June 3, 2025 • 26 mins
#WhatsHappening! Musk and Trump, Bill on Trans Rights, LA 28 Collaboration, Hotel Workers, Dating App Kidnappings, Wayfarers Chapel, McDonald's Snack Wraps, and Walmart collaborating with Wienerschnitzel. TALK BACK: Movie Theatres or Streaming from Home? #TrueCrimeTuesday!
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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 (00:07):
McDonald says it's going to bring back a menu item
it discontinued nearly a decade ago, just in time for lunch.
Actually it won't be on the menu until July tenth,
but snack raps will return to the McDonald's menus. Snack
wraps were introduced in two thousand and six, but pulled
about ten years later because they were ready. They were
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too complicated for the kitchen to prepare.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
So I don't know if they've changed.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
The building of a McDonald's snack rap, but supposedly they'll
be coming back in July, so you can fill that
snack rap shaped hole in your heart.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Hi, Gary and Shannon Shannon. I miss you, and if
you are suspended, I'm sure it was worth it. I
don't even know what everybody's talking about, but you're my
spirit animal and I think you're awesome and listening to
you guys every single day and I can't wait for
you to.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Come back tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
And I hope you're joining your time off oky Bye.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, we'll hear from Shannon tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
What else is going on?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Time for What's happening?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Quill An update on the Big Beautiful Bill now is
that Elon Musk came out swinging. He has slammed the
President's Big Beautiful Bill making its way through the Senate
now as a disgusting abomination. Okay, that's a lot different
than what he was saying last week. Elon Musk wrote
(01:41):
on his social media platform Twitter, X whatever you want
to call it. Quote, I'm sorry, but I just can't
stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork filled congressional spending
bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted
for it. You know you did wrong, You know it.
He went on to criticize the bill for setting up
(02:02):
Congress to increase the already gigantic budget deficit to two
point five trillion and put a crushingly unsustainable debt on Americans.
So I suppose it's better that he did that after
the President wished him bid him adieu from the White House.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yes last week, so not good.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
President Trump, speaking of, is threatening California again, following the
transgender athlete from Yuupa High Valley High School competing in
the state track and field event last week in Clovis.
President Trump posted today on social media that Gavin Newsom
fully understands large scale finds will it will be imposed.
(02:49):
No idea what that means.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
The President doesn't have the ability to find a state
for something like this, so.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I don't know what the plan is we do, you know?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
The Department of Justice has opened its investigation to determine
if the state law that allows transgender athletes, the one
that was signed by Jerry Brown to compete in female
sports teams at California schools, violates federal Title nine civil
rights law that potentially could be where they see fines,
but not just from the President. The Olympics got a new, big,
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huge sponsor. Team USA LA twenty eight and Honda have
announced a new major sponsorship. The terms of the deal
not disclosed, but it looks like this level of sponsorship
starts at about two hundred million dollars. This deal fills
the hole for the automotive category for the Olympics for
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LA twenty eight, considered one of the most most important
when it comes to the Olympics. Toyota had been the
auto sponsor they did not renew their deal after twenty
twenty four. In terms of the other massive, massive, big name,
top tier sponsors you have of Delta and Comcast for
LA twenty eight, the CEO of US Olympic and Paralympic Properties,
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John Slusher, says the new deal brings the operation in
more than a billion and a half in sponsorship sales.
The ultimate goal would be two and a half billion.
The money in the Olympics continues to be an issue
as well for LA workers. Hotel and airport workers are
rallying at LA City Hall today to announce a campaign
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to defend the recently approved minimum wage increase. Members of
the Tourism Workers Rising Coalition, lobbied for this thirty dollars
minimum wage, will host a news conference alongside City Council
members as well as Von Wheeler, the president of the
La County Federation of Labor. These are room attendants and
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cooks and dishwashers, airline catering, airport workers that will eventually
get about thirty bucks an hour by July twenty twenty eight,
just in time for the twenty eight Olympics. The companies
that would have to be paying those have come together
and they have decided that they want to put this
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thing on the ballot, and that group has until June
thirtieth to get ninety three thousand signatures from registered voters
in LA to qualify for the June twenty sixth ballot
to try to put the clamp down on all of this.
Officials at the US Embassy and consulates in Mexico have
confirmed several reports of Americans being kidnapped by people they
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met on a dating app. This was a security alert
that came out just yesterday. Authorities at the consulate in
Guadalajara issued a warning about all the incidents, all of
them occurring in recent months in the areas of Portavarda
and Nuevo Nare Nayarit. They said, victims in their families
in the US have at times been extorted for large
sums of money to secure their release. Please be aware
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that this type of violence is not limited to one
geographic area. Travelers should use caution. They didn't name any
of the specific dating apps, but they said this be
cautious if using dating apps in Mexico. Yeah, need only
in public places, avoid isolated locations, tell family and friends
where you're going, and if something doesn't feel right.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Trust your gut.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Great news for fans of the Wayfarer's Chapel, that historic
glass structure in Rancho Palace Verdes. They say it may
have found a new home about a mile west of
its original site. RPV has been falling into the ocean basically,
and this has compromised where Wayfarer's Chapel is, So they're
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saying the potential new location is that the old Battery
Barnes Military site, which would be right next to OURBV.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
City Hall.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Chapel had to close February of last year because the
land underneath it was shifting, so it was taken apart
and basically put into storage in twenty twenty four. Now
they're saying that they'll be able to put it back
up hopefully again at the old Battery Barnes military site
next to the City Hall.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I mentioned snackraps. Snack wraps are coming back.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
It looks like on July tenth, that is the expectation
for you to put the snack wraps back into your
face hole. And if you're wondering whatever happened to all
of it, they said that they couldn't they couldn't make
them efficiently in the McDonald's kitchen, but now they can,
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I suppose, and if you're into the fast food world,
well how about this. We've seen McDonald's and Taco Bell
and Burger Kings operate inside of stores and now Wienerschnitzel.
