May 1, 2025 • 28 mins
Overhaul the LAPD, in this economy? Questions surround chief’s plan amid budget crunch. L.A. lifeguards taking mental health leave as beach algae bloom takes toll. They came to L.A. for the Hollywood dream, then shot to stardom as ‘Girls Gone Bible’. Baseball fan falls from the stands in Pittsburgh
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
White House National Security Advisor Mike Waltz is apparently set
to leave the administration, according to a couple of people
talk to the AP also being reported by CBS ABC
The Wall Street Journal. Waltz was the one that came
under scrutiny in March after the revelations that he had
added Jeffrey Goldberg, an editor for The Atlantic magazine, to
(00:30):
a private text chain on the encrypted messaging app Signal.
Laura Lomer, apparently one of the allies of President Trump
with no real official government position, has also targeted him,
telling Trump in a recent Noble Office conversation that Trump
needs to purge aids who she believes are not sufficiently
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loyal to the make America Great Again agenda?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Are we just going to one more than I'm allotted?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I just want everybody to follow along with the idiocy
of people saying I've listened to you for years and
I know everything you've ever said.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
You know, you guys have no credibility about talking about
the way someone speaks or the way they think, what
about Biden. I listen to you guys for years, and
you guys already ever said anything about abuse?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Sir, did you make fun of your grandpa with dementia?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Me?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Neither? Or I'm done with that.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Okay, We're done.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Ye close the door.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
From this point on it is going to be what
would be Shannon's stripper song after that.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
That's all I want to pals with it.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I'm open for that kind of feedback. We are dealing
with in Los Angeles and nearly billion dollar budget shortfall,
and now we're hearing that some of the job cuts
are going to land squarely with the LAPD. Michael Monks
has been following this all the detritus that is downtown LA.
One was on there. Here's my issue, just being an
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observer for twenty years here in LA. If you cut
jobs from the LAPD, Michael, it doesn't take away work
from the LAPD, which means you're dealing with something that
the LAPD knows all too well. And that little thing
is called overtime, which is going to cost the city
a hell of a lot more than those positions. Am
(02:25):
I wrong?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Hopefully not according to the city.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
I mean or or hopefully so according to the city,
because it's not just jobs are being eliminated, the overtime
budget is also being slashed.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Impossible.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
All of these things are an attempt to help close
that one billion dollar budget shortfall. Now, when the budget
was first proposed by Mayor Bass a couple of weeks ago,
it was noted, yes, there are layoffs in the LAPD proposed,
but no sworn officers.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
So okay, a sigh of relief.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
Maybe maybe they're talking about, you know, somebody who answers
the phones as a secretary or that type of person,
a driver. But apparently to the chief, these are significant
roles that do directly involve themselves in justice in solving cases.
And like you said, if those folks are gone, it
will be sworn officers that have to fill those roles.
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Chief McDonald's spoke to the La City Council Budget Committee
yesterday and here's a little bit of what he had
to say about it.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Give me, I'm sorry, I could have set that up
a little bit better. Here you go.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
The mayor's proposed budget includes a staggering reduction of four
hundred and three civilian positions, representing fifteen point two percent
of our civilian workforce. These are not faceless numbers. There
are men and women who've devoted their lives to public service,
often behind the scenes, with specialized skills, ensuring that our
officers have the tools, data, and operational support they need
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to keep our city safe. Their work is essential and
their loss is not just a human one, but one
that will be felt by every neighborhood in our city.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I have a question here. Tracy Park council member was
quoted as saying that officers would be taken off the
street to fill jobs like criminalists who handle DNA, gun
duy evidence things like that. Those are different things. Those
are different.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Jobs they are.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Don't take a patrol officer and make hey or she
a criminalist in the lab.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
She was joined by a couple other members of council
a timmic Oscar and John Lee yesterday before the Chief
spoke to you know, deride these proposed cuts in the department.
She may be technically incorrect on who would fill those roles,
but the chief did say it would be sworn officers
who are pulled off the streets to do some of
these desk jobs. He's talking about DNA ballistics analysis, so
that's directly involved in criminal analysis and investigation, but it
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off toying evidence and that sort of thing. So vehicle
mechanics are also in the chopping block, so when the
cruisers go down. We ran into this problem, yeah, during
the fires with some trucks that were parked and not
in use because they say we don't have enough guys
to fix the So that might be looming on the
horizon for the police department. He says the chief that
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we might have to shut down facilities, including jails, if
we don't have this type of workforce.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
There's a lot of crying wolf, isn't there when any
department is cut into But we need this or else,
and then they throw a worst case scenario at you
to scare you into them being able to keep the jobs.
But the LAPD right now is kind of there when
it comes to they they're already running very low at
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the LAPD. It's kind of like the same thing with
the animal services that we talked about. They're already running
at a deficit. These aren't bloated agencies.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
I don't think on paper they want about ten thousand officers.
They've got somewhere between eighty five hundred and eighty eight hundred,
depending on how many retirements have common during whichever month.
They've had a hard time filling the ranks. And they
are budgeted for about ten thousand officers, so they get
the money asigned, but they have not been able to
fill the ranks, and so at some point a question
has to be asked, if your recruitment efforts aren't working,
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what do you need to do as a department, either
to improve that effort or to improve your efficiencies to
better deliver protective services to the people of Los Angeles
with the resources that you have currently. One question that
was raised by council Member Eunisses Hernandez very anti police department,
especially with their budget. She wanted them to ground their
helicopters and Chief McDonald explained that the helicopter does fly
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about twenty hours a day, and she says is that necessary?
