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Speaker 3: Feels like day popcorn.
Speaker 2: Here at the end of the week of the Democratic
Speaker 2: National Convention, and listen, we're not even the ones who
Speaker 2: were partying like these Democrats were. I mean, there were
Speaker 2: people up late into the night last night.
Speaker 1: I was an adult all week long. I'd like to
Speaker 1: point that out mostly.
Speaker 2: I mean, let's not be too serious. You were constantly
Speaker 2: saying you were going to climb the Michael Jordan statue.
Speaker 1: I did, but did not.
Speaker 3: I didn't r you didn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, we had a chance to.
Speaker 2: We ran into literally ran into former Mayor Antonio Vira
Speaker 2: Gosa and had an opportunity to talk to him about
Speaker 2: a bunch of stuff. Now, stay tuned to KFI. Of course,
Speaker 2: we're going to be talking much more about the RFK
Speaker 2: Junior announcement. Former President Trump has a big rally that's
Speaker 2: planned later tonight, so all of that is still to come.
Speaker 2: But here's a peek into the world that is Antonio Virigosa.
Speaker 1: You know we miss you. I think I like a
Speaker 1: lot of Democrats miss George w I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people miss you as mayor of Los Angeles after
Speaker 1: Garcetti and now Karen Karen Bass ditched us. By the way,
Speaker 1: I may have run a foul for I complimented her
Speaker 1: dress from the Olympics, and that was my lead in.
Speaker 1: And now she won't talk to us. You always shocked
Speaker 1: to us. Yes, I am so what launched? Like what
Speaker 1: started this whole thing? To get back into it?
Speaker 4: You know when you well, first of all, thank you
Speaker 4: for having me on.
Speaker 5: I was walking out and we bumped into each other
Speaker 5: and said, oh, we had to.
Speaker 4: Do this interview.
Speaker 5: Look, a few years ago, I was on the ConA
Speaker 5: Nolan Show, and I think I surprised everybody when I
Speaker 5: said I was born and raised here. I've never seen
Speaker 5: this city so dirty, homeless grow so fast, crime out
Speaker 5: of control. It feels like Rome is burning and the
Speaker 5: city's adrift. I felt like there was no leadership. And
Speaker 5: that was a few years ago. And then I was
Speaker 5: asked to be Governor Newswrom's infrastructure advisor, and I went
Speaker 5: up and down the state from the Oregon to the
Speaker 5: Mexican border, and people said you need to come back.
Speaker 4: They said, we're looking for a problem solver.
Speaker 5: You know, I'll tell you something what I've liked about
Speaker 5: this convention. There's too much screaming on both sides. I'm
Speaker 5: a Democrat, and you know, unabashedly so, but I'm not
Speaker 5: a screamer.
Speaker 4: I like working with people. I like, you know, I
Speaker 4: know that people have other.
Speaker 5: Views, that they're not made in my image, and that
Speaker 5: when you work together, you get things done.
Speaker 4: And that's why when I.
Speaker 5: Was Speaker, I got two budgets on time when we
Speaker 5: didn't have a super majority. I had forty two votes
Speaker 5: members one year, forty eight another.
Speaker 4: I had to work with Republicans.
Speaker 5: We got two budgets on time with the surplus and
Speaker 5: invested more money and education that we had previously. I
Speaker 5: did the same thing as mayor. You know, I took
Speaker 5: on my friends from time to time. Not because I
Speaker 5: was looking for a fight with my friends, but because
Speaker 5: I understood, you know, in these jobs, you got to
Speaker 5: make the tough calls. Sixty percent increase in the graduation rate,
Speaker 5: forty eight percent drop in violent crime, number one American city,
Speaker 5: and reducing carbon emissions number.
Speaker 4: Five in the world. So I think people are looking
Speaker 4: for people that don't just talk.
Speaker 5: And you know, I like to talk to we all do,
Speaker 5: especially if you're a politician, but they want to do
Speaker 5: they want to roll up their sleeves. I was joking
Speaker 5: with one of my assistants. I said, you know, I'm
Speaker 5: an eighteen hour day guy. Get up before you and
Speaker 5: go to sleep after you. And that's what these jobs
Speaker 5: are all about.
