December 23, 2025 • 32 mins
Gary & Shannon cover severe storms in Northern California, Waymo complications amid blackouts and quakes, breaking news in the Melodee Buzzer case with a family statement, and the escalating clash between Karen Bass and Lindsey Horvath.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to k
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Oh okay, not whether related, but I do have an alert.
Did you soilure?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Oh what? I didn't know where we are going? You
would know pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
You'd probably be the second person to know if I accidentally.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I cracked my pants.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Anyway, we have tickets that we're going to be giving
away later in the show today.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
This is a huge game.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
The Chargers take it on the Texans on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Chargers win out. I mean, I just clear, I'm not
even gonna start. You get so excited, so excited, I
get so excited. But if they win out, they could
have the number one Who is that pot?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I mean it's yeah. Anyway, the Texans are coming to town.
Chargers hosting the Texans on Saturday, will tell you how
you can win the tickets later.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
By the way, we will be giving you the way
to do that.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Also, if you're looking for some dinner suggestions after Christmas
or something like that, we're giving away BJ's gift cards
later in the show today.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
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right here on KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
We're talking about whether obviously we are going to see
some rain coming in later this afternoon into this evening.
Al Like County is holding its storm briefing, which is
just basically a warning, especially if you are in the
Burnscar areas. There are evacuation orders that have been posted.
If you were in them, you have received notification. This
is the same weather system that has absolutely punched northern
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California in the face already, and joining us to talk
more about it is our friend, our family friend. If
you will, yes, I'm just telling people, Jen that you
were at my wedding thirty twenty eight years ago this month.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I was, and I was late to your wedding.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Listen nobody counts as if you were late. My heart
knows that you were there.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I was.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I was in the very back cheering. I was like
cheering at a wedding. It was so exciting, just because
I love you and Shannon so much.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Jennifer Jones, of course, former host of Wake Up Call
and the news anchor for The Handle Show, and is
now up in Redding. And you guys are dealing with
it right now, you guys. Last several days, I saw
some of the images come out. I don't remember, obviously,
living in California for as long as I have, I
don't remember there being flooding like that and Redding.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
No, there definitely is not.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
And in fact, I mean, you know, my family has
been up here for decades and decades, and that's what
everybody's saying. So we got three to six inches, But
what really happened on Sunday was the rain was so
steady and so hard that all of a sudden, places
that hadn't flooded before started flooding. We had some mud slides.
But I will tell you the strangest part about living
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in this community is how quickly people can get help.
I swear every other person has like a mini excavator
or something, and they're constantly helping their neighbors and so
that actually has been a godsend. Having all this equipment
on everybody's properties where some of the rural roads have
washed out and things like that, that's been a great help.
But just yesterday the sheriff was able to declare Shasta
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County a state of emergency. We've got the city opening
an emergency operations center tonight at four and everybody's getting
prepared because this storm now that's coming in is supposed
to be nastier than the one we had on Sunday.
The ground is now saturated, you still have pooling, So
what's going to happen next? So I think we're all
kind of, you know, just sitting here waiting with baited
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breast to see what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Most importantly, Jennifer Jones has amazing boots. Do you have
galoshes for this weather? And how cute are they?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
My gosh, it's funny you say that I'm wearing my
pink galoshes today.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yes, how do you know me so?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Well?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I just do I need? Is there a picture we
can find pink goloshes.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Of course, yesterday was red, today's pink. Yeah, I thought,
you know, everybody wears red at Christmas. I'm gonna judge
it up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yes, I love this, Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
So the saddest part we did have one man, super
sad story. He calls nine one one on Sunday and
he's saying, I'm stuck, I'm stuck.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
The water's rising.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
He was in his car over on Highway through seventy three,
which is not far if anybody's been here from Wind
River Casino, it's wind Rivers just off of two seventy three.
That's the area that we saw the most flooding. This
guy calls nine on one and he's telling them I can't
get out of my car, the water's rising.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
By the time cruise got there, his.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Car was submerged and he had passed seventy four year
old man.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
So that's the one fatality that we.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Have had up here that just got confirmed last night
because it was kind of hard to get the info,
but we finally did get that.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
You was just trying to get to those sweet five
dollars blackjack tables at win.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
River probably, I mean Win River, Come on now.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
That's a great time. Is it raining today for you
guys yet? I mean, I know that there is an expectation,
but not bad.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
No.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
In fact, I made a Walmart run at seven this
morning and it was totally dry.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
By the time I got into work at like eight.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It was starting to sprinkle. And that's kind of what
we're going to see, just showers. This storm that's coming
in is going to be a little bit colder, so
we are expecting some snow, like in the fifty.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Five hundred range, I guess.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
But other than that, I think it's really overnight tonight
and into tomorrow, which, as you guys know, sometimes in
this community because it's such a you know, oh we're
only an hour and a half from Chico, or you know,
oh we're only whatever half hour from Red Bluff, people
don't leave until Christmas Eve to come see their families.
So I'm not sure how this is going to impact
the travel tomorrow, depending on how bad this storm is.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Jonesy, you went to Walmart two days before Christmas?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Yeah, you know what, And honestly it was not bad
at all. I was entertained by the Walmart. I don't
know checker who told me that his fiance had dunned
him last night.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Well, I guess it's better now than on Christmas.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I said no.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I said, please tell me you hadn't bought her a gift,
and he goes, I had. And he was wearing a
red like, I don't know, kind of tied eyed scarf
on his head.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
He was.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
He was festive with like the saddest look on his face.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And the fact that he's offering up such a personal
detail to a complete stranger shows how much pain and
is involved.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Well, when I walked up, I said hi, I said,
how's your morning and going? And he goes, can I
tell you something.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Opened? The door? Door is open, as ken Cole would say,
yes exactly.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
And do you have your brush fire attire?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Oh my gosh, you guys.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Will bringing back sorry memory that error. Now I have
my flooding attire. So I promised to send you a picture.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I love it does snow for you guys a little bit,
and at least to tamps down some of the liquid water.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
That's the liquid problems.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Water, you know, the liquid that falls from the sky,
the wet stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yeah, that's stuff.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I know what you're talking about. We've all been you guys.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
By the way, can I just say when you open
the show with Crapping your Pants Football and DJ's I'm like, man,
I miss those guys.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
You're available on the iHeartRadio Apple.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Oh my God, any time, and if anything crazy happens
over the next couple of days, you have my number.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Thanks, thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
You're welcome, miss you guys.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Merry Christmas, Marry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Jennifer Jones, of course a longtime employee.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Here, shall come down and do the Christmas play. Amy Amy, Amy, Amy,
you are our shining star in the Christmas Play. You've
always been our shining star. It was one time ten
years ago that Gary forgot you, and we've moved past that.
