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: I forgot what you always say about puppetry. What is it?
Speaker 3: Oh that I got a degree in medieval puppetry.
Speaker 1: Medieval puppetry, not puppetry of the penis right, But my
Speaker 1: dad would say, if you're into medieval puppetry, great, but
Speaker 1: go to school and do something that you may not love,
Speaker 1: but that you will secure you a job so you
Speaker 1: can pay your bills.
Speaker 2: It will pay for your medieval puppetry.
Speaker 1: And if you think going to college is about potlucks
Speaker 1: and crushes, you're going to college for the wrong reasons.
Speaker 1: You should have pressure on, you should cry over bad
Speaker 1: grades or miss opportunities or missed professional opportunities before you graduate.
Speaker 2: And she's in law school.
Speaker 1: You've got people in law school that think that they're
Speaker 1: just going to go there for potlucks and crushes.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 3: And quidditch, I was never excited about Excuse me, I
Speaker 3: was never excited about college for those aspects of it.
Speaker 3: I mean was We went to Chicos so of course
Speaker 3: we knew that there was going to be a social
Speaker 3: growth aspect to it. But I wanted to go because
Speaker 3: I thought that was the best way to get the
Speaker 3: best paying job. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: In fact, the reason my parents were so all in
Speaker 1: with me going to Chicos because they had the best rate,
Speaker 1: the best percentage of students getting a job right out
Speaker 1: of graduation than any other school in California State school
Speaker 1: And that meant a lot to my parents. Yeah, get
Speaker 1: employment right away so that you're not living in a
Speaker 1: car off of our bills. I would have lived in
Speaker 1: my car before I went home and lived with my parents.
Speaker 1: So it was a different time. But the takeaway bold
Speaker 1: comment from this opinion piece in the New York Times
Speaker 1: is pressure to succeed after graduation impedes.
Speaker 2: The process of learning. That is terrifying.
Speaker 1: Anyway, proof that Gavin Newsom listens to the show.
Speaker 3: He has signed a bill that makes it a crime
Speaker 3: to farm octopuses for human consumption the great state of California.
Speaker 2: What are the odds of that.
Speaker 1: We spent a considerable amount of time last week talking
Speaker 1: about the octopuses slash octopied both are correct, and how
Speaker 1: smart these animals are and how wonderful they are, and
Speaker 1: how they swim with fish, They hunt with the fish,
Speaker 1: and when the fish get out of line or distracted,
Speaker 1: the octopus punches the fish back in line.
Speaker 2: How they are aliens potentially potentially.
Speaker 3: I am not a fan of that style of seafood. No,
Speaker 3: alos is not my favorite go to when it comes
Speaker 3: to eating creatures of the sea. And they say that
Speaker 3: they recognize in this bill that octopuses are highly intelligent, curious,
Speaker 3: problem solving animals that are conscious, sentient, and experience pain, stress,
Speaker 3: and fear, as well as pleasure, equanimity, and social bonds.
Speaker 2: The last line of the story Americans want to keep
Speaker 2: octopuses wild. That's what I thought of all weekend.
Speaker 3: Yes, the governor also blocks VETOED and AI Safety bill
Speaker 3: would have imposed some of the first regulations on our
Speaker 3: artificial intelligence. He was concerned, said the governor, that the
Speaker 3: bill would stifle innovation and prompt AI developers to move
Speaker 3: out of state. Oh, I'm sorry, now you're concerned about
Speaker 3: companies moving out of the state. Senator Scott Wiener, who
Speaker 3: spent the weekend at the Fulsome Gay Pride celebration, said
Speaker 3: that the veto allows companies to continue developing extremely powerful
Speaker 3: technology without any government oversight. So now Scott Wiener doesn't
Speaker 3: like Gavin Newsom or something like that.
