July 18, 2025 • 21 mins
Are they having an affair or just being shy? The couple was caught on Coldplay's kiss cam. In related news, Epstein's 50th birthday included some bawdy letters, one of which was from Trump. Trump has instructed the Justice Department to seek the release of Epstein's grand jury testimony. Additionally, Bondi has stated that she will attempt to unseal the grand jury records related to Jeffrey Epstein.
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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. The developing story this morning is
just a heartbreaker out of East La where at least
three deputies have been killed in an explosion there at
the La County Sheriff's training facility. They believe that this
was due to moving some bomb making material. The details
(00:24):
are scant at this point, as they should be. This
happened about seven thirty am, so very fresh. This is
right on Eastern Avenue. This is home to the Sheriff's
Special Enforcement Bureau, the Arson Explosive Detail, the bomb Squad
as well. We don't know the exact cause of the blast,
but it was probably, you know, the.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Bomb making materials.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
How the mistakes were made that led to this will
be something we deal with on another day.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
As you can imagine the.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Show of force the police, the fire presence is massive. There,
three deputies lost at a training center. The LA County
Sheriff's Department is trained too well for this kind of
thing to happen. So this is a gut punch on
so many levels to LA County and the LA County
Sheriff's Department sources told The La Times that a bomb
(01:18):
squad was moving some explosives when the blast occurred. The
bomb squad responded to the scene to help render any
other potential explosives safe. The immediate area has been evacuated.
But wow, how harried and how chaotic and how awful
that must have been. Officials have covered that blast area
(01:39):
with a massive tarp. About twenty five yards away from
the facility, the windows of an SUV cruiser were blown
out by the explosion. Again, three deputies killed at the
La County Sheriff's Department training Center. We will bring any
details about this, about how this could have happened this
morning to you as we get them. And a massive
(02:00):
presence there in East LA. The story that will not
go away. My goodness.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Everywhere you look, every.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Meme you glance at, you see the Coldplay affair gone wild.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
And my thought is, who cares?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I think it was Carl that first tweeted this to
us yesterday, and it's this picture of these two people,
and I'm like, who are these people? And clear and
I ignored it because I'm like, I don't know who
these people are.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
And I don't. Is this supposed to mean something to me?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I don't know, and so and then it just kept
appearing everywhere. And this couple at the Coldplay concert caught
on the Kiss camp and when they realize that they're
on the jumbo tron, they are horrified and they basically
hit the ground and scatter away. This apparently was the
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CEO of a tech firm named Astronomer. Now, maybe I'm
just out of touch with tech firms completely.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I think i'd be safe to say I'm out of
touch with tech firms and what they are and the
big ones Astronomers apparently one of them. This guy's worth
one point two billion dollars. Will have that now. I
mean his wife took to Facebook and removed her married name,
and you know what that means. Yeah, me, neither. It
was him, the CEO, and Kristin Cabot, the company's chief
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people officer, and damn is she doing a good job.
Apparently she is no longer married. She got divorced a
couple of years ago. I don't know if it's finalized,
but he is very much married, and you know, I
still don't care. I mean, it's still not news to
me because it's like a CEO of a big tech firm,
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a guy worth a bunch of money, is having an affair.
Of course he is, and now all the people that
work under him are coming out and being like, yeah,
he's a total monster. He creates this toxic work environment.
Where having a great old time watching this because sometimes
when you get to be that that rich and that successful,
you think you can get away with this stuff and
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do this stuff. His response is pretty good. I mean,
did everybody know who this guy was in Astronomer except
for me?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Maybe, but his response has been you know, this was
a private moment. It was supposed to be a night
of joy and music, and it's like, bro, you are
approaching this in the wrong way. Just say I done
fed up, I eft up, and I'm going to be
in a cave with my family trying to make it right.
