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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.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
On the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
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.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
We're going to go straight to an update on the
Franklin Fire out of Malibu, four thy thirty seven acres.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
They just said it's at twenty percent containment as of that.
Speaker 5 (00:22):
Of the areas, and that's strictly due to the successful
efforts of all agency personnel working collaboratively together to start
bringing containment and make sure the areas are safe.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Some areas around the fire are.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
Still going to still remain in evacuation orders and warnings.
It is our number one priority to get residents back
into their homes and to their communities. However, we have
to make sure it's safe to do so. The team
behind me and the multiple firefighters that are out and
agencies on this incident are constantly and striving to get
you in back into your communities as quickly as possible.
(00:59):
But this is a multi agency approach and we do
need to make sure that the area is safe prior
to anybody re entering the area. We need to ensure
that we have the first responder safety along with safety
for the residents. As we go through the next couple
of days, we'll continue to work on reopening additional areas
as it is safe and it's been extinguished and checked
(01:21):
to make sure it's safe for the public to return.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I was a LA County Assistant Chief Dusty Martin. There
again an update on the Franklin fire burnout and out everyone.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
My name is Deputy Fire Chief of Lenny Pappus. I'm
with Los Angeles County Fire Department and I'm one of
the ICs along with Chief Martin. I'd like to just
say let you know there was a valiant effort amongst
the firefighters in this first thirty six to forty eight hours.
It was an incredible show of commitment that contained the
(01:54):
fire to the footprint you see today. I'd like to
say that we have done in assess of the structures
within the fire footprint. Roughly seventy six hundred structures are
in the fire footprint. Fifty six hundred are single family
dwellings their homes. Out of those, fifty six hundred homes
that we believe. Right now, we've only done twenty five
(02:15):
percent full assessment of the area. Four homes have been destroyed,
six homes have been damaged, and we are reporting five
outbuildings or smaller structures like sheds and things like that
that have been destroyed. So we have a total of
nine structures destroyed and four damage. Again, that's only twenty
(02:36):
five percent of the total assessment. As we get a
better handle around this fire, will get better clarity, we'll
be able to complete an assessment of all of our
structures and get a final report. We just want to
assure everyone that La County Fire and our partners with
cal Fire and all of our unified command and supporting
(02:58):
agencies that we will be there to help get our people,
get the residents and the communities back into their homes,
and we will be there to help with support. So
thank you again and we are looking forward to getting
everyone back home safely.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Thank you well.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
We're getting this update out of out of Malibu again
with a Franklin fire. The assistant chief said that the
acreage held at four thousand and thirty seven and as
of right now, they have been able to cut a
lot more containment line around. It stands at twenty percent contained.
And as the other assistant chief there was saying nine
structures destroyed, and they said four of those were homes.
(03:37):
So in the context of other massive fires that have
blown through Malibu in the last couple of decades, this
is actually pretty They got pretty lucky with this one
in that the wind event that we saw when Monday
night into Tuesday, which really blew this thing pretty quickly,
then has slowed down significantly, and there is a chance
(03:57):
of some showers over the couple next couple of hours.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, they started in northern California this morning and they're
moving down the coast. They say that into the afternoon,
in the evening, we're going to have the clouds that
we're seeing now, and then the chance of rain in
the mountain and foothill areas.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
So relatively good news. But what else is going on?
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Time four?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
What's happening?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Stay away, water damage, fire damage, Burglary called public adjuster
and their death eight one, eight, nine, seven, five, five six.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Stay away from the what the pink cocaine?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
We did that already.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Stay away from all the cocaine.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
You can't do drugs anymore kids they put stuff in it,
they will kill you.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
And if they're trying to market it with fancy colors,
you know, it's even worse.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Stick to Core's light, like our friends said earlier, will
never lead you astray.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Unless you have twelve it's easy to do.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, the pink cocaine, it's making its way into the
LA drug already seen.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
It's a mix of ketamine, molly, opioids, even some new
psychoactive substances. There's too many ingredients for me, just a
sweet smelling powder that triggers hallucinogenic effects. The head of
the UCLA Police Department, John Thomas, has stepped down because
of criticism of the security lapses during protests on campus
(05:21):
earlier this year. A social media post the Police Department
of UCLA said that Thomas's last day was Tuesday, did
not specify what prompted the departure, whether this was a
mutual you quit or we will resign you kind of thing.
