August 8, 2025 • 30 mins
Canyon fire explodes to nearly 5,000 acres. Fred Roggin joins the show and tells a story about cats for national cat day. MLB is calling up its first female umpire.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
I AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
We're gonna do your Jeopardy question right away.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Oh, I'm not ready for this before.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
And after for twelve hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Oh, it's a fun thing where I got to combine
two things together.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
What a plant growing expert who's a good hand around
the garden would carry computer files on?
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
What is a green thumb drive?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Bingo?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Not fun with Let's start today.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Starting with a win.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I know I can.
Speaker 6 (00:38):
I feel better now already. I know I'm not a
joyless ogre am.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I no, no, not.
Speaker 6 (00:43):
Today today, Not today today.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I am going to honk my horn in a tunnel
so much.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Sorry that I should.
Speaker 6 (00:50):
Not, especially this early. I'm dealing with dealing with copyright infringement.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I know.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Oh see Petro, this is gonna start texting. He gets
really pissed off, really upset.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Do you think he's awake?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, well he gets up to monitor all the other
shows to make sure they don't steal.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Not much.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
And how many times do people steal it? Not much?
Maybe just once or twice.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
Gary and Shannon kf I am six forty live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. We will keep a sex toy
talk to a minimum today. I mean, there is just
one maybe topic maybe that we'll get into just a
little bit. But other than that, we're not gonna We're
not gonna wallow in it.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Can I have some death music? I have some bad
news to tell you about?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
This is I hope that I'm the first one to
tell you this and that you didn't see this when
you were alone, because I wanted you to get this
information from somebody that you trust, that.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
You feel safe with.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Who that would be me?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Oh right, yes it you Elainey Cunelacus is out of
the governor's race.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Well, I will say this. I do thank her for
that because that saves.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Us the heartache that we were going to have.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Actually, that saves us the struggle of trying to spell
Kuna Loachus over and over again.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I have just now nailed her name and she drops
out just like that.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
That's what she was waiting for. It was a trick.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
There's a trick the whole time.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Well, I see her having a bright future, So maybe
all of my studying will be not.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
For not Speaking of candidates, did you see that there
was a report that Steve Bannon was thinking of running
for president in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
He would never do that. He couldn't. Well, he couldn't.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Also he couldn't. He wouldn't. As that guy's face.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
On the screen, I was just going to say, as
mean as it is, there's still there's still what's the word,
there's still a bar that must be met when it
comes to some sort of physical appeal.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I call it the JFK televised debate bar.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
His stock rose after that because he looked.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
Good opposed to Nixon, who looked like somebody hit him
in the face with a dog a truck, a truck.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Going to be mean?
Speaker 7 (03:02):
Oh no, no, that's a joyful that's a joyful mean thing.
Maybe we killed the death music. Okay, the fire, before
we get to the fire. No, let's talk about the fire.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
What were you gonna say?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
But I was going to say something about what I
did last night? But we can get to that later,
because I had an absolute we don't need to.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Talk about your sex life on the radio.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
And no, no, before that, oh, the fire that exploded
up in northern La County. The Canyon Fire is now
almost five thousand acres that will go up. We saw
it expand overnight and they're going to get some measurements.
It was about one hundred and one at my house,
which is close enough. I could see the fire and
the smoke. Yesterday did get of course the evacuation warning,
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but I'm not in the area where it's being evacuated.
It's a couple a couple of blocks over, evacuation blocks over.
But there are plenty of people, hundreds and hundreds of
families that have had to get out of the way
of this. The weather today in this area is going
to be probably a degree or two cooler, maybe three,
but that's still right around that century mark, so it's
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going to be incredible hell for the men and women
that are out there fighting this fire.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
It is moving.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
It started sort of in the Valverde area and it
has been moving to the north and to the east,
which makes it basically targeting Casteak Lake. Now, before it
gets to the lake, it's got to go through hundreds
of homes, cross Eye five and get to Casteak Lake.
They are doing their best to put some line around
that fire and prevent it from making its way into
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those neighborhoods.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Now, it's going to get worse today, right the conditions.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Well, the temperature will go down a little bit, the
wind might pick up.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
That's the one.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
That's the one benefit from yesterday or one silver lining
was the wind was almost non existent this morning. When
you get up, you could see the smoke all over
that Santa Clarita Valley and wigh out the one twenty six,
So made for a beautiful sunrise, but still something.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
That's you know, they need to get the handle on
this thing.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, now is the time to make that progress because
the winds will kick up in the early afternoon.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
And this was one of those things that even without
the wind because of the conditions and the fuel out there.
It was initially reported at about thirty acres, so this
would have been right after our show yesterday that this
thing started somehow, but within about two hours it jumped
to one thousand acres and then by this morning the
official number is four thousand, eight hundred and fifty six.
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Also of brush fire that broke out yesterday along the
sixty freeway in Euroupa Valley had some evacuation orders and warnings,
but they said it's not expected to grow too much.
This is called the real fire. Just after five o'clock
is when it was reported yesterday. And then the Gifford fire,
of course, the big one burning up in the Santa
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Maria area, is now close to one hundred thousand acres.
It's officially at ninety nine thousand, two hundred and two
acres and fifteen percent containment.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
All right, coming up next to what you did last
night before the sex.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
You don't know that, that's how the night ended.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
And then we'll get into what stocks can tell us
about America's guilty pleasures.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Some fun stuff in there, and.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
A sports roundup that shows us we are ready for
regular season football. Three non stories making major headlines this week. Yeah,
it's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
We are so thirsty, We are so thirsty.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
For real sports, normal football.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Yeah, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
That's dangerous. I know.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Still more than nine thousand DWP customers in Granada Hills
and Port of Ranch going to be without water. Looks
like it could be through the weekend. Cruz doing repair
work this week at a pump station that connects a
ten million gallon water tank that serves the area of
valve that controls the flow of water didn't reopen. And
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the problem is that valve is about twenty feet underground
and there are a couple of underground oil pipelines, a
fiber optic line, a gas line, and there's huge boulders
underground in that area and that's complicated. So DWP says
they may be working, they will be working around the
clock to get this thing fixed, but that it could
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still take through the weekend.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
So you were at the Peterson Automotive Museum last night.