Walmart is turning to smaller chains to move into open
spaces at the front of their stores, including a newly
announced partnership with the iconic hot Dog franchise. They'll be
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opening restaurants in six Walmart locations this year Bakersfield, Tempe, Colorado, Springs, Alamgordo, Reno,
and Puallup, Washington. All of those Walmarts are going to
be getting their new Wiener Schnitzels at some point. Looking
to expand, they said their non traditional venues, with the
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company actively pursuing sites like airports, military bases, theme parks,
food courts, and convenience stores. The Wiener Schnitzel people say
that allows them to modernize their footprint, being bring their
iconic flavors to new audiences, and reinforce the brand's relevance
in today's evolving retail and dining landscape. There are right now,
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as of right now, more than three hundred Wiener Schnitzel
locations across thirteen states, most of them here in the West.
There are a couple in Louisiana and Illinois as well.
All Right, the question do you prefer movies in a
movie theater or movies in the comfort of your own
home theater versus couch.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
We'll talk about that when we come back.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
We'll do true crime Tuesday. Coming up at the bottom
of the hour. Was one of them was the Mushroom murders.
We've talked about it before, but a revisit of what
it is that this woman did and everybody has ideas
on what's going on for the mushroom murder trial and
then a cold case out of Northern California. It took
forty seven years, but it was a student who came
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forward with some information that explained that opened the door
for the murderer of a teacher from up there in
Northern California. We spoke earlier today about the difference between
streaming services and theater openings when it comes to production
companies deciding which vein to go down, which way to
release a movie and how that can impact the bottom line. Originally,
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originally Leelo and Stitch was going to be a Disney
Plus only release, the remake that is, and they decided
obviously clearly the better bet to do it in theaters,
and they're probably well on their way to about a
million dollars. But I wanted to ask, what is better?
Is it movie theaters? Is it streaming sitting in the
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comfort of your own home.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Hi, Gary, It's Frank and San Bernardino. My wife and
I always go to the Blockbusters at the theater. We
go to Ontario Mills just saw Mission Impossible. Any other
ones with the big stars in the in the big movies.
If we don't, if we watch on streaming, it's usually
because we didn't get to the theater for some reason.
But no comparison. Have a great one.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Thank you you too.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
The the benefit obviously of one of the theater movies
is the gigantic screen fills up your peripheral vision. Depending
on where you said, the sound systems are incredible, although
the technology for sound systems in home theater have definitely
increased in the last couple of years.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
A very great.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Question toil back and forth between the movies then sitting
in my living room with the sixty five inch high
definition TV in a solo surrounds system. I don't think
that can be be so I vote for staying at home.
I'm sorry. I have memories of being a kid and
going to the movies for a quarter. Believe it or not,
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post days are over.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
On and I never went when it was a quarter,
but I did have a couple of days where it
was like a four dollars movie ticket that was the cheapest.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
Hey, Yary, you.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Want to chime in on your movie theater question. If
it is a movie that I think my kids would
like and I would enjoy it too, I definitely like
to take them to the movie theater for that type
of thing. But if it's a movie just for me
or my husband, I could care less. And we just
watched that at home, not even paying to streatment. Wait
till it's free, missus.
Speaker 9 (11:40):
Shannon, Thank you the best movie that I've ever seen.
Would I want to watch it at home or in
a theater? Yeah, definitely in a theater. I love going
to the theater. I'm glad it's back.
Speaker 10 (11:53):
I do it a lot.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
It's kind of expensive, but I love it. It's my
introverted times, definitely in the theater.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
The last movie I saw, I should say, the last
movie that I had to get up early or stay
up late to see was one of the Star Wars movies,
and my son and I got up I believed four
o'clock in the morning. It opened at midnight Thursday night,
Friday morning, and then we saw one of the second
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or third showing or whatever it was. And that was
eight nine years ago something like that. That was the
last one that I actually had to set an alarm
for to go see a movie.
Speaker 11 (12:31):
Hey, gear Bear, robin oc I like to see the
big premieres is always a fun time. They stopped during
the midnight release and those were great. We would get
dressed up, we'd see the movie, we'd be excited about it.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
There was a lot of hype. I take the kids.
