Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
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Speaker 2: Retail sales slowed in April.
Speaker 3: Tariffs have been weighing on consumers or are pooled pulled
Speaker 3: forward spending on some key categories in the month of
Speaker 3: March ahead of those terraffs. So the headline retail sales
Speaker 3: rose tenths sorry, one tenth of a percent in April.
Speaker 3: It's a little bit above the expectations for sales to
Speaker 3: be flat. It's well below the one point seven increase
Speaker 3: one point seven percent that we saw in March.
Speaker 1: So you'll forgive my whiplash, but here it exists.
Speaker 4: Because the last time we had Michael Monks on from.
Speaker 1: KFI News, we were talking about La City being in
Speaker 1: such a deficit that it had to get rid of
Speaker 1: all these workers, had to lay people off left and right.
Speaker 1: And now the La City Council is turning around and
Speaker 1: telling business leaders in La you have to pay your
Speaker 1: people more. That's real rich, isn't it.
Speaker 2: That's the great irony of this.
Speaker 5: And it wasn't lost on some people who oppose this
Speaker 5: minimum wage increase. For some airport and hotel workers. In fact,
Speaker 5: a representative from the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce started his
Speaker 5: remarks to the council, look at the economic climate inside
Speaker 5: this building, inside city Hall. At this very moment, you
Speaker 5: were talking about laying off sixteen hundred workers because you yourself
Speaker 5: are not fit to pay them anymore. And that is
Speaker 5: the situation in which we find ourselves in Los Angeles.
Speaker 5: Across LA the economy is a little stagnant here. Restaurants
Speaker 5: are closing, New businesses aren't coming the way that they
Speaker 5: might have. But now, by a twelve to three vote,
Speaker 5: the city Council has in fact given the initial approval.
Speaker 5: They'll do a second vote, just more of a formality
Speaker 5: at this point, to give final approval to a raise
Speaker 5: for these workers at the airport and in hotels with
Speaker 5: sixty or more rooms up to thirty dollars an hour
Speaker 5: by twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2: Wow. And so this will be an incremental raise. It'll
Speaker 2: start in July.
Speaker 5: They'll go up to twenty two to fifty, which is
Speaker 5: modest compared to what the minimum wagh now, so it's
Speaker 5: a couple bucks more, but it's going to go up
Speaker 5: incrementally over the next few years until it reaches thirty
Speaker 5: dollars an hour.
Speaker 1: I was complaining about something at home work related to
Speaker 1: my husband. He says, well, why don't you quit and
Speaker 1: go work at a hotel near the airport? And I
Speaker 1: didn't really ask a follow up or or think about
Speaker 1: it further. But then this happened, and now I get
Speaker 1: what he was saying.
Speaker 2: It's right, so he broke news.
Speaker 4: He wrote news.
Speaker 2: I think you'd be a good waitress.
Speaker 5: You'd be a sassy wait but would you be the
Speaker 5: type of waitress that sat down at the table to
Speaker 5: take the order.
Speaker 1: She's an edge everything about you about time your meal
Speaker 1: was done. But this isn't for Is this for waitress?
Speaker 1: Wait staff as well?
Speaker 5: The interesting part of this as it relates to that
Speaker 5: specific job if you're waiting.
Speaker 1: Tex And why did I just put myself in a
Speaker 1: waitress outfit in my head from like the fifties?
Speaker 5: I wonder the only one I was gonna say. I
Speaker 5: wonder if you did the same one that was in
Speaker 5: my head.
Speaker 2: Let's all sketch, Well what we just imagine?
Speaker 4: Why did I?
Speaker 5: No, I don't want to to come down here because
Speaker 5: I don't want to have to take one of these jobs,
Speaker 5: even though the pay is more interested in this building, the.
Speaker 1: Votes don't even work. Do you know that we don't
Speaker 1: have working votes here? That's hilarious.
Speaker 2: Think about this.
