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 --> 00:00:07.280 on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:10.599 Nonfarm pay rolls, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 5 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:13.880 climbed by seasonally adjusted one hundred and forty three thousand 6 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:17.039 for the month. That was down from December, which was 7 00:00:17.079 --> 00:00:19.839 about three hundred and seven thousandth So the unemployment rate 8 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:21.480 right now down a little bit. 9 00:00:21.559 --> 00:00:23.120 It's down to four percent. 10 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:26.280 I fell into this article this morning. It's actually out 11 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:29.920 of Vanity Fair, and it's about a squatter. I think 12 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:32.920 we all have had stories, or we have family members 13 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:36.159 that have had stories of renters, or you know, somebody 14 00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:38.799 who knows somebody of somebody who won't leave, or somebody 15 00:00:38.799 --> 00:00:42.000 who created a disaster while they were there, resulting in 16 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:45.880 thousands of dollars of damage. And it's even more cruel 17 00:00:45.880 --> 00:00:49.280 when it's an emotional squatter. And that's what got me 18 00:00:49.399 --> 00:00:53.439 into this story about this woman who pretended to be 19 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:59.119 a local in the Malibu area and kind of snowed 20 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:02.159 over a guy who was battling cancer at the time, 21 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:07.799 ended up taking this polite, wonderful was seemingly wonderful woman 22 00:01:08.079 --> 00:01:12.920 in just for a bit, and she ended up taking 23 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:17.040 on a campaign of psychological terror against him, landed him 24 00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:19.959 in a medical facility while she was changing the locks. 25 00:01:20.120 --> 00:01:23.040 I mean, the signs were there, but it is a 26 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:27.280 slow slide into being the manipulated when it comes to 27 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:30.640 people who are criminal and endearing at the same time. 28 00:01:32.599 --> 00:01:35.599 We'll talk more a little bit later about the smell 29 00:01:35.879 --> 00:01:38.799 the aroma that reminds you of Los Angeles, and there's 30 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:43.959 some pretty diametrically imposed views of what smells remind people 31 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:48.120 of LA But Patrese Miller is not a name that 32 00:01:48.120 --> 00:01:50.599 you would recognize, but you might remember the case. She 33 00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:53.760 lived in Downeyville, lived alone with a couple of cats 34 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:57.040 in a little rental house in Downeyville in the middle 35 00:01:57.079 --> 00:02:01.040 of this small mountain town, kept to herself, known for 36 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:04.760 orchids and house plants, got around with the aidable walking sticks. 37 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:06.879 This is northern northern California, way northern. 38 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:08.120 Yeh. Yeah. 39 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:14.319 And last November, a friend who was regularly delivering groceries 40 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:19.840 to Patrese noticed that Patrice hadn't checked in lately, so 41 00:02:19.919 --> 00:02:22.080 she called the Sheriff's office and just said, Hey, I'm 42 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:24.840 worried about Patrice. She hasn't been She hasn't been in 43 00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:28.479 contact with us. Could you do a welfare visit? Deputy 44 00:02:28.520 --> 00:02:32.680 shows up, notice a garden hose draped across the front steps, 45 00:02:32.719 --> 00:02:35.080 and the water was on, so it was spraying in 46 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:39.000 all directions from a bunch of punctures in the hose. 47 00:02:39.199 --> 00:02:40.280 It looked like bite marks. 48 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:43.599 So he looks in through a small window, sweeps his 49 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:48.400 flashlight across the interior and he sees blood streaks and 50 00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:53.360 paw prints. He draws his gun, opens the door and 51 00:02:53.479 --> 00:03:00.439 inside a gruesome scene. Patrese Miller's body was on the 52 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:05.520 kitchen floor, mangled by claw marks and bite wounds and 53 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:11.520 partially eaten. The cabinets had been torn up, garbage food 54 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:13.080 littered all over the floor. 55 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:18.080 Said they figured out whatever did that, where. 56 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:18.400 They got it? 57 00:03:18.599 --> 00:03:20.680 Some Stephen King s right there. 