July 7, 2025 • 27 mins
KFI – Michael Monks – Newsom and Bass meet to commemorate the six-month anniversary of the Pali/Eaton Fires. Fun LA history: Burbank Airport is considered a suburb. Baby raves?! There was just one in L.A., and it was strange and wild, filled with glow sticks galore. A tale of two parks: one was a "poor man's Disneyland," while the other featured a Cobra Woman who was actually a man.
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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. So you've got just me for
a while. We will get into what Elon Musk and
visions for his third new political party that he continues
to talk about, and it seems like it's not a
passing fancy.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
His plans become more detailed.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
We'll have Trump's response to that for you as well
some fresh comments that he has just made. We'll have
that all coming up for you in swamp Watch. Also
an article I read over the weekend about AI and
a human's relationship with a chatbot. We've talked about the
people who have enlisted chatbots and fallen in love with them,
(00:46):
enlisted them to be a companion, maybe bounce some personal
questions off the chatbots, and how that's a little bit.
I'm not going to judge somebody who's found love, even
if it's with a chatbot, but it seems like it
could be problematic if you have have another human that
you're in a relationship with, or just any future relationships
you have to have hope to have with humans.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
But if it works for you, it works for you.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
This was a woman's relationship with a chatbot that actually
aided an intimate relationship with a chatbot that actually aided
her in communicating how she was feeling with her husband.
And I thought it was a great story. And the
headline is nothing artificial about becoming more human. I thought, Okay,
that's a chatbot I can get on board with. You
know when you have friends and you make plans with
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them despite having no idea what you're gonna do, just
because you love hanging out with them, and it doesn't
matter what you do. You could just watch paint dry
or watch somebody get hit by a car or whatever,
and you're gonna have a great day. That's what we
do with Michael Munks. I don't even know what Michael
Monks is covering, but I said to Keana, how about
Michael Monks at ten o'clock. I have no idea of
(01:55):
what you're doing for KFI News today. I did listen
to your Sunday show yesterday. I was in the car
for about an hour, so I heard your show. I
heard the beginning of it. It was very good. It
was all about fourth of July and people blowing up
their limbs and things of that nature. It was a
compilation of heinous news stories and I thought that is
very important, but I am not in the mood for
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real news on a Sunday.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
It took sometimes you have to turn us off.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
So I put on an iHeart podcast about family secrets
and trauma, which also wasn't what I.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Was That's much better than the news wasn't what I
was looking for. So I turned back to you.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Yeah, if it's a choice between family trauma and Michael
Monks on a Sunday afternoon, the choice is clear.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
And that's my slogan that's on the billboard.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I just loved hearing you, even though you were doing
hard news and it wasn't really what I was in
the mood for in a Sunday, but it was you,
and so I was like, let's go back to Michael Munks.
You know.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
It was funny you text me that I guess that
you were listening. Yeah, and it reminded me that I
was on because that was actually Saturday show.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
We did replay it.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
So I'm live on Saturdays from seven to nine and occasionally,
you know, we.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Have to fill the two o'clock hours.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
We have a nice cast of characters that come in,
and we have a variety of different people that do
that time slot.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
But it was a holiday weekend.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I feel duped.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
No, I know, it was a complete lie. It worked,
so that's how the sausage is made. I mean, look,
if the listeners were tuned in the whole time, they were,
they caught on fast right, And we do have listeners
that do not turn this dial, and God bless them
for that. Yes, but I did record the show for
Saturday so that it could play on Sunday, so I
was not live.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Ah this week, I felt you're a live energy despite
being live, which is that's the trick.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
It is.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
It's a trick, and I had to do it by
myself back in that box on Friday night. I left
to hear about eleven o'clock at night on the holiday
because I.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Was I wanted to make it a fresh show. I
don't phone it.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
In, no, like something.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Nothing says not phoning it in, like playing a Friday
show on a Sunday.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I talk about the production, I know, you know, but
the actual schedule because the holiday people were off and
it was a good news show recapping the week.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I thought, I'm going to post the podcast later. I
hope people listen.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
It was a good It was a busy news week
last week, in spite of that Fourth of July holiday
falling on a Friday.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
There's a lot of ownership that goes into doing I
did a weekend show here for a long time, and
there's nothing. There's something to be said, I should say,
for owning that that show, because you're really the only
one who does that show. You know, you pull the sounds,
you put together the sound, you pick.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
The stories the show. You do it all. So it's
like a little baby that you birth every week.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
It's a beautiful base, It's a beautiful bay.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I love this bab bounce it around and you're like
sometimes you're like, yeah, I made this baby on a Friday,
and guess what I'm gonna play with it on Sunday too. Bingo,
baby still here, Yeah, baby still good, Baby.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Still fresh, Baby's fresh.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
All right, So what are you doing today?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Well, we do have a.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Couple of things that will be monitoring us. Certainly the
governor being in town with the mayor. They're going to
be over in one of the fire zone areas closer
to noon, so I'll have that covered for you. Today
is the six month mark, seeing anniversary when it's not
yet one year.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
I don't know if it's grammatically correct.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
I know you talked to Chris Little earlier today and
he's a stickler for that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Maybe he can let us know.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
You know, he just sent me an article on Brazilian butler.
