November 27, 2024 • 30 mins
Gary and Shannon begin the second hour of the show with the story of authorities sexing more than 3,000 fake Gibson guitars at the Los Angeles-Long Beach Seaport. Gary and Shannon also talk about Katie Porter filing a restraining order against her ex, a Burbank couple fighting for a dog’s life and the story of a 97-year-old cheerleader.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Good morning, Gary and Shannon. And no, I don't want Shannon,
calm down, I water. I wander what a bottle whiskey
in one hand, sticker it in another, and two guns
in her holster Shandon, two guns boom.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Oh, that was a good time in life.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Whiskey, barettes and loaded guns double holstered everywhere you went.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Oh man, that would be that would be something dangerous.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
Hey, Gary and Shannon, Happy Thanksgiving. I think now that
we know the dryer turkey story, we all know where
Gary got his. I believe it's gut like Ati Iuana
street dog from Yes, I'm so thankful for both of you.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
I really do appreciate all the laughs. Happy Thanksgiving, Love
you guys.
Speaker 6 (00:57):
Thank you. I'm very sweet.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
The term I used was the gut biome of a
Haitian street dog.
Speaker 6 (01:02):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Yeah, because I've seen street dogs in both places. The
ones in Haiti have have a lot more to deal with.
Theres a lot more going on there, especially right now.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Yeah, the gang leader named Barbecue, Who's said, Yeah, it's
just they got a lot more to run from.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Listen to this one.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
A police officer in Australia was found guilty today of
manslaughter for deploying a taser on a ninety five year old.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Woman with dementia.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
It's not funny, It's pretty funny, he responded to reports
at her nursing home that she was armed with a knife.
Thirty four year old Christian White with the New South
Wales Police used his taser on Claire after finding her
alone in a treatment room with a serrated edge steak knife.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Claire, by the way, is five.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Foot was five foot two and ninety five pounds. You
mean was she died? That's why just found guilty of manslaughter.
Manslaughter Okay, five to ninety five pounds and she used
a walker.
Speaker 7 (02:06):
He tases her, she falls. Yeah, Wait a minute, I said,
this is not funny.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I'm having a play out in my mind and it's
kind of funny, is it, because you're you're envisioning the
ninety seven year old cheerleader, Yes, being tasered and falling over. Yes,
because we had eyes on her.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Anyway, poor Claire died from her injuries.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
A week later, video footage played in the court showed
that the encounter at the nursing home lasted about two
to three minutes before the officer said nah, bugger it and.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Used his taser boy, which is basically fit. Yeah wow,
goes Claire. Well, I do it dead.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
I have better news than that.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Okay, Fewer people contracted HIV last year than it any
point since the rise of the disease in the late
nineteen eighties.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
We beat AIDS.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Well, I wouldn't say we beat it, but about one
point three million people still contracted the disease last year,
according to the UN AIDS Agency, still more than three
times higher than needed to get the goal of ending
AIDS as a public health threat by the year twenty thirty.
Sports News big lineup tomorrow, of course, football wise, Chicago
Detroit is the first game, New York Giants against the
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Dallas Cowboys the second game, and then in the evening
Dolphins Packers, and don't forget on Friday there's a game
as well, the Raiders. The woeful Raiders play the Chiefs,
and that I think is an Amazon game. We will
be doing Gas Fantasy four play today. We're not going
to be doing it on Friday because a couple of
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those games we're going to be picking on, So we
will do Gas Fantasy four play today, and a reminder
that your picks for Gas Fantasy four play have to
be in before kickoff of the first game that we choose.
Thousands of counterfeit Gibson Electric guitars have been seized in
a multi agency investigation at the La Long Beach Port
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three thousand fake guitars. If they were real guitars, the
street valued be at about eighteen million dollars. US Customs
Water Protection, along with Homeland Security investigations and the Sheriff's Department,
announced the seizure at a news conference yesterday. According to
Africa Bell, the port director at La Longbeach, said, these
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guitars may look real to you, but trust and believe
they are not. They are fraudulent and they are part
of a massive attempt to calm the American consumer. The
thing is, this is such a specific product and it's
not you know, for even though there are three thousand
of these guitars that came in, think about the number
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of pairs of shoes that come in, or pants or
handbags or something like that. It seems like those those
would be much easier to counterfeit than a Gibson guitar.
Andrea Bates, represents the guitar company, said they're able to
facilitate and identify and seese eighteen million dollars worth of
counterfeit guitar, something that's incredibly significant. The chief marketing officer
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for Gibson said the fakes would have been easily recognized
by any expert and would be spotted by any professional
guitar player who is familiar with the actual Gibson product.
She said, we could tell when we picked it up immediately,
But for the untrained and for the untrained eye, there
are a couple of tips. For example, the logo looks
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different or is in a different location than in a
genuine Gibson product, and the logo might actually bleed. The
ink on the logo might bleed a little bit, so
keep your eyes eyes out for that. Did I play
this one yet?
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Did I play Hey.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Gary and Shannon Happy Thanksgiving?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Because she said my haitian gut by him just making
sure we are taking your talkbacks on what you're thankful
for and what you're not thankful for this year. Well,
I thought we were going to be positive or are
we going to be guns blazing nice or raw whiskey
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cigarette or double guns blazing, or cupcakes and juice or
that Christmas tree.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Oh, I hate this tree so much. It's awful.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
It is the most sugary, pink, pathetic excuse for a
Christmas tree I've ever seen. If this was a Keith signia,
that would be a fine tree to put up.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
But do you put up a tree for a King Signira?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
No? But if you did, this would be the tree
that is probably very cool.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Or if you put up a tree for a baby
girl born although this day and age it would be
inappropriate the Christmas tree in the delivery room for a
baby girl, this would be it.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
The Christmas tree gender revealed.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
But anybody over fifteen thinks this tree sucks? Wow, Well
you ask for the whiskey and the cigarettes.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
It's starting to smell funny in here.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
If the current leads hold, the final taally for the
House of Representatives next year would be two twenty to
two fifteen in favor of Republicans. That gives a net
gain of two seats to the Democrats, but Republicans immediately
lose some of those seats at the start of one
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hundred and nineteenth Congress.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Obviously, Matt Gates is out.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Congresswoman Elise Stephanic and Congressman Michael Waltz New York and Florida, respectively,
are going to step down later in January because of
their cabinet appointments. A couple of Florida special elections now
scheduled for April first, So as of right now, they
are basically just facing a two months it looks like
with a two seventeen to two fifteen split.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
They're in the House in Representatives.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Representative Katie Porter is filing a restraining order against her
ex boyfriend for allegedly bombarding her with a bunch of
abusive and threatening messages in a bid to cause significant
harm to her public image, including one falsely claiming in
her words that she had genital herpes. Had is kind
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of don't don't general. Isn't that something you have forever?