Speaker 1: It's weird hearing somebody talk about policy and numbers here
Speaker 1: at this movie that.
Speaker 3: Have not yet used the word joy.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard joyful warrior or anything. But I mean
Speaker 1: this convention seemed short on facts and figures and.
Speaker 3: Policy and big party.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, yeah, so this is this is refreshing. What
Speaker 1: is your what has been your takeaway here? You agree
Speaker 1: with us, don't you?
Speaker 3: It's okay to say that's all right.
Speaker 4: I like the joy part. I like that.
Speaker 5: I like what the admonition from Bill Clinton, uh and
Speaker 5: Oprah that those people are neighbors, and I think we
Speaker 5: forget that. You know, how many of us go to
Speaker 5: a Thanksgiving dinner and have family members that have diametrically
Speaker 5: different views in you and you love them. They're good people.
Speaker 5: They just don't agree with you. And I think if
Speaker 5: we approach that so that part of it, I like,
Speaker 5: I agree that, you know, we need to define Kamala
Speaker 5: Harris before the other side does. And that's why they
Speaker 5: focused on a lot of that because they know in
Speaker 5: a couple of days, you know, somebody else is.
Speaker 4: Going to define her.
Speaker 5: But you know, look, in the course of this campaign,
Speaker 5: you're going to see more press conferences because you got
Speaker 5: to have them, and more detail to the program.
Speaker 4: But remember she's part of the Biden Harris team.
Speaker 5: We know what their politics were all about, we know
Speaker 5: what their policies are all about.
Speaker 4: So it's not.
Speaker 5: As if we don't know what Democrats have for because
Speaker 5: we do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's talk specifically about California and the legislature.
Speaker 3: You mentioned super majority. If you were to.
Speaker 2: Become governor, is super majority with your party in power?
Speaker 2: Is that the most optimal way for you to run
Speaker 2: a state of California or would you rather see and
Speaker 2: without campaigning for Republicans obviously because that's not going to
Speaker 2: happen from you, but would you rather see a more
Speaker 2: evenly split legislature so that work can be done with
Speaker 2: a little bit more bipartisan work.
Speaker 5: I actually would like to campaign for Republicans. I want
Speaker 5: every vote, not just a Democratic vote. But I recogniz
Speaker 5: I'm not pollyannish. I recognize that we've gotten.
Speaker 4: So partisan, so polarized. People see a D or an
Speaker 4: R in front of your name and they just say, no.
Speaker 4: What I like, you know, a more even legislature.
Speaker 5: If there was more consonants in terms of our policies.
Speaker 4: Sure, right now there's not. I want to bring people
Speaker 4: to a results or in the politic.
Speaker 5: You know, people love to talk about fifth largest economy
Speaker 5: in the world. How about highest effective poverty rate in America?
Speaker 5: You know, how about too many people you know work
Speaker 5: in every single day and don't make enough to pay rent.
Speaker 5: You know, it used to be that buying a house
Speaker 5: was part of the American dream. Now renting an apartment
Speaker 5: with three roommates. Talk to my kids and everybody else.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, I do. I will try to work.
Speaker 5: With the other side. I don't think there's a problem
Speaker 5: with it. I'm proud of that. When they asked me
Speaker 5: to be infrastructure advisor, the first thing I did. Met
Speaker 5: with the speaker, met with the pro tem, met with
Speaker 5: the two Republican leaders, They were so surprised that I
Speaker 5: sat down on them and I said, infrastructures are not partisan.
Speaker 4: Man, Let's put.
Speaker 5: People to work, you know, Let's build rebuild our roads
Speaker 5: and our highways and our bridges.
Speaker 4: So I think you're going to see somebody's going to
Speaker 4: reach out.
Speaker 5: I think at first, you know, there's not going to
Speaker 5: be a lot of folks running to my candidacy. But
Speaker 5: I think over time, what people see I'm a nier.
Speaker 5: I want to work with everybody.
Speaker 1: In California is Cesspool. Okay, we're both from San Francisco area.
Speaker 1: That was a shining city on that I mean, it
Speaker 1: was a wonderful place. It was one of the best today.
