May 13, 2026 • 28 mins
The Gary & Shannon Show Hour 1 (05.13) – AI campaign ads spiral completely out of control, California politics get even messier, and Gary reveals he keeps his house at a temperature usually reserved for retirement communities.• Gary & Shannon open the show investigating a mysteriously missing studio knob — with immediate suspicion falling on Michael Monks• Amy King earns the title of “Disney Princess” while giving an update on Jackie & Shadow’s bald eagle eaglets in Big Bear Valley• California’s governor race begins consolidating around Xavier Becerra — just as controversy erupts around a longtime advisor pleading guilty to stealing campaign funds• Meanwhile, Spencer Pratt continues dominating social media with bizarre AI-generated political ads that somehow keep helping him instead of hurting him• Plus: billionaire candidate Stephen Cloobeck gets arrested, listeners roast Gary for keeping his house at 82 degrees, and the show spirals into a debate over mental health days, fake sick excuses, and whether employees should even have to explain why they’re taking time off
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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. It looks like someone gave
birth over here. And I don't know what goes on
in this place after we leave, but clearly this another
it's insane. I feel like one of these spills was
(00:21):
here and then there's someone's added on to it.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
What's wrong with people?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
You know how?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I always refer to Amy King as a Disney princess. Yes,
because a couple of reasons. Number one, she looks like
a Disney princess. She's got that long, pretty hair, and
she's statuesque tall, thin, and also she likes Disneyland a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Well, listen to this story.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Go on.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, it's not really my story to tell, is it, Amy.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Amy.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Amy noticed that there was a bird's nest on her
deck where she lives.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
And the nest was built kind of like on.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Curtains, like these little outdoor curtains on the side of
the deck. And Amy's thinking to herself, well, that's not
a good stable place for you to build your nest.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Birds.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
They're finches, right, yes, And so she moved the nest,
thinking that she would find it a more supportive place.
She just moved it down to a little table right
below the curtains. The birds took the nest a lah
Disney movie and moved it back up to on top
of the curtains. Seriously, yeah, they picked it up and
(01:28):
put it They picked it up like in a Disney
movie and put it back. Amy decides it's still that's
still a precarious position for the nest.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
So she got one of those lanterns.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It's like, you know, you know, the like the candle
holder type lanterns that hang with ropes from the ceiling. Sure,
very sturdy, and she got one of those, and then
she put the nest on top of it, so it's
nice and secure. Well, the birds were like, that's cool
with us. They started adding on to the nest. And
she's got the mail bird and the female bird and
(02:01):
they're right there on her little deck there.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And yesterday she looked.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
In the nest and what was in the nest A finger?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
An egg? An egg they laid an egg.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Finger.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Amy King has like legit manifested birds laying eggs because
of the eaglet watching and her.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Disney princess status.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Wow, I'll look at that and there now there's an
egg in a nest on her deck at her home.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Amy, are you going to put a camera up?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Well, that's when I'm researching, and now I'm asking Rich
DeMuro for advice.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
It's a little little webcam.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Yeah, even a little old old iPhone or something like
that will work.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, well that's great.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah, I'm moving on from the big beer bald eagle.
Can so call it the Amy's Finch family.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
You obviously know a lot about the gestation and growth
of an eagle. Have you done any research on what
the finch timeline is going to be?
Speaker 7 (02:56):
No?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Nothing, I don't know. All I know is they had
been trying to build the nest for a while, Like
they had built it and then then I'd tear it down,
and they'd try to start building it, and I'd tear
it down. And that went on for a couple.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Of weeks, and you just gave in finally.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Well I thought that they gave up, because then I
had like a week or two with nothing, and then
I came back and they had started building it again.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
I'm like, she must be ready to you know, must.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Be ready to go and between the time that they
built it and finished it, it was like the next
day that it showed up with an egg, So she
must have just been ready to pop.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Finch eggs typically hatch in twelve to sixteen days after
constant incubation begins, thirteen to fourteen days being most common
for house finches.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Which is a little bit worrisome because when I went
to check on him last night, she was on the
nest and when she saw me, she flew off. And
I'm like, dude, if we're going to share this space,
we're gonna have to share the space. You're gonna have
to get used to me. Did you call her dude?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Amy, you got to talk like a Disney princess sing
to her, don't be scared.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Well, yes, there's a reason it sounds like that.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Let's get our happy little working song.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I love that. See, isn't that the cutest thing I
would hat?
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Or an egg?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
All right?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
What are we doing? I don't know? You know what
I mean like that?
Speaker 6 (04:14):
So I want to point something out there. There are
morons working in this industry.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Now, which industry? This one?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
This one. President Trump lands in Beijing several hours ago.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
He's there with all kinds of CEOs, tech, CEOs, Elon Musk, Jensen, Wong.
They're a big, huge summit. Tomorrow the President is supposed
to meet with President She of China. Our friends at
ABC Radio and I hope they're listening, and all of
my friends, Alex Stone is a good friend.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
But I have to have a problem with it.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
They put out every every morning they put out little
sound bites for us to use right to describe the
events of the day, called the news call. This is
the sound they gave us today while we do stories
that President Trump has landed in Beijing.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Is it all engine noise? I think that's just for
nat sound. I think that's just I think it's just
for that sound.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
If you're going to play that, it play it, you
bring it up for a second and a half, and
then you bring it way down. You just say President
Trump is landed with the with the delegation to China.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
It just sets the tone the script noise.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Remember yesterday we were talking about how hell how healthy
bad weather can be, and that rain causes pink noise.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
This is noise.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
It's obviously tarnat noise. I would have just played that
without telling you that it was. That's why I'm telling
you what it's for. It's not sound, you play it underneath.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I just want something exciting.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I'm not going to fight with you over NAT sound
today because we don't hear it enough. So I'm a
plot like I'm actually applauding that sound clip. When's the
last time you heard NAT sound in any sort of reporting?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Four years?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Five years?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
That's my version of Grandpa on the porch. I have
heard radio versions when Amy does stories about the Eagles.