Genital herpes?
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Like samsonite?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Right, yep, samsonite.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Log to get it.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
You're going to always have my goodness.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I think my parents or my last parent still has
U still has some Samsonite luggage in the hall closet.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
There. Well, I will not go on.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
They say that this guy has sent her, her family
and staff more than one thousand text messages and emails
over three months.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
I have a question about the situation like this.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Now, I don't question Katie Porter in any way because
I don't know what the situation is. But let me
just ask a general relationship question. If this, if somebody
does this to you, you know, ends up after you
break up. They're stalking you, they're threatening you, they're sending
these types of just harassing messages. Did you see it beforehand?
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Were there inclinations that maybe this person was capable of
doing that thing for men and women?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Sometimes you make sometimes, you know, listen the pool, the
dating pool, especially.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
How old is she She's fifty, she's fifty.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
The dating pool is very shallow. There's not a lot
of fish in that sea. So sometimes when you catch
a fish, you look the other way, when the gills
are a little bit raggedy, you look the other way
when the fish, you know, slaps you in the face.
It was not meant to be a domestic violent situation. No,
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I just meant like a fish to the face. Well,
and I don't want it to sound like I'm blaming
a vict him here. That's I'm just I'm curious about.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
This is a very hard thing.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
That's also an aspect of it that I think is
that I don't take into account one email that was
allegedly sent to Katie Porter's son and her ex husband.
This guy threatened to bring the hammer down on Katie
that was the quote, and smash her and her life
into a million pieces. And he wrote, if you don't
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fully comprehend what is transpiring right now, let me spell
it out for you. The noose is tightening around Katie's neck.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Good lord. Now.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
She says he's on drugs. She says he's on drugs.
She says he's contacted at least three reporters to disseminate
false and damaging information about me and my children. Claims
that he had substance abuse and mental health issues and
had been involuntarily hospitalized for a psych evaluation at least
twice in the last two years. She said, I have
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a deserved him misusing prescription pain killers, snorting riddlin, and
abusing cannabis and nicotine patches.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Abusing nicotine patches.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
And he also previously disclosed to me his use of
cocaine and whippets take.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Guys into whippets that it just get.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Rid of them.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
There's no loneliness in the world that will result in
you being happy that you're with somebody who does whippets.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Whippets are a hardline for me. This is a particularly
bad one.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
It's just so it's like a juvenile thing.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
It's like something that you'd get your hands on at
fifteen that you couldn't get your hands on. If you're
an adult man and you're doing whippets, you got to
move on from that guy. The cocaine, the nicotine, the
riddlin Uh listen to you, but whippets.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
He has filed a similar restraining order. He wants his
own protective order against her because he says that she
was violent towards him and her children and said she's
a monster, and as part of the temporary order, a
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judge has ordered the boyfriend to make no contact with
and stay away from her and her kids until the
next hearing, slated for the middle of next month. He's
also been ordered not to contact any current or former
staffers or coworkers about her. It's just again, if she
feels like it was a miss sounds like she feels
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it was a mistake that she got involved with this
guy in the first place. It's pretty it's pretty embarrassing.
It's pretty sad that it has to play out in public.
And if this is all true, that he's been doing
all this sort of stuff, what a loser?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
What a loser? Have you?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Have you noticed this tree and how beautiful it is,
all the pink and the sparkles, The pink and the.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
Sparkles, it is nice to a little bit of spirit
in this room.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
It's so beautiful and sparkly and pink. I would totally
put it in my birthing room if I was about
to deliver a baby girl or an ice cream cone.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
Hi, Gary and Shannon, this is Karen out in North Carolina.
I am grateful for my son Michael, who is nineteen
and welcomed me back into his life after three years.
It's been the most difficult three years of my entire life.
But I'm grateful that we are now back on track
and back together and couldn't be happier.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
So I'm grateful for that.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
Have an amazing Thanksgiving to you both.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Love you, I love that. That's wonderful.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
It'd be quite as strong.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
That makes me cry a little bit?
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Is that what that is?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
See, that's what happens.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
When you start complimenting the pink tree, you get soft instantly.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
Hey, Gary Shannon, here's what I'm thankful for. I'm thankful
for our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave us salvation. I'm
thankful to him for having given us this sure that
we live in. And thank for listening to the best
duo on the radio, Gary and Shannon after Thanksgiving. Everybody,
enjoy your time.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
You know what he deserves Some trumpets of Jesus. That's
what he deserves. He earned it, He earned it.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
I listened to the tumbet of Jesus. Here's a different
in sound.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Of God.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
All money.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Around because nothing says Thanksgiving. Hey, this is for all year.
Not to be dark. But I do think about it
every time we play the trumpets of Jesus. And I
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remember the when it came into our lives, And it
was when your mom was really sick and you were
driving home.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
You're driving up and back all.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
The time, and you were driving home and this came
come on, and it's one of those moments that's very cathartic.
