(04/17) GAS Hour 2 – Bakers Field is Hot!

Bakersfield housing resurgence attracting Los Angeles transplants due to lower housing cost. An Arizona woman who accused former MLB pitcher Trevor Bauer of sexual assault has been charged with felony fraud against Bauer. Golden Bachelor ends marriage after three months with Teresa. Do nightmares haunt you? Gary and Shannon talk in depths about it with the help of our audience.

Episode Transcript

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This is Gary and Shannon and you'relistening to KFI AM six forty, the
Gary and Shannon Show on demand onthe iHeartRadio app. Do you like the
streets of Bakersfield like everybody else there? Try and find me something bit on
the streets of bakers I haven't spentany time really in Bakersfield. You don't
know, maybe if you stopped therefor lunch a couple of times. My

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mom lived there for a long time. Oh did she wished with a high
school there? Oh? So Iprobably have family there, some kind,
I think. But there is athere is a Bakersfield resurgence that's taking place.
They say it's a wave of coastalCalifornians fleeing inland to smaller, cheaper

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towns. But as you can imaginethe influx of transplants putting pressure on one
of the state's last affordable housing markets. Yeah, think of this. In
March twenty twenty four, where's hisname, Alvarado? It doesn't even say
his first name. Now a guywho's there's a guy who sold his house

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in Tustin for one point one million, an eighteen hundred square foot home.
One point one million. He buysa bigger house for less than half that
in Bakersfield at four hundred and fiftynine thousand dollars. Real estate agents say
over the past four years, anincredible amount of people has moved from Bakersfield
from Los Angeles. How far isBakersfield from Los Angeles? It's just over

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the hill, I mean commute.Is it commutable? Well, that's an
interesting question. I know somebody runsa pool cleaning business up in the Santa
Clarita Valley, has four kids,moved to Bakersfield, maintains the pool cleaning
business in the Santa Clarita Valley andcommutes five days a week. If it
got more. When we were inthe Bay Area, it was the time,

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around the time when everyone was movingto Sacramento to commute to San Francisco.
I would say if you were,I don't know if you're coming here
from if you're coming to Burbank fromBakersfield, it'll take you an hour and
forty minutes, maybe an hour offorty five. It's that bad, depending
on traffic. Which other people do? Do? You know, do other

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things? I do that when Idrive from here to Orange County. It's
okay right now. From LA fromBurbank to Bakersfield. It's an hour and
thirty five minutes. It has takenme longer to go from here to Huntington
Beach before because of the traffic.Yeah, if you single family home in
LA single family home median price onepoint two million homes in Bakersfield, four

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hundred thousand housing in current county isalmost four hundred thousand cheaper than the rest
of the state. And a coupleof years ago, Bakersfield was touted one
of the most affordable regions in theentire country. Wow because of that,
But now that sucks because everyone isgonna go and scoop up all those homes.
Also, here's a mental question thatI don't know the answer to.
If you drove let's say, ninetyminutes, just to keep it round roundish

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number, ninety minutes commute Burbank toBakersfield, does that feel different than a
ninety minute commute Burbank to Huntington BeachBecause I find it to be a lot
easier to drive ninety minutes and notraffic than to just sit there bumper to
bumper, Because once you get thirtymile, once you get past Casteak,
I mean there's an you're You're inGorman, of all places, you're you

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know you're in Uh. But it'sbeautiful, It's well, it can be.
It is right now. It's completelygreen right now, but you know
the nine other months of the year, it's the open road. You got
your wind in your hair. Whathappened to your top of your car?
Yeah? The sunroof open? Youhave the sunroof open. Yeah, I

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find that hard to believe. Whatdo you mean you find that hard to
believe? I think you're a sunroofkind of person. But hi, Hi,
I am a sunroof kind of person. I enjoy a sunroof. Remember
when my sunroof exploded on the freeway. It wasn't open. It was wasn't

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it? No? Are you sureyou told me it wasn't. I mean
it opened automatically in a rapid disintegrationof glass. I think it was open,
and then I moved the slider sothat the glass went rained down on
me while I was on the freeway. It may have just been a slider
was open and not the roof part. I don't remember. It was pretty

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traumatic. I wouldn't expect you toremember the details. Yeah, it was
traumatic. Trevor Bauer, who wassupposed to be a ace, an ace
for the Dodgers and certainly was,has been blackballed from Major League Baseball because
of women who have come forward overrecent years and said that he was violent,

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or he he you know, impregnatedthem, all sorts of nefarious behavior.
And the more you dug into it, the more you realize that there
were some women involved. And Isay some because I don't know. I
wasn't there. I wasn't in theroom, but seemed to through social media
posts and texts they sent. Friendsseem to just be trying to get this

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guy's money, trying to scam himwith phony allegations of domestic violence and the
like to get him to write thema check. I'm trying to figure out
the math for women who would dosomething like this. I mean it's simple.