And he says it's necessary because it's easier to have
it already in the air than to call it off
a building should it be needed. But that's a question
that was raised yesterday.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Sure that I understand that question.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Absolutely, and so we'll see more of those questions you
mentioned Animal Service. All of these departments are coming through
to lead their case about why these cuts would be
detrimental to their various departments. It might be departments that
you never deal with. The arts and culture departments will
come in and say, you know, we won't be able
to have the events that mean so much too whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
The people will die, will die.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Without that painting on the walls.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
So today, the homeless spending is on the agenda and
that's going on right now at City Hall and I'll
have those reports throughout the remainder of the day. But
just to put a pen in this for you, you mentioned overtime.
The mayor is proposed reducing the overtime budget in the
LAPD by thirty six million dollars, and the Chief says
that means less deployment to target areas like Nis Beach,
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MacArthur Park, the RV Homeless Camp Task Force. So you
will see fewer people on the streets because of this,
even if officers aren't being laid off.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Thankless job. Jim McDonald has a thankless job, right.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Well, well, I mean, let's let's not pretend that overtime
hasn't been overused by people who protect and serve. That
is as long as that has been an occupation. It
has been overused, but it is necessary, especially when the
department is strained unfortunately. So all right, Michael Monks, we've
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got a lifeguard emergency and you were a lifeguard rag Doll.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
I think rag Doll would be your stripper song Aerosmith.
Oh really, that's a good one.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
I think you'd be great at it. Yes, I was
a ragged I was a lifeguard. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Oh, you know it.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I don't like it. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
That's helmer.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Got a cute that was quick, pretty quick?
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Yep.
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Waltz is expected to leave the Trump administration. It's been
reported in a couple of different major media outlets. This
developed what would be the first major staff shakeup of
the second Trump term.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
He come and came under fireback in March.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
If you remember when when Mike Waltz added journalist Jeffrey
Goldberg to a private text chain that was discussing planning
for a military operation against who the militants in Yemen.
Nothing official from the White House. The President did speak
at a National Prayer Day event outside the White House
in the Rose Garden today but did not make comments
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We have talked about the algae bloom that has taken
a toll on local beaches, a lot of dead animals,
sea lions, dolphins. It has been awful and now we're
seeing lifeguards have to take mental health leaves because of it.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Yeah, they say that a lot of them have feelings.
They care about marine life. That's why they chose a
job like being lifeguards. One of the reasons they chose
the profession. And when you see dolphins sea lions come ashore,
they're still alive. They do the best they can to
make them comfortable, but obviously it doesn't work out many times,
and that can take a toll.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Michael Monks is from Kentucky and a.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Lot of dolphins, sea lions, And I got it, Pricks.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
You know I was a lifeguard. You were deep in
pig pig butt hollow.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
How does that work?
Speaker 6 (11:06):
Yeah, that's the county seat. I'm surprised at your geographic knowledge. Yeah, well,
being a lifeguard is a pretty sweet gig in general.
Now these are you know, the beach lifeguards. You start
to get into like, oh, where was I lifeguard? I
was a lifeguard on campus. I don't want to brag
about my undergraduate education, but it was at Northern Kentucky University.
Oh my god, amazing and the aquatic Center. I was
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also in the summers a lifeguard at a country club.
And then the summer after I graduated, I couldn't get
off of Kentucky fast enough, so I worked at a
sleep away summer camp in the Poconos. And so I
was a lifeguard at the pool there and also the
dreaded lake.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Yeahs die, not that I'm aware of.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
There were a couple of floaters, but I don't think
it was on my shift.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah. I feel like whenever there's a camp these days,
whether it's a book or a movie, someone dies.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
This was a summer camp.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
You got the vibes because all the movies are shot
at those places and they all look the same. And
that was all I could think. Not a good choice
on my part, Not a good I should have just
left town and moved to LA or something.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
But I don't know. I got a memoir out of.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
It, Yes, story exactly, So go on. Sorry.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
And so when you're that kind of lifeguard me that
you know, this is the casual after class or in
the summertime, it's a pretty good gig. Very rarely are
you needed to do anything to save someone. It happens,
and you're there for that purpose. Mostly you're doing the
mundane maintenance of the pool, changing the chlorine and making
sure that the people to stop running. Stop running is
what you say the most. No running, you know. And
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you're trolling the whistle to the left and then you're
trolling it to the right, and then your shift is over.
It's a great gig and you get a tan if
it's outside. These are pro lifeguards who are dealing with
significant tragedy right that they can't save. When you are lifeguard,
you were trained to save, right, and these are animals.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Give mouth to mouth to a dolphin that's succumbed to algae.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
No, you don't want to put your mouth mouth to blowhole.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Probably mouth to blowhole is that the way it would
go in I've never tried, sounds like you have, Okay,
I have, but it didn't work.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Well, you're talking about some beloved creatures, the dolphin, the
sea lion. He's trying to put the trade on the trail,
the birds, and.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
You're talking about some beloved animals.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
It's not a rat you ran over in downtown l A. Okay,
these are animals that you We've talked about this before, Shannon.
