March 25, 2025 • 32 mins
Russia, Ukraine agree to truce at sea and ban on energy attacks. OC ghost mall. Newsom launches satellite project aiming to detect methane leaks as they happen. Guest David Vassegh comes on the show to talk Dodgers Home Opener.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon, and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
A bunch of stuff going on today.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Of course, the fallout continues from apparently a text chain
that involves some of the top cabinet members discussing war
plans for Yemen.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
President Trump stood by.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
He is National Security Advisor Mike Walts, the guy who
apparently invited everybody into that group, because he also invited
the Atlantics editor in chief to that text chain. President
Trump said, Michael Waltz has learned a lesson and he's
a good man. Said that in an interview with NBC
News this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
There is news. You heard it from Amy First. Ukraine
and Russia are agreeing to a limited ceasefire deal. This
according to the White House. They've agreed to stop fighting
in the Black Sea, will halt any strikes on energy facilities.
There have been three days of negotiations in Saudi Arraya,
as Ukrainian and Russian delegations have met with US mediators separately.
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Not clear when this is going to go into effect.
Is this the same meeting from like a week and
a half ago. There the continuation of it. Wow, what
a boondoggle for Saudi Arabia, all that money spent government
money with hotels and cars and what they do. They're
so hurting, all right, I think this like they know
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that this was the conclusion they were going to come to.
They just dragged it out for an extra week of
whoever the hotel is?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Come on?
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
You see this at malls.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
All over the place right now, Yeah, where these things
have become ghost towns.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Like it's sad for you and I maybe not you,
but for I because.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
You know, malls was like they were like a.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Hive when I was growing up of It's where the
socialization would happen. That's where you'd go after school, you
would you know, all the things.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
It was a big for me. It was a big
deal to go. If you went to the mall, it
was because there was something coming up. I mean, I
wasn't a big hangout at the mall guy, just because
there was nothing close to me. But if you're going
to go to the mall, if you're going to San Rosa,
if you're going to Nevado and you're going.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
To the mall, like that was it.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You knew that you were getting a new pair of
Fiba ones or whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I mean. It was the thing and that is gone.
But that whole feeling of going to the mall is gone.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
They are talking about, in particular in the La Times
Kaleidoscope Mission via Hoo, the loneliest living mall in southern California.
They point out that mall culture is still thriving in
parts I don't know about that. They say South Coast
Plaza and Coast of Masa, the Groves Valley in San
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Diego Century City does as well. Luguna Hills is okay Brea,
but a lot of them are being converted.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Into mixed use spaces.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
We talked about Dennis offices, medspas moving into these spaces,
but they say there aren't many places like Kaleidoscope, which
never quite found its footing over the course of the
past twenty five years but has refused to die. They're
still the Regal Theater there that is the anchor of
one part of the mall, but a lot of empty
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shops and restaurants. They say that don't see customers for hours,
that there's plenty of businesses but no customers.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
How's that tenable?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
The mall where I am up in Valencia. They did
a huge expansion and put a bunch of stores sort
of in an outdoor area along one side of the mall,
and that is more popular than whatever's on the inside
of that mall now, I mean, and they've lost some massive,
massive stores.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
It's endemic.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
With all the malls across the United States, there are
very few of them that actually operate, you would even
say at full capacity some of them.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I mean, look at Rick Caruso's properties, whether.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
You've got the Americana or the Grove or something like that.
Those are the places where it appears they've been able
to withstand some of what we've seen in terms of
the real estate commercial real estate.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Well, it's an experience.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
There's great restaurants, there's fountains, there's the good brand stores.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
There are experiences.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
The farmers markets right there for the Grove, I mean
they say that Kaleidoscope's Union Market a food hall type
space with retail restaurants in a bar. One recent visitor said,
I don't I feel like I'm trespassing. The lights are on,
but there's no signs of life. Unplayable games sit in
the corner, a corn hole set with no bags, a
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ping pong table with a ping pong table with a
broken net, a foosball table with a sign asking patrons
to bring their own balls. Kaleidoscope gets a two point
three average rating on Yelp, hasn't had a positive review,
and over a year everything was broken. It is in shambles,
a complete disaster for Mission Viah. The whole place needs
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to be bulldozed to someone, someone writes. And it's also
across from another bigger mall, the shops at Mission via
Ho which opened in seventy nine but went through expansions
where they poured a ton of money into it and
they have tripled their tax revenue there, as opposed to Kaleidoscope,
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which is just a constant failure. Now, why aren't they
just get rid of it? I mean, there are some
great brands there. There's a Burke Williams Spa, there's an
La Fitness, a mattress firm, placed Buffalo wild Wings. They've
got laser tag acts, throwing a golf simulator. But the shoppers,
they say, the shoppers are scarce.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Well, and I don't know what, but there are places
like you said that are successful. They tend to be
high end experiential places. What I think we're just in
the midst of trying to find out what is the
right combinationity of what's the combination was the identity of
the stores that are going to exist to pull people in. Right,
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you have an apple store on one side of the mall,
but then across the little transom you have probably a
like a discount bad stuff store. You know, just one
of those like ninety nine cent stores. But it's all
trinkets and bobbles and stuff that's made poorly and cheap.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
And it seems like this place should just be bulldozed.
I mean from the start, it's been a mess. It
was built for fifty five million back in ninety eight,
but it says since then has suffered a plague of problems,
design problems, execution problems. A confusing parking garage that pushes
away potential visitors, the cloistered design, failing to advertise the
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businesses inside the cars that drive down I five. Right there,
you have no idea what's in that monstrosity. By the
mid two thousands, at least four people had been injured
or trapped by its elevators and escalators. A boy's foot
was mangled after it was sucked into the mechanical stairs.
In two thousand and six, state inspectors shut down half
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of the escalators for not having valid permits. Well, I
mean which escalator? Which elevator does have a valid permit?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I don't think I've written in a validly permitted elevator.