58 00:03:21.159 --> 00:03:23.199 A kitchen window appeared to be the point of entry 59 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:25.960 had been broken. The security bars had been pried off 60 00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:30.639 and were still hanging by a single bolt. A survey 61 00:03:31.960 --> 00:03:34.800 by the deputy led him to figure out that a 62 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:37.639 bear had probably found her in bed and dragged her 63 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:40.199 across the house. In fact, they found a pile of 64 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:44.759 bear scat out in the living room m Now, originally they. 65 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:46.639 Thought it's not very nice to poop right in the 66 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:47.159 living room. 67 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:48.159 You're not supposed to poop. 68 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:48.879 What are you eat? 69 00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:53.280 Sierra County officials believe that well Done Miller died of 70 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:56.280 natural causes maybe, and that a bear broke into the 71 00:03:56.360 --> 00:03:59.560 house and found her and grabbed the body and scavenged 72 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:01.840 the place. But they did a full autopsy a couple 73 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:04.840 weeks later and didn't put it out publicly until six 74 00:04:04.879 --> 00:04:08.080 months after the incident. Said that she had suffered crushing 75 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:11.719 injuries and that the bear was the one responsible for 76 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:15.280 actually causing the death. That it didn't stumble upon her dead, 77 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:17.360 it made her dead. 78 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:21.199 This is a big milestone for California. This is the 79 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:24.560 first documented human fatality caused by a black bear in 80 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:27.319 state history. And usually it's the brown bears that are 81 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:30.120 the dangerous ones, are the ones that are more volatile 82 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:34.079 and aggressive. Now I've noticed this in my area where 83 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:37.959 we have an interface with animals that are in the foothills, 84 00:04:37.959 --> 00:04:41.879 whether it be bears or bobcats, or deer or coyotes 85 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:45.560 or skunks or what have you. They've become very familiar 86 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:48.480 in recent years with humans. They no longer are scared. 87 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:52.240 They are so they are so used to us that 88 00:04:52.319 --> 00:04:57.199 they are not keeping their distance and we are not 89 00:04:57.360 --> 00:05:01.240 keeping ours. This woman, by the way, had a nickname 90 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:06.360 for this bear. She called him Big Bastard. This bear 91 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:12.040 apparently had been stalking the home for months. They're usually 92 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:18.079 skittish around humans. Black bears are. They will go after dumpsters. 93 00:05:18.079 --> 00:05:20.000 They'll break into your cars for food. This is the 94 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:22.800 warning you get from Bob the park ranger every time 95 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:26.480 you go anywhere to camp or what have you. Hey, 96 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:28.600 lock your stuff up, lock your food up. Don't keep 97 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:30.879 stuff in your car. Don't keep food in your car. 98 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:34.680 The thing is, like you said, she had a nickname 99 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:37.360 for this bear because it was a pretty common sight 100 00:05:37.519 --> 00:05:41.079 around there. She had easy meals where I mean, she 101 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:43.040 had cultivated this vegetable garden. 102 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:44.360 She had a compost pile. 103 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:48.040 She wasn't very diligent when it came to disposing of 104 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:50.560 her trash. All these things that they tell you you're 105 00:05:50.600 --> 00:05:52.360 supposed to do if you live in bear country. 106 00:05:52.519 --> 00:05:54.920 Well, the thing is is, if you've lived in Downyville 107 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:57.240 for a period of time, this hasn't been a problem. 108 00:05:57.279 --> 00:05:59.439 Sure the bears are there, but they keep their distance. 109 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:02.120 Locals say in fact, they always have kept their distance. 110 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:05.279 That this is the first time and their history of 111 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:07.800 living there that they can remember that the bears are 112 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:11.160 making their rounds. They're all over, they're not afraid, and 113 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:12.800 they're getting closer and closer. 