WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:02.960 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.879 AM six forty, The Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:07.320 on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:10.119 --> 00:00:11.400 It is May twenty ninth. 5 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:14.119 We're live at Cell Block G today because our main 6 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:17.120 studio is undergoing some sort of a fix. 7 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:17.800 Yeah. 8 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:22.199 In the break, guys, we started talking about drugs and 9 00:00:22.280 --> 00:00:23.879 we were oh yeah, pretty much. 10 00:00:23.879 --> 00:00:25.760 We went from we were convinced. 11 00:00:26.039 --> 00:00:28.120 By the end of the show today we will have 12 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:31.719 tried uh pruno, you know, the toilet wine that they 13 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:35.399 make in jail, and some sort of butter. 14 00:00:36.799 --> 00:00:37.759 Rice Christians Country. 15 00:00:37.799 --> 00:00:40.240 You find out what you're made of when you're on 16 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:42.159 the inside, and we're not. 17 00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:42.799 Made of much. 18 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:43.439 We are. 19 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:46.200 We are crumbling also very quickly. 20 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:48.479 If you guys might help me out, I have I 21 00:00:48.520 --> 00:00:52.200 have two invitations to join a couple of gangs already 22 00:00:52.439 --> 00:00:54.240 here in Yeah. 23 00:00:54.679 --> 00:00:56.520 Okay, so there's only four of us. 24 00:00:56.679 --> 00:00:58.799 Well one of them is just one of them is 25 00:00:58.799 --> 00:01:01.280 just the white power thing. I don't know if I'm 26 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:04.280 I'm not down with the with the ideology, but I 27 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:07.200 mean in terms of like protection and stuff like that. 28 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:08.879 You're gonna have to do a lot more push ups 29 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:11.319 to hold the white power flag. Well, then the other 30 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:14.280 gang is because you're out numbered, is the Clean. 31 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:15.640 Boys gang, which I had never heard of. 32 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:17.920 Oh tell me more about the clean That's it's just 33 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:21.159 like you could. 34 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:24.560 Only they said. The only requirement is no tattoos. 35 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:28.239 Oh okay, you don't have, right, So I I qualify 36 00:01:28.319 --> 00:01:28.599 for that. 37 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:32.680 I could probably tattoo you with a pen while we're 38 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:33.040 in here. 39 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:35.519 Do you think we should do. 40 00:01:35.439 --> 00:01:37.760 That prison tat? Huh? 41 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:44.400 Howard cheek like a ballpoint pen and I and I. 42 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:46.400 Start jabbing it into my skin. 43 00:01:46.359 --> 00:01:48.640 And it bleeds? Does it stay? 44 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:49.799 See? 45 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:52.560 These are things you have early on when you get 46 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:54.560 into prison. These are Oh thank you. 47 00:01:54.560 --> 00:01:58.319 You use a sharpie. A sharp sharpe will leave a 48 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:01.480 lasting long It will last a little longer. 49 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:03.159 Oh hell yeah, hell yeah. 50 00:02:03.159 --> 00:02:05.000 Okay, So give me you need something to give me 51 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:07.719 a risk. You need to poke into my skin and 52 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:08.400 then put. 53 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:10.639 I have the I have this sharper pen, and then 54 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:13.360 I should use the you to use a paper clip. 55 00:02:13.719 --> 00:02:16.080 Here's there's some pushpins over there that'll work. There we 56 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:17.039 go all right, and. 57 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:19.159 Then I put the sharpie ink in your bloodstream. 58 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:20.000 Sounds about right. 59 00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:21.840 Hey, We told you a couple of weeks ago about 60 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:25.439 that Smokey Robinson lawsuit these four women accuse him of 61 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:29.840 sexual abuse for years. He has now filed a counter 62 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:33.199 suit for five hundred dollars. 63 00:02:33.240 --> 00:02:33.439 Good. 64 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:36.800 He should, He should because listen, like I've said from go, 65 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:38.800 Smokey Robinson is no saint. 66 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:42.400 I don't know that. It's just a guess. 67 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:46.120 You don't look like that and go through that many 68 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:50.319 decades in the music career and not get what you 69 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:52.360 want when it comes to women and things. 70 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:52.919 Right. 