For ten years years, they stopped putting permits in these elevators.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, because they read like two thousand and two or something.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
The new ones are on file in the office.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Yeah, okay, right, cool.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Hey, guess who's getting into the space race?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Mister Bumber plus Biractar trying the third time the forest plant.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
It's like Planet.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Gavins Avenusome is getting into the space race.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
You know what? I heard something? Where did I hear this? Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
It was in a meditation I was doing, and it
said instead of it's the whole thought was like giving
people grace, like not being too hard on people. And
one of the tips was remember that everyone. And I'm
listening to this as I'm going to sleep last night
on the com map, you know it and uh And
(08:30):
the message was imagine that the person that you're that's
difficult to deal with, or that you don't want to
deal with.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Or is hard to deal with.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
You're looking right at me, go.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
On that they have lost something or someone, they are
afraid of something, And what was the third one?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
You fell asleep before they got to the third one.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
No, no, no, But I'm trying so as I'm going
to sleep, I'm trying to imagine somebody a completely unlike
a person, or they're they're scared, they've lost something. Oh,
I wish I could remember it anyway.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
You're trying to.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I was trying to think of an unlikable person, and
in my like half twilight place, I envisioned Gavin Newsome
and I put him through the test, this test of
three things, and I like it. It worked because you
each three each thing is designed to make that person vulnerable,
which isable right. If you're if you've been hurt, if
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you've lost something, if you're scared of something, you're vulnerable.
And therefore, if you're if you're face to face with
a vulnerable person, you're gonna give them the benefit of
the doubt. You're gonna be kinder to them, You're not
gonna be as judgmental. And I ran Gavin Newsom through
that test. You stress tested Gavin and it worked for
a minute. I was like, Ah, he does appear to
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be more likable if I if I consider that he's
lost something that he's afraid of.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Oh, he does seem to.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
As I'm looking for any way to humanize Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Still you did it.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
The stupid podcast isn't working.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Every clip I hear he sounds just as phony as
he sounds everywhere else.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Well, this is a This may not help it either.
I like trains. I like high speed trains even better.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Jerry Brown, Jerry Brown, human guy, Jerry Brown's idea.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
I like Jerry Brown. He's a likable disagree with the
mal day in politics. He's a likable guy.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 3 (10:34):
A couple of days before baseball season starts again, the
Dodgers are going to host the Tigers, I believe, to
start the season, and then the Angels make their way
to Chicago to start against the White Sox. And it'll
be interesting to see how there are a couple of
major league teams playing in minor league stadiums this year.
If I'm not mistaken, the Tampa Bay Rays have had
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to move to ironically, Steinbrenner Field. They'll be playing in
a spring training facility because the dome in Tampa was
completely devastated. And then the Sacramento river Cats Stadium are
going to host the athletics. Although I don't think they're
calling them Oakland Athletics or the Vegas Athletics.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
YI is call the Guardi Athletics the Gardens.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
The Trump administration's top intelligence officials have stressed to Congress
the threat they say is posed by international criminal gangs,
drug cartels, and humans smuggling. This all came at a
hearing today against the backdrop of this just idiotic security
breach that involved the mistaken leak of attack plans. To
a journalist, this hearing on worldwide threats before the Intelligence
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Committee did offer a glimpse at the reorientation of priorities.
Of course, we also know that there is some work
that's being done when it comes to Ukraine and Russia.
Negotiators said they're working with Russian representative on a proposed
partial ceasefire in Ukraine. They're meeting in Riods South Saudi Arabia.
(12:07):
You say Saudia Arabia and I say South Arabia. Well,
we're both apparently, but both Russia and Ukraine have said
that they will likely agree to not target each other
in the Black Sea region.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Denmark's Prime minister says the Trump administration is putting what
he calls unacceptable pressure on Greenland. We'll get into that
coming up in about a half an hour with Swamp Watch.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Guess what Gavin Newsom is going to space?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, tell me is Gavin Newsomb?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I try to ignore things that he does, despite the
fact that I thought of him right before I went
to sleep.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
That was a very embarrassing admission.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
But I was trying to find somebody completely unlikable in
my mind and see if that trick worked.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
About eight nine years ago, Governor Brown at the time
promised that California was going to launch its own damn satellite.
Remember the good old days when Jerry Brown would speak
from the top of his mind.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Jerry Brown was like the better version of like Joe
Biden without the senality, sinility whatever. Okay, South Arabia.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
He said, the California is going to launch its own
damn satellites to track methane emissions. After the Trump administration,
the first one threatened to cut off access to federal
climate data. Gavin Newsom jumped on that bandwagon, and again.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
Trump's EPA is taking aim at the endangerment finding. It's
the basis for all federal action to curb planet warming emissions,
including methane, a planet warming gas eighty times more potent
than carbon dioxide. We just launched a new satellite project
to detect and track methane in real time. One satellite
is already in the sky, ready to provide us data.
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We need to take action on those leaks the future. Well,
it happens here first, increasingly our planet depends upon it.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah, go get them, go get that conquer that space. Baby.
This is Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Now there's a couple of things to remember about this.
There's one satellite that is currently up there, and as
he referenced in that video, it's ready to send data.
But it's not I mean, it's not sending data, it's
but it's ready to This is not paid for by
the state specifically, these satellites are owned by a private
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company that is also in control of those satellites and
will be but it is funded using one hundred million
dollars just.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Going to say, what is Gavin Newsom's tie right the
private company.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
It's well, not that part of it, but it's funded
by the one hundred million dollars from the cap and
trade program that's run by the state. Again, the company
called Planet Labs owns the satellites. It's the state that
would maintain a database to coordinate and document mitigation efforts,
and it's going to share the information with local communities
for blablaw. Somebody's getting paid here, someone's getting paid a
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lot of money. And why in the world does Gavin
Newsom believe that this is okay?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Even if he can make an argument that this is a.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Good use of one hundred million dollars of state money,
state cap and trade money, why does there why does
there continue to be poor management of all of the
other money that is available to him. And and we can,
I mean, we have massive debts in this state. He
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cannot wrap his head around pulling the plug on high
speed rail because even like Jerry Brown said, he loves
trains and he loves.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Highs and like high speed trains even.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Better to the to absolute no good cause there's no
good end to high speed rail in the state of California.
But let's drop one hundred million dollars from Cap and
Trade on satellites that basically are redundant when it came
when it comes to looking at pollution in the in
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the atmosphere.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I'm pulling up Planet Labs in their history of political contributions.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Oh interesting to find out where.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Oh oh wow.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Shocking major contributor to Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party
of California. Big chunk of cash. DNC Services Corp. The
pack for the Democrats in California.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Huh, what do you know?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Odd, No, they don't spread their money around either. No
Republican donations there.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Well, this is this is Gavin Newsomness, it is Mookie
Betts dropped more than twenty pounds whatever diet he was on.