I heard that, so we didn't wade into grammar.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Okay, well, I'm sure that we'll get some notes. But anyway,
it is the six month mark from the fires in January.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Son, time to take some stock.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, let's see where we are now.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I imagine there will be a relatively rosy picture painted
by the mayor and the governor about how they've cut
red tape and have spat up the processes. But that's
not always the feelings of people on the ground, people
who are living there, trying to rebuild their lives. So
it will be interesting to contrast the government messaging with
what folks are really experiencing. And it's not all just
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government problems. It's insurance problems that people are dealing with,
cultural problems, personal problems.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
What are we going to do next?
Speaker 4 (05:51):
The slow permitting process, the slow path to rebuilding. I mean,
it's just been six months since two parts of this
county disappear.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I'm kind of interested to see what kind of newsom
we get today at noon.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
He was really strange. Last week.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I played some clips on My Baby that I broadcast
on Saturday and Sunday, and I was doing this press
conference about new housing policy. We're going to make housing
easier to build, We're speeding up the process, and this
was a pretty significant piece of legislation.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
But he looked rather subdued.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
You know, he wasn't He was kind of cracking jokes
or whatever, but he wasn't fiery interesting, and he had
been in the weeks leading up to more recent weeks
very feisty and ready to basically get in the boxing
ring with the president or other.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
He should be right.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I've kind of picked up on what you're talking about,
just kind of not grabbing the bull by the horns
and riding this energy in this feud, even if it's
a make believe feud, you've got to ride that to
some sort of notoriety and land your name and places
where it has not landed at yet.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
This is just my observation. I don't have a lot
of analysis to offer here. But remember he came out
swinging when the first court ruled that the Trump administration
did not have the authority to dispatch the National Guard
the way that it did, right, And he came out
and did a complete victor Knwsom came out and did
a big victory lap. Yeah, And it was like three
seconds later that the appeals court.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
It was the next day, knocked it all down.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
And I think since then, I haven't seen the kind
of fire this guy.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Nobody's paying attention to that, and he should know that
who who is who is not us living in this
building or any other news building, is paying attention to
what an appellate court did, or what the Ninth Circuit
did or what you know what I mean, nobody, nobody
even remembers that that happened. You got to take this
anger against Trump that exists in California and make it
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your own.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
And there's not been a lot of not a lot
in the way of policy to get behind, so they
were looking for some wins. I think Mayor Karen bass
is an example of this too, because she's obviously he's
had a rough start to twenty twenty five with the fires,
and her response to it was not well received.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Right, And now she's.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Got a little bit of fire in her speeches because
she has a foe in the president right, right, right,
And I think the governor had that too, and it
just seems to have died back.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
We'll see what he sounds like today.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, it's interesting you said that because I picked up
on her fire and I looked it up. It was
a couple of weeks ago, and I'm like, oh, maybe
she's making a name.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Maybe she's gonna make it. She's seventy one years old.
I had no idea.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, so anyway, not making a run for president probably,
But Michael Monks, thank you very much. I anticipate your
report coming up on the governor in town and we'll
see you tomorrow at ten.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Thank you, Michelle and Keana. The studios decorated for my birthday.
There's streamers and banners and cup I've had two cupcakes
before ten twenty this morning.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Sugar high feels great. Anyway, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
It's nice working with people who who decorate for you.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
It's very nice.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
The bald Eagles are back. Everyone who was worried. Of course,
everyone's worried about their pets over the Fourth of July
weekend if you're in an area where there are fireworks.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It was funny.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I was up at my mom's place in northern California
and it was the first fourth of July, and I
don't know how long that I was up there, and
the first fourth of July, and I don't know how
long that It was odd how I heard no fireworks
where I lived. Down here, the fireworks go on all
the time throughout the night.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
It's like Fallujah.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
You know this in southern California, it's like depending upon
where you live, sometimes it's just they're ongoing. Anyway, there
was nothing where she lives. There's a whole blackout in
her county. There's no fireworks except for the county fair.
So it was kind of oddly quiet. But if you
were worried about your pets, you were also worried about
the Big Bear Eagles on Friday night, the booms and
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the blasts, so the fireworks frightened Jackie and Shadow Away
and the Sunny d Gizmo. The fireworks were especially hard,
probably on baby Sonny and Gizmo. But all of the
birds are back the Eaglitz Fair. Just find this fourth
of July if you were wondering. All right, Hollywood Burbank
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Airport one of my favorite things. They call it one
of La County's secrets when it comes to travel. I
think the secret is out by now, but maybe it's
not if you've just moved to La I love Hollywood
Burbank Airport. I love everything about it. I love the location,
I love the parking, I love the bars. Hollywood Burbank
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Airport is so easy. And I had no idea about
this chapter of it. During World War Two, let me know,
have you heard about this Operation Camouflage. It was a
joint venture by Hollywood and by military leaders. So Burbank
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Airport opened up in nineteen thirty as United Airport. This
was a time when commercial flying was a luxury. It
was reserved for people with a lot of money. Burbank
was the destination for travel because most public carriers flew
out of there, but within about a decade its use shifted.
This new era came when Lockheed purchased the airport in
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nineteen forty during World War II, so Lockheed Airport Terminal.
