November 3, 2025 • 26 mins
Gary and Shannon kick off the show reacting to Elmer’s brand-new “Godzilla” themed intro (let’s just say… the world might not be saved 😅).
Then, they dive straight into Dodgers fever as LA celebrates back-to-back World Series championships: with parade coverage live from the packed downtown streets thanks to KFI’s own Michael Monks 🎉⚾️.
Shannon shares her chaotic travel story from Nashville with the Chargers, including a 3-hour LAX ground delay that she says could be the first big sign of the ongoing government shutdown 🛬🇺🇸.
Then, they dive straight into Dodgers fever as LA celebrates back-to-back World Series championships: with parade coverage live from the packed downtown streets thanks to KFI’s own Michael Monks 🎉⚾️.
Shannon shares her chaotic travel story from Nashville with the Chargers, including a 3-hour LAX ground delay that she says could be the first big sign of the ongoing government shutdown 🛬🇺🇸.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to k
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
The iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
So, like in the promo that you crafted and created
because you are a creative audio wizard, are we failing
at saving the world? Like what's happening there? Because it
sounds like there's some sort of Godzilla and he's bringing
the world down, maybe from Dodger Stadium, and we don't
want to deal with.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It or what. I don't understand my role in it.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
You're on the money, You're on the team.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
So I'd like to redo it to where I save
the world. Ide I feel like I just don't care
enough in that and I want to care, like I
want to save the world from that monster.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Gotcha, you do care? I feel like you would save
the word. I totally would, but for comedic purposes. I
was like, what if they don't?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Yeah, So you're saying to me, the more interesting choice
is the better choice.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
But but it.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Doesn't leave me. You know, it doesn't leave me any
sort of.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
There's no hope.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
There's no hope, and you know what, that's not you
and that's not me. Omer We're both hopeful people.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I agree we are, so I think in the next
one we kill the monster.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
You're going to vanquish the monster. Yeah, there's a part.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Too, yomotos O two coming to Kirk Broken back ground
ball bets.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Hazard, steps on the Bags.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Play from the Worst.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I'm Dodgers cement their dynasty.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
It's the most awful call, like I'm sorry, uh, and
I would say, and I've talked to people I would
I apologize for making it personal, but all season long,
I couldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I could not do it because he's like force saying
his voice like he's.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Like forcing it. I don't know what it is, but
I can't listen to it. I listened to another feed.
I'll listen to the Spanish feed, and I don't know Spanish,
but I can't listen.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
To that guy.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
There's a there's a forced to sing songiness to it again?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Oh my god. But I mean, what a series I.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Saw the video of. Actually this is weird. The video
of the radio call. There's a camera in the booth
even sitting next to Rick Monday, and Rick Monday is
just he's just not I mean, stone faced in that
he's not really saying anything.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
But you could tell those guys were super excited. Oh
Rick Monday, I'd love to hear from now. No apologies,
I'm not a Dodgers fan. This was one of the
best world series we've ever seen. It had ever everything.
It had everything. It had drama, it had superstars, it
had the unlikely heroes. It had Pahz which couldn't hit
an insert clever phrase here, you know, coming through with
(02:55):
the game saving catch. You know, all season you heard
you got pa Is and for defense, got he's hit
not hitting for anything, and then all of a sudden
when you need defense. And for all the people who
nay say Dave Roberts myself included, oh you left him
in too long or you know, he was masterful in
managing personalities, keeping the confidence up of a Shehn of
(03:19):
Andy Paz, freaking Mickey Rojas is fifty seven years old,
and I mean, it's just incredible what Dave Roberts was
able to do. Yes, there's talent, but then the guys
that stepped up that were struggling to be the saviors
of the day two games six and seven and on a.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Double play the only thing it didn't have and we
almost got it. Uh, in that extra inning game, in
the first extra inning game that went eighteen is the
only thing this didn't have was a position player pitching.
Just about every other aspect of the game was involved.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
There was a rush up to the mound.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Oh right, there was a yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Well, I mean that was more I thought I saw
it described is not a bench clearing brawl, but more
of an HR meeting where everybody got talked to and
that was about it. I've never seen that in a game,
so I don't think I've seen it in a World Series.
I guarantee I've never seen a bench is clear in
a Game seven of a World Series. It had the
ground rule double where the ball gets stuck. It had
dropped balls, It had errors, It had brilliant defensive plays,
(04:21):
It had plays at the play.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I mean, it just it just had something.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
It had the starting pitcher who comes in in relief
late in the games to come and get the win.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
In Yamamoto's case, it had.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Game seven bringing you two innings from both teams where
they had loaded the bases and left everyone stranded.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
That is such a well, Listen, I know that baseball
extra innings is not sudden death. It's not there's you know,
there's an opportunity for the home team to always come
back the next half inning. But there's something that is
so tense even about that, where if Will Smith hits
that home run in the top of the eleventh, you
(05:04):
know there's a chance for the Blue Jays, they're not
going to give up. And the first thing that happens
is vlad Guerrero gets up there and hits a double down.