I have heard her pipe in the sound of the
live camera and microphone over Big Bear.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Good because I.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Miss NAT sound.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I heard it up in at Caseybs when I was
up there for Mother's Day and I was listening to
casey Bs and.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
A single tear.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Uh yeah, there was a lot of sound. And you
don't get that.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
You dreamed about the two Morant's cassette deck.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I did, I did?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I did all right, Gary back when it was an art.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
You want some Eagle NAT sound?
Speaker 9 (06:53):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Okay, see is that real?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Yeah, Jackie, your shadow just got back.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
To them in my God, that's current.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
That's live right now, it's live. That sound.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
It looks nice.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Tell the touches or most see you guys. It's that
sounds set the tongue.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
It takes you to wherever the story is. Suddenly you
feel like you're on the tarmac. You can see Marco
Rubio coming down the steps in his ath leisure suit,
like you can feel like you're there.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
That sound is important.
Speaker 9 (07:27):
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Speaker 3 (07:33):
Bottom of the hour of the Mayor's Race. Did you
see the the.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Ad that was supposed to be anti Spencer Pratt. No,
that was a very common sense like republican Spencer Pratt
wants to doesn't want taxpayer money to go to housing
our unhoused neighbors. Just the weirdest. It was supposed to
be anti Spencer Pratt. But when you look at some
of the things that were said, it's like, uh yet,
(08:00):
normal people, normal people want those things.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, he put out a new ad.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
The ability to generate these ai ads is a little disturbing.
It's been highly entertaining in this specific race, in the
Mayor's race, but it's still a little disturbing.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Right, It's like, what is real? We're going to be
asking that forever Yeah, so anyway we'll talk about it.
Was an article in TMC this morning about Spencer Pratt
not living in the trailer that he claims to have
been living in and that he's living at Hotel bel
Air fifteen hundred dollars a night for a room. What
do you expect he was living in the Palisades. He's
a kid from the West Side. This is his life.
(08:40):
He's never pretended to be a poor person. Yeah, he
just was living in the trailer because his home burned down.
He's never put on airs that he's not a privileged person.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
He didn't come from Van Eyes. No, it's our valley village,
Vali village or Pacoima or all right.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
We have a chat.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Ye we're putting no no, no, no, I'm just saying
that there's he's also not.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
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It's gonna be a whole thing.
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Speaker 1 (09:37):
Well, we talked about the governor's race and the fact
that Javier Bessera is the safe choice. That's where all
the Democratic machine money is going to go towards safety
after the disaster that was Eric Swalwell. Eric Swalwell, the
lead horse in this race, was getting all the backing,
had national name recognition, and then he turns out to
be rapee. Javier Bessera is not that he is a
(10:01):
go along to get along guy. He's a yes person
for the corporation that is the Democratic machine, and that's
just the way it's going to be. He's not going
to say anything that is going to be incendiary. He
is just going to do what he has told in
that role. And that's what democrats want. They don't want
to play fast and loose. I have heard from Democrats
(10:21):
in real life that do like Matt Mayhan, which I
think is a good sign to hear Democrats talk about
somebody who's not completely towing the line a moderate.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Yeah, there is.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
There are a few new polls actually that came out
that all of them have Steve Hilton either in first
or tied for first, and then Besserah is either second
or tied for first in those three poles. So those
are all significant because of you know, I think they're
all post double debate week that we had. Last week,
(10:58):
there was the controversy else surrounding a new Javier Bissera
interview that he did with KTLA, specifically because it appears
in this in this interview that he's trying to direct
the interview. I don't know if i'd say he's directing
the interview, but trying to be careful with how he
goes about doing this. This was the beginning, well, she
(11:20):
even says, this is the beginning of the interview.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
This is the start of our interview with Javier Bissida
in Highland Park. By the way, this is a profile piece.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
This is not a gotcha piece. Right, Well, look, I.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Think we're these questions are fair.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
It's in order to learn about you as a candidate.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
So why it's about the profile.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I don't know how you define profile, but I'd like to.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Begin the interview.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
So he says basically like, well, I want to talk
about my profile. I mean, I don't mind the tough questions.
And then she launches into a question specifically about the
one issue that's been going dogging him, which is where
the lost kids at during.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Your time as anxious his secretary.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
A New York Times investigation found the Health Department couldn't
find some eighty five thousand children it had released.
Speaker 10 (12:03):
That's not accurate.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
What you just read is not accurate. First, That's what
I'll say, because it was never the case that we
could not find kids.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
You're essentially I don't know if you've got those talking
points from Donald Trump.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
She goes on to say, no, that's an easy way
to She goes, I literally read that from the New
York Times. So, I mean, this is the issue, this
is the thing that he's had to answer for. He's
also had to answer for his longtime advisor, Sean McCluskey
pleading guilty to stealing almost a quarter million dollars from
(12:36):
a Besara campaign account.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
You know this DHS situation. Well, former DHS Secretary Alejandro
Majorcis refuses refuses to endorse Javier Besara despite the fact
that he was in the cabinet with Biden's cabinet. Now,
(12:58):
Biden's sidelined Sarah at one point, which is a very
tough thing to explain because Biden did not fire people.
So there's obviously something that be Sarah's afraid of in
that tenure when he was serving in a national role
and then sidelined. And and the fact that may Orcas says,
(13:19):
I'm not giving that guy my blessing. There's something there there.
Will it be enough? Probably not. It's probably so inside
the weeds. Something happens within the machine, you mean, like,
I mean, it's probably something yeah, in that role that
he served in the cabinet that that wouldn't rise to
the fact of that people care. But but why would
(13:43):
you sit down and say this is not gonna be
a hit piece, isn't is it?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
If there was nothing to hit? Like, what's he afraid of?