He was reassigned by the university in May after the
internal and external investigations into how the university handled those protests,
(05:42):
and to be honest, it was it seems from the
outside like the fact they let them happen in the
first place and get out of control.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
It was the problem.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
If they had clamped down on and followed their own
rules early on, this would not have been an issue.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Mariah Carey will join Netflix's NFL Christmas Game Day. Mariah
Carey will kick off its first ever NFL Christmas Game
Day Live with a performance of.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
What Sean do you think She's gonna sing? Just take a.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Guess out of the entire catalog of Mariah Carey songs,
going back to emotions, sweet fantasy, sweet fantasy, that would
be fun. No, heartbreaker, heartbreaker, something about the Christmas We
belong together.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It is the Christmas one, the Christmas one. Yes, and
now you don't even want to say no.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It's just funny because like we're hit over the head
with this song every Christmas and now I can't remember
what the name.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Oh all I want for Christmas?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Is?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
You right?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
It's a banger. It's a fun little He'll get you going,
He'll get you moving.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
No one has ever said that about that song. It's
not a banger.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, I think they have.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
The website for LAX was down this morning because if
computer system issues now again, that's Lax theflylax dot com website.
If you have other problems or questions, you can always
ask your airline. But the Lax website was having some problems,
so if you tried to get on there.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Are you singing over there?
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Right?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
You can still hear you.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Sorry, A lot going on in Washington this week with
the resignation of Christopher Ray. We've got Biden going nuts
when it comes to pardoning people.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
John Decker joins us.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
It's a White House correspondent, of course, a journalist, a lawyer,
and the White House Press Corps probably the only one, right,
I think so, John Joys correct, Very cool, John joins us, Now,
a lot of action over in your neck of the woods.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
Yeah. Early this morning is when we got word of
these more than fifteen hundred commutations of sentences that President
Biden has delivered to individuals who are convicted of non
violent crimes thirty nine pardons as well. Today again individuals
who were convicted of non violent felonies and were serving
(08:12):
time in prison. So a little bit of an early
Christmas president for those individuals.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
How what's that process? How do these names get in
front of the president or people who would then present
them to the president that would be possible for these
commutations and pardons.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
It's a great question, and it's a question that the
White House Press Secretary did not provide any additional information
on today. There is an office within the White House
Council's Office that handles pardons, and there is a division
within the Justice Department that handles pardons. And it really
sometimes is all about who you know. And you think
(08:53):
about the last administration, former President Donald Trump. If you
knew Kim Kardashian and all sneeriousness, you could potentially get
a party because of the fact that the Trump White
House listened to her when she came forward and said,
I have some names of individuals that are deserving on
the second chance, deserving of a presidential pardon, or deserving
(09:16):
of having their sentence commuted. So it sometimes comes all
down to that. As you know, with the pardon of
the President's son, Hunter Biden, that was done outside of
the White House, that was done outside of the Department
of Justice. That was a personal decision that was made
by President Biden.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Now they say that.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
These are nonviolent crimes, but when you get into what
nonviolent crimes are, you get into things like theft, arson, robbery, things,
that there are victims in these crimes.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
They are not victimless crimes.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
We never hear the details, though, of what these people
have done to get incarcerated. We only hear about the
good works that they've done post incarceration.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
Well, in the case of the pardons, the White House
spelled out in the pardon information that was provided to
us the exact primes that these individuals were convicted of
in the first place, and the pardons are The language
is very simple as it relates to those thirty nine
(10:22):
individuals their pardon for the crimes that they were convicted of.