There are tears of feelings for animals, right. Depending on
the type of animal, you have different feelings a pigeon.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Ken Champeau is the architect of the animal hierarchy. He
famously would say, I would not eat a horse.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
So there's not really like a bold position.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
No, but that was the top of his higher you know.
He didn't want, you know, animals, and further down you
would eat them, but up at the top you would
not eat.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
I think you go farther down, I wouldn't eat those
animals either. I wouldn't need a rat. I'd need a
horse before I eat a rat, would you. I would
eat a horse burger before you gave me a rat sandwich.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I mean from a morality perspective is where they hierarchy
comes from. The things you'd feel bad about eating. You
would feel bad about eating a you wouldn't want to,
but if it came down to it, you went and
feel like, oh it's so cute.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
I don't know that I.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Would more in the majestic animal. Yeah, I might more
eat a majestic animal.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
I think about my cat this way though, like, what
if it came, what if the apocalypse comes?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
The cat will eat you before you eat the cat.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
He will try and has tried. I've got to scratching
my arm right now, on your forearm. You know that's
where they go?
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Is that where they go? But you die?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
That's the first thing your cat. It's not even that
flesh groom. That's not the good meat. I got better
meat than forearms.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Now that's where cats go.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Like the forearm must be tender or something.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
What's your cat's name?
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Milo, Milo Monks? Like you said, he was trying to
put the show back on the tracks.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Well, all right, thanks Michael.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Goodbye, goodbye. Remember remember no running.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Twirl to the right, twirl to the left.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Shifts over. Garry and Channon will continue in just a moment.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
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Speaker 1 (15:05):
I've everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Stories We are following
for you today? Is it the fan that fell off
the no?
Speaker 5 (15:11):
No, no, brooks Lee. Oh kid who used to play
at cal Poly Samuels Obispo's now playing for the Twins
and hit a double.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Oh thanks. I saw him play a bunch of times
up at cal Poly. They keep playing the fan falling
out of the stands thing. That's what I was wondering.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Oh yeah, No.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
My concern is they're going to start putting nets up
in the outfield so people don't fall.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often. Elon Musk is
defending the work of Doge as he prepares to scale
back from his role in government spend more time at
his businesses. It did an interview with reporters at the
White House yesterday giving hazy answers about the work he'd
been doing, and Doge's future seemed taken aback by the
(15:54):
backlash he has encountered. He has estimated he's cut one
hundred and sixty billions so far and hard to get
anywhere near close to his original stated goal of one
trillion dollars. He said, it's sort of how much pain
is the cabinet in Congress? Willing to take.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Speaking of Elon Musk, the Wall Street Journal ran with
a report today that Tesla was Tesla's board was looking
at replacing Elon Musk. Board members reached out to executive
search firms to work on a formal process. Elon Musk
came out and said it is an extremely bad breach
of ethics that the Wall Street Journal would even publish
a deliberately false article and failed to include an unequivocal
(16:36):
denial beforehand by the Tesla board of directors.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Well, different influencers are popping up all over the place
with different takes on things, whether it is true crime,
influencers on TikTok as they do their makeup and pimp products,
or what have you. God is no different influencers have
popped up preaching about God and they are not preachers.
(17:04):
Girls Gone Bible is what we're referring to. It is
at the top of the religious podcast charts on Spotify,
more than twenty million listens in just two years. Girls
Gone Bible. These are a couple of women who have
no formal training in ministry, but they have become unlikely
(17:24):
religious authorities to a fan base larger than that of
many of the nation's most popular preachers. It's a two
microphone megachurch. They call it speaking to the nation's evangelical
teen and tween girls. Will Hart is a pastor and
director of Iris Global, a church with missions all over
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the world. He told these women, you're reaching more people
than I've reached in twenty five years of ministry. He said,
is that weird for you? It's weird for me, but
it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
One of them is an Albanian immigrant. Came to the
United States at the age of two, spent her high
school years in Clearwater, Florida, graduated in twenty fourteen, and
moved here to LA to study acting. She did get
a couple of little roles, but she supported herself waiting tables.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Everybody's heard heard that story before.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Angela Haleiley and then Ariel Ritzma also came to LA
right out of high school. She came to LA from Massachusetts,
small town right outside of Boston, and after a rough
start sleeping on the blow up mattress in a small
apartment off of Hollywood Boulevard. Again, very common story. I'm
sure everybody's got a version of that, she found an agent.
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She started acting in theater productions and started modeling, developed
a small social media following and doing brand deals to
pay the bills.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Their fans say they're drawn in by these women's unique backgrounds.
Both raised Catholic, journey to faith began with alcoholism, OCD,
panic disorder, depression, and anxiety, all of which they just
discuss on the podcast.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
If the message is it's a little uncomfortable, because I
think that there's a certain amount of reverence, if that's
the right word that should go with a discussion of faith.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
I think you're honest about it.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I think whatever leads you to God leads you to God.
And right, who are as anybody to say you didn't
get to God the right way? Right? The point is
you got to God. I think most people would argue.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
I think there's also that interesting moment when what turns
what starts as just a normal conversation. One of them
says to the other, you know what other people would
like to listen to us have this conversation.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Each ninety minute Girls Gone Bible episode generally follows the
same format. Yeah, the first few minutes like a slumber party.