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I mean they're there for money andthey talk about it. He refers
to like you said in the videothat we played back in October, where
he came forward with information about thewoman who accused him of the assault here
in Pasadena, and that became sucha huge case, was the one that
prompted him getting kicked off the Dodgersand basically out of baseball. That in
that case, this woman was tryingto get money out of him, and

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in this new one, a newwoman who or I should say a different
woman, accused him of sexual assaultafter claiming that he had impregnated her.
She was demanding one point six milliondollars. She has now been charged with
one count of fraudulent schemes and artifices. This week, Darcy SIMONU sounds good

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to me. In a video statementtoday or yesterday, excuse me, Bauer
acknowledged having sex with her in twentytwenty, claims it was consensual. He
eventually paid her thousands of dollars.Okay, no. She sues Bauer in
twenty twenty three, alleging he rapedher, got her pregnant, and demanded
more than a million dollars to terminatethe pregnancy. His lawyers claimed in a

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countersuit that he eventually paid her thousandsof dollars that she used for an all
expense paid trip to Philadelphia to getlaser surgery, that she never had an
abortion because she was never even pregnant. Okay, Now, let me go
back to what I'm asking about thehe had a negative pregnancy urine test too
from her apparently is he falling forokay, has he fallen for these scams

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before? And then there's like ainformation gets around Yeah wow, or did
he just pick the wrong woman?Women? It sounds like. I mean,
so, here's the thing about alot of professional athletes. It's not
a mensa convention. And there area lot of conniving women in the world,

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unfortunately, who are going to takeadvantage of that right through their youth
and their beauty and their bodies.And that's just the way it's going to
be. I think that everyone needsto be careful when allegations like this come
up, because we were fresh offthe Believe all Women movement that not all
women can be believed sometimes, unfortunatelythat's the way it is. Which and

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shame on these women for watering downreal domestic violence, right, which I
think is why you said good thatshe's been charged. Yes, yes,
he did say in that video.We had one plane sexual encounter in December
of twenty twenty. Plane like normalplane. Nothing that would be or nothing
that could be considered remotely rough iswhat he said. The Again, I

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don't know where to go with thisstory. I don't because I say repeatedly
that people should be given a chanceat redemption, and it sounds like other
than picking bad partners. And Imay not like what he does or how
he gets off, but is thatenough? I mean, for major League

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Baseball and the Dodgers just to cutand run right away seemed to be quick.
And the only reason that I canthink that that happened is that where
there's smoke, there's fire, Thatthere was more going on with this guy
that we don't know about, thatthe Dodgers were privy too, or major
League Baseball was privy too, thatin these situations, yes, these were
women scamming him, but what elsedo we not know about his character?

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Right? If there's stories that he'ssoaking up with ten women per baseball season,
I don't know if that, Idon't know what the numbers would be.
If he's soaking up with ten womenper baseball season. Other guys in
the clubhouse may not take too kindlyto that, guys who are married or
guys who don't like that sort ofthing. And then the one out of
ten who ends up being like thiswoman who's trying to take advantage of him,

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the stories can get out there andnot that the Dodgers have a puritanical
reputation or anything like that. No, but you don't hear a lot of
guys rushing to his defense. Thatis, Yeah, that's what I'm trying
to get got fired for, youknow, choking out somebody in your private
life. I would say, listen, I don't know what that guy's into

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in his private life. But he'sa great employee, is a great coworker.
He always came to work ready towork. And you know, I
mean, there's there's saying there's nicethings you can say, and nobody's coming
out and saying anything nice about TrevorBauer. Or maybe I just haven't been
exposed to it. Is it becausehe rubbed people the wrong way? Or
was it because the Dodger said,hey, guys, we're not going to

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do this, We're not going toback this guy up. No idea,
it would be interesting. I meanthat whole saga. I I don't want
to say I feel bad for theguy because I don't. I mean,
I don't. I don't get fromhim the attitude of of contrition. Not
that again. But he's not beenaccused or he was accused, but falsely
of what I don't know. It'sit's such a weird thing. It's such

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a weird story with so many differentangles. Now that have been my opinion
has changed. Yeah, yeah,well I didn't know why we thought that
a love match would be made withthe Golden Bachelor, considering the vehicle to
love is still the Bachelor. It'sfabricated love. It's not real world interactions.