114 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:14.360 Black bears have. 115 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:20.600 The population of black bears has grown significantly since the eighties. 116 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:23.959 They said it was about ten to fifteen thousand bears 117 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:26.720 in California back in nineteen eighty two when they did 118 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:30.680 a survey, but now it's about sixty five thousand. Forty 119 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:32.800 five percent of them are believed to live in the 120 00:06:32.839 --> 00:06:37.120 Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, where you've got not just abundant 121 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:40.240 food for the natural life cycle, but all of the 122 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:43.199 people that live there now provide the you know, a 123 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:45.560 new source of food. I mean, the people aren't the 124 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:49.639 food well generally, but they do the trash. Everything that 125 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:51.759 the people bring with them can be food items. 126 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:54.839 I've talked about having bears in my backyard and someone 127 00:06:54.959 --> 00:06:56.839 along the line at some point said, well, do you 128 00:06:56.879 --> 00:06:58.600 have a gun to shoot it? And I said, listen, 129 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:00.959 if I shot a bear in my backyard, I would 130 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:02.480 be killed. At the town square. 131 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:03.319 You'd be ruined. 132 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:05.839 I would be ruined. And killed. And in fact, this 133 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:09.439 woman reported the bear to Fish in Wildlife. The department 134 00:07:09.560 --> 00:07:12.319 offered her a permit, which is a last resort option 135 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:15.079 the state grants to people to shoot a problem animal 136 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:18.439 before it kills you. Essentially, she declined that she didn't 137 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:20.839 want the bear hurt, She just wanted it removed. 138 00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:26.079 Well, now we know what happened, you're supposed to make 139 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:26.480 sure that. 140 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:28.879 Well, what are you supposed to do? You've got to 141 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:31.800 I mean where I live, they will come and they 142 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:35.759 will take care of your animal situation and they will 143 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:38.600 not kill it, but they will tranquilize it and relocate 144 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:42.279 that animal. Right So, I don't know. If it's Downyville, 145 00:07:42.319 --> 00:07:44.680 the resources are slim there. They don't have anyone they 146 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:48.000 can dispatch right away. But saying here's a permit, shoot 147 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:50.639 the d could you imagine if I called a bearon 148 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:53.279 that was like top tap tap on my window. 149 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:54.480 Hey, I've got a bear. 150 00:07:54.519 --> 00:07:57.000 It's gotten way too close, And the state was like, well, 151 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:59.560 here's a permit to shoot it. Shannon, how do you 152 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:00.480 think that go over? 153 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:02.920 Like I said, I think you'd be ruined. And I 154 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:03.800 don't mean by. 155 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:09.319 The how did I acquire a gun? Who would give 156 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:13.720 me said gun, nobody. How would I learn to operate it? 157 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:16.600 Do you think that I would be able to hit 158 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:19.879 the bear? The bear would probably take the gun from 159 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:21.879 me and shoot me with it. He'd slap it out 160 00:08:21.879 --> 00:08:23.199 of your hands. He'd be like, what the hell are 161 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:26.000 you doing? It would make bastard, that's what he calls me. 162 00:08:29.120 --> 00:08:31.199 All right, squatter story. When we come back. 163 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:35.799 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI 164 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:36.919 AM six forty. 165 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:42.159 We were talking about this La Times article about the 166 00:08:42.600 --> 00:08:47.519 sense that remind them of la and somebody wrote, magnificent 167 00:08:47.559 --> 00:08:49.600 magnolia's in wistful wisteria. 