July 2, 2025 • 31 mins
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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. I have built my fort. My
fort's skill? Can you tell? Oh, totally, you can tell.
It sounds better?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, it sounds much better.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Okay, good. Yeah, I am in a fort. I have pillows,
I have a blanket, I have You know, it's fun
how creative you get. I forgot how creative you can
get when building a fort. You know, it's really funny.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
We talked about it yesterday.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
We talked about the old art of fort building like
you were doing with Hank over the weekend. But a
buddy of mine posted something on Facebook that said, if
you are whatever over forty years old, you know what
this is. And it was a picture of a fort
built out of couch cushions.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
And so what I've done in here is I just
took like an old forty nine er blanket and I've
draped it over my head and I've secured it to
the top of the desk using you know, different paperweight
type things, and I've got pillows all over the place.
It's a good old fashioned, workable fort situation. So we
(01:10):
are officially closer to the year twenty fifty than we
are two thousand today. Ew it is the halfway point
of this year today, July second, So we're twenty five
years and six months past the year two thousand and
twenty four years and six months away from the year
twenty to fifty. How old do you feel? Let me
(01:33):
make you feel better. We are less than thirty days
away from the football season.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
That's fun.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Less than a month for football.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Got to I gotta start looking at something because San
Francisco Giants have absolutely taken a poop in their own
pants in the last couple of weeks. I know what
that Raphael Devers fat broken, Rafael Diver see.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
But that's the thing. What does that kind of guy
do to the locker room. I don't know if that's
an issue, but it changes the chemistry of the team,
It changes the mojo, it changes everything. Yeah, and when
you throw in something like that to the locker room,
it moves around the energy.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Okay, you know what I hear in your voice? I
hear a couple things. Do you want to hear what
I hear?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
As I diagnose you, number one. I hear that you
are ready for a vacation. You are just days away
from the first vacation you have taken in forever. All
the time you have taken off has been to care
for your parents, like the wonderful son that you are,
and you have not had a real vacation forever, and
(02:39):
you are just days away, and it is well deserved,
and I can tell you are already one foot out
the door.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Well, I am annoyed by people who do that, so
I've been trying to push it off as long.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It's impossible. It's impossible. I also hate it when I
do that. I feel it in myself. I feel checking
out and I'm like, why are you that person? But
it's impossible, and it's okay, it's all right. And like
I said, it's not like you take vacations. You never do,
and it's so deserved and it's going to be wonderful
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and you're gonna have a great time and you get
to be checked out. The other thing I hear in
your voice is the quality that I most prefer to
have in my voice because it happens so infrequently, And
it is the quality in your voice that happens when
you know you were right, and you were right. You
said from the beginning that you had questions about this
(03:33):
jury coming to a guilty verdict when it came to
the most serious charges of racketeering and sex trafficking, and
I was like, no, you're crazy. This is guilty, the
guilty on everything. I was an idiot and you were correct.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Well, I wouldn't say that much, but I did see
that there were problems with making this thing up, literally
making a federal case out of what this guy was.
Shandy Combs is a monster of a human being, degrades
the women around him, just an awful person to the core.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
But racketeering, I mean this, Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
So the decision comes down today, He's found guilty of
transportation to engage in prostitution, but acquitted of the racketeering
and the sex trafficking. Two counts of the prostitution related charge,
one for each woman that was involved, one for Cassie
Ventura and the other one that went by the name Jane.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
During trial, and.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
As I listened to some of the legal experts talking
about the verdict after it came in today, Brian Buckmeyer,
for example, talked to ABC News he's a former defense attorney.
He says, Listen, I have all the respect for that
US attorney in the Southern District of New York, but
this one they bid off more than they could chew.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Y SDNLI has phenomenal prosecutors, has a phenomenal office, and
their record speaks for itself. But I think in this
case they overestimated the strength of their case. And this
is what happens when a jury speaks.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Okay, I wanted to get into two more soundbites very
quickly and then we can discuss them. Donna Rotana or
sorry Rotano, her name may not ring a bell. She
actually defended Harvey Weinstein in a couple of cases. But
she also described this as being an overcharged case.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
We have been saying all along in this case that
it was overcharged by the government, that they were taking
these very nuanced relationships and trying to make them criminal,
and I think Mark did a really good job and
his closing argument highlighting that to the jury overall, this
is a huge loss to the government.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
That she is a horror for all of the men
who are guilty of awful things, and she's trying to
make her case for more clients. That's what she's trying
to do to Yes, And I think what you're hearing
in these and just briefly before you get to the
next SoundBite, is this is a pushback to the me
too movement. Racketeering has been used by federal attorneys, more
(06:06):
so to prosecute a series of these high profile men
accused of sex crimes. People don't like that. And I think,
and I think that's what you saw in the jury.
I mean, I surround myself with and I'm lucky to
say with wonderful, upstanding men, and and and I and
I discount how gross men are and how gross they
(06:29):
could have been. On this jury, who were there, like, eh,
well we say it's sex trafficking when we say it's racketeer. Yeah,
you had a good time. She said she liked the party,
she liked the freak off. I overestimate men sometimes because
I'm surrounded by so many great ones.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Elie Honi was the other one that I wanted to
hear from because there is still prison time possible for
this guy. I mean, the two the two prostitution related
charges each bring a potential ten year prison sentence. It's
not going to be that b.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Two ten year max counts. They are going to merge.
They are not going to be run what we call
consecutively back to back. They're closely related to one another.
I've had this argument a thousand times in that courthouse.
This sentence is all going to merge, so realistically, the
max is ten years. If you're looking at somebody who's
been convicted only of what we call the Man Act,
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meaning non coercive, non forcible interstate prostitution, essentially ordering a
prostitute across the state lines. A lot of times that
results in no prison time. That would take the Seawan
Combs out of it, take the celebrity out of it,
take all the other evidence out of it. In an
ordinary case where that was the only kind of conviction,
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you could have a realistic argument for probation here.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
There was also a moment apparently one of the court
watchers said that the judge was making light of or
at least having a light hearted moment when he was
talking about the potential for release today, and they said,
there's no way that the judge jokes about that with
some buddy and then doesn't let them out for the
rest of the day.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Right because he wasn't found guilty of that definitely, definitely possibility. Yeah,
you're looking at ten maximum for both, and that attorney's right.
