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: He'll hear about this.
Speaker 1: Because it is going to bankrupt La County for quite
Speaker 1: some time.
Speaker 2: This news just breaking this hour.
Speaker 1: LA County planning to pay four billion dollars to settle
Speaker 1: nearly seven thousand claims of childhood sexual abuse that occurred
Speaker 1: inside its juvenile facilities and foster homes allegedly. I say
Speaker 1: because this is a settlement, this is a massive settlement.
Speaker 1: It makes what happened with the Catholic Diocese Boy Scouts
Speaker 1: USC's bad guynecologists looked like peanuts essentially, and you look
Speaker 1: at Boy Scouts of America agreed to pay two point
Speaker 1: four billion. Archdiocese of LA paid about one point five billion.
Speaker 1: Member of the team doctor at Michigan State Larry Nasser,
Speaker 1: who was working on the Olympics five hundred million. There
Speaker 1: USC's gynecologists one point one billion. This is four billion dollars,
Speaker 1: more than twice of what the Archdiocese paid. Still needs
Speaker 1: to be approved by both the County Claims Board and
Speaker 1: county supervisors, and it's a billion dollars more than what
Speaker 1: they anticipated, calling it the worst case scenario to resolve
Speaker 1: a bunch of lawsuits for.
Speaker 2: Just unchecked sex abuse.
Speaker 1: The reason that this settlement is unprecedented is because of
Speaker 1: ABE twenty eighteen that was a state law in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty gives victims of childhood sexual abuse a new window
Speaker 1: to sue even though the statute of limitations has expired.
Speaker 1: We've seen this new law being used several times with
Speaker 1: individual cases, but this is massive. Four billion dollars, A
Speaker 1: lot of foster homes, a lot of juvenile halls are
Speaker 1: at the center of this one.
Speaker 2: All right, Amy King joins us.
Speaker 1: Now exciting weekend Wiggle Waggle Walk.
Speaker 2: Tell me everything, Amy, So yes, here's everything.
Speaker 3: Okay, We're getting together with some of our closest friends
Speaker 3: and actually thousands of happy dog owners, and we're going
Speaker 3: to walk around the Rose Bowl on Sunday morning.
Speaker 2: That's only two days a week, two days away.
Speaker 3: It's the Wiggle Waggle Walk and Run for Pasadena Humane
Speaker 3: And what a great way to start a day. The
Speaker 3: weather is going to be absolutely perfect. Our team now
Speaker 3: has fifty people, so that's a lot of pups and
Speaker 3: we're just a small fraction so we're super excited. Come
Speaker 3: on down and join us. Take a walk around the
Speaker 3: Rose Bowl. There's two different routes. There's a five k
Speaker 3: for the walk and run, or there's a one mile
Speaker 3: if you want to maybe if you have a little dog,
Speaker 3: you want to go a mile and whatever. Whatever you
Speaker 3: want to do is great. And we're raising money for
Speaker 3: Pasadena Humane. As we've talked about, they've done such amazing
Speaker 3: work that they do every day. And then with the
Speaker 3: eating fires, they taken over like twelve hundred animals and
Speaker 3: I went down there and got to see like they're
Speaker 3: sitting there treating the cats that have their little paws
Speaker 3: singed off from the fires and stuff. I mean, it
Speaker 3: was just like so heartbreaking, but so heartwarming that there's
Speaker 3: somebody there to help them and they're still helping them.
Speaker 3: They're boarding some of the dogs that their families have
Speaker 3: been displaced and they don't have a place to keep
Speaker 3: the dog, so Pasadena Humane is boarding them for no
Speaker 3: charge until they can reunite with their families. I mean,
Speaker 3: they're just doing great work. So that's what we're raising
Speaker 3: money for. And you can do it. Get some exercise,
Speaker 3: enjoy the sunshine, and here is how oh wait. Also
Speaker 3: the KFI booth, we have a three hundred exclusive KFI
Speaker 3: swag bags, So if you stop by the booth, you
Speaker 3: want to make sure you pick up that. There's training demonstrations,
Speaker 3: there's the dog costume contest. I heard you mention it,
Speaker 3: and yes, people dress up themselves and their dogs and
Speaker 3: they walk and it's adorable.
Speaker 2: So we're doing a whole contest with that.