They're catching up, they're joking around. Maybe it's a new haircut,
or something, and then they launch into the topic of
the day. It may be shame, it may be being single,
it may be doubt or modesty. They read relevant passages
from the Bible. Occasionally they will interview a guest. I
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love the idea of making the Bible applicable for your
life and for things that make it more I don't know, applicable.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Well.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
It is also sometimes you read it and it's hard
to relate to it, especially if you're a young person
and you're like, what the hell are you talking about?
I'm worried about this or this and this. And if
you can take something from the Bible and make it
make sense for what you're going through in life, I
think that is a good thing.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Well, and they discuss, among other things, I mean the
hot topics because they're women, often deal with sexuality or looks.
Angela says, I've leaned into using sexuality or looks as
a means of fulfillment, only to find myself deeply, deeply disempowered.
The world tells you this is what's empowered, and she says,
we come to find out it is not that.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
This is why I tell you all the time that
you don't need to come in here showing you know.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
As much leg as I do.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
It's you. It's your breasts that I feel like should
be more private. You know, you don't need to show
them around here to make people like you. You can.
We know that they're there, We know that you know
you're dealing with more than most, and good for you.
But like that's not why we like you. We like
you for who you are.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
I'm dealing with more than most.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Sometimes the Good Lord blesses us in different ways. And
the Good Lord saw your chest and he put his
little magic wand on it, and he will.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Two poofsoof.
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How about them Dodgers, My goodness, just bearing I mean,
I guess it's more about the Marlins, isn't it. They've
head back to back games of racking up the offense there.
Austin Barnes had a hell of a night last night.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Dodgers beat the Marlins twelve to seven last night.
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Really so Tim.
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Kate's always walking around here with sushi sushi. But then
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Yeah, we don't see him with sushi when he's eating
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They're awful. How could they be awful with Lebron James
and Luka Doncic don Dunkic, don'tche.
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Luca. Lebron and Luca were supposed to be the saviors.
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Is that right?
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Lebron is on borrowed time.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Lebron's getting up there. Yeah, it's ironic to be hearing
that from a woman in the autumn of her life.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
What I'm sorry, what I'm not you.
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I was just preferring if there was a woman who
said that about Lebron is the old one, and then
she was older than Lebron, it'd be kind of a.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Well, he's playing a professional sport that men half of
his age play, Yeah, like his son, Like I interviewed
him when he was seventeen coming into the league, which
was cool.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
How old were you?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Probably twenty one a whole I'm not playing a professional
sport at this age. I'm just living my life. I
think I'm still allowed to do that.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Even that's taking its tool. Guy.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
You have probably seen the video of this a man
a critic condition after he dropped from the stands to
the ground at a Pittsburgh Pirates game in Pittsburgh last night.
Guys in critical condition at this point. They're saying it
was an accidental twenty twenty one foot drop from his
seat onto the field of play. He actually fell onto
the warning track out right center field. It happened during
(24:22):
a play. I think it was Andrew McCutcheon had hit
a ball through the left side of the infield, so
it's going to left field. This guy was in right
center field, so everybody's attention, at least everybody on the field,
their attention is away from him, and he kind of
falls behind the outfielders and it's an awful looking fall.
(24:43):
From the video from sort of behind home plate, you
can see it happen where it's hard to tell if
he's getting up to jump up to celebrate the fact
that that was a base hit, because he kind of
pushes himself up on the railing and then immediately goes
forward over. It didn't look like anybody touched him or
pushed him or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Was he drinking yeah, probably, yeah, But.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
The trainers for both teams immediately ran out to right
center field and they had to get the stretcher out there.
You could see the players were pretty shaken up by
all of this because the guy was not moving when
they got out there. It looked like he landed head next.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I first, yeah, I didn't think that he was going
to survive that fall by the look of it.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
The detectives from the Pittsburgh Police Department's Violent Crime Unit
are leading the investigation into this, and again it doesn't
appear that they're going to find anything.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
It's an accident.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Full story.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
We will get to my favorite story of the day
coming up later in the show. It is the Great
Conclave secret. What do the cardinals the would be popes eat?
Apparently I did not know this, but apparently for more
than seven hundred and fifty years there have been in
(26:02):
place strict rules that guard what cardinals can and cannot eat.
Why why do they have weak stomachs?
Speaker 5 (26:11):
You ask, do they have weak stomachs or something?
Speaker 1 (26:15):
It's to prevent hidden messages stopped inside chicken ravioli and
napkinss messages from whom some sort of peasant on the
street that wants to tell which cardinal which pope to pick.
I mean fascinating, right, very weird. Well, I mean, you know,
(26:36):
it's not just the cardinals who There's a lot of
politics that surround the picking of a pope. It's not
just about God and religion. There's a lot of things
that go into it. You got to follow the money too.
Don't forget about the money.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Involved, the idea that the food would be the vehicle
for these messages.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Dude, well, how else are you going to get a
message to the cardinals? Great question, they're sequestered.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
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air during the week.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
There's been a bunch of renovations that Trump has made
to the White House. Some of them we've seen, some
of the golden touches in the Oval office, or the
decorations like the the what was that aircraft that he
does air Force one or the forty seven that we've
(27:42):
seen displayed on the table there. We've got a list
of all all of the renovations, pretty comical stuff.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
White House National Security Advisor Mike Waltz is apparently set
to leave the administration, according to a couple of people
talk to the AP also being reported by CBS ABC
The Wall Street Journal. Waltz was the one that came
under scrutiny in March after the revelations that he had
added Jeffrey Goldberg, an editor for The Atlantic magazine, to
(00:30):
a private text chain on the encrypted messaging app Signal.
