July 8, 2025 • 29 mins
KFI – Michael Monks discusses MacArthur Park and the roles of Newsom and Bass. They talk about the protests that took place in June and how they affected the events at MacArthur Park yesterday. The conversation also touches on the grim history of the Verdugo Hills Cemetery in Sunland-Tujunga. Additionally, a poll reveals that the percentage of Canadians who view the U.S. as a top threat has tripled.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to k
I AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Let's check in with Michael
Monks from KFI News. Michael, yesterday we were talking about
what was going on at MacArthur Park, and now Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Says that this is political theater.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Karen Bass is absolutely ridiculous or I forget what the
word she used, what type of superlatives she was using,
But from what I heard yesterday on other stations that
aren't this one because they were running the comments at nauseum,
over and over, full length, the whole bit. That's why
I say that she was making it out like I
saw what was and I'm paraphrasing a military state in
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my city and I had to go see what was
going on, and they were information like she was appalled
by the formation of.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
The LAPD.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
March is in formation when it's doing any sort of operation.
So we'll set that aside. But what exactly happened, Michael
and MacArthur Park and is there the outrage and is
it outsized?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Well, you also heard from City Council President Markquisse Harris Dawson,
who says it looks like they were preparing to shoot
a TikTok video. That's how strange this whole thing was, because, yes,
the LAPD and other police departments will march information when
they are responding to something, but it was unclear to
folks on the ground what this contingent of federal agents
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and National Guard troops were responding to. There were military vehicles,
there were horses that these guys were riding through the park,
and so it was a different scene compared to all
of the others we typically see around the city, around
the county. Orange County, three or four federal vehicles might
show up to a car wash and they chase some
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guys around and get them. They go to home depot.
We've not seen this type of activity before, and so
it's a question for city officials who are opposed to
this enforcement. Is this the next level? Is this are
of things to come? That's why I think it jarred them.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
So I think that they're still upset that they're not
getting a heads up for these raids.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
It's a weird spot to be in when you're concerned
about not getting a heads up, especially when it's also
your defense to activist questioning whether you're doing enough. We
don't get a heads up on these, we can't do
anything about these, So stop yelling at us and focus
your ire on the federal government that sent these folks here.
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So do they want a heads up or do they
not want a heads up, because right now it's a
valuable crutch when they try to counter the talking points
of some of the more left leaning activists in the community.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Were there any raids that took place, Was anybody detained yesterday?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
There was some reporting out there from an independent journalist
named Ken Klippenstein might be worth pulling up at some
point and taking a read. I read it last night.
He's good, but he does have an ideological bent. But
he obtained some documents from the federal government that indicated
these folks were trying to coordinates some sort of enforcement
on the distribution of fake IDs. And they had a
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lot of different code names related to popular sodas or
as we say in the South, cox everything's a coke
in the South. And they were named our Sea, they
were named Coca Cola, they were named Pepsi, And there
was supposed to be some large enforcement against the folks
in the MacArthur Park area, which is apparently, according to
these documents, notorious for the manufacturing and distribution of fake
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IDs for illegal immigrants. However, the coordination seemed to be
really poor. This is again, this is reporting from independent
journalist Ken Klippenstein that I happened to read, so I
wanted to share that it's worth googling and taking a
look at and drawing your own conclusions. But he does
include the documents that he obtained from a source within
the operation that I thought were rather interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I noticed, and I made the connection. And I don't
know if this is accurate, But when the Department of
Defense anonymously talked to some media outlets and said that
there were military members therefore protection of agents, and that
they were differentiated by some wearing navy polos, some wearing camo,
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what have you like, that makes a difference if you're
here illegally and you see any sort of authority coming
towards you. But anyway, I had made a connection that
there were agents fired upon yesterday morning, about seven o'clock
local time in McAllen, Texas, and a guy shows up
in tactical gear and takes shots at federal agents they
fire back, they kill him. A couple agents were hurt.
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But was this a response, was sending an extra security
for the agents that have been operating in LA a
response to what happened in Texas?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I think that's the question that local officials have again
related to is this an escalation? Is this simply a
show of strength of force by the federal government. We
heard from the guy who runs the border patrol in
this region. He spoke to Fox News's Bill Malusian, who
was embedded with this operation, which made me think that
there was a plan, yeah, to do something. If they
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have a report there from Fox News. He covers the border,
He covers a lot of these operations, a lot of
great access to the folks that.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
He does have, greats contacts. Excuse me, but that was it.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
You know that All we saw was this display the
formation as you call it. But this border patrol chief
in the region says, look, get used to it. That's
a quote. Get used to it well.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And if you're going to take shots at agents that
are I mean, agree with the raids, don't agree with
the raids, But if you're gonna have people taking shots
at agents just doing what they're told, to do just
doing their jobs or what have you. You're going to
see extra security there protecting them. It's just the way
it's going to be.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
These are folks the federal government that called in the
National Guard troops that federalize the California National Guard because
of the violent protests that were taking place in early June.
They weren't deadly protests. They were messy and certainly could
be classified as violent. But if you have the National
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Guard called in because the protest got out of hand,
you can imagine what their response is going to be
when someone has taken deadly violent in their directions.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
That's a good point. I didn't think about that.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
That's why I'm here.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Well, I know you're here for somebody.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Garry's not here for the balance.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And you smell good.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Yeah, I smell good today.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I appreciate a bath. Well you did. You're a morning
bath person.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
No, I really just take chefes.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Sometimes I take baths in the morning. I like to
start the day.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I like a bath. If I'm going to have a
good cry.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Oh really Yeah, if you have a cried in a tub,
oh no, one can tell cried everywhere.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, that's not an awful it sounds like you need a.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Place to cry. I've got a place in this facility
to cry. You did?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Is it the stairwell?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
It was, but it gets a little crowded from the
the go guters who left to march.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Up the Oh, I know, there's a whole contingent of stairs.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Michael Krozer marches up. He comes in, barely breathing when
he gets into.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
The And then there's the shamers. There's just shamers now.
