August 13, 2024 • 28 mins
Gary and Shannon begin the second hour of the show by talking about an ex-law enforcement and former military officers charged in an alleged sham raid to extort and Orange County man. Laguna Beach residents are complaining to city officials about “destructive tourism” that sweeps through the town every summer.
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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 (00:07):
Well.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
For the second time in as many attempts, Twitter blew
it yesterday.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
The social media site was glitchy.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
A bunch of people couldn't listen to the interview that
Elon Musk was doing with Donald Trump when he started
about forty five minutes late. Elon Musk said there appeared
to be a massive d doos attack on Twitter and
working on shutting it down, and that they were going
to proceed with the interview, but it started about forty
five minutes late.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
It did go for about two hours.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Protesters with the with an organization that I will not
name AH took over the four oh five this morning
in West LA terrible move, demanding a ceasefire in the
Israel Hamas war colin to it arms embargo, so they
shut it down just south of the ten. If you
want to piss people off and get them further against you,
(00:55):
shut down the four five. That'll really ingratiate you to
the greater Los Angeles area.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Moron, Oh, we have got to do the Gavenusom story
which one the photographer.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
I do not know this story.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
All right, Well, we'll do it later this hour and
expand on it. But I will just say this. The office,
the Governor's office is defending the hiring of a director
of photography m A two hundred thousand dollars a year
director of photography.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Wow to the Governor's office. That's incredible.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
But if there's something that he likes, it's favorable lighting
and good hair.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So two former La County Sheriff's deputies and two former
foreign military officials have been charged with threatening a Chinese
national and his family with violence and deportation. It was
a sham raid at this guy's home in Orange County
five years ago. They demanded thirty seven million dollars and
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the rights to the man's business. So they've been a
ragin this week on charges of conspiracy to commit extortion,
attempted extortion, conspiracy against rights, and deprivation of rights under
the color of law.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
All I pleaded not guilty.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
So these two sheriff's deputies and the two former soldiers
from Australia and Great Britain go to this guy's house
in June of twenty nineteen and they force him, his wife,
and their two kids into a single room for several hours.
They take their phones, and they threaten to deport him
unless he complies with their demands.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Now he's a legal permanent resident. Keep that in mind.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
They said.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
The man slammed the business guy against the wall, choked him.
Fearing for his and his family's safety, he signed documents
relinquishing his multi million dollar interest in a tech firm,
a China based company that makes rubber chemicals.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
The money behind all of this, by the way, was
his business partner, a Chinese woman, not indicted, but they
said that all of this was her idea.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I see, they had been fighting legal disputes over the
company in the United States and China for more than
a decade.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
So she hired these guys as hit men, financial hit men,
so to speak. Basically, now here's the problem. One of
the men charged is a guy by the name of
Stephen Langford. He retired from the La County Sheriff's Department
in twenty twenty, but he was a pretty big deal
in the Sheriff's department. Had his hands on a lot
of big cases. And now all the people that he
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helped put Away get to raise their hands and say this.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Guy is not above board, he is dirty.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
It's a Brady violation, and it puts all those cases
in jeopardy, creates a lot more work for the current
law enforcement structure that exists.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
So the first person Langford wasn't apparently the first person
of this group. Glenn Cozart of Upland used to be
a shriff's deputy. He was the one who was originally
hired and then brought on Langford, who in turn was
hired by Max Samuel Bennett Turbot. That's a lot of names,
thirty nine year old British citizen, former member of the
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British Military Prosecutors said that Turbot was hired by the
Chinese businesswoman who financed the bogus rate. And then there
was another guy, Matthew Hart, a forty one year old
Australian citizen who's also been charged in this case. And
if convicted, each of these guys could face up to
twenty years in federal prison. And like you said, the
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repercussions of potentially the shriff's deputy having his hand in
all of these all of these other cases that now
are up.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
In the air. They're all being questioned.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Right, And the law enforcement structure that exists now is
a lot more flimsy than it was when he was
handling cases. So it's good news for a lot of criminals.
This DA doesn't do anything about pains.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
A reminder that next week we are going to be
live in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention. It could
be crazy, It could be absolutely bonkers, depending on how
things go, both inside and outside the Convention Center. It's
at the United Center. It's where the Chicago Bulls play,
the Blackhawks play there too.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
We're set up right next to a magnificent Michael Jordan
statue that I can't wait to climb.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Probably not available for climbing.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
We'll see about that.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I mean, maybe it's one of those like let your
kids run the bases at Dodger Stadium. Maybe there's a
day at United Center where they're like, let your friend
climb the Michael Jordan's.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Well, well, I did notice that it was roped off,
but I mean.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I think there were actual glass walls. It wasn't just
roped off.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
They were not glass walls. It was just a slight roping.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And there's just like Jim Harbaugh taught me, I'll walk
up right to that line and I'll cross it and
then blast through whatever glass walls. Hey, if I get arrested,
that's good for the show. If I get arrested, it's
even better, because yeah, that's true. But if I got
arrested for climbing on a Michael Jordan statue, the mileage
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we could get out of that, that is true. I
mean I got caught with a sight or at Dodger Stadium,
and I've brought it up seven hundred times.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Yeah, you have to get T shirts printed.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
So just so everybody knows, yes, we will be doing
the show live from Chicago all week next week talking
about what's going on in the convention. We'll be talking
about our opinions of what's going on at the convention,
et cetera. And we wanted to go to the Republican Convention.