They would run consecutively, not concurrently, not consecutively, and with
a first time offender like that, you're looking at the
(08:24):
high end maybe being six for both of I mean together, right,
the low end being nothing. I mean, the most time
he could get would be like probably two. He'll probably
get probation, like eighteen months probation or something like that.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Well, and it gets credit for time served likely for
the year that he's been in jail waiting for them.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Just the video of him beating the hell out of
her in that hotel, I mean, and that was a
one off. That wasn't like a col that was a Tuesday.
You know, that's just how he lived his life. And
what creep. And you know what the other thing that
I underestimated with Diddy and there are men like this
and you know, men like this that just have a
(09:09):
presence about them. I should say women as well, but
it certainly certainly celebrity men or powerful men, sports figures,
political figures, whatever, there's certain people you come across it
just have a presence a gravitas. They walk into a room,
they own it, and they have this way of manipulating
psychologically without even knowing a person. With that, I mean,
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you can see how he would have that power over
a jury, over a judge, because he definitely has that
X factor of just walking into a room and kind
of owning it. And that is not to be underestimated
either when it comes to a jury and how they
make up decisions and things like this. Racketeering sounds very involved.
You know. All of the charges that he was let
(09:53):
off on was racketeering and trafficking. They sound you know,
you think of sex trafficking, You think of a guy
bringing over twenty f five women from across the border
and putting them in a brothel and having them be
brought you know what I mean, that kind of a thing,
or child trafficking. We've all heard the horror stories, but
the bar is very low when it comes to racketeering specifically,
(10:13):
just the conspiracy. Just basically talking to a friend about
bringing a woman over and making her have sex with somebody,
that is racketeering. I mean, they to me it was
not overcharged. They proved it. Now to a lay person
like us, racketeering and trafficking. Sounds like, oh, well he
didn't do that. Well, I proved their case. I don't
(10:34):
know how how well they they sounded in court, but
just looking at the facts, they're there. It's there for me.
You're right, Oh well whatever, I'm in a full I'm
in basically freaking. I'm like in like Osama bin Laden
in a cave right now, access to a clock.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
We're a little over. That's what he told me.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Why don't you just go on vacation and take Elmer
with you.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I'll be in my CAVELL be right back.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
We're talking about the Shanda de Comb's verdict that comes
in still to decide today. The judge is going to
decide whether or not he gets to go home and
basically stay free while he is while he awaits sentencing.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
So that's what's still coming up.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
So Republican leaders there in the house now not only
left to find votes.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Well, we had her there for a little bit, then
she went away.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Was that me?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah? That was you go on.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
They're also dealing with an unexcited procedural issue that could
complicate the floor consideration of this big, beautiful bill. They say,
the problem is deep in the weeds. It's a drafting
issue on a procedural document, the rule governing the megabills
floor consideration. If it doesn't get fixed, they say, there
(12:05):
are real consequences. When Jim McGovern talked about it today,
he said it has a mistaken it great, he said,
Republicans don't have an escape patch if they start it
and realize they don't have the votes. Yeah, As currently written,
the rule does not order the previous question, nor does
it prohibit My brain's already freezing over. It's deep in
the weeds. Long story short. It means once the House
(12:27):
begins debate on this, Johnson doesn't have a ripcord he
can pull to delay or reschedule voting. So Democrats could
use a variety of delayed tactics, including motions to adjourn
or table. There's no ord to table this thing if
things aren't going their ways.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I mean, yeah, but this is also and problem.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
It is a huge problem because the changes that were
made in the Senate are already being called out by
Republicans who passed it in the House and then said
please don't change it at all.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
So now they have changed it.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
There's a bunch of people, especially those members of the
Freedom Caucus, they have said they're going to tank this
thing before it even gets to debate. They would vote
against a resolution that would even bring it to the floor.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
And just like we saw in the Senate.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Obviously, the Senate has one hundred members, the House has
four hundred and thirty five. But it's so close that
assuming that all Democrats vote no, Republicans once again only
can afford to lose three of the votes in the
House in order to pass the procedural measure that they're
talking about doing later today. So I mean, this is
not the idea that this is going to be done
(13:38):
by the fourth of July. That's forty eight hours away.
I don't think it's going to happen. And I think
they kind of are going to, whether they intend to
or not. Republicans in the House are going to pull
away one of the big ceremonies that President Trump wants
to have, which is to sign this bill on the
fourth of July.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
And hey, sorry, am I back?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Yeah you are now?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, why would you do?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Oh nothing, just a little technical issue here in Afghanistan.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Okay, it's blanket.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
So doesn't everybody love a little palace intrigue?
Speaker 7 (14:21):
I do.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I love it when the powers that be are fighting
and trying to stab each other with various different tools.
When when when, well, when things go wrong at the palace,
And that's what we have with Trump and Elon Musk
and now the head of Doze, the very Doze that
Trump said should investigate his ex bff Musk, the head
(14:44):
of Doge, who could be tasked with this, Well, it's
complicated because he's like best friends with Elon Musk, so
they're calling him the wild card. We'll find out more
about him when we come back.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Carrying Shannon will continue.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
You're listening to g Marian Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Waiting to see what the judge decides in the Shandy
Combs case. The jury came back and convicted him of
a couple of lesser charges, but the big ones, the racketeering,
the sex trafficking, he was acquitted on those. So the
judge is going to decide before sentencing whether or not
Combs goes back to the Metropolitan Detention Center or if
(15:27):
he gets to go home. I think he was planning
on going home to Florida tonight. So one other big
story is that Paramount has said it agreed to pay
President Trump sixteen million dollars to settle that lawsuit over
the sixty minutes Kamala Harris interview that aired just before
the just before the election.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, that was the one that was heavily edited where
I think a lot of us lost faith in journalism.
