June 26, 2025 • 24 mins
Group advocates for a $30 minimum wage in Los Angeles. A California teen lost touch with reality and walked off Mount Whitney, according to his father. The best 50 airports in America have been ranked. #TerrorinTheSkies
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
New list is out for the top fifty airports in
the country, and we'll go through tell you which one's
here in Southern California ranked the highest.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Number two might surprise you. Hello, Garon Shannon the Dynamic
duo Shannon, Another vacation day. What's really going on? Point point?
What happened?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Whatever it is, We got your back, don't ever change,
just hurry back, Love you guys.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Thank you for that. By the way, Just a vacation day,
gear bear. Yeah, what's more ridiculous?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Liver King's nine tenants or this radio guy I knows
eighteen point cell phone contract?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Oh well, I don't eat raw meat that but listen
if you want to do that, that's completely up to you.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
United Sorry.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Unite here Local eleven represents a bunch of workers employed
in hotels and restaurants, airports, etc. Throughout Southern California and Arizona,
and Unite here Local eleven is the union representing those
thirty two thousand workers that successfully lobbied and got the
La City Council to increase minimum wage for La hotel
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and airport employees to thirty bucks an hour by the
summer Olympics coming up in twenty twenty eight. Now, the
hotel industry we've told you has been pushing back on this.
They are going to start your own lobbying plan to
try to put this before voters, to try to get
this thing down. We did the story earlier in the
week about how some hotel owners are already saying, we
(01:45):
would love to get out of this business. We'd love
to get out of La because the restrictions upon the
owners are becoming too ownerous. But nobody wants to buy
their hotels because the restrictions are so onerous. The law
of the thirty dollars Law, passed by the city Council last month,
pushes the minimum wage for tourism related employees to twenty
(02:07):
two to fifty an hour in next month, and then
two dollars and fifty cents every July until it makes
it to thirty bucks an hour in twenty twenty eight.
The Unite Here Local eleven has now submitted paperwork to
the La City Clerk to put a ballot initiative up
to voters to let them weigh in on a city
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wide thirty dollars minimum wage.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
One of the reasons they do this they point to
things like information from the California Housing Partnership that shows
that renters in La County need to earn nearly three
times the existing minimum wage to afford the average apartment
rent of just under twenty five hundred dollars a month.
But let's talk about the potential for there to be
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negatives when you raise the minimum wage. Obviously, okay, the
pros and cons very basic pros and cons of a
higher minimum wage. Somebody who gets a higher minimum wage
is going to have more money to spend on commercial goods, rent, food,
that sort of thing that would reduce reliance on government
program anti poverty programs, and spending wages keep a pace
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with inflation at a better rate. Although I don't know
why we haven't tied minimum wage to inflation just yet,
but those higher wages can then fuel inflation in some cases,
and businesses couldn't hire as many workers.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
That's going to cause unemployment.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
We saw that with the fast food minimum wage that
was pushed through the state here in California. The housing
hotel and Lodging Association is saying a thirty dollars minimum
wage is already going to be devastating to the tourism
industry in La, already facing major financial problems. Like I said,
there have been hotel owners that have said they would
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love to sell. They just know no one's going to
buy in La. International travel to La is down about
thirteen and a half percent. Airlines have pulled more than
three hundred and twenty thousand seats from LAX and eleven
eleven LA hotels. That's about three thousand rooms little over
three thousand rooms in danger of falling behind on their loans.
(04:21):
The president and CEO of AHLA, the American Hotel Launching Association,
says city officials describe the current economic environment as one
of unprecedented uncertainty and full of red flags, but then
want to push the Olympic wage, that thirty dollars minimum
across the entire city. There's an umbrella a group, by
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the way, that has been representing the hospitality companies, think
of airlines, hotels, et cetera. They have launched their referendum
like I mentioned, to try to repeal the Olympic thirty
dollars wage. Law, and if they collect the ninety three
thousand signs in the next few days, they got to
do it by the end of this month. The wage
increases could be paused for a year. Referendum to scrap
(05:07):
the wage ordinance would go before voters in June of
twenty twenty six. Already and again, one of the major
problems with raising minimum wage too fast, too much is
you lose employees. The businesses can't pay their employee or
won't depending on your opinion.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
They either can't or they won't.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
When the state put in that twenty dollars an hour
an hour minimum wage for fast food employees, we lost
about fourteen thousand fast food jobs in the state. Fourteen thousand,
and almost every single restaurant had to raise its prices
in just the first six months after that law went
into effect a couple of years ago. So the idea
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of a thirty dollars minimum wage across the entire city,
not just the hospitality, but across the entire city brings
with that a whole new push potentially of more jobs
being lost simply because businesses can't.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Or won't pay the employees.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
There was a tragic story a friend of ours was
telling us about this last night because of her connection
to the story. There's a fourteen year old kid who
is unconscious in a hospital in Las Vegas after a
fall while hiking on Mount Whitney with his father. It's
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completely bizarre what happened to this fourteen year old kid.