Speaker 6 (13:50):
Well, it's Dan Schner, a longtime political analysts. He's been around,
We've talked about him before for decades.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Dan Schneer.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
He says, not only should a candidate for governor in
the great state of California. Expect gotcha questions. That's that's
your every single day. You should task your staff. You guys,
are not gonna hurt my feelings. Ask me the questions
that you think are gonna be so I know what
to answer, how to answer, and what to say in
(14:18):
defense of either you know where them kids at? Or
why is your longtime campaign advisor pleading guilty to this thing?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Watch the Kevin Hart Roast and be ready for all
the arrows that are going to come your way.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
Yeah, because even in the Kevin Heart Roast, they still
love those people. Yeah, these people don't love you, true,
and they also can make a name for themselves by
taking you out.
Speaker 9 (14:42):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Remember yesterday we did a story on how rain and
storms and overcast days are good for you.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yeah, they give you a bunch of different chemical releases in.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Your brain, good for you.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Are you having a little seasonal effective disorder because the
sun's not out? The sun came out later yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Do not tell my wife does I did not turn
the air conditioner on all weekend?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Why would I not tell you.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Why would she thinks I keep the house too hot? Oh?
Speaker 6 (15:17):
I see she wasn't around, So the dog and I
enjoyed hothouse time.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
What temperature do you prefer the house to be at?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Do I prefer it at? Yes?
Speaker 6 (15:27):
I mean if you well, I don't know what what
the temperature got to. I turned up the temperature and
the air conditioning to eighty two just so it wouldn't
click on, so it never got above So it never
got to eighty two inside the house.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
So I don't know what that means. When you go
to a hotel, what do you set the thermost out at.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
A different situation. I prefer a hotel room to be cold.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Okay, so what would that be? What's cold? I'm just
kind of getting it.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
That's cold to you? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Wow, okay that yeah, Now I know where your gauge
is at.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
That's insane.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Seventy two to seventy three is like when I am
in Kansas City in the winter and I want it
hot in my in my hotel room, I'll put it
at seventy two and then put it down to sixty
eight to sleep. Huh, seventy two is pretty hot.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I didn't think that.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I mean, I think, I mean we all have. I'm
not saying you're right or wrong or whatever. We just
all have different ideas of what hot and cold is.
I think when it comes to the thermostat.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Let us know what you think is hot or cold.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
On the talk back seventy But you had you had
the you had the house open this weekend, which I'm
also not supposed to say.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
What do you mean that you had the house open
for flies to get in?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
No? No, no, no, I have screens on my doors
now now yeah, now, well, I mean that was or
because the bats were flying in right, right right, that
was the issue.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
But yes, there are screens, and I do know.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
But there's no reason to there's no reason to run
your ac if you've got all the flow of air.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
And keep saying Stephen Klubeck was arrested.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yeah, this guy, I think I've said it on the air.
It's not.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
We met him a few while back, and he gave
me that gut instinct to run the other way.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
He was also known for being once he dropped out
of the race for governor, endorsed Eric Swalwell and actually
put Eric Swalwell up.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
In his house for living at his home over here
Beverly Hills. I think it is.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
And so he was arrested for attempting to persuade or sorry,
attempting to prevent or dissuade a victim or witness from testifying.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
That was the charge.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
It could be with regard to anything. It might be
connected to Swalwell, it might not be.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Or his girlfriend. Remember his fiance is.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Fiance is in trouble with the law. I think she's
being monitored if she have a house arrest situation or something. Anyways,
she's in trouble. We've done a story on her before
we knew that she was married or in a relationship
with Clubac. She was one of those people that would
meet rich men on the apps and then rob them
right allegedly.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Legedly, the mayor's race continues. This was the ad. This
was the ad I was going to tell you about.
So Spencer Pratt or whoever's been putting together these ads
for him, have been able to really control the narrative
when it comes to social media and the coverage that
he's been getting. This was an ad that was paid
(18:30):
for apparently by the Los Angeles Labor Federation or some
other You know, I don't know the exact title of it,
but they're trying to go against Spencer Pratt and end
up making scoring an own goal.
Speaker 10 (18:46):
It seems like Republican Spencer Pratt is the last thing
Los Angeles needs for mayor. Pratt opposes using taxpayer money
to build brand new houses for unhoused neighbors. Yeah, it's
time saying home was to get help or get out.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Yeah, brand new homes.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
That's insane that you would build a brand new home
for a homeless.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Is this a joke?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
So here's the thing this is. I have not yet
figured it out. I've looked into it, I've tried. I
can tell you right now this is coming from Pratt's people,
because nobody would say build brand new homes for homeless.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
That's God. This is absolutely coming from Pratt.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
That's my gut feeling. But I have yet to prove it.
Speaker 10 (19:23):
Pratt thinks LA needs thousands more police officers rather than
more social workers, and Republican Spencer Pratt thinks public employee
unions should have less power.
Speaker 7 (19:32):
Not more.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
So.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Anyway, that's this thing that's been credited to the LA
Labor Federation for putting this out. Now, this is an
ad definitely from Spencer Pratt.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
What does dangerous Spencer Pratt have in mind for Los Angeles?
Speaker 8 (19:48):
I make a living giving drug needles to unhoused individuals,
and Spencer wants to put me out of the job.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Spencer wants to force me to get treatment and turn
my life around instead of dying on the streets.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Now, that's a guy sitting on a park bench.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Literally with AI all AI all fake?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
What kind of bully forces people to do things?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
As a busy mom running away from the crazy drug addicts.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
In our park is the only exercise I get.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Spencer wants to get rid of them?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Does he want me to be fat?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
A vote for Spencer's a vote for change. Why would
you vote for change when everything is fine?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Stay the course with Karen Bass, smile damn it.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
That's a guy holding a hand of a little girl
standing in front of a burning neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I do not like AI. I don't like.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Election ads are a tune out for me period anyway.
