July 1, 2025 • 31 mins
KFI – Michael Monks reports that the Trump administration is suing Mayor Karen Bass and the Los Angeles City Council over the city's sanctuary policy. Additionally, California is facing a challenging start to what is expected to be a difficult fire season. In other news, we explore the complications surrounding the L.A. Zoo's $50 million breakup. Stay tuned for a live press conference with Mayor Bass.
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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 (00:07):
I'm as old as you need me to be.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Oh my gosh, that sounds so dirty. I kind of
what a prostitute says. I think that you learned that
from Julia Roberts.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Is that a picture of you?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
No?
Speaker 4 (00:21):
I think it's a picture Shannon and her brother fifty bucks.
Speaker 5 (00:24):
Grandpa or seventy five the wife can watch.
Speaker 6 (00:27):
I don't like looking at that picture that Gary is
showing me while Shannon is saying that stuff.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
Whatever you started with, you started it with.
Speaker 6 (00:35):
I'm as old as you need me to be, Okay,
I did some things in college, all right?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, and glbal, I know I'm here to talk about
some news. And I don't mean to hijack the show.
Speaker 6 (00:44):
You guys can handle this without me, certainly, But you
should buy the Veil shirt.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
You should buy the veil shirt.
Speaker 6 (00:51):
You want to know why I buy the shirts because
the places bring me joy and I like to be
reminded of that joy. And I'm sorry that you two
miserable wretches can't find the joy the places and let
me tell you lastly, I hope one day you buy
a sweatshirt that says hell, because that's where you're gonna be.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Okay, So, Michael, honestly, I think this is the first
time I called you Michael. But I had this thought
as an American as I was walking through Vail, and
I appeared at the souvenir stores, and I thought of
you immediately and took pictures and sent them to you.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
I thought, you know what, Shannon, as an American, you're
an a hole.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
You're an awful person, an American A he Michael Monks
delighted in Carmel and Monterey and bought the sweatshirts to
prove it. And you and Gary sat there and poo
poohed him like he was some sort of Charlatan off the.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Streets, some sort of Kentucky room.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Somewhere with his Pakistani maid, poorly made tourist shirt that
gave him joy.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
And you know what, you need to stop doing that.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
You need to see what were you thinking, said to myself, SLF,
what were you thinking when you made fun of Michael
Monks's shirt that he so loves. I decided in that
moment that I would not make fun of anybody else's
tourist sweatshirt.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
And then I feel bad about taking away your joy.
But then I thought to myself, Solf, Michael Monks doesn't
care what you say ever.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Going to pop down and a get a little sleeveless
Nevada hoodie or something like that later today.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Oh, can I pick you up a Nevada hoodie?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Is it Nevada or Nevada?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
No? No, no, Nevada is the state controversy you're bringing up.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
There's also a Nevada city. Oh where you are?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, a lot of people call Nevada Nevada, and it's
very offensive to the people who live in Nevada.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
I think Westerners get it correct. Have you ever hear
heard anyone but have you ever heard anyone say Oregon?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Isn't that all? Yeah? That's the worst ever.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Hurts me a little bit.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Hey, So, the US Department of Justice has sued the
city of La mayor Karen Bass. Some city council members
got thrown into this as well, saying that the La
City sanctuary city law is illegal and the government is
asking that it be blocked from being enforced. That's right,
and the mayor is going to be speaking here in
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about twenty minutes. She's scheduled to talk at ten thirty.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
We expect there will be some reaction to this federal
lawsuit from the federal government towards Los Angeles. This is
just the latest in this ongoing fight between either California
or the city in the county against the federal government.
No surprise, the federal government has blamed the sanctuary city
status for the ruckus that was caused early on in
the demonstrations against illegal immigration enforcement efforts, and they think
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that the sanctuary city status is also impeding law enforcement's efforts.
It's interesting the timing. I think, just from being a
guy who's been on the and covering this since it started,
there really hasn't been much.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
In the way of what we saw in the early
days of this.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
So why now is completely unclear, especially when you have
the reports that the military is asking maybe you could
send some of those National Guard treaties and firefighters. Yeah,
we could use some of their help. And because things
have calmed down in Los Angeles. So what type of
standing or what type of impact this case could have,
I don't know, because it's important to note what a
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sanctuary city status really mean, it just means local resources
can't be utilized, if possible, by the federal government in
this immigration enforcement effort. There's really not a whole lot
to it outside of that. It means the police department
isn't rounding up illegal aliens. It means the federal government
can't call the city and get somebody to leave city
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hall and come help them round up folks. It doesn't
have a lot to it. It's more symbolic than anything.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
And I wonder what sort of pri I mean to
that end, if this is if sanctuary city is more
of a I think we said this when it was
passed a couple of years ago. It's more about feelings
than it is about any sort of legal specifics. It's
about and it's about an attitude that the city's going
to have. But there are things that could change. I
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mean any for example, somebody who is undocumented that goes
into a city jail for whatever reason, would the city
would then notify immigration officials that they could get that
person as they came out of jail, as opposed to
having this person released back into a neighborhood and then
Ice has to go get them somewhere.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Yeah, that's exactly right, and LAPED has had a policy
that pretty much keeps them hands off as it relates
to immigration status since the late seventies. It predates the
sanctuary city status by decades. And another thing that I
think is important to remind people, La has long been
welcoming to immigrants of all statuses, no matter how you
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came here. There are opportunities to I guess create a
family and to do business and all that sort of things.
I mean direct policies that clearly omit immigration requirements if
you want to participate in society here. But it's only
been an official sanctuary city status since late last year. Yeah,
(06:21):
I mean that was voted on after Trump won election.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
And it was written I mean it was voted on
specifically as a response to that.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
And that's noted in the lawsuit that the federal government filed.
They say, look, they know what President Trump was running on.
They did this after he was elected. And you also
see the disconnect between the language in the lawsuit. They
quote city council and Hugosota Martinez for saying something along
the lines of we do not want to help the
Trump administration deport The lawsuit says in parentheses illegal immigrants.