To be fair, this building's only four or five five level.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
There are hearty flights.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
They are hardy flights of steps, but like there's the
shamers too. Like I in last week with a guy
I think he works in sales. He looks like that
I should know him. I've known him for probably twenty years,
but I still don't know his name. And like he's uh,
he's like, oh, you're gonna take the stairs And he
looks at me like like he's testing me, and I'm like, no, dude,
I'm going to take the electat stairs. You ta Like
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he's like, oh, oh, you're one of those lazy people.
That's what he was saying with his eyes. You know,
when KFI people will take the stairs in masks.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
There's donuts.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
If there's food upstairs, we will march up those steps
to the fifth floor in a hot Olympic level times.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
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Speaker 3 (07:40):
I don't know if any of our listeners currently heard
that segment last week when he was filling in for
John COLEBLT. That is something you've got to look up
on YouTube, okay and watch Mark Thompson in a Hole
in the Wall.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
He's the host. This was a big show. It's in
the vein of wipe out, you know, that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
But like they got screwed in their timing and the
release of it, so the show did not work.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
But how long was it on for it?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I think, well no, because there's a there's like a
British version. Oh, the American version with Mark Thompson was
like two thousand and eight and.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Two thousand and eight to two thousand and nine.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
The premise is basically you you you would either be
alone or with one other person or two other people
for a team of three. You'd be standing on the
edge of some water and a wall would be coming
at you. Now within the wall would be a hole,
and it would be in a shape that you would
have to contort yourself in order for the wall to
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pass you or knock you into the water.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Oh my God.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
And Mark Thompson's line that could have been a great
catchphrase had the show worked.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Anytime.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
It was time to start and the folks are standing
on the leg God, and the wall starts to come
at you.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Do you want to know what Mark Thompson would yell?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Is it fine that hole?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
It's time to face the hole?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
And I think American culture was robbed because this show
didn't work.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
There are so many things that he has done with
his voice that when I first met him or first
started listening to them, it was almost like Pavlog's Dog,
where I'm just like I know that, Yeah, I try
to be in front of a television somewhere, so I'd
be a child in front of a television somewhere.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
I was telling her like, I'm not making fun.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
That's a hilarious gig that you got, and I'm sorry
it didn't last because I'm sure it paid well. This
was on Fox, I mean, this was a national show.
But I told him he had a great career.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
He was Voice of American Oh my gosh, he came
up with the idea of the Bachelor.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Yeah, he told me about that too.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I mean, he's got great story.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
He does, and he's got the voice that radio guys
like me coming up kind of wish we had and like,
you just either have it or you don't. He's just
got a voice that commands your attention, right.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I wonder how much he smokes. I think, yeah, three
packs a day.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I don't even you know, some people just have that
natural baritone.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
And I don't like him.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Does I think he jealous? I think he was born
with that. Yeah, came out as a little baby with
that voice. Yeah. But yeah, Mark Thompson, great, great, Hay,
great guy. I'm one of the really good people who
works here. Michael Monks is not one of those people.
And that's why he's one of my new best friends
for life.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
So tell me.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
We're talking about Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom up in
arms over there being a federal military presence at MacArthur
Park yesterday under the guise of maybe protecting the agents
carrying out some sort of raid. However, nobody was detained. Today,
the city is preparing some legal action.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
This is a joint announcement from the City Attorney's office
Heidi Feldstein Soto, who will be joined by Mayor Karen Bass.
Later this afternoon. We will have this covered for you
here on KFI. It's scheduled for four o'clock and here's
what the announcement says. The City Attorney and the mayor
and other local leaders will host a press conference today
at four to discuss joint efforts to challenge the unlawful
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immigration enforcement activities that have taken place in Los Angeles
since June sixth. They say such activities have included the
federal government's targeting of Angelino's based on race and ethnicity
and denying constitutionally mandated due process to those detained.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I feel like this was already a lawsuit that was
filed a couple weeks ago. We saw similar legal action
filed in Kern County that was successful. I believe basically
the premise is you're pulling over people based on their color,
and that's unconstitutional.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
And La County has already taken steps to well. Kurrent
County may have done it. I apologize for not being
familiar with that particular story, but there's a lot of
agriculture in Kurrent County, so a different workforce of the
illegal immigrants there, and you are starting to see I think,
shades of sympathy from the White House.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Oh hell yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Do you know how many big businesses are built on
farming and the aag industry.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
This is what I think, having seen yesterday event in
MacArthur Park, is what does it do to the national
conversation we're having, Because I think there's a wide spectrum
of where people fall on the issue of illegal immigrants.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
You have the hardliners who are like, they all have
to go.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Every single illegal immigrant has to be rounded up and deported.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Do not come here legally.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
You have to go others where like everyone should be
able to stay with no consequences. But you start to
get away from both sides of that towards the center
and you find people are like, well, I thought we
were just going after the criminals and the game.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Well, and in my opinion, Michael, that's exactly what they
should do. I mean, and John Cobalt had Tom Homan
on and said, now you're not going after nanny. And
I'm paraphrasing, but John said, essentially, you're not going after
nanny's and landscapers are and Tom Holman is like, no,
if you're here illegally, you should be worried. And that's
to me a huge mistake. It's like the abortion. Not
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to bring abortion into the illegal immigration talk, but it's
like the abortion mistake in my opinion. You want to
ban all abortions, like that's a lose thing for you. You
want to ban late term abortions. Okay, you're gonna win
with that. You're gonna get people on your team. You
want to ban all illegal immigration, including the nannies and
the landscapers and the farming industry and people that you
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are friends with in your family, friends and they've been
here for generator. You are not going to get fans
that way. You go after the illegal alien gang members
and the murderers and the people that have been put
away repeatedly and given second chances and third chance. That's
where you're gonna win this. And there's enough there, there's
enough meat on that bone of those criminal illegal aliens
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to go. And you know, you know who's going to
be first in line to give you a round of applause,
the people here illegally who haven't committed crimes precisely, and
you know how big that voting block is, big enough
to get whoever you want elected forever.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Is there a common sense approach to illegal immigration that
may not involve deporting everyone. We didn't hear an argument
about that from the Kamala Harris camp, for example, that
they're the opponent, and so President Trump politically have not
outlined an alternative plan. And so when the border was
pretty much wide open for the entirety of the Biden administration,
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just didn't sit well with a lot of people. And
so that has led us to this moment where there
are plenty of people who will hear what you just said,
and we'll hear what the administration is doing here in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Think that is exactly what I voted for.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
It is to get every single one of these illegal
immigrants out of this community. The problem that I think
places like Los Angeles have is it's not a sympathetic
place to the rest of the country because when you
think about a location specific like MacArthur Park, and you
hear an argument from the mayor, they came through a park,
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there was a summer camp with children.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
And like that may be true.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
There Unfortunately, may have been a summer camp with children
in MacArthur Park, but all of us who live here
know why that is not an attractive option for your child, right.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
You go there for cheap drugs, fake IDs, right and street.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
F And so where is the outrage from local officials
about the condition of the city anyway? Had this been pleasant?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Bill Well?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I heard a little bit of pushback from that.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I think it was from Karen Bass who says, you know,
we've been pouring our resources into MacArthur Park into getting
the crime element out, because they were lauding it as
this like sparkling gem in the middle of the city,
and it's like, that's not Maybe it has the potential
and it once was that, ain't it.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Now she's not lying about investments in MacArthur Park. The
city has announced multiple times results, That's what I mean.