Whatever faith remained was lost. It's like, what got sixty minutes?
It's editing an interview that severely Oh god, I mean
that was really discouraging. Now they're paying the money, but
(16:09):
they say they will not apologize. Is that right? Yeah,
as part of them say that they were wrong, they're
just writing the check.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
It did not include an apology. It does include sixteen million.
They will agree to release written transcripts of any future
interviews with presidential candidates, which which actually we've seen many
times since that sixty minutes interview, and since CBS originally
said they wouldn't release the transcripts, other networks have done
(16:39):
so when they've sat down with presidential candidates. But remember
the original lawsuit that Trump filed was looking for twenty
billion dollars. So this is less than a tenth of
a percent of that, Am I right? Tenth of a percent? Yeah,
of what he was asking for originally, but still makes
a signific point. With a sixteen million dollar payoff. It
(17:02):
doesn't go to him, He's not going to get a
check from CBS. It goes to the foundation and I
think a future presidential library and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Well, there was a truce, albeit short lived, between Trump
and Elon Musk. Musk continues to criticize that massive bill
that is currently procedurally hung up there in the House,
and the President has had quite the heated response to that.
Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history,
(17:30):
he said. He went on to say, perhaps we should
have Doze take a good hard look at this. Now.
Any move to sick Doze on Musk would land on
the shoulders of one man in what The New York
Times calls an increasingly complicated position, Joe Gebia, who is
(17:52):
the co founder of Airbnb. He is on Tesla's board.
He's a close friend of Musk. He is also deeply
involved with Doge. He has a fiduciary duty to Tesla
and its shareholders with his role on that board. He
was recruited by Musk himself and stayed after Musk left,
(18:15):
So he is the one they believe that will be
taking on the key leadership role at DOGE. So that's
a bit of a conflict of interest, is it not.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
You could say that now.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Obviously, most most of the work that Joe Gebia has
been doing for DOGE has been turning what you know,
with the old technology of paper to pen record keeping
for much of the federal government and turning it into
a digital databases. I mean, when when DOGE came around,
(18:47):
one of the big deals was that, I think it's
the Social Security Administration has a giant salt mine basically
where they keep records, and it's acres and acres and
acres of millions of legal sized boxes that are just
filled with paperwork. And what they were saying was you
could digitize that information and reduce the footprint of that,
(19:11):
then you open up all this other space. Not only that,
but it makes it more it's easier to back up
that way, it's easier to replicate, it's easier to store,
it's much faster a record retrieval, all of these things
and that's one of the things that Joe Gebia was
doing in terms of his specific task with DOGE. Now
that Musk has gone, Gebia's role is a bit bigger
(19:33):
than that. The problem is all, among other things, would
he follow Trump's.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Trump's order, It's not even an order.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I mean, he's posting stuff on truth social that's not official,
So just.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Putting out empty threats. I mean, you know what you follow,
and you know what you follow, and you follow the money.
Shares in Tesla have plunged more than eleven percent and
over the last five training sessions. Investors are worried about
the potential loss of the subsidies. That Trump says is
the reason the loss of the subsidies, it's the reason
why Elon's mad. That Elon is not worried about this
(20:12):
bill bankrupting America. He's all this talk about forming a
new political party. It's all hogwash that he's just pissed
off that this legislation has eliminated the electric vehicle subsidies
at benefit companies like Tesla. But everybody knows it's it's
good for the country for Tesla to do well and
(20:32):
to bounce back here. It's good for Trump it's good
for Elon Musk, It's good for this this guy. So
I don't see Trump having such an issue with Elon
Musk that he would actually investigate him or force Elon
Musk's best friend to investigate the company that he sits
on the board of. Like, that doesn't make any sense, right,
(20:54):
Trump's not like that. He's a businessman first, right.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
And I'm curious to see when this is going to
blow over or whatever is going on between Trump and Musk.
I feel like it will lose. One thing is it
generates headlines because they were so buddy buddy a year ago.
They were so hand in hand for those last couple
of months of the not just the campaign, but then
(21:17):
the first couple of months of the administration, they just
you could not get away from the two of them together.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I don't understand, though. I don't think that they were
as hand in hand as we think, because I think
with those two personality types, it's impossible to have a
friendship like that. They're incapable of having a close friendship
like that. They have the appearance of them being that close,
but those two personality types.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
No, you did mention that Tesla's down over the last
several days. Today it's actually up a tiny bit. I
think it's up about four percent from where it opened
this morning. But it's not been a great year for
Tesla period.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Coming up, have you heard about Hendrix the macaw? Oh?
If you haven't, you're in for a treat.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am six.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Coming up in the next hour. We have a new
term for the homeless, or I guess we should say
how the homeless sleep in LA. When I say a
new term for the homeless, I'm talking about the unhoused,
the outdoor inclined. What are the ones we don't get
in trouble?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
For urban camping enthusiast.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
You got a real tongue lashing for that one, Yes
I did, But but I will say, you know what, though,
it's apropos for this topic, for this new term, because
apparently they're not tent camping enthusiasts. We'll get into it open.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Air urban camping enthusiast.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Maybe there you go, look at that enjoying the night skys.
The stars up here are so incredible, Like even if
it's a clear night in LA and you can see
some stars northern California. Man, it is night and day.
