absolutely, thanks for having me on.
Let's get into it quickly.
How does a Republican break through in California considering the makeup of the electorate and the way that we run elections here with the top two primaries.
Yeah, I think the nature of what we are experiencing in California is doing that for us. I don't think it's going to be a Republican per se that does that breaking in. So Prop thirty six showed us that overwhelmingly seventy three percent of this state wants a different direction, particularly when it goes with public safety, and public safety he carries into every other aspect of our lives. So I think people are done voting dn R. They're going to vote for what is right for what they think
is going to help. And this campaign is going to be about proving to them and showing them that a electing a leader to actually go into Sacramento and make some changes is the direction that we need rather than a personality or a millionaire or a billionaire, whatever it is that's caused us to vote in the past, we certainly haven't put leadership there, and I think that's what we're starving for here, honesty, integrity, and we intend to deliver that.
What kind of work have you done with Riverside County Sheriff's Department in your career in law enforcement would translate to being the chief executive of one of the largest economies in the world.
That's a great question. And if you go back, if you had a history here or you knew the history. When I took over as sheriff, and even the election leading up to it, our department was failing. I mean everything about us was failing. People were leaving and drove, We couldn't provide services, and internally it was a lack of leadership. That is what forced me really into running because I knew we weren't doing what we should have
been doing. And it was a complete overhaul in leadership of our organization and then a direction changed with a mindset of being the best of everything to provide better service to everyone else. And once I got in here and started doing that, it transitioned over into helping other departments within our county county agencies. And I can tell you our county government is extremely strong, were extremely cohesive, and we got over the differences of conservatives and liberals,
and we truly did. And they tell me, I'm not saying this, This is other people telling me this that it was because of my leadership here in how we got things done to provide a better service to the community. And this is I'm just going to jump up to a bigger scale and do this for all of Californians instead of special interests.
What's on with Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco announced yesterday that he's going to run for Governor Gavin Newsom, of course, turned out for twenty twenty six, we've seen some pretty wild swings in terms of the state budget, from a very large surplus to a very large deficit. How do you get control of those wild budget swings that we've seen out of Sacramento.
You know, honestly, this is common sense, and it truly is easy. I am a very fiscally conservative person. We all have to admit we don't like paying taxes, and it makes it worse when we see where our taxpayer money is being spent. And when you have a mentality, a very progressive liberal mentality that you have an unlimited supply of money and you can just dole money out to wherever you want, we see these failures, and I
mean it was it was my department. We were wasting money hand over fist and the I've got over a billion dollar budget and we are good with it every single year. We are very fiscally conservative, good managers of our money, and it's putting the right people in place with what is most importantly the right direction of doing what we should be doing with our taxpayer money. Everything about California, especially with money and spending, is completely failing.
All right, So let's envision the twenty twenty sixth election. You win, and all other indications would point to Democrats still in control of the state legislature. How do you deal with a democratically controlled legislature.
That's a very tough question. And obviously it's a it's not a bully relationship, it's a working together relationship, but it certainly is what is best for California. Me winning this election is going to show them that your agenda is wrong and we are going to change it. And I think what causes me causes Democrats, the current Democrat Party. A great concern with me is I'm not intimidated by them. I'm not afraid of them, and I'm certainly not afraid
to tell the truth to the public. And I will take how I act here and how I am very open and very transparent here to Sacramento. And it's going to be very easy when these people want to get elected again. If their constituents know that they are the roadblock to getting a better government for all Californians, those people are not going to be elected again. And I'm not going to be afraid to call them out. There's going to be a big light shined on the darkness
that's in Sacramento. That that little you know, the tunnels that they work in, that they keep their messages and they keep the things that they are doing hidden, is going to be exposed.
What do we do about high speed rails.
There's actually nothing in California other than going from maybe Los Angeles or the Bay Area to Vegas that we need high speed rail for. Especially now. There's not enough. There's not enough want, there's not enough desire, and the only way it would be successful now is with major government subsidy, and that isn't going to happen. If the consumers drive that demand for a high speed rail system,
we certainly would work to get that. But this is government driven, this is special interest driven, and Californias want no part of high speed rail right now.
I completely agree.
Even if we did many years ago we thought it was a pie in the sky Disneyland kind of a plan, it looks like it's completely dead now. But the business end of running a campaign means you got to get out and do a lot of handshaking and a lot of baby slapping or whatever politicians do to raise money.