Speaker 5: Let's say you work at Gary and Shannon's cafe outside
Speaker 5: of you know, Silver Lake. You're in silver Lake, a
Speaker 5: standalone building, your popular restaurant, and your servers are in there.
Speaker 2: They do not get this.
Speaker 5: But if there is a holiday in with a restaurant
Speaker 5: inside it next door, the workers inside that holiday in cafe,
Speaker 5: they do get this.
Speaker 3: Fras yes, how uh okay, how come nobody on this
Speaker 3: city council.
Speaker 2: You said it was twelve to three the vote yesterday.
Speaker 3: So there's three people who would arguably listen to this
Speaker 3: proposal by the unions, right, because that's I'm assuming where
Speaker 3: it comes from. Yes, uh, and the three of them
Speaker 3: would simply say, you're affing crazy.
Speaker 2: There's no way that we would be able to support this.
Speaker 3: There's no way that the company that own those hotels
Speaker 3: and those tourist spots, whatever they might be, there's no
Speaker 3: way that they're going to want to do this. So
Speaker 3: to protect what does exist there in that infrastructure in
Speaker 3: terms of hotels or places where this would apply we're
Speaker 3: gonna not do thirty dollars an hour because we don't
Speaker 3: want these companies to pull up and leave. We want
Speaker 3: them to maintain some sort of footprint in our city.
Speaker 2: How come it only.
Speaker 5: Was three It was on the city council members Monica Rodriguez,
Speaker 5: councilwoman Tracy Park, and Councilman John Lee who voted against this.
Speaker 5: They raised a lot of questions over the course this
Speaker 5: has been going on for months, these conversations, it was
Speaker 5: clear they were not on board with it because they
Speaker 5: were listening to the industry and it's not just.
Speaker 2: The big guys.
Speaker 5: Hilton, which it does have an important thing to consider
Speaker 5: down in Universal City not far from here, that they
Speaker 5: may stop doing, which is a major expansion, and they
Speaker 5: have an agreement with the Olympics. But they were talking
Speaker 5: about some of these all hotel ears and if you
Speaker 5: are a shop owner in the airport, you're not some
Speaker 5: big corporation and you're already struggling. This was the point
Speaker 5: that was hit really hard. The argument here is and
Speaker 5: why twenty twenty eight is the target date for it
Speaker 5: to hit its max for now is because the Olympics
Speaker 5: are coming and we're the people on the front line
Speaker 5: and making sure all of these visitors have a great time.
Speaker 2: And by the way, the Olympics aren't forever.
Speaker 5: They're two and a half weeks long, so this is
Speaker 5: something that will last beyond the Olympics. But tourism right
Speaker 5: now and business right now, it's not just bad, it's
Speaker 5: getting worse.
Speaker 6: Then.
Speaker 1: Those businesses that they're targeting are struggling more than usual.
Speaker 5: And they have data to prove that. So they heard
Speaker 5: from the CEO of the LA Tourism Board who came
Speaker 5: in and gave statistics. It's not just international travel that's down.
Speaker 5: I know that's been tied to the White House and
Speaker 5: some of the rhetoric and maybe the tariffs and all
Speaker 5: of that, but domestic travel from some of the key
Speaker 5: markets that they identified, New York, Miami, Washington, DC all down, down, down,
Speaker 5: And so there were I just as a guy who
Speaker 5: watches every city council meeting, including the committee meetings, they're
Speaker 5: just rarely, really never any discussion about improving the overall
Speaker 5: climate of Los Angeles to make it more.
Speaker 4: Yeah, how is this going to attract people back to LA?
Speaker 2: I don't have an answer anything.
Speaker 4: It's going to make it worse.
Speaker 2: On your face.
Speaker 3: Sorry, your look wasn't tell but the blank look, because
Speaker 3: there is no answer to it.
Speaker 1: No, no, If anything, it's gonna make it. It's gonna
Speaker 1: make it worse because these businesses holiday and for example,
Speaker 1: are going to have to pay people more. Well, where
Speaker 1: do you think they are going to pass that on to?