Quite literally, it is so beautiful to see all the stars.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I know a couple of people who own birds, and
especially the bigger parrots, macaws and things like that.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
They can live for decades.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Often we do stories or other news agencies do stories
about pets who need to be adopted. Right, there's so
many pets that need to be adopted. There's such a
need for that. This is the opposite. This is a
story about a parrot who everybody wanted to adopt. This
is a parrot who will tell you thank you when
you give him snacks, but will also tell you to
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shut up. And who wouldn't like honesty like that coming
from their parrot. This parrot lived in an animal shelter
and Fall River, Massachusetts, and his name is Hendricks and
Hendricks is rated are.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
I found a TV story about this from a local
news station about Hendrix the macaw.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
He's not just colorful, his language is too.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
If you call him a pretty bird, he'll say thank you,
he'll say good morning baby.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Other than the nice cities, that's.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
As far as the niceties go.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
We try not to react because we don't want to
encourage it, but there's times we.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Have to leave the room to laugh. That is Chantell.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Roger works at the shelter and says says that this kid,
this macaw, has become quite the center of attention.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Is Chantell, by the way, was tasked with writing the
blurb to get Hendricks adopted. Hendricks, by the way is
Blue and Gold, came to the shelter in April. I
believe he was surrendered by his longtime owner. And this
is what Chantell wrote. If you adopt Hendrix, you're basically
adopting Samuel L. Jackson. She wrote on Facebook, referring to
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Samuel Jackson, who's known in part for his delivery of
profanity lace dialogue in movies. She wrote, Chantelda, this bird's
language is not for the feint of heart. But the post,
as you could imagine, only made people more interested. Thousands
of people shared this and it got traction. The next day,
the shelter received a windfall of about sixty adoption applications.
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They had to close down the applications. One person was
soon selected, and Hendrix's new owner took him home June
twenty first, after hearing Hendrix do what he does and
curse a few times.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
How do you, well, how does the bird learn? The
bird is just mimicking what it's heard other people do,
so why not other people? It's hurt people, I should say.
So is there any pushback, I'm sure. Try to find
who the original owner was and ask questions.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I'm assuming that the original owner could no longer take
care of Hendricks. Maybe it's an older gentleman. Hendricks a
little bit about the backstory. First arrived at the shelter.
Like I said in April, the previous owner had him
for two decades.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Now blue and gold macaws can live for more than
seventy years. To your point, Hendrix right now is about thirty,
so he's got another forty years to go. And she says.
Sean tells us the first person who popped into her
mind when she saw the macaw was Jimmy Hendrix. But
many of Hendricks's feathers were missing. He's about three feet tall,
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forty inch wide wings span, and they believe that there's
probably some malnutrition going on. This is a shelter, by
the way that does cats and dogs. Hendricks was the
only parrot in the room with a full A few
rabbits and a guinea pig, and he was initially scared
of people, you know, the kind of animal that would
shake when a human would approach the cage. They bought
(27:01):
him an extra large chewy pineapple toy that they hung
in his cage, and discovered that his favorite treats are strawberries, blueberries,
dried bananas, and peanuts. That sounds delicious, Yeah, it does
a little bit. That's why I thought it sounded delicious,
except I need M and ms in there. A few
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weeks after arriving, Hendricks began opening up to people, saying
cracker when the parrot wanted a dried banana chip, and
thank you when he received one, or.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
When I would walk into the room.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Right exactly, well, keep my hands off that. After that,
after he started warming up, that's when he started cursing
for the first time, and he started using vulgar language.
Then he started getting loud about it, and customers would
come in right for the cats and the dogs and things,
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and they would hear this from the beck, like this
wearing and they'd be like, oh, that's just a parrot
that wants attention. But they took that as a sign
that he was becoming more comfortable at the shelter. It
felt like home to Hendrix if he could swear there.
And isn't that the truth?
Speaker 7 (28:14):
Right?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
You know, it is funny the way you described him.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
I've seen a picture of him now on that video
of the TV story the he's the feathers on his
breast are gone or chest whatever you're calling but because
of whatever nutrition issues were going on with him at
the house that he was in. And I wonder if
those come back, because it almost looks like he's wearing
(28:37):
because they're so colorful, to quote Monty Python, beautiful plumage.
It looks like he's wearing a cape because it's almost
bare chested underneath, and it's kind of a funny look
for him.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I'm curious if that actually comes back.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Now, don't say no right away, but I got an idea. Okay,
what if we got a show parrot, a parrot that
could come come in the studio with us and just
weigh in on things or just like chime in with
different things, you know, like like we'd be doing a
story and the parrot would be like swap watch or something.
(29:15):
I don't know, Like I don't I mean our parrot
obviously could not have a dirty mouth, so we would
have to mind our p's and ques with the parrot
off the air well, who's the FCT people, is the.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
FCC can come after us or the parrot because you
can't you can't find a parent.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
You know what? That my friend, Maybe there's a loop point.
That's what'll Maybe this turns into a very dirty show
courtesy of the parrot, not us, not us guard god
fearing souls.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Call the parrot mister loophole.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Mister loophole.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Next hour, we're going to talk about a couple of
different baseball stories that we found.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
One of the ones the least local.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
The biggest issue is that Clayton Kershaw could go for
his three thousandth strikeout coming up later tonight against the
White Sox.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Oh, there's a pet bird store called the Perfect Parrot
in North Hollywood that's right around. We could go to
Star Garden for lunch and then pop over the Perfect
Parrot and pick up our perfect parrot pet.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
I think you have those reversed. You'd want the parrot
before you went to Star Gardens.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
They don't allow birds in Star gardens.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Think they allow them in the radio station.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Classy establishment. Well, who's gonna tell us? No.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
That's what I'm saying is if.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I had a bird on my shoulder when I went
into Star Gardens, I think we'd get in fine.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Hey, how much money do you have? Do you have
a couple thousand dollars? Because this is going to cost No,
not for a bird, Not for a bird. Oh so
now you don't love our pet. I do hate our pet.
I do not like miss You don't want to care
for our pet?
Speaker 2 (30:54):
No, I do not.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
You keep you up with these ideas that it's gonna
be our and then somehow everyone else is taken.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Care of it.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
That's never happened.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Don't you remember the worms you made board operator Blake
take care of.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Those and they lived a good life.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
They lived a good life.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Gary and Shannon will continue right after this. You've been
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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. I have built my fort. My
fort's skill? Can you tell? Oh, totally, you can tell.