168 00:08:49.720 --> 00:08:52.799 That was the first thing, huh wysteria. 169 00:08:53.080 --> 00:08:56.440 Yeah, okay, I will say one of the things that well, 170 00:08:56.559 --> 00:08:57.519 let's get into some of them. 171 00:08:57.519 --> 00:08:58.120 We'll talk about it. 172 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:00.960 You mentioned this because you know, smell is one of 173 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:04.840 the most powerful senses. When I think of California, I 174 00:09:04.879 --> 00:09:09.159 think of three distinctive smells. A nice when I'm out 175 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:12.360 by the desert in the dry area, that right, obviously, 176 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:16.919 the ocean if I'm going down p ch and Mexican food, 177 00:09:17.679 --> 00:09:21.960 love love, the smell of the distinct California. 178 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:22.840 That's true. 179 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:27.879 That does waft. It is a wafter. I it is 180 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:32.440 a wafter. You know, you there's certain points in time too, Right, 181 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:33.960 you get out of a game and you smell the 182 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:35.960 bacon rapt bacon wrap hot dog. 183 00:09:36.080 --> 00:09:39.600 That's that has come up many times. Yeah, in fact, 184 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:40.679 let's play that one. 185 00:09:40.799 --> 00:09:43.000 When I think of the smell of La, I think 186 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:44.000 of hot. 187 00:09:43.799 --> 00:09:49.399 Dog yap and yeah, you know, it's kind of hard 188 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:51.799 to get a smell in LA. That's the other thing. 189 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:55.600 There's so much going on in La. Every part and 190 00:09:55.679 --> 00:09:58.360 parcels accounted for, you know, I mean, like every there's 191 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:00.759 not a lot of open space northern California. You can 192 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:03.159 pick up smells because at least not every piece of 193 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:06.360 land is accounted for. There's some space for things to 194 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:09.759 actually bloom and to spread. Here, it's kind of like 195 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:12.600 everything's up against each other, so the smells don't really 196 00:10:12.879 --> 00:10:13.679 last very long. 197 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:16.559 That was also interesting that people talked a lot about citrus. 198 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:21.159 I'm from Riverside, so the smell that I associate that 199 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:26.559 with is the citrus in the string. Yeah, all the 200 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:31.720 orange and lemon, grapefruit. Of course they're disappearing by the 201 00:10:31.759 --> 00:10:35.120 boat loads now, but we're talking downtown in LA. It 202 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:37.919 would be piss and I don't know, miss I. 203 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:40.279 Don't think you can say piss on the radio. Guys, Well, 204 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:43.039 the as we just said, she and I both did. 205 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:45.559 As you drive out the one twenty six, for example, 206 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:47.240 they still have a bunch of citrus orchards. 207 00:10:47.279 --> 00:10:49.000 As you're going out towards Vena. It used to all 208 00:10:49.039 --> 00:10:49.600 be citrus. 209 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:53.840 We all learned about it in that Angelina Joelee movie, 210 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:56.759 which one the one where her son I think, goes missing, 211 00:10:56.879 --> 00:11:00.320 and it's like the nineteen twenties and everything's citrus ortured 212 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:01.559 all Los Angeles. 213 00:11:01.720 --> 00:11:04.720 I went to Las Felix to have lunch with a 214 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:08.679 friend of mine and I opened the car door and 215 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:15.039 literally smell like which is one of the reasons I Vega. 216 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:18.960 Yeah, because that smells. 217 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:24.200 Vegas just smells like bad decisions and STDs the other 218 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:26.039 mutually exclusive. 219 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:29.519 Another very common pot people said when they're. 220 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:32.279 Yeah, definitely, definitely on the freeway, there's. 221 00:11:32.120 --> 00:11:34.320 A there's got to be a warehouse or something. When 222 00:11:34.360 --> 00:11:37.360 I drive home, there's one specific place on the freeway, 223 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:40.240 especially if it's a warmer day, like anywhere above seventy 224 00:11:40.279 --> 00:11:45.399 degrees for a good quarter mile, it's just overwhelming the 225 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:46.000 smell of pot. 226 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:48.559 I have a question about that with pot. 227 00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:51.480 Didn't pot? 228 00:11:51.879 --> 00:11:53.840 I mean, I don't know because Pot's changed so much, 229 00:11:55.440 --> 00:11:59.320 but driving while high sounds damn near impossible. 