Speaker 3: And then also if you stop by the KFI booth,
Speaker 3: Doctor Marty Pets has donated a bunch of stuff and
Speaker 3: Michelle put together these beautiful baskets and we're gonna raffle
Speaker 3: those off for like a five dollars donation, So come
Speaker 3: by her booth Sunday morning from eight to eleven. And
Speaker 3: the gift baskets featured Doctor Marty's Nature's Blend of course
Speaker 3: of premium freeze dried dog food made with real cuts
Speaker 3: of meat, super food, veggies and fruit to support your
Speaker 3: dog's health. So we're gonna be raffling those off. So anyway,
Speaker 3: great way to start your day. You don't even have
Speaker 3: to get up that early because it doesn't start until
Speaker 3: eight and the walk is at nine.
Speaker 1: Do dogs like those treats with all the good stuff
Speaker 1: in them? Or do dogs look at you know, fruits
Speaker 1: and veggie snacks like humans do and say where.
Speaker 2: Are my not to cheese doritos?
Speaker 3: Well, they put the meat in them, so they like Themhi, okay,
Speaker 3: so they hide it.
Speaker 2: It's like when I hide zucchini in my lasagna.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 2: Okay, just think you're eating bad.
Speaker 1: Now you have a dog that you walk with during
Speaker 1: the wiggle waggle walk, right, Well, I walked a dog
Speaker 1: last year and it was this beautiful Doberman and she
Speaker 1: actually got adopted after.
Speaker 2: Oh so these aren't your dog.
Speaker 3: No, I don't have dog cats, and I just thought
Speaker 3: it would be a bad idea to bring cats to.
Speaker 2: The dog Yeah, I think so too. A good call.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they actually they have a wiggle waggle wagon
Speaker 3: and they're gonna have some pups that are adoptable down there.
Speaker 3: So even if you don't have a dog and you're
Speaker 3: maybe thinking about a dog, come walk with us and
Speaker 3: you might go home with one.
Speaker 1: That's very cool. I want a dog badly. I travel,
Speaker 1: I'm out of town a lot for football.
Speaker 2: I have a husband. I do. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, well, nobody cares so the dogs. Now they're
Speaker 1: gonna walk for three point one miles. That's a long walk,
Speaker 1: isn't it.
Speaker 3: Well, again, they have them, they have the one mile route, right,
Speaker 3: I want to just walk.
Speaker 1: But there's some dogs that really put the work in
Speaker 1: at this wiggle waggle walk.
Speaker 3: There are, and some of them will probably still be
Speaker 3: dragging their owners for that three miles.
Speaker 1: Now, if I had a dog, I wouldn't have to
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have to walk the three miles, right, I
Speaker 1: mean that's not like some thing that you do with
Speaker 1: a dog normally, or is it? Do you do you
Speaker 1: walk your dog for three miles or people that do that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: when I had a dog, I used to walk in
Speaker 1: for three miles.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow, that's commitment. It's a lot.
Speaker 3: That's a lot of miles. We have a lot of
Speaker 3: committed people. Like I said, we got fifty people on
Speaker 3: our team already. I'm so excited. And there's still room
Speaker 3: for you. And we still want to raise money because again,
Speaker 3: everything we raise is going to Passadena Humane. You can
Speaker 3: do that at KFIAM six forty dot com, slash wiggle
Speaker 3: KFIAM six forty dot com slash wiggle. And we've gotten
Speaker 3: so many donations just today, and so there's plenty of
Speaker 3: time to donate.
Speaker 2: I'm just thrilled and so excited. I can't wait to
Speaker 2: see everybody on Sunday.
Speaker 1: What have been some of your favorite costumes you've seen
Speaker 1: last year?
Speaker 3: The one that really just sticks out there was there
Speaker 3: was a lot of good ones, and I have the
Speaker 3: memory of a nat so I don't remember a lot
Speaker 3: of them. But one of my favorite was Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Speaker 3: So the woman was dressed up like Audrey Hepburn and
Speaker 3: she dressed her her pop up like a Tiffany's box.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that is so clever.
Speaker 3: It was so cute and and she was so good
Speaker 3: and she didn't even win first place. There were some
Speaker 3: great costumes.
Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, so that's a lot of fun too.
Speaker 1: Now, when you do you already know which dog you're
Speaker 1: going to be walking with or is that something that
Speaker 1: they tell you about when you get there.
Speaker 3: So Kevin McManus over at Pasadena Humane said, I've got
Speaker 3: the perfect dog for you. If he's not adopted, you
Speaker 3: can you can walk in what's his name?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Oh yeah, it's like a blind date. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's like exactly.
Speaker 3: So we'll see, but we'll be out there regardless, and
Speaker 3: you guys will be out there, and we've got lots
Speaker 3: of friends of Wake Up Call who are going to
Speaker 3: be joining us, so and there's there's room for you too,
Speaker 3: So please come join us, or if you can't come
Speaker 3: join us, just make a donation whatever you can afford.