It sounds better?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, it sounds much better.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Okay, good. Yeah, I am in a fort. I have pillows,
I have a blanket, I have You know, it's fun
how creative you get. I forgot how creative you can
get when building a fort. You know, it's really funny.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
We talked about it yesterday.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
We talked about the old art of fort building like
you were doing with Hank over the weekend. But a
buddy of mine posted something on Facebook that said, if
you are whatever over forty years old, you know what
this is. And it was a picture of a fort
built out of couch cushions.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
And so what I've done in here is I just
took like an old forty nine er blanket and I've
draped it over my head and I've secured it to
the top of the desk using you know, different paperweight
type things, and I've got pillows all over the place.
It's a good old fashioned, workable fort situation. So we
(01:10):
are officially closer to the year twenty fifty than we
are two thousand today. Ew it is the halfway point
of this year today, July second, So we're twenty five
years and six months past the year two thousand and
twenty four years and six months away from the year
twenty to fifty. How old do you feel? Let me
(01:33):
make you feel better. We are less than thirty days
away from the football season.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
That's fun.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Less than a month for football.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Got to I gotta start looking at something because San
Francisco Giants have absolutely taken a poop in their own
pants in the last couple of weeks. I know what
that Raphael Devers fat broken, Rafael Diver see.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
But that's the thing. What does that kind of guy
do to the locker room. I don't know if that's
an issue, but it changes the chemistry of the team,
It changes the mojo, it changes everything. Yeah, and when
you throw in something like that to the locker room,
it moves around the energy.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Okay, you know what I hear in your voice? I
hear a couple things. Do you want to hear what
I hear?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
As I diagnose you, number one. I hear that you
are ready for a vacation. You are just days away
from the first vacation you have taken in forever. All
the time you have taken off has been to care
for your parents, like the wonderful son that you are,
and you have not had a real vacation forever, and
(02:39):
you are just days away, and it is well deserved,
and I can tell you are already one foot out
the door.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Well, I am annoyed by people who do that, so
I've been trying to push it off as long.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It's impossible. It's impossible. I also hate it when I
do that. I feel it in myself. I feel checking
out and I'm like, why are you that person? But
it's impossible, and it's okay, it's all right. And like
I said, it's not like you take vacations. You never do,
and it's so deserved and it's going to be wonderful
(03:11):
and you're gonna have a great time and you get
to be checked out. The other thing I hear in
your voice is the quality that I most prefer to
have in my voice because it happens so infrequently, And
it is the quality in your voice that happens when
you know you were right, and you were right. You
said from the beginning that you had questions about this
(03:33):
jury coming to a guilty verdict when it came to
the most serious charges of racketeering and sex trafficking, and
I was like, no, you're crazy. This is guilty, the
guilty on everything. I was an idiot and you were correct.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Well, I wouldn't say that much, but I did see
that there were problems with making this thing up, literally
making a federal case out of what this guy was.
Shandy Combs is a monster of a human being, degrades
the women around him, just an awful person to the core.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
But racketeering, I mean this, Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
So the decision comes down today, He's found guilty of
transportation to engage in prostitution, but acquitted of the racketeering
and the sex trafficking. Two counts of the prostitution related charge,
one for each woman that was involved, one for Cassie
Ventura and the other one that went by the name Jane.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
During trial, and.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
As I listened to some of the legal experts talking
about the verdict after it came in today, Brian Buckmeyer,
for example, talked to ABC News he's a former defense attorney.
He says, Listen, I have all the respect for that
US attorney in the Southern District of New York, but
this one they bid off more than they could chew.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Y SDNLI has phenomenal prosecutors, has a phenomenal office, and
their record speaks for itself. But I think in this
case they overestimated the strength of their case. And this
is what happens when a jury speaks.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Okay, I wanted to get into two more soundbites very
quickly and then we can discuss them. Donna Rotana or
sorry Rotano, her name may not ring a bell. She
actually defended Harvey Weinstein in a couple of cases. But
she also described this as being an overcharged case.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
We have been saying all along in this case that
it was overcharged by the government, that they were taking
these very nuanced relationships and trying to make them criminal,
and I think Mark did a really good job and
his closing argument highlighting that to the jury overall, this
is a huge loss to the government.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
That she is a horror for all of the men
who are guilty of awful things, and she's trying to
make her case for more clients. That's what she's trying
to do to Yes, And I think what you're hearing
in these and just briefly before you get to the
next SoundBite, is this is a pushback to the me
too movement. Racketeering has been used by federal attorneys, more
(06:06):
so to prosecute a series of these high profile men
accused of sex crimes. People don't like that. And I think,
and I think that's what you saw in the jury.
I mean, I surround myself with and I'm lucky to
say with wonderful, upstanding men, and and and I and
I discount how gross men are and how gross they
(06:29):
could have been. On this jury, who were there, like, eh,
well we say it's sex trafficking when we say it's racketeer. Yeah,
you had a good time. She said she liked the party,
she liked the freak off. I overestimate men sometimes because
I'm surrounded by so many great ones.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Elie Honi was the other one that I wanted to
hear from because there is still prison time possible for
this guy. I mean, the two the two prostitution related
charges each bring a potential ten year prison sentence. It's
not going to be that b.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Two ten year max counts. They are going to merge.
They are not going to be run what we call
consecutively back to back. They're closely related to one another.
I've had this argument a thousand times in that courthouse.
This sentence is all going to merge, so realistically, the
max is ten years. If you're looking at somebody who's
been convicted only of what we call the Man Act,
(07:20):
meaning non coercive, non forcible interstate prostitution, essentially ordering a
prostitute across the state lines. A lot of times that
results in no prison time. That would take the Seawan
Combs out of it, take the celebrity out of it,
take all the other evidence out of it. In an
ordinary case where that was the only kind of conviction,
(07:40):
you could have a realistic argument for probation here.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
There was also a moment apparently one of the court
watchers said that the judge was making light of or
at least having a light hearted moment when he was
talking about the potential for release today, and they said,
there's no way that the judge jokes about that with
some buddy and then doesn't let them out for the
rest of the day.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Right because he wasn't found guilty of that definitely, definitely possibility. Yeah,
you're looking at ten maximum for both, and that attorney's right.