You are a shining, sparkly star. What Gary and Channon
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will continue.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
There's three games on Christmas. I don't think any of
those none of them matter. I don't think any of
them matter, but this weekend they matter. This is a huge,
huge game and with playoff implications.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
So later in the show we'll tell you how you
can win those tickets for the VIP club seats for
the Chargers Texans games.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
And how about that Philip Rivers coming back to clinch
for the Chargers. The Indianapolis loss meant that the Chargers clinched,
he he did. How about the how about Philip Rivers
sending the Chargers to the playoffs? He did? But is
he going to play again? The chance? No?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
No, well yes, I mean a lot of stuff would
have to line up right there, gonna get any reason too.
I'd like to see what they have.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
They probably want to see what they have with their
with their backup whose name is escaping me. He played
at Notre Dame. Philip Rivers actually is friends with him,
He helped him going into the draft. Yeah, they lived
near each other in Alabama. But what a what a
storybook ending ending for Philip Rivers and coming back and
getting all the appreciation you know of all the former quarterbacks,
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you know, Kurt Warner to Troy a man, Tom Brady
saying like hell yeah, I mean all of them super
jealous and wanting to be the guy that got to
come back out of retirement. There was a lot of
ego on display from former quarterbacks. I'll say that over
the past two weeks but what a master glass of
Philip Rivers put on there, able to pick apart that
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defense as he lined up there under center. I mean,
it was just a great time, and I think a
great the first drive, the first scoring drive, first touchdown pass.
I that there's the Disney movie, you know, because Disney movies.
He'd always end with a super Bowl win for forty
four year old philip Rivers. Sometimes they come in second exactly,
or ninth, like the Colts may do. It's the heart.
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It's the heart that shunt.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
This weekend, or I should say a few days ago Saturday,
there was a massive blackout in San Francisco, and we
talked about what happened with the Waimo taxis that work
through Their major power outage knocks out traffic signals, and
a lot of the Waymo vehicles didn't pull over to
the side of the road or try to find a
parking spot, nor did they treat intersections as four way
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stops as you're supposed to. Instead, they just sat there
with their hazard lights on. That's it. In fact, several
Waymo vehicles got stuck in the middle of busy intersections
there with the power outages in San Francisco, causing a
traffic jam. Another Rubo taxi blocked a city bus, so
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the company basically turned it off and turned it back on.
They suspended their service for several hours because of the
power outage. And there is a question that came up
you actually mentioned this before.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Didn't anybody think of this?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Was there nobody at WEIMO who thought, what if there's
a power outage or it comes up against a you know,
uh intersection with no working traffics.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Lay the city had had a massive power outage before.
If only the city had gone through a couple earthquakes
where the power was knocked out for day.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Well, and the power the earthquake is probably what their
biggest cub consternation should be going into their next meeting.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Whatever it is they're thinking, if there's an earthquake of
that size, it'll be more to worry about than Weimo's
not working.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
But if they get stuck in the middle of intersections,
it's going to cause massive problems for first responders, etc.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
The other driverless car services.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I told you yesterday that in fact Elon Musk was
heckling Weimo, saying that the Tesla robo taxis that exist
did not stop. They did not get hampered by the
fact that there were intersections out the power outage. San
Francisco is actually calling for an investigation into WEIMO because
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of the way that they temporarily shut downal bilal Mahmoud
is a supervisor in San Francisco, so that he's going
to hold hearings said, we haven't seen a situation before
where these weimos have stalled en mass. We want to
make sure that what we saw this weekend doesn't happen again.
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San Franciscan's have grown increasingly to rely on the I
think I've asked you this before.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I have you ridden in one of these yet? No way, bo,
I really have done that in Phoenix. I know I've
seen them. I saw them at spring training a handful
of years ago. First time in Phoenix, I don't think
I have.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
When I was there last year in Phoenix, a bunch
of people wanted to get in them. I was like,
I'll just take an uber. Yeah, I don't mind. I
don't mind that guy. Whoever that guy is driving me around.
I would although I.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Got to say, and I've noticed this ever since I
stopped drinking, I'm much more reluctant to get into an uber.
Like my common sense mind is like, you're going to
get into a car with a stranger who is under
really no restrictions, no regulations. You don't know what he's
been doing all day. You know he's been smoking crack
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for a week. Like you know, you have a couple
pops and you're like, whatever, h roll the diet. And
now I'm like, absolutely not. I just went through this
because I'm gonna go to my brother's house for Christmas,
and I'm like, I'm renting a car. I'm not taking
an Uber. I'm not taking an ubern Christmas. Who are
those people who's driving an Ubron Christmas?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
That's a forty minute drive too, from the airport to
your brother's house.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I am very much not into getting into gar with
a stranger, getting into a car with a computer. I
feel a little bit.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Better about interesting. We are still taking calls. By the way,
your talkbacks on who your backup person would be, Oh, yeah,
have we done You've been honest, Yeah, we got a couple.
We did a couple and listen, you can be specific.
We're not going to say who you are, but you
can be specific if it's your best buddy's wife or
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something like that.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
That's I'm just saying. People probably have that in their
back of their mind. Well, think about all the times
we've seen that Gavin Newsom did that, you know what
I mean. And he's the leader of the free world almost,
Oh he's not.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (15:01):
We are following news for you as we head into
the holidays. The news is still coming at you. Rob
and Michelle Reiner. The death certificates have now been released.
A little bit more closure, I guess, but not at
all if you're the family. The death certificates released from
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the La County Public Health Department. They list some information
already publicly known, multiple sharp force injuries as their causes
of death. Both cremated at Mount Sinai Mortuary. The idea
that this was not that it makes it any less,
but it wasn't a shooting, It wasn't quick. This was
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death by stabbing from your son. Two people that multiple
stab wounds, that takes time, that takes intimacy, that takes
anger and sanity, whatever you want to call it. And
in the scene the daughter had to she's the one
who found the body right Robin Michelle found dead December
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fourteenth in that home in Brentwood, found by the daughter Romy.