He crushed that ball down the line. Yeah, and then
a sacrifice bunt.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Who does that anymore? Nobody does that anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I love it like we see it. They don't teach
it anymore.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
It was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And for all the people go, oh, they're just trying
to hit home runs. They're trying to hit home runs. Well,
it worked in Game seven. It worked for the people
the you know, the Padres fans and the Mariners fans and.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
The other people go, oh, this is bad. Dodgers are
bad for baseball.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
F and U you know what was bad for baseball
the twenty seventeen Astros, the cheating was bad for baseball.
The fact that they were named World Series champions bad
for baseball. The Dodgers this year this series were good
for baseball. I had people myself included, watching that thing
start to finish and talking about it all the time.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
That never to talk.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
About baseball, you know, the other aspects of it that
I think is different from what we saw even last
year with the Yankees is I don't know anybody who
hates any member of the Dodgers. There's there's no bad guys,
there's no there's no bad characters, there's no I mean,
you've got like Freddie Freeman and Mokie Betts, good Point,
k Hernandez who are all the they're happy, smiley, they
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enjoy what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
And it's a global Teams has a great article about that. So, uh,
it just it was a great time. I think it
was fun to watch something altogether as well. So the
city of La celebrates today. This is going to be
a bigger parade, I think than last year.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Shop dot MLB dot com just stole about three hundred
dollars worth of Michael Monks's money because he's wearing his
brand new blue satin Tommy Lasorda style Dodgers jacket out
on the streets. I love that you check in with
Michael here just a moment he's out there covering the.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
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Speaker 1 (07:07):
I gotta say I would not have hated losing to
the Blue Jays. What a classy organization, the pitchers putting
Alex Vessi's number fifty one on their hats.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I mean, real class fan base as well.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Good, good manager, good coach, all of it.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I love the fact that there's three players I think
it's three right now, three players on the team whose
dad's played in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yeah, I think one of them didn't make the World
Series roster. I don't remember, but we were trying to
come up with the third name, and I could not.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Be Dalton Varshow yeah, Boba Schet Yeah, and vlad Gerreer junior.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Oh oh maybe I just couldn't.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
And then there was before there were other like.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, yeah, Jo, that's the one I couldn't come up with.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
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An hour from now, we have another shot for you
to win one thousand dollars. Well, let's head on out
to the old parade route because at about eleven o'clock
this morning, you're going to see the big celebration for
the Back to Back World champ Dodgers parade through downtown.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Michael Monks, the festivities have already.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I'm begun. I'm sure people are lining up. What's happening?
Do we have Michael Monks?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
No, don't worry, we'll get them. These talking.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Oh there is hi, michaelbody there?
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Can you hear us? Hmmmm, Hi Michael?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Can you hear them? I can?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Oh my god, I can't hear them now wow, Holy
hell my god.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Okay, bought him down.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I have so been that reporter in the field when
there's technical problems and I have lost it like I
I almost almost just now I have lost it. Like
I go from like, oh, I'm not here the Dodgers
prayed to like complete monster, like what the are you doing?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
That's the radio?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Why am I out here?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Like I've gone completely insane to where people that talk
to me for like weeks at.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
A time I was a reporter, nobody wanted to look
you in the.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Not only does he hates the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Okay, relaxed, I don't hate cats. He does not hate
the dog.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
You've been You've been very.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Very complimentary this gratiness. Listen, I'm yeah. I am a
Giants fan, born and bred, raised, will always be. You're
not going to change that. But man, I love it
when there's a good, when there is a competition, when
there's good, When when baseball shows its true self as
one of the more exciting sports that you could that
(10:17):
you could.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Be involved with. Four game sweep is boring.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Four game sweep is beat and it's nothing, means nothing
for the ratings, it's nothing to generate excitement for the game,
none of it. A seven game a seven game World
series that ends in the seventh game in extra innings,
that is absolute poetry.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
It's perfectly classic. That's the way it should always be.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I was asking a sports insider what they thought about
the Giants sports insider and picking up the coach from Tennessee,
you know, the guy with no pro experience, And I said,
how do you think this is going to go?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And the sports insider said, not well, because.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
You've got guys, you know, you know, you got guys
from from everywhere, you know, Venezuela, dr or whatever, and
you're out there from Tennessee and you're like.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
All right, let's takes an extra batting practice, you.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Know, like it's a completely different world of college coaching
and coaching grown men.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
But I was also talking to a sports insider and
not the same one, and he said, hey, at least
it's Buster Posey's choice. Like, as a Giants fan, Buster
Posey is probably on the Mount Rushmore for the team,
which is a crowded route Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
But his opinion, right, who should take over this?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I don't know if that counts because Buster Posey is
from an earlier generation of the Mount Rushmore. Like, like,
you have to know what resonates with people right now,
like with kids right now. You know, Buster Posey, you
and I think of him as twenty two years old, right,
but he's not that anymore. And like that's one of
the things about Dave Roberts is he just transcends.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
He can talk to anybody, you know, he can coach
for anybody.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
He brings out the best and deals with all the personalities,
which is really what it is. How do you deal
with all the personalities and all the egos. And it's
a different ballgame from college, where they're still coachable, trainable.