Are you built for that?
Are you ready for that aspect of the campaign itself?
Yeah, I'm probably one of the most competitive people in the world, and if I set my mind to doing something, I'm going to do it. The thing about this is I didn't give up a job to run for run for Governor. I added another job to my calendar, so I'm going to be full speed, still running to the Sheriff's department, and full speed making sure that we can make California better for everybody listening. For just little snippets,
you can go to Chadbionco for Governor. It's actually Bianco Forgovernor dot com and you can get little information for me, but sign up to help. This is going to be a grassroots effort of spreading the word of making California the place possible to actually have the California dream again.
All Right, Sheriff, thanks for taking time. We'll keep an eye on your campaign.
Thank you, I appreciate it.
You bet, Sheriff.
Chad Bionco from Riverside County the first real, well known Republican to announce a bid for a governor to replace Gavin Newsom when he's term limited out back or upcoming in twenty twenty six. So the big deal is out of Washington, d C. Is actually in Riodd Saudi Arabia. That's where we start swamp Watch.
I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar, and when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing that lollipox here we got The real problem is that our leaders are done. The other side never quit, so I'm not going anywhere.
So that is now Ukraine the swap.
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been.
You know, Americans have always been gone are They're not stupid.
A political plunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Who have people voted for? You were not swap watch, They're all Caunona.
So Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. They're talking about Ukraine, among other things, and Marco Rubio said afterwards, this is just the first baby step in all of the steps that need to be taken.
But we have to understand that it's been three and a half years since there's been any sort of regularized contact between the United States and Russia, and in some cases between any of the participants in this conflict in Russia. So the goal of today's meeting was to follow up on the phone call the President had a week ago and begin to establish those lines of communication. The work remains today is the first step of a long and difficult journey.
Sitting right next to him, the new NSA director, Mike Walls.
This needs to be a permanent endto the war and not a temporary end as we've seen in the past. We know just the practical reality is that there is going to be some discussion of territory, and there's going to be a discussion of security guarantees. Those are just fundamental basics that will undergird and underlie any type of discussion.
So these got off to the right start in terms of there were no major hiccups. It appears in the room, but it doesn't mean that we are a whole lot closer to an end to the war in Ukraine.
But this is progress.
The issue now is going to be what kind of an influence presidents of Lenski Ukraine has on these talks. Has already said they will not agree to anything unless they are involved in the talks, and this first round they've had nothing to do with it. He was supposed to be Zelenski was supposed to be in Saudi Arabia. He's supposed to travel there today. He has canceled that trip and has said that he wants to see how this thing plays out. He doesn't want to give up territory,
although he's probably going to have to. He wants to join NATO, although they're probably not going to allow him to. So this is the baby steps and the very beginning. The Department of Homeland Security is out with a new commercial telling criminal migrants to stay out of the United States.
For too long week, politicians left our borders wide open. They flooded our communities with drugs, human trafficking, and violent criminals.
They put American.
Lives at risk. Well, those days are over. Under President Trump. America's borders are closed to lawbreakers. Follow the law and you'll find opportunity. Break it and you'll find consequences.
These they said, they're going to be hyper targeted advertisements, including through social media, through text message, digital to reach illegal immigrants inside the United States and internationally. They said that there's two versions of it, specifically, one of them running here in the United States and the other one running international. The international version of the ad says, if you try and enter illegally, you will be caught and you will be removed. She emphasized, let me deliver a
message from President Trump to the world. If you're thinking of entering America illegally. Don't even think about it. The other again, it seems like there's so much coming out of DC. The other issue that's going on right now in Washington is the ongoing discussion of what is the Department of Government efficiency? Is Elon Musk at the head of it? And what they're doing? Is it illegal? A
couple things. Number One, Last night, a federal judge declined mind to block DOGE from getting access to Education Department data on student borrowers.
The US District judge bless Me, the US District.
