August 10, 2026 • 31 mins
Hour 2 - Monks and Merrill continue to talk about the passing of Big Bear bald eagle Jackie, and share reactions from KFI listeners on the iHeartRadio app talkback feature.
A recent report from Feeding America shows food insecurity increased year over year between 2022 and 2024. Advocates say today’s reality could be much worse. The report published last week showed that about 1 in 6 kids in Orange County experienced food insecurity in 2024 — that’s up 27% from the year before. For some advocates, the report published last week was not surprising.
Friday’s Café LA Menu Tasting Event, hosted by newly minted LAUSD Superintendent Andrés E. Chait, featured popular TV chef Nyesha “The Ninja” Arrington, who helped mentor the students who created some of the tasty new selections, and LAUSD’s Manish Singh, Executive Director of the district’s Food Services Division.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is Monks and Marrow, hosted by Michael Monks and
Chris Merrill. This is Monks and Merrill.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
So we had to suspend Jesse for you know, participating
in my Shenanigans last week. So we bring in Mario,
but after that, I think Mario is probably gonna get
suspended too. Shadow said, at least one song is fine,
but everything else a little bit more party anthem? Can
we can we get Shadow on the phone? Stop it.
I used to do a bit like that. I already
emailed them. I've been listening. I used to do bits
(00:34):
like that, so it'd be like.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Shore.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Oh, I feel terrible about shut up, honey, I'm talking
to the radio.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I don't like that.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Your Shadow impression sounds like your Karen bass and portive.
It doesn't just quick recap stop it, Mario, stop.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
It's let's shadow exactly.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It is.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
With profound sadness, said the OHI Raptor Center a little
bit ago that Jackie the bald Eagle from Big Bear
has died. She was in their care for several weeks.
I don't know why they kept referring to her as
patient two six five one nine. I mean, everyone knows.
Where as Jackie. I understand that internally they might have
some numbers that they follow, but this is how they
kept publicly talking about her. Is it because they didn't
(01:28):
know for sure? Is there an impostor is Jackie still
out in the wild? Stop it? Or you're just creating
like season two of the Telenobella, aren't you hi?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Months and merl this is Kelly from him. I think
it's very, very sad that Jackie that eagle died. I
look forward to watching them every year with their babies,
and it's a sad days.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
And I don't care what animal it is they still have.
They still breathe, yeah, they still feel pain. So all
you people that don't care for animals, I think it's
very Yeah, Michael.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I care dismiss this. Throw the bird away. Honestly. The
first time that I felt true sadness for this situation
was when the eaglets left for good. They left just
last week, I think, so she didn't get to see
them off to school. She didn't get to say goodbye.
What were they? They didn't get to see Luna and
the other one was named for.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
Earlier I spoke about Chris getting suspended.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Now as I listened further.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
It sounds like monks might get suspended now and go
on a little vacation anyways, that it was funny throw
the bird away hilarious.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Michael, that's not funny. I hope they give me some
time off so I can go to Big Bear and
remember Jackie. I'm looking at the nest cam right now.
It's empty. I don't know if Jackie is a shadow,
has gotten word and has gone somewhere. I feel like
you're mocking the whole I'm not mocking it. But doesn't
it sound like he's mocking the whole thing? It does?
I'm not mocking it. I get that you don't care.
(03:00):
A lot of people don't. I understand that I do.
But it is a big story for people. A lot
of animal lovers understood.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Hi.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
Monks and Meryltisity from Porme, Oregon. Has anybody actually contacted
Amy King about the ego dying? Oh, she's been very
adam with the eagles, so he's fine enough. You guys
had to chance to talk to her.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I think she would be somewhere in her home hysterical.
I bet she is genuinely cheering up. Oh yeah, yeah,
this was a big part of her life. So we'll
have to listen to wake Up Call. I got. I
will sit mind alarm for five am tomorrow just to
hear Amy Kingstock. Oh my god, it's gonna be an
hour long tribute.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
The best thing that I thought that came out of
the big Bear camera situation and the watching of the
eglets and the Pit Pit Watch and all that up
until this tragedy is is the way that it made
Southern California seem small. I mean, this is a big,
vastly populated area, you know, maybe uncaring in some ways
(03:57):
because there's just so many of us, we're uncaring. But
this brought people together. I know that. I know that
it did. It had it was like a small town thing.
This is something that you would have expected in a
small town. And while yes, it did spread across the country,
this was Southern California's thing. And I think even though
we've had some probably some some dark humor about it,
(04:20):
you have they'll say, don't say we you played the
Sarah McLachlan because I wanted to be a tad I'm
sure that was out of the goodness. So do you
start laughing whenever you see a Sarah McLaughlin commercial. Come on, Yes,
it's entered the zeitgeist that.
Speaker 8 (04:33):
Week of afternoon. Guys, I'm Jackie and nature animal lover.
I love animals more.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I'm jack I'm jack.
Speaker 8 (04:40):
At the end of the day, it's nature. You need
to let nature take its course. This an animal rescue
place did nothing for her other than gain some popularity.
And uh, I just think you took her away from
her family and now they will never know what happened
to her, and you didn't do anything for her. Just
letting nature take its course. Stop humanizing all these animals
(05:00):
and let them be.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I have questions about that too, because I understand that
Shadow probably accepts that she's gone. He certainly notices she's
not there, And there may have been some instances in
the past where they'd been separated for a while. Every
marriage goes through its situations. But how will he know
for sure? Does he need that finality? No, it's nature.
(05:24):
I mean should they have an open casket situation in
Big Bear so that he can at least see stop
and what happens next season? Who were we watching on
the kid trying to play with nature?
Speaker 9 (05:38):
She probably would have passed away all in her own
in the wild.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Meanwhile, they tortured her. Yeah, they tortured her. Monks, they
didn't torture her. They tortured her, give her a bunch
of blood transfusions, a bunch of other stuff she didn't need.
I mean, some of that stuff sounded a little weird.
And they did post a picture of her that kind
of looks like the type of photo you post when
you know you're up elite that dies and you know
you put little angel wings on her and ah stuff.
(06:06):
I guess that would be superfluous. Debra is gonna come
in here. She's gonna clip your wings. Jackie already had
her wings, but now she's got an extra set. As
Jackie flies to heaven, Jackie the Bald Eagle dead. I
was told by my minister that there is no heaven
for the animals, that they don't go. Oh you're Protestant though,
M Well, yeah, you will never find out because you'll
be in hell, which which which religion lets me keep
(06:28):
my animals? I think the rest. Oh, That's what I'm
going to do. Then, Yeah, okay, all right, we're gonna
collect ourselves. We'll continue on. Jackie. Watch breaking news today
that Jackie the Bald Eagle has died and we've lost her.
We do have actual news. She's in the custody of
the state of California, which is just terrible news. Yes,
(06:49):
just terrible, terrible news. Well that's the worst of all too.
That bird's sitting outside of seven eleven right now when
somebody's getting roller foods.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
You're listening to monks and merrill from KFI KM six
forty more stimulating talk.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Also, glad to have you with us on this Monday afternoon.
We'll continue our ongoing coverage of the death of Jackie
the Bald Eagle out of Big Bear. But first we
want to talk about serious matters involving people. Think about this.