And their approach is such that it doesn't make sense
to a lot of regular folks who don't pay attention
to weasel words that politicians use, like care. First, they
want to make sure that people using drugs in the
park have clean access to drugs, for example, and that's
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important because it does slow the spread of diseases that
could eventually hit people that do not use drugs, that
are innocent bystanders of this. That is an important policy measure,
But it seems I think when you talk to regular
rank and file folks out in the community, that I
would rather have those folks out of the park entirely
so that we could enjoy what is supposed to be
an urban oasis.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Pes Bless your heart if you think people going to
MacArthur Park to score drugs want them clean, Okay, if
I'm going to MacArthur Park to score drugs, which is
where you would go, don't do drugs anymore. Kids, you
can't do them anymore. It's not the nineties. They're all poisoned.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
We used to be a country.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
We used to be a country where you could. You
can't anymore. That ship is heiled. But the last thing
people want if you're desperate enough to score drugs in
MacArthur Park is a clean needle or clean meth or
whatever the hell you It's just so ridiculous on its face,
that whole.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
You're that desperate.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
You see the folks who are having their meltdowns on
the way there. Yeah, so it will keep an eye
on it. We'll cover this thing at four o'clock and
bring in the latest.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
For sure.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (16:55):
President Trump held a cabinet meeting at the White House
with several big shoes that came up. He is no
stranger to weigh in on really anything that's on his
mind or answering questions from reporters, and he did so
again today, telling reporters that the take it or Leave
it tariff letters went out yesterday to dozens of countries.
(17:15):
He does expect more trade deals to be rolling in soon.
He praised the passage of his bill, saying that everyone
that voted for it voted for a tax break for
the American people. Definitely a lot of tax breaks in there.
We'll talk about more of his comments coming up, including
what he had to say not nice words for Vladimir putin.
(17:36):
Virtual hearing happening soon regarding Diddy is sentencing for the
sex crimes. Possibly that may happen sooner. We'll find out
more after this virtual hearing today. He's supposed to hear
his sentence on October third, but his lawyers and now
prosecutors want to move that date up, so they're going
to talk about that as well as possible sentencing recommendation,
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history behind the Verdugo Hills Cemetery in Sunland Tohunga, La.
Is home to so many of these secret cemeteries, aren't they.
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Hollywood Forever Cemetery was one of the ones that I
learned about, not that it's a secret cemetery, but it's
tucked away and holds some of the biggest names, you know,
Marilyn Monroe and the like, and the Sunlin Tohunga Cemetery.
I had not really heard about this one before, you know,
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not the Hollywood Forever.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I'm thinking about a different one where she's buried.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Well, I'll look it up in the break, but I
want to say It's like on there's this tucked away
cemetery on Wilshire in the Westwood area.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
That's not Hollywood Forever. Hollywood Forever's Judy Garland, Chris Cornell.
But anyway, Westwood Memorial.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Westwood Memorial Park, thank you. That was going to drive
me crazy because I am now my grandmother, who does that?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
What's the name of that?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
And I call people and ask anyway, So this one
is in the hills of Sunland to Hunga almost bought
a house there when we were looking for a house.
It was like an octagonal house look really cool for parties,
but not really for a living. This cemetery holds the
more than one hundred year history of early residents in
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the area and there is quite the macabre horror story
film event that happened there. A lot of people don't
even know that the cemetery is there. Craig Durst is
with the Friends of Verdugo Hills Cemetery and he says
this was established in nineteen twenty two. Back then there
was a local reverend, James Warnham, who was looking for
a plot of land where he could be buried along
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with his flock. He and his wife Jenny have prominent
placement in the cemetery. Two white rock crosses mark their
graves atop the hill. Well known for traveling around the
community giving sermons from their horse drawn wagon. At the
time they would come up the path which is now
Sunland Boulevard. They'd be coming home singing hymns. What a
different time. The whole community could hear them singing up
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in the hills there. That's what people loved about the
small town vibe even back then. Other members the Hatch
family known as Little Landers, a community of settlers with
utopian ideals who came to the area to live this
agrarian lifestyle just north of the chaos of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
But in nineteen seventy eight something happened.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
In nineteen seventy eight, it was early February and there
was a sudden dayluge. It was just after midnight and
the hillside gave way. Landslide occurred and it carried with
it hundreds of caskets, and these things broke open and
the body parts they say, were thrown out onto the
roadway in the street. It was quite a mess the
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La Corner at the time. Thomas Negucci wrote in his
book Down toward the city street slid, rotting caskets containing
more than one hundred bodies born on the lip of
the mud slide. Within minutes, caskets and corpses engulfed the area,
plunging through windows, into the living rooms of homes, into stores,
lodging against walls. One body, he wrote, ended up wedged
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in the doorway of a supermarket.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Good lord. There are stories about.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Teenagers breaking into the mausoleum in the years since and
pulling out some of the caskets. God good, Thank God
for smartphones. Kids aren't bored anymore. They're no longer pulling
caskets out of m liams and throwing them amongst the townspeople.