Speaker 11 (12:45):
That was the best experience ever.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I think a lot of people agree with that, the
idea that there's something about the group mentality of seeing
a movie that you're all very excited about. It may
be different than having you and your your wife or
your kid or whatever sitting next to you and they're
not that interested in the movie that you wanted to watch.
Speaker 10 (13:07):
Hey, Gary, enjoy you in the show. Listen to movie theaters.
I'm not. I don't go to them. I'm afraid of
getting the scavs or what or or bed bugs or
anything like that. Okay, And it's it's gross to smell
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of popcorn bread.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Disgust me. What but good air conditioning? All right, that's
the popcorn bread. Popcorn itself smells great.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
That's uh.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That's one of the things I got going for there
at a movie theater that I don't have at the house.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
To go to the movie theater.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
Okay, as long as people stay off their damn cellphones
going to the movie.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Oh yeah, and while you're at it, stay off of
my lawn too.
Speaker 12 (13:56):
That'd be bad, Hi, Gary and Shannon Without shann in today,
I think that the theatrical experience is far superior to
the at home experience, though, to be fair to everyone,
you can see a movie and eat your favorite snacks
and candy.
Speaker 10 (14:14):
For free at home.
Speaker 12 (14:15):
But in the theater, you know, especially if you're a
solo traveler like me, it's really cool to be around
others watching the same movie as you and hearing those
you know, reactions and having those conversations.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
After the film. That is also fun.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
If you're able to see a movie in a different location,
and usually it's not necessarily everybody's big vacation plan is
to go see a movie. I mean, you're there to
see I guess you're there to see the location you
need in the restaurants and visit the things in hike
the mountains or whatever you're supposed to do. But there
are still a group of people that will go see
a movie in Hawaii or in Cabo or something like that.
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And part of it is because you still I would
say it's at least partially because people want to have
the familiar, even in those places that are unusual to them.
That's why people go to You're gonna go to Japan
and go to a McDonald's. I mean, granted it's slightly different,
but it's McDonald's. You got a McDonald You've got four
of them on the way home from work, and you
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go all the way to Japan and eat at McDonald's.
I have a vacation plan later in the summer, and
my nephew is very excited about seeing Superman and we're
gonna be in Hawaii, and he wants to go see
Superman in Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I would rather sit anywhere on any.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Of those islands for any length of time than sit
in a movie theater for a couple of hours. But
that's his big plan. That's one of the things he
has carved out, is he wants to go see Superman
when it opens on July eleventh.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
That is one of those stories.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
By the way, they do expect Superman to come in
somewhere around seven hundred million dollars to be considered a success.
Because Superman had a budget of two hundred twenty five
million dollars. The release date obviously is going to be
a big deal, and the weekend after the fourth of
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July may be just what it needs to pick up
that seven hundred million dollars. The last Superman or at
least The Man of Steel, Superman made about six hundred
and seventy million worldwide with at the time it wasn't unknown,
but Henry Cavill wasn't as big a star then as
he is now. So up next True Crime Tuesdays, we're
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going to start with the Mushroom murders taking Australia by storm.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
There was a there's a story.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
We were talking about the difference between streaming services and
movie theaters. Which production studios want to release it streaming,
which ones want to go to the movie theater, And
there was a somebody just reminded me of something. The
caught quality on the audio was not great, but they
said that had been calling sorry that they had called
in to say that they like going to the movies.
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They used to until there was one movie where somebody
was eating the popcorn kernels, the unpopped kernels in the
movie theater and cracking them with their teeth. Now there
is a movie and I can't remember what it is.
Joseph Gordon Levitt is in it. I believe, I want
to say, it's like it would have been right around
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two thousand perhaps, and it was a story about young
men that had been diagnosed with cancer. A young man
who'd been diagnosed with cancer and it's the end of
his life. Basic depressing movie. My wife and I saw
that movie and the person sitting next to us ate
a green apple in the movie theater. Full crunch, full slurp,
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full truck. It was awful. It was absolutely awful. So
that was the worst experience I think we had as
movie theaters. It's time for True Crime Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
The story is true.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
True, No, it sounds made up.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I don't know. Garry and Shannon present True Crime.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Well, this is this case out of Australia is being
overshadowed by the court cases that we have going on
here in America. We've got the Karen Reid case, We've
got the Harvey Weinstein case, We've got the Sean Diddy
Combs case. We've got all these cases that are going
on and sucking a lot of attention away from what's
going on in Australia. This is a tiny little town,
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a tiny a few hours outside of Melbourne. The small
town of Morewell is where this trial is taking place.
