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Speaker 2: A couple of stories who were following President Trump expected
Speaker 2: to sign an executive order probably this hour to close
Speaker 2: the Education Department. He's going to hold an event at
Speaker 2: the White House today and of course Education Secretary Linda
Speaker 2: McMahon will be there. It does take congressional approval, so
Speaker 2: we'll see if he can get that.
Speaker 1: We're asking you, and now that Southwest has canceled their
Speaker 1: free checked bags racket, what did you pack in your
Speaker 1: free bag for Southwest? Maybe you chose Southwest because you
Speaker 1: could pack that for free. Was it a turkey? Was
Speaker 1: it a tire rim? Was it a child?
Speaker 2: I just want to point out I told you about
Speaker 2: a couple of them that we've gotten.
Speaker 3: The bar is high.
Speaker 2: Don't come to us with like I packed an empty
Speaker 2: box of wheedies, right, No, no, no, no.
Speaker 4: I packed my Chick fil a.
Speaker 2: There are some significantly important international laws that may have
Speaker 2: been broken. That's what I want.
Speaker 1: That's exactly the kind of feedback that I'm looking for. Gary.
Speaker 5: I understand it's hard for you to hide your disdain
Speaker 5: for the World Series champion LA Dodgers. But baseball season
Speaker 5: started this week.
Speaker 3: Pal Go Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Gary led the show with the Dodgers game on Monday,
Speaker 1: Like that was his idea to start talking about the
Speaker 1: Dodgers beating the Cubs in Tokyo. He's not hiding the
Speaker 1: fact that he supports your Los Angeles Dodgers. He's a
Speaker 1: Giants fan, but he doesn't hate the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: But if you're also not a Dodgers fan and you're
Speaker 2: not a Cubs fan, the season starts next Thursday, Right,
Speaker 2: that's a that's not a just a thing.
Speaker 4: Opening days different for a lot of people.
Speaker 3: It brings a lot of different emotions.
Speaker 4: It sure does.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it brings the immediate sense of dread that you're
Speaker 2: never going to win anything again.
Speaker 4: Well, you shouldn't have been feeling that way for a while.
Speaker 3: I will say they've looked great during the spring, have
Speaker 3: the Giants. But that's spring training and nobody cares.
Speaker 1: Michael Monk says, join us from KFI News, and it
Speaker 1: looks like suddenly people locally are saying, we're not doing
Speaker 1: this homelessness thing right. People have given us boat tons
Speaker 1: of cash and we're still effing it up. Wow, a
Speaker 1: little self awareness in government is wild, and so I'm
Speaker 1: immediately thinking that that's not what this is.
Speaker 4: Michael, tell me what.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you why. You're exactly right.
Speaker 6: It is a little self awareness on the city's part
Speaker 6: here because it's different than the county. The county has
Speaker 6: also recently said, Oops, this isn't going well. We should
Speaker 6: try a different approach after multiple skating audits have revealed
Speaker 6: we don't really know how this money is being spent.
Speaker 6: We're not even properly accounting for it. We don't know
Speaker 6: how much has been spent. We don't know what the
Speaker 6: results are. That is, after reviewing LASA, the homeless organization,
Speaker 6: the only homeless services authority that is governed by both
Speaker 6: the county and the city. The county has now moved
Speaker 6: to make their own department the city. As I explained
Speaker 6: to John Coblt yesterday afternoon, they're not creating a new department,
Speaker 6: they're creating a new bureau.
Speaker 4: We don't let people name drop other shows.
Speaker 3: I'm Sergy.
Speaker 6: And I'm a tramp from wayback, So I just bounce
Speaker 6: around all of the shows. Wherever you you're showing up
Speaker 6: and I'm here to polease Maryland and a Kennedy pool exactly.
Speaker 6: So anyway, so the city now is like, hey, yeah,
Speaker 6: it's true, we don't have any oversight. In fact, Councilman
Speaker 6: Nythia Rahman said, we have nobody at city Hall who
Speaker 6: is overseeing where these funds are going, how they're spending,
Speaker 6: and we should probably have that person here. And so
Speaker 6: that's what they've moved to do is to have a
Speaker 6: bureau inside City Hall. They're trying to figure out how
Speaker 6: many people they might need to work there and how
Speaker 6: much money they would need to fund.
Speaker 4: The more bureaucracy.
Speaker 3: It's literally called a bureau. They're not even hiding it.
