May 7, 2025 • 32 mins
REAL ID is now required for air travel in America. These Chinese-made products could soon be hard to find in the U.S. Councilmember Blumenfield and LA Zoo CEO fight over fate of two elephants. Time-restricted ‘smart’ toilets arrive in Long Beach.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
I A M six forty, The Gary and Shannon Show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app. It's fun to go
down the list of saints, people who led exemplary lives
and have reached saintthood because of it, and what they
what you pray to them for. Like Saint Joseph. You
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pray to Saint Joseph if maybe you're looking for a job.
That's who you play. You pray for if you're seeking
employment or you're facing a work related issue, Saint Joseph's
your guy.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
How many Saints are there?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Twenty?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Well, there's twenty big ones that I that I know of, personally.
Saint Anthony, the aforementioned Saint Anthony, who you pray to
when you have something lost. There's Saint Jude, of course,
Saint Jude's you pray to Saint Jude when it's a
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hopeless cause. Or hospital workers. It protects those working in hospitals.
Saint Jude does.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I did not even feel the earthquake. Did you feel
the earthquake?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Were we doing pushing?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
We were talking about some We must have been right.
During the commercial break. At the bottom of the hour,
about nine thirty, a three point two earthquake off of Malibu.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Oh, my goodness, where's Deborah. It's Deborah.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Okay, check your Deborah.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Do we have Deborah. It's Deborah in the building.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
She's here, she's in the news prepara.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
She is.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Okay, so she's she didn't feel it.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go find her. I think
she was in her car. Yeah, okay, that's fine. All
of the saint talk.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Of course, because the conclave to elect a new pope
has officially begun, Vatican officials closed the doors of the
Sistine Chapel today.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Do you love do you love your animals? You love
your dog?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
St? Ignatius?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Who St? Francis of as Sissy?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Did you feel it? There's Deborah? Feel it?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Okay? Do you feel How do you feel when you
don't feel it? Very happy?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Okay, all right, all right? What if they what if
they say the word for shock? Would you your eyes
just got really big?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
You would not go home.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
No, you need to say, don't go closer to the earthquake.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, this is this is We're on wheels in this good,
good building for you don't want to drive home and
then like an overpass crash down in your car and
crush you to death. You should pray to Saint Francis
about your dogs. Yeah, mm hmm see uh Protector of animals,
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Saint Francis right here. I mean, if you want to.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
That's why. Hey we have that's the new that's the new.
Checklist number one. Check your Deborah.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
She smells so good. How come you don't smell good
like that?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
What do I smell like?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
That's fine with me. I'm okay with that. Real I
do you have yours yet? Yes?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I got mine years ago. I did too, because they
like to go places. And there's also I knew that
this would happen. There be like a well, first of all,
I did not see all of the punting down the road.
I mean, this thing has been punted several times.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Sixteen years, I think, like in two thousand and eight.
Was the original. Yeah, because this came out real id
came out of nine to September eleven.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Actually I heard it was the Oklahoma City bombing. Actually
I don't know about that really, I guess so even further,
But anyway, I knew there would be a crush of people. Eventually,
I just got it done right away, which is very odd.
It was probably my husband who said get it done
right away, because I'm not to get it done right away.
Person says, I must have been prompted, but I got
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it done right away.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
To be clear, today is not the deadline for you
to get a real ID. What today is is the
date that the new requirement for air travel goes into effect.
So if you don't have one today, you're still allowed
to be a citizen of the United States. If you
can believe that you just can't board a plane without
a federally approved ideaification.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It's going to be a mess at the airports, I
would imagine. I mean most people are in compliance, I
do believe, or I'm making that.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
It depends on where you are, Okay, So like California
and California, most of the people I believe are compliant.
Christy Nolam testified yesterday. She's the Department of Homeland Security secretary.
It's been a law.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
That's been in place for over twenty years. Eighty one
percent of the travelers that travel by airline in the
United States today are already compliant.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Okay, So that's her number. Eighty one percent of people
who travel are compliant so far.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
But they have IDs that already they will be able
to use just like they normally always have been. We
will be honoring passports, other federally recognized IDs, Tribal IDs
will be recognized. So thank you, mister Chairman for that.
And what will happen tomorrow is folks will come through
the line and will be issue their ID and show it.
If it's not compliant, they may be diverted to a
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different line. I have an extra step, but people will
be allowed to fly. We recognize that this is a
security issue. Congress has had many, many years to reevaluate
it and decide if they wanted to change the law
or to stop it, and the Biden administration shows that
it should go into place on May seventh, and we
intend to follow the laws.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
So yeah, real ID. You could use your passport or
your Trusted Traveler card as well military works, tribal things
like that. But like when I stole my girlfriend's identity
while we were at a game in Dallas to watch
the forty nine Ers beat the Cowboys in the playoffs,
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and I had a flight at like six am or whatever,
And I'm leaving the room at like four and it's
dark and I don't turn the lights on. I don't
want to wake her up. So just grabbed what I
thought was my ID and credit card and left and
got into the uber. Went to the wrong airport in
Dallas because it was love Field, not for Worth I
was flying out of and it was it was a
fun weekend, as you can imagine.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I get on do you remember all of that.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I get to the gate and I get out my
wallet and I have my ID, and then I checked
my pockets to make sure that I you know, that
they're empty going through the thing, and I find her
ID and her credit card that I thought were mine,
but it was in my wallet. It's you know. Anyway,
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I felt awful, as you can imagine. I call her,
I say, I've stolen your identity.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
And she.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
White, middle aged woman, was able to go through airport
security just fine with no ID at all, didn't have
to go in a special room, didn't have to do anything.
She was like, this is what happened. They said, Okay,
she showed them like a credit card and they let
her through.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
They heard about you. Security was like, oh, we heard
about that already. Yeah, we know who she is because
you had both the airports and yeah, now they say,
they say, you will not be turned away at any
airport today if you don't have your real ID. They
know that this is going to be a hassle. They
know they're giving some grace. The government has a heart
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at some point. Yes, so they will not turn you away.
They may ask you a couple extra questions, they may
ask you some other way of backing up your identification,
but they say they will not turn you away. What
that is going to mean, what that would mean to
me is you better give them an extra few minutes.