That is very different, by the way, from the language
that was used in the pardon of Hunter Biden. It
was a blanket pardon, a very unusual pardon because it
covered eleven full years essentially any activity Hunter Biden was
involved in over this course of an eleven year period
(10:44):
from January one, twenty fourteen, through December first of twenty
twenty four he was given a pardon for by his father,
the President.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
The other big issue that happened yesterday was this announcement
that Christopher Ray, the director of the FBI, had been
telling other members of the FBI that he was in
fact going to step down as director before Trump comes
in to be inaugurated. We knew that that was likely,
or that something like that was going to happen. But
what was this much of a surprise And does it
(11:16):
change anything about what goes on with the FBI between
now and the potential that Cash Pattel becomes the new director.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Well, there's a deputy director of the FBI who becomes
interim director for the short period of time between the
time that Christopher Ray leaves his position as director of
the FBI and the period in which a new director,
potentially Cash Battel, is confirmed by the US Senate. It
wasn't a huge surprise given the fact that in late
(11:46):
November Donald Trump made it clear that he wanted Cash Battel,
a loyalist, someone who's served in his first administration, to
serve as the next FBI director. The writing was on
the wall for Christopher Ray that Donald Trump did not
want him serving in that role. And when you're the
FBI director, you serve at the pleasure of the president.
(12:08):
And I think that Christopherray recognized that, and that's the
reason why he told those staff members at the FBI
yesterday at FBI headquarters that he intends to step down
before Donald Trump is sworn in as America's forty seventh president.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And then the timetable for all of these confirmations. How
does that work?
Speaker 7 (12:29):
Well, when the one hundred and nineteenth Congress is sworn in,
for both the House and the Senate, they can begin
that confirmation process, including hearings, so that all will take
place in the first week in January when the new
Senate is sworn in, and in the case of cash Gettel,
his confirmation hearing, just like the hearing for President Elect
(12:53):
Trump's pick to be the Attorney General, will take place
before the Senate Judiciary Committee. So the Judiciary Comittee will
handle both of their confirmation hearings, and then the full
Senate would vote on their confirmations. By the way, all
of that could take place before Donald Trump is sworn
into office, so he could have some of his cabinet
(13:13):
all ready to go on January twentieth, ready to carry
out whatever direct is he gives them.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Here's a question I've never thought of. Is there a
priority list or a priority order for the Senate to
go through these different nominations.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Well, It's an interesting question. But what happens is various
Senate committees do their confirmation process simultaneously. So, for instance,
the Senate Armed Services Committee will do their confirmation process
for Donald Trump's pick to be the next Defense Secretary,
Pete Hegseath, at the same time that the Judiciary Committee
(13:50):
is doing their confirmation hearing for Pam Bondi, the former
Florida Attorney General, to be the next Attorney General. Wow.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Okay, excellent, great, John, Thanks so much. I hope you
are successful in evading that arrest.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
That wasn't for me.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Okay, that's what they all say, John, That's what they all.
We will pardon you, especially in DC.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
All right, we've got squirting cucumbers, We've got the age
old moving, the sofa problem, a deep sea predator named Darkness.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
It's time for strange.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Science, strange sens It's like weird science, but strange.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
So squirting cucumbers blast their seeds over distances hundreds of
times their length, and now scientists know how the plants
do it. It's a hairy green fruit measures about four
centimeters long, and the it's a It's a member of
(14:55):
the Gordon family, relative of a zucchini, squash, and pumpkins,
but their seed jets are unique in the group. Why
do you have your hands over your eyes just trying.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
To prevent everything that's about to happen.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
It's very rare among plants.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
The ancient Roman naturist Pliny the Elder, was the first
to describe squirting cucumbers, warning that yeah, I can't, I
mean I can't, but anyway, it's all about survival. It's
related to bottom line this one.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
So these seeds then go and implant somewhere else and
become new cucumbers. Right, it's more the complex than just
a simple buildup of liquid and the release of internal
pressure along with cucumber and and what, I don't think
(15:53):
i've ever seen that word in print before?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Where is it? And gorgement? Ah?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Is this a joke?