You can just beat the you know, you can as
opposed to dealing with grown men ego.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Types of situations.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Hey, let's hold on to Michael if we can. I
don't want to cut them short and just put them
on for a minute. So can we do the next
segment with Michael?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Is everybody?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yes, I'm going to say yes, Okay, thank you.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I'm not in charge of anything, but I'm your scheduling.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Awesome, Yeah, make sure he's free. Let's do that.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
There are some other stuff where we get to the
Dodgers prey here in just a second. Senators back on
Capitol Hill today, Government shutdown is in its thirty fourth day.
Over the weekend, there were almost one hundred staffing trigger
reports at FAA facilities, meaning that air traffic controllers had
to adjust to operations to maintain airspace safety. The Trump
(12:56):
administrations face to deadline today to brief a judge on
how it's going to fund the SNAP program because of
the government shutdown and the lapse in funding that was
supposed to take place over the weekend. So there's a
lot of stuff that he is going on that does
not have to do with the Dodgers.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Good morning, Gary. The wedged ball rule is not a
ground rule double.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Thanks one thousand percent incorrect. The wedged ball is a.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Ground I wouldn't come at Gary with rule corrections. He's
pretty good with rules in every capacity of their exists.
He's a rule follower, and if he knows something, it's
the it's the rules for everything.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
So I wouldn't come at him with that.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Right, Michael Monks, I mean you would say also that
the wedged ball is a ground rule double.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
I think that the documents say so, and I think
that's all I have to contribute on that excellent place.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Okay, so where are you? What's happening. It sounds like
it's already a freaking party.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
Oh my gosh, it's been a party since about seven
o'clock this morning, And that really surprised me because folks
had to set up so early, and you know how
it is to get anywhere in Greater Los Angeles. I
talk to people who left their homes at four o'clock
this morning just to claim the prime real estate here
on Temple Street.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
And we are still more than an hour away from
this parade getting started. But these folks were here at
six seven o'clock.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
Only in the past forty five minutes or so have
the sidewalks gotten that photographic image that everybody wants to.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
See, truly packed in like sardines.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Now, getting a little claustrophobic, getting a little anxious throat
closing up a bit.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
But I'm going to continue to bring in the latest
from downtown.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Oh good.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I love it when you put yourself and your needs
aside for our needs.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Michael.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Oh, not to mention how badly I have to pee
right now.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Oh yeah, I know, it's the reporter cross to bear.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
You develop a camel like bladder at some point. Now,
La loves a sequel and this situation and the sequel
was better than the original.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
What is your vibe with the parade? Obviously people have
brought their children.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Do you think, like a lot of people think it's
gonna be even bigger than it was last year?
Speaker 6 (15:13):
You know, I scoped out this place to shack up
for the morning because I'm right next to the County
building where I spend a lot of time.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
And I know this marble block.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
It's about five feet high and I've worked on it
before after meetings, so.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I know it's a good thing.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
But what it didn't anticipate was it's a good spot
for kids whose parents won't come to people to see
the parade, so they're like propped up next to it.
But he can't move my equipment or I'm going to
lose my spot, So we'll just.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Deal with that. As far as the vibe goes, let
me just say this, Los.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Angeles is a globally important city. It's a place everybody
around the world knows. But what I like in moments
like this, just as an observer, is when you're reminded
that at least also just a city, and it's a
place where people live.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
It's a place where people.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Work, and it's a place where these people's teams play,
and this team just happens to be really good, and
so it's just a fun reminder that this is just
a place, and all of these people are showing up
in downtown Los Angeles for their favorite baseball team. It's
totally positive. Everybody's vibing, passing beach balls around. They tried
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to do the way that didn't go as well, but
everybody's clapping when the firefighters go by, when the deputies
go by, when the police go by. I can only
imagine how loud it's going to be right here the
moment the Dodgers passed by.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Now, before today, you said that you do want to
have children. Do you think that after today you'll feel
the same way I do.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
This doesn't bother me at all. I believe that children
are the future. Let's treat them well and let them.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I've gotten a report from my husband who took the
Gold Line downtown that the trains are loaded with Dodger fans.
A super great way to get downtown. Ride that metro.
This thing starts, It officially starts when Michael.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
How long does it go?
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Well, it's relatively short.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
I mean, for as long as people have been waiting
for this thing to get started.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
It starts at around eleven and they expect that the
parade route will be.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Completely finished by eleven forty five, and then the festivities
will move over to Dodgers Stadium, where I believe an
event is scheduled to start a little bit pass twelve,
So a relatively short parade, just to give folks that
release that I know they need after that historic Game
seven victory. What a series it was, and I know
these folks are ready to celebrate, not just for this
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parade but until the next season starts. And yes, the
fans are predicting they'll be back here again next year
celebrating a third.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I love the idea of a three paint. Now talk
to me about the coolers. Are the coolers filled with medello?
Is there a mitch A lot of opportunity? What's going on?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
There are not so many, but I'll tell you this.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
I'm doing another story for later today after the Dodger
celebration starts to die down a little bit for me,
and it's about the significant drop in cannabis sales in
California and in Los Angeles, specifically in some efforts.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
That the government is trying to do to help. I'm
telling you the sales picked up today.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah, you know, I have a hot tip.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
The government isn't no business and should have no business
in the cannabis market, you know, the legal cannabis.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Also it's too expensive.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Well, what they saw was an opportunity to make some
tax money, and now they're not getting as much as
they had.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Right, so people have gone underground.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Do you think the weed understanding here is underground?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yeah, they didn't buy it from the overpriced you know,
hit and puff down the street.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I don't know. This eight year old next to me
just try to sell me a bag. You think that's
not legit? I don't know. It was a little CD honestly.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
We will check back in with Michael throughout the morning.
