May 23, 2025 • 33 mins
#SWAMPWATCH. Kim Jong Un’s New Warship Capsizes at Launch Due to ‘Absolute Carelessness’. Nehemias (Ne-ah-my-ahs) Blanco AKA“Nee Nee”, General Manager of AV Alta FC AND John Smelzer (SMELL - ZER), Owner.
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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
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
I hate to bring things down, but big breaking news
out of Germany.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
This Why do we always have terrorist attacks when we
do these shows?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Now they're usually in Europe. This one is as well.
A salient assailant stabbed people. This was at a central
railway station in Hamburg Injuring twelve. Six critical at this
point person attack people with a knife on the platform
between tracks thirteen and fourteen at the station. They said
that the suspect was arrested. No more details, but that
(01:00):
six do have life threatening issues. Again, twelve people. This
is a major hub Hamburg, Germany, a major portal there
at that train station, so definitely a place that would
be target rich, I would assume, so we'll bring you
those details as we get them.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
We obviously have had great weather here in southern California.
We had a little bit of a heat wave where
it got up too close to one hundred in the
San Fernando Valley over the middle of this week. Beautiful
weather out here today. It is not the case back east.
They're talking about an unusual nor'easter storm for May pulling
away from New England. Massachusetts and Rhode Island got several
(01:39):
inches of rain. The town of Kingston, Massachusetts got over
seven inches of rain in one day. They were talking
about some of New Hampshire's higher mountains actually got snow
overnight because it's been that cold and that strong of
a storm through there. Three and a half inches on
Mount Washington there in New Hampshire. Quick other I guess
(02:00):
bookkeeping because we haven't. It's a story that we've been
following for the last couple of days. A judge has
now temporarily blocked the Trump administration from revoking Harvard's ability.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
To enroll international students. That's the plan.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
The Trump administration made that yesterday, made that a policy yesterday.
Harvard sued them this morning, and then later on in
the day. Later in the morning, a federal judge temporarily
blocked the administration from.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
From revoking Are you booing, Harvard? Are you okay? Just
all right?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Just making sure so all that is going on. We
also talked a couple minutes ago about that woman that
was lost for three weeks and yeah, okay, do you
hear about the guy that was attacking people in the
Angelus National Forest? Yes, sixty six year old guy claims
that he lives in a shack in the Angelus National Forest.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It's his suity.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
He's been charged now with threatening five hikers get off
my lawn, is basically what he said. He was threatening
them with knives and branches.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
And then when the La County Sheriff's deputies show up to.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Arrest him, he high yeah, kicks one right in the nuts.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Really yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
He sounds like he's got it all worked out upstairs.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
And they said that there is a shack in the
forest that they believe he's been living in. He when
the deputy showed up, he climbed up a tree really
fast so that they couldn't get to him.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Sounds like a nice retirement.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
They had to talk him out of the tree, and
one of the ways that they did that was they said, well, promise,
we let you put your knife away at your house
if you come down out of the tree, and then
he kicked him in the nuts.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Well, the FBI is warning about a threat moving across
the country targeting citizens via text message. Is it too
late to play the thing?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
The text message, well, the swamp watch. Yeah, I don't know.
If we want to, you won't even do it.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I thought, well, it's the FBI. It's kind of swampy.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
We could have Eric just sing it, Eric, did you
play the swamp watch thing?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Where did Eric go?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Elmer? Why don't you play the swamp watch thing? And
why there it is? And when I'm not kissing babies,
I'm stealing the lollipop.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Here we got.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
The real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
The other side never quit.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
So I'm not going anywhere sorain the swap.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
By one has been.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
You know, Americans have always been going. They're not stupid.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
How political plunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
We have the people voted for you a nast swamp watch.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
They're all canal.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Before we get to the FBI trying to steal our
identity or not.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
The NBI people.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Us about people trying to sell our day. I forgot
to tell you the breasts story. Okay, So we were
out at the uh this isn't really a sex story, but.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I mean, let us let us determine that, all right.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
So my husband and I were out at a Yellowstone
this week and we're we're driving. It's a beautiful day.
It was Monday or Tuesday, I don't know, and the
Grand Tetons are in the in the in the windshield
and I said, look at those Tetons. Those are grand
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beautiful Titons and he said they are, aren't they just beautiful?
I said, yeah, Hong Kong, and he let it go. Okay,
he says nothing. A couple of minutes later, we round
the bend. It's another view of the Grand Tetons. I'm like, man,
those are beautiful, honk Kok and I think I did
this at that point and he looks at me. He's like, Okay,
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that's not going to be a thing. And he was
super serious, that's not gonna be a thing. I was like, oh,
it's not going to be a thing. He's like, no,
it's not going to be a thing. And so then
I started laughing because I'm like that you're taking this
though seriously about that being a thing is hilarious and
now it's obviously going to.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Be a thing.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Okay, to be clear, I mean, just to kind of
pull the curtain back a little bit.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
We say hong kok all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yes, if we if you're listening to the show and
we say honk honk, we're probably doing this with our
hands too.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Right, because we're fine, yes, but it's important to embrace
your inner child.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
There are also times.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
There are also times when we don't say it, but
we're telling a story where that's part of the story
and we'll just do this. We'll just do this in
the studio, like you know what I'm talking about, right
like that.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
So there's a.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Little bit of that sort of inside baseball that goes
on when when there's nobody around, you put the.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Kibosh on that real quick, because it's like, you know,
you could be seven at work, Shannon, but not in
realizing well.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
And this is because usually when we do the show,
it's two of us sitting in a room, right, and
it's you know, we don't have one hundred and fifty
of our closest friends out here.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
You just feel little weird doing this in front of people.
I'll stop, all right, we'll.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Come back with our story.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
The FBI wants to prevent you from getting ripped off.
And I've been getting all kinds of these technows and this.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Is the thing. I never delete that. I mean I
delete them sometimes, but sometimes they come in. I just
leave them on the phone. You got to delete.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
You got to delete them. H We'll talk about it
and we come back. Also a chance at one thousand
bucks coming up. If you're in the house. Stick around
another trivia contest here during the commercial break.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
That's exciting.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I think that's our pizza.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
That's the that's the pepperoni and sausage and bel peppers
and extra cheese.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I know, I know, stupid so good.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
That was my order from Pagliacchi's and Seattle sausage pepperoni,
not Jet City Pagliachi's. All right, No good old days huh,
so we don't have to agree on everything.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
What time does bingo start around here?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I love bingo.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
That keyword again goes on the website. If you win
that thousand, they'll notify a via email and then we'll
do it again an hour from now.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
That is give you a thousand bucks.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Okay, I've got a good story. But first, let's just
talk really briefly about this FBI thing to save our lives.