Speaker 4 (16:02):
It might be, but it is CNN, so I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I think joked us into doing that story.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Mathematicians aren't usually the first point of call when you
need to move a couch, But if you've ever seen
that classic Friends episode where they're trying to move the
couch up through the stairs.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
We've ever done there.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
The combinatorics and geometry enthusiast Genon Bake from Yonsai University
in Korea just put out one hundred page proof on
the problem of moving a couch around a tight corner
in your apartment. A Canadian Australian mathematician formed a formalized
(16:46):
a problem back in nineteen sixty six plaguing humanity ever
since we had couches, which was basically, what's the largest
two dimensional object that can successfully make it around an
L shaped corner.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Some people really have an eye for this that have
no math skills, just have that natural eye for how
to fit something in somewhere. Right, Yeah, when it comes
to moving or all of it.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
It's very very funny because they talk about the upper
limit for the design. When you look at all of
this in terms of the two point two zero seven
to four units in area and nothing larger than two
point eight two eight now somewhere mathematicians are like, yeah,
that's exactly what we've been saying for years, but that
(17:35):
there are people who design furniture look at you, Ikea,
and they know this type of formula that exists so
that people do not have to take apart their furniture
once they put it together. Because you know, if you
take it apart, it will never go back together the
way you want it.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Researchers have claimed that Mary Magdalen has been hiding in
Michaelangelo's sixteen Chapel masterpiece for nearly five hundred years. There's
an Italian art restorer named Sarah Sarah Penco who's publishing
this biblical bombshell in her book Mary Magdalene in Michelangelo's Judgment.
(18:12):
She specializes in Renaissance and broke art. She announced, I
am firmly convinced that this is Mary Magdalene. It's a
figure in the right hand corner of the Last Judgment,
of course, the legendary depiction of the second Coming of Christ,
God's final judgment. It was painted at the Sistine Chapel
between fifteen thirty seven and fifteen thirty one.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Now why would this be so crazy? I mean, why
is this such a She's.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
A controversial figure in the church.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Oh, Mary Magdalen. Yeah, oh, oh, so he would have
snuck it in without the blessing, without the blessing of
the Vatican.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I'm not sure how that all works, but anyway, She's
a blonde woman seen kissing across toted by a nude
man who's believed to be Jesus, well camouflaged among the
other three hundred figures in the Magnum opus.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Yeah, the cross bearer, that would be again this naked
we believe Jesus in the director is looking in the
direction of Mary Magdalene as if it is as if
he is estranged from the composition, looking towards the woman
peacefully holding the wood and the cross. Obviously, he knew
a lot about the Bible and would not have left
such an integral figure out of that scene. And again she.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Later thought that the the.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
That when you look at it, that something might have
been missing, said Michael Angelo. Angelo is an expert painter
who's very cultured. He was someone who knew the dynamics
of the church very well and knew the gospels. And
he could not have forgotten her, but may have had
a little trouble if he had asked permission to put
her in. Right, he was going to apologize, you know,
seven hundred years later. Right, It's not the only Easter
(19:55):
egg hidden. New research suggests that Michael Angelo had etched
a woman battle breast cancer into one of the Sistine
Chapel ceiling frescoes.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Hmm.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
And then finally this disgusting creature about seven miles beneath
the surface, terrifying. The pressure down there is about one
thousand atmosphere's worth sixteen thousand pounds per square inch. Despite
all of that, there is something that lives down there,
a ghostly predator from the Ata Kama Trench off South
(20:28):
America's western coast. It's named doulce Bela Kamanchaka. The creature
is an amphipod, a group of shrimp like crustaceans that
eat detritis and scavenge for food. They said this thing,
they found four individuals from this species at a depth
of seven nine hundred meters.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
It should stay down there.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Yeah, there's a reason why they're calling it darkness, because
it is an absolute view into the devil's hell.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Gross, I think.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
I'm having a sugar come down.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
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Speaker 3 (00:14):
We're going to go straight to an update on the
Franklin Fire out of Malibu, four thy thirty seven acres.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
They just said it's at twenty percent containment as of that.