He looks fantastic, says he's going to be ready to go.
David Vasse, Dodgers Reporter, clubhouse, favorite guy who knows everything
about the team, gives bones for this team.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
He's going to join us in a few minutes. We'll
talk about what's coming up.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
There is a group of prisoners that have put together
a newspaper. It is the topic of today's True Crime
Tuesday that we will tackle coming up later in the show.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
That'll be a major motion picture, don't you think.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Probably?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Yeah, the Swampwatch comes along at eleven o'clock. A quick
revisit on the big fiasco that's going on in DC today,
where at least the Director of National Intelligence, the Secretary
of State, the Secretary of Defense, the NSA National Security
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Advisor all involved in a text chain that probably involves
some pretty explicit plans for Americans bombing of Yemen, specifically
the hoothy rebels in Yemen, and the fallout from that continues.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
But guess what.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Another exhibition game tonight, Another.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Game that Dodger doesn't count.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
But come Thursday, the Detroit Tigers come to town and
the games begin to count again. At Chavez Ravine, David
Vase has found it in his heart to finally make
time for us after his big trip to Japan.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Besse, how are you?
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Oh? I heard you guys were ripping me. Oh, forgive
me for being on the other side of the world.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Ever, you had up literally every other show but ours,
literally every other show in America.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
I fell asleep I apologize, and I forgot about it.
I got a two weeks advance notice. I forgot about it.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Exactly, you had two weeks of advance notice and you
decided to go to sumo wrestling with Clayton Kershaw instead
of talking to us.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
I was at Saba crossing. How dare you? But it
was it was a great time. It was a great
time and a great experience in the people make Japan,
especially Tokyo. I mean, there's just so respectful and kind
to each other. You never feel like you're in danger.
You can leave your wallet in your car unlocked and
it will be there when you come back.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
You appreciate Tokyo more when you work at a place
like this where you're not respected or appreciated.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Or exactly, I'm not right, get ripped as soon as
I come on. This would never happen on a Saihi
TV where I am deified.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
I tried to.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Get you fired. I said, say flaked on us. I
think we should fire him, and then.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
I would have stayed in Japan and had a great life.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
My highly placed sources. He never flakes and that made.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Us feel here right now, right we're on the same
time zone in the same country, in the same county.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
We might not even be we might have been the
same zip code.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
So hey explain to us what in the world happened
to Muki. They said that he's doing better, But I mean,
this illness started when they were in Japan. He came home,
he didn't play what's going on with him?
Speaker 5 (20:07):
It started actually two days before the Dodgers left for Japan,
and you know, you thought like it was one of
those severe stomach viruses. And he had a rough flight
to Japan. And when I saw him in the hotel
lobby when we landed, I wasn't aware that he was
feeling as bad as it turned out to be. He
couldn't hold down solid food up until yesterday, two weeks
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since he couldn't pull down solid food, and yesterday was
a good day. According to Dave Roberts, Mookie actually was
at Dodgers Stadium yesterday working out and he's expected to
be in Anaheim tonight and be in the starting lineup
to give it a go and see where he may
or may not be for an opening day on Thursday.
But yeah, it just hasn't been diagnosed. The Dodgers haven't
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diagnosed it. Their doctors haven't diagnosed it. But the good
news is he was able to eat yesterday and not vomit.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
That's really terrifying.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I mean, when you think about somebody physically in the
prime of their life, top of the game, I mean
really top of the game, top point point or point
zero zero one percent in physicality.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
To lose eighteen pounds.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Like that, that's.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Got to be terrifying.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
And you know it's not just pounds, it's muscle mass
I would assume as well.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Without a doubt. And now he's trying to transition to
one of the most demanding positions on the field, that
shortstop at age thirty one, and he told me that
it feels like he's starting the season on an uphill
climb because of this illness. But the good news is
it seemed like he told me two nights ago at
Dodger Stadium that the doctors had given him new medication
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to treat this stomach illness, and it seemed like it
did the trick. So you wonder if whatever he was
taken before was ripping some of the lining in his stomach,
creating a bigger problem. So this new medication, at least
after twenty four hours certainly has made a difference.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
There is arguably, or I should say not arguably, the
greatest expectations on this team. I mean, they're talking about
the potential for this specific lineup, this team, these pitchers,
to break the record for most wins in a season.
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That's regardless of how good the team is. That's very
hard to do. What do you think the over under
is for wins this year for the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
I think it's around one hundred and five. I feel
like if you're going to Vegas this weekend, one hundred
and five is a safe bet. But the Dodgers have
had really good teams before and have had a shot
at breaking that Mariners record set in two thousand and
one at one hundred and sixteen wins, and that's just
not their goal. It never has been their goal, even
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when they've had dominant teams in the past. Take for example,
last year, they win the World Series after winning ninety
nine games, and that was the first time they had
not won one hundred games in a season in a
full season in the last five years. So the expectations,
as you mentioned, aren't for them to break the regular
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season record for wins. It's to be the first team
in twenty five years in Major League Baseball to win
back to back World Series championships. And that comes from
the top down, Gary that Andrew Friedman, the president of
Baseball Operations, has never put you know, that has never
compromised trying to be in the best position possible when
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the postseason starts, just to achieve some regular season record.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Vassay, who is see?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I love talking to you and that's really where my
anger comes from.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
It's hurt, is what it is. Because you're such a
sense of loss. You're such a.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Ray of light, and it's always so great to talk
to you. So who stands in the Dodgers' way? Like,
who's a big threat this season at this point? I
know it's early, but in your mind, well, the.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Last team to knock the Dodgers out of the postseason.
In my mind, it's the Arizona Diamondbacks. They were the
team that represented the National League two years ago after
sweeping the Dodgers in the first round of the best
of five. And no matter who it is, you could
pick Team A from Mars if the first round is
the most dangerous, no matter how good you are, because
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it's a short series, and the Diamondbacks have the pitching
to you know, maybe shock the Dodgers, similar to the
way the Padres were on their way to do so
last year. But if the Dodgers get past that pitfall
of the first round, no doubt in my mind, they're
making it to the Fall Classic again.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
And then what is your take on Rodney Pete? Should
he be banned from Dodger Stadium?