Speaker 3: Five bucks, twenty bucks, five hundred dollars, whatever you can afford.
Speaker 2: And then what goes on?
Speaker 1: Are there people dedicated to cleaning up the poop? Only
Speaker 1: you would answer, I know, I'm sorry. I would imagine
Speaker 1: that there probably are some poopers. I would just imagine
Speaker 1: there's like hundreds of dogs out there and they're walking
Speaker 1: miles and that they have got to go to the
Speaker 1: bathroom at some point.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 3: I will ask Kevin on Sunday and I will report.
Speaker 2: Back it's okay, it's okay. It's the person get the
Speaker 2: answers for you, all right.
Speaker 1: Tell me again, I'm going to donate right now, Amy,
Speaker 1: tell me, right now, where do I go?
Speaker 3: K F I a M six forty dot com slash
Speaker 3: wiggle and that'll take you right to our team page.
Speaker 3: You can donate to the wake Up Call Wigglers donate
Speaker 3: to me whatever you want to do, and that's also
Speaker 3: where you join the team. So either way, we'd love
Speaker 3: to have you either your money or your presence or both.
Speaker 1: Oh that's perfect, and you look so pretty in that picture.
Speaker 1: I love that picture of you. That's like my favorite.
Speaker 1: That's because it's with Tiger. Okay, perfect. That is very easy,
Speaker 1: very easy to donate. I'm doing it right now. Amy
Speaker 1: King the Wiggle Waggle walk out at the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 1: Check it out more coming up.
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Speaker 1: Every morning, Michelle producer Michelle puts out a list of
Speaker 1: stories that are in the news. She throws in her
Speaker 1: favorite story of the day and a fun fact. Fun
Speaker 1: facts usually animal related. I enjoy them anyway. Today's fun
Speaker 1: fact is jellyfish are considered biologically immortal. They don't age
Speaker 1: and will never die unless they are killed. Do you
Speaker 1: think jellyfish know that? Didn't they behave that like that?
Speaker 1: Like I know I'm never going to die. I'm a jellyfish.
Speaker 2: They just know that? Or do they think there's an
Speaker 2: expiration date? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Do they think DoD jellyfish think These are all questions
Speaker 1: that I should not give voice too. I understand that
Speaker 1: today the Dodgers are taking on the Phillies in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: The first pitch at three forty five.
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Speaker 2: What a team to watch?
Speaker 1: Behold this team, I mean they are stacked shohe Atani
Speaker 1: making poetry every night. It is just it is a
Speaker 1: time to enjoy being a fan of Dodger baseball, no
Speaker 1: doubt about it.
Speaker 2: All right, there is a news to get to.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, this is a follow up of a horrific story,
Speaker 1: and it's one of those stories that just keeps getting worse.
Speaker 1: It began when we heard that a thirteen year old
Speaker 1: boy was missing over the weekend out of the valley.
Speaker 1: Thirteen year old boy goes to Lancaster to see what
Speaker 1: was called at the time, an acquaintance doesn't come home.
Speaker 1: Family immediately knows something's wrong and starts talking to news reporters.
Speaker 1: A family is Spanish speaking only, and we know that
Speaker 1: I can't speak Spanish to save my life, so couldn't
Speaker 1: get them on. But they are talking to local media
Speaker 1: about this, and it's so key because the thirteen year
Speaker 1: old boy reported missing by his family over the weekend
Speaker 1: from the valley.
Speaker 2: They found his body.
Speaker 1: On Wednesday day and it was an Oxnard and yesterday
Speaker 1: when we reported this to you at the time, it
Speaker 1: was still this acquaintance, this vague term to describe who
Speaker 1: he was meeting with. And now the family is saying
Speaker 1: that this was his soccer coach.
Speaker 2: Now that takes the story.
Speaker 1: It's already as heartbreaking as it possibly can be with
Speaker 1: this thirteen year old boy missing, found dead. Like I said,
Speaker 1: it doesn't get worse, But does it get worse now
Speaker 1: for other families because you're thinking about if this guy's
Speaker 1: a soccer coach. This was not the first kid. This
Speaker 1: couldn't have been the first kid. It's never the first
Speaker 1: kid that ends up missing and then dead.
Speaker 2: That's something you graduate to when you are a monster.
Speaker 1: So logic says we're going to be hearing more stories,
Speaker 1: or there are more stories to be heard if they
Speaker 1: come to light.
Speaker 2: I don't know this was Oscar Hernandez.
Speaker 1: This was a family who moved to the United States
Speaker 1: from Honduras three years ago.
Speaker 2: Things are not good in Honduras.
