December 4, 2025 • 31 mins
Halle Berry publicly calls out California Gov. Gavin Newsom, stirring up a new political-celebrity clash. A Thunderbird jet goes down after the pilot ejects during a dramatic incident. An elderly veteran scores a massive and well-deserved payday. And what’s going on with 3I/Atlas—and why is everyone saying “it’s pulsing”? A fast, wild mix of headlines from Hollywood, the military, and beyond.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
The Navy admiral who reportedly issued the orders for that
military to fire upon survivors of an attack on an
alleged drug boat arrived on Capitol Hill today.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
He's been giving classified briefings.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Also, the expectation is that the FBI is going to
hold a news conference on the arrest of a suspect
believed to have planted pipe bombs outside political party headquarters
before the January sixth riot at the Capitol. The suspect
and custody identified as a guy named Brian Cole Junior.
(00:42):
The arrest, they said, came from evidence that they simply
looked over again. So there wasn't anything new necessarily that
they found. So but this is five almost five years,
all right, Yeah, five years after the bombs were planted
there outside of the Reportublican National Committee headquarters and Democratic
(01:03):
National Committee headquarters.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
We have a death to tell you about.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Oh, who's.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Claude. When I say Claude, you don't know who I'm
referring to.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Oh, I do know you're referring.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Claude looks like you, but it's an alligator albina. Well
he was an alligator. Yeah yeah, A rare albino alligator
who charmed millions, millions, millions of visitors over nearly two
decades has died the age of thirty. Claude had ghost
white scales and a placid demeanor. It was a local
(01:41):
celebrity up in San Francisco, but in recent weeks has
appetite declined. It happens he was treated for a suspected
infection kind of like the one you got after the
last news I pruce what? But despite intensive care and
he died. Claude showed us the power of ambassador animals
(02:05):
to connect people to nature and to stoke curiosity. We
all miss him dearly. Do you I know where Claude
was born?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
New Orleans?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Close an alligator farm in Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Oh really?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
When he was born on September fifteenth, nineteen ninety five,
just before you were married. He weighed two ounces, just
two outs, little baby albino alligator could hold him in
your hand. He arrived at the Academy of Sciences in
San Francisco in two thousand and eight, quickly became its
most sought after attraction. It was the first albino alligator
(02:41):
in the museum's history. Its unofficial mascot is what Claude became.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
He wasn't at the zoo. What he wasn't at the zoo.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
He was at the Academy of Sciences. Oh you know
in the little yea. The name Claude was a fun exploratorium. Yes, yes,
the little ponds there. You can't see sea turtles or
not sea turtles, but just turtles that live in the
water there. They're not sea turtles right cause there's no
salt in this. I see them right, they're turtles. Thanks Dad.
(03:14):
The name Claude was a pun. The alligator was partially
paired with a initially paired with a non albino penmate
named Bonnie. But Bonnie and Claude Optusits did not attract.
They did not get along because Claude's vision was really poor.
So he bump into Bonnie all the time. And so
(03:35):
what did she do?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
She bit off his toe?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
What?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And she was set back to Florida Like they kept
Claude and they shipped off Bonnie. Now do you think
Claude claimed poor vision? But he was just trying to
get all handsy with Bonnie, trying to get up in there.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
What a great ploy.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And he's like, oh, I can't see, and she's like
what are those? She's like, okay, wait, do alligators have breasts?
I'm sure there's a nipple. Let's find out. Do alligators
have nipple? Well? I mean he's got nipples too. Are
they different? If you're in a nipples you could just Yes,
(04:17):
alligators have nipples, but they're small, interesting, and the female
alligator secretes milk through them to feed her young, just
like just like us, alligators, they're just like us. The
nipples are present, but they are small and they can
be hard to see.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
So there's that. All right, Wait, what happened? How do
we get there? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Your hands are all over the wheel right now, and
you're like, gosh, where are we going. Academy Award winning
actress Halle Berry took the stage at the New York
Times Deal Book Summit and said, at this stage in
my life, I have zero f's to give back.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
In my great state California, my very own Governor, Gavin
Newsom has vetoed our menopause bill not one but two years.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I'm sorry, Wait, I'm sorry I blacked out. I was
still thinking about alligator nipples and then all of a sudden,
menopause has made its way into politics. Yeh wait, what
is she talking about? That?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
For Back in my great state of California, my very
own Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed our menopause bill not
one but two years in a row.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
What's the bill for her?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
But that's okay because he's not going to be governor forever.
And with the way he's overlooked women half the population
by devaluing us in midlife, he probably should not be
our next president either.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Oh no, no, he's pissed off the menopausal women. That's
not good. I had a mom.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
She what do you remember when.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Your mom went through the menopause?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Do not remember?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Oh? My god? Hell hath no fury? She never shared
those things sounded like that.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
She focused her talk on expanding healthcare coverage from menopause care.
She said that a bill that she has backed a
couple of times aimed at mandating certain menicpause care like
what healthcare actually curious and expanding training for professionals on
the subject.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
For hormone therapy. I'm assuming it was.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
A spokesperson for the governor. I don't know exactly what
was in AB four thirty two.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I'm just curious because that doesn't make a hell of
a lot of sense, other than it would subsidize things
like trips to your lady doctor or ho hormonal treatment,
which women do get that I've heard can be very expensive. Yeah,
and if it's not covered, if it's not covered, then
you just don't take it, and you just got to
live with your menopause and make everybody around you miserable.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
She also suggests or the bill, I should say, requires
expanded training for professionals on the subject. Governor Newsom's spokespeople
have said that the Governor vetoed the bill twice because
as it is written, it would have unintentionally raised healthcare
costs for millions of working women that are already stretched thin,
which he says he was trying to avoid, and that
(07:10):
he is confident the governor is that they can work
on getting the bill passed this year at some point.