Your your paycheck clears, right, rent, childcare, car payment. Yeah,
they take their part of it. Yeah, your child's dinner
gets whatever's left right the families. Well not. I got
(07:29):
to make my donation to the OHI go fundme so
that the Raptor Center can be a lot of good.
That you give more blood transfusions, a lot of good.
Speaker 10 (07:36):
That did.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
About one in six kids in Orange County are experiencing
food insecurity. That means they don't know where one or
more meals will come from. That is a twenty seven
percent increase in just a single year. So let's talk
about it. What's going on in Orange County where the
average what the median home price is like one point
four million dollars. We've talked about that a bunch of times,
(07:58):
and this is a well moneyed pop relation, but there
are some who do not have. Lavelle Brewer is president
and CEO of South County Outreach and joins us now
on the phone. What is happening to see such a
significant increase in food insecurity among young people in Orange County?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Well, thank you for having me on.
Speaker 11 (08:17):
What's happening is we've been continually being hit over and
over by wave and wave and wave of inflation, lack
of wage growth and high food inflation that is causing
households and families to have to choose between food and rent.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah. Look, la well, this is one of the reasons
that we're so big when we do our you know,
our pastathon every year for Katerina's Club, is because we
see this need year in and year out and it
doesn't ever seem to be getting better. What is it
that we really have to start seeing in order to
create more food security for these kids.
Speaker 11 (08:53):
Well, what we have to start seeing is not just
an income issue. So you can have a household who
is living in one of those houses you talked about
this one point four million dollars, but suddenly there is
no safety net for that family, that middle class family
who is doing everything right and then they lose a
job or something changes in their work schedule that requires
(09:17):
that they lose childcare, or you know, they have a
medical issue that causes them to not be able to
work as much or.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Maybe not even work at all.
Speaker 11 (09:25):
And those households they don't qualify for SNAP and it
takes two to three months to even get on SNAP.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
If they could qualify.
Speaker 11 (09:34):
That's a safety net that doesn't exist for the middle class.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
That has to be fixed.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
So what are we doing about at LaVale in Orange County?
As you see this increase in children experiencing food and security,
what are organizations like yours and others doing to fill
those gaps?
Speaker 11 (09:48):
Well, organizations like ours and others over the last thirty
plus years, when this started becoming more of a nonprofit answer,
not just churches, because churches have been doing this type
of work for years, for decades, but the nonprofit industry
is really even leaning in on food of security and
housing insecurity on top of that for a while, trying
(10:09):
to help help family stay housed, providing them with the
food they need to put on their table through pantry systems.
Because these SNAP benefits have never been able to keep
up with those who just are on the edge.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Well, okay, I'm wondering about this, Laval Brower with the
president CEO of South County Outreach, I'm kind of wondering
as we talk about the rising prices, SNAP can't keep
up organizations like yours are food banks. I mean, are
we asking charities to compensate for what is really a
much larger systemic issue that we're looking at, whether it's
affordability or it's the safety nets. I feel like there's
(10:44):
a lot of pressure being put on you. What if
you weren't there, then what would happen.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
We weren't here.
Speaker 11 (10:50):
There would be a serious collapse in those who are
hungry who cannot access government government services. And the two
things about accessing those services as well as coming to
pantries is pantries aren't open all the time, and we
often don't have the resources or the food that households
(11:10):
really want to put on their table. So answer your
question absolutely, Government actually, for the most part, was handling
close to ninety percent of all food and security in
the country. And now the snap benefits of pulling back,
that's putting more and more pressure on nonprofits, which are
then making us me ask the community to take their
(11:33):
pre tax or post tax dollars to help me feed
their neighbor, literally the person next door to them, or
in some cases their grandma or their children.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Lavaal, we know that food insecurity is a crisis that
people face all across the country. Is there something unique
about facing that in a place like Orange County?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
There is something very unique.
Speaker 11 (11:57):
When when we were growing up, or as mich And
say they when they were growing up and they were
watching the OC and Laguna Beach and the Real Housewives
of Orange County and Codo and and all over the place,
there's this perception that because the county has wealth, that
everyone in the county is doing financially.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Well, and that is just not true.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Lavala Brewer, the President CEO of South County Outreach, joining
us right now as we talk about some of these
food shortages that we're seeing all over the Southland, but
even in Orange County, as you mentioned, kind of the
perception of what we see versus the reality are two
very different things. Does it get any better when school
starts because I know that we've got some you know,
free lunches and free breakfast for kids? Is that Does
that help alleviate some of the challenges that you face?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Absolutely? California.
Speaker 11 (12:43):
You know, the California gets a bad rap for some
of their politics, and OK, we're not going to talk
about that, but the one thing that they've they've recognized
is that California is feeding the entire world. We export
more food than we consume locally, and any of the
people who picked that food or go to schools who
(13:03):
eat that food, they should just be receiving a free meal.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Reduce the stigma, make it easy.
Speaker 11 (13:10):
So California has made a really good policy of three
meals for everyone in school. Because the child who goes
to school knowing that they don't have enough money because
they're on food stamps or they're getting government assistance, they
know to access those policies. The child who suddenly is
not trying to figure out why there's not any money
food and there's less food in the refrigerator because their
(13:33):
parents are going through a tough time, they don't know
how to access those systems. It makes it easier for
every child to go to school, get a meal, and
do what we really want them to do, get a
wonderful education, and then go on to be a productive
member of the community.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Lavlle Brewer is president and CEO of South County Outreach.
They're in Orange County where children have experienced an increase
in food and security, a jump of twenty seven percent
in just a single year. One and six kids and
oc suffering from this. LaVall, thank you so much for
the time you gave us. We'll touch base on this again,
I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Hey, thank you for having me on. Thank you for
covering this important issue, of course.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, thanks so much, Lavelle Brewer. You know we'll talk
more about that too as we get closer and close
to pastathon. Yeah, absolutely, fall. I noticed that the Jackie
and Shadow Wikipedia page has been updated already and it
does know is that right to note that Jackie has
passed away? She was fourteen. I'm watching the live cam now.
Shadow is nowhere inside, of course, the two eaglets left
(14:33):
in it. It's funny you say that because Shadow did
check in. Oh so we've got an update on that too.
More of your feedback to on the talkbacks instant reaction
from you, share your thoughts. The passing of Jackie the
Eagle probably the biggest story of the entire year, much
bigger than any sort of seven point four magnitude earthquake
that could have hit anywhere in the Western hemisphere. You know,
(14:54):
this is like a seven point four magnitude earthquake in
a lot of people's hearts. Hey, remember when you were
a kid, and then when you went and you had
school lunch, they gave you like a bunch of different choices.
Remember that, But then your parents would say, when I
was a kid, we didn't have options. We had mystery meat.
And to this day that meat is still a mystery.
And we ate what they gave us. And it was
disgusting and a mine us stronger, and all of our
(15:14):
parents sounded like eighteen sixties miners. One major Silkal school
district has a very different approach, something that more resembles
what you would make when you were home alone without supervision.