But the crime that they're hearing about took place in
the even smaller town of Leongatha. In July of twenty
twenty three, Aaron Patterson, a fifty year old mom of
a couple of kids, is face racing three counts of
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murder murder for serving toxic beef Wellington to relatives at
her house. Now she was a strange from her husband
Simon at the time and he was invited to the lunch,
but he didn't show up, so he and Aaron invited
her in laws, Don and Gail Patterson, Gail's sister, so
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this would have been her aunt and uncle in law,
Heather Wilkinson, and Ian Wilkinson. Three of those four people
died as a result of eating that beef. Wellington, Don
and Gail the mother and father in law, and then
Gail's sister Heather the aunt in law, all died. Ian
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Ate but survived even though he spent several weeks in
the hospital. And again the estranged husband, Simon, was supposed
to be at the lunch, but he backed out. Now
all of this has to do with poisonous mushrooms. Aaron
Patterson had said that when COVID hit, she started foraging
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for mushrooms on her own, just kind of a hobby
during lockdown of March of twenty twenty, and the question was, well,
who knew you had this hobby, and she said, only
my kids, which is weird. Now, we've been told for
a very long time, don't just take mushrooms out of
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the wild and cook them and eat them. They can
kill you, she says. When she would forage for these mushrooms.
She would cut a little bit of one, fry it
up with some butter, and eat it. She said they
taste good. She said she didn't get sick. She also
fed some of these foraged mushrooms to her kids. She
chopped them up very small so they wouldn't pick them
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out of the dishes that she was making, the curries,
the pastas, and the soups, and developed a taste for
exotic mushroom varieties. She even joined a mushroom lover's Facebook group.
She even bought a dehydrator, a food dehydrator to preserve
these mushrooms.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
And when asked by her own.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Attorney, did she accept that that beef Wellington she made
in July of twenty three did include death cap mushrooms,
She said, yes, yes, she knows she did it, but
it was entirely an accident, she said, so, she told
her lawyer most of the mushrooms that she used that
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day in that beef Wellington came from local supermarkets, and
she agreed she might have put them in the same
container as some of the wild mushrooms that she had foraged,
and there were even others that came from an Asian
food store that she didn't necessarily know the provenance of.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Oh there's more, she.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Did say, like I said, she admitted that there were
death cap mushrooms in there. She said it was completely accidental.
But she was asked about a series of explative film
messages that she had sent about those in laws a
few months before they died. She said it was in
a Facebook group she described as what she thought was
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a safe venting space for a group of women. And
she's talking smack about her in laws who then six
months later end up completely dead. She said she tried
to have her in laws mediate a dispute with their
estranged husband, Simon their son about school fields school fees,
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and she was feeling hurt. She said she was frustrated.
She was a little bit desperate. The couple they separated
a long time ago, ten years ago. So this is
eight years later that she invites the in laws and
the aunt and uncle in law over for this beautiful
beef Wellington. This is a captivating trial in the country
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of Australia. Everybody everywhere is talking about this. There are
at least two documentaries that have been produced that delve
into this. Newspapers there in Australia have devoted entire full
pages to this trial. Websites have been live blogging everybody's
testimony and each morning outside the trial for this mushroom murderer,
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Aaron Patterson.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
That's the allegation.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
They are lining up every day to take the public
seats that they can get. We'll tell you how they
eventually decide. There's another true crime story. After decades of
investigating the murder of a teacher, police in San Jose
have finally confirmed, forty seven years later, who did it.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 12 (23:46):
Well.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
We've seen cold cases before, this is one of the
oldest ones that we've seen in a long time. After
decades of suspicion, police up in San Jose have confirmed
they know the identity of the killer of a high
school teacher in San Jose. It was June sixteenth, nineteen
seventy eight, just a day after Brandham High School in
San Jose recess for the summer. A student found a teacher,
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Diane Peterson, lying on the floor of the hallway near
her classroom, single stab wound to her chest and the
Santa Clara County d'a's office said that Peterson was just
one of a handful of teachers who were on campus
that day. They were cleaning out their classrooms from the
summer break for the summer break when she was killed.
And for years, authorities said they had one person in mind.
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A sixteen year old student at the school was considered
a person of interest in the case, but they didn't
get any information. The tips they had didn't lead anywhere,
so the case remained unsolved for forty seven years. Now,
the reason this kid, the sixteen year old, became a
person of interest was he was arrested in an unrelated
crime and detectives noticed that his booking photo looked a
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lot like the police sketch of the teacher's killer. We
just don't see police sketches anymore because of the ubiquity
of surveillance cameras that exist all over the place. But
the sketch came from a student witness who said that
they heard the teacher yelling for help and saw the
killer take off. That same student, however, the one who
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came up with the original image the sketch, later disclaimed
his statement. Police had also been told by witness that
they had seen the sixteen year old carrying a knife
that had the words teacher deer written on the side
of it. When he was questioned, the sixteen year old
said he didn't have a knife at all, so they
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were unable to corroborate all of that. Now, prosecutors note
that the retracted statement by the fellow student, as well
as another one when she confronted him about drug dealing,
neither story was corroborated. But they've said now that a
relative disclosed that Nicki Nickerson his real name was Harry,
that Nicky had admitted to stabbing the teacher literally minutes
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after it happened. The Santa Clara County DA Jeff Rosen
said Miss Peterson would have been a senior citizen today
if she had not crossed paths with his violent teenager.
So finally officially solved. John Cobelt Show is coming up next.
We'll see you tomorrow. Stay dry. Everybody you've been listening
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
McDonald says it's going to bring back a menu item
it discontinued nearly a decade ago, just in time for lunch.