Speaker 1: Came here better life three years ago for their son,
Speaker 1: for their thirteen year old, and this is what happens.
Speaker 1: His body found in a ditch this week in a
Speaker 1: densely wooded area in Oxnard, right off Harbor, and they
Speaker 1: knew where to go. Lapd robbery, homicide. I believe was
Speaker 1: heading up this investigation. They knew where to look, and
Speaker 1: they did. They did find him. An Oscar seventh grade
Speaker 1: student at Sun Valley Magnet School, standout soccer player, just
Speaker 1: so alive. As a lot of people talk about Oscar,
Speaker 1: the family says he was with his soccer coach in
Speaker 1: Antelope Valley at the time of this disappearance. His sister
Speaker 1: Alejandra says, we had that person at our home. He
Speaker 1: helped us look for Oscar when he was reported missing.
Speaker 1: We never thought he would harm him. What a horrific story.
Speaker 1: Family comes here from Honduras with a ten year old
Speaker 1: little boy hoping to make his life better, gets him
Speaker 1: involved in soccer. He's a standout player, something he's really
Speaker 1: good at. Got this great coach close to the family.
Speaker 1: This has not been adjudicated. There's no verdict here, but
Speaker 1: the allegation that this soccer coach killed this boy and
Speaker 1: whatever else was going on is just oh awful.
Speaker 2: Just awful. So stay tuned. We're going to hear more
Speaker 2: about that story.
Speaker 1: I bet you, you bet you, because whenever you have
Speaker 1: somebody with access to children who shouldn't, rarely is the
Speaker 1: first victim you hear about the first victim. When we
Speaker 1: come back, we are going to lighten it up a
Speaker 1: little bit. Michael Monks is going to join us. Michael
Speaker 1: Monks covers various things for KFI News, various important things,
Speaker 1: and that is why we have him on. But even
Speaker 1: if Michael Monks was covering the opening of a ant
Speaker 1: farm in Resita, I would have him on because that's
Speaker 1: how entertaining Michael Monks is. So we will talk to
Speaker 1: him when we come back here to Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 4: Am six forty.
Speaker 2: I'll just say it on the air, I don't care.
Speaker 5: I noticed that sometimes you start a segment finishing a
Speaker 5: thought of a conversation you were having off air, as
Speaker 5: if everyone out in radio land is privy to the conversation.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the conversation.
Speaker 5: Oh no, we're gonna get in trouble again every time
Speaker 5: I come on, Like, I don't.
Speaker 2: Know what the rule is about.
Speaker 1: I don't know why the rule exists about not talking
Speaker 1: about people once they've left or radio station like they're
Speaker 1: dead or.
Speaker 2: Something, because they're not. Anyway.
Speaker 1: So, now Steve Gregory does his like Instagram posts or
Speaker 1: whatever is walk and talk things, and he's got his
Speaker 1: like ray bands on, and he wears his like field
Speaker 1: outfit and he always has for as long as I've
Speaker 1: known him, and I had seen I guess I'm looking
Speaker 1: at the things you look at before you go to
Speaker 1: bed really impact your life, do So I got some
Speaker 1: strolling through Instagram over the weekend and I see like
Speaker 1: some Steve stuff, and so anyway, the next morning, I'm
Speaker 1: living my life walking around and I'm like, I can't
Speaker 1: believe Steve's started to wear a fur coat in his
Speaker 1: Instagram posts. And I can visualize it in my head
Speaker 1: where he's wearing this floor length like brown fur coat
Speaker 1: over his field outfit and doing like stuff from the border.
Speaker 1: And here I am with the cops and we're doing
Speaker 1: this sting operation and he's wearing this fur coat, and
Speaker 1: I thought, this is just like a new piece of
Speaker 1: accouterma for Steve, and this is part of his new look.
Speaker 5: I think he could pull it off.
Speaker 1: And I remember thinking to myself, like, I've got to
Speaker 1: call Steve and see what that's all about. And as
Speaker 1: soon as I had that thought, I go, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: was that a dream? I dreamt that.
Speaker 2: I dreamt that Steve was wearing fur this fur coat
Speaker 2: in his his like Instagram stand ups.
Speaker 5: It's like you got a cross between Steve Gregory and
Speaker 5: Deborah Mark.
Speaker 1: Oh smart, yes, because she likes the first Well, first,
Speaker 1: let's be clear.
Speaker 2: Right, right, right, she's not killing a bear. It's getting it. Yes,
Speaker 2: that must be. There's something going on up there.
Speaker 5: It's not good. No, he's not going to talk to
Speaker 5: somebody about that. I'm not the guy. You're not the
Speaker 5: guy somebody.