Thanks man, appreciate it. You got it, Michael Munks. They're
down on the on the streets and down town LA
for this paraid.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Picking up a bag, apparently a bag.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Have you ever gone to I mean, I know you
covered the I'm not a parade person.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
You covered the Kings, covered the King's pay. That was
a great story like that was I mean, Robin and
Don Martin had like some sort of weird faith in
me that did not exist in real life. But like
I heard Pedro's and money were gone somewhere the Kings
win the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
He calls me.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
He's like, I'm gonna need you to host the parade
tomorrow with rich Marada. And I'm like, what, klac what, Like,
I don't know hockey to save my life.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Well, I stayed up all night and I learned hockey.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I watched so much hockey for hours and hours and hours.
I learned Russian, like I really did put everything into it.
And we did that parade and it was so much
fun and it was so great, and we were right
above Staple Center. I'm watching it like from a from
a rooftop kind of thing, watching it go by, and
Victor Brick was on.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
The floats and it was crazy. It was. It was
a great time. But no, I've never gone to the parade.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
As you know, as a fan, I'm not a big
fan of seas of humanity, And as I get older
it gets worse with me in crowds, I just don't
enjoy a crowd.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
But you went to the World Series, Yeah, yeah, that's
a crowd.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
It was. It is probably different. It was I planned
event that's going.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
On, and you've got to where I sit. You know,
in Los Felis.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
There's a lot of there's a lot of air up
there at the top deck where you don't feel claustrophobic.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
All right, we'll come back.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
About an hour from now is when that Dodger parade
is going to start downtown La. Michael Monks is down there.
We'll be checking in with him throughout the show today.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Government shut down hit me last night. There was a
number of.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Ground now it's getting serious.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Ground stops and ground delays. Newark LaGuardia O'Hare lax. So
the Chargers played in Nashville yesterday and we were getting
ready to take off, had already kind of been delayed
about an hour on the tarmac getting ready to take off,
and they said, oops, lax, ground delay. We'll let you
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know in two hours where we're at. So we were
on the tarmac for about three hours in Nashville, and
there were stories as I was looking at Twitter to
see where everyone else was, same kind of thing. Delays
were from about an hour to about two hours for
most flights coming into LAX And this is what happened
in twenty nineteen when you just said delays everywhere, when
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the air traffic controller shortage brought this thing to a head.
It doesn't seem like Trump is in any mood to
change his position on this.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Some of the sixty minutes.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
I didn't watch a whole interview, but I saw some
of the highlights that he did on sixty minutes, and
he seemed very hands off with the whole thing, right,
basically just saying, well, that's for Congress to deal with. Yeah,
And I mean, he obviously would want the government to work,
but it doesn't sound like he's pulling or throwing around
(22:20):
any of his weight in terms of trying to put
pressure on politicians to come to the table and get
this thing done.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Now, because if he did, it would be done right
away if he did throw his weight.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
We're in our thirty fourth day now with the government shutdown.
The record for the longest shutdown is likely going to
be broken a couple days from now because there's zero
sign of any.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Sort of end to all of this.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
You mentioned the FAA facilities, there were ninety eight staffing
trigger reports at different FAA facilities, including airports, because air
traffic controllers had to adjust operations to maintain airspace safety.
That meant, in some cases those ground stops, delaying flights,
rerouting flights, things like that. The other big issue is
(23:05):
that on Friday, two separate federal judges ruled that the
administration must use an emergency fund to help pay for
SNAP benefits the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the fancy way
to say food stamps for more than forty million people.
(23:25):
It's not enough. By the way, this emergency account of
about five and a quarter billion dollars is not enough
to cover the full benefits for the month of November,
because that would be about nine billions, so maybe about
halfway through the month basically. And in this case, the
administration did say today that it will provide some partial
(23:49):
food stamp benefits as they get deeper into this. I
saw something also that just blew me away. There are
about three million households three million, three and a quarter
million households in LA County. According to the La Times,
(24:12):
about a million households in LA County are on EBT.
A third of homes in La County.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah, I heard you heard Conway talking about the number
forty two million or something.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Forty two million nationwide.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
That sounds and he's as he said, this sounds a
lot of people.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
That is an ax ton of people.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
And thirty one percent of LA County if that number is,
if that's right, thirty one percent of.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
LA County is on food stamps.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
We are we are broken. We have We've broken something.
We can't sustain a thirty one percent ratio with thirty
one percent of people receiving food stamps in any portion
of this country. That should be absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
What's the threshold?
