WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.839 AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:07.879 on the iHeartRadio app. I have. 4 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:12.759 French First Lady News. 5 00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:15.919 Oh okay, this is the cradle Robber. 6 00:00:16.399 --> 00:00:20.199 Yes, Brigitte Macron one in court today. 7 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:22.640 Did they know she was even in court? Probably not? 8 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:24.839 Is this some sort of slander libel defamation? 9 00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:25.640 Yes, it is. 10 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:26.039 Okay. 11 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:30.239 A court has ordered two women to pay eight thousand 12 00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:35.479 euros in damages to Brigitte Macron after they were making 13 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:39.640 claims that she was born a man man. 14 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:42.600 I did see this, Yeah, I did see this a 15 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:46.320 few weeks ago. Why would you even spend one second 16 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:46.679 with that? 17 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:49.439 Why that would be I don't know. She filed this 18 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:51.640 libel complaint against these two women. They had posted a 19 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:54.920 YouTube video in December of twenty twenty one alleging that 20 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:58.920 Brigitte had once been a man named Jean Michel. The 21 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:04.400 claim went just before the election in France, and posts 22 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:08.439 spread on social media claiming that Brigitte Treneux, before she 23 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:11.719 was married, had never existed and that her brother Jean Michelle, 24 00:01:12.079 --> 00:01:17.040 had actually changed gender and assumed the Brigitte identity. 25 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:17.760 Bump bump bump. 26 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:21.280 Paris court sentenced these two defendants to pay eight thousand 27 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:26.680 euros to Brigitte and to her actual living brother, Jean 28 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:28.480 Michel Trujaneau. 29 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:38.000 We are such a dumb people. I love it. Chris Shauble. 30 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:41.000 You got to give it to Chris shaubel KTLA because 31 00:01:41.079 --> 00:01:43.599 remember when he went viral years ago when he's like 32 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:46.920 getting under the desk at earthquake and you know, diving, 33 00:01:46.959 --> 00:01:48.400 and he looks all, oh that was. 34 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:50.239 The that was the earthquake face. 35 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:53.920 Yeah, yeah, and he just got so much crap for it. 36 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:56.560 He owned it. He flipped that, and now every time 37 00:01:56.599 --> 00:01:59.560 there's like the smallest earthquake he reposts that. 38 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:02.200 Meme of he has a great sense of hearing, he does. 39 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:03.159 I love him. 40 00:02:03.519 --> 00:02:06.079 Sports wise, Dodgers beat the Cubs ten to eight last night. 41 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:09.039 They played tomorrow in Atlanta. The Twins beat the Angel 42 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:11.360 six to four, and the Angel will host the Astros tonight, 43 00:02:11.439 --> 00:02:13.039 of course, Thursday Night Football. 44 00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:17.680 Matt who's playing at Thursday Night Football tonight? Dolphins? Dolphins. 45 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:19.599 Yeah, and you know he's a fan because he didn't 46 00:02:19.639 --> 00:02:21.919 say Dolphins, he said Finns. 47 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:25.039 You should have seen how pissed girls in Miami. 48 00:02:25.080 --> 00:02:27.240 You should have seen how pissed Matt got when Tyreek 49 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:29.719 Hill got detained. Did you hear about this? 50 00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:32.919 I heard about Tyreek, I didn't hear about Matt. My gosh, 51 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:33.879 he lost it. 52 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:35.719 I bet hit the freaking roof. 53 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:37.639 But he had a good game, Matt. He had a 54 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:38.479 good game after that. 55 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:42.479 So who expects Tyreek Hill to follow the speed limit? 56 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:44.599 It does not just seem off bright. 57 00:02:44.719 --> 00:02:45.639 Now that's a good point. 58 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:48.759 That's that should have been his argument rather than could 59 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:49.759 you just give me my ticket? 