(06:57):
And that is a journalistic or a legal tactic that
you use when you want to offer clarity to the reader.
I don't want to use exactly the words that he said.
I want to make it clear you're talking about. His
real quote was, we don't want to help the Trump
administration deport our co workers, our friends, our family, our neighbors.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Okay, So that's that is exactly.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
I think that is more illustrative of how LA feels
versus how the federal government feels right now towards illegal immigration.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
And these these lawsuits doj I mean, Pam Bondi has
mentioned that they've filed them against Chicago and New York.
I think they've actually done against the states of Illinois
and New York in the past as well.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Yeah, and they're suing the states of Texas and Kentucky
over community colleges or public universities offering in state tuition
to illegal immigrants. California also offers that. So you can
expect a work that might be on the pipeline as well. Michael, Oh,
she's still here. Oh wow, I thought you went shopping.
I'm sorry, I thought I was expecting a shirt.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
That's later.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I'm still trying to figure out what color you wear?
A lot of blue, but I feel like that's been done. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
No, my question was much more important.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Over the weekend. Did you experiment anymore with the ice cream?
Speaker 6 (08:17):
I'll have you know we did something more exciting. And
I know any listener that heard me yesterday and anybody
in this newsroom is so sick of me for talking
about this. But I got a brand new couch and
it's so beautiful.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Many cushions, It's a.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Five piece sleeper sofa sectional with a ottoman that I got.
Listen to this, and you guys are really the ones
who would appreciate this, I think more than anybody else,
because I love a bargain, and.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
So we're cheap and we spend a lot of time
on the couch.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
I tell you I am not cheap, but I love
a bargain. That is not the same thing, Oh yeah, exactly.
I stumbled upon this at Macy's. We've been casually looking
for a couch. We were looking at other things I
was been looking for, as you know manly men do
on the weekends, and this beautiful, olive green couch is
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sitting there all by its lonesome original price like five
thousand dollars was marked down to eight hundred dollars. Wow
with another I asked, you know, I went right into
journalism mode. Who's buried in there?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
What happened?
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Where has it been? I did a full inspection. Here's
the deal. You tell me if I'm crazy. It's been
the floor model for two years.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Oh no, oh.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
That's so fine.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
No. I mean that couch has seen a lot of
a lot of tea clear but you probably never mind.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Excuse me, that was going to be a very funny joke.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Well, I believe I heard it, and it was funny.
But it's been cleaned, it's been steamed.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
It is beautiful, and I'm going to find the best
curtains to go with it.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Next we're talking about the couch indeed.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Okay, do you have a picture of it?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I do?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Oh, will you send it to me? I love a couch.
When I first moved.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
To La, I went through like three couches because I
tried to do it cheap. You know, you go Ikia
and you just can't go cheap, except and when you
find the floor model of your dreams. But I love
a good couch. I just do when I screw up?
How many times in my life? Okay, what did I say?
Speaker 6 (10:18):
I'll send it to you and you can discuss amongst yourselves.
Thank you as always, my pleasure.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
At the top of the hour, we'll get into swamp Watch. Obviously,
a bunch going on in DC today, specifically the passage
of the President's bill of tax breaks and spending cuts
and things like that. We'll talk about who voted for it,
against it, et cetera. And it's not over yet. It's
got to go back to the House. Not everybody is
happy with it, and then it's got to go to
the President's desk, and he wants it there.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
By the fourth of July, several fires broke out across
Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, and fire officials say this
is just the beginning of fire season. We've got drought conditions,
extremely parched landscapes, and it could be a really bad
year across California.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Riverside County right now, the wolf fires up over twenty
four hundred acres. That's south of the ten just south
of banning, the Juniper fires several hundred acres, the Lake
Fire in San Bernardinos, about four hundred and eighty three
acres east of the Cohen Pass. Those are just those
are three of the big ones. There were I think
they said twelve fires that started over the course of
seventy two hours. Northern California is getting it this day today.
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In fact, a lot of red flag warnings have been
posted through tonight because of the windy conditions and the
chance for some thunderstorms and bringing lightning to areas of
the Sierra Nevada.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
They say it's going to be a hotter and drier
summer and fall. And we you know, this isn't our
first rodeo. We know what that means. They said that
though temperatures yesterday and over the weekend were high, there
was a big spike there. There was not an increased
wind threat or particularly low humidity. But when those wind
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events or when those weather events I should say, come in,
that's when you know, that's when we get the red
flag warnings, and that's when everyone's on heightened alert, will
have strike teams pre positioned out in the spots that
you know are going to catch fire. You know, you
think about Santiago Canyon, Tribuco Canyon, places like that. They
just know where to go before the fires even begin,
because we've been through this so many times.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Yeah, and I mean the point of that Michael Monks
made in that last segment about the National Guard members
that are still on the streets here in Los Angeles.
The fire officials are asking the Pentagon, Hey, maybe maybe
a spare a couple hundred of those guys. Since the
National Guard tends to have a significant role when it
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comes to firefight, especially if things start getting out of hand,
the National Guard can come in and help what would
you call supplements, compliment the fire crews that are already
out there.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
You have a color.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
I just I don't know about you, but I haven't
stopped thinking about cuddling up on Michael Monks's couch.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Okay, fires are not, you know, summer or not.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
That is a couch that just speaks to me in
a way that fall autumn speak to me. It's an
olive green couch all at once is a blanket and
a cup of coffee or a Manhattan or something.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
It says it's only twenty percent off, But he was
referring to it as getting a ridiculous discount on that thing.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Well, it was twenty percent off when he took that picture.
What did he take off get the extra sixty percent off?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, that's a good point. How big is this place?
That's a massive piece furniture?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Was I have so many follow up questions. Not any
area of my house would that fit in? I don't
even know if that would fit in my whole house.
It's a massive couch.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Well, good for him, prouding.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
We haven't been invited to his palatial estate, is what
I'm wondering. If he has a place for that couch.
You know, he's got a place the size of a hotel.