She told police her brother, Nick, lived with her parents,
was dangerous should be considered a suspect. She said at
the time. He has been charged with his parents' murders.
Expected to enter in sanity plea when they are due
back for his arraignment on January seventh.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I also have an awful story out of Santa Barbara County.
There is a press conference scheduled for two o'clock today.
The Sheriff's office has apparently arrested the mother of Melody Buzzard.
Melody is the nine year old that has been missing
for several months. Ashley Buzzard. Mom was taken into custody
after they found a child's body and the DNA tests
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confirmed that in fact, it was Melody. Human remains were
apparently found earlier this month in Utah in an area
that they know that Melody and Ashley had traveled, when
those DNA results I mentioned confirmed that it was Melody's body.
So as of this morning, Mom Ashley has been taken
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into custody. If you remember, it was mid October the
school district was the one that first reported her long absence,
that she hadn't been to school for a very long time,
and the mom had apparently taken Melody on a road trip,
multi state road trip all the way to Nebraska, which
included several stops in Utah.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I have a question for you. You said the body
was found earlier this month. It is the twenty third
of December. Yeah, so the bodies discovered. I'm assuming that
they just monitored mom and any sort of communications or whatever.
The timing is interesting that she was taken into custody
today and the body was discovered earlier this month. Were
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they just waiting for her to trip up, to say something,
to do something that would implicate her further?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well, they did say that they were. The results confirmed
that the remains belonged to maladies.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
It can't take three weeks, though, can it. I don't know.
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
It may have taken them that long to get the
DNA to compare it to from the body though from mom.
Oh oh, because remember Dad's dad passed away a long
time ago. Okay, uh, And you know we've seen how
they can get DNA. We saw that with the Golden
State killer probably the more hope, high profile. Interesting you
just get it off a piece of their trash or
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something like that.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
So, but what if the mom's DNA matched the daughter's DNA.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
That's what I mean. But how did they Where would
they have gotten mom's DNA?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I would assume that she would provide the DNA early
on in the investigation.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
I don't know that. That's all stuff that would probably
be answered.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Again.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Two o'clock is when Santa Barbara County said that they
hold the news conference.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
That's going to be very rare. A mother killing her daughter.
When have we done that story? Moms killing their kids
their daughters?
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Or the yeah, mom's killing their kids, unless it's you know,
the mom and the bathtub with the babies. What was
her name? You know, Susan Smith in the car? You know?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, Well, I mean there's enough that we can right,
but that's postpartum stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Usually this is a nine year old that I think
is her air. It's awful either way.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Yeah, there is a there is a story out of
sixty minutes. We mentioned yesterday that Barry Weiss, the new
head of news at CBS, spiked a story that was
supposed to air on sixty minutes about detainees that went
to Seacott, that really extravagant prison in l Salvador, and
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she spiked it because she said that they needed to
do more reporting on it, which it's kind of a
weird thing to say. The we know that Sharon al Fonsi,
the correspondent was in charge of it, said that she
stands by her reporting everything and it was true. It
had been checked multiple time times by CBS and that
it passed muster. Barry Weiss said that they needed more
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and we finally have the letter's that Barry Weiss sent
to CBS News employees explaining her decision, why they didn't
do this story on Seacott and why she wanted more
reporting before she put it forward. Number One was The
New York Times has and many different organizations have already
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talked about the horrific conditions at that prison in El Salvador,
and she said in this letter, if we're going to
run another story about a topic that's been by now
that has by now been much covered, we need to
advance it. For example, does anyone in the administration or
anyone prominent who defended the use of the alien enemies
act now regret it in light of what these Venezuelans
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endured at Seacott. Another one was, we don't present the
argument as to why it sent Venezuelans to El Salvador
other than a sound the Caroline Levitt, the White House
Press Secretary, had and she said, why didn't we get
somebody like Stephen Miller or Tom Holman to comment, they're
not shy. We could have put them on the air.
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The other one was, and I thought this was interesting.
She notices that the way the language is written in
the story, they say nearly half of the Venezuelan and
sent to Seacott, nearly half have no criminal histories. But
the other way of saying that is more than half
have criminal histories. And she wanted to see a better
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job of explaining that. For example, eight of the two
hundred and fifty two have been sentenced for violent offenses,
but how many of them had charges against them for
some sort of violent offense. And then she went on
to talk about Secretary of Homeland Security Christinoam and her
trip to Seacott, who she met with, and why they
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needed to do a better job of explaining the legal rationale,
and she said, it's just we did offer, yes, we
did reach out to the Homeland Security in the White House,
et cetera to give comment, but that she wanted them
to put a little bit more pressure on them to
involve the Trump administration at least their comments on the
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story itself before they run it again.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Little bow. On the end of a depressing tragedy. It's
called phylicide when a parent kills their child philicide. And
although you think it's rare, like I thought it's rare,
it is not. It happens with depressing regularity in the US.
According to people who study this, mother's almost as likely
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to be the killers as fathers. Wow. In fact, a
mother kills a child somewhere in the US once every
three days. Well that's awful. Nice to your mom, Okay,
especially around the holidays.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Now wild better, we're going to talk about Oh, yes,
is going to be cheer us up, gracious as I
thought it was.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Cards giving it.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
You think it was rare, we for what we've Yeah, yeah,
it just doesn't seem to be very calm.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I remember the guy who shot his son in the
face because he wasn't visiting too often. Yeah, men, I
expect this from but not moms. Men Men are the issues. Well,
men are more quick to anger musically, Oh really is that?
Is that what you're listening to?
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I think I just got high from the elf hunt. Yeah,
I lost you for a minute.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
You stopped communicating that thing that you do when you
do get a little high and people are talking to
you like hey, hello, hey, and you were gone.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Oh yeah, it's a winter wonderland. She lost time. So
are you back now? You still feel oh yeah, yeah, no.
It was kind of life changing.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Though Michael Monks has joined us from KFI News, we
pulled him out of the newsroom to talk about some stuff.
