Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
Speaker 1: I AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
Speaker 1: demand on the iHeartRadio app. I mean, I just don't
Speaker 1: understand how this is a thing that doesn't make any sense. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to start off on a bad Well listen,
Speaker 1: traffic can suck all the joy out there, Yeah, sigal er.
Speaker 1: When when you've got a car that won't move out
Speaker 1: of the number two lane after a fender bender, I
Speaker 1: don't understand that.
Speaker 2: Plightly moved to the side.
Speaker 3: It's funny because the signs on the freeway always tell
Speaker 3: me to move over to the side, move to the side.
Speaker 4: Was it?
Speaker 1: This was the second time in last yesterday on my
Speaker 1: way home, same kind of deal, where it's clearly your
Speaker 1: your vehicle is still operable, right, and you're just posted
Speaker 1: in the number two lane just living your life.
Speaker 2: Well, nobody else can live.
Speaker 1: Theirs living your life. But that's neither here nor there.
Speaker 1: It's over, it's behind us. We're moving on. I have
Speaker 1: a good story to tell you about today. I actually
Speaker 1: have not sent it to you. Is someone to surprise
Speaker 1: you with it? I like that, but we'll do it later. On.
Speaker 3: Okay, later in the ten o'clock hour, we're going to
Speaker 3: be talking about the LA City Council finally codifying into law,
Speaker 3: or at least talking about it today. The sanctuary city
Speaker 3: status of Los Angeles. I think everybody assumed we were
Speaker 3: already a sanctuary city. California is a sanctuary state. I
Speaker 3: don't know what they're going to be more sanctuary. It
Speaker 3: means nothing.
Speaker 1: I mean, right there in the proclamation or what have you,
Speaker 1: it says, aside from any state or federal law that
Speaker 1: may be in place, we are a sanctuary city.
Speaker 2: It's all symbolism.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But they're going to be talking about it today.
Speaker 3: We'll hear from Karen Bass, we'll hear from the New
Speaker 3: the incoming I should say, borders are Tom Holman about
Speaker 3: what that's going to mean. I mean, for him, it's
Speaker 3: like that just means nothing. Either help or get out
Speaker 3: of the way.
Speaker 4: So that's coming up. Listen.
Speaker 3: There is more damaging stuff that's come out about Matt Gates.
Speaker 3: This is the former Florida congressman who says that he
Speaker 3: well sorry that Trump has nominated as the next Attorney
Speaker 3: General of these great United States. It comes with an
Speaker 3: absolute bag full of horrible allegation cements against Matt Gates.
Speaker 3: Has never been criminally charged with any of this stuff,
Speaker 3: but that doesn't necessarily mean that it didn't happen.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: Joel Leppard is an attorney who has represented a couple
Speaker 3: of the women who have made accusations against Matt Gates,
Speaker 3: and he talked with ABC News about all this.
Speaker 2: What did your client witness?
Speaker 5: She tested on it in July of twenty seventeen at
Speaker 5: this house party. She was walking out to the pool
Speaker 5: area and she looked her right and she saw Representative
Speaker 5: Gates having sex with her friend who was seventeen.
Speaker 2: And at the time he was a sitting congressman.
Speaker 5: I don't know if she was aware of who he
Speaker 5: was at the time, but at the time, yes.
Speaker 4: Okay, he goes on same interview.
Speaker 5: My client testified to the house that Pernerstanni was a
Speaker 5: mat Gates did not know that she was a minor,
Speaker 5: and that when he learned that she was a miner,
Speaker 5: that he broke off things and did not continue a
Speaker 5: sexual relationship until she turned eighteen.
Speaker 2: Do we know what time this was around? What year?
Speaker 3: He said, twenty seventeen, twenty seventh party itself.
Speaker 1: So he's my age or a couple years younger, right
Speaker 1: right around forty three now he is, Yeah, so he's missing,
Speaker 1: so he would be mid thirties. You know what seventeen
Speaker 1: adjacent looks like when you are thirty seven years old? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what young is, it doesn't matter, it's semantics.
Speaker 2: Seventeen or eighteen. You know that's a young girl.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a I mean, the loose definition of too
Speaker 3: young for you.