When you're like going through something and something like this
loves on.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
It was also such a weird thing because when you
think about something that not a lot of people do anymore,
depending on where you are. If you if you live
here and you don't travel much, you know what radio
stations are available. But if you drive and you're you know,
you're in I don't know, northern Nevada or something like that,
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and you do that old scan thing where you're looking
through the radio dial of find something to listen to.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
And that's what I was doing.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Yeah, and it just, I mean it just it screamed
at me through the through the speakers because I picked
it up right here.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I listened to the Jesus it doesn't get better.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
And man, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Progressive lawmakers urging Biden to move on marijuana legislation before
his term comes to an end. In January, group of
Democrats wrote a letter calling on the White House to
move marijuana from a Schedule one to a Scheduled two
controlled substance. This would classify the drug in a less
severe category, but it would not end federal criminal criminalization
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or resolve its harms.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
According to the letter, wherever the hell that means.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
President Elect Trump's Transitions says several of his cabinet picks
and appointees have been targeted by threats and swatting attacks.
Transition spokesperson Caroline Leavit, who's been nominated to take over
a similar role in the White House, said in a
statement that last night in this morning, several of President
Trump's cabinet nominees and administration appointees were targeted in violent
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Unamerican threats to their lives and those who live with them.
Among those targeted, New York Congresswoman at least a fanic
Trump's pick to serve as the next ambassador to the
United Nations.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Clay says that tree looks like Jean Bonnet Ramsey.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
What a great pull.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I mean, that is perfection. That is exactly right. It's beautiful.
It is a beautiful little tree.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Consumer price increases accelerated last month, the latest sign that
inflation steady decline of the last year two years has stalled.
According to the Federal Reserves Preferred inflation gauge, consumer prices
went up two point three percent in October from a
year ago. Commerce Department said that's up from just two
point one percent in September. Though it's still only modestly
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above the target that they look for. This this story
makes me sad as a baseball fan. But Ygerian shennon, Hey,
I'm thankful for the Dodgers signing Blake Spel.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I just mean this game over and another championship right.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Well, it doesn't mean that because the lot they needed
was pitching.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
All they needed was pitching. They won without the pitch exactly.
But that doesn't imagine if they had a pitcher.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Listen, how many many times in sports does the team,
the perfect team come together and they don't win a lot?
That's a that's a dangerous the time that does the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Last year, the Yankees for several years, the Red Sox.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
So the Dodgers apparently agreed to a five year, one
hundred and eighty two million dollar contract, win.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Two times series next season the Giants. I put money
on you want to make a bet right now?
Speaker 6 (18:26):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Why not? I don't even think they make the betoffs.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Why that's not a surprise.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
That wouldn't be a surprise if you wanted me to
be a fan of the Yankees and you told me
that the Yankees weren't.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
To saying that you are going through something right now,
realizing that your team has been bad and it's going
to continue to be bad. Yeah, I understand everybody has
times like that. Everyone has times like that. That's fine,
and it's an odd year. But the next year what
I don't listen the whole last time they won it
an even year.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Twenty fourteen, the light the time, the smack talk of
like giants are no good.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Well, yeah, that is.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
You're not going to get an argument for That's like
saying the Jets are no good, right, the Jets really suck?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Okay, debatable. I see what you're saying. There's a I
just try to get under your skin.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
If I really wanted to do that, i'd say something
like cranberry sauce sucks.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Now watch your mouth, Oh there are smacked the leather
pants out of you.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
There's a couple in Burbank who was in court yesterday
fighting to keep their beloved dog, Conan from getting euthanized.
Animal rights activists are involved asking a judge to grant clemency.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
It's an eight year old pit bull.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
There was an order that the dog be euthanized for
biting a neighborhood. Now the family a neighbors, not a neighborhood. Yeah,
that would be a bigger problem. The family says that
Conan has no history of biting, and that this neighbor
had been and taunting Conan for months and approached him aggressively. I,
as a fan of canines, have never quite understood the
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blanket policies of a dog bite results in euthanasia, right,
because there are so many times when humans are the factor, Right,
humans are the ones that cause this dog to react
in such a way.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
I don't know enough about this one to make a
decision one way or the other. But this is also
I mean, if they're right and Conan doesn't have any
history of biting, even if it is a pit bull.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
That's part of the story that I don't like, because
pit bulls get such a bad rep for being dangerous
and aggressive, and they're not if you raise them correctly.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
And so what I don't like about this story is
they're saying, no, Conan's great, Conan's wonderful, Conan's fabulous, has
never done this and then out of nowhere bite somebody.
It's kind of bad for the reputation of pit bulls.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
The family actually has an interesting surrogate on their side,
in former La County Sheriff Alex Vinueva. He spoke on
their behalf and said, we're here to support Conan, who's
slated to be executed. The dog was doing what dogs
are trained to do and protect their owner. I don't
know if this one was actually trained to do that
or if it was just reacting. And for the neighbor
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who was instigating and harassing the dog, this never would
have occurred. Vivian vien Aueva said, I'm here for Conan,
and he doesn't have a voice, but he has ours,
and if I could use this platform tweaking that tension, I'm.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Going to do that.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
The woman who was bitten is arguing that all she
did was lift her arm in front of Conan.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I'm sure that's if the neighbors, if the dog's owners
are telling people that you have a history of aggravating, instigating,
molesting the dog and you just happened to lift your
arm one time in front of the dog and it
chomps down on you.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp chomp. You want to feel
good story.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
I this is a fun story. This one. Yeah, this
is a fun story.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
It's very sweet.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
And I mean the fact that she can still do
that stunt, well, that's a hell of a fly.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Everybody's holding her up.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
That's that's a stunt.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
People hold you up in a stunt like a pop
up that you.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Meant like she's going to do a backflip or something.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
No, the fact that she's able to be a flyer
at her age is incredible.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
I'm using words that don't make sense.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I know, I was just wondering. I'm listening to you, guys.
Speaker 10 (22:35):
I'm off for the week. It's wonderful, lucky. Any what
are whippets all? I know our whippets are dogs, right, whippets?
