December 30, 2025 • 32 mins
Gary and Shannon discuss the latest news and updates from around the country. They touch on the severe weather forecast, with rain and wind advisories in effect for Southern California. The conversation also delves into a recent grand jury investigation involving David, a pop star, and the discovery of a burn cage and chainsaw in his Hollywood Hills home. Additionally, they discuss the decline of tourism in Las Vegas and the impact of the Canadian boycott on the city's economy. The hosts also tease an upcoming special episode on the one-year anniversary of the Palisades fire.
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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 (00:10):
It's sprinklin here in Burbank. It is a couple of places.
It's that it is raining already. Although the majority of
what we expect this storm to be would be tomorrow
into Thursday, there are still some wind advisories up throughout
southern California. Through this afternoon, we saw a bunch of
places where trees had come down. Many places they didn't
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do anything, but Silmar for example, it went into a home.
There was a place in moor Park where tree went
onto power lines. So there have been a few of those.
Search and rescue crews by the way looking for three
people reported missing on Mount Baldy. They went out yesterday.
Apparently they were alerted to an injured man on Mount
Baldy about eleven thirty yesterday and may have been accompanied
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by two other people, so they had the helicopter up
until about seven o'clock last night. They have resumed their
search for those three.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Stefan Diggs has been charged with strangulation assault charges in
connection to an alleged incident early this month. His attorney
has just released a statement saying they are unsubstantiated, uncorroborated,
and were never investigated because they did not occur. He
went on to say this that shed some light on
these charges we're hearing about this morning. The timing and
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motivation for making the allegations, he says, is crystal clear.
They are the direct result of an employee employer financial
dispute that was not resolved to the employee's satisfaction. That
Stefan looks forward to establishing the truth in a court
of law. So maybe this was somebody in his employee
he's the employer. Probably, oh, somebody who works in his
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sphere for him.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
That wouldn't be the Patriots, No, that would make no now, CIA,
according to CNN, By the way, CIA operatives were the
ones that launched a drone attack on a Venezuelan port.
President Trump had declared that the military hit a Venezuelan
doc area, but didn't elaborate on it yesterday. So CNN
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is reporting it was a CIA action where these drugs
were allegedly being loaded onto boats that were supposed to
be coming to the US.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
A Supreme Court judge here in La has a Graperior Court.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
What did I say, said, Supreme Court? Ah, wow, which
would be interesting.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It would be interesting to have a Supreme court right
here in LA has agreed to bar the release of
Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner's autopsy reports at the request
of law enforcement. The way it used to work was
that law enforcement would you tell, basically the coroner's office, hey,
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we don't want you to release your autopsy findings because
we don't want the public finding out information that's in
the autopsy report. The Corners investigators go out to the
scene of a murder like this or a double murder
in this case, and oftentimes in the Corners report there
are notation made on what detectives had said that investigated
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the crime, that may were first on scene, that kind
of a thing. So information from the detectives gets into
the corner's report. Obviously there's great appetite for finding out
what the detectives on the scene of the Miners murders
had said. So the corner's office here had kind of
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stopped cooperating with local law enforcement because what would happen
was then the corner's office would have to ask more questions,
they'd have to go through a corner's inquest. They don't
want to do that. So now it takes an act
of a judge to block the order, and that is
what happened here. Judge has barred the release of that
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autopsy while the investigations play out.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
But are you saying that the information is most likely
just salacious or that it's important for the investigation.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
It could be both, because it could be of import
There could be details in there of where the bodies were,
where you know, the TMZ is taking every last detail.
You know, if they found, you know, a tea cup
next to the body of Michelle Reiner, TMZ would go
to it items found next to the bodies and the
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Reiner's household. A tea cup was found. You know how
many people click on that article just find what was
next to the bodies when it's just it's basically, yes,
it's sillacious. Isn't important to the investigation? Probably not, But
just little details like that just add to the snowball
that is this story in terms of the media's appetite.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Because it appears there's not much to this.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I mean, everyone knows what happened to or anything like that,
No questions exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, the whole idea though of him face, I mean,
life and prison without parole is most likely death penalty
if convicted. Obviously that's one of those things in California
that's not going to happen. But as we've seen, I mean,
it's a week from what tomorrow that he'll appear in
court for his arraignment because it had been pushed before,
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maybe we get some indication as to what defense, if any,
Alan Jackson puts up for him.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Now you're going to be here the first week in January, correct, correct, Okay,
that's exciting, and then we got to get you ready
to go win us the MVP trophy and bring that
home to us. Yeah, it's important here.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Are you going to run?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Is it important in your park over here? Is it
important in your real life? Is your family do they
want you to bring home that MVP trophy? Do they
talk about it all the time?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
No? They do not.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Okay, Well it's important to us here in this building
that we get that trophy.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
All right, all right, you didn't work out for a
couple months and train for this to not come home
with the MVP Trophy.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I came I did that so that I could come
home not in some sort of contraption medical device like
a cast. Yeah, the iron lung or something like that.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I just feel like, when you go to Fantasy camp
this year, you need to kick ass. How young are
we talking?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Like?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Who is your competition? Who is my comp who's your competition?
For this?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
They're not going to give it to a kid. They're
not going to give it. There's there's handfuls.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Of oh people who bring their sons, bring their.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Son or something like that. They're not going to give
it to problems.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Are those kids even any good?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah? Some of them, some of them.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Right, those kids haven't been training. Those kids aren't going out.
There's the to the baseball diamond like you are. There's
a practicing on tea.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
There's a sweet spot. If there are people who are
good and they're twenty five years old, this is not
what they want to do with it. No, it is
not right. If there's people who were good at twenty
five and they're now fifty, they've let themselves go. They
were tired of practice. They want to go back and
live the glory days, but they can't. They're hammies. The
majority of the people that are there, their hammies can't.
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A lot of times their hammies don't remember what I think.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Those guys think like I was, you know, I was
a CIF champion. I've got it. I can take Gary
from from a lot of that attitude. Valencia. Yeah, you know,
but they can't because you're Gary f and Hoffman with
two ends and you're going to bring home that MVP
trophy because you've been putting in the time and the work.
You have, the speed, you have, the agility, you have,
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the quickness one day you have all those things that
you've been working on. Gary, Gary, Right, that's rary louder
scary people.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Gary, Gary.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
See, we are all behind you and we want that
MF maybe.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
The first time in history that anybody has chanted that name.