Speaker 4: He should be aware of that.
Speaker 1: Acutely goes on and to say what the girl thought
Speaker 1: about her being a quote unquote victim.
Speaker 4: I didn't hear them.
Speaker 2: You didn't hear that part.
Speaker 1: So he goes on to say when she is asked,
Speaker 1: were you a victim? And she says it was consensual,
Speaker 1: both parties consented, and he says, were you a victim?
Speaker 1: Or she was asked by the committee were you a victim?
Speaker 1: And she said, that's a complicated question because as a
Speaker 1: grown woman, you know that you were taken advantage of.
Speaker 1: If you were seventeen eighteen and a thirty seven year
Speaker 1: old man had sex with you up against a pool
Speaker 1: table or what have you like that, there's no way
Speaker 1: you're not a victim in that situation. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: and then she was asked, is this somebody who you
Speaker 1: would trust? And she said, this is somebody who should
Speaker 1: never have a great deal of power.
Speaker 3: I mean, we've seen this before in situations like this
Speaker 3: where even if you ask somebody, if you ask this now, woman,
Speaker 3: did you feel like you were a victim when this
Speaker 3: event occurred in the first place. Not to disen franchise
Speaker 3: this woman from her rights or her feelings.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter if she feels.
Speaker 1: Like absolutely absolutely illegal case that she that she was
Speaker 1: right by definition of victim, even if she was into
Speaker 1: it having a great time as a grown man, you
Speaker 1: know that that is wrong.
Speaker 3: So the New York Times just posted as the show
Speaker 3: was starting a report that hackers have apparently gotten that
Speaker 3: testimony from the woman who said that she had sex
Speaker 3: with Matt Gates when she was seventeen. Some hacker has
Speaker 3: apparently gained access to computer file that was shared in
Speaker 3: a secure link among lawyers whose clients were testifying against
Speaker 3: Matt Gates.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to push back a little bit.
Speaker 1: If you believe this was a hacking you, I've got
Speaker 1: some riverfront property.
Speaker 2: Oh as property, not riverfront, but you know what.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, there's no way this You didn't need
Speaker 1: to be a sophisticated hacker to get this information. There
Speaker 1: are people that wanted this to come to light, and
Speaker 1: they made it available.
Speaker 3: The Ethics panel there in the House is scheduled to
Speaker 3: meet tomorrow and is expected to decide whether or not
Speaker 3: to vote to release this material that it has gathered. Now, again,
Speaker 3: it is very unusual for the House Ethics Committee to
Speaker 3: release a report on someone after they leave the House. Remember,
Speaker 3: he resigned last week. He resigned from the House, so
Speaker 3: this would be very unusual for them to do so.
Speaker 3: But again, when I said it yesterday, Mike Johnson, the
Speaker 3: Speaker of the House, that he doesn't want to break
Speaker 3: house rules, he doesn't want to go against precedent. This
Speaker 3: is an unprecedented thing that this guy being accused of
Speaker 3: these allegations is now up for Attorney General of the
Speaker 3: United States, and.
Speaker 1: It's never going to happen, you know, And it'll be
Speaker 1: interesting to see when he pulls out, because you've got
Speaker 1: to otherwise this story lingers. It's not going anywhere. Did
Speaker 1: you see the report about how this attorney said that
Speaker 1: women told investigators that in twenty nineteen he paid for
Speaker 1: them to travel to New York for sex in exchange
Speaker 1: for Broadway tickets to go see Pretty Woman. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: also allegations that they have text messages proving this by
Speaker 1: the way, that they were asked to go have sex
Speaker 1: with him and then they could go out see a show,
Speaker 1: so essentially take care of things and later on they
Speaker 1: could have their fun. There were allegations that he was
Speaker 1: using his adopted son's Venmo account to pay off some
Speaker 1: of these women. Yeah, he also paid for these women
Speaker 1: to travel to the Bahamas, where other men and young
Speaker 1: women were present, including the woman who said she had
Speaker 1: that sexual relationship with him when she was seventeen.
Speaker 3: All Right, one of the things that I would fully
Speaker 3: expect a Republican Congress to look into is a piece
Speaker 3: of metal fell off the roof yesterday at at and
Speaker 3: T Stadium in Dallas before that game.