But I am getting older, so you know anyhow, happy
thanksgiving you to love you guys.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Tell me what kind of birds you have?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Get back on that talk back, app I want to
hear about those birds.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Whippets is basically nitrous ox.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
It's like huffing, you know what I mean, Like you're
inhaling the nitrous oxide from whatever you're using. Uh. I
don't even know what you would use, some sort of
airsol something I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
How it works.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Couldn't you do it out of a I'm not gonna say, well,
let's not do a how to, okay. I mean, since
we are your recreational drug show of choice, we're going.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
To get such a how to from somebody.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
No, no, and I don't want that. We don't I
know how to do it. It's just you don't.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Just don't do it.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
It's like the laughing guess your doctor used to give
you y, yeah, but more and more concentrated and illegal.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
You don't do it.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Don't do it.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
It's stupid and like you said, it's juvenile. It's jude,
you're over the age of seventeen and your crushing whip.
It's a loser. A loser. Drugs are bad.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Yeah, do you know that?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I read this morning?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I was article about the zebra trend where people have
one alcoholic beverage and then have like water, and then
have a beer and then have a water, which is
to me is just common sense.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
That's a trend.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
That's a trend. It's called zebra drinking.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
And then I was reading about how right now it's
just up ending the wine industry that there's this demand
for zero percent alcohol wine sparkling Rose and the like,
and how it's completely up ending the industry. And then
I read this one in three pubs in Britain is
there's no alcohol in the pubs one in three?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
What I know?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I was shocked because a pub, a pint at a
pub is a way of life over there.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Is it that they don't serve any alcohol or they
serve like non alcohol, any alcohol, non alcoholic beers, non
alcohol pub weird?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Yeah, all right, great story here.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Islajeen Daring is someone's gram probably someone's great grandma.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
By now, Ila Jeen is ninety seven even years old,
and she lives in an assisted living center. It's called
Candlestone Assisted Living.
Speaker 11 (25:08):
And she says that they had trigger treating there and
it was a girl who showed up in a young
cheerleader outfit costume for tricker treating and Ila Jean sees
this cheerleader on Halloween and there's just a flood of
memories and all of a sudden, Elajeen cannot stop talking
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to her caregivers about cheerleading, about how she felt most
alive when she was seventeen, and she was a maryl
High School cheerleader.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
In Meryll Michigan. She said, I'm still flexible. I still
got it.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
So the wellness director at this Candlestone assisted living facility,
Ariel Raddick, starts thinking, makes a Facebook post does anybody
have availability for a Meryl High School cheerleading uniform? And
by the end of that day, the school superintendent had
found out and alerted the high school's cheering coach and
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then said, I thought we had to act quickly. She's
ninety seven, which yes. So she got together this varsity squad,
twelve girls. They grabbed every uniform they could find. Said,
we didn't know her size or what condition she was in.
We didn't know what to expect.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Now. Eila Jean.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Growing up, she was responsible for taking care of her
nine siblings, and she in nineteen forty five formed the
cheerleading squad at Merrill High She said it was something
fun for her to do and something that she had
for herself. You know, when you're taking care of nine siblings,
it's nice to have a little something for yourself. Back then,
by the way, the squad had a local seamstress make
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their uniforms, or the girls would sew them together themselves.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Well about two weeks after Halloween.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
The staff there at the nursing home set up the
stage for all of this. The van rolls into a
dry and Isla Jean's eyes light up and when they says,
team walks in, is this for me? The coach cheer
coach said, We asked her if she remembered any cheers
from when she was in school, which was over eighty
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years ago, and she said, yes.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Come on, you come on, right, right right, come on,
come on, tipe sid.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Whoa I mean incredible. She rallied the squad with her
pom poms. They gave her the uniform. She goes to
the bathroom and suits up. She even did very impressive
high kicks at ninety seven.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
They say.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Then came the moment no one expected. One of the
cheerleaders performed in aerial stunts. So it's like a pop
up where you know, you've all seen the stunts right
where there's one cheerleader on top and two or three
on the bottom.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
And she wanted in and one.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Of the girls says, you want to go up and
Ela Jean says absolutely. So they looked to the staff
of the assisted living place and they're like, is this okay?
Speaker 3 (28:12):
They get the Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Wow, she locked her legs, which is hard to do,
and she went soaring in the air as a couple
of cheerleaders held her up.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
Well, a couple.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
The picture I saw, it looks like everybody is there
just in case something happened.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
No, that's it normal that there's two girls on the
side and one on the back. That's a normal formation. Okay,
right here, you don't know what you're talking about. I
don't know what I'm talking about. This is like whippets
and hot rails.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Anyways, ninety seven year old cheerleaders is out of my
you know, my daily practice.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
It was very sweet.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Some residents even held up oversized cutouts of Eila Jean's
face to give her more support. People were bursting out
in tears when she went up in that stunt, biggest
smile on her face. It was also a meaningful experience
for the current square as well.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
Yeah, that's very cool.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Now, she said. She shared some wisdom as well, not
just cheers. Enjoy your figures. She told the girls eat
Hershey chocolates, throw in some tips about boys. They put
a photo of Eila Jean in their locker room. The
cheer squad did, and before each game, they performed one
of the chants that she taught them as their pregame ritual,
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come on, come on.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Right right, come on, come on type clive.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
The girls have gone back a couple times already to visit.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
Her very cool, good story. I'm thankful for that story.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
She's often spotted outside practicing her high kicks in the field.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
She says, seen, we're gonna need you to come back in.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
She says, if you don't get off your butt and
do some exercise to keep yourself active, you're gonna lose it.
She said, it's pretty obvious. I'm not acting my age,
but I'm ninety seven. I can still be your cheerleader.
Don't act your age.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Yeah, you can do whatever the heck you want. At
ninety seven, what.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Age do you think would be appropriate if I knocked
over this tree? Not?