It feels good, doesn't it such an inspirational way. Hell, yes,
let's go.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 2 (08:08):
The weather over the next couple of days is going
to be pretty rocky. We expect it is cool. I
think part of it is the visuals of the in
my head. Yeah, makes it feel cold.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It's actually like probably sixty degrees outside of sixty two. Yeah,
it's probably fine.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
They said, a few places with some showers. We're getting
some showers here at Burbank right now, but the few
places kind of spotty showers today will give way to
widespread showers tomorrow, especially tomorrow evening into Thursday morning and
Thursday afternoon. So big cities though impacted by the severe
weather back east and the Midwest, Boston, Philly, Pittsburgh, New
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York City, d C, Detroit, and New Orleans as a
matter of fact, and all of them have seen to
some degree, especially in that northeast, they've seen some delays
and cancelations at airports as people continue to to travel
back and forth. I don't know what a burn cage is.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
A burn cage is something if you lived in a
rural area and like you put a bunch of leaves
in there so they don't blow away and can burn them.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
That kind of thing like a not a net, not
necessarily a net, but a thick screen. Perhaps that's a
made up of a thick string, so you could burn
it and the debris stays in, but that fire goes
out right, got it.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
It's also something that I would purchase if I thought
I wanted to get rid of stuff, burn cage. I
could get that, and I could burn a bunch of
stuff I want to get rid of. If I didn't,
you know, have any experience living in a rural area,
like I don't like if I if I wanted to
get rid of a bunch of stuff and I was like,
I should burn it, what should I do? And I'm googling, like,
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I don't know, burn box, burn whatever, burn cage might
pop up and you'd be like, Okay, I could burn
it all in here.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I see.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I just don't see any need for a burn cage
in the Hollywood Hills, is what I'm saying. They found
it chainsaw in a burn cage in David's Hollywood Hills home.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, this is maybe he's.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Got like a sprawling backyard where a cage. I just
don't think landscaping, is that what you're saying. Yeah, I
just don't think that area of Hollywood Hills is known
for that.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
This is, of course, in connection with the death of
Celeste Revas Hernandez, this teenager who was found inside the
trunk of a car that was registered to this guy
back in September. Prosecutors well a grand jury is going
to be asked to consider all of these an indictment
against David as a result of this.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Right now, the grand jury is in the investigative stage,
and it has been since I believe November is when
we first started talking about it, so each month.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Right because this wasn't it his manager that was heard
in the hallway saying that the prosecutor was being very
why did you take.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
So long to call police? Why didn't you call police?
And his response in the least in the hallway with
something like my job is to make sure David is
on tour like right, so that the dead body somebody
knew something. It's evidence. It shows that somebody around David
knew something, something was a miss and people knew about it.
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Everybody in this case lawyered up, which is one reason
why they took this before a grand jury, because they
can compel testimony out of people. The cops can't compel testimony.
If the cops turn up to your house and they say,
Gary Hoffman, where is your wife? What happened? Where is she?
Why isn't she here? You don't have to say anything.
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But if the grand jury pulls you and you are
compelled to testify. So that's what's happening here. And each
month a grand jury is seated and we'll here investigate
these in this level of the investigation, or people will
come in and they'll testify. Some of it's useful, some
of it's not. But there is a new grand jury
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paneled every month. So the grand jury that was in November,
it's a different one for the same case in December,
different one January, February, what have you. I don't know
if one wasn't paneled for December, I don't know how.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
A few coredates that they would actually have.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
And then if it gets to a point where they
want this investigative grand jury to indict, they hold what
amounts to basically a little trial in that room without
a defense attorney, and you don't have to prove anything
behind a reasonable doubt. It's just a probable cause hearing.
So the attorney in this case, Beth Silverman, who we
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know on the DA's finest who's handling this grand jury panel,
she would put on an opening and a closing and
witnesses and all of that, and at the end of that,
the grand jury could come to the conclusion that they
want to indict David.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Then it would go through a full trial, then it
would go through the till. So in this case, I mean,
the headline is that this private investigator, a guy named
Steve Fisher, says that investigation investigators discovered this burn cage,
incinerator and a chainsaw. His quote is, we found a chainsaw.
No purpose for a chainsaw to be at that house.
It still had the protective shield over the chain itself.
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There it is with a burn cage, and you got
to wonder what this plan was.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Again, it would be interesting to have a chainsaw in
the garage or wherever they found it in the house
in the Hollywood Hills, in a house that a pops
or a rap star was renting. What would he possibly
need a chainsaw on a burn cage for in real life?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Right?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Again, maybe this is an area of the Hollywood Hills
I'm unfamiliar with where you've got to thick dense trailage
out there. Yeah, you got to trim those oak trees.
Probably not. This private and get investigator, by the way,
was hired by the people who own the home that
was rented. That's who this guy is. He's not really
connected to David at all. He's connected to the people
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who own the home.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Mark Arragus is not part of this case, but was
asked for his opinion on this, and he said that
David has a good chance of being granted bail. Again,
he's not been charged with anything yet. We're still in
this grand jury process, so he's not been charged with anything.
They have no reason to set bail as of yet, obviously,
but Geregas said that even if he is charged with murder,
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that he could be granted bail, which seems crazy, but
it is a possibility. And the argument that Mark Geragis
gives is we've known that this this guy's been under
investigation for months and he hasn't left that. That's what
the attorney would say, like, of course, he's not a
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flight risk. He's not going anywhere. We know this. He's
you know, and the.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Proseerra point to all the money he has at his disposal, passports,
places he's gone in the past, that he is not
somebody who is a you know, what's the word I'm
looking for, reticent, reluctant travel reluctant.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, all right. Vegas has been seeing a slow trickle
of bad economic news over the course of the last
year year and a half, and we have another indicator
that tourism is struggling when it comes to what is
supposed to be one of the biggest tourist traps, the
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biggest tourist destinations of North America.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Indian Slip there. I think you hit it spot on
the first.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Time I've been to Vegas and I haven't been to
Vegas in years.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
The last couple of times I've gone to Vegas, it's
been for football, and I haven't Again.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
You haven't done the Vegas stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
No, I feel like I built a lot of those
buildings already. I think it's time to just chill out
a while.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
They don't need anymore.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Now you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
All right, ion Zering says, I see you Stefan Diggs,
and I raise you. Ion Zering has been accused of
battery and assault.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Now that one was that was what he was getting
one of those mini bikers. Right, that's an old one.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
But it's just resurfaced now because now they're they're file
and paperwork over. It happened a year ago, two years ago,
December thirty one, twenty twenty three. Accused of battery, assault,
intentional infliction of emotional distress, malicious persecution, negligence, negligent infliction
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of emotional distress. The plaint allege alleges that Jacob Hernandez
and a friend of his were riding their motorbikes through
a congested street in La New Year's Eve. They were
attempting to shift lanes when they had to pause in
front of an already stopped Mercedes containing the nine O
two and oh Star. The plaintiff was twenty at the time.