We've talked many times about the ongoing spat that at
least started perhaps after the Palisades fire between County Supervisor
Lindsay Horvath and LA Mayor Karen Bass.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
It continues, it.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Does, and now this time, unlike the last time, this
is very public facing. This was on social media. This
happened on x over the late last week and over
the weekend. You have the supervisor, Lindsay Horvath and the
mayor of Los Angeles exchanging tweets, and really, Supervisor Horrorvath
kind of started this public beef, whereas Mayor Bass had
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simply tweeted a link to an op ed which you
can take exception to her op ed which she published
in the LA Daily News titled Los Angeles Can't turn
back now on homelessness progress. This is the key issue
between these two ladies right now. I don't know if
I should just treat this like a straight journalist, if
you want to hear this like we're gossiping in school
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or yeah, okay, So the mayor published this op ed
in the paper, right, Okay, then get this Okay. She
posts the link to that OpEd on X and the
mayor is quote tweeted by Supervisor Horrorack quote tweeted on
main seriously, and so Lindsey Horvest says, the only political
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threat our homelessness response faces is protecting the status quo
in favor of track records that are indefensible. At the
current pace, it will take three hundred years to solve homelessness.
Staying the course is what God is here and it's
what I was elected not to do. Okay, So that
was shot fired. So Mayor baskets back on her account.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
She does not play.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
She quote tweets Supervisor hor that okay and says the
status quo was decades of rising homelessness period it.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Timeout side note you already got the part, just so
you know the audition's over. Yeah, oh okay, but keep going.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I enjoying. I still enjoy this.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
So then Supervisor Horrorvath quote tweets in response and says
proudly walking away from this track record in twenty twenty six,
and she put together a video montage that first features
a screen grab of the op ed in the Daily
News and then slowly or I should say rapidly covers
it up with really bad headlines about homeless response in
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Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
What's Lindsay for the just the lay person, Lindsay Horrvath,
just break it down, Mayor bat as mayor of LA
Lindsay Horrvath is who LA County Supervisor? Right, Lindsay horrbav
And what is the power struggle between the mayor and
the Board of Supervisors.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
It's immense And there was speculation that Supervisor Horrorvath may
seek the office of mayor of Los Angelas.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yes, and so when is that up?
Speaker 6 (27:02):
It could happen because obviously there's a mayor's race next year,
so she.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Could be running already against Bass with this video campaign,
this was.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
The first public shot that you've seen her take. She's
also moved out of West Hollywood into the city of
Los Angeles proper for the first time.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Right now, things have changed since I was in the field,
because when I was in the field, it was almost
well for Lindsay Horvatz. She's young, so the mayorship would
be a stepping stone for her political aspirations.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
She's our age, So thank you for saying young.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Yeah, well, she is young in politics. Forty five is
very young. Yeah so, but back in my day, the
supervisors were all sixty years old, and they had more
power than the mayor. They all had their little fiefdoms
and had immense power and immense money at their fingertips.
The fact that she would leave that post to be
mayor is interesting to me, and it shows her political asport.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Except there's one interesting new dynamic that waits in the wings.
Well twenty twenty six plays out. We've got a new
position that's going to come online for the twenty twenty
eight election, County Executive County executive, and this will be
probably the most powerful role in La County. And frankly,
even from back in your day, Shannon, think of all
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of the politicians who were you know, slithering about Los
Angeles County at that time. Everyone's going to want this job.
This is going to be the most powerful job outside
of governor of California. So why run for mayor of
the City of Los Angeles when you can be the
mayor of the County of Lost.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
We've always had a county executive, right, but this is
an appointed one. We'll be electing elected. So this is
somebody who has the umbrella power over the Board of supervisors,
kind of checking their power. Yeah, become that coequal. Brank
like Steve sober Off, for example, would probably be a
name flitted about.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
A lot of people's names are going to float around.
But this mayor's race has already taken shape, with a
few candidates announced, including the Mayor herself and Austin Butner,
who has a decent level profile across the county. But
we've been waiting for Like, is Recruso the developer going
to get back in and try again four years later?
Is Supervisor Horvath going to run for this are there
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because there's still a little bit of time, but really
not a lot the primaries in June.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
You gotta ask yourself, if you're Rick Crusoe, what do
you want. He's got all the money in the world,
he's got all the power. I don't think he wants
to go to the Kenneth Han Building of Administration every
day to work.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
I'm sure his house is nice, but I love the
Getty house that the mayor gets to live in. And
you know, my future neighborhood, Windsor Square, Hancock Park area.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
That's squalor compared to where Crusoe lives, probably, but this
is old money.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Yeah, so you know, yeah, I feel like I was
born old money in like a poverty reality that was
not fair.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
You're like the opposite of Gavin Newsom, who was born
with the Getties essentially and wants to play poor, and
you were poor and want to play Getty's exactly got it.
That's why you're so likable.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
Exactly because I'm undeservedly snooty.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Everyone loves a climber. Everyone loves a climber.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
As a note, tomorrow, roughly around this time, at about
eleven thirty is when we're going to start the gas
Christmas Camel.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Like we should start it earlier because well, Amy King
has an extended role as well.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
So it's possible. But I don't think we need to
keep to the schedule. I can't, we can't.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I just felt like it was a little bit rushed
the last time we did it, and I wanted to
have room to breathe. Oh, it's room, Amy's.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
We've built in two extra segments just in case we
need expande.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Okay, I've been studying my lines. Appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
I'm doing a beat sheet right now and making sure
I hit all the right notes.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
And I'm so excited. I don't have any lines. Tebra,
you have lines. I do. Yes. The scripts have not
been handed out yet. Michael threw a tantrum yet I
didn't throw a tantrum. I had my agent make a call.
He threw a tangent. We could hear you in the background.
I'll tell you that.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
It's not Shakespeare, so I retreat it as if it were,
even if you have to cold read it, Deborah, it's
going to be it's.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Such a small role. No, No, it's a good sized role.
It's a good. Yeah, you are our sparkling Star. Deborah Ah, Michael,
you are also are shining star. Amy's are shining Star.
Debra's are sparkling star. Michael is our. I believe in
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myself enough you do. You are a thest band. Yes,
I believe. I am going to deliver for you and
the team. Elmer, are you becoming difficult?
Speaker 6 (31:49):
Elmer has to do a lot. I've read the script.
Elmer actually has to do some acting. Oh really, Yeah,
he's got to do some acting. Gary and Shannon will
continue right after this.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
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 Lab
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Oh okay, not whether related, but I do have an alert.