Speaker 2: Is honestly crumbling in Dallas so.
Speaker 4: Crazy they were showing.
Speaker 3: There's pictures of of Dallas's head coach with the play
Speaker 3: sheet in front of his face like this, and you
Speaker 3: can see every play very very clearly. Now that doesn't
Speaker 3: necessarily know you mean, you know what it is, but
Speaker 3: some of those people can figure out those codes. Pretty
Speaker 3: much all of them have those Houston Texans won the
Speaker 3: battle last night thirty four to ten.
Speaker 1: It wasn't really a battle, was it when you look
Speaker 1: at that broken team.
Speaker 6: C J.
Speaker 1: Stroudn't have the best game, but they're on a weak division,
Speaker 1: so they're set up nice for the playoffs. What was
Speaker 1: I going to tell you that was so important.
Speaker 4: Some happy story of some kinds.
Speaker 1: It was, Yeah, that's coming up a little bit later.
Speaker 1: But oh yeah, Ukraine firing US made missiles into Russia.
Speaker 1: According to Moscow said it shot down five US made
Speaker 1: missiles today. This is the first time Biden gave the
Speaker 1: okay yesterday for the U for the country to use
Speaker 1: US weapons against Russia.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot going on in this, and it
Speaker 3: seems like it's kind of heating up before Trump comes
Speaker 3: into office because the sort of prevailing thought is that
Speaker 3: he's going to demand some sort of negotiated end to this,
Speaker 3: so they're both trying to grab territory before that comes about.
Speaker 1: It looks like a full rebuild in New York. The
Speaker 1: Jets have fired their GM this morning as well.
Speaker 3: All Right, we know that the Harris campaign is still
Speaker 3: asking for money because despite having a billion dollars at
Speaker 3: one point, they're now in the hole by at least
Speaker 3: twenty million.
Speaker 2: Could you believe that?
Speaker 1: If you if you donate it, because I'm assuming these
Speaker 1: emails are going to people that donated to her campaign
Speaker 1: getting an email from the Harris campaign today asking for money.
Speaker 3: And I mean there are some unusual or I should
Speaker 3: say unexpected news outlets that are going after the Harris campaign,
Speaker 3: the Daily Beast being one of them.
Speaker 1: Well, one million dollars was paid to Oprah's production firm
Speaker 1: for that town hall event that she hosted with Harris
Speaker 1: in September.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's just for the production end of it.
Speaker 3: The full price tag was more than just the fee
Speaker 3: for the production company or Oprah. The New York Times
Speaker 3: said that it was about two and a half million.
Speaker 2: So this is paying for endorsements essentially.
Speaker 4: Well, and is there anything illegal about there?
Speaker 2: No, it just looks bad, just in genuine all.
Speaker 4: Politics looks bad. This just makes it look even bad.
Speaker 1: Error. It was that nine hundred thousand dollars for the
Speaker 1: ad space on the sphere. Remember we reported to you
Speaker 1: in the final week of the campaign.
Speaker 3: The talk show host Areva Martin got two hundred thousand
Speaker 3: dollars as a media consultant as she was touring Swing
Speaker 3: states for Kamala Harris in October. Roland Martin, who has
Speaker 3: a streaming show, earned three hundred and fifty thousand in
Speaker 3: September for a media buy. He told The New York
Speaker 3: Times it was for advertising that more should have been
Speaker 3: spent on black owned media.
Speaker 1: The DNC's finance chair says he's going to push for
Speaker 1: an introspective study and analysis of how the Harris campaign
Speaker 1: blew through one point five billion dollars.
Speaker 2: Let's just pull the car over for a minute, right there.
Speaker 1: That's disgusting that we spend that kind of money on
Speaker 1: politics in this country. Well, and one point five billion
Speaker 1: could do a lot of things.
Speaker 4: We only have each other to look at.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's that we we as a society don't
Speaker 3: put a limit on how long campaigns last, for example,
Speaker 3: or you know the Supreme Court ruling regarding money and
Speaker 3: which money can be spent on these campaigns. This isn't
Speaker 3: all private donations. I mean a lot of these come
Speaker 3: in from corporations and everything in these very very rich.