71 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:56.680 But had he been the kind of person to assault 72 00:02:56.719 --> 00:02:59.879 women that doesn't start when you're seventy eight years old, 73 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:03.479 that is something we would have heard about retroactively. We 74 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:05.560 would have heard about it decades ago. And that's not 75 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:07.719 who he is, because we would have heard about it 76 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:08.800 if that was who he is. 77 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:09.199 Well. 78 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:11.960 Remember, so we saw this lawsuit from the four women 79 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:14.759 a couple of weeks ago. According to this counter suit, 80 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:18.639 Smokey Robinson and his wife Francis alleged that these four 81 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:22.439 housekeepers tried to extort one hundred million dollars from them 82 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:23.080 last year. 83 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:27.000 It's transparent to me that they stayed around. They probably 84 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:30.080 tried to elicit behavior that they could then turn around 85 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:31.400 and sue for a great deal. 86 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:31.840 Of money. 87 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:35.639 For other quick celebrity news. Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence 88 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:40.400 are now officially in laws. Eddie's oldest son married Martin 89 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:41.879 Lawrence's oldest daughter. 90 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:44.680 Oh that's cool, married earlier this month. 91 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:46.639 All right, we. 92 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:48.560 Are running out of time, so we'll get to it 93 00:03:48.599 --> 00:03:49.400 coming up next. 94 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:50.680 But this is the story. 95 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:54.800 This was a news item that didn't receive too much attention. 96 00:03:55.960 --> 00:04:00.599 There was a mother's body found downtown LA and the 97 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:05.120 Westlake neighborhood. Still don't know how she died, but the 98 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:09.919 family is blaming Los Angeles for not clearing these encampments 99 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:13.199 like the one where mom died ops. When her family 100 00:04:13.240 --> 00:04:15.080 went to go look for her, they found her body 101 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:19.040 being eaten by dogs. I mean, that's really the awful, 102 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:22.279 awful thing that makes the headline and makes this story 103 00:04:22.319 --> 00:04:25.240 stick around. But the fact that a mother, a forty 104 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:28.040 six year old mother, was found dead in this homeless 105 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:31.959 encampment that happened under the rules of Los Angeles, that 106 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:36.000 happened under the lack of rules of Los Angeles. When 107 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:40.160 you're legislating with feelings for homeless people and you're legislating, Oh, 108 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:41.399 I don't want to do that. I don't want to 109 00:04:41.399 --> 00:04:44.560 force them into jail or off the street, or take 110 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:46.720 away their cardboard box or their tents or whatever. 111 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:47.639 That's not cool. 112 00:04:47.879 --> 00:04:49.959 The people on the West Side and their ivory towers, 113 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:52.160 they don't like that. It's not good for me politically. 114 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:55.560 So I'll just let anything go. Well, when you let 115 00:04:55.600 --> 00:05:00.160 anything go, anything goes to the tune of what could 116 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:03.040 be multiple murders. And as a city on the hook 117 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:05.279 for that, this family says it should be, and I 118 00:05:05.279 --> 00:05:06.199 got to agree with them. 119 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:07.879 We'll talk about that when we come back. 120 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:12.639 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 121 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:13.759 AM six forty. 122 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:18.319 You ever race a Ferrari on an F one track? 123 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:21.000 Sounds like fun, isn't it done? 124 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:21.160 That? 125 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:23.800 Would you open it up? I mean, would you really 126 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:25.519 take advantage? Or would you go thirty five? 127 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:29.759 I'm in a Ferrari on an F one track. Would 128 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:30.920 you'd have to? Wouldn't you? 129 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:31.399 Yes? 130 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:33.720 You, even if it scared the living crap out of. 131 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:35.120 You, you'd have to, now, yes, you would. 132 00:05:35.439 --> 00:05:36.759 A couple stories that were following. 133 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:39.839 Also, a federal court has block President Trump from imposing 134 00:05:39.959 --> 00:05:44.360 tariffs on imports using an emergency powers law. So that 135 00:05:44.519 --> 00:05:47.720 kind of throws everything into question. 136 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:48.000 Now. 137 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:50.560 Global financial markets have been rattled for the last couple 138 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:53.480 of months because of these tariffs, and actually shot up 139 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:55.399 today as a result of this ruling. It's from the 140 00:05:55.519 --> 00:06:00.639 US Court of International Trade. The Trump administration immediately appealed. 