She said, I halle Berry and women of my age
are simply devalued in the country.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Our culture thinks that at fifty nine years old.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I am past my prime, and that women my age
start to become invisible in Hollywood, in the workplace and.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
On social media.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
But if he's if he's losing Listen, She's one person
that has come out in Hollywood and suggested that he's,
you know, ignoring a very common health issue here. That
kind of breaks the seal I think for other people
in Hollywood to go, yeah, this guy. He has watched
our industry completely decimated.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
You're staying on menopause Hill. I don't know why not,
because there's so much else to go after Gavin Dows
for I know.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
But that's what I'm saying is if she picks this fight,
other people might pick other fights.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I think there's enough fight there. I mean, what has
he done right, let's start there. I can't come up
with anything he's done right as governor.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Well, we did support the California care courts in theory
when they came out. We've seen that they were not
as successful as we wanted them to be. But those
type that's something.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
The thing that I think is great is maybe she's
reducing the stigma around menopause and around the things that
women have to go through. As I mentioned, there was
no stigma in my house growing up. You know, my
dad would mom's crazy. She's not crazy. She's going through menopause.
You know. It was like a word that I didn't
know what it was, but it wasn't. Never in my.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Life had a conversation like that with my parents. Yeah. Never.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
See, that's good, that's good. There was no stigma around that.
But there are homes where you don't know about that, apparently,
and that's good if she's shedding light on that. I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna go and burn a Gavinusom
at the stake for his menopause position just yet. There's
enough for me to do with him on other fronts.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
This also is one of those.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
It's interesting that she as a I don't know if
this is her single issue political issue slash medical issue
that she's gonna, like you said, die on that menopause hill.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
But I don't know, but you're you're very good that
you're treating this with seriousness, like I think it's important.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
I think I think it's that's I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I don't know the costs associated with menopause. But she
makes the point of all of us are going to
be there at some point.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
You're not going to be there.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I'm not going to have to women, okay, because I
guarantee you there's a whole lot of women in that
room right there.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I just want you to know that it's not something
that's going to afflict you. You're gonna be all right.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I will wait too.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Men have some sort of change. Yes, Oh really, what's
it called?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
It's called man o pause.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I'm sorry I asked you, but I would like more
stigma around that word. I want it more stigma to
the point where I never hear manipuse.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
F sixteen went down in the desert yesterday. We'll talk
about that when we come back.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
They do the Internet says they have nipples? Who said
they don't have nipples?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Everybody else? What did you do?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Everybody? When you say everybody? Play me somebody you wouldn't
really want to hear. Yeah, I want to see Okay,
Oh now, AI says.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
God Shannon, what kind of browser are you using? This
says that alligators have nipples.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
The Internet's divided.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Only mammals do that's what they're called mammary glands. Right,
I would maybe reboot your phone.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Okay, she was gentle, she was nice. She was just
trying to that one who told I, see now I did.
I did alligators of nipples? Oh no, now, AI says, no,
alligers john nipples because as she pointed out there, they're reptiles.
They don't have mammoried lands. But then where did I
(11:07):
get that from? Let me just back up here, back,
won't let me go back?
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Your alligator discussion moved me to answer your question of
alligators nipples. Alligators are reptiles, right, They are not mammals.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Right.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
If they had nipples, their little babies would bite them off.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I enjoy your shot.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Well, I will say this. I didn't start us down
the alligators nipples breasts. That was you, Gary. You said
that cloud and that Claud was bumping into Bonnie and
he was like, what are those Hong Kong? And you
did this with your hands? Yeah, And then I said,
because that didn't seem right to me, because of course
(11:54):
mammals have nipples. I said, wait, alligators have nipples? Based
on you doing this your hands.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
There's also some menopause comments in there.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Oh, really, you look scared from menopause. For somebody who
did grow up with it, you look like you've got
the fear of menopause in your eyes.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I thought that I didn't grow up with it. It's
I didn't know what it was or nobody talked about it.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
That's how are baby alligators fed? If it's not what
do they eat? It's not the milk.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Baby alligators come from eggs, you know.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah, okay, But what do they eat when they come
out of the egg?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Other baby alligators? Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
F sixteen pilot ejected from one of the Air Force
Thunderbirds yesterday.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
She is in stable condition.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
According to the Air Force Sergeant Giovanni Johnson, the F
sixteen sea fighting falcon assigned to the Air Force Thunderbirds
over in Nellis. The crash took place yesterday at about
ten forty still under investigation. But there was a motor
of sixty year old guys that he's driving south out
of Death Valley and he saw an explosion that sent
(13:10):
up a thick plume of black smoke.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
My heart just sank.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Said that he knows that there are a lot of
different places, are a lot of different military aircraft that
go through that go through that area because it is
specifically right around the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake.
That's the largest base in hub for developing and testing weapons,
and there's a bunch of specific government cordoned off areas
(13:35):
for planes to go and do their testing out there.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Hey, Gary Shannon High Desert, Mike, Hey, you know that
jet crash in Trona has a female pilot.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
She's okay, Thank god. That happened just about twenty minutes
from where I live.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Anyways, it happens quite a bit out here. There's been
quite a few.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
This whole area here is basically training grounds for gut
pilots and all that up.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
They're always flying around doing their job. USA, baby, all.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
The way, all the way.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Why was that necessary? Female pilot?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
You didn't play that for that reason?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Oh, he said it, not me. Okay, what are you saying, females.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I'm saying you played that for that reason. You played
that because you lived right near there. That's blowney, and
we both know it.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
I don't know what you think.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
By the way, Elmer and I had a good air
Force F fifteen F sixteen discussion this morning.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Oh, tell me more, tell me more.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Because Elmer used to work on fifteen's and he was
saying that I was lucky because I got to fly
in an F sixteen that they you know, guys that
work in the Air Force, men and women in the
Air Force. It's specifically the kind of stuff that he
was doing, you work up to.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
What did you call it?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
It was an incentsive fly incentive flight where then he
gets to ride in the plane that he's been working on.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
That's very cool. So like you got to take a
ride in the plane that you did not work.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I didn't work on at all. No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
They didn't even They did not even let me put
the lettering on the side of the airplane that had
my name on it.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Yeah, why would they let you do that? You've seen
your penmanship.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
They almost didn't let me climb the ladder to get in.