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Now? Rodney peat should just take a seat. I mean,
this is the most heralded, celebrated foul ball catch in
the history of the game, and there's only two people
sell braiding it, Rodney and Hally Robinson Pte. I mean,
I think we've got the we got the we got it,
all right, we got it. You caught a poul ball
with a glove. You used to play college baseball for
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USC You're a great quarterback. You should catch that foul ball.
David Bassey or Gary or Shannon. It would be more
of a miracle if we did. Okay, Hey, I was,
I was.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I was a strong bench support for the JV team
my junior year in high school.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Well, that's like nobody else.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
You know that there's a hole out there, There's a
hole That's all I remember from that song.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
By the way, Munsey wasn't even mad at Rodney. You
told me. I wasn't mad at Rodney. I was upset
because I was trying to pull the dang netting down,
and if I was able to do that cleanly, I
would have been able to catch the ball and make
a spectacular play. Not Rodney Pete supposedly stealing the ball.
It wasn't Steve Bartman in Chicago. It wasn't anything like that.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Well, and you want to see Maximumsey get pissed for
not making that play, even though it was a very
difficult play to make in a.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
Game like that.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Whether the first games of the season to have that
kind of pissed offedness is as a fan, you love it.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Yeah, I'm sure they weren't used to that. At the
Tokyo Dome in Japan, to see that kind of disrespect
and anger on the field over a foul ball. I mean,
those people sat in their seed silent when Otani came
to the plate, and if he hit a foul ball
or if there was a ball put in play, that's
when they would react. So a very respectful crowd just
kind of like the culture of the country. But yeah,
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that was great. But Rodney Pete sit down.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Do you think in that vein Massay that Rodney Pete
was disrespectful and reaching out and getting that ball.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
No, he did not reach out. He was in his section.
They handed out gloves to fans in that section along
with batting helmets, just for safety reasons for some reason.
So no, he did not do the Bartman or what
those animals did at Yankee Stadium to try to rip
the ball out of move that's off last year. Yeah,
this was nothing like that. It was It was so
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pg and it wasn't that spectacular of a catch. I mean,
come on, oh my.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
God, good to talk to you, Vasse. Excited to see you.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Stop ripping me in the hallways now, Shannon probably not.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yeah, you know her, Come on, I mean he does
got a good two weeks out of it, So I
think I'm good now, are you?
Speaker 5 (27:26):
My rams are looking good this year? It's gonna be
a sad season for you guys.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Okay, You're never gonna get at me with rams stuff
like bless your heart the JV of the NFC west.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
On, Are you all kidding?
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Is?
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I know you're excited for the season. You've been doing
this now, what eight nine years something like that.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Actually it's my fourteenth season, Oh my god. Probably with
the Dodgers. Dodger talk. Yeah, it's crazy that I traveled
with the team to Sydney, Australia, to Mexico City to
now Soul, Korea, last year, Tokyo, Japan. It's been it's
been awesome. And the Dodgers make it easy. They've been
to the playoffs every year except my first, so it's
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really easy to cover this team.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Your wife and kids, they do they love it when
you go back on the road, do they tell you
that they hate it, but secretly they love it?
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Yes, exactly, And I'm always like holding my breath to
make sure the locks aren't changed after every road trick.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
That's say thank you for the time. I appreciate it.
Always fun to talk to you, my pleasure, guys.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Thank you absolutely, David Vasse. And of course you can
hear them covering the Dodgers. Every game is available on
a five seventy LA Sports on the though.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
You know, I bet her remembers to come on.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
We'll see it depends on how you seem to be
pretty ruthless about that stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I forgave.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
I've moved on.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
It sounded like it not really, No, Nope, Gary and
Shannon will continue.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
With Russia and Ukraine to ensure safe navigation in the
Black Sea. The White House set in a statement that
DC would help restore Russia's access to the world market
for agriculture and fertilizer exports and would continue working towards
a full cease fire. Top national security officials for President Trump,
including the Secretary of Defense, were apparently texting some level
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of war plans for upcoming military strikes in Yemen in
a group chat that included, accidentally, we believe the editor
in chief of The Atlantic magazine.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
They posted that story yesterday.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
There were some Senate hearings from intelligence officials today.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
We'll talk more about it we get into swamp Watch.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Speaking of swamp Watch, which is right around the corner,
I've got two Trump portrait updates.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Oh, okay, one out of Russia, a Colorado Russia.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
It's both fun. You'll enjoy them. I think you'll enjoy
them regardless of how you feel.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
You played softball in high school. Play is a very loose.
You were on the softball team in high school? Yeah,
did they have a radar gun at all at any
of your games? All right, So the pitching mound in
a softball diamond at that level high school college is
forty three feet pitchers mound to home play.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Maybe, I don't think anyone was out there measuring either.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Well, it's supposed to be forty three feet. How's that?
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Baseball is sixty feet six inches from the mound to
the plate. The highest recorded speed a baseball pitch is
probably somewhere around one hundred and three one hundred and four.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
You're not going to get much higher than that, just physically,
it can't happen.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Carlin Pickens is a pitcher for the Tennessee Lady Volunteers.
She threw a pitch yesterday in a game at seventy
eight point two miles per hour softball. Now we think
about the ratios, My god, seventy eight miles an hour
forty three feet. That is the equivalent of a pitch
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that's faster than one hundred and ten miles per hour.
And the ball was rising like she threw a rise
ball at one hundred and ten point zero three miles
per hour. Wow, what's her name? Carlin c or sorry
k A R L y N Carlin Pickens. I've seen
the video a handful of times. This pitch is unbelievable.
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How quick it gets on that back.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
God, she's built like a brick ass house. Good for her.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Welcome. That's sec softball right there, Mike, watch out.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
God, she's gonna birth freaking what athletes?
Speaker 2 (31:51):
What is it? What?
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Sorry, I'm looking at her like she's a racehorse.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
You're looking at her like she's a piece of meat.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Dry she is physical, like sure, her body is incredibly built.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
She's wrong.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
Yeah, she's very small, very strong.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
First of at least she looks like in the videos
that I've seen she's a sophomore.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
She is a sophomore.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
She is good at what she does. Wow, all right,
coming back, we're going to get into swamp watch. We
also have this thing I've been like joking about. People
don't want to pay taxes this year because they want
to see what's going on with Doge and whether or
not the irs is completely eliminated. Folks, it won't be.
And yes, you do still have to pay her taxes.
