October 14, 2024 • 27 mins
Our reporter Blake Trolli discusses the individual who was found carrying a loaded firearm at the Coachella rally checkpoint. Dodgers won! They will play The New York Mets again today. Law firm’s CFO helped ‘Real Housewives’ husband steal millions from clients. America’s New Millionaire Class are plumbers and HVAC entrepreneurs.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. We caught a falling rocket.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yeah, well, I mean it's totally on purpose.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
But Elon Musk has done something that forget about his
politics because I know it's incendiary for a lot of people.
That guy drives projects that are mind boggling how advanced
they are. The idea that he was able to launch
a rocket and then not just bring it back to
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Earth in one piece, but literally catch it.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
On the Great Space Coast of Florida yesterday was pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Well, total BS or a third assassination attempt? What are
we dealing with? The Corris? Donald Trump had his weekend
rally in Coachella, California. You know he invited John to
go to that. I wonder if John went to that.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I don't think he did.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I think John was busy with baseball.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yes, when we were talking to him on Friday after
the show, I don't think he was going to make
it out there.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I don't see John in Coachella.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
No, so much dirt, a lot of people, a lot
of people, So I didn't see him after.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Blake Trolley from KFI News is on the story about
this man carrying loaded firearms fake passports arrested the Riverside
County Sheriff, saying that he thinks that his deputies did
in fact stop a third assassination attempt.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
And that suspect forty nine year old VM Miller is
denying those claims, saying that he supports Donald Trump and
saying that he did not show up to this rally
in an attempt to assassinate the former president. I think
what's important to note here, guys, is that before Riverside
County Sheriff Chad Bianco provided any details behind the arrest
yesterday with reporters, he did say that there was some
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information that he was going to withhold as the investigation continues.
Keep in mind, this investigation is beyond his office at
this point. Yesterday he conceded that, you know, the charges
he was able to levy down onto VM Miller were
state level charges, and that now the investigation is a
joint investigation that he's assisting with, but it's primarily now
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with the FEDS. To recap the arrest, yesterday, there were
several checkpoints set up by the Sheriff's office before participants
were to go on to a Secret Service checkpoint. There
was an outside perimeter checkpoint and then an inside perimeter checkpoint.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
So on the outside you.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Had people who were likely supposed to be at the rally,
as well as people who lived around Calhoun Ranch that
needed to get in and out of their homes. Once
you made it past that, there was an additional checkpoint.
That checkpoint was a little bit more intensive, but again
run by the Sheriff's department. And then beyond that was
the Secret Service checkpoint, and that's really where any dispute
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about whether or not somebody should be at the rally
or not would have been settled, given the fact that
they had the list of people who were invited. Deputy
say that Van Miller claimed to be a member of
the press he got through checkpoint number one.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
When he approach checkpoint number.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Two, a deputy noticed that his car was in disarray
and that he had a homemade license plate, one that
law enforcement is now using to tie him to the
Sovereign Citizens Group.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Miller was then cuffed as car was searched.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Or deputies say they found two unregistered guns, multiple licenses
with multiple names, and multiple passports, again with multiple names.
Miller was taken into custody on the charges of the
Sheriff's department. Again could apply. These are state level gun charges.
He posted a five thousand dollars bail and was back
out and speaking to the press saying that he told
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deputies about the guns in his car as a courtesy.
He's saying that he was actually invited to attend the
rally by the head of the Republican Party in Clark County, Nevada.
Keep in mind, Van Miller is from Las Vegas. He
did run for a Nevada Assembly seat on the Republican
ticket a couple of years ago. He lost in the primary,
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and he is saying that he was invited to this.
He says he full on supports President Trump. He says
the guns in his car he purchased because he launched
a media network, and that he's had death threats against him. Nonetheless,
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco is saying these claims are irrelevant.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Because it's irrelevant to me. I mean, as far as
I'm concerned, there were a minimum of twenty five thousand
people that entered pass those deputies into that location that
had legitimate identification and weren't carrying guns.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
And also yesterday, Bianco was asked if he thinks his statements,
which are that his deputies likely thwarted a third attempt
at President Trump's life, were a bit dramatic. He pushed
back on those pretty hard with reporters. I heard you
guys airing some of that audio in.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
The last hour.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
So the FBI, now, like you said, is handling whatever
investigation is left on this. I mean, the state charges,
the guy's already out on bail. Is there any way
for us to get an indication if they're moving forward
with anything. I mean, the Feds are always going to
be very tight lipped about their investigator. And I saw
one report I believe this was out by the New
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York Post that had said that their sources were telling
them that likely this guy did just have these guns
for personal protection.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
I heard you guys kind.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Of trying to figure out was this a third assassination
attempt on Donald Trump or was this guy just basically
an idiot?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
And I think that really is the million dollar question.
You know.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I've tried to do some of my own research on this,
and one of the main questions here is, you know,
let's reach out.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
So this is what I have.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Then I've reached out to the Clark County Republicans group
there in Nevada to see if he was invited by them,
and you know, how much you know or you know and.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
And what's the backstory there? You know.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
One of the points that Riverside County Sheriff Bianco made
yesterday was members of these groups have no authority to
invite somebody, right if you were put on this list,
It's not like, you know, Gary, if you were invited,
you could just bring your friends, willy nilly. They said
that he was saying that the the Secret Service had
an extensive list of who was to be there and
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who was not to be there, and so even if
he made it past the sheriff's checkpoint, that next list
would have really indicated whether or not he should be there.