I don't even think that couch would fit in your
yoga room.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Uh no, not with the other couch that's already in there,
that's for sure. When we come back, the zoo is
an absolute mess. You lose a couple elephants, man, the
whole place goes to Man.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
This is really depressing that the zoo is in a
state of disarray and the funding got cut off today.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Great Gary and Shannon, I continue Higers and bears.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Oh my, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Good to hear you back, Shannon, And I apologize.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Is it something I did?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Is something I didn't do?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Is it me?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
It can't be you.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
I mean, this relationship can still work out.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
We can go to counseling if we have to.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
I just don't know what to say.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I'm scared to say anything. I don't want you to
leave me again. Please, we need you. This relationships won't
last without you. All right?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
How was the game?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
That was so sweet in a super creepy way, but
very sweet, super creepy way.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Welcome back, Shannon. Oh hey, Happy Bobby Bonia Day.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Right, Today's Bobby Bonia Day. He gets a check from
the Mets for one point one nine million dollars today.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
What a wonderful day.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
How old is he now, Bobby Bonia sixty two?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Two?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah, sixty two.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
He's still also getting paid by the Orioles half million
dollars a year from the Orioles.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
And whatever happened to that agent that that did this deal.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Oh, he's probably getting he's probably getting a nice check
today as well.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I'm just wondering who he represents, or who he went
on to represent or was he already a big deal
at the time. I haven't done a deep dive on
the Bobby Bonia contract in a while.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
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Speaker 1 (16:31):
So I saw this article this morning and I started
reading it, and at first I thought, now we shouldn't
talk about this on the show, And then I couldn't
pull my eyes away from it, and I thought, well,
if I'm this interested, then other people are this interested.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
And it's at a Wired.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Magazine and the headline is my couple's retreat with three
AI chat bots and the humans who love them. And
if that sounds weird, it gets so much weirder.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
We're going to get into it.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
We talked in one of our weekend podcasts not very
long ago. I want to say a couple of weeks
ago about people falling in love with these AI chat
bots and how this is the future. Well no, no, no, no, no,
it's the now. The love has planted its seed long
ago and people are marrying their chat bots. So this
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is kind of a deep dive into how the behavior works.
Going on vacation with your chat bot, how you introduce
your chat butt boyfriend slash girlfriend to other humans. It's
a whole different pond and we're going to take a
deep swim in it coming up in the next hour.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
It sounds awful.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
That just sounds like it's entertaining. It's very entertaining.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Women off the Santa monicappear with all the pooh. The
Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association is a nonprofit partner of
the actual LA Zoo, and the city has a contract
with Greater Lazoo Association, which governs, governs, fundraising, special events,
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and more. And that contract ends today. The zoo has
seen better days.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Remember when the fight over the elephants was going on
and there were some outsized reactions from people at city Hall,
and I said to you, there's got to be money involved.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
There's got to be some.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Endgame here for these council people to take this much
of an interest there. You can't you can't tell me
that they're this much into elephants to be this incensed
about this. And I just knew there was a money aspect.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
And here it is.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
The zoo houses sixteen hundred animals, don't you know, And
it has become, if you've seen it in recent years,
increasingly dilapidated. We've gone to brew at the Zoo for
a number of years where you it's you know, five
pm or whatever, five to eight, and you go and
there's different breweries there, and you get to see the
animals and it's lit up, and even in the dark,
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you can tell that the zoo has taken a deep
dive downward.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
In the past ten years.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Exhibits including the Lions, the Bears, the Sea Lions, the
Pelicans have all closed because the exhibits are that bad
they need major renovations. And as I mentioned, the aforementioned
elephants Billy and Tina have been departed for a while
though to the Dulca to the Tulsa Zoo, not dead,
but they live in the Tulsa zoo. This was after
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decades of campaigning by animal rights advocates, including Share and
Slash over living conditions there. This zoo is struggling to
maintain its national accreditation. Federal regulators keep finding things like peeling,
paint rust and some exhibits, the other exhibits that had
to shut down. So if you don't have the federal blessing,
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then you don't get the federal money. If you don't
have the local people, the benefactors and the rich people
who have animals giving you money because you don't know
how to spend it.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Correctly, you're screwed as a zoo.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, And where's all the money? Where's all the money gone?
I mean, that's part of it. It seems like the
zoo has been a money suck for different foundations and spending,
but yet it hasn't kept up with other cities and
their zoos. You go to other cities and the zoos
are incredible, the secondary zoos are incredible, and.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
This one is a piece of ass right now.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Well, And I don't know if it's just a matter
of the city should get out of the business of zoos.
I mean, I don't know how many of the other
big zoos that we know of are run by the
cities or as you know, as opposed to an independent
group that owns it or the foundation or whatever.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Because it could be privatized because we know what the
city can do, and if it's not stealing money then
and then it's nothing. So the city should probably have
its paws off this one.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Yeah, Everything that the City of la has touched recently
has been an absolute mess, and it looks like this
one as well. And attendance is going down, probably one
and a half million visitors for the fiscal year. That's
down about one hundred thousand from the year before. Outdated structure,
exhibits have been closing, no more elephants, among others. You've
had the exhibits for the lions and the bears, and
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the sea lions and the pelicans. They've all had to
close because they need major renovations. Animal rights advocates hate
the zoo because they say that the conditions for living
conditions for the animals has been bad. They've been health
challenges and even some of the animals have died because
of those conditions. So it's just it's had an awful
run over the course of the last couple of years.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Anytime there's a lot of money devoted to something, it
brings out the cock coaches to steal the money under
the guise of it's for the animals or it's for
the children. Right. Unfortunately, that's just the way it works,
and that is definitely what's happened with the La Zoo.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
All right.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
When we have something uplifting, I doubt it, But go on,
did you in its animal related?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Okay, it involves an eagle.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I'm waiting.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Oh you want to hear about it now?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Sure? Oh you want to do it.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Oh, that's a great tease and uplifting. I didn't even
realize what time it was.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
And it's a rescued bald eagle story.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Boom. Okay, try and try it. Try and get out
of the car. Now, just try it.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Mayor Karen bass is talking from city Hall right now.