Speaker 1: They're going to pass it on to the people from
Speaker 1: Cleveland who come to visit.
Speaker 4: They're going to pass it on in higher room rates.
Speaker 1: They're going to pass it on in not refurbishing their
Speaker 1: hotels the way that they would have had they not
Speaker 1: been hit with this payroll tax. Essentially, I mean, it
Speaker 1: makes no sense. I'm not asking for the La City
Speaker 1: Council to suddenly make sense or be business minded people,
Speaker 1: but to me, this is like kindergarten level intelligence of
Speaker 1: how the hell do you expect this to attract more
Speaker 1: people to your city and businesses?
Speaker 6: And that?
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's it's awful and you can't even
Speaker 1: balance your own books. You're already so far in the red,
Speaker 1: and now you're telling business owners to spend more of
Speaker 1: their money that they don't have as well.
Speaker 4: I mean, it really is next level Fresno dumb for.
Speaker 1: Sorry, Kean No lovely by the way, the gateway to usemity.
Speaker 5: Really it was a little inside conversation like Madera all
Speaker 5: love the Fresno and the listeners there. Yeah, yeah, I'm
Speaker 5: sorry I started it and I apologize. I'm from Kentucky.
Speaker 5: I just picked up the ball. It was on the field.
Speaker 5: There was a fumble. I was rushing towards the goal line.
Speaker 5: I do want to note that because this this increase
Speaker 5: in pay also includes an increase in healthcare contribution.
Speaker 2: We got more than stick around.
Speaker 3: Michael Monks talking about the La City Council and the
Speaker 3: backing of a thirty dollars minimum wage for hotels, despite
Speaker 3: everybody in the tourism industry saying that's an awful idea.
Speaker 3: That is just a stupid, awful, Fontana dumb idea. You
Speaker 3: know what I changed the city?
Speaker 1: Do you know that Fresno, just to go back to
Speaker 1: the well is the raisin capital of the world.
Speaker 4: You know what sucks? Raisins?
Speaker 2: Oh they're delicious?
Speaker 4: Oh really do you love?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: I hate raisins?
Speaker 2: Did you love the California raisins and chocolate.
Speaker 4: And they're not?
Speaker 2: Oh? You get tricked by raison.
Speaker 4: I hated the California raisins.
Speaker 2: I love them, Oh, I love them.
Speaker 4: So the manipulation of children is what that was.
Speaker 2: Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 6: AM six forty.
Speaker 3: President Trump's visit through the Middle East. He's in the
Speaker 3: UAE today. Supreme Court also looking at the President's attempt
Speaker 3: to broadly enforce the executive order to limit birth right
Speaker 3: right citizenship.
Speaker 2: It's a kind of an.
Speaker 3: Unusual case in that the administration has used this birthright
Speaker 3: citizenship case to argue that federal judges should not have
Speaker 3: the authority to issue a nationwide injunction, sometimes referred to
Speaker 3: as a universal injunction.
Speaker 2: So that's one of those stories that we'll talk about.
Speaker 3: Also, a celebrity death, Maybe he didn't realize Morris died
Speaker 3: Morris the Alligator from Happy Gilmore, most notably nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 1: Most notably as opposed to what else has Morris done?
Speaker 1: Some other most notably some freelance independent gator films. Based
Speaker 1: on his growth rate and tooth loss, they said that
Speaker 1: he was at least eighty years old when he died.
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Speaker 3: I swear to God, you give me the give me
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Speaker 2: Remember, and that's when you realized that was the gator
Speaker 2: that took Chubb's hand.
Speaker 4: Thank you for taking us down memory lane. Appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Such a great movie. The sequel's coming out soon too.
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Speaker 2: That was weird? Is that why the company didn't do well?
Speaker 4: Why didn't it do well?
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Speaker 4: I really like?