Laura Lomer, apparently one of the allies of President Trump
with no real official government position, has also targeted him,
telling Trump in a recent Noble Office conversation that Trump
needs to purge aids who she believes are not sufficiently
(00:51):
loyal to the make America Great Again agenda?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Are we just going to one more than I'm allotted?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I just want everybody to follow along with the idiocy
of people saying I've listened to you for years and
I know everything you've ever said.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
You know, you guys have no credibility about talking about
the way someone speaks or the way they think, what
about Biden. I listen to you guys for years, and
you guys already ever said anything about abuse?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Sir, did you make fun of your grandpa with dementia?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Me?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Neither? Or I'm done with that.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Okay, We're done.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Ye close the door.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
From this point on it is going to be what
would be Shannon's stripper song after that.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
That's all I want to pals with it.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I'm open for that kind of feedback. We are dealing
with in Los Angeles and nearly billion dollar budget shortfall,
and now we're hearing that some of the job cuts
are going to land squarely with the LAPD. Michael Monks
has been following this all the detritus that is downtown LA.
One was on there. Here's my issue, just being an
(02:04):
observer for twenty years here in LA. If you cut
jobs from the LAPD, Michael, it doesn't take away work
from the LAPD, which means you're dealing with something that
the LAPD knows all too well. And that little thing
is called overtime, which is going to cost the city
a hell of a lot more than those positions. Am
(02:25):
I wrong?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Hopefully not according to the city.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
I mean or or hopefully so according to the city,
because it's not just jobs are being eliminated, the overtime
budget is also being slashed.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Impossible.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
All of these things are an attempt to help close
that one billion dollar budget shortfall. Now, when the budget
was first proposed by Mayor Bass a couple of weeks ago,
it was noted, yes, there are layoffs in the LAPD proposed,
but no sworn officers.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
So okay, a sigh of relief.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
Maybe maybe they're talking about, you know, somebody who answers
the phones as a secretary or that type of person,
a driver. But apparently to the chief, these are significant
roles that do directly involve themselves in justice in solving cases.
And like you said, if those folks are gone, it
will be sworn officers that have to fill those roles.
(03:14):
Chief McDonald's spoke to the La City Council Budget Committee
yesterday and here's a little bit of what he had
to say about it.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Give me, I'm sorry, I could have set that up
a little bit better. Here you go.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
The mayor's proposed budget includes a staggering reduction of four
hundred and three civilian positions, representing fifteen point two percent
of our civilian workforce. These are not faceless numbers. There
are men and women who've devoted their lives to public service,
often behind the scenes, with specialized skills, ensuring that our
officers have the tools, data, and operational support they need
(03:48):
to keep our city safe. Their work is essential and
their loss is not just a human one, but one
that will be felt by every neighborhood in our city.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I have a question here. Tracy Park council member was
quoted as saying that officers would be taken off the
street to fill jobs like criminalists who handle DNA, gun
duy evidence things like that. Those are different things. Those
are different.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Jobs they are.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Don't take a patrol officer and make hey or she
a criminalist in the lab.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
She was joined by a couple other members of council
a timmic Oscar and John Lee yesterday before the Chief
spoke to you know, deride these proposed cuts in the department.
She may be technically incorrect on who would fill those roles,
but the chief did say it would be sworn officers
who are pulled off the streets to do some of
these desk jobs. He's talking about DNA ballistics analysis, so
that's directly involved in criminal analysis and investigation, but it
(04:45):
off toying evidence and that sort of thing. So vehicle
mechanics are also in the chopping block, so when the
cruisers go down. We ran into this problem, yeah, during
the fires with some trucks that were parked and not
in use because they say we don't have enough guys
to fix the So that might be looming on the
horizon for the police department. He says the chief that
(05:06):
we might have to shut down facilities, including jails, if
we don't have this type of workforce.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
There's a lot of crying wolf, isn't there when any
department is cut into But we need this or else,
and then they throw a worst case scenario at you
to scare you into them being able to keep the jobs.
But the LAPD right now is kind of there when
it comes to they they're already running very low at
(05:34):
the LAPD. It's kind of like the same thing with
the animal services that we talked about. They're already running
at a deficit. These aren't bloated agencies.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
I don't think on paper they want about ten thousand officers.
They've got somewhere between eighty five hundred and eighty eight hundred,
depending on how many retirements have common during whichever month.
They've had a hard time filling the ranks. And they
are budgeted for about ten thousand officers, so they get
the money asigned, but they have not been able to
fill the ranks, and so at some point a question
has to be asked, if your recruitment efforts aren't working,
(06:05):
what do you need to do as a department, either
to improve that effort or to improve your efficiencies to
better deliver protective services to the people of Los Angeles
with the resources that you have currently. One question that
was raised by council Member Eunisses Hernandez very anti police department,
especially with their budget. She wanted them to ground their
helicopters and Chief McDonald explained that the helicopter does fly
(06:28):
about twenty hours a day, and she says is that necessary?