This is what it was renamed. Largely transitioned from commercial
flying to building combat planes, so most public carriers at
this time had.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Left for Lax.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
The airport was directly next to the Lockheed plant where
thousands of fighter aircraft were being made. Then Pearl Harbor
happens December nineteen forty one, and there was a lot
of fear and a lot of hype about the possibility
of Japanese aerial strikes on the West Coast. This was
a distinct possibility, so the military wanted to protect strategic facilities,
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including the Lockheed plant at Burbank. This is where the
fighter aircraft was being made. So Army members placed barricades
around all the buildings and they called in an expert,
Colonel John Omer, and his mission was this, find a
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way to hide the Lockheed plant by turning it into
a fake suburb. Make it look like Resita, make it
look like North Hollywood. And he apparently got a blank
check to get to work. So under Colonel John's directions,
his Camouflage Engineering Battalion teamed up with Hollywood set designers
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artists from Disney, Paramount, twentieth Century Fox to disguise the buildings.
It took more than a year and they came up
with this idea to drape all the buildings with a
thousand acre canopy that would create a suburban illusion.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
From the air.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
It's like a twilight zone when you look at the
overhead shot. The canopy was made of chicken wire, netting,
and canvas and it blended into the grass around it.
Set designers created the illusion of fake trees by blowing
chicken feathers onto wires painted with this waterproof adhesive, and
then those feathers were spray painted green or brown to
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create realistic scenes.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Of growth decay.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Anyway, some of the guys that were creating the bomber
planes was said that there were picking chicken feathers out
of their hair NonStop as they were building these airplanes.
But the airfields, the parking lots painted green to look
like alfalfa fields.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Employees would play their part two.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
During breaks, they'd go back to burlap bungalows take down
laundry from clothes lines, and it did. From five thousand
feet above, it looked like a complete California suburb.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
The only giveaway was that you could.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Spot a railroad track beginning and ending within the canopy
like a cartoon. I thought that was very cool. Millions
of dollars put in to the efforts. We don't know
how long Operation Camouflage stayed up, but in nineteen forty
five everything was back to normal. The overhead shots of
forty five the set had been taken down. All right,
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Coming up next, people are taking their babies to raves. Yes,
raves are back in this time around. They're for babies.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
It is for babies. Yeah, they're calling them baby raves.
This story may sound fun and whimsical, but it actually
has some layers to it because it's kind of about
the next chapter of boy bands. What happens after the
boys and the bands grow up. Sometimes that can be
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tragic as well. Right, this is not one of those stories.
Back to the people who are going to these baby raves,
Brionees is one of them. She's actually a concert veteran.
Natalie has been to heavy metal concert, She's been to
a punk music festival.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
But Natalie naps most of the time.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Why well, Natalie's two and she just went to her
first baby rave with her parents. Her dad is Alvin,
he is thirty six, and her mom is Sandra, she
is thirty eight. Sandra says I can handle kids music now,
she says, with the beat and that techno touch to it,
it makes me able to tolerate listening to it all
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day long, because babies love the music. So they took
Natalie to the Roxy and they lined up to meet
Lenny Pierce. Lenny Pierce is the mastermind behind Natalie to
your old Natalie's favorite song, the Wheels on the Bus.
Think about what you just heard with head, shoulders, knees
and toes, and give it to the wheels on the
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bus that same kind of treatment. It's not the classic version, right,
this is a different rendition and it's got a lot
of bass, and it's got a lot of vibe. And
Natalie at two is here for it, but so is
her mom, And these are people that have lined up
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to see Lenny Pierce. If the name sounds familiar, it's
because this is not Lenny Pierce's first act.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Lenny Pierce.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
And his identical twin brother are both in children's entertainment.
Before you thinking that that's weird, they started in entertainment,
But before we get there John, who is the older
twin John and Lenny. John's the older one by about
two minutes. He says, we're both in the toddler scene.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
John is a member of the Wiggles cast. He's the
Purple Wiggle if you're familiar with it, and Pierce is
known as the Purple Wiggle on social media. He's got
more than two million followers on TikTok more than a
million on Instagram. Before becoming part of the toddler scene,
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two fixtures in the toddler scene, these twin brothers were
members of Justice Crew.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
This was a boy.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Band, a dance troupe that one Australia's got talent about
fifteen years ago. For a few years, the boy band's
future burned white heart hot. They were the talk of Australia.
They had the goal to break through in the US.
That never happened and as you know this, most boy
bands have a certain amount of time.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
A window in the spotlight.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
In twenty sixteen, he appears, this is the one who's
created the music. Lenny Pierce quit Justice Crew to focus
on DJing music production. But this was a hard road, right,
so he worked as a salesperson at an Australian electronics
store to make ends meet. He says at the time
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people were like, aren't you from Justice Crew? And he
was like, yeah, now do you want this lens with
that camera. In twenty twenty two, he became a dad
to his daughter Mila and changed the course of his creativity.
He started remixing children's songs with the Ravy music. Well,
they're taking this all on the road. There is also
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a sidekick for Lenny Peers Rocks at the Roxy. You
saw his sidekick. It's Kuma the monkey who hypes up
the crowd and they say that this cad like, what
are your concerns? Your concerns are If I take my
kid to this, they are going to be They're going
to go nuts, right, They're going to go insane taking
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kids to a rave even in the middle of the
day with a face painting session. This sounds insane. Is
just the image we want to teach our kids. Well,
what are you imagining? Are you mentioning ninety seven? Are
you imagining ecstasy and drugs in crystal guys or water bottles?
That's not what this is. It's just more about the music.
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They say that it can be beneficial for kids and parents. A.
Jenna Markovitz is director of UCLA Health music therapy program
That sounds like fun. She says, techno promotes oxytocin, It
boosts and doorphins, It can encourage joy and play, and
that supports brain development emotional regulation. Overstimulation would be a problem.