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And as memes go, this will be out of this
will be out of vogue by Sunday. You think, by
Sunday this has made the rounds. Everyone has had fun
with this thing. But you know, you don't get to
say it's a private You don't get to say it's
a private moment like, this is on you, both of you.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
This is not on cold Play.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
By the way, Chris Martin is now going to other
couples and saying, are you guys a legit couple? When
the cameras panning to other couples in the crowd. I mean,
he called it right, He said, Oh my god, they're
either having an affair or very shy. Because normally people
in the kiss came are overjoyed, Oh look at us,
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oh kiss kiss love love ha ha yay.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
That this was the antithesis of that, so he called it.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
The initial statement that came out from the company was
the best one all about you know, Oh, I'm very
sorry this happened. It's, you know, an unparaphrasing, ripping me
apart that people know I'm a fan of cold Play,
so good.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Anyway, I didn't see what the big deal is about this.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I thought that it was a silly reaction that everybody had.
But you know what, it brought the internet together. It
really did. Everyone was together in sharing this meme and
making it their own, So I guess you can't argue
with that. All right, Coming up next, Oh my goodness,
did you see this article in the Wall Street Journal
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about Jeffrey Epstein's fiftieth birthday album. It's pretty wild, it's
pretty entertaining about all the and I've got names. If
Pam Bondy isn't dropping names on that client list, I've
got names from Jeffrey Epstein's fiftieth birthday that we can drop.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
And we're going to drop those when we come back.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Also a new direction from President Trump to his Attorney
General Pam Bondi involving Epstein and what information to share.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
We'll get to that as well.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
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Speaker 1 (06:47):
This story from the Wall Street Journal may be the
topic of some lawsuits from all of the information we have.
The Trump administration tried to see bag this story, did
not want Wall Street Journal to print it, and even
said we're going to come after you and sue you
(07:08):
if you do it.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Is it is sorted stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
It is.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Jeffrey Epstein's fiftieth birthday album is the topic of this.
And I remember, you know, and this is you know,
this is what used to happen. I don't know if
it still happens, but this was in two thousand and three.
And I say it still happened. This used to happen
because I remember my dad's I have this like weird memory.
I was probably like how old would I have been,
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I don't know. I was a young kid, maybe eight
something like that, And my dad had a fourtieth birthday
party and it was at a restaurant and he had
his friends there and I don't know, it was a
table of maybe twelve or something like that, and his
friends got him these cheesy gifts, and I remember not
knowing what they were, but knowing that they were kind
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of like not for me to understand. You remember stuff
like that, Like I remember specifically.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I'm probably going to get in trouble about this.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Hopefully my mother is not listening, but I remember specifically
my dad getting a soap. It was like soap on
a rope, back when that was a thing in the shower,
and the soap was in the form of a boob,
And of course I didn't get it. I'm like, what,
I don't understand that, but everyone thought it was so funny.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So I mean body birthday parties for.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Men, milestone, It's like it was a thing, you know,
forty to fifty whatever, Jeffrey Epstein had one of these
raunchy birthdays, and I'm gonna get in trouble for putting
my father in Jeffrey Epstein in the same storyline.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I understand that, but you get the idea of why
I brought it up.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
So it was Jeffrey Epstein's fiftieth birthday and Gleane Maxwell
was preparing to a special gift to mark the occasion.
So what she did is she turned to Epstein's family
and friends, and she collected letters from Trump included dozens
of Epstein's other friends for this two thousand and three
birthday album. And the whole point of the album is
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to be tongue in cheek, right, is just to be like, haha, wink, wink, nod, nod.
We're gross dudes, and that's just what we do now.
Pages from the leather Bound album are among the documents
examined by the Justice Department officials who investigated Epstein and
Maxwell years ago. It is unclear if any of these
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pages are part of the Trump administration's recent review, but
as you can imagine, Trump's relationship with Epstein is at
a sensitive moment. Of course, it's asked an answer that
the two ran in the same tangential circles, right, And
to be fair, so did Bill Clinton. So did Alan Dershowitz,
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like so did a lot of big power names. It's
one of the reasons why so many people want these
files out there, because these are the powerful people in
this country and what are they up to. But the
letter bearing Trump's name is problematic. You got to take
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it in context. And when you take it out of context,
oh boy, no wonder. There's a lawsuit that's going to
be filed against the Wall Street Journal for printing this.