But yeah, I did not know of that part anyway.
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There have been great efforts to refurbish the Verdugo Hills Cemetery.
The nonprofit they're hosts monthly events where volunteers have helped
clear vegetation, repair work stonework done on the mausoleum. They say,
you know, there is something to be said for how
you treat your dead, the famous saying that you can
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tell how community is by how they care for their dead.
That said, if you want to see the cemetery yourself.
The nonprofit will be hosting a Dinner with the Dead
event on August twenty third. It doesn't sound macab at all.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
There's so much that you don't know if it's Ai anymore, right,
like just news items and it they'll trick you. Sometimes
you're reading it thinking a journalist has written this, and
you'll get to the end and it was Ai Sourster
AI written huh. And sometimes they do better and we're
just at the onset. Tesla shares fell close to seven
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percent yesterday. We'll check out where they are to a
health report on Tesla coming up after Debora's news at
the top of the hour. This happened after Elon Musk
announced plans to form his own political party. As you
can imagine over there at Tesla, Tesla's been kind of
been put on the back burner with Elon Musk joining forces,
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with Trump taking up a seat in the White House,
heading up Doze, trying to cut all of the fat
out of government, making it more efficient, and then getting
his ass handed to him with the big beautiful Bill
and the addition to the federal deficit, and he has
been vocal about it. So he went from putting Tesla
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on the back burner moving into the White House to
now leaving the White House but still bitching about the
White House every turn, and now he keeps threatening this.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Third political party. Well, the people at Tesla, i e.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
The investors and the board are getting a little a
lot frustrated with him. They think that he needs to
focus on I don't know, running Tesla, that they're kind
of at a breaking point, that the company's kind of
at a breaking point.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
So we'll see how they're doing today.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
We'll also get into Marco Rubio and he's got an
AI impersonator working at the phones on his behalf. I
want to hear about what he is he's campaigning for
in those calls, or what his AI is campaigning for.
New story out today about Canadians says that forget about Russia,
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North Korea and Iran, the big boogeyman of the globe.
A majority of Canadian citizens now see the greatest threat
to their country as the United States. Fifty nine percent
of Canadians view the as a major risk. Is this
all about Trump's idea that Canada could become the fifty
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first American state?
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Is that what this is about?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Well, half of Canadian respondents to this Pew Research poll
still consider the US to be their most important Ally.
The poll provides, they say a striking look at changing
perceptions of America and the Trump era. In Mexico, sixty
eight percent of respondents consider the US to be their
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primary threat. Part of that's proximity. We're closest to Canada
and Mexico. Israel leads the list of countries most in
favor of the US in no shock there ninety five
percent of its respondents a US is its top ally,
followed closely by South Korea and Japan, because well, we
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watch all those K dramas, don't we.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Gosh, they're good.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I haven't gone into a K drama recently because I
lose myself in those things. I mean, I shut the
door and I'm lost for weeks until I finished that thing.
They are addictive. El Steve Gregory loves K dramas. My goodness,
you wouldn't. You wouldn't profile him as such, And then
I came across this story. These are kind of swamp esque,
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but not as important to make their way into the
swamp segment Kamala Harris in that mess of a campaign
she ran. Remember how when we were leading up to
the convention, and when we were at the convention in Chicago,
there was all this talk about Taylor Swift. Would she appear,
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would she sing? She's from nearby? It was Chicago, right, yeah,
it was Chicago. If she would be around there was
a lot of security. We were wondering if there was
extra security for Taylor's Swift when we were reporting from there. Well,
apparently there was a message to Kamala Harris campaign staffers
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not to reach out to Taylor Swift. Campaign staffers were
told do not make any overtures to Taylor Swift to
get her to sing on the campaign trail or at
the convention because wait for it, Doug Doug Emma dung
Frodyan slipped. Doug em Hoff was handling it. What Doug
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em Hoff appearances alone, the most uncool guy in the
country at the time, was handling Taylor Swift's engagement in
the Kamala Harris campaign. Doug em Hoff is on it.
Campaign staffers were told young with it. Campaign staffers heading
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up the Kamala Harris campaign were told to stand down
for Doug em Hoff forgotten this, but he was apparently
a entertainment lawyer at one point and had a prior
relationship with Taylor Swift's attorney, Doug Baldridge, and had reached
out to him to convey that the campaign would appreciate
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any efforts the pop star could make to help Harris
before her post debate endorsement, and that Swift would do
what Swift thought was best. That's how her attorney responded
to doug Emhoff, and nothing more than the endorsement ever materialized.
But yeah, the reason I had some confusion about Chicago.
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The final rally was in Philadelphia and that was essentially
her hometown. She grew up nearby there, so there was
a lot of talk weather she would be there. But yeah, no,
don't worry about Taylor Swift. Doug em Hoff is on it.
That does not instill a lot of confidence, does it?