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The ion that's Ion right, Ion suddenly exited the car
began yelling at Jacob Bernandez, who did not respond. Then
he approached Jacob Bernandez shoved him completely unprompted, causing Jacob
Bernandez to fall onto his friend and their bikes and
everything fell to the ground and they all got injured.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
So they were riding illegally through the street.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
You know how annoying those bikes can be when they're
splitting lanes, little punk kids. They're punk bikes, not even cycling. Yeah, Grandma,
you started it. I saw where your head was going.
They were riding illegal.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Now let me get this right, so let me start.
Let's go back to the beginning. President Trump has indicated
that the US did hit a dock facility along the
shore in Venezuela, but he hasn't offered a whole lot
of details. He initially seemed to confirm a strike it
what appeared to be a radio interview Friday, and we
questioned yesterday by reporters about an explosion there. The President
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said the US struck a facility where boats accused of
carrying drugs would load up. He declined to say who
was involved or where it occurred. He didn't even confirm
that it happened in Venezuela. But CNN was reporting that
it was the CIA that actually perpetrated a drone attack
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against that dock. So we've seen and talked about multiple
stories that came out of Vegas over the course of
the last the last several months about how room vacancy
rates in Vegas are on their way up, receipts are down,
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they're having a hard time. The number of conventions, et cetera.
Are down in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
The airport is another indicator. It has been the tenth
straight month of declines that Harry Reid International not even
the biggest busiest week of the year was enough to
save that traffic down about ten percent year over a year.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Ten percent.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
For the last two years, November has been one of
the busiest months because of F one. It's been held
the week before Thanksgiving. But this year the Las Vegas
Grand Prix fell in the same month as the longest
government shut down in US history. During the shutdown, air
traffic was cut back, including Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
The biggest declines. I didn't think that this headline would
have continued. But the biggest declines are coming from the
Canadian airlines. Yeah that last year, twenty eight percent of
foreign tourists to the US were from Canada. This year
it's down to twenty three percent.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
That's a four billion dollar hit to the economy. Trump's
got to write a four billion dollar check. They're pissed.
The Canadians are pissed man.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
The tariffs on Canadian products initiated by initiated a countrywide
boycott of travel to the US, and they said that
Vegas is where it's particularly hard hit. We've heard that
Palm Springs is another one of those places that has
been hit by that boycott specifically. But yet again another
sign that tourism in Vegas continues to decline over the
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Over the summer, one industry insider said that bookings were
the worst he'd ever seen. Prices continue to rise on
the Strip, so budget conscious people are looking for other
places to go because Vegas will suck you dry, whether
by car or plane. They said. Tourism is down throughout Vegas.
The Convention and Visitors Authority reports that visitors are down
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about seven point six percent year over year, and then
on average throughout the city, hotels post an eighty one
percent occupancy rate. That doesn't mean prices have gone down,
because the average rate for a hotel room on the
Strip still one hundred and ninety five dollars per night.
There was an article that appeared to this one as
well from a San Francisco Gate I think it is,
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that suggested that Treasure Island was the best cheap motel.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I didn't know it was still open.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
It's still open.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
It that's a cesspool.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Well, and he said. The writer was explaining, you know,
you go into some of those higher end places on
the Strip and you can't adjust the thermostat. It's it
takes a degree in computer science to figure that thing out.
But that the ones a treasure Island. Still look like
they were They don't have thermostats there. They still look
like they were installed during the Reagan era.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah, I bet so's the carpet. Burn it down, Burn
it down.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I don't usually burn those down. They just tried to.
They blow them up, blow them up. It's like a whale.
Michael Monks when we come back.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
That's excited.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I'm getting some ideas of to who is scooping up
all of the vacant lots that were left over from
from this year's fires. We'll talk about that with Michael
when we come back.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I was feeling a little down today. I feel like
I have seasonal effective disorder because it's been cloudy for
a few hours. And then when you said Michael Monks
is coming in, I pepped up. I wasn't feeling as
down anymore.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
That's what I like to bring to the station and
our listeners is just eternal optimism.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Joy I get a.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Little territorial over you. Like yesterday, I had gone to
the market and I was driving home and I heard
you on with Andy Reesemeyer, who I adore. I don't
really know him that well. I've met him once, but
he seems like he fits right in. He just he's
a good fast friend.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
I like him, and he likes KFI, so he's really
excited to be doing KTLA and KFI.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah, he's cool. But I heard you on his show
and I felt like you were cheating on us. I am,
and I know you go on all the shows.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I'm kind of a pass around guest.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
You're what did they call the pan Sextra polyamorous? You're
polyamorous when it comes to the show, I'm polygesterus Like
I feel like you love us all equally. Is that true?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I'll tell you what is true.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
You have to learn when you appear on all of
the shows, how each show is our piccadillos. Yes, and
what's the vibe. I will say that this is a
very comfortable vibe. But you have to learn how to
you know how to engage with John Cobelt, which is
different than engaging with you, which is different than engaging
(23:37):
with Tim Conway. I've only been on the Handle show
twice as a guest, not filling in for Amy Interesting
and so I I don't really know how to act
with that show yet maybe someday. But with you guys,
you've been very generous.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
You hype me up.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
You let me fill in for Power Hours sometimes, which
is exciting and I do love that.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Was that funny? It's not charity? Is it? Is it
charity our hour? I don't know I said that off Mike.
I don't know why either. Well, I guess I'll go
because I don't know what this is exactly.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
But we are on the air currently on a fifty
thousand watt flame throwing a M signal.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Oh, I know you can hear it? Where a friends?
Where amost friends?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
So anyway, you saund it great with Andy, by the way,
it's always you just you get along with everybody, and
it's just you know, he is point.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
It was my point. Wasn't trying to make it weird.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
You sound great all the time, and we are blessed
to have you here time for us.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
I always have time for you. That's the thing.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
All you have to do is ask, And Richie's always asking,
you know, okay good?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
And Matthew will occasionally ask too.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Okay, great, you call Matt Matthew?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I thought that was his name. Are we been doing
it wrong. I don't think I think his email is Matthew.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Right, everything is Matthew, isn't it? And we call him Matt.
We gotta clean that up.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
In the New York.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Anybody else's name around here, we're we're screwing up.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
What is your real name? It's Michael.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Okay, that's your given name, Michael Monk, my government name.