Speaker 1: Wow, okay, well what are you doing today? This is
Speaker 1: Michael Monks by the way, KFI News.
Speaker 2: Like I said, he.
Speaker 1: Covers many important things for k if I News, but
Speaker 1: we just like to hang out with him so I can.
Speaker 5: Tell you're lonely.
Speaker 2: I'm not lonely. Lonely, this is not me. I'm not lonely, lonely.
Speaker 5: Lonely.
Speaker 1: It's Friday, and here's the thing, there's so much. Keanu
Speaker 1: and I are sitting in the office and we're like,
Speaker 1: this is all bad. All the news is bad, this
Speaker 1: is all downer stuff.
Speaker 5: It's I'm not I'm not coming with anything to live job.
Speaker 5: I'm afraid you.
Speaker 2: Your presence alone lifts.
Speaker 5: I appreciate that. It's always a pleasure to be with you.
Speaker 5: You are No, It's true. You're very funny and clever,
Speaker 5: and I enjoy this time. You have weird dreams, right,
Speaker 5: you have weird dreams, But I find you amusing. I
Speaker 5: think we would have been we would have been friends
Speaker 5: in high school. We could be friends and we can
Speaker 5: our lives. I'm not very fun, I'll warn you.
Speaker 2: I am zero fool.
Speaker 5: Yeah, then let's get together. Yeah, let's get together.
Speaker 1: You know I'm going to watch that sex show of
Speaker 1: that woman dying of cancer this afternoon.
Speaker 2: If you want to join me.
Speaker 5: No, but I know you're watching Dalton Abbey, which is
Speaker 5: a series that I love. You got to catch up
Speaker 5: and finish it. We can go to the movie when
Speaker 5: they come out. When the third one, the third and
Speaker 5: final film is coming out this year that can be
Speaker 5: our date and say there are films that will give
Speaker 5: me enough time to mentally prepare for it.
Speaker 2: I just knew about the series. I didn't know about
Speaker 2: the films.
Speaker 5: There's two films already out that continue the story, and
Speaker 5: then there's a third one that is coming in.
Speaker 2: You know, are you planning a date for us already?
Speaker 5: And it's I kind of was in my mind. I
Speaker 5: didn't know how to ask you. I love it. I
Speaker 5: get a little shy, I am a little.
Speaker 2: Coqut I can't wait. Can we bring Deborah?
Speaker 5: Does Debora like dot now?
Speaker 2: She She's who got me into it?
Speaker 5: Oh my god, I cried.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's my absolute favorite show.
Speaker 5: By the way, if we lived in the Time of Doubt, Nowbey,
Speaker 5: Deborah totally would have been upstairs and I would have
Speaker 5: been down.
Speaker 2: That's my favorite thing.
Speaker 1: The first thing she said to me was yes, yes,
Speaker 1: And the first thing she said to me was, don't
Speaker 1: you just want to be their friends? And in my head,
Speaker 1: the people, the people work there, don't you want to
Speaker 1: be their friends? And in my head, I was like, Deborah,
Speaker 1: you would never be their friends, you would be upstairs
Speaker 1: their friends.
Speaker 2: I totally I like Mary, you'd be like married, she's married.
Speaker 5: Totally, Mary, Yes, yes, you're married. Absolutely, you totally are.
Speaker 2: And that's okay.
Speaker 1: But you're an upstairs person. Michael and I were cleaning
Speaker 1: out your the hair out of your drain.
Speaker 5: But we're doing well downstairs. We're not like Cook's assistant,
Speaker 5: Like I'm a vallant, you're a valid. I'm a valet.
Speaker 5: I'm dressing one of the guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't figured it out.
Speaker 5: I think lady's maid.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I'd be like the girl that hooked up
Speaker 1: with the guy with the cane. Yes, she is right,
Speaker 1: and then something bad happened to her and that was awful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I would have kicked well anyway.
Speaker 5: So you're picturing reporters in for coats, Now I've got
Speaker 5: to picture you in a maid's outfit. Now, what kind
Speaker 5: of dream am I going to have tonight?
Speaker 2: Tell me about the sea lions?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, we know we've got these bad sea lion problems
Speaker 5: on the beach and it's only gotten worse.
Speaker 1: Gait, Wait, hold on, because that was such a great tease.
Speaker 2: Can you stick around?
Speaker 5: Well? What am I gonna go upstairs?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 5: You're not allowed. I'm not allowed. You are not until
Speaker 5: the Lord needs his luncheon clothes, and then I gotta
Speaker 5: go iron a shirt far upstairs.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, my day just got better. Michael Monks is here.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 4: Am sixty.