The FBI is warning about this threat moving across America
state to state, targeting citizens with these malicious text messages
iPhones androids everyone. They say, just delete all of the
text messages that look like they're spam. Just delete them
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right away because if they stay on your phone, they're
going to be problematic. This is a new report. It
tries to get you to reveal personal and or financial information,
credit debit card account information and all the things. You'll
see it with the toll road scam text messages. Don't
click on those, that's the thing you click, and then
they sometimes get access to stuff that's in your phone.
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There's delete it as you when you get it.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
When they're really good if you're not careful about it,
because they'll do things like local the they'll specific specifically
include the DMV, dot c A, dot gov, but they'll
take out one of the dots or they'll put two
dots or something like that.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
It's really really clever that give.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
No one money until they come to your door to
arrest you, you.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Like they'll they'll call them'll be like, I'm the I
R S one way to do it, and they'll say
you're gonna be arrested. If the toll, well, then come
arrest me, you know what I mean, that's what you.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Got to do.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
So they just say be careful.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Not only should you not do it, don't click on it,
just delete it. You can report a lot of times
with your iPhone. If you have that, you can report.
You can tone no all the camels here.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I love surprise animals. Are you ready for your good story?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I'm ready for my happy sh Do.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
We have any nice music? You guys are gonna love
this story?
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Just great music.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Okay, that's fine, I guess.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Well do you want.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Now? It involves a son and his parents.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Iesus go ahead. Kybert Ruiz.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
His parents were able to see him play a game
in the Majors for the first time. Last night, Ruiz
delivered his first at bat for the Washington Nationals against
the Braves last night, drove an RBI double off the
right field wall in the first inning. He immediately turns
and waves to his parents in the crowd, who are
jumping for joy screaming after seeing the hit. His mother
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filmed the whole bat on her phone. He said in postgame,
dream come true for me. There were a lot of motions.
They made a lot of sacrifices for me to see
me play in the big leagues as a blessing. He's
twenty six. He made his major league debut in twenty
twenty for the Dodgers, but was playing the majors for
hundreds of games. This was the first time his parents
were able to see him in the majors. They made
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the trip from Venezuela.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
That's really cool.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Those stories about baseball and the long process that it
takes to get to the major leagues.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
And the sacrifices, especially for parents from Central America's America
to you know, you hear, you hear the stories about
what what players need to do just to get here
for the opportunity. You know, Puigue was like trafficked sixteen
times or something.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Where is see right now?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Where is y'all sale point?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I think he's playing in Japan and still not running
out the grounders.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I'd never heard Vin more upset as he should.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
The other baseball story that we've been following is the
Angels beat the A's again ten to five yesterday up
in Sacramento. The Angels have now won seven in a row.
They are still one game below five hundred, but they're
definitely pointed in the right direction, and all of that.
Without Mike Trout, they've just all come together. They get
to host the Marlins this weekend. Their first pitch is
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going to be at six thirty eight tonight. Dodgers are
in New York to take on the Mets. They do
that first gay first pitch is at four to ten
our time.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
And then I smell the camels. You guys, do you
smell that?
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Sorry, that's probably I was worried it was you.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
And then I remember, I'm gonna always remember that you
thought I smelled like a camel at.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
One point, maybe new detergent.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I don't know camel detergent.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
And then the last baseball note is we mentioned this earlier.
The Colorado Rockies are god awful. The Colorado Rockies have
now lost still, I have now lost more games to
start a gate to start a season than any other team.
In fifty games. They are eight and forty two.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
It's like the major motion picture Major League where they're
tanking the season on purpose to get rid of the
broad that they don't like as the owner.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah, but then they what then they have to take
the little clothes off.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Isn't that what? Yeah, they take it off.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
The peace win I'd watched that documentary.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Have you guys heard about Kim Jong UN's latest ship
that went down? Kim Jong oops in North Korea. They
were going to launch a warship in North Korea. So
they bring out their dear leader, Kim Jong un, and
he watches this thing fall over onto its side and sink.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Right in front of him.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
A five thousand ton destroyer had been docked at a
shipyard up in the northern northeastern part of North Korea.
The hull got crushed and the bow got stranded on
the shipway because they were taking it out of the
dry dock and filling it up. There's some mechanism that
didn't work right and right in front of his big
fireworks and the army that was supposed to look all cool,
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they look like complete morons.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
He said.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
He said it was because of somebody that was bad
in the ranks and that they have been killed already.
So I don't know if it was just an accident
or if he claims that it was a sabotage.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
We should start doing that around here.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
You seeking the ships still.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Kim jong Unie, you know you do something wrong.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Sh We are live today of Bravery Brewing here at Lancaster.
Don't forget to pick up your four packs of KFIPA.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Yeah, that pizza, it's also on draft. Do you know
where that camel smells coming from?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Is it camel pizza?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
It's the camel. Oh, he's right here.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
You're scared of I'm sorry, camel. I didn't mean to
scare you.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
We'll do a light golf collap so we don't scare
the camel. Gary and Shannon, we'll be back here at
Bravery Brewing for our news and Bruce here in just
a few minutes.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
One of the things that we have been watching was stocks. Today.
President Trump ramped up the trade fight again.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
This one he's talking about Apple specifically and said that
if Apple doesn't want to make its iPhones in the
United States, the ones that it sells in the United States,
that it should put a twenty five percent tariff on that.
So we'll see where that goes. Apple stock was actually
down as a result of that. He also went after
the European Union, said that the talks with the EU
have gone nowhere, and he is threatening a fifty percent
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across the board tariff to begin next month June first, is.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
What he had.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
So the stock markets have been in negative territory. That
Dow is down about one hundred points s and P
five hundred. Nasdaq also down just a half a percent
or so. That's just one of the stories that's going
on today.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
We got a brand new football club here in Lancaster.
This is exciting. Yeah, Alta football club Alta here in
Lancaster just founded.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
John is the president here.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I don't know why I thought you were John and
you were not John and you were Nanny. I don't know.
I just did a little quick math here. But John,
tell us about your story. How was Alta born.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
So I've been in a professional sports business my whole career,
and I knew that Lancaster Municipal Stadium was empty after
the JetHawks.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
Major League Baseball folded forty teams across the country and
minor league team one of them was Lancaster. So I
about two and a half years ago, I just sent
an email call to the city of Lancaster and that
if you convert the stadium from baseball to soccer, I
would bring a professional team.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
And they said yes.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
So how did you have this idea?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
I love soccer, I love the game.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
I think I believe in all the community aspects of
it and unity of it. And I just felt this
was a community that would support the club and and
they have.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
So you're like Ryan Reynolds, right.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Yeah, yeah, And he's the other guy.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
His name, So Rob Malcolm, Hey, okay, So Neamas Blanco
is the GM So how did you guys get hooked up?