All Right, swamp watch, We'll talk Tariff's, what they mean,
what Trump's wants from them, the war on M and
(28:58):
M's and Tesla investors think that this may be the
breaking point for them. Trump broke up with Elon, Will
Tesla breakup with Elon? We'll talk about it next.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show, you
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This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to k
I AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Let's check in with Michael
Monks from KFI News. Michael, yesterday we were talking about
what was going on at MacArthur Park, and now Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Says that this is political theater.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Karen Bass is absolutely ridiculous or I forget what the
word she used, what type of superlatives she was using,
But from what I heard yesterday on other stations that
aren't this one because they were running the comments at nauseum,
over and over, full length, the whole bit. That's why
I say that she was making it out like I
saw what was and I'm paraphrasing a military state in
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my city and I had to go see what was
going on, and they were information like she was appalled
by the formation of.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
The LAPD.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
March is in formation when it's doing any sort of operation.
So we'll set that aside. But what exactly happened, Michael
and MacArthur Park and is there the outrage and is
it outsized?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Well, you also heard from City Council President Markquisse Harris Dawson,
who says it looks like they were preparing to shoot
a TikTok video. That's how strange this whole thing was, because, yes,
the LAPD and other police departments will march information when
they are responding to something, but it was unclear to
folks on the ground what this contingent of federal agents
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and National Guard troops were responding to. There were military vehicles,
there were horses that these guys were riding through the park,
and so it was a different scene compared to all
of the others we typically see around the city, around
the county. Orange County, three or four federal vehicles might
show up to a car wash and they chase some
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guys around and get them. They go to home depot.
We've not seen this type of activity before, and so
it's a question for city officials who are opposed to
this enforcement. Is this the next level? Is this are
of things to come? That's why I think it jarred them.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
So I think that they're still upset that they're not
getting a heads up for these raids.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
It's a weird spot to be in when you're concerned
about not getting a heads up, especially when it's also
your defense to activist questioning whether you're doing enough. We
don't get a heads up on these, we can't do
anything about these, So stop yelling at us and focus
your ire on the federal government that sent these folks here.
(02:28):
So do they want a heads up or do they
not want a heads up, because right now it's a
valuable crutch when they try to counter the talking points
of some of the more left leaning activists in the community.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Were there any raids that took place, Was anybody detained yesterday?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
There was some reporting out there from an independent journalist
named Ken Klippenstein might be worth pulling up at some
point and taking a read. I read it last night.
He's good, but he does have an ideological bent. But
he obtained some documents from the federal government that indicated
these folks were trying to coordinates some sort of enforcement
on the distribution of fake IDs. And they had a
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lot of different code names related to popular sodas or
as we say in the South, cox everything's a coke
in the South. And they were named our Sea, they
were named Coca Cola, they were named Pepsi, And there
was supposed to be some large enforcement against the folks
in the MacArthur Park area, which is apparently, according to
these documents, notorious for the manufacturing and distribution of fake
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IDs for illegal immigrants. However, the coordination seemed to be
really poor. This is again, this is reporting from independent
journalist Ken Klippenstein that I happened to read, so I
wanted to share that it's worth googling and taking a
look at and drawing your own conclusions. But he does
include the documents that he obtained from a source within
the operation that I thought were rather interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I noticed, and I made the connection. And I don't
know if this is accurate, But when the Department of
Defense anonymously talked to some media outlets and said that
there were military members therefore protection of agents, and that
they were differentiated by some wearing navy polos, some wearing camo,
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what have you like, that makes a difference if you're
here illegally and you see any sort of authority coming
towards you. But anyway, I had made a connection that
there were agents fired upon yesterday morning, about seven o'clock
local time in McAllen, Texas, and a guy shows up
in tactical gear and takes shots at federal agents they
fire back, they kill him. A couple agents were hurt.
(04:30):
But was this a response, was sending an extra security
for the agents that have been operating in LA a
response to what happened in Texas?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I think that's the question that local officials have again
related to is this an escalation? Is this simply a
show of strength of force by the federal government. We
heard from the guy who runs the border patrol in
this region. He spoke to Fox News's Bill Malusian, who
was embedded with this operation, which made me think that
there was a plan, yeah, to do something. If they
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have a report there from Fox News. He covers the border,
He covers a lot of these operations, a lot of
great access to the folks that.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
He does have, greats contacts. Excuse me, but that was it.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
You know that All we saw was this display the
formation as you call it. But this border patrol chief
in the region says, look, get used to it. That's
a quote. Get used to it well.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And if you're going to take shots at agents that
are I mean, agree with the raids, don't agree with
the raids, But if you're gonna have people taking shots
at agents just doing what they're told, to do just
doing their jobs or what have you. You're going to
see extra security there protecting them. It's just the way
it's going to be.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
These are folks the federal government that called in the
National Guard troops that federalize the California National Guard because
of the violent protests that were taking place in early June.
They weren't deadly protests. They were messy and certainly could
be classified as violent. But if you have the National
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Guard called in because the protest got out of hand,
you can imagine what their response is going to be
when someone has taken deadly violent in their directions.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
That's a good point. I didn't think about that.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
That's why I'm here.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Well, I know you're here for somebody.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Garry's not here for the balance.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And you smell good.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Yeah, I smell good today.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I appreciate a bath. Well you did. You're a morning
bath person.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
No, I really just take chefes.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Sometimes I take baths in the morning. I like to
start the day.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I like a bath. If I'm going to have a
good cry.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Oh really Yeah, if you have a cried in a tub,
oh no, one can tell cried everywhere.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, that's not an awful it sounds like you need a.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Place to cry. I've got a place in this facility
to cry. You did?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Is it the stairwell?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
It was, but it gets a little crowded from the
the go guters who left to march.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Up the Oh, I know, there's a whole contingent of stairs.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Michael Krozer marches up. He comes in, barely breathing when
he gets into.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
The And then there's the shamers. There's just shamers now.