And he says it's necessary because it's easier to have
it already in the air than to call it off
a building should it be needed. But that's a question
that was raised yesterday.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Sure that I understand that question.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Absolutely, and so we'll see more of those questions you
mentioned Animal Service. All of these departments are coming through
to lead their case about why these cuts would be
detrimental to their various departments. It might be departments that
you never deal with. The arts and culture departments will
come in and say, you know, we won't be able
to have the events that mean so much too whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
The people will die, will die.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Without that painting on the walls.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
So today, the homeless spending is on the agenda and
that's going on right now at City Hall and I'll
have those reports throughout the remainder of the day. But
just to put a pen in this for you, you mentioned overtime.
The mayor is proposed reducing the overtime budget in the
LAPD by thirty six million dollars, and the Chief says
that means less deployment to target areas like Nis Beach,
(07:24):
MacArthur Park, the RV Homeless Camp Task Force. So you
will see fewer people on the streets because of this,
even if officers aren't being laid off.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Thankless job. Jim McDonald has a thankless job, right.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Well, well, I mean, let's let's not pretend that overtime
hasn't been overused by people who protect and serve. That
is as long as that has been an occupation. It
has been overused, but it is necessary, especially when the
department is strained unfortunately. So all right, Michael Monks, we've
(07:59):
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Speaker 5 (08:05):
I think rag Doll would be your stripper song Aerosmith.
Oh really, that's a good one.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
I think you'd be great at it. Yes, I was
a ragged I was a lifeguard. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Oh, you know it.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I don't like it. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
That's helmer.
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Yep.
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At the same time, White House National Security Advisor Mike
Waltz is expected to leave the Trump administration. It's been
reported in a couple of different major media outlets. This
developed what would be the first major staff shakeup of
the second Trump term.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
He come and came under fireback in March.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
If you remember when when Mike Waltz added journalist Jeffrey
Goldberg to a private text chain that was discussing planning
for a military operation against who the militants in Yemen.
Nothing official from the White House. The President did speak
at a National Prayer Day event outside the White House
in the Rose Garden today but did not make comments
(09:39):
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Speaker 1 (10:18):
We have talked about the algae bloom that has taken
a toll on local beaches, a lot of dead animals,
sea lions, dolphins. It has been awful and now we're
seeing lifeguards have to take mental health leaves because of it.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Yeah, they say that a lot of them have feelings.
They care about marine life. That's why they chose a
job like being lifeguards. One of the reasons they chose
the profession. And when you see dolphins sea lions come ashore,
they're still alive. They do the best they can to
make them comfortable, but obviously it doesn't work out many times,
and that can take a toll.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Michael Monks is from Kentucky and a.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Lot of dolphins, sea lions, And I got it, Pricks.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
You know I was a lifeguard. You were deep in
pig pig butt hollow.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
How does that work?
Speaker 6 (11:06):
Yeah, that's the county seat. I'm surprised at your geographic knowledge. Yeah, well,
being a lifeguard is a pretty sweet gig in general.
Now these are you know, the beach lifeguards. You start
to get into like, oh, where was I lifeguard? I
was a lifeguard on campus. I don't want to brag
about my undergraduate education, but it was at Northern Kentucky University.
Oh my god, amazing and the aquatic Center. I was
(11:28):
also in the summers a lifeguard at a country club.
And then the summer after I graduated, I couldn't get
off of Kentucky fast enough, so I worked at a
sleep away summer camp in the Poconos. And so I
was a lifeguard at the pool there and also the
dreaded lake.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Yeahs die, not that I'm aware of.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
There were a couple of floaters, but I don't think
it was on my shift.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah. I feel like whenever there's a camp these days,
whether it's a book or a movie, someone dies.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
This was a summer camp.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
You got the vibes because all the movies are shot
at those places and they all look the same. And
that was all I could think. Not a good choice
on my part, Not a good I should have just
left town and moved to LA or something.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
But I don't know. I got a memoir out of.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
It, Yes, story exactly, So go on. Sorry.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
And so when you're that kind of lifeguard me that
you know, this is the casual after class or in
the summertime, it's a pretty good gig. Very rarely are
you needed to do anything to save someone. It happens,
and you're there for that purpose. Mostly you're doing the
mundane maintenance of the pool, changing the chlorine and making
sure that the people to stop running. Stop running is
what you say the most. No running, you know. And
(12:30):
you're trolling the whistle to the left and then you're
trolling it to the right, and then your shift is over.
It's a great gig and you get a tan if
it's outside. These are pro lifeguards who are dealing with
significant tragedy right that they can't save. When you are lifeguard,
you were trained to save, right, and these are animals.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Give mouth to mouth to a dolphin that's succumbed to algae.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
No, you don't want to put your mouth mouth to blowhole.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Probably mouth to blowhole is that the way it would
go in I've never tried, sounds like you have, Okay,
I have, but it didn't work.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Well, you're talking about some beloved creatures, the dolphin, the
sea lion. He's trying to put the trade on the trail,
the birds, and.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
You're talking about some beloved animals.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
It's not a rat you ran over in downtown l A. Okay,
these are animals that you We've talked about this before, Shannon.
There are tears of feelings for animals, right. Depending on
the type of animal, you have different feelings a pigeon.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Ken Champeau is the architect of the animal hierarchy. He
famously would say, I would not eat a horse.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
So there's not really like a bold position.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
No, but that was the top of his higher you know.