Speaker 1: A new call, new call at the Intuit Dome for
Speaker 1: last call. Last call in California is two am. But
Speaker 1: gavinor Newsom signed a bill into law yesterday that extends
Speaker 1: public drinking time for a select few who VIP suite
Speaker 1: holders at Englewood's new Intuit Dome arena where the Clippers play.
Speaker 2: Why because if you watch the Clippers, you have to.
Speaker 3: Drink to No, that's not right. Oh, no, I do
Speaker 3: like that. You called him gaverner? Oh did the gaverner?
Speaker 3: It will allow alcohol to be served until four in
Speaker 3: the morning, specifically two dues paying members of private suites
Speaker 3: inside the arena. That's the only place in the state
Speaker 3: of California where you can legally buy and sell alcohol
Speaker 3: at that I mean you could do it in your
Speaker 3: house if you want to. Because if you're up at
Speaker 3: four am and you're still drinking, maybe there's other issues
Speaker 3: going on.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to judge. How much does this cost?
Speaker 1: Well, one suite was offered to rent for about ten
Speaker 1: eight hundred dollars for a Clippers game against the Suns
Speaker 1: in October. Offer included seventeen tickets to the game, balcony
Speaker 1: views and access to VIP bars. Doesn't say your alcohol's
Speaker 1: free though, you just have access to the bar. So
Speaker 1: you're paying ten thousand, eight hundred for you and a
Speaker 1: bunch of your friends to go to a Clippers get aim.
Speaker 1: The author's left to buy your booze till four in
Speaker 1: the morning.
Speaker 3: The author of this bill, by the Way Assembly Member
Speaker 3: Tina mckinner, said that it will help Inglewood's renaissance and
Speaker 3: that the city is unique because of its entertainment tourism.
Speaker 2: They said it's very limited in scope.
Speaker 3: It does include several safeguards to protect public health and safety,
Speaker 3: including an approval by the Englewood City Council, But it
Speaker 3: would provide another entertainment option to complement the two billion
Speaker 3: dollars of private investment in Inglewood's recently opened Into It Dome.
Speaker 3: How in the world do you convince a state assembly member.
Speaker 2: You take that opening more, that keeping open.
Speaker 1: Give her free stuff, and that it has a pass
Speaker 1: to the Into It Dome as long as she wants it. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: That's how things get done. This is how these things
Speaker 1: get done.
Speaker 3: Okay, But how then do you make that argument in public,
Speaker 3: a ridiculous argument that somehow this is helping the renaissance
Speaker 3: in the city of Inglewood, which is undergoing.
Speaker 1: An incredible because you can say that it draws big
Speaker 1: money people. The people that normally wouldn't dain our doorstep
Speaker 1: in Inglewood now want to come because we're offering this
Speaker 1: entertainment value to them, and that means that they will
Speaker 1: have more of a stake in our city and they'll
Speaker 1: look out for it.
Speaker 3: And all, Madam assembly member, let me ask you, if
Speaker 3: you are drinking at two o'clock and you're like, oh
Speaker 3: my gosh, I can still go until four o'clock, are
Speaker 3: you then hitting the road at four am in Inglewood
Speaker 3: and dispersing more money to the businesses and to the
Speaker 3: great people of the city of Inglewood.
Speaker 1: Well, I would say, commoner that to the people that
Speaker 1: are paying eleven thousand dollars to watch a Clipper Suns
Speaker 1: game and drink till four are not people who are
Speaker 1: going to be getting in their cars and driving they
Speaker 1: have drivers. Be commoner, like justin Timberlake, be commoner. I
Speaker 1: would say that, uh wait, I lost my train of thought.
Speaker 1: Now sorry, I shouldn't have said anything. Oh, this is
Speaker 1: the thing about rich people. They love to say that
Speaker 1: they have access to things that other people don't have
Speaker 1: access to.
Speaker 2: It's part of the thing about being rich.