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Speaker 5: Oh there was a commercial playing on the screen and
Speaker 5: you pointed at it and said.
Speaker 1: That's it's really good. I love those TVs off.
Speaker 2: The ones that face her should be turned off. Yeah,
Speaker 2: during the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Michael Monks. Wow, we're not just gonna hate on Fresnow. Hey,
Speaker 1: if you have a city you hate, let us know
Speaker 1: on the talkback teature.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 4: I want to show your math, Michael.
Speaker 2: Tell us more.
Speaker 1: Not only is there salary going to go up or
Speaker 1: their hourly rate, but also the bennies.
Speaker 2: The healthcare contribution.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 5: By twenty twenty eight, they're going to be paying about
Speaker 5: eight dollars plus an hour for these healthcare contributions. So
Speaker 5: that's a no. They're added expense for these businesses. Now,
Speaker 5: healthcare in this country can be debated all you want,
Speaker 5: but right now it is mostly provided by employers, and
Speaker 5: for these workers, they're going to see a significant increase
Speaker 5: and what they're getting. There is a proposal to make it,
Speaker 5: which I thought was strange. Tell me if I'm wrong
Speaker 5: that this is strange. Councilman Adrin Nazarian, he's the guy
Speaker 5: who got elected last year to replace Paul Krekory, and
Speaker 5: so he represents the part of the valley, and he
Speaker 5: put a motion forward suggesting that these hotel and airport
Speaker 5: workers who already have insurance through a partner or through
Speaker 5: some other means, they should be able to recoup their
Speaker 5: healthcare contributions in cash because they're using WOW, a different WOW.
Speaker 4: So we're just handing out money.
Speaker 5: That's like our company. Also, like most companies, I think
Speaker 5: these days are encouraging. Hey, if you can get healthcare
Speaker 5: through your spouse or house, please go do that.
Speaker 2: But they're not giving us the money for it.
Speaker 3: I will even go so far as to say you
Speaker 3: must tell tell them, you must tell the company if
Speaker 3: your spouse has healthcare available.
Speaker 2: You can't just not do it or not sign up.
Speaker 2: For it. You've got to and they will be very
Speaker 2: angry with you if you don't. We subject to that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we live.
Speaker 5: In an era where I mean spouses may have different
Speaker 5: health care plans because companies are like, this is too expensive.
Speaker 2: So this was not.
Speaker 5: Shot down, It did not get included in the motion
Speaker 5: that ultimately passed. But this amendment that was offered by
Speaker 5: Councilman Nazarian, which again sought to ensure hotel and airport
Speaker 5: workers could recoup in cash their healthcare payment if they
Speaker 5: already receive healthcare through a partner, spouse, or veteran plan,
Speaker 5: that has been sent to committee for further exploration, rather
Speaker 5: than just shot down outright, all right, I.
Speaker 3: Want to tie this into the Olympics, and I heard
Speaker 3: this proposal. The idea of our proposal is not the
Speaker 3: right word. Here's an idea if you want to get
Speaker 3: the city ready for the Olympics in twenty eight. We
Speaker 3: have a dry run coming up next year with the
Speaker 3: World Cup, I believe, and other big events that we
Speaker 3: regularly do. Anyway, is there a way for us or
Speaker 3: for hotels, tourists based industries to increase minimum wage for
Speaker 3: the Olympics.
Speaker 2: I don't know. The municipal law around that.
Speaker 5: It's a kind of a city attorney question probably, but
Speaker 5: if that's what their goal is as stated here, it's
Speaker 5: something that maybe could have been explored, like, hey, while
Speaker 5: these two and a half weeks are going or the
Speaker 5: months surrounding it as well, for a temporary time, you
Speaker 5: will have to pay this much because it's going to
Speaker 5: be really busy here.