Speaker 1: It was a tourist destination. I don't go there anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't want to go there. It's very I got
Speaker 1: married there, Like, I love that city, but I don't
Speaker 1: want to go there anymore because it's it's scary. Frankly,
Speaker 1: like the crazy people, the people on the fentanyl, the
Speaker 1: open drug markets. I mean, I'm not being super conservative.
Speaker 1: I'm saying what I see with my own eyes. You know.
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom comes to Los Angeles a few weeks ago
Speaker 1: when he starts tearing down an encampment, and he's like,
Speaker 1: if you're not paying attention, It's like, what are you
Speaker 1: talking about. We're paying attention, we're living in it. You're
Speaker 1: not living in it. So what's your plan to clean
Speaker 1: up the cesspool that has become California?
Speaker 5: You know, one side talks constantly about we can't criminalize homelessness,
Speaker 5: and I agree we can't, but we can't.
Speaker 4: Have the chaos we have today too. Look, I've said,
Speaker 4: as an.
Speaker 5: Example, you can't put a tent and an encampment in
Speaker 5: front of a school because I know what neighborhoods are
Speaker 5: going to go to them. I know what neighborhoods are
Speaker 5: going to go. So they're not going to go to
Speaker 5: the affluent and they're going to go.
Speaker 4: To the poor neighborhoods.
Speaker 5: Those kids are going to have to walk in the
Speaker 5: street while somebody is urinating, defecating, or taking drugs. Yes,
Speaker 5: I want to build more housing because we know building
Speaker 5: housing with wraparound services for the chronically homeless is one
Speaker 5: of the solutions.
Speaker 4: More drug rehabilitation programs.
Speaker 5: But you can't not refuse to go to rehabilitation, stay
Speaker 5: on the street and say that there aren't going to
Speaker 5: be consequences for it. So I'm not a criminalization person,
Speaker 5: but I'm not for the chaos that you talked about either.
Speaker 4: That's why I said a few years ago.
Speaker 5: And let's be clear, I think Karen Bass has done
Speaker 5: a really different job.
Speaker 4: With respect to homeless than her predecessor.
Speaker 5: Let's just be honest and so, but at the end
Speaker 5: of the day, I think we need to cut red
Speaker 5: tape and permitting build more housing. You know, I never
Speaker 5: was afraid to go to a town hall where everybody
Speaker 5: would scream at me.
Speaker 4: And sometimes, you know, you think.
Speaker 5: At first you'd say, Wow, they don't like me, and
Speaker 5: then when soon it's over, they're taking pictures with you.
Speaker 4: And self and will you sign my hat?
Speaker 1: Isn't it weird?
Speaker 4: You know? So it's like it's a noise man.
Speaker 5: And what I noticed after all these years that I've
Speaker 5: been involved, is like, do the right thing. It's not
Speaker 5: always going to be popular. People be upset. But I'll
Speaker 5: tell you what you just said. San Francisco is a
Speaker 5: great city. Let's make it beautiful again. La is a
Speaker 5: great city. Let's make it beautiful again.
Speaker 1: What do you think about George Gascon?
Speaker 4: You know, look, I'll be real clear, because it's bad.
Speaker 1: LA is bad right now. Ellie County is lawlessness, I
Speaker 1: mean no law and order. It's horrible. And like you said,
Speaker 1: the homeless people are not going to go to the
Speaker 1: affluent neighborhoods. Guess what the criminals are going to wreak
Speaker 1: havoc on the most vulnerable citizens in Los Angeles. And
Speaker 1: that's what's happening under his reign.
Speaker 5: I think we have a lot of things going. I
Speaker 5: think it's a district attorney. I also think that it's
Speaker 5: that we're going to have to beef up some of
Speaker 5: our laws.
Speaker 4: You know Prop forty seven I voted for.
Speaker 5: It wasn't perfect. We can't be afraid when something's not
Speaker 5: working to fix it. I'm not for thirty six.
Speaker 4: And I'll tell you why.
Speaker 5: You don't make change, in my opinion, with a sledgehammer.
Speaker 5: You make it with, you know, surgically. So there are
Speaker 5: things we need to do, you know, whether it's smash
Speaker 5: and grab, whether it's people that walk around, rob you once,
Speaker 5: get out and then rob you again.