The dishes trying to turn school lunch into a solution
for Child Hunger Our Next, Monks and maryl I AM
six forty five. Everywhere in the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
You're listening to Monks and Meryll on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
We did a wellness check on wake Up Call host
Amy King and she is still with us. She's okay,
but she is very upset about the loss of Jackie
the Eagle. Do you think Jackie was an organ downer?
Do you think there's something? I don't think you can
take it out because she had anemia and they don't
know if that was caused by like rat poison or
what it was. Now, so somebody like on the load
of her, somebody did somebody did call in and they
(16:03):
said something about doing a necruptcy on that on the bird,
and I thought, that's the kind of thing that's going
to upset people. I would like a full investigation. I'd
like to know one that it's Jackie because but if
you do it, you know what a necropsy involves, got
to cut the thing open. And then I go, you
can't do that to the bird. When we think about
how things actually work, we don't like it. It grosses
(16:25):
us out. Like autopsies aren't pretty. There are people suggesting
that we stuff her, and I actually think that's a
good idea. She was a very popular bird, a beloved bird.
They could stuff her and put her in big bears.
You can't do you know what? Do you know what
taxi er me involves? A taxidermist? Yeah, you don't want
to see how the sauce now, of course I don't.
Hey Monks and maryl who cares about that?
Speaker 7 (16:47):
Setand point for Venezuela and earthquake or Colombian same thing.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
My heart is shattered for the passive Jackie. I don't
know what to do with myself. I'm so sorry You're
not alone. We did have a shadow checked in. Hello,
this is shadow.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Look, I hear all these conversations about me, and frankly,
I'm getting a little tired of it.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I'm gonna put it all to bed.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
I've been with Susan the whole entire time, and you know,
Susan's what's doing it for me. And so Jackie had
to go and Susan took care of the problem for me.
So I'm living life. I'm traveling. I probably won't be
home on the camera anymore.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
So I'm out of here. It is true that I've
got the Big Bear Bald Eagle cam pulled up right
now and it is empty. The two latest eaglets left
the nest for good after learning to fly last week.
But Shadow, I don't know, Maybe he knows, you know
how sometimes you just know, maybe a burst of butterflies
or something lets you know that a loved one is gone,
(17:51):
and maybe he's down in the water. During the break well,
you guys were hearing from Deborah Michael and I checked
with the news director to see if we were going
to send a reporter out to do live coverage from
Big Bear, and the reporter volunteered. She said, yeah, I'd
be happy to go to Big Bear if you want
to put me up for the night, and they said
(18:11):
it's not the budget. Yeah, I said, it sounded like
Anchorman three Maryril monks. Yeah, you called my dad.
Speaker 10 (18:19):
I said, hey, Dad, Jackie died and he freaked out
because I forgot to have an older sister named Jackie,
So yeah, see Jackie.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Okay, if I listeners are absolute menaces, do you think
that we Because I've, as we've established, been fired from
all over the country. I don't think I've ever lived
anywhere where people have more interest in the wildlife than here. Really. Yeah, well,
it's because of the way it interplays with urban existence.
(18:53):
This is wildlife and people. You know it's not, but
I agree, but it's a different kind of release ship
with the animal kingdom. I hear you. But San Francisco
it wasn't like this. Certainly in Dallas it wasn't like
this because the only animals they had are armadillos and
the cactus or cattle. Excuse me, but I don't think
I've ever lived anywhere where. Every time there's an animal spot,
(19:14):
I mean, you did an animal story on Friday, didn't you. Well,
we had the mountain lion in Pasadena that they had
to tranquilize. Yeah, and then there's another mountain lion that's
in the news today walking around I think it was
Studio City. Yep. Yeah, you know what's going on there
because normally those animals have food in the wild. Well,
they have food in the wild, but we're taking the
(19:34):
food and we're giving a blood transfusions and then handing
it off to the state to go cremate it.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I see. You think Jackie would have been a meal
for someone Jackie hundred percent would have been a meal
for a condor for a for a mountain lion, something
of the sort.
Speaker 10 (19:45):
Just you know, don't forget about the memorial that they
held for the mountain lion. They got hit by a.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Car, that is true? Was that the p twenty two? Yeah, hey, guys,
Jeff here, I have a great idea.
Speaker 11 (19:57):
Why don't you guys use your powers, I know your
power bull to contact Don Hensley from the Eagle and
ask him if you just do have just a little
five to thirty second little memorial song for jack for
jack for Jackie.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Oh my god, I gotta go Don Henley. That'd be great. Yeah,
I would love to hear Don Henley's voice memorialized Jackie.
LAUSD has new food on the menu Friday's Cafe La
Menu tasting event last week. It was hosted by the
newly minted LAUSD superintendent Andre's Chait and also TV chef
(20:31):
Nisha the Ninja Arrington. So there were some students who
were signed the opportunity to create new items for the menu.
So the stereotypes of school food weren't there. Mystery meat,
gummy gravy, those sorts of things. According to the La
Daily News, this was some real high quality stuff. They
(20:51):
came out with butter chicken with I don't know. I
don't even know what this word is. Is it kachumber salad,
chumber salad, cut chumber salad, cultchumber, cucumber salad, cutchumber like,
cucumber like cucumber salad, cucumber salad. I wonder what that is. Oh,
I'm glad you asked. Is it Indian? It is? Yeah,
it's an fresh Indian chop salad, usually made with cucumber, tomato, onion,
(21:15):
cilantro lemon or lime juice plus salt in mild spices. Well,
it's like an Indian style cucumber tomato salsa.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
That is.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
The dish that won the Celebrity Chef Challenge was by
the culinary team at Sun Valley's John H. Francis Polytechnic
Senior High School. Five high schools from across the district
competed back in April after working with professional chefs throughout
the school year. So this is a competition that forms
part of the district's career technical education program for culinary
(21:43):
arts at hospitality. I have to selly, I'd love this story. Yeah,
I mean they had some really look, they had chicken pizzoli,
a pork katsu sandwich, an la cheese steak. I don't
know what that is. What makes cheese teak? Pork? Would
you say a pork katsu? Pork su oh, pork cats
I'll see it on here. I thought you were saying
like ketchup. I thought you were spelling it weird, like
the Cat's Up people they made lasagna rolls, deluxe breakfast molds.
(22:07):
You spelled ketchup? Do you spell it with the K
or with the scene with the K? I never understood
when I saw I got a bottle of cats up
one time and I was like, what is this? This
doesn't makeing sense. My parents had to tell me that's ketchup.
Do you know you're live on the radio right now?
That's fine, okay. I love this story of the thing.
Why because I think it marries some of the really
good parts of Los Angeles. So you've got a celebrity
(22:31):
chef that's coming in and they're teaching at some of
these specialty schools, right and I think this is so beautiful.
And the idea is, let's create a menu item for kids.
The kids are going to like that introduces them to
some new flavors and some new things. And as much
as we bag on everything being run poorly and about
the school's overspending, it's just really nice to have a
(22:52):
story coming out of the school that goes, look, here's
something really cool that's happening. It's got community involvement that
inter with not only the high school kids who are
taking these culinary courses, which certainly was not something that
was available when I was a kid, which makes which
is just one of those great things about being here.