We wanted to. The financials didn't work out.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Yeah, the sales department didn't get it zact together.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
There wasn't anybody on this floor.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
I know that we will nobody on this floor.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
We wanted to go. So we are going to get
to go to Chicago.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
So we hope that you would tune in, and of
course you can follow us on social media at Gary
and Shannon. We'll be posting videos, We'll be posting our experiences.
We know there are going to be massive protests that
are already planned, and those are the planned ones that.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
We know about. We could see some some other things
go down.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
I can't believe that's next week.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, we got a lot, because what's going
on all right at this A lot of this up next.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Why Laguna Beach thinks tourism is destructive.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Because they're Laguna Beach. They get to live there.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Something to be said about living somewhere people want to
visit and knowing that and being grateful that you're in
that spot.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Yeah right, you get to sleep there every single night.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Can you guys, please please please stop with the commercials
with the doorbell I work from home and it drives
my dogs crazy, which drives me crazy. Please don't make
me change stations. I love you guys, but no more
commercials with doorbells. Please, very very frustrating.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
There's this station that I listen.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Do you want to go for a walk? You want
to go for a walk? Oh no, oh, let's go
for a walk. No w A l K, let's go
for a walk. Stop it, you're horrible. That's worse than
saying mamesa. My dog's probably freaking out right now too.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Your dog's not listening to this show?
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Yeah, is the r one.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
But like, a certain annoying ad can really make you
stop listening to a particular station.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Like, there's a station that I listen to from time
to time, and it's got the most annoying, disgusting ad
on it, and it's about a woman and she's talking
about her husband's yellow, crusty toes and it's disgusting and
it plays all the time, and it makes me never
want to listen to that station.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I'm awful. And the thing is, I don't even know.
I don't know the commercial that she's talking about. I
don't know the one that's got right either.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
But I feel bad about it because I understand how
that can happen.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Laguna Beach c's about six million tourists a year, but
residents who live there say the challenges that these tourists
bring have begun to outweigh the benefits, mostly because people
don't pay attention to the rules at the beach. People
wading into the water and the tide pools when they're
not supposed to. Laguna officials have gone to the city
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council over and over again and urged officials to do
something to address the challenges brought on by these tourists.
And one of the things they have said is, hey,
just start issuing tickets for what is already illegal, which
is smoking. You can't drink in public, you can't litter,
you can't bring a pop up tent that's more than
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six feet wide. All of those things they said, if
you were able to crack down on it would make
a big difference in terms of.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
In terms of just the likeability. Perhaps.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Other people said that the influx of visitors also taxing resources,
because lifeguards have had to pull twenty two hundred people
from the water over the Fourth of July weekend and
since Memorial Day. Ocean rescues are up four hundred percent
since last year.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I love the way it's written in the La Times.
From the exclusive Montage resort, where an ocean view room
costs upwards of one thousand dollars per night, a colony
of seagulls battled over a costco retisserie Chicken carcass, like,
if that's if that's your plight, is a Costco, how
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how dare I have to look at a five dollars
still five dollars?
Speaker 4 (10:24):
I think?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
How dare I have to look at the carcass of
a five dollars meal when I am paying one thousand
dollars a night at the Montage? Ridiculous. I don't feel
bad for you. I just don't well.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
And what is the.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
I don't know what's the what's the downside?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
The upside they're hoping would be more maybe tax revenue
or ticket revenue than which that would be coming in.
And then the downside is you get to live in
one of the most beautiful places in a beautiful rich.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
People that complaining about the pores coming in in the
summer and eating their five dollars chicken, they don't.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Want to be They don't have to see the pores.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
That it's not that.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Is that just assured me that I called.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Wait, why did you play?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
That just assured me that.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
I call it speak and saw the.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Cow because of your succulent Costco rotisserie chicken.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Ah, my succulent Costco chicken.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
They have formed a committee dedicated to addressing visitor issues
there in Laguna, They've launched an ad campaign on Google
to target misbehaving tourists. These ads are going to run
for the rest of the summer and talk about the
common complaints, the litter of the cigarette smoke and the
loud vehicle exhaust So my mother now lives in Laguna.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Apparently she's the one I joke.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Dixie.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yeah, she doesn't live anymore. She's a hundred would have
been one hundred and three right now, Dixie three.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
She's born in twenty one.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
I love that name so much. I'm so sad I
never got to meet her.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
And what a what a just a weird thing that
she was Nate, Uh, what do you call it? She
was married to a guy named dick her Son, right, Yeah,
Dixie and Dickerson. That's some rifleman stuff.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
That's they were very riflemen people.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Yeah, yeah, I know, I.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Can profile correctly. Do you have a good story to
tell us about?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Not only do we have a good story, it's about
an old dog.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
What's the dog's name.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
The old dog's name is.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Good Boy Ivy.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I don't know, is it Ivy?
Speaker 5 (12:51):
I think?
Speaker 7 (12:51):
So?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Okay, we'll go with that. Ivy.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Are we going to have good news, good dog news,
story music.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
We might.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
We might also have to get into your We might
also have to get into your arrest.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Well, no, your meat is American. Get over at Shannon.
You don't need meat.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Garbonzo beans are great, by the way, I know, get
off the meat.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
I'm not getting off the meat, all right, Jacob, you
know what to do with that, right?
Speaker 6 (13:22):
All right?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
I mean I think garbonzo beans are great.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Garbon I've one of my favorite beans.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
But I'm not gonna just eat them.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
That's silly.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
That's just silly.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I've done that.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
I'm Canadian. I can I can explain to you what
I do.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I don't know if I need an explanation, Debra, how
do you eat garbonzo beans?
Speaker 5 (13:45):
What I'm saying is you can? You know you can?