Speaker 4 (25:00):
I don't know, but I'm saying that is shocking. Yeah,
I never would have guessed it was there.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Well, especially when you don't see it true.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
But I mean, I drive around. It's not like I'm
I'm immune to seeing.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Neighborhood drive from where you live here.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Sometimes I stop and get a coffee, Okay, I stop
and grab some Tamali's off of the road, do you Yes,
people they sell coolers full of them and they keep them.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Okay, I buy Tomali's. I'm a man of the people.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I am a man of the people. Sometimes I buy
my drugs in certain areas.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
How I want to to Molly. That sounds real good,
like a green chili with some sauce.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
I'll throw down on the order.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Oh, that sounds good.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
So, like in the promo that you crafted and created
because you are a creative audio wizard, are we failing
at saving the world? Like what's happening there? Because it
sounds like there's some sort of Godzilla and he's bringing
the world down, maybe from Dodger Stadium, and we don't
want to deal with.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It or what. I don't understand my role in it.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
You're on the money, You're on the team.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
So I'd like to redo it to where I save
the world. Ide I feel like I just don't care
enough in that and I want to care, like I
want to save the world from that monster.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Gotcha, you do care? I feel like you would save
the word. I totally would, but for comedic purposes. I
was like, what if they don't?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Yeah, So you're saying to me, the more interesting choice
is the better choice.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
But but it.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Doesn't leave me. You know, it doesn't leave me any
sort of.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
There's no hope.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
There's no hope, and you know what, that's not you
and that's not me. Omer We're both hopeful people.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I agree we are, so I think in the next
one we kill the monster.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
You're going to vanquish the monster. Yeah, there's a part.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Too, yomotos O two coming to Kirk Broken back ground
ball bets.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Hazard, steps on the Bags.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Play from the Worst.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I'm Dodgers cement their dynasty.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
It's the most awful call, like I'm sorry, uh, and
I would say, and I've talked to people I would
I apologize for making it personal, but all season long,
I couldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I could not do it because he's like force saying
his voice like he's.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Like forcing it. I don't know what it is, but
I can't listen to it. I listened to another feed.
I'll listen to the Spanish feed, and I don't know Spanish,
but I can't listen.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
To that guy.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
There's a there's a forced to sing songiness to it again?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Oh my god. But I mean, what a series I.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Saw the video of. Actually this is weird. The video
of the radio call. There's a camera in the booth
even sitting next to Rick Monday, and Rick Monday is
just he's just not I mean, stone faced in that
he's not really saying anything.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
But you could tell those guys were super excited. Oh
Rick Monday, I'd love to hear from now. No apologies,
I'm not a Dodgers fan. This was one of the
best world series we've ever seen. It had ever everything.
It had everything. It had drama, it had superstars, it
had the unlikely heroes. It had Pahz which couldn't hit
an insert clever phrase here, you know, coming through with
(02:55):
the game saving catch. You know, all season you heard
you got pa Is and for defense, got he's hit
not hitting for anything, and then all of a sudden
when you need defense. And for all the people who
nay say Dave Roberts myself included, oh you left him
in too long or you know, he was masterful in
managing personalities, keeping the confidence up of a Shehn of
(03:19):
Andy Paz, freaking Mickey Rojas is fifty seven years old,
and I mean, it's just incredible what Dave Roberts was
able to do. Yes, there's talent, but then the guys
that stepped up that were struggling to be the saviors
of the day two games six and seven and on a.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Double play the only thing it didn't have and we
almost got it. Uh, in that extra inning game, in
the first extra inning game that went eighteen is the
only thing this didn't have was a position player pitching.
Just about every other aspect of the game was involved.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
There was a rush up to the mound.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Oh right, there was a yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Well, I mean that was more I thought I saw
it described is not a bench clearing brawl, but more
of an HR meeting where everybody got talked to and
that was about it. I've never seen that in a game,
so I don't think I've seen it in a World Series.
I guarantee I've never seen a bench is clear in
a Game seven of a World Series. It had the
ground rule double where the ball gets stuck. It had
dropped balls, It had errors, It had brilliant defensive plays,
(04:21):
It had plays at the play.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I mean, it just it just had something.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
It had the starting pitcher who comes in in relief
late in the games to come and get the win.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
In Yamamoto's case, it had.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Game seven bringing you two innings from both teams where
they had loaded the bases and left everyone stranded.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
That is such a well, Listen, I know that baseball
extra innings is not sudden death. It's not there's you know,
there's an opportunity for the home team to always come
back the next half inning. But there's something that is
so tense even about that, where if Will Smith hits
that home run in the top of the eleventh, you
(05:04):
know there's a chance for the Blue Jays, they're not
going to give up. And the first thing that happens
is vlad Guerrero gets up there and hits a double down.
He crushed that ball down the line. Yeah, and then
a sacrifice bunt.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Who does that anymore? Nobody does that anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I love it like we see it. They don't teach
it anymore.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
It was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And for all the people go, oh, they're just trying
to hit home runs. They're trying to hit home runs. Well,
it worked in Game seven. It worked for the people
the you know, the Padres fans and the Mariners fans and.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
The other people go, oh, this is bad. Dodgers are
bad for baseball.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
F and U you know what was bad for baseball
the twenty seventeen Astros, the cheating was bad for baseball.