He didn't want, you know, animals, and further down you
would eat them, but up at the top you would
not eat.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
I think you go farther down, I wouldn't eat those
animals either. I wouldn't need a rat. I'd need a
horse before I eat a rat, would you. I would
eat a horse burger before you gave me a rat sandwich.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I mean from a morality perspective is where they hierarchy
comes from. The things you'd feel bad about eating. You
would feel bad about eating a you wouldn't want to,
but if it came down to it, you went and
feel like, oh it's so cute.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
I don't know that I.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Would more in the majestic animal. Yeah, I might more
eat a majestic animal.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
I think about my cat this way though, like, what
if it came, what if the apocalypse comes?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
The cat will eat you before you eat the cat.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
He will try and has tried. I've got to scratching
my arm right now, on your forearm. You know that's
where they go?
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Is that where they go? But you die?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
That's the first thing your cat. It's not even that
flesh groom. That's not the good meat. I got better
meat than forearms.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Now that's where cats go.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Like the forearm must be tender or something.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
What's your cat's name?
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Milo, Milo Monks? Like you said, he was trying to
put the show back on the tracks.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Well, all right, thanks Michael.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Goodbye, goodbye. Remember remember no running.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Twirl to the right, twirl to the left.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Shifts over. Garry and Channon will continue in just a moment.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
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Speaker 1 (15:05):
I've everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Stories We are following
for you today? Is it the fan that fell off
the no?
Speaker 5 (15:11):
No, no, brooks Lee. Oh kid who used to play
at cal Poly Samuels Obispo's now playing for the Twins
and hit a double.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Oh thanks. I saw him play a bunch of times
up at cal Poly. They keep playing the fan falling
out of the stands thing. That's what I was wondering.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Oh yeah, No.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
My concern is they're going to start putting nets up
in the outfield so people don't fall.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often. Elon Musk is
defending the work of Doge as he prepares to scale
back from his role in government spend more time at
his businesses. It did an interview with reporters at the
White House yesterday giving hazy answers about the work he'd
been doing, and Doge's future seemed taken aback by the
(15:54):
backlash he has encountered. He has estimated he's cut one
hundred and sixty billions so far and hard to get
anywhere near close to his original stated goal of one
trillion dollars. He said, it's sort of how much pain
is the cabinet in Congress? Willing to take.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Speaking of Elon Musk, the Wall Street Journal ran with
a report today that Tesla was Tesla's board was looking
at replacing Elon Musk. Board members reached out to executive
search firms to work on a formal process. Elon Musk
came out and said it is an extremely bad breach
of ethics that the Wall Street Journal would even publish
a deliberately false article and failed to include an unequivocal
(16:36):
denial beforehand by the Tesla board of directors.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Well, different influencers are popping up all over the place
with different takes on things, whether it is true crime,
influencers on TikTok as they do their makeup and pimp products,
or what have you. God is no different influencers have
popped up preaching about God and they are not preachers.
(17:04):
Girls Gone Bible is what we're referring to. It is
at the top of the religious podcast charts on Spotify,
more than twenty million listens in just two years. Girls
Gone Bible. These are a couple of women who have
no formal training in ministry, but they have become unlikely
(17:24):
religious authorities to a fan base larger than that of
many of the nation's most popular preachers. It's a two
microphone megachurch. They call it speaking to the nation's evangelical
teen and tween girls. Will Hart is a pastor and
director of Iris Global, a church with missions all over
(17:46):
the world. He told these women, you're reaching more people
than I've reached in twenty five years of ministry. He said,
is that weird for you? It's weird for me, but
it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
One of them is an Albanian immigrant. Came to the
United States at the age of two, spent her high
school years in Clearwater, Florida, graduated in twenty fourteen, and
moved here to LA to study acting. She did get
a couple of little roles, but she supported herself waiting tables.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Everybody's heard heard that story before.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Angela Haleiley and then Ariel Ritzma also came to LA
right out of high school. She came to LA from Massachusetts,
small town right outside of Boston, and after a rough
start sleeping on the blow up mattress in a small
apartment off of Hollywood Boulevard. Again, very common story. I'm
sure everybody's got a version of that, she found an agent.
(18:38):
She started acting in theater productions and started modeling, developed
a small social media following and doing brand deals to
pay the bills.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Their fans say they're drawn in by these women's unique backgrounds.
Both raised Catholic, journey to faith began with alcoholism, OCD,
panic disorder, depression, and anxiety, all of which they just
discuss on the podcast.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
If the message is it's a little uncomfortable, because I
think that there's a certain amount of reverence, if that's
the right word that should go with a discussion of faith.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
I think you're honest about it.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I think whatever leads you to God leads you to God.
And right, who are as anybody to say you didn't
get to God the right way? Right? The point is
you got to God. I think most people would argue.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
I think there's also that interesting moment when what turns
what starts as just a normal conversation. One of them
says to the other, you know what other people would
like to listen to us have this conversation.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Each ninety minute Girls Gone Bible episode generally follows the
same format. Yeah, the first few minutes like a slumber party.
They're catching up, they're joking around. Maybe it's a new haircut,
or something, and then they launch into the topic of
the day. It may be shame, it may be being single,
it may be doubt or modesty. They read relevant passages
from the Bible. Occasionally they will interview a guest. I
(20:18):
love the idea of making the Bible applicable for your
life and for things that make it more I don't know, applicable.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Well.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
It is also sometimes you read it and it's hard
to relate to it, especially if you're a young person
and you're like, what the hell are you talking about?