You better get there a little bit earlier than you expect,
only because you then can't blame them for something that
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has been well advertised and well talked about over the
course of the last several years.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
If you're in law enforcement, you know Saint Michael. He's
the protector of law enforcement and armed forces. Saint Michael
is Good.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Morning, Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
My favorite Saint is a Saint Paul's Girl, because today
is my Friday, and that's what I'm going to celebrate with.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Okay, I haven't seen a Saint Paul's Girl since I
worked at the Delhi circa nineteen ninety eight a long time.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yes, Saint Anthony is the patron saint of lost things.
But it only works if you do the chat.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
You have to repeat it three times or you won't
find your lost item.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
And the chat is Tony, Tony.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
Come around, something's lost and can't be found, Tony Tony.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
You get the picture.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I've never heard that.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Maybe your mom was just doing it in her head.
Maybe more of your favorite saints. Also, you're gonna have
a hard time finding some Chinese made products in the
United States in the coming weeks. We'll talk about that
up next.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
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Speaker 1 (08:36):
All right, so yeah, player's gonna play. I got hoes.
Saint Christopher is the saint of travelers, athletes, and bachelor's.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
So it's easy.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Christopher is gonna Saint Christopher?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Is that what he is? WHOA just saying, just saying?
Speaker 8 (08:54):
Figure in, Shannon, this is Rob from morng County. My
favorite saint is Saint Joseph, the foster Father Jesus Christ.
Why because he took in Jesus and didn't question submitted
to God's will. Thank you God bless.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, he didn't say, like who you've been along with?
What's going on there? Mary? He didn't do that. Is
that immaculate conception.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Good morning, guys, great shows always.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
I have two.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
My name is Christopher. I'm a retired marine. I live
just north of Camp Pendleton.
Speaker 9 (09:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
So, of course Saint Christopher's one saint for travel and
then the other. Of course someone already said was Saint
Michael's patron saint of warriors combatants. So those are my two.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Guys. Have a great day, good ones, You've got good work.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Thank you, Saint Michael. Law Enforcement.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Hey guys, you guys want to know my favorite saint.
My favorite saint is Saint I. It's Tamault liquor. Great saint.
Just drink it to good the next time.
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Oh my god, again, I haven't seen that label for
twenty five years.
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Speaker 1 (10:48):
Well, a ship mints of Chinese goods to us are plunging.
A lot of stuff is staying over there in China.
We've got tarisov up to one hundred and forty five
percent on these imports. And that is why they say
that a broad range of products are going to start
to dwindle. You're going to really see it this summer.
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Later this summer, back to school time, holiday spending, things
like that. They say, COVID era shortages of products. Okay,
so what are these products we're talking about?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Is a surprisingly weird list. I thought it was gonna
be much more common. Well, I mean, these are common things,
but there's some weird ones on this list. Furniture and betting.
About eighteen and a half billion dollars worth of furniture
and betting comes from China. That's about a quarter of
all imports in that category. I'm glad I just got
new betting.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
To that end. Down feathers.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah, that's too weird.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
China supports seventy seven percent of our supply of down feathers,
So that's comforters, jackets, things like that, those puffy jackets,
all those feathers come from China.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Toys, game sports equipment. That's not a giant surprise. Seventy
three percent of our total imports in that category, which
is of course why President Trump has mentioned dolls multiple
times when he said, hey, maybe your girls only have
two dollars instead of thirty, maybe four or five, six,
seven dollars instead of thirty. That's enough, they'll be fine.
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But they're talking about the that having an impact right
around Christmas time would be probably most noticeable.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
All day I dream of shoes, or all day I
dream about shoes, Adidas says it is going to raise
prices because of the tariffs. Apparently we are very reliant
on China for shoes, thirty six percent of footwear sold
here in this country China.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Is there going to be a run on this sort
of thing.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
That's what they're saying. Oh, that's what they're saying. They're saying.
I don't remember shoes being a problem during COVID, and
we don't get toilet paper from China. I just remember
toilet paper and eggs. Really, I don't know, though. I
didn't go to the grocery store for like a year.
Ordered everything to the house.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Textile art about eight point six billion dollars of textile
art from China. It's over half of all the textile
art that we import.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
You know, I didn't go to the grocery store for
a year.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Because you didn't want to see.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
I just remembered the ridiculous things that went on in
grocery stores. Oh, the spacing and the lines and the plats.
I just that all just came back to me in.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
A wave of you know what's weird? You remember where
this was? Now? Just recently, my wife and I were
somewhere I can't remember where it was, and they had
those stickers on the floor still. I mean I just
barely wreck knives three.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Feet or what six feet feet?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
The six feet thing, the total bs six feet thing
that someone pulled out of their butt, about how that
was going to save people's lives. But those were still
on the floor. I can't remember where that was. That's annoying.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Cutlery glass where the wedding registries are really going to
hit hard from this when you look at bedding, glassware, cutlery, the.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Good as of right now, A lot of these people
saw register for that stuff. Sure, I'm going to a
baby shower this weekend. That someone registered for for forks
and knives for the baby, well, I don't know, maybe
the plastic ones. I don't know. I don't know how
babies work anymore.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
It's been a long time, but you've been trolling around
on the registry. Are you doing the shopping for the
baby shower?
Speaker 10 (14:46):
No?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
My wife asked me for the invitation, went to me, ah,
so I had to forward her the the what you
call it register stree.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
So you don't know if there's baby forks and knives
on there. You're just I don't talking out of your ass, Yes,
got it? Trying to pretend like I'm involved with the
baby shower. Right, you are not, And that's okay.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I'll be in the corner.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Coming up next, We've got to fight over elephants at
city Hall. It's one of the first stories I think
I covered when I moved here. Big fight over elephants.
Share was involved, Slash was involved. It was a hole
to do at city Hall. A lot of protesters.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
My favorite Saint would have to be Lucifer because religion.
Speaker 8 (15:26):
Is a joke.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Wow, sir, that is not what we're doing here today.
Saint Rita, by the way, if you're having marital problems,
pray to Saint Rita.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
That guy's having marital problems, I guarantee.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
He might need to get into the malt liquor.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Saint Id's something.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 2 (15:49):
The Latin expression all out was called Today they closed
the doors to the Sistine Chapel. Of course, conclave to
elect the new Pope has officially begun, so.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
They played the two hymn as the cardinals donned their
red robes and walked into the Sistine Chapelin pairs, but
as they were getting into their secret room in there.
Do you think they had individual walk up songs?
Speaker 9 (16:12):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Well, it depends on what you consider a walk up song.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Well you've gone too a baseball game.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah, but I heard this.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
Rector to guide and guard your church spirit, give your
sevants the spirit of intelligence, of truth, of peace, so
that they strive to know your wills.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I mean it's not it's not a C d C.