I'm sure that is part of the federal investigation. Was
this guy actually on the list. But you do have
to wonder, you know, as well as why he would
enter such an event with unregistered guns and again with
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multiple passports and multiple driver's licenses. I know he's saying
that he has dual citizenship and that's the reason. And
he has different names in different countries. But again there's
a lot of questions there.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Blake Trolley, great stuff. Let us know what you dig up, all.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Right, guys, I'm edging towards dumb dumb.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yes, I am in camp dumb dumb.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Rather than nefarious creature.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Because when you look into the sovereign citizen movement, that's
exactly he checks all the boxes.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah. Homemade license plates, Yeah, that's a new one to me.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Well, I mean you get the paper license plates sometimes
when you get a car, So maybe he's just trying
to make it look like that. I guess you don't
have homemade plates.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
I do not.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I mean I do, but I display my regular state
issued even though they're illegal, my state issued plates. I
keep my sovereign citizen plates underneath. You think scientologists are
bad sovereign citizens, they come after you.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
The government is what comes after You're right, that's right,
the government. Yeah, Dodgers won yesterday. We'll talk about that
when we come back.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
We were tonight Clippers play their first ever preseason game
in their new state of the art, two billion dollars
into it dome.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
That'll be fun where you get to drink till four
till four am tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Idea and then roll right in here and start the show.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
You can do that?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Could do? Max And how tired?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
And I'm tired just thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I did have a quick football story before we get
into baseball. In high school, a kid in Louisiana, what
would you think is for passing yards in a high
school football game? What would you think the record is
passing in a high school football I've heard crazy things.
I've heard like four hundred and eighty yards. Peyton Houston
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of evangel Christian Academy out of Shreveport, Louisiana through for
eight hundred and seventeen yards, craziest eight touchdowns. He went
fifty three of sixty eight passing and lost the game.
He also ran for eighty seven yards and had two
rushing touchdowns himself.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
How do you lose that game?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
It's all extra points?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I think at that it's gotta be right because they
had ten touchdowns and seventy six points. Wow, he was
twenty yards of the national record. He set the eight
hundred and seventeen yards in one game.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
So I just started paying attention to baseball a few
weeks ago. So people in the nose said, if the
Dodgers get by the Padres, they they match up well
with everybody. It should they should have a path to
a World Series victory. Well, they're better than the Mets,
they're better than the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Still some work to do, but it started off last
night or first inning.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
The two to one pitch, Mounsey swings fights at the
center field.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
This boy will get down.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Bookie scores aready trying to come around. Lets throws cut off.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
He stepped cut up place next.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Monsie with a two out, two run single, two nothing,
Dodgers off the bat. They ended up with a nine
nothing win in Game one the National League Championship Series.
They extended the scoreless streak the pitchers did. Jack Flaherty did.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Being on to be here and have some family in
the stands and see some of them beforehand, it kind
of just lets you relax a little bit and understand
that we're playing a game and supposed to have some fun.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
According to a reporter, Sarah Langs, the first game blowout
pretends doom Sunday Nights Dodgers win. I'm gonna be a
panic Brothers carrier Page and Tim Kates Sunday Nights Dodgers
win tied for the fourth largest shutout victory ever in
game one of a postseason series. Thirteen to zero was
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captured by the nineteen eighty four Chicago Cubs, which is
the paysetter. Those were the Cubs that fell short of
the World Series, of course, felled by Steve Garvey's Padres.
Same thing with the other top five blowout shutouts. None
of the five teams that accompany the Dodgers on this
list captured the series.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
They didn't even win the series, let alone if it
was an earlier series go on to win the World Series.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
So they play today just after one o'clock, first pitch.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
So here's my question, it's going to be like this. No, no,
the sounds going to break.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
That would be even worse.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Walker Bueller going in and being pulled after two and
a third and gives up four or five.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Well, and Dave Roberts is playing it correctly. He says,
you know, he's on a heater right now. We feel
comfortable with his experience playing on the road. That they'd
rather opt to use him on the road. I mean,
you're saying that, but are you saying that? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I think I don't think it would be because I
think everybody at that point when you get into the
postseason like that, you're going to be one of those
you know that you're playing for the team, And I
would assume that that would kind of have be his mentality.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I don't know anything about Walker Bueller. I'm just.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I think he's still in his head a little bit.
Is that the ball not? Is that the ball we
got from you stole where we're Chicago?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Something like that.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
You took it from the other studio, You took it
from the iHeart Studios in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
We don't know the chain of custody on that rubber ball.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah, like probably laced with drugs, you know, dirty.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
That thing is. No, No, you don't have to give
it up. I'm just letting you know what you're playing
with there. You might want to wipe that thing down
once in a while. Well, we don't know what was
done to that bowl ball before we stole it and
took it back with us.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Do you want to do the The Tom Girardi update
sure he's still with us.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
He is.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (12:39):
Patty wrote to me. She said, in my opinion, I
think Walker is better on the road. So there you go. Yes,
somebody actually watches.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Somebody else suggested that the reason that they're using him
in New York as opposed to today's home game is
that they only had to use a couple of relievers
last night. Low end relievers. Okay, didn't have to pitch today.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I see, It's fine. I mean, that's that's why I
would think it's fun.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
It's fun to talk about it. It's fun to play
guy on the couch. Ini in Ohio commenting on what
you think? How do you think the game should be
managed or coach?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Right? What about that Lion's Cowboys game though in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
On Jerry Jones' birthday?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
At home? What's with them cropping themselves at home all
the time.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
There was a lot that was going on this weekend
that was fun to watch. Oh and oh this will
bring a tear to your eye. So my daughter was
home this weekend and I was saying on Saturday morning, Hey,
we should watch the Baylor football game. What time do
they play? And she said, they have a bye this week, and.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I thought, she knows the schedule.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
And I've told her, you don't have to be a
huge football fan, but you have to know that you're
going to a school where football is a really important thing,
living in a state where football is a really.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Important Has she gone to a game yet?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Yeah, she went with my wife. They won our parents' weekend.