You could put that creative with some rice, with some
black beans. Is that a farting sound?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
No, us, come on it. We're much more grown up, right. Actually,
the boss told me, Debra yesterday. She brought me into
her office and she said, I need you to grow up.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Really hysterical.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
A member of the squad elon Omar congresswoman out of Wisconsin,
trying to avoid Minnesota, Minnesota, trying to avoid the fate
of a couple of her closest allies. They're holding a
primary election today. She's defending her a fifth district seat
against a repeat challenge from former Minneapolis City council member
Don Samuels, happens to be a much more centrist Democrat,
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whom she narrowly defeated just a couple of years ago.
Tropical Storm Ernesto expected to lash the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico,
other parts of the Caribbean today.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
That storm could reach hurricane strength later this week.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Hey, we do have to get into this Gavin Newsome
story coming up next, the one you alerted me to
the fact that he has hired a official photographer who
is going to make more than the Secretary of State.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Well, it's a lot of photo editing.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I assume of Gavin Newsom, we'd make him look smart
and strong and tough.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Guy. M tough guy, dude.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
I just had to chime in about Laguna Beach.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I have a couple of clients that live there that
I got to deal with, which means I gotta go there.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Dude.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Laguna sucks. It's full of Karen's no parking.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
It's just nonsense. Man.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Other than the view, Laguna Beach is not even worth
going to.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Getting in there too is always a hassle.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
That's great, Hey guys.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
Gary from Santa Crita just wondering if Deborah and Shannon's
lap was because the boss pulled her in and told
her to grow up, or because they realized that she
probably wouldn't grow up. Have a good one, see.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Yea, probably both a little bit of both.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Well.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
A good news story to tell you about a kayaker
on a cross country trip through Canada creeks and rivers,
ticks a brief detour to rescue a man's dog that
had been trapped under a log.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
I got the wrong one.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
I was gonna, God, I'm an idiot.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
That's for off the air.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I was gonna say it didn't look like the right one,
but I was gonna let you determine that.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Why do you let me order things without help?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
You've never asked me for help ordering things, and you've
always you've always screwed it up. Tied eyed sweatshirt is
all I have to say. It's all I gotta say. Yeah,
you wore at one time new Zealander.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Tom Hudson was canoeing solo on the Saskatchewan River just
outside the Paw when he found himself on a side quest.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
Okay, he doesn't look okay, And that's where I saw
saw a dog stuck.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
I could just hear a boxing. I actually passed to
and then then turned.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
Around and when I faintly heard the heard the bucking
and churning around and went back to investigate.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
He struck Tom, who had been canoeing across Canada for
two months.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Now, by the way, this is small town Canada television.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
He knew he had to do something when.
Speaker 7 (17:12):
I found out she had a log was actually on
top of the back half of her. They made sure
we stayed there for a few minutes first, just to
make sure she wasn't injured or spinal injuries or anything.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Tom was able to bring the large white dog onto
his canoe. Then they had to find its home.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Now listen, he was flying to BC from his home
in New Zealand, across Canada as far as Manitoba near
the pause, as you heard the reporter say, when he
heard this barking, decided to take a detour to investigate.
Ivy is the name of this fourteen year old Great
Pyrenees who was lost. The owner had been looking for
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her all day the previous day, but there was heavy
brush that prevented him from seeing or hearing her. She
was stuck just a quarter a mile away from home.
And again she was stuck somehow under a log. So
under a law, yeah, Tom ties up his canoe. He
lifts the log off of her back. He carries her
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through knee deep mud and attempts to position her very
comfortably on the canoe because again he wasn't certain at
the time that she was okay, you know, may have
been this spinal injury. She had never been afloat before,
said Tom. So Tom snapped a pretty self explanatory photo
of the first impressions. He paddles about four hundred yards downstream.
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He finds a dock, and he puts Ivy down on
the dock and goes to ring a nearby doorbell, hoping, hey,
whoever answers the door may have an idea at least
who the dog is. So the owner, whose name is
also Tom, says, she's a pretty lucky old dog that
came when that He came by when he did because
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he could have went the other way, on the other
side of the river, and he never would have seen her.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
I probably would have never found her. He said.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
It was funny because the New Zealand accent was startling
to him. Even though he's Canadian, he probably has his
own accent. Tom stuck around. Tom the kayaker stuck around
to help wash the dog off, after which Tom the
dog owner invited him to eat with.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
His fanis I was just going to say, is this
going to be one of those stories where they have
Thanksgiving together for the next twenty five years?
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Could be?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
This is where it gets really sad though, Oh no, well,
I mean no, it's an overall the dog gonna die? No, no, no,
dog's fine. Dog's fine. But he said, being hundreds of
meters from home, probably able to hear your owner, probably
able to smell your owner. I just thought it would
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have been a terrible way for Ivy to go.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Wow when you put it like that.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
So, he says, So there was no way I could
not have done what I did. He does say he
plans to return next spring to finish the voyage. He
told the CBC that he left with a feeling that
all the world's kind people were located in Canada, endeuring
the nation him as much as the wilderness and wildlife
as he had seen along his route.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Where As they say in Canada, his rote.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Turns out the dog is Ivy, a fourteen year old
Great Pyrenees. This reporter says her owner had been looking
for her for several days. Her owners fed her and
gave her a thorough bath.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Yeah, very bath.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Very Everyone has a commercial that that bothers them.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
I think I think everybody's got one.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
The one for me from the one for me on
this station is the is the singing of the diarrhea
we have we've gone through at least I think two
or three, right, Jacob, Different different jingles that involve diarrhea
on this on this station should two or three. It's
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a word that should. You should not want to say
sing Why are we singing diarrhea?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Unless it's Steve Martin, I don't want.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
To hear it. And Gary, this is Mandy from Yukaipa.