Speaker 5 (16:35):
How did Actually I was in in the league and then.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Mutual acquaintances and and one of the employees that jumped
on quickly contacted me and I came to visit. I
think it was a Sunday or a Monday and saw
the stadium and I saw how the city of Lancaster
supported uh the team and and the project, and I
told him verbatim, this is this is a gold mine.
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This is something that I could get behind. And the
community was amazing. There was already a supporter club here
before we even kicked the ball.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Sence, I was gonna say, you can't find a better
community to start something up that needs community. I mean,
the people show up here, people always show up, and
they show up for each other here, and there's not
a lot of places like that, certainly not in La County.
So I imagine it was just instant fan base.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Yeah, not quite instant, but yeah, it took a little
bit of time. But yes, by the time we did
our inaugural match, yeah we sold that out in advance.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
That was right at the beginning of April.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Yeah, it was April fifth.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
And then we we've played a bunch of games since
we played in the US Open Cup. We won three
US Open Cup games and got to play FC Dallas
and Major League Soccer, and now we're playing our regular
League one schedule, which is Men's Division III.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Okay, how many so go down the layers of soccer
in the United States.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yeah, so we have MLS, which is LAFC Galaxy. Then
we have USL Championship, which the USL umbrellas the whole league,
so it's us L Championship, and then USL won. So
the US Open Cup is we have amateur teams all
the way to MLS teams and the further you go,
that's when you get to play MLS team. So we
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got to the fourth round. It was amazing to be
at the stadium and see Lancaster, California inside of the
Toyota Stadium and we put the team on the map.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Question thinking about it, right, your name?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Does it work the same way where if you win
successively you can move up into different leagues?
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
And that's coming John actually gets on these President's calls.
But pro route so promotion relegation is when you win,
you get to have the chance to go up.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Sure, so you win, Let's say if we.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Were in the third division and we went out the
league and then we win a championship, we have the
opportunity to move up to second division and so on.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
How did you come up with the name and the
colors and the all the branding.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Yeah, so we we had we hired a professional designer,
which was good, but we also did a bunch of
listening sessions with the community. And the things that this
community really resonate with are the B two bomber because
it's made here in the Annelo Valley, and also the
Joshua tree, which is a real iconic symbol. And so
we took all the colors of the desert and the
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Joshua tree.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
We have hints of.
Speaker 7 (19:32):
The B two bomber and the logo the shield itself
as a poppy flower. So we took all these elements,
brought it together and it's been really successful.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
People have really embraced it.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Do you have a Joshua Tree somebody to dress like
a Joshua Tree at the mascot, because I would do that. Okay,
have one mask, I could be like a little Joshua tree.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
One of those August matches that you have and sweaty
or the call.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
That's tightly great.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
You mentioned that the city was very cooperative and you know,
excited about it, and obviously the fan base they've shown
up pretty quickly. Have other businesses as the business community
come alongside you as well.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
Yeah, we've done really well in sponsorship sales all local businesses.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
And yeah, they've really embraced us.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
When we were just a PowerPoint, I mean, long before
we had a team, we were pitching Edwards Federal Credit Union,
Paris law firm Bravery has been a sponsor of ours
and so yeah, we've probably outperformed in the sponsorship game.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
So players, anybody we should be uh be focused.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
On, actually excited to see this.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
We have Denzel Smith turned out into Bagel national team.
He just called up, got called up for the national
team and turned out to Bagel. So he will be
playing against the United States here in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Do you do recruiting trips and stuff?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
We try to limit those. We went to Argentina, we
went all over the United State, eights. We have there's
a lot of software out there. One of them is
called wiy scout. So if I input your name, it
would give me every time you touched the ball, every aerial,
every every little detail.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
So how does that work? I mean as a GM,
is it like football where you find these diamonds in
the rough? Essentially?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Was it a balls joke?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
You're laughing at a balls joke. Okay, it must have
been a genital joke.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Play that just for everybody.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I'm gonna rewind that the adults, Nina, you didn't mean
to do this, but because I'm eleven, okay, you said
you have a computer software program. Right, they heard it
too because they were laughing as well. You have a
computer program that will tell us every time Shannon has
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touched a ball all the When the adults talk too fast,
those kind of slipped through the cracks, and we didn't
want that to slip through all right, back.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
To the story. Stopped laughing.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Sorry, I'm just I'm just disappointed in myself. I missed it.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
I didn't get any thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
So is GM though. You find these like diamonds are up,
you bring them or you sign them up for your club,
and then I mean, what's that feel like for you
to see them them do well and to grow. I mean,
obviously you're very new, but this is that's your job, right, yes,
you know theirs.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
The first one was exciting was mcali Bara.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
He was from Lancaster, California, played high school in Lancaster, California,
went to a JC college, then went to a four
year then played for and then got picked up professionally
and then played for our national team in Brazil, so
it was a full circle. And then we and he
was our first signing for a team in Lancaster, so.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Bringing him home, yeah, very cool. Full circle.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
And then now he's an assistant coach for an academy team,
is our U nineteen team, and is mentoring our players.
So for him, it's it was a surreal moment. He
would text us and saying that, you know, we had.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
His jersey reveal here.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
You know it was it was a surreal moment, an
emotional moment for him to come back home and represent
his team, you know. So but then from there, you know,
we have to put a team that's you know, we
want to be successful year one, right and with all
the building, with all the locker.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Room, with travel, with.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Food, with hotels, all that stuff, we also want to compete,
so we have to expand and and bring in and
put Lancaster on the map.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
I think you're going to be very successful. I think
this was a great call.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
To really do.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
I have a quick just procedural question about how do
you transfer a baseball stadium where the JetHawks used to play.
They still call it the hangar. How do you how
do you change that into a soccer pitch?
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Yeah, it's fantastic. The City of Lancaster really stepped up
on that. If you think of the home plate as
sort of a right angle, the home plate becomes the
corner flag. And then we added a grandstand in what
would have been right center field, and then another grand
stand in what would have been left field, and so
we've created a perfectly square, a proper football ground. It's
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interesting because the second deck of suits is actually still
behind home plate, so it's behind the corner.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
But also that.
Speaker 7 (24:16):
Has the best views in the house, so it's really beautiful.
It's a it's a it's a proper football ground and
we're just so lucky to have it. Very cool.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
If you're interested in more, not just the schedule, but
tickets and all of that sort of stuff, the stadium
of all the swag for all to FC, you can
go to alta f a v all to FC dot
com and Valley all toa FC dot com to be our.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Show official football team, like we don't have one, and
I feel like we're getting in on the ground floor here.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Yeah, right, we have a game tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Okay, starts tomorrow see all the hegger John Smelzer, the
owner and Neamias Blanco Niini, the general manager for av
all To FC. Thank you guys for coming out today.