Speaker 5 (00:22):
Of the areas, and that's strictly due to the successful
efforts of all agency personnel working collaboratively together to start
bringing containment and make sure the areas are safe.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Some areas around the fire are.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
Still going to still remain in evacuation orders and warnings.
It is our number one priority to get residents back
into their homes and to their communities. However, we have
to make sure it's safe to do so. The team
behind me and the multiple firefighters that are out and
agencies on this incident are constantly and striving to get
you in back into your communities as quickly as possible.
(00:59):
But this is a multi agency approach and we do
need to make sure that the area is safe prior
to anybody re entering the area. We need to ensure
that we have the first responder safety along with safety
for the residents. As we go through the next couple
of days, we'll continue to work on reopening additional areas
as it is safe and it's been extinguished and checked
(01:21):
to make sure it's safe for the public to return.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I was a LA County Assistant Chief Dusty Martin. There
again an update on the Franklin fire burnout and out everyone.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
My name is Deputy Fire Chief of Lenny Pappus. I'm
with Los Angeles County Fire Department and I'm one of
the ICs along with Chief Martin. I'd like to just
say let you know there was a valiant effort amongst
the firefighters in this first thirty six to forty eight hours.
It was an incredible show of commitment that contained the
(01:54):
fire to the footprint you see today. I'd like to
say that we have done in assess of the structures
within the fire footprint. Roughly seventy six hundred structures are
in the fire footprint. Fifty six hundred are single family
dwellings their homes. Out of those, fifty six hundred homes
that we believe. Right now, we've only done twenty five
(02:15):
percent full assessment of the area. Four homes have been destroyed,
six homes have been damaged, and we are reporting five
outbuildings or smaller structures like sheds and things like that
that have been destroyed. So we have a total of
nine structures destroyed and four damage. Again, that's only twenty
(02:36):
five percent of the total assessment. As we get a
better handle around this fire, will get better clarity, we'll
be able to complete an assessment of all of our
structures and get a final report. We just want to
assure everyone that La County Fire and our partners with
cal Fire and all of our unified command and supporting
(02:58):
agencies that we will be there to help get our people,
get the residents and the communities back into their homes,
and we will be there to help with support. So
thank you again and we are looking forward to getting
everyone back home safely.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Thank you well.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
We're getting this update out of out of Malibu again
with a Franklin fire. The assistant chief said that the
acreage held at four thousand and thirty seven and as
of right now, they have been able to cut a
lot more containment line around. It stands at twenty percent contained.
And as the other assistant chief there was saying nine
structures destroyed, and they said four of those were homes.
(03:37):
So in the context of other massive fires that have
blown through Malibu in the last couple of decades, this
is actually pretty They got pretty lucky with this one
in that the wind event that we saw when Monday
night into Tuesday, which really blew this thing pretty quickly,
then has slowed down significantly, and there is a chance
(03:57):
of some showers over the couple next couple of hours.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, they started in northern California this morning and they're
moving down the coast. They say that into the afternoon,
in the evening, we're going to have the clouds that
we're seeing now, and then the chance of rain in
the mountain and foothill areas.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
So relatively good news. But what else is going on?
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Time four?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
What's happening?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Stay away, water damage, fire damage, Burglary called public adjuster
and their death eight one, eight, nine, seven, five, five six.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Stay away from the what the pink cocaine?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
We did that already.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Stay away from all the cocaine.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
You can't do drugs anymore kids they put stuff in it,
they will kill you.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
And if they're trying to market it with fancy colors,
you know, it's even worse.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Stick to Core's light, like our friends said earlier, will
never lead you astray.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Unless you have twelve it's easy to do.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, the pink cocaine, it's making its way into the
LA drug already seen.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
It's a mix of ketamine, molly, opioids, even some new
psychoactive substances. There's too many ingredients for me, just a
sweet smelling powder that triggers hallucinogenic effects. The head of
the UCLA Police Department, John Thomas, has stepped down because
of criticism of the security lapses during protests on campus
(05:21):
earlier this year. A social media post the Police Department
of UCLA said that Thomas's last day was Tuesday, did
not specify what prompted the departure, whether this was a
mutual you quit or we will resign you kind of thing.