(32:37):
That's coming up. Gary and Shannon will continue right after this.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
A bunch of stuff going on today.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Of course, the fallout continues from apparently a text chain
that involves some of the top cabinet members discussing war
plans for Yemen.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
President Trump stood by.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
He is National Security Advisor Mike Walts, the guy who
apparently invited everybody into that group, because he also invited
the Atlantics editor in chief to that text chain. President
Trump said, Michael Waltz has learned a lesson and he's
a good man. Said that in an interview with NBC
News this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
There is news. You heard it from Amy First. Ukraine
and Russia are agreeing to a limited ceasefire deal. This
according to the White House. They've agreed to stop fighting
in the Black Sea, will halt any strikes on energy facilities.
There have been three days of negotiations in Saudi Arraya,
as Ukrainian and Russian delegations have met with US mediators separately.
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Not clear when this is going to go into effect.
Is this the same meeting from like a week and
a half ago. There the continuation of it. Wow, what
a boondoggle for Saudi Arabia, all that money spent government
money with hotels and cars and what they do. They're
so hurting, all right, I think this like they know
(01:26):
that this was the conclusion they were going to come to.
They just dragged it out for an extra week of
whoever the hotel is?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Come on?
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
You see this at malls.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
All over the place right now, Yeah, where these things
have become ghost towns.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Like it's sad for you and I maybe not you,
but for I because.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
You know, malls was like they were like a.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Hive when I was growing up of It's where the
socialization would happen. That's where you'd go after school, you
would you know, all the things.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
It was a big for me. It was a big
deal to go. If you went to the mall, it
was because there was something coming up. I mean, I
wasn't a big hangout at the mall guy, just because
there was nothing close to me. But if you're going
to go to the mall, if you're going to San Rosa,
if you're going to Nevado and you're going.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
To the mall, like that was it.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You knew that you were getting a new pair of
Fiba ones or whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I mean. It was the thing and that is gone.
But that whole feeling of going to the mall is gone.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
They are talking about, in particular in the La Times
Kaleidoscope Mission via Hoo, the loneliest living mall in southern California.
They point out that mall culture is still thriving in
parts I don't know about that. They say South Coast
Plaza and Coast of Masa, the Groves Valley in San
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Diego Century City does as well. Luguna Hills is okay Brea,
but a lot of them are being converted.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Into mixed use spaces.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
We talked about Dennis offices, medspas moving into these spaces,
but they say there aren't many places like Kaleidoscope, which
never quite found its footing over the course of the
past twenty five years but has refused to die. They're
still the Regal Theater there that is the anchor of
one part of the mall, but a lot of empty
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shops and restaurants. They say that don't see customers for hours,
that there's plenty of businesses but no customers.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
How's that tenable?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
The mall where I am up in Valencia. They did
a huge expansion and put a bunch of stores sort
of in an outdoor area along one side of the mall,
and that is more popular than whatever's on the inside
of that mall now, I mean, and they've lost some massive,
massive stores.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
It's endemic.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
With all the malls across the United States, there are
very few of them that actually operate, you would even
say at full capacity some of them.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I mean, look at Rick Caruso's properties, whether.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
You've got the Americana or the Grove or something like that.
Those are the places where it appears they've been able
to withstand some of what we've seen in terms of
the real estate commercial real estate.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Well, it's an experience.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
There's great restaurants, there's fountains, there's the good brand stores.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
There are experiences.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
The farmers markets right there for the Grove, I mean
they say that Kaleidoscope's Union Market a food hall type
space with retail restaurants in a bar. One recent visitor said,
I don't I feel like I'm trespassing. The lights are on,
but there's no signs of life. Unplayable games sit in
the corner, a corn hole set with no bags, a
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ping pong table with a ping pong table with a
broken net, a foosball table with a sign asking patrons
to bring their own balls. Kaleidoscope gets a two point
three average rating on Yelp, hasn't had a positive review,
and over a year everything was broken. It is in shambles,
a complete disaster for Mission Viah. The whole place needs
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to be bulldozed to someone, someone writes. And it's also
across from another bigger mall, the shops at Mission via
Ho which opened in seventy nine but went through expansions
where they poured a ton of money into it and
they have tripled their tax revenue there, as opposed to Kaleidoscope,
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which is just a constant failure. Now, why aren't they
just get rid of it? I mean, there are some
great brands there. There's a Burke Williams Spa, there's an
La Fitness, a mattress firm, placed Buffalo wild Wings. They've
got laser tag acts, throwing a golf simulator. But the shoppers,
they say, the shoppers are scarce.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Well, and I don't know what, but there are places
like you said that are successful. They tend to be
high end experiential places. What I think we're just in
the midst of trying to find out what is the
right combinationity of what's the combination was the identity of
the stores that are going to exist to pull people in. Right,
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you have an apple store on one side of the mall,
but then across the little transom you have probably a
like a discount bad stuff store. You know, just one
of those like ninety nine cent stores. But it's all
trinkets and bobbles and stuff that's made poorly and cheap.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
And it seems like this place should just be bulldozed.
I mean from the start, it's been a mess. It
was built for fifty five million back in ninety eight,
but it says since then has suffered a plague of problems,
design problems, execution problems. A confusing parking garage that pushes
away potential visitors, the cloistered design, failing to advertise the
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businesses inside the cars that drive down I five. Right there,
you have no idea what's in that monstrosity. By the
mid two thousands, at least four people had been injured
or trapped by its elevators and escalators. A boy's foot
was mangled after it was sucked into the mechanical stairs.
In two thousand and six, state inspectors shut down half
(07:22):
of the escalators for not having valid permits. Well, I
mean which escalator? Which elevator does have a valid permit?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I don't think I've written in a validly permitted elevator.