You had told me you were doing this event a
while back and you had never been before, and I thought, oh,
you're going to love that museum.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Did you get a chance to see it at all?
Speaker 6 (07:36):
I walked through just portion a portion of the first
floor and it was.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Gobsmacking. Yeah. I absolutely loved it. Cool.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Yeah, And I'm taking pictures and I'm sending to my
son because I'm trying to remember did he ever go there?
Did he have a prom there or something it was.
He's never been there, but he would love it as well.
I think my favorite one of the pictures that I
took was a and it's right at the beginning, right
when you walk in, it's a giant American flag made
up of hot wheels cars and there's a specific artist
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that was credited.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I wish I would have gotten his name.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
I don't remember what it was, but the specific artists
that did this and all of these other displays that
are in that first it's not the lobby, but that
first portion of the museum as you go through, and
there's just everything in there. I mean from legendary race
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cars to movie and TV cars and motorcycles and things
like that.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
It was awesome. It was really really cool.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
There's so much history involved too.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
When you think about automotive evolution, you know, I realized
that when I went to the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
It was just, you know, it sticks out as you know,
it's not just about cars. It's so much bigger than that.
It's not just about racing, it's so much bigger than that.
And will you send that picture of the hot wheels
flagged my brother?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I would love that anyway.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
You were there for an event, yes, I actually was
lucky enough to mc again Gala, the annual gala for
the Triumph Foundation. What is that, which is an organization
that comes alongside people who have spinal cord injuries or
a paralysis, disease of some kind disorder. And basically it
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was founded by a guy who suffered his own spinal
cord injury when he was younger and was paralyzed from
the waist down after a snowboarding accident, and there was
not a lot of there weren't a lot of resources
for him to kind of plug back into and figure
out how to navigate this new way of life. So
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he started this two thousand and eight and being.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Like a super active guy that suddenly couldn't.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Walk right, yeah, and how do you even where do you?
Speaker 6 (10:01):
There's so many questions and your life is so completely
altered at that point, and not just you. He was
newly married, so we had a young wife, his parents,
I mean, they had to move in with his parents.
I mean, there's just there's an overwhelming amount of stuff
that happens to someone's life outside of just the physical life.
(10:21):
So they come alongside and they will visit people in
the hospital. If you if you suffered a spinal cord
injury and the paralysis is you know, uh, in your diagnosis,
A lot of the hospitals around here will contact the
Triumph Foundation and they'll send an ambassador is basically what
it's called, which is often somebody who themselves suffered as
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spinal cord injury into the hospital, give him a big
backpack full of all of the first time you know
resources that they're going to need from simple basic you
know things about how your house is going to have
to change.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
The people that you can call any time you got
questions about how do I do this? Or what happens
now or what does what does life look like for me?
I used to love doing X, Y or Z. Can
I still do it? They so not just those gift bags,
but they do a bunch of outside programs on an
annual basis. The Adaptive Sports Festival that they do. They
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do outreach for insurance help. I mean, just think about
how horrible medical insurance is if you're healthy, hey yeah,
and then they have a major traumatic injury like that.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
The insurance companies can make it even worse.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
So they have help with navigating insurance, They have financial assistance.
They do simple physical things like providing people with wheelchairs
they don't even know where to get them. And these
people have lived in wheelchairs for in some cases a
couple decades.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Well they're not just wheelchairs, they're wheelchairs that are adaptive
where you can get you know, it's not just every wheelchair.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Is not every wheelchair.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Right, and you know the hospital is going to give
you one, but you need one for everyday life, and
if you're active, you need one for your active stuff.
So there's that they have hand cycling classes and things
like that that they help people get involved with. And
then this specific organization also makes a huge push to
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get those people involved. And we were talking about this
when we were recording the podcast a little earlier, that
kind of living outside yourself can help your mental health.
They retrain these people to become ambassadors themselves, and because
their story is valuable, their story about how their accident happened,
how they received a paralysis diagnosis, whatever it was, and
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then how they got through it. Because everybody's story is
going to be different. Everybody's story may have some correlation
to your life and how your life is about to change,
and you may find some sort of inspiration in it.
So they do a huge a push to get people
back into the program. They become ambassadors, and then eventually
they go to the hospitals and they talk to the
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people who've just received this devastating news and basically just
give them like, hey, there's hope.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I've been there.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
It's you know, I've been there. This is what I've done.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
We have and they have incredible people that have I
don't want to say graduated, but people who have gone
through and been assisted by Triumph Foundation, who have gone
on to become paralympians.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
They've come on, you know, gone on to you know, be.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Successful in their careers whatever they were, go on to
be parents and things like that.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
So it's it's a really cool thing.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
So got to meet and we were up we were
upstairs on the penthouse level of the Peterson Auto Museum
last night for this event, which I again i've never
been to, let alone the penthouse.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
It was amazing.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
The weather was gorgeous.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
You know, it was one hundred and six at my
house when I left, and it was maybe eighty five
when I got to the Peterson Automotive Museum. And there's
a building across the street that shades the sun as
it's going down, so you're just in the shade, just
eighty four degrees shade and.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
It was just it was beautiful. So it's really cool.
That's nice. That's the end of the story.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You should go back there, really spend a few hours.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Well.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
And I texted my son, like I said, to ask
if he had ever been there, and he said no,
but it's on his bucket list.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Be fun for you guys to do together.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
It'd be a cool trip, really cool.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Okey doke.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Coming up next, we are going to get into what
the stocks say about what our guilty pleasures are. You
think you know, but you might be surprised what we're
into as Americans. Beer is not one of the things
we're into, apparently, according to money, more for me, more
for you.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
While you're having one right now.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
We'll continue no de Sorry, Yeah, beer beer is dangerous.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Dark Times in your eyes Times your eyes just went.