Oh that's great. So she knows the pomp and circumstances, the.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Cult like atmosphere.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
But it was so delightful to know that she knew
the schedule. I thought that was very.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
That's why she left town this weekend and she turned around. Yeah, yeah,
she wouldn't have come if it wasn't a bye weekend.
The former CFO of Tom Girardi's law firm has pleaded
guilty to two federal counts of wire fraud. He admits
to helping Tom Girardi embezzeled tens of millions of dollars
from clients. And you knew this was going to happen.
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We talked about this being the case. This guy's name
is Christopher Camen, fifty one years old. He was living
the Bahamas when he was arrested a couple of years ago,
and we knew that he was going to roll on
Girardi so they could build the case, which is the
one they really wanted against Girardi.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Are you caught up with the old Real Housewives of
something where his?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Are they there yet? I don't think they're on right now.
Was she's in Beverly Hills?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
No, they're not on right now.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
So my wife was watching one of those episodes and
she was holding it over everybody's Erica Girardi was married
to him, or he's married.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I don't even know where. I don't know the status
of their relationship.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
It could be a divorce that hasn't been finalized yet.
I'm not really sure, but I know they're not together anymore.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I will say it's strained, whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
She was making some point about how because she's she's
a player in all of this stuff with Tom Girardi,
because of the accusations that he was using all of
that client money to fund her career, to.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Fund her career, and they're like periatric entertainer, right.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
And there is one specific piece of evidence, I guess
in this case that kept coming up and it's a earring.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
The earrings.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yes, so she was display or she's showing the women
in this group the proof that she's winning, like she's
telling the truth. The client money wasn't used to buy
these earrings, and that's not None of that stuff matters
to me. I don't care if she goes down. I
don't care if she's involved with it or not. What
mattered to me was it's seven hundred and fifty thousand
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dollars pair of earrings.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Right.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
So my take on that, because that was like a
couple seasons ago, Okay, good, My take on that was
if I knew my husband was stealing money from plane
crash victims, Yeah, and he gave me a gift of
seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars earrings, There's no way,
there's no world in which I would not sell them,
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liquidate those and give right checks to whoever I knew
he screwed over, right, they would. It would not be
a thing I would be selling handback. I'd be selling
everything like, I would be doing whatever I can because
I'm so grossed out that he was using that money
for dead people's children, right and giving it to me
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to have my glam squad travel with me to Tucson
to put on a show for fifty people and shake
my geriatric ass like that. That would just be unconscionable.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
And people were asking her like, well, why don't you
just get rid of them and give the money, you know,
that would go a long way to helping your you know,
your pr and she would be.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Like, why should I do that? These were a gift
and it was like, you're not. That was the thing
with her. She acted like she was a victim in
all of this, like, you don't know what I had
to go through and who's.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
That somebody cheering the Dodger with, uh.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
You don't know what I've had to go through and
weepy and everything, and it's like, oh, I'm sorry that
you had to move into a two bedroom house in
Studio City, right.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Yeah, it was that was the such a bad look.
But anyway, so in this case, the uh, the former
CFO has now admitted he had a hand in all
of this, and like you said, we've we've known that
this was happening, but it's.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
A it's official now coming up.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I just just contacted a plumber.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I got some plumbing things out.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
You could consult with my brother, he's a plumber.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I could. I know what needs to be done, I
just need somebody to do it.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I didn't know how much money my brother was secretly making.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Wow, how about this the idea of making a million
bucks as a plumber.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
This is because of all the squares you use. This
is and all the people that called in, using the
wipes that are.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Not flushable, the kitchen drain that needs to be snaked.
It's not anything else, got it?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
And I would I don't one central line.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Farther down, yeah, but the one directly behind the sink
is not.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Ooh yeah, you may have it may be assigning bigger problem.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I have narrow pipes.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
It happy you.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (18:55):
Oh Gary, Good morning, Gary and Shannon. Happy Monday. But seriously, Gary,
if your pipes are closed, it's not because they're narrow.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
It's because you're.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Using your freaking garbage disposal in correctly.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
I know.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Stop putting crap down the dray. When women chime in,
Bye Joe Lee said, tell Gary there should be a
clean out on the outside of the house, and that
he can open and try and snake it from that side.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
It will look like this, she sent a picture. I
know exactly, I know exactly where it is. I moved
the patio furniture out from under or out and from
in front of it so that the guy would have
perfect access or gal I don't know who it is,
I would have access to it. It's happened before. It's
just everything's fine. I know how it happens. I'm not
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the only person who has control over the sink.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
But you should know when you mentioned a house problem
or malfunction that you're going to get feedback. Our gas
family is very knowledgeable when it comes to being handy.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I appreciate their handing.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yes, let me know. You want me to call my
brother and see if he can.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
I also have a cousin who's a phone call away,
and my wife actually suggested I call him, and I thought, well,
I would, but he's two and a half hours away,
and I wouldn't want him to come and do something
like that. I wouldn't want him to drive five hours
round trip and just be like, hey, you own a
couple Coors lights for the road or something.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
How bad is the build up in there.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
It comes on pretty sudden.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Once it decides to back up, it backs up pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
How often has this happen?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Twice before in the eight years that we've got there.