What's your middle name, Anthony, m m it's very good
Catholic name, Michael Anthony.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah. I could have been named Mary Sarah.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yeah, sometimes I still use that name when I don't know.
Tell me about these nights.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
I mean, everyone's already turned the station, so let's just
do it.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Let's say the last person listening and get them to
turn this off. You have challenge, excepted.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
You actually have a special coming up next week. Uh,
you're a look at a year since the fires and Palisades,
and it is.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
A year almost then the wildfires of last January. You know,
it's crazy. It's been a crazy year here in Los Angeles,
Southern California. And shortly after the fires last year, we
put together a robust special looking at what this means
for us moving forward. That was what we styled it
was a path forward, and we talked about what all
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was lost and what happens next, and so on January seventh,
the one year anniversary of when the flames really took hold,
we will look at where we are now, what struggles
still exists, what have we learned about these fires?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
And we've learned a lot in a year.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
When you think about the Palisades fire and the charges
that that guy now faces and maybe this connection to
that earlier fire, the Lockman fire, we.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Only learned that a couple of months ago.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
And then you have the fire in Altadena and so
cal Edison's potential role in that and the unhappiness that
homeowners there are feeling about navigating that system. We'll get
into that, but as well as the impact on various industries,
people's psychology and dealing with the aftermath of this, the
effects on our signature entertainment industry. But we're gonna do
(27:08):
that on January seventh, seven to nine here and then
at nine o'clock I'll take over and do an hour
live to talk a bit more about what we experienced.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
This is on the seventh of January. Seventh of jen
is a Wednesday Yeah, that's a big day.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
And then we'll play it again. If you miss it
on Wednesday, we'll play it again in my regular slot
on Saturday night that following Saturday, from seven to nine.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
One of those big questions that came up, I remember
during the first iteration was what's going to happen real
estate wise? And this is still when all of those
burned out homes still existed on those properties. Now we're
to the point where the majority of those have been
cleaned off. There are thousands of unused flat dirt lots
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in both Altadena and the Palisades. And this report that
came out from Redfin that said that investors are the
ones that are coming in right now to a great
degree and buying up those empty lots exactly right.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Redfin is a real estate company and content publisher, and
they release this report just today indicating that forty percent
of the vacant lots that are sold in both the
Palisades and Altadena are being purchased by investors. And there
could be a variety of reasons for this, according to
this report, including homeowners who are like, it's been a
(28:23):
year and what are we gonna wait for? We're gonna
wait to rebuild our lives on this lot, go through
this very challenging process.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Are we going to leave?
Speaker 4 (28:33):
So you have that we have others who are like
financially it just makes more sense to take the money
and get out.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Yeah, they reference in this article the those people who
didn't lose their homes who are choosing to stay. Trying
to convince others the owners of these lots, don't sell
your lots to investors if you can't, you know, wait
it out to find you know, a single family that
wants to buy this because they're concerned that investors coming
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in are going to destroy what was left of the
community that exists in those neighborhoods. Well, what does it
mean to be an investor in this context? I've reached
out to right Finn.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
I'm hoping to get an interview with some of the
people that this company made available for this report so
that we can learn more about what do you mean
by investor?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Right?
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Because look, if there's an empty lot available anywhere in
the city and it's purchased by an investor, I mean
it may be a guy twisting a handlebar mustache and thinking,
how am I gonna screw everybody in this neighborhood by
putting something that doesn't really fit. Or it could be
somebody who's like, this is the business that I'm in,
I'd like to build a house that is nice and
and sellable, so that might be happening as well. I'm
(29:41):
not here to advocate on behalf of investors, but I
mean investor can mean a lot of things. We're twiddling
your If I had a mustache that I could twiddle,
I'd be twiddling it right now because that's a power move.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I could see you having a mustache. It looks like
you grow a pretty good one.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
I talked about this off air yesterday with one Andy Reesemeyer.
As a matter of fact, he was complimenting my glasses,
and I said, I've got some new glasses coming because
I'm going to be trying some new looks in the
new year.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I'm excited.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Yeah, But I said, I have failed in the past
with some of these decisions, including in twenty seventeen where
I was feeling very la even though I lived in Kentucky.
But I was like, I'm ready. I'm ready to get
to La. Yeah, you know, and you got a practice
I was, and I was like and I had come
to like eight pounds yeah, which is also on the
agenda for the new year, as well as to get.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Back to the pictures of you when you're about eight
and a half pounds.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yeah, it's going to be good.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
You guys are u b words are not ready for what's.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Coming into journey.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
I am here.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
It's going to be good.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Now, we're ready with an iced coffee for you, like,
let's go.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
I had come to LA for a visit and went
to a nightclub and it was very cinematic this moment.
This man dancing on a box, you know, one of
those boxes LA some of the dancers I was there.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
It was almost I've seen Gary Danvils recognize you in
Philadelphia exactly.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Well, it felt like the lighting all just stopped and
landed on this guy. And he was a very good
looking just a very good looking guy. But he had
a mustache.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Yeah, and I thought.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
I want that, I want that?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Is this a gay thing? Where? Sorry that should have
been but a question. Since nobody's listening. My mom is listening,
I pam.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Ay my girlfriend and I will be calling you.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Like if I, as a straight woman, see a hot
guy dancing, usually if I'm a single person, I'll be like,
that's something I would like. But you, as a not
heterosexual woman, see that and you're like, I want to
look like that.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Yeah, you can certainly feel an attraction. This was not
the case for me. It was like, this was inspirational.
It was like that guy got it going on, and
I want to go home and look like this la guy.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Right.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I don't look at a hot guy and go I
want to look like that. Which is the difference.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Yeah, well you're a woman, right, but you've seen women
You're like, I might like that hair.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Yeah, absolutely, I see a hot woman, right, inspiration.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
So this is the difference, which is different genders.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
But I don't want to have sex with her, that's
a different I didn't.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Say anything about desiring, Oh you don't want to have
individual And this wasn't that. It was I mean if
it was a look, appreciation, absolute complete appreciation of this person.
And so I went home and grew a mustache and
ordered aviator style.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Oh my god, look and it Oliver.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
It looked like I thought it was gonna look. But
it did not go well in Kentucky. And it was
the somebody dressed up as me for Halloween.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
I'm not kidding. God is not a joke.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
With your haircut and everything, Aviator's mustache works perfectly.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
I you know I thought the same at the time,
but you also have to know your shortcomings and I
was not cool enough.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
I disagree with that wholeheartedly. Well, you know what this
is gonna be our eleven o'clock hour stick around.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
It's sprinklin here in Burbank. It is a couple of places.