Speaker 1: One point five billion did nothing. It did nothing, It moved,
Speaker 1: It did not move the needle move.
Speaker 3: Zero needles, not even a billion needles. They That goes
Speaker 3: to prove a couple of things in my mind that
Speaker 3: of both of these flawed candidates, she was the more
Speaker 3: flawed candidate that she was arguing on behalf of an
Speaker 3: administration that to that point had not served the people
Speaker 3: it needed to serve to guarantee reelection, I mean reelection in.
Speaker 1: This they ran a bad candidate. They ran a bad candidate.
Speaker 1: That's just what it was, and that.
Speaker 3: A billion and a half dollars, even a billion a
Speaker 3: half dollars, was not going to shine that thing up
Speaker 3: enough to be pretty enough for people.
Speaker 4: To vote for.
Speaker 1: And shine it they did, but there was no substance
Speaker 1: behind the shine.
Speaker 3: Somebody asked me the other day, and I never had
Speaker 3: a great answer to it, because, I mean, I still
Speaker 3: think we're months away from any of this happening.
Speaker 4: But does she run for governor? Or is she hurt
Speaker 4: by this?
Speaker 3: Is she hurt by the idea that even she's been
Speaker 3: handed a billion and a half dollars or helped raise
Speaker 3: a billion and a half dollars, she could not overcome.
Speaker 2: That'll go away.
Speaker 1: When you're a politician, you're a narcissi and you like
Speaker 1: the attention. And this is what she does. She jumps
Speaker 1: from job to job, people around you, telling you that
Speaker 1: this is the way to go. I would be surprised
Speaker 1: if she ran for governor. But I mean, what is
Speaker 1: the governor anyway?
Speaker 4: What? What?
Speaker 2: What does the governor actually do? Did I tell you
Speaker 2: that a cheerleader?
Speaker 4: I saw that.
Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom parentheses, man of the people, just dropped nine
Speaker 3: million on a house in kent Field.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, you know marine Catholic, Yeah, yeah, a view
Speaker 1: of Mount tamil Pious just a just a like six
Speaker 1: thousand people.
Speaker 4: And of the people and people. Where do you get
Speaker 4: nine million dollars?
Speaker 1: Well, he's right in that, he's right in that climate
Speaker 1: change train, and it is what he's doing. He's going
Speaker 1: to make money hand over fist with that game. We've
Speaker 1: got a woman trapped in a tunnel in downtown LA.
Speaker 1: Why well why, I don't know. A woman is trapped
Speaker 1: in an opening leading into a tunnel, can't get out.
Speaker 1: The fire department has arrived. It's on Bixel Street, fifth
Speaker 1: and Bixel in LA. She's not in distress, they say,
Speaker 1: But we've got sleeping grown up Jessica trapped in a tunnel.
Speaker 1: Grown up Jessica, Adult Jessica.
Speaker 3: Coming up today, Judge one Marshawn is going to hear
Speaker 3: from prosecutors on the future of President the elect Trump's
Speaker 3: New York hush money case after he was convicted on
Speaker 3: those thirty four counts earlier this year. Judge Moreshawn is
Speaker 3: currently scheduled to sentence him next week, I believe next Tuesday,
Speaker 3: but that could change now in light of the election win.
Speaker 3: The top of the hour, we're going to talk more
Speaker 3: about the La City Council considering adopting the Sanctuary City
Speaker 3: Ordinance to prohibit any city resources or personnel from being
Speaker 3: used to help federal enforcement of immigration laws.
Speaker 4: That's coming up.
Speaker 3: Lakers announced that they have commissioned a statue of pat
Speaker 3: Riley Cool to join Lakers Legends in the Starplaza outside Crypto.
Speaker 3: He obviously led to four of the five NBA titles
Speaker 3: in the nineteen eighties. Statue is going to be completed
Speaker 3: sometime in twenty six and they said they'll have announced
Speaker 3: an official unveiling date at the time. I can't play
Speaker 3: all of this because of because of profanities bought and.
Speaker 2: You guys are eating it up like a bunch of
Speaker 2: liberal lefts when ninety nine percent everything has been blown up.