Speaker 1: So even if they're not drinking till four they get
Speaker 1: to tell their friends and you know what, this is
Speaker 1: the only place in the state of California where you
Speaker 1: can drink till four am. And I this is my
Speaker 1: box and it's the only place in the whole state
Speaker 1: of California you can drink till four am right here.
Speaker 3: But let me also say, because of me, if you're
Speaker 3: at a Clippers game and the game ends at what ten, yeah, nine,
Speaker 3: you're gonna stick around for another six hours at the club.
Speaker 1: No, it's just it's all about bragging, like I have
Speaker 1: access to things.
Speaker 3: That is a good point, that is speaking of rich people.
Speaker 3: When rich people move out of the they're beautiful homes
Speaker 3: in bel Air, it is still la You might as
Speaker 3: well just slap on some graffiti and call it a day.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Whatever happened to the old broken windows theory of policing.
Speaker 1: Now the little break in the side of that front
Speaker 1: window has become a complete disaster of the entire front
Speaker 1: facing area of the home.
Speaker 3: I mean, and we do nothing about itper we do
Speaker 3: nothing about it. Striscrapers, we do multimillion dollar mansions in
Speaker 3: a broken window in South Central Now is become a
Speaker 3: completely tagged whole home in bel Air.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 4: AM six forty.
Speaker 3: A quick baseball note. Regular season's over. Dodgers won the
Speaker 3: National League West. They don't have to play again until
Speaker 3: yes record in baseball Okay, they don't have to play
Speaker 3: again until Saturday. We don't know who they're going to
Speaker 3: play yet in the National League Division Series, partly because
Speaker 3: there's a double header today that just started between the
Speaker 3: Mets and the Braves.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now the Mets need to win this to if they split, right,
Speaker 3: both the Mets and the Braves stay in. Okay, if
Speaker 3: the Braves win, or if the Braves sweep, they win
Speaker 3: both games, then the Braves are in, the Mets are
Speaker 3: out right, and the Diamondbacks are in.
Speaker 2: And the same thing.
Speaker 3: If the Mets sweep, the Mets are in, the Braves
Speaker 3: are out and the Diamondbacks are So the Diamondbacks in
Speaker 3: Phoenix some right right now are probably watching these games.
Speaker 2: Why don't we have these games on? I have it
Speaker 2: on over here. Well, I would like it on over here.
Speaker 2: Just what do you need to know? What do you
Speaker 2: need to know? I would like to watch a game
Speaker 2: that matters.
Speaker 1: Bottom of the first inning. Okay, sure, well no, I
Speaker 1: mean watch it. I don't need the box score. Well right,
Speaker 1: all right. So there was this mansion in bel Air.
Speaker 1: It's getting a bunch of coverage today because it is
Speaker 1: a third multimillion dollar home recently targeted by taggers graffiti vandals.
Speaker 1: They're called this was a home, just I guess, designed
Speaker 1: by a famous architect, a Hollywood producer. A renowned Hollywood
Speaker 1: producer lived there at a time. Ben Lawden lived there
Speaker 1: at one time.
Speaker 3: Architect John Elgin Wolf designed a bunch of homes in
Speaker 3: the Hollywood Hills, Bob Hope, Carry Grant, Judy Garland, Errol Flynn.
Speaker 3: You mentioned the producer Arthur Freed lived there for a
Speaker 3: long time. He made Brigadoon, Showboat and American in Paris
Speaker 3: Gig Singing in the Rain. Was also an uncredited producer
Speaker 3: on the Wizard of Oz, as you mentioned. Also, Ibrahim
Speaker 3: bin Laden, a half brother of Osama bin Laden, lived
Speaker 3: there in the eighties. Apparently that was really the last
Speaker 3: the family that owns it is still the ben Laden family, perhaps.
Speaker 1: So last yesterday morning, excuse me, empty paint canes, can's
Speaker 1: beer bottles littered many of the rooms of this place.
Speaker 1: A front patio windows above the front door had been shattered.