141 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:09.560 There is a story going around about I don't want 142 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:16.040 to butcher her name. Lucrecia Lucretia Lucretia Lucretia Baranjas, forty 143 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:19.839 six years old, found dead, oh, right around Mother's Day 144 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:22.720 by one of our three daughters. This is a US 145 00:06:22.920 --> 00:06:26.439 Army veteran found dead by one of our three daughters. 146 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:30.199 One of the daughters used the Find my iPhone app 147 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:33.680 to find her mom, and she did. A large tarp 148 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:37.839 covered shelter in a notorious Westlake cul de Sac that 149 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:43.160 is home to a homeless encampment. There was another dead 150 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:46.600 person in the encampment, a guy thirty nine year old man, 151 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:50.600 along with two live dogs that were taking advantage of 152 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:55.120 the situation, shall we say. The LAPD says that this 153 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:59.680 was a suspected drug overdose, and the family says. 154 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:03.040 That the LA was too quick to rule out foul play. 155 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:06.519 Part of the reason the family believes there may be 156 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:10.079 something nefarious here is that there were a couple other 157 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:13.279 people in that area at the time. Just before the 158 00:07:13.319 --> 00:07:15.600 bodies were found, they said they heard a woman screaming 159 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:19.240 for help very early in the morning, and the witnesses 160 00:07:19.279 --> 00:07:21.720 said that the screaming was coming from the direction of 161 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:26.319 the makeshift tent, but nobody really intervened. It was the 162 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:30.600 next day that the witnesses learned of Lucretia's death and 163 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:33.759 the guy that was with her. No established relationship between 164 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:40.720 those two anyway at this point, but Lucretia's family says 165 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:42.199 that she was an Army veteran. 166 00:07:42.439 --> 00:07:43.560 She was a loving mother. 167 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:48.360 The oldest daughter had been diagnosed with cancer three years 168 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:50.879 ago and suffered from depression, but said she did everything 169 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:55.000 in her power to support the family. Another sister says 170 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:57.920 mom cared deeply for other people who might have been 171 00:07:57.959 --> 00:08:00.959 struggling and would bring clothes and food to homeless people, 172 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:03.319 even if she didn't have that much money herself. 173 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:05.439 Now the family is upset with the LAPD. 174 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:08.639 They believe it was a murder, that something was nefarious, 175 00:08:08.680 --> 00:08:10.759 and I don't blame the LAPD. 176 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:13.560 It's not my business, not my mom, it's not my family. 177 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:15.399 But let's just. 178 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:19.560 Look about let's look around at the environment that this 179 00:08:19.639 --> 00:08:22.839 happened in. At least two signs on the street show 180 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:25.399 the area is designated as a forty one point one 181 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:28.720 eight Special Enforcement Zone, which prohibits people from camping in 182 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:32.440 the area camping. The signs were put up there in 183 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:34.480 July twenty twenty two, but. 184 00:08:34.519 --> 00:08:36.399 They do no good. Obviously. 185 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:43.799 There have been numerous reports about encampments there. This is 186 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:49.039 just something that goes on in several different pockets of 187 00:08:49.080 --> 00:08:51.799 the city. This is an area that has been mired 188 00:08:51.799 --> 00:08:56.960 in gang violence, drug use, homelessness, organized retail theft. City 189 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:00.000 officials say they had made progress in addressing the issue 190 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:02.799 and that reported crime has dropped in recent months, with 191 00:09:02.840 --> 00:09:08.960 the exception of burglaries and break inst's. 192 00:09:06.799 --> 00:09:09.080 Stop pull the car over right there, all the crime 193 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:09.840 but except that. 194 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:12.679 Yeah, if I live in the area and my home's 195 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:15.000 broken into, and they're like, no, no crimes down except 196 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:17.960 for you know, the break in, except for you burglaries 197 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:20.840 and break ins. I mean, isn't that quality of life 198 00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:25.039 right there? What are you cracking down on people selling 199 00:09:25.159 --> 00:09:28.960 drugs to each other? I don't care about that. This 200 00:09:29.080 --> 00:09:31.639 is some people break it into my house for money 201 00:09:31.639 --> 00:09:32.879 for drugs in the middle of the night. 