It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the
outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand
drawn with a heavy marker, right, like a sharpy outline
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of a naked woman. I think about it like a
you know you see on the back of a truck
or something like that. I love the way the Wall
Street Journal princess like this is the problem. A pair
of small arcs denotes the woman's breasts like it's a
real woman, you know what I mean. It's like, come on,
it's a drawing. Let's just relax a little bit. But
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the content of the letter, let me just tell you.
It concludes this way, and then I'll get into what
else it says when we come back. It concludes this way,
Happy birthday, and may every day be another wonderful secret.
Oops will tell you who else wrote in this book
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and what the rest of the letter said when we
come back. Gary and Shannon, have you got to be
careful of these birthday things? Eh?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
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Speaker 1 (11:33):
We are staying on top of all the developments coming
out of East LA and the La County Sheriff's Department
training center where at least three deputies have been killed.
This was in explosion about seven thirty AM. So very
fresh here and not a lot of details are we hearing.
There's going to be a very lengthy investigation into what
went wrong because La County Sheriff's Department is one of
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the finest trained departments in land and this is, like
I mentioned, I obviously awful to lose three deputies killed
like that in the line of duty and in such
a way.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
What a massive gut punch to the department.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
This is on eastern home to the Sheriff's Secial Enforcement Bureau.
There East LA area right along the seven to ten
the arson explosive detail. The bomb squad as well the
LAPD is assisting. But again we don't know exactly what
led to this. We do know a bomb squad was
moving some explosives when this occurred. There is a massive
(12:37):
tarp covering the blast area and about twenty five yards
away from the facility. Just to show how powerful this
blast was, the windows of an SUV cruiser were blown
out by an explosion twenty five yards away. Michael Monks
is on top of this and will join us coming
up at ten o'clock with all of the latest. He's
(12:58):
triangulating all the info from all of the different sources,
be it the Sheriff's Department, LAPD, city officials, and what
people are hearing on the scene there. In the meantime,
we continue with the story about Jeffrey Epstein's fiftieth birthday album.
This was where Gallaine Maxwell was preparing the special leather
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bound book gift for Jeffrey Epstein, and inside we're letters
from family and friends. Now, let me play Devil's advocate
for just a second. If I am a power player
in the United States of America or in another land,
and I am into illegal stuff that Jeffrey Epstein knows about.
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If I'm into girls that are under eighteen, I'm into
a weird party scene, the Jeffrey Epstein version of a
freak off on a private island or what have you.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Am I going to put pen to paper and write.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
A fiftieth birthday card that I know is going into
some sort of leather bound book.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Oh hell no.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
It kind of plays into Trump's version of events that
there's nothing here, right, I mean, the Wall Street Journal
publishes this article as well, look what we have here,
and I'll get to the letter from Trump and it's
not good. But if Trump and or other people that
I will name drop coming up were involved in illegal
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activities with this guy, and he was the only one
who knew about it, why would you put a record
of your friendship that you knew was going to be
included in some sort of memorial book. That would be
pretty damn stupid, wouldn't it. If I'm committing crimes with
Keana and she's the only one who knows about it,
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and I want to keep our relationship secret, I'm not
going to write her a handwritten birthday letter that I
know is going in some sort of leatherbound book, so
everyone will know that we're friends, and therefore I'm connected
to her, and she's outed as being a criminal, you
know what I mean? Like that just seems kind of silly.
Now that said, Trump's letter concludes with happy birthday, and
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may every day be another wonderful secret. Now, Trump, for
his credit, says, I never wrote that picture in my life,
the outline with the sharpie of the nude girl. I
don't draw pictures of women. It's not my language, it's
not my words. Now, I don't think Trump put this together.
I don't think he drew the picture.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
And who cares.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
It's an outline of a woman's body, come on. But
I think somebody put it together for him. And he
signed his name and thought, oh, that's funny. Do you
want to know what it said? Okay, well, it's kind
of like a script, this letter that he wrote to
Jeffrey Epstein. This is from two thousand and three for
Jeffrey Epstein's birthday, his fiftieth birthday. And we don't know
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how Trump's signature was prepared, but it's on it. We
don't know who wrote this, but Trump seemed to sign
off on it.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
And here is what.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Oh man, I'm running up again, so I have time.