Speaker 4: And why just do your job? Why do you I
Speaker 4: don't get that.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't agree with that idea of doing
Speaker 3: it just for the Olympics, but it is going to
Speaker 3: be busy and offer people over time. That's a lot
Speaker 3: of ways that a lot of the lot of time.
Speaker 3: That's the way people make extra money is they're willing
Speaker 3: to work a little.
Speaker 2: But who's checking in right now for the Olympics work?
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, did a service job it was
Speaker 1: better when it was busy or the day went by quicker.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well you should.
Speaker 1: Get paid more because it's busy at your service job.
Speaker 4: That's ridiculous.
Speaker 5: The union here Unite here Local eleven, they do. What
Speaker 5: I've learned is possible at La City Hall. I mean,
Speaker 5: if you come to La City Hall with the demand,
Speaker 5: if you stand and shout about four hundred times. You
Speaker 5: usually get what you want, and that's what happened here yesterday.
Speaker 5: You've heard a lot of that chanting, a lot of
Speaker 5: characterization of these businesses being selfish. Were CEOs and stock
Speaker 5: prices and all of that. I this as predicted by
Speaker 5: the tourism industry, the hotels, the airport workers. We also
Speaker 5: heard from the chairperson or the CEO of the of
Speaker 5: the airport board. This is going to hurt the businesses.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: It seems like it might be another step to make
Speaker 5: us not ready to even begin to be ready for
Speaker 5: the LA Olympics, and maybe we'll make a motion to
Speaker 5: move them to Fresno.
Speaker 1: When you open up circle, Monks ice Cream, Monkery.
Speaker 2: The monkeyy, I don't I don't know.
Speaker 4: That kind of monkery. The Monker a.
Speaker 2: Brand new raisin flavor, but I.
Speaker 1: Don't like raisins. Monk's Creamery, I don't like creamery.
Speaker 5: I like creamery, and I was leaning towards that, but
Speaker 5: Monk's Creamery sounds no kind of holy and I feel
Speaker 5: like I'd have to lean into that.
Speaker 4: You'd have to do rosary things.
Speaker 2: I could. I could open up next to the robes.
Speaker 2: We could have everybody dressed like monks and shave their.
Speaker 4: Heads or okay, my question before they have.
Speaker 5: We could chant at the customers, welcome to monkst Creamery like.
Speaker 4: That, Oh my god, you paid attention. Holy hell, that's
Speaker 4: the name.
Speaker 2: That's the name.
Speaker 1: Anyway, will it be in a tourism area? I wonder,
Speaker 1: because I think it won't be.
Speaker 5: Now my ice cream shot, which will probably take on
Speaker 5: more of an air of like an old time general stores,
Speaker 5: what multiple products?
Speaker 2: When ice cream will be what you go there for? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be Kentucky.
Speaker 4: Oh the Monkery.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So please come visit Covington, Kentucky in about three
Speaker 5: to five years.
Speaker 3: Thank you, as always, my pleasure. Cannackle monks from KFI News.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 6: AM six forty.
Speaker 3: Nathaniel Radamak wouldn't remember his name, but he got popped
Speaker 3: for a bunch of caught on camera road rage things
Speaker 3: where he'd hop out of his tesla with a pipe.
Speaker 2: In his hand out bak, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: So October of twenty three, after he's arrested, he's sentenced
Speaker 3: to five years in jail five years.
Speaker 2: It's a lot. He gets out in less than a year.
Speaker 2: He moves.
Speaker 3: Apparently, just got picked up last week in Honolulu for
Speaker 3: the same thing, popping out of his car road rage
Speaker 3: like it injured a mom and a daughter that were
Speaker 3: driving behind him, and so he goes to jail in Honolulu.
Speaker 3: He got the s kicked out of him in jail.
Speaker 1: Good, well, you cannot, especially if that was Is he
Speaker 1: a white guy? I do may Yes, you're gonna do
Speaker 1: that in Hawaii.
Speaker 4: Good effing luck.