Speaker 4: This is insane, you know.
Speaker 1: I want to say it was twenty fourteen when we
Speaker 1: signed that county measure. It was a bond measure for homelessness.
Speaker 3: Is that what?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Thank you?
Speaker 1: And I think it was twenty fourteen. It's anyway, it
Speaker 1: was an s ton of money. And what happened was
Speaker 1: there was too many cooks in the kitchen and they
Speaker 1: essentially said that where they got together city and county
Speaker 1: think think about the bureau at City Hall, but a
Speaker 1: bigger room. And they all got together for like a
Speaker 1: week to figure out how to spend all this money.
Speaker 1: And everyone had there and it was activists and it
Speaker 1: was people from the interventionists and people from the homeless
Speaker 1: and city and federal, like all the people, all the
Speaker 1: people involved in homelessness for La County were in this room,
Speaker 1: representatives for all the people involved, and they brought in lunch.
Speaker 1: They met for the whole week, and at the end
Speaker 1: they were like, we've decided nothing. They could there were
Speaker 1: too many cooks in the kitchen. They couldn't figure out
Speaker 1: how to spend all the money. Money has never been
Speaker 1: a problem for the homelessness issue, at least in La County.
Speaker 1: Voters have seen there's a problem. They don't like seeing
Speaker 1: the problem. They don't like walking over the problem. Blem
Speaker 1: if they live downtown, they don't like any of it.
Speaker 1: But it seems like the disconnect has been not with
Speaker 1: the money we're pledging, but with the people that will
Speaker 1: actually put the money into use.
Speaker 6: What are the expectations, you know, obviously, if you're a
Speaker 6: voter says yeah, we'll pay a little bit more this
Speaker 6: time around because you're going to fix it, right, the
Speaker 6: expectation is there will not be homeless camps near my
Speaker 6: kid's school. There are expectations that there will not be
Speaker 6: mentally ill, drug addicted people walking across the five and
Speaker 6: creating a dangerous situation for drivers on their way to
Speaker 6: work so they can pay these higher taxes. Yeah, that's
Speaker 6: the expectation. The expectation from the government side is so unclear.
Speaker 6: And that's what these audits keep coming back. They show
Speaker 6: that there are contract signed to vendors who are supposed
Speaker 6: to execute homeless goals without any outline goals and without
Speaker 6: any evidence that those goals were achieved because they are
Speaker 6: so loose and undefined.
Speaker 3: And here's the deal. Here's where it gets harrier.
Speaker 6: And I think the reason that you're seeing a little
Speaker 6: more action for both the county and a little action
Speaker 6: from the city this week. In a week or so
Speaker 6: week and a half, our sales tax is going up
Speaker 6: in Los Angeles County. We voted for this again because
Speaker 6: we want to put six hundred million other billion dollars
Speaker 6: every year into supporting homeless program.
Speaker 4: Can you stick with us for another segment?
Speaker 3: I mean, the Louisville game is on, but we have
Speaker 3: it on the telly. It's right there on Fine. I'm
Speaker 3: they're ahead and tell Cobalt.
Speaker 1: I did too, So I think it's still the first
Speaker 1: period's halftime.
Speaker 2: That would be really quick if it was. Yea, it is, yeah,
Speaker 2: sure starts at noon East.
Speaker 4: I was watching.
Speaker 1: I haven't been closely watching it.
Speaker 3: It is halftime, yeah, yeah, wow.
Speaker 4: I'm glad we we got that all squared.
Speaker 3: Away by fifteen. Was down by fifteen to Creighton.
Speaker 4: You have them in the Elite eight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, from Kentucky. You know, I know, I know what.
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 4: What year do you think?
Speaker 6: It's been a long time since Louis has been in
Speaker 6: the You're not thought narratives of March madness.
Speaker 3: I've been on the narrative and they've got a great narrative.
Speaker 3: Gary Well, I.
Speaker 4: Do love betting on a narrative, which is my problem.
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Speaker 2: China has done it again, provoking international outrage. They executed
Speaker 2: four Canadian nationals on drug related offenses. Now, Canada's Foreign
Speaker 2: Affairs minister has said that she and former Prime Minister
Speaker 2: Justin Trudeau had asked for clemency for these for these
Speaker 2: four men, these four dual citizens of China and Canada
Speaker 2: after they were implicated in these alleged crimes. Beijing came
Speaker 2: back and said, we put to death drug criminals, and
Speaker 2: we do not recognize dual citizenship. So take your fancy
Speaker 2: passports and stuff them up your moose.