For ten years years, they stopped putting permits in these elevators.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, because they read like two thousand and two or something.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
The new ones are on file in the office.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Yeah, okay, right, cool.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Hey, guess who's getting into the space race?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Mister Bumber plus Biractar trying the third time the forest plant.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
It's like Planet.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Gavins Avenusome is getting into the space race.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
You know what? I heard something? Where did I hear this? Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
It was in a meditation I was doing, and it
said instead of it's the whole thought was like giving
people grace, like not being too hard on people. And
one of the tips was remember that everyone. And I'm
listening to this as I'm going to sleep last night
on the com map, you know it and uh And
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the message was imagine that the person that you're that's
difficult to deal with, or that you don't want to
deal with.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Or is hard to deal with.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
You're looking right at me, go.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
On that they have lost something or someone, they are
afraid of something, And what was the third one?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
You fell asleep before they got to the third one.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
No, no, no, But I'm trying so as I'm going
to sleep, I'm trying to imagine somebody a completely unlike
a person, or they're they're scared, they've lost something. Oh,
I wish I could remember it anyway.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
You're trying to.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I was trying to think of an unlikable person, and
in my like half twilight place, I envisioned Gavin Newsome
and I put him through the test, this test of
three things, and I like it. It worked because you
each three each thing is designed to make that person vulnerable,
which isable right. If you're if you've been hurt, if
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you've lost something, if you're scared of something, you're vulnerable.
And therefore, if you're if you're face to face with
a vulnerable person, you're gonna give them the benefit of
the doubt. You're gonna be kinder to them, You're not
gonna be as judgmental. And I ran Gavin Newsom through
that test. You stress tested Gavin and it worked for
a minute. I was like, Ah, he does appear to
(09:54):
be more likable if I if I consider that he's
lost something that he's afraid of.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Oh, he does seem to.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
As I'm looking for any way to humanize Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Still you did it.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
The stupid podcast isn't working.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Every clip I hear he sounds just as phony as
he sounds everywhere else.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Well, this is a This may not help it either.
I like trains. I like high speed trains even better.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Jerry Brown, Jerry Brown, human guy, Jerry Brown's idea.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
I like Jerry Brown. He's a likable disagree with the
mal day in politics. He's a likable guy.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
A couple of days before baseball season starts again, the
Dodgers are going to host the Tigers, I believe, to
start the season, and then the Angels make their way
to Chicago to start against the White Sox. And it'll
be interesting to see how there are a couple of
major league teams playing in minor league stadiums this year.
If I'm not mistaken, the Tampa Bay Rays have had
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to move to ironically, Steinbrenner Field. They'll be playing in
a spring training facility because the dome in Tampa was
completely devastated. And then the Sacramento river Cats Stadium are
going to host the athletics. Although I don't think they're
calling them Oakland Athletics or the Vegas Athletics.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
YI is call the Guardi Athletics the Gardens.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
The Trump administration's top intelligence officials have stressed to Congress
the threat they say is posed by international criminal gangs,
drug cartels, and humans smuggling. This all came at a
hearing today against the backdrop of this just idiotic security
breach that involved the mistaken leak of attack plans. To
a journalist, this hearing on worldwide threats before the Intelligence
(11:45):
Committee did offer a glimpse at the reorientation of priorities.
Of course, we also know that there is some work
that's being done when it comes to Ukraine and Russia.
Negotiators said they're working with Russian representative on a proposed
partial ceasefire in Ukraine. They're meeting in Riods South Saudi Arabia.
(12:07):
You say Saudia Arabia and I say South Arabia. Well,
we're both apparently, but both Russia and Ukraine have said
that they will likely agree to not target each other
in the Black Sea region.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Denmark's Prime minister says the Trump administration is putting what
he calls unacceptable pressure on Greenland. We'll get into that
coming up in about a half an hour with Swamp Watch.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Guess what Gavin Newsom is going to space?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, tell me is Gavin Newsomb?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I try to ignore things that he does, despite the
fact that I thought of him right before I went
to sleep.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
That was a very embarrassing admission.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
But I was trying to find somebody completely unlikable in
my mind and see if that trick worked.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
About eight nine years ago, Governor Brown at the time
promised that California was going to launch its own damn satellite.
Remember the good old days when Jerry Brown would speak
from the top of his mind.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Jerry Brown was like the better version of like Joe
Biden without the senality, sinility whatever. Okay, South Arabia.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
He said, the California is going to launch its own
damn satellites to track methane emissions. After the Trump administration,
the first one threatened to cut off access to federal
climate data. Gavin Newsom jumped on that bandwagon, and again.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
Trump's EPA is taking aim at the endangerment finding. It's
the basis for all federal action to curb planet warming emissions,
including methane, a planet warming gas eighty times more potent
than carbon dioxide. We just launched a new satellite project
to detect and track methane in real time. One satellite
is already in the sky, ready to provide us data.
(13:52):
We need to take action on those leaks the future. Well,
it happens here first, increasingly our planet depends upon it.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah, go get them, go get that conquer that space. Baby.
This is Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Now there's a couple of things to remember about this.
There's one satellite that is currently up there, and as
he referenced in that video, it's ready to send data.
But it's not I mean, it's not sending data, it's
but it's ready to This is not paid for by
the state specifically, these satellites are owned by a private
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company that is also in control of those satellites and
will be but it is funded using one hundred million
dollars just.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Going to say, what is Gavin Newsom's tie right the
private company.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
It's well, not that part of it, but it's funded
by the one hundred million dollars from the cap and
trade program that's run by the state. Again, the company
called Planet Labs owns the satellites. It's the state that
would maintain a database to coordinate and document mitigation efforts,
and it's going to share the information with local communities
for blablaw. Somebody's getting paid here, someone's getting paid a
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lot of money. And why in the world does Gavin
Newsom believe that this is okay?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Even if he can make an argument that this is a.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Good use of one hundred million dollars of state money,
state cap and trade money, why does there why does
there continue to be poor management of all of the
other money that is available to him. And and we can,
I mean, we have massive debts in this state. He
(15:33):
cannot wrap his head around pulling the plug on high
speed rail because even like Jerry Brown said, he loves
trains and he loves.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Highs and like high speed trains even.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Better to the to absolute no good cause there's no
good end to high speed rail in the state of California.
But let's drop one hundred million dollars from Cap and
Trade on satellites that basically are redundant when it came
when it comes to looking at pollution in the in
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the atmosphere.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I'm pulling up Planet Labs in their history of political contributions.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Oh interesting to find out where.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Oh oh wow.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Shocking major contributor to Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party
of California. Big chunk of cash. DNC Services Corp. The
pack for the Democrats in California.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Huh, what do you know?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Odd, No, they don't spread their money around either. No
Republican donations there.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Well, this is this is Gavin Newsomness, it is Mookie
Betts dropped more than twenty pounds whatever diet he was on.
He looks fantastic, says he's going to be ready to go.