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The music is loud, too, write It's typically set to
eighty five to ninety decibels, and so they say, obviously
where the toddler headphones with the noise reduction of twenty
to thirty decibels are higher. And then the overstimulation. At
the Roxy show, one toddler sat down eight half a
bag of goldfish crackers and poured the rest out on
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the floor. Now, to me, that sounds like a Tuesday.
Some people may call that overstimulation. Another disappear into the
crowd for a few alarming moments before being returned by
a good samaritan who hasn't had that experience with a friend.
When they disappear into the crowd and then they return
with new friends. Sometimes the UCLA therapist says, for any child,
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I would recommend breaks every thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Step outside, she.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Says, and after the show, you got to get the
kid's nervous system back down. Lots of cuddles and silence
and hugs. Also sounds like after nineteen ninety seven Rave treatment.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
But anyway, Hey, whatever you.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Can do as a family, right, if you can enjoy
it and your kids can enjoy it, why not. Those
tunes are catchy, though, I'm not gonna lie. Good and
good for this guy, Lenny Pierce, the mastermind, the former
boy band guy for creating a second act here. Very cool,
all right? Coming up next, a tale of two parks.
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There's a park in Long Beach and a park in
Santa Monica, very different clientele. Both took Disney size. We'll
tell you about it when we come back.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
When we look into the world of baseball, we find
the complete rosters for the MLB All Star Game are set.
Nineteen first time All Stars this season. Pitchers and reserves
were announced yesterday. Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto, National's outfielder James
Wood and astros Ace Hunter Brown headline the group of
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first time All Stars. Dodgers lead all teams with five selections,
including Clayton Kershaw as a special commissioner selection after getting
the three thousand strikeout mark. Met Rosters selected with starters
being elected by fans, seventeen players chosen in a player vote,
and then six players are selected by league officials. Every
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club has at least one player to represent their team
in the All Star Game. It will be July fifteenth
in Hotlanta. It is summer, and what makes you think
about summer while going to amusement parks?
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Right?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
If you remember, this may be a little trip down
memory lane for y'all. There were a couple parks that
were popular in this area years ago. One was a
Poor Boy's disneyland out in Santa Monica known as the
Pacific Ocean Park, and the other was in Long Beach
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the Pike, which was a seedier experience. I guess you
could say unsavory. Maybe you didn't have to look too
hard at the Pike to find gambling, dive bars, tattoo parlors,
a cobra.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Woman who was really a man.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
The La Times had a nice little ride up of
this over the weekend. Somebody found a corpse there at
one point. Anyway, this other park up in Santa Monica.
The Pacific Ocean Park was more perky, more clean, cut
the sand, the sky, the zippy, futuristic razzle dazzle rides.
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As they wrote in the La Times, this was along
the sand of Santa Monica and Venice.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
It opened at.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Nineteen fifty eight, three years after Disneyland. It didn't even
last ten years, but the memories remain. Santa Monica has
seen amusement parks come and go over past one hundred
and twenty years, but POP, as it's known, fairly recent
and like I said, the memories remain. They say that
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POP was a creature of the Cold War America. Westinghouse
Electric Corp. Built one display a replica of the whole
of the atomic powered Nautilus submarine, had sound effects like
an actual submarine at sea.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
They had a.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Spaceship theater that took the audience to Mars House of Tomorrow,
which sounds a little bit like Disneyland, that ran on
electronic age conveniences with representation of the Atomic City of Tomorrow.
An ocean skyway ride that took visitors and clear gondolas
out over the surf of the Pacific.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
How cool.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Zevy Roslovsky who I covered four years when he was
a supervisor.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Actually we had him on the program recently.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I forget what for, but he says that me and
my buddies would take the bus out there. We'd spend
the day having fun. Great place to go with girls.
You had a crush on poor boys Disneyland. You were
greeted by the bright sunshine on the pier with the
attractions Pacific Ocean in my line of sight, he said.
I felt wronged when it closed, and I've missed it
ever since. My mom has a memory of I think
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it was called Playland, kind of a similar type of
beach amusement park in Ocean Beach in San Francisco. There
in the sunset. But anyway, there was also well. That
one closed by the autumn of nineteen sixty seven, they said,
ostensibly for repairs, but in fact for good, And as
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the La Times wrote in February of seventy five, as
the last of it was being demolished. Sooner or later,
all dreams come to an end. The Pike, the Cea
Deer Park down South soldiered on in nineteen nineteen. It
became the homeport Long Peach did for the nation's specific
fleet of battleships. More ships would follow. Navy ended up
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being a big business for Long Beach and for the Pike,
well that's where a lot of the guys would hang out.
It did have a problem attracting families. At one point
it tried to make a shift into the family world
because there was a lot of gambling, open air crap games,
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no police.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
It sounds like a good time.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Kind of like the wild Wild West, but in Long Beach,
at the Pipe near the water gambling.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
What's not to like?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
But that, by the way, closed in I believe nineteen
seventy nine. But these old parks are all fun to
talk about, aren't they. How cool does that Santa Monica
Park sound though, by the way, the Pacific Ocean Park?