I wanted to do business very quickly.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
Right then, randomly grabbing people off the streets, chasing Angelino's
through parking lots, sending in federalized troops to stand idle
protecting two buildings, and having us marines trained to fight
the enemy abroad, stationed here and caravanning around town, intimidating Angelinos,
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creating a sense of fear and terror in our city,
Families missing graduations, people afraid to go to work and school,
businesses unable to open, and inflicting a serious blow to
our local economy. And in addition to that, initiating investigations
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led by Republicans in Congress, the Secretary of Transportation requesting
documents and communications with the implement with the implication that
the Mayor's office and the city was either negligent or
complicit in the protests and the vandalism that was falsely
portrayed as citywide riots. Now filing a lawsuit against the city. Again,
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this is essentially on all out assault against Los Angeles.
The lawsuit is an attempt to overturn the will of
the city, calling for a halt to long standing policy
to protect immigrant Angelinos. We are a city of immigrants
who have had policies in place for decades. Ironically, originally
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the law was for public safety, so the newly arrived
immigrant population that was being preyed on by criminals would
feel safe in reporting crimes to law enforcement. As the
city attorney said yesterday, our city remains committed to standing
up for our constitutional rights and the rights of our residents.
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We will defend our ordinance and continue to defend policies
that reflect the long standing.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Values of our city.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
We know that Los Angeles is the test case, and
we will stand strong. And we do so because the
people snatched off city streets and chase through parking lots
are our coworkers, our neighbors, our family members, and they
are Angelinos. Let me be clear, I personally won't be
intimidated by these tactics. We will not be intimidated by
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these tactics.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I will always.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
Protect Angelinos against the unwarranted and cruel actions of this administration.
We know, as I said before, that our city is
being used as a test case for an extremists agenda.
But LA will stand strong and we will stand together.
We are a city of diversity, of labor, of business,
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of faith, of community, of creativity, of success. We are
a proud American city and we will stand united with that.
Let me introduce Ernesto Madrano.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
All right, we're talking. This is Mayor Karen bet. This
is her orchestrated response to the Department of Justice suing
her the City of La other city council members saying
that the sanctuary city law is illegal the Department of
Justice again asking that it be blocked from being enforced.
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Among other things, Pam Bondi has said that the sanctuary
city policies are driving the driving cause of the violence, chaos,
and tax on law enforcement of the Americans recently witnessed
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
I heard you say the word Americans. Can I have
some American music please?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I realized that I.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Would have said any other word had.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I would like to tell you a story about our
national symbol of freedom, Chrriey. Carrie is a majestic bald eagle.
In last September, Carrie was in critical condition. Now everybody
stopped wondering why a bald eagle was named Carrie and
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just listened to the story. Carrie was in critical condition
in Wisconsin. Her leg was torn open from knee to ankle.
It was a devastating three hundred and sixty degree wound
for the symbol of our national freedom. With no healthy
skin left to work with and infections setting in, Carrie's
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chances of survival seemed slim, but bald eagles, Gary are
more than just birds. They're the living emblems of the
American spirit. And for Kim Amman, I'm a man, Kim
a manab the founder of Wisconsin Winged Freedom Raptor Hospital.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
How cool is that? Can we please go there? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
For Kim, that made the fight to save Carrie especially meaningful. Fish,
typically a bald eagles dinner, were used to save Carrie's life.
This woman, Kim, who treated more than two hundred birds
last year, including seventy five bald eagles, was not ready
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to give up on Carrie May. With all the traditional
options for repairing Carrie's leg exhausted, she turned to innovative
alternatives and discovered an Icelandic company called Kerasis that uses
intact fish skin from North Atlantic cod to support tissue regeneration. Now,
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this was originally developed for human medical use, but this
company in Iceland had recently started offering its fish skin
graphs for vets.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Our Fish skin graphs.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Are used in a variety of wounds, whether those are
traumatic wounds or some have been out there for a
while they have not closed in a while, like chronic wounds.
They have never been used on a bald eagle before,
but Kim said, we're going to try it here.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
The cod skin graphs did what no other treatment could Gary.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Over the course of ten months, they helped Carrie's tissue
and fought off infection, offering a remarkable new lifeline to
a bird, a bird Gary who represents resilience and liberty.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Liberty Kim developed.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
A bond with Carrie was impressed with Carrie's resilience during
the month's long treatment. She tolerated the bandage changes every
few days for months. Those were done with her awake
and watching me. She left the wraps and dressings alone
as they were healing her wound. She was eating well,
taking necessary medications, and now Carrie has been released back
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into the wild last week. Kim says, every eagle she
rehabs may just be one bird, but for that bird, Gary,
it means everything.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Aren't you glad I came back?
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Well, I would say there was an eagle story shaped
hole in my heart and you just filled it with
some cod skin.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
So they know, like the very cod that carried the
eagle would eat saved her life.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Yes, there's something in that.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
It would be like like a dog being saved by
a cat heart or something like that, like.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Like or a cow saving us, right, Like if if
you had a skin wound, a big skin wound, and
I went out there and I got a cow and
I skinned it and then I used the cowskin.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
For your leather. You just put leather on my mind wound.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
Yeah, okay, think about that the next time you had
a hamburger.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I had a hamburger last night. As a matter of fact,
there you go. Oh boy, that's a good story. When
that's America.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Hey, uh we we're gonna get into swamp Watch at
the top of the hour and talk about what's going on.
What is Alcatraz, al Alca, alligator Alcatraz, why the president
was there today, but also the passage of that one
big beautiful bill in the Senate, what that's going to
mean and what the next steps are for that. And
then this really disgusting, gross, awful story about the couple's
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retreat with AI.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Did you hear what Trump called Biden when he was out?