Actually it won't be on the menu until July tenth,
but snack raps will return to the McDonald's menus. Snack
wraps were introduced in two thousand and six, but pulled
about ten years later because they were ready. They were
(00:31):
too complicated for the kitchen to prepare.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
So I don't know if they've changed.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
The building of a McDonald's snack rap, but supposedly they'll
be coming back in July, so you can fill that
snack rap shaped hole in your heart.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Hi, Gary and Shannon Shannon. I miss you, and if
you are suspended, I'm sure it was worth it. I
don't even know what everybody's talking about, but you're my
spirit animal and I think you're awesome and listening to
you guys every single day and I can't wait for
you to.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Come back tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
And I hope you're joining your time off oky Bye.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, we'll hear from Shannon tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
What else is going on?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Time for What's happening?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Quill An update on the Big Beautiful Bill now is
that Elon Musk came out swinging. He has slammed the
President's Big Beautiful Bill making its way through the Senate
now as a disgusting abomination. Okay, that's a lot different
than what he was saying last week. Elon Musk wrote
(01:41):
on his social media platform Twitter, X whatever you want
to call it. Quote, I'm sorry, but I just can't
stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork filled congressional spending
bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted
for it. You know you did wrong, You know it.
He went on to criticize the bill for setting up
(02:02):
Congress to increase the already gigantic budget deficit to two
point five trillion and put a crushingly unsustainable debt on Americans.
So I suppose it's better that he did that after
the President wished him bid him adieu from the White House.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yes last week, so not good.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
President Trump, speaking of, is threatening California again, following the
transgender athlete from Yuupa High Valley High School competing in
the state track and field event last week in Clovis.
President Trump posted today on social media that Gavin Newsom
fully understands large scale finds will it will be imposed.
(02:49):
No idea what that means.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
The President doesn't have the ability to find a state
for something like this, so.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I don't know what the plan is we do, you know?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
The Department of Justice has opened its investigation to determine
if the state law that allows transgender athletes, the one
that was signed by Jerry Brown to compete in female
sports teams at California schools, violates federal Title nine civil
rights law that potentially could be where they see fines,
but not just from the President. The Olympics got a new, big,
(03:22):
huge sponsor. Team USA LA twenty eight and Honda have
announced a new major sponsorship. The terms of the deal
not disclosed, but it looks like this level of sponsorship
starts at about two hundred million dollars. This deal fills
the hole for the automotive category for the Olympics for
(03:43):
LA twenty eight, considered one of the most most important
when it comes to the Olympics. Toyota had been the
auto sponsor they did not renew their deal after twenty
twenty four. In terms of the other massive, massive, big name,
top tier sponsors you have of Delta and Comcast for
LA twenty eight, the CEO of US Olympic and Paralympic Properties,
(04:07):
John Slusher, says the new deal brings the operation in
more than a billion and a half in sponsorship sales.
The ultimate goal would be two and a half billion.
The money in the Olympics continues to be an issue
as well for LA workers. Hotel and airport workers are
rallying at LA City Hall today to announce a campaign
(04:28):
to defend the recently approved minimum wage increase. Members of
the Tourism Workers Rising Coalition, lobbied for this thirty dollars
minimum wage, will host a news conference alongside City Council
members as well as Von Wheeler, the president of the
La County Federation of Labor. These are room attendants and
(04:49):
cooks and dishwashers, airline catering, airport workers that will eventually
get about thirty bucks an hour by July twenty twenty eight,
just in time for the twenty eight Olympics. The companies
that would have to be paying those have come together
and they have decided that they want to put this
(05:12):
thing on the ballot, and that group has until June
thirtieth to get ninety three thousand signatures from registered voters
in LA to qualify for the June twenty sixth ballot
to try to put the clamp down on all of this.
Officials at the US Embassy and consulates in Mexico have
confirmed several reports of Americans being kidnapped by people they
(05:34):
met on a dating app. This was a security alert
that came out just yesterday. Authorities at the consulate in
Guadalajara issued a warning about all the incidents, all of
them occurring in recent months in the areas of Portavarda
and Nuevo Nare Nayarit. They said, victims in their families
in the US have at times been extorted for large
sums of money to secure their release. Please be aware
(05:56):
that this type of violence is not limited to one
geographic area. Travelers should use caution. They didn't name any
of the specific dating apps, but they said this be
cautious if using dating apps in Mexico. Yeah, need only
in public places, avoid isolated locations, tell family and friends
where you're going, and if something doesn't feel right.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Trust your gut.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Great news for fans of the Wayfarer's Chapel, that historic
glass structure in Rancho Palace Verdes. They say it may
have found a new home about a mile west of
its original site. RPV has been falling into the ocean basically,
and this has compromised where Wayfarer's Chapel is, So they're
(06:40):
saying the potential new location is that the old Battery
Barnes Military site, which would be right next to OURBV.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
City Hall.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Chapel had to close February of last year because the
land underneath it was shifting, so it was taken apart
and basically put into storage in twenty twenty four. Now
they're saying that they'll be able to put it back
up hopefully again at the old Battery Barnes military site
next to the City Hall.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I mentioned snackraps. Snack wraps are coming back.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
It looks like on July tenth, that is the expectation
for you to put the snack wraps back into your
face hole. And if you're wondering whatever happened to all
of it, they said that they couldn't they couldn't make
them efficiently in the McDonald's kitchen, but now they can,
(07:27):
I suppose, and if you're into the fast food world,
well how about this. We've seen McDonald's and Taco Bell
and Burger Kings operate inside of stores and now Wienerschnitzel.