Enjoy all right, we're live today Bravery Brewing here in
Lancaster for our news and brus. Come on out and
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say hi. We'll be here until just after one o'clock.
We'll be back in just a couple of minutes as well.
More on that New Orleans prison break. Everybody likes a
good prison break story. Before lunchtime, you're listening.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
To Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM six forty.
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It was an unintended victim.
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Hey, you were the one who talked about one night
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Speaker 1 (26:51):
You know, I don't even have a Gary and Shannon
Show sticker until now?
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Did you know that one doesn't have the thing on it.
Some of them have the QR code that you could
just scan the QR code and your podcast comes right now.
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QR codes were a thing that that are done.
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Now, okay the story, Yeah, that one has a QR code.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
No, you keep that, Eric, that's for you. Is this
frenkle your nose?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Oh my gosh, this is these are great cool. Yes,
we are officially fans.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Wow, that is really cool.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
This almost looks like the graduation robes that you wear.
I never graduated, so I don't know.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
No.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
After skipping third grade, it was all downhill from there.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Downhill, downhill.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
There was also a funny story before we get to
our escapees in New Orleans?
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Did you hear the story of it?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Feel like? I feel like the Pope a little bit?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Do I look like the Pope a little bit?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
This is probably sacrilegious.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
I'll stop with the sign of the cross.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Some of our finest and bravest members of the Armed
Forces opened fire on a Florida beach last week. Did
anybody hear the story? A group of at least eighteen
Army Rangers opened fire on a crowded Florida beach and
sent everybody running for the exits. If there was such
a thing this group the Army Rangers were supposed to
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be part of a show in the Billy bowlegs Pirate Festival.
That sounds like fun in Fort Walton Beach and it's
just a goofy thing.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
It's an opportunity for the Army to go out there.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
And shoot blanks basically, and they take part in the
show of the Billy bowlegs Pirate Festival by capturing Billy Bowlegs. Okay,
so after the show, they're cruising around in their little
boats and for some reason kept shooting their blanks but
aiming their weapons at least in the general direction of
(28:54):
the people who were sitting on the beach watching this
pirate festival. But the City of Fort Walton Beach says
the Army shouldn't have done that.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
They said that they were.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Outside of the Billy the Billy Crab no Billy bull
legs Pirate Festival, and that what happened at Crab Island
was not part of the festival whatever.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
But pirate a pirate festival. Whatever happens, you're gonna get shot, yeah,
or shot at.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
My grandma got shot at one of those old West Dixie,
Old West stunt shows.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yes she did.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
She was shot in the arm.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yeah, and she lived with that shrapnel.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Right.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
He still had it in her No, still has the
shrapnel in his foot that he shot himself with.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
He shot himself.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Yeah, it's his birthday today, ninety six years old.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
He's still around.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
He shot himself in the foot. Yes, you'd hear about it.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
If he died. I assume so, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
He shot himself in the foot when he was five,
and then just left the fragments in there.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
He didn't tell anybody that he shot himself.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
An adult, I don't think so. Nobody cared back then.
It was like you were a kid playing with the gun.
You shot yourself in the foot.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
It was like a.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Tuesday, you know. Yeah, it was the twenties.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
So ten inmates escaped from that prison in New Orleans,
the Orleans Parish Prison. And if you remember the story,
they know that a maintenance guy shut off the water
to a toilet in one of the cells. They were
able to move that toilet, break through the wall, cut.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Through the rebar, and skeet on out of there, ten
of them.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
My favorite was that they tagged the exit with too easy.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Yeah, and they spelled it wrong. Yeah, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
It's still funny like that somebody would spell that wrong
and still be smart enough to escape. There's a problem
with your security at your prison. So I love it though,
because it's got shades of our of our love escape
love prison.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Escape, our love, prison escape.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Not Shoshank Redemption, which was also a story of love
in prison and prison. No, the female or they female
prison guards.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Oh and they had the same last name, wasn't it
They had the same last name.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Yeah, she made off with him and.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Then but yeah, the headline was like five of them captured,
five of five of the ten captured or whatever. And
the reason that they haven't captured him is because of
course there's women were willing to take in an inmate.
You know what, Well, yeah, that's what's happening. People. These
inmates are going to random homes. They're knocking on doors
and they're like, I'm an escaped inmate, and you know,
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the women are like, come on inside.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
I did say three. You said five of them have
been captured. One of them was captured at grandma's house.
Does that count as as a woman who's willing to
take in the Yeah, all right.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
They did also arrest a fourth.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Woman for allegedly helping the inmates a thirty year old
was arrested yesterday. She helped two of the ten inmates
get out.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Also, was she his grandma or grandma very different? Grandma's
need love to.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
They also arrested a thirty two year old, Courtney Harris
on Wednesday, and they haven't said exactly how they were
able to help, but at least one of them was
given these guys rides to wherever they want. Giving them
rides to grandma's house basically is the way it works.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I mean, it's not football season. There's a lot of
downtime and inmate shows up. I mean, that's that's It
makes for a good.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Story, Right, inmate shows up to your house? What are
you gonna do? It depends on he's wearing the orange suit.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
County La County property jail. Oh does he have manners?
Does he look like John say?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
You know, good afternoon, ma'am, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Goes a long way too easily sway.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Yeah, but manners are not a thing anymore. So when
you see them or hear them, you appreciate them.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Well, we've got a gigantic, sir, twelve o'clock hour, thank you,
it's already new, it's already new Now's the time where
you can really hit the games top I know, and
pants and pants.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
It's unusual for me big twelve o'clock hour.
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Of course, we're going to be doing are what you
learned this week on the Gary and Shannon Show, also
the nine news Nugget you need to know and we're
gonna cheers you for everybody. We're gonna get together and
do our big thing. We'll have a picture taken. We're
gonna do our weekend fit. We said, how are we
gonna cram all of this in? I don't know extra time?
Uh oh, we're gonna need extra time.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
You're gonna call John. I'll text John.
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We can do this too for our news and bruise.
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I hate to bring things down, but big breaking news
out of Germany.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
This Why do we always have terrorist attacks when we
do these shows?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Now they're usually in Europe. This one is as well.
A salient assailant stabbed people. This was at a central
railway station in Hamburg Injuring twelve. Six critical at this
point person attack people with a knife on the platform
between tracks thirteen and fourteen at the station. They said
that the suspect was arrested. No more details, but that
(01:00):
six do have life threatening issues. Again, twelve people. This
is a major hub Hamburg, Germany, a major portal there
at that train station, so definitely a place that would
be target rich, I would assume, so we'll bring you
those details as we get them.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
We obviously have had great weather here in southern California.