Speaker 6 (30:13):
Not good? Not a good age. No, No, all.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Right, we'll do swamp flats. Will we come back?
Speaker 6 (30:22):
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Speaker 4 (30:24):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Good morning, Gary and Shannon. And no, I don't want Shannon,
calm down, I water. I wander what a bottle whiskey
in one hand, sticker it in another, and two guns
in her holster Shandon, two guns boom.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Oh, that was a good time in life.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Whiskey, barettes and loaded guns double holstered everywhere you went.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Oh man, that would be that would be something dangerous.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
Hey, Gary and Shannon, Happy Thanksgiving. I think now that
we know the dryer turkey story, we all know where
Gary got his. I believe it's gut like Ati Iuana
street dog from Yes, I'm so thankful for both of you.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
I really do appreciate all the laughs. Happy Thanksgiving, Love
you guys.
Speaker 6 (00:57):
Thank you. I'm very sweet.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
The term I used was the gut biome of a
Haitian street dog.
Speaker 6 (01:02):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Yeah, because I've seen street dogs in both places. The
ones in Haiti have have a lot more to deal with.
Theres a lot more going on there, especially right now.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Yeah, the gang leader named Barbecue, Who's said, Yeah, it's
just they got a lot more to run from.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Listen to this one.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
A police officer in Australia was found guilty today of
manslaughter for deploying a taser on a ninety five year old.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Woman with dementia.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
It's not funny, It's pretty funny, he responded to reports
at her nursing home that she was armed with a knife.
Thirty four year old Christian White with the New South
Wales Police used his taser on Claire after finding her
alone in a treatment room with a serrated edge steak knife.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Claire, by the way, is five.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Foot was five foot two and ninety five pounds. You
mean was she died? That's why just found guilty of manslaughter.
Manslaughter Okay, five to ninety five pounds and she used
a walker.
Speaker 7 (02:06):
He tases her, she falls. Yeah, Wait a minute, I said,
this is not funny.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I'm having a play out in my mind and it's
kind of funny, is it, because you're you're envisioning the
ninety seven year old cheerleader, Yes, being tasered and falling over. Yes,
because we had eyes on her.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Anyway, poor Claire died from her injuries.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
A week later, video footage played in the court showed
that the encounter at the nursing home lasted about two
to three minutes before the officer said nah, bugger it and.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Used his taser boy, which is basically fit. Yeah wow,
goes Claire. Well, I do it dead.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
I have better news than that.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Okay, Fewer people contracted HIV last year than it any
point since the rise of the disease in the late
nineteen eighties.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
We beat AIDS.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Well, I wouldn't say we beat it, but about one
point three million people still contracted the disease last year,
according to the UN AIDS Agency, still more than three
times higher than needed to get the goal of ending
AIDS as a public health threat by the year twenty thirty.
Sports News big lineup tomorrow, of course, football wise, Chicago
Detroit is the first game, New York Giants against the
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Dallas Cowboys the second game, and then in the evening
Dolphins Packers, and don't forget on Friday there's a game
as well, the Raiders. The woeful Raiders play the Chiefs,
and that I think is an Amazon game. We will
be doing Gas Fantasy four play today. We're not going
to be doing it on Friday because a couple of
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those games we're going to be picking on, So we
will do Gas Fantasy four play today, and a reminder
that your picks for Gas Fantasy four play have to
be in before kickoff of the first game that we choose.
Thousands of counterfeit Gibson Electric guitars have been seized in
a multi agency investigation at the La Long Beach Port
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three thousand fake guitars. If they were real guitars, the
street valued be at about eighteen million dollars. US Customs
Water Protection, along with Homeland Security investigations and the Sheriff's Department,
announced the seizure at a news conference yesterday. According to
Africa Bell, the port director at La Longbeach, said, these
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guitars may look real to you, but trust and believe
they are not. They are fraudulent and they are part
of a massive attempt to calm the American consumer. The
thing is, this is such a specific product and it's
not you know, for even though there are three thousand
of these guitars that came in, think about the number
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of pairs of shoes that come in, or pants or
handbags or something like that. It seems like those those
would be much easier to counterfeit than a Gibson guitar.
Andrea Bates, represents the guitar company, said they're able to
facilitate and identify and seese eighteen million dollars worth of
counterfeit guitar, something that's incredibly significant. The chief marketing officer
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for Gibson said the fakes would have been easily recognized
by any expert and would be spotted by any professional
guitar player who is familiar with the actual Gibson product.
She said, we could tell when we picked it up immediately,
But for the untrained and for the untrained eye, there
are a couple of tips. For example, the logo looks
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different or is in a different location than in a
genuine Gibson product, and the logo might actually bleed. The
ink on the logo might bleed a little bit, so
keep your eyes eyes out for that. Did I play
this one yet?
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Did I play Hey.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Gary and Shannon Happy Thanksgiving?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Because she said my haitian gut by him just making
sure we are taking your talkbacks on what you're thankful
for and what you're not thankful for this year. Well,
I thought we were going to be positive or are
we going to be guns blazing nice or raw whiskey
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cigarette or double guns blazing, or cupcakes and juice or
that Christmas tree.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Oh, I hate this tree so much. It's awful.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
It is the most sugary, pink, pathetic excuse for a
Christmas tree I've ever seen. If this was a Keith signia,
that would be a fine tree to put up.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
But do you put up a tree for a King Signira?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
No? But if you did, this would be the tree
that is probably very cool.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Or if you put up a tree for a baby
girl born although this day and age it would be
inappropriate the Christmas tree in the delivery room for a
baby girl, this would be it.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
The Christmas tree gender revealed.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
But anybody over fifteen thinks this tree sucks? Wow, Well
you ask for the whiskey and the cigarettes.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
It's starting to smell funny in here.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
If the current leads hold, the final taally for the
House of Representatives next year would be two twenty to
two fifteen in favor of Republicans. That gives a net
gain of two seats to the Democrats, but Republicans immediately
lose some of those seats at the start of one
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hundred and nineteenth Congress.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Obviously, Matt Gates is out.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Congresswoman Elise Stephanic and Congressman Michael Waltz New York and Florida, respectively,
are going to step down later in January because of
their cabinet appointments. A couple of Florida special elections now
scheduled for April first, So as of right now, they
are basically just facing a two months it looks like
with a two seventeen to two fifteen split.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
They're in the House in Representatives.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Representative Katie Porter is filing a restraining order against her
ex boyfriend for allegedly bombarding her with a bunch of
abusive and threatening messages in a bid to cause significant
harm to her public image, including one falsely claiming in
her words that she had genital herpes. Had is kind
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of don't don't general. Isn't that something you have forever?