In fact, one of them was immediately when we moved in.
The other previous owners had never done it, so we
went in and had them do everything. So it's about
every four years. We're not crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
So we apparently have a new class of millionaires in
this country, and they are the plumbers and the hvac people.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
An amazing private equity firms around the country have been
buying up some of these home service companies, hvac, plumbing,
whatever it is, electrical companies. They hope to profit by
running larger, more profitable operations. I mean, think about consolidating
some of the smaller mom and pop shops and making
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a and I don't mean this in a negative way,
but making a Walmart out of some of these home
not even home improvement, but home repair businesses. They said
that this wave of investment has minted a new class
of millionaires around the country.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Have you noticed I feel like it's kind of a racket.
In recent years dealing with HVAC and heating and air,
specifically plumbing. Maybe not plumbing as much, but heating and air.
It seems like there's this pressure to do the monthly
plan and you're under the umbrella if anything happened, and
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how often does that happen, and then to cancel it.
It's a whole rigamar role. And it just seems like
they're making more of a business off of these things
as opposed to like when you grew up and you
called John the plumber from three doors down and it
came in with his ass crack.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Yeah, very little, ass crack, very little.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I haven't seen an ass crack in years. I mean
on a plumber or a heating air guy accidentally, right
right that that model though, of subscription.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Service, if that's the right way to put it, maybe
concierge's service another way to put.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
It just seems like a racket.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
It depends on how you do it.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I mean the other way you'd financially, you're dropping you
know what, forty bucks a month to subscribe to that thing.
If you don't use him over the course of a year,
that's five hundred bucks that you've believe I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
And if you.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Just put that five hundred bucks in your own bank account,
so that when you did have to call John the
plumber from down the street with his ass, then you
have the money to pay him.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
The other thing is there's a high demand for you know,
it's not like you can get them in. You know,
you're you're calling around to get your your whole snaked
and strain right drain snaked, and you're probably not going
to get them in for a while. Uh. I, well,
you you heard me on the phone. I did. I
heard you say you needed to get your whole snaked.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
I called it during the news break at ten o'clock.
Yeah they're there now.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Yeah, that's great service, fantastic service.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Who is this tell you yet? No, I'm going to
tell you.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
We'll see how it goes.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
But there are problems with that model of you know,
you're relying on somebody to are relying on sort of
that word of mouth, because in the event that something
goes wrong, maybe you don't have the same sort of.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Uh the recur recourse. Yes, you don't have the same recourse.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
You don't have the same avenues of getting it fixed
if something goes wrong, or they're not licensed and bonded
or they're not. You know, maybe because John down down
the street with his thirty foot snake is not going
to have the hundred foot snake that I need.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
My husband tends to like the people without the licenses. Well,
like you're illegal. I mean not like in illegal, I
mean like you're operating to the back of your own truck,
right and you're going to charge a few hundred dollars less.
Why not let's roll the dice.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I've had electricians with less than less than stellar reviews
who have come in and been the smartest people that
I know.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I tried to mess around with electricians just because they'll
set your house on fire.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
That But your point also is that this isn't the
way that you you used to do that. Like, my
dad would never call anybody for any reason because there
was a certain amount of logic to all of these
types of things that you do to a house. We
didn't have air conditioning growing up, but you know, obviously
plumbing and electrical.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
He would figure it out.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Your dad would get in there and snake that for you.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
No, he would call if he ever needed a snake.
He had septic in the property that they have had.
He's dead, did I tell you that. I told you that.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah, but the property where he last lived, how's that
they had septic?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
He wouldn't touch it.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
He would not touch it at all because he didn't
know anything about it, and that was not something he
wanted to make a mistake on while figuring it out right.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
But if he had your plumbing situation, he could probably
get in there and he would try it.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
But again, the snake I have is.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Too short, then get a bigger snake.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I'm not going to spend that much money on est
How much is a snake for that size of a job?
One hundred foot snake with self propelled and all that
sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Too much?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I bet he could borrow a snake that I could do,
and I did think about that. But I'm also at
work today, yep, not for that long. You're only here
for another couple hours, I know. Let me remind you
what your dad said to me, the last thing he
said to me. I'm so proud of him, I'm so
proud of them.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Who when did he tell you that?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
At your mom's funeral?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Good lord?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Oh, anyway, I.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Told you that they're both dead, right, and both of
my parents passed away what's awful?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Do you want to call my mom? I'm sure she
would love to talk to you. I talked to her
this morning. We were sharing stories.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I told her the text that you sent me, because
because you said you were like your mom by sending
me the pictures of the mountain, and I did.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
I took like three different pictures of Mount Rainier, which
are all the same picture.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
And I said, oh, Diane, let me tell you what
else she wrote. You didn't intend to send it to me.
You were sending it to your girlfriend. And I got
a little I got a little like red in the face,
like I'm sorry. I don't think she meant to send
that to me. Sorry, Okay, up next swamp.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Watch it just sometimes and you're laughing so hard, you
pee a little bit and it happens again. I didn't
tell anybody what you wrote.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I told nobody.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
I showed my wife and that was it because I
knew she would appreciate it and laughed and fell on
the floor with laughter.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
But I didn't tell anybody what you wrote. You did?