Speaker 4: Oh I've never heard that before.
Speaker 3: Well, you spent a lot of time in Canada.
Speaker 4: Canada, they refer to your rear end as your moose.
Speaker 2: No, they refer to a moose as a moose. Ah,
Speaker 2: everybody in Canada has a moose.
Speaker 9: I don't know why I felt like you needed to
Speaker 9: stem it up your That's a better question, isn't it.
Speaker 1: A family led group advocating for the release of the
Speaker 1: Menendez brothers has rallied outside the CCB this morning.
Speaker 3: That'll do it.
Speaker 4: They said that.
Speaker 1: Nathan Hoffman's ignoring the good work that they've done in prison. Explain,
Speaker 1: you can do all the work you want un till
Speaker 1: you've got a moose in your ass, but you killed
Speaker 1: people and it's hard for the justice system to get
Speaker 1: over that.
Speaker 3: Okay, now you're completely muddling my words.
Speaker 2: You put your fancy passports in the moose, right, not
Speaker 2: a moose in your butt?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: Sorry, Michael, I appreciate that you're here, and I will
Speaker 2: try to maintain.
Speaker 6: I haven't been the original, while I will be going
Speaker 6: this weekend. This is I need community service. I need
Speaker 6: to be showered in the holy water.
Speaker 4: Back to a church.
Speaker 3: I might need to be washed in the blood.
Speaker 2: Well, we were talking about the City of LA now
Speaker 2: creating a Homeless Oversight Bureau because that's the way we'll
Speaker 2: solve homelessness. There's more people on it to try to
Speaker 2: keep an eye on all of our money.
Speaker 6: Yeah, as more money is coming in for it because
Speaker 6: of the sales tax. And I should also note that
Speaker 6: we're putting more money into these homeless programs while the
Speaker 6: City of Los Angeles is now admitted more clearly than
Speaker 6: ever that they don't have any money. It's a situation
Speaker 6: that's only gotten worse all year long. Been harping on
Speaker 6: this since last fall, and I cannot believe that there
Speaker 6: hasn't been like an emergency press conference to say, like
Speaker 6: this is our plan.
Speaker 4: This No one's paying attention, everyone's on TikTok.
Speaker 6: It started with like over a couple hundred million short
Speaker 6: in a city this large and a budget this large.
Speaker 6: You think that's bad, but that can be fixed that
Speaker 6: can be. It will move some money around, we'll change
Speaker 6: some things. But just yesterday the city administrator told the
Speaker 6: City Council for the next budget, we think there's going
Speaker 6: to be a billion dollar short a billion billion dollars
Speaker 6: of an eight billion dollar budget. So that's a significant amount.
Speaker 6: And he said not tens of layoffs, not hundreds of layoffs,
Speaker 6: thousands of layoffs are possible if we don't.
Speaker 3: Course correct in the response from the mayor.
Speaker 6: So far as we have previewed what our plan is,
Speaker 6: and it's basically the first page of a PowerPoint. We
Speaker 6: should reduce spending, we should not spend so much on
Speaker 6: legal settlements, but no details. And so the lack of
Speaker 6: urgency in both this financial crisis that the city now
Speaker 6: finally admits out in the open, and to the lack
Speaker 6: of urgency with getting homeless people off of the street
Speaker 6: and out of your neighborhoods and out of your business.
Speaker 1: Getting the money from that they got the money from
Speaker 1: in prior years.
Speaker 6: What they say is that revenues are down across the
Speaker 6: board in a variety of ways. That includes property tax,
Speaker 6: sales tax, business tax, the hotel tax.
Speaker 2: Why because we're taxed crazy and like your point that
Speaker 2: sales tax is going to be going up.
Speaker 6: Sales tax is going up to fund the homeless programs
Speaker 6: and the and the whole county. But in the county
Speaker 6: opery they say that, and that's included of course LA
Speaker 6: obviously a big part of the La county. But they're
Speaker 6: not having the transactions that they had that they had
Speaker 6: budgeted for.
Speaker 4: It isn't that does not add up to a billion
Speaker 4: dollars though.
Speaker 6: Well, you know what does is when you budget each
Speaker 6: year to anticipate a certain amount of lawsuits that you
Speaker 6: will have to settle just by nature of being the government.