Did you soilure?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Oh what? I didn't know where we are going? You
would know pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
You'd probably be the second person to know if I accidentally.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I cracked my pants.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Anyway, we have tickets that we're going to be giving
away later in the show today.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
This is a huge game.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
The Chargers take it on the Texans on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Chargers win out. I mean, I just clear, I'm not
even gonna start. You get so excited, so excited, I
get so excited. But if they win out, they could
have the number one Who is that pot?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I mean it's yeah. Anyway, the Texans are coming to town.
Chargers hosting the Texans on Saturday, will tell you how
you can win the tickets later.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
By the way, we will be giving you the way
to do that.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Also, if you're looking for some dinner suggestions after Christmas
or something like that, we're giving away BJ's gift cards
later in the show today.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I just want to say this the Chargers tickets for
the Marquee game. I will say this Saturday, this is
the best defense of best defensive front you're going to
get in the NFL of the Houston Texans. These aren't
just tickets, they come with VIP club seats so you
get all inclusive food and drinks, premium parking. Also, if
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you want to get your own tickets, you don't win,
visit Chargers dot com slash tickets and here the game
right here on KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
We're talking about whether obviously we are going to see
some rain coming in later this afternoon into this evening.
Al Like County is holding its storm briefing, which is
just basically a warning, especially if you are in the
Burnscar areas. There are evacuation orders that have been posted.
If you were in them, you have received notification. This
is the same weather system that has absolutely punched northern
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California in the face already, and joining us to talk
more about it is our friend, our family friend. If
you will, yes, I'm just telling people, Jen that you
were at my wedding thirty twenty eight years ago this month.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I was, and I was late to your wedding.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Listen nobody counts as if you were late. My heart
knows that you were there.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I was.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I was in the very back cheering. I was like
cheering at a wedding. It was so exciting, just because
I love you and Shannon so much.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Jennifer Jones, of course, former host of Wake Up Call
and the news anchor for The Handle Show, and is
now up in Redding. And you guys are dealing with
it right now, you guys. Last several days, I saw
some of the images come out. I don't remember, obviously,
living in California for as long as I have, I
don't remember there being flooding like that and Redding.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
No, there definitely is not.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
And in fact, I mean, you know, my family has
been up here for decades and decades, and that's what
everybody's saying. So we got three to six inches, But
what really happened on Sunday was the rain was so
steady and so hard that all of a sudden, places
that hadn't flooded before started flooding. We had some mud slides.
But I will tell you the strangest part about living
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in this community is how quickly people can get help.
I swear every other person has like a mini excavator
or something, and they're constantly helping their neighbors and so
that actually has been a godsend. Having all this equipment
on everybody's properties where some of the rural roads have
washed out and things like that, that's been a great help.
But just yesterday the sheriff was able to declare Shasta
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County a state of emergency. We've got the city opening
an emergency operations center tonight at four and everybody's getting
prepared because this storm now that's coming in is supposed
to be nastier than the one we had on Sunday.
The ground is now saturated, you still have pooling, So
what's going to happen next? So I think we're all
kind of, you know, just sitting here waiting with baited
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breast to see what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Most importantly, Jennifer Jones has amazing boots. Do you have
galoshes for this weather? And how cute are they?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
My gosh, it's funny you say that I'm wearing my
pink galoshes today.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yes, how do you know me so?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Well?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I just do I need? Is there a picture we
can find pink goloshes.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Of course, yesterday was red, today's pink. Yeah, I thought,
you know, everybody wears red at Christmas. I'm gonna judge
it up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yes, I love this, Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
So the saddest part we did have one man, super
sad story. He calls nine one one on Sunday and
he's saying, I'm stuck, I'm stuck.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
The water's rising.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
He was in his car over on Highway through seventy three,
which is not far if anybody's been here from Wind
River Casino, it's wind Rivers just off of two seventy three.
That's the area that we saw the most flooding. This
guy calls nine on one and he's telling them I can't
get out of my car, the water's rising.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
By the time cruise got there, his.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Car was submerged and he had passed seventy four year
old man.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
So that's the one fatality that we.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Have had up here that just got confirmed last night
because it was kind of hard to get the info,
but we finally did get that.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
You was just trying to get to those sweet five
dollars blackjack tables at win.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
River probably, I mean Win River, Come on now.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
That's a great time. Is it raining today for you
guys yet? I mean, I know that there is an expectation,
but not bad.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
No.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
In fact, I made a Walmart run at seven this
morning and it was totally dry.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
By the time I got into work at like eight.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It was starting to sprinkle. And that's kind of what
we're going to see, just showers. This storm that's coming
in is going to be a little bit colder, so
we are expecting some snow, like in the fifty.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Five hundred range, I guess.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
But other than that, I think it's really overnight tonight
and into tomorrow, which, as you guys know, sometimes in
this community because it's such a you know, oh we're
only an hour and a half from Chico, or you know,
oh we're only whatever half hour from Red Bluff, people
don't leave until Christmas Eve to come see their families.
So I'm not sure how this is going to impact
the travel tomorrow, depending on how bad this storm is.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Jonesy, you went to Walmart two days before Christmas?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Yeah, you know what, And honestly it was not bad
at all. I was entertained by the Walmart. I don't
know checker who told me that his fiance had dunned
him last night.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Well, I guess it's better now than on Christmas.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I said no.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I said, please tell me you hadn't bought her a gift,
and he goes, I had. And he was wearing a
red like, I don't know, kind of tied eyed scarf
on his head.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
He was.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
He was festive with like the saddest look on his face.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And the fact that he's offering up such a personal
detail to a complete stranger shows how much pain and
is involved.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Well, when I walked up, I said hi, I said,
how's your morning and going? And he goes, can I
tell you something.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Opened? The door? Door is open, as ken Cole would say,
yes exactly.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
And do you have your brush fire attire?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Oh my gosh, you guys.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Will bringing back sorry memory that error. Now I have
my flooding attire. So I promised to send you a picture.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I love it does snow for you guys a little bit,
and at least to tamps down some of the liquid water.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
That's the liquid problems.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Water, you know, the liquid that falls from the sky,
the wet stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yeah, that's stuff.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I know what you're talking about. We've all been you guys.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
By the way, can I just say when you open
the show with Crapping your Pants Football and DJ's I'm like, man,
I miss those guys.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
You're available on the iHeartRadio Apple.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Oh my God, any time, and if anything crazy happens
over the next couple of days, you have my number.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Thanks, thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
You're welcome, miss you guys.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Merry Christmas, Marry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Jennifer Jones, of course a longtime employee.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Here, shall come down and do the Christmas play. Amy Amy, Amy, Amy,
you are our shining star in the Christmas Play. You've
always been our shining star. It was one time ten
years ago that Gary forgot you, and we've moved past that.