We'll talk about it we come back.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Ryan Ryan is dad's name, Zayin is the son. Zaine
is fourteen. Ryan Wock and his son Zayin, and they
decided that they were going to climb Mount Whitney together.
Ryan is an experience mountaineer, Zayin is aridiculously in shape
fourteen year old kid, and they were going up Mount
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Whitney on the mountaineer's route. It's considered to be the
shorter route, but it is much more technically advanced compared
to other trails. Mount Whitney Trail, for example. And Zain
and his dad had done mountains before, climbed mountains before,
but this was his first time on Mount Whitney and
they wanted to do this whole thing in one single pass.
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Dad said he was totally confident that Zain would be
able to do it because he is an avid hiker, runner, swimmer, triathlons,
and Ryan says, Zain is in better shape than I am.
But Zain started showing symptoms of altitude sickness and Dad said,
you know what, We're going to turn around just to
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be safe. And they'd gotten past the hardest parts of
the route. They've done the climbing over the granite cliffs,
the loose rocks. They got that out of the way,
but they still needed to hike several miles down the
Mount Whitney trail back to where their car was parked.
And Dad says that Zain started to have some hallucinations
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that he saw things like snowmen and Kermit the frog,
and he knew that he was hallucinating.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
He knew, but he couldn't shake it.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
And Dad says that Zaine told him he couldn't tell
if he was dreaming or not. He would shake his
head in disbelief and say things like this is not real.
And at that point there was a separate group of
hike hikers that called search and rescue because they were
concerned about Zay's condition, and he started to make this
is the sun Zayn started to begin to make strange,
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erratic movements towards one of the ledges that actually dropped
off into a steep granite slope, and Dad had to
grab his son a couple of times. Zain said, and
again he's dealing with the effects of altitude sickness. It
sounds like in these Hallucis nations. And Zay would say
things like, well, I'm going to the car. It was
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I mean, he was facing in the right direction, obviously,
but it's several thousand feet down the trail. So Dad
again had to grab Zayne to prevent him from walking
off of this ledge. And when he asked what he
was doing, Zain said, I'm going to get dinner.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
And this is starting to make Dad go crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Dad says he's losing his mind because he was scared
and he was frustrated, and he's holding his hands to
his eyes wiping away tears or you know, just the
frustrated like what do I do hands to your eyes thing?
And he said this time, I didn't hear it until
he was about at the edge and I went to
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reach for him. He was ten feet away from me
and I couldn't get him. And Zaane walked off the ledge.
Zaine fell about one hundred and twenty feet down this
very steep granite. Dad was able to scurry down there
and get to him. One of those other nearby hikers
(10:05):
immediately began coordinating rescue efforts, but it took about six
hours until the search and rescue team from Inyo County
was able to arrive and take him via helicopter to
a hospital in Loan Pine and then from there to
Sunrise Children's Hospital in Las Vegas. He is Zaan is
currently in a medically induced coma, has been for a
(10:28):
couple of weeks now. Besides the trauma to his head,
doctor said everything else was relatively minor. Broken angle, an ankle,
a broken finger, part of his pelvis, but they said
it was fairly miraculous that he wasn't injured any more
than that now. Zaane Wak's family WACCH. They have put
(10:49):
up a go Fundme page to deal with whatever they're
gonna have to deal with. One of the things is,
obviously you got to live in Vegas. Your son's in
a medically induced coma in the hospital there. Dad says
it is going to be a survival story in the end,
but right now, we're still in the middle of it.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
They've raised about.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Twenty thousand dollars in their go fundme page, but they're
going to need more than that, all right, a more
positive story airports in Los Angeles. We talked last week
about the greatest airports that you've ever or worst airports
that you've ever been in. There's a new list out
top fifty airports. We'll talk about where the Southern California
airports stack up against all the others in the country.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
We always want to know what you are thinking as well.
You can tell us on the talkback feature on the
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you record a message that comes in comes in right here.
Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos and his fiance Lauren Sanchez gearing
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up for their big three day wedding, and we've been
talking about this wedding and how ridiculous it is to
spend eleven million dollars on something like that. They said
about ninety private jets are going to be landing at
local airports in and around Venice this week. Show Biz people,
finance people, high tech people, all of them. But they
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said that this is going to cost somewhere between. We've
been saying eleven million. The number I saw today was
between forty six and fifty six million dollars. For that
Bezos Sanchez Wedding Angels are back to five hundred now.