60 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:50.800 I got a game to go to. 61 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:53.840 Did you also hear about the eating of the pets 62 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:55.879 in Ohio? 63 00:02:55.479 --> 00:02:59.800 I will say this. I will say this, like. 64 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:03.240 Look at the memes cats with like ar fifteens. They're 65 00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:04.400 protecting themselves. 66 00:03:04.919 --> 00:03:06.280 I mean it's incredible. 67 00:03:06.759 --> 00:03:09.719 This is like the good side of AI is you know, 68 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:12.360 Donald Trump with a cat under each arm, like running 69 00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:14.879 from the Haitian immigrants. And I mean, I'm here for 70 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:16.960 all of it. And I realized that, you know, we 71 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:20.719 shouldn't be making fun of something that people legitimately believe 72 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:24.479 is happening, and that it's a dangerous narrative. But I 73 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:26.960 am here for all of the AI and the cats 74 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:29.000 that are armed in a riot gear. 75 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:37.439 I intentionally avoided even the the the deep dive into that, 76 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:44.080 but I will say this, it is very common knowledge 77 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:53.360 that cats do not have long lifespans in Haiti, well known, 78 00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:54.960 very common. 79 00:03:55.560 --> 00:03:57.120 Now that's not Springfield, Ohio. 80 00:03:57.400 --> 00:03:58.360 You're adding to the. 81 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:00.240 I know, I am, but. 82 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:04.080 I'm just saying it's it's pretty common knowledge that in 83 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:09.360 that country, when Haitians are in Haiti, not Springfield, Ohio, 84 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:13.520 that they sometimes, I mean, they don't have pet cats 85 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:16.399 like we do. We don't mister bumber Puss and stuff. 86 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:19.560 But mister bumber Puss, we haven't talked about him in 87 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:20.079 a long time. 88 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:21.439 I apologize. 89 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:24.319 In Biractar, yeah, and Space Wars in general. 90 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:26.120 Really and our ratings have shot through the room. 91 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:29.040 They really have. Okay, so you know how I'm in 92 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:32.920 the porn football algorithm. 93 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:37.319 Uh wow, that's I have a because our phones are listening. 94 00:04:37.439 --> 00:04:38.560 So that was a joke. 95 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:42.000 But uh so I am in deep into the sports 96 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:45.480 football specifically algorithm. I realize that it's I get all 97 00:04:45.480 --> 00:04:47.800 the news all the time. It pings me, it says 98 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:50.480 news for you, that whole bit. But there are people 99 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:53.040 who are in a different algorithm and it is either 100 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:56.000 like the far left or the far right echo chamber. 101 00:04:56.600 --> 00:04:59.480 I had this this eating animals thing was not on 102 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:03.000 my radar until one of my friends who does dabble 103 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:07.000 in the far right, conspiracy theory and algorithms. She's big 104 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:10.759 Trump supporter, and she says to me, yeah, do you 105 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:13.639 hear the thing about the Haitian immigrants in Ohio and 106 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:16.800 they're eating the pets? And I said, what the hell 107 00:05:16.839 --> 00:05:19.279 are you talking about? I mean, I would never have 108 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:21.839 hit my radar. It would and so it would have 109 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:23.959 come up during the debate and I would have been like, 110 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:26.199 what the hell is he talking about? But since it 111 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:29.360 hit my radar the day before, I had a little 112 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:31.319 bit of a heads up, and I'm like, he's going 113 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:33.600 for he's doubling down on this, and there's one. 114 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:35.920 I mean, listen, the social media companies know exactly what 115 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:37.920 they're doing when they set up their algorithms. They're going 116 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:39.399 to feed you the stuff that's going to keep you. 117 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:40.040 On there longer. 