That's really tough to say.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Alligator Alcatraz.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Yeah, when he was there, what do you say? He
called him a name. It's pretty good. We'll tell you
about it.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
forty nine am to one pm every Monday through Friday,
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This is Gary and Shannon, and you're listening to kf
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm as old as you need me to be.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Oh my gosh, that sounds so dirty. I kind of
what a prostitute says. I think that you learned that
from Julia Roberts.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Is that a picture of you?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
No?
Speaker 4 (00:21):
I think it's a picture Shannon and her brother fifty bucks.
Speaker 5 (00:24):
Grandpa or seventy five the wife can watch.
Speaker 6 (00:27):
I don't like looking at that picture that Gary is
showing me while Shannon is saying that stuff.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
Whatever you started with, you started it with.
Speaker 6 (00:35):
I'm as old as you need me to be, Okay,
I did some things in college, all right?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, and glbal, I know I'm here to talk about
some news. And I don't mean to hijack the show.
Speaker 6 (00:44):
You guys can handle this without me, certainly, But you
should buy the Veil shirt.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
You should buy the veil shirt.
Speaker 6 (00:51):
You want to know why I buy the shirts because
the places bring me joy and I like to be
reminded of that joy. And I'm sorry that you two
miserable wretches can't find the joy the places and let
me tell you lastly, I hope one day you buy
a sweatshirt that says hell, because that's where you're gonna be.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Okay, So, Michael, honestly, I think this is the first
time I called you Michael. But I had this thought
as an American as I was walking through Vail, and
I appeared at the souvenir stores, and I thought of
you immediately and took pictures and sent them to you.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
I thought, you know what, Shannon, as an American, you're
an a hole.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
You're an awful person, an American A he Michael Monks
delighted in Carmel and Monterey and bought the sweatshirts to
prove it. And you and Gary sat there and poo
poohed him like he was some sort of Charlatan off the.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Streets, some sort of Kentucky room.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Somewhere with his Pakistani maid, poorly made tourist shirt that
gave him joy.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
And you know what, you need to stop doing that.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
You need to see what were you thinking, said to myself, SLF,
what were you thinking when you made fun of Michael
Monks's shirt that he so loves. I decided in that
moment that I would not make fun of anybody else's
tourist sweatshirt.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
And then I feel bad about taking away your joy.
But then I thought to myself, Solf, Michael Monks doesn't
care what you say ever.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Going to pop down and a get a little sleeveless
Nevada hoodie or something like that later today.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Oh, can I pick you up a Nevada hoodie?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Is it Nevada or Nevada?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
No? No, no, Nevada is the state controversy you're bringing up.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
There's also a Nevada city. Oh where you are?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, a lot of people call Nevada Nevada, and it's
very offensive to the people who live in Nevada.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
I think Westerners get it correct. Have you ever hear
heard anyone but have you ever heard anyone say Oregon?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Isn't that all? Yeah? That's the worst ever.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Hurts me a little bit.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Hey, So, the US Department of Justice has sued the
city of La mayor Karen Bass. Some city council members
got thrown into this as well, saying that the La
City sanctuary city law is illegal and the government is
asking that it be blocked from being enforced. That's right,
and the mayor is going to be speaking here in
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about twenty minutes. She's scheduled to talk at ten thirty.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
We expect there will be some reaction to this federal
lawsuit from the federal government towards Los Angeles. This is
just the latest in this ongoing fight between either California
or the city in the county against the federal government.
No surprise, the federal government has blamed the sanctuary city
status for the ruckus that was caused early on in
the demonstrations against illegal immigration enforcement efforts, and they think
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that the sanctuary city status is also impeding law enforcement's efforts.
It's interesting the timing. I think, just from being a
guy who's been on the and covering this since it started,
there really hasn't been much.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
In the way of what we saw in the early
days of this.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
So why now is completely unclear, especially when you have
the reports that the military is asking maybe you could
send some of those National Guard treaties and firefighters. Yeah,
we could use some of their help. And because things
have calmed down in Los Angeles. So what type of
standing or what type of impact this case could have,
I don't know, because it's important to note what a
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sanctuary city status really mean, it just means local resources
can't be utilized, if possible, by the federal government in
this immigration enforcement effort. There's really not a whole lot
to it outside of that. It means the police department
isn't rounding up illegal aliens. It means the federal government
can't call the city and get somebody to leave city
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hall and come help them round up folks. It doesn't
have a lot to it. It's more symbolic than anything.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
And I wonder what sort of pri I mean to
that end, if this is if sanctuary city is more
of a I think we said this when it was
passed a couple of years ago. It's more about feelings
than it is about any sort of legal specifics. It's
about and it's about an attitude that the city's going
to have. But there are things that could change. I
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mean any for example, somebody who is undocumented that goes
into a city jail for whatever reason, would the city
would then notify immigration officials that they could get that
person as they came out of jail, as opposed to
having this person released back into a neighborhood and then
Ice has to go get them somewhere.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Yeah, that's exactly right, and LAPED has had a policy
that pretty much keeps them hands off as it relates
to immigration status since the late seventies. It predates the
sanctuary city status by decades. And another thing that I
think is important to remind people, La has long been
welcoming to immigrants of all statuses, no matter how you
(06:01):
came here. There are opportunities to I guess create a
family and to do business and all that sort of things.
I mean direct policies that clearly omit immigration requirements if
you want to participate in society here. But it's only
been an official sanctuary city status since late last year. Yeah,
(06:21):
I mean that was voted on after Trump won election.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
And it was written I mean it was voted on
specifically as a response to that.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
And that's noted in the lawsuit that the federal government filed.
They say, look, they know what President Trump was running on.
They did this after he was elected. And you also
see the disconnect between the language in the lawsuit. They
quote city council and Hugosota Martinez for saying something along
the lines of we do not want to help the
Trump administration deport The lawsuit says in parentheses illegal immigrants.
(06:57):
And that is a journalistic or a legal tactic that
you use when you want to offer clarity to the reader.
I don't want to use exactly the words that he said.