The fact that they were named World Series champions bad
for baseball. The Dodgers this year this series were good
for baseball. I had people myself included, watching that thing
start to finish and talking about it all the time.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
That never to talk.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
About baseball, you know, the other aspects of it that
I think is different from what we saw even last
year with the Yankees is I don't know anybody who
hates any member of the Dodgers. There's there's no bad guys,
there's no there's no bad characters, there's no I mean,
you've got like Freddie Freeman and Mokie Betts, good Point,
k Hernandez who are all the they're happy, smiley, they
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enjoy what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
And it's a global Teams has a great article about that. So, uh,
it just it was a great time. I think it
was fun to watch something altogether as well. So the
city of La celebrates today. This is going to be
a bigger parade, I think than last year.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Shop dot MLB dot com just stole about three hundred
dollars worth of Michael Monks's money because he's wearing his
brand new blue satin Tommy Lasorda style Dodgers jacket out
on the streets. I love that you check in with
Michael here just a moment he's out there covering the.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Right you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
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Speaker 1 (07:07):
I gotta say I would not have hated losing to
the Blue Jays. What a classy organization, the pitchers putting
Alex Vessi's number fifty one on their hats.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I mean, real class fan base as well.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Good, good manager, good coach, all of it.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I love the fact that there's three players I think
it's three right now, three players on the team whose
dad's played in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yeah, I think one of them didn't make the World
Series roster. I don't remember, but we were trying to
come up with the third name, and I could not.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Be Dalton Varshow yeah, Boba Schet Yeah, and vlad Gerreer junior.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Oh oh maybe I just couldn't.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
And then there was before there were other like.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, yeah, Jo, that's the one I couldn't come up with.
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Yeah.
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An hour from now, we have another shot for you
to win one thousand dollars. Well, let's head on out
to the old parade route because at about eleven o'clock
this morning, you're going to see the big celebration for
the Back to Back World champ Dodgers parade through downtown.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Michael Monks, the festivities have already.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I'm begun. I'm sure people are lining up. What's happening?
Do we have Michael Monks?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
No, don't worry, we'll get them. These talking.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Oh there is hi, michaelbody there?
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Can you hear us? Hmmmm, Hi Michael?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Can you hear them? I can?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Oh my god, I can't hear them now wow, Holy
hell my god.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Okay, bought him down.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I have so been that reporter in the field when
there's technical problems and I have lost it like I
I almost almost just now I have lost it. Like
I go from like, oh, I'm not here the Dodgers
prayed to like complete monster, like what the are you doing?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
That's the radio?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Why am I out here?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Like I've gone completely insane to where people that talk
to me for like weeks at.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
A time I was a reporter, nobody wanted to look
you in the.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Not only does he hates the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Okay, relaxed, I don't hate cats. He does not hate
the dog.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
You've been You've been very.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Very complimentary this gratiness. Listen, I'm yeah. I am a
Giants fan, born and bred, raised, will always be. You're
not going to change that. But man, I love it
when there's a good, when there is a competition, when
there's good, When when baseball shows its true self as
one of the more exciting sports that you could that
(10:17):
you could.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Be involved with. Four game sweep is boring.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Four game sweep is beat and it's nothing, means nothing
for the ratings, it's nothing to generate excitement for the game,
none of it. A seven game a seven game World
series that ends in the seventh game in extra innings,
that is absolute poetry.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
It's perfectly classic. That's the way it should always be.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I was asking a sports insider what they thought about
the Giants sports insider and picking up the coach from Tennessee,
you know, the guy with no pro experience, And I said,
how do you think this is going to go?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And the sports insider said, not well, because.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
You've got guys, you know, you know, you got guys
from from everywhere, you know, Venezuela, dr or whatever, and
you're out there from Tennessee and you're like.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
All right, let's takes an extra batting practice, you.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Know, like it's a completely different world of college coaching
and coaching grown men.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
But I was also talking to a sports insider and
not the same one, and he said, hey, at least
it's Buster Posey's choice. Like, as a Giants fan, Buster
Posey is probably on the Mount Rushmore for the team,
which is a crowded route Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
But his opinion, right, who should take over this?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I don't know if that counts because Buster Posey is
from an earlier generation of the Mount Rushmore. Like, like,
you have to know what resonates with people right now,
like with kids right now. You know, Buster Posey, you
and I think of him as twenty two years old, right,
but he's not that anymore. And like that's one of
the things about Dave Roberts is he just transcends.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
He can talk to anybody, you know, he can coach
for anybody.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
He brings out the best and deals with all the personalities,
which is really what it is. How do you deal
with all the personalities and all the egos. And it's
a different ballgame from college, where they're still coachable, trainable.
You can just beat the you know, you can as
opposed to dealing with grown men ego.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Types of situations.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Hey, let's hold on to Michael if we can. I
don't want to cut them short and just put them
on for a minute. So can we do the next
segment with Michael?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Is everybody?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yes, I'm going to say yes, Okay, thank you.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I'm not in charge of anything, but I'm your scheduling.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Awesome, Yeah, make sure he's free. Let's do that.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
There are some other stuff where we get to the
Dodgers prey here in just a second. Senators back on
Capitol Hill today, Government shutdown is in its thirty fourth day.