202 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:35.399 This story of Lucretia brajass Is. 203 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:41.879 Unfortunately exemplifies the biggest issues that come with homelessness, because 204 00:09:42.440 --> 00:09:47.200 obviously city officials have and i'll use air quotes here, 205 00:09:47.480 --> 00:09:51.080 tried to clear some of these encampments by helping people 206 00:09:51.159 --> 00:09:54.360 get into housing and giving them access to support services. 207 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:58.639 Right, they say it's more compassionate, it's compassion, But where 208 00:09:58.879 --> 00:10:02.919 where is the compassion and letting people die from their 209 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:09.759 addictions and from the ridiculous environments you've allowed to flourish 210 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:14.240 in your city in these encampments. It's the wild wild West. 211 00:10:14.879 --> 00:10:18.759 It's awful. Where's the compassion there? And this is the 212 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:22.840 point I always go back to, you're one of my friends. 213 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:25.399 I have compassion for you. If I find out that 214 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:29.320 you're living in a tent downstairs and shooting up meth 215 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:34.399 I am not going to let you continue to do 216 00:10:34.519 --> 00:10:37.600 that out of compassion. That's not compassion for you. That's 217 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:40.360 not me being a friend to you. Me being a 218 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:42.799 friend to you is pulling you out of that tent 219 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:45.879 and forcing the situation to change. I mean, you can't 220 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:48.240 force anyone to get out of their addiction, but you 221 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:50.879 certainly don't need to enable it. You don't need to 222 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:53.480 make it easy for them, and that's what the city does. 223 00:10:53.559 --> 00:10:55.639 And whenever we talk about this, we talk about people 224 00:10:55.679 --> 00:10:58.200 who are hooked on drugs, who are dealing with mental 225 00:10:58.200 --> 00:10:59.960 issues that then turn into drug addiction. 226 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:01.480 And however it works that. 227 00:11:01.519 --> 00:11:05.039 A lot of people, current people listening have said to 228 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:09.000 us they were the worst, lowest points of their lives. 229 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:12.600 The only reason they were alive today is because they 230 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:14.679 were sighted, they were taken to jail, they did a 231 00:11:14.759 --> 00:11:17.759 stint in state prison, they did something, something got them 232 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:24.639 cleaned up. It wasn't just a homeless liaison walking around 233 00:11:24.679 --> 00:11:26.840 a tent camp and going but don't you want to 234 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:30.120 stay in a beautiful supportive care home. Don't you want 235 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:33.600 The carrots that they extend to these people that live 236 00:11:33.639 --> 00:11:36.759 on the streets are not enough motivation to get people 237 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:37.440 off the streets. 238 00:11:37.639 --> 00:11:39.120 There has to be some stick. 239 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:43.440 And I'm not talking about the Mahogany hairwash kind of 240 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:45.840 thing where you walk around and just start beating people. 241 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:47.799 But you've got to cite people. 242 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:50.840 You've got to make it criminal again to live in 243 00:11:50.879 --> 00:11:53.759 areas that it's illegal to live in. I mean, you 244 00:11:53.799 --> 00:11:57.519 mentioned this is a special enforcement zone, this specific homeless 245 00:11:57.519 --> 00:11:59.759 in camp that we're talking about, but that the city 246 00:11:59.799 --> 00:12:01.919 does want to do that because they feel that that's 247 00:12:02.279 --> 00:12:04.960 that's not the empathetic way to go. 248 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:07.799 There should be a different passion, there should be a 249 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:10.720 different reason they use, because that's not compassion. 250 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:13.000 It just isn't. 251 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:16.799 You're making it comfortable for people to continue doing the 252 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:19.759 stuff that's killing them. And again, you can't force them 253 00:12:19.799 --> 00:12:23.360 into treatment, can't force them into a housing facility. I 254 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:28.519 understand all that, but enabling them to just stay there 255 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:33.600 and put their lives in danger under your watch essentially 256 00:12:34.679 --> 00:12:37.279 is not the answer. And it's not it's the opposite 257 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:41.720 of compassion in difference. It's in difference you're indifferent to 258 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:45.279 what they're doing. And that is right up there with 259 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:46.120 the opposite of love. 260 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:50.480 That's more dangerous. Yeah, that's more dangerous. All right? 261 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:52.360 Are we able to talk about something good? 262 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:53.679 No, we're gonna talk about that. 263 00:12:53.799 --> 00:12:58.320 Well, I mean, it's making something good out of something tragic. 264 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:01.679 This is just a America, is what this is? 265 00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:02.679 Entrepreneur? 