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I mean they both sound good. There's something for everybody.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
You know, you want some clean cut fun, you want
to gamble, maybe see a body head down south a
couple miles.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Something for everybody, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
When we come back, Elon Musk is not getting off
this third party business, and Trump is firing back fired
back over the weekend, and recent comments just this morning
about what he thinks about Elon Musk and his idea
for a third Party. Here's a tease. Trump says that
Elon Musk is totally off the rails. We'll get into it.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
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
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. So you've got just me for
a while. We will get into what Elon Musk and
visions for his third new political party that he continues
to talk about, and it seems like it's not a
passing fancy.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
His plans become more detailed.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
We'll have Trump's response to that for you as well
some fresh comments that he has just made. We'll have
that all coming up for you in swamp Watch. Also
an article I read over the weekend about AI and
a human's relationship with a chatbot. We've talked about the
people who have enlisted chatbots and fallen in love with them,
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enlisted them to be a companion, maybe bounce some personal
questions off the chatbots, and how that's a little bit.
I'm not going to judge somebody who's found love, even
if it's with a chatbot, but it seems like it
could be problematic if you have have another human that
you're in a relationship with, or just any future relationships
you have to have hope to have with humans.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
But if it works for you, it works for you.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
This was a woman's relationship with a chatbot that actually
aided an intimate relationship with a chatbot that actually aided
her in communicating how she was feeling with her husband.
And I thought it was a great story. And the
headline is nothing artificial about becoming more human. I thought, Okay,
that's a chatbot I can get on board with. You
know when you have friends and you make plans with
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them despite having no idea what you're gonna do, just
because you love hanging out with them, and it doesn't
matter what you do. You could just watch paint dry
or watch somebody get hit by a car or whatever,
and you're gonna have a great day. That's what we
do with Michael Munks. I don't even know what Michael
Monks is covering, but I said to Keana, how about
Michael Monks at ten o'clock. I have no idea of
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what you're doing for KFI News today. I did listen
to your Sunday show yesterday. I was in the car
for about an hour, so I heard your show. I
heard the beginning of it. It was very good. It
was all about fourth of July and people blowing up
their limbs and things of that nature. It was a
compilation of heinous news stories and I thought that is
very important, but I am not in the mood for
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real news on a Sunday.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
It took sometimes you have to turn us off.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
So I put on an iHeart podcast about family secrets
and trauma, which also wasn't what I.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Was That's much better than the news wasn't what I
was looking for. So I turned back to you.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Yeah, if it's a choice between family trauma and Michael
Monks on a Sunday afternoon, the choice is clear.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
And that's my slogan that's on the billboard.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I just loved hearing you, even though you were doing
hard news and it wasn't really what I was in
the mood for in a Sunday, but it was you,
and so I was like, let's go back to Michael Munks.
You know.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
It was funny you text me that I guess that
you were listening. Yeah, and it reminded me that I
was on because that was actually Saturday show.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
We did replay it.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
So I'm live on Saturdays from seven to nine and occasionally,
you know, we.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Have to fill the two o'clock hours.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
We have a nice cast of characters that come in,
and we have a variety of different people that do
that time slot.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
But it was a holiday weekend.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I feel duped.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
No, I know, it was a complete lie. It worked,
so that's how the sausage is made. I mean, look,
if the listeners were tuned in the whole time, they were,
they caught on fast right, And we do have listeners
that do not turn this dial, and God bless them
for that. Yes, but I did record the show for
Saturday so that it could play on Sunday, so I
was not live.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Ah this week, I felt you're a live energy despite
being live, which is that's the trick.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
It is.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
It's a trick, and I had to do it by
myself back in that box on Friday night. I left
to hear about eleven o'clock at night on the holiday
because I.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Was I wanted to make it a fresh show. I
don't phone it.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
In, no, like something.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Nothing says not phoning it in, like playing a Friday
show on a Sunday.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I talk about the production, I know, you know, but
the actual schedule because the holiday people were off and
it was a good news show recapping the week.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I thought, I'm going to post the podcast later. I
hope people listen.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
It was a good It was a busy news week
last week, in spite of that Fourth of July holiday
falling on a Friday.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
There's a lot of ownership that goes into doing I
did a weekend show here for a long time, and
there's nothing. There's something to be said, I should say,
for owning that that show, because you're really the only
one who does that show. You know, you pull the sounds,
you put together the sound, you pick.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
The stories the show. You do it all. So it's
like a little baby that you birth every week.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
It's a beautiful base, It's a beautiful bay.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I love this bab bounce it around and you're like
sometimes you're like, yeah, I made this baby on a Friday,
and guess what I'm gonna play with it on Sunday too. Bingo,
baby still here, Yeah, baby still good, Baby.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Still fresh, Baby's fresh.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
All right, So what are you doing today?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Well, we do have a.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Couple of things that will be monitoring us. Certainly the
governor being in town with the mayor. They're going to
be over in one of the fire zone areas closer
to noon, so I'll have that covered for you. Today
is the six month mark, seeing anniversary when it's not
yet one year.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
I don't know if it's grammatically correct.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
I know you talked to Chris Little earlier today and
he's a stickler for that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Maybe he can let us know.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
You know, he just sent me an article on Brazilian butler.
I heard that, so we didn't wade into grammar.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Okay, well, I'm sure that we'll get some notes. But anyway,
it is the six month mark from the fires in January.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Son, time to take some stock.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, let's see where we are now.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I imagine there will be a relatively rosy picture painted
by the mayor and the governor about how they've cut
red tape and have spat up the processes. But that's
not always the feelings of people on the ground, people
who are living there, trying to rebuild their lives. So
it will be interesting to contrast the government messaging with
what folks are really experiencing. And it's not all just
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government problems. It's insurance problems that people are dealing with,
cultural problems, personal problems.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
What are we going to do next?