They were going to carry me and put me there.
They didn't want they didn't want my fingerprints anywhere near
that airplane.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah, did you see the video yet?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I did.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
I did.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
When you started hitting those g's, I could see your
chest just going.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
By the videos on the Instagram story.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I just want to video. It was like years ago.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I just today he found fresh.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Virgin meat and he exposed you to it.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
It's very cool.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
He goes around this buildings. Have you seen the video.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I'll send you the link y. Send it to Shannon.
Send it to Shannon. She can watch it during the break.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Unless there's a more alligator nipple news.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Listen, I don't know. I'm trying to find where I
got that from. So I kept googling nipples, alligator, wow, milk,
and you guys shut it down, the whole internet down.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
It only takes a couple of layers in your oh
my god, hell clicks and you wouldn't believe what people
are into. We have a great, great story about Ed Bombas,
an army vet who lost his pension, had to go
to work. His neighborhood. His community came together to support Ed.
(16:47):
Great great story.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Best story of the day. Also, we've got a three
I at Liss update. Guys, if you gave up on
the Aliens, you quit too soon. Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Still to come in the show.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
We got strange science of course coming up the idea
that the videos are getting shorter, vine is coming back.
Have you heard that the seven second videos are coming back?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yes, And apparently these are changing the ways our brains
are working. These short videos are reworking our brain wiring,
to which I'll say, let's pump the brakes on any hysteria.
There's a lot of things that change the way our
minds work. That we do, that we choose for our brains.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Push fun away.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I have to return something. Oh so I don't want
to forget. That's why I'm keeping that open, see, because
I'll forget. It's changing your brain. Of course, it's changed
my brain. It's changed yours as well.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
We are now at one million, five hundred eighty five thousand,
nine hundred and forty two dollars raised for ed ed
Bombas is a guy eighty eight years old army vet
worked a long career with General Motors. He retired back
in nineteen ninety nine, only for the company to go
(18:11):
bankrupt in twenty twelve and wipe out his pension thanks
a lot GM. What he did have was saved for
retirement was eventually spent on medical bills.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
As his wife got sick and eventually passed away.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
So eighty eight year eighty eight year old Ed Bombas
works five days a week, eight hours a day at
a meer store in Michigan.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I think that's how he said, I mean g I
mean ich Er.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
There was an Australian influencer, guy named Samuel Weedenholfer, met
Ed at this grocery store in Brighton, Michigan, where he
had been forced to work full time as a cashier
to make ends meet. Like I said, he had lost
his pension and he had lost his wife, and a
lot of the money that he did have save for
retirement went to her medical bills when she got sick.
(19:03):
The guy started a go fundme page and for a
long time hadn't told Ed that this thing.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Was being set up for him.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
And there are people that have given a few dollars
here and there. Some have given tens of thousands of
dollars to Ed. The way that the influencer Samuel writes
it up on the go fundme page, he said, despite everything,
Ed shows up every day with quiet dignity.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Strength and perseverance.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
His story is a stark reminder that too many of
our seniors, especially veterans, face challenges just to survive.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
He said, I'm hoping I'm.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Opening a fundraiser to help Ed live the life he deserves,
to finally give him some relief, comfort, and the peace
of mind that comes from knowing he can enjoy his
later years without constant struggle.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
So they're going to go through, he says.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
They want to pay for living expenses, any medical care
that he needs, and those small joys that make life meaningful.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
His son says, since my mom passed, I've been trying
to help him where I can financially. So it's going
to be a major burden taken away. He's going to
have a lot of relief in this. They're going to
do a ceremony at Dad's job Friday night. He'll received
an account preloaded with the staggering funds. They're also going
to have a local veterans group post a special presentation
in his honor. But there's something to be said for people,
(20:27):
because it's not just out of the goodness of people's heartset.
No Ed, there's such a value to somebody like Ed
working with somebody who is not an ED, somebody who
has served his country, who has raised a family who
has gone through the love and then loss of his wife,
and the people that he comes in contact with. It's
(20:50):
like you cannot put a price on how important interaction
is with people who have lived life and lived life
well and are there and are resilient and they you know,
just being around them kind of helps you not sweat
the small stuff and realize, like what's important in life?
You know. And I think a lot of people have
probably through Ed's work, you know, even having to go
(21:12):
back to work or what have you, that got such
a massive gift from him. You know that that doesn't
even Are you okay?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
I feel like you're going downhill over there. You're coughing,
You're looking a little peaked. You're looking kind of clammy.
Have we taken your temperature? It's not good?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
It's not good? Oh? No, guys, guys, he's going down.
Do we have the fibrillators. We do have one of those,
right there is one over by Oscar. How's your heart
feeling right now? Is it okay?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Away?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Is it ticking all right?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Ed doesn't know anything about this money yet.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
No, I know. That's why I said they're gonna They're
gonna show him on Friday at the ceremony.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
That'll be and it's already one point five eight five million.
It'll be easily one point six million, if not more,
by the time he gets that money.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Right.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
And there's also something about him going back to work.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
That's what I'm saying, like, that's just oh, go ahead,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Well, I not just.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
The impact that he's going to have on the people
that he's working with at the grocery store, but the
idea that he it's there is a place for him
to I hate the idea that he had to go
back to work just to make living expenses.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
He may have liked bely. Yeah, it may have been
a total gift to not only everybody around him, but
also him as well, especially the loneliness you must feel. Yeah,
if your wife of fifty plus years.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
My grandfather, when he went into a memory care facility,
either believed he worked there or just wanted to work.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Is that the.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Premise behind the Ted Danson series. Does he work there?
Or do they think you?
Speaker 3 (22:53):
I haven't seen that yet, you mean the man on
the inside, I.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Kind of got I haven't seen it either. I kind
of just got the vibe that that's kind of what
it is.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
But yeah, I haven't seen it. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I feel sometimes like I know, the memory care situation's difficult.