230 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:01.559 I just it doesn't seem comfortable. 231 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:03.879 It doesn't seem that's good. Doesn't seem comfortable. 232 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:07.240 You gotta be somewhat in control of your sense. 233 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:10.480 It's also, isn't the pot just the point of pot 234 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:14.039 just to relax, yeah, and not be hyper aware of 235 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:14.679 things like. 236 00:12:14.759 --> 00:12:20.919 Traffic people seems like an oxymor turn signals things. 237 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:25.679 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI 238 00:12:25.919 --> 00:12:26.840 Am six forty. 239 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:29.919 My wife was at the story yesterday and took this 240 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:34.039 giant picture of just all of this gaudy flowers, over 241 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:38.039 priced carnations, the giant three foot tall balloons that spell 242 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:42.000 out the word love, and she just I told please, no. 243 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:45.720 I told my husband for years, I feel this is 244 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:47.639 gonna kind of piss people off here. 245 00:12:47.759 --> 00:12:48.120 Get it. 246 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:51.879 If you enjoy Valentine's Day, you celebrate that. Good for you. 247 00:12:51.960 --> 00:12:56.120 But I told him long ago, it's a sign of 248 00:12:56.120 --> 00:13:00.519 a lack of intelligence to buy me something for Valentine's Day, Wow, 249 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:04.159 because everything costs so much more, whether it's going out 250 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:08.200 to dinner. Everything's a price fixed menu. You're basically a schmuck. 251 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:12.360 They've got ya, they fooled you. You're basically a schmuck. 252 00:13:12.519 --> 00:13:17.399 If you buy into that, if you want to make 253 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:20.600 me dinner, that's awesome. I love that. That's very cool. 254 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:22.519 You know, you just go to the rafts, pick up 255 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:24.440 some pasta, whatever, make me dinner. 256 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:24.879 Cool. 257 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:28.120 That's awesome, it's lovely, it's thoughtful. But the whole idea 258 00:13:28.200 --> 00:13:30.200 of making a big deal of spending more than you 259 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:33.080 would use usually spend on a normal Tuesday for a 260 00:13:33.120 --> 00:13:36.919 bouquet of flowers or dinner out, that's just silly. That's 261 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:39.320 just silly. You're just throwing money, pissing money into the wind. 262 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:43.039 To use the word of the day, piss. Oh, but 263 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:45.279 you know what I mean. You're just you're you're you're 264 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:50.360 urinating into the breeze. A card is cool, but just 265 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:53.840 don't over It's just I don't know. I don't like 266 00:13:53.919 --> 00:13:58.279 overspending for the sake of Hallmark holiday like the man 267 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:02.840 has gotten you. If you're celebrating the phony holidays, Okay, 268 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:05.639 your wife knows that you love her on a Thursday 269 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:09.399 in April, why do you have to overspend for ugly carnations. 270 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:13.039 We're doing stupid balloon that says love. We're doing a 271 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:15.840 nice dinner, but we're doing it on Thursday instead of Friday. 272 00:14:15.879 --> 00:14:16.320 Exactly. 273 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:18.799 There's that idea as well, do it the day before 274 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:24.559 the day after. Okay, I'm not yelling at you. You 275 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:29.799 don't have that, no, but I do think it's beautiful 276 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:33.240 if it's you, do you. I love that for you. 277 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:36.120 But moron, no, I don't think you're more. I just 278 00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:38.960 I don't think it's necessary. I don't think it's necessary. 279 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:40.480 The reminder that today is Friday. 