It's not Hell's Bells, it's not you know, but it
does have kind of a you know.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Theme, a theme, and you had to set an attention.
You know, it's like a yoga class.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Hello.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
My favorite saint is Saint Arnold, who is the patron
saint of beer and brewers.
Speaker 9 (16:57):
Thank you that.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Right, you're not familiar that one.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
You didn't read that on your list of the top saint.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I haven't gotten there. Let's see here. How about Oh,
Saint Thomas Aquinas is one of my whatever is one
of my favorites.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Catholics.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
If you have a test, you know, you got an exam,
you got a final.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
That's so you pay, you pray too, or pay to
thank good morning. Thank you for covering the conclave. By
the way, my favorite saint is Saint Francis a animals.
Speaker 10 (17:31):
He is the Saint of the animals. Numerous times my
family has taken their pets to be blessed. I haven't
had yet the opportunity to, but I hope to do
that soon. Love you, guys, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Would you like to know which saint you would pray
to to make this conclave gathering go successfully. He's really
the patron saint of the Papal office. He was a
fisherman originally. Do you want to know who that saint is?
(18:07):
He's very close to home for you, Peter, Saint Peter, Yeah,
that is correct. Seeking guidance and leadership roles first. Also, okay,
well guess who came next? You're damn right?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Okay, we don't say damn lot of elephant talk in
the news these days. Tensions growing at LA City Hall
between guy named Bob Bloomenfield and Gal who runs the
uh who runs the zoo, Denise Verrett, the CEO, and
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the director, and they are at loggerheads over what to
do with a couple of elephants.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Love a loggerhead in the morning.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Michael Monks has joined us from KFI News reluctant thank
you for coming down the hall reluctantly. Oh please reluctantly.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
What else are you doing in your sweats today?
Speaker 11 (19:00):
These are not These are fine linen pants from norths
from rackh Okay. So I've been covering the city council
budget hearings right as they combed through all the departments
and like what can they save? We had a little
bit of tension over like lapd helicopters. But the most
tense moment yet has been over two elephants at the
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Los Angeles Zoo, which is only a little bit related
to the budget at all. Yeah, it was pretty remarkable
to watch. The story goes the LA Zoo is ready
to shudder its elephant operations for now. It looks like
after a couple of elephants died in recent years. They
were old, they say, look, they were in declining health.
Not a big deal, but it drew a lot of focus.
The last two elephants, Billy and Tina are their names.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Belly's been a big issue at city Hall for as
long as I've lived here.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, a long time. Yeah, people have been concerned about
the welfare of these elephants. Share and Slash in particular,
are they upset about it. Oh yeah, oh yeah, wow.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I met them both at city Hall over the elephants.
Did you this was a five hundred years ago go on, Yeah,
Billy was still with us, but here we are.
Speaker 11 (20:04):
Yeah, he's sixty. Wow, he's getting up there. So the
zoo wants to send these two elephants to the Tulsa Zoo,
where there's a much larger amount of acreage for these
guys to graze on. Bob Bluomenfield, the city councilman wants
a review by city council before this decision is made.
I got a little clip and I want to let
(20:25):
you know in advance I cut about a minute off
of this question, and it's still a long lead up
to the question, But the point is to get to
Denise Barrett's answer.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
She's the director of the zoo.
Speaker 12 (20:34):
And then ultimately that would be vetted and would be
a public process that we could we could go through,
not dictating the outcome of that, but I am as
a as the motion and this council dictating that we
before those elephants are moved anywhere, that that come to
the council for the oversight. So can you promise me
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here that those elephants will not be moved untill the
council has that chance to review that report and vote
on it.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
What I can promise you is that I am always
going to make decisions that are for the best interest
of the animals at the zoo, including the elephants.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Okay, that's not good enough. Appreciate it, but so.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Got very tense.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah, what the hell does Bob Blumenfield know about elephants.
Speaker 11 (21:24):
What he's asserting here is that the council should have
the authority over this. The zoo has a little bit
more autonomy than other departments within the city, but it
is still a city department, So.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
He just want some power over the elephant.
Speaker 11 (21:37):
I think he is concerned about the location of the
elephants after this decision is made. One point he made
because he does try to answer ask this question again
after he was told by the committee's of budget hearing,
can you try to tie this to a budget related
line of questioning? He says, Look, if this is supposed
to cost eighty grand to move these elephants to Tulsa,
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if we could do it cheap or at no cost,
we might be able to save a job at the zoo.
And so that was the spin towards the end. But
he asked her again and she said, my answer is
going to be the same. She can't make the promise
that this decision will not be made before counsel gets
to fully weigh in.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
How much does it cost to take the elephants to Tulsa.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
They're saying eighty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Okay, that's not bad. That can't be what this is about,
because they would be able to raise that money. I
mentioned Share and Slash with donations alone, with this sheer
number of people who care about these elephants going to
a sanctuary, eighty thousand dollars is nothing. There's got to
be something behind the pushback from Bob Blumenfielder and whoever
(22:42):
else to keep the elephants here. Like, what are we
missing here in terms of following the money, because we're
not talking about eighty grand to move Tina and Billy.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Unless he's getting a kickback something from the elephant's sanctuary
in Hohenwald, Tennessee, which was his preferred location.
Speaker 11 (22:57):
He has a preferred location there also possibly northern California.
How much of those I don't know yet. What he
wants is the analysis. He wants a cost review.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
How tedious?
Speaker 9 (23:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Now, who was the patron saint of the animals, Saint
Francis Francis? Yes, you're right, yeah, sorry, get your how
dare you? Sorry?
Speaker 11 (23:15):
Get your rosaries out and say a prayer to Saint Francis.
That's not what the rosary is for. But okay, it
can be, is it? The rosary is the journey you
want to take.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I think it has strict rules.
Speaker 11 (23:28):
You want to say some Hail Mary's and our Fathers,
That's okay, and then you know, just feel holy connected.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
There's rules, Yeah, there are rules in the Catholic Church.
Speaker 11 (23:36):
My walk out sign song at conclave would be the
table of plenty?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
What was your confirmation name?