They swept the Red Sox. That a five to two
win yesterday. Day off today before they'll host the Nationals
over the weekend. Dodgers beat the Right Rockies eight to
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one after a rain delay, so twelve ten first pitch
This afternoon, Dodgers will take on the Rockies. Listen to
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your favorite bar or grocer.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I am not the most.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Well traveled, but I've traveled. I've been to several different
airports throughout the country. A couple in Canada, maybe a
couple in the Caribbean, Mexico, places like that. The airport,
as we get into, you know, summer travel season can
often be considered the worst part of your vacation. It's
thet You got to deal with the parking, you got
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to deal with the traffic, you got to deal with
the TSA, you got to deal with the gate agents.
Most importantly, you got to deal with the other passengers
and reason in their own world.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
And it can be an awful, awful place.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
So the Washington Post put together a list of what
they said was the fifty best airports in the United States.
They started with the list of four hundred and fifty
airports that they said served at least one thousand passengers
last year. So that I mean, you got some pretty
small airports dealing that would potentially be on this list.
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And then they narrowed it down to top fifty. They
got into things like gate capacity, they got into the
ease of parking at each of these different places, and
then came up with this list of the fifty best
airports in the United States. So they counted, for example,
when it comes to the navigation of an airport. They
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count how many gates at airport has relative to their
passenger volume for all the airports they talked about TSA
complaints overall number, but also on a per passenger basis
screening challenges. They also helped figured out passenger departure numbers
considered the percentage of empty seats per flight another indicated
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indicator of a less crowded terminal, food shopping on time flights.
And then what I thought was kind of interesting is
they use sort of the qualitative, not just the numbers
and stuff, but some of the qualitative thing that exist
in airports around the country.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I and when.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I saw that, I thought of a couple that I
am aware of that I think are pretty cool. One
of them is in the Ben Redmond Airport up in
central Oregon. There's a big, bigfoot sculpture and the terminal
itself is all big wooden logs, big wooden beams throughout
the main gate area and rental car area, or the
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in Seattle, if you've ever been to SeaTac Airport, they're
water fountains.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
You know, you're walking down the terminal as a water fountain.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
As soon as you push that button and the water
comes out, it gurgles. There's a speaker underneath it, and
it gurgles like it's a babbling brook. Or if you've
ever been through Sacramento, they have that giant red rabbit sculpture.
I have no idea why, but it's just one of
those weird, quirky things. So I went through this list
and I found the California airports, specifically San Jose Minetta
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International comes in at number forty five on this list
of top fifty airports in America. Palm Springs International Airport
comes in at thirty five. Little baby Sonoma County Airport,
I think they call it. Charles Schultz Airport is number
twenty five, Santa Barbara twenty three, SFO, which can be
a stinker depending on where you're headed, but SFO up
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in San Francisco is number twenty two on the list.
Ontario fifteen, Burbank fourteen. Burbank is my favorite. John Wayne
Airport is number twelve, And then you get into the
top ten, and they, like I said, some of these
are pretty small. Salt Lake City is number nine, Detroit
Metro is ten, Salt Lake City number nine, Indianapolis eight,
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Albuquerque seven, number six is Rhode Island TF Green International Airport.
I didn't know that was such a thing. Number five
is a little bit of a misnomer. It's Seattle's payne
Field International Airport. It's actually Paynfield is not SeaTac Airport.
It's not even Boeing Field, which is just south of
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downtown Seattle. Painfield International Airport is up in Everett, almost
Everett where they actually build seven forty sevens, but apparently
they've opened a terminal there, so that's number five. Number
four is Minneapolis Saint Paul. Number three is Reagan National.
Number two is Long Beach. Long Beach, built originally back
in nineteen forty one, just reopened after a huge renovation
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and said it's one of the most beautiful airports because
it's open. They have the courtyard there that actually has
sand on it, so it feels like you're at the beach.
Eleven gates, three airlines. If you are lucky enough to
get in and out of Long Beach, that's going to
be the way to go. And then the number one
airport according to this Washington Post list is Portland International.
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Been there a handful of times as well. Easy to
get to. I also have a soft spot in my
heart for those places where because the weather is good,
or if the weather is good, better way to put it,
you get to go out onto the tarmac to board
the airplane. For some reason, that generates in me sort
of a bit of nostalgia. And if you're going Burbank
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to I don't know that Bend Redmond Airport, both of
them load and unload outside Portland does at some of
their gates, and.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Some of the smaller airports do that as well.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
So if you had one that I missed on that list,
let me know what you think is the best airport
in southern California. Up next, speaking of how about some
terror in the sky.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
We'll do swamp Watch at the top of the hour.