But then the idea is that it's going to go on
the menu for the younger students too. I just love
(23:12):
all the everything about this story. It puts the kids
in the kitchen. The benefactors are the younger generation who
then will grow up and they'll be able to create
dishes of their own for the next generation. I just
love it. It's nice. It's nice to know that some
kids are putting their skills to good use rather than
breaking into the AutoZone on. That's exactly right, and that's
exactly it's nice to know. Thank you, absolutely did you
(23:35):
when you were in school? Do you remember the square pizzas?
Speaker 11 (23:38):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yeah, I love those. They weren't great, but of course
it was the most popular day. Nuggets day was pretty
good too. Now those were available every day for us.
We could have we have chicken, we got pizza or whatever.
The specialty of the day was Oh okay, well fancy
fancy you? Yeah. High in public school, pizza was always
served with corn at my school. Have you ever had
pizza and corn sense in your life? I think it
(23:59):
was very common for schools to serve that square pizza
with the side of corn. No, I haven't come to
think of it, because we had to have a vegetable
on the plate. Right, yeah, yeah, pizza and corn. I
missed those square pieces. I'm telling you. I like those.
They had a weird They had a weird flavor that
can't be replicated anywhere else. It's like they covered up
whatever the cardboard meat was that was on it with
(24:21):
lots and lots of Italian seasoning. Yeah, I'm sure there
was a lot of Italian. Oh probably not, glad you
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It's Monday. It's sad Monday. Jackie the Bald Eagle dead.
We're getting a lot of a lot of calls. We're
gonna play a bunch of your messages throughout the remaining.
Speaker 9 (25:05):
Hey guys, this is Susan and I've been hearing a
lot of stories about me out there being involved with
what happened to Jackie. Now, look, I have a lot
of sympathy for what happened with her. May she please
rest in peace, but I really need people to leave
me a shadow alone. We're in love. Wow, this is this.
We should not even be in this conversation. This should
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be all about Jackie. Rest in peace.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Girl.
Speaker 9 (25:29):
I didn't really know you, but I had nothing to
do with this.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Thanks Susan for checking in. We'll continue to monitor that situation.
Did you know that shadow was not Jackie's first Oh?
I know she was shacked up with a guy named
mister B. And then Shadow came in and kind of
rough mister B out of the picture. Is my understanding,
whatever happened to that guy. Here's what's here's the trouble
that we're having. Genuinely, we're watching nature play out. We're
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trying to intervene with blood transfusions and all this kind
of stuff, but the reality is we're actually being exposed
out how things really work in the wild. This is
the this is the animal kingdom, well, the whole live
stream often. This is why I was disgusted by it
and why I'm not all that you know, invested in it.
I'm sorry for the loss. Of course it's sad. But
when you would tune into this nest, especially when the
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eagles had been born, the baby eagles, and they needed
to eat, you'd flip on this camera and it would
be a massacre. There would be dead fish, sure, pieces
of us smaller birds. It was a disgusting sum It
was sometimes with their own offspring that didn't make it.
There was a dead baby eagle last year in the
nest for an inordinate amount of time, right, and we
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also saw but then we anthropomorphized that we go. That's
because mom can't let go and we have Yeah, we
know that's how nature works. But just like as nature works,
you're so invested emotionally in a bird that doesn't have
the same capabilities to invest emotions that way. It's dangerous.
Nature is scary. I mean they have laid eggs before
that were eaten by ravens on camera. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Hey, guys, I wonder if the very last passenger pigeon
when it passed away, it got this much attention.
Speaker 11 (27:10):
No rhetoric, whatever you want.
Speaker 10 (27:13):
To call it.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
No, I didn't love the show. Thanks, man, this is
too much.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I'm having too good of a time riding.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
Hey, good afternoons. And now listen, considering eagles are considered
a monogamous unlike us humans. Do you think shadows out
on the dating scenet again had.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
A great day. Yeah, I mean that's been the speculation
all long, is that shadows already on the dating But
although the experts say, no, no, this isn't the mating season,
they're not interested in that kind of thing. Yeah, that's
what the experts say. Now, shadow is all we have again,
anthropomorphize the entire situation. So We've created this entire scenario
of having a mistress Jackie. Excuse me. Shadow is also old.
He's two years younger than Jackie, but I mean he's
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up there in age as well. Good little eagle viagua
that he's taken. This is the real Shadow checking in.
I don't know who that last imposture was, but I
went through the air.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
I love that woman with all my heart. I had
nothing to do with her attack.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Her anemia is very sad and yeah, yeah, I'm hurt.
That's why I'm not sure myself on the camera. Don't
listen to all that other slander. Okay, I'm a good guy.
I feel like I'm Peterson retrial. You know, Shadow is
nowhere to be seen on this camera right now. He
may be out hunting, he may be out crying. The
sad thing for me, in addition to Jackie being dead,
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is that this is me, of course, projecting human emotions
on these animals. But you know, they had two fledglings.
They had two baby eaglets that grew up and left
and s just last week. But they were gonna do
that anyway. Of course, I never but Jackie was there
Thanksgiving to eat a bird you know, she didn't get
to pack up the car and send them off. She
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doesn't do that. I don't know where they're going, Purdue.
I don't know what they're off to school somewhere. I
had to go to Purdue. They couldn't get into a
good school. It's a good, fine engineering school. Yeah, I'm
sad that she didn't get to see them off. And
I'm very sad that Shadow didn't get to that one
out of your Shadow didn't get a boiler up baby that.
I'm sad that Shadow didn't get to say goodbye to Jackie. Okay,
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it's sad, but Jackie's corpse is now in the possession
of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. That does
not leave me feeling good about the situation we got
to talk about from somebody that said that they take
it to animals and they throw in compost piles, and
that Jackie is now part of compost pile. Yeah, I
have no doubt. I think that's possible too. I have
no doubt that she will be lost in a file
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cabinet somewhere and discovered after the next big earthquake when
we're cleaning up in the rubbles. Like, oh wait, we
put Jackie in here. We'll talk a little bit more
about Rick Crusoe. He's stuffed a ton of money to
bring back a Palisades village. Oh yeah, but there's also
this one piece of the Palisades. Can I can I
just throw this in? There's a piece of the Palisades historic,
piece of the historic. No, I don't want you to
throw this in because I'm a bus the teas for this.
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Do you even read the notes that I belive you? Yeah,
if you're supposed to do this Palisad segment here, but
we know Jackie and now my Palasat story was at
the top, right, We're gonna put them. We're gonna put
them all together, your palasation. That's what I'm trying to
combine the tees. You know what, Jackie's not gonna be
only one dead today if you don't change your attitude.
If you've heard the show in the past, this is
my favorite tease. You shut up, Mario, turn his microphone off. Mario,
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turn his microphone off. It's off, that's off. You know,
if you've heard the show in the past, you know
how much Michael is into his historic preservation because he
wants everything saved.
Speaker 11 (30:36):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
He doesn't want there ever to be any progress. He
protested when the city tried to clean up dirty needles
from the gutter outside of his downtown apartment. He said
they were of cultural and historical significance, marking a challenging
time in the history of the city and should be remembered.