118 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:42.959 They're going to entice you, they're gonna tickle that lizard brain. 119 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:45.000 The far left stuff is just as crazy. 120 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:45.920 It's just as crazy. 121 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:49.240 The problem is we don't realize there's too many of 122 00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:53.920 us who donot realize it's they're force feeding you this 123 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:57.920 stuff and they're intentionally not showing you the other side 124 00:05:57.959 --> 00:06:00.879 of that story, whatever story it happens to be. I mean, 125 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:05.240 there's I'm sure that the law enforcement twitter world took 126 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:07.639 the tyreek Hill arrest a whole lot differently. 127 00:06:07.240 --> 00:06:07.920 Than Matt did. 128 00:06:08.279 --> 00:06:11.160 Well, actually, Tam sorry, he wasn't arrested, he was detained. 129 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:14.519 I have a lot of cop friends, and one of 130 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:18.199 the ones that I highly respected. I respect all of them, 131 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:22.040 but they're real smart guy too, and he came down 132 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:25.160 on the side of everyone. Everyone overreacted in that, you know, 133 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:27.639 Tyreek Hill should have rolled down the tinted window. The 134 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:31.160 officers one hundred percent have the right to be safe 135 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:33.319 during a stop like this and not to see what's 136 00:06:33.319 --> 00:06:34.879 going on in the car is asinine. 137 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:36.600 But they also were. 138 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:40.519 Too hot headed, the officers, and they were too you know, 139 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:44.680 egotistical and the whole bit, and got to just treated 140 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:47.560 it the wrong way. All my cop friends have said 141 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:50.079 that that it was just guys with the hot heads, 142 00:06:50.839 --> 00:06:52.839 but but that tyreek Hill wasn't the wrong as well. 143 00:06:53.040 --> 00:06:57.439 Speaking of hot heads, what the fires that are burning? 144 00:06:57.720 --> 00:06:59.120 Oh right, I was just gonna update. 145 00:06:59.480 --> 00:07:01.759 We got wrapped up to mister bumber Puss. 146 00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:05.319 The airport the Bridge fire, of course, is the biggest fire. 147 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:07.959 They're saying it's the largest active fire that's burning in 148 00:07:07.959 --> 00:07:10.399 the state of California, at least active in that it's 149 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:13.199 not contained in any way right now. So it's at 150 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:16.079 fifty one one hundred and sixty seven acres. We heard 151 00:07:16.120 --> 00:07:18.879 from Blake Trolley out been out on the fire lines. 152 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:22.439 He was out with Cruise yesterday. That is the largest. 153 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:25.040 The airport fire, and Orange and Riverside Counties is at 154 00:07:25.079 --> 00:07:29.199 about twenty three thousand acres. The line fire San Bernardino 155 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:32.360 County thirty seven thousand acres. All of that going on, 156 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:36.319 we had two, I guess you could say relatively strong earthquakes. 157 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:39.399 One was a four point seven magnitude quake this morning 158 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:43.480 right along Pacific Coast in Malibu, about seven thirty, like 159 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:46.680 I said, and then just about two let's see, nine 160 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:49.360 to thirty seven hour time, there was a three point 161 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:52.920 four aftershock to that one. So there's been a bunch 162 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:55.319 of aftershocks in Malibu, but they're you know, to two 163 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:57.560 point four, you're probably not going to feel them. Not 164 00:07:57.600 --> 00:07:59.199 here in Critos we're having too much fun. 165 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:05.720 Some of these cats do kind of look like what 166 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:10.720 I decided would be mister bumber Puss, you know, because 167 00:08:10.759 --> 00:08:13.600 they're walking like on two legs, and they're armed, and 168 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:15.319 they're in camo and they're. 169 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:17.480 They're badass badasses. 