Speaker 3: He's talking specifically about our opinions on Matt Gates to.
Speaker 4: A giant thing.
Speaker 1: This is a congressman.
Speaker 4: He didn't get vetted. No, he could be a congressman.
Speaker 4: Hard people could buying into the crab.
Speaker 1: Matt Cage buying out of the crab. That guy is
Speaker 1: a loser and a bad person.
Speaker 4: Period.
Speaker 3: We we voters, are the ones who vet members of Congress.
Speaker 4: That's that's how it works. They don't go there, you here?
Speaker 2: Were you born this morning?
Speaker 1: Have you not seen all of the pieces of garbage
Speaker 1: that have been elected to Congress through the years.
Speaker 4: And the idea that Matt Gate is the guy that
Speaker 4: you back up?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you to die on the mat Gates hill.
Speaker 4: Good luck.
Speaker 1: Four monkeys remain free after nearly two weeks of that
Speaker 1: group of forty three escaped. Four monkeys are saying, you
Speaker 1: keep your uncrustables. We are not going to fold. We
Speaker 1: want our freedom, we want our liberty. We are American monkeys.
Speaker 3: But even those four holdouts, I bet you there's one
Speaker 3: or two that are like man, I could use an
Speaker 3: uncrustomed Oh.
Speaker 2: I bet all four of them. One I would be
Speaker 2: feeding them.
Speaker 1: I would take to the woods and find those monkeys
Speaker 1: and bring a bunch of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Speaker 3: The latest between Ukraine and Russia involves everyone. This is
Speaker 3: not an isolated thing. Vlatimer putin. We knew this was coming,
Speaker 3: that they were going to change their nuclear doctrine. It
Speaker 3: wasn't necessarily in response to the US made attack ems missiles,
Speaker 3: but it's not comfortable at all. Vlatimer Putin lowered the
Speaker 3: threshold for a nuclear strike in response to a broader
Speaker 3: range of conventional attacks. Specifically, what he said was if
Speaker 3: a non nuclear participant in a conflict Ukraine uses the
Speaker 3: weapons of a nuclear participant, even if they're just conventional weapons,
Speaker 3: I think long range missiles, then that is justification for
Speaker 3: a response by Russia to be nuclear.
Speaker 4: That's not goodness.
Speaker 6: Both sides are trying to gain an advantage right now
Speaker 6: in anticipation of potentially negotiations that may take place once
Speaker 6: the Trump administration assumes office in January.
Speaker 3: So that's Dan Hoffman, a former CIA Chief of Station,
Speaker 3: and he said this is proof. I mean, what we've
Speaker 3: seen in the last couple of days is that Russia
Speaker 3: is losing the war, and if it continues on that
Speaker 3: trajectory over the next what is it sixty days or
Speaker 3: sixty five days or whatever before Trump comes into office,
Speaker 3: it's bad news for Russia because they lose whatever ground
Speaker 3: they had going into any sort of negotiation.
Speaker 6: Russia suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties. Finland and Sweden
Speaker 6: are now NATO members. Europe's been awakened from a post
Speaker 6: Cold War slumber, taking on more of a defense spending
Speaker 6: burden in their budgets. This is a loss for Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 6: He has failed to topple the government of Ukraine and subjugate
Speaker 6: the government of Ukraine as he wished. The only thing
Speaker 6: Putin has successfully done is this rhetorical nuclear brinkmanship, because
Speaker 6: he knows that President Biden goes back to this human
Speaker 6: missile crisis idea that we're going to be at risk
Speaker 6: of a nuclear war, when Putin is playing the KGB
Speaker 6: game and influencing his enemy very effectively. We should have
Speaker 6: done this on day one and given Ukraine the authority
Speaker 6: to make those decisions themselves.
Speaker 1: Russia and the US control eighty eight percent of the
Speaker 1: world's nuclear warheads, and yes, comparable to the nineteen sixty
Speaker 1: two Cuban missile crisis. We all learned about it in school, right,
Speaker 1: very tense time. This is when we came closest to
Speaker 1: intentional nuclear war with Russia. And the diplomats for Russia say,
Speaker 1: the West is making a mistake if you think Russia
Speaker 1: is going to back down with this Ukraine conflict.