We had a little bit of a heat wave where
it got up too close to one hundred in the
San Fernando Valley over the middle of this week. Beautiful
weather out here today. It is not the case back east.
They're talking about an unusual nor'easter storm for May pulling
away from New England. Massachusetts and Rhode Island got several
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inches of rain. The town of Kingston, Massachusetts got over
seven inches of rain in one day. They were talking
about some of New Hampshire's higher mountains actually got snow
overnight because it's been that cold and that strong of
a storm through there. Three and a half inches on
Mount Washington there in New Hampshire. Quick other I guess
(02:00):
bookkeeping because we haven't. It's a story that we've been
following for the last couple of days. A judge has
now temporarily blocked the Trump administration from revoking Harvard's ability.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
To enroll international students. That's the plan.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
The Trump administration made that yesterday, made that a policy yesterday.
Harvard sued them this morning, and then later on in
the day. Later in the morning, a federal judge temporarily
blocked the administration from.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
From revoking Are you booing, Harvard? Are you okay? Just
all right?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Just making sure so all that is going on. We
also talked a couple minutes ago about that woman that
was lost for three weeks and yeah, okay, do you
hear about the guy that was attacking people in the
Angelus National Forest? Yes, sixty six year old guy claims
that he lives in a shack in the Angelus National Forest.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It's his suity.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
He's been charged now with threatening five hikers get off
my lawn, is basically what he said. He was threatening
them with knives and branches.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
And then when the La County Sheriff's deputies show up to.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Arrest him, he high yeah, kicks one right in the nuts.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Really yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
He sounds like he's got it all worked out upstairs.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
And they said that there is a shack in the
forest that they believe he's been living in. He when
the deputy showed up, he climbed up a tree really
fast so that they couldn't get to him.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Sounds like a nice retirement.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
They had to talk him out of the tree, and
one of the ways that they did that was they said, well, promise,
we let you put your knife away at your house
if you come down out of the tree, and then
he kicked him in the nuts.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Well, the FBI is warning about a threat moving across
the country targeting citizens via text message. Is it too
late to play the thing?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
The text message, well, the swamp watch. Yeah, I don't know.
If we want to, you won't even do it.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I thought, well, it's the FBI. It's kind of swampy.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
We could have Eric just sing it, Eric, did you
play the swamp watch thing?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Where did Eric go?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Elmer? Why don't you play the swamp watch thing? And
why there it is? And when I'm not kissing babies,
I'm stealing the lollipop.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Here we got.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
The real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
The other side never quit.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
So I'm not going anywhere sorain the swap.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
By one has been.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
You know, Americans have always been going. They're not stupid.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
How political plunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
We have the people voted for you a nast swamp watch.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
They're all canal.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Before we get to the FBI trying to steal our
identity or not.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
The NBI people.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Us about people trying to sell our day. I forgot
to tell you the breasts story. Okay, So we were
out at the uh this isn't really a sex story, but.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I mean, let us let us determine that, all right.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
So my husband and I were out at a Yellowstone
this week and we're we're driving. It's a beautiful day.
It was Monday or Tuesday, I don't know, and the
Grand Tetons are in the in the in the windshield
and I said, look at those Tetons. Those are grand
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beautiful Titons and he said they are, aren't they just beautiful?
I said, yeah, Hong Kong, and he let it go. Okay,
he says nothing. A couple of minutes later, we round
the bend. It's another view of the Grand Tetons. I'm like, man,
those are beautiful, honk Kok and I think I did
this at that point and he looks at me. He's like, Okay,
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that's not going to be a thing. And he was
super serious, that's not gonna be a thing. I was like, oh,
it's not going to be a thing. He's like, no,
it's not going to be a thing. And so then
I started laughing because I'm like that you're taking this
though seriously about that being a thing is hilarious and
now it's obviously going to.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Be a thing.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Okay, to be clear, I mean, just to kind of
pull the curtain back a little bit.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
We say hong kok all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yes, if we if you're listening to the show and
we say honk honk, we're probably doing this with our
hands too.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Right, because we're fine, yes, but it's important to embrace
your inner child.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
There are also times.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
There are also times when we don't say it, but
we're telling a story where that's part of the story
and we'll just do this. We'll just do this in
the studio, like you know what I'm talking about, right
like that.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
So there's a.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Little bit of that sort of inside baseball that goes
on when when there's nobody around, you put the.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Kibosh on that real quick, because it's like, you know,
you could be seven at work, Shannon, but not in
realizing well.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
And this is because usually when we do the show,
it's two of us sitting in a room, right, and
it's you know, we don't have one hundred and fifty
of our closest friends out here.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
You just feel little weird doing this in front of people.
I'll stop, all right, we'll.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Come back with our story.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
The FBI wants to prevent you from getting ripped off.
And I've been getting all kinds of these technows and this.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Is the thing. I never delete that. I mean I
delete them sometimes, but sometimes they come in. I just
leave them on the phone. You got to delete.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
You got to delete them. H We'll talk about it
and we come back. Also a chance at one thousand
bucks coming up. If you're in the house. Stick around
another trivia contest here during the commercial break.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
That's exciting.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Gary and Shannon will continue.
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You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I think that's our pizza.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
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and extra cheese.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I know, I know, stupid so good.
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That was my order from Pagliacchi's and Seattle sausage pepperoni,
not Jet City Pagliachi's. All right, No good old days huh,
so we don't have to agree on everything.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
What time does bingo start around here?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I love bingo.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
That keyword again goes on the website. If you win
that thousand, they'll notify a via email and then we'll
do it again an hour from now.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
That is give you a thousand bucks.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Okay, I've got a good story. But first, let's just
talk really briefly about this FBI thing to save our lives.
The FBI is warning about this threat moving across America
state to state, targeting citizens with these malicious text messages
iPhones androids everyone. They say, just delete all of the
text messages that look like they're spam. Just delete them
(08:27):
right away because if they stay on your phone, they're
going to be problematic. This is a new report. It
tries to get you to reveal personal and or financial information,
credit debit card account information and all the things. You'll
see it with the toll road scam text messages. Don't
click on those, that's the thing you click, and then
they sometimes get access to stuff that's in your phone.
(08:48):
There's delete it as you when you get it.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
When they're really good if you're not careful about it,
because they'll do things like local the they'll specific specifically
include the DMV, dot c A, dot gov, but they'll
take out one of the dots or they'll put two
dots or something like that.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
It's really really clever that give.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
No one money until they come to your door to
arrest you, you.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Like they'll they'll call them'll be like, I'm the I
R S one way to do it, and they'll say
you're gonna be arrested. If the toll, well, then come
arrest me, you know what I mean, that's what you.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Got to do.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
So they just say be careful.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Not only should you not do it, don't click on it,
just delete it. You can report a lot of times
with your iPhone. If you have that, you can report.