170 00:08:17.079 --> 00:08:18.040 Like bumber Puss. 171 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:18.639 We'll be here. 172 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:22.040 Until one o'clock today, semi normal show. 173 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:23.240 I had this really set. 174 00:08:23.279 --> 00:08:25.079 Can I bring the house down for a second, this 175 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:29.399 really sad realization. Yeah, two years ago I was out 176 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:31.319 on I had taken a few days off and I 177 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:34.320 came back. The first day back was that was at 178 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:36.679 a news and Bruce like, oh, I remember that. 179 00:08:36.679 --> 00:08:39.720 That was awful. And it was after my mom died. Right, 180 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:41.600 this is a much happier occasion. 181 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:45.879 I was so worried about you that day because well, yeah, 182 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:50.360 it was really fresh and raw and my gosh. 183 00:08:49.919 --> 00:08:53.120 Everything's fine. Now we're all fine. She's still gone, She's 184 00:08:53.159 --> 00:08:53.679 still gone. 185 00:08:53.759 --> 00:08:56.440 Yes, I mean, she didn't get better, my god. But 186 00:08:57.200 --> 00:08:59.639 thanks everybody for coming out. A couple of stories that 187 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:02.840 we are following today. Hurricane Franz Scene of course, made 188 00:09:02.879 --> 00:09:06.200 landfall yesterday as a Category two. There's still about four 189 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:11.440 hundred thousand or so people without power in Louisiana, Mississippi, 190 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:16.240 and Alabama. Homeland Security officials have now designated the electoral 191 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:21.799 College vote count and certification as a special National Security Event, 192 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:24.840 which means that the Secret Service will be in charge 193 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:29.000 of security surrounding that whole process. That's like the Super Bowl, 194 00:09:29.080 --> 00:09:31.720 an inauguration, a nominating convention, etc. 195 00:09:32.200 --> 00:09:34.559 We have some causes near and dear to our hearts. 196 00:09:34.759 --> 00:09:39.480 The Ben Carlson Foundation is one of them, and we 197 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:43.720 have Mark Shoeline here with us today from the foundation 198 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:45.399 and Mark, thanks for coming out. 199 00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:46.600 Oh my gosh, thanks for having me. 200 00:09:46.600 --> 00:09:47.159 This so cool. 201 00:09:47.399 --> 00:09:50.200 So we've got the ninth annual Ben Did Go paddle 202 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:54.039 out on Saturday. Can you explain first of all Ben's 203 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:55.440 story for people who don't know it? 204 00:09:55.639 --> 00:09:56.559 Sure, absolutely so. 205 00:09:56.679 --> 00:10:00.720 Ben Carlson was a lifeguard in Newport Beach and he 206 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:03.799 made his final rescue in July of twenty fourteen. So 207 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:05.960 we just had the ten year anniversary of losing Ben 208 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:09.039 in service. He was the only lifeguard to lose his 209 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:11.120 life in the line of duty in Newport Beach one 210 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:14.200 hundred year history of having a lifeguard service, and the 211 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:17.679 incredible outpouring from the community has been amazing and one 212 00:10:17.720 --> 00:10:20.120 of the big celebratory events that we do. This is 213 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:24.039 the ninth year of this Ben Did Go Paddle in 214 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:27.799 honor of Ben Carlson and supporting the Ben Carlson Foundation, 215 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:30.080 which does incredible work primarily. 216 00:10:29.559 --> 00:10:32.200 Around water safety and drowning prevention. 217 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:34.519 And so I can go into all the details about 218 00:10:34.519 --> 00:10:36.840 this amazing paddle, but you're gonna have one hundred people, 219 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:40.399 get this, one hundred people. One hundred people paddling from 220 00:10:40.519 --> 00:10:45.159 Avalon to Newport Beach Pier thirty miles, all individually. And 221 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:47.799 this is paddling prone or traditional paddleboard. So you're paddling 222 00:10:47.840 --> 00:10:50.600 like a surfboard on a twelve or fourteen foot board 223 00:10:51.159 --> 00:10:55.120 thirty miles. It's a slow craft. It's a difficult task. 224 00:10:55.159 --> 00:10:55.679 Have you done it? 225 00:10:55.720 --> 00:10:56.759 I've done it quite a few times. 