There's some consternation in Congress about this President's big, beautiful
bills trying to make its way through the Senate. We'll
talk about some of the sticking points. The White House
Press Secretary Caroline Levitt just held a news conference there
in the White House and said that she still expects
or the president better way to put it, the President
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still expects to have that big beautiful bill on his
desk by the fourth of July. Well that's a week
from tomorrow, and I don't know what it's going to
look like when it gets there, but we'll see. In
the first public comments since the American strikes on Iranian
nuclear facilities, the Supreme Leader of Iran claimed that he
(19:22):
won the Ayatola Khamenei said the Islamic Republic was victorious
and in retaliation, delbert a hands slapped to America's face,
and he warned that the United States would be paying
a heavy price for launching future attacks and said that
Iran has access to US centers in the Middle East.
(19:45):
Also in swamp Watch, we'll talk about President Trump may
think about Wall Street journal is reporting that he's going
to name a successor to Jerome Powell before the Fed
chair's term runs out, which is less than a from now,
to try to put pressure on Jerome Powell. We were
talking about the greatest airports in the country. Long Beach
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is number two, by the way, but it's time for
terror in the skies.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Fike is zero Nier.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
You are a glare at the day off, Roger, Get
off my plane, Roger Rogers, what's our Victor, Victor, enough
is enough.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I haven't had to put these mucky pipe and snakes
on this money. It's Gary and Shannon's Terror in the
Skies on KFI.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
All right, let's start in reverse chronological order. Most recently,
an American Airlines flight had to go back to Vegas
yesterday morning flames and smoke came out of one of
its engines. This flight took off from Vegas for Charlotte,
North Carolina about eight in the morning. Airport spokesperson said
the smoke came from the left engine. A bunch of
people started taking videos and you could see the smoke
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and the flames coming from the engine while it was
in flight. So it turned around pretty quickly and was
back at about just a few minutes later. But a
maintenance team said they found no evidence that in fact
the engine caught fire. Everybody got off fine. They were
on board one hundred and fifty three passengers six crew
time of the incident, but that plane was taken out
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of service just to be checked out.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Five people on board.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
An American Airlines flight had to be hospitalized Sunday after
unexpected turbulence. This flight from Miami up to Raleig Durham
and North Carolina when the plane hit turbulence. Flight twelve
eighty six. This also an Airbus three twenty one, just
like the plane in the first one. The plane landed
safely just about eleven o'clock. Crew reported possible injuries to
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cabin crew and passengers because of the turbulence, so paramedics
met them at the gate. Three flight attendants and two
passengers had to be taken to the hospital, but no
real description as to the extent of the injuries, but
one passenger said it was like being on the top
of roller coaster and going down. It sounded like we
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hit something and then we just dropped in the air
and I can't imagine the.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Defecation that would take place.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
A Virgin Airlines passenger had to be booted off a
flight from Melbourne, Australia after a heated altercation over a
fanny pack. This flight had been waiting to take off
from Perth when the woman began to act erratically, so
they asked this twenty eight year old woman to remove
her fanny pack for takeoff, but she declined, and what
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she said was, you're telling me to take my clothes
off on a plane. F Off which was directed at
one of the flight attendants, and the flight attendant said,
I didn't say that you had a bum bag on, which,
by the way, is a better term than fanny pack.
You had a bum bag on in the event of
an evacuation. We need to make sure that you're safe
and everyone else is safe. She didn't heed the command.
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The Australian Federal Police will deal with you, so, needless
to say, the AFP showed up and escort this woman,
complete with her bum bag, off of the airplane. Passengers
on a Ryan Air flight expected unexpectedly showered with booze
after several bottles and the overhead bins broke open during
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a bumpy landing. This woman, in a video on TikTok,
is seen drenched in the aisle and a stream of
unidentified clear liquor waterfalls onto her and her belongings from
the overhead bin. The neighbor is also a seat mate,
also visibly drenched with the leaking liquor. Said, the landing
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hit the ground so hard it broke two bottles of
alcohol in the overhead locker and poured all over us,
but at least the seats were nice and clean. You're
not supposed to do that, that's.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Not supposed to do that.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
And then finally Southwest is dealing with their exploding soda cans.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
You may have heard this. Conway was talking about this.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Flight crews and customers have talked about cans rupturing in
mid air. The ruptures occur when cans have been left
in the high temperatures for too long. So you get
places like Phoenix or Vegas when the temperatures are over
one hundreds degrees quite a bit, and you start hearing
the cans before you even saw them, and you could
hear them deforming. And basically, these flight attendants would say
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that the half of the stock, half of the cans
would be deformed. So now they are going to refrigerate
their provisioning trucks at least for Vegas and Phoenix, because
that's where it is most warm, most commonly. All right,
swamp watch when we come back. You've been listening to
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
New list is out for the top fifty airports in
the country, and we'll go through tell you which one's
here in Southern California ranked the highest.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Number two might surprise you. Hello, Garon Shannon the Dynamic
duo Shannon, Another vacation day. What's really going on? Point point?