Speaker 6: You know, some people are gonna fall on the sidewalk,
Speaker 6: you know, the police are probably going to do something wrong,
Speaker 6: and you're gonna have to write a check. They budget
Speaker 6: for that every year. There are hundreds of millions of
Speaker 6: dollars over budget. And that area alone, they were about
Speaker 6: to have to borrow money specifically for the purpose of
Speaker 6: covering more legal settems. I'll tell you just Tuesday, while
Speaker 6: I'm watching a city council meeting, they approve more than
Speaker 6: eight million dollars more in lawsuits, the bulk of that
Speaker 6: going to an laped shooting and the next day in
Speaker 6: the budget committee, twenty eight more lawsuits to be concerned.
Speaker 1: So the word has gotten out that the city settles everything.
Speaker 1: So file the lawsuits and you'll end up with a settlement.
Speaker 6: And all year long they note these little problems that
Speaker 6: they have, and they form these committees or ask for
Speaker 6: staff reports on various little issues like maybe we should
Speaker 6: sell some property, or maybe we should figure out a
Speaker 6: way to fight the lawsuits.
Speaker 4: A little more out a waste of time.
Speaker 3: But that's it.
Speaker 6: We're now the new budget is supposed to come out
Speaker 6: from the mayor next month. Yeah, and now we're facing
Speaker 6: And that's what I mean about urgency. I'm just shocked
Speaker 6: to the lack of urgency in this never never.
Speaker 4: It kicked the can down the road.
Speaker 3: So shocking.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 6: I come from a city of forty three thousand strong
Speaker 6: in Kentucky and we had a financial crisis fifteen years
Speaker 6: ago because two large employers left.
Speaker 3: They just sold the city off to Indiana.
Speaker 6: We should that was my suggestion, like, let's go in Ohio.
Speaker 6: We're connected by bridge to Cincinnati. We could have just
Speaker 6: become ohioan we're union anyway, you.
Speaker 3: Know, let's do it.
Speaker 6: We were not part of the Confederacy, the good part
Speaker 6: and instead the city leadership like went around the whole city.
Speaker 6: They did a budget road show to explain like, this
Speaker 6: is the problem, this is how we're going to fix it,
Speaker 6: and within the next year all your sidewalks are going
Speaker 6: to be fixed. We just have to get through this.
Speaker 6: I haven't heard that here. What did so what did
Speaker 6: they do in Kentucky? Yeah, they made some tough decisions.
Speaker 6: They got rid of their nine to one one dispatch
Speaker 6: center and combined it with the county for example, that
Speaker 6: they had to renegotiate with the unions.
Speaker 3: And this is stuff that this city is going to
Speaker 3: happen to about these stuff, Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 6: There are a lot of pay raises on the horizon,
Speaker 6: there are union contracts to consider, there are legal settlements
Speaker 6: that need to be dealt with the.
Speaker 2: Host I was just going to say, we, I mean,
Speaker 2: the time, the time element is here. There is time
Speaker 2: for us to get this on the right track. But
Speaker 2: it takes more than just beloviation from city hall in
Speaker 2: terms of putting the making those hard decisions.
Speaker 6: That's right, and it's what you see with the homeless stuff.
Speaker 6: Just to kind of intertwine these things. Last year in
Speaker 6: the homeless account. It's true, for the first time in
Speaker 6: six years they saw a decline. It was very modest,
Speaker 6: it was very small. And instead of like attacking that
Speaker 6: like you go up a point, let's let's lay it
Speaker 6: on them thick and get aggressive. I mean, you continue
Speaker 6: to see press releases about, well, we housed thirty six people, right,
Speaker 6: seventy five thousand people in the county without a how.
Speaker 3: I did want to point out because I saw this quote.
Speaker 2: Niffia Rahman, one of the city council members, described that
Speaker 2: this homelessness bureau that they're talking about would be quote
Speaker 2: lightweight and fiscally responsible. When is the last time any
Speaker 2: government bureaucratic agency has been described as or or I
Speaker 2: should say, has fulfilled its description of being lightweight and
Speaker 2: fiscally responsible, especially when the plan appears to be to
Speaker 2: bring in professionals that already exist and just kind of
Speaker 2: reassign them from agencies that should be overseeing this spending. Anyway,
Speaker 2: Great stuff, Michael.
Speaker 1: Michael, always great to have you in here. We appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Enjoy your most have fun.
Speaker 4: Sorry for being offensive.