Walmart is turning to smaller chains to move into open
spaces at the front of their stores, including a newly
announced partnership with the iconic hot Dog franchise. They'll be
(07:49):
opening restaurants in six Walmart locations this year Bakersfield, Tempe, Colorado, Springs, Alamgordo, Reno,
and Puallup, Washington. All of those Walmarts are going to
be getting their new Wiener Schnitzels at some point. Looking
to expand, they said their non traditional venues, with the
(08:09):
company actively pursuing sites like airports, military bases, theme parks,
food courts, and convenience stores. The Wiener Schnitzel people say
that allows them to modernize their footprint, being bring their
iconic flavors to new audiences, and reinforce the brand's relevance
in today's evolving retail and dining landscape. There are right now,
(08:30):
as of right now, more than three hundred Wiener Schnitzel
locations across thirteen states, most of them here in the West.
There are a couple in Louisiana and Illinois as well.
All Right, the question do you prefer movies in a
movie theater or movies in the comfort of your own
home theater versus couch.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
We'll talk about that when we come back.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
We'll do true crime Tuesday. Coming up at the bottom
of the hour. Was one of them was the Mushroom murders.
We've talked about it before, but a revisit of what
it is that this woman did and everybody has ideas
on what's going on for the mushroom murder trial and
then a cold case out of Northern California. It took
forty seven years, but it was a student who came
(09:22):
forward with some information that explained that opened the door
for the murderer of a teacher from up there in
Northern California. We spoke earlier today about the difference between
streaming services and theater openings when it comes to production
companies deciding which vein to go down, which way to
release a movie and how that can impact the bottom line. Originally,
(09:45):
originally Leelo and Stitch was going to be a Disney
Plus only release, the remake that is, and they decided
obviously clearly the better bet to do it in theaters,
and they're probably well on their way to about a
million dollars. But I wanted to ask, what is better?
Is it movie theaters? Is it streaming sitting in the
(10:06):
comfort of your own home.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Hi, Gary, It's Frank and San Bernardino. My wife and
I always go to the Blockbusters at the theater. We
go to Ontario Mills just saw Mission Impossible. Any other
ones with the big stars in the in the big movies.
If we don't, if we watch on streaming, it's usually
because we didn't get to the theater for some reason.
But no comparison. Have a great one.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Thank you you too.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
The the benefit obviously of one of the theater movies
is the gigantic screen fills up your peripheral vision. Depending
on where you said, the sound systems are incredible, although
the technology for sound systems in home theater have definitely
increased in the last couple of years.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
A very great.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Question toil back and forth between the movies then sitting
in my living room with the sixty five inch high
definition TV in a solo surrounds system. I don't think
that can be be so I vote for staying at home.
I'm sorry. I have memories of being a kid and
going to the movies for a quarter. Believe it or not,
(11:10):
post days are over.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
On and I never went when it was a quarter,
but I did have a couple of days where it
was like a four dollars movie ticket that was the cheapest.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
Hey, Yary, you.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Want to chime in on your movie theater question. If
it is a movie that I think my kids would
like and I would enjoy it too, I definitely like
to take them to the movie theater for that type
of thing. But if it's a movie just for me
or my husband, I could care less. And we just
watched that at home, not even paying to streatment. Wait
till it's free, missus.
Speaker 9 (11:40):
Shannon, Thank you the best movie that I've ever seen.
Would I want to watch it at home or in
a theater? Yeah, definitely in a theater. I love going
to the theater. I'm glad it's back.
Speaker 10 (11:53):
I do it a lot.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
It's kind of expensive, but I love it. It's my
introverted times, definitely in the theater.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
The last movie I saw, I should say, the last
movie that I had to get up early or stay
up late to see was one of the Star Wars movies,
and my son and I got up I believed four
o'clock in the morning. It opened at midnight Thursday night,
Friday morning, and then we saw one of the second
(12:21):
or third showing or whatever it was. And that was
eight nine years ago something like that. That was the
last one that I actually had to set an alarm
for to go see a movie.
Speaker 11 (12:31):
Hey, gear Bear, robin oc I like to see the
big premieres is always a fun time. They stopped during
the midnight release and those were great. We would get
dressed up, we'd see the movie, we'd be excited about it.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
There was a lot of hype. I take the kids.
Speaker 11 (12:45):
That was the best experience ever.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I think a lot of people agree with that, the
idea that there's something about the group mentality of seeing
a movie that you're all very excited about. It may
be different than having you and your your wife or
your kid or whatever sitting next to you and they're
not that interested in the movie that you wanted to watch.