Genital herpes?
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Like samsonite?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Right, yep, samsonite.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Log to get it.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
You're going to always have my goodness.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I think my parents or my last parent still has
U still has some Samsonite luggage in the hall closet.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
There. Well, I will not go on.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
They say that this guy has sent her, her family
and staff more than one thousand text messages and emails
over three months.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
I have a question about the situation like this.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Now, I don't question Katie Porter in any way because
I don't know what the situation is. But let me
just ask a general relationship question. If this, if somebody
does this to you, you know, ends up after you
break up. They're stalking you, they're threatening you, they're sending
these types of just harassing messages. Did you see it beforehand?
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Were there inclinations that maybe this person was capable of
doing that thing for men and women?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Sometimes you make sometimes, you know, listen the pool, the
dating pool, especially.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
How old is she She's fifty, she's fifty.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
The dating pool is very shallow. There's not a lot
of fish in that sea. So sometimes when you catch
a fish, you look the other way, when the gills
are a little bit raggedy, you look the other way
when the fish, you know, slaps you in the face.
It was not meant to be a domestic violent situation. No,
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I just meant like a fish to the face. Well,
and I don't want it to sound like I'm blaming
a vict him here. That's I'm just I'm curious about.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
This is a very hard thing.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
That's also an aspect of it that I think is
that I don't take into account one email that was
allegedly sent to Katie Porter's son and her ex husband.
This guy threatened to bring the hammer down on Katie
that was the quote, and smash her and her life
into a million pieces. And he wrote, if you don't
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fully comprehend what is transpiring right now, let me spell
it out for you. The noose is tightening around Katie's neck.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Good lord. Now.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
She says he's on drugs. She says he's on drugs.
She says he's contacted at least three reporters to disseminate
false and damaging information about me and my children. Claims
that he had substance abuse and mental health issues and
had been involuntarily hospitalized for a psych evaluation at least
twice in the last two years. She said, I have
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a deserved him misusing prescription pain killers, snorting riddlin, and
abusing cannabis and nicotine patches.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Abusing nicotine patches.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
And he also previously disclosed to me his use of
cocaine and whippets take.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Guys into whippets that it just get.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Rid of them.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
There's no loneliness in the world that will result in
you being happy that you're with somebody who does whippets.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Whippets are a hardline for me. This is a particularly
bad one.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
It's just so it's like a juvenile thing.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
It's like something that you'd get your hands on at
fifteen that you couldn't get your hands on. If you're
an adult man and you're doing whippets, you got to
move on from that guy. The cocaine, the nicotine, the
riddlin Uh listen to you, but whippets.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
He has filed a similar restraining order. He wants his
own protective order against her because he says that she
was violent towards him and her children and said she's
a monster, and as part of the temporary order, a
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judge has ordered the boyfriend to make no contact with
and stay away from her and her kids until the
next hearing, slated for the middle of next month. He's
also been ordered not to contact any current or former
staffers or coworkers about her. It's just again, if she
feels like it was a miss sounds like she feels
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it was a mistake that she got involved with this
guy in the first place. It's pretty it's pretty embarrassing.
It's pretty sad that it has to play out in public.
And if this is all true, that he's been doing
all this sort of stuff, what a loser?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
What a loser? Have you?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Have you noticed this tree and how beautiful it is,
all the pink and the sparkles, The pink and the.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
Sparkles, it is nice to a little bit of spirit
in this room.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
It's so beautiful and sparkly and pink. I would totally
put it in my birthing room if I was about
to deliver a baby girl or an ice cream cone.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
Hi, Gary and Shannon, this is Karen out in North Carolina.
I am grateful for my son Michael, who is nineteen
and welcomed me back into his life after three years.
It's been the most difficult three years of my entire life.
But I'm grateful that we are now back on track
and back together and couldn't be happier.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
So I'm grateful for that.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
Have an amazing Thanksgiving to you both.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Love you, I love that. That's wonderful.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
It'd be quite as strong.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
That makes me cry a little bit?
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Is that what that is?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
See, that's what happens.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
When you start complimenting the pink tree, you get soft instantly.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
Hey, Gary Shannon, here's what I'm thankful for. I'm thankful
for our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave us salvation. I'm
thankful to him for having given us this sure that
we live in. And thank for listening to the best
duo on the radio, Gary and Shannon after Thanksgiving. Everybody,
enjoy your time.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
You know what he deserves Some trumpets of Jesus. That's
what he deserves. He earned it, He earned it.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
I listened to the tumbet of Jesus. Here's a different
in sound.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Of God.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
All money.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Around because nothing says Thanksgiving. Hey, this is for all year.
Not to be dark. But I do think about it
every time we play the trumpets of Jesus. And I
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remember the when it came into our lives, And it
was when your mom was really sick and you were
driving home.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
You're driving up and back all.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
The time, and you were driving home and this came
come on, and it's one of those moments that's very cathartic.