You are a shining, sparkly star. What Gary and Channon
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will continue.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
There's three games on Christmas. I don't think any of
those none of them matter. I don't think any of
them matter, but this weekend they matter. This is a huge,
huge game and with playoff implications.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
So later in the show we'll tell you how you
can win those tickets for the VIP club seats for
the Chargers Texans games.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
And how about that Philip Rivers coming back to clinch
for the Chargers. The Indianapolis loss meant that the Chargers clinched,
he he did. How about the how about Philip Rivers
sending the Chargers to the playoffs? He did? But is
he going to play again? The chance? No?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
No, well yes, I mean a lot of stuff would
have to line up right there, gonna get any reason too.
I'd like to see what they have.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
They probably want to see what they have with their
with their backup whose name is escaping me. He played
at Notre Dame. Philip Rivers actually is friends with him,
He helped him going into the draft. Yeah, they lived
near each other in Alabama. But what a what a
storybook ending ending for Philip Rivers and coming back and
getting all the appreciation you know of all the former quarterbacks,
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you know, Kurt Warner to Troy a man, Tom Brady
saying like hell yeah, I mean all of them super
jealous and wanting to be the guy that got to
come back out of retirement. There was a lot of
ego on display from former quarterbacks. I'll say that over
the past two weeks but what a master glass of
Philip Rivers put on there, able to pick apart that
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defense as he lined up there under center. I mean,
it was just a great time, and I think a
great the first drive, the first scoring drive, first touchdown pass.
I that there's the Disney movie, you know, because Disney movies.
He'd always end with a super Bowl win for forty
four year old philip Rivers. Sometimes they come in second exactly,
or ninth, like the Colts may do. It's the heart.
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It's the heart that shunt.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
This weekend, or I should say a few days ago Saturday,
there was a massive blackout in San Francisco, and we
talked about what happened with the Waimo taxis that work
through Their major power outage knocks out traffic signals, and
a lot of the Waymo vehicles didn't pull over to
the side of the road or try to find a
parking spot, nor did they treat intersections as four way
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stops as you're supposed to. Instead, they just sat there
with their hazard lights on. That's it. In fact, several
Waymo vehicles got stuck in the middle of busy intersections
there with the power outages in San Francisco, causing a
traffic jam. Another Rubo taxi blocked a city bus, so
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the company basically turned it off and turned it back on.
They suspended their service for several hours because of the
power outage. And there is a question that came up
you actually mentioned this before.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Didn't anybody think of this?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Was there nobody at WEIMO who thought, what if there's
a power outage or it comes up against a you know,
uh intersection with no working traffics.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Lay the city had had a massive power outage before.
If only the city had gone through a couple earthquakes
where the power was knocked out for day.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Well, and the power the earthquake is probably what their
biggest cub consternation should be going into their next meeting.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Whatever it is they're thinking, if there's an earthquake of
that size, it'll be more to worry about than Weimo's
not working.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
But if they get stuck in the middle of intersections,
it's going to cause massive problems for first responders, etc.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
The other driverless car services.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I told you yesterday that in fact Elon Musk was
heckling Weimo, saying that the Tesla robo taxis that exist
did not stop. They did not get hampered by the
fact that there were intersections out the power outage. San
Francisco is actually calling for an investigation into WEIMO because
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of the way that they temporarily shut downal bilal Mahmoud
is a supervisor in San Francisco, so that he's going
to hold hearings said, we haven't seen a situation before
where these weimos have stalled en mass. We want to
make sure that what we saw this weekend doesn't happen again.
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San Franciscan's have grown increasingly to rely on the I
think I've asked you this before.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I have you ridden in one of these yet? No way, bo,
I really have done that in Phoenix. I know I've
seen them. I saw them at spring training a handful
of years ago. First time in Phoenix, I don't think
I have.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
When I was there last year in Phoenix, a bunch
of people wanted to get in them. I was like,
I'll just take an uber. Yeah, I don't mind. I
don't mind that guy. Whoever that guy is driving me around.
I would although I.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Got to say, and I've noticed this ever since I
stopped drinking, I'm much more reluctant to get into an uber.
Like my common sense mind is like, you're going to
get into a car with a stranger who is under
really no restrictions, no regulations. You don't know what he's
been doing all day. You know he's been smoking crack
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for a week. Like you know, you have a couple
pops and you're like, whatever, h roll the diet. And
now I'm like, absolutely not. I just went through this
because I'm gonna go to my brother's house for Christmas,
and I'm like, I'm renting a car. I'm not taking
an Uber. I'm not taking an ubern Christmas. Who are
those people who's driving an Ubron Christmas?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
That's a forty minute drive too, from the airport to
your brother's house.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I am very much not into getting into gar with
a stranger, getting into a car with a computer. I
feel a little bit.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Better about interesting. We are still taking calls. By the way,
your talkbacks on who your backup person would be, Oh, yeah,
have we done You've been honest, Yeah, we got a couple.
We did a couple and listen, you can be specific.
We're not going to say who you are, but you
can be specific if it's your best buddy's wife or
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something like that.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
That's I'm just saying. People probably have that in their
back of their mind. Well, think about all the times
we've seen that Gavin Newsom did that, you know what
I mean. And he's the leader of the free world almost,
Oh he's not.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
We are following news for you as we head into
the holidays. The news is still coming at you. Rob
and Michelle Reiner. The death certificates have now been released.
A little bit more closure, I guess, but not at
all if you're the family. The death certificates released from
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the La County Public Health Department. They list some information
already publicly known, multiple sharp force injuries as their causes
of death. Both cremated at Mount Sinai Mortuary. The idea
that this was not that it makes it any less,
but it wasn't a shooting, It wasn't quick. This was
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death by stabbing from your son. Two people that multiple
stab wounds, that takes time, that takes intimacy, that takes
anger and sanity, whatever you want to call it. And
in the scene the daughter had to she's the one
who found the body right Robin Michelle found dead December
(16:05):
fourteenth in that home in Brentwood, found by the daughter Romy.