Speaker 4: No, that is unacceptable.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: Look, I was doing criminal justice.
Speaker 5: Reform in the nineteen eighties and nineties when I was
Speaker 5: President of the ACLU.
Speaker 4: I believe in that we were.
Speaker 5: Incarcerating more people than anybody in the world per capita.
Speaker 4: But some people.
Speaker 5: Belong there, and particularly people who are violent, you know,
Speaker 5: poor sexual predators.
Speaker 4: There are people that belong in jail.
Speaker 5: And this notion that, oh, you know, those people can
Speaker 5: be redeemed, Yes, some of them can, but yes they're
Speaker 5: going to jail first. And let me just say something
Speaker 5: else about that forty eight percent drop in violent crime.
Speaker 5: We went from one of the most dangerous big cities,
Speaker 5: more dangerous in Chicago, to one of the safest.
Speaker 4: How did we do it? More cops, putting.
Speaker 5: A thousand cops on the street or close to a thousand,
Speaker 5: but also taking guns off the street. Prevention and intervention
Speaker 5: programs I expanded dramatically, after school programs, summer youth jobs, summer.
Speaker 4: Night lights, which you've gone to it. So you got
Speaker 4: to do all of the above.
Speaker 5: I want to do all of the above, not just
Speaker 5: talk tough, be smart on crime. But let's be clear
Speaker 5: about one thing. You got to be accountable for your actions.
Speaker 5: And so that's what I think.
Speaker 2: Describe the relationship between the mayor of a big city
Speaker 2: like you were and the governor whoever it is at
Speaker 2: the time, because you're going to be you want to
Speaker 2: be on the other side of that. You want to
Speaker 2: be the governor who helps out these you know, big
Speaker 2: city mayors. What is that relationship? Like, how do you
Speaker 2: work with somebody in that capacity.
Speaker 4: Well, you're a supplicant.
Speaker 5: You know, you got to go to the governor and
Speaker 5: the legislature for resources, for.
Speaker 4: Money, for changing laws, for making laws.
Speaker 5: So you know, trying to be nice, right, trying to
Speaker 5: work with them, but you're also an advocate. If you remember,
Speaker 5: we cut redevelopment in the middle of the worst recession
Speaker 5: since the nineteen twenties, and I had to take on
Speaker 5: the governor and he was the governor of my own
Speaker 5: party when I was speaker. From time to time I
Speaker 5: took on Pete Wilson, but I also worked with him.
Speaker 4: We did healthy families together.
Speaker 5: We did the largest school bond in US history together,
Speaker 5: nine billion dollar bond we did. We did a lot
Speaker 5: of things together, and so you know, you mostly try
Speaker 5: to work on them because you are a supplicant. You're
Speaker 5: going to them, but sometimes you got to stand up
Speaker 5: for what you got to stand up for.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you cut your hair it was getting a
Speaker 1: little wild there I was.
Speaker 3: There was a great picture that we saw yesterday. We
Speaker 3: were talking about trying to find you here at the convention.
Speaker 3: It's a picture from a few years ago. Your hairs
Speaker 3: a little bit longer. What's collars? You got like pokahs
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 1: It's like a burning man. What are we doing here, folks?
Speaker 5: People tell me, sir, you know this jacket with a
Speaker 5: T shirt, jeans and sneakers.
Speaker 3: Ain't got it.
Speaker 4: You can't do it to have a time, I don't
Speaker 4: have to have a tie anyway. I want to be
Speaker 4: a regular guy. And they said, please put on a suit.
Speaker 2: Mayor and TONI were so also running for governor. Twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six is the election. Thanks for stopping by, Thanks
Speaker 2: for making time for.
Speaker 3: Us, man, Thank you appreciate it. Thank you to see you.
Speaker 1: Fun Gary and Shannon. Our final day in Chicago. And
Speaker 1: I've got to tell you, I'm looking forward to Monday.
Speaker 1: Since we've committed to a politics free show, We're going
Speaker 1: to be bringing you murder and mayhem and gay penguins.