You did?
Speaker 5 (27:23):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
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This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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on the iHeartRadio app. We caught a falling rocket.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yeah, well, I mean it's totally on purpose.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
But Elon Musk has done something that forget about his
politics because I know it's incendiary for a lot of people.
That guy drives projects that are mind boggling how advanced
they are. The idea that he was able to launch
a rocket and then not just bring it back to
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Earth in one piece, but literally catch it.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
On the Great Space Coast of Florida yesterday was pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Well, total BS or a third assassination attempt? What are
we dealing with? The Corris? Donald Trump had his weekend
rally in Coachella, California. You know he invited John to
go to that. I wonder if John went to that.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I don't think he did.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I think John was busy with baseball.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yes, when we were talking to him on Friday after
the show, I don't think he was going to make
it out there.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I don't see John in Coachella.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
No, so much dirt, a lot of people, a lot
of people, So I didn't see him after.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Blake Trolley from KFI News is on the story about
this man carrying loaded firearms fake passports arrested the Riverside
County Sheriff, saying that he thinks that his deputies did
in fact stop a third assassination attempt.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
And that suspect forty nine year old VM Miller is
denying those claims, saying that he supports Donald Trump and
saying that he did not show up to this rally
in an attempt to assassinate the former president. I think
what's important to note here, guys, is that before Riverside
County Sheriff Chad Bianco provided any details behind the arrest
yesterday with reporters, he did say that there was some
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information that he was going to withhold as the investigation continues.
Keep in mind, this investigation is beyond his office at
this point. Yesterday he conceded that, you know, the charges
he was able to levy down onto VM Miller were
state level charges, and that now the investigation is a
joint investigation that he's assisting with, but it's primarily now
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with the FEDS. To recap the arrest, yesterday, there were
several checkpoints set up by the Sheriff's office before participants
were to go on to a Secret Service checkpoint. There
was an outside perimeter checkpoint and then an inside perimeter checkpoint.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
So on the outside you.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Had people who were likely supposed to be at the rally,
as well as people who lived around Calhoun Ranch that
needed to get in and out of their homes. Once
you made it past that, there was an additional checkpoint.
That checkpoint was a little bit more intensive, but again
run by the Sheriff's department. And then beyond that was
the Secret Service checkpoint, and that's really where any dispute
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about whether or not somebody should be at the rally
or not would have been settled, given the fact that
they had the list of people who were invited. Deputy
say that Van Miller claimed to be a member of
the press he got through checkpoint number one.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
When he approach checkpoint number.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Two, a deputy noticed that his car was in disarray
and that he had a homemade license plate, one that
law enforcement is now using to tie him to the
Sovereign Citizens Group.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Miller was then cuffed as car was searched.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Or deputies say they found two unregistered guns, multiple licenses
with multiple names, and multiple passports, again with multiple names.
Miller was taken into custody on the charges of the
Sheriff's department. Again could apply. These are state level gun charges.
He posted a five thousand dollars bail and was back
out and speaking to the press saying that he told
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deputies about the guns in his car as a courtesy.
He's saying that he was actually invited to attend the
rally by the head of the Republican Party in Clark County, Nevada.
Keep in mind, Van Miller is from Las Vegas. He
did run for a Nevada Assembly seat on the Republican
ticket a couple of years ago. He lost in the primary,
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and he is saying that he was invited to this.
He says he full on supports President Trump. He says
the guns in his car he purchased because he launched
a media network, and that he's had death threats against him. Nonetheless,
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco is saying these claims are irrelevant.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Because it's irrelevant to me. I mean, as far as
I'm concerned, there were a minimum of twenty five thousand
people that entered pass those deputies into that location that
had legitimate identification and weren't carrying guns.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
And also yesterday, Bianco was asked if he thinks his statements,
which are that his deputies likely thwarted a third attempt
at President Trump's life, were a bit dramatic. He pushed
back on those pretty hard with reporters. I heard you
guys airing some of that audio in.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
The last hour.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
So the FBI, now, like you said, is handling whatever
investigation is left on this. I mean, the state charges,
the guy's already out on bail. Is there any way
for us to get an indication if they're moving forward
with anything. I mean, the Feds are always going to
be very tight lipped about their investigator. And I saw
one report I believe this was out by the New
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York Post that had said that their sources were telling
them that likely this guy did just have these guns
for personal protection.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
I heard you guys kind.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Of trying to figure out was this a third assassination
attempt on Donald Trump or was this guy just basically
an idiot?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
And I think that really is the million dollar question.
You know.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I've tried to do some of my own research on this,
and one of the main questions here is, you know,
let's reach out.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
So this is what I have.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Then I've reached out to the Clark County Republicans group
there in Nevada to see if he was invited by them,
and you know, how much you know or you know and.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
And what's the backstory there? You know.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
One of the points that Riverside County Sheriff Bianco made
yesterday was members of these groups have no authority to
invite somebody, right if you were put on this list,
It's not like, you know, Gary, if you were invited,
you could just bring your friends, willy nilly. They said
that he was saying that the the Secret Service had
an extensive list of who was to be there and
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who was not to be there, and so even if
he made it past the sheriff's checkpoint, that next list
would have really indicated whether or not he should be there.