They would run consecutively, not concurrently, not consecutively, and with
a first time offender like that, you're looking at the
(08:24):
high end maybe being six for both of I mean together, right,
the low end being nothing. I mean, the most time
he could get would be like probably two. He'll probably
get probation, like eighteen months probation or something like that.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Well, and it gets credit for time served likely for
the year that he's been in jail waiting for them.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Just the video of him beating the hell out of
her in that hotel, I mean, and that was a
one off. That wasn't like a col that was a Tuesday.
You know, that's just how he lived his life. And
what creep. And you know what the other thing that
I underestimated with Diddy and there are men like this
and you know, men like this that just have a
(09:09):
presence about them. I should say women as well, but
it certainly certainly celebrity men or powerful men, sports figures,
political figures, whatever, there's certain people you come across it
just have a presence a gravitas. They walk into a room,
they own it, and they have this way of manipulating
psychologically without even knowing a person. With that, I mean,
(09:31):
you can see how he would have that power over
a jury, over a judge, because he definitely has that
X factor of just walking into a room and kind
of owning it. And that is not to be underestimated
either when it comes to a jury and how they
make up decisions and things like this. Racketeering sounds very involved.
You know. All of the charges that he was let
(09:53):
off on was racketeering and trafficking. They sound you know,
you think of sex trafficking, You think of a guy
bringing over twenty f five women from across the border
and putting them in a brothel and having them be
brought you know what I mean, that kind of a thing,
or child trafficking. We've all heard the horror stories, but
the bar is very low when it comes to racketeering specifically,
(10:13):
just the conspiracy. Just basically talking to a friend about
bringing a woman over and making her have sex with somebody,
that is racketeering. I mean, they to me it was
not overcharged. They proved it. Now to a lay person
like us, racketeering and trafficking. Sounds like, oh, well he
didn't do that. Well, I proved their case. I don't
(10:34):
know how how well they they sounded in court, but
just looking at the facts, they're there. It's there for me.
You're right, Oh well whatever, I'm in a full I'm
in basically freaking. I'm like in like Osama bin Laden
in a cave right now, access to a clock.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
We're a little over. That's what he told me.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Why don't you just go on vacation and take Elmer
with you.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I'll be in my CAVELL be right back.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
We're talking about the Shanda de Comb's verdict that comes
in still to decide today. The judge is going to
decide whether or not he gets to go home and
basically stay free while he is while he awaits sentencing.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
So that's what's still coming up.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
So Republican leaders there in the house now not only
left to find votes.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Well, we had her there for a little bit, then
she went away.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Was that me?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah? That was you go on.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
They're also dealing with an unexcited procedural issue that could
complicate the floor consideration of this big, beautiful bill. They say,
the problem is deep in the weeds. It's a drafting
issue on a procedural document, the rule governing the megabills
floor consideration. If it doesn't get fixed, they say, there
(12:05):
are real consequences. When Jim McGovern talked about it today,
he said it has a mistaken it great, he said,
Republicans don't have an escape patch if they start it
and realize they don't have the votes. Yeah, As currently written,
the rule does not order the previous question, nor does
it prohibit My brain's already freezing over. It's deep in
the weeds. Long story short. It means once the House
(12:27):
begins debate on this, Johnson doesn't have a ripcord he
can pull to delay or reschedule voting. So Democrats could
use a variety of delayed tactics, including motions to adjourn
or table. There's no ord to table this thing if
things aren't going their ways.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I mean, yeah, but this is also and problem.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
It is a huge problem because the changes that were
made in the Senate are already being called out by
Republicans who passed it in the House and then said
please don't change it at all.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
So now they have changed it.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
There's a bunch of people, especially those members of the
Freedom Caucus, they have said they're going to tank this
thing before it even gets to debate. They would vote
against a resolution that would even bring it to the floor.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
And just like we saw in the Senate.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Obviously, the Senate has one hundred members, the House has
four hundred and thirty five. But it's so close that
assuming that all Democrats vote no, Republicans once again only
can afford to lose three of the votes in the
House in order to pass the procedural measure that they're
talking about doing later today. So I mean, this is
not the idea that this is going to be done
(13:38):
by the fourth of July. That's forty eight hours away.
I don't think it's going to happen. And I think
they kind of are going to, whether they intend to
or not. Republicans in the House are going to pull
away one of the big ceremonies that President Trump wants
to have, which is to sign this bill on the
fourth of July.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
And hey, sorry, am I back?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Yeah you are now?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, why would you do?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Oh nothing, just a little technical issue here in Afghanistan.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Okay, it's blanket.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
So doesn't everybody love a little palace intrigue?
Speaker 7 (14:21):
I do.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I love it when the powers that be are fighting
and trying to stab each other with various different tools.
When when when, well, when things go wrong at the palace,
And that's what we have with Trump and Elon Musk
and now the head of Doze, the very Doze that
Trump said should investigate his ex bff Musk, the head
(14:44):
of Doge, who could be tasked with this, Well, it's
complicated because he's like best friends with Elon Musk, so
they're calling him the wild card. We'll find out more
about him when we come back.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Carrying Shannon will continue.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
You're listening to g Marian Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Waiting to see what the judge decides in the Shandy
Combs case. The jury came back and convicted him of
a couple of lesser charges, but the big ones, the racketeering,
the sex trafficking, he was acquitted on those. So the
judge is going to decide before sentencing whether or not
Combs goes back to the Metropolitan Detention Center or if
(15:27):
he gets to go home. I think he was planning
on going home to Florida tonight. So one other big
story is that Paramount has said it agreed to pay
President Trump sixteen million dollars to settle that lawsuit over
the sixty minutes Kamala Harris interview that aired just before
the just before the election.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, that was the one that was heavily edited where
I think a lot of us lost faith in journalism.