We will keep an eye on that canyon fire. This
is the can fire burning up North La County right
along with Ventura County there Castaic Junction Piru area, initially
reported at about thirty acres when it started just before
two o'clock yesterday, but as well up over four thousand,
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approaching five thousand acres now and is spreading east towards Castak.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
And I five.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I was in Orange County this morning at a Starbucks
where I like to go to throw away money, and
I saw this paper there on the Sun Sun newspapers,
and here on the front page there's a story about
a tortoise.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Look at there's a baby on top of the tortoise.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Okay, tortoise could live to be more than one hundred
years old, apparently as a tortoise from Long Beach or
Seal Beach. And then the next story on the front page,
Ocean Calling leads hb native to life in the sea.
She's a former Huntington Beach junior lifeguard and now she
teaches and works as a mermaid. And I thought, hot, damn,
it's a nicer life in Orange County, you know. I
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open up the morning paper and I read about a
baby on top of a tortoise and a young woman
making her way as a mermaid.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Like that is a nice life.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
What kind of stress do you feel when you pull
up the Sun newspaper and you see these delightful stories,
You feel no stress?
Speaker 6 (16:15):
All the cortisol just leaves your body. You also woke
up on the beach and then I mean not you.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
I'm just right.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I mean there have been times, but not today. And
then there's a you flip open. Here we are on
page five celebrate Benny's birthday party fundraiser.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Who's Benny?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
You ask that?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Benny the Cat. He's a feline ambassador of love, hope
and resilience. He's announced his upcoming birthday party and fundraiser.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
So look at that.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
And it's also National Cat Fred Rogan. Ladies and gentlemen. Well,
let's just throw the show out of the water here.
Can we bring up Fred's microphone here?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Elmer wait, speak on it for it. I just came
in too, say hello, you don't have to put.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
It right on now we're doing your introduction.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
On National Cat Day or whatever you were saying. That's
pretty good for you to interrupt your show National Cat Day.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
That's that's right, that's right, Fred, because guess what, yeah, uh,
this is our cat.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
This is our show cat. Have you met him yet?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I've not met him. He looks like cletis the Fox
Sports robot. So interesting, that's okay. So he's not.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
His name is Tron. Do you want to know the
genesis of Tron.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Yes, I need to.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Okay, Well, Tron is our.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Lego cat, and he's he's new.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I mean, if you want to hold him, you can
hold him.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Let me touch him, you can touch him. He likes
to be touched. You have those whiskers, they are quickly.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Yeah, they're shockingly sharp.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
They'll let you have it. They will, they will. Who
constructed Tron? I did? I made him have such incredible skills?
I do you know how to work with your hands?
Particular set?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
And it is National Cat Day and we were talking.
Gary was on vacation for a couple of weeks and
I was left here to my own devices, and was
it is close to going to the Pasadena Humane Society
and finding the meanest cat possible, adopting it and putting
it in a cage and putting it right there, and
just that would be our show cat. And people would
come in and he'd hiss at them, and he scratch
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him because I went to claw him.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
It'd be a whole thing. Can I tell you a
story about a cat? Yes? Love it on National Cat Thing? Yeah, right.
So there was a fire out in the desert and
it affected the people on top of this mountain. So
the people had to evack. Is this a parable or
a real story? A real story?
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Oh, because you left out locations, okay, on the mountain
and a lot of stories start with by a desert.
There was a fire. Yeah, that affected people on a mountain.
Given how religious I am, and good you pointed.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
This out very much old Testament, all right, So anyway,
there's a fire. It's up this mountain. It's up Highway
seventy four and Palm Desert specifics. Okay, and what the
rosa fire? All right? Now, nothing to the degree of
the fires we had tragically here. But for those people,
it was scary and they love on top of the mountain.
They made all the people evacuate. You had to leave
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the top of the mountain, and to get to these towns,
it's a very windy road. Anyway. Many of the people
up there had animals, have animals. They had to get
those animals out of there. Sure, and somebody, I know
it's not an official cat rescue, but has rescued cats
and had more than ten. Right, it's a lot of cats.
So yeah, and there's even more than that. So this
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person puts the cats in these carriers and rushes them
down the hill. But there are so many of them
that they can't all stay together. I mean, there are
so many. Now, this person works at the TV station
out there in Palm Desert where I do. She brings
the cats and she puts them in the garage at
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the workplace. At the workplace because there's nothing to do,
people are evacuating. It scary. Yeah, and it's a huge garage.
It's not like a garage at your house. But there
are so many. She has three in this specific carrier.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Three cats in one carrier.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Yeah, but huge the carriers. She puts them in the
office of my friend in the carrier. She says, please,
I beg of you. Can you take care of these
three for me? Because I have all these other cats?
And he says, of course, I'll do it. For whatever reason,
he decides to open the door to the carrier and
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let one of the cats out.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Well, I get it, I mean, how could you not?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Fine? Fine, So the cat is walking around his office
being a cat, being cool, be cool, cool cat, cool cats.
But now it's time for him to go home, and
at that point he has to take all three of
them home. So he let one out. The other two
were in there, and they're fine. They're all friends. They're
happy cats. So he goes to pick up the cat
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he let out, but somebody walks by his office and
makes a noise. The cat apparently is frightened and leaps
across his office. So now the cat is on a
desk on the other side of the office. But the
cat is just oriented. It's confused. Can you blame it?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I cannot.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
So then the cat goes to leap across the office
back to the other side. It's the ceiling fan. Yes,
At which point my friend catches the cat in the
air to save it.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
At which point the cat is so freaked by this turn.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
Of bed it bites his hand so hard and he
is standing there.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Oh. He finally is able to pry the cat loose
and get it back in the cage. But then his
arm swells to the size of a watermelon.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
And you don't know this cat's chain of custody. This
cat could have rabies.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
It's been living with ten other cats in the mountain.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
You don't know. His arm is like a watermelon. He
goes to the emergency room. They give him like the
hypodermic shot. You know, if it's really bad, you get
the big shot, old fiction to the heart shot. That's
what you're getting. He got the shot. I called him.
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He told me he was bitten by a cat, and
his arm it's swilled to the size of a watermelon.
I said, Okay, are you alright? He goes yes. But
I am so exhausted by this experience. I will not
work for two days. That is a recently.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
These people will tell to get out of work.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Oh, my god, that recently occurred. How old?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Let me guess how old is this friend of yours
that was bitten by the cat.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I would go ahead, let's go. I would say twenty eight.