What happened?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Whatever it is, We got your back, don't ever change,
just hurry back, Love you guys.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Thank you for that. By the way, Just a vacation day,
gear bear. Yeah, what's more ridiculous?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Liver King's nine tenants or this radio guy I knows
eighteen point cell phone contract?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Oh well, I don't eat raw meat that but listen
if you want to do that, that's completely up to you.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
United Sorry.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Unite here Local eleven represents a bunch of workers employed
in hotels and restaurants, airports, etc. Throughout Southern California and Arizona,
and Unite here Local eleven is the union representing those
thirty two thousand workers that successfully lobbied and got the
La City Council to increase minimum wage for La hotel
(01:22):
and airport employees to thirty bucks an hour by the
summer Olympics coming up in twenty twenty eight. Now, the
hotel industry we've told you has been pushing back on this.
They are going to start your own lobbying plan to
try to put this before voters, to try to get
this thing down. We did the story earlier in the
week about how some hotel owners are already saying, we
(01:45):
would love to get out of this business. We'd love
to get out of La because the restrictions upon the
owners are becoming too ownerous. But nobody wants to buy
their hotels because the restrictions are so onerous. The law
of the thirty dollars Law, passed by the city Council last month,
pushes the minimum wage for tourism related employees to twenty
(02:07):
two to fifty an hour in next month, and then
two dollars and fifty cents every July until it makes
it to thirty bucks an hour in twenty twenty eight.
The Unite Here Local eleven has now submitted paperwork to
the La City Clerk to put a ballot initiative up
to voters to let them weigh in on a city
(02:31):
wide thirty dollars minimum wage.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
One of the reasons they do this they point to
things like information from the California Housing Partnership that shows
that renters in La County need to earn nearly three
times the existing minimum wage to afford the average apartment
rent of just under twenty five hundred dollars a month.
But let's talk about the potential for there to be
(02:55):
negatives when you raise the minimum wage. Obviously, okay, the
pros and cons very basic pros and cons of a
higher minimum wage. Somebody who gets a higher minimum wage
is going to have more money to spend on commercial goods, rent, food,
that sort of thing that would reduce reliance on government
program anti poverty programs, and spending wages keep a pace
(03:18):
with inflation at a better rate. Although I don't know
why we haven't tied minimum wage to inflation just yet,
but those higher wages can then fuel inflation in some cases,
and businesses couldn't hire as many workers.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
That's going to cause unemployment.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
We saw that with the fast food minimum wage that
was pushed through the state here in California. The housing
hotel and Lodging Association is saying a thirty dollars minimum
wage is already going to be devastating to the tourism
industry in La, already facing major financial problems. Like I said,
there have been hotel owners that have said they would
(03:58):
love to sell. They just know no one's going to
buy in La. International travel to La is down about
thirteen and a half percent. Airlines have pulled more than
three hundred and twenty thousand seats from LAX and eleven
eleven LA hotels. That's about three thousand rooms little over
three thousand rooms in danger of falling behind on their loans.
(04:21):
The president and CEO of AHLA, the American Hotel Launching Association,
says city officials describe the current economic environment as one
of unprecedented uncertainty and full of red flags, but then
want to push the Olympic wage, that thirty dollars minimum
across the entire city. There's an umbrella a group, by
(04:44):
the way, that has been representing the hospitality companies, think
of airlines, hotels, et cetera. They have launched their referendum
like I mentioned, to try to repeal the Olympic thirty
dollars wage. Law, and if they collect the ninety three
thousand signs in the next few days, they got to
do it by the end of this month. The wage
increases could be paused for a year. Referendum to scrap
(05:07):
the wage ordinance would go before voters in June of
twenty twenty six. Already and again, one of the major
problems with raising minimum wage too fast, too much is
you lose employees. The businesses can't pay their employee or
won't depending on your opinion.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
They either can't or they won't.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
When the state put in that twenty dollars an hour
an hour minimum wage for fast food employees, we lost
about fourteen thousand fast food jobs in the state. Fourteen thousand,
and almost every single restaurant had to raise its prices
in just the first six months after that law went
into effect a couple of years ago. So the idea
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of a thirty dollars minimum wage across the entire city,
not just the hospitality, but across the entire city brings
with that a whole new push potentially of more jobs
being lost simply because businesses can't.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Or won't pay the employees.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
There was a tragic story a friend of ours was
telling us about this last night because of her connection
to the story. There's a fourteen year old kid who
is unconscious in a hospital in Las Vegas after a
fall while hiking on Mount Whitney with his father. It's
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completely bizarre what happened to this fourteen year old kid.