David Vasse, Dodgers Reporter, clubhouse, favorite guy who knows everything
about the team, gives bones for this team.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
He's going to join us in a few minutes. We'll
talk about what's coming up.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
There is a group of prisoners that have put together
a newspaper. It is the topic of today's True Crime
Tuesday that we will tackle coming up later in the show.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
That'll be a major motion picture, don't you think.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Probably?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Yeah, the Swampwatch comes along at eleven o'clock. A quick
revisit on the big fiasco that's going on in DC today,
where at least the Director of National Intelligence, the Secretary
of State, the Secretary of Defense, the NSA National Security
(17:43):
Advisor all involved in a text chain that probably involves
some pretty explicit plans for Americans bombing of Yemen, specifically
the hoothy rebels in Yemen, and the fallout from that continues.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
But guess what.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Another exhibition game tonight, Another.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Game that Dodger doesn't count.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
But come Thursday, the Detroit Tigers come to town and
the games begin to count again. At Chavez Ravine, David
Vase has found it in his heart to finally make
time for us after his big trip to Japan.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Besse, how are you?
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Oh? I heard you guys were ripping me. Oh, forgive
me for being on the other side of the world.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Ever, you had up literally every other show but ours,
literally every other show in America.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
I fell asleep I apologize, and I forgot about it.
I got a two weeks advance notice. I forgot about it.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Exactly, you had two weeks of advance notice and you
decided to go to sumo wrestling with Clayton Kershaw instead
of talking to us.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
I was at Saba crossing. How dare you? But it
was it was a great time. It was a great
time and a great experience in the people make Japan,
especially Tokyo. I mean, there's just so respectful and kind
to each other. You never feel like you're in danger.
You can leave your wallet in your car unlocked and
it will be there when you come back.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
You appreciate Tokyo more when you work at a place
like this where you're not respected or appreciated.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Or exactly, I'm not right, get ripped as soon as
I come on. This would never happen on a Saihi
TV where I am deified.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
I tried to.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Get you fired. I said, say flaked on us. I
think we should fire him, and then.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
I would have stayed in Japan and had a great life.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
My highly placed sources. He never flakes and that made.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Us feel here right now, right we're on the same
time zone in the same country, in the same county.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
We might not even be we might have been the
same zip code.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
So hey explain to us what in the world happened
to Muki. They said that he's doing better, But I mean,
this illness started when they were in Japan. He came home,
he didn't play what's going on with him?
Speaker 5 (20:07):
It started actually two days before the Dodgers left for Japan,
and you know, you thought like it was one of
those severe stomach viruses. And he had a rough flight
to Japan. And when I saw him in the hotel
lobby when we landed, I wasn't aware that he was
feeling as bad as it turned out to be. He
couldn't hold down solid food up until yesterday, two weeks
(20:30):
since he couldn't pull down solid food, and yesterday was
a good day. According to Dave Roberts, Mookie actually was
at Dodgers Stadium yesterday working out and he's expected to
be in Anaheim tonight and be in the starting lineup
to give it a go and see where he may
or may not be for an opening day on Thursday.
But yeah, it just hasn't been diagnosed. The Dodgers haven't
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diagnosed it. Their doctors haven't diagnosed it. But the good
news is he was able to eat yesterday and not vomit.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
That's really terrifying.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I mean, when you think about somebody physically in the
prime of their life, top of the game, I mean
really top of the game, top point point or point
zero zero one percent in physicality.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
To lose eighteen pounds.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Like that, that's.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Got to be terrifying.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
And you know it's not just pounds, it's muscle mass
I would assume as well.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Without a doubt. And now he's trying to transition to
one of the most demanding positions on the field, that
shortstop at age thirty one, and he told me that
it feels like he's starting the season on an uphill
climb because of this illness. But the good news is
it seemed like he told me two nights ago at
Dodger Stadium that the doctors had given him new medication
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to treat this stomach illness, and it seemed like it
did the trick. So you wonder if whatever he was
taken before was ripping some of the lining in his stomach,
creating a bigger problem. So this new medication, at least
after twenty four hours certainly has made a difference.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
There is arguably, or I should say not arguably, the
greatest expectations on this team. I mean, they're talking about
the potential for this specific lineup, this team, these pitchers,
to break the record for most wins in a season.
(22:23):
That's regardless of how good the team is. That's very
hard to do. What do you think the over under
is for wins this year for the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
I think it's around one hundred and five. I feel
like if you're going to Vegas this weekend, one hundred
and five is a safe bet. But the Dodgers have
had really good teams before and have had a shot
at breaking that Mariners record set in two thousand and
one at one hundred and sixteen wins, and that's just
not their goal. It never has been their goal, even
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when they've had dominant teams in the past. Take for example,
last year, they win the World Series after winning ninety
nine games, and that was the first time they had
not won one hundred games in a season in a
full season in the last five years. So the expectations,
as you mentioned, aren't for them to break the regular
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season record for wins. It's to be the first team
in twenty five years in Major League Baseball to win
back to back World Series championships. And that comes from
the top down, Gary that Andrew Friedman, the president of
Baseball Operations, has never put you know, that has never
compromised trying to be in the best position possible when
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the postseason starts, just to achieve some regular season record.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Vassay, who is see?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I love talking to you and that's really where my
anger comes from.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
It's hurt, is what it is. Because you're such a
sense of loss. You're such a.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Ray of light, and it's always so great to talk
to you. So who stands in the Dodgers' way? Like,
who's a big threat this season at this point? I
know it's early, but in your mind, well, the.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Last team to knock the Dodgers out of the postseason.
In my mind, it's the Arizona Diamondbacks. They were the
team that represented the National League two years ago after
sweeping the Dodgers in the first round of the best
of five. And no matter who it is, you could
pick Team A from Mars if the first round is
the most dangerous, no matter how good you are, because
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it's a short series, and the Diamondbacks have the pitching
to you know, maybe shock the Dodgers, similar to the
way the Padres were on their way to do so
last year. But if the Dodgers get past that pitfall
of the first round, no doubt in my mind, they're
making it to the Fall Classic again.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
And then what is your take on Rodney Pete? Should
he be banned from Dodger Stadium?
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Now? Rodney peat should just take a seat. I mean,
this is the most heralded, celebrated foul ball catch in
the history of the game, and there's only two people
sell braiding it, Rodney and Hally Robinson Pte. I mean,
I think we've got the we got the we got it,
all right, we got it. You caught a poul ball
with a glove. You used to play college baseball for
(25:10):
USC You're a great quarterback. You should catch that foul ball.