Judge Randolph Moss, ruled that the University of California Student Association, which sued, had not shown sufficient irreparable harm to receive such immediate relief. It was not the judge that said this, but I did see an explanation which was, you can't assume legally that someone ate all the ice cream just because they opened the freezer door. Again, I'm not sure that's the perfect analogy, but it might be easier to understand the other case. We're expecting a ruling on this
one sometime today. Judge Tanya chut Khan, the Obama appointed judge who was something of a rival to Trump, at least during the election interference case. She said she's overseeing this latest case against Doje. She says she does not believe that she can impose a general restraining order on Elon Musk or Doge over the firing of thousands of federal employees. And it's funny even the Associated Press says the alleged firing of thousands of federal employees, and that's
an important thing. She said, the courts cannot act based on news reports, and I'm not seeing it so far proof that there were thousands of people who were actually fired. So she asked the Department of Justice lawyer if he could confirm the allegation that thousands of federal employees were fired, and he said, I can't independently confirm that, And she says,
you haven't been able to learn if that's true. If you remember, this is the same judge who in twenty one rejected the claim of presidential immunity in the twenty twenty election interference case that was the one that was eventually overturned by the Supreme Court, and then didn't really do anything to gloss over those strained relations. She talked about the harshest sentencing record for all criminal defendants that appeared before her for their roles in the January sixth riots.
She's been outspoken about her view of that day, and after Trump moved to pardon and grant clemency, she said that those actions can't whitewash the blood, the feces, and the terror that the mob left in its way. But it looks like she, at least the way that she commented on the case yesterday, it doesn't appear like she's going to put a general restraining order on Elon Musk or on the Department of Government Efficiency, at least not yet.
She had said that she could in the future if the states that are suing there are fourteen states, including the Great State of California, if and unless, I should say unless and until the states can actually prove that the people were fired and that the states have standing for that general restorat order in the first place. Shannon's out today dealing with some family stuff. She'll be back.
A couple stories that were following the Social Security Administration's acting leaders stepped down from her role over requests from the Department of Government Efficiency to get access to some Social Security recipient data.
According to several reports.
Acting Commissioner Michelle King departed from the agency over the weekend after more than thirty years of service. She was allegedly refusing to provide DOSEE staff members with sensitive information and decided that that was the red line for her. Hamas has agreed to release six living Israeli hostages and the remains of four others, including babies. Kafir Bibas was nine months old when he was abducted with his family
by Hamas on October seventh, twenty twenty three. Was kidnapped alongside his mother, his father, and then four year old brother Ariel yard In. Bibas was released this month, but his wife and his sons were not. Hamas had said in late twenty twenty three that the mom and the kids were killed by an Israeli air strike, but again they had released agreed to release six Israeli hostages and the remains of four others this week. Donald Trump congratulated
Scentcom forces on a precision airstrike over the weekend. They killed a senior Al Qaeda operative, the President said was plotting attacks to threaten America and our allies. This unidentified terrorist was a senior finance and Logistics official, apparently with the terror organization, which is an al Qaeda affiliate. He was killed while he was on a highway near the
village of Batabo in northwest Syria. Trump celebrated the airstrike and the soldiers who executed the mission yesterday with a post of course on truth social and the temperatures that we've seen. We saw the weather at that Toronto Airport yesterday when that plane flipped over. The cold temperatures will continue. We'll see this latest ri found the polar vortex coming in Arctic air interacts with the storm system moving out
of the Rockies. So they're talking about central US and Ohio Valley seeing a lot of very hazardous weather and at the same time still recovering from the flooding and the strong weather that we saw over the weekend. So freezing temperatures in parts of Kentucky in West Virginia after
the deadly flooding was caused by storms on Saturday and Sunday. Well, we like to keep you healthy, keep you around for a little bit, and that's why we do every once in a while, Gary and Shannon show Wellness segment.
Feel Terrible.
He spends most of his day at the office.
City Care Nation include a variety of activities and preferably some exercise late in the afternoon.
I never exercised a day in my line. You've just got to sit here and wait to die.
Every morning, I smoke a cigarette and for lunch, I eat a bacon sandwich, and I usually drink my dinner.
It's time for Gary and Shannon's here. We got a guide for wellness and personal improvement for your health.
All right.
There's no requirement that you dance along with us when we do our dance breaks, but there is some benefit to it. We don't just do it to make ourselves look silly. Doing a dance in your kitchen for twenty minutes a day could help. Could be enough to help you hit your exercise target for the day. If you are one of those people who now has.
A boy what's it called the whoop the bracelet thing or your whatever fitness tracker thing that you might be wearing, the bracelet, the ring, whatever it is, it's gonna tell you every once in a while, hey, get off your ass and do something, because you've been sitting around for too long and dancing may just be the answer.