We'll talk about it we come back.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Ryan Ryan is dad's name, Zayin is the son. Zaine
is fourteen. Ryan Wock and his son Zayin, and they
decided that they were going to climb Mount Whitney together.
Ryan is an experience mountaineer, Zayin is aridiculously in shape
fourteen year old kid, and they were going up Mount
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Whitney on the mountaineer's route. It's considered to be the
shorter route, but it is much more technically advanced compared
to other trails. Mount Whitney Trail, for example. And Zain
and his dad had done mountains before, climbed mountains before,
but this was his first time on Mount Whitney and
they wanted to do this whole thing in one single pass.
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Dad said he was totally confident that Zain would be
able to do it because he is an avid hiker, runner, swimmer, triathlons,
and Ryan says, Zain is in better shape than I am.
But Zain started showing symptoms of altitude sickness and Dad said,
you know what, We're going to turn around just to
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be safe. And they'd gotten past the hardest parts of
the route. They've done the climbing over the granite cliffs,
the loose rocks. They got that out of the way,
but they still needed to hike several miles down the
Mount Whitney trail back to where their car was parked.
And Dad says that Zain started to have some hallucinations
(08:09):
that he saw things like snowmen and Kermit the frog,
and he knew that he was hallucinating.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
He knew, but he couldn't shake it.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
And Dad says that Zaine told him he couldn't tell
if he was dreaming or not. He would shake his
head in disbelief and say things like this is not real.
And at that point there was a separate group of
hike hikers that called search and rescue because they were
concerned about Zay's condition, and he started to make this
is the sun Zayn started to begin to make strange,
(08:44):
erratic movements towards one of the ledges that actually dropped
off into a steep granite slope, and Dad had to
grab his son a couple of times. Zain said, and
again he's dealing with the effects of altitude sickness. It
sounds like in these Hallucis nations. And Zay would say
things like, well, I'm going to the car. It was
(09:04):
I mean, he was facing in the right direction, obviously,
but it's several thousand feet down the trail. So Dad
again had to grab Zayne to prevent him from walking
off of this ledge. And when he asked what he
was doing, Zain said, I'm going to get dinner.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
And this is starting to make Dad go crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Dad says he's losing his mind because he was scared
and he was frustrated, and he's holding his hands to
his eyes wiping away tears or you know, just the
frustrated like what do I do hands to your eyes thing?
And he said this time, I didn't hear it until
he was about at the edge and I went to
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reach for him. He was ten feet away from me
and I couldn't get him. And Zaane walked off the ledge.
Zaine fell about one hundred and twenty feet down this
very steep granite. Dad was able to scurry down there
and get to him. One of those other nearby hikers
(10:05):
immediately began coordinating rescue efforts, but it took about six
hours until the search and rescue team from Inyo County
was able to arrive and take him via helicopter to
a hospital in Loan Pine and then from there to
Sunrise Children's Hospital in Las Vegas. He is Zaan is
currently in a medically induced coma, has been for a
(10:28):
couple of weeks now. Besides the trauma to his head,
doctor said everything else was relatively minor. Broken angle, an ankle,
a broken finger, part of his pelvis, but they said
it was fairly miraculous that he wasn't injured any more
than that now. Zaane Wak's family WACCH. They have put
(10:49):
up a go Fundme page to deal with whatever they're
gonna have to deal with. One of the things is,
obviously you got to live in Vegas. Your son's in
a medically induced coma in the hospital there. Dad says
it is going to be a survival story in the end,
but right now, we're still in the middle of it.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
They've raised about.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Twenty thousand dollars in their go fundme page, but they're
going to need more than that, all right, a more
positive story airports in Los Angeles. We talked last week
about the greatest airports that you've ever or worst airports
that you've ever been in. There's a new list out
top fifty airports. We'll talk about where the Southern California
airports stack up against all the others in the country.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
We always want to know what you are thinking as well.
You can tell us on the talkback feature on the
iHeart app. When you're listening on the app, there's a
little red button up in the corner with a white
microphone on it. When you touch that, tap that thing,
you record a message that comes in comes in right here.
Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos and his fiance Lauren Sanchez gearing
(11:57):
up for their big three day wedding, and we've been
talking about this wedding and how ridiculous it is to
spend eleven million dollars on something like that. They said
about ninety private jets are going to be landing at
local airports in and around Venice this week. Show Biz people,
finance people, high tech people, all of them. But they
(12:19):
said that this is going to cost somewhere between. We've
been saying eleven million. The number I saw today was
between forty six and fifty six million dollars. For that
Bezos Sanchez Wedding Angels are back to five hundred now.