When you're like going through something and something like this
loves on.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
It was also such a weird thing because when you
think about something that not a lot of people do anymore,
depending on where you are. If you if you live
here and you don't travel much, you know what radio
stations are available. But if you drive and you're you know,
you're in I don't know, northern Nevada or something like that,
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and you do that old scan thing where you're looking
through the radio dial of find something to listen to.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
And that's what I was doing.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Yeah, and it just, I mean it just it screamed
at me through the through the speakers because I picked
it up right here.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I listened to the Jesus it doesn't get better.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
And man, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Progressive lawmakers urging Biden to move on marijuana legislation before
his term comes to an end. In January, group of
Democrats wrote a letter calling on the White House to
move marijuana from a Schedule one to a Scheduled two
controlled substance. This would classify the drug in a less
severe category, but it would not end federal criminal criminalization
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or resolve its harms.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
According to the letter, wherever the hell that means.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
President Elect Trump's Transitions says several of his cabinet picks
and appointees have been targeted by threats and swatting attacks.
Transition spokesperson Caroline Leavit, who's been nominated to take over
a similar role in the White House, said in a
statement that last night in this morning, several of President
Trump's cabinet nominees and administration appointees were targeted in violent
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Unamerican threats to their lives and those who live with them.
Among those targeted, New York Congresswoman at least a fanic
Trump's pick to serve as the next ambassador to the
United Nations.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Clay says that tree looks like Jean Bonnet Ramsey.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
What a great pull.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I mean, that is perfection. That is exactly right. It's beautiful.
It is a beautiful little tree.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Consumer price increases accelerated last month, the latest sign that
inflation steady decline of the last year two years has stalled.
According to the Federal Reserves Preferred inflation gauge, consumer prices
went up two point three percent in October from a
year ago. Commerce Department said that's up from just two
point one percent in September. Though it's still only modestly
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above the target that they look for. This this story
makes me sad as a baseball fan. But Ygerian shennon, Hey,
I'm thankful for the Dodgers signing Blake Spel.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I just mean this game over and another championship right.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Well, it doesn't mean that because the lot they needed
was pitching.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
All they needed was pitching. They won without the pitch exactly.
But that doesn't imagine if they had a pitcher.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Listen, how many many times in sports does the team,
the perfect team come together and they don't win a lot?
That's a that's a dangerous the time that does the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Last year, the Yankees for several years, the Red Sox.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
So the Dodgers apparently agreed to a five year, one
hundred and eighty two million dollar contract, win.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Two times series next season the Giants. I put money
on you want to make a bet right now?
Speaker 6 (18:26):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Why not? I don't even think they make the betoffs.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Why that's not a surprise.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
That wouldn't be a surprise if you wanted me to
be a fan of the Yankees and you told me
that the Yankees weren't.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
To saying that you are going through something right now,
realizing that your team has been bad and it's going
to continue to be bad. Yeah, I understand everybody has
times like that. Everyone has times like that. That's fine,
and it's an odd year. But the next year what
I don't listen the whole last time they won it
an even year.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Twenty fourteen, the light the time, the smack talk of
like giants are no good.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Well, yeah, that is.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
You're not going to get an argument for That's like
saying the Jets are no good, right, the Jets really suck?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Okay, debatable. I see what you're saying. There's a I
just try to get under your skin.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
If I really wanted to do that, i'd say something
like cranberry sauce sucks.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Now watch your mouth, Oh there are smacked the leather
pants out of you.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
There's a couple in Burbank who was in court yesterday
fighting to keep their beloved dog, Conan from getting euthanized.
Animal rights activists are involved asking a judge to grant clemency.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
It's an eight year old pit bull.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
There was an order that the dog be euthanized for
biting a neighborhood. Now the family a neighbors, not a neighborhood. Yeah,
that would be a bigger problem. The family says that
Conan has no history of biting, and that this neighbor
had been and taunting Conan for months and approached him aggressively. I,
as a fan of canines, have never quite understood the
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blanket policies of a dog bite results in euthanasia, right,
because there are so many times when humans are the factor, Right,
humans are the ones that cause this dog to react
in such a way.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
I don't know enough about this one to make a
decision one way or the other. But this is also
I mean, if they're right and Conan doesn't have any
history of biting, even if it is a pit bull.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
That's part of the story that I don't like, because
pit bulls get such a bad rep for being dangerous
and aggressive, and they're not if you raise them correctly.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
And so what I don't like about this story is
they're saying, no, Conan's great, Conan's wonderful, Conan's fabulous, has
never done this and then out of nowhere bite somebody.
It's kind of bad for the reputation of pit bulls.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
The family actually has an interesting surrogate on their side,
in former La County Sheriff Alex Vinueva. He spoke on
their behalf and said, we're here to support Conan, who's
slated to be executed. The dog was doing what dogs
are trained to do and protect their owner. I don't
know if this one was actually trained to do that
or if it was just reacting. And for the neighbor
(21:21):
who was instigating and harassing the dog, this never would
have occurred. Vivian vien Aueva said, I'm here for Conan,
and he doesn't have a voice, but he has ours,
and if I could use this platform tweaking that tension, I'm.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Going to do that.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
The woman who was bitten is arguing that all she
did was lift her arm in front of Conan.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I'm sure that's if the neighbors, if the dog's owners
are telling people that you have a history of aggravating, instigating,
molesting the dog and you just happened to lift your
arm one time in front of the dog and it
chomps down on you.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp chomp. You want to feel
good story.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
I this is a fun story. This one. Yeah, this
is a fun story.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
It's very sweet.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
And I mean the fact that she can still do
that stunt, well, that's a hell of a fly.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Everybody's holding her up.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
That's that's a stunt.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
People hold you up in a stunt like a pop
up that you.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Meant like she's going to do a backflip or something.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
No, the fact that she's able to be a flyer
at her age is incredible.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
I'm using words that don't make sense.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I know, I was just wondering. I'm listening to you, guys.
Speaker 10 (22:35):
I'm off for the week. It's wonderful, lucky. Any what
are whippets all? I know our whippets are dogs, right, whippets?