Speaker 2: Let us know what it is that you crazy stuff
Speaker 2: that you have packed into your what.
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like Michael's been here long to
Speaker 1: where I can be offensive and it's okay.
Speaker 2: He's clearly not offended. Right, you can go a lot
Speaker 2: farther maybe next time. Okay, let us know the craziest
Speaker 2: thing that you put in your carry on bags or
Speaker 2: checked bags. We don't care. Craziest stuff that you've gotten
Speaker 2: away with. There's good ones, there are, there's really incredible ones.
Speaker 2: People are a whole lot more conniving than I would
Speaker 2: have given them credit for.
Speaker 4: So excited.
Speaker 2: But when we come back, we'll talk about what's going on.
Speaker 2: The La Times had to pull a video of a
Speaker 2: guy who was in Japan for the Dodgers games against
Speaker 2: the Cubs. Why they pulled this video? Stop with the
Speaker 2: pearl clutching people.
Speaker 3: Good lord, you're.
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Speaker 2: A couple stories who were following senior military officers from
Speaker 2: around Europe and beyond our meeting in the UK today,
Speaker 2: just outside London, trying to flesh out plans for an
Speaker 2: international peacekeeping force for Ukraine. UK's Prime Minister Care Starmer
Speaker 2: says this coalition would be led by Britain and France.
Speaker 2: They're moving into an operational phase, but at this point
Speaker 2: they said they don't know how many countries would be
Speaker 2: willing to send troops and even if there will be
Speaker 2: a ceasefire to protect. Obviously, Ukraine and Russia have been
Speaker 2: agreeing not with each other, but in principle to a
Speaker 2: limited ceasefire.
Speaker 3: It still remains to be seen when that's going to
Speaker 3: take effect.
Speaker 4: Probably coming to a movie theater near you.
Speaker 1: Is this story that we kind of forgot about the
Speaker 1: family of that former Boeing quality control manager who killed
Speaker 1: himself after being questioned for days by Boeing lawyers for whistleblowing.
Speaker 4: His family suing the company.
Speaker 1: His family has fow the wrongful death lawsuits that Boeing
Speaker 1: subjected him to a harassment campaign. They tried to discredit
Speaker 1: him humiliate him after he reported defects in the company's
Speaker 1: jumbo jets. He shot and killed himself in March of
Speaker 1: last year after several days of questioning.
Speaker 2: Well, there was a cascade of backlash, if you want
Speaker 2: to call it that. The La Times has pulled down
Speaker 2: an Instagram reels video that showed one of their journalists
Speaker 2: their video journalists perusing some of the concession items inside
Speaker 2: the Tokyo Dome. Obviously, the fascination that the Japanese have
Speaker 2: with Japanese baseball players playing in America, the Dodgers Cubs
Speaker 2: two game series that took place, it was high level information.
Speaker 2: I mean they were infatuated. Japan went crazy last week.
Speaker 1: So if you go to different stadiums, I do you
Speaker 1: know that every stadium has their own thing when it
Speaker 1: comes to food, concessions and things like that. It's kind
Speaker 1: of one of the fun things. What does this stadium have?
Speaker 1: And you can imagine or even if you're an international traveler,
Speaker 1: what kind of food does this place have. It's just
Speaker 1: one of the fun things. It's an adventure. And one
Speaker 1: of the things the La Times did was sending a
Speaker 1: guy who's never been to Japan I'm guessing, never been
Speaker 1: to Tokyo to the game and hey, sample the food,
Speaker 1: take video.
Speaker 4: And so he did what you would expect.
Speaker 1: He did as first time in Japan, Tokyo at a
Speaker 1: game and he went and he's like, what's this and
Speaker 1: how did they use it?
Speaker 4: How do you use these chopsticks? I guess I just
Speaker 4: stab things.
Speaker 1: And that's what everyone thinks when they're using chopsticks for
Speaker 1: the first time. It's not a racist thing, it's just
Speaker 1: a different thing. And they were lit up on social media.
Speaker 1: Is this a joke? This guy doesn't even know what
Speaker 1: he's doing. He's making fun of fish being sold the game.
Speaker 1: Doesn't he know that's a delicacy? Blah blah blah. Come on,
Speaker 1: lighten up, give me a break.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't use me to use the term
Speaker 2: because you just talked about the fish. But part of
Speaker 2: what makes this, what would have made it entertaining, is
Speaker 2: the fish out of water element that this guy has.