I'm worried about this or this and this. And if
you can take something from the Bible and make it
make sense for what you're going through in life, I
think that is a good thing.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Well, and they discuss, among other things, I mean the
hot topics because they're women, often deal with sexuality or looks.
Angela says, I've leaned into using sexuality or looks as
a means of fulfillment, only to find myself deeply, deeply disempowered.
The world tells you this is what's empowered, and she says,
we come to find out it is not that.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
This is why I tell you all the time that
you don't need to come in here showing you know.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
As much leg as I do.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
It's you. It's your breasts that I feel like should
be more private. You know, you don't need to show
them around here to make people like you. You can.
We know that they're there, We know that you know
you're dealing with more than most, and good for you.
But like that's not why we like you. We like
you for who you are.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
I'm dealing with more than most.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Sometimes the Good Lord blesses us in different ways. And
the Good Lord saw your chest and he put his
little magic wand on it, and he will.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Two poofsoof.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
How about them Dodgers, My goodness, just bearing I mean,
I guess it's more about the Marlins, isn't it. They've
head back to back games of racking up the offense there.
Austin Barnes had a hell of a night last night.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Dodgers beat the Marlins twelve to seven last night.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Tomorrow, Dodgers take on the Braves in Hotlanta, first pitch
at four fifteen. Listen to all Dodger games on AM
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la sports Zen. She handcrafted sushi made fresh daily at
routes near the deli counter. You know who I heard
Conway talking about who loves that Zen? She sushi is
(22:37):
Tim Kates?
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Really so Tim.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Kate's always walking around here with sushi sushi. But then
maybe that's an afternoon treat for Tim Kates because we
usually see him in the morning.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Yeah, we don't see him with sushi when he's eating
chili dogs. Lakers lost to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Lakers are out,
They're awful. How could they be awful with Lebron James
and Luka Doncic don Dunkic, don'tche.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Luca. Lebron and Luca were supposed to be the saviors.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Lebron is on borrowed time.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Lebron's getting up there. Yeah, it's ironic to be hearing
that from a woman in the autumn of her life.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
What I'm sorry, what I'm not you.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
I was just preferring if there was a woman who
said that about Lebron is the old one, and then
she was older than Lebron, it'd be kind of a.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Well, he's playing a professional sport that men half of
his age play, Yeah, like his son, Like I interviewed
him when he was seventeen coming into the league, which
was cool.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
How old were you?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Probably twenty one a whole I'm not playing a professional
sport at this age. I'm just living my life. I
think I'm still allowed to do that.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Even that's taking its tool. Guy.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
You have probably seen the video of this a man
a critic condition after he dropped from the stands to
the ground at a Pittsburgh Pirates game in Pittsburgh last night.
Guys in critical condition at this point. They're saying it
was an accidental twenty twenty one foot drop from his
seat onto the field of play. He actually fell onto
the warning track out right center field. It happened during
(24:22):
a play. I think it was Andrew McCutcheon had hit
a ball through the left side of the infield, so
it's going to left field. This guy was in right
center field, so everybody's attention, at least everybody on the field,
their attention is away from him, and he kind of
falls behind the outfielders and it's an awful looking fall.
(24:43):
From the video from sort of behind home plate, you
can see it happen where it's hard to tell if
he's getting up to jump up to celebrate the fact
that that was a base hit, because he kind of
pushes himself up on the railing and then immediately goes
forward over. It didn't look like anybody touched him or
pushed him or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Was he drinking yeah, probably, yeah, But.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
The trainers for both teams immediately ran out to right
center field and they had to get the stretcher out there.
You could see the players were pretty shaken up by
all of this because the guy was not moving when
they got out there. It looked like he landed head next.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I first, yeah, I didn't think that he was going
to survive that fall by the look of it.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
The detectives from the Pittsburgh Police Department's Violent Crime Unit
are leading the investigation into this, and again it doesn't
appear that they're going to find anything.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
It's an accident.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Full story.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
We will get to my favorite story of the day
coming up later in the show. It is the Great
Conclave secret. What do the cardinals the would be popes eat?
Apparently I did not know this, but apparently for more
than seven hundred and fifty years there have been in
(26:02):
place strict rules that guard what cardinals can and cannot eat.
Why why do they have weak stomachs?
Speaker 5 (26:11):
You ask, do they have weak stomachs or something?
Speaker 1 (26:15):
It's to prevent hidden messages stopped inside chicken ravioli and
napkinss messages from whom some sort of peasant on the
street that wants to tell which cardinal which pope to pick.
I mean fascinating, right, very weird. Well, I mean, you know,
(26:36):
it's not just the cardinals who There's a lot of
politics that surround the picking of a pope. It's not
just about God and religion. There's a lot of things
that go into it. You got to follow the money too.
Don't forget about the money.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Involved, the idea that the food would be the vehicle
for these messages.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Dude, well, how else are you going to get a
message to the cardinals? Great question, they're sequestered.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
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Weekend Fix podcast, which is an episode that does not
(27:20):
air during the week.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
There's been a bunch of renovations that Trump has made
to the White House. Some of them we've seen, some
of the golden touches in the Oval office, or the
decorations like the the what was that aircraft that he
does air Force one or the forty seven that we've
(27:42):
seen displayed on the table there. We've got a list
of all all of the renovations, pretty comical stuff.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Gary and Shannon will continue right after this. You've been
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