Speaker 1: Others had been just covered in red and black paint,
Speaker 1: and elegant stone archway had been ted with hopes and
Speaker 1: black paint. They destroyed everything. There was glass everywhere. It
Speaker 1: had been defamed, vandalized. It so horrible, so horrible. Police
Speaker 1: detained one man at the property late Friday, but the
Speaker 1: real estate agent who oversees the property said a security
Speaker 1: guard believed the uninvited visitor was only taking pictures, so
Speaker 1: she declined to press charges at the time on Friday.
Speaker 1: Then Sunday this all goes down, or Saturday night into Sunday.
Speaker 3: When the reporter went over and asked a bunch of
Speaker 3: the neighbors what was going on. Guy answered the intercom
Speaker 3: said he hadn't heard anything about the vand apparently the
Speaker 3: house itself is behind gates and behind shrubs and everything,
Speaker 3: so you can't necessarily see it from the street. So
Speaker 3: that's why neighbors would have been surprised to see that
Speaker 3: this was going on. Fred Rosen, one time chief executive
Speaker 3: of Ticketmaster, lives in that neighborhood, and he said, this
Speaker 3: is all on George gascon Yeah, he said, LA's woke.
Speaker 3: It's also broke. The city's broken. There's crime, people leaving,
Speaker 3: and politicians lying more than usual.
Speaker 2: He blamed Gascone.
Speaker 3: He said, we've had a basic breakdown of consequences for
Speaker 3: bad behavior. I don't know anybody from the Valley to
Speaker 3: the west Side to Compton who's not afraid or isn't concerned.
Speaker 1: Amen. Fred Well put two large homes in the Hollywood
Speaker 1: Hills got similar treatment. Recently. Of course, downtown. Downtown high
Speaker 1: rises have been plagued with graffiti. Just if there's no consequences,
Speaker 1: why not? And what street cred you get for taking
Speaker 1: this mansion, this famed mansion, and turning it into your
Speaker 1: tagging canvas inside, outside, backyard, front yard, it's everywhere.
Speaker 2: I'm a street cred though.
Speaker 1: Well, if you're a part of the tagging gang, well
Speaker 1: I mean this quite the conquest.
Speaker 3: If you're if the picture of it appears in the
Speaker 3: La Times like that, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Because if I'm tagging a gang, I us a subscribe
Speaker 1: to the La Times.
Speaker 2: Look, guys, we made the Times. We made the front page.
Speaker 3: Hey, my grandma said she saw your tag in the paper.
Speaker 2: Are we on the online edition?
Speaker 4: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 4: AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris was in town yesterday at a star studded
Speaker 1: event to raise money. Donors were asked to contribute between
Speaker 1: five hundred and two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to
Speaker 1: attend the event at the JW.
Speaker 2: Marriott there at LA Live, but.
Speaker 1: Could chip in as much as nine hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: six thousand dollars, according to an invitation to the event.
Speaker 1: Say the money was split between her campaign, the DNC
Speaker 1: and state parties. Alanis Morissett was there, Halle Berry was there.
Speaker 1: They eight duck egg rolls, beef Wellington and lobster roles.
Speaker 3: Is it Halle Barri or Halle Bailey? Excuse me, Halle Bailey,
Speaker 3: because I saw that Halle Berry was going to be there,
Speaker 3: but that she was performing. Yeah, I think that that's
Speaker 3: been If your name is Hallie Bailey.
Speaker 1: Well I'm old, So when I see Halle Bailey, I
Speaker 1: think Halle Berry because I'm an old and she is uh.
Speaker 2: She is is a young mermaid? Is that what she
Speaker 2: was in recently? Your guess is you know when I
Speaker 2: need little Mermaid news? You're my guy. I never saw
Speaker 2: the movie. I mean I never saw the live action.
Speaker 2: Yet you know the music so well. That's because it
Speaker 2: was a cartoon. I know that. I've never seen the
Speaker 2: live action. No, no, no, but you've seen the movie. I've
Speaker 2: seen the movie.