It's that it is raining already. Although the majority of
what we expect this storm to be would be tomorrow
into Thursday, there are still some wind advisories up throughout
southern California. Through this afternoon, we saw a bunch of
places where trees had come down. Many places they didn't
(00:30):
do anything, but Silmar for example, it went into a home.
There was a place in moor Park where tree went
onto power lines. So there have been a few of those.
Search and rescue crews by the way looking for three
people reported missing on Mount Baldy. They went out yesterday.
Apparently they were alerted to an injured man on Mount
Baldy about eleven thirty yesterday and may have been accompanied
(00:51):
by two other people, so they had the helicopter up
until about seven o'clock last night. They have resumed their
search for those three.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Stefan Diggs has been charged with strangulation assault charges in
connection to an alleged incident early this month. His attorney
has just released a statement saying they are unsubstantiated, uncorroborated,
and were never investigated because they did not occur. He
went on to say this that shed some light on
these charges we're hearing about this morning. The timing and
(01:20):
motivation for making the allegations, he says, is crystal clear.
They are the direct result of an employee employer financial
dispute that was not resolved to the employee's satisfaction. That
Stefan looks forward to establishing the truth in a court
of law. So maybe this was somebody in his employee
he's the employer. Probably, oh, somebody who works in his
(01:41):
sphere for him.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
That wouldn't be the Patriots, No, that would make no now, CIA,
according to CNN, By the way, CIA operatives were the
ones that launched a drone attack on a Venezuelan port.
President Trump had declared that the military hit a Venezuelan
doc area, but didn't elaborate on it yesterday. So CNN
(02:02):
is reporting it was a CIA action where these drugs
were allegedly being loaded onto boats that were supposed to
be coming to the US.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
A Supreme Court judge here in La has a Graperior Court.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
What did I say, said, Supreme Court? Ah, wow, which
would be interesting.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It would be interesting to have a Supreme court right
here in LA has agreed to bar the release of
Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner's autopsy reports at the request
of law enforcement. The way it used to work was
that law enforcement would you tell, basically the coroner's office, hey,
(02:41):
we don't want you to release your autopsy findings because
we don't want the public finding out information that's in
the autopsy report. The Corners investigators go out to the
scene of a murder like this or a double murder
in this case, and oftentimes in the Corners report there
are notation made on what detectives had said that investigated
(03:03):
the crime, that may were first on scene, that kind
of a thing. So information from the detectives gets into
the corner's report. Obviously there's great appetite for finding out
what the detectives on the scene of the Miners murders
had said. So the corner's office here had kind of
(03:26):
stopped cooperating with local law enforcement because what would happen
was then the corner's office would have to ask more questions,
they'd have to go through a corner's inquest. They don't
want to do that. So now it takes an act
of a judge to block the order, and that is
what happened here. Judge has barred the release of that
(03:47):
autopsy while the investigations play out.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
But are you saying that the information is most likely
just salacious or that it's important for the investigation.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
It could be both, because it could be of import
There could be details in there of where the bodies were,
where you know, the TMZ is taking every last detail.
You know, if they found, you know, a tea cup
next to the body of Michelle Reiner, TMZ would go
to it items found next to the bodies and the
(04:24):
Reiner's household. A tea cup was found. You know how
many people click on that article just find what was
next to the bodies when it's just it's basically, yes,
it's sillacious. Isn't important to the investigation? Probably not, But
just little details like that just add to the snowball
that is this story in terms of the media's appetite.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Because it appears there's not much to this.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I mean, everyone knows what happened to or anything like that,
No questions exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, the whole idea though of him face, I mean,
life and prison without parole is most likely death penalty
if convicted. Obviously that's one of those things in California
that's not going to happen. But as we've seen, I mean,
it's a week from what tomorrow that he'll appear in
court for his arraignment because it had been pushed before,
(05:18):
maybe we get some indication as to what defense, if any,
Alan Jackson puts up for him.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Now you're going to be here the first week in January, correct, correct, Okay,
that's exciting, and then we got to get you ready
to go win us the MVP trophy and bring that
home to us. Yeah, it's important here.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Are you going to run?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Is it important in your park over here? Is it
important in your real life? Is your family do they
want you to bring home that MVP trophy? Do they
talk about it all the time?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
No? They do not.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Okay, Well it's important to us here in this building
that we get that trophy.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
All right, all right, you didn't work out for a
couple months and train for this to not come home
with the MVP Trophy.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I came I did that so that I could come
home not in some sort of contraption medical device like
a cast. Yeah, the iron lung or something like that.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I just feel like, when you go to Fantasy camp
this year, you need to kick ass. How young are
we talking?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Like?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Who is your competition? Who is my comp who's your competition?
For this?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
They're not going to give it to a kid. They're
not going to give it. There's there's handfuls.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Of oh people who bring their sons, bring their.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Son or something like that. They're not going to give
it to problems.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Are those kids even any good?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah? Some of them, some of them.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Right, those kids haven't been training. Those kids aren't going out.
There's the to the baseball diamond like you are. There's
a practicing on tea.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
There's a sweet spot. If there are people who are
good and they're twenty five years old, this is not
what they want to do with it. No, it is
not right. If there's people who were good at twenty
five and they're now fifty, they've let themselves go. They
were tired of practice. They want to go back and
live the glory days, but they can't. They're hammies. The
majority of the people that are there, their hammies can't.
(07:13):
A lot of times their hammies don't remember what I think.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Those guys think like I was, you know, I was
a CIF champion. I've got it. I can take Gary
from from a lot of that attitude. Valencia. Yeah, you know,
but they can't because you're Gary f and Hoffman with
two ends and you're going to bring home that MVP
trophy because you've been putting in the time and the work.
You have, the speed, you have, the agility, you have,
(07:38):
the quickness one day you have all those things that
you've been working on. Gary, Gary, Right, that's rary louder
scary people.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Gary, Gary.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
See, we are all behind you and we want that
MF maybe.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
The first time in history that anybody has chanted that name.