226 00:10:56.799 --> 00:10:58.399 Okay, So how do you prepare for that? 227 00:10:58.519 --> 00:10:58.600 Like? 228 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:00.879 Does my arms hurt thinking of to have a marathon 229 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:04.399 with just your arms, with your shoulders, and I mean, Gary. 230 00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:05.799 Just nailed it. It's a marathon with your arms. And 231 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:07.879 I always say that the difference between running a marathon 232 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:11.039 is if you stop walking or stop running, you can walk, 233 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:12.399 you can sit down, you can call an uber. 234 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:15.159 Right if you stop paddling. You're a booie. 235 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:16.679 Yeah, and you don't want to be. 236 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:18.720 A booie out in the middle of the Catalina Channel. 237 00:11:18.879 --> 00:11:20.039 But yeah, it's listen. 238 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:21.519 You can train for any. 239 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:23.519 Lot of planks, a lot of planks. 240 00:11:23.639 --> 00:11:25.960 Yeah. What's incredible is the kind of people that come out. 241 00:11:25.960 --> 00:11:27.480 So we have not only do we have lifeguards to 242 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:28.960 come out and do it, and surfers that come out 243 00:11:29.000 --> 00:11:31.480 and do it and retired lifeguards, but we have some 244 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:34.320 women doing it this year. We always have some women lifeguards, 245 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:36.519 but we have four women we call them, they call 246 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:40.159 themselves the vessel Vixen. These are four call them yoga 247 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:43.600 moms and their forties and beyond forties that decided this 248 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:45.799 year that they wanted to pandl paddle this channel and 249 00:11:45.879 --> 00:11:48.679 honor the Van Carlson Foundation. And they've been training harder 250 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:51.279 than anyone and they will they will get it done. 251 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:54.399 These women have been working their tails off and they're 252 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:56.480 gonna paddle thirty miles across the channel on Saturday. 253 00:11:56.559 --> 00:11:58.399 Oh that's so cool. We should get them on next week. 254 00:11:58.440 --> 00:11:59.360 Yeah, you should, for sure. 255 00:11:59.399 --> 00:12:00.919 They're awesome. That would be great. 256 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:04.360 So when you do this, obviously as a fundraiser. You 257 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:06.559 mentioned some of these programs. What are what are the programs? 258 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:07.480 Where does the money go to? 259 00:12:07.639 --> 00:12:07.879 Sure? 260 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:10.840 So we would always say that it goes towards water 261 00:12:11.320 --> 00:12:15.679 and drownding prevention locally, nationally, and internationally. So we work 262 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:19.720 with the local lifeguard organizations, including the Newport Beach Junior 263 00:12:19.720 --> 00:12:25.960 Guard Group, which is an incredible organization. We support underprivileged 264 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:32.000 or undersupported lifeguard organizations internationally, some in Mexico, in Nicaragua 265 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:36.440 and elsewhere. We provide literature and training and education to 266 00:12:36.480 --> 00:12:40.000 different groups. So the Ben Carlson Foundation is really in capture, 267 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:43.600 encapsulates and captures the memory of Ben Carlson, who was 268 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:47.519 an incredible leader in the lifeguard ranks and an athlete 269 00:12:47.559 --> 00:12:50.559 and just doing good in the world of water and safety. 270 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:51.279 Were you friends? 271 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:54.159 I wasn't, but so many people in my community. I've 272 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:56.000 lived in Newport and when he passed, it was like 273 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:57.039 the whole community stopped. 274 00:12:57.159 --> 00:12:58.759 Yeah I remember that. 275 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:02.879 Yeah, And there's vote is online on the Ben Carlson 276 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:06.240 or the Ben Bencarlsonfoundation. 277 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:06.039 Dot org website. 278 00:13:06.039 --> 00:13:07.919 You can see all these incredible photos of the paddle 279 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:10.840 out when he passed of the Ben did. 280 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:15.960 Go overhead shots are incredible. From what I've learned about Ben, 281 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:19.279 he would be so stoked that this has come from 282 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:20.759 that final rescue. 283 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:22.960 For sure. There's a number of people, quite a few people. 