Speaker 11 (23:41):
I didn't make it to eighth grade, never mind, I
was asked to leave. I was asked to leave Catholic
school in at the end of fourth grade, and we
never made it back and never participated in any of
the rights.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
That is why I woke up this morning. I didn't
make it to eighth grade, which.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
In Kentucky is not required. Well, I love it and
I was able to get a job at KFI so
well that bar is very low. I let the record
show I do have a master's degree. Now I did
turn my life.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Oh okay, okay, fancy, I have nothing.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Am I supposed to know you had a master's degree
until you tell me that you had a master's What
is it in communication?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (24:16):
My god?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
What does that even mean? You take more courses on
the Telecommunications Act of nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 11 (24:22):
It means we can discuss communication theory. Means I can teach.
I taught community college before I moved out here.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Children no community college.
Speaker 11 (24:28):
Public speaking, but it were high school students getting college credit.
Public speaking a very important skill, perhaps the most important skill.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I would like to take this class.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
I was good at it.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (24:37):
Yeah, we can learn impromptu after dinner speaking and formative speaking.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I can I get after dinner speaking.
Speaker 11 (24:43):
That's like an event when you're the last speaker, Like
you think that you make a little bit of comedy.
You're at a house party with six other couple. You
might be if you're the guy who can speak, well,
you can do anything in this life. You can fool
your way into a job at KFI. It's true, and
now here I am sitting with you. Finally, you don't
have to tell us this is a.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Real we are fakers.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yeah, I think we have any right to be here.
Off your ass.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Thank you as always my pleasure, Gary Shannon Will continued.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Coming up in the next hour, we'll be talking parenting
with Justin Worsham. It says that while we're in a
kid drought, aren't we They heard is dying off and
new research reveals two point one kids per woman may
not be enough for the population to survive. Got to
get some berthers up in here.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
We found another Navy fighter jet falling off of an
aircraft carrier. It's the same aircraft carrier.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Oh no, this is the.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Fourth major mishap involving this. You gotta fire some USS
Harry Truman reposition some people. We told you last week
FA eighteen E fell off while they were towing the
airplane and the hangar bay. Yesterday they said an FA
eighteen F was over went overboard after the unsuccessful attempt
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to slow it down upon landing. Something happened with the
with the catch cable or whatever it's called. That's two.
A third fighter jet from the Arius Truman was shot
down accidentally by who by us by another Navy warship,
the USS Gettysburg.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Hell is going on? I didn't hear about that one Truman.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
We shot down one of our own play.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Probably because they didn't let us know they were up there.
What the hell's going on on this warship?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
And then there was another I guess it was involved
in a minor collision that the Truman was involved on. Lord,
I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Uh, Who's who's the captain?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Commanding officer? Will soon be? I would assume I have
a friend.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Who's a commanding officer in the US Navy.
Speaker 13 (26:51):
As a software engineer by profession, my favorite saint is
Saint Saville. He's the patron Saint of the Internet and
software engineers. I also like telling people this because they're
always surprised when they find out that there is a
patron saint for software engineers, and I'm like, yep, yep.
Speaker 9 (27:09):
Hygarian Channon, I have two very favorite saints. My first
favorite saint is, of course, Saint George, who is the
patron Saint of England and it's also my last name.
My other favorite patron saint is Saint Genesis. As I
am an actor, and an artist, and Saint Genisis is
a great inspiration and a protector and gives blessings to
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those of us in the arts. So I always look
for guidance to Saint Genesis when I'm going out for
that big part.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Have a great day, you guys, Thank.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
You, and good luck.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
I just wanted to mention this because I think that
Scott Viscens Starr continues to rise. He really has become
the adult in the room in Washington, which makes me
worried for his future if he wasn't so capable in
all the things that he has been doing. Their Treasury
Secretary Scott Dessent, he is been named today to lead
(28:01):
the US negotiations on trade with China. I'm not unexpected,
but a very large position. As you can imagine. He's
going to meet with Chinese officials in Switzerland this weekend
and take the lead position. He has been involved in
other trade negotiations in Asia as part of this tariff
agenda item, but well regarded by Wall Street. He is
(28:25):
widely perceived as the most serious and savvy individual among
the cabinet when it comes to trade. So he's the
guy that Trump's listening to.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
You said, they're talking in Switzerland. Right in Long Beach.
We got some new crappers. There are new public restrooms
that come with a time limit. These are the latest
version of smart toilets that you that you think of.
(28:59):
We're a guy comes knocking on the door and yells
out maintenance, anybody in there?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
You know about time limits from time to time. I
think about Tim Conway Junior on this topic, okay, because
he talked about this one time on his show, and
it's stuck with me. That like your your stomach, your
gi track. They know where home.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Is, Yes, that's true.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Like they know when you've got twelve minutes to home.
It knows when you're eight minutes away. It knows when
you're sixty seconds away. Like in it behaves accordingly, it
gets ready. It's fascinating, isn't it interesting?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Pregame a digital sign on these four different new bathrooms
will alert you as to whether a bathroom is available,
it would be in use, it would be cleaned, or
it is closed. About a ten minute time limit is
what they're saying. And whether you're ready or not, then
doors are opening, wow for you and all of glory.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Really, that's terrifying.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
So to access this. It's a company called Throne Labs
by the way that puts these together. To access the
Throne you most people would be able to scan a
QR code outside the bathroom with your phone that generates
a text message that would open that bathroom. Be similar
to like unlocking one of those scooters. Yeah, then there's
(30:26):
a code that could be typed in if you don't
have a smartphone, and there are still physical access cards
available if you happen to find yourself in need of
a public restroom on a regular basis. Wow Long Beach
has decided they're going to place these units at Belmont
Pierre Shoreline, Marina, Harvey Milk Promenade Park and to Forest Park.
(30:48):
In each of these locations, they said, sees a lot
of foot traffic, but they don't always have a lot
of bathrooms. These have been tried in many other places
and in a bunch of places in Europe. Now there
are there are public urinals where you can walk up
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and with a certain amount of privacy, not all obviously,
since by definition what you're doing is not private. But
you lean into a receptacle that then you pee into.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I'm sorry, you lean into a receptacle then you pee into.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
So this is like set up on a sidewalk. Yeah,
and you're over there, walking over there and I turn
around like this. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Oh really, Yes, there's like a hole. It's like a
glory hole for peeing.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Well that's an odd way to put it, but.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Well, so you're just peeing in public into the thing,
into the the urinal with like walls basically. But can't
you see like directly behind you?