And while he was standing out there protesting, somebody broke
into his place, stole his cat and created it on
skid row for a hit of meth and a pair
of socks. Next Sea's gonna be protesting to try to
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historically save Jackie's body. As annoying as these preservationists can be,
you'd be hard pressed to find somebody who doesn't think
about getting behind the effort to save this actual historic
space in the Palisades. That history that's being saved is
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
So we had to suspend Jesse for you know, participating
in my Shenanigans last week. So we bring in Mario,
but after that, I think Mario is probably gonna get
suspended too. Shadow said, at least one song is fine,
but everything else a little bit more party anthem? Can
we can we get Shadow on the phone? Stop it.
I used to do a bit like that. I already
emailed them. I've been listening. I used to do bits
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like that, so it'd be like.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Shore.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Oh, I feel terrible about shut up, honey, I'm talking
to the radio.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I don't like that.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Your Shadow impression sounds like your Karen bass and portive.
It doesn't just quick recap stop it, Mario, stop.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
It's let's shadow exactly.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It is.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
With profound sadness, said the OHI Raptor Center a little
bit ago that Jackie the bald Eagle from Big Bear
has died. She was in their care for several weeks.
I don't know why they kept referring to her as
patient two six five one nine. I mean, everyone knows.
Where as Jackie. I understand that internally they might have
some numbers that they follow, but this is how they
kept publicly talking about her. Is it because they didn't
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know for sure? Is there an impostor is Jackie still
out in the wild? Stop it? Or you're just creating
like season two of the Telenobella, aren't you hi?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Months and merl this is Kelly from him. I think
it's very, very sad that Jackie that eagle died. I
look forward to watching them every year with their babies,
and it's a sad days.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
And I don't care what animal it is they still have.
They still breathe, yeah, they still feel pain. So all
you people that don't care for animals, I think it's
very Yeah, Michael.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I care dismiss this. Throw the bird away. Honestly. The
first time that I felt true sadness for this situation
was when the eaglets left for good. They left just
last week, I think, so she didn't get to see
them off to school. She didn't get to say goodbye.
What were they? They didn't get to see Luna and
the other one was named for.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
Earlier I spoke about Chris getting suspended.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Now as I listened further.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
It sounds like monks might get suspended now and go
on a little vacation anyways, that it was funny throw
the bird away hilarious.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Michael, that's not funny. I hope they give me some
time off so I can go to Big Bear and
remember Jackie. I'm looking at the nest cam right now.
It's empty. I don't know if Jackie is a shadow,
has gotten word and has gone somewhere. I feel like
you're mocking the whole I'm not mocking it. But doesn't
it sound like he's mocking the whole thing? It does?
I'm not mocking it. I get that you don't care.
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A lot of people don't. I understand that I do.
But it is a big story for people. A lot
of animal lovers understood.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Hi.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
Monks and Meryltisity from Porme, Oregon. Has anybody actually contacted
Amy King about the ego dying? Oh, she's been very
adam with the eagles, so he's fine enough. You guys
had to chance to talk to her.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I think she would be somewhere in her home hysterical.
I bet she is genuinely cheering up. Oh yeah, yeah,
this was a big part of her life. So we'll
have to listen to wake Up Call. I got. I
will sit mind alarm for five am tomorrow just to
hear Amy Kingstock. Oh my god, it's gonna be an
hour long tribute.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
The best thing that I thought that came out of
the big Bear camera situation and the watching of the
eglets and the Pit Pit Watch and all that up
until this tragedy is is the way that it made
Southern California seem small. I mean, this is a big,
vastly populated area, you know, maybe uncaring in some ways
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because there's just so many of us, we're uncaring. But
this brought people together. I know that. I know that
it did. It had it was like a small town thing.
This is something that you would have expected in a
small town. And while yes, it did spread across the country,
this was Southern California's thing. And I think even though
we've had some probably some some dark humor about it,
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you have they'll say, don't say we you played the
Sarah McLachlan because I wanted to be a tad I'm
sure that was out of the goodness. So do you
start laughing whenever you see a Sarah McLaughlin commercial. Come on, Yes,
it's entered the zeitgeist that.
Speaker 8 (04:33):
Week of afternoon. Guys, I'm Jackie and nature animal lover.
I love animals more.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I'm jack I'm jack.
Speaker 8 (04:40):
At the end of the day, it's nature. You need
to let nature take its course. This an animal rescue
place did nothing for her other than gain some popularity.
And uh, I just think you took her away from
her family and now they will never know what happened
to her, and you didn't do anything for her. Just
letting nature take its course. Stop humanizing all these animals
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and let them be.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I have questions about that too, because I understand that
Shadow probably accepts that she's gone. He certainly notices she's
not there, And there may have been some instances in
the past where they'd been separated for a while. Every
marriage goes through its situations. But how will he know
for sure? Does he need that finality? No, it's nature.
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I mean should they have an open casket situation in
Big Bear so that he can at least see stop
and what happens next season? Who were we watching on
the kid trying to play with nature?
Speaker 9 (05:38):
She probably would have passed away all in her own
in the wild.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Meanwhile, they tortured her. Yeah, they tortured her. Monks, they
didn't torture her. They tortured her, give her a bunch
of blood transfusions, a bunch of other stuff she didn't need.
I mean, some of that stuff sounded a little weird.
And they did post a picture of her that kind
of looks like the type of photo you post when
you know you're up elite that dies and you know
you put little angel wings on her and ah stuff.
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I guess that would be superfluous. Debra is gonna come
in here. She's gonna clip your wings. Jackie already had
her wings, but now she's got an extra set. As
Jackie flies to heaven, Jackie the Bald Eagle dead. I
was told by my minister that there is no heaven
for the animals, that they don't go. Oh you're Protestant though,
M Well, yeah, you will never find out because you'll
be in hell, which which which religion lets me keep
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my animals? I think the rest. Oh, That's what I'm
going to do. Then, Yeah, okay, all right, we're gonna
collect ourselves. We'll continue on. Jackie. Watch breaking news today
that Jackie the Bald Eagle has died and we've lost her.
We do have actual news. She's in the custody of
the state of California, which is just terrible news. Yes,
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just terrible, terrible news. Well that's the worst of all too.
That bird's sitting outside of seven eleven right now when
somebody's getting roller foods.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
You're listening to monks and merrill from KFI KM six
forty more stimulating talk.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Also, glad to have you with us on this Monday afternoon.
We'll continue our ongoing coverage of the death of Jackie
the Bald Eagle out of Big Bear. But first we
want to talk about serious matters involving people. Think about this.
Your your paycheck clears, right, rent, childcare, car payment. Yeah,
they take their part of it. Yeah, your child's dinner
gets whatever's left right the families. Well not. I got
(07:29):
to make my donation to the OHI go fundme so
that the Raptor Center can be a lot of good.
That you give more blood transfusions, a lot of good.
Speaker 10 (07:36):
That did.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
About one in six kids in Orange County are experiencing
food insecurity. That means they don't know where one or
more meals will come from. That is a twenty seven
percent increase in just a single year. So let's talk
about it. What's going on in Orange County where the
average what the median home price is like one point
four million dollars. We've talked about that a bunch of times,
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and this is a well moneyed pop relation, but there
are some who do not have. Lavelle Brewer is president
and CEO of South County Outreach and joins us now
on the phone. What is happening to see such a
significant increase in food insecurity among young people in Orange County?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Well, thank you for having me on.