I would be so incredibly sad if you grew up.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Shannon.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
You are the highlight of my morning at my pooring job.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
So you guys just keep on doing what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Love your show.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Thank you, that was nice. Funny dea, where did you
find that?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Jacob?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
How do you keep everything but dia? Okay, stop it,
it's a order of audio. It's funny though. He takes
nice pictures of Steve Gregory. Oh yeah, glamor La glam shots.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
It's like, it's like, Jacob is Steve's two hundred thousand
dollars a year photographer.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
That's exactly what Jacob is.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
How much are you making doing that?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Yeah? Not enough.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
California Governor Gavin Newsom's office has added a two hundred
thousand dollars a year director of photography to his office.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
That is uh, that's right in line with him getting
caught at French laundry during the COVID shutdown complete. It
wasn't just the fact that he was out eating when
he told us that we can't go out to eat,
but it was the fact that he was at a
place that charges upwards of seven hundred dollars with the
wine pairings for one person to have dinner. Right, I mean,
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it's just egregious head in the sand, tone deaf about
how real people live in this state behavior.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
The retired photojournalist, a guy named Charles o'mani is now
being paid to capture Gavin Newsom's pictures in wildfire zones
under the one eighteen Freeway when he's cleaning up homeless encampments.
And this guy is a pretty well known photographer. A
list of prominent politicians that he's worked with before, including
former Presidents Obama and Bush. His LinkedIn page shows that
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he was a photojournalist for Newsweek. He's been published by
prominent magazines like Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, the Governor's office,
and again it's that same vein of tone deafness. The
Governor's office issued a statement that says, unlike nearly all
of his predecessors and gubernatorial counterparts, the real story here
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is that Governor Newsome did not have a dedicated photographer
for over five years. We're thrilled that changed when Charles
joined our team.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Who needs a Charles this day and age where everyone
can be a photographer with our iPhones, I we can
all take decent pictures of other people, right, nobody takes
decent pictures of us, But we could, you know, I
mean they said that plenty of other governors have dedicated photographers,
But I bet those other governor's photographers are not making
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close to two hundred thousand dollars. Yeah, you could pay
an intern to take your picture, to vollow you around
and take your picture.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Rattis Doug Elmets is a Republican strategist who says this,
It just doesn't make any sense. The photographer could be
hired as a contractor to a newsome campaign position, and
then you wouldn't have all the questions raised about taxpayer dollars,
because if you hire somebody for two hundred thousand dollars
a year, given that the state is has a seventy
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three billion dollar deficit right now, this is another one
of those tone deaf, complete unforced errors that he has
put himself in. By the way, the photographer makes two
hundred thousand dollars a year, do you know how much
the governor makes in the state of California two hundred
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change two thirty? Yeah, he hot. Now, I don't know
if that means that this guy is clearly he's a Pulitzer.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Not a Pulitzer. He is an award winning.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Sandra Dale O'Connor Henry Kissinger are some of the portraits
featured on his Instagram. Very artful, very lot of black
and Whites, George wo and the great Gavin Newsom right
up there with Henry Kissinger and Sandra Dee O'Connor.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
I just it blows me away that there is no
sense of normalcy. And listen and listen. This is why
people make fun of California. This is why. Yes, if
you live in Missouri, you think, why would anybody want
a picture of the governor? And you have to explain
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to them, well, we come from the capital of narcissism,
and we have a king of narcissism who lives in Sacramento,
and he's gonna want this photographer again if he wants
pictures of himself.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
I don't blame him, I don't fault him for that.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
But the idea that a tax payer two hundred thousand
dollars salary.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
It's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
You're gonna in one week cry out for people that
work in restaurants to make twenty dollars an hour because
they're having such a hard time putting food on the table,
keeping the lights on right. But at the same time,
you are going so you're going to pretend to know
how people are living or struggling, and at the same time,
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in the next week, you're going to hire a photographer
for two hundred thousand dollars a year?
Speaker 5 (26:23):
How many pictures I got taking? What do you it?