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Hey, could you your eyes on the road please? You
need to walk down the sidewalk. Stop looking at me
while I'm going.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
That's an awful idea.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
I'm just saying. I'm just saying because.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
If you turned, you know, why are you turning?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
You pee on your own shoe.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Yes, that's what medical You're the one turning.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
I'm not turning.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Okay, we've got swamp watch when we come back to
Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show. You
can always hear us live on KFI AM six forty
nine am to one pm every Monday through Friday, and
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This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
I A M six forty, The Gary and Shannon Show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app. It's fun to go
down the list of saints, people who led exemplary lives
and have reached saintthood because of it, and what they
what you pray to them for. Like Saint Joseph. You
(00:23):
pray to Saint Joseph if maybe you're looking for a job.
That's who you play. You pray for if you're seeking
employment or you're facing a work related issue, Saint Joseph's
your guy.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
How many Saints are there?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Twenty?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Well, there's twenty big ones that I that I know of, personally.
Saint Anthony, the aforementioned Saint Anthony, who you pray to
when you have something lost. There's Saint Jude, of course,
Saint Jude's you pray to Saint Jude when it's a
(00:57):
hopeless cause. Or hospital workers. It protects those working in hospitals.
Saint Jude does.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I did not even feel the earthquake. Did you feel
the earthquake?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Were we doing pushing?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
We were talking about some We must have been right.
During the commercial break. At the bottom of the hour,
about nine thirty, a three point two earthquake off of Malibu.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Oh, my goodness, where's Deborah. It's Deborah.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Okay, check your Deborah.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Do we have Deborah. It's Deborah in the building.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
She's here, she's in the news prepara.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
She is.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Okay, so she's she didn't feel it.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go find her. I think
she was in her car. Yeah, okay, that's fine. All
of the saint talk.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Of course, because the conclave to elect a new pope
has officially begun, Vatican officials closed the doors of the
Sistine Chapel today.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Do you love do you love your animals? You love
your dog?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
St? Ignatius?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Who St? Francis of as Sissy?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Did you feel it? There's Deborah? Feel it?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Okay? Do you feel How do you feel when you
don't feel it? Very happy?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Okay, all right, all right? What if they what if
they say the word for shock? Would you your eyes
just got really big?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
You would not go home.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
No, you need to say, don't go closer to the earthquake.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, this is this is We're on wheels in this good,
good building for you don't want to drive home and
then like an overpass crash down in your car and
crush you to death. You should pray to Saint Francis
about your dogs. Yeah, mm hmm see uh Protector of animals,
(02:32):
Saint Francis right here. I mean, if you want to.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
That's why. Hey we have that's the new that's the new.
Checklist number one. Check your Deborah.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
She smells so good. How come you don't smell good
like that?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
What do I smell like?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
That's fine with me. I'm okay with that. Real I
do you have yours yet? Yes?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I got mine years ago. I did too, because they
like to go places. And there's also I knew that
this would happen. There be like a well, first of all,
I did not see all of the punting down the road.
I mean, this thing has been punted several times.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Sixteen years, I think, like in two thousand and eight.
Was the original. Yeah, because this came out real id
came out of nine to September eleven.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Actually I heard it was the Oklahoma City bombing. Actually
I don't know about that really, I guess so even further,
But anyway, I knew there would be a crush of people. Eventually,
I just got it done right away, which is very odd.
It was probably my husband who said get it done
right away, because I'm not to get it done right away.
Person says, I must have been prompted, but I got
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it done right away.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
To be clear, today is not the deadline for you
to get a real ID. What today is is the
date that the new requirement for air travel goes into effect.
So if you don't have one today, you're still allowed
to be a citizen of the United States. If you
can believe that you just can't board a plane without
a federally approved ideaification.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It's going to be a mess at the airports, I
would imagine. I mean most people are in compliance, I
do believe, or I'm making that.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
It depends on where you are, Okay, So like California
and California, most of the people I believe are compliant.
Christy Nolam testified yesterday. She's the Department of Homeland Security secretary.
It's been a law.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
That's been in place for over twenty years. Eighty one
percent of the travelers that travel by airline in the
United States today are already compliant.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Okay, So that's her number. Eighty one percent of people
who travel are compliant so far.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
But they have IDs that already they will be able
to use just like they normally always have been. We
will be honoring passports, other federally recognized IDs, Tribal IDs
will be recognized. So thank you, mister Chairman for that.
And what will happen tomorrow is folks will come through
the line and will be issue their ID and show it.
If it's not compliant, they may be diverted to a
(04:53):
different line. I have an extra step, but people will
be allowed to fly. We recognize that this is a
security issue. Congress has had many, many years to reevaluate
it and decide if they wanted to change the law
or to stop it, and the Biden administration shows that
it should go into place on May seventh, and we
intend to follow the laws.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
So yeah, real ID. You could use your passport or
your Trusted Traveler card as well military works, tribal things
like that. But like when I stole my girlfriend's identity
while we were at a game in Dallas to watch
the forty nine Ers beat the Cowboys in the playoffs,
(05:35):
and I had a flight at like six am or whatever,
And I'm leaving the room at like four and it's
dark and I don't turn the lights on. I don't
want to wake her up. So just grabbed what I
thought was my ID and credit card and left and
got into the uber. Went to the wrong airport in
Dallas because it was love Field, not for Worth I
was flying out of and it was it was a
fun weekend, as you can imagine.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I get on do you remember all of that.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I get to the gate and I get out my
wallet and I have my ID, and then I checked
my pockets to make sure that I you know, that
they're empty going through the thing, and I find her
ID and her credit card that I thought were mine,
but it was in my wallet. It's you know. Anyway,
(06:24):
I felt awful, as you can imagine. I call her,
I say, I've stolen your identity.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
And she.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
White, middle aged woman, was able to go through airport
security just fine with no ID at all, didn't have
to go in a special room, didn't have to do anything.
She was like, this is what happened. They said, Okay,
she showed them like a credit card and they let
her through.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
They heard about you. Security was like, oh, we heard
about that already. Yeah, we know who she is because
you had both the airports and yeah, now they say,
they say, you will not be turned away at any
airport today if you don't have your real ID. They
know that this is going to be a hassle. They
know they're giving some grace. The government has a heart
(07:09):
at some point. Yes, so they will not turn you away.
They may ask you a couple extra questions, they may
ask you some other way of backing up your identification,
but they say they will not turn you away. What
that is going to mean, what that would mean to
me is you better give them an extra few minutes.
You better get there a little bit earlier than you expect,
only because you then can't blame them for something that
(07:34):
has been well advertised and well talked about over the
course of the last several years.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
If you're in law enforcement, you know Saint Michael. He's
the protector of law enforcement and armed forces. Saint Michael
is Good.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Morning, Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
My favorite Saint is a Saint Paul's Girl, because today
is my Friday, and that's what I'm going to celebrate with.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Okay, I haven't seen a Saint Paul's Girl since I
worked at the Delhi circa nineteen ninety eight a long time.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yes, Saint Anthony is the patron saint of lost things.