My mother in law had Alzheimer's. But sometimes I feel
like that's a good way to go because you don't
know what's going on. You're just eating ice cream every day,
you're going for walks, you meet new people. Every day,
you meet new people. Everything is new. Like that sounds
(23:23):
pretty nice. It's for the people around you that's very
difficult for right, Yeah, Mom's not mom anymo heart.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
I hope it's I hope it's nice. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Are you okay? Yes, okay, This cough isn't a sign
of anything. No, all right, what's my name? Huh?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Oh you're nice?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
When we come back the latest on three I Atlas,
there's something that we have not yet heard before. One
of the characteristics of this whatever it is, that's making
its way closer to the world.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
This was interesting.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Have you heard about the polar vortex. It's not just
the polar vortex, No, it's a triple dip polar vortex
dip or triple dip polar vortex. Okay, happy you're not
out there with that cold. Also, the king tides that
we have to combat here in southern California, do.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
We do we? Really? You don't have to.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I don't have to.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Don't have to.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I don't have to. We do have that coming up
as well as puppets. We have puppets in our future.
You often talk about puppetry, yes, as an avenue of
education that you may have gone down.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Yes, And there is a boy I'm going to have
to find the exact phrase. There is a Jim Henson
Kermit the Frog statue, like a twelve foot tall statue.
It's being taken down from the Jim Henson studios here
and being moved to Georgia. Okay, at the Institute of
Puppet Tree Arts or something like that.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
I didn't realize there was such a thing.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
And where is the Where is that.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Somewhere in Georgia? But I do not know the specifics
we should go there.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
The FBI has been holding a news conference this morning
announcing the arrest of a suspect believe to have planted
the pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democratic Party headquarters
prior to the January sixth riots at the Capitol.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
We'll talk more about that when we get to swamp.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
We got yeah, but we got to get back to
the aliens. Remember three i at Lists. This was the
alien mothership that was going to descend upon us sometime
in late October. Well, the mysterious interstellar object three i
at lists that we last tracked when it got very
close to the Sun and then seemed to break up
a little bit. It's developed what's left of it has
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developed a strange heartbeat that's making it glow more brightly,
and it's nearing Earth again. And it's nearing Earth in
just two weeks. There are new telescope observations and they
have revealed streams of gas and dust which they call jets,
that are blasting out in rhythmic bursts every sixteen point
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one six hours, precisely, precisely.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
That's never a good thing.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
That is not what a comet does. Guys. That is
why I have always been along the lines of follow
the line of thought of the Harvard physicist A. Vi
Lobe yep Avi Lobe says, there's this there's behavior of
this thing that is not similar to a comet. You
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can't explain it, and what also can't you explain extraterrestrials.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
The Okay, the pulsing, they said, makes the I'm afraid
to look right at makes the objects overall glow, brighten
and dim by twenty to forty percent in a very
clean repeating cycle. Some have claimed this means it's not
a naturally occurring comet. Of course, NASA and the European
Space Agency ESA, they have both declared this to be
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nothing more than a lifeless comet. They have not detected
any signs of extratractor extraterrestrial life emanating from the object. However, however,
this is the natural explanation. This is where you know
the naysayers will sit and live on this hill.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Here.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
The object's solid core is spinning once every sixteen point
one six hours, and there's pockets of ice on the surface,
and they're going to heat up and turn directly into
gas obviously when they face the sun. And that's why
they're shooting out the jets like clockwork. Duh, because the
Sun is predictable in terms of how it turns correct.
So that's where you're getting that yeh, sixteen point one
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six cycle our cycle.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Now yes, And while the spin does provide a convenient
reason for the timing the sixteen point one six hours,
obvy Lob points out, it still doesn't explain why is
it glowing?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Guys? There are twelve anomalies that scientists have not figured
out or explained, including the comentary tail pointing in the
wrong direction, the fact that this thing turns blue when
it gets near the sun. Oh, and the course changes
that defy gravity. Does Mike Elmer can we get defined
(28:37):
gravity from wicked? Got it feeling moved?
Speaker 2 (28:43):
NASA has said that those twelve anomalies being recorded are
simply a byproduct of this thing coming from a distant
solar system that may just simply have chemical makeup that
we don't understand. We don't know where this thing came
from and what chemicals or chemical makeup is like from
from whence?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
But then, why aren't scientists just saying that.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
NASA is saying that they're saying that this is probably
just stuff we don't quite understand. It doesn't behave like
our commets, because this is an extra terrestrial spaceship.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Comment again the December nineteenth.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
And get us, and please when you get here aliens.
Remove all the alligator nipple, milk, weird fetish stuff that's
on the internet. I would like to be your first
order of business here.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
This thing, whatever it is, three I atlas, will be
closest to the Earth December nineteenth. It will be within
about one hundred and seventy million miles I believe is
as close as it's going to get. Researchers are using
it to prepare for future cosmic threats because there is
a team of people scientists, the International Asteroid Warning Network
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that have kicked off a two month campaign. They said
that will help improve comet and asteroid surveillance that spots
future threats that are nearing the Earth.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
So don't even bother doing Christmas shopping.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Well, I don't think they're going to get here in
time for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
November ninth, or sorry, December nineteenth. This is the closest
they're going to be, and that would just be a
quick left turn if they wanted to make their way here,
So I don't think it would take them that long.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Would you like your jeopardy question? Since we're doing science stuff,
because let's spell something. You do not have to spell anything.
Men of Science for four hundred dollars. Fewer people know
doctor Albert Saban, who developed an oral polio vaccine, because
(30:49):
this man's injected vaccine was first to market.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Who is Jonas Sack?
Speaker 1 (30:55):
How did you know that?
Speaker 3 (30:59):
I have read things in the past.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I've never heard of Jonas Sulk before. Yes, yeah, no
I have not. You just didn't retain it. Is this
the penicillin guy? What is this? This is polio vaccine?
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (31:13):
This?
Speaker 1 (31:13):
You knew the guy who Well, you were a kid
back then, so I guess it was more top of mind.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Yeah, Mike, Yeah, he was.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
We'll do swamp watch when we come to my wife?