This is a new.
Research project out of Northeastern University in Boston, forty eight people not a huge study, but forty eight people between the ages of eighteen and eighty three with a whole range of dance ability were asked to take part in five minute bouts of dancing five minutes at a time. That's all. That's one long song of dancing, and that's it.
They found that they were going to measure the oxygen intake and the heart rate to determine the intensity of the exercise during the sessions, and it showed that everybody, whether they're eighteen or eighty three, everybody reached at least a moderate physical activity level, which is one of the absolute ground level levels of getting any sort of exercise activity.
The National Health Service national Institutes of Health, depending on which country you're in, suggests that you complete about one hundred and fifty minutes of moderate to vigorous intensity exercise per week. And that's often when they say moderate to vigorous, they say going to the gym, going for a jog, taking a swim, something like that. But they said that dancing can be just as effective as all of those
other things. The study, led by a doctor Aston McCullough said, the main idea was to understand whether the intensity that people would receive from dancing freely on their own would be enough to be a health enhancing physical activity. And the answer was unequivocally yes, that all of the adults were able to reach a health enhancing level of activity without being told what intensity to dance at.
That's the key.
No one's telling you to go out and jazzer size or tibo or whatever sort of dance intensity you think is out there, just dancing whatever that means to you. Dancing for a few minutes at a time. They put on their own music, they danced around. Even when they didn't have music, they were still reaching that level, that very important life level of moderate physical activity. And they said, the main idea is that dance is a really accessible form of physical activity that people can do even in
their homes. Most people think of dance as something that is light and really easy, but really, if you just tell somebody have a dance, go dance somewhere, they're going to get that level of intensity that you would ask them if you were a personal trainer trying to get them to do even more. All right, we'll continue with our wellness segment in fact, is what is the smallest meal that you.
Have all day?
Are you a three square meal person? Do you do a lot of small meals? Do you snack throughout the day? And do your three square meals? Should dinner be the smallest of those three meals? Today is a historic day for LA Unified school kids going back to class today with.
New major rule in place.
The ban on cell phones in classrooms policy does allow for some exemptions. You got students who need phones for translation purposes, possibly learning disabilities, But for the most part, individual campuses have chosen whether or not to have phones locked up in special containers, pouches purchased by the district, or just telling kids to store them in their backpacks, which brings its own problems, of course, but that's going
on today at LA Unified. New York Governor Kathy Hochel is looking at removing Mayor Eric Adams from office in New York City after four of his top deputies announced their resignations. This is all fallout from the Justice Department's push to end the corruption case against him. Kathy Hokel had said that she would convene a meeting of key leaders in Manhattan today for a conversation about a path forward.
She said the departures of the first Deputy Mayor, Maria Torres Springer and some other top officials raised questions about the long term future of any Eric Adams administration. And then another story internationally that he's a little more serious than it appeared at first. Pope Francis is in the hospital.
We know that he's being treated for something called polymicrobial infection of the respiratory tract, and they said he's going to stay in the hospital for quite a time and that he is going to be treated pretty significantly with antibiotics among other things. But Politico is reporting that Pope Francis is now privately telling some of his inner circle that he may not survive whatever this health scare is, and that he is rushing to tie up loose ends ahead of the battle.
To succeed him.
So we're going to do our trending stories at the top of the hour. At twelve thirty, we're going to get into a couple of true crime stories. One of them was a story about a guy whose high school age daughter was murdered and a few months later somebody had recreated her as an artificial intelligent chat bot of all things, say that story the next hour. So to continue our wellness segment, there was a question that came
in that said, it's bad. I've heard that it's bad for dinner to be your biggest meal of the day.
Is that true?
So there's a bunch of research that talks about what people eat. Obviously, that's kind of what everybody was paying attention to, is what people eat. Lately there's been a lot more focused on when people eat. Think of intermittent fasting for one example. So there are no real long term studies or large studies even on the influence of meal timing and health, but there are some studies that
do show consistent links of meal timing and health. For example, if you consume a greater percentage of your calories in the evening, you are at higher risk for obesity, type two diabetes, high blood pressure, higher levels of inflammation. I mean they use in this article the example of Europeans
and their eating habits Spain. For example, in Spain, it's often lunch that is the biggest of the meals, and then at dinner time, especially because it's later, usually it consists of something like vegetable or fish soup, slice of bread with some cheese and a salad, something like a very light small meal for actual dinner. The body's internal clock actually regulates how your cells function, and they say
that that's partly to blame. One of the directors of medical chronobiology at William sorry Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston is a doctor named Frank Sheer. In the morning, your body is more primed to handle a bigger meal. In the morning, your body's ready to absorb nutrients to distribute them to your cells to fuel your day's activities.