I do not have time. Okay, I'll do this right
when we come back. All right, I'll do it right
when we come back. Gary and Shannon will continue. I'm
not getting in trouble on a Friday, guys, all right,
I've lasted this long. It's not going to happen.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
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Speaker 1 (16:26):
Okay, So this fiftieth birthday album for Jeffrey Ebstein. The
existence of the album the contents of the birthday letters
have not been previously reported. Trump has threatened to sue
the Wall Street Journal for printing this last night.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
We do have his response to this.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
But here is the letter that is included in the
album from Trump. This is from two thousand and three,
and it is kind of written up like it's a script,
and it's all typed out inside the sharpie drawn outline
of a woman's body voiceover. There must be more to
life than having everything. Donald, Yes, there is, but I
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won't tell you what it is, Jeffrey, nor will I
since I know what it is, Donald. We have certain
things in common Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Yes, we do, come to
think of it, Donald Enigmas never age, have never aged.
Have you noticed that, Jeffrey. As a matter of fact,
it was clear to me the last time I saw you, Donald,
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A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy birthday, May and
may every day be another wonderful secret. That is as
bad as you could get. That is not good, That
is not good. Taken out of context, taken in context
of a fiftieth anniversary haha, wink wink, nod nod body
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type of a joke between men.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
It's not good.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
It alludes to my doesn't it. But then, like I said,
why would you include that? Why would you send that
to him if you knew other people were going to
see it?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
If you were guilty of something. I don't know. I
don't think he would do that. Let's see.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
The album had poems and photos and greetings from business people, academics,
Epstein's former girlfriends, childhood pals among those who submit submitted letters,
and here I will name drop billionaire Leslie Wexner, Alan Dershowitz.
The album contained a letter from a now dead Harvard
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economist one of Epstein's report cards from Mark Twain Junior
High School in Britain, a note from a former assistant
that included, with Epstein's name, this little rhyme, Oh Jeffrey,
Oh Jeffrey, everyone loves you. Fun and the sun fun,
just for fun. Remember, don't forget me soon. Epstein, you rock.
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You are the best now. At the time, Jeffrey Epstein
was Leslie Wexner money manager, the longtime leader of Victoria's
Secret wrote a short message that said I wanted to
get you what you want, so here it is, And
then after the text was a line drawing of what
appeared to be women's breasts.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Ha ha, Like it's all just silly. Boys will be
boys stuff, right right.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Dershowitz's letter included a mock up of a Vanity Unfair
magazine cover with mock headlines such as who was Jack
the River?
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Jack the Ripper? Excuse me? Why can't I speak? Who
was Jack the Ripper? Was it Jeffrey Epstein?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
He joked that he convinced the magazine to change the
focus of an article from Epstein to Bill Clinton. Of course,
Dershowitz represented Epstein after his first arrest, said it's been
a long time and I don't recall the content of
what I may have written.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Of course not.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
It was a scurry away from this thinking ship that
was Jeffrey Epstein when he first got arrested back in
two thousand and eight, he pleaded guilty for procuring a
minor for prostitution, serve time in a Florida jail, registered
sex defender, the whole bit. And that's when people, including
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Trump said, uh, yeah, I'm not a fan of his.
I can tell you haven't talked to him in years. Yeah, no,
we're not fan. I barred him from mar A Lago
at one point. All Right, coming up in swamp Watch,
we'll get into the latest about what Trump is directing
Pam Bondi to do. He is telling her to release
the pertinent details and to release the Epstein grand jury testimony.
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We have some information about what's in that, and we'll
get into that coming up at eleven when we come back.