Twenty eight is incorrect. I was going to say thirty
thirty incorrect. The friend it is fifty two.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Jesus Marion, fifty two year olds.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
My god, your people, Holy hell, you've got an age
out of being a little bee about a.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
Cat bite, right, even if it does make your arm
swell up watermelon?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yeah, I feel like he was embellishing.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
No, it's true.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Did you see a picture? Did he send you a pic?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yes? I saw? Okay, yeah, no, he he has a litany.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
So what they do with the cat they put it down.
No good, thank god.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
No, no, no, no, no, you don't.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
I would never know.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
But I see what they do to animals all the time,
that bite people.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
It's awful. No, it's awful.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I think they should put the people down. I think
your friend should be no longer with us.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
No, my friend shouldn't be put down because he didn't
do anything to the cat. He let it catch it.
He was trying to do something heroic.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
He let the cat out.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
You know though, we let the cat out. Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Deana Sports.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Uh. Fred Rogan has joined us.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Yeah, just because it's also now the hallway and he
had nothing better to do, so why not come on in?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
And we appreciate it every time I'm here. First thing
I do seriously is coming and see.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Well, I thank you every time. Where were you in
nineteen ninety one?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I was here?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yeah, I was peak Fred Rogan, you and Gloria Astefan.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Both of us, but I never fall off the stage
or got into a bus.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Now, we were going to do sports in this segment anyway,
so we might as well do it with somebody who
knows something about sports to.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Use anybody there here that knows anything about sports.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
That was I mean, that was really hurtful, kind of
know what channel it's all.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Oh, yeah, no, if you don't want to hear sports,
listen to k lac ow.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Well, I mean it could because they talk about everything.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
But yes, yeah, that's it's accurate. Forty eight year old.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Forty eight year old Jen Powell is going to become
the first woman to umpire a Major League Baseball game.
She's working the series this weekend between the Miami Marlins
and the Atlanta Braves. Right, she will be a base umpire.
They haven't said whatever where exactly. She's going to start
Saturday's doubleheader, and then she'll be behind them, So she'll
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probably be a second base on first the first game,
third at the second game the other.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Way, and then no, the other way.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Second, you're right second to first, and then at home
plate on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
So she'll be behind home plate on Sunday.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
And this is what I didn't realize is that Major
League Baseball was so far behind the other major sports
international female umpires.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Baseball seems to be one of the more progressive sports.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Well, baseball was the most sedentary sport for years. The
most progressive sport was always the sport that would change
snap of a finger was the NFL. They would change
immediately if something they were doing the people didn't react
well to, they just changed the rule. So that was
the NFL. The NBA was at the forefront of using
female officials twenty eight years ago. Yeah, I did not
(26:02):
know that the NBA. And so now you say we're
going to have a woman on Pire baseball.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
That makes sense because women play basketball.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
They don't always play baseball, they play softball, and they
don't play football, so it would make sense. I mean, really,
it's the same game. It's exact same game basketball.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Yeah, So now you have a woman umpiring. Is that
a story?
Speaker 5 (26:23):
No?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I don't think so, but it is. It's all over
the headlines. I don't see the big deal. I don't
see why we were making a big deal out of this,
Like it's nineteen eighty seven and it's like, but see,
as a female, I get annoyed. But it's like, I
don't know, there's probably a bunch of women in the
umpire system.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Isn't it The point I was trying to vocalize this
the other day. The point of an official in a
game is to not be noticed. I mean, you don't
ever want to have exactly you know, somebody posts about
you on social media the next day about what an
awful call that was, or how horribly you or.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
How great you are because you're a woman in the sport.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yeah, you don't want to hear that.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
You don't want to hear any of it. You want
to be just like everybody else.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
You don't. You don't want the crowd or the people
watching get home to even know your name. You don't
want them to know you even exist. Yes, if you've
done a really good job, they don't even know who
you are.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
You know, I don't know if this is a new thing.
I don't remember ten fifteen years ago, coverage of major
league sporting events, whether it's baseball, football, basketball, they never
mentioned who the officials were.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
They did the game, they were a game.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
They put it on the on the I mean it's football.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
You see the obviously, the you know, the referee. The
head referee is the guy that you see a lot
of the play by.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Play guy will usually say and this game is officiated
by blah blah, blah, okay.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Yeah, you know I am tired. You know that. You
know I am parted in the Little League World Series. No,
in Williamsport. I really did. That's really hard to do.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
It's it's not a lot of people know this, but
umpire school is it's like becoming a seal. I mean
it's right up there, like ninety percent of the class
doesn't graduate.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
It's really hard.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
No, it is. But back in the day, I did umpire,
one of the few lucky people to umpire the Little
League World Series in Williamsport. I had the plate one
game we lost track of the outs. Yeah, of course
you did. For the Little leagu World Series. You're like,
you get distracted.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
And now, I mean they at least have the benefit
they do have, you know, replay in the Little League more.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
You would be the last person I would hire to
a be responsible, to be keep track of something with numbers,
and see to make.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
People mad at you. Everyone loves you.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
It's like, those are the three last things I would
sign you up for. Keep track of something, pay attention,
and people are going to hate you.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
That's not you. Well, in theory, it's not me. But
first I really am bad with numbers, and maybe that
was the problem. Yeah, is the plate umpire when you're
supposed to keep track of the outs?
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Yeah, there's only I.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Thought, what's the difference? Exactly? Does everybody have a good
time out here? A little series?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Exactly my point?
Speaker 6 (29:03):
We need to put so much pressure on these kids, right,
we don't need that.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Fred's like, have a good time you kids. Kids, They're like, I'll.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Show you good time, old man.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
And it was some some twelve year old with a
genetic problem that makes him six foot six and two
forty listen.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Yeah, I know we don't have time. Next time I
come on, because you got a break, I'm gonna tell
you the story. I've done it on our show of
Little Owen, Little Owen basketall.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Do you have time to stick around?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Well, okay, a little bit longer, because I don't want
to hear that show.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I mean, we got a break.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I'll stay and I'll tell you the little Owen story.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
We cannot hear the little oast gentleman Little Owen when
we come back to Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
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six forty nine am to one pm every Monday through Friday,
and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
We're gonna do your Jeopardy question right away.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Oh, I'm not ready for this before.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
And after for twelve hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Oh, it's a fun thing where I got to combine
two things together.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
What a plant growing expert who's a good hand around
the garden would carry computer files on?