It feels good, doesn't it such an inspirational way. Hell, yes,
let's go.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
The weather over the next couple of days is going
to be pretty rocky. We expect it is cool. I
think part of it is the visuals of the in
my head. Yeah, makes it feel cold.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It's actually like probably sixty degrees outside of sixty two. Yeah,
it's probably fine.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
They said, a few places with some showers. We're getting
some showers here at Burbank right now, but the few
places kind of spotty showers today will give way to
widespread showers tomorrow, especially tomorrow evening into Thursday morning and
Thursday afternoon. So big cities though impacted by the severe
weather back east and the Midwest, Boston, Philly, Pittsburgh, New
(08:47):
York City, d C, Detroit, and New Orleans as a
matter of fact, and all of them have seen to
some degree, especially in that northeast, they've seen some delays
and cancelations at airports as people continue to to travel
back and forth. I don't know what a burn cage is.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
A burn cage is something if you lived in a
rural area and like you put a bunch of leaves
in there so they don't blow away and can burn them.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
That kind of thing like a not a net, not
necessarily a net, but a thick screen. Perhaps that's a
made up of a thick string, so you could burn
it and the debris stays in, but that fire goes
out right, got it.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
It's also something that I would purchase if I thought
I wanted to get rid of stuff, burn cage. I
could get that, and I could burn a bunch of
stuff I want to get rid of. If I didn't,
you know, have any experience living in a rural area,
like I don't like if I if I wanted to
get rid of a bunch of stuff and I was like,
I should burn it, what should I do? And I'm googling, like,
(09:47):
I don't know, burn box, burn whatever, burn cage might
pop up and you'd be like, Okay, I could burn
it all in here.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I see.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I just don't see any need for a burn cage
in the Hollywood Hills, is what I'm saying. They found
it chainsaw in a burn cage in David's Hollywood Hills home.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, this is maybe he's.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Got like a sprawling backyard where a cage. I just
don't think landscaping, is that what you're saying. Yeah, I
just don't think that area of Hollywood Hills is known
for that.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
This is, of course, in connection with the death of
Celeste Revas Hernandez, this teenager who was found inside the
trunk of a car that was registered to this guy
back in September. Prosecutors well a grand jury is going
to be asked to consider all of these an indictment
against David as a result of this.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Right now, the grand jury is in the investigative stage,
and it has been since I believe November is when
we first started talking about it, so each month.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Right because this wasn't it his manager that was heard
in the hallway saying that the prosecutor was being very
why did you take.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
So long to call police? Why didn't you call police?
And his response in the least in the hallway with
something like my job is to make sure David is
on tour like right, so that the dead body somebody
knew something. It's evidence. It shows that somebody around David
knew something, something was a miss and people knew about it.
(11:17):
Everybody in this case lawyered up, which is one reason
why they took this before a grand jury, because they
can compel testimony out of people. The cops can't compel testimony.
If the cops turn up to your house and they say,
Gary Hoffman, where is your wife? What happened? Where is she?
Why isn't she here? You don't have to say anything.
(11:37):
But if the grand jury pulls you and you are
compelled to testify. So that's what's happening here. And each
month a grand jury is seated and we'll here investigate
these in this level of the investigation, or people will
come in and they'll testify. Some of it's useful, some
of it's not. But there is a new grand jury
(12:00):
paneled every month. So the grand jury that was in November,
it's a different one for the same case in December,
different one January, February, what have you. I don't know
if one wasn't paneled for December, I don't know how.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
A few coredates that they would actually have.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
And then if it gets to a point where they
want this investigative grand jury to indict, they hold what
amounts to basically a little trial in that room without
a defense attorney, and you don't have to prove anything
behind a reasonable doubt. It's just a probable cause hearing.
So the attorney in this case, Beth Silverman, who we
(12:36):
know on the DA's finest who's handling this grand jury panel,
she would put on an opening and a closing and
witnesses and all of that, and at the end of that,
the grand jury could come to the conclusion that they
want to indict David.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Then it would go through a full trial, then it
would go through the till. So in this case, I mean,
the headline is that this private investigator, a guy named
Steve Fisher, says that investigation investigators discovered this burn cage,
incinerator and a chainsaw. His quote is, we found a chainsaw.
No purpose for a chainsaw to be at that house.
It still had the protective shield over the chain itself.
(13:13):
There it is with a burn cage, and you got
to wonder what this plan was.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Again, it would be interesting to have a chainsaw in
the garage or wherever they found it in the house
in the Hollywood Hills, in a house that a pops
or a rap star was renting. What would he possibly
need a chainsaw on a burn cage for in real life?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Right?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Again, maybe this is an area of the Hollywood Hills
I'm unfamiliar with where you've got to thick dense trailage
out there. Yeah, you got to trim those oak trees.
Probably not. This private and get investigator, by the way,
was hired by the people who own the home that
was rented. That's who this guy is. He's not really
connected to David at all. He's connected to the people
(14:02):
who own the home.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Mark Arragus is not part of this case, but was
asked for his opinion on this, and he said that
David has a good chance of being granted bail. Again,
he's not been charged with anything yet. We're still in
this grand jury process, so he's not been charged with anything.
They have no reason to set bail as of yet, obviously,
but Geregas said that even if he is charged with murder,
(14:30):
that he could be granted bail, which seems crazy, but
it is a possibility. And the argument that Mark Geragis
gives is we've known that this this guy's been under
investigation for months and he hasn't left that. That's what
the attorney would say, like, of course, he's not a
(14:51):
flight risk. He's not going anywhere. We know this. He's
you know, and the.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Proseerra point to all the money he has at his disposal, passports,
places he's gone in the past, that he is not
somebody who is a you know, what's the word I'm
looking for, reticent, reluctant travel reluctant.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, all right. Vegas has been seeing a slow trickle
of bad economic news over the course of the last
year year and a half, and we have another indicator
that tourism is struggling when it comes to what is
supposed to be one of the biggest tourist traps, the
(15:31):
biggest tourist destinations of North America.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Indian Slip there. I think you hit it spot on
the first.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Time I've been to Vegas and I haven't been to
Vegas in years.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
The last couple of times I've gone to Vegas, it's
been for football, and I haven't Again.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
You haven't done the Vegas stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
No, I feel like I built a lot of those
buildings already. I think it's time to just chill out
a while.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
They don't need anymore.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Now you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
All right, ion Zering says, I see you Stefan Diggs,
and I raise you. Ion Zering has been accused of
battery and assault.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Now that one was that was what he was getting
one of those mini bikers. Right, that's an old one.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
But it's just resurfaced now because now they're they're file
and paperwork over. It happened a year ago, two years ago,
December thirty one, twenty twenty three. Accused of battery, assault,
intentional infliction of emotional distress, malicious persecution, negligence, negligent infliction
(16:38):
of emotional distress. The plaint allege alleges that Jacob Hernandez
and a friend of his were riding their motorbikes through
a congested street in La New Year's Eve. They were
attempting to shift lanes when they had to pause in
front of an already stopped Mercedes containing the nine O
two and oh Star. The plaintiff was twenty at the time.