You can tone no all the camels here.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I love surprise animals. Are you ready for your good story?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I'm ready for my happy sh Do.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
We have any nice music? You guys are gonna love
this story?
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Just great music.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Okay, that's fine, I guess.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Well do you want.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Now? It involves a son and his parents.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Iesus go ahead. Kybert Ruiz.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
His parents were able to see him play a game
in the Majors for the first time. Last night, Ruiz
delivered his first at bat for the Washington Nationals against
the Braves last night, drove an RBI double off the
right field wall in the first inning. He immediately turns
and waves to his parents in the crowd, who are
jumping for joy screaming after seeing the hit. His mother
(10:24):
filmed the whole bat on her phone. He said in postgame,
dream come true for me. There were a lot of motions.
They made a lot of sacrifices for me to see
me play in the big leagues as a blessing. He's
twenty six. He made his major league debut in twenty
twenty for the Dodgers, but was playing the majors for
hundreds of games. This was the first time his parents
were able to see him in the majors. They made
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the trip from Venezuela.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
That's really cool.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Those stories about baseball and the long process that it
takes to get to the major leagues.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
And the sacrifices, especially for parents from Central America's America
to you know, you hear, you hear the stories about
what what players need to do just to get here
for the opportunity. You know, Puigue was like trafficked sixteen
times or something.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Where is see right now?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Where is y'all sale point?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I think he's playing in Japan and still not running
out the grounders.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I'd never heard Vin more upset as he should.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
The other baseball story that we've been following is the
Angels beat the A's again ten to five yesterday up
in Sacramento. The Angels have now won seven in a row.
They are still one game below five hundred, but they're
definitely pointed in the right direction, and all of that.
Without Mike Trout, they've just all come together. They get
to host the Marlins this weekend. Their first pitch is
(11:45):
going to be at six thirty eight tonight. Dodgers are
in New York to take on the Mets. They do
that first gay first pitch is at four to ten
our time.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
And then I smell the camels. You guys, do you
smell that?
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Sorry, that's probably I was worried it was you.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
And then I remember, I'm gonna always remember that you
thought I smelled like a camel at.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
One point, maybe new detergent.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I don't know camel detergent.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
And then the last baseball note is we mentioned this earlier.
The Colorado Rockies are god awful. The Colorado Rockies have
now lost still, I have now lost more games to
start a gate to start a season than any other team.
In fifty games. They are eight and forty two.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
It's like the major motion picture Major League where they're
tanking the season on purpose to get rid of the
broad that they don't like as the owner.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah, but then they what then they have to take
the little clothes off.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Isn't that what? Yeah, they take it off.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
The peace win I'd watched that documentary.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Have you guys heard about Kim Jong UN's latest ship
that went down? Kim Jong oops in North Korea. They
were going to launch a warship in North Korea. So
they bring out their dear leader, Kim Jong un, and
he watches this thing fall over onto its side and sink.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Right in front of him.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
A five thousand ton destroyer had been docked at a
shipyard up in the northern northeastern part of North Korea.
The hull got crushed and the bow got stranded on
the shipway because they were taking it out of the
dry dock and filling it up. There's some mechanism that
didn't work right and right in front of his big
fireworks and the army that was supposed to look all cool,
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they look like complete morons.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
He said.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
He said it was because of somebody that was bad
in the ranks and that they have been killed already.
So I don't know if it was just an accident
or if he claims that it was a sabotage.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
We should start doing that around here.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
You seeking the ships still.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Kim jong Unie, you know you do something wrong.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Sh We are live today of Bravery Brewing here at Lancaster.
Don't forget to pick up your four packs of KFIPA.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Yeah, that pizza, it's also on draft. Do you know
where that camel smells coming from?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Is it camel pizza?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
It's the camel. Oh, he's right here.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
You're scared of I'm sorry, camel. I didn't mean to
scare you.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
We'll do a light golf collap so we don't scare
the camel. Gary and Shannon, we'll be back here at
Bravery Brewing for our news and Bruce here in just
a few minutes.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
One of the things that we have been watching was stocks. Today.
President Trump ramped up the trade fight again.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
This one he's talking about Apple specifically and said that
if Apple doesn't want to make its iPhones in the
United States, the ones that it sells in the United States,
that it should put a twenty five percent tariff on that.
So we'll see where that goes. Apple stock was actually
down as a result of that. He also went after
the European Union, said that the talks with the EU
have gone nowhere, and he is threatening a fifty percent
(15:00):
across the board tariff to begin next month June first, is.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
What he had.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
So the stock markets have been in negative territory. That
Dow is down about one hundred points s and P
five hundred. Nasdaq also down just a half a percent
or so. That's just one of the stories that's going
on today.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
We got a brand new football club here in Lancaster.
This is exciting. Yeah, Alta football club Alta here in
Lancaster just founded.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
John is the president here.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I don't know why I thought you were John and
you were not John and you were Nanny. I don't know.
I just did a little quick math here. But John,
tell us about your story. How was Alta born.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
So I've been in a professional sports business my whole career,
and I knew that Lancaster Municipal Stadium was empty after
the JetHawks.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
Major League Baseball folded forty teams across the country and
minor league team one of them was Lancaster. So I
about two and a half years ago, I just sent
an email call to the city of Lancaster and that
if you convert the stadium from baseball to soccer, I
would bring a professional team.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
And they said yes.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
So how did you have this idea?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
I love soccer, I love the game.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
I think I believe in all the community aspects of
it and unity of it. And I just felt this
was a community that would support the club and and
they have.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
So you're like Ryan Reynolds, right.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Yeah, yeah, And he's the other guy.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
His name, So Rob Malcolm, Hey, okay, So Neamas Blanco
is the GM So how did you guys get hooked up?
Speaker 5 (16:35):
How did Actually I was in in the league and then.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Mutual acquaintances and and one of the employees that jumped
on quickly contacted me and I came to visit. I
think it was a Sunday or a Monday and saw
the stadium and I saw how the city of Lancaster
supported uh the team and and the project, and I
told him verbatim, this is this is a gold mine.
(17:01):
This is something that I could get behind. And the
community was amazing. There was already a supporter club here
before we even kicked the ball.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Sence, I was gonna say, you can't find a better
community to start something up that needs community. I mean,
the people show up here, people always show up, and
they show up for each other here, and there's not
a lot of places like that, certainly not in La County.