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
What is a green thumb drive?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Bingo?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Not fun with Let's start today.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Starting with a win.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I know I can.
Speaker 6 (00:38):
I feel better now already. I know I'm not a
joyless ogre am.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I no, no, not.
Speaker 6 (00:43):
Today today, Not today today.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I am going to honk my horn in a tunnel
so much.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Sorry that I should.
Speaker 6 (00:50):
Not, especially this early. I'm dealing with dealing with copyright infringement.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I know.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Oh see Petro, this is gonna start texting. He gets
really pissed off, really upset.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Do you think he's awake?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, well he gets up to monitor all the other
shows to make sure they don't steal.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Not much.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
And how many times do people steal it? Not much?
Maybe just once or twice.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
Gary and Shannon kf I am six forty live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. We will keep a sex toy
talk to a minimum today. I mean, there is just
one maybe topic maybe that we'll get into just a
little bit. But other than that, we're not gonna We're
not gonna wallow in it.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Can I have some death music? I have some bad
news to tell you about?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
This is I hope that I'm the first one to
tell you this and that you didn't see this when
you were alone, because I wanted you to get this
information from somebody that you trust, that.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
You feel safe with.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Who that would be me?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Oh right, yes it you Elainey Cunelacus is out of
the governor's race.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Well, I will say this. I do thank her for
that because that saves.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Us the heartache that we were going to have.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Actually, that saves us the struggle of trying to spell
Kuna Loachus over and over again.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I have just now nailed her name and she drops
out just like that.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
That's what she was waiting for. It was a trick.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
There's a trick the whole time.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Well, I see her having a bright future, So maybe
all of my studying will be not.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
For not Speaking of candidates, did you see that there
was a report that Steve Bannon was thinking of running
for president in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
He would never do that. He couldn't. Well, he couldn't.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Also he couldn't. He wouldn't. As that guy's face.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
On the screen, I was just going to say, as
mean as it is, there's still there's still what's the word,
there's still a bar that must be met when it
comes to some sort of physical appeal.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I call it the JFK televised debate bar.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
His stock rose after that because he looked.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
Good opposed to Nixon, who looked like somebody hit him
in the face with a dog a truck, a truck.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Going to be mean?
Speaker 7 (03:02):
Oh no, no, that's a joyful that's a joyful mean thing.
Maybe we killed the death music. Okay, the fire, before
we get to the fire. No, let's talk about the fire.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
What were you gonna say?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
But I was going to say something about what I
did last night? But we can get to that later,
because I had an absolute we don't need to.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Talk about your sex life on the radio.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
And no, no, before that, oh, the fire that exploded
up in northern La County. The Canyon Fire is now
almost five thousand acres that will go up. We saw
it expand overnight and they're going to get some measurements.
It was about one hundred and one at my house,
which is close enough. I could see the fire and
the smoke. Yesterday did get of course the evacuation warning,
(03:47):
but I'm not in the area where it's being evacuated.
It's a couple a couple of blocks over, evacuation blocks over.
But there are plenty of people, hundreds and hundreds of
families that have had to get out of the way
of this. The weather today in this area is going
to be probably a degree or two cooler, maybe three,
but that's still right around that century mark, so it's
(04:09):
going to be incredible hell for the men and women
that are out there fighting this fire.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
It is moving.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
It started sort of in the Valverde area and it
has been moving to the north and to the east,
which makes it basically targeting Casteak Lake. Now, before it
gets to the lake, it's got to go through hundreds
of homes, cross Eye five and get to Casteak Lake.
They are doing their best to put some line around
that fire and prevent it from making its way into
(04:38):
those neighborhoods.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Now, it's going to get worse today, right the conditions.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Well, the temperature will go down a little bit, the
wind might pick up.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
That's the one.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
That's the one benefit from yesterday or one silver lining
was the wind was almost non existent this morning. When
you get up, you could see the smoke all over
that Santa Clarita Valley and wigh out the one twenty six,
So made for a beautiful sunrise, but still something.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
That's you know, they need to get the handle on
this thing.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, now is the time to make that progress because
the winds will kick up in the early afternoon.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
And this was one of those things that even without
the wind because of the conditions and the fuel out there.
It was initially reported at about thirty acres, so this
would have been right after our show yesterday that this
thing started somehow, but within about two hours it jumped
to one thousand acres and then by this morning the
official number is four thousand, eight hundred and fifty six.
(05:31):
Also of brush fire that broke out yesterday along the
sixty freeway in Euroupa Valley had some evacuation orders and warnings,
but they said it's not expected to grow too much.
This is called the real fire. Just after five o'clock
is when it was reported yesterday. And then the Gifford fire,
of course, the big one burning up in the Santa
(05:52):
Maria area, is now close to one hundred thousand acres.
It's officially at ninety nine thousand, two hundred and two
acres and fifteen percent containment.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
All right, coming up next to what you did last
night before the sex.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
You don't know that, that's how the night ended.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
And then we'll get into what stocks can tell us
about America's guilty pleasures.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Some fun stuff in there, and.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
A sports roundup that shows us we are ready for
regular season football. Three non stories making major headlines this week. Yeah,
it's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
We are so thirsty, We are so thirsty.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
For real sports, normal football.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Yeah, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
That's dangerous. I know.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Still more than nine thousand DWP customers in Granada Hills
and Port of Ranch going to be without water. Looks
like it could be through the weekend. Cruz doing repair
work this week at a pump station that connects a
ten million gallon water tank that serves the area of
valve that controls the flow of water didn't reopen. And
(07:01):
the problem is that valve is about twenty feet underground
and there are a couple of underground oil pipelines, a
fiber optic line, a gas line, and there's huge boulders
underground in that area and that's complicated. So DWP says
they may be working, they will be working around the
clock to get this thing fixed, but that it could
(07:22):
still take through the weekend.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
So you were at the Peterson Automotive Museum last night.
You had told me you were doing this event a
while back and you had never been before, and I thought, oh,
you're going to love that museum.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Did you get a chance to see it at all?