But using AI, there's just too many dumb people amongst
us who think all of that is real.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
There's one that's out there today that shows Karen Bass
walking down the street saying I've addressed homelessness, and she's walking,
supposed to be on skid row tents all around her,
and she said, I've fixed it. You won't get stabbed
as long as you don't make eye contact.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I wonder what the threshold is to air those on
network television as opposed to on TikTok or wherever he's
posting these. Is there a threshold, like would they air
something that was y I I.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Don't think that.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
I mean, we've said this in many different contexts. I
don't think the laws have caught up with this.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I don't think so either.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
But I mean, is there like a gut check of network,
you know, Channel seven getting some sort of campaign ad
to run what's clearly phony?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
There have been some political ads that do reference AI
generated content, just mostly images, not as extensive as these are.
But there was another thing just quickly about the mayor's office.
Dozens of firefighters showed up at the city clerk's office
and handed over two hundred thousand dollars, sorry, two hundred
thousand signatures for a ballot measure to hike the city's
(21:53):
sales tax in an attempt to fund more firefighters. Ambulances,
fire trucks, and fix up some of the firefighting infrastructure,
basically the stations and the way they exist.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
So maybe you need more iron.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
For food?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
You mean, yeah, oh, get you warmed up? Oh, I
see what you're saying, Gary, And oh you a nice
big steak.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I'm a cold blooded animal. I like to sit in
the sun.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Everyone's yeah, No, I do too.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
am six forty.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
We've got an update on Alex Murda out of South Carolina.
Remember he's the one who killed his wife and younger
son for sympathy as he was facing financial charges stealing
millions of dollars from his law firm. The guy who's
like a fifth generation super connected lawyer there in that
small town, big place South Carolina. Prosecutors are going to
(22:53):
retry him. Why well, because the state Supreme Court threw
out his conviction and life sentence this morning. Apparently the
court clerk was bad mouthing Murdoch to the judge or
to the jurors while she was writing a book about
the case. It seems like a very small, well backwater
(23:17):
yes man exactly.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
Hey, I knew I liked you for some reason. Uh,
you like the temperature in your place about the same
as my ninety one year old mother, who, by the way,
weighs ninety two. I think, last check up?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
What the hell, bra come on, Hey, we like what
we like when it comes to temperatures. You know, our
buddy Dave said, heater seventy two and AC seventy two
are two very different temperatures.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I don't, I don't. I don't know what you're what
what was that?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Look?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
What were you trying to Were you trying to say, like, hey,
vindication is mine?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
No, No, I'm not saying you're wrong. No, I don't
think there's anything wrong with you.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Like you said, everybody's just got their own thing.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yeah, just do own.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I like seventy two. It depends where you grew up
for me, perfect. Somebody called from Arizona and said, there's
a set at eighty five year round air conditioning. So,
first of all, because it's if it's outside one hundred
and fifteen eighty five inside feels pretty great. Yes, No,
there's no there's there's no shame in your game. There's
(24:27):
just different people have different ideas about temperatures.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
It's funny though.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I guess I just think that dudes always like things
cold because my dad, you know, I had to put
in a commercial air conditioner in our home. Like he's
always been like everything cold, cars were icy. He always
had the air conditioner on. It's a very big cold temperature.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Person.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
I like seventy two. I think that's great, it's perfect.
It's the biggest bottle of water. I think it's a
pretty big bottle of waters. It's a large bottle of water.
Mental health day forty two point three ounces mental.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
I don't know where my mental health days.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
If you're under the age of forty, I'm just that's
an arbitrary cutoff.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
A mental health day is a much more common thing
than if you're over the age of forty to literally
say to your boss, hey, I'm taking a day.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
I just need a mental health day.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
The assumption that I think a lot of people have,
that I would have if I'm fifty three years old
and I heard somebody who's twenty four years old say
they needed to take a mental health day. As a boss,
I would say a very grumpy old person thing and say, well,
you better bring a note from your psychiatrist that says
you need a mental health day.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Well, I think that people have taken mental health days
forever that you just don't.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Call it that. Sure, you could come up with something else.
I mean our old adage of you know the diarrhea diarrheas, Oh,
that's our old adage. Kids, you call it a diarrhea.
There's no follow up question. He wants to know the detail.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I mean it started with food poisoning. I used food
poisoning a couple times. I think I called in sick
maybe twice in my life, and I think both times
I used food poisoning because that implies diarrhea, and nobody
wants to hear about a girl's diarrhea.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
You just don't. It's perfect.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Maybe if you called in with diarrhea, we might have
some follow ups. But when a female calls in and
says food poisoning, dudes don't want to hear anymore any more.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
You're good.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
Well, there's a question. This was actually from an article
on The Cut. Do managers owe it to the employees,
especially the younger ones. Do you just say to them, hey, listen,
you need pay time on, you need a day off,
Just take a day off.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
You don't have to explain to me why you take
a day off.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Yeah, and part of it might be the kind of
industry that you're working in. I mean, for us, I
don't know if there's ever I've never felt like I
was required to explain a day off now, unless it
was in an urgent thing, like I woke up one
day and my back seized up, like two years ago,
(27:11):
whatever it was, And I remember that was a weird thing.
And I told you I was taking that day only
because I didn't I'd never had anything.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yeah, that was weird. That was very odd. I did
not like it when you did that. I did not
like you to show a sign of weakness. We had
a boss who she did not like us to take vacations,
and I get it, but like, you've got to take
a we get vacation days. We take them or we
lose them. And also I like to take a week
or two off a year, you know, to go on vacation.
(27:42):
And she'd be like, now, tell me about this week
off you've got. What's what's that all about? And I'd
be like, well, we're going to France and she'd be like.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Yeah, can go.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Fourth of July week. No, we can't go for that.