Speaker 3: Sure, I had kids, I mean we had we had
Speaker 3: the movie, probably still had those kids.
Speaker 1: Those kids were not born when that movie came out.
Speaker 1: Uh you saw that movie because of no right, but.
Speaker 3: We had the I mean you kind of everybody's got
Speaker 3: a library of Disney movies at some point.
Speaker 2: It's okay.
Speaker 3: Crisis is unfolding in western North Carolina. Officials have been
Speaker 3: pledging they're going to get more water, food, and other
Speaker 3: supplies to these areas that still don't have power, still
Speaker 3: don't have cell service. Days after Hurricane Helene rolled through,
Speaker 3: the death toll from the storm is now up to
Speaker 3: at least one hundred and twenty.
Speaker 2: People over the six states.
Speaker 3: Authorities have been struggling you get supplies into that area.
Speaker 3: Massive rains, of course, brought by Helene, left a bunch
Speaker 3: of people stranded or homeless or completely cut off around
Speaker 3: that region.
Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty nine is when my Little Mermaid came out.
Speaker 1: My little Mermaid, the little Mermaid, excuse me, my little
Speaker 1: murmur so much.
Speaker 2: I wanted to stare back. I'm amazed at what happened.
Speaker 3: There were always stories about Michael Jackson that when he
Speaker 3: not those stories, the spending stories about Michael Jackson, that
Speaker 3: he would just walk into places and drop a million
Speaker 3: and a half dollars without blinking, and it would buy
Speaker 3: stuff that was not necessary, wasn't it wasn't even useful.
Speaker 2: It wasn't that he was going to display art.
Speaker 3: It was just he would just buy stuff because that's
Speaker 3: what he knew how to do.
Speaker 1: Mariah Carey is one of those other names in the
Speaker 1: Hollywood Superspender Circle right, and she blows an obscenely expensive
Speaker 1: amount on designer clothes, gifts, champagne. In fact, it ruined
Speaker 1: her relationship with James Packer, billionaire tycoon. In twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: because of her obsession with money, she spent forty five
Speaker 1: grand on doggy spa treatments, one hundred thousand dollars a
Speaker 1: month on exotic flowers ten thousand every time she get
Speaker 1: her hair and makeup done.
Speaker 3: Which is probably pretty often, right, Sure, how many every
Speaker 3: time she leaves the house she goes out? Like you said,
Speaker 3: she split from that guy, which is crazy because he
Speaker 3: also has all kinds of money. They said that the
Speaker 3: full insight into her spending. Mariah Carey's was revealed after
Speaker 3: she was found to have borrowed eighteen million dollars against
Speaker 3: the Manhattan penthouse that she bought for about nine million.
Speaker 1: Paris Hilton's dogs live better than we do. She's got
Speaker 1: some designer dogs, and she has a doggy mansion for them,
Speaker 1: a two story Spanish colonial style building. It's got a
Speaker 1: second floor balcony with sweeping views of Los Angeles. Three
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five thousand dollars she spent on her
Speaker 1: dog house.
Speaker 3: Listen, I'm not one to tell people how to spend
Speaker 3: their money.
Speaker 2: Does your dog have a house? Yeah, it's the house
Speaker 2: I also live in.
Speaker 1: Oh, he doesn't have like his own little house. No,
Speaker 1: like in the backyard. No, you can put in that
Speaker 1: grassy area. Well, you build the custom may make them
Speaker 1: a house. Oh, you can have a little that's funny alcony.
Speaker 3: There was the the people who owned that house before
Speaker 3: did have a doghouse out there.
Speaker 1: Really, Yeah, that's funny. I thought something was missing with
Speaker 1: your mess.
Speaker 3: He made him take it out because I don't know
Speaker 3: what kind of weird dogs lived there, probably gross little
Speaker 3: yappy ones.