I'm sure that is part of the federal investigation. Was
this guy actually on the list. But you do have
to wonder, you know, as well as why he would
enter such an event with unregistered guns and again with
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multiple passports and multiple driver's licenses. I know he's saying
that he has dual citizenship and that's the reason. And
he has different names in different countries. But again there's
a lot of questions there.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Blake Trolley, great stuff. Let us know what you dig up, all.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Right, guys, I'm edging towards dumb dumb.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yes, I am in camp dumb dumb.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Rather than nefarious creature.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Because when you look into the sovereign citizen movement, that's
exactly he checks all the boxes.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah. Homemade license plates, Yeah, that's a new one to me.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Well, I mean you get the paper license plates sometimes
when you get a car, So maybe he's just trying
to make it look like that. I guess you don't
have homemade plates.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
I do not.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I mean I do, but I display my regular state
issued even though they're illegal, my state issued plates. I
keep my sovereign citizen plates underneath. You think scientologists are
bad sovereign citizens, they come after you.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
The government is what comes after You're right, that's right,
the government. Yeah, Dodgers won yesterday. We'll talk about that
when we come back.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
We were tonight Clippers play their first ever preseason game
in their new state of the art, two billion dollars
into it dome.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
That'll be fun where you get to drink till four
till four am tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Idea and then roll right in here and start the show.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
You can do that?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Could do? Max And how tired?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
And I'm tired just thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I did have a quick football story before we get
into baseball. In high school, a kid in Louisiana, what
would you think is for passing yards in a high
school football game? What would you think the record is
passing in a high school football I've heard crazy things.
I've heard like four hundred and eighty yards. Peyton Houston
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of evangel Christian Academy out of Shreveport, Louisiana through for
eight hundred and seventeen yards, craziest eight touchdowns. He went
fifty three of sixty eight passing and lost the game.
He also ran for eighty seven yards and had two
rushing touchdowns himself.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
How do you lose that game?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
It's all extra points?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I think at that it's gotta be right because they
had ten touchdowns and seventy six points. Wow, he was
twenty yards of the national record. He set the eight
hundred and seventeen yards in one game.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
So I just started paying attention to baseball a few
weeks ago. So people in the nose said, if the
Dodgers get by the Padres, they they match up well
with everybody. It should they should have a path to
a World Series victory. Well, they're better than the Mets,
they're better than the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Still some work to do, but it started off last
night or first inning.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
The two to one pitch, Mounsey swings fights at the
center field.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
This boy will get down.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Bookie scores aready trying to come around. Lets throws cut off.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
He stepped cut up place next.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Monsie with a two out, two run single, two nothing,
Dodgers off the bat. They ended up with a nine
nothing win in Game one the National League Championship Series.
They extended the scoreless streak the pitchers did. Jack Flaherty did.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Being on to be here and have some family in
the stands and see some of them beforehand, it kind
of just lets you relax a little bit and understand
that we're playing a game and supposed to have some fun.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
According to a reporter, Sarah Langs, the first game blowout
pretends doom Sunday Nights Dodgers win. I'm gonna be a
panic Brothers carrier Page and Tim Kates Sunday Nights Dodgers
win tied for the fourth largest shutout victory ever in
game one of a postseason series. Thirteen to zero was
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captured by the nineteen eighty four Chicago Cubs, which is
the paysetter. Those were the Cubs that fell short of
the World Series, of course, felled by Steve Garvey's Padres.
Same thing with the other top five blowout shutouts. None
of the five teams that accompany the Dodgers on this
list captured the series.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
They didn't even win the series, let alone if it
was an earlier series go on to win the World Series.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
So they play today just after one o'clock, first pitch.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
So here's my question, it's going to be like this. No, no,
the sounds going to break.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
That would be even worse.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Walker Bueller going in and being pulled after two and
a third and gives up four or five.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Well, and Dave Roberts is playing it correctly. He says,
you know, he's on a heater right now. We feel
comfortable with his experience playing on the road. That they'd
rather opt to use him on the road. I mean,
you're saying that, but are you saying that? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I think I don't think it would be because I
think everybody at that point when you get into the
postseason like that, you're going to be one of those
you know that you're playing for the team, And I
would assume that that would kind of have be his mentality.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I don't know anything about Walker Bueller. I'm just.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I think he's still in his head a little bit.
Is that the ball not? Is that the ball we
got from you stole where we're Chicago?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Something like that.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
You took it from the other studio, You took it
from the iHeart Studios in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
We don't know the chain of custody on that rubber ball.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah, like probably laced with drugs, you know, dirty.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
That thing is. No, No, you don't have to give
it up. I'm just letting you know what you're playing
with there. You might want to wipe that thing down
once in a while. Well, we don't know what was
done to that bowl ball before we stole it and
took it back with us.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Do you want to do the The Tom Girardi update
sure he's still with us.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
He is.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Patty wrote to me. She said, in my opinion, I
think Walker is better on the road. So there you go. Yes,
somebody actually watches.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Somebody else suggested that the reason that they're using him
in New York as opposed to today's home game is
that they only had to use a couple of relievers
last night. Low end relievers. Okay, didn't have to pitch today.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I see, It's fine. I mean, that's that's why I
would think it's fun.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
It's fun to talk about it. It's fun to play
guy on the couch. Ini in Ohio commenting on what
you think? How do you think the game should be
managed or coach?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Right? What about that Lion's Cowboys game though in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
On Jerry Jones' birthday?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
At home? What's with them cropping themselves at home all
the time.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
There was a lot that was going on this weekend
that was fun to watch. Oh and oh this will
bring a tear to your eye. So my daughter was
home this weekend and I was saying on Saturday morning, Hey,
we should watch the Baylor football game. What time do
they play? And she said, they have a bye this week, and.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I thought, she knows the schedule.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
And I've told her, you don't have to be a
huge football fan, but you have to know that you're
going to a school where football is a really important thing,
living in a state where football is a really.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Important Has she gone to a game yet?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Yeah, she went with my wife. They won our parents' weekend.