Speaker 3: Never been to Japan. He's never been to a baseball
Speaker 3: game in Japan.
Speaker 4: That's what makes it funny.
Speaker 2: But I'm sure he's been to dozens of games at
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium, so he knows the he knows the traditional
Speaker 2: fair And how is it different? Would I eat? Whatdn't
Speaker 2: I eat? One of the things that he was going
Speaker 2: to eat or that was offered to him or was available,
Speaker 2: I should say, was an octopus dumpling?
Speaker 1: And he was like no, and everyone's like, of course
Speaker 1: it would for a number of reasons. Maybe he read
Speaker 1: Beautiful Magnificent Creatures or whatever the octopus book is that
Speaker 1: I recently read and doesn't want to eat an octopus.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's why he said absolutely not. But the fact
Speaker 1: that he's now racist in the La Times is racist.
Speaker 4: For him failing to grasp or want all.
Speaker 1: Of the stadium foods in a foreign country is insane.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there are people that come to this country
Speaker 1: and they go to a ballgame and they're like.
Speaker 4: A hot what's a hot? What do I eat this
Speaker 4: with mustard?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's part of the joy of visiting different
Speaker 1: cultures in different places, and the fact that you don't
Speaker 1: stumble through it.
Speaker 4: It's the fact that you do.
Speaker 1: Stumble through it is not racist. It's part of accepting
Speaker 1: different things.
Speaker 2: There's been a well documented history of Japanese players coming
Speaker 2: to the United States and playing in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2: And when I was in Seattle, Ichiro Suzuki came to
Speaker 2: play for the Mariners and was a phenomenon and it
Speaker 2: was eat It was easy for people from Japan to
Speaker 2: fly to Seattle to watch a game and turn around
Speaker 2: and go back to Japan. I mean, there were we
Speaker 2: would do stories about these people who would spend thousands
Speaker 2: and thousands of dollars and spend However, many fourteen hours
Speaker 2: on an airplane just to be at Safeco Field back
Speaker 2: when it was Safego Field, to watch Eachi Ro play
Speaker 2: a three hour baseball game. Go back to see Tech
Speaker 2: Airport in Toronto game.
Speaker 1: That's what they do now. For shohe Atani in La
Speaker 1: there's travel packages.
Speaker 2: So we would talk about what these people were experiencing.
Speaker 2: They'd never been to the United States before, they didn't
Speaker 2: know what hot dogs were. They would never eat garlic
Speaker 2: fries or I mean whatever, it's not it's not offensive.
Speaker 2: I mean it's okay to say no thank you to
Speaker 2: whatever you're going to, whatever's offered to you. They didn't
Speaker 2: walk around and you know, act arrogant about America does
Speaker 2: it better?
Speaker 3: Japan? Does it better?
Speaker 4: Like it was one not it.
Speaker 1: It's just different, and you're sometimes you go to different
Speaker 1: countries and whatever is very popular there, you don't. I
Speaker 1: don't want to eat pigs feet, Okay, yeah, I'm in China. Cool,
Speaker 1: I'm absorbing the culture. I don't want pigs feet, and
Speaker 1: I'm making this up. I don't even know if that's
Speaker 1: a thing, but you know what I mean, like different delicacies.
Speaker 1: I'm sure, like you said, many people don't want well,
Speaker 1: we're peddling here.
Speaker 2: The irony of it is the one hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: something negative comments on the La Times instagram reel probably
Speaker 2: would have generated so much more attention to the La
Speaker 2: Times instagram reel than anything else has in the history
Speaker 2: of the La Times instagram reel.
Speaker 1: It's just silly. I mean, I thought it would be.
Speaker 1: That was a fun feature story. That's a feature story.
Speaker 1: Anybody would assign any reporter who is going to those games,
Speaker 1: go check out the stadium food, how it's different, be
Speaker 1: an ass be funny, just really you know, fun with it?
Speaker 1: Is it in your yes, sit in your ignorance when
Speaker 1: it comes to what kind of food you're gonna be?
Speaker 1: And that's what it seems like it happened. And now
Speaker 1: it's racist. Come on, get out of here.
Speaker 2: It's not one of those arrogant CNN documentaries with the
Speaker 2: Stanley Tucci or Eva Longoria or something.
Speaker 4: Anthony Boordine or Anthony Board parts unknown. Yes, I will
Speaker 4: eat this soul.