Everyone's on vacation. Fourth, Yeah, I just prefer you to
go on vacation when everyone's on vacation.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Like I got it.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
But it was so funny like how she'd be like, yeah,
tell me about that. Why is that necessary? So tell
me about this France place that you're discussing.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Is it? Is it really nice?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Like you for two days?
Speaker 3 (28:18):
You already have the plane tickets.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Totally totally that it was actually a question.
Speaker 9 (28:23):
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I AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. It looks like someone gave
birth over here. And I don't know what goes on
in this place after we leave, but clearly this another
it's insane. I feel like one of these spills was
(00:21):
here and then there's someone's added on to it.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
What's wrong with people?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
You know how?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I always refer to Amy King as a Disney princess. Yes,
because a couple of reasons. Number one, she looks like
a Disney princess. She's got that long, pretty hair, and
she's statuesque tall, thin, and also she likes Disneyland a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Well, listen to this story.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Go on.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, it's not really my story to tell, is it, Amy.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Amy.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Amy noticed that there was a bird's nest on her
deck where she lives.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
And the nest was built kind of like on.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Curtains, like these little outdoor curtains on the side of
the deck. And Amy's thinking to herself, well, that's not
a good stable place for you to build your nest.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Birds.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
They're finches, right, yes, And so she moved the nest,
thinking that she would find it a more supportive place.
She just moved it down to a little table right
below the curtains. The birds took the nest a lah
Disney movie and moved it back up to on top
of the curtains. Seriously, yeah, they picked it up and
(01:28):
put it They picked it up like in a Disney
movie and put it back. Amy decides it's still that's
still a precarious position for the nest.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
So she got one of those lanterns.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It's like, you know, you know, the like the candle
holder type lanterns that hang with ropes from the ceiling. Sure,
very sturdy, and she got one of those, and then
she put the nest on top of it, so it's
nice and secure. Well, the birds were like, that's cool
with us. They started adding on to the nest. And
she's got the mail bird and the female bird and
(02:01):
they're right there on her little deck there.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And yesterday she looked.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
In the nest and what was in the nest A finger?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
An egg? An egg they laid an egg.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Finger.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Amy King has like legit manifested birds laying eggs because
of the eaglet watching and her.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Disney princess status.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Wow, I'll look at that and there now there's an
egg in a nest on her deck at her home.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Amy, are you going to put a camera up?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Well, that's when I'm researching, and now I'm asking Rich
DeMuro for advice.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
It's a little little webcam.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Yeah, even a little old old iPhone or something like
that will work.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, well that's great.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah, I'm moving on from the big beer bald eagle.
Can so call it the Amy's Finch family.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
You obviously know a lot about the gestation and growth
of an eagle. Have you done any research on what
the finch timeline is going to be?
Speaker 7 (02:56):
No?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Nothing, I don't know. All I know is they had
been trying to build the nest for a while, Like
they had built it and then then I'd tear it down,
and they'd try to start building it, and I'd tear
it down. And that went on for a couple.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Of weeks, and you just gave in finally.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Well I thought that they gave up, because then I
had like a week or two with nothing, and then
I came back and they had started building it again.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
I'm like, she must be ready to you know, must.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Be ready to go and between the time that they
built it and finished it, it was like the next
day that it showed up with an egg, So she
must have just been ready to pop.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Finch eggs typically hatch in twelve to sixteen days after
constant incubation begins, thirteen to fourteen days being most common
for house finches.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Which is a little bit worrisome because when I went
to check on him last night, she was on the
nest and when she saw me, she flew off. And
I'm like, dude, if we're going to share this space,
we're gonna have to share the space. You're gonna have
to get used to me. Did you call her dude?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Amy, you got to talk like a Disney princess sing
to her, don't be scared.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Well, yes, there's a reason it sounds like that.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Let's get our happy little working song.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I love that. See, isn't that the cutest thing I
would hat?
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Or an egg?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
All right?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
What are we doing? I don't know? You know what
I mean like that?
Speaker 6 (04:14):
So I want to point something out there. There are
morons working in this industry.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Now, which industry? This one?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
This one. President Trump lands in Beijing several hours ago.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
He's there with all kinds of CEOs, tech, CEOs, Elon Musk, Jensen, Wong.
They're a big, huge summit. Tomorrow the President is supposed
to meet with President She of China. Our friends at
ABC Radio and I hope they're listening, and all of
my friends, Alex Stone is a good friend.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
But I have to have a problem with it.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
They put out every every morning they put out little
sound bites for us to use right to describe the
events of the day, called the news call. This is
the sound they gave us today while we do stories
that President Trump has landed in Beijing.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Is it all engine noise? I think that's just for
nat sound. I think that's just I think it's just
for that sound.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
If you're going to play that, it play it, you
bring it up for a second and a half, and
then you bring it way down. You just say President
Trump is landed with the with the delegation to China.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
It just sets the tone the script noise.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Remember yesterday we were talking about how hell how healthy
bad weather can be, and that rain causes pink noise.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
This is noise.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
It's obviously tarnat noise. I would have just played that
without telling you that it was. That's why I'm telling
you what it's for. It's not sound, you play it underneath.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I just want something exciting.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I'm not going to fight with you over NAT sound
today because we don't hear it enough. So I'm a
plot like I'm actually applauding that sound clip. When's the
last time you heard NAT sound in any sort of reporting?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Four years?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Five years?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
That's my version of Grandpa on the porch. I have
heard radio versions when Amy does stories about the Eagles.
I have heard her pipe in the sound of the
live camera and microphone over Big Bear.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Good because I.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Miss NAT sound.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I heard it up in at Caseybs when I was
up there for Mother's Day and I was listening to
casey Bs and.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
A single tear.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Uh yeah, there was a lot of sound. And you
don't get that.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
You dreamed about the two Morant's cassette deck.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I did, I did?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I did all right, Gary back when it was an art.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
You want some Eagle NAT sound?