Oh that's great. So she knows the pomp and circumstances, the.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Cult like atmosphere.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
But it was so delightful to know that she knew
the schedule. I thought that was very.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
That's why she left town this weekend and she turned around. Yeah, yeah,
she wouldn't have come if it wasn't a bye weekend.
The former CFO of Tom Girardi's law firm has pleaded
guilty to two federal counts of wire fraud. He admits
to helping Tom Girardi embezzeled tens of millions of dollars
from clients. And you knew this was going to happen.
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We talked about this being the case. This guy's name
is Christopher Camen, fifty one years old. He was living
the Bahamas when he was arrested a couple of years ago,
and we knew that he was going to roll on
Girardi so they could build the case, which is the
one they really wanted against Girardi.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Are you caught up with the old Real Housewives of
something where his?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Are they there yet? I don't think they're on right now.
Was she's in Beverly Hills?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
No, they're not on right now.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
So my wife was watching one of those episodes and
she was holding it over everybody's Erica Girardi was married
to him, or he's married.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I don't even know where. I don't know the status
of their relationship.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
It could be a divorce that hasn't been finalized yet.
I'm not really sure, but I know they're not together anymore.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I will say it's strained, whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
She was making some point about how because she's she's
a player in all of this stuff with Tom Girardi,
because of the accusations that he was using all of
that client money to fund her career, to.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Fund her career, and they're like periatric entertainer, right.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
And there is one specific piece of evidence, I guess
in this case that kept coming up and it's a earring.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
The earrings.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yes, so she was display or she's showing the women
in this group the proof that she's winning, like she's
telling the truth. The client money wasn't used to buy
these earrings, and that's not None of that stuff matters
to me. I don't care if she goes down. I
don't care if she's involved with it or not. What
mattered to me was it's seven hundred and fifty thousand
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dollars pair of earrings.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Right.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
So my take on that, because that was like a
couple seasons ago, Okay, good, My take on that was
if I knew my husband was stealing money from plane
crash victims, Yeah, and he gave me a gift of
seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars earrings, There's no way,
there's no world in which I would not sell them,
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liquidate those and give right checks to whoever I knew
he screwed over, right, they would. It would not be
a thing I would be selling handback. I'd be selling
everything like, I would be doing whatever I can because
I'm so grossed out that he was using that money
for dead people's children, right and giving it to me
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to have my glam squad travel with me to Tucson
to put on a show for fifty people and shake
my geriatric ass like that. That would just be unconscionable.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
And people were asking her like, well, why don't you
just get rid of them and give the money, you know,
that would go a long way to helping your you know,
your pr and she would be.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Like, why should I do that? These were a gift
and it was like, you're not. That was the thing
with her. She acted like she was a victim in
all of this, like, you don't know what I had
to go through and who's.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
That somebody cheering the Dodger with, uh.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
You don't know what I've had to go through and
weepy and everything, and it's like, oh, I'm sorry that
you had to move into a two bedroom house in
Studio City, right.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Yeah, it was that was the such a bad look.
But anyway, so in this case, the uh, the former
CFO has now admitted he had a hand in all
of this, and like you said, we've we've known that
this was happening, but it's.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
A it's official now coming up.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I just just contacted a plumber.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I got some plumbing things out.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
You could consult with my brother, he's a plumber.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I could. I know what needs to be done, I
just need somebody to do it.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I didn't know how much money my brother was secretly making.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Wow, how about this the idea of making a million
bucks as a plumber.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
This is because of all the squares you use. This
is and all the people that called in, using the
wipes that are.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Not flushable, the kitchen drain that needs to be snaked.
It's not anything else, got it?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
And I would I don't one central line.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Farther down, yeah, but the one directly behind the sink
is not.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Ooh yeah, you may have it may be assigning bigger problem.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I have narrow pipes.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
It happy you.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Oh Gary, Good morning, Gary and Shannon. Happy Monday. But seriously, Gary,
if your pipes are closed, it's not because they're narrow.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
It's because you're.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Using your freaking garbage disposal in correctly.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
I know.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Stop putting crap down the dray. When women chime in,
Bye Joe Lee said, tell Gary there should be a
clean out on the outside of the house, and that
he can open and try and snake it from that side.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
It will look like this, she sent a picture. I
know exactly, I know exactly where it is. I moved
the patio furniture out from under or out and from
in front of it so that the guy would have
perfect access or gal I don't know who it is,
I would have access to it. It's happened before. It's
just everything's fine. I know how it happens. I'm not
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the only person who has control over the sink.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
But you should know when you mentioned a house problem
or malfunction that you're going to get feedback. Our gas
family is very knowledgeable when it comes to being handy.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I appreciate their handing.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yes, let me know. You want me to call my
brother and see if he can.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
I also have a cousin who's a phone call away,
and my wife actually suggested I call him, and I thought, well,
I would, but he's two and a half hours away,
and I wouldn't want him to come and do something
like that. I wouldn't want him to drive five hours
round trip and just be like, hey, you own a
couple Coors lights for the road or something.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
How bad is the build up in there.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
It comes on pretty sudden.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Once it decides to back up, it backs up pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
How often has this happen?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Twice before in the eight years that we've got there.