Speaker 1: We're keeping tabs on everything. Stocks still falling on walls street.
Speaker 1: China today retaliating with their own tariffs on US goods.
Speaker 1: People racing to buy Lululemon and Guinness and cars. Global
Speaker 1: tariffs now in almost every country. Earlier this week is
Speaker 1: what the President announced. I mentioned the thunderstorms. We got
Speaker 1: a little bit yesterday afternoon, at least where I was
Speaker 1: up in Sierra Madre at the time, thunders thunderstarted rolling.
Speaker 2: The rain came down with a quickness. Everyone around at.
Speaker 1: This coffee shop was like, oh my gosh, it's raining,
Speaker 1: and I'm.
Speaker 5: Like, relax, relax.
Speaker 1: Five minutes go by and it's done, it's gone. You know,
Speaker 1: you think about that when then you read about the
Speaker 1: severe storms everywhere else Texas to Indiana, where you know,
Speaker 1: life threatening floods, tornadoes. E F four's just debris being
Speaker 1: carried for miles. We can handle a little thunderstorm in
Speaker 1: the afternoon. You know, Michael Monks joins us now from
Speaker 1: KFI News and he is covering the story that we
Speaker 1: tell Yesterday, talked to Matt Smith down the.
Speaker 2: Hall at KLAC because he's a.
Speaker 1: Surfer, and he had mentioned that the sea lions are
Speaker 1: behaving crazy and it seems to be this toxic algae
Speaker 1: that is causing the problem locally. Michael, and this stuff
Speaker 1: isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
Speaker 5: It's not going anywhere anytime soon. It's the worst it's been.
Speaker 5: It's been happening for years, but this has been a
Speaker 5: heavy volume of sea lions. And by the way, it's
Speaker 5: not just sea lions that are getting sick. Dolphins are
Speaker 5: getting sick now. They've got dozens of dolphins that have
Speaker 5: been impacted by this, and birds are also getting sick
Speaker 5: from this. And I did talk to Dave Bator, he's
Speaker 5: a marine biologist at the Marine Mammal Care Center in
Speaker 5: San Pedro's webs news throughout the day on this and
Speaker 5: I'll have a full interview with him on Saturday night
Speaker 5: during Michael Monks reports at seven o'clock. He says that
Speaker 5: their facility is at capacity and so his staff is
Speaker 5: basically having to make some very difficult decisions when they're
Speaker 5: called out to the beach to respond to more sick
Speaker 5: because they have to decide which ones.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like they got a triage the situation.
Speaker 5: They're triaging the situation. It's absolutely terrible, and people naturally
Speaker 5: want to help, right So if you are somebody on
Speaker 5: the beach that day and you see a six sea lion,
Speaker 5: what are your instincts maybe to approach it, and they
Speaker 5: tell you not to do that, just to call one
Speaker 5: of those facilities instead and get some help. That's especially
Speaker 5: true for dolphins, which might tuget your heartstrings. Let's let's
Speaker 5: be clear. I mean animals rank at different levels on
Speaker 5: our heartstrings. You woh, I would taste a dolphin? You
Speaker 5: would taste dolphin? You know, they know what they did,
Speaker 5: They know what they did.
Speaker 2: What did they do?
Speaker 5: They know what they did? Okay, But dolphins do not
Speaker 5: typically Dolphins do not typically come to shore, right, So
Speaker 5: if you see one on the beach, that's a serious problem.
Speaker 5: Sea lions are common on the beach on the shore,
Speaker 5: the dolphins are not.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 5: Dave Batter told me that if a doll often is
Speaker 5: washed up on the short don't go to it because
Speaker 5: it has basically given up out in the water and
Speaker 5: has washed up and to leave it be right. Dozens
Speaker 5: of them though, that's a biohazard situation, absolute biohazard situation,
Speaker 5: and it's just it's very sad. So what this algae
Speaker 5: bloom does, the sickness that's in the water for them,
Speaker 5: it gets into their neurosystem, their neurological system, and it
Speaker 5: does it makes them go they're acting crazy because they've
Speaker 5: gone crazy. So you've seen attacks by sea lions, you know,
Speaker 5: you don't want to How do you tell that story?
Speaker 5: I got attacked by the sea.
Speaker 1: Was telling Matt yesterday because he said that he was
Speaker 1: out there surfing and a sea lion kind of got
Speaker 1: close to him most acting weird. And I said, what
Speaker 1: did you say the sea lion? He's like, well, I'm
Speaker 1: embarrassed to say it, but I did look at him
Speaker 1: and I said, hey, buddy, what's going on? What's going
Speaker 1: on over there?