Speaker 1: Elton John's sunglasses, his collection is worth four hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: He owns two hundred and fifty thousand pairs of sunglasses.
Speaker 3: Well, then that sunglass collection is worth a whole lot
Speaker 3: more than four hundred thousand, right two bucks a pop
Speaker 3: for Elton John sunglass.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's silly. Hunt. Has he been to.
Speaker 3: Sunglass Hut lately? Those things are like two hundred and
Speaker 3: eighty bucks if you go for the big name Sunglass Hut. Well,
Speaker 3: I'm just okay. I like to shop my Little Mermaid
Speaker 3: where the rich people go. You need to get an
Speaker 3: orange Julius on your way. If they were still open,
Speaker 3: I would Those were delicious. Justin Bieber, for example, paid
Speaker 3: one hundred thousand dollars not for a car, for a
Speaker 3: paint job on a car, one hundred thousand dollars to
Speaker 3: have his Cadillac painted black and then put a Batman
Speaker 3: logo on it.
Speaker 1: Kim Kardashian and Kanye spent a bunch on toilets. You
Speaker 1: put in new toilets in your home.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I bought one hundred dollars toilets. Are they
Speaker 3: the golf ball toilets? No? No, No, that's that would
Speaker 3: have been a five or six hundred dollar bowl.
Speaker 4: Really?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh wow? I have no idea what toilets
Speaker 2: go for.
Speaker 1: Stolen dinosaur skull to the tune of two hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty two hundred and seventy six thousand dollars is what
Speaker 1: Nicholas Cage bought. He, they say, a self proclaimed history buff.
Speaker 1: He's also somebody that we've heard throwing away money for years, right, Cage?
Speaker 3: So when does it? When does it strike? When do
Speaker 3: you lose all touch with reality? When it comes to money?
Speaker 3: Is there a dollar amount? Is there a If you're
Speaker 3: for like Paris Hilton, for example, you came from money.
Speaker 1: These people don't care about a dollar amount. They probably
Speaker 1: don't even ask how much things cost. I want to
Speaker 1: get into the business of something where like I make
Speaker 1: something that has little to no value and I can
Speaker 1: sell it for obscene amounts of money to rich people
Speaker 1: who don't even ask how much it's gonna cost.
Speaker 2: And then you could just add another zero to it.
Speaker 1: Like if I could turn the Space Wars merch into
Speaker 1: something that they covet right and just charge like sixteen
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a T shirt?
Speaker 2: How would I do that? If your brain is spinning, right,
Speaker 2: how would you do it?
Speaker 1: How would I make Space Wars a coveted item?
Speaker 2: I do not know.
Speaker 3: Johnny Depp spends thirty thousand dollars a month on wine.
Speaker 1: I get it, I get it, But for him, I
Speaker 1: actually don't get it. I don't get really nice bottles
Speaker 1: of wine.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna say those are you could spend. You
Speaker 3: could buy thirty bottles of wine.
Speaker 1: I can tell the difference between a ten dollars bottle
Speaker 1: and a fifty dollars bottle, But I can't tell the
Speaker 1: difference between.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't even know. I could barely.
Speaker 3: Tell the difference between hard mountain dew and white claw.
Speaker 2: Did you get into those?
Speaker 3: I did not yet, It's still I'm they're supposed to
Speaker 3: be aged. Apparently, No, No, I must have misread.
Speaker 2: Don't I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I think you could probably drink those quite quite drinkable today,
Speaker 1: maybe this.
Speaker 3: Week I feel like I need to clean. I need
Speaker 3: to prepare my temple before I dis your temple, before
Speaker 3: I disparage it with appalation juices.
Speaker 1: Gary and Channa will continue. Wow, that was quite the picture.
Speaker 2: Gonna be hot.