He was reassigned by the university in May after the
internal and external investigations into how the university handled those protests,
(05:42):
and to be honest, it was it seems from the
outside like the fact they let them happen in the
first place and get out of control.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
It was the problem.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
If they had clamped down on and followed their own
rules early on, this would not have been an issue.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Mariah Carey will join Netflix's NFL Christmas Game Day. Mariah
Carey will kick off its first ever NFL Christmas Game
Day Live with a performance of.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
What Sean do you think She's gonna sing? Just take a.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Guess out of the entire catalog of Mariah Carey songs,
going back to emotions, sweet fantasy, sweet fantasy, that would
be fun. No, heartbreaker, heartbreaker, something about the Christmas We
belong together.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It is the Christmas one, the Christmas one. Yes, and
now you don't even want to say no.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It's just funny because like we're hit over the head
with this song every Christmas and now I can't remember
what the name.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Oh all I want for Christmas?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Is?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
You right?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
It's a banger. It's a fun little He'll get you going,
He'll get you moving.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
No one has ever said that about that song. It's
not a banger.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, I think they have.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
The website for LAX was down this morning because if
computer system issues now again, that's Lax theflylax dot com website.
If you have other problems or questions, you can always
ask your airline. But the Lax website was having some problems,
so if you tried to get on there.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Are you singing over there?
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Right?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
You can still hear you.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Sorry, A lot going on in Washington this week with
the resignation of Christopher Ray. We've got Biden going nuts
when it comes to pardoning people.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
John Decker joins us.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
It's a White House correspondent, of course, a journalist, a lawyer,
and the White House Press Corps probably the only one, right,
I think so, John Joys correct, Very cool, John joins us, Now,
a lot of action over in your neck of the woods.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
Yeah. Early this morning is when we got word of
these more than fifteen hundred commutations of sentences that President
Biden has delivered to individuals who are convicted of non
violent crimes thirty nine pardons as well. Today again individuals
who were convicted of non violent felonies and were serving
(08:12):
time in prison. So a little bit of an early
Christmas president for those individuals.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
How what's that process? How do these names get in
front of the president or people who would then present
them to the president that would be possible for these
commutations and pardons.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
It's a great question, and it's a question that the
White House Press Secretary did not provide any additional information
on today. There is an office within the White House
Council's Office that handles pardons, and there is a division
within the Justice Department that handles pardons. And it really
sometimes is all about who you know. And you think
(08:53):
about the last administration, former President Donald Trump. If you
knew Kim Kardashian and all sneeriousness, you could potentially get
a party because of the fact that the Trump White
House listened to her when she came forward and said,
I have some names of individuals that are deserving on
the second chance, deserving of a presidential pardon, or deserving
(09:16):
of having their sentence commuted. So it sometimes comes all
down to that. As you know, with the pardon of
the President's son, Hunter Biden, that was done outside of
the White House, that was done outside of the Department
of Justice. That was a personal decision that was made
by President Biden.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Now they say that.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
These are nonviolent crimes, but when you get into what
nonviolent crimes are, you get into things like theft, arson, robbery, things,
that there are victims in these crimes.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
They are not victimless crimes.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
We never hear the details, though, of what these people
have done to get incarcerated. We only hear about the
good works that they've done post incarceration.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
Well, in the case of the pardons, the White House
spelled out in the pardon information that was provided to
us the exact primes that these individuals were convicted of
in the first place, and the pardons are The language
is very simple as it relates to those thirty nine
(10:22):
individuals their pardon for the crimes that they were convicted of.