Speaker 1: That has just been scrubbed from a foot and put
Speaker 1: a little bit of fish caviar on top of the
Speaker 1: the flakes that came from the heel of this child. Yum, Yeah, girl, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're racist.
Speaker 2: Sorry, Yeah, will continue.
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Speaker 2: Secretary of State Marco Rubio is praising Cotter for helping,
Speaker 2: and I'm assuming that's how we're saying that now if
Speaker 2: we ever really come down on the how to cut her,
Speaker 2: I say Cutter YEA for help in the United States
Speaker 2: secure the release of an American that had been held
Speaker 2: by the Taliban for more than a couple of years.
Speaker 2: George Glesman will be reunited with his wife. He's an
Speaker 2: airline mechanic from Atlanta. The third American detay need to
Speaker 2: be released released by the Taliban since January, the Foreign
Speaker 2: Ministry in Afghanistan confirmed that he was released on humanitarian grounds.
Speaker 2: Glesland was taken in or kidnapped or seized whatever word
Speaker 2: you want to use by the Taliban's intelligence services. In
Speaker 2: December of twenty two, he was designated by the US
Speaker 2: government as wrongfully detained.
Speaker 1: Southwest and their free bag hack is over.
Speaker 4: They're getting rid of your free checked bag.
Speaker 1: And there was an article in the Wall Street Journal
Speaker 1: about things that people have packed in that check bag
Speaker 1: taking advantage of Southwest kindness by things by packing things
Speaker 1: like a Thanksgiving turkey.
Speaker 4: Tire rims. Kitchen sinks in one.
Speaker 3: Situation, literally kitchen sinks.
Speaker 4: So we asked you, what have you gotten away with?
Speaker 5: What have you hey Joe and san Clemente.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I carried my son's pellet gun in my carry
Speaker 10: on at John Wayne Airport once accidentally obviously shut down
Speaker 10: the whole tsa. All the sheriffs come running. It was
Speaker 10: a big deal.
Speaker 11: Wow.
Speaker 10: I actually ended up making it onto my plane after
Speaker 10: begging and pleading and being told that a pellict gun
Speaker 10: is considered a firearm. But the looks on those people's
Speaker 10: faces when I boarded their plane again priceless.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good. Oh that one didn't sound very good.
Speaker 2: It was her husband's ashes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can see that.
Speaker 1: Would you put your not that I'm not casting any
Speaker 1: sort of judgment. Would you put your wife's ashes in
Speaker 1: your carry on?
Speaker 2: Or would I check them or you check them? I
Speaker 2: don't know if they would allow me to do it
Speaker 2: in my carry on. Sure you can't. I don't think
Speaker 2: you can.
Speaker 3: We can't. Somebody might know the answer to that. I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you be able to Why wouldn't I be
Speaker 1: able to just ashes. You can put them on your lap.
Speaker 1: I'd carry mine in my purse.
Speaker 3: That's a big urn. There's a lot of ash No.
Speaker 1: I mean some of them, Like my mother in law's
Speaker 1: ashes are in a box like this big.
Speaker 3: It's really all her. She wasn't a big lady. She
Speaker 3: wasn't no Hey, Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 7: I was coming back from Canada and my mother had
Speaker 7: given me a brown bear rug like complete with the
Speaker 7: six inch claws and the whole thing. I put that
Speaker 7: in my checked baggage inside.
Speaker 3: Of a ninety like in a suit bag.
Speaker 7: I also have a box of quilts I got pulled aside.
Speaker 7: They opened up the box of quilts, so there's nothing.
Speaker 5: They let me go.
Speaker 7: There's a win.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh, Canada has up.
Speaker 1: I love how she got crazy with her quilts. A
Speaker 1: couple things. The number of people who talk to us
Speaker 1: when they're at a turn because I can hear their
Speaker 1: blinker is a lot, or they've pulled over or they've
Speaker 1: pulled over.
Speaker 4: How about that?
Speaker 3: Very safe?
Speaker 1: This very safe and responsible. The other thing is the bear.
Speaker 1: The bear rug had six claws, six inch claws. Oh
Speaker 1: I thought she said six claws, and I started going
Speaker 1: into my bear anatomy brain and I did not find
Speaker 1: six claws in there.
Speaker 2: Should be on the first page of that bear anatomy, right,
Speaker 2: I was very confused.