Speaker 3: He was attacked by several inmates at the Halawa Correctional
Speaker 3: Facility in Honolulu and again uh in the hospital as
Speaker 3: res of the Yeah, that's not just road rage. Oh clearly,
Speaker 3: Yeah you can't. You can't. I understand road rage. I
Speaker 3: don't understand serial road rage. You have clearly got an
Speaker 3: issue if something's going on that.
Speaker 2: I love Maderra too, Shannon. I was on my way
Speaker 2: up to Chico.
Speaker 7: Stop by the.
Speaker 6: Stop on Meg you.
Speaker 1: Now you.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Shannon, not to you. This car almost hit me. Anyways,
Speaker 2: I won twelve hundred bucks on my way.
Speaker 4: Up to Chico.
Speaker 6: I had a good weekend up there.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that is like I just feel like
Speaker 1: I looked into a mirror.
Speaker 4: That is so my reaction when I'm driving, like.
Speaker 2: In the safety of the cabin, like I'm super.
Speaker 1: Cool, like I'm having a nice day. I'm talking to it,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, it's like I'll go
Speaker 1: from zero to MF for like that.
Speaker 2: How about less hate?
Speaker 6: How about times we love?
Speaker 2: I'm coming through me right now. I love this little
Speaker 2: kind of cowboy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, great mentone right next to Redlands there, Hello, Gary,
Speaker 4: Shannon Baker's field is the worst.
Speaker 3: Okay, and Maren County girls have potty mouths.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I learned that from Gary's mom, and.
Speaker 4: So did you.
Speaker 3: Should we share that story? I don't know if we've
Speaker 3: told that story in a while. We haven't told that
Speaker 3: in a long time. Okay, well then we'll okay, let's
Speaker 3: do story time.
Speaker 2: Okay, story time.
Speaker 4: I like music.
Speaker 2: Could you used to come up and reach in the pool? Sorry?
Speaker 6: Leg down?
Speaker 2: Wrong?
Speaker 4: Story time?
Speaker 6: Wrong?
Speaker 2: Story time? All right?
Speaker 3: So there was a day and I used to anchor
Speaker 3: the news in the morning, and Shannon used to anchor
Speaker 3: the news in the afternoons here on KFI, and I
Speaker 3: don't even remember.
Speaker 4: The it's a different time. It was a simpler too.
Speaker 3: It was this very, very simple I don't remember the
Speaker 3: context of even the message.
Speaker 6: I do.
Speaker 1: I forgot or I read a traffic brought to you
Speaker 1: by such and such and you texted me and said
Speaker 1: such and such has an advertised for a year and
Speaker 1: a half. I was giving you crap for a simple mistake.
Speaker 1: It wasn't giving me crap. It was correcting something that
Speaker 1: you should have corrected if you heard it.
Speaker 2: Okay, I was also giving you a little crap for
Speaker 2: a mistake.
Speaker 4: Oh, I didn't take it that way.
Speaker 1: I just took it as I'm such an idiot, Like
Speaker 1: why did I say that he's right, I'm wrong.
Speaker 4: That's how I took it.
Speaker 1: But when I responded to that text message, I wrote
Speaker 1: back something like I'm such an fing.
Speaker 3: It was a very self deprecating message, taking responsibility for
Speaker 3: the mistake that was made.
Speaker 7: It was.
Speaker 1: With a lot of profanity because I was upset with
Speaker 1: myself and who lets their mother and I had no
Speaker 1: idea that grown men let their mothers read their text messages.
Speaker 2: It was a voicemail.
Speaker 1: It was not a voicemail positive positive, It was a
Speaker 1: text message.
Speaker 3: Well, then that makes me look like a big dummy anyway,
Speaker 3: because we were driving my mother, I know exactly where
Speaker 3: we were on I five also, and my phone buzzed
Speaker 3: like a message had come in, and I saw that
Speaker 3: it said the word Shannon.
Speaker 2: So I also have a woman that I live with
Speaker 2: whose name is Shannon.