Just that that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Maybe he's only taking a couple of day, but it
takes a lot of photoshopping. I don't know. I don't know,
editing after the after the I don't know. But are
you just paying for the name? Like he's not doing
a whole He's not, you know, digging ditches out there
as far as photographer world goes, But you're paying for
the name.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
I think you are paying for the name, which makes
it even worse.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
A reminder, next week, we're going to be live at
the Democratic Nation Convention all week doing the show live
from the right there on the outskirts the concourse around
United Center, the all of the candidates, a bunch of
different politicians, political hacks, and a bunch of people are
going to be walking around and as we did eight
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years ago, we're going to be interviewing everybody.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
We actually have a pretty impressive stage. Yeah, shall we
say it's bigger. It's bigger than all the other stages.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
I would say most people would say that it's the
most impressive, the best. Yeah, yeah, I'm not saying that,
but most people.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
So I think we'll be able to get great guests
because of our beautiful I will admit our beautiful stage.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Our beautiful stage is going to make me repack. Not
that I've packed, but I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
If you could, if you could not just wear shorts
and flip flops and dirty stained undershirts, that would be cool.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
And it's we're going to be in air conditioning, so
I can wear like a long sleeve shirt and not
be uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
That would be nice. A couple of colored shirts, maybe
a jacket. Okay, all right, let's try not to look homeless.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Not this time. Not this time. You've been listening to
The Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
For the second time in as many attempts, Twitter blew
it yesterday.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
The social media site was glitchy.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
A bunch of people couldn't listen to the interview that
Elon Musk was doing with Donald Trump when he started
about forty five minutes late. Elon Musk said there appeared
to be a massive d doos attack on Twitter and
working on shutting it down, and that they were going
to proceed with the interview, but it started about forty
five minutes late.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
It did go for about two hours.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Protesters with the with an organization that I will not
name AH took over the four oh five this morning
in West LA terrible move, demanding a ceasefire in the
Israel Hamas war colin to it arms embargo, so they
shut it down just south of the ten. If you
want to piss people off and get them further against you,
(00:55):
shut down the four five. That'll really ingratiate you to
the greater Los Angeles area.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Moron, Oh, we have got to do the Gavenusom story
which one the photographer.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
I do not know this story.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
All right, Well, we'll do it later this hour and
expand on it. But I will just say this. The office,
the Governor's office is defending the hiring of a director
of photography m A two hundred thousand dollars a year
director of photography.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Wow to the Governor's office. That's incredible.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
But if there's something that he likes, it's favorable lighting
and good hair.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So two former La County Sheriff's deputies and two former
foreign military officials have been charged with threatening a Chinese
national and his family with violence and deportation. It was
a sham raid at this guy's home in Orange County
five years ago. They demanded thirty seven million dollars and
(01:58):
the rights to the man's business. So they've been a
ragin this week on charges of conspiracy to commit extortion,
attempted extortion, conspiracy against rights, and deprivation of rights under
the color of law.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
All I pleaded not guilty.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
So these two sheriff's deputies and the two former soldiers
from Australia and Great Britain go to this guy's house
in June of twenty nineteen and they force him, his wife,
and their two kids into a single room for several hours.
They take their phones, and they threaten to deport him
unless he complies with their demands.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Now he's a legal permanent resident. Keep that in mind.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
They said.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
The man slammed the business guy against the wall, choked him.
Fearing for his and his family's safety, he signed documents
relinquishing his multi million dollar interest in a tech firm,
a China based company that makes rubber chemicals.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
The money behind all of this, by the way, was
his business partner, a Chinese woman, not indicted, but they
said that all of this was her idea.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I see, they had been fighting legal disputes over the
company in the United States and China for more than
a decade.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
So she hired these guys as hit men, financial hit men,
so to speak. Basically, now here's the problem. One of
the men charged is a guy by the name of
Stephen Langford. He retired from the La County Sheriff's Department
in twenty twenty, but he was a pretty big deal
in the Sheriff's department. Had his hands on a lot
of big cases. And now all the people that he
(03:36):
helped put Away get to raise their hands and say this.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Guy is not above board, he is dirty.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
It's a Brady violation, and it puts all those cases
in jeopardy, creates a lot more work for the current
law enforcement structure that exists.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
So the first person Langford wasn't apparently the first person
of this group. Glenn Cozart of Upland used to be
a shriff's deputy. He was the one who was originally
hired and then brought on Langford, who in turn was
hired by Max Samuel Bennett Turbot. That's a lot of names,
thirty nine year old British citizen, former member of the
(04:15):
British Military Prosecutors said that Turbot was hired by the
Chinese businesswoman who financed the bogus rate. And then there
was another guy, Matthew Hart, a forty one year old
Australian citizen who's also been charged in this case. And
if convicted, each of these guys could face up to
twenty years in federal prison. And like you said, the
(04:36):
repercussions of potentially the shriff's deputy having his hand in
all of these all of these other cases that now
are up.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
In the air. They're all being questioned.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Right, And the law enforcement structure that exists now is
a lot more flimsy than it was when he was
handling cases. So it's good news for a lot of criminals.
This DA doesn't do anything about pains.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
A reminder that next week we are going to be
live in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention. It could
be crazy, It could be absolutely bonkers, depending on how
things go, both inside and outside the Convention Center. It's
at the United Center. It's where the Chicago Bulls play,
the Blackhawks play there too.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
We're set up right next to a magnificent Michael Jordan
statue that I can't wait to climb.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Probably not available for climbing.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
We'll see about that.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I mean, maybe it's one of those like let your
kids run the bases at Dodger Stadium. Maybe there's a
day at United Center where they're like, let your friend
climb the Michael Jordan's.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Well, well, I did notice that it was roped off,
but I mean.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I think there were actual glass walls. It wasn't just
roped off.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
They were not glass walls. It was just a slight roping.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And there's just like Jim Harbaugh taught me, I'll walk
up right to that line and I'll cross it and
then blast through whatever glass walls. Hey, if I get arrested,
that's good for the show. If I get arrested, it's
even better, because yeah, that's true. But if I got
arrested for climbing on a Michael Jordan statue, the mileage
(06:11):
we could get out of that, that is true. I
mean I got caught with a sight or at Dodger Stadium,
and I've brought it up seven hundred times.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Yeah, you have to get T shirts printed.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
So just so everybody knows, yes, we will be doing
the show live from Chicago all week next week talking
about what's going on in the convention. We'll be talking
about our opinions of what's going on at the convention,
et cetera. And we wanted to go to the Republican Convention.
We wanted to. The financials didn't work out.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Yeah, the sales department didn't get it zact together.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
There wasn't anybody on this floor.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
I know that we will nobody on this floor.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
We wanted to go. So we are going to get
to go to Chicago.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
So we hope that you would tune in, and of
course you can follow us on social media at Gary
and Shannon. We'll be posting videos, We'll be posting our experiences.