Speaker 6 (07:36):
I walked through just portion a portion of the first
floor and it was.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Gobsmacking. Yeah. I absolutely loved it. Cool.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Yeah, And I'm taking pictures and I'm sending to my
son because I'm trying to remember did he ever go there?
Did he have a prom there or something it was.
He's never been there, but he would love it as well.
I think my favorite one of the pictures that I
took was a and it's right at the beginning, right
when you walk in, it's a giant American flag made
up of hot wheels cars and there's a specific artist
(08:11):
that was credited.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I wish I would have gotten his name.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
I don't remember what it was, but the specific artists
that did this and all of these other displays that
are in that first it's not the lobby, but that
first portion of the museum as you go through, and
there's just everything in there. I mean from legendary race
(08:34):
cars to movie and TV cars and motorcycles and things
like that.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
It was awesome. It was really really cool.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
There's so much history involved too.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
When you think about automotive evolution, you know, I realized
that when I went to the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
It was just, you know, it sticks out as you know,
it's not just about cars. It's so much bigger than that.
It's not just about racing, it's so much bigger than that.
And will you send that picture of the hot wheels
flagged my brother?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I would love that anyway.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
You were there for an event, yes, I actually was
lucky enough to mc again Gala, the annual gala for
the Triumph Foundation. What is that, which is an organization
that comes alongside people who have spinal cord injuries or
a paralysis, disease of some kind disorder. And basically it
(09:28):
was founded by a guy who suffered his own spinal
cord injury when he was younger and was paralyzed from
the waist down after a snowboarding accident, and there was
not a lot of there weren't a lot of resources
for him to kind of plug back into and figure
out how to navigate this new way of life. So
(09:50):
he started this two thousand and eight and being.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Like a super active guy that suddenly couldn't.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Walk right, yeah, and how do you even where do you?
Speaker 6 (10:01):
There's so many questions and your life is so completely
altered at that point, and not just you. He was
newly married, so we had a young wife, his parents,
I mean, they had to move in with his parents.
I mean, there's just there's an overwhelming amount of stuff
that happens to someone's life outside of just the physical life.
(10:21):
So they come alongside and they will visit people in
the hospital. If you if you suffered a spinal cord
injury and the paralysis is you know, uh, in your diagnosis,
A lot of the hospitals around here will contact the
Triumph Foundation and they'll send an ambassador is basically what
it's called, which is often somebody who themselves suffered as
(10:41):
spinal cord injury into the hospital, give him a big
backpack full of all of the first time you know
resources that they're going to need from simple basic you
know things about how your house is going to have
to change.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
The people that you can call any time you got
questions about how do I do this? Or what happens
now or what does what does life look like for me?
I used to love doing X, Y or Z. Can
I still do it? They so not just those gift bags,
but they do a bunch of outside programs on an
annual basis. The Adaptive Sports Festival that they do. They
(11:18):
do outreach for insurance help. I mean, just think about
how horrible medical insurance is if you're healthy, hey yeah,
and then they have a major traumatic injury like that.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
The insurance companies can make it even worse.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
So they have help with navigating insurance, They have financial assistance.
They do simple physical things like providing people with wheelchairs
they don't even know where to get them. And these
people have lived in wheelchairs for in some cases a
couple decades.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Well they're not just wheelchairs, they're wheelchairs that are adaptive
where you can get you know, it's not just every wheelchair.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Is not every wheelchair.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Right, and you know the hospital is going to give
you one, but you need one for everyday life, and
if you're active, you need one for your active stuff.
So there's that they have hand cycling classes and things
like that that they help people get involved with. And
then this specific organization also makes a huge push to
(12:11):
get those people involved. And we were talking about this
when we were recording the podcast a little earlier, that
kind of living outside yourself can help your mental health.
They retrain these people to become ambassadors themselves, and because
their story is valuable, their story about how their accident happened,
how they received a paralysis diagnosis, whatever it was, and
(12:34):
then how they got through it. Because everybody's story is
going to be different. Everybody's story may have some correlation
to your life and how your life is about to change,
and you may find some sort of inspiration in it.
So they do a huge a push to get people
back into the program. They become ambassadors, and then eventually
they go to the hospitals and they talk to the
(12:57):
people who've just received this devastating news and basically just
give them like, hey, there's hope.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I've been there.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
It's you know, I've been there. This is what I've done.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
We have and they have incredible people that have I
don't want to say graduated, but people who have gone
through and been assisted by Triumph Foundation, who have gone
on to become paralympians.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
They've come on, you know, gone on to you know, be.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Successful in their careers whatever they were, go on to
be parents and things like that.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
So it's it's a really cool thing.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
So got to meet and we were up we were
upstairs on the penthouse level of the Peterson Auto Museum
last night for this event, which I again i've never
been to, let alone the penthouse.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
It was amazing.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
The weather was gorgeous.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
You know, it was one hundred and six at my
house when I left, and it was maybe eighty five
when I got to the Peterson Automotive Museum. And there's
a building across the street that shades the sun as
it's going down, so you're just in the shade, just
eighty four degrees shade and.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
It was just it was beautiful. So it's really cool.
That's nice. That's the end of the story.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You should go back there, really spend a few hours.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Well.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
And I texted my son, like I said, to ask
if he had ever been there, and he said no,
but it's on his bucket list.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Be fun for you guys to do together.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
It'd be a cool trip, really cool.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Okey doke.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Coming up next, we are going to get into what
the stocks say about what our guilty pleasures are. You
think you know, but you might be surprised what we're
into as Americans. Beer is not one of the things
we're into, apparently, according to money, more for me, more
for you.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
While you're having one right now.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
We'll continue no de Sorry, Yeah, beer beer is dangerous.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Dark Times in your eyes Times your eyes just went.
We will keep an eye on that canyon fire. This
is the can fire burning up North La County right
along with Ventura County there Castaic Junction Piru area, initially
reported at about thirty acres when it started just before
two o'clock yesterday, but as well up over four thousand,
(15:14):
approaching five thousand acres now and is spreading east towards Castak.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
And I five.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I was in Orange County this morning at a Starbucks
where I like to go to throw away money, and
I saw this paper there on the Sun Sun newspapers,
and here on the front page there's a story about
a tortoise.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Look at there's a baby on top of the tortoise.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Okay, tortoise could live to be more than one hundred
years old, apparently as a tortoise from Long Beach or
Seal Beach. And then the next story on the front page,
Ocean Calling leads hb native to life in the sea.