Whatever faith remained was lost. It's like, what got sixty minutes?
It's editing an interview that severely Oh god, I mean
that was really discouraging. Now they're paying the money, but
(16:09):
they say they will not apologize. Is that right? Yeah,
as part of them say that they were wrong, they're
just writing the check.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
It did not include an apology. It does include sixteen million.
They will agree to release written transcripts of any future
interviews with presidential candidates, which which actually we've seen many
times since that sixty minutes interview, and since CBS originally
said they wouldn't release the transcripts, other networks have done
(16:39):
so when they've sat down with presidential candidates. But remember
the original lawsuit that Trump filed was looking for twenty
billion dollars. So this is less than a tenth of
a percent of that, Am I right? Tenth of a percent? Yeah,
of what he was asking for originally, but still makes
a signific point. With a sixteen million dollar payoff. It
(17:02):
doesn't go to him, He's not going to get a
check from CBS. It goes to the foundation and I
think a future presidential library and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Well, there was a truce, albeit short lived, between Trump
and Elon Musk. Musk continues to criticize that massive bill
that is currently procedurally hung up there in the House,
and the President has had quite the heated response to that.
Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history,
(17:30):
he said. He went on to say, perhaps we should
have Doze take a good hard look at this. Now.
Any move to sick Doze on Musk would land on
the shoulders of one man in what The New York
Times calls an increasingly complicated position, Joe Gebia, who is
(17:52):
the co founder of Airbnb. He is on Tesla's board.
He's a close friend of Musk. He is also deeply
involved with Doge. He has a fiduciary duty to Tesla
and its shareholders with his role on that board. He
was recruited by Musk himself and stayed after Musk left,
(18:15):
So he is the one they believe that will be
taking on the key leadership role at DOGE. So that's
a bit of a conflict of interest, is it not.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
You could say that now.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Obviously, most most of the work that Joe Gebia has
been doing for DOGE has been turning what you know,
with the old technology of paper to pen record keeping
for much of the federal government and turning it into
a digital databases. I mean, when when DOGE came around,
(18:47):
one of the big deals was that, I think it's
the Social Security Administration has a giant salt mine basically
where they keep records, and it's acres and acres and
acres of millions of legal sized boxes that are just
filled with paperwork. And what they were saying was you
could digitize that information and reduce the footprint of that,
(19:11):
then you open up all this other space. Not only that,
but it makes it more it's easier to back up
that way, it's easier to replicate, it's easier to store,
it's much faster a record retrieval, all of these things
and that's one of the things that Joe Gebia was
doing in terms of his specific task with DOGE. Now
that Musk has gone, Gebia's role is a bit bigger
(19:33):
than that. The problem is all, among other things, would
he follow Trump's.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Trump's order, It's not even an order.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I mean, he's posting stuff on truth social that's not official,
So just.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Putting out empty threats. I mean, you know what you follow,
and you know what you follow, and you follow the money.
Shares in Tesla have plunged more than eleven percent and
over the last five training sessions. Investors are worried about
the potential loss of the subsidies. That Trump says is
the reason the loss of the subsidies, it's the reason
why Elon's mad. That Elon is not worried about this
(20:12):
bill bankrupting America. He's all this talk about forming a
new political party. It's all hogwash that he's just pissed
off that this legislation has eliminated the electric vehicle subsidies
at benefit companies like Tesla. But everybody knows it's it's
good for the country for Tesla to do well and
(20:32):
to bounce back here. It's good for Trump it's good
for Elon Musk, It's good for this this guy. So
I don't see Trump having such an issue with Elon
Musk that he would actually investigate him or force Elon
Musk's best friend to investigate the company that he sits
on the board of. Like, that doesn't make any sense, right,
(20:54):
Trump's not like that. He's a businessman first, right.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
And I'm curious to see when this is going to
blow over or whatever is going on between Trump and Musk.
I feel like it will lose. One thing is it
generates headlines because they were so buddy buddy a year ago.
They were so hand in hand for those last couple
of months of the not just the campaign, but then
(21:17):
the first couple of months of the administration, they just
you could not get away from the two of them together.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I don't understand, though. I don't think that they were
as hand in hand as we think, because I think
with those two personality types, it's impossible to have a
friendship like that. They're incapable of having a close friendship
like that. They have the appearance of them being that close,
but those two personality types.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
No, you did mention that Tesla's down over the last
several days. Today it's actually up a tiny bit. I
think it's up about four percent from where it opened
this morning. But it's not been a great year for
Tesla period.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Coming up, have you heard about Hendrix the macaw? Oh?
If you haven't, you're in for a treat.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am six.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Coming up in the next hour. We have a new
term for the homeless, or I guess we should say
how the homeless sleep in LA. When I say a
new term for the homeless, I'm talking about the unhoused,
the outdoor inclined. What are the ones we don't get
in trouble?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
For urban camping enthusiast.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
You got a real tongue lashing for that one, Yes
I did, But but I will say, you know what, though,
it's apropos for this topic, for this new term, because
apparently they're not tent camping enthusiasts. We'll get into it open.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Air urban camping enthusiast.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Maybe there you go, look at that enjoying the night skys.
The stars up here are so incredible, Like even if
it's a clear night in LA and you can see
some stars northern California. Man, it is night and day.