We know there are going to be massive protests that
are already planned, and those are the planned ones that.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
We know about. We could see some some other things
go down.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
I can't believe that's next week.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, we got a lot, because what's going
on all right at this A lot of this up next.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Why Laguna Beach thinks tourism is destructive.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Because they're Laguna Beach. They get to live there.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Something to be said about living somewhere people want to
visit and knowing that and being grateful that you're in
that spot.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Yeah right, you get to sleep there every single night.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Can you guys, please please please stop with the commercials
with the doorbell I work from home and it drives
my dogs crazy, which drives me crazy. Please don't make
me change stations. I love you guys, but no more
commercials with doorbells. Please, very very frustrating.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
There's this station that I listen.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Do you want to go for a walk? You want
to go for a walk? Oh no, oh, let's go
for a walk. No w A l K, let's go
for a walk. Stop it, you're horrible. That's worse than
saying mamesa. My dog's probably freaking out right now too.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Your dog's not listening to this show?
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Yeah, is the r one.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
But like, a certain annoying ad can really make you
stop listening to a particular station.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Like, there's a station that I listen to from time
to time, and it's got the most annoying, disgusting ad
on it, and it's about a woman and she's talking
about her husband's yellow, crusty toes and it's disgusting and
it plays all the time, and it makes me never
want to listen to that station.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I'm awful. And the thing is, I don't even know.
I don't know the commercial that she's talking about. I
don't know the one that's got right either.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
But I feel bad about it because I understand how
that can happen.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Laguna Beach c's about six million tourists a year, but
residents who live there say the challenges that these tourists
bring have begun to outweigh the benefits, mostly because people
don't pay attention to the rules at the beach. People
wading into the water and the tide pools when they're
not supposed to. Laguna officials have gone to the city
(09:08):
council over and over again and urged officials to do
something to address the challenges brought on by these tourists.
And one of the things they have said is, hey,
just start issuing tickets for what is already illegal, which
is smoking. You can't drink in public, you can't litter,
you can't bring a pop up tent that's more than
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six feet wide. All of those things they said, if
you were able to crack down on it would make
a big difference in terms of.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
In terms of just the likeability. Perhaps.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Other people said that the influx of visitors also taxing resources,
because lifeguards have had to pull twenty two hundred people
from the water over the Fourth of July weekend and
since Memorial Day. Ocean rescues are up four hundred percent
since last year.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I love the way it's written in the La Times.
From the exclusive Montage resort, where an ocean view room
costs upwards of one thousand dollars per night, a colony
of seagulls battled over a costco retisserie Chicken carcass, like,
if that's if that's your plight, is a Costco, how
(10:19):
how dare I have to look at a five dollars
still five dollars?
Speaker 4 (10:24):
I think?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
How dare I have to look at the carcass of
a five dollars meal when I am paying one thousand
dollars a night at the Montage? Ridiculous. I don't feel
bad for you. I just don't well.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
And what is the.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
I don't know what's the what's the downside?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
The upside they're hoping would be more maybe tax revenue
or ticket revenue than which that would be coming in.
And then the downside is you get to live in
one of the most beautiful places in a beautiful rich.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
People that complaining about the pores coming in in the
summer and eating their five dollars chicken, they don't.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Want to be They don't have to see the pores.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
That it's not that.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Is that just assured me that I called.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Wait, why did you play?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
That just assured me that.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
I call it speak and saw the.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Cow because of your succulent Costco rotisserie chicken.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Ah, my succulent Costco chicken.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
They have formed a committee dedicated to addressing visitor issues
there in Laguna, They've launched an ad campaign on Google
to target misbehaving tourists. These ads are going to run
for the rest of the summer and talk about the
common complaints, the litter of the cigarette smoke and the
loud vehicle exhaust So my mother now lives in Laguna.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Apparently she's the one I joke.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Dixie.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yeah, she doesn't live anymore. She's a hundred would have
been one hundred and three right now, Dixie three.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
She's born in twenty one.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
I love that name so much. I'm so sad I
never got to meet her.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
And what a what a just a weird thing that
she was Nate, Uh, what do you call it? She
was married to a guy named dick her Son, right, Yeah,
Dixie and Dickerson. That's some rifleman stuff.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
That's they were very riflemen people.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Yeah, yeah, I know, I.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Can profile correctly. Do you have a good story to
tell us about?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Not only do we have a good story, it's about
an old dog.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
What's the dog's name.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
The old dog's name is.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Good Boy Ivy.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I don't know, is it Ivy?
Speaker 5 (12:51):
I think?
Speaker 7 (12:51):
So?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Okay, we'll go with that. Ivy.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Are we going to have good news, good dog news,
story music.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
We might.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
We might also have to get into your We might
also have to get into your arrest.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Well, no, your meat is American. Get over at Shannon.
You don't need meat.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Garbonzo beans are great, by the way, I know, get
off the meat.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
I'm not getting off the meat, all right, Jacob, you
know what to do with that, right?
Speaker 6 (13:22):
All right?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
I mean I think garbonzo beans are great.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Garbon I've one of my favorite beans.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
But I'm not gonna just eat them.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
That's silly.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
That's just silly.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I've done that.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
I'm Canadian. I can I can explain to you what
I do.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I don't know if I need an explanation, Debra, how
do you eat garbonzo beans?
Speaker 5 (13:45):
What I'm saying is you can? You know you can?