(17:02):
The ion that's Ion right, Ion suddenly exited the car
began yelling at Jacob Bernandez, who did not respond. Then
he approached Jacob Bernandez shoved him completely unprompted, causing Jacob
Bernandez to fall onto his friend and their bikes and
everything fell to the ground and they all got injured.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
So they were riding illegally through the street.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
You know how annoying those bikes can be when they're
splitting lanes, little punk kids. They're punk bikes, not even cycling. Yeah, Grandma,
you started it. I saw where your head was going.
They were riding illegal.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Now let me get this right, so let me start.
Let's go back to the beginning. President Trump has indicated
that the US did hit a dock facility along the
shore in Venezuela, but he hasn't offered a whole lot
of details. He initially seemed to confirm a strike it
what appeared to be a radio interview Friday, and we
questioned yesterday by reporters about an explosion there. The President
(18:05):
said the US struck a facility where boats accused of
carrying drugs would load up. He declined to say who
was involved or where it occurred. He didn't even confirm
that it happened in Venezuela. But CNN was reporting that
it was the CIA that actually perpetrated a drone attack
(18:26):
against that dock. So we've seen and talked about multiple
stories that came out of Vegas over the course of
the last the last several months about how room vacancy
rates in Vegas are on their way up, receipts are down,
(18:48):
they're having a hard time. The number of conventions, et cetera.
Are down in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
The airport is another indicator. It has been the tenth
straight month of declines that Harry Reid International not even
the biggest busiest week of the year was enough to
save that traffic down about ten percent year over a year.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Ten percent.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
For the last two years, November has been one of
the busiest months because of F one. It's been held
the week before Thanksgiving. But this year the Las Vegas
Grand Prix fell in the same month as the longest
government shut down in US history. During the shutdown, air
traffic was cut back, including Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
The biggest declines. I didn't think that this headline would
have continued. But the biggest declines are coming from the
Canadian airlines. Yeah that last year, twenty eight percent of
foreign tourists to the US were from Canada. This year
it's down to twenty three percent.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
That's a four billion dollar hit to the economy. Trump's
got to write a four billion dollar check. They're pissed.
The Canadians are pissed man.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
The tariffs on Canadian products initiated by initiated a countrywide
boycott of travel to the US, and they said that
Vegas is where it's particularly hard hit. We've heard that
Palm Springs is another one of those places that has
been hit by that boycott specifically. But yet again another
sign that tourism in Vegas continues to decline over the
(20:19):
Over the summer, one industry insider said that bookings were
the worst he'd ever seen. Prices continue to rise on
the Strip, so budget conscious people are looking for other
places to go because Vegas will suck you dry, whether
by car or plane. They said. Tourism is down throughout Vegas.
The Convention and Visitors Authority reports that visitors are down
(20:41):
about seven point six percent year over year, and then
on average throughout the city, hotels post an eighty one
percent occupancy rate. That doesn't mean prices have gone down,
because the average rate for a hotel room on the
Strip still one hundred and ninety five dollars per night.
There was an article that appeared to this one as
well from a San Francisco Gate I think it is,
(21:05):
that suggested that Treasure Island was the best cheap motel.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I didn't know it was still open.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
It's still open.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
It that's a cesspool.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Well, and he said. The writer was explaining, you know,
you go into some of those higher end places on
the Strip and you can't adjust the thermostat. It's it
takes a degree in computer science to figure that thing out.
But that the ones a treasure Island. Still look like
they were They don't have thermostats there. They still look
like they were installed during the Reagan era.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah, I bet so's the carpet. Burn it down, Burn
it down.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I don't usually burn those down. They just tried to.
They blow them up, blow them up. It's like a whale.
Michael Monks when we come back.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
That's excited.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I'm getting some ideas of to who is scooping up
all of the vacant lots that were left over from
from this year's fires. We'll talk about that with Michael
when we come back.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I was feeling a little down today. I feel like
I have seasonal effective disorder because it's been cloudy for
a few hours. And then when you said Michael Monks
is coming in, I pepped up. I wasn't feeling as
down anymore.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
That's what I like to bring to the station and
our listeners is just eternal optimism.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Joy I get a.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Little territorial over you. Like yesterday, I had gone to
the market and I was driving home and I heard
you on with Andy Reesemeyer, who I adore. I don't
really know him that well. I've met him once, but
he seems like he fits right in. He just he's
a good fast friend.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
I like him, and he likes KFI, so he's really
excited to be doing KTLA and KFI.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah, he's cool. But I heard you on his show
and I felt like you were cheating on us. I am,
and I know you go on all the shows.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I'm kind of a pass around guest.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
You're what did they call the pan Sextra polyamorous? You're
polyamorous when it comes to the show, I'm polygesterus Like
I feel like you love us all equally. Is that true?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I'll tell you what is true.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
You have to learn when you appear on all of
the shows, how each show is our piccadillos. Yes, and
what's the vibe. I will say that this is a
very comfortable vibe. But you have to learn how to
you know how to engage with John Cobelt, which is
different than engaging with you, which is different than engaging
(23:37):
with Tim Conway. I've only been on the Handle show
twice as a guest, not filling in for Amy Interesting
and so I I don't really know how to act
with that show yet maybe someday. But with you guys,
you've been very generous.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
You hype me up.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
You let me fill in for Power Hours sometimes, which
is exciting and I do love that.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Was that funny? It's not charity? Is it? Is it
charity our hour? I don't know I said that off Mike.
I don't know why either. Well, I guess I'll go
because I don't know what this is exactly.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
But we are on the air currently on a fifty
thousand watt flame throwing a M signal.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Oh, I know you can hear it? Where a friends?
Where amost friends?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
So anyway, you saund it great with Andy, by the way,
it's always you just you get along with everybody, and
it's just you know, he is point.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
It was my point. Wasn't trying to make it weird.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
You sound great all the time, and we are blessed
to have you here time for us.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
I always have time for you. That's the thing.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
All you have to do is ask, And Richie's always asking,
you know, okay good?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
And Matthew will occasionally ask too.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Okay, great, you call Matt Matthew?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I thought that was his name. Are we been doing
it wrong. I don't think I think his email is Matthew.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Right, everything is Matthew, isn't it? And we call him Matt.
We gotta clean that up.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
In the New York.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Anybody else's name around here, we're we're screwing up.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
What is your real name? It's Michael.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Okay, that's your given name, Michael Monk, my government name.