But as the day wears on, all of those organs that help you metabolize the nutrients, think of your liver, you're pancreas the right side stuff that starts to respond more sluggishly. And they said they see the effects more clearly when it comes to blood sugar levels. And this
was an interesting aspect I'd never heard before. But if you consume two identical meals, one in the morning and one in the evening, same ingredients, same quantity everything you eat one in the morning, one in the evening, your blood sugar spike will be larger and stay elevated. Longer after the evening meal, and when your levels of melatonin, of course, that's what tells your body's time for sleepy time.
When your levels of melatonin rise an hour or two before bedtime, that suppresses the insulin secretion from the pancreas. So that makes it harder for your body to regulate
your blood sugar. And if your blood sugar is frequently elevated from the large evening meals, like I said, the risk of developing high blood pressure, the chronic inflammation, the obesity, the type two diabetes, And they also said that consuming large meals at night could increase least the activity of certain metabolic pathways that simply lead to fat storage while
you're sleeping. You're getting fatter while you're sleeping. In fact, there was a twenty twenty two review of nine different weight loss trials and researchers found that those who consumed the most calories at breakfast or lunch actually lost more weight than those who consumed the most calories at dinner. They also had better insulin, better glucose, better LDL readings.
Another study found the people who were less hungry sorry that people were less hungry throughout the day when their largest meal was breakfast rather than when it was dinner. That doesn't have to be the doesn't have to be the smaller dinner, does not have to be the smallest meal of the day, but it should not be the largest. And they said it's best to avoid eating late into the evening. So one of the doctors has suggested looking at smaller ways to can sue more calories earlier in
the day. Start with a good breakfast, you know, the simple, the protein rich, the foods like yogurt or eggs or beans, something that makes you feel full. Sometimes that doctor has been told that they're not that hungry in the morning, and that may be because they had a large dinner
the night before. Make time for a big, good, substantial lunch, and then when dinner comes around, you're just less hungry, You're less likely to consume that bigger meal, and you may be less enticed by the late night snacks.
So here's the thing.
They're suggesting that eating later and eating a especially eating a big meal later, goes against what your body is ready for. Your body's ready to handle all that stuff earlier in the day. It's not quite as ready to handle it and runs less efficiently later at night. If you do find yourself super hungry at dinner time, stay away from the processed food, stay away from the added sugars, the stodium. Instead, do the oh calorie snacks without spiking
your blood sugar. Things like legumes, maybe some grilled fish, the old chicken breast, vegetables, fruits, whole grains, all.
Of that stuff. I mean, not all of that stuff, because Debora would eat all of that stuff, only some. You'd eat some of that. I'd eat the legomes. Are you a late eater?
No?
I eat.
I eat it about a quarter to five.
What?
Yeah, do you get the senior special for that? I do? Wow?
I do.
On the weekends, when we go out with friends, we eat at six thirty six whatever. But when it's just my husband and I, we like to eat early five or five thirty.
My wife has said many times, if you want to eat healthy, unfortunately, unless everybody in your group of friends is eating the same way, you kind of have to eat weird.
I know.
And that's that's just the nature. You're gonna have to eat weird.
You're gonna have to turn down the meal or the second glass of wine or the whatever. Kind of you know crazy ice cream dessert that there is.
I do.
I turn down lots of stuff, but you're still normal. I am normal ish.
Would you like your Jeopardy question? Yes, producer Keana, I would love my jeopardy question.
An American president for six hundred Okay, he began eating jelly beans as a part of his attempt to quit pipe smoking, and it worked, and he was.
A pipe smoker. Who is Ronald Reagan? Yes, that was a jelly beans. That was the easy one.
And my grandma always has a pot of beans on the stove.
Is she she big pipe smoker too? No, but my grandpa was, Oh, oh you said it in past tense. Yeah, that makes me sad.
And no, it's a good thing. Thanks a lot.
All right.
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