Speaker 3: That's not great news out there on the fire line
Speaker 3: and specifically the line fire at a bit of a
Speaker 3: flare up. We'll be talking with kfi's Blake Trolley about
Speaker 3: that week. Can we ban the term appalation juices from
Speaker 3: the show Mountain Juices now because the mountains and no
Speaker 3: I like appalation juices.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand KFI A
Speaker 4: six forty.
Speaker 1: Gon It be damn hot around here. Well, we've got
Speaker 1: the National Hurricane Center tracking five separate systems currently in
Speaker 1: the Atlantic Ocean, including a newly formed tropical storm Kirk.
Speaker 1: Only one is a real concern for the United States.
Speaker 3: Yeah, most of those are just going to stay out
Speaker 3: in the ocean and not really not really do much.
Speaker 3: Former Rhodes scholar, former Army Ranger, Golden Globe winner, multiple
Speaker 3: Grammy winner, Chris Christofferson died a couple of days ago.
Speaker 3: He was eighty eight years old. Also, actor John Ashton died.
Speaker 3: His movie and TV career started early seventies. He played
Speaker 3: I mean like ninety percent of his roles were either
Speaker 3: cops or military members. Probably his highest profile role and
Speaker 3: definitely one you saw him recently, was Chief Taggart in
Speaker 3: the Beverly Hills Cops series of movies. I mean he
Speaker 3: wasn't he was Chief in the axle f version of it,
Speaker 3: but he was Taggert in the Beverly Hills Cop stuff. Well,
Speaker 3: the evacuation warnings new ones have been issued because of
Speaker 3: a flare up in the line fire out in San
Speaker 3: Bernardino County. Kfi's Blake Trolley has been covering the story
Speaker 3: for us and brings us the latest Blake.
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so this fire had a little bit of a
Speaker 5: flare up over the weekend, and this was near the
Speaker 5: Seven Oaks area. So what I'm told is that yesterday,
Speaker 5: if you look at this fire, this fire has been
Speaker 5: burning just so you guys remember since the fifth of September.
Speaker 2: That's when this fire started.
Speaker 5: It was starting by a suspected arsonist who has since
Speaker 5: been arrested. And really we weren't getting too many media
Speaker 5: updates about this fire because it was really appearing to
Speaker 5: be kind of in that mop up face. I mean,
Speaker 5: it was eighty three percent contained heading into this recent
Speaker 5: flare up. Well, what I'm told is that outside of
Speaker 5: Angelus Oaks and an area that was not contained, this
Speaker 5: is an area that's really steep and has a lot
Speaker 5: of dry vegetation, and it's really been a challenging area
Speaker 5: for firefighters to get containment lines. Some winds picked up
Speaker 5: yesterday and it really just created the perfect storm for
Speaker 5: this fire to to take off. So the fire grew
Speaker 5: a little bit. It grew by about one thousand acres
Speaker 5: during this little flare up. The fires now about forty
Speaker 5: three thousand acres, and that containment that was at eighty
Speaker 5: three percent has come down to eighty percent. This led
Speaker 5: to the evacuation of the community of Seven Oaks. It's
Speaker 5: a really small community. In fact, I was mapping it
Speaker 5: this morning to see where homes would be. There's only
Speaker 5: about three hundred people that live in this little community.
Speaker 5: But nonetheless, Angelus Oaks, a community that was already under threat,
Speaker 5: is under threat again, and the western side of Big
Speaker 5: Bear Lake is also under an evacuation warning.
Speaker 2: As this new threat emerges.
Speaker 5: I'm told that firefighters are expecting some challenges today with hot,
Speaker 5: dry temperatures. Interestingly, it's going to be about eighty six
Speaker 5: eighty seven degrees, but I'm told that the humidity level
Speaker 5: is still very low. The vegetation is very dry, and
Speaker 5: some of this vegetation, guys, that's burning in this recent
Speaker 5: flare up, has never burned before. There's no record of
Speaker 5: any of this burning before, so it is prime fuel.
Speaker 5: And firefighters are now trying once again to get a
Speaker 5: handle on this. Unified Command is back in effect out there,
Speaker 5: trying to wrap my head around the geography of this.