Speaker 10 (13:07):
Hey, Gary, enjoy you in the show. Listen to movie theaters.
I'm not. I don't go to them. I'm afraid of
getting the scavs or what or or bed bugs or
anything like that. Okay, And it's it's gross to smell
(13:27):
of popcorn bread.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Disgust me. What but good air conditioning? All right, that's
the popcorn bread. Popcorn itself smells great.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
That's uh.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That's one of the things I got going for there
at a movie theater that I don't have at the house.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
To go to the movie theater.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
Okay, as long as people stay off their damn cellphones
going to the movie.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Oh yeah, and while you're at it, stay off of
my lawn too.
Speaker 12 (13:56):
That'd be bad, Hi, Gary and Shannon Without shann in today,
I think that the theatrical experience is far superior to
the at home experience, though, to be fair to everyone,
you can see a movie and eat your favorite snacks
and candy.
Speaker 10 (14:14):
For free at home.
Speaker 12 (14:15):
But in the theater, you know, especially if you're a
solo traveler like me, it's really cool to be around
others watching the same movie as you and hearing those
you know, reactions and having those conversations.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
After the film. That is also fun.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
If you're able to see a movie in a different location,
and usually it's not necessarily everybody's big vacation plan is
to go see a movie. I mean, you're there to
see I guess you're there to see the location you
need in the restaurants and visit the things in hike
the mountains or whatever you're supposed to do. But there
are still a group of people that will go see
a movie in Hawaii or in Cabo or something like that.
(14:53):
And part of it is because you still I would
say it's at least partially because people want to have
the familiar, even in those places that are unusual to them.
That's why people go to You're gonna go to Japan
and go to a McDonald's. I mean, granted it's slightly different,
but it's McDonald's. You got a McDonald You've got four
of them on the way home from work, and you
(15:14):
go all the way to Japan and eat at McDonald's.
I have a vacation plan later in the summer, and
my nephew is very excited about seeing Superman and we're
gonna be in Hawaii, and he wants to go see
Superman in Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I would rather sit anywhere on any.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Of those islands for any length of time than sit
in a movie theater for a couple of hours. But
that's his big plan. That's one of the things he
has carved out, is he wants to go see Superman
when it opens on July eleventh.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
That is one of those stories.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
By the way, they do expect Superman to come in
somewhere around seven hundred million dollars to be considered a success.
Because Superman had a budget of two hundred twenty five
million dollars. The release date obviously is going to be
a big deal, and the weekend after the fourth of
(16:10):
July may be just what it needs to pick up
that seven hundred million dollars. The last Superman or at
least The Man of Steel, Superman made about six hundred
and seventy million worldwide with at the time it wasn't unknown,
but Henry Cavill wasn't as big a star then as
he is now. So up next True Crime Tuesdays, we're
(16:30):
going to start with the Mushroom murders taking Australia by storm.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
There was a there's a story.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
We were talking about the difference between streaming services and
movie theaters. Which production studios want to release it streaming,
which ones want to go to the movie theater, And
there was a somebody just reminded me of something. The
caught quality on the audio was not great, but they
said that had been calling sorry that they had called
in to say that they like going to the movies.
(17:06):
They used to until there was one movie where somebody
was eating the popcorn kernels, the unpopped kernels in the
movie theater and cracking them with their teeth. Now there
is a movie and I can't remember what it is.
Joseph Gordon Levitt is in it. I believe, I want
to say, it's like it would have been right around
(17:29):
two thousand perhaps, and it was a story about young
men that had been diagnosed with cancer. A young man
who'd been diagnosed with cancer and it's the end of
his life. Basic depressing movie. My wife and I saw
that movie and the person sitting next to us ate
a green apple in the movie theater. Full crunch, full slurp,
(17:51):
full truck. It was awful. It was absolutely awful. So
that was the worst experience I think we had as
movie theaters. It's time for True Crime Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
The story is true.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
True, No, it sounds made up.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I don't know. Garry and Shannon present True Crime.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Well, this is this case out of Australia is being
overshadowed by the court cases that we have going on
here in America. We've got the Karen Reid case, We've
got the Harvey Weinstein case, We've got the Sean Diddy
Combs case. We've got all these cases that are going
on and sucking a lot of attention away from what's
going on in Australia. This is a tiny little town,
(18:39):
a tiny a few hours outside of Melbourne. The small
town of Morewell is where this trial is taking place.
But the crime that they're hearing about took place in
the even smaller town of Leongatha. In July of twenty
twenty three, Aaron Patterson, a fifty year old mom of
a couple of kids, is face racing three counts of
(19:01):
murder murder for serving toxic beef Wellington to relatives at
her house. Now she was a strange from her husband
Simon at the time and he was invited to the lunch,
but he didn't show up, so he and Aaron invited
her in laws, Don and Gail Patterson, Gail's sister, so
(19:24):
this would have been her aunt and uncle in law,
Heather Wilkinson, and Ian Wilkinson. Three of those four people
died as a result of eating that beef. Wellington, Don
and Gail the mother and father in law, and then
Gail's sister Heather the aunt in law, all died. Ian
(19:46):
Ate but survived even though he spent several weeks in
the hospital. And again the estranged husband, Simon, was supposed
to be at the lunch, but he backed out. Now
all of this has to do with poisonous mushrooms. Aaron
Patterson had said that when COVID hit, she started foraging
(20:07):
for mushrooms on her own, just kind of a hobby
during lockdown of March of twenty twenty, and the question was, well,
who knew you had this hobby, and she said, only
my kids, which is weird. Now, we've been told for
a very long time, don't just take mushrooms out of
(20:27):
the wild and cook them and eat them. They can
kill you, she says. When she would forage for these mushrooms.