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Was my teacher?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Did you have polio two?
Speaker 3 (31:23):
I may have.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
That's why you know his name.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Probably. Yep. You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
forty nine am to one pm every Monday through Friday,
and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
The Navy admiral who reportedly issued the orders for that
military to fire upon survivors of an attack on an
alleged drug boat arrived on Capitol Hill today.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
He's been giving classified briefings.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Also, the expectation is that the FBI is going to
hold a news conference on the arrest of a suspect
believed to have planted pipe bombs outside political party headquarters
before the January sixth riot at the Capitol. The suspect
and custody identified as a guy named Brian Cole Junior.
(00:42):
The arrest, they said, came from evidence that they simply
looked over again. So there wasn't anything new necessarily that
they found. So but this is five almost five years,
all right, Yeah, five years after the bombs were planted
there outside of the Reportublican National Committee headquarters and Democratic
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National Committee headquarters.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
We have a death to tell you about.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Oh, who's.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Claude. When I say Claude, you don't know who I'm
referring to.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Oh, I do know you're referring.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Claude looks like you, but it's an alligator albina. Well
he was an alligator. Yeah yeah, A rare albino alligator
who charmed millions, millions, millions of visitors over nearly two
decades has died the age of thirty. Claude had ghost
white scales and a placid demeanor. It was a local
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celebrity up in San Francisco, but in recent weeks has
appetite declined. It happens he was treated for a suspected
infection kind of like the one you got after the
last news I pruce what? But despite intensive care and
he died. Claude showed us the power of ambassador animals
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to connect people to nature and to stoke curiosity. We
all miss him dearly. Do you I know where Claude
was born?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
New Orleans?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Close an alligator farm in Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Oh really?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
When he was born on September fifteenth, nineteen ninety five,
just before you were married. He weighed two ounces, just
two outs, little baby albino alligator could hold him in
your hand. He arrived at the Academy of Sciences in
San Francisco in two thousand and eight, quickly became its
most sought after attraction. It was the first albino alligator
(02:41):
in the museum's history. Its unofficial mascot is what Claude became.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
He wasn't at the zoo. What he wasn't at the zoo.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
He was at the Academy of Sciences. Oh you know
in the little yea. The name Claude was a fun exploratorium. Yes, yes,
the little ponds there. You can't see sea turtles or
not sea turtles, but just turtles that live in the
water there. They're not sea turtles right cause there's no
salt in this. I see them right, they're turtles. Thanks Dad.
(03:14):
The name Claude was a pun. The alligator was partially
paired with a initially paired with a non albino penmate
named Bonnie. But Bonnie and Claude Optusits did not attract.
They did not get along because Claude's vision was really poor.
So he bump into Bonnie all the time. And so
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what did she do?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
She bit off his toe?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
What?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And she was set back to Florida Like they kept
Claude and they shipped off Bonnie. Now do you think
Claude claimed poor vision? But he was just trying to
get all handsy with Bonnie, trying to get up in there.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
What a great ploy.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And he's like, oh, I can't see, and she's like
what are those? She's like, okay, wait, do alligators have breasts?
I'm sure there's a nipple. Let's find out. Do alligators
have nipple? Well? I mean he's got nipples too. Are
they different? If you're in a nipples you could just Yes,
(04:17):
alligators have nipples, but they're small, interesting, and the female
alligator secretes milk through them to feed her young, just
like just like us, alligators, they're just like us. The
nipples are present, but they are small and they can
be hard to see.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
So there's that. All right, Wait, what happened? How do
we get there? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Your hands are all over the wheel right now, and
you're like, gosh, where are we going. Academy Award winning
actress Halle Berry took the stage at the New York
Times Deal Book Summit and said, at this stage in
my life, I have zero f's to give back.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
In my great state California, my very own Governor, Gavin
Newsom has vetoed our menopause bill not one but two years.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I'm sorry, Wait, I'm sorry I blacked out. I was
still thinking about alligator nipples and then all of a sudden,
menopause has made its way into politics. Yeh wait, what
is she talking about? That?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
For Back in my great state of California, my very
own Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed our menopause bill not
one but two years in a row.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
What's the bill for her?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
But that's okay because he's not going to be governor forever.
And with the way he's overlooked women half the population
by devaluing us in midlife, he probably should not be
our next president either.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Oh no, no, he's pissed off the menopausal women. That's
not good. I had a mom.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
She what do you remember when.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Your mom went through the menopause?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Do not remember?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Oh? My god? Hell hath no fury? She never shared
those things sounded like that.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
She focused her talk on expanding healthcare coverage from menopause care.
She said that a bill that she has backed a
couple of times aimed at mandating certain menicpause care like
what healthcare actually curious and expanding training for professionals on
the subject.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
For hormone therapy. I'm assuming it was.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
A spokesperson for the governor. I don't know exactly what
was in AB four thirty two.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I'm just curious because that doesn't make a hell of
a lot of sense, other than it would subsidize things
like trips to your lady doctor or ho hormonal treatment,
which women do get that I've heard can be very expensive. Yeah,
and if it's not covered, if it's not covered, then
you just don't take it, and you just got to
live with your menopause and make everybody around you miserable.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
She also suggests or the bill, I should say, requires
expanded training for professionals on the subject. Governor Newsom's spokespeople
have said that the Governor vetoed the bill twice because
as it is written, it would have unintentionally raised healthcare
costs for millions of working women that are already stretched thin,
which he says he was trying to avoid, and that
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he is confident the governor is that they can work
on getting the bill passed this year at some point.