But it only works if you do the chat.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
You have to repeat it three times or you won't
find your lost item.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
And the chat is Tony, Tony.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
Come around, something's lost and can't be found, Tony Tony.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
You get the picture.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I've never heard that.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Maybe your mom was just doing it in her head.
Maybe more of your favorite saints. Also, you're gonna have
a hard time finding some Chinese made products in the
United States in the coming weeks. We'll talk about that
up next.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
All right, so yeah, player's gonna play. I got hoes.
Saint Christopher is the saint of travelers, athletes, and bachelor's.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
So it's easy.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Christopher is gonna Saint Christopher?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Is that what he is? WHOA just saying, just saying?
Speaker 8 (08:54):
Figure in, Shannon, this is Rob from morng County. My
favorite saint is Saint Joseph, the foster Father Jesus Christ.
Why because he took in Jesus and didn't question submitted
to God's will. Thank you God bless.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, he didn't say, like who you've been along with?
What's going on there? Mary? He didn't do that. Is
that immaculate conception.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Good morning, guys, great shows always.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
I have two.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
My name is Christopher. I'm a retired marine. I live
just north of Camp Pendleton.
Speaker 9 (09:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
So, of course Saint Christopher's one saint for travel and
then the other. Of course someone already said was Saint
Michael's patron saint of warriors combatants. So those are my two.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Guys. Have a great day, good ones, You've got good work.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Thank you, Saint Michael. Law Enforcement.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Hey guys, you guys want to know my favorite saint.
My favorite saint is Saint I. It's Tamault liquor. Great saint.
Just drink it to good the next time.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Oh my god, again, I haven't seen that label for
twenty five years.
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Speaker 1 (10:48):
Well, a ship mints of Chinese goods to us are plunging.
A lot of stuff is staying over there in China.
We've got tarisov up to one hundred and forty five
percent on these imports. And that is why they say
that a broad range of products are going to start
to dwindle. You're going to really see it this summer.
(11:09):
Later this summer, back to school time, holiday spending, things
like that. They say, COVID era shortages of products. Okay,
so what are these products we're talking about?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Is a surprisingly weird list. I thought it was gonna
be much more common. Well, I mean, these are common things,
but there's some weird ones on this list. Furniture and betting.
About eighteen and a half billion dollars worth of furniture
and betting comes from China. That's about a quarter of
all imports in that category. I'm glad I just got
new betting.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
To that end. Down feathers.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah, that's too weird.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
China supports seventy seven percent of our supply of down feathers,
So that's comforters, jackets, things like that, those puffy jackets,
all those feathers come from China.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Toys, game sports equipment. That's not a giant surprise. Seventy
three percent of our total imports in that category, which
is of course why President Trump has mentioned dolls multiple
times when he said, hey, maybe your girls only have
two dollars instead of thirty, maybe four or five, six,
seven dollars instead of thirty. That's enough, they'll be fine.
(12:21):
But they're talking about the that having an impact right
around Christmas time would be probably most noticeable.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
All day I dream of shoes, or all day I
dream about shoes, Adidas says it is going to raise
prices because of the tariffs. Apparently we are very reliant
on China for shoes, thirty six percent of footwear sold
here in this country China.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Is there going to be a run on this sort
of thing.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
That's what they're saying. Oh, that's what they're saying. They're saying.
I don't remember shoes being a problem during COVID, and
we don't get toilet paper from China. I just remember
toilet paper and eggs. Really, I don't know, though. I
didn't go to the grocery store for like a year.
Ordered everything to the house.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Textile art about eight point six billion dollars of textile
art from China. It's over half of all the textile
art that we import.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
You know, I didn't go to the grocery store for
a year.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Because you didn't want to see.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
I just remembered the ridiculous things that went on in
grocery stores. Oh, the spacing and the lines and the plats.
I just that all just came back to me in.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
A wave of you know what's weird? You remember where
this was? Now? Just recently, my wife and I were
somewhere I can't remember where it was, and they had
those stickers on the floor still. I mean I just
barely wreck knives three.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Feet or what six feet feet?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
The six feet thing, the total bs six feet thing
that someone pulled out of their butt, about how that
was going to save people's lives. But those were still
on the floor. I can't remember where that was. That's annoying.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Cutlery glass where the wedding registries are really going to
hit hard from this when you look at bedding, glassware, cutlery, the.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Good as of right now, A lot of these people
saw register for that stuff. Sure, I'm going to a
baby shower this weekend. That someone registered for for forks
and knives for the baby, well, I don't know, maybe
the plastic ones. I don't know. I don't know how
babies work anymore.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
It's been a long time, but you've been trolling around
on the registry. Are you doing the shopping for the
baby shower?
Speaker 10 (14:46):
No?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
My wife asked me for the invitation, went to me, ah,
so I had to forward her the the what you
call it register stree.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
So you don't know if there's baby forks and knives
on there. You're just I don't talking out of your ass, Yes,
got it? Trying to pretend like I'm involved with the
baby shower. Right, you are not, And that's okay.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I'll be in the corner.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Coming up next, We've got to fight over elephants at
city Hall. It's one of the first stories I think
I covered when I moved here. Big fight over elephants.
Share was involved, Slash was involved. It was a hole
to do at city Hall. A lot of protesters.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
My favorite Saint would have to be Lucifer because religion.
Speaker 8 (15:26):
Is a joke.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Wow, sir, that is not what we're doing here today.
Saint Rita, by the way, if you're having marital problems,
pray to Saint Rita.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
That guy's having marital problems, I guarantee.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
He might need to get into the malt liquor.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Saint Id's something.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
The Latin expression all out was called Today they closed
the doors to the Sistine Chapel. Of course, conclave to
elect the new Pope has officially begun, so.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
They played the two hymn as the cardinals donned their
red robes and walked into the Sistine Chapelin pairs, but
as they were getting into their secret room in there.
Do you think they had individual walk up songs?
Speaker 9 (16:12):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Well, it depends on what you consider a walk up song.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Well you've gone too a baseball game.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah, but I heard this.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
Rector to guide and guard your church spirit, give your
sevants the spirit of intelligence, of truth, of peace, so
that they strive to know your wills.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I mean it's not it's not a C d C.
It's not Hell's Bells, it's not you know, but it
does have kind of a you know.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Theme, a theme, and you had to set an attention.