Speaker 9 (06:53):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Okay, see is that real?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Yeah, Jackie, your shadow just got back.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
To them in my God, that's current.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
That's live right now, it's live. That sound.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
It looks nice.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Tell the touches or most see you guys. It's that
sounds set the tongue.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
It takes you to wherever the story is. Suddenly you
feel like you're on the tarmac. You can see Marco
Rubio coming down the steps in his ath leisure suit,
like you can feel like you're there.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
That sound is important.
Speaker 9 (07:27):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
am six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Bottom of the hour of the Mayor's Race. Did you
see the the.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Ad that was supposed to be anti Spencer Pratt. No,
that was a very common sense like republican Spencer Pratt
wants to doesn't want taxpayer money to go to housing
our unhoused neighbors. Just the weirdest. It was supposed to
be anti Spencer Pratt. But when you look at some
of the things that were said, it's like, uh yet,
(08:00):
normal people, normal people want those things.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, he put out a new ad.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
The ability to generate these ai ads is a little disturbing.
It's been highly entertaining in this specific race, in the
Mayor's race, but it's still a little disturbing.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Right, It's like, what is real? We're going to be
asking that forever Yeah, so anyway we'll talk about it.
Was an article in TMC this morning about Spencer Pratt
not living in the trailer that he claims to have
been living in and that he's living at Hotel bel
Air fifteen hundred dollars a night for a room. What
do you expect he was living in the Palisades. He's
a kid from the West Side. This is his life.
(08:40):
He's never pretended to be a poor person. Yeah, he
just was living in the trailer because his home burned down.
He's never put on airs that he's not a privileged person.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
He didn't come from Van Eyes. No, it's our valley village,
Vali village or Pacoima or all right.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
We have a chat.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Ye we're putting no no, no, no, I'm just saying
that there's he's also not.
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Speaker 1 (09:37):
Well, we talked about the governor's race and the fact
that Javier Bessera is the safe choice. That's where all
the Democratic machine money is going to go towards safety
after the disaster that was Eric Swalwell. Eric Swalwell, the
lead horse in this race, was getting all the backing,
had national name recognition, and then he turns out to
be rapee. Javier Bessera is not that he is a
(10:01):
go along to get along guy. He's a yes person
for the corporation that is the Democratic machine, and that's
just the way it's going to be. He's not going
to say anything that is going to be incendiary. He
is just going to do what he has told in
that role. And that's what democrats want. They don't want
to play fast and loose. I have heard from Democrats
(10:21):
in real life that do like Matt Mayhan, which I
think is a good sign to hear Democrats talk about
somebody who's not completely towing the line a moderate.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Yeah, there is.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
There are a few new polls actually that came out
that all of them have Steve Hilton either in first
or tied for first, and then Besserah is either second
or tied for first in those three poles. So those
are all significant because of you know, I think they're
all post double debate week that we had. Last week,
(10:58):
there was the controversy else surrounding a new Javier Bissera
interview that he did with KTLA, specifically because it appears
in this in this interview that he's trying to direct
the interview. I don't know if i'd say he's directing
the interview, but trying to be careful with how he
goes about doing this. This was the beginning, well, she
(11:20):
even says, this is the beginning of the interview.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
This is the start of our interview with Javier Bissida
in Highland Park. By the way, this is a profile piece.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
This is not a gotcha piece. Right, Well, look, I.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Think we're these questions are fair.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
It's in order to learn about you as a candidate.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
So why it's about the profile.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I don't know how you define profile, but I'd like to.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Begin the interview.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
So he says basically like, well, I want to talk
about my profile. I mean, I don't mind the tough questions.
And then she launches into a question specifically about the
one issue that's been going dogging him, which is where
the lost kids at during.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Your time as anxious his secretary.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
A New York Times investigation found the Health Department couldn't
find some eighty five thousand children it had released.
Speaker 10 (12:03):
That's not accurate.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
What you just read is not accurate. First, That's what
I'll say, because it was never the case that we
could not find kids.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
You're essentially I don't know if you've got those talking
points from Donald Trump.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
She goes on to say, no, that's an easy way
to She goes, I literally read that from the New
York Times. So, I mean, this is the issue, this
is the thing that he's had to answer for. He's
also had to answer for his longtime advisor, Sean McCluskey
pleading guilty to stealing almost a quarter million dollars from
(12:36):
a Besara campaign account.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
You know this DHS situation. Well, former DHS Secretary Alejandro
Majorcis refuses refuses to endorse Javier Besara despite the fact
that he was in the cabinet with Biden's cabinet. Now,
(12:58):
Biden's sidelined Sarah at one point, which is a very
tough thing to explain because Biden did not fire people.
So there's obviously something that be Sarah's afraid of in
that tenure when he was serving in a national role
and then sidelined. And and the fact that may Orcas says,
(13:19):
I'm not giving that guy my blessing. There's something there there.
Will it be enough? Probably not. It's probably so inside
the weeds. Something happens within the machine, you mean, like,
I mean, it's probably something yeah, in that role that
he served in the cabinet that that wouldn't rise to
the fact of that people care. But but why would
(13:43):
you sit down and say this is not gonna be
a hit piece, isn't is it?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
If there was nothing to hit? Like, what's he afraid of?
Speaker 6 (13:50):
Well, it's Dan Schner, a longtime political analysts. He's been around,
We've talked about him before for decades.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Dan Schneer.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
He says, not only should a candidate for governor in
the great state of California. Expect gotcha questions. That's that's
your every single day. You should task your staff. You guys,
are not gonna hurt my feelings. Ask me the questions
that you think are gonna be so I know what
to answer, how to answer, and what to say in
(14:18):
defense of either you know where them kids at? Or
why is your longtime campaign advisor pleading guilty to this thing?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Watch the Kevin Hart Roast and be ready for all
the arrows that are going to come your way.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
Yeah, because even in the Kevin Heart Roast, they still
love those people. Yeah, these people don't love you, true,
and they also can make a name for themselves by
taking you out.