Speaker 4 (05:51):
The slow permitting process, the slow path to rebuilding. I mean,
it's just been six months since two parts of this
county disappear.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I'm kind of interested to see what kind of newsom
we get today at noon.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
He was really strange. Last week.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I played some clips on My Baby that I broadcast
on Saturday and Sunday, and I was doing this press
conference about new housing policy. We're going to make housing
easier to build, We're speeding up the process, and this
was a pretty significant piece of legislation.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
But he looked rather subdued.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
You know, he wasn't He was kind of cracking jokes
or whatever, but he wasn't fiery interesting, and he had
been in the weeks leading up to more recent weeks
very feisty and ready to basically get in the boxing
ring with the president or other.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
He should be right.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I've kind of picked up on what you're talking about,
just kind of not grabbing the bull by the horns
and riding this energy in this feud, even if it's
a make believe feud, you've got to ride that to
some sort of notoriety and land your name and places
where it has not landed at yet.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
This is just my observation. I don't have a lot
of analysis to offer here. But remember he came out
swinging when the first court ruled that the Trump administration
did not have the authority to dispatch the National Guard
the way that it did, right, And he came out
and did a complete victor Knwsom came out and did
a big victory lap. Yeah, And it was like three
seconds later that the appeals court.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
It was the next day, knocked it all down.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
And I think since then, I haven't seen the kind
of fire this guy.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Nobody's paying attention to that, and he should know that
who who is who is not us living in this
building or any other news building, is paying attention to
what an appellate court did, or what the Ninth Circuit
did or what you know what I mean, nobody, nobody
even remembers that that happened. You got to take this
anger against Trump that exists in California and make it
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your own.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
And there's not been a lot of not a lot
in the way of policy to get behind, so they
were looking for some wins. I think Mayor Karen bass
is an example of this too, because she's obviously he's
had a rough start to twenty twenty five with the fires,
and her response to it was not well received.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Right, And now she's.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Got a little bit of fire in her speeches because
she has a foe in the president right, right, right,
And I think the governor had that too, and it
just seems to have died back.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
We'll see what he sounds like today.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, it's interesting you said that because I picked up
on her fire and I looked it up. It was
a couple of weeks ago, and I'm like, oh, maybe
she's making a name.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Maybe she's gonna make it. She's seventy one years old.
I had no idea.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, so anyway, not making a run for president probably,
But Michael Monks, thank you very much. I anticipate your
report coming up on the governor in town and we'll
see you tomorrow at ten.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Thank you, Michelle and Keana. The studios decorated for my birthday.
There's streamers and banners and cup I've had two cupcakes
before ten twenty this morning.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Sugar high feels great. Anyway, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
It's nice working with people who who decorate for you.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
It's very nice.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
The bald Eagles are back. Everyone who was worried. Of course,
everyone's worried about their pets over the Fourth of July
weekend if you're in an area where there are fireworks.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It was funny.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I was up at my mom's place in northern California
and it was the first fourth of July, and I
don't know how long that I was up there, and
the first fourth of July, and I don't know how
long that It was odd how I heard no fireworks
where I lived. Down here, the fireworks go on all
the time throughout the night.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
It's like Fallujah.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
You know this in southern California, it's like depending upon
where you live, sometimes it's just they're ongoing. Anyway, there
was nothing where she lives. There's a whole blackout in
her county. There's no fireworks except for the county fair.
So it was kind of oddly quiet. But if you
were worried about your pets, you were also worried about
the Big Bear Eagles on Friday night, the booms and
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the blasts, so the fireworks frightened Jackie and Shadow Away
and the Sunny d Gizmo. The fireworks were especially hard,
probably on baby Sonny and Gizmo. But all of the
birds are back the Eaglitz Fair. Just find this fourth
of July if you were wondering. All right, Hollywood Burbank
(10:15):
Airport one of my favorite things. They call it one
of La County's secrets when it comes to travel. I
think the secret is out by now, but maybe it's
not if you've just moved to La I love Hollywood
Burbank Airport. I love everything about it. I love the location,
I love the parking, I love the bars. Hollywood Burbank
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Airport is so easy. And I had no idea about
this chapter of it. During World War Two, let me know,
have you heard about this Operation Camouflage. It was a
joint venture by Hollywood and by military leaders. So Burbank
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Airport opened up in nineteen thirty as United Airport. This
was a time when commercial flying was a luxury. It
was reserved for people with a lot of money. Burbank
was the destination for travel because most public carriers flew
out of there, but within about a decade its use shifted.
This new era came when Lockheed purchased the airport in
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nineteen forty during World War II, so Lockheed Airport Terminal.
This is what it was renamed. Largely transitioned from commercial
flying to building combat planes, so most public carriers at
this time had.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Left for Lax.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
The airport was directly next to the Lockheed plant where
thousands of fighter aircraft were being made. Then Pearl Harbor
happens December nineteen forty one, and there was a lot
of fear and a lot of hype about the possibility
of Japanese aerial strikes on the West Coast. This was
a distinct possibility, so the military wanted to protect strategic facilities,
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including the Lockheed plant at Burbank. This is where the
fighter aircraft was being made. So Army members placed barricades
around all the buildings and they called in an expert,
Colonel John Omer, and his mission was this, find a
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way to hide the Lockheed plant by turning it into
a fake suburb. Make it look like Resita, make it
look like North Hollywood. And he apparently got a blank
check to get to work. So under Colonel John's directions,
his Camouflage Engineering Battalion teamed up with Hollywood set designers
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artists from Disney, Paramount, twentieth Century Fox to disguise the buildings.