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It's not real world anything. Sure, everything's wonderful. It's easy to
fall in love when you're somewhere secludedand you have no social media, you
don't have your phones, you're juststuck there. They apply you with alcohol
and fun trips, and then yougo back to the real world and you're
like, oh, I have tolive with this person, and it's not
all it's not all rainbows and unicorns. If you're going but there's no one

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who's on the show now, evenGolden Bachelor. There's no one who goes
onto the show now not knowing whatit's about. Right. The thing that
always blows me away is that theyget surprised at the end, yes,
where they're like, oh, thisis so hard, it could be this
hard, despite the fact that forthirty seasons or however, long they've been
doing it. Every penultimate episode ishow difficult it is to choose between two

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different people, right, Well,you see them date like thirty people at
one time, at every conclusion.It is a struggle for the bachelor or
the bachelorette, like you said,to choose one. And why you don't,
why you think you're going to bedifferent. You're a human. That's
a human problem you're going to have. Now, seventy two year old Gary

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Turner and his wife Teresa Nist haveannounced they have mutually decided to dissolve their
marriage, which is a seventy twoyear old. Jerry Turner from The Golden
Bachelor announced that he and his seventyyear old wife are divorcing after three months
of marriage. But like they say, there's still plenty of fish in the
sea with Terry. Oh, Isee. That took me a minute.

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Here's the thought that I had toois when Jerry was on the Showy Gary,
he would routinely say one of hiscatch lines was I'm not looking for
a woman I can live with.I'm looking for a woman I can live
without. I was just going toplay that cut finally, says to Teresa
in the end episode. I cameto the realization and the realization yet I

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really the right person for me tolive with. Oh pause, pause,
We're gonna have to edit more silencein here. Double that pause. Here
we go. Here's a person thatI can't live without. Bro, you
live for seventy three years without Teresa? Do you have you have living just

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fine without Teresa? That doesn't makeany sense. How long I've been able
to rehearse that line specifically, andthen how many times I screwed it up
on the actual day. Could youimagine you're in bed and you're naked,
and your eyes are closed, andyou hear that nightmare and you hear that
and you hear that voice. Ohyeah, oh boy, No, it

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took like an hour. Oh god, So did you have a nightmare you
wanted to share with us? Iwould say, And why is it about?
Gooberg zort? The most common nightmarethat I have that will wake me
up and bother me is a fallingnightmare. And it's usually like driving on

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a windy road, cargoes off thecliff, or or something like an amusement
park ride. Okay, those thebig boomerang ones where you sit in that
you sit in that like metal balland then they going and they shoot you
up there that I just keep going, yeah, and I you know,
I have those kinds of dreams.But there are a couple that people referred

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to that I also have. Forexample, one person talked about having a
oh here it is, let meplay this one, because this is this
is one that I have every oncein a while, reaccurrent nightmare. I
can't find a clean restroom. They'reoverflowing with waste. There's waste all over
the floor. The toilets are ina really odd place. There's no door

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of the stalls. I was justhaving this discussion with my husband last night
about my reoccurring nightmares. I can'tfind a clean bathroom. There's usually a
bathroom, but it's just a mess. I had this experience. Sometimes I
have nightmares and then once they happenin real life, I don't have them
anymore. Interesting, like when Iwas anchoring the news and I had this

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nightmare for John and Ken and Ihad this nightmare that they come to me
and the news and the screen goesblank and I'm just I'm a dearer frozen
in the headlights, and then ithappened one day and I just said,
simply, guys, I got nonews right now, and then I started
printing out my newscast. So ifthat ever happened again, I wouldn't be

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flying blind. Never had that nightmareagain. I had the nightmare of hosting
the Sunday show and coming in andjust having nothing to say right and just
sitting here and there's nobody in thebuilding. There's no one who can save
me. I'm just frozen and Ihave nothing to say now. That never
happened, but that went away becauseI realized that I don't shut up,

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and that's not a concern that Ishould have that you wouldn't have, right,
And then I did have a reallife instance of going into a bathroom
like that. It was at SaintDo you remember Saint Vincent's at the school
for boys along the one oh onethere in Murinwood, where I don't We
had a Saint Vincent's, but itwas just a Catholic school. Yeah,