280 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:42.399 That means we're going to do what you learned this 281 00:14:42.440 --> 00:14:44.600 week on The Gary and Shannon Show later in the show. 282 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:46.639 So you can always leave us a talkback message when 283 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:49.679 you're listening on the app. Open it up. There's a 284 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:52.600 little white microphone button. 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We rarely hear all of the 296 00:15:19.840 --> 00:15:23.000 details of how this happens because these squatters are very 297 00:15:23.000 --> 00:15:26.000 manipulative and they use your emotions to do so. There 298 00:15:26.039 --> 00:15:29.240 was a guy sixty five years old, Alden Marin is 299 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:32.879 his name, and lived in the Malibu area, and it 300 00:15:32.919 --> 00:15:35.120 was September of twenty twenty one. He's taking a walk 301 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:38.039 on the beach at Point Doom like he usually does. 302 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:40.240 And if you know the area, you know that it's 303 00:15:40.279 --> 00:15:42.759 one of those areas where you need a key to 304 00:15:42.799 --> 00:15:44.799 get to the beach where you can take the white 305 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:48.440 the walk at Point Doom. So everyone who's there usually 306 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:50.919 you know that they're supposed to be there. It's it's 307 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:52.840 a status symbol to have a key to the beach, 308 00:15:52.879 --> 00:15:55.399 and you know, make whatever of that that you will. 309 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:57.799 But anyway, when you see somebody on the beach, you 310 00:15:57.840 --> 00:15:59.919 know they're probably they probably live there, or they're supposed 311 00:15:59.919 --> 00:16:03.360 to be there. On this night in September twenty twenty one, 312 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:07.799 Alden sixty five meets this woman. She's eccentric, she's energetic, 313 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:10.320 she's this middle aged woman. She's got a British accent, 314 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:14.960 shoulder length, frizzy brown hair, blue eyes, and she introduces 315 00:16:15.039 --> 00:16:19.759 herself as Ellie Mae McNulty, an actor and a screenwriter. Now, 316 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:23.279 as for this guy, he had graduated from Stanford, went 317 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:27.480 to the Sorbonne. He had a successful wine business, and 318 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:30.679 he was battling stage four melanoma for three years. At 319 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:34.399 this point when he meets her, he had gone through 320 00:16:34.440 --> 00:16:37.480 the diagnosis, which is heart wrenching. He had gone through 321 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:43.960 the chemotherapy. He welcomed this conversation with this strange, affable woman. 322 00:16:44.279 --> 00:16:47.320 He sees her a couple more times over the next month. 323 00:16:47.799 --> 00:16:50.320 They end up going to an art exhibition together because 324 00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:53.799 he's an artist, she appreciates art. And she says, after 325 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:57.399 about a month of them with these casual meetings up 326 00:16:57.440 --> 00:17:00.399 that she's looking for a place to stay because she's 327 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:03.519 waiting for her home to be finished. He invites her 328 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:06.039 to stay at his two bedroom condo for a few 329 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:08.880 days until her new place is ready to go, which 330 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:09.920 was to be imminent. 331 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:14.079 It's funny that he had the assumption, I mean, you 332 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:17.640 said this a minute ago. Because she was there, she 333 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:20.880 must belong there, and he assumed that she had a 334 00:17:20.920 --> 00:17:23.559 beach key or was a friend with someone who did 335 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:26.079 have a beach key, because she was there, and he 336 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:28.000 thought it would be kind of cool to have a 337 00:17:28.079 --> 00:17:30.319 roommate for a couple of days, especially somebody that was 338 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:32.039 interesting and quirky. 