That is very different, by the way, from the language
that was used in the pardon of Hunter Biden. It
was a blanket pardon, a very unusual pardon because it
covered eleven full years essentially any activity Hunter Biden was
involved in over this course of an eleven year period
(10:44):
from January one, twenty fourteen, through December first of twenty
twenty four he was given a pardon for by his father,
the President.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
The other big issue that happened yesterday was this announcement
that Christopher Ray, the director of the FBI, had been
telling other members of the FBI that he was in
fact going to step down as director before Trump comes
in to be inaugurated. We knew that that was likely,
or that something like that was going to happen. But
what was this much of a surprise And does it
(11:16):
change anything about what goes on with the FBI between
now and the potential that Cash Pattel becomes the new director.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Well, there's a deputy director of the FBI who becomes
interim director for the short period of time between the
time that Christopher Ray leaves his position as director of
the FBI and the period in which a new director,
potentially Cash Battel, is confirmed by the US Senate. It
wasn't a huge surprise given the fact that in late
(11:46):
November Donald Trump made it clear that he wanted Cash Battel,
a loyalist, someone who's served in his first administration, to
serve as the next FBI director. The writing was on
the wall for Christopher Ray that Donald Trump did not
want him serving in that role. And when you're the
FBI director, you serve at the pleasure of the president.
(12:08):
And I think that Christopherray recognized that, and that's the
reason why he told those staff members at the FBI
yesterday at FBI headquarters that he intends to step down
before Donald Trump is sworn in as America's forty seventh president.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And then the timetable for all of these confirmations. How
does that work?
Speaker 7 (12:29):
Well, when the one hundred and nineteenth Congress is sworn in,
for both the House and the Senate, they can begin
that confirmation process, including hearings, so that all will take
place in the first week in January when the new
Senate is sworn in, and in the case of cash Gettel,
his confirmation hearing, just like the hearing for President Elect
(12:53):
Trump's pick to be the Attorney General, will take place
before the Senate Judiciary Committee. So the Judiciary Comittee will
handle both of their confirmation hearings, and then the full
Senate would vote on their confirmations. By the way, all
of that could take place before Donald Trump is sworn
into office, so he could have some of his cabinet
(13:13):
all ready to go on January twentieth, ready to carry
out whatever direct is he gives them.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Here's a question I've never thought of. Is there a
priority list or a priority order for the Senate to
go through these different nominations.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Well, It's an interesting question. But what happens is various
Senate committees do their confirmation process simultaneously. So, for instance,
the Senate Armed Services Committee will do their confirmation process
for Donald Trump's pick to be the next Defense Secretary,
Pete Hegseath, at the same time that the Judiciary Committee
(13:50):
is doing their confirmation hearing for Pam Bondi, the former
Florida Attorney General, to be the next Attorney General. Wow.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Okay, excellent, great, John, Thanks so much. I hope you
are successful in evading that arrest.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
That wasn't for me.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Okay, that's what they all say, John, That's what they all.
We will pardon you, especially in DC.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
All right, we've got squirting cucumbers, We've got the age
old moving, the sofa problem, a deep sea predator named Darkness.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
It's time for strange.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Science, strange sens It's like weird science, but strange.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
So squirting cucumbers blast their seeds over distances hundreds of
times their length, and now scientists know how the plants
do it. It's a hairy green fruit measures about four
centimeters long, and the it's a It's a member of
(14:55):
the Gordon family, relative of a zucchini, squash, and pumpkins,
but their seed jets are unique in the group. Why
do you have your hands over your eyes just trying.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
To prevent everything that's about to happen.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
It's very rare among plants.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
The ancient Roman naturist Pliny the Elder, was the first
to describe squirting cucumbers, warning that yeah, I can't, I
mean I can't, but anyway, it's all about survival. It's
related to bottom line this one.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
So these seeds then go and implant somewhere else and
become new cucumbers. Right, it's more the complex than just
a simple buildup of liquid and the release of internal
pressure along with cucumber and and what, I don't think
(15:53):
i've ever seen that word in print before?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Where is it? And gorgement? Ah?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Is this a joke?