Speaker 3: While this is going on, while this is being ratcheted up,
Speaker 3: and the level of deterrence, I guess continues. There are
Speaker 3: sounds of cannon fire and rocket artillery throughout Sweden, the UK,
Speaker 3: and France. Other NATO members are conducting live fire drills
Speaker 3: this month in that area, part of NATO's largest artillery
Speaker 3: exercise ever held in Europe. It's called Dynamic Front twenty five.
Speaker 3: It includes drills that they'll be doing in Estonia, Germany,
Speaker 3: Romania and Poland, many of those that border Ukraine. At
Speaker 3: least five thousand soldiers are involved.
Speaker 2: So far, would you like your nice story, Let's do
Speaker 2: that next?
Speaker 4: Okay? Is it really nice? Or just like, well, that's good?
Speaker 1: I mean, don't get your hopes up, don't get crazy.
Speaker 1: Travel writer Arthur Fromer loved his books. He started with
Speaker 1: his guidebook Europe on five Dollars a Day. He was
Speaker 1: ninety five years old died from complications of pneumonia. He
Speaker 1: self published the first Europe on five Dollars a Day
Speaker 1: back in nineteen fifty seven. It was an expanded version
Speaker 1: of A Guy, a guide he had written for American
Speaker 1: soldier stationed overseas. It was an immediate bestseller. He basically
Speaker 1: was Rick Steves before Rick Steves, telling Americans to skip
Speaker 1: five star hotels and seek out modest, family run places
Speaker 1: where ordinary Europeans stayed when they traveled. His advice coincided
Speaker 1: with the rise of fast and affordable jet travel.
Speaker 4: It's too bad.
Speaker 3: A couple more potential cabinet positions have been announced. President
Speaker 3: elect Trump expected to nominate veteran Wall Street guy Howard
Speaker 3: low Nick to lead the Commerce Department. Lutnick is currently
Speaker 3: chief executive of Canter Fitzgerald, the financial services firm. It's
Speaker 3: become a pretty close ally of the President elect. Top
Speaker 3: contender to lead the Treasury Department has also most recently
Speaker 3: been the co chair of the President Elect's transition team.
Speaker 3: The other one is Sean Duffy, apparently going to be
Speaker 3: the nominee to be the Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy from.
Speaker 1: Real World Boston, Real World Boss, nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 4: I didn't remember that.
Speaker 2: I didn't either.
Speaker 1: An update on the carrot death. The person in Li
Speaker 1: County who died from the E coli carrots. That person
Speaker 1: was over sixty five and had other things going on,
Speaker 1: so it wasn't just the bad carrots.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it takes a I mean E coli is nasty.
Speaker 3: But like I said, when you had it, I think
Speaker 3: you would have been fine if you had taken my
Speaker 3: or I would have died had.
Speaker 1: I not Not likely, medical intervention not likely. I don't
Speaker 1: even think it would have been a close call. You
Speaker 1: probably would have felt awful.
Speaker 2: You're just trying to yourself of attempted murder.
Speaker 4: No, no, negligent homicide.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you've looked it up. I had, trust me. I
Speaker 4: was a little worried.
Speaker 2: Okay, I want to hear the story about Earl Guines.
Speaker 4: Is this in the good one? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, Earl Earl Guins always love, always loved a Camaro.
Speaker 2: What young man doesn't.
Speaker 1: Yes, And when he was twenty two, Earle finally got
Speaker 1: the opportunity to purchase his dream car.
Speaker 2: What was it?
Speaker 1: It was that nineteen sixty seven Chevrolet Camaro, blue white
Speaker 1: stripes down the hood, down the back, two doors, of course,
Speaker 1: that wing window on the side.
Speaker 3: Two doors by the way, one of which probably weighs
Speaker 3: as much as your car right now.
Speaker 2: Car was loud.
Speaker 1: People would always look at Earle, you know, you'd see
Speaker 1: somebody side eyeing you as a car would come down
Speaker 1: the street. Earl says, it was just such a cool
Speaker 1: fun thing. But then life happened for Earl. He got
Speaker 1: married nineteen eighty two, he becomes a father to her daughter, Jennifer.