266 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:06.200 You entrepreneur, Why is that word so difficult to say? 267 00:13:06.679 --> 00:13:08.600 Entrepreneurial spirit? 268 00:13:08.919 --> 00:13:11.080 You just said it. You sounded drunk when you said it, 269 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:11.960 but you said it. 270 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:14.759 It's too long. There's too much going on there. There's 271 00:13:14.759 --> 00:13:17.080 two there's ewes that just come at you. 272 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:19.320 They fly at you. 273 00:13:19.320 --> 00:13:21.039 You're right in the middle of that word, and all 274 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:23.279 of a sudden, there's a U, there's an R, there's 275 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:23.799 a secret. 276 00:13:23.799 --> 00:13:26.960 I well, we'll go back to our remedial high school 277 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:28.759 classes down at Cell Block D. 278 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:32.120 I went to public school here in California, so I 279 00:13:32.120 --> 00:13:34.600 didn't learn words like entrepreneurial. 280 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:37.559 Gary and Shannon will continue. 281 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:42.519 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 282 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:43.639 A M six forty. 283 00:13:45.879 --> 00:13:51.639 The monkeys, Oh, the monkey's stealing other monkeys. Yes, I 284 00:13:51.799 --> 00:13:55.159 never say the word right capuchin, Yes, right, capuchin. The 285 00:13:55.159 --> 00:13:59.519 Capuchin monkeys are stealing the howler monkeys babies. 286 00:14:02.600 --> 00:14:03.399 Is this China? 287 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:04.840 What do you mean is this? 288 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:05.440 Oh? 289 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:07.720 Do you think that the Chinese are now turning one? 290 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:09.480 That they have pecies of monkeys. 291 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:11.399 Against them, or that they have Yeah, that they have 292 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:14.720 mobilized the monkeys to steal other monkeys, like the way 293 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:16.600 they have mobilized our college students. 294 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:21.039 A strange story out of Switzerland. One man is missing 295 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:24.399 after the majority of a tiny little village in Switzerland 296 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:28.960 was buried after a glacier collapsed, the Birch Glacier, the 297 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:34.080 entire glacier collapsed. That caused a gigantic landslide. Footage showed 298 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:39.840 ice and mud and debris flowing near Blatton, they said, 299 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:43.039 about fifty five miles south of the capital of Burn. 300 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:45.159 They say at the bottom of the valley, huge deposit 301 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:48.240 of ice and rocks several dozen meters thick and approximately 302 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:51.480 two kilometers long, buried most of the village of Blatten. 303 00:14:51.639 --> 00:14:55.120 The damage is considerable, adding that that one person I 304 00:14:55.200 --> 00:14:57.039 believe to be a sixty four year old man is 305 00:14:57.360 --> 00:14:58.440 still considered missing. 306 00:14:58.519 --> 00:15:00.440 Right now, you have a into. 307 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:03.480 The La County Corner's office right there off North Mission Road. 308 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:08.000 It's been made popular now by I believe. I don't 309 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:09.519 know if it's still on the air, but there was 310 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:12.759 a documentary show North Mission Road for a long time 311 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:16.440 about different cases, high profile cases that made their way 312 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:19.480 through the corners office Ed Winter, you remember that name. 313 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:24.840 But it's this like nondescript building off North Mission Road, 314 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:28.159 right off the five there downtown La East La area. 315 00:15:29.639 --> 00:15:32.639 And you know, we'd go there for interviews and things 316 00:15:32.679 --> 00:15:35.519 like that when we were when we were reporters and 317 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:38.480 a celebrity would die and you would go there and 318 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:43.159 it's just just this run down It's it's kind of 319 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:46.639 like when you go to Hollywood and you're like, this 320 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:47.360 is Hollywood. 321 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:47.799 This is it. 322 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:48.440 Huh. 323 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:50.879 You know, in your mind it's this big deal in 324 00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:53.600 North Mission Road and the Ellie County Corner's Office is 325 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:55.840 a big deal and it's not. It's like this you know, 326 00:15:56.320 --> 00:16:00.559 building built in the late sixties, run down and anyway, 327 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:03.679 it gets a lot of media attention because of well 328 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:04.639 all the bodies that have. 329 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:05.399 Gone through there. 