Speaker 11 (08:17):
What's happening is we've been continually being hit over and
over by wave and wave and wave of inflation, lack
of wage growth and high food inflation that is causing
households and families to have to choose between food and rent.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah. Look, la well, this is one of the reasons
that we're so big when we do our you know,
our pastathon every year for Katerina's Club, is because we
see this need year in and year out and it
doesn't ever seem to be getting better. What is it
that we really have to start seeing in order to
create more food security for these kids.
Speaker 11 (08:53):
Well, what we have to start seeing is not just
an income issue. So you can have a household who
is living in one of those houses you talked about
this one point four million dollars, but suddenly there is
no safety net for that family, that middle class family
who is doing everything right and then they lose a
job or something changes in their work schedule that requires
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that they lose childcare, or you know, they have a
medical issue that causes them to not be able to
work as much or.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Maybe not even work at all.
Speaker 11 (09:25):
And those households they don't qualify for SNAP and it
takes two to three months to even get on SNAP.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
If they could qualify.
Speaker 11 (09:34):
That's a safety net that doesn't exist for the middle class.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
That has to be fixed.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
So what are we doing about at LaVale in Orange County?
As you see this increase in children experiencing food and security,
what are organizations like yours and others doing to fill
those gaps?
Speaker 11 (09:48):
Well, organizations like ours and others over the last thirty
plus years, when this started becoming more of a nonprofit answer,
not just churches, because churches have been doing this type
of work for years, for decades, but the nonprofit industry
is really even leaning in on food of security and
housing insecurity on top of that for a while, trying
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to help help family stay housed, providing them with the
food they need to put on their table through pantry systems.
Because these SNAP benefits have never been able to keep
up with those who just are on the edge.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Well, okay, I'm wondering about this, Laval Brower with the
president CEO of South County Outreach, I'm kind of wondering
as we talk about the rising prices, SNAP can't keep
up organizations like yours are food banks. I mean, are
we asking charities to compensate for what is really a
much larger systemic issue that we're looking at, whether it's
affordability or it's the safety nets. I feel like there's
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a lot of pressure being put on you. What if
you weren't there, then what would happen.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
We weren't here.
Speaker 11 (10:50):
There would be a serious collapse in those who are
hungry who cannot access government government services. And the two
things about accessing those services as well as coming to
pantries is pantries aren't open all the time, and we
often don't have the resources or the food that households
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really want to put on their table. So answer your
question absolutely, Government actually, for the most part, was handling
close to ninety percent of all food and security in
the country. And now the snap benefits of pulling back,
that's putting more and more pressure on nonprofits, which are
then making us me ask the community to take their
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pre tax or post tax dollars to help me feed
their neighbor, literally the person next door to them, or
in some cases their grandma or their children.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Lavaal, we know that food insecurity is a crisis that
people face all across the country. Is there something unique
about facing that in a place like Orange County?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
There is something very unique.
Speaker 11 (11:57):
When when we were growing up, or as mich And
say they when they were growing up and they were
watching the OC and Laguna Beach and the Real Housewives
of Orange County and Codo and and all over the place,
there's this perception that because the county has wealth, that
everyone in the county is doing financially.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Well, and that is just not true.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Lavala Brewer, the President CEO of South County Outreach, joining
us right now as we talk about some of these
food shortages that we're seeing all over the Southland, but
even in Orange County, as you mentioned, kind of the
perception of what we see versus the reality are two
very different things. Does it get any better when school
starts because I know that we've got some you know,
free lunches and free breakfast for kids? Is that Does
that help alleviate some of the challenges that you face?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Absolutely? California.
Speaker 11 (12:43):
You know, the California gets a bad rap for some
of their politics, and OK, we're not going to talk
about that, but the one thing that they've they've recognized
is that California is feeding the entire world. We export
more food than we consume locally, and any of the
people who picked that food or go to schools who
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eat that food, they should just be receiving a free meal.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Reduce the stigma, make it easy.
Speaker 11 (13:10):
So California has made a really good policy of three
meals for everyone in school. Because the child who goes
to school knowing that they don't have enough money because
they're on food stamps or they're getting government assistance, they
know to access those policies. The child who suddenly is
not trying to figure out why there's not any money
food and there's less food in the refrigerator because their
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parents are going through a tough time, they don't know
how to access those systems. It makes it easier for
every child to go to school, get a meal, and
do what we really want them to do, get a
wonderful education, and then go on to be a productive
member of the community.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Lavlle Brewer is president and CEO of South County Outreach.
They're in Orange County where children have experienced an increase
in food and security, a jump of twenty seven percent
in just a single year. One and six kids and
oc suffering from this. LaVall, thank you so much for
the time you gave us. We'll touch base on this again,
I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Hey, thank you for having me on. Thank you for
covering this important issue, of course.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, thanks so much, Lavelle Brewer. You know we'll talk
more about that too as we get closer and close
to pastathon. Yeah, absolutely, fall. I noticed that the Jackie
and Shadow Wikipedia page has been updated already and it
does know is that right to note that Jackie has
passed away? She was fourteen. I'm watching the live cam now.
Shadow is nowhere inside, of course, the two eaglets left
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in it. It's funny you say that because Shadow did
check in. Oh so we've got an update on that too.
More of your feedback to on the talkbacks instant reaction
from you, share your thoughts. The passing of Jackie the
Eagle probably the biggest story of the entire year, much
bigger than any sort of seven point four magnitude earthquake
that could have hit anywhere in the Western hemisphere. You know,
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this is like a seven point four magnitude earthquake in
a lot of people's hearts. Hey, remember when you were
a kid, and then when you went and you had
school lunch, they gave you like a bunch of different choices.
Remember that, But then your parents would say, when I
was a kid, we didn't have options. We had mystery meat.
And to this day that meat is still a mystery.
And we ate what they gave us. And it was
disgusting and a mine us stronger, and all of our
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parents sounded like eighteen sixties miners. One major Silkal school
district has a very different approach, something that more resembles
what you would make when you were home alone without supervision.
The dishes trying to turn school lunch into a solution
for Child Hunger Our Next, Monks and maryl I AM
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Speaker 1 (15:34):
You're listening to Monks and Meryll on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
We did a wellness check on wake Up Call host
Amy King and she is still with us. She's okay,
but she is very upset about the loss of Jackie
the Eagle. Do you think Jackie was an organ downer?
Do you think there's something? I don't think you can
take it out because she had anemia and they don't
know if that was caused by like rat poison or
what it was. Now, so somebody like on the load
of her, somebody did somebody did call in and they
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said something about doing a necruptcy on that on the bird,
and I thought, that's the kind of thing that's going
to upset people. I would like a full investigation. I'd
like to know one that it's Jackie because but if
you do it, you know what a necropsy involves, got
to cut the thing open. And then I go, you
can't do that to the bird. When we think about
how things actually work, we don't like it. It grosses
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us out. Like autopsies aren't pretty. There are people suggesting
that we stuff her, and I actually think that's a
good idea. She was a very popular bird, a beloved bird.