The very latest breaking news out of the La County
Sheriff's Department training center in East LA where three deputies
were killed a couple hours ago, about two and a
half hours ago, when they were moving bomb materials there. Again,
this is a training center. Three deputies killed a fourth
(21:03):
reportedly taken to the hospital. Michael Monks has all the
details and will join us coming up next. You've been
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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. The developing story this morning is
just a heartbreaker out of East La where at least
three deputies have been killed in an explosion there at
the La County Sheriff's training facility. They believe that this
was due to moving some bomb making material. The details
(00:24):
are scant at this point, as they should be. This
happened about seven thirty am, so very fresh. This is
right on Eastern Avenue. This is home to the Sheriff's
Special Enforcement Bureau, the Arson Explosive Detail, the bomb Squad
as well. We don't know the exact cause of the blast,
but it was probably, you know, the.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Bomb making materials.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
How the mistakes were made that led to this will
be something we deal with on another day.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
As you can imagine the.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Show of force the police, the fire presence is massive. There,
three deputies lost at a training center. The LA County
Sheriff's Department is trained too well for this kind of
thing to happen. So this is a gut punch on
so many levels to LA County and the LA County
Sheriff's Department sources told The La Times that a bomb
(01:18):
squad was moving some explosives when the blast occurred. The
bomb squad responded to the scene to help render any
other potential explosives safe. The immediate area has been evacuated.
But wow, how harried and how chaotic and how awful
that must have been. Officials have covered that blast area
(01:39):
with a massive tarp. About twenty five yards away from
the facility, the windows of an SUV cruiser were blown
out by the explosion. Again, three deputies killed at the
La County Sheriff's Department training Center. We will bring any
details about this, about how this could have happened this
morning to you as we get them. And a massive
(02:00):
presence there in East LA. The story that will not
go away. My goodness.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Everywhere you look, every.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Meme you glance at, you see the Coldplay affair gone wild.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
And my thought is, who cares?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I think it was Carl that first tweeted this to
us yesterday, and it's this picture of these two people,
and I'm like, who are these people? And clear and
I ignored it because I'm like, I don't know who
these people are.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
And I don't. Is this supposed to mean something to me?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I don't know, and so and then it just kept
appearing everywhere. And this couple at the Coldplay concert caught
on the Kiss camp and when they realize that they're
on the jumbo tron, they are horrified and they basically
hit the ground and scatter away. This apparently was the
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CEO of a tech firm named Astronomer. Now, maybe I'm
just out of touch with tech firms completely.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I think i'd be safe to say I'm out of
touch with tech firms and what they are and the
big ones Astronomers apparently one of them. This guy's worth
one point two billion dollars. Will have that now. I
mean his wife took to Facebook and removed her married name,
and you know what that means. Yeah, me, neither. It
was him, the CEO, and Kristin Cabot, the company's chief
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people officer, and damn is she doing a good job.
Apparently she is no longer married. She got divorced a
couple of years ago. I don't know if it's finalized,
but he is very much married, and you know, I
still don't care. I mean, it's still not news to
me because it's like a CEO of a big tech firm,
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a guy worth a bunch of money, is having an affair.
Of course he is, and now all the people that
work under him are coming out and being like, yeah,
he's a total monster. He creates this toxic work environment.
Where having a great old time watching this because sometimes
when you get to be that that rich and that successful,
you think you can get away with this stuff and
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do this stuff. His response is pretty good. I mean,
did everybody know who this guy was in Astronomer except
for me?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Maybe, but his response has been you know, this was
a private moment. It was supposed to be a night
of joy and music, and it's like, bro, you are
approaching this in the wrong way. Just say I done
fed up, I eft up, and I'm going to be
in a cave with my family trying to make it right.
(04:42):
And as memes go, this will be out of this
will be out of vogue by Sunday. You think, by
Sunday this has made the rounds. Everyone has had fun
with this thing. But you know, you don't get to
say it's a private You don't get to say it's
a private moment like, this is on you, both of you.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
This is not on cold Play.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
By the way, Chris Martin is now going to other
couples and saying, are you guys a legit couple? When
the cameras panning to other couples in the crowd. I mean,
he called it right, He said, Oh my god, they're
either having an affair or very shy. Because normally people
in the kiss came are overjoyed, Oh look at us,
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oh kiss kiss love love ha ha yay.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
That this was the antithesis of that, so he called it.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
The initial statement that came out from the company was
the best one all about you know, Oh, I'm very
sorry this happened. It's, you know, an unparaphrasing, ripping me
apart that people know I'm a fan of cold Play,
so good.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Anyway, I didn't see what the big deal is about this.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I thought that it was a silly reaction that everybody had.