To be fair, this building's only four or five five level.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
There are hearty flights.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
They are hardy flights of steps, but like there's the
shamers too. Like I in last week with a guy
I think he works in sales. He looks like that
I should know him. I've known him for probably twenty years,
but I still don't know his name. And like he's uh,
he's like, oh, you're gonna take the stairs And he
looks at me like like he's testing me, and I'm like, no, dude,
I'm going to take the electat stairs. You ta Like
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he's like, oh, oh, you're one of those lazy people.
That's what he was saying with his eyes. You know,
when KFI people will take the stairs in masks.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
There's donuts.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
If there's food upstairs, we will march up those steps
to the fifth floor in a hot Olympic level times.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I don't know if any of our listeners currently heard
that segment last week when he was filling in for
John COLEBLT. That is something you've got to look up
on YouTube, okay and watch Mark Thompson in a Hole
in the Wall.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
He's the host. This was a big show. It's in
the vein of wipe out, you know, that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
But like they got screwed in their timing and the
release of it, so the show did not work.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
But how long was it on for it?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I think, well no, because there's a there's like a
British version. Oh, the American version with Mark Thompson was
like two thousand and eight and.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Two thousand and eight to two thousand and nine.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
The premise is basically you you you would either be
alone or with one other person or two other people
for a team of three. You'd be standing on the
edge of some water and a wall would be coming
at you. Now within the wall would be a hole,
and it would be in a shape that you would
have to contort yourself in order for the wall to
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pass you or knock you into the water.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Oh my God.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
And Mark Thompson's line that could have been a great
catchphrase had the show worked.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Anytime.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
It was time to start and the folks are standing
on the leg God, and the wall starts to come
at you.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Do you want to know what Mark Thompson would yell?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Is it fine that hole?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
It's time to face the hole?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
And I think American culture was robbed because this show
didn't work.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
There are so many things that he has done with
his voice that when I first met him or first
started listening to them, it was almost like Pavlog's Dog,
where I'm just like I know that, Yeah, I try
to be in front of a television somewhere, so I'd
be a child in front of a television somewhere.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
I was telling her like, I'm not making fun.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
That's a hilarious gig that you got, and I'm sorry
it didn't last because I'm sure it paid well. This
was on Fox, I mean, this was a national show.
But I told him he had a great career.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
He was Voice of American Oh my gosh, he came
up with the idea of the Bachelor.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Yeah, he told me about that too.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I mean, he's got great story.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
He does, and he's got the voice that radio guys
like me coming up kind of wish we had and like,
you just either have it or you don't. He's just
got a voice that commands your attention, right.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I wonder how much he smokes. I think, yeah, three
packs a day.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I don't even you know, some people just have that
natural baritone.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
And I don't like him.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Does I think he jealous? I think he was born
with that. Yeah, came out as a little baby with
that voice. Yeah. But yeah, Mark Thompson, great, great, Hay,
great guy. I'm one of the really good people who
works here. Michael Monks is not one of those people.
And that's why he's one of my new best friends
for life.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
So tell me.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
We're talking about Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom up in
arms over there being a federal military presence at MacArthur
Park yesterday under the guise of maybe protecting the agents
carrying out some sort of raid. However, nobody was detained. Today,
the city is preparing some legal action.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
This is a joint announcement from the City Attorney's office
Heidi Feldstein Soto, who will be joined by Mayor Karen Bass.
Later this afternoon. We will have this covered for you
here on KFI. It's scheduled for four o'clock and here's
what the announcement says. The City Attorney and the mayor
and other local leaders will host a press conference today
at four to discuss joint efforts to challenge the unlawful
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immigration enforcement activities that have taken place in Los Angeles
since June sixth. They say such activities have included the
federal government's targeting of Angelino's based on race and ethnicity
and denying constitutionally mandated due process to those detained.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I feel like this was already a lawsuit that was
filed a couple weeks ago. We saw similar legal action
filed in Kern County that was successful. I believe basically
the premise is you're pulling over people based on their color,
and that's unconstitutional.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
And La County has already taken steps to well. Kurrent
County may have done it. I apologize for not being
familiar with that particular story, but there's a lot of
agriculture in Kurrent County, so a different workforce of the
illegal immigrants there, and you are starting to see I think,
shades of sympathy from the White House.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Oh hell yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Do you know how many big businesses are built on
farming and the aag industry.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
This is what I think, having seen yesterday event in
MacArthur Park, is what does it do to the national
conversation we're having, Because I think there's a wide spectrum
of where people fall on the issue of illegal immigrants.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
You have the hardliners who are like, they all have
to go.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Every single illegal immigrant has to be rounded up and deported.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Do not come here legally.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
You have to go others where like everyone should be
able to stay with no consequences. But you start to
get away from both sides of that towards the center
and you find people are like, well, I thought we
were just going after the criminals and the game.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Well, and in my opinion, Michael, that's exactly what they
should do. I mean, and John Cobalt had Tom Homan
on and said, now you're not going after nanny. And
I'm paraphrasing, but John said, essentially, you're not going after
nanny's and landscapers are and Tom Holman is like, no,
if you're here illegally, you should be worried. And that's
to me a huge mistake. It's like the abortion. Not
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to bring abortion into the illegal immigration talk, but it's
like the abortion mistake in my opinion. You want to
ban all abortions, like that's a lose thing for you. You
want to ban late term abortions. Okay, you're gonna win
with that. You're gonna get people on your team. You
want to ban all illegal immigration, including the nannies and
the landscapers and the farming industry and people that you
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are friends with in your family, friends and they've been
here for generator. You are not going to get fans
that way. You go after the illegal alien gang members
and the murderers and the people that have been put
away repeatedly and given second chances and third chance. That's
where you're gonna win this. And there's enough there, there's
enough meat on that bone of those criminal illegal aliens
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to go. And you know, you know who's going to
be first in line to give you a round of applause,
the people here illegally who haven't committed crimes precisely, and
you know how big that voting block is, big enough
to get whoever you want elected forever.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Is there a common sense approach to illegal immigration that
may not involve deporting everyone. We didn't hear an argument
about that from the Kamala Harris camp, for example, that
they're the opponent, and so President Trump politically have not
outlined an alternative plan. And so when the border was
pretty much wide open for the entirety of the Biden administration,
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just didn't sit well with a lot of people. And
so that has led us to this moment where there
are plenty of people who will hear what you just said,
and we'll hear what the administration is doing here in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Think that is exactly what I voted for.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
It is to get every single one of these illegal
immigrants out of this community. The problem that I think
places like Los Angeles have is it's not a sympathetic
place to the rest of the country because when you
think about a location specific like MacArthur Park, and you
hear an argument from the mayor, they came through a park,
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there was a summer camp with children.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
And like that may be true.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
There Unfortunately, may have been a summer camp with children
in MacArthur Park, but all of us who live here
know why that is not an attractive option for your child, right.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
You go there for cheap drugs, fake IDs, right and street.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
F And so where is the outrage from local officials
about the condition of the city anyway? Had this been pleasant?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Bill Well?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I heard a little bit of pushback from that.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I think it was from Karen Bass who says, you know,
we've been pouring our resources into MacArthur Park into getting
the crime element out, because they were lauding it as
this like sparkling gem in the middle of the city,
and it's like, that's not Maybe it has the potential
and it once was that, ain't it.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Now she's not lying about investments in MacArthur Park. The
city has announced multiple times results, That's what I mean.