Speaker 3: And I picked up the phone and basically said, could
Speaker 3: you like, what is this message? Are we supposed to
Speaker 3: pick something up on the way home or something like that?
Speaker 3: My mom said, I'm such a oh.
Speaker 2: Who is this? This? Who this is has a potty mouth?
Speaker 4: And then you threw me right under that rolling bus.
Speaker 2: Well, I didn't want that's.
Speaker 4: Shannon from work. I don't want her to think what
Speaker 4: was my wife? No, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be involved in a relationship with a woman
Speaker 1: like this.
Speaker 2: Oh what a dirt, dirty mouth hustle.
Speaker 1: Well, he said, that's Shannon from work and your mom's
Speaker 1: and you said, she is from Nevado.
Speaker 4: She you know, she's from one town over.
Speaker 1: And your mother said, those marine girls and explains it.
Speaker 1: That explains it. They are potty mouth girls.
Speaker 2: And then she threw my phone out the window.
Speaker 1: And then you invited me to her home where that's
Speaker 1: all I could think about. She believes that redemption as well.
Speaker 1: She was perfectly loved. I wanted to give you the
Speaker 1: I didn't say I almost just said the word just now.
Speaker 1: I didn't say f one time when I was at
Speaker 1: your parents house.
Speaker 2: Did I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't think I did. I don't think I did.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't. I would not.
Speaker 2: You would have been on your back.
Speaker 4: I was on best behavior, yeah, like best best.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you need to redeem yourself, all right. Coming back, How.
Speaker 1: What if your wife had texted you something like when
Speaker 1: you get home, Donnie's style it's on.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not doing that anymore. Oh hot
Speaker 2: monkey love. Then whatever it is you guys call it.
Speaker 2: I don't know what you would.
Speaker 1: I just think in the future, maybe don't hand your
Speaker 1: phone willy nilly to your mom.
Speaker 2: That was probably the first and last time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and there's a reason on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Coming back, how cartels are using banks here to launder money?
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Speaker 3: President Trump said he wasn't surprised that Vladimir Putin didn't
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Speaker 1: Karen Reid's murder retrial is back on her way there
Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. Yesterday, the jury heard testimony from the fourteen
Speaker 1: year old niece of John O'Keefe, who lived with him
Speaker 1: for several years after her parents died. Teenager told jurors
Speaker 1: the last few weeks of their uncle's relationship with Karen
Speaker 1: included frequent verbal arguments and increasing tension. Karen Reid accused
Speaker 1: of hitting him with her SUV after a night of
Speaker 1: drinking and leaving him to die in the snow. Her
Speaker 1: lawyers say she's innocent and is being framed for O'Keefe's
Speaker 1: murderer at the hands of.
Speaker 4: His cop buddies.
Speaker 3: Sold jud and we've been following, of course, the Yushan
Speaker 3: did he Combe's federal trial. There's been a new lawsuit
Speaker 3: file against him while this trial continues. A woman going
Speaker 3: by Jane Doe.
Speaker 4: Final lawsuit tittsi roll lawsuit.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: She says that he raped her, but she was relieved
Speaker 3: when she saw the size of his manhood because quote,
Speaker 3: she knew it wouldn't hurt. The woman described the two
Speaker 3: thousand and one attack in Diddy's apartment and claimed that
Speaker 3: the manhood, according to the lawsuit, appeared to be the
Speaker 3: size of a TUTSI roll.
Speaker 1: I could not hear any of this and have lived
Speaker 1: a much better life.
Speaker 2: That's what do you think?
Speaker 7: Hey, Gary, this is Zach from Santa Barbara. Well, actually
Speaker 7: live in Lompoc now live in Sending as you know,
Speaker 7: Builton area north of Santa Barbara for like seven years.
Speaker 7: But I agree with some of these guys. Baker's Field's
Speaker 7: the worst. But Lombpoke I think takes the cake. He
Speaker 7: got homeless hopping the fence into your backyard to steal stuff.