Speaker 2: What are you doing? I mean, we would all probably
Speaker 2: do the same thing. What do you do?
Speaker 1: But what a great story said, is there part of
Speaker 1: you that wishes that sea lion took a bite out
Speaker 1: of you, just so you have a story to tell it,
Speaker 1: you know, happy hour.
Speaker 5: It seems similar to like walking through parts of downtown
Speaker 5: LA and all of the craziness that you might encounter.
Speaker 5: It's the same kind of psychological issues, and that these
Speaker 5: sea lions are going through it. They might not hurt you, right,
Speaker 5: they might don't go close to it, and there are
Speaker 5: numbers that you can call and hopefully these marine biologists
Speaker 5: can get to them in time and help save them struggling.
Speaker 1: Is that why you live downtown, just for a little
Speaker 1: bit of danger, Like maybe, just just maybe I get
Speaker 1: stabbed today and then I have a story to tell.
Speaker 5: You know, when you move to Los Angeles with a dream,
Speaker 5: you do have to accept the possibility of it not
Speaker 5: panning out. And I just wanted to be as close
Speaker 5: to possible to the underpass I might live under if
Speaker 5: it all goes to hell, so I don't have to
Speaker 5: walk very far. If I lived in Burbank, you know,
Speaker 5: that's a bit of a hike to find the place
Speaker 5: where I would burrow, right where.
Speaker 2: I would burrow.
Speaker 1: Okay, so tell me about Michael Monks reports. It is
Speaker 1: every weekend, every Saturday night.
Speaker 5: Saturday night seven and nine. Been doing it since the
Speaker 5: fall excited about it, get a couple of hours to
Speaker 5: chit chat. Maybe you can be a guest sometimes I'd
Speaker 5: love to spare the time. I would love to have Shannon.
Speaker 1: All I do is wait for dev to text me
Speaker 1: about the latest sex show I should watch.
Speaker 2: And that's essentially my life.
Speaker 5: I don't know what's going on with those text threads.
Speaker 5: But we have to call her Lady Deborah. Now we're
Speaker 5: gonna get into Lady Deborah's.
Speaker 2: If I'm her lady's maid, don't I call myself Deborah?
Speaker 2: Or what?
Speaker 4: You would be?
Speaker 5: First name? Only you wouldn't be miss right right right west.
Speaker 5: For example, you would be Lady Shannon, okay, and I
Speaker 5: would be Lady Michael. Oh no, no, you would just
Speaker 5: be Shannon and I would.
Speaker 2: Be She's the lady. She's Lady Mary.
Speaker 5: But you would be a lady's maid. But she's the
Speaker 5: lady and you're the maid.
Speaker 2: I would love to dress Deborah. Could you imagine?
Speaker 5: I can't imagine.
Speaker 1: I would love that if I could wake up with
Speaker 1: like as Deborah, I would actually like to dress every morning.
Speaker 2: What would how would you dress me?
Speaker 5: I'd like it's great about that era.
Speaker 2: I mean you dress great? You dress yourself. I do
Speaker 2: if it worked, kick out the outfit.
Speaker 5: Pick out the outfits, but just you know, not just
Speaker 5: get ready to go to work. Right, you're getting dressed
Speaker 5: by breakfast. I know you're getting dressed for lunch.
Speaker 2: And then there's the late supper.
Speaker 1: Don't forget about that one in the middle of then
Speaker 1: when there's so much trumpets, too much, No, because you're
Speaker 1: gonna go through like six different outfits in one day,
Speaker 1: and I get to pick them, and.
Speaker 5: I'll just be working on the earl.
Speaker 2: What do you do? You you just you just pick out.
Speaker 5: The vallot I'll steam the earl's jackets. Do you think
Speaker 5: we I think we would beat an earl's house, not
Speaker 5: like we wouldn't make duke house. And I don't think
Speaker 5: Debora would be the daughter of a duke. I think
Speaker 5: she'd be the daughter of a I.
Speaker 1: Don't know what the hierarchy is the Dolphin Lands.
Speaker 5: Duke is the highest, and it's viscount and then it's
Speaker 5: earl and then it's okay, so who would be?
Speaker 2: So who would I be with?
Speaker 5: You would be? I think you would be an earl's daughter,
Speaker 5: but you might marry a duke.
Speaker 1: Wow, this is like Game of Thrones, but different, A
Speaker 1: little different, little different.
Speaker 5: Anyway, I don't talk much about down now beyond Saturday Nights.
Speaker 5: I would love to, but it's.
Speaker 2: On the agenda. Just the sea lions that are eating people.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna have an interview with the sea lion guy
Speaker 5: about what's going on there. State Senator Tony Strickland is
Speaker 5: coming on and.