And their approach is such that it doesn't make sense
to a lot of regular folks who don't pay attention
to weasel words that politicians use, like care. First, they
want to make sure that people using drugs in the
park have clean access to drugs, for example, and that's
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important because it does slow the spread of diseases that
could eventually hit people that do not use drugs, that
are innocent bystanders of this. That is an important policy measure,
But it seems I think when you talk to regular
rank and file folks out in the community, that I
would rather have those folks out of the park entirely
so that we could enjoy what is supposed to be
an urban oasis.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Pes Bless your heart if you think people going to
MacArthur Park to score drugs want them clean, Okay, if
I'm going to MacArthur Park to score drugs, which is
where you would go, don't do drugs anymore. Kids, you
can't do them anymore. It's not the nineties. They're all poisoned.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
We used to be a country.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
We used to be a country where you could. You
can't anymore. That ship is heiled. But the last thing
people want if you're desperate enough to score drugs in
MacArthur Park is a clean needle or clean meth or
whatever the hell you It's just so ridiculous on its face,
that whole.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
You're that desperate.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
You see the folks who are having their meltdowns on
the way there. Yeah, so it will keep an eye
on it. We'll cover this thing at four o'clock and
bring in the latest.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
For sure.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
President Trump held a cabinet meeting at the White House
with several big shoes that came up. He is no
stranger to weigh in on really anything that's on his
mind or answering questions from reporters, and he did so
again today, telling reporters that the take it or Leave
it tariff letters went out yesterday to dozens of countries.
(17:15):
He does expect more trade deals to be rolling in soon.
He praised the passage of his bill, saying that everyone
that voted for it voted for a tax break for
the American people. Definitely a lot of tax breaks in there.
We'll talk about more of his comments coming up, including
what he had to say not nice words for Vladimir putin.
(17:36):
Virtual hearing happening soon regarding Diddy is sentencing for the
sex crimes. Possibly that may happen sooner. We'll find out
more after this virtual hearing today. He's supposed to hear
his sentence on October third, but his lawyers and now
prosecutors want to move that date up, so they're going
to talk about that as well as possible sentencing recommendation,
(17:57):
so we'll stay on top of that. Dodgers take on
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Learn more at Navian dot com. There is a macabre
history behind the Verdugo Hills Cemetery in Sunland Tohunga, La.
Is home to so many of these secret cemeteries, aren't they.
(18:39):
Hollywood Forever Cemetery was one of the ones that I
learned about, not that it's a secret cemetery, but it's
tucked away and holds some of the biggest names, you know,
Marilyn Monroe and the like, and the Sunlin Tohunga Cemetery.
I had not really heard about this one before, you know,
(19:01):
not the Hollywood Forever.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I'm thinking about a different one where she's buried.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Well, I'll look it up in the break, but I
want to say It's like on there's this tucked away
cemetery on Wilshire in the Westwood area.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
That's not Hollywood Forever. Hollywood Forever's Judy Garland, Chris Cornell.
But anyway, Westwood Memorial.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Westwood Memorial Park, thank you. That was going to drive
me crazy because I am now my grandmother, who does that?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
What's the name of that?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
And I call people and ask anyway, So this one
is in the hills of Sunland to Hunga almost bought
a house there when we were looking for a house.
It was like an octagonal house look really cool for parties,
but not really for a living. This cemetery holds the
more than one hundred year history of early residents in
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the area and there is quite the macabre horror story
film event that happened there. A lot of people don't
even know that the cemetery is there. Craig Durst is
with the Friends of Verdugo Hills Cemetery and he says
this was established in nineteen twenty two. Back then there
was a local reverend, James Warnham, who was looking for
a plot of land where he could be buried along
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with his flock. He and his wife Jenny have prominent
placement in the cemetery. Two white rock crosses mark their
graves atop the hill. Well known for traveling around the
community giving sermons from their horse drawn wagon. At the
time they would come up the path which is now
Sunland Boulevard. They'd be coming home singing hymns. What a
different time. The whole community could hear them singing up
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in the hills there. That's what people loved about the
small town vibe even back then. Other members the Hatch
family known as Little Landers, a community of settlers with
utopian ideals who came to the area to live this
agrarian lifestyle just north of the chaos of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
But in nineteen seventy eight something happened.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
In nineteen seventy eight, it was early February and there
was a sudden dayluge. It was just after midnight and
the hillside gave way. Landslide occurred and it carried with
it hundreds of caskets, and these things broke open and
the body parts they say, were thrown out onto the
roadway in the street. It was quite a mess the
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La Corner at the time. Thomas Negucci wrote in his
book Down toward the city street slid, rotting caskets containing
more than one hundred bodies born on the lip of
the mud slide. Within minutes, caskets and corpses engulfed the area,
plunging through windows, into the living rooms of homes, into stores,
lodging against walls. One body, he wrote, ended up wedged
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in the doorway of a supermarket.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Good lord. There are stories about.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Teenagers breaking into the mausoleum in the years since and
pulling out some of the caskets. God good, Thank God
for smartphones. Kids aren't bored anymore. They're no longer pulling
caskets out of m liams and throwing them amongst the townspeople.