She would cut a little bit of one, fry it
up with some butter, and eat it. She said they
taste good. She said she didn't get sick. She also
fed some of these foraged mushrooms to her kids. She
chopped them up very small so they wouldn't pick them
(20:48):
out of the dishes that she was making, the curries,
the pastas, and the soups, and developed a taste for
exotic mushroom varieties. She even joined a mushroom lover's Facebook group.
She even bought a dehydrator, a food dehydrator to preserve
these mushrooms.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
And when asked by her own.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Attorney, did she accept that that beef Wellington she made
in July of twenty three did include death cap mushrooms,
She said, yes, yes, she knows she did it, but
it was entirely an accident, she said, so, she told
her lawyer most of the mushrooms that she used that
(21:30):
day in that beef Wellington came from local supermarkets, and
she agreed she might have put them in the same
container as some of the wild mushrooms that she had foraged,
and there were even others that came from an Asian
food store that she didn't necessarily know the provenance of.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Oh there's more, she.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Did say, like I said, she admitted that there were
death cap mushrooms in there. She said it was completely accidental.
But she was asked about a series of explative film
messages that she had sent about those in laws a
few months before they died. She said it was in
a Facebook group she described as what she thought was
(22:11):
a safe venting space for a group of women. And
she's talking smack about her in laws who then six
months later end up completely dead. She said she tried
to have her in laws mediate a dispute with their
estranged husband, Simon their son about school fields school fees,
(22:33):
and she was feeling hurt. She said she was frustrated.
She was a little bit desperate. The couple they separated
a long time ago, ten years ago. So this is
eight years later that she invites the in laws and
the aunt and uncle in law over for this beautiful
beef Wellington. This is a captivating trial in the country
(22:54):
of Australia. Everybody everywhere is talking about this. There are
at least two documentaries that have been produced that delve
into this. Newspapers there in Australia have devoted entire full
pages to this trial. Websites have been live blogging everybody's
testimony and each morning outside the trial for this mushroom murderer,
(23:17):
Aaron Patterson.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
That's the allegation.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
They are lining up every day to take the public
seats that they can get. We'll tell you how they
eventually decide. There's another true crime story. After decades of
investigating the murder of a teacher, police in San Jose
have finally confirmed, forty seven years later, who did it.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 12 (23:46):
Well.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
We've seen cold cases before, this is one of the
oldest ones that we've seen in a long time. After
decades of suspicion, police up in San Jose have confirmed
they know the identity of the killer of a high
school teacher in San Jose. It was June sixteenth, nineteen
seventy eight, just a day after Brandham High School in
San Jose recess for the summer. A student found a teacher,
(24:10):
Diane Peterson, lying on the floor of the hallway near
her classroom, single stab wound to her chest and the
Santa Clara County d'a's office said that Peterson was just
one of a handful of teachers who were on campus
that day. They were cleaning out their classrooms from the
summer break for the summer break when she was killed.
And for years, authorities said they had one person in mind.
(24:32):
A sixteen year old student at the school was considered
a person of interest in the case, but they didn't
get any information. The tips they had didn't lead anywhere,
so the case remained unsolved for forty seven years. Now,
the reason this kid, the sixteen year old, became a
person of interest was he was arrested in an unrelated
crime and detectives noticed that his booking photo looked a
(24:56):
lot like the police sketch of the teacher's killer. We
just don't see police sketches anymore because of the ubiquity
of surveillance cameras that exist all over the place. But
the sketch came from a student witness who said that
they heard the teacher yelling for help and saw the
killer take off. That same student, however, the one who
(25:18):
came up with the original image the sketch, later disclaimed
his statement. Police had also been told by witness that
they had seen the sixteen year old carrying a knife
that had the words teacher deer written on the side
of it. When he was questioned, the sixteen year old
said he didn't have a knife at all, so they
(25:38):
were unable to corroborate all of that. Now, prosecutors note
that the retracted statement by the fellow student, as well
as another one when she confronted him about drug dealing,
neither story was corroborated. But they've said now that a
relative disclosed that Nicki Nickerson his real name was Harry,
that Nicky had admitted to stabbing the teacher literally minutes
(26:02):
after it happened. The Santa Clara County DA Jeff Rosen
said Miss Peterson would have been a senior citizen today
if she had not crossed paths with his violent teenager.
So finally officially solved. John Cobelt Show is coming up next.
We'll see you tomorrow. Stay dry. Everybody you've been listening
to The Gary and Shannon Show, you can always hear
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