What's your middle name, Anthony, m m it's very good
Catholic name, Michael Anthony.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah. I could have been named Mary Sarah.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yeah, sometimes I still use that name when I don't know.
Tell me about these nights.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
I mean, everyone's already turned the station, so let's just
do it.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Let's say the last person listening and get them to
turn this off. You have challenge, excepted.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
You actually have a special coming up next week. Uh,
you're a look at a year since the fires and Palisades,
and it is.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
A year almost then the wildfires of last January. You know,
it's crazy. It's been a crazy year here in Los Angeles,
Southern California. And shortly after the fires last year, we
put together a robust special looking at what this means
for us moving forward. That was what we styled it
was a path forward, and we talked about what all
(26:19):
was lost and what happens next, and so on January seventh,
the one year anniversary of when the flames really took hold,
we will look at where we are now, what struggles
still exists, what have we learned about these fires?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
And we've learned a lot in a year.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
When you think about the Palisades fire and the charges
that that guy now faces and maybe this connection to
that earlier fire, the Lockman fire, we.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Only learned that a couple of months ago.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
And then you have the fire in Altadena and so
cal Edison's potential role in that and the unhappiness that
homeowners there are feeling about navigating that system. We'll get
into that, but as well as the impact on various industries,
people's psychology and dealing with the aftermath of this, the
effects on our signature entertainment industry. But we're gonna do
(27:08):
that on January seventh, seven to nine here and then
at nine o'clock I'll take over and do an hour
live to talk a bit more about what we experienced.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
This is on the seventh of January. Seventh of jen
is a Wednesday Yeah, that's a big day.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
And then we'll play it again. If you miss it
on Wednesday, we'll play it again in my regular slot
on Saturday night that following Saturday, from seven to nine.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
One of those big questions that came up, I remember
during the first iteration was what's going to happen real
estate wise? And this is still when all of those
burned out homes still existed on those properties. Now we're
to the point where the majority of those have been
cleaned off. There are thousands of unused flat dirt lots
(27:50):
in both Altadena and the Palisades. And this report that
came out from Redfin that said that investors are the
ones that are coming in right now to a great
degree and buying up those empty lots exactly right.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Redfin is a real estate company and content publisher, and
they release this report just today indicating that forty percent
of the vacant lots that are sold in both the
Palisades and Altadena are being purchased by investors. And there
could be a variety of reasons for this, according to
this report, including homeowners who are like, it's been a
(28:23):
year and what are we gonna wait for? We're gonna
wait to rebuild our lives on this lot, go through
this very challenging process.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Are we going to leave?
Speaker 4 (28:33):
So you have that we have others who are like
financially it just makes more sense to take the money
and get out.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Yeah, they reference in this article the those people who
didn't lose their homes who are choosing to stay. Trying
to convince others the owners of these lots, don't sell
your lots to investors if you can't, you know, wait
it out to find you know, a single family that
wants to buy this because they're concerned that investors coming
(29:02):
in are going to destroy what was left of the
community that exists in those neighborhoods. Well, what does it
mean to be an investor in this context? I've reached
out to right Finn.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
I'm hoping to get an interview with some of the
people that this company made available for this report so
that we can learn more about what do you mean
by investor?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Right?
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Because look, if there's an empty lot available anywhere in
the city and it's purchased by an investor, I mean
it may be a guy twisting a handlebar mustache and thinking,
how am I gonna screw everybody in this neighborhood by
putting something that doesn't really fit. Or it could be
somebody who's like, this is the business that I'm in,
I'd like to build a house that is nice and
and sellable, so that might be happening as well. I'm
(29:41):
not here to advocate on behalf of investors, but I
mean investor can mean a lot of things. We're twiddling
your If I had a mustache that I could twiddle,
I'd be twiddling it right now because that's a power move.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I could see you having a mustache. It looks like
you grow a pretty good one.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
I talked about this off air yesterday with one Andy Reesemeyer.
As a matter of fact, he was complimenting my glasses,
and I said, I've got some new glasses coming because
I'm going to be trying some new looks in the
new year.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I'm excited.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Yeah, But I said, I have failed in the past
with some of these decisions, including in twenty seventeen where
I was feeling very la even though I lived in Kentucky.
But I was like, I'm ready. I'm ready to get
to La. Yeah, you know, and you got a practice
I was, and I was like and I had come
to like eight pounds yeah, which is also on the
agenda for the new year, as well as to get.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Back to the pictures of you when you're about eight
and a half pounds.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yeah, it's going to be good.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
You guys are u b words are not ready for what's.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Coming into journey.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
I am here.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
It's going to be good.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Now, we're ready with an iced coffee for you, like,
let's go.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
I had come to LA for a visit and went
to a nightclub and it was very cinematic this moment.
This man dancing on a box, you know, one of
those boxes LA some of the dancers I was there.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
It was almost I've seen Gary Danvils recognize you in
Philadelphia exactly.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Well, it felt like the lighting all just stopped and
landed on this guy. And he was a very good
looking just a very good looking guy. But he had
a mustache.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Yeah, and I thought.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
I want that, I want that?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Is this a gay thing? Where? Sorry that should have
been but a question. Since nobody's listening. My mom is listening,
I pam.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Ay my girlfriend and I will be calling you.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Like if I, as a straight woman, see a hot
guy dancing, usually if I'm a single person, I'll be like,
that's something I would like. But you, as a not
heterosexual woman, see that and you're like, I want to
look like that.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Yeah, you can certainly feel an attraction. This was not
the case for me. It was like, this was inspirational.
It was like that guy got it going on, and
I want to go home and look like this la guy.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Right.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I don't look at a hot guy and go I
want to look like that. Which is the difference.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Yeah, well you're a woman, right, but you've seen women
You're like, I might like that hair.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Yeah, absolutely, I see a hot woman, right, inspiration.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
So this is the difference, which is different genders.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
But I don't want to have sex with her, that's
a different I didn't.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Say anything about desiring, Oh you don't want to have
individual And this wasn't that. It was I mean if
it was a look, appreciation, absolute complete appreciation of this person.
And so I went home and grew a mustache and
ordered aviator style.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Oh my god, look and it Oliver.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
It looked like I thought it was gonna look. But
it did not go well in Kentucky. And it was
the somebody dressed up as me for Halloween.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
I'm not kidding. God is not a joke.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
With your haircut and everything, Aviator's mustache works perfectly.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
I you know I thought the same at the time,
but you also have to know your shortcomings and I
was not cool enough.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
I disagree with that wholeheartedly. Well, you know what this
is gonna be our eleven o'clock hour stick around.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
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