She said, I halle Berry and women of my age
are simply devalued in the country.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Our culture thinks that at fifty nine years old.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I am past my prime, and that women my age
start to become invisible in Hollywood, in the workplace and.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
On social media.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
But if he's if he's losing Listen, She's one person
that has come out in Hollywood and suggested that he's,
you know, ignoring a very common health issue here. That
kind of breaks the seal I think for other people
in Hollywood to go, yeah, this guy. He has watched
our industry completely decimated.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
You're staying on menopause Hill. I don't know why not,
because there's so much else to go after Gavin Dows
for I know.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
But that's what I'm saying is if she picks this fight,
other people might pick other fights.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I think there's enough fight there. I mean, what has
he done right, let's start there. I can't come up
with anything he's done right as governor.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Well, we did support the California care courts in theory
when they came out. We've seen that they were not
as successful as we wanted them to be. But those
type that's something.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
The thing that I think is great is maybe she's
reducing the stigma around menopause and around the things that
women have to go through. As I mentioned, there was
no stigma in my house growing up. You know, my
dad would mom's crazy. She's not crazy. She's going through menopause.
You know. It was like a word that I didn't
know what it was, but it wasn't. Never in my.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Life had a conversation like that with my parents. Yeah. Never.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
See, that's good, that's good. There was no stigma around that.
But there are homes where you don't know about that, apparently,
and that's good if she's shedding light on that. I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna go and burn a Gavinusom
at the stake for his menopause position just yet. There's
enough for me to do with him on other fronts.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
This also is one of those.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
It's interesting that she as a I don't know if
this is her single issue political issue slash medical issue
that she's gonna, like you said, die on that menopause hill.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
But I don't know, but you're you're very good that
you're treating this with seriousness, like I think it's important.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
I think I think it's that's I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I don't know the costs associated with menopause. But she
makes the point of all of us are going to
be there at some point.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
You're not going to be there.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I'm not going to have to women, okay, because I
guarantee you there's a whole lot of women in that
room right there.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I just want you to know that it's not something
that's going to afflict you. You're gonna be all right.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I will wait too.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Men have some sort of change. Yes, Oh really, what's
it called?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
It's called man o pause.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I'm sorry I asked you, but I would like more
stigma around that word. I want it more stigma to
the point where I never hear manipuse.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
F sixteen went down in the desert yesterday. We'll talk
about that when we come back.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
They do the Internet says they have nipples? Who said
they don't have nipples?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Everybody else? What did you do?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Everybody? When you say everybody? Play me somebody you wouldn't
really want to hear. Yeah, I want to see Okay,
Oh now, AI says.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
God Shannon, what kind of browser are you using? This
says that alligators have nipples.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
The Internet's divided.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Only mammals do that's what they're called mammary glands. Right,
I would maybe reboot your phone.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Okay, she was gentle, she was nice. She was just
trying to that one who told I, see now I did.
I did alligators of nipples? Oh no, now, AI says, no,
alligers john nipples because as she pointed out there, they're reptiles.
They don't have mammoried lands. But then where did I
(11:07):
get that from? Let me just back up here, back,
won't let me go back?
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Your alligator discussion moved me to answer your question of
alligators nipples. Alligators are reptiles, right, They are not mammals.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Right.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
If they had nipples, their little babies would bite them off.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I enjoy your shot.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Well, I will say this. I didn't start us down
the alligators nipples breasts. That was you, Gary. You said
that cloud and that Claud was bumping into Bonnie and
he was like, what are those Hong Kong? And you
did this with your hands? Yeah, And then I said,
because that didn't seem right to me, because of course
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mammals have nipples. I said, wait, alligators have nipples? Based
on you doing this your hands.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
There's also some menopause comments in there.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Oh, really, you look scared from menopause. For somebody who
did grow up with it, you look like you've got
the fear of menopause in your eyes.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I thought that I didn't grow up with it. It's
I didn't know what it was or nobody talked about it.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
That's how are baby alligators fed? If it's not what
do they eat? It's not the milk.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Baby alligators come from eggs, you know.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah, okay, But what do they eat when they come
out of the egg?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Other baby alligators? Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
F sixteen pilot ejected from one of the Air Force
Thunderbirds yesterday.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
She is in stable condition.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
According to the Air Force Sergeant Giovanni Johnson, the F
sixteen sea fighting falcon assigned to the Air Force Thunderbirds
over in Nellis. The crash took place yesterday at about
ten forty still under investigation. But there was a motor
of sixty year old guys that he's driving south out
of Death Valley and he saw an explosion that sent
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up a thick plume of black smoke.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
My heart just sank.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Said that he knows that there are a lot of
different places, are a lot of different military aircraft that
go through that go through that area because it is
specifically right around the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake.
That's the largest base in hub for developing and testing weapons,
and there's a bunch of specific government cordoned off areas
(13:35):
for planes to go and do their testing out there.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Hey, Gary Shannon High Desert, Mike, Hey, you know that
jet crash in Trona has a female pilot.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
She's okay, Thank god. That happened just about twenty minutes
from where I live.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Anyways, it happens quite a bit out here. There's been
quite a few.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
This whole area here is basically training grounds for gut
pilots and all that up.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
They're always flying around doing their job. USA, baby, all.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
The way, all the way.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Why was that necessary? Female pilot?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
You didn't play that for that reason?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Oh, he said it, not me. Okay, what are you saying, females.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I'm saying you played that for that reason. You played
that because you lived right near there. That's blowney, and
we both know it.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
I don't know what you think.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
By the way, Elmer and I had a good air
Force F fifteen F sixteen discussion this morning.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Oh, tell me more, tell me more.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Because Elmer used to work on fifteen's and he was
saying that I was lucky because I got to fly
in an F sixteen that they you know, guys that
work in the Air Force, men and women in the
Air Force. It's specifically the kind of stuff that he
was doing, you work up to.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
What did you call it?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
It was an incentsive fly incentive flight where then he
gets to ride in the plane that he's been working on.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
That's very cool. So like you got to take a
ride in the plane that you did not work.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I didn't work on at all. No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
They didn't even They did not even let me put
the lettering on the side of the airplane that had
my name on it.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Yeah, why would they let you do that? You've seen
your penmanship.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
They almost didn't let me climb the ladder to get in.
They were going to carry me and put me there.