In fact, one of them was immediately when we moved in.
The other previous owners had never done it, so we
went in and had them do everything. So it's about
every four years. We're not crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
So we apparently have a new class of millionaires in
this country, and they are the plumbers and the hvac people.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
An amazing private equity firms around the country have been
buying up some of these home service companies, hvac, plumbing,
whatever it is, electrical companies. They hope to profit by
running larger, more profitable operations. I mean, think about consolidating
some of the smaller mom and pop shops and making
(21:23):
a and I don't mean this in a negative way,
but making a Walmart out of some of these home
not even home improvement, but home repair businesses. They said
that this wave of investment has minted a new class
of millionaires around the country.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Have you noticed I feel like it's kind of a racket.
In recent years dealing with HVAC and heating and air,
specifically plumbing. Maybe not plumbing as much, but heating and air.
It seems like there's this pressure to do the monthly
plan and you're under the umbrella if anything happened, and
(22:00):
how often does that happen, and then to cancel it.
It's a whole rigamar role. And it just seems like
they're making more of a business off of these things
as opposed to like when you grew up and you
called John the plumber from three doors down and it
came in with his ass crack.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Yeah, very little, ass crack, very little.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I haven't seen an ass crack in years. I mean
on a plumber or a heating air guy accidentally, right
right that that model though, of subscription.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Service, if that's the right way to put it, maybe
concierge's service another way to put.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
It just seems like a racket.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
It depends on how you do it.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I mean the other way you'd financially, you're dropping you
know what, forty bucks a month to subscribe to that thing.
If you don't use him over the course of a year,
that's five hundred bucks that you've believe I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
And if you.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Just put that five hundred bucks in your own bank account,
so that when you did have to call John the
plumber from down the street with his ass, then you
have the money to pay him.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
The other thing is there's a high demand for you know,
it's not like you can get them in. You know,
you're you're calling around to get your your whole snaked
and strain right drain snaked, and you're probably not going
to get them in for a while. Uh. I, well,
you you heard me on the phone. I did. I
heard you say you needed to get your whole snaked.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
I called it during the news break at ten o'clock.
Yeah they're there now.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Yeah, that's great service, fantastic service.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Who is this tell you yet? No, I'm going to
tell you.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
We'll see how it goes.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
But there are problems with that model of you know,
you're relying on somebody to are relying on sort of
that word of mouth, because in the event that something
goes wrong, maybe you don't have the same sort of.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Uh the recur recourse. Yes, you don't have the same recourse.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
You don't have the same avenues of getting it fixed
if something goes wrong, or they're not licensed and bonded
or they're not. You know, maybe because John down down
the street with his thirty foot snake is not going
to have the hundred foot snake that I need.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
My husband tends to like the people without the licenses. Well,
like you're illegal. I mean not like in illegal, I
mean like you're operating to the back of your own truck,
right and you're going to charge a few hundred dollars less.
Why not let's roll the dice.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I've had electricians with less than less than stellar reviews
who have come in and been the smartest people that
I know.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I tried to mess around with electricians just because they'll
set your house on fire.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
That But your point also is that this isn't the
way that you you used to do that. Like, my
dad would never call anybody for any reason because there
was a certain amount of logic to all of these
types of things that you do to a house. We
didn't have air conditioning growing up, but you know, obviously
plumbing and electrical.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
He would figure it out.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Your dad would get in there and snake that for you.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
No, he would call if he ever needed a snake.
He had septic in the property that they have had.
He's dead, did I tell you that. I told you that.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah, but the property where he last lived, how's that
they had septic?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
He wouldn't touch it.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
He would not touch it at all because he didn't
know anything about it, and that was not something he
wanted to make a mistake on while figuring it out right.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
But if he had your plumbing situation, he could probably
get in there and he would try it.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
But again, the snake I have is.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Too short, then get a bigger snake.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I'm not going to spend that much money on est
How much is a snake for that size of a job?
One hundred foot snake with self propelled and all that
sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Too much?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I bet he could borrow a snake that I could do,
and I did think about that. But I'm also at
work today, yep, not for that long. You're only here
for another couple hours, I know. Let me remind you
what your dad said to me, the last thing he
said to me. I'm so proud of him, I'm so
proud of them.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Who when did he tell you that?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
At your mom's funeral?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Good lord?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Oh, anyway, I.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Told you that they're both dead, right, and both of
my parents passed away what's awful?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Do you want to call my mom? I'm sure she
would love to talk to you. I talked to her
this morning. We were sharing stories.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I told her the text that you sent me, because
because you said you were like your mom by sending
me the pictures of the mountain, and I did.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
I took like three different pictures of Mount Rainier, which
are all the same picture.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
And I said, oh, Diane, let me tell you what
else she wrote. You didn't intend to send it to me.
You were sending it to your girlfriend. And I got
a little I got a little like red in the face,
like I'm sorry. I don't think she meant to send
that to me. Sorry, Okay, up next swamp.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Watch it just sometimes and you're laughing so hard, you
pee a little bit and it happens again. I didn't
tell anybody what you wrote.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I told nobody.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
I showed my wife and that was it because I
knew she would appreciate it and laughed and fell on
the floor with laughter.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
But I didn't tell anybody what you wrote. You did?
You did?
Speaker 5 (27:23):
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