Over the weekend, there were almost one hundred staffing trigger
reports at FAA facilities, meaning that air traffic controllers had
to adjust to operations to maintain airspace safety. The Trump
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administrations face to deadline today to brief a judge on
how it's going to fund the SNAP program because of
the government shutdown and the lapse in funding that was
supposed to take place over the weekend. So there's a
lot of stuff that he is going on that does
not have to do with the Dodgers.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Good morning, Gary. The wedged ball rule is not a
ground rule double.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Thanks one thousand percent incorrect. The wedged ball is a.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Ground I wouldn't come at Gary with rule corrections. He's
pretty good with rules in every capacity of their exists.
He's a rule follower, and if he knows something, it's
the it's the rules for everything.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
So I wouldn't come at him with that.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Right, Michael Monks, I mean you would say also that
the wedged ball is a ground rule double.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
I think that the documents say so, and I think
that's all I have to contribute on that excellent place.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Okay, so where are you? What's happening. It sounds like
it's already a freaking party.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
Oh my gosh, it's been a party since about seven
o'clock this morning, And that really surprised me because folks
had to set up so early, and you know how
it is to get anywhere in Greater Los Angeles. I
talk to people who left their homes at four o'clock
this morning just to claim the prime real estate here
on Temple Street.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
And we are still more than an hour away from
this parade getting started. But these folks were here at
six seven o'clock.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
Only in the past forty five minutes or so have
the sidewalks gotten that photographic image that everybody wants to.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
See, truly packed in like sardines.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Now, getting a little claustrophobic, getting a little anxious throat
closing up a bit.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
But I'm going to continue to bring in the latest
from downtown.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Oh good.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I love it when you put yourself and your needs
aside for our needs.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Michael.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Oh, not to mention how badly I have to pee
right now.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Oh yeah, I know, it's the reporter cross to bear.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
You develop a camel like bladder at some point. Now,
La loves a sequel and this situation and the sequel
was better than the original.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
What is your vibe with the parade? Obviously people have
brought their children.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Do you think, like a lot of people think it's
gonna be even bigger than it was last year?
Speaker 6 (15:13):
You know, I scoped out this place to shack up
for the morning because I'm right next to the County
building where I spend a lot of time.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
And I know this marble block.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
It's about five feet high and I've worked on it
before after meetings, so.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I know it's a good thing.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
But what it didn't anticipate was it's a good spot
for kids whose parents won't come to people to see
the parade, so they're like propped up next to it.
But he can't move my equipment or I'm going to
lose my spot, So we'll just.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Deal with that. As far as the vibe goes, let
me just say this, Los.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Angeles is a globally important city. It's a place everybody
around the world knows. But what I like in moments
like this, just as an observer, is when you're reminded
that at least also just a city, and it's a
place where people live.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
It's a place where people.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Work, and it's a place where these people's teams play,
and this team just happens to be really good, and
so it's just a fun reminder that this is just
a place, and all of these people are showing up
in downtown Los Angeles for their favorite baseball team. It's
totally positive. Everybody's vibing, passing beach balls around. They tried
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to do the way that didn't go as well, but
everybody's clapping when the firefighters go by, when the deputies
go by, when the police go by. I can only
imagine how loud it's going to be right here the
moment the Dodgers passed by.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Now, before today, you said that you do want to
have children. Do you think that after today you'll feel
the same way I do.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
This doesn't bother me at all. I believe that children
are the future. Let's treat them well and let them.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I've gotten a report from my husband who took the
Gold Line downtown that the trains are loaded with Dodger fans.
A super great way to get downtown. Ride that metro.
This thing starts, It officially starts when Michael.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
How long does it go?
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Well, it's relatively short.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
I mean, for as long as people have been waiting
for this thing to get started.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
It starts at around eleven and they expect that the
parade route will be.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Completely finished by eleven forty five, and then the festivities
will move over to Dodgers Stadium, where I believe an
event is scheduled to start a little bit pass twelve,
So a relatively short parade, just to give folks that
release that I know they need after that historic Game
seven victory. What a series it was, and I know
these folks are ready to celebrate, not just for this
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parade but until the next season starts. And yes, the
fans are predicting they'll be back here again next year
celebrating a third.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I love the idea of a three paint. Now talk
to me about the coolers. Are the coolers filled with medello?
Is there a mitch A lot of opportunity? What's going on?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
There are not so many, but I'll tell you this.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
I'm doing another story for later today after the Dodger
celebration starts to die down a little bit for me,
and it's about the significant drop in cannabis sales in
California and in Los Angeles, specifically in some efforts.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
That the government is trying to do to help. I'm
telling you the sales picked up today.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah, you know, I have a hot tip.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
The government isn't no business and should have no business
in the cannabis market, you know, the legal cannabis.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Also it's too expensive.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Well, what they saw was an opportunity to make some
tax money, and now they're not getting as much as
they had.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Right, so people have gone underground.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Do you think the weed understanding here is underground?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yeah, they didn't buy it from the overpriced you know,
hit and puff down the street.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I don't know. This eight year old next to me
just try to sell me a bag. You think that's
not legit? I don't know. It was a little CD honestly.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
We will check back in with Michael throughout the morning.