Speaker 1: Two years later, they welcome their son named Jared. So
Speaker 1: he's got two little ones at home, and the Camaro
Speaker 1: just didn't make sense. So he had to part with
Speaker 1: his expensive toy and he sells it. And Jared remembers
Speaker 1: his dad saying to him all the time, I used
Speaker 1: to have a car like that one over there. And
Speaker 1: Jared'd be like, yeah, okay, all right. He'd like, no, really,
Speaker 1: I let it go for diaper money. You needed diapers,
Speaker 1: And Jared's like, I just thought he was full of it.
Speaker 2: I Mean, here's my dad driving around a mini van
Speaker 2: and a tank top.
Speaker 1: Of course he's going to say that he's like the
Speaker 1: guy at the end of the bar talking about the
Speaker 1: high school championship.
Speaker 2: But over the years Jared got co Yeah.
Speaker 1: Over the years Jared got older and realized that that
Speaker 1: that story was real. Dad really did have that Camaro,
Speaker 1: that nineteen sixty seven Marina blue Camaro SS three P
Speaker 1: fifty small block V eight and automatic three speed transmission,
Speaker 1: chrome fifteen inchmag wheels with white letters on the tire,
Speaker 1: small nineteen sixty nine style cowl hood on the front,
Speaker 1: small little whale tail on the back, in black interior.
Speaker 2: He got all those details.
Speaker 1: If Dad get that detail, then man, that car had
Speaker 1: to exist. And so Jared kind of started up with
Speaker 1: a fantasy of maybe we.
Speaker 2: Could get this car back. Twenty twenty one rolls around.
Speaker 1: Jared has a great year at work, great business year,
Speaker 1: and he said, instead of doing something responsible like paying
Speaker 1: down debt or investing it, I did what any guides
Speaker 1: man would do. I started looking for this specific car
Speaker 1: or to get as close as I possibly could. He
Speaker 1: learned his dad had sold the car for cash, so
Speaker 1: no proof of a sale. He just began looking for
Speaker 1: a car like this one. Spent a year looking coast
Speaker 1: to coast, and in twenty twenty two he finally got
Speaker 1: a lead. There was a Marina blue camera Camaro just
Speaker 1: seventy miles from home, but it needed a lot of work,
Speaker 1: a lot of TLC. But like father, like son, he
Speaker 1: knew how to fix up a car. So for two
Speaker 1: years he worked to restore this Camaro, kept it a
Speaker 1: secret from.
Speaker 2: Dad the entire time.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: So on Dad's sixty fifth birthday this year, he throws
Speaker 1: a party and he unveils the Camaro that was his dad's,
Speaker 1: that his dad gave up when he was born.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: That he refurbished himself, and as you can imagine, Dad.
Speaker 2: Just was moved to tears.
Speaker 1: Earle says, it draws attention everywhere you go. I love it.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to keep restoring it. He spent his
Speaker 1: career in the automotive industry and now in retirement, happy
Speaker 1: to get his hands dirty again on his first Camaro.
Speaker 2: Very very cool, that beautiful.
Speaker 4: That's great.
Speaker 2: I was trying to make you cry on your son's
Speaker 2: twenty fifth birthday.
Speaker 3: Uh, it didn't work, but it would be great if
Speaker 3: my son took my dad's nineteen sixty five chevs.
Speaker 1: I see now I've had this vision ever since I
Speaker 1: knew this existed, and that your son was at the
Speaker 1: property looking at the vehicle, and it all played out
Speaker 1: the Hallmark movie all played out in my head.
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful ending, and you do cry. And the
Speaker 2: end of that one, it's.
Speaker 4: Not cry, I'm not tears, is just raining.
Speaker 2: It's allergies.
Speaker 4: It's allergies. Everything is an allergy.
Speaker 3: The La City Council and their decision today about whether
Speaker 3: or not to declare itself a sanctuary.
Speaker 1: City, not even a little bit a little bit of
Speaker 1: what that story got you. A little bit the crying,
Speaker 1: I mean you're crying inside a little bit, probably bawling.
Speaker 4: You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
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