They didn't want they didn't want my fingerprints anywhere near
that airplane.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah, did you see the video yet?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I did.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
I did.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
When you started hitting those g's, I could see your
chest just going.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
By the videos on the Instagram story.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I just want to video. It was like years ago.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I just today he found fresh.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Virgin meat and he exposed you to it.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
It's very cool.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
He goes around this buildings. Have you seen the video.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I'll send you the link y. Send it to Shannon.
Send it to Shannon. She can watch it during the break.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Unless there's a more alligator nipple news.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Listen, I don't know. I'm trying to find where I
got that from. So I kept googling nipples, alligator, wow, milk,
and you guys shut it down, the whole internet down.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
It only takes a couple of layers in your oh
my god, hell clicks and you wouldn't believe what people
are into. We have a great, great story about Ed Bombas,
an army vet who lost his pension, had to go
to work. His neighborhood. His community came together to support Ed.
(16:47):
Great great story.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Best story of the day. Also, we've got a three
I at Liss update. Guys, if you gave up on
the Aliens, you quit too soon. Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Still to come in the show.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
We got strange science of course coming up the idea
that the videos are getting shorter, vine is coming back.
Have you heard that the seven second videos are coming back?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yes, And apparently these are changing the ways our brains
are working. These short videos are reworking our brain wiring,
to which I'll say, let's pump the brakes on any hysteria.
There's a lot of things that change the way our
minds work. That we do, that we choose for our brains.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Push fun away.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I have to return something. Oh so I don't want
to forget. That's why I'm keeping that open, see, because
I'll forget. It's changing your brain. Of course, it's changed
my brain. It's changed yours as well.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
We are now at one million, five hundred eighty five thousand,
nine hundred and forty two dollars raised for ed ed
Bombas is a guy eighty eight years old army vet
worked a long career with General Motors. He retired back
in nineteen ninety nine, only for the company to go
(18:11):
bankrupt in twenty twelve and wipe out his pension thanks
a lot GM. What he did have was saved for
retirement was eventually spent on medical bills.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
As his wife got sick and eventually passed away.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
So eighty eight year eighty eight year old Ed Bombas
works five days a week, eight hours a day at
a meer store in Michigan.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I think that's how he said, I mean g I
mean ich Er.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
There was an Australian influencer, guy named Samuel Weedenholfer, met
Ed at this grocery store in Brighton, Michigan, where he
had been forced to work full time as a cashier
to make ends meet. Like I said, he had lost
his pension and he had lost his wife, and a
lot of the money that he did have save for
retirement went to her medical bills when she got sick.
(19:03):
The guy started a go fundme page and for a
long time hadn't told Ed that this thing.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Was being set up for him.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
And there are people that have given a few dollars
here and there. Some have given tens of thousands of
dollars to Ed. The way that the influencer Samuel writes
it up on the go fundme page, he said, despite everything,
Ed shows up every day with quiet dignity.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Strength and perseverance.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
His story is a stark reminder that too many of
our seniors, especially veterans, face challenges just to survive.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
He said, I'm hoping I'm.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Opening a fundraiser to help Ed live the life he deserves,
to finally give him some relief, comfort, and the peace
of mind that comes from knowing he can enjoy his
later years without constant struggle.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
So they're going to go through, he says.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
They want to pay for living expenses, any medical care
that he needs, and those small joys that make life meaningful.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
His son says, since my mom passed, I've been trying
to help him where I can financially. So it's going
to be a major burden taken away. He's going to
have a lot of relief in this. They're going to
do a ceremony at Dad's job Friday night. He'll received
an account preloaded with the staggering funds. They're also going
to have a local veterans group post a special presentation
in his honor. But there's something to be said for people,
(20:27):
because it's not just out of the goodness of people's heartset.
No Ed, there's such a value to somebody like Ed
working with somebody who is not an ED, somebody who
has served his country, who has raised a family who
has gone through the love and then loss of his wife,
and the people that he comes in contact with. It's
(20:50):
like you cannot put a price on how important interaction
is with people who have lived life and lived life
well and are there and are resilient and they you know,
just being around them kind of helps you not sweat
the small stuff and realize, like what's important in life?
You know. And I think a lot of people have
probably through Ed's work, you know, even having to go
(21:12):
back to work or what have you, that got such
a massive gift from him. You know that that doesn't
even Are you okay?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
I feel like you're going downhill over there. You're coughing,
You're looking a little peaked. You're looking kind of clammy.
Have we taken your temperature? It's not good?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
It's not good? Oh? No, guys, guys, he's going down.
Do we have the fibrillators. We do have one of those,
right there is one over by Oscar. How's your heart
feeling right now? Is it okay?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Away?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Is it ticking all right?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Ed doesn't know anything about this money yet.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
No, I know. That's why I said they're gonna They're
gonna show him on Friday at the ceremony.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
That'll be and it's already one point five eight five million.
It'll be easily one point six million, if not more,
by the time he gets that money.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Right.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
And there's also something about him going back to work.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
That's what I'm saying, like, that's just oh, go ahead,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Well, I not just.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
The impact that he's going to have on the people
that he's working with at the grocery store, but the
idea that he it's there is a place for him
to I hate the idea that he had to go
back to work just to make living expenses.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
He may have liked bely. Yeah, it may have been
a total gift to not only everybody around him, but
also him as well, especially the loneliness you must feel. Yeah,
if your wife of fifty plus years.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
My grandfather, when he went into a memory care facility,
either believed he worked there or just wanted to work.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Is that the.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Premise behind the Ted Danson series. Does he work there?
Or do they think you?
Speaker 3 (22:53):
I haven't seen that yet, you mean the man on
the inside, I.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Kind of got I haven't seen it either. I kind
of just got the vibe that that's kind of what
it is.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
But yeah, I haven't seen it. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I feel sometimes like I know, the memory care situation's difficult.