She's a former Huntington Beach junior lifeguard and now she
teaches and works as a mermaid. And I thought, hot, damn,
it's a nicer life in Orange County, you know. I
(16:00):
open up the morning paper and I read about a
baby on top of a tortoise and a young woman
making her way as a mermaid.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Like that is a nice life.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
What kind of stress do you feel when you pull
up the Sun newspaper and you see these delightful stories,
You feel no stress?
Speaker 6 (16:15):
All the cortisol just leaves your body. You also woke
up on the beach and then I mean not you.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
I'm just right.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I mean there have been times, but not today. And
then there's a you flip open. Here we are on
page five celebrate Benny's birthday party fundraiser.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Who's Benny?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
You ask that?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Benny the Cat. He's a feline ambassador of love, hope
and resilience. He's announced his upcoming birthday party and fundraiser.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
So look at that.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
And it's also National Cat Fred Rogan. Ladies and gentlemen. Well,
let's just throw the show out of the water here.
Can we bring up Fred's microphone here?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Elmer wait, speak on it for it. I just came
in too, say hello, you don't have to put.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
It right on now we're doing your introduction.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
On National Cat Day or whatever you were saying. That's
pretty good for you to interrupt your show National Cat Day.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
That's that's right, that's right, Fred, because guess what, yeah, uh,
this is our cat.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
This is our show cat. Have you met him yet?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I've not met him. He looks like cletis the Fox
Sports robot. So interesting, that's okay. So he's not.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
His name is Tron. Do you want to know the
genesis of Tron.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Yes, I need to.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Okay, Well, Tron is our.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Lego cat, and he's he's new.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I mean, if you want to hold him, you can
hold him.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Let me touch him, you can touch him. He likes
to be touched. You have those whiskers, they are quickly.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Yeah, they're shockingly sharp.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
They'll let you have it. They will, they will. Who
constructed Tron? I did? I made him have such incredible skills?
I do you know how to work with your hands?
Particular set?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
And it is National Cat Day and we were talking.
Gary was on vacation for a couple of weeks and
I was left here to my own devices, and was
it is close to going to the Pasadena Humane Society
and finding the meanest cat possible, adopting it and putting
it in a cage and putting it right there, and
just that would be our show cat. And people would
come in and he'd hiss at them, and he scratch
(18:12):
him because I went to claw him.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
It'd be a whole thing. Can I tell you a
story about a cat? Yes? Love it on National Cat Thing? Yeah, right.
So there was a fire out in the desert and
it affected the people on top of this mountain. So
the people had to evack. Is this a parable or
a real story? A real story?
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Oh, because you left out locations, okay, on the mountain
and a lot of stories start with by a desert.
There was a fire. Yeah, that affected people on a mountain.
Given how religious I am, and good you pointed.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
This out very much old Testament, all right, So anyway,
there's a fire. It's up this mountain. It's up Highway
seventy four and Palm Desert specifics. Okay, and what the
rosa fire? All right? Now, nothing to the degree of
the fires we had tragically here. But for those people,
it was scary and they love on top of the mountain.
They made all the people evacuate. You had to leave
(19:02):
the top of the mountain, and to get to these towns,
it's a very windy road. Anyway. Many of the people
up there had animals, have animals. They had to get
those animals out of there. Sure, and somebody, I know
it's not an official cat rescue, but has rescued cats
and had more than ten. Right, it's a lot of cats.
So yeah, and there's even more than that. So this
(19:23):
person puts the cats in these carriers and rushes them
down the hill. But there are so many of them
that they can't all stay together. I mean, there are
so many. Now, this person works at the TV station
out there in Palm Desert where I do. She brings
the cats and she puts them in the garage at
(19:44):
the workplace. At the workplace because there's nothing to do,
people are evacuating. It scary. Yeah, and it's a huge garage.
It's not like a garage at your house. But there
are so many. She has three in this specific carrier.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Three cats in one carrier.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Yeah, but huge the carriers. She puts them in the
office of my friend in the carrier. She says, please,
I beg of you. Can you take care of these
three for me? Because I have all these other cats?
And he says, of course, I'll do it. For whatever reason,
he decides to open the door to the carrier and
(20:22):
let one of the cats out.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Well, I get it, I mean, how could you not?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Fine? Fine, So the cat is walking around his office
being a cat, being cool, be cool, cool cat, cool cats.
But now it's time for him to go home, and
at that point he has to take all three of
them home. So he let one out. The other two
were in there, and they're fine. They're all friends. They're
happy cats. So he goes to pick up the cat
(20:49):
he let out, but somebody walks by his office and
makes a noise. The cat apparently is frightened and leaps
across his office. So now the cat is on a
desk on the other side of the office. But the
cat is just oriented. It's confused. Can you blame it?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I cannot.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
So then the cat goes to leap across the office
back to the other side. It's the ceiling fan. Yes,
At which point my friend catches the cat in the
air to save it.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
At which point the cat is so freaked by this turn.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
Of bed it bites his hand so hard and he
is standing there.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Oh. He finally is able to pry the cat loose
and get it back in the cage. But then his
arm swells to the size of a watermelon.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
And you don't know this cat's chain of custody. This
cat could have rabies.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
It's been living with ten other cats in the mountain.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
You don't know. His arm is like a watermelon. He
goes to the emergency room. They give him like the
hypodermic shot. You know, if it's really bad, you get
the big shot, old fiction to the heart shot. That's
what you're getting. He got the shot. I called him.
(22:19):
He told me he was bitten by a cat, and
his arm it's swilled to the size of a watermelon.
I said, Okay, are you alright? He goes yes. But
I am so exhausted by this experience. I will not
work for two days. That is a recently.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
These people will tell to get out of work.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Oh, my god, that recently occurred. How old?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Let me guess how old is this friend of yours
that was bitten by the cat.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I would go ahead, let's go. I would say twenty eight.