They could stuff her and put her in big bears.
You can't do you know what? Do you know what
taxi er me involves? A taxidermist? Yeah, you don't want
to see how the sauce now, of course I don't.
Hey Monks and maryl who cares about that?
Speaker 7 (16:47):
Setand point for Venezuela and earthquake or Colombian same thing.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
My heart is shattered for the passive Jackie. I don't
know what to do with myself. I'm so sorry You're
not alone. We did have a shadow checked in. Hello,
this is shadow.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Look, I hear all these conversations about me, and frankly,
I'm getting a little tired of it.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I'm gonna put it all to bed.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
I've been with Susan the whole entire time, and you know,
Susan's what's doing it for me. And so Jackie had
to go and Susan took care of the problem for me.
So I'm living life. I'm traveling. I probably won't be
home on the camera anymore.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
So I'm out of here. It is true that I've
got the Big Bear Bald Eagle cam pulled up right
now and it is empty. The two latest eaglets left
the nest for good after learning to fly last week.
But Shadow, I don't know, Maybe he knows, you know
how sometimes you just know, maybe a burst of butterflies
or something lets you know that a loved one is gone,
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and maybe he's down in the water. During the break well,
you guys were hearing from Deborah Michael and I checked
with the news director to see if we were going
to send a reporter out to do live coverage from
Big Bear, and the reporter volunteered. She said, yeah, I'd
be happy to go to Big Bear if you want
to put me up for the night, and they said
(18:11):
it's not the budget. Yeah, I said, it sounded like
Anchorman three Maryril monks. Yeah, you called my dad.
Speaker 10 (18:19):
I said, hey, Dad, Jackie died and he freaked out
because I forgot to have an older sister named Jackie,
So yeah, see Jackie.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Okay, if I listeners are absolute menaces, do you think
that we Because I've, as we've established, been fired from
all over the country. I don't think I've ever lived
anywhere where people have more interest in the wildlife than here. Really. Yeah, well,
it's because of the way it interplays with urban existence.
(18:53):
This is wildlife and people. You know it's not, but
I agree, but it's a different kind of release ship
with the animal kingdom. I hear you. But San Francisco
it wasn't like this. Certainly in Dallas it wasn't like
this because the only animals they had are armadillos and
the cactus or cattle. Excuse me, but I don't think
I've ever lived anywhere where. Every time there's an animal spot,
(19:14):
I mean, you did an animal story on Friday, didn't you. Well,
we had the mountain lion in Pasadena that they had
to tranquilize. Yeah, and then there's another mountain lion that's
in the news today walking around I think it was
Studio City. Yep. Yeah, you know what's going on there
because normally those animals have food in the wild. Well,
they have food in the wild, but we're taking the
(19:34):
food and we're giving a blood transfusions and then handing
it off to the state to go cremate it.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I see. You think Jackie would have been a meal
for someone Jackie hundred percent would have been a meal
for a condor for a for a mountain lion, something
of the sort.
Speaker 10 (19:45):
Just you know, don't forget about the memorial that they
held for the mountain lion. They got hit by a.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Car, that is true? Was that the p twenty two? Yeah, hey, guys,
Jeff here, I have a great idea.
Speaker 11 (19:57):
Why don't you guys use your powers, I know your
power bull to contact Don Hensley from the Eagle and
ask him if you just do have just a little
five to thirty second little memorial song for jack for
jack for Jackie.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Oh my god, I gotta go Don Henley. That'd be great. Yeah,
I would love to hear Don Henley's voice memorialized Jackie.
LAUSD has new food on the menu Friday's Cafe La
Menu tasting event last week. It was hosted by the
newly minted LAUSD superintendent Andre's Chait and also TV chef
(20:31):
Nisha the Ninja Arrington. So there were some students who
were signed the opportunity to create new items for the menu.
So the stereotypes of school food weren't there. Mystery meat,
gummy gravy, those sorts of things. According to the La
Daily News, this was some real high quality stuff. They
(20:51):
came out with butter chicken with I don't know. I
don't even know what this word is. Is it kachumber salad,
chumber salad, cut chumber salad, cultchumber, cucumber salad, cutchumber like,
cucumber like cucumber salad, cucumber salad. I wonder what that is. Oh,
I'm glad you asked. Is it Indian? It is? Yeah,
it's an fresh Indian chop salad, usually made with cucumber, tomato, onion,
(21:15):
cilantro lemon or lime juice plus salt in mild spices. Well,
it's like an Indian style cucumber tomato salsa.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
That is.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
The dish that won the Celebrity Chef Challenge was by
the culinary team at Sun Valley's John H. Francis Polytechnic
Senior High School. Five high schools from across the district
competed back in April after working with professional chefs throughout
the school year. So this is a competition that forms
part of the district's career technical education program for culinary
(21:43):
arts at hospitality. I have to selly, I'd love this story. Yeah,
I mean they had some really look, they had chicken pizzoli,
a pork katsu sandwich, an la cheese steak. I don't
know what that is. What makes cheese teak? Pork? Would
you say a pork katsu? Pork su oh, pork cats
I'll see it on here. I thought you were saying
like ketchup. I thought you were spelling it weird, like
the Cat's Up people they made lasagna rolls, deluxe breakfast molds.
(22:07):
You spelled ketchup? Do you spell it with the K
or with the scene with the K? I never understood
when I saw I got a bottle of cats up
one time and I was like, what is this? This
doesn't makeing sense. My parents had to tell me that's ketchup.
Do you know you're live on the radio right now?
That's fine, okay. I love this story of the thing.
Why because I think it marries some of the really
good parts of Los Angeles. So you've got a celebrity
(22:31):
chef that's coming in and they're teaching at some of
these specialty schools, right and I think this is so beautiful.
And the idea is, let's create a menu item for kids.
The kids are going to like that introduces them to
some new flavors and some new things. And as much
as we bag on everything being run poorly and about
the school's overspending, it's just really nice to have a
(22:52):
story coming out of the school that goes, look, here's
something really cool that's happening. It's got community involvement that
inter with not only the high school kids who are
taking these culinary courses, which certainly was not something that
was available when I was a kid, which makes which
is just one of those great things about being here.
But then the idea is that it's going to go on
the menu for the younger students too. I just love
(23:12):
all the everything about this story. It puts the kids
in the kitchen. The benefactors are the younger generation who
then will grow up and they'll be able to create
dishes of their own for the next generation. I just
love it. It's nice. It's nice to know that some
kids are putting their skills to good use rather than
breaking into the AutoZone on. That's exactly right, and that's
exactly it's nice to know. Thank you, absolutely did you
(23:35):
when you were in school? Do you remember the square pizzas?
Speaker 11 (23:38):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yeah, I love those. They weren't great, but of course
it was the most popular day. Nuggets day was pretty
good too. Now those were available every day for us.
We could have we have chicken, we got pizza or whatever.
The specialty of the day was Oh okay, well fancy
fancy you? Yeah. High in public school, pizza was always
served with corn at my school. Have you ever had
pizza and corn sense in your life? I think it
(23:59):
was very common for schools to serve that square pizza
with the side of corn. No, I haven't come to
think of it, because we had to have a vegetable
on the plate. Right, yeah, yeah, pizza and corn. I
missed those square pieces. I'm telling you. I like those.