339 00:17:32.359 --> 00:17:36.440 Soon enough, the mask came off, she unleashed a campaign, 340 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:39.519 they say, of psychological terror, landed him in a medical 341 00:17:39.519 --> 00:17:42.240 facility at the same time she was changing the locks 342 00:17:42.279 --> 00:17:45.519 to his place. They said it started about a month 343 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:48.200 after she moved in that a couple days quickly became 344 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:51.799 a month. With this house that everyone knows somebody that 345 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:54.759 has had this, so it's easy to accept. Right, You've 346 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:57.519 got a friend whose house is getting rebuilt, or there 347 00:17:57.640 --> 00:17:59.519 was some sort of damage to the house, or they 348 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:02.359 needed to plumb the house or something where you offer 349 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:04.039 you can stay with us for a couple days or 350 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:07.480 whatever usually ends up being longer. You know how contractors work, 351 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:10.519 So it's not out of the realm of possibility that 352 00:18:10.559 --> 00:18:12.839 her house would take a little bit longer, and in 353 00:18:12.880 --> 00:18:16.279 fact that's what it did, but just at the alleged house, 354 00:18:16.319 --> 00:18:19.079 I should say. But about a month after she moved in, 355 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:22.960 her demeanor, they say changed dramatically. They meaning this guy's sister. 356 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:29.359 She became berating Alden, ridiculing his medical problems, that she 357 00:18:29.400 --> 00:18:32.240 would take videos of him on her cell phone, threatening 358 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:35.559 to use him as leverage to stay longer. She relegated 359 00:18:35.599 --> 00:18:39.839 to a room in the downstowns Downstown downstairs area of 360 00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:43.480 his own home. That he couldn't even go to the 361 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:47.400 kitchen or other areas without dealing with this woman's verbal abuse, 362 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:50.319 and then couldn't get her to leave. 363 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:55.079 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 364 00:18:55.319 --> 00:18:56.039 AM six. 365 00:18:55.920 --> 00:18:59.079 Forty authorities in Alaska searching this hour for a commercial 366 00:18:59.119 --> 00:19:01.759 passenger playing the went missing of the Bearing Sea just 367 00:19:01.920 --> 00:19:05.640 before it was supposed to land. This cessna is operated 368 00:19:05.640 --> 00:19:09.720 by a regional carrier called Bearing Air. Nine passengers and 369 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:13.480 a pilot on board when its position was lost yesterday afternoon, 370 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:17.240 according to the Alaska Department of Public Safety. So you've 371 00:19:17.240 --> 00:19:21.000 got Coastguard, air Force, and National Guard all involved in 372 00:19:21.039 --> 00:19:23.559 an air and land search for this airplane. 373 00:19:23.599 --> 00:19:26.720 We're talking about Alden Marin, guy who lived in Malibu, 374 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:29.599 sixty five years old, going through a treatment for stage 375 00:19:29.599 --> 00:19:32.720 four melanoma, meets a woman on the beach there, which 376 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:36.880 is private for just homeowners in the area. Yeah, middle aged, 377 00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:40.440 eccentric woman British accent. Ellie Mae McNulty is her name. 378 00:19:40.519 --> 00:19:48.640 They have commonalities. They both shared a passion for yoga meditations. 379 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:52.160 Her home is being worked on, he allows her to 380 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:55.279 stay in his home for a couple days. He's got 381 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:57.559 a two bedroom condo there in Malibu. They say a 382 00:19:57.599 --> 00:20:00.960 couple of days of novelty turned into a weekek. Then 383 00:20:01.079 --> 00:20:04.079 two weeks and the excuses of why her new rental 384 00:20:04.119 --> 00:20:09.160 wasn't yet available started to pile up. And Mindy is 385 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:13.640 Alden's sister, and Mindy says that she felt the red 386 00:20:13.680 --> 00:20:17.759 flags right away. Something was off, and her brother said, no, 387 00:20:17.839 --> 00:20:20.240 she's okay. She helps out around here, she makes breakfast, 388 00:20:20.279 --> 00:20:23.400 she makes sure I'm okay. But the sister, as we're 389 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:25.720 one to do, starts searching for this woman on the 390 00:20:25.799 --> 00:20:30.359 internet and seems to believe that this woman fancies herself 391 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:33.480 a bit of a filmmaker or something. Her social media 392 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:36.839 is peppered with photos of her with Hollywood players David Lynch, 393 00:20:36.839 --> 00:20:41.319 Al Pacino, Jim Carrey, and she talks about her membership 394 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:44.839 and the Screen Actors Guild. Just months before she meets 395 00:20:44.880 --> 00:20:48.119 the brother Alden. She had instagrammed a screenshot of a 396 00:20:48.279 --> 00:20:51.759 New York Times review that noted her exceptional acting. But 397 00:20:51.839 --> 00:20:54.039 this was from a play that had been stage in 398 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:57.720 nineteen ninety eight, about twenty five years before the meeting. 399 00:20:57.839 --> 00:20:59.960 And like you said, Alden's sister, Mindy was the one 400 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:04.440 who sniffed this out early on, or at least knew 401 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:07.440