But you know what, it brought the internet together. It
really did. Everyone was together in sharing this meme and
making it their own, So I guess you can't argue
with that. All right, Coming up next, Oh my goodness,
did you see this article in the Wall Street Journal
(06:11):
about Jeffrey Epstein's fiftieth birthday album. It's pretty wild, it's
pretty entertaining about all the and I've got names. If
Pam Bondy isn't dropping names on that client list, I've
got names from Jeffrey Epstein's fiftieth birthday that we can drop.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
And we're going to drop those when we come back.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Also a new direction from President Trump to his Attorney
General Pam Bondi involving Epstein and what information to share.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
We'll get to that as well.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
This story from the Wall Street Journal may be the
topic of some lawsuits from all of the information we have.
The Trump administration tried to see bag this story, did
not want Wall Street Journal to print it, and even
said we're going to come after you and sue you
(07:08):
if you do it.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Is it is sorted stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
It is.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Jeffrey Epstein's fiftieth birthday album is the topic of this.
And I remember, you know, and this is you know,
this is what used to happen. I don't know if
it still happens, but this was in two thousand and three.
And I say it still happened. This used to happen
because I remember my dad's I have this like weird memory.
I was probably like how old would I have been,
(07:36):
I don't know. I was a young kid, maybe eight
something like that, And my dad had a fourtieth birthday
party and it was at a restaurant and he had
his friends there and I don't know, it was a
table of maybe twelve or something like that, and his
friends got him these cheesy gifts, and I remember not
knowing what they were, but knowing that they were kind
(07:57):
of like not for me to understand. You remember stuff
like that, Like I remember specifically.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I'm probably going to get in trouble about this.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Hopefully my mother is not listening, but I remember specifically
my dad getting a soap. It was like soap on
a rope, back when that was a thing in the shower,
and the soap was in the form of a boob,
And of course I didn't get it. I'm like, what,
I don't understand that, but everyone thought it was so funny.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So I mean body birthday parties for.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Men, milestone, It's like it was a thing, you know,
forty to fifty whatever, Jeffrey Epstein had one of these
raunchy birthdays, and I'm gonna get in trouble for putting
my father in Jeffrey Epstein in the same storyline.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I understand that, but you get the idea of why
I brought it up.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
So it was Jeffrey Epstein's fiftieth birthday and Gleane Maxwell
was preparing to a special gift to mark the occasion.
So what she did is she turned to Epstein's family
and friends, and she collected letters from Trump included dozens
of Epstein's other friends for this two thousand and three
birthday album. And the whole point of the album is
(09:11):
to be tongue in cheek, right, is just to be like, haha, wink, wink, nod, nod.
We're gross dudes, and that's just what we do now.
Pages from the leather Bound album are among the documents
examined by the Justice Department officials who investigated Epstein and
Maxwell years ago. It is unclear if any of these
(09:34):
pages are part of the Trump administration's recent review, but
as you can imagine, Trump's relationship with Epstein is at
a sensitive moment. Of course, it's asked an answer that
the two ran in the same tangential circles, right, And
to be fair, so did Bill Clinton. So did Alan Dershowitz,
(09:54):
like so did a lot of big power names. It's
one of the reasons why so many people want these
files out there, because these are the powerful people in
this country and what are they up to. But the
letter bearing Trump's name is problematic. You got to take
(10:15):
it in context. And when you take it out of context,
oh boy, no wonder. There's a lawsuit that's going to
be filed against the Wall Street Journal for printing this.