You know, it's like a yoga class.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Hello.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
My favorite saint is Saint Arnold, who is the patron
saint of beer and brewers.
Speaker 9 (16:57):
Thank you that.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Right, you're not familiar that one.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
You didn't read that on your list of the top saint.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I haven't gotten there. Let's see here. How about Oh,
Saint Thomas Aquinas is one of my whatever is one
of my favorites.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Catholics.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
If you have a test, you know, you got an exam,
you got a final.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
That's so you pay, you pray too, or pay to
thank good morning. Thank you for covering the conclave. By
the way, my favorite saint is Saint Francis a animals.
Speaker 10 (17:31):
He is the Saint of the animals. Numerous times my
family has taken their pets to be blessed. I haven't
had yet the opportunity to, but I hope to do
that soon. Love you, guys, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Would you like to know which saint you would pray
to to make this conclave gathering go successfully. He's really
the patron saint of the Papal office. He was a
fisherman originally. Do you want to know who that saint is?
(18:07):
He's very close to home for you, Peter, Saint Peter, Yeah,
that is correct. Seeking guidance and leadership roles first. Also, okay,
well guess who came next? You're damn right?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Okay, we don't say damn lot of elephant talk in
the news these days. Tensions growing at LA City Hall
between guy named Bob Bloomenfield and Gal who runs the
uh who runs the zoo, Denise Verrett, the CEO, and
(18:43):
the director, and they are at loggerheads over what to
do with a couple of elephants.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Love a loggerhead in the morning.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Michael Monks has joined us from KFI News reluctant thank
you for coming down the hall reluctantly. Oh please reluctantly.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
What else are you doing in your sweats today?
Speaker 11 (19:00):
These are not These are fine linen pants from norths
from rackh Okay. So I've been covering the city council
budget hearings right as they combed through all the departments
and like what can they save? We had a little
bit of tension over like lapd helicopters. But the most
tense moment yet has been over two elephants at the
(19:21):
Los Angeles Zoo, which is only a little bit related
to the budget at all. Yeah, it was pretty remarkable
to watch. The story goes the LA Zoo is ready
to shudder its elephant operations for now. It looks like
after a couple of elephants died in recent years. They
were old, they say, look, they were in declining health.
Not a big deal, but it drew a lot of focus.
The last two elephants, Billy and Tina are their names.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Belly's been a big issue at city Hall for as
long as I've lived here.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, a long time. Yeah, people have been concerned about
the welfare of these elephants. Share and Slash in particular,
are they upset about it. Oh yeah, oh yeah, wow.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I met them both at city Hall over the elephants.
Did you this was a five hundred years ago go on, Yeah,
Billy was still with us, but here we are.
Speaker 11 (20:04):
Yeah, he's sixty. Wow, he's getting up there. So the
zoo wants to send these two elephants to the Tulsa Zoo,
where there's a much larger amount of acreage for these
guys to graze on. Bob Bluomenfield, the city councilman wants
a review by city council before this decision is made.
I got a little clip and I want to let
(20:25):
you know in advance I cut about a minute off
of this question, and it's still a long lead up
to the question, But the point is to get to
Denise Barrett's answer.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
She's the director of the zoo.
Speaker 12 (20:34):
And then ultimately that would be vetted and would be
a public process that we could we could go through,
not dictating the outcome of that, but I am as
a as the motion and this council dictating that we
before those elephants are moved anywhere, that that come to
the council for the oversight. So can you promise me
(20:56):
here that those elephants will not be moved untill the
council has that chance to review that report and vote
on it.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
What I can promise you is that I am always
going to make decisions that are for the best interest
of the animals at the zoo, including the elephants.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Okay, that's not good enough. Appreciate it, but so.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Got very tense.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah, what the hell does Bob Blumenfield know about elephants.
Speaker 11 (21:24):
What he's asserting here is that the council should have
the authority over this. The zoo has a little bit
more autonomy than other departments within the city, but it
is still a city department, So.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
He just want some power over the elephant.
Speaker 11 (21:37):
I think he is concerned about the location of the
elephants after this decision is made. One point he made
because he does try to answer ask this question again
after he was told by the committee's of budget hearing,
can you try to tie this to a budget related
line of questioning? He says, Look, if this is supposed
to cost eighty grand to move these elephants to Tulsa,
(21:58):
if we could do it cheap or at no cost,
we might be able to save a job at the zoo.
And so that was the spin towards the end. But
he asked her again and she said, my answer is
going to be the same. She can't make the promise
that this decision will not be made before counsel gets
to fully weigh in.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
How much does it cost to take the elephants to Tulsa.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
They're saying eighty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Okay, that's not bad. That can't be what this is about,
because they would be able to raise that money. I
mentioned Share and Slash with donations alone, with this sheer
number of people who care about these elephants going to
a sanctuary, eighty thousand dollars is nothing. There's got to
be something behind the pushback from Bob Blumenfielder and whoever
(22:42):
else to keep the elephants here. Like, what are we
missing here in terms of following the money, because we're
not talking about eighty grand to move Tina and Billy.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Unless he's getting a kickback something from the elephant's sanctuary
in Hohenwald, Tennessee, which was his preferred location.
Speaker 11 (22:57):
He has a preferred location there also possibly northern California.
How much of those I don't know yet. What he
wants is the analysis. He wants a cost review.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
How tedious?
Speaker 9 (23:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Now, who was the patron saint of the animals, Saint
Francis Francis? Yes, you're right, yeah, sorry, get your how
dare you? Sorry?
Speaker 11 (23:15):
Get your rosaries out and say a prayer to Saint Francis.
That's not what the rosary is for. But okay, it
can be, is it? The rosary is the journey you
want to take.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I think it has strict rules.
Speaker 11 (23:28):
You want to say some Hail Mary's and our Fathers,
That's okay, and then you know, just feel holy connected.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
There's rules, Yeah, there are rules in the Catholic Church.
Speaker 11 (23:36):
My walk out sign song at conclave would be the
table of plenty?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
What was your confirmation name?
Speaker 11 (23:41):
I didn't make it to eighth grade, never mind, I
was asked to leave. I was asked to leave Catholic
school in at the end of fourth grade, and we
never made it back and never participated in any of
the rights.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
That is why I woke up this morning. I didn't
make it to eighth grade, which.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
In Kentucky is not required. Well, I love it and
I was able to get a job at KFI so
well that bar is very low. I let the record
show I do have a master's degree. Now I did
turn my life.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Oh okay, okay, fancy, I have nothing.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Am I supposed to know you had a master's degree
until you tell me that you had a master's What
is it in communication?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (24:16):
My god?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
What does that even mean? You take more courses on
the Telecommunications Act of nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 11 (24:22):
It means we can discuss communication theory. Means I can teach.