Speaker 12: Wine Gary and Shannon John down in Orange County. It
Speaker 12: wasn't an airline bag. It was one of my bags
Speaker 12: coming back from a cruise to Mexico. I was eighteen
Speaker 12: years old, with my family and family friend and some
Speaker 12: other friends.
Speaker 3: I ended up spending quite a bit of money.
Speaker 12: On M eighty's and one thousands and one hundred words
Speaker 12: and everything else.
Speaker 5: It's illegal.
Speaker 3: Packed it in my bag.
Speaker 12: Someone told me they might search it, so I put
Speaker 12: a bunch of dirty clothes on top of it. Went
Speaker 12: through security, told him its dirty clothes, No problem.
Speaker 4: Jean, That's so gross, but smart.
Speaker 3: That is an interesting tip.
Speaker 2: When I flew into Haiti a couple of times, you know,
Speaker 2: just for fun, they go through just about everybody's bag.
Speaker 1: And because everything is so pristine and perfect, perfect.
Speaker 2: I don't know what they were looking for or what
Speaker 2: they think I'm going to bring in that doesn't already exist.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: The truth of it is is they they'll find electronics
Speaker 2: or something and they'll go you know what, it's probably
Speaker 2: illegal for you to have this, I should take.
Speaker 3: It something like that.
Speaker 2: Sure, if you hide it in a tampon box, they
Speaker 2: won't touch it.
Speaker 1: I've noticed that with the football games. If you hide
Speaker 1: vodka and a tampon container, yep, you're good.
Speaker 5: And the wordest thing I ever traveled with was a
Speaker 5: bed of nails because we used it with our extreme team.
Speaker 5: If you remember who I am there and coming out
Speaker 5: of Kenya one time, as I went in and it
Speaker 5: was in a regular Santsinai suitcase, both sides and I
Speaker 5: had guns drawn on me because they thought it was
Speaker 5: something weird, like maybe a bomb, because it was like
Speaker 5: hundreds of nails through boards. And that was probably the
Speaker 5: strangest thing I've ever traveled with.
Speaker 3: So there you go. Where was that show Kenya Kenya?
Speaker 4: Is he saying he was part of like Extreme Makeover
Speaker 4: or something?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: No, I think it was a demonstration team of.
Speaker 2: Some kind, like I lie on a bed of nails
Speaker 2: and don't get punk out.
Speaker 11: Icyy I see Hey, Gary and Shannon Patrician and San
Speaker 11: Pedro love your guys' show. You're knocking it out of
Speaker 11: the park as always, Thank you. I remember coming back
Speaker 11: from Hawaii as a kid like six or seven years old,
Speaker 11: and my parents got busted at Lax were smuggling in
Speaker 11: pineapples and coconuts from over there. Keep it going, love.
Speaker 3: You guys, have a great day.
Speaker 11: Bye.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Fruit so very odd you get popped for an apple sometimes?
Speaker 3: Can't you get pineapple?
Speaker 2: I mean, I know, yes, I know it's not the same,
Speaker 2: but you can get pineapple here.
Speaker 3: Why I run the risk.
Speaker 4: I don't think they thought that there was a law
Speaker 4: against that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 13: I packed a disassembled Chevy automobile transmission into my two bags,
Speaker 13: and then I took the case and wrapped it up
Speaker 13: in a big old piece of cardboard and set it
Speaker 13: on top of the two check bags and sent that
Speaker 13: all in. Once the case was wrapped, it kind of
Speaker 13: looked like a gigantic turkey. But it went through and
Speaker 13: now I have a transmission that's.
Speaker 3: Just heavy at that point. That's the other part about it.
Speaker 3: We'll revisit.
Speaker 2: So if you if you had crazy things that you
Speaker 2: have checked in your bags, taken on an airplane, et cetera,
Speaker 2: let us know what they were.
Speaker 3: Use the talkback feature on the iHeart app.
Speaker 4: We have a fascinating community here on the Gary and
Speaker 4: Shannon Show. A lot of crazy people got ash. We
Speaker 4: didn't get to the dead.
Speaker 3: Oh did joean me to play that one? Yeah? All right,
Speaker 3: I think this is the coup de gral.
Speaker 7: I hesitate to say this, but I have an acquaintance
Speaker 7: that brought their dead baby back from a South American
Speaker 7: country because it was too difficult to process the situation
Speaker 7: in the regular way.
Speaker 2: That had to be before they were regularly x raying bags.
Speaker 1: Has anyone ever referred to a dead baby as the
Speaker 1: coudi gras is my question?
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