Thanks man, appreciate it. You got it, Michael Munks. They're
down on the on the streets and down town LA
for this paraid.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Picking up a bag, apparently a bag.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Have you ever gone to I mean, I know you
covered the I'm not a parade person.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
You covered the Kings, covered the King's pay. That was
a great story like that was I mean, Robin and
Don Martin had like some sort of weird faith in
me that did not exist in real life. But like
I heard Pedro's and money were gone somewhere the Kings
win the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
He calls me.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
He's like, I'm gonna need you to host the parade
tomorrow with rich Marada. And I'm like, what, klac what, Like,
I don't know hockey to save my life.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Well, I stayed up all night and I learned hockey.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I watched so much hockey for hours and hours and hours.
I learned Russian, like I really did put everything into it.
And we did that parade and it was so much
fun and it was so great, and we were right
above Staple Center. I'm watching it like from a from
a rooftop kind of thing, watching it go by, and
Victor Brick was on.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
The floats and it was crazy. It was. It was
a great time. But no, I've never gone to the parade.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
As you know, as a fan, I'm not a big
fan of seas of humanity, And as I get older
it gets worse with me in crowds, I just don't
enjoy a crowd.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
But you went to the World Series, Yeah, yeah, that's
a crowd.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
It was. It is probably different. It was I planned
event that's going.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
On, and you've got to where I sit. You know,
in Los Felis.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
There's a lot of there's a lot of air up
there at the top deck where you don't feel claustrophobic.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
All right, we'll come back.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 4 (20:41):
About an hour from now is when that Dodger parade
is going to start downtown La. Michael Monks is down there.
We'll be checking in with him throughout the show today.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Government shut down hit me last night. There was a
number of.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Ground now it's getting serious.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Ground stops and ground delays. Newark LaGuardia O'Hare lax. So
the Chargers played in Nashville yesterday and we were getting
ready to take off, had already kind of been delayed
about an hour on the tarmac getting ready to take off,
and they said, oops, lax, ground delay. We'll let you
(21:21):
know in two hours where we're at. So we were
on the tarmac for about three hours in Nashville, and
there were stories as I was looking at Twitter to
see where everyone else was, same kind of thing. Delays
were from about an hour to about two hours for
most flights coming into LAX And this is what happened
in twenty nineteen when you just said delays everywhere, when
(21:44):
the air traffic controller shortage brought this thing to a head.
It doesn't seem like Trump is in any mood to
change his position on this.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Some of the sixty minutes.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
I didn't watch a whole interview, but I saw some
of the highlights that he did on sixty minutes, and
he seemed very hands off with the whole thing, right,
basically just saying, well, that's for Congress to deal with. Yeah,
And I mean, he obviously would want the government to work,
but it doesn't sound like he's pulling or throwing around
(22:20):
any of his weight in terms of trying to put
pressure on politicians to come to the table and get
this thing done.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Now, because if he did, it would be done right
away if he did throw his weight.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
We're in our thirty fourth day now with the government shutdown.
The record for the longest shutdown is likely going to
be broken a couple days from now because there's zero
sign of any.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Sort of end to all of this.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
You mentioned the FAA facilities, there were ninety eight staffing
trigger reports at different FAA facilities, including airports, because air
traffic controllers had to adjust operations to maintain airspace safety.
That meant, in some cases those ground stops, delaying flights,
rerouting flights, things like that. The other big issue is
(23:05):
that on Friday, two separate federal judges ruled that the
administration must use an emergency fund to help pay for
SNAP benefits the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the fancy way
to say food stamps for more than forty million people.
(23:25):
It's not enough. By the way, this emergency account of
about five and a quarter billion dollars is not enough
to cover the full benefits for the month of November,
because that would be about nine billions, so maybe about
halfway through the month basically. And in this case, the
administration did say today that it will provide some partial
(23:49):
food stamp benefits as they get deeper into this. I
saw something also that just blew me away. There are
about three million households three million, three and a quarter
million households in LA County. According to the La Times,
(24:12):
about a million households in LA County are on EBT.
A third of homes in La County.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah, I heard you heard Conway talking about the number
forty two million or something.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Forty two million nationwide.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
That sounds and he's as he said, this sounds a
lot of people.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
That is an ax ton of people.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
And thirty one percent of LA County if that number is,
if that's right, thirty one percent of.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
LA County is on food stamps.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
We are we are broken. We have We've broken something.
We can't sustain a thirty one percent ratio with thirty
one percent of people receiving food stamps in any portion
of this country. That should be absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
What's the threshold?
Speaker 4 (25:00):
I don't know, but I'm saying that is shocking. Yeah,
I never would have guessed it was there.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Well, especially when you don't see it true.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
But I mean, I drive around. It's not like I'm
I'm immune to seeing.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Neighborhood drive from where you live here.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Sometimes I stop and get a coffee, Okay, I stop
and grab some Tamali's off of the road, do you Yes,
people they sell coolers full of them and they keep them.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Okay, I buy Tomali's. I'm a man of the people.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I am a man of the people. Sometimes I buy
my drugs in certain areas.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
How I want to to Molly. That sounds real good,
like a green chili with some sauce.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
I'll throw down on the order.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Oh, that sounds good.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
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