Speaker 5: Is this on the this is going to be on
Speaker 5: the east side of fire where it's growing. Yeah, so
Speaker 5: the fire pushed The best way to say it, I
Speaker 5: think when we think about mountains is it pushed up
Speaker 5: and in So it pushed to the north and east,
Speaker 5: meaning it pushed further inland and further up into the mountain.
Speaker 5: So the fire right now is kind of sitting below
Speaker 5: the Big Bear Lake area, kind of creeping up into
Speaker 5: that area.
Speaker 2: It's actually above and to the.
Speaker 5: West of Angelus Oaks and Seven Oaks, and it's kind
Speaker 5: of pushing eastward from there. I'm told more than twelve
Speaker 5: hundred firefighters are unseen right now. They are establishing containment lines,
Speaker 5: some are directly attacking this fire.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 5: They are anticipating a lot of air resources to come in.
Speaker 5: I'm told there's really no other fires right now competing,
Speaker 5: so that's a real positive for firefighters getting resources on
Speaker 5: this fire. They're going to be able to get I
Speaker 5: believe ten more helicopters. I believe they have a couple
Speaker 5: right now, ten more helicopters and four additional tankers on
Speaker 5: this fire, so they will be able to establish a
Speaker 5: strong offensive push to bring this thing back into containment.
Speaker 1: That's what is going to be the key here, because
Speaker 1: when you look at this terrain, there's only so much
Speaker 1: those crews can do on the ground. It's just it's
Speaker 1: near impossible. So this definitely calls for a strong air attack.
Speaker 1: So hopefully they'll make some headway with that and take
Speaker 1: advantage of the fact that it's relating only incident locally.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think they're really supported by the fact that
Speaker 5: they don't have a lot to compete with.
Speaker 2: If you guys remember at one point, I mean.
Speaker 5: It felt like all of southern California was on fire,
Speaker 5: and that was a real challenge, right trying to divvy
Speaker 5: out those air resources that each of these fires has
Speaker 5: to deal with.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: One of the things with this fire that I'm told
Speaker 5: even last night they were running air missions making attacks
Speaker 5: using helicopters on this fire. The visibility, I'm told is
Speaker 5: kind of the Achilles heel here. They're able to get
Speaker 5: those helicopters up above this fire and attack it. But
Speaker 5: as soon as that smoke socks into much, you know,
Speaker 5: they can't get those helicopters in there. So that'll be
Speaker 5: another factor to watch over the next few days, is
Speaker 5: if they're going to be able to keep air clear
Speaker 5: enough to get those air resources in and out.
Speaker 3: Blake, great stuff, Thank you all right, guys, Blake Trully
Speaker 3: there again with the latest on the line. Fire little
Speaker 3: flare up of course, right before we start to see
Speaker 3: some probably record breaking heat. I was just checking the
Speaker 3: SoCal Edison public safety power shutoff page. They don't have
Speaker 3: any public safety shutoffs that are being considered right now
Speaker 3: because of the potential. These are the ones, these are
Speaker 3: the warnings, the considerations in the event that the temperatures
Speaker 3: go up and the winds pick up. So they're saying
Speaker 3: the wind is probably not going to be the biggest issue.
Speaker 3: They don't have any power shut offs that are being considered,
Speaker 3: but PG and E does, so if you're a PG
Speaker 3: and E customer, there is chance in several areas, a
Speaker 3: lot of them, most of them I should say, up
Speaker 3: in northern California, but there is a potential for those
Speaker 3: places to have their customers have power shut off today
Speaker 3: and tomorrow in an attempt to you know, avoid any
Speaker 3: new fires. Of course there, but that's Alameda, Butte Calusa,
Speaker 3: Contracsta so way in the northern part of the state
Speaker 3: that they're where they are watching to see whether or
Speaker 3: not they're going to need to cut that power.
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