Quite literally, it is so beautiful to see all the stars.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I know a couple of people who own birds, and
especially the bigger parrots, macaws and things like that.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
They can live for decades.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Often we do stories or other news agencies do stories
about pets who need to be adopted. Right, there's so
many pets that need to be adopted. There's such a
need for that. This is the opposite. This is a
story about a parrot who everybody wanted to adopt. This
is a parrot who will tell you thank you when
you give him snacks, but will also tell you to
(23:51):
shut up. And who wouldn't like honesty like that coming
from their parrot. This parrot lived in an animal shelter
and Fall River, Massachusetts, and his name is Hendricks and
Hendricks is rated are.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
I found a TV story about this from a local
news station about Hendrix the macaw.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
He's not just colorful, his language is too.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
If you call him a pretty bird, he'll say thank you,
he'll say good morning baby.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Other than the nice cities, that's.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
As far as the niceties go.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
We try not to react because we don't want to
encourage it, but there's times we.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Have to leave the room to laugh. That is Chantell.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Roger works at the shelter and says says that this kid,
this macaw, has become quite the center of attention.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Is Chantell, by the way, was tasked with writing the
blurb to get Hendricks adopted. Hendricks, by the way is
Blue and Gold, came to the shelter in April. I
believe he was surrendered by his longtime owner. And this
is what Chantell wrote. If you adopt Hendrix, you're basically
adopting Samuel L. Jackson. She wrote on Facebook, referring to
(25:06):
Samuel Jackson, who's known in part for his delivery of
profanity lace dialogue in movies. She wrote, Chantelda, this bird's
language is not for the feint of heart. But the post,
as you could imagine, only made people more interested. Thousands
of people shared this and it got traction. The next day,
the shelter received a windfall of about sixty adoption applications.
(25:31):
They had to close down the applications. One person was
soon selected, and Hendrix's new owner took him home June
twenty first, after hearing Hendrix do what he does and
curse a few times.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
How do you, well, how does the bird learn? The
bird is just mimicking what it's heard other people do,
so why not other people? It's hurt people, I should say.
So is there any pushback, I'm sure. Try to find
who the original owner was and ask questions.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I'm assuming that the original owner could no longer take
care of Hendricks. Maybe it's an older gentleman. Hendricks a
little bit about the backstory. First arrived at the shelter.
Like I said in April, the previous owner had him
for two decades.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Now blue and gold macaws can live for more than
seventy years. To your point, Hendrix right now is about thirty,
so he's got another forty years to go. And she says.
Sean tells us the first person who popped into her
mind when she saw the macaw was Jimmy Hendrix. But
many of Hendricks's feathers were missing. He's about three feet tall,
(26:38):
forty inch wide wings span, and they believe that there's
probably some malnutrition going on. This is a shelter, by
the way that does cats and dogs. Hendricks was the
only parrot in the room with a full A few
rabbits and a guinea pig, and he was initially scared
of people, you know, the kind of animal that would
shake when a human would approach the cage. They bought
(27:01):
him an extra large chewy pineapple toy that they hung
in his cage, and discovered that his favorite treats are strawberries, blueberries,
dried bananas, and peanuts. That sounds delicious, Yeah, it does
a little bit. That's why I thought it sounded delicious,
except I need M and ms in there. A few
(27:24):
weeks after arriving, Hendricks began opening up to people, saying
cracker when the parrot wanted a dried banana chip, and
thank you when he received one, or.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
When I would walk into the room.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Right exactly, well, keep my hands off that. After that,
after he started warming up, that's when he started cursing
for the first time, and he started using vulgar language.
Then he started getting loud about it, and customers would
come in right for the cats and the dogs and things,
(27:56):
and they would hear this from the beck, like this
wearing and they'd be like, oh, that's just a parrot
that wants attention. But they took that as a sign
that he was becoming more comfortable at the shelter. It
felt like home to Hendrix if he could swear there.
And isn't that the truth?
Speaker 7 (28:14):
Right?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
You know, it is funny the way you described him.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
I've seen a picture of him now on that video
of the TV story the he's the feathers on his
breast are gone or chest whatever you're calling but because
of whatever nutrition issues were going on with him at
the house that he was in. And I wonder if
those come back, because it almost looks like he's wearing
(28:37):
because they're so colorful, to quote Monty Python, beautiful plumage.
It looks like he's wearing a cape because it's almost
bare chested underneath, and it's kind of a funny look
for him.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I'm curious if that actually comes back.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Now, don't say no right away, but I got an idea. Okay,
what if we got a show parrot, a parrot that
could come come in the studio with us and just
weigh in on things or just like chime in with
different things, you know, like like we'd be doing a
story and the parrot would be like swap watch or something.
(29:15):
I don't know, Like I don't I mean our parrot
obviously could not have a dirty mouth, so we would
have to mind our p's and ques with the parrot
off the air well, who's the FCT people, is the.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
FCC can come after us or the parrot because you
can't you can't find a parent.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
You know what? That my friend, Maybe there's a loop point.
That's what'll Maybe this turns into a very dirty show
courtesy of the parrot, not us, not us guard god
fearing souls.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Call the parrot mister loophole.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Mister loophole.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Next hour, we're going to talk about a couple of
different baseball stories that we found.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
One of the ones the least local.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
The biggest issue is that Clayton Kershaw could go for
his three thousandth strikeout coming up later tonight against the
White Sox.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Oh, there's a pet bird store called the Perfect Parrot
in North Hollywood that's right around. We could go to
Star Garden for lunch and then pop over the Perfect
Parrot and pick up our perfect parrot pet.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
I think you have those reversed. You'd want the parrot
before you went to Star Gardens.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
They don't allow birds in Star gardens.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Think they allow them in the radio station.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Classy establishment. Well, who's gonna tell us? No.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
That's what I'm saying is if.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I had a bird on my shoulder when I went
into Star Gardens, I think we'd get in fine.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Hey, how much money do you have? Do you have
a couple thousand dollars? Because this is going to cost No,
not for a bird, Not for a bird. Oh so
now you don't love our pet. I do hate our pet.
I do not like miss You don't want to care
for our pet?
Speaker 2 (30:54):
No, I do not.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
You keep you up with these ideas that it's gonna
be our and then somehow everyone else is taken.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Care of it.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
That's never happened.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Don't you remember the worms you made board operator Blake
take care of.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Those and they lived a good life.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
They lived a good life.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
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