You could put that creative with some rice, with some
black beans. Is that a farting sound?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
No, us, come on it. We're much more grown up, right. Actually,
the boss told me, Debra yesterday. She brought me into
her office and she said, I need you to grow up.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Really hysterical.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
A member of the squad elon Omar congresswoman out of Wisconsin,
trying to avoid Minnesota, Minnesota, trying to avoid the fate
of a couple of her closest allies. They're holding a
primary election today. She's defending her a fifth district seat
against a repeat challenge from former Minneapolis City council member
Don Samuels, happens to be a much more centrist Democrat,
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whom she narrowly defeated just a couple of years ago.
Tropical Storm Ernesto expected to lash the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico,
other parts of the Caribbean today.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
That storm could reach hurricane strength later this week.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Hey, we do have to get into this Gavin Newsome
story coming up next, the one you alerted me to
the fact that he has hired a official photographer who
is going to make more than the Secretary of State.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Well, it's a lot of photo editing.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I assume of Gavin Newsom, we'd make him look smart
and strong and tough.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Guy. M tough guy, dude.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
I just had to chime in about Laguna Beach.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I have a couple of clients that live there that
I got to deal with, which means I gotta go there.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Dude.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Laguna sucks. It's full of Karen's no parking.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
It's just nonsense. Man.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Other than the view, Laguna Beach is not even worth
going to.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Getting in there too is always a hassle.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
That's great, Hey guys.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
Gary from Santa Crita just wondering if Deborah and Shannon's
lap was because the boss pulled her in and told
her to grow up, or because they realized that she
probably wouldn't grow up. Have a good one, see.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Yea, probably both a little bit of both.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Well.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
A good news story to tell you about a kayaker
on a cross country trip through Canada creeks and rivers,
ticks a brief detour to rescue a man's dog that
had been trapped under a log.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
I got the wrong one.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
I was gonna, God, I'm an idiot.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
That's for off the air.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I was gonna say it didn't look like the right one,
but I was gonna let you determine that.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Why do you let me order things without help?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
You've never asked me for help ordering things, and you've
always you've always screwed it up. Tied eyed sweatshirt is
all I have to say. It's all I gotta say. Yeah,
you wore at one time new Zealander.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Tom Hudson was canoeing solo on the Saskatchewan River just
outside the Paw when he found himself on a side quest.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
Okay, he doesn't look okay, And that's where I saw
saw a dog stuck.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
I could just hear a boxing. I actually passed to
and then then turned.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
Around and when I faintly heard the heard the bucking
and churning around and went back to investigate.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
He struck Tom, who had been canoeing across Canada for
two months.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Now, by the way, this is small town Canada television.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
He knew he had to do something when.
Speaker 7 (17:12):
I found out she had a log was actually on
top of the back half of her. They made sure
we stayed there for a few minutes first, just to
make sure she wasn't injured or spinal injuries or anything.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Tom was able to bring the large white dog onto
his canoe. Then they had to find its home.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Now listen, he was flying to BC from his home
in New Zealand, across Canada as far as Manitoba near
the pause, as you heard the reporter say, when he
heard this barking, decided to take a detour to investigate.
Ivy is the name of this fourteen year old Great
Pyrenees who was lost. The owner had been looking for
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her all day the previous day, but there was heavy
brush that prevented him from seeing or hearing her. She
was stuck just a quarter a mile away from home.
And again she was stuck somehow under a log. So
under a law, yeah, Tom ties up his canoe. He
lifts the log off of her back. He carries her
(18:11):
through knee deep mud and attempts to position her very
comfortably on the canoe because again he wasn't certain at
the time that she was okay, you know, may have
been this spinal injury. She had never been afloat before,
said Tom. So Tom snapped a pretty self explanatory photo
of the first impressions. He paddles about four hundred yards downstream.
(18:32):
He finds a dock, and he puts Ivy down on
the dock and goes to ring a nearby doorbell, hoping, hey,
whoever answers the door may have an idea at least
who the dog is. So the owner, whose name is
also Tom, says, she's a pretty lucky old dog that
came when that He came by when he did because
(18:53):
he could have went the other way, on the other
side of the river, and he never would have seen her.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
I probably would have never found her. He said.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
It was funny because the New Zealand accent was startling
to him. Even though he's Canadian, he probably has his
own accent. Tom stuck around. Tom the kayaker stuck around
to help wash the dog off, after which Tom the
dog owner invited him to eat with.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
His fanis I was just going to say, is this
going to be one of those stories where they have
Thanksgiving together for the next twenty five years?
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Could be?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
This is where it gets really sad though, Oh no, well,
I mean no, it's an overall the dog gonna die? No, no, no,
dog's fine. Dog's fine. But he said, being hundreds of
meters from home, probably able to hear your owner, probably
able to smell your owner. I just thought it would
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have been a terrible way for Ivy to go.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Wow when you put it like that.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
So, he says, So there was no way I could
not have done what I did. He does say he
plans to return next spring to finish the voyage. He
told the CBC that he left with a feeling that
all the world's kind people were located in Canada, endeuring
the nation him as much as the wilderness and wildlife
as he had seen along his route.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Where As they say in Canada, his rote.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Turns out the dog is Ivy, a fourteen year old
Great Pyrenees. This reporter says her owner had been looking
for her for several days. Her owners fed her and
gave her a thorough bath.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Yeah, very bath.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Very Everyone has a commercial that that bothers them.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
I think I think everybody's got one.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
The one for me from the one for me on
this station is the is the singing of the diarrhea
we have we've gone through at least I think two
or three, right, Jacob, Different different jingles that involve diarrhea
on this on this station should two or three. It's
(20:49):
a word that should. You should not want to say
sing Why are we singing diarrhea?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Unless it's Steve Martin, I don't want.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
To hear it. And Gary, this is Mandy from Yukaipa.