Speaker 4 (16:02):
It might be, but it is CNN, so I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I think joked us into doing that story.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Mathematicians aren't usually the first point of call when you
need to move a couch, But if you've ever seen
that classic Friends episode where they're trying to move the
couch up through the stairs.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
We've ever done there.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
The combinatorics and geometry enthusiast Genon Bake from Yonsai University
in Korea just put out one hundred page proof on
the problem of moving a couch around a tight corner
in your apartment. A Canadian Australian mathematician formed a formalized
(16:46):
a problem back in nineteen sixty six plaguing humanity ever
since we had couches, which was basically, what's the largest
two dimensional object that can successfully make it around an
L shaped corner.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Some people really have an eye for this that have
no math skills, just have that natural eye for how
to fit something in somewhere. Right, Yeah, when it comes
to moving or all of it.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
It's very very funny because they talk about the upper
limit for the design. When you look at all of
this in terms of the two point two zero seven
to four units in area and nothing larger than two
point eight two eight now somewhere mathematicians are like, yeah,
that's exactly what we've been saying for years, but that
(17:35):
there are people who design furniture look at you, Ikea,
and they know this type of formula that exists so
that people do not have to take apart their furniture
once they put it together. Because you know, if you
take it apart, it will never go back together the
way you want it.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Researchers have claimed that Mary Magdalen has been hiding in
Michaelangelo's sixteen Chapel masterpiece for nearly five hundred years. There's
an Italian art restorer named Sarah Sarah Penco who's publishing
this biblical bombshell in her book Mary Magdalene in Michelangelo's Judgment.
(18:12):
She specializes in Renaissance and broke art. She announced, I
am firmly convinced that this is Mary Magdalene. It's a
figure in the right hand corner of the Last Judgment,
of course, the legendary depiction of the second Coming of Christ,
God's final judgment. It was painted at the Sistine Chapel
between fifteen thirty seven and fifteen thirty one.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Now why would this be so crazy? I mean, why
is this such a She's.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
A controversial figure in the church.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Oh, Mary Magdalen. Yeah, oh, oh, so he would have
snuck it in without the blessing, without the blessing of
the Vatican.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I'm not sure how that all works, but anyway, She's
a blonde woman seen kissing across toted by a nude
man who's believed to be Jesus, well camouflaged among the
other three hundred figures in the Magnum opus.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Yeah, the cross bearer, that would be again this naked
we believe Jesus in the director is looking in the
direction of Mary Magdalene as if it is as if
he is estranged from the composition, looking towards the woman
peacefully holding the wood and the cross. Obviously, he knew
a lot about the Bible and would not have left
such an integral figure out of that scene. And again she.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Later thought that the the.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
That when you look at it, that something might have
been missing, said Michael Angelo. Angelo is an expert painter
who's very cultured. He was someone who knew the dynamics
of the church very well and knew the gospels. And
he could not have forgotten her, but may have had
a little trouble if he had asked permission to put
her in. Right, he was going to apologize, you know,
seven hundred years later. Right, It's not the only Easter
(19:55):
egg hidden. New research suggests that Michael Angelo had etched
a woman battle breast cancer into one of the Sistine
Chapel ceiling frescoes.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Hmm.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
And then finally this disgusting creature about seven miles beneath
the surface, terrifying. The pressure down there is about one
thousand atmosphere's worth sixteen thousand pounds per square inch. Despite
all of that, there is something that lives down there,
a ghostly predator from the Ata Kama Trench off South
(20:28):
America's western coast. It's named doulce Bela Kamanchaka. The creature
is an amphipod, a group of shrimp like crustaceans that
eat detritis and scavenge for food. They said this thing,
they found four individuals from this species at a depth
of seven nine hundred meters.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
It should stay down there.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Yeah, there's a reason why they're calling it darkness, because
it is an absolute view into the devil's hell.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Gross, I think.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
I'm having a sugar come down.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
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