I want to make it clear you're talking about. His
real quote was, we don't want to help the Trump
administration deport our co workers, our friends, our family, our neighbors.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Okay, So that's that is exactly.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
I think that is more illustrative of how LA feels
versus how the federal government feels right now towards illegal immigration.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
And these these lawsuits doj I mean, Pam Bondi has
mentioned that they've filed them against Chicago and New York.
I think they've actually done against the states of Illinois
and New York in the past as well.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Yeah, and they're suing the states of Texas and Kentucky
over community colleges or public universities offering in state tuition
to illegal immigrants. California also offers that. So you can
expect a work that might be on the pipeline as well. Michael, Oh,
she's still here. Oh wow, I thought you went shopping.
I'm sorry, I thought I was expecting a shirt.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
That's later.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I'm still trying to figure out what color you wear?
A lot of blue, but I feel like that's been done. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
No, my question was much more important.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Over the weekend. Did you experiment anymore with the ice cream?
Speaker 6 (08:17):
I'll have you know we did something more exciting. And
I know any listener that heard me yesterday and anybody
in this newsroom is so sick of me for talking
about this. But I got a brand new couch and
it's so beautiful.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Many cushions, It's a.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Five piece sleeper sofa sectional with a ottoman that I got.
Listen to this, and you guys are really the ones
who would appreciate this, I think more than anybody else,
because I love a bargain, and.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
So we're cheap and we spend a lot of time
on the couch.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
I tell you I am not cheap, but I love
a bargain. That is not the same thing, Oh yeah, exactly.
I stumbled upon this at Macy's. We've been casually looking
for a couch. We were looking at other things I
was been looking for, as you know manly men do
on the weekends, and this beautiful, olive green couch is
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sitting there all by its lonesome original price like five
thousand dollars was marked down to eight hundred dollars. Wow
with another I asked, you know, I went right into
journalism mode. Who's buried in there?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
What happened?
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Where has it been? I did a full inspection. Here's
the deal. You tell me if I'm crazy. It's been
the floor model for two years.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Oh no, oh.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
That's so fine.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
No. I mean that couch has seen a lot of
a lot of tea clear but you probably never mind.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Excuse me, that was going to be a very funny joke.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Well, I believe I heard it, and it was funny.
But it's been cleaned, it's been steamed.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
It is beautiful, and I'm going to find the best
curtains to go with it.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Next we're talking about the couch indeed.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Okay, do you have a picture of it?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I do?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Oh, will you send it to me? I love a couch.
When I first moved.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
To La, I went through like three couches because I
tried to do it cheap. You know, you go Ikia
and you just can't go cheap, except and when you
find the floor model of your dreams. But I love
a good couch. I just do when I screw up?
How many times in my life? Okay, what did I say?
Speaker 6 (10:18):
I'll send it to you and you can discuss amongst yourselves.
Thank you as always, my pleasure.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
At the top of the hour, we'll get into swamp Watch. Obviously,
a bunch going on in DC today, specifically the passage
of the President's bill of tax breaks and spending cuts
and things like that. We'll talk about who voted for it,
against it, et cetera. And it's not over yet. It's
got to go back to the House. Not everybody is
happy with it, and then it's got to go to
the President's desk, and he wants it there.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
By the fourth of July, several fires broke out across
Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, and fire officials say this
is just the beginning of fire season. We've got drought conditions,
extremely parched landscapes, and it could be a really bad
year across California.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Riverside County right now, the wolf fires up over twenty
four hundred acres. That's south of the ten just south
of banning, the Juniper fires several hundred acres, the Lake
Fire in San Bernardinos, about four hundred and eighty three
acres east of the Cohen Pass. Those are just those
are three of the big ones. There were I think
they said twelve fires that started over the course of
seventy two hours. Northern California is getting it this day today.
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In fact, a lot of red flag warnings have been
posted through tonight because of the windy conditions and the
chance for some thunderstorms and bringing lightning to areas of
the Sierra Nevada.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
They say it's going to be a hotter and drier
summer and fall. And we you know, this isn't our
first rodeo. We know what that means. They said that
though temperatures yesterday and over the weekend were high, there
was a big spike there. There was not an increased
wind threat or particularly low humidity. But when those wind
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events or when those weather events I should say, come in,
that's when you know, that's when we get the red
flag warnings, and that's when everyone's on heightened alert, will
have strike teams pre positioned out in the spots that
you know are going to catch fire. You know, you
think about Santiago Canyon, Tribuco Canyon, places like that. They
just know where to go before the fires even begin,
because we've been through this so many times.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Yeah, and I mean the point of that Michael Monks
made in that last segment about the National Guard members
that are still on the streets here in Los Angeles.
The fire officials are asking the Pentagon, Hey, maybe maybe
a spare a couple hundred of those guys. Since the
National Guard tends to have a significant role when it
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comes to firefight, especially if things start getting out of hand,
the National Guard can come in and help what would
you call supplements, compliment the fire crews that are already
out there.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
You have a color.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
I just I don't know about you, but I haven't
stopped thinking about cuddling up on Michael Monks's couch.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Okay, fires are not, you know, summer or not.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
That is a couch that just speaks to me in
a way that fall autumn speak to me. It's an
olive green couch all at once is a blanket and
a cup of coffee or a Manhattan or something.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
It says it's only twenty percent off, But he was
referring to it as getting a ridiculous discount on that thing.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Well, it was twenty percent off when he took that picture.
What did he take off get the extra sixty percent off?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, that's a good point. How big is this place?
That's a massive piece furniture?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Was I have so many follow up questions. Not any
area of my house would that fit in? I don't
even know if that would fit in my whole house.
It's a massive couch.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Well, good for him, prouding.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
We haven't been invited to his palatial estate, is what
I'm wondering. If he has a place for that couch.
You know, he's got a place the size of a hotel.