It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the
outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand
drawn with a heavy marker, right, like a sharpy outline
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of a naked woman. I think about it like a
you know you see on the back of a truck
or something like that. I love the way the Wall
Street Journal princess like this is the problem. A pair
of small arcs denotes the woman's breasts like it's a
real woman, you know what I mean. It's like, come on,
it's a drawing. Let's just relax a little bit. But
(10:59):
the content of the letter, let me just tell you.
It concludes this way, and then I'll get into what
else it says when we come back. It concludes this way,
Happy birthday, and may every day be another wonderful secret.
Oops will tell you who else wrote in this book
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and what the rest of the letter said when we
come back. Gary and Shannon, have you got to be
careful of these birthday things? Eh?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
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Speaker 1 (11:33):
We are staying on top of all the developments coming
out of East LA and the La County Sheriff's Department
training center where at least three deputies have been killed.
This was in explosion about seven thirty AM. So very
fresh here and not a lot of details are we hearing.
There's going to be a very lengthy investigation into what
went wrong because La County Sheriff's Department is one of
(11:56):
the finest trained departments in land and this is, like
I mentioned, I obviously awful to lose three deputies killed
like that in the line of duty and in such
a way.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
What a massive gut punch to the department.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
This is on eastern home to the Sheriff's Secial Enforcement Bureau.
There East LA area right along the seven to ten
the arson explosive detail. The bomb squad as well the
LAPD is assisting. But again we don't know exactly what
led to this. We do know a bomb squad was
moving some explosives when this occurred. There is a massive
(12:37):
tarp covering the blast area and about twenty five yards
away from the facility. Just to show how powerful this
blast was, the windows of an SUV cruiser were blown
out by an explosion twenty five yards away. Michael Monks
is on top of this and will join us coming
up at ten o'clock with all of the latest. He's
(12:58):
triangulating all the info from all of the different sources,
be it the Sheriff's Department, LAPD, city officials, and what
people are hearing on the scene there. In the meantime,
we continue with the story about Jeffrey Epstein's fiftieth birthday album.
This was where Gallaine Maxwell was preparing the special leather
(13:20):
bound book gift for Jeffrey Epstein, and inside we're letters
from family and friends. Now, let me play Devil's advocate
for just a second. If I am a power player
in the United States of America or in another land,
and I am into illegal stuff that Jeffrey Epstein knows about.
(13:42):
If I'm into girls that are under eighteen, I'm into
a weird party scene, the Jeffrey Epstein version of a
freak off on a private island or what have you.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Am I going to put pen to paper and write.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
A fiftieth birthday card that I know is going into
some sort of leather bound book.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Oh hell no.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
It kind of plays into Trump's version of events that
there's nothing here, right, I mean, the Wall Street Journal
publishes this article as well, look what we have here,
and I'll get to the letter from Trump and it's
not good. But if Trump and or other people that
I will name drop coming up were involved in illegal
(14:29):
activities with this guy, and he was the only one
who knew about it, why would you put a record
of your friendship that you knew was going to be
included in some sort of memorial book. That would be
pretty damn stupid, wouldn't it. If I'm committing crimes with
Keana and she's the only one who knows about it,
(14:52):
and I want to keep our relationship secret, I'm not
going to write her a handwritten birthday letter that I
know is going in some sort of leatherbound book, so
everyone will know that we're friends, and therefore I'm connected
to her, and she's outed as being a criminal, you
know what I mean? Like that just seems kind of silly.
Now that said, Trump's letter concludes with happy birthday, and
(15:16):
may every day be another wonderful secret. Now, Trump, for
his credit, says, I never wrote that picture in my life,
the outline with the sharpie of the nude girl. I
don't draw pictures of women. It's not my language, it's
not my words. Now, I don't think Trump put this together.
I don't think he drew the picture.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
And who cares.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
It's an outline of a woman's body, come on. But
I think somebody put it together for him. And he
signed his name and thought, oh, that's funny. Do you
want to know what it said? Okay, well, it's kind
of like a script, this letter that he wrote to
Jeffrey Epstein. This is from two thousand and three for
Jeffrey Epstein's birthday, his fiftieth birthday. And we don't know
(15:57):
how Trump's signature was prepared, but it's on it. We
don't know who wrote this, but Trump seemed to sign
off on it.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
And here is what.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Oh man, I'm running up again, so I have time.