But I am getting older, so you know anyhow, happy
thanksgiving you to love you guys.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Tell me what kind of birds you have?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Get back on that talk back, app I want to
hear about those birds.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Whippets is basically nitrous ox.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
It's like huffing, you know what I mean, Like you're
inhaling the nitrous oxide from whatever you're using. Uh. I
don't even know what you would use, some sort of
airsol something I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
How it works.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Couldn't you do it out of a I'm not gonna say, well,
let's not do a how to, okay. I mean, since
we are your recreational drug show of choice, we're going.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
To get such a how to from somebody.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
No, no, and I don't want that. We don't I
know how to do it. It's just you don't.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Just don't do it.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
It's like the laughing guess your doctor used to give
you y, yeah, but more and more concentrated and illegal.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
You don't do it.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Don't do it.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
It's stupid and like you said, it's juvenile. It's jude,
you're over the age of seventeen and your crushing whip.
It's a loser. A loser. Drugs are bad.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Yeah, do you know that?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I read this morning?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I was article about the zebra trend where people have
one alcoholic beverage and then have like water, and then
have a beer and then have a water, which is
to me is just common sense.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
That's a trend.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
That's a trend. It's called zebra drinking.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
And then I was reading about how right now it's
just up ending the wine industry that there's this demand
for zero percent alcohol wine sparkling Rose and the like,
and how it's completely up ending the industry. And then
I read this one in three pubs in Britain is
there's no alcohol in the pubs one in three?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
What I know?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I was shocked because a pub, a pint at a
pub is a way of life over there.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Is it that they don't serve any alcohol or they
serve like non alcohol, any alcohol, non alcoholic beers, non
alcohol pub weird?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Yeah, all right, great story here.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Islajeen Daring is someone's gram probably someone's great grandma.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
By now, Ila Jeen is ninety seven even years old,
and she lives in an assisted living center. It's called
Candlestone Assisted Living.
Speaker 11 (25:08):
And she says that they had trigger treating there and
it was a girl who showed up in a young
cheerleader outfit costume for tricker treating and Ila Jean sees
this cheerleader on Halloween and there's just a flood of
memories and all of a sudden, Elajeen cannot stop talking
(25:30):
to her caregivers about cheerleading, about how she felt most
alive when she was seventeen, and she was a maryl
High School cheerleader.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
In Meryll Michigan. She said, I'm still flexible. I still
got it.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
So the wellness director at this Candlestone assisted living facility,
Ariel Raddick, starts thinking, makes a Facebook post does anybody
have availability for a Meryl High School cheerleading uniform? And
by the end of that day, the school superintendent had
found out and alerted the high school's cheering coach and
(26:09):
then said, I thought we had to act quickly. She's
ninety seven, which yes. So she got together this varsity squad,
twelve girls. They grabbed every uniform they could find. Said,
we didn't know her size or what condition she was in.
We didn't know what to expect.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Now. Eila Jean.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Growing up, she was responsible for taking care of her
nine siblings, and she in nineteen forty five formed the
cheerleading squad at Merrill High She said it was something
fun for her to do and something that she had
for herself. You know, when you're taking care of nine siblings,
it's nice to have a little something for yourself. Back then,
by the way, the squad had a local seamstress make
(26:47):
their uniforms, or the girls would sew them together themselves.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Well about two weeks after Halloween.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
The staff there at the nursing home set up the
stage for all of this. The van rolls into a
dry and Isla Jean's eyes light up and when they says,
team walks in, is this for me? The coach cheer
coach said, We asked her if she remembered any cheers
from when she was in school, which was over eighty
(27:15):
years ago, and she said, yes.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Come on, you come on, right, right right, come on,
come on, tipe sid.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Whoa I mean incredible. She rallied the squad with her
pom poms. They gave her the uniform. She goes to
the bathroom and suits up. She even did very impressive
high kicks at ninety seven.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
They say.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Then came the moment no one expected. One of the
cheerleaders performed in aerial stunts. So it's like a pop
up where you know, you've all seen the stunts right
where there's one cheerleader on top and two or three
on the bottom.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
And she wanted in and one.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Of the girls says, you want to go up and
Ela Jean says absolutely. So they looked to the staff
of the assisted living place and they're like, is this okay?
Speaker 3 (28:12):
They get the Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Wow, she locked her legs, which is hard to do,
and she went soaring in the air as a couple
of cheerleaders held her up.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
Well, a couple.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
The picture I saw, it looks like everybody is there
just in case something happened.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
No, that's it normal that there's two girls on the
side and one on the back. That's a normal formation. Okay,
right here, you don't know what you're talking about. I
don't know what I'm talking about. This is like whippets
and hot rails.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Anyways, ninety seven year old cheerleaders is out of my
you know, my daily practice.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
It was very sweet.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Some residents even held up oversized cutouts of Eila Jean's
face to give her more support. People were bursting out
in tears when she went up in that stunt, biggest
smile on her face. It was also a meaningful experience
for the current square as well.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
Yeah, that's very cool.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Now, she said. She shared some wisdom as well, not
just cheers. Enjoy your figures. She told the girls eat
Hershey chocolates, throw in some tips about boys. They put
a photo of Eila Jean in their locker room. The
cheer squad did, and before each game, they performed one
of the chants that she taught them as their pregame ritual,
(29:25):
come on, come on.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Right right, come on, come on type clive.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
The girls have gone back a couple times already to visit.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
Her very cool, good story. I'm thankful for that story.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
She's often spotted outside practicing her high kicks in the field.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
She says, seen, we're gonna need you to come back in.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
She says, if you don't get off your butt and
do some exercise to keep yourself active, you're gonna lose it.
She said, it's pretty obvious. I'm not acting my age,
but I'm ninety seven. I can still be your cheerleader.
Don't act your age.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Yeah, you can do whatever the heck you want. At
ninety seven, what.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Age do you think would be appropriate if I knocked
over this tree? Not?
Speaker 6 (30:13):
Not good? Not a good age. No, No, all.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Right, we'll do swamp flats. Will we come back?
Speaker 6 (30:22):
You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
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