Speaker 9 (14:42):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Remember yesterday we did a story on how rain and
storms and overcast days are good for you.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yeah, they give you a bunch of different chemical releases in.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Your brain, good for you.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Are you having a little seasonal effective disorder because the
sun's not out? The sun came out later yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Do not tell my wife does I did not turn
the air conditioner on all weekend?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Why would I not tell you.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Why would she thinks I keep the house too hot? Oh?
Speaker 6 (15:17):
I see she wasn't around, So the dog and I
enjoyed hothouse time.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
What temperature do you prefer the house to be at?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Do I prefer it at? Yes?
Speaker 6 (15:27):
I mean if you well, I don't know what what
the temperature got to. I turned up the temperature and
the air conditioning to eighty two just so it wouldn't
click on, so it never got above So it never
got to eighty two inside the house.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
So I don't know what that means. When you go
to a hotel, what do you set the thermost out at.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
A different situation. I prefer a hotel room to be cold.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Okay, so what would that be? What's cold? I'm just
kind of getting it.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
That's cold to you? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Wow, okay that yeah, Now I know where your gauge
is at.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
That's insane.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Seventy two to seventy three is like when I am
in Kansas City in the winter and I want it
hot in my in my hotel room, I'll put it
at seventy two and then put it down to sixty
eight to sleep. Huh, seventy two is pretty hot.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I didn't think that.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I mean, I think, I mean we all have. I'm
not saying you're right or wrong or whatever. We just
all have different ideas of what hot and cold is.
I think when it comes to the thermostat.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Let us know what you think is hot or cold.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
On the talk back seventy But you had you had
the you had the house open this weekend, which I'm
also not supposed to say.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
What do you mean that you had the house open
for flies to get in?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
No? No, no, no, I have screens on my doors
now now yeah, now, well, I mean that was or
because the bats were flying in right, right right, that
was the issue.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
But yes, there are screens, and I do know.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
But there's no reason to there's no reason to run
your ac if you've got all the flow of air.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
And keep saying Stephen Klubeck was arrested.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yeah, this guy, I think I've said it on the air.
It's not.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
We met him a few while back, and he gave
me that gut instinct to run the other way.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
He was also known for being once he dropped out
of the race for governor, endorsed Eric Swalwell and actually
put Eric Swalwell up.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
In his house for living at his home over here
Beverly Hills. I think it is.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
And so he was arrested for attempting to persuade or sorry,
attempting to prevent or dissuade a victim or witness from testifying.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
That was the charge.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
It could be with regard to anything. It might be
connected to Swalwell, it might not be.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Or his girlfriend. Remember his fiance is.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Fiance is in trouble with the law. I think she's
being monitored if she have a house arrest situation or something. Anyways,
she's in trouble. We've done a story on her before
we knew that she was married or in a relationship
with Clubac. She was one of those people that would
meet rich men on the apps and then rob them
right allegedly.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Legedly, the mayor's race continues. This was the ad. This
was the ad I was going to tell you about.
So Spencer Pratt or whoever's been putting together these ads
for him, have been able to really control the narrative
when it comes to social media and the coverage that
he's been getting. This was an ad that was paid
(18:30):
for apparently by the Los Angeles Labor Federation or some
other You know, I don't know the exact title of it,
but they're trying to go against Spencer Pratt and end
up making scoring an own goal.
Speaker 10 (18:46):
It seems like Republican Spencer Pratt is the last thing
Los Angeles needs for mayor. Pratt opposes using taxpayer money
to build brand new houses for unhoused neighbors. Yeah, it's
time saying home was to get help or get out.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Yeah, brand new homes.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
That's insane that you would build a brand new home
for a homeless.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Is this a joke?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
So here's the thing this is. I have not yet
figured it out. I've looked into it, I've tried. I
can tell you right now this is coming from Pratt's people,
because nobody would say build brand new homes for homeless.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
That's God. This is absolutely coming from Pratt.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
That's my gut feeling. But I have yet to prove it.
Speaker 10 (19:23):
Pratt thinks LA needs thousands more police officers rather than
more social workers, and Republican Spencer Pratt thinks public employee
unions should have less power.
Speaker 7 (19:32):
Not more.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
So.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Anyway, that's this thing that's been credited to the LA
Labor Federation for putting this out. Now, this is an
ad definitely from Spencer Pratt.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
What does dangerous Spencer Pratt have in mind for Los Angeles?
Speaker 8 (19:48):
I make a living giving drug needles to unhoused individuals,
and Spencer wants to put me out of the job.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Spencer wants to force me to get treatment and turn
my life around instead of dying on the streets.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Now, that's a guy sitting on a park bench.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Literally with AI all AI all fake?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
What kind of bully forces people to do things?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
As a busy mom running away from the crazy drug addicts.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
In our park is the only exercise I get.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Spencer wants to get rid of them?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Does he want me to be fat?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
A vote for Spencer's a vote for change. Why would
you vote for change when everything is fine?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Stay the course with Karen Bass, smile damn it.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
That's a guy holding a hand of a little girl
standing in front of a burning neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I do not like AI. I don't like.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Election ads are a tune out for me period anyway.
But using AI, there's just too many dumb people amongst
us who think all of that is real.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
There's one that's out there today that shows Karen Bass
walking down the street saying I've addressed homelessness, and she's walking,
supposed to be on skid row tents all around her,
and she said, I've fixed it. You won't get stabbed
as long as you don't make eye contact.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I wonder what the threshold is to air those on
network television as opposed to on TikTok or wherever he's
posting these. Is there a threshold, like would they air
something that was y I I.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Don't think that.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
I mean, we've said this in many different contexts. I
don't think the laws have caught up with this.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I don't think so either.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
But I mean, is there like a gut check of network,
you know, Channel seven getting some sort of campaign ad
to run what's clearly phony?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
There have been some political ads that do reference AI
generated content, just mostly images, not as extensive as these are.