They had a weird They had a weird flavor that
can't be replicated anywhere else. It's like they covered up
whatever the cardboard meat was that was on it with
(24:21):
lots and lots of Italian seasoning. Yeah, I'm sure there
was a lot of Italian. Oh probably not, glad you
s all right? Probably right, it's probably not. The Palisades
and the recovery in the Palisades after the fire, part
of the neighborhood, right, part of it's gone, the heart
of it. Rick Caruso reopening his corner with celebrity chefs,
luxury shops and a fresh, brand new business plan and
(24:44):
the first polished piece of the Palisades comeback. That's Nacks
on Monks and Maryland.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
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Speaker 10 (24:55):
Available anywhere on the Iart radio app.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
It's Monday. It's sad Monday. Jackie the Bald Eagle dead.
We're getting a lot of a lot of calls. We're
gonna play a bunch of your messages throughout the remaining.
Speaker 9 (25:05):
Hey guys, this is Susan and I've been hearing a
lot of stories about me out there being involved with
what happened to Jackie. Now, look, I have a lot
of sympathy for what happened with her. May she please
rest in peace, but I really need people to leave
me a shadow alone. We're in love. Wow, this is this.
We should not even be in this conversation. This should
(25:26):
be all about Jackie. Rest in peace.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Girl.
Speaker 9 (25:29):
I didn't really know you, but I had nothing to
do with this.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Thanks Susan for checking in. We'll continue to monitor that situation.
Did you know that shadow was not Jackie's first Oh?
I know she was shacked up with a guy named
mister B. And then Shadow came in and kind of
rough mister B out of the picture. Is my understanding,
whatever happened to that guy. Here's what's here's the trouble
that we're having. Genuinely, we're watching nature play out. We're
(25:56):
trying to intervene with blood transfusions and all this kind
of stuff, but the reality is we're actually being exposed
out how things really work in the wild. This is
the this is the animal kingdom, well, the whole live
stream often. This is why I was disgusted by it
and why I'm not all that you know, invested in it.
I'm sorry for the loss. Of course it's sad. But
when you would tune into this nest, especially when the
(26:17):
eagles had been born, the baby eagles, and they needed
to eat, you'd flip on this camera and it would
be a massacre. There would be dead fish, sure, pieces
of us smaller birds. It was a disgusting sum It
was sometimes with their own offspring that didn't make it.
There was a dead baby eagle last year in the
nest for an inordinate amount of time, right, and we
(26:39):
also saw but then we anthropomorphized that we go. That's
because mom can't let go and we have Yeah, we
know that's how nature works. But just like as nature works,
you're so invested emotionally in a bird that doesn't have
the same capabilities to invest emotions that way. It's dangerous.
Nature is scary. I mean they have laid eggs before
that were eaten by ravens on camera. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Hey, guys, I wonder if the very last passenger pigeon
when it passed away, it got this much attention.
Speaker 11 (27:10):
No rhetoric, whatever you want.
Speaker 10 (27:13):
To call it.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
No, I didn't love the show. Thanks, man, this is
too much.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I'm having too good of a time riding.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
Hey, good afternoons. And now listen, considering eagles are considered
a monogamous unlike us humans. Do you think shadows out
on the dating scenet again had.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
A great day. Yeah, I mean that's been the speculation
all long, is that shadows already on the dating But
although the experts say, no, no, this isn't the mating season,
they're not interested in that kind of thing. Yeah, that's
what the experts say. Now, shadow is all we have again,
anthropomorphize the entire situation. So We've created this entire scenario
of having a mistress Jackie. Excuse me. Shadow is also old.
He's two years younger than Jackie, but I mean he's
(27:57):
up there in age as well. Good little eagle viagua
that he's taken. This is the real Shadow checking in.
I don't know who that last imposture was, but I
went through the air.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
I love that woman with all my heart. I had
nothing to do with her attack.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Her anemia is very sad and yeah, yeah, I'm hurt.
That's why I'm not sure myself on the camera. Don't
listen to all that other slander. Okay, I'm a good guy.
I feel like I'm Peterson retrial. You know, Shadow is
nowhere to be seen on this camera right now. He
may be out hunting, he may be out crying. The
sad thing for me, in addition to Jackie being dead,
(28:36):
is that this is me, of course, projecting human emotions
on these animals. But you know, they had two fledglings.
They had two baby eaglets that grew up and left
and s just last week. But they were gonna do
that anyway. Of course, I never but Jackie was there
Thanksgiving to eat a bird you know, she didn't get
to pack up the car and send them off. She
(28:56):
doesn't do that. I don't know where they're going, Purdue.
I don't know what they're off to school somewhere. I
had to go to Purdue. They couldn't get into a
good school. It's a good, fine engineering school. Yeah, I'm
sad that she didn't get to see them off. And
I'm very sad that Shadow didn't get to that one
out of your Shadow didn't get a boiler up baby that.
I'm sad that Shadow didn't get to say goodbye to Jackie. Okay,
(29:19):
it's sad, but Jackie's corpse is now in the possession
of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. That does
not leave me feeling good about the situation we got
to talk about from somebody that said that they take
it to animals and they throw in compost piles, and
that Jackie is now part of compost pile. Yeah, I
have no doubt. I think that's possible too. I have
no doubt that she will be lost in a file
(29:39):
cabinet somewhere and discovered after the next big earthquake when
we're cleaning up in the rubbles. Like, oh wait, we
put Jackie in here. We'll talk a little bit more
about Rick Crusoe. He's stuffed a ton of money to
bring back a Palisades village. Oh yeah, but there's also
this one piece of the Palisades. Can I can I
just throw this in? There's a piece of the Palisades historic,
piece of the historic. No, I don't want you to
throw this in because I'm a bus the teas for this.
(30:01):
Do you even read the notes that I belive you? Yeah,
if you're supposed to do this Palisad segment here, but
we know Jackie and now my Palasat story was at
the top, right, We're gonna put them. We're gonna put
them all together, your palasation. That's what I'm trying to
combine the tees. You know what, Jackie's not gonna be
only one dead today if you don't change your attitude.
If you've heard the show in the past, this is
my favorite tease. You shut up, Mario, turn his microphone off. Mario,
(30:24):
turn his microphone off. It's off, that's off. You know,
if you've heard the show in the past, you know
how much Michael is into his historic preservation because he
wants everything saved.
Speaker 11 (30:36):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
He doesn't want there ever to be any progress. He
protested when the city tried to clean up dirty needles
from the gutter outside of his downtown apartment. He said
they were of cultural and historical significance, marking a challenging
time in the history of the city and should be remembered.
And while he was standing out there protesting, somebody broke
into his place, stole his cat and created it on
skid row for a hit of meth and a pair
of socks. Next Sea's gonna be protesting to try to
(30:57):
historically save Jackie's body. As annoying as these preservationists can be,
you'd be hard pressed to find somebody who doesn't think
about getting behind the effort to save this actual historic
space in the Palisades. That history that's being saved is
next to months. Meryl KFIM six forty. We're live everywhere
in the Higheart Radio.
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