284 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:25.080 The board of directors for the Ben Carlson Foundation is 285 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:29.600 made up of friends, family, ex lifeguards, and community like 286 00:13:29.639 --> 00:13:33.399 passionate community members. And that's what's always said, like everybody 287 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:36.480 just believes that it really represents he would be wanting 288 00:13:36.519 --> 00:13:39.279 to do this. Ben did go paddle total this weekend. 289 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:41.279 He would be the one right at the front of. 290 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:41.879 The pack, for sure. 291 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:48.519 Very cool the details of his rescue, and it is 292 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:50.519 the final rescue because the person that he was out 293 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:54.240 there to help was rescued, correct, but it. 294 00:13:54.200 --> 00:13:57.399 Was the weird circumstances of the power of the ocean. 295 00:13:57.519 --> 00:13:58.320 A wave hit him. 296 00:13:59.480 --> 00:14:01.480 The person that was being rescued was able to come 297 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:03.919 back to the surface, and Ben wasn't. I mean, it's 298 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:07.080 just in reading the details of it and like Shannon said, 299 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:11.320 remembering some of the feeling of it when it happened. 300 00:14:10.919 --> 00:14:11.840 From ten years ago. 301 00:14:12.960 --> 00:14:15.000 It was the testament that even the people that work 302 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:17.720 on the ocean all day every day, I mean, this 303 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:20.279 is their passion, this is what they do, there's still 304 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:21.000 something about it. 305 00:14:21.039 --> 00:14:22.639 You'll never be able to control that. 306 00:14:22.679 --> 00:14:24.919 You'll never be able to You'll never gain the upper 307 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:27.200 hand on something as powerful as the ocean. 308 00:14:27.440 --> 00:14:31.000 And yes, absolutely that day was unlike anything that we 309 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:33.639 can remember from an ocean in Newport Beach, from waves 310 00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:36.120 and everything. But it also shines to light to your point, Gary, 311 00:14:36.159 --> 00:14:41.799 that regardless of your skill and your abilities in the ocean, 312 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:45.720 because Ben Carlson was like the elite elite, and Spencer 313 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:47.960 Purdy who puts on he was the one that created 314 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:52.720 that Ben did go. In his good friend's memory, his 315 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:55.679 quote is always this, when he heard that Ben Carlson 316 00:14:55.720 --> 00:14:57.720 had died, it was like hearing that Superman had died. 317 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:00.840 That's the regard he was held in and still to 318 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:04.080 this day. And so we really celebrate Ben's memory through 319 00:15:04.120 --> 00:15:06.440 the Ben Carlson Foundation, all the good that it does. 320 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:09.200 And then kind of the cherry on top is we'll 321 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:11.320 have one hundred people paddling that Ben did go this weekend. 322 00:15:11.399 --> 00:15:15.279 That's great, wonderful. Yeah, it adds a level of shock 323 00:15:15.480 --> 00:15:18.519 to it because he was such an experienced lifeguard and swimmer. 324 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:21.480 He swam d one water polo, right. 325 00:15:21.399 --> 00:15:23.279 Yeah, d one water polo and he was also a 326 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:26.320 big wave surfer. I mean he was an incredibly accomplished waterman. 327 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:29.279 So it was, as you said, a very It speaks 328 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:31.039 to the how the conditions of the ocean were that day. 329 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:31.559 Yeah. 330 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:33.399 Well, for more about the Ben did go paddle out 331 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:36.840 and the Ben Carlson Foundation, go to Ben Carlson with 332 00:15:36.919 --> 00:15:41.159 an os O and Bencarlson Foundation dot org. 333 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:44.320 Mark show line from the Ben Carlson Foundation. Thanks so 334 00:15:44.399 --> 00:15:46.159 much for coming, Thanks so much for having me. 335 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:48.480 We will be out here in Cerritos at the Vj's 336 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:54.480 until one o'clock today, kicking off the Fall of BJ's 337 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:56.080 restaurant news embros. 338 00:15:55.600 --> 00:15:58.480 The fall of like it's an empire and it's falling. 