But yeah, I did not know of that part anyway.
(22:08):
There have been great efforts to refurbish the Verdugo Hills Cemetery.
The nonprofit they're hosts monthly events where volunteers have helped
clear vegetation, repair work stonework done on the mausoleum. They say,
you know, there is something to be said for how
you treat your dead, the famous saying that you can
(22:30):
tell how community is by how they care for their dead.
That said, if you want to see the cemetery yourself.
The nonprofit will be hosting a Dinner with the Dead
event on August twenty third. It doesn't sound macab at all.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
There's so much that you don't know if it's Ai anymore, right,
like just news items and it they'll trick you. Sometimes
you're reading it thinking a journalist has written this, and
you'll get to the end and it was Ai Sourster
AI written huh. And sometimes they do better and we're
just at the onset. Tesla shares fell close to seven
(23:13):
percent yesterday. We'll check out where they are to a
health report on Tesla coming up after Debora's news at
the top of the hour. This happened after Elon Musk
announced plans to form his own political party. As you
can imagine over there at Tesla, Tesla's been kind of
been put on the back burner with Elon Musk joining forces,
(23:34):
with Trump taking up a seat in the White House,
heading up Doze, trying to cut all of the fat
out of government, making it more efficient, and then getting
his ass handed to him with the big beautiful Bill
and the addition to the federal deficit, and he has
been vocal about it. So he went from putting Tesla
(23:54):
on the back burner moving into the White House to
now leaving the White House but still bitching about the
White House every turn, and now he keeps threatening this.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Third political party. Well, the people at Tesla, i e.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
The investors and the board are getting a little a
lot frustrated with him. They think that he needs to
focus on I don't know, running Tesla, that they're kind
of at a breaking point, that the company's kind of
at a breaking point.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
So we'll see how they're doing today.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
We'll also get into Marco Rubio and he's got an
AI impersonator working at the phones on his behalf. I
want to hear about what he is he's campaigning for
in those calls, or what his AI is campaigning for.
New story out today about Canadians says that forget about Russia,
(24:44):
North Korea and Iran, the big boogeyman of the globe.
A majority of Canadian citizens now see the greatest threat
to their country as the United States. Fifty nine percent
of Canadians view the as a major risk. Is this
all about Trump's idea that Canada could become the fifty
(25:08):
first American state?
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Is that what this is about?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Well, half of Canadian respondents to this Pew Research poll
still consider the US to be their most important Ally.
The poll provides, they say a striking look at changing
perceptions of America and the Trump era. In Mexico, sixty
eight percent of respondents consider the US to be their
(25:35):
primary threat. Part of that's proximity. We're closest to Canada
and Mexico. Israel leads the list of countries most in
favor of the US in no shock there ninety five
percent of its respondents a US is its top ally,
followed closely by South Korea and Japan, because well, we
(25:55):
watch all those K dramas, don't we.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Gosh, they're good.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I haven't gone into a K drama recently because I
lose myself in those things. I mean, I shut the
door and I'm lost for weeks until I finished that thing.
They are addictive. El Steve Gregory loves K dramas. My goodness,
you wouldn't. You wouldn't profile him as such, And then
I came across this story. These are kind of swamp esque,
(26:21):
but not as important to make their way into the
swamp segment Kamala Harris in that mess of a campaign
she ran. Remember how when we were leading up to
the convention, and when we were at the convention in Chicago,
there was all this talk about Taylor Swift. Would she appear,
(26:43):
would she sing? She's from nearby? It was Chicago, right, yeah,
it was Chicago. If she would be around there was
a lot of security. We were wondering if there was
extra security for Taylor's Swift when we were reporting from there. Well,
apparently there was a message to Kamala Harris campaign staffers
(27:08):
not to reach out to Taylor Swift. Campaign staffers were
told do not make any overtures to Taylor Swift to
get her to sing on the campaign trail or at
the convention because wait for it, Doug Doug Emma dung
Frodyan slipped. Doug em Hoff was handling it. What Doug
(27:32):
em Hoff appearances alone, the most uncool guy in the
country at the time, was handling Taylor Swift's engagement in
the Kamala Harris campaign. Doug em Hoff is on it.
Campaign staffers were told young with it. Campaign staffers heading
(27:54):
up the Kamala Harris campaign were told to stand down
for Doug em Hoff forgotten this, but he was apparently
a entertainment lawyer at one point and had a prior
relationship with Taylor Swift's attorney, Doug Baldridge, and had reached
out to him to convey that the campaign would appreciate
(28:15):
any efforts the pop star could make to help Harris
before her post debate endorsement, and that Swift would do
what Swift thought was best. That's how her attorney responded
to doug Emhoff, and nothing more than the endorsement ever materialized.
But yeah, the reason I had some confusion about Chicago.
(28:38):
The final rally was in Philadelphia and that was essentially
her hometown. She grew up nearby there, so there was
a lot of talk weather she would be there. But yeah, no,
don't worry about Taylor Swift. Doug em Hoff is on it.
That does not instill a lot of confidence, does it?
All Right, swamp watch, We'll talk Tariff's, what they mean,
what Trump's wants from them, the war on M and
(28:58):
M's and Tesla investors think that this may be the
breaking point for them. Trump broke up with Elon, Will
Tesla breakup with Elon? We'll talk about it next.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
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