So I imagine it was just instant fan base.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Yeah, not quite instant, but yeah, it took a little
bit of time. But yes, by the time we did
our inaugural match, yeah we sold that out in advance.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
That was right at the beginning of April.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Yeah, it was April fifth.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
And then we we've played a bunch of games since
we played in the US Open Cup. We won three
US Open Cup games and got to play FC Dallas
and Major League Soccer, and now we're playing our regular
League one schedule, which is Men's Division III.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Okay, how many so go down the layers of soccer
in the United States.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yeah, so we have MLS, which is LAFC Galaxy. Then
we have USL Championship, which the USL umbrellas the whole league,
so it's us L Championship, and then USL won. So
the US Open Cup is we have amateur teams all
the way to MLS teams and the further you go,
that's when you get to play MLS team. So we
(18:25):
got to the fourth round. It was amazing to be
at the stadium and see Lancaster, California inside of the
Toyota Stadium and we put the team on the map.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Question thinking about it, right, your name?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Does it work the same way where if you win
successively you can move up into different leagues?
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
And that's coming John actually gets on these President's calls.
But pro route so promotion relegation is when you win,
you get to have the chance to go up.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Sure, so you win, Let's say if we.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Were in the third division and we went out the
league and then we win a championship, we have the
opportunity to move up to second division and so on.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
How did you come up with the name and the
colors and the all the branding.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Yeah, so we we had we hired a professional designer,
which was good, but we also did a bunch of
listening sessions with the community. And the things that this
community really resonate with are the B two bomber because
it's made here in the Annelo Valley, and also the
Joshua tree, which is a real iconic symbol. And so
we took all the colors of the desert and the
(19:28):
Joshua tree.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
We have hints of.
Speaker 7 (19:32):
The B two bomber and the logo the shield itself
as a poppy flower. So we took all these elements,
brought it together and it's been really successful.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
People have really embraced it.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Do you have a Joshua Tree somebody to dress like
a Joshua Tree at the mascot, because I would do that. Okay,
have one mask, I could be like a little Joshua tree.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
One of those August matches that you have and sweaty
or the call.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
That's tightly great.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
You mentioned that the city was very cooperative and you know,
excited about it, and obviously the fan base they've shown
up pretty quickly. Have other businesses as the business community
come alongside you as well.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
Yeah, we've done really well in sponsorship sales all local businesses.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
And yeah, they've really embraced us.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
When we were just a PowerPoint, I mean, long before
we had a team, we were pitching Edwards Federal Credit Union,
Paris law firm Bravery has been a sponsor of ours
and so yeah, we've probably outperformed in the sponsorship game.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
So players, anybody we should be uh be focused.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
On, actually excited to see this.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
We have Denzel Smith turned out into Bagel national team.
He just called up, got called up for the national
team and turned out to Bagel. So he will be
playing against the United States here in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Do you do recruiting trips and stuff?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
We try to limit those. We went to Argentina, we
went all over the United State, eights. We have there's
a lot of software out there. One of them is
called wiy scout. So if I input your name, it
would give me every time you touched the ball, every aerial,
every every little detail.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
So how does that work? I mean as a GM,
is it like football where you find these diamonds in
the rough? Essentially?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Was it a balls joke?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
You're laughing at a balls joke. Okay, it must have
been a genital joke.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Play that just for everybody.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I'm gonna rewind that the adults, Nina, you didn't mean
to do this, but because I'm eleven, okay, you said
you have a computer software program. Right, they heard it
too because they were laughing as well. You have a
computer program that will tell us every time Shannon has
(21:47):
touched a ball all the When the adults talk too fast,
those kind of slipped through the cracks, and we didn't
want that to slip through all right, back.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
To the story. Stopped laughing.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Sorry, I'm just I'm just disappointed in myself. I missed it.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
I didn't get any thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
So is GM though. You find these like diamonds are up,
you bring them or you sign them up for your club,
and then I mean, what's that feel like for you
to see them them do well and to grow. I mean,
obviously you're very new, but this is that's your job, right, yes,
you know theirs.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
The first one was exciting was mcali Bara.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
He was from Lancaster, California, played high school in Lancaster, California,
went to a JC college, then went to a four
year then played for and then got picked up professionally
and then played for our national team in Brazil, so
it was a full circle. And then we and he
was our first signing for a team in Lancaster, so.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Bringing him home, yeah, very cool. Full circle.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
And then now he's an assistant coach for an academy team,
is our U nineteen team, and is mentoring our players.
So for him, it's it was a surreal moment. He
would text us and saying that, you know, we had.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
His jersey reveal here.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
You know it was it was a surreal moment, an
emotional moment for him to come back home and represent
his team, you know. So but then from there, you know,
we have to put a team that's you know, we
want to be successful year one, right and with all
the building, with all the locker.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Room, with travel, with.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Food, with hotels, all that stuff, we also want to compete,
so we have to expand and and bring in and
put Lancaster on the map.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
I think you're going to be very successful. I think
this was a great call.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
To really do.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
I have a quick just procedural question about how do
you transfer a baseball stadium where the JetHawks used to play.
They still call it the hangar. How do you how
do you change that into a soccer pitch?
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Yeah, it's fantastic. The City of Lancaster really stepped up
on that. If you think of the home plate as
sort of a right angle, the home plate becomes the
corner flag. And then we added a grandstand in what
would have been right center field, and then another grand
stand in what would have been left field, and so
we've created a perfectly square, a proper football ground. It's
(24:08):
interesting because the second deck of suits is actually still
behind home plate, so it's behind the corner.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
But also that.
Speaker 7 (24:16):
Has the best views in the house, so it's really beautiful.
It's a it's a it's a proper football ground and
we're just so lucky to have it. Very cool.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
If you're interested in more, not just the schedule, but
tickets and all of that sort of stuff, the stadium
of all the swag for all to FC, you can
go to alta f a v all to FC dot
com and Valley all toa FC dot com to be our.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Show official football team, like we don't have one, and
I feel like we're getting in on the ground floor here.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Yeah, right, we have a game tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Okay, starts tomorrow see all the hegger John Smelzer, the
owner and Neamias Blanco Niini, the general manager for av
all To FC. Thank you guys for coming out today.
Enjoy all right, we're live today Bravery Brewing here in
Lancaster for our news and brus. Come on out and
(25:16):
say hi. We'll be here until just after one o'clock.
We'll be back in just a couple of minutes as well.
More on that New Orleans prison break. Everybody likes a
good prison break story. Before lunchtime, you're listening.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
To Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Try that KFIPA. It's the fifth version of the fifth iteration.
If you can believe that of kfipa that they have
brewed up for us in the cans. It's also on
draft here if you want that. And there are a
bunch of different restaurants as well, not just around Lancaster.