339 00:15:58.279 --> 00:16:01.039 So the season of fall, and then we'll do a 340 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:01.639 couple of them. 341 00:16:01.919 --> 00:16:04.960 Did you hit the moonshine this morning as well? 342 00:16:05.039 --> 00:16:09.159 I thought it was toothpaste. Turned out that's not how 343 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:11.840 you brush your teeth. Figured that out. Oh the other 344 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:13.879 place I went to that I thought you might get 345 00:16:13.879 --> 00:16:14.480 a kick out of. 346 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:15.080 Yeah. 347 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:17.679 On my vacation was I went to the Salt and 348 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:19.519 Pepper Shaker Museum. 349 00:16:19.639 --> 00:16:22.519 I saw your wife's pictures from that. There was like 350 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:27.159 thousands and thousands keep going, hundreds of thousands, tens of 351 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:30.919 thousands of thousands of salt pepper shakers, and you just 352 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:33.159 you just wander around and look at the different ones. 353 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:35.519 Part of it is it entail, Yes, that's part of it. 354 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:37.360 Part of it is the I can't believe that they 355 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:40.559 made that into a salt and pepper shaker. They had 356 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:44.000 like Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, salt and pepper. 357 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:45.159 They had. 358 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:51.000 Animals of every kind, Disney characters, sports figures, sports balls 359 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:52.840 they had, I mean whatever. 360 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:55.639 You can imagine sports balls they had. 361 00:16:55.759 --> 00:16:58.480 Well one football football was the pepper and like a 362 00:16:58.519 --> 00:16:59.879 baseball was the salt shaker. 363 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:03.840 I mean they had thousands and thousands and thousands of. 364 00:17:03.879 --> 00:17:06.920 Versions of them, some of them very very expensive, and 365 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:10.519 some of them were like a Budweiser can from nineteen 366 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:12.960 seventy eight that someone had poked holes in and made 367 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:13.880 it and made into. 368 00:17:13.720 --> 00:17:16.119 A salt and pepper shake. Pretty cool, very weird stuff. 369 00:17:16.200 --> 00:17:21.319 But the other aspect of it was who's who's crazy 370 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:25.400 enough to open a salt and pepper shaker museum. 371 00:17:25.480 --> 00:17:28.119 I would go further and say, who's crazy enough to 372 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:30.599 go to said pepper? 373 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:32.519 It was three bucks? It was three bucks. 374 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:35.880 That doesn't make my concern go away. 375 00:17:36.039 --> 00:17:38.480 You get three bucks off whatever salt and paper and 376 00:17:38.519 --> 00:17:39.359 shaker you buy it. 377 00:17:39.400 --> 00:17:40.000 Do you buy some? 378 00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:42.960 No, I have salt and pepper shakers. That wasn't the issue. 379 00:17:43.240 --> 00:17:45.839 I just it was it was to see. It was 380 00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:48.599 to see this weird collection. 381 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:53.960 What are the people like in a Sultan paper pepper shaper. 382 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:56.880 The woman was very nice, but she was very adamant 383 00:17:56.920 --> 00:17:59.000 that you could not look into I mean it was 384 00:17:59.079 --> 00:18:02.240 just like an old renovated cabin that had been remade 385 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:05.759 into this museum, and she was Once you walk in, 386 00:18:05.880 --> 00:18:08.319 you get half a foot in the door and she says, 387 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:10.960 welcome to the Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum. It's going 388 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:13.240 to cost you three dollars per person to go through. 389 00:18:13.480 --> 00:18:16.839 And she was trying to almost shield you from that 390 00:18:16.920 --> 00:18:21.039 first room of dicion. She didn't want, you know, if 391 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:22.519 y'all here, y'all gonna pay for you. 392 00:18:22.680 --> 00:18:25.200 No go hitler pepper for you unless you give me 393 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:26.039 your three bucks. 394 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:28.279 And the thing that was very gratifying to me was 395 00:18:28.359 --> 00:18:31.400 it wasn't just an open floor art gallery thing where 396 00:18:31.400 --> 00:18:33.799 everybody walks around and they feel and they cross their 397 00:18:33.880 --> 00:18:35.400 arms and they look at this page. 398 00:18:35.400 --> 00:18:37.799 What do you think a salt shaker it was? 399 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:42.640 She said very clearly, Now y'all need to follow the 400 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:46.200 arrows on the floor as you walk through here, and 401 00:18:46.279 --> 00:18:49.480