Speaker 7: Literally while you're in your house watching these guys hop
Speaker 7: the fence into your backyard.
Speaker 5: So I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3: That was Yeah, we're gonna get to do the best
Speaker 3: cities in California if anybody has, Yeah, the best unknown cities.
Speaker 2: How's that little one?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's a good idea everybody likes.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to get to this missing camper story
Speaker 1: in the next hour. A woman found alive after being
Speaker 1: missing in the woods for three weeks in uh, wait
Speaker 1: for it, Fresno County.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: There is a very well put together article in the
Speaker 3: Wall Street Journal about the amount of money that is
Speaker 3: being laundered through banks in the United States.
Speaker 4: It's not shocking at all.
Speaker 3: Well, it's it's a strange the crime bring crime makes
Speaker 3: strange bedfellows. On the one hand, you've got the Sineloa
Speaker 3: drug cartel, right, they they are responsible for a lot
Speaker 3: of drug trafficking all out all throughout North America that
Speaker 3: brings them the ill gotten money.
Speaker 4: There are also the Chinese.
Speaker 2: The Chinese.
Speaker 3: There are rules about how much money China can buy
Speaker 3: each year and four in currency. China actually restricts its
Speaker 3: citizens from buying more than fifty thousand dollars a year
Speaker 3: in foreign currency, so.
Speaker 4: They buy homes.
Speaker 3: The Chinese have to rely on black market money exchanges
Speaker 3: to move tens of billions of dollars out of China.
Speaker 3: Here's where you get some entrepreneur who is interested in
Speaker 3: joining these two worlds. Ci Jiang is a guy that
Speaker 3: federal prosecutors alleged is that middleman.
Speaker 4: I like your label as entrepreneur.
Speaker 2: Entrepreneur. He sees a problem and he's there to all
Speaker 2: fix it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: So what he does is, according to federal prosecutors, takes money.
Speaker 2: I shouldn't say takes.
Speaker 3: He literally buys cash from the Sinaloa cartels, sells that cash.
Speaker 3: He buys it at a discount, he sells it at
Speaker 3: a markup to Chinese nationals, and these Chinese nationals then
Speaker 3: get to go and deposit that in different banks throughout
Speaker 3: southern California and the rest of the country. And I
Speaker 3: mean the big ones. These aren't just go to They're
Speaker 3: not just going to little Credit Union and dropping ten grand.
Speaker 3: They're doing eleven, fifteen, twenty thousand dollars at a pop sometimes,
Speaker 3: which I don't know if they know this, but that
Speaker 3: raises a red flag. Anytime you deposit or transfer more
Speaker 3: than ten thousand dollars, a bank has to mark that.
Speaker 3: That's not necessarily gonna mean that they investigate it every
Speaker 3: single time you do that, but that they do have
Speaker 3: to report something of that size to the federal government.
Speaker 3: There isdea task force along with local, federal, state level
Speaker 3: law enforcement that has been investigating this, and for the
Speaker 3: most part, they say banks themselves are not on the
Speaker 3: hook for this. Banks themselves are only doing what they're
Speaker 3: supposed to be doing. There have been a couple of
Speaker 3: banks that have been popped for not doing more to
Speaker 3: secure this. TD Bank, for example, had to pay penalties
Speaker 3: for what they said were lax internal systems that allowed
Speaker 3: the money laundering operations in the Flushing neighborhood in Queens,
Speaker 3: New York. They were allowing more than four hundred and
Speaker 3: seventy million dollars in illicit cash through the TD branches
Speaker 3: in New York and Jersey and in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: The Supreme Court has heard oral arguments today on the
Speaker 1: legality of Trump's executive order restricting birthright citizenship, and it
Speaker 1: looks like the Supreme Court is suggesting it will not
Speaker 1: allow Trump's ban. We will get into the details and
Speaker 1: what you need to know when we come back to
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