They swept the Red Sox. That a five to two
win yesterday. Day off today before they'll host the Nationals
over the weekend. Dodgers beat the Right Rockies eight to
(12:42):
one after a rain delay, so twelve ten first pitch
This afternoon, Dodgers will take on the Rockies. Listen to
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your favorite bar or grocer.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I am not the most.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Well traveled, but I've traveled. I've been to several different
airports throughout the country. A couple in Canada, maybe a
couple in the Caribbean, Mexico, places like that. The airport,
as we get into, you know, summer travel season can
often be considered the worst part of your vacation. It's
thet You got to deal with the parking, you got
(13:30):
to deal with the traffic, you got to deal with
the TSA, you got to deal with the gate agents.
Most importantly, you got to deal with the other passengers
and reason in their own world.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
And it can be an awful, awful place.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
So the Washington Post put together a list of what
they said was the fifty best airports in the United States.
They started with the list of four hundred and fifty
airports that they said served at least one thousand passengers
last year. So that I mean, you got some pretty
small airports dealing that would potentially be on this list.
(14:04):
And then they narrowed it down to top fifty. They
got into things like gate capacity, they got into the
ease of parking at each of these different places, and
then came up with this list of the fifty best
airports in the United States. So they counted, for example,
when it comes to the navigation of an airport. They
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count how many gates at airport has relative to their
passenger volume for all the airports they talked about TSA
complaints overall number, but also on a per passenger basis
screening challenges. They also helped figured out passenger departure numbers
considered the percentage of empty seats per flight another indicated
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indicator of a less crowded terminal, food shopping on time flights.
And then what I thought was kind of interesting is
they use sort of the qualitative, not just the numbers
and stuff, but some of the qualitative thing that exist
in airports around the country.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I and when.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I saw that, I thought of a couple that I
am aware of that I think are pretty cool. One
of them is in the Ben Redmond Airport up in
central Oregon. There's a big, bigfoot sculpture and the terminal
itself is all big wooden logs, big wooden beams throughout
the main gate area and rental car area, or the
(15:25):
in Seattle, if you've ever been to SeaTac Airport, they're
water fountains.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
You know, you're walking down the terminal as a water fountain.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
As soon as you push that button and the water
comes out, it gurgles. There's a speaker underneath it, and
it gurgles like it's a babbling brook. Or if you've
ever been through Sacramento, they have that giant red rabbit sculpture.
I have no idea why, but it's just one of
those weird, quirky things. So I went through this list
and I found the California airports, specifically San Jose Minetta
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International comes in at number forty five on this list
of top fifty airports in America. Palm Springs International Airport
comes in at thirty five. Little baby Sonoma County Airport,
I think they call it. Charles Schultz Airport is number
twenty five, Santa Barbara twenty three, SFO, which can be
a stinker depending on where you're headed, but SFO up
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in San Francisco is number twenty two on the list.
Ontario fifteen, Burbank fourteen. Burbank is my favorite. John Wayne
Airport is number twelve, And then you get into the
top ten, and they, like I said, some of these
are pretty small. Salt Lake City is number nine, Detroit
Metro is ten, Salt Lake City number nine, Indianapolis eight,
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Albuquerque seven, number six is Rhode Island TF Green International Airport.
I didn't know that was such a thing. Number five
is a little bit of a misnomer. It's Seattle's payne
Field International Airport. It's actually Paynfield is not SeaTac Airport.
It's not even Boeing Field, which is just south of
(17:03):
downtown Seattle. Painfield International Airport is up in Everett, almost
Everett where they actually build seven forty sevens, but apparently
they've opened a terminal there, so that's number five. Number
four is Minneapolis Saint Paul. Number three is Reagan National.
Number two is Long Beach. Long Beach, built originally back
in nineteen forty one, just reopened after a huge renovation
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and said it's one of the most beautiful airports because
it's open. They have the courtyard there that actually has
sand on it, so it feels like you're at the beach.
Eleven gates, three airlines. If you are lucky enough to
get in and out of Long Beach, that's going to
be the way to go. And then the number one
airport according to this Washington Post list is Portland International.
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Been there a handful of times as well. Easy to
get to. I also have a soft spot in my
heart for those places where because the weather is good,
or if the weather is good, better way to put it,
you get to go out onto the tarmac to board
the airplane. For some reason, that generates in me sort
of a bit of nostalgia. And if you're going Burbank
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to I don't know that Bend Redmond Airport, both of
them load and unload outside Portland does at some of
their gates, and.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Some of the smaller airports do that as well.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
So if you had one that I missed on that list,
let me know what you think is the best airport
in southern California. Up next, speaking of how about some
terror in the sky.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
We'll do swamp Watch at the top of the hour.