It took more than a year and they came up
with this idea to drape all the buildings with a
thousand acre canopy that would create a suburban illusion.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
From the air.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
It's like a twilight zone when you look at the
overhead shot. The canopy was made of chicken wire, netting,
and canvas and it blended into the grass around it.
Set designers created the illusion of fake trees by blowing
chicken feathers onto wires painted with this waterproof adhesive, and
then those feathers were spray painted green or brown to
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create realistic scenes.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Of growth decay.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Anyway, some of the guys that were creating the bomber
planes was said that there were picking chicken feathers out
of their hair NonStop as they were building these airplanes.
But the airfields, the parking lots painted green to look
like alfalfa fields.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Employees would play their part two.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
During breaks, they'd go back to burlap bungalows take down
laundry from clothes lines, and it did. From five thousand
feet above, it looked like a complete California suburb.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
The only giveaway was that you could.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Spot a railroad track beginning and ending within the canopy
like a cartoon. I thought that was very cool. Millions
of dollars put in to the efforts. We don't know
how long Operation Camouflage stayed up, but in nineteen forty
five everything was back to normal. The overhead shots of
forty five the set had been taken down. All right,
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Coming up next, people are taking their babies to raves. Yes,
raves are back in this time around. They're for babies.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
It is for babies. Yeah, they're calling them baby raves.
This story may sound fun and whimsical, but it actually
has some layers to it because it's kind of about
the next chapter of boy bands. What happens after the
boys and the bands grow up. Sometimes that can be
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tragic as well. Right, this is not one of those stories.
Back to the people who are going to these baby raves,
Brionees is one of them. She's actually a concert veteran.
Natalie has been to heavy metal concert, She's been to
a punk music festival.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
But Natalie naps most of the time.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Why well, Natalie's two and she just went to her
first baby rave with her parents. Her dad is Alvin,
he is thirty six, and her mom is Sandra, she
is thirty eight. Sandra says I can handle kids music now,
she says, with the beat and that techno touch to it,
it makes me able to tolerate listening to it all
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day long, because babies love the music. So they took
Natalie to the Roxy and they lined up to meet
Lenny Pierce. Lenny Pierce is the mastermind behind Natalie to
your old Natalie's favorite song, the Wheels on the Bus.
Think about what you just heard with head, shoulders, knees
and toes, and give it to the wheels on the
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bus that same kind of treatment. It's not the classic version, right,
this is a different rendition and it's got a lot
of bass, and it's got a lot of vibe. And
Natalie at two is here for it, but so is
her mom, And these are people that have lined up
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to see Lenny Pierce. If the name sounds familiar, it's
because this is not Lenny Pierce's first act.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Lenny Pierce.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
And his identical twin brother are both in children's entertainment.
Before you thinking that that's weird, they started in entertainment,
But before we get there John, who is the older
twin John and Lenny. John's the older one by about
two minutes. He says, we're both in the toddler scene.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
John is a member of the Wiggles cast. He's the
Purple Wiggle if you're familiar with it, and Pierce is
known as the Purple Wiggle on social media. He's got
more than two million followers on TikTok more than a
million on Instagram. Before becoming part of the toddler scene,
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two fixtures in the toddler scene, these twin brothers were
members of Justice Crew.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
This was a boy.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Band, a dance troupe that one Australia's got talent about
fifteen years ago. For a few years, the boy band's
future burned white heart hot. They were the talk of Australia.
They had the goal to break through in the US.
That never happened and as you know this, most boy
bands have a certain amount of time.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
A window in the spotlight.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
In twenty sixteen, he appears, this is the one who's
created the music. Lenny Pierce quit Justice Crew to focus
on DJing music production. But this was a hard road, right,
so he worked as a salesperson at an Australian electronics
store to make ends meet. He says at the time
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people were like, aren't you from Justice Crew? And he
was like, yeah, now do you want this lens with
that camera. In twenty twenty two, he became a dad
to his daughter Mila and changed the course of his creativity.
He started remixing children's songs with the Ravy music. Well,
they're taking this all on the road. There is also
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a sidekick for Lenny Peers Rocks at the Roxy. You
saw his sidekick. It's Kuma the monkey who hypes up
the crowd and they say that this cad like, what
are your concerns? Your concerns are If I take my
kid to this, they are going to be They're going
to go nuts, right, They're going to go insane taking
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kids to a rave even in the middle of the
day with a face painting session. This sounds insane. Is
just the image we want to teach our kids. Well,
what are you imagining? Are you mentioning ninety seven? Are
you imagining ecstasy and drugs in crystal guys or water bottles?
That's not what this is. It's just more about the music.
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They say that it can be beneficial for kids and parents. A.
Jenna Markovitz is director of UCLA Health music therapy program
That sounds like fun. She says, techno promotes oxytocin, It
boosts and doorphins, It can encourage joy and play, and
that supports brain development emotional regulation. Overstimulation would be a problem.