I don't even think that couch would fit in your
yoga room.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Uh no, not with the other couch that's already in there,
that's for sure. When we come back, the zoo is
an absolute mess. You lose a couple elephants, man, the
whole place goes to Man.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
This is really depressing that the zoo is in a
state of disarray and the funding got cut off today.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Great Gary and Shannon, I continue Higers and bears.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Oh my, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Good to hear you back, Shannon, And I apologize.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Is it something I did?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Is something I didn't do?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Is it me?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
It can't be you.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
I mean, this relationship can still work out.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
We can go to counseling if we have to.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
I just don't know what to say.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I'm scared to say anything. I don't want you to
leave me again. Please, we need you. This relationships won't
last without you. All right?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
How was the game?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
That was so sweet in a super creepy way, but
very sweet, super creepy way.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Welcome back, Shannon. Oh hey, Happy Bobby Bonia Day.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Right, Today's Bobby Bonia Day. He gets a check from
the Mets for one point one nine million dollars today.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
What a wonderful day.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
How old is he now, Bobby Bonia sixty two?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Two?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah, sixty two.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
He's still also getting paid by the Orioles half million
dollars a year from the Orioles.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
And whatever happened to that agent that that did this deal.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Oh, he's probably getting he's probably getting a nice check
today as well.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I'm just wondering who he represents, or who he went
on to represent or was he already a big deal
at the time. I haven't done a deep dive on
the Bobby Bonia contract in a while.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
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Speaker 1 (16:31):
So I saw this article this morning and I started
reading it, and at first I thought, now we shouldn't
talk about this on the show, And then I couldn't
pull my eyes away from it, and I thought, well,
if I'm this interested, then other people are this interested.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
And it's at a Wired.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Magazine and the headline is my couple's retreat with three
AI chat bots and the humans who love them. And
if that sounds weird, it gets so much weirder.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
We're going to get into it.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
We talked in one of our weekend podcasts not very
long ago. I want to say a couple of weeks
ago about people falling in love with these AI chat
bots and how this is the future. Well no, no, no, no, no,
it's the now. The love has planted its seed long
ago and people are marrying their chat bots. So this
(17:25):
is kind of a deep dive into how the behavior works.
Going on vacation with your chat bot, how you introduce
your chat butt boyfriend slash girlfriend to other humans. It's
a whole different pond and we're going to take a
deep swim in it coming up in the next hour.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
It sounds awful.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
That just sounds like it's entertaining. It's very entertaining.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Women off the Santa monicappear with all the pooh. The
Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association is a nonprofit partner of
the actual LA Zoo, and the city has a contract
with Greater Lazoo Association, which governs, governs, fundraising, special events,
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and more. And that contract ends today. The zoo has
seen better days.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Remember when the fight over the elephants was going on
and there were some outsized reactions from people at city Hall,
and I said to you, there's got to be money involved.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
There's got to be some.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Endgame here for these council people to take this much
of an interest there. You can't you can't tell me
that they're this much into elephants to be this incensed
about this. And I just knew there was a money aspect.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
And here it is.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
The zoo houses sixteen hundred animals, don't you know, And
it has become, if you've seen it in recent years,
increasingly dilapidated. We've gone to brew at the Zoo for
a number of years where you it's you know, five
pm or whatever, five to eight, and you go and
there's different breweries there, and you get to see the
animals and it's lit up, and even in the dark,
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you can tell that the zoo has taken a deep
dive downward.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
In the past ten years.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Exhibits including the Lions, the Bears, the Sea Lions, the
Pelicans have all closed because the exhibits are that bad
they need major renovations. And as I mentioned, the aforementioned
elephants Billy and Tina have been departed for a while
though to the Dulca to the Tulsa Zoo, not dead,
but they live in the Tulsa zoo. This was after
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decades of campaigning by animal rights advocates, including Share and
Slash over living conditions there. This zoo is struggling to
maintain its national accreditation. Federal regulators keep finding things like peeling,
paint rust and some exhibits, the other exhibits that had
to shut down. So if you don't have the federal blessing,
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then you don't get the federal money. If you don't
have the local people, the benefactors and the rich people
who have animals giving you money because you don't know
how to spend it.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Correctly, you're screwed as a zoo.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, And where's all the money? Where's all the money gone?
I mean, that's part of it. It seems like the
zoo has been a money suck for different foundations and spending,
but yet it hasn't kept up with other cities and
their zoos. You go to other cities and the zoos
are incredible, the secondary zoos are incredible, and.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
This one is a piece of ass right now.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Well, And I don't know if it's just a matter
of the city should get out of the business of zoos.
I mean, I don't know how many of the other
big zoos that we know of are run by the
cities or as you know, as opposed to an independent
group that owns it or the foundation or whatever.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Because it could be privatized because we know what the
city can do, and if it's not stealing money then
and then it's nothing. So the city should probably have
its paws off this one.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Yeah, Everything that the City of la has touched recently
has been an absolute mess, and it looks like this
one as well. And attendance is going down, probably one
and a half million visitors for the fiscal year. That's
down about one hundred thousand from the year before. Outdated structure,
exhibits have been closing, no more elephants, among others. You've
had the exhibits for the lions and the bears, and
(21:34):
the sea lions and the pelicans. They've all had to
close because they need major renovations. Animal rights advocates hate
the zoo because they say that the conditions for living
conditions for the animals has been bad. They've been health
challenges and even some of the animals have died because
of those conditions. So it's just it's had an awful
run over the course of the last couple of years.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Anytime there's a lot of money devoted to something, it
brings out the cock coaches to steal the money under
the guise of it's for the animals or it's for
the children. Right. Unfortunately, that's just the way it works,
and that is definitely what's happened with the La Zoo.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
All right.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
When we have something uplifting, I doubt it, But go on,
did you in its animal related?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Okay, it involves an eagle.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I'm waiting.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Oh you want to hear about it now?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Sure? Oh you want to do it.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Oh, that's a great tease and uplifting. I didn't even
realize what time it was.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
And it's a rescued bald eagle story.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Boom. Okay, try and try it. Try and get out
of the car. Now, just try it.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Mayor Karen bass is talking from city Hall right now.