There's some consternation in Congress about this President's big, beautiful
bills trying to make its way through the Senate. We'll
talk about some of the sticking points. The White House
Press Secretary Caroline Levitt just held a news conference there
in the White House and said that she still expects
or the president better way to put it, the President
(19:01):
still expects to have that big beautiful bill on his
desk by the fourth of July. Well that's a week
from tomorrow, and I don't know what it's going to
look like when it gets there, but we'll see. In
the first public comments since the American strikes on Iranian
nuclear facilities, the Supreme Leader of Iran claimed that he
(19:22):
won the Ayatola Khamenei said the Islamic Republic was victorious
and in retaliation, delbert a hands slapped to America's face,
and he warned that the United States would be paying
a heavy price for launching future attacks and said that
Iran has access to US centers in the Middle East.
(19:45):
Also in swamp Watch, we'll talk about President Trump may
think about Wall Street journal is reporting that he's going
to name a successor to Jerome Powell before the Fed
chair's term runs out, which is less than a from now,
to try to put pressure on Jerome Powell. We were
talking about the greatest airports in the country. Long Beach
(20:07):
is number two, by the way, but it's time for
terror in the skies.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Fike is zero Nier.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
You are a glare at the day off, Roger, Get
off my plane, Roger Rogers, what's our Victor, Victor, enough
is enough.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I haven't had to put these mucky pipe and snakes
on this money. It's Gary and Shannon's Terror in the
Skies on KFI.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
All right, let's start in reverse chronological order. Most recently,
an American Airlines flight had to go back to Vegas
yesterday morning flames and smoke came out of one of
its engines. This flight took off from Vegas for Charlotte,
North Carolina about eight in the morning. Airport spokesperson said
the smoke came from the left engine. A bunch of
people started taking videos and you could see the smoke
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and the flames coming from the engine while it was
in flight. So it turned around pretty quickly and was
back at about just a few minutes later. But a
maintenance team said they found no evidence that in fact
the engine caught fire. Everybody got off fine. They were
on board one hundred and fifty three passengers six crew
time of the incident, but that plane was taken out
(21:14):
of service just to be checked out.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Five people on board.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
An American Airlines flight had to be hospitalized Sunday after
unexpected turbulence. This flight from Miami up to Raleig Durham
and North Carolina when the plane hit turbulence. Flight twelve
eighty six. This also an Airbus three twenty one, just
like the plane in the first one. The plane landed
safely just about eleven o'clock. Crew reported possible injuries to
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cabin crew and passengers because of the turbulence, so paramedics
met them at the gate. Three flight attendants and two
passengers had to be taken to the hospital, but no
real description as to the extent of the injuries, but
one passenger said it was like being on the top
of roller coaster and going down. It sounded like we
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hit something and then we just dropped in the air
and I can't imagine the.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Defecation that would take place.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
A Virgin Airlines passenger had to be booted off a
flight from Melbourne, Australia after a heated altercation over a
fanny pack. This flight had been waiting to take off
from Perth when the woman began to act erratically, so
they asked this twenty eight year old woman to remove
her fanny pack for takeoff, but she declined, and what
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she said was, you're telling me to take my clothes
off on a plane. F Off which was directed at
one of the flight attendants, and the flight attendant said,
I didn't say that you had a bum bag on, which,
by the way, is a better term than fanny pack.
You had a bum bag on in the event of
an evacuation. We need to make sure that you're safe
and everyone else is safe. She didn't heed the command.
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The Australian Federal Police will deal with you, so, needless
to say, the AFP showed up and escort this woman,
complete with her bum bag, off of the airplane. Passengers
on a Ryan Air flight expected unexpectedly showered with booze
after several bottles and the overhead bins broke open during
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a bumpy landing. This woman, in a video on TikTok,
is seen drenched in the aisle and a stream of
unidentified clear liquor waterfalls onto her and her belongings from
the overhead bin. The neighbor is also a seat mate,
also visibly drenched with the leaking liquor. Said, the landing
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hit the ground so hard it broke two bottles of
alcohol in the overhead locker and poured all over us,
but at least the seats were nice and clean. You're
not supposed to do that, that's.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Not supposed to do that.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
And then finally Southwest is dealing with their exploding soda cans.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
You may have heard this. Conway was talking about this.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Flight crews and customers have talked about cans rupturing in
mid air. The ruptures occur when cans have been left
in the high temperatures for too long. So you get
places like Phoenix or Vegas when the temperatures are over
one hundreds degrees quite a bit, and you start hearing
the cans before you even saw them, and you could
hear them deforming. And basically, these flight attendants would say
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that the half of the stock, half of the cans
would be deformed. So now they are going to refrigerate
their provisioning trucks at least for Vegas and Phoenix, because
that's where it is most warm, most commonly. All right,
swamp watch when we come back. You've been listening to
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