She told police her brother, Nick, lived with her parents,
was dangerous should be considered a suspect. She said at
the time. He has been charged with his parents' murders.
Expected to enter in sanity plea when they are due
back for his arraignment on January seventh.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I also have an awful story out of Santa Barbara County.
There is a press conference scheduled for two o'clock today.
The Sheriff's office has apparently arrested the mother of Melody Buzzard.
Melody is the nine year old that has been missing
for several months. Ashley Buzzard. Mom was taken into custody
after they found a child's body and the DNA tests
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confirmed that in fact, it was Melody. Human remains were
apparently found earlier this month in Utah in an area
that they know that Melody and Ashley had traveled, when
those DNA results I mentioned confirmed that it was Melody's body.
So as of this morning, Mom Ashley has been taken
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into custody. If you remember, it was mid October the
school district was the one that first reported her long absence,
that she hadn't been to school for a very long time,
and the mom had apparently taken Melody on a road trip,
multi state road trip all the way to Nebraska, which
included several stops in Utah.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I have a question for you. You said the body
was found earlier this month. It is the twenty third
of December. Yeah, so the bodies discovered. I'm assuming that
they just monitored mom and any sort of communications or whatever.
The timing is interesting that she was taken into custody
today and the body was discovered earlier this month. Were
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they just waiting for her to trip up, to say something,
to do something that would implicate her further?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well, they did say that they were. The results confirmed
that the remains belonged to maladies.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
It can't take three weeks, though, can it. I don't know.
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
It may have taken them that long to get the
DNA to compare it to from the body though from mom.
Oh oh, because remember Dad's dad passed away a long
time ago. Okay, uh, And you know we've seen how
they can get DNA. We saw that with the Golden
State killer probably the more hope, high profile. Interesting you
just get it off a piece of their trash or
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something like that.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
So, but what if the mom's DNA matched the daughter's DNA.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
That's what I mean. But how did they Where would
they have gotten mom's DNA?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I would assume that she would provide the DNA early
on in the investigation.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
I don't know that. That's all stuff that would probably
be answered.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Again.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Two o'clock is when Santa Barbara County said that they
hold the news conference.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
That's going to be very rare. A mother killing her daughter.
When have we done that story? Moms killing their kids
their daughters?
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Or the yeah, mom's killing their kids, unless it's you know,
the mom and the bathtub with the babies. What was
her name? You know, Susan Smith in the car? You know?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, Well, I mean there's enough that we can right,
but that's postpartum stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Usually this is a nine year old that I think
is her air. It's awful either way.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Yeah, there is a there is a story out of
sixty minutes. We mentioned yesterday that Barry Weiss, the new
head of news at CBS, spiked a story that was
supposed to air on sixty minutes about detainees that went
to Seacott, that really extravagant prison in l Salvador, and
(19:44):
she spiked it because she said that they needed to
do more reporting on it, which it's kind of a
weird thing to say. The we know that Sharon al Fonsi,
the correspondent was in charge of it, said that she
stands by her reporting everything and it was true. It
had been checked multiple time times by CBS and that
it passed muster. Barry Weiss said that they needed more
(20:05):
and we finally have the letter's that Barry Weiss sent
to CBS News employees explaining her decision, why they didn't
do this story on Seacott and why she wanted more
reporting before she put it forward. Number One was The
New York Times has and many different organizations have already
(20:27):
talked about the horrific conditions at that prison in El Salvador,
and she said in this letter, if we're going to
run another story about a topic that's been by now
that has by now been much covered, we need to
advance it. For example, does anyone in the administration or
anyone prominent who defended the use of the alien enemies
act now regret it in light of what these Venezuelans
(20:49):
endured at Seacott. Another one was, we don't present the
argument as to why it sent Venezuelans to El Salvador
other than a sound the Caroline Levitt, the White House
Press Secretary, had and she said, why didn't we get
somebody like Stephen Miller or Tom Holman to comment, they're
not shy. We could have put them on the air.
(21:12):
The other one was, and I thought this was interesting.
She notices that the way the language is written in
the story, they say nearly half of the Venezuelan and
sent to Seacott, nearly half have no criminal histories. But
the other way of saying that is more than half
have criminal histories. And she wanted to see a better
(21:34):
job of explaining that. For example, eight of the two
hundred and fifty two have been sentenced for violent offenses,
but how many of them had charges against them for
some sort of violent offense. And then she went on
to talk about Secretary of Homeland Security Christinoam and her
trip to Seacott, who she met with, and why they
(21:55):
needed to do a better job of explaining the legal rationale,
and she said, it's just we did offer, yes, we
did reach out to the Homeland Security in the White House,
et cetera to give comment, but that she wanted them
to put a little bit more pressure on them to
involve the Trump administration at least their comments on the
(22:17):
story itself before they run it again.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Little bow. On the end of a depressing tragedy. It's
called phylicide when a parent kills their child philicide. And
although you think it's rare, like I thought it's rare,
it is not. It happens with depressing regularity in the US.
According to people who study this, mother's almost as likely
(22:40):
to be the killers as fathers. Wow. In fact, a
mother kills a child somewhere in the US once every
three days. Well that's awful. Nice to your mom, Okay,
especially around the holidays.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Now wild better, we're going to talk about Oh, yes,
is going to be cheer us up, gracious as I
thought it was.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Cards giving it.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
You think it was rare, we for what we've Yeah, yeah,
it just doesn't seem to be very calm.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I remember the guy who shot his son in the
face because he wasn't visiting too often. Yeah, men, I
expect this from but not moms. Men Men are the issues. Well,
men are more quick to anger musically, Oh really is that?
Is that what you're listening to?
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I think I just got high from the elf hunt. Yeah,
I lost you for a minute.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
You stopped communicating that thing that you do when you
do get a little high and people are talking to
you like hey, hello, hey, and you were gone.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Oh yeah, it's a winter wonderland. She lost time. So
are you back now? You still feel oh yeah, yeah, no.
It was kind of life changing.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Though Michael Monks has joined us from KFI News, we
pulled him out of the newsroom to talk about some stuff.