I do not have time. Okay, I'll do this right
when we come back. All right, I'll do it right
when we come back. Gary and Shannon will continue. I'm
not getting in trouble on a Friday, guys, all right,
I've lasted this long. It's not going to happen.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Okay, So this fiftieth birthday album for Jeffrey Ebstein. The
existence of the album the contents of the birthday letters
have not been previously reported. Trump has threatened to sue
the Wall Street Journal for printing this last night.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
We do have his response to this.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
But here is the letter that is included in the
album from Trump. This is from two thousand and three,
and it is kind of written up like it's a script,
and it's all typed out inside the sharpie drawn outline
of a woman's body voiceover. There must be more to
life than having everything. Donald, Yes, there is, but I
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won't tell you what it is, Jeffrey, nor will I
since I know what it is, Donald. We have certain
things in common Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Yes, we do, come to
think of it, Donald Enigmas never age, have never aged.
Have you noticed that, Jeffrey. As a matter of fact,
it was clear to me the last time I saw you, Donald,
(17:31):
A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy birthday, May and
may every day be another wonderful secret. That is as
bad as you could get. That is not good, That
is not good. Taken out of context, taken in context
of a fiftieth anniversary haha, wink wink, nod nod body
(17:52):
type of a joke between men.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
It's not good.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
It alludes to my doesn't it. But then, like I said,
why would you include that? Why would you send that
to him if you knew other people were going to
see it?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
If you were guilty of something. I don't know. I
don't think he would do that. Let's see.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
The album had poems and photos and greetings from business people, academics,
Epstein's former girlfriends, childhood pals among those who submit submitted letters,
and here I will name drop billionaire Leslie Wexner, Alan Dershowitz.
The album contained a letter from a now dead Harvard
(18:33):
economist one of Epstein's report cards from Mark Twain Junior
High School in Britain, a note from a former assistant
that included, with Epstein's name, this little rhyme, Oh Jeffrey,
Oh Jeffrey, everyone loves you. Fun and the sun fun,
just for fun. Remember, don't forget me soon. Epstein, you rock.
(18:55):
You are the best now. At the time, Jeffrey Epstein
was Leslie Wexner money manager, the longtime leader of Victoria's
Secret wrote a short message that said I wanted to
get you what you want, so here it is, And
then after the text was a line drawing of what
appeared to be women's breasts.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Ha ha, Like it's all just silly. Boys will be
boys stuff, right right.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Dershowitz's letter included a mock up of a Vanity Unfair
magazine cover with mock headlines such as who was Jack
the River?
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Jack the Ripper? Excuse me? Why can't I speak? Who
was Jack the Ripper? Was it Jeffrey Epstein?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
He joked that he convinced the magazine to change the
focus of an article from Epstein to Bill Clinton. Of course,
Dershowitz represented Epstein after his first arrest, said it's been
a long time and I don't recall the content of
what I may have written.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Of course not.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
It was a scurry away from this thinking ship that
was Jeffrey Epstein when he first got arrested back in
two thousand and eight, he pleaded guilty for procuring a
minor for prostitution, serve time in a Florida jail, registered
sex defender, the whole bit. And that's when people, including
(20:17):
Trump said, uh, yeah, I'm not a fan of his.
I can tell you haven't talked to him in years. Yeah, no,
we're not fan. I barred him from mar A Lago
at one point. All Right, coming up in swamp Watch,
we'll get into the latest about what Trump is directing
Pam Bondi to do. He is telling her to release
the pertinent details and to release the Epstein grand jury testimony.
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We have some information about what's in that, and we'll
get into that coming up at eleven when we come back.
The very latest breaking news out of the La County
Sheriff's Department training center in East LA where three deputies
were killed a couple hours ago, about two and a
half hours ago, when they were moving bomb materials there. Again,
this is a training center. Three deputies killed a fourth
(21:03):
reportedly taken to the hospital. Michael Monks has all the
details and will join us coming up next. You've been
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