I would be so incredibly sad if you grew up.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Shannon.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
You are the highlight of my morning at my pooring job.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
So you guys just keep on doing what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Love your show.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Thank you, that was nice. Funny dea, where did you
find that?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Jacob?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
How do you keep everything but dia? Okay, stop it,
it's a order of audio. It's funny though. He takes
nice pictures of Steve Gregory. Oh yeah, glamor La glam shots.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
It's like, it's like, Jacob is Steve's two hundred thousand
dollars a year photographer.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
That's exactly what Jacob is.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
How much are you making doing that?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Yeah? Not enough.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
California Governor Gavin Newsom's office has added a two hundred
thousand dollars a year director of photography to his office.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
That is uh, that's right in line with him getting
caught at French laundry during the COVID shutdown complete. It
wasn't just the fact that he was out eating when
he told us that we can't go out to eat,
but it was the fact that he was at a
place that charges upwards of seven hundred dollars with the
wine pairings for one person to have dinner. Right, I mean,
(22:17):
it's just egregious head in the sand, tone deaf about
how real people live in this state behavior.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
The retired photojournalist, a guy named Charles o'mani is now
being paid to capture Gavin Newsom's pictures in wildfire zones
under the one eighteen Freeway when he's cleaning up homeless encampments.
And this guy is a pretty well known photographer. A
list of prominent politicians that he's worked with before, including
former Presidents Obama and Bush. His LinkedIn page shows that
(22:50):
he was a photojournalist for Newsweek. He's been published by
prominent magazines like Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, the Governor's office,
and again it's that same vein of tone deafness. The
Governor's office issued a statement that says, unlike nearly all
of his predecessors and gubernatorial counterparts, the real story here
(23:14):
is that Governor Newsome did not have a dedicated photographer
for over five years. We're thrilled that changed when Charles
joined our team.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Who needs a Charles this day and age where everyone
can be a photographer with our iPhones, I we can
all take decent pictures of other people, right, nobody takes
decent pictures of us, But we could, you know, I
mean they said that plenty of other governors have dedicated photographers,
But I bet those other governor's photographers are not making
(23:47):
close to two hundred thousand dollars. Yeah, you could pay
an intern to take your picture, to vollow you around
and take your picture.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Rattis Doug Elmets is a Republican strategist who says this,
It just doesn't make any sense. The photographer could be
hired as a contractor to a newsome campaign position, and
then you wouldn't have all the questions raised about taxpayer dollars,
because if you hire somebody for two hundred thousand dollars
a year, given that the state is has a seventy
(24:19):
three billion dollar deficit right now, this is another one
of those tone deaf, complete unforced errors that he has
put himself in. By the way, the photographer makes two
hundred thousand dollars a year, do you know how much
the governor makes in the state of California two hundred
(24:40):
change two thirty? Yeah, he hot. Now, I don't know
if that means that this guy is clearly he's a Pulitzer.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Not a Pulitzer. He is an award winning.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Sandra Dale O'Connor Henry Kissinger are some of the portraits
featured on his Instagram. Very artful, very lot of black
and Whites, George wo and the great Gavin Newsom right
up there with Henry Kissinger and Sandra Dee O'Connor.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
I just it blows me away that there is no
sense of normalcy. And listen and listen. This is why
people make fun of California. This is why. Yes, if
you live in Missouri, you think, why would anybody want
a picture of the governor? And you have to explain
(25:32):
to them, well, we come from the capital of narcissism,
and we have a king of narcissism who lives in Sacramento,
and he's gonna want this photographer again if he wants
pictures of himself.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
I don't blame him, I don't fault him for that.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
But the idea that a tax payer two hundred thousand
dollars salary.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
It's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
You're gonna in one week cry out for people that
work in restaurants to make twenty dollars an hour because
they're having such a hard time putting food on the table,
keeping the lights on right. But at the same time,
you are going so you're going to pretend to know
how people are living or struggling, and at the same time,
(26:17):
in the next week, you're going to hire a photographer
for two hundred thousand dollars a year?
Speaker 5 (26:23):
How many pictures I got taking? What do you it?
Just that that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Maybe he's only taking a couple of day, but it
takes a lot of photoshopping. I don't know. I don't know,
editing after the after the I don't know. But are
you just paying for the name? Like he's not doing
a whole He's not, you know, digging ditches out there
as far as photographer world goes, But you're paying for
the name.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
I think you are paying for the name, which makes
it even worse.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
A reminder, next week, we're going to be live at
the Democratic Nation Convention all week doing the show live
from the right there on the outskirts the concourse around
United Center, the all of the candidates, a bunch of
different politicians, political hacks, and a bunch of people are
going to be walking around and as we did eight
(27:17):
years ago, we're going to be interviewing everybody.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
We actually have a pretty impressive stage. Yeah, shall we
say it's bigger. It's bigger than all the other stages.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
I would say most people would say that it's the
most impressive, the best. Yeah, yeah, I'm not saying that,
but most people.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
So I think we'll be able to get great guests
because of our beautiful I will admit our beautiful stage.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Our beautiful stage is going to make me repack. Not
that I've packed, but I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
If you could, if you could not just wear shorts
and flip flops and dirty stained undershirts, that would be cool.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
And it's we're going to be in air conditioning, so
I can wear like a long sleeve shirt and not
be uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
That would be nice. A couple of colored shirts, maybe
a jacket. Okay, all right, let's try not to look homeless.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Not this time. Not this time. You've been listening to
The Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
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