I taught community college before I moved out here.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Children no community college.
Speaker 11 (24:28):
Public speaking, but it were high school students getting college credit.
Public speaking a very important skill, perhaps the most important skill.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I would like to take this class.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
I was good at it.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (24:37):
Yeah, we can learn impromptu after dinner speaking and formative speaking.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I can I get after dinner speaking.
Speaker 11 (24:43):
That's like an event when you're the last speaker, Like
you think that you make a little bit of comedy.
You're at a house party with six other couple. You
might be if you're the guy who can speak, well,
you can do anything in this life. You can fool
your way into a job at KFI. It's true, and
now here I am sitting with you. Finally, you don't
have to tell us this is a.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Real we are fakers.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yeah, I think we have any right to be here.
Off your ass.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Thank you as always my pleasure, Gary Shannon Will continued.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Coming up in the next hour, we'll be talking parenting
with Justin Worsham. It says that while we're in a
kid drought, aren't we They heard is dying off and
new research reveals two point one kids per woman may
not be enough for the population to survive. Got to
get some berthers up in here.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
We found another Navy fighter jet falling off of an
aircraft carrier. It's the same aircraft carrier.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Oh no, this is the.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Fourth major mishap involving this. You gotta fire some USS
Harry Truman reposition some people. We told you last week
FA eighteen E fell off while they were towing the
airplane and the hangar bay. Yesterday they said an FA
eighteen F was over went overboard after the unsuccessful attempt
(26:07):
to slow it down upon landing. Something happened with the
with the catch cable or whatever it's called. That's two.
A third fighter jet from the Arius Truman was shot
down accidentally by who by us by another Navy warship,
the USS Gettysburg.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Hell is going on? I didn't hear about that one Truman.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
We shot down one of our own play.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Probably because they didn't let us know they were up there.
What the hell's going on on this warship?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
And then there was another I guess it was involved
in a minor collision that the Truman was involved on. Lord,
I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Uh, Who's who's the captain?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Commanding officer? Will soon be? I would assume I have
a friend.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Who's a commanding officer in the US Navy.
Speaker 13 (26:51):
As a software engineer by profession, my favorite saint is
Saint Saville. He's the patron Saint of the Internet and
software engineers. I also like telling people this because they're
always surprised when they find out that there is a
patron saint for software engineers, and I'm like, yep, yep.
Speaker 9 (27:09):
Hygarian Channon, I have two very favorite saints. My first
favorite saint is, of course, Saint George, who is the
patron Saint of England and it's also my last name.
My other favorite patron saint is Saint Genesis. As I
am an actor, and an artist, and Saint Genisis is
a great inspiration and a protector and gives blessings to
(27:30):
those of us in the arts. So I always look
for guidance to Saint Genesis when I'm going out for
that big part.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Have a great day, you guys, Thank.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
You, and good luck.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
I just wanted to mention this because I think that
Scott Viscens Starr continues to rise. He really has become
the adult in the room in Washington, which makes me
worried for his future if he wasn't so capable in
all the things that he has been doing. Their Treasury
Secretary Scott Dessent, he is been named today to lead
(28:01):
the US negotiations on trade with China. I'm not unexpected,
but a very large position. As you can imagine. He's
going to meet with Chinese officials in Switzerland this weekend
and take the lead position. He has been involved in
other trade negotiations in Asia as part of this tariff
agenda item, but well regarded by Wall Street. He is
(28:25):
widely perceived as the most serious and savvy individual among
the cabinet when it comes to trade. So he's the
guy that Trump's listening to.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
You said, they're talking in Switzerland. Right in Long Beach.
We got some new crappers. There are new public restrooms
that come with a time limit. These are the latest
version of smart toilets that you that you think of.
(28:59):
We're a guy comes knocking on the door and yells
out maintenance, anybody in there?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
You know about time limits from time to time. I
think about Tim Conway Junior on this topic, okay, because
he talked about this one time on his show, and
it's stuck with me. That like your your stomach, your
gi track. They know where home.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Is, Yes, that's true.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Like they know when you've got twelve minutes to home.
It knows when you're eight minutes away. It knows when
you're sixty seconds away. Like in it behaves accordingly, it
gets ready. It's fascinating, isn't it interesting?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Pregame a digital sign on these four different new bathrooms
will alert you as to whether a bathroom is available,
it would be in use, it would be cleaned, or
it is closed. About a ten minute time limit is
what they're saying. And whether you're ready or not, then
doors are opening, wow for you and all of glory.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Really, that's terrifying.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
So to access this. It's a company called Throne Labs
by the way that puts these together. To access the
Throne you most people would be able to scan a
QR code outside the bathroom with your phone that generates
a text message that would open that bathroom. Be similar
to like unlocking one of those scooters. Yeah, then there's
(30:26):
a code that could be typed in if you don't
have a smartphone, and there are still physical access cards
available if you happen to find yourself in need of
a public restroom on a regular basis. Wow Long Beach
has decided they're going to place these units at Belmont
Pierre Shoreline, Marina, Harvey Milk Promenade Park and to Forest Park.
(30:48):
In each of these locations, they said, sees a lot
of foot traffic, but they don't always have a lot
of bathrooms. These have been tried in many other places
and in a bunch of places in Europe. Now there
are there are public urinals where you can walk up
(31:10):
and with a certain amount of privacy, not all obviously,
since by definition what you're doing is not private. But
you lean into a receptacle that then you pee into.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I'm sorry, you lean into a receptacle then you pee into.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
So this is like set up on a sidewalk. Yeah,
and you're over there, walking over there and I turn
around like this. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Oh really, Yes, there's like a hole. It's like a
glory hole for peeing.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Well that's an odd way to put it, but.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Well, so you're just peeing in public into the thing,
into the the urinal with like walls basically. But can't
you see like directly behind you?
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Hey, could you your eyes on the road please? You
need to walk down the sidewalk. Stop looking at me
while I'm going.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
That's an awful idea.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
I'm just saying. I'm just saying because.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
If you turned, you know, why are you turning?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
You pee on your own shoe.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Yes, that's what medical You're the one turning.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
I'm not turning.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Okay, we've got swamp watch when we come back to
Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
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