Speaker 2: Talk about do you have any fun on Saturday?
Speaker 5: I love Saturday nights. It's a different vibe here on
Speaker 5: the weekends, is it. Yeah, it's quiet, none of you
Speaker 5: people running around.
Speaker 2: You stick to just like hard news the whole time.
Speaker 5: I like to mix it up like a news magazine. Oh,
Speaker 5: a hard news lifestyle.
Speaker 2: You end with something fun. I try to and what's that.
Speaker 5: I'm surprised that we get as many talkbacks as we
Speaker 5: do on the weekends, but people listen and I love that,
Speaker 5: and they interact, so I usually pose a question at
Speaker 5: the top. Okay, last week I talked about and again
Speaker 5: I don't want to get in trouble for revisiting. I
Speaker 5: know we've got some business with the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: I talked about Steve Gregory and a first coach.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, I was curious as a transplant about
Speaker 5: is there a disparity in the media coverage of the
Speaker 5: Angels and the Dodgers, for example.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeh, because nobody cares about the age.
Speaker 5: And I wanted to know why, because I'm leaning towards
Speaker 5: being an Angels fan, as I pick a team here
Speaker 5: in southern California and leave the Reds behind, and I
Speaker 5: think I like the Angel's colors red, and I like
Speaker 5: an underdog. I'm an underdog, okay. And so the Angels
Speaker 5: are great. It's a great franchise, it's a great organization.
Speaker 5: It's a great it used to be a great I.
Speaker 1: Haven't been there in years, but a great experience of
Speaker 1: the ballpark, family friendly, all of that thing, reasonable prices.
Speaker 2: But you're not going to bleed out for the Angels.
Speaker 1: You're not going to get to the level of fandom
Speaker 1: where you're going to want to jump off a roof
Speaker 1: when they lose the way that I felt in Miami.
Speaker 1: You know, you're not going to get to the point
Speaker 1: where you unleash a tirade of expletives that you didn't
Speaker 1: even know you knew over the Angels. So it's just
Speaker 1: not going to happen for you. So I guess that's
Speaker 1: a fandom.
Speaker 5: Is I like the Gentleman's game. I like the Gentleman.
Speaker 5: I don't even know why you're still here.
Speaker 1: That's Eric, he's so, he's got a lot of scars.
Speaker 5: Eric actually was the first guy to put me in
Speaker 5: my place here when I suggested this, I think many
Speaker 5: months ago. I was asking him because he's a Dodgers
Speaker 5: Yeah right, And I said, you know, can I be
Speaker 5: an Angels fan? And Eric, I don't know if you
Speaker 5: remember what you said. I said no, because you're like,
Speaker 5: they're not even in LA. Yeah, no, they're not in LA.
Speaker 5: I dispute that, you know, because.
Speaker 1: The only Angels in LA are in heaven and they're
Speaker 1: rooting for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: That was Tommy Lasorda. That was not me.
Speaker 5: That's cute, but that franchise was born in southern California.
Speaker 1: Yes, the Dodgers are in California. Yeah, but it's not
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. You live in downtown LA. You have to
Speaker 1: wrap the Dodgers, you know.
Speaker 2: You can't walk.
Speaker 1: Around freaking skid row where you live with a freaking
Speaker 1: Angels hat on.
Speaker 5: I think I'm vibing with Orange County from afar.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, I am.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's for you either.
Speaker 5: I mean it might be.
Speaker 2: Huh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 5: Here's what I know. The Dodgers.
Speaker 2: One, I see you in like a treehouse in Silver
Speaker 2: Lake or something. Eventually a treehouse I put.
Speaker 5: But keep in mind probably.
Speaker 1: A nice a nice tree house, you know what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about, A glamping type tree.
Speaker 2: They have this, I know I've read about. These are
Speaker 2: millions of dollars.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you're insulting me. That's okay. Did you
Speaker 5: marry rich? No?
Speaker 2: Oh, that's a problem.
Speaker 5: The money in this relationship. Can you believe that? Oh
Speaker 5: my god? Reaction. That's why Deborah is on the upstairs
Speaker 5: and we're in the downstairs. I did sell newspapers.
Speaker 2: We do this for fun.
Speaker 1: Thank you anyway, No, no, that's not a thing. Okay.
Speaker 1: So Michael Monks is show Michael Monks Reports. It will
Speaker 1: be Saturday night from seven to nine right here on.
Speaker 2: K f I.
Speaker 1: We'll talk swamp watch quickly. Oh, we come back to
Speaker 1: Gary and Shannon.
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