We've talked many times about the ongoing spat that at
least started perhaps after the Palisades fire between County Supervisor
Lindsay Horvath and LA Mayor Karen Bass.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
It continues, it.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Does, and now this time, unlike the last time, this
is very public facing. This was on social media. This
happened on x over the late last week and over
the weekend. You have the supervisor, Lindsay Horvath and the
mayor of Los Angeles exchanging tweets, and really, Supervisor Horrorvath
kind of started this public beef, whereas Mayor Bass had
(24:45):
simply tweeted a link to an op ed which you
can take exception to her op ed which she published
in the LA Daily News titled Los Angeles Can't turn
back now on homelessness progress. This is the key issue
between these two ladies right now. I don't know if
I should just treat this like a straight journalist, if
you want to hear this like we're gossiping in school
(25:06):
or yeah, okay, So the mayor published this op ed
in the paper, right, Okay, then get this Okay. She
posts the link to that OpEd on X and the
mayor is quote tweeted by Supervisor Horrorack quote tweeted on
main seriously, and so Lindsey Horvest says, the only political
(25:27):
threat our homelessness response faces is protecting the status quo
in favor of track records that are indefensible. At the
current pace, it will take three hundred years to solve homelessness.
Staying the course is what God is here and it's
what I was elected not to do. Okay, So that
was shot fired. So Mayor baskets back on her account.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
She does not play.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
She quote tweets Supervisor hor that okay and says the
status quo was decades of rising homelessness period it.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Timeout side note you already got the part, just so
you know the audition's over. Yeah, oh okay, but keep going.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I enjoying. I still enjoy this.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
So then Supervisor Horrorvath quote tweets in response and says
proudly walking away from this track record in twenty twenty six,
and she put together a video montage that first features
a screen grab of the op ed in the Daily
News and then slowly or I should say rapidly covers
it up with really bad headlines about homeless response in
(26:34):
Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
What's Lindsay for the just the lay person, Lindsay Horrvath,
just break it down, Mayor bat as mayor of LA
Lindsay Horrvath is who LA County Supervisor? Right, Lindsay horrbav
And what is the power struggle between the mayor and
the Board of Supervisors.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
It's immense And there was speculation that Supervisor Horrorvath may
seek the office of mayor of Los Angelas.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yes, and so when is that up?
Speaker 6 (27:02):
It could happen because obviously there's a mayor's race next year,
so she.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Could be running already against Bass with this video campaign,
this was.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
The first public shot that you've seen her take. She's
also moved out of West Hollywood into the city of
Los Angeles proper for the first time.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Right now, things have changed since I was in the field,
because when I was in the field, it was almost
well for Lindsay Horvatz. She's young, so the mayorship would
be a stepping stone for her political aspirations.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
She's our age, So thank you for saying young.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Yeah, well, she is young in politics. Forty five is
very young. Yeah so, but back in my day, the
supervisors were all sixty years old, and they had more
power than the mayor. They all had their little fiefdoms
and had immense power and immense money at their fingertips.
The fact that she would leave that post to be
mayor is interesting to me, and it shows her political asport.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Except there's one interesting new dynamic that waits in the wings.
Well twenty twenty six plays out. We've got a new
position that's going to come online for the twenty twenty
eight election, County Executive County executive, and this will be
probably the most powerful role in La County. And frankly,
even from back in your day, Shannon, think of all
(28:21):
of the politicians who were you know, slithering about Los
Angeles County at that time. Everyone's going to want this job.
This is going to be the most powerful job outside
of governor of California. So why run for mayor of
the City of Los Angeles when you can be the
mayor of the County of Lost.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
We've always had a county executive, right, but this is
an appointed one. We'll be electing elected. So this is
somebody who has the umbrella power over the Board of supervisors,
kind of checking their power. Yeah, become that coequal. Brank
like Steve sober Off, for example, would probably be a
name flitted about.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
A lot of people's names are going to float around.
But this mayor's race has already taken shape, with a
few candidates announced, including the Mayor herself and Austin Butner,
who has a decent level profile across the county. But
we've been waiting for Like, is Recruso the developer going
to get back in and try again four years later?
Is Supervisor Horvath going to run for this are there
(29:16):
because there's still a little bit of time, but really
not a lot the primaries in June.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
You gotta ask yourself, if you're Rick Crusoe, what do
you want. He's got all the money in the world,
he's got all the power. I don't think he wants
to go to the Kenneth Han Building of Administration every
day to work.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
I'm sure his house is nice, but I love the
Getty house that the mayor gets to live in. And
you know, my future neighborhood, Windsor Square, Hancock Park area.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
That's squalor compared to where Crusoe lives, probably, but this
is old money.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Yeah, so you know, yeah, I feel like I was
born old money in like a poverty reality that was
not fair.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
You're like the opposite of Gavin Newsom, who was born
with the Getties essentially and wants to play poor, and
you were poor and want to play Getty's exactly got it.
That's why you're so likable.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
Exactly because I'm undeservedly snooty.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Everyone loves a climber. Everyone loves a climber.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
As a note, tomorrow, roughly around this time, at about
eleven thirty is when we're going to start the gas
Christmas Camel.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Like we should start it earlier because well, Amy King
has an extended role as well.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
So it's possible. But I don't think we need to
keep to the schedule. I can't, we can't.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I just felt like it was a little bit rushed
the last time we did it, and I wanted to
have room to breathe. Oh, it's room, Amy's.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
We've built in two extra segments just in case we
need expande.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Okay, I've been studying my lines. Appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
I'm doing a beat sheet right now and making sure
I hit all the right notes.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
And I'm so excited. I don't have any lines. Tebra,
you have lines. I do. Yes. The scripts have not
been handed out yet. Michael threw a tantrum yet I
didn't throw a tantrum. I had my agent make a call.
He threw a tangent. We could hear you in the background.
I'll tell you that.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
It's not Shakespeare, so I retreat it as if it were,
even if you have to cold read it, Deborah, it's
going to be it's.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Such a small role. No, No, it's a good sized role.
It's a good. Yeah, you are our sparkling Star. Deborah Ah, Michael,
you are also are shining star. Amy's are shining Star.
Debra's are sparkling star. Michael is our. I believe in
(31:41):
myself enough you do. You are a thest band. Yes,
I believe. I am going to deliver for you and
the team. Elmer, are you becoming difficult?
Speaker 6 (31:49):
Elmer has to do a lot. I've read the script.
Elmer actually has to do some acting. Oh really, Yeah,
he's got to do some acting. Gary and Shannon will
continue right after this.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
forty nine am to one pm every Monday through Friday,
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