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The music is loud, too, write It's typically set to
eighty five to ninety decibels, and so they say, obviously
where the toddler headphones with the noise reduction of twenty
to thirty decibels are higher. And then the overstimulation. At
the Roxy show, one toddler sat down eight half a
bag of goldfish crackers and poured the rest out on
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the floor. Now, to me, that sounds like a Tuesday.
Some people may call that overstimulation. Another disappear into the
crowd for a few alarming moments before being returned by
a good samaritan who hasn't had that experience with a friend.
When they disappear into the crowd and then they return
with new friends. Sometimes the UCLA therapist says, for any child,
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I would recommend breaks every thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Step outside, she.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Says, and after the show, you got to get the
kid's nervous system back down. Lots of cuddles and silence
and hugs. Also sounds like after nineteen ninety seven Rave treatment.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
But anyway, Hey, whatever you.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Can do as a family, right, if you can enjoy
it and your kids can enjoy it, why not. Those
tunes are catchy, though, I'm not gonna lie. Good and
good for this guy, Lenny Pierce, the mastermind, the former
boy band guy for creating a second act here. Very cool,
all right? Coming up next, a tale of two parks.
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There's a park in Long Beach and a park in
Santa Monica, very different clientele. Both took Disney size. We'll
tell you about it when we come back.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
When we look into the world of baseball, we find
the complete rosters for the MLB All Star Game are set.
Nineteen first time All Stars this season. Pitchers and reserves
were announced yesterday. Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto, National's outfielder James
Wood and astros Ace Hunter Brown headline the group of
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first time All Stars. Dodgers lead all teams with five selections,
including Clayton Kershaw as a special commissioner selection after getting
the three thousand strikeout mark. Met Rosters selected with starters
being elected by fans, seventeen players chosen in a player vote,
and then six players are selected by league officials. Every
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club has at least one player to represent their team
in the All Star Game. It will be July fifteenth
in Hotlanta. It is summer, and what makes you think
about summer while going to amusement parks?
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Right?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
If you remember, this may be a little trip down
memory lane for y'all. There were a couple parks that
were popular in this area years ago. One was a
Poor Boy's disneyland out in Santa Monica known as the
Pacific Ocean Park, and the other was in Long Beach
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the Pike, which was a seedier experience. I guess you
could say unsavory. Maybe you didn't have to look too
hard at the Pike to find gambling, dive bars, tattoo parlors,
a cobra.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Woman who was really a man.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
The La Times had a nice little ride up of
this over the weekend. Somebody found a corpse there at
one point. Anyway, this other park up in Santa Monica.
The Pacific Ocean Park was more perky, more clean, cut
the sand, the sky, the zippy, futuristic razzle dazzle rides.
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As they wrote in the La Times, this was along
the sand of Santa Monica and Venice.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
It opened at.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Nineteen fifty eight, three years after Disneyland. It didn't even
last ten years, but the memories remain. Santa Monica has
seen amusement parks come and go over past one hundred
and twenty years, but POP, as it's known, fairly recent
and like I said, the memories remain. They say that
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POP was a creature of the Cold War America. Westinghouse
Electric Corp. Built one display a replica of the whole
of the atomic powered Nautilus submarine, had sound effects like
an actual submarine at sea.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
They had a.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Spaceship theater that took the audience to Mars House of Tomorrow,
which sounds a little bit like Disneyland, that ran on
electronic age conveniences with representation of the Atomic City of Tomorrow.
An ocean skyway ride that took visitors and clear gondolas
out over the surf of the Pacific.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
How cool.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Zevy Roslovsky who I covered four years when he was
a supervisor.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Actually we had him on the program recently.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I forget what for, but he says that me and
my buddies would take the bus out there. We'd spend
the day having fun. Great place to go with girls.
You had a crush on poor boys Disneyland. You were
greeted by the bright sunshine on the pier with the
attractions Pacific Ocean in my line of sight, he said.
I felt wronged when it closed, and I've missed it
ever since. My mom has a memory of I think
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it was called Playland, kind of a similar type of
beach amusement park in Ocean Beach in San Francisco. There
in the sunset. But anyway, there was also well. That
one closed by the autumn of nineteen sixty seven, they said,
ostensibly for repairs, but in fact for good, And as
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the La Times wrote in February of seventy five, as
the last of it was being demolished. Sooner or later,
all dreams come to an end. The Pike, the Cea
Deer Park down South soldiered on in nineteen nineteen. It
became the homeport Long Peach did for the nation's specific
fleet of battleships. More ships would follow. Navy ended up
(25:23):
being a big business for Long Beach and for the Pike,
well that's where a lot of the guys would hang out.
It did have a problem attracting families. At one point
it tried to make a shift into the family world
because there was a lot of gambling, open air crap games,
(25:44):
no police.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
It sounds like a good time.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Kind of like the wild Wild West, but in Long Beach,
at the Pipe near the water gambling.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
What's not to like?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
But that, by the way, closed in I believe nineteen
seventy nine. But these old parks are all fun to
talk about, aren't they. How cool does that Santa Monica
Park sound though, by the way, the Pacific Ocean Park?
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I mean they both sound good. There's something for everybody.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
You know, you want some clean cut fun, you want
to gamble, maybe see a body head down south a
couple miles.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Something for everybody, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
When we come back, Elon Musk is not getting off
this third party business, and Trump is firing back fired
back over the weekend, and recent comments just this morning
about what he thinks about Elon Musk and his idea
for a third Party. Here's a tease. Trump says that
Elon Musk is totally off the rails. We'll get into it.
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