Twenty eight is incorrect. I was going to say thirty
thirty incorrect. The friend it is fifty two.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Jesus Marion, fifty two year olds.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
My god, your people, Holy hell, you've got an age
out of being a little bee about a.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
Cat bite, right, even if it does make your arm
swell up watermelon?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yeah, I feel like he was embellishing.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
No, it's true.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Did you see a picture? Did he send you a pic?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yes? I saw? Okay, yeah, no, he he has a litany.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
So what they do with the cat they put it down.
No good, thank god.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
No, no, no, no, no, you don't.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
I would never know.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
But I see what they do to animals all the time,
that bite people.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
It's awful. No, it's awful.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I think they should put the people down. I think
your friend should be no longer with us.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
No, my friend shouldn't be put down because he didn't
do anything to the cat. He let it catch it.
He was trying to do something heroic.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
He let the cat out.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
You know though, we let the cat out. Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Deana Sports.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Uh. Fred Rogan has joined us.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Yeah, just because it's also now the hallway and he
had nothing better to do, so why not come on in?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
And we appreciate it every time I'm here. First thing
I do seriously is coming and see.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Well, I thank you every time. Where were you in
nineteen ninety one?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I was here?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yeah, I was peak Fred Rogan, you and Gloria Astefan.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Both of us, but I never fall off the stage
or got into a bus.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Now, we were going to do sports in this segment anyway,
so we might as well do it with somebody who
knows something about sports to.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Use anybody there here that knows anything about sports.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
That was I mean, that was really hurtful, kind of
know what channel it's all.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Oh, yeah, no, if you don't want to hear sports,
listen to k lac ow.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Well, I mean it could because they talk about everything.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
But yes, yeah, that's it's accurate. Forty eight year old.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Forty eight year old Jen Powell is going to become
the first woman to umpire a Major League Baseball game.
She's working the series this weekend between the Miami Marlins
and the Atlanta Braves. Right, she will be a base umpire.
They haven't said whatever where exactly. She's going to start
Saturday's doubleheader, and then she'll be behind them, So she'll
(25:13):
probably be a second base on first the first game,
third at the second game the other.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Way, and then no, the other way.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Second, you're right second to first, and then at home
plate on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
So she'll be behind home plate on Sunday.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
And this is what I didn't realize is that Major
League Baseball was so far behind the other major sports
international female umpires.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Baseball seems to be one of the more progressive sports.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Well, baseball was the most sedentary sport for years. The
most progressive sport was always the sport that would change
snap of a finger was the NFL. They would change
immediately if something they were doing the people didn't react
well to, they just changed the rule. So that was
the NFL. The NBA was at the forefront of using
female officials twenty eight years ago. Yeah, I did not
(26:02):
know that the NBA. And so now you say we're
going to have a woman on Pire baseball.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
That makes sense because women play basketball.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
They don't always play baseball, they play softball, and they
don't play football, so it would make sense. I mean, really,
it's the same game. It's exact same game basketball.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Yeah, So now you have a woman umpiring. Is that
a story?
Speaker 5 (26:23):
No?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I don't think so, but it is. It's all over
the headlines. I don't see the big deal. I don't
see why we were making a big deal out of this,
Like it's nineteen eighty seven and it's like, but see,
as a female, I get annoyed. But it's like, I
don't know, there's probably a bunch of women in the
umpire system.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Isn't it The point I was trying to vocalize this
the other day. The point of an official in a
game is to not be noticed. I mean, you don't
ever want to have exactly you know, somebody posts about
you on social media the next day about what an
awful call that was, or how horribly you or.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
How great you are because you're a woman in the sport.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yeah, you don't want to hear that.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
You don't want to hear any of it. You want
to be just like everybody else.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
You don't. You don't want the crowd or the people
watching get home to even know your name. You don't
want them to know you even exist. Yes, if you've
done a really good job, they don't even know who
you are.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
You know, I don't know if this is a new thing.
I don't remember ten fifteen years ago, coverage of major
league sporting events, whether it's baseball, football, basketball, they never
mentioned who the officials were.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
They did the game, they were a game.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
They put it on the on the I mean it's football.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
You see the obviously, the you know, the referee. The
head referee is the guy that you see a lot
of the play by.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Play guy will usually say and this game is officiated
by blah blah, blah, okay.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Yeah, you know I am tired. You know that. You
know I am parted in the Little League World Series. No,
in Williamsport. I really did. That's really hard to do.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
It's it's not a lot of people know this, but
umpire school is it's like becoming a seal. I mean
it's right up there, like ninety percent of the class
doesn't graduate.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
It's really hard.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
No, it is. But back in the day, I did umpire,
one of the few lucky people to umpire the Little
League World Series in Williamsport. I had the plate one
game we lost track of the outs. Yeah, of course
you did. For the Little leagu World Series. You're like,
you get distracted.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
And now, I mean they at least have the benefit
they do have, you know, replay in the Little League more.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
You would be the last person I would hire to
a be responsible, to be keep track of something with numbers,
and see to make.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
People mad at you. Everyone loves you.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
It's like, those are the three last things I would
sign you up for. Keep track of something, pay attention,
and people are going to hate you.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
That's not you. Well, in theory, it's not me. But
first I really am bad with numbers, and maybe that
was the problem. Yeah, is the plate umpire when you're
supposed to keep track of the outs?
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Yeah, there's only I.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Thought, what's the difference? Exactly? Does everybody have a good
time out here? A little series?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Exactly my point?
Speaker 6 (29:03):
We need to put so much pressure on these kids, right,
we don't need that.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Fred's like, have a good time you kids. Kids, They're like, I'll.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Show you good time, old man.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
And it was some some twelve year old with a
genetic problem that makes him six foot six and two
forty listen.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Yeah, I know we don't have time. Next time I
come on, because you got a break, I'm gonna tell
you the story. I've done it on our show of
Little Owen, Little Owen basketall.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Do you have time to stick around?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Well, okay, a little bit longer, because I don't want
to hear that show.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I mean, we got a break.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I'll stay and I'll tell you the little Owen story.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
We cannot hear the little oast gentleman Little Owen when
we come back to Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
You can always hear us live on KF I Am
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