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okay, so this was this terrifyingschool. Bad kids were sent there and
we had a lot of basketball tournamentsand games there. Beautiful church, but
you would drive on this one laneroad through these huge pine trees, very
eerie, very dark back there.Anyway, the bathrooms were separate from the
gym, and I remember one timeI was at my brother's basketball game.
I must have been eight or nine. I go in there. There's no

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doors, there's no toilet paper.It's disgusting, and it was so terrifying
because when you're a little girl andyou go into a public bathroom and there's
no doors, I can see wherethat would be a nightmare. But I
think because it happened, I livethrough it. There's a couple of people

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who also had very violent nightmares thatthey talked about. Hey, Gary and
Shannon, this is I'm not goingto tell you my name, because I
have this recurring dream about that I'vekilled someone and I've hidden them in my
basement, dirt floor basement, andit's so freaking real that I can like,
when I wake up, I thinkI've done it and I need to

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tell my friends or somebody. It'sweird. I hate it when I have
it, So sorry for the darkness. Have a good one. As terrifying
as that is. Right when youwake up and you think that you have
done something irrevocable, like killed somebodyand hid them in your basement. But
the relief you feel after a coupleof moments and you're like, I didn't

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do that. There's not a bodydown there. You know. That's funny
because there's also there's an aspect ofa dream. It's not even necessarily recurring,
like it's not the same story overand over again. It's a continuation
of the story. I mean hisexample of killing somebody. Say you did
something in your dream that you hate, you don't want to do it again,
whatever it might be. You havea dream later on and you think

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to yourself, wait a minute,was that really just a dream that I
had? Or am I still feelingthe guilt of whatever I did before?
That's like totally the continuing serialization ofyour dreams. Yes, and sometimes they
are very real, you know,you can reach out and touch them.
One of the things I've been reallycareful about is what I consume right before

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bed, because I remember going throughsocial like scrolling through social media, and
then I'd have dreams about like agirl I went to sixth grade with,
and I'm like, why is shein my dream? Oh? Because you
just saw her Instagram page or whathave you? Right? A sleep psychologist
doctor Elena Tiani said, a lotof unresolved problems that we experienced during the

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day can cross over into night timeactivity, things like social media or watching
scary movies or something like that,something upsetting on the news, a difficult
conversation that you have before bedtime postto traumatic stress disorder. But even things
like alcohol excuse me, caffeine andside effects of certain medications can have an

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effect on nightmares that you have.Hey, Garian, Shanna, So,
I don't have reoccurring nightmares, butI do have reoccurrent nightmare details. If
something's after me, I can onlyrun full speed. If I turn around
and run backwards, I can't runfull speed forwards. I can only go
in slow motion. And if Itry to shoot at whatever is chasing me,

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then the trigger becomes so hard thatI can't pull it ever, And
that's been reoccurring since I was akid. So that was one that It's
weird because each of these is tappinginto a dream that I've had in the
past. I had to beat somebodyup in my dream, but I could
not connect my punches. I could. I'm sitting on somebody's chest like you

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see in a movie where you're justbanging down on their face, right,
But I keep missing their face asI'm patching it. I'm getting tired from
it. I can't. I mean, I don't know what that looks like
if you're laying next to me inbed and I'm like, wow, yeah,
like I can't figure that again.But man, oh, how about
this one? Hey, Gary andShannon, Happy Wednesday. Thank you.
The only dream that I actually havethat's reoccurring is that I'm back in high

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school and I forgot my clothes andI'm completely naked. And it's the worst
thing ever. Clearly I wasn't meantto be a nudist, and I'm using
everything i can grab to just covermyself. It is just the worst.
Not sure what that's about and howto unpack that, but we'll see,

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very very common to be somewhere naked. Yeah. One of the other common
ones is people talk about their teethfalling out. Oh yeah, that's common.
I've read that before. I don'tknow what it means. I mean,
I know that there are dream booksor whatever you could look up at
what it means, but it it'sjust stress. A lot of times,
it's just stress. Bruce was ableto articulate my reoccurring one. He says

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he's had it for several years.Sometimes a plane lands on a freeway,
sometimes on a remote highway, sometimesin a city, next to buildings.
I remember recently landed on a freewaywith walls on the side, and I
wondered why the wings didn't hit thewalls. That's exactly what I think the
whole time in the dream. Thewings are going to hit these buildings.
Hey, Shannon, regarding your nightmareof landing on the freeway, google four

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or five the booby. Okay,let's just throw gasoline on this nightmare,
but make sure you don't watch ituntil sometime after about eight the recent Yeah,
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