David Bassey or Gary or Shannon. It would be more
of a miracle if we did. Okay, Hey, I was,
I was.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I was a strong bench support for the JV team
my junior year in high school.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Well, that's like nobody else.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
You know that there's a hole out there, There's a
hole That's all I remember from that song.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
By the way, Munsey wasn't even mad at Rodney. You
told me. I wasn't mad at Rodney. I was upset
because I was trying to pull the dang netting down,
and if I was able to do that cleanly, I
would have been able to catch the ball and make
a spectacular play. Not Rodney Pete supposedly stealing the ball.
It wasn't Steve Bartman in Chicago. It wasn't anything like that.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Well, and you want to see Maximumsey get pissed for
not making that play, even though it was a very
difficult play to make in a.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
Game like that.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Whether the first games of the season to have that
kind of pissed offedness is as a fan, you love it.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Yeah, I'm sure they weren't used to that. At the
Tokyo Dome in Japan, to see that kind of disrespect
and anger on the field over a foul ball. I mean,
those people sat in their seed silent when Otani came
to the plate, and if he hit a foul ball
or if there was a ball put in play, that's
when they would react. So a very respectful crowd just
kind of like the culture of the country. But yeah,
(26:33):
that was great. But Rodney Pete sit down.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Do you think in that vein Massay that Rodney Pete
was disrespectful and reaching out and getting that ball.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
No, he did not reach out. He was in his section.
They handed out gloves to fans in that section along
with batting helmets, just for safety reasons for some reason.
So no, he did not do the Bartman or what
those animals did at Yankee Stadium to try to rip
the ball out of move that's off last year. Yeah,
this was nothing like that. It was It was so
(27:04):
pg and it wasn't that spectacular of a catch. I mean,
come on, oh my.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
God, good to talk to you, Vasse. Excited to see you.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Stop ripping me in the hallways now, Shannon probably not.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yeah, you know her, Come on, I mean he does
got a good two weeks out of it, So I
think I'm good now, are you?
Speaker 5 (27:26):
My rams are looking good this year? It's gonna be
a sad season for you guys.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Okay, You're never gonna get at me with rams stuff
like bless your heart the JV of the NFC west.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
On, Are you all kidding?
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Is?
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I know you're excited for the season. You've been doing
this now, what eight nine years something like that.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Actually it's my fourteenth season, Oh my god. Probably with
the Dodgers. Dodger talk. Yeah, it's crazy that I traveled
with the team to Sydney, Australia, to Mexico City to
now Soul, Korea, last year, Tokyo, Japan. It's been it's
been awesome. And the Dodgers make it easy. They've been
to the playoffs every year except my first, so it's
(28:14):
really easy to cover this team.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Your wife and kids, they do they love it when
you go back on the road, do they tell you
that they hate it, but secretly they love it?
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Yes, exactly, And I'm always like holding my breath to
make sure the locks aren't changed after every road trick.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
That's say thank you for the time. I appreciate it.
Always fun to talk to you, my pleasure, guys.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Thank you absolutely, David Vasse. And of course you can
hear them covering the Dodgers. Every game is available on
a five seventy LA Sports on the though.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
You know, I bet her remembers to come on.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
We'll see it depends on how you seem to be
pretty ruthless about that stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I forgave.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
I've moved on.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
It sounded like it not really, No, Nope, Gary and
Shannon will continue.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
With Russia and Ukraine to ensure safe navigation in the
Black Sea. The White House set in a statement that
DC would help restore Russia's access to the world market
for agriculture and fertilizer exports and would continue working towards
a full cease fire. Top national security officials for President Trump,
including the Secretary of Defense, were apparently texting some level
(29:35):
of war plans for upcoming military strikes in Yemen in
a group chat that included, accidentally, we believe the editor
in chief of The Atlantic magazine.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
They posted that story yesterday.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
There were some Senate hearings from intelligence officials today.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
We'll talk more about it we get into swamp Watch.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Speaking of swamp Watch, which is right around the corner,
I've got two Trump portrait updates.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Oh, okay, one out of Russia, a Colorado Russia.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
It's both fun. You'll enjoy them. I think you'll enjoy
them regardless of how you feel.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
You played softball in high school. Play is a very loose.
You were on the softball team in high school? Yeah,
did they have a radar gun at all at any
of your games? All right, So the pitching mound in
a softball diamond at that level high school college is
forty three feet pitchers mound to home play.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Maybe, I don't think anyone was out there measuring either.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Well, it's supposed to be forty three feet. How's that?
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Baseball is sixty feet six inches from the mound to
the plate. The highest recorded speed a baseball pitch is
probably somewhere around one hundred and three one hundred and four.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
You're not going to get much higher than that, just physically,
it can't happen.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Carlin Pickens is a pitcher for the Tennessee Lady Volunteers.
She threw a pitch yesterday in a game at seventy
eight point two miles per hour softball. Now we think
about the ratios, My god, seventy eight miles an hour
forty three feet. That is the equivalent of a pitch
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that's faster than one hundred and ten miles per hour.
And the ball was rising like she threw a rise
ball at one hundred and ten point zero three miles
per hour. Wow, what's her name? Carlin c or sorry
k A R L y N Carlin Pickens. I've seen
the video a handful of times. This pitch is unbelievable.
(31:34):
How quick it gets on that back.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
God, she's built like a brick ass house. Good for her.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Welcome. That's sec softball right there, Mike, watch out.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
God, she's gonna birth freaking what athletes?
Speaker 2 (31:51):
What is it? What?
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Sorry, I'm looking at her like she's a racehorse.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
You're looking at her like she's a piece of meat.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Dry she is physical, like sure, her body is incredibly built.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
She's wrong.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
Yeah, she's very small, very strong.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
First of at least she looks like in the videos
that I've seen she's a sophomore.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
She is a sophomore.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
She is good at what she does. Wow, all right,
coming back, we're going to get into swamp watch. We
also have this thing I've been like joking about. People
don't want to pay taxes this year because they want
to see what's going on with Doge and whether or
not the irs is completely eliminated. Folks, it won't be.
And yes, you do still have to pay her taxes.
(32:37):
That's coming up. Gary and Shannon will continue right after this.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
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