My mother in law had Alzheimer's. But sometimes I feel
like that's a good way to go because you don't
know what's going on. You're just eating ice cream every day,
you're going for walks, you meet new people. Every day,
you meet new people. Everything is new. Like that sounds
(23:23):
pretty nice. It's for the people around you that's very
difficult for right, Yeah, Mom's not mom anymo heart.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
I hope it's I hope it's nice. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Are you okay? Yes, okay, This cough isn't a sign
of anything. No, all right, what's my name? Huh?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Oh you're nice?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
When we come back the latest on three I Atlas,
there's something that we have not yet heard before. One
of the characteristics of this whatever it is, that's making
its way closer to the world.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
This was interesting.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Have you heard about the polar vortex. It's not just
the polar vortex, No, it's a triple dip polar vortex
dip or triple dip polar vortex. Okay, happy you're not
out there with that cold. Also, the king tides that
we have to combat here in southern California, do.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
We do we? Really? You don't have to.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I don't have to.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Don't have to.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I don't have to. We do have that coming up
as well as puppets. We have puppets in our future.
You often talk about puppetry, yes, as an avenue of
education that you may have gone down.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Yes, And there is a boy I'm going to have
to find the exact phrase. There is a Jim Henson
Kermit the Frog statue, like a twelve foot tall statue.
It's being taken down from the Jim Henson studios here
and being moved to Georgia. Okay, at the Institute of
Puppet Tree Arts or something like that.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
I didn't realize there was such a thing.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
And where is the Where is that.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Somewhere in Georgia? But I do not know the specifics
we should go there.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
The FBI has been holding a news conference this morning
announcing the arrest of a suspect believe to have planted
the pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democratic Party headquarters
prior to the January sixth riots at the Capitol.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
We'll talk more about that when we get to swamp.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
We got yeah, but we got to get back to
the aliens. Remember three i at Lists. This was the
alien mothership that was going to descend upon us sometime
in late October. Well, the mysterious interstellar object three i
at lists that we last tracked when it got very
close to the Sun and then seemed to break up
a little bit. It's developed what's left of it has
(25:55):
developed a strange heartbeat that's making it glow more brightly,
and it's nearing Earth again. And it's nearing Earth in
just two weeks. There are new telescope observations and they
have revealed streams of gas and dust which they call jets,
that are blasting out in rhythmic bursts every sixteen point
(26:18):
one six hours, precisely, precisely.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
That's never a good thing.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
That is not what a comet does. Guys. That is
why I have always been along the lines of follow
the line of thought of the Harvard physicist A. Vi
Lobe yep Avi Lobe says, there's this there's behavior of
this thing that is not similar to a comet. You
(26:48):
can't explain it, and what also can't you explain extraterrestrials.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
The Okay, the pulsing, they said, makes the I'm afraid
to look right at makes the objects overall glow, brighten
and dim by twenty to forty percent in a very
clean repeating cycle. Some have claimed this means it's not
a naturally occurring comet. Of course, NASA and the European
Space Agency ESA, they have both declared this to be
(27:18):
nothing more than a lifeless comet. They have not detected
any signs of extratractor extraterrestrial life emanating from the object. However, however,
this is the natural explanation. This is where you know
the naysayers will sit and live on this hill.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Here.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
The object's solid core is spinning once every sixteen point
one six hours, and there's pockets of ice on the surface,
and they're going to heat up and turn directly into
gas obviously when they face the sun. And that's why
they're shooting out the jets like clockwork. Duh, because the
Sun is predictable in terms of how it turns correct.
So that's where you're getting that yeh, sixteen point one
(28:02):
six cycle our cycle.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Now yes, And while the spin does provide a convenient
reason for the timing the sixteen point one six hours,
obvy Lob points out, it still doesn't explain why is
it glowing?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Guys? There are twelve anomalies that scientists have not figured
out or explained, including the comentary tail pointing in the
wrong direction, the fact that this thing turns blue when
it gets near the sun. Oh, and the course changes
that defy gravity. Does Mike Elmer can we get defined
(28:37):
gravity from wicked? Got it feeling moved?
Speaker 2 (28:43):
NASA has said that those twelve anomalies being recorded are
simply a byproduct of this thing coming from a distant
solar system that may just simply have chemical makeup that
we don't understand. We don't know where this thing came
from and what chemicals or chemical makeup is like from
from whence?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
But then, why aren't scientists just saying that.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
NASA is saying that they're saying that this is probably
just stuff we don't quite understand. It doesn't behave like
our commets, because this is an extra terrestrial spaceship.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Comment again the December nineteenth.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
And get us, and please when you get here aliens.
Remove all the alligator nipple, milk, weird fetish stuff that's
on the internet. I would like to be your first
order of business here.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
This thing, whatever it is, three I atlas, will be
closest to the Earth December nineteenth. It will be within
about one hundred and seventy million miles I believe is
as close as it's going to get. Researchers are using
it to prepare for future cosmic threats because there is
a team of people scientists, the International Asteroid Warning Network
(29:57):
that have kicked off a two month campaign. They said
that will help improve comet and asteroid surveillance that spots
future threats that are nearing the Earth.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
So don't even bother doing Christmas shopping.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Well, I don't think they're going to get here in
time for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
November ninth, or sorry, December nineteenth. This is the closest
they're going to be, and that would just be a
quick left turn if they wanted to make their way here,
So I don't think it would take them that long.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Would you like your jeopardy question? Since we're doing science stuff,
because let's spell something. You do not have to spell anything.
Men of Science for four hundred dollars. Fewer people know
doctor Albert Saban, who developed an oral polio vaccine, because
(30:49):
this man's injected vaccine was first to market.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Who is Jonas Sack?
Speaker 1 (30:55):
How did you know that?
Speaker 3 (30:59):
I have read things in the past.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I've never heard of Jonas Sulk before. Yes, yeah, no
I have not. You just didn't retain it. Is this
the penicillin guy? What is this? This is polio vaccine?
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (31:13):
This?
Speaker 1 (31:13):
You knew the guy who Well, you were a kid
back then, so I guess it was more top of mind.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Yeah, Mike, Yeah, he was.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
We'll do swamp watch when we come to my wife?
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Was my teacher?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Did you have polio two?
Speaker 3 (31:23):
I may have.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
That's why you know his name.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Probably. Yep. You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
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