Is a handful here, a couple down in the Santa
Clarita Valley in Acting wherever you get your finest beers.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Make sure that you.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Sorry, I need to wipe your face because you may
out with the camel. That camel got into your face.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Well, to be clear, Okay, to be clear, the Campbell
made out with me, I was sort of a true
It was an unintended victim.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
You kind of asked for it. You were given the
cabal what it wanted.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
There you can find Kfipa and Rosamond, Into Hatchipie and
Lancaster Lake, Hughes, Palm Dale, as I mentioned Santa Clarita,
all of those places.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Also, did you even get that camel's name?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Men?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Hey, you were the one who talked about one night
stands earlier. This is the one one afternoon stand with
me and just the camel. If you're here, Bravery has
an incredible award winning pizza kitchen, by the way, and
they have a pizza on their menu that's our pizza,
which is the Pepperoni, the sausage, bell peppers and extra cheese.
So if you want to go and ask for the
(26:49):
Gary and Shannon Show special, that'd be pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
You know, I don't even have a Gary and Shannon
Show sticker until now?
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Did you know that one doesn't have the thing on it.
Some of them have the QR code that you could
just scan the QR code and your podcast comes right now.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
QR codes were a thing that that are done.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Now, okay the story, Yeah, that one has a QR code.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
No, you keep that, Eric, that's for you. Is this
frenkle your nose?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Oh my gosh, this is these are great cool. Yes,
we are officially fans.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Wow, that is really cool.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
This almost looks like the graduation robes that you wear.
I never graduated, so I don't know.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
No.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
After skipping third grade, it was all downhill from there.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Downhill, downhill.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
There was also a funny story before we get to
our escapees in New Orleans?
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Did you hear the story of it?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Feel like? I feel like the Pope a little bit?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Do I look like the Pope a little bit?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
This is probably sacrilegious.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
I'll stop with the sign of the cross.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Some of our finest and bravest members of the Armed
Forces opened fire on a Florida beach last week. Did
anybody hear the story? A group of at least eighteen
Army Rangers opened fire on a crowded Florida beach and
sent everybody running for the exits. If there was such
a thing this group the Army Rangers were supposed to
(28:20):
be part of a show in the Billy bowlegs Pirate Festival.
That sounds like fun in Fort Walton Beach and it's
just a goofy thing.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
It's an opportunity for the Army to go out there.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
And shoot blanks basically, and they take part in the
show of the Billy bowlegs Pirate Festival by capturing Billy Bowlegs. Okay,
so after the show, they're cruising around in their little
boats and for some reason kept shooting their blanks but
aiming their weapons at least in the general direction of
(28:54):
the people who were sitting on the beach watching this
pirate festival. But the City of Fort Walton Beach says
the Army shouldn't have done that.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
They said that they were.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Outside of the Billy the Billy Crab no Billy bull
legs Pirate Festival, and that what happened at Crab Island
was not part of the festival whatever.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
But pirate a pirate festival. Whatever happens, you're gonna get shot, yeah,
or shot at.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
My grandma got shot at one of those old West Dixie,
Old West stunt shows.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yes she did.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
She was shot in the arm.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yeah, and she lived with that shrapnel.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Right.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
He still had it in her No, still has the
shrapnel in his foot that he shot himself with.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
He shot himself.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Yeah, it's his birthday today, ninety six years old.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
He's still around.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
He shot himself in the foot. Yes, you'd hear about it.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
If he died. I assume so, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
He shot himself in the foot when he was five,
and then just left the fragments in there.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
He didn't tell anybody that he shot himself.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
An adult, I don't think so. Nobody cared back then.
It was like you were a kid playing with the gun.
You shot yourself in the foot.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
It was like a.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Tuesday, you know. Yeah, it was the twenties.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
So ten inmates escaped from that prison in New Orleans,
the Orleans Parish Prison. And if you remember the story,
they know that a maintenance guy shut off the water
to a toilet in one of the cells. They were
able to move that toilet, break through the wall, cut.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Through the rebar, and skeet on out of there, ten
of them.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
My favorite was that they tagged the exit with too easy.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Yeah, and they spelled it wrong. Yeah, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
It's still funny like that somebody would spell that wrong
and still be smart enough to escape. There's a problem
with your security at your prison. So I love it though,
because it's got shades of our of our love escape
love prison.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Escape, our love, prison escape.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Not Shoshank Redemption, which was also a story of love
in prison and prison. No, the female or they female
prison guards.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Oh and they had the same last name, wasn't it
They had the same last name.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Yeah, she made off with him and.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Then but yeah, the headline was like five of them captured,
five of five of the ten captured or whatever. And
the reason that they haven't captured him is because of
course there's women were willing to take in an inmate.
You know what, Well, yeah, that's what's happening. People. These
inmates are going to random homes. They're knocking on doors
and they're like, I'm an escaped inmate, and you know,
(31:23):
the women are like, come on inside.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
I did say three. You said five of them have
been captured. One of them was captured at grandma's house.
Does that count as as a woman who's willing to
take in the Yeah, all right.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
They did also arrest a fourth.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Woman for allegedly helping the inmates a thirty year old
was arrested yesterday. She helped two of the ten inmates
get out.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Also, was she his grandma or grandma very different? Grandma's
need love to.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
They also arrested a thirty two year old, Courtney Harris
on Wednesday, and they haven't said exactly how they were
able to help, but at least one of them was
given these guys rides to wherever they want. Giving them
rides to grandma's house basically is the way it works.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I mean, it's not football season. There's a lot of
downtime and inmate shows up. I mean, that's that's It
makes for a good.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Story, Right, inmate shows up to your house? What are
you gonna do? It depends on he's wearing the orange suit.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
County La County property jail. Oh does he have manners?
Does he look like John say?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
You know, good afternoon, ma'am, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Goes a long way too easily sway.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Yeah, but manners are not a thing anymore. So when
you see them or hear them, you appreciate them.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Well, we've got a gigantic, sir, twelve o'clock hour, thank you,
it's already new, it's already new Now's the time where
you can really hit the games top I know, and
pants and pants.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
It's unusual for me big twelve o'clock hour.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Of course, we're going to be doing are what you
learned this week on the Gary and Shannon Show, also
the nine news Nugget you need to know and we're
gonna cheers you for everybody. We're gonna get together and
do our big thing. We'll have a picture taken. We're
gonna do our weekend fit. We said, how are we
gonna cram all of this in? I don't know extra time?
Uh oh, we're gonna need extra time.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
You're gonna call John. I'll text John.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Live at Bravery Brewing and Lancaster.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
John a stick.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
We can do this too for our news and bruise.
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Speaker 2 (33:21):
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