But there was another thing just quickly about the mayor's office.
Dozens of firefighters showed up at the city clerk's office
and handed over two hundred thousand dollars, sorry, two hundred
thousand signatures for a ballot measure to hike the city's
(21:53):
sales tax in an attempt to fund more firefighters. Ambulances,
fire trucks, and fix up some of the firefighting infrastructure,
basically the stations and the way they exist.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
So maybe you need more iron.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
For food?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
You mean, yeah, oh, get you warmed up? Oh, I
see what you're saying, Gary, And oh you a nice
big steak.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I'm a cold blooded animal. I like to sit in
the sun.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Everyone's yeah, No, I do too.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
am six forty.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
We've got an update on Alex Murda out of South Carolina.
Remember he's the one who killed his wife and younger
son for sympathy as he was facing financial charges stealing
millions of dollars from his law firm. The guy who's
like a fifth generation super connected lawyer there in that
small town, big place South Carolina. Prosecutors are going to
(22:53):
retry him. Why well, because the state Supreme Court threw
out his conviction and life sentence this morning. Apparently the
court clerk was bad mouthing Murdoch to the judge or
to the jurors while she was writing a book about
the case. It seems like a very small, well backwater
(23:17):
yes man exactly.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
Hey, I knew I liked you for some reason. Uh,
you like the temperature in your place about the same
as my ninety one year old mother, who, by the way,
weighs ninety two. I think, last check up?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
What the hell, bra come on, Hey, we like what
we like when it comes to temperatures. You know, our
buddy Dave said, heater seventy two and AC seventy two
are two very different temperatures.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I don't, I don't. I don't know what you're what
what was that?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Look?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
What were you trying to Were you trying to say, like, hey,
vindication is mine?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
No, No, I'm not saying you're wrong. No, I don't
think there's anything wrong with you.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Like you said, everybody's just got their own thing.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yeah, just do own.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I like seventy two. It depends where you grew up
for me, perfect. Somebody called from Arizona and said, there's
a set at eighty five year round air conditioning. So,
first of all, because it's if it's outside one hundred
and fifteen eighty five inside feels pretty great. Yes, No,
there's no there's there's no shame in your game. There's
(24:27):
just different people have different ideas about temperatures.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
It's funny though.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I guess I just think that dudes always like things
cold because my dad, you know, I had to put
in a commercial air conditioner in our home. Like he's
always been like everything cold, cars were icy. He always
had the air conditioner on. It's a very big cold temperature.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Person.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
I like seventy two. I think that's great, it's perfect.
It's the biggest bottle of water. I think it's a
pretty big bottle of waters. It's a large bottle of water.
Mental health day forty two point three ounces mental.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
I don't know where my mental health days.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
If you're under the age of forty, I'm just that's
an arbitrary cutoff.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
A mental health day is a much more common thing
than if you're over the age of forty to literally
say to your boss, hey, I'm taking a day.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
I just need a mental health day.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
The assumption that I think a lot of people have,
that I would have if I'm fifty three years old
and I heard somebody who's twenty four years old say
they needed to take a mental health day. As a boss,
I would say a very grumpy old person thing and say, well,
you better bring a note from your psychiatrist that says
you need a mental health day.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Well, I think that people have taken mental health days
forever that you just don't.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Call it that. Sure, you could come up with something else.
I mean our old adage of you know the diarrhea diarrheas, Oh,
that's our old adage. Kids, you call it a diarrhea.
There's no follow up question. He wants to know the detail.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I mean it started with food poisoning. I used food
poisoning a couple times. I think I called in sick
maybe twice in my life, and I think both times
I used food poisoning because that implies diarrhea, and nobody
wants to hear about a girl's diarrhea.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
You just don't. It's perfect.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Maybe if you called in with diarrhea, we might have
some follow ups. But when a female calls in and
says food poisoning, dudes don't want to hear anymore any more.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
You're good.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
Well, there's a question. This was actually from an article
on The Cut. Do managers owe it to the employees,
especially the younger ones. Do you just say to them, hey, listen,
you need pay time on, you need a day off,
Just take a day off.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
You don't have to explain to me why you take
a day off.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Yeah, and part of it might be the kind of
industry that you're working in. I mean, for us, I
don't know if there's ever I've never felt like I
was required to explain a day off now, unless it
was in an urgent thing, like I woke up one
day and my back seized up, like two years ago,
(27:11):
whatever it was, And I remember that was a weird thing.
And I told you I was taking that day only
because I didn't I'd never had anything.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yeah, that was weird. That was very odd. I did
not like it when you did that. I did not
like you to show a sign of weakness. We had
a boss who she did not like us to take vacations,
and I get it, but like, you've got to take
a we get vacation days. We take them or we
lose them. And also I like to take a week
or two off a year, you know, to go on vacation.
(27:42):
And she'd be like, now, tell me about this week
off you've got. What's what's that all about? And I'd
be like, well, we're going to France and she'd be like.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Yeah, can go.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Fourth of July week. No, we can't go for that.
Everyone's on vacation. Fourth, Yeah, I just prefer you to
go on vacation when everyone's on vacation.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Like I got it.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
But it was so funny like how she'd be like, yeah,
tell me about that. Why is that necessary? So tell
me about this France place that you're discussing.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Is it? Is it really nice?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Like you for two days?
Speaker 3 (28:18):
You already have the plane tickets.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Totally totally that it was actually a question.
Speaker 9 (28:23):
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Speaker 3 (28:25):
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