330 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:09.840 And somebody had the brilliant idea to open up a 331 00:16:09.919 --> 00:16:13.960 Corner's gift shop, a gift store adjacent to the Corner's 332 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:19.159 office where visitors could grab merchandise and it would help 333 00:16:20.639 --> 00:16:24.840 make money for an ailing office. I think the last 334 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:29.120 time that the Corner's Office made big news, and it 335 00:16:29.240 --> 00:16:32.159 wasn't for a celebrity's body where we were determining cause 336 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:35.919 of death and things like that. It was because they 337 00:16:35.919 --> 00:16:38.759 were so underfunded that there were bodies stacking up in 338 00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:39.399 the hallways. 339 00:16:39.480 --> 00:16:41.120 Right. Yeah. 340 00:16:41.240 --> 00:16:45.720 I I remember when was I became first aware of it, 341 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:47.679 and I think it was because I did it as 342 00:16:47.720 --> 00:16:51.320 a story sometime in two thousand and four. Having not 343 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:54.240 been in La I didn't realize that this was a thing, 344 00:16:55.440 --> 00:17:00.039 but it struck me at first as pretty insensitive. But 345 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:02.679 if you had lost somebody's anywhere in La County and 346 00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:04.920 you realize that the corner of the tandling your loved 347 00:17:04.920 --> 00:17:07.720 one's body is also selling T shirts with a funny 348 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:11.440 little chalk outline, that you might consider it insensitive. But 349 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:15.920 I have shied away from that feeling and kind of 350 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:18.559 get the idea that this is much more of somebody 351 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:24.200 doing a creative thing and taking advantage of what is 352 00:17:24.400 --> 00:17:27.319 just a normal reality of a big city, which is 353 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:32.079 there are people who die, and there are stories that 354 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:34.839 can be told about them, and every once in a 355 00:17:34.839 --> 00:17:36.799 while you can buy a T shirt. I mean, it's 356 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:40.720 just not necessarily a connection that the county for some 357 00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:44.599 reason isn't taking seriously the business of death that they 358 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:44.960 are in. 359 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:46.480 It's pretty creepy though. 360 00:17:46.559 --> 00:17:52.599 I mean you've seen in crime scene footage, whether it's 361 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:55.480 on the news or in documentaries or movies. You know 362 00:17:55.599 --> 00:17:59.359 just that dark navy or or black shirt with the 363 00:17:59.400 --> 00:18:03.160 big blood lettering of white corner on the back of it, 364 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:05.039 and they sell those shirts there. 365 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:08.079 So yeah, dark humor. 366 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:14.799 I guess meets Kitchie trinkets on beach towels with chalk outlines. 367 00:18:14.839 --> 00:18:19.240 They sell piggy banks shaped like nineteen thirties Area black Mariah. 368 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:22.079 Hearst vans, toe tag keychains. 369 00:18:21.720 --> 00:18:23.240 And I do like the idea. 370 00:18:23.240 --> 00:18:26.319 I mean the County of LA's Department of Medical Examiner. 371 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:29.039 This all started back when it was the County Coroner's 372 00:18:29.119 --> 00:18:31.880 office in the they said, in the early nineties, and 373 00:18:31.920 --> 00:18:35.200 they did a symposium. It's a big city, one of 374 00:18:35.200 --> 00:18:38.640 the one of the largest corner's offices in the country, 375 00:18:38.920 --> 00:18:42.160 and they would do a symposium for you know, basically 376 00:18:42.200 --> 00:18:45.319 for people in the industry. They'd come from around the 377 00:18:45.319 --> 00:18:47.759 country and probably from around the world to see how 378 00:18:47.799 --> 00:18:49.680 they do it in LA. And at the end of 379 00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:53.000 this symposium, they would give a souvenir coffee mug that 380 00:18:53.119 --> 00:18:56.480 just had the simple logo of at the time, the 381 00:18:56.640 --> 00:19:00.759 LA County Corner's Office. Well, that generated a lot of buzz, 382 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:02.640 and the people who came to the symposium the next 383 00:19:02.759 --> 00:19:04.400 year were like, oh, are we getting Are we getting 384 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:05.359 those cool mugs at the end? 385 00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:06.559 Can we get those cool mugs? 386 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:09.240 And they realized that maybe what they should do is, 387 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:11.839 you know, put their foot on the gas a little 388 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:16.640 bit marketing wise. So they had a skeleton dressed up 389 00:19:16.680 --> 00:19:21.759 as a detective named Sherlock Bones, and they said that 390 00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:25.759 those those mugs flew off the shelves. And then it 391 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:31.279 became the idea of Marilyn Lewis. She was the one 392 00:19:31.319 --> 00:19:34.160 who'd come up with the idea for that Sherlock Bones character. 393 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:37.839 Why not do this gift store adjacent to the coroner's 394 00:19:37.839 --> 00:19:43.599 office where everybody could grab merchandise and then use the 395 00:19:43.680 --> 00:19:47.119 money to help what is a chronically underfunded part of 396 00:19:47.160 --> 00:19:50.599 county government, which is what they did. And I don't 397 00:19:50.599 --> 00:19:53.279 know how much money they're making every single year. Necessarily 398 00:19:53.359 --> 00:19:56.720 it's not gonna be enough. They said that it nets 399 00:19:56.759 --> 00:20:00.359 about are sorry. In nineteen ninety eight it had netted 400 00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:03.279 about seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars per year. 401 00:20:03.640 --> 00:20:07.279