I wanted to do business very quickly.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
Right then, randomly grabbing people off the streets, chasing Angelino's
through parking lots, sending in federalized troops to stand idle
protecting two buildings, and having us marines trained to fight
the enemy abroad, stationed here and caravanning around town, intimidating Angelinos,
(23:16):
creating a sense of fear and terror in our city,
Families missing graduations, people afraid to go to work and school,
businesses unable to open, and inflicting a serious blow to
our local economy. And in addition to that, initiating investigations
(23:37):
led by Republicans in Congress, the Secretary of Transportation requesting
documents and communications with the implement with the implication that
the Mayor's office and the city was either negligent or
complicit in the protests and the vandalism that was falsely
portrayed as citywide riots. Now filing a lawsuit against the city. Again,
(24:04):
this is essentially on all out assault against Los Angeles.
The lawsuit is an attempt to overturn the will of
the city, calling for a halt to long standing policy
to protect immigrant Angelinos. We are a city of immigrants
who have had policies in place for decades. Ironically, originally
(24:27):
the law was for public safety, so the newly arrived
immigrant population that was being preyed on by criminals would
feel safe in reporting crimes to law enforcement. As the
city attorney said yesterday, our city remains committed to standing
up for our constitutional rights and the rights of our residents.
(24:48):
We will defend our ordinance and continue to defend policies
that reflect the long standing.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Values of our city.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
We know that Los Angeles is the test case, and
we will stand strong. And we do so because the
people snatched off city streets and chase through parking lots
are our coworkers, our neighbors, our family members, and they
are Angelinos. Let me be clear, I personally won't be
intimidated by these tactics. We will not be intimidated by
(25:20):
these tactics.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I will always.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
Protect Angelinos against the unwarranted and cruel actions of this administration.
We know, as I said before, that our city is
being used as a test case for an extremists agenda.
But LA will stand strong and we will stand together.
We are a city of diversity, of labor, of business,
(25:44):
of faith, of community, of creativity, of success. We are
a proud American city and we will stand united with that.
Let me introduce Ernesto Madrano.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
All right, we're talking. This is Mayor Karen bet. This
is her orchestrated response to the Department of Justice suing
her the City of La other city council members saying
that the sanctuary city law is illegal the Department of
Justice again asking that it be blocked from being enforced.
(26:18):
Among other things, Pam Bondi has said that the sanctuary
city policies are driving the driving cause of the violence, chaos,
and tax on law enforcement of the Americans recently witnessed
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
I heard you say the word Americans. Can I have
some American music please?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I realized that I.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Would have said any other word had.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I would like to tell you a story about our
national symbol of freedom, Chrriey. Carrie is a majestic bald eagle.
In last September, Carrie was in critical condition. Now everybody
stopped wondering why a bald eagle was named Carrie and
(26:58):
just listened to the story. Carrie was in critical condition
in Wisconsin. Her leg was torn open from knee to ankle.
It was a devastating three hundred and sixty degree wound
for the symbol of our national freedom. With no healthy
skin left to work with and infections setting in, Carrie's
(27:19):
chances of survival seemed slim, but bald eagles, Gary are
more than just birds. They're the living emblems of the
American spirit. And for Kim Amman, I'm a man, Kim
a manab the founder of Wisconsin Winged Freedom Raptor Hospital.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
How cool is that? Can we please go there? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
For Kim, that made the fight to save Carrie especially meaningful. Fish,
typically a bald eagles dinner, were used to save Carrie's life.
This woman, Kim, who treated more than two hundred birds
last year, including seventy five bald eagles, was not ready
(28:06):
to give up on Carrie May. With all the traditional
options for repairing Carrie's leg exhausted, she turned to innovative
alternatives and discovered an Icelandic company called Kerasis that uses
intact fish skin from North Atlantic cod to support tissue regeneration. Now,
(28:30):
this was originally developed for human medical use, but this
company in Iceland had recently started offering its fish skin
graphs for vets.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Our Fish skin graphs.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Are used in a variety of wounds, whether those are
traumatic wounds or some have been out there for a
while they have not closed in a while, like chronic wounds.
They have never been used on a bald eagle before,
but Kim said, we're going to try it here.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
The cod skin graphs did what no other treatment could Gary.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Over the course of ten months, they helped Carrie's tissue
and fought off infection, offering a remarkable new lifeline to
a bird, a bird Gary who represents resilience and liberty.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Liberty Kim developed.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
A bond with Carrie was impressed with Carrie's resilience during
the month's long treatment. She tolerated the bandage changes every
few days for months. Those were done with her awake
and watching me. She left the wraps and dressings alone
as they were healing her wound. She was eating well,
taking necessary medications, and now Carrie has been released back
(29:37):
into the wild last week. Kim says, every eagle she
rehabs may just be one bird, but for that bird, Gary,
it means everything.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Aren't you glad I came back?
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Well, I would say there was an eagle story shaped
hole in my heart and you just filled it with
some cod skin.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
So they know, like the very cod that carried the
eagle would eat saved her life.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Yes, there's something in that.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
It would be like like a dog being saved by
a cat heart or something like that, like.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Like or a cow saving us, right, Like if if
you had a skin wound, a big skin wound, and
I went out there and I got a cow and
I skinned it and then I used the cowskin.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
For your leather. You just put leather on my mind wound.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
Yeah, okay, think about that the next time you had
a hamburger.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I had a hamburger last night. As a matter of fact,
there you go. Oh boy, that's a good story. When
that's America.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Hey, uh we we're gonna get into swamp Watch at
the top of the hour and talk about what's going on.
What is Alcatraz, al Alca, alligator Alcatraz, why the president
was there today, but also the passage of that one
big beautiful bill in the Senate, what that's going to
mean and what the next steps are for that. And
then this really disgusting, gross, awful story about the couple's
(31:12):
retreat with AI.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Did you hear what Trump called Biden when he was out?
That's really tough to say.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Alligator Alcatraz.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Yeah, when he was there, what do you say? He
called him a name. It's pretty good. We'll tell you
about it.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
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