Speaker 2: Everything, everything that has nothing to do with politics.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about butter some more. I want
Speaker 1: to talk about breads and butters and and apples.
Speaker 2: We could we could still go through and review some
Speaker 2: of our culinary choices in Chicago, couldn't we?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean I'm thinking like an hour on
Speaker 1: the sausages and the steaks and the pizza, and then
Speaker 1: we got to break up the pizza from deep dish
Speaker 1: to thin crust.
Speaker 2: I mean, I do have a whole list of things
Speaker 2: that we have said that I've been keeping track of.
Speaker 1: We cannot say the list on the air. Probably much
Speaker 1: of it you did.
Speaker 3: You did refer to me. I forgot to mention this
Speaker 3: of yesterday. You referred to me as your dad at.
Speaker 2: The Cubs game. When we're at Wrigley Field. Oscar was
Speaker 2: gonna buy me a beer, and you said, Dad's an alcoholic,
Speaker 2: he doesn't need any more beer.
Speaker 1: I was doing a bit for the concessions guy, uh huh,
Speaker 1: because because I like to make fun of the fact
Speaker 1: that you're older than me, I've took it a little
Speaker 1: bit further this time.
Speaker 3: It was pretty fun.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: The other thing I forgot to mention about the Cubs
Speaker 2: game is you mentioned that we were sitting behind the
Speaker 2: Detroit Tigers dugout. There's a kid who got up there
Speaker 2: he's just called up for the Tigers. He's only had
Speaker 2: I think before the game, he'd only had about six
Speaker 2: or seven at hit his first major league home run
Speaker 2: into a basket. That was the second home run that
Speaker 2: we saw in that inning. And his high school teammate
Speaker 2: was sitting right in front of us, and he got
Speaker 2: up and he lost his ever loving mind when he
Speaker 2: saw his buddy hit that home run.
Speaker 1: So those people were so nice, weren't they?
Speaker 3: Very cool moment? It was very very cool. Yeah, until
Speaker 3: you got the security guard fired. But again, you know,
Speaker 3: maybe sin he.
Speaker 1: Has a name, it's Jason. I felt bad about that,
Speaker 1: did you? Well, what happened if you missed the story?
Speaker 1: There was a security guard that would stand between the
Speaker 1: seats and the dugout. The visitor dugout was just three
Speaker 1: rows ahead of us, and I asked Jason, the security guard, Hey,
Speaker 1: what would happen if I jumped on this dugout and
Speaker 1: started dancing around? And he says, well, you'd get tackled.
Speaker 1: And I said, well, would I go to the stadium
Speaker 1: jail or would I go to real Chicago jail? And
Speaker 1: he said, you go to real jail. I said, all right,
Speaker 1: Well I don't want to futs with that. And then
Speaker 1: I asked for my picture to be taken with Jason
Speaker 1: and we did that, and the next inning there was
Speaker 1: a new Jason. There was a new guy stand leave.
Speaker 1: They knew Jason, and I was like, what happened to Jason?
Speaker 1: What's going on? And I said, can I take a
Speaker 1: picture with you? And he said, no, That's why Jason's
Speaker 1: not here anymore.
Speaker 2: It was the funniest thing because those guys ahead of us,
Speaker 2: the guy sitting in the row ahead of us, saw
Speaker 2: and heard the entire thing. So when he said that
Speaker 2: that's why Jason's not here anymore, they all started busting up, laughing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, see, you can make friends. I do.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: Well, obviously we had a busy time here in Chicago,
Speaker 2: and that doesn't mean we can't do some fun things
Speaker 2: that have nothing to do with Chicago, and we end
Speaker 2: our shows on Fridays with the nine news Nuggets. You
Speaker 2: need to know because of all of the other things
Speaker 2: that are going on. So I guess you could say.
Speaker 2: Kennedy used the phrase a couple of days ago the
Speaker 2: Canalope Sorbet.
Speaker 3: In an attempt to sort of cleanse our palates.
Speaker 2: So as we go into the weekend, why don't we
Speaker 2: cleanse our palettes with the nine news nuggets. You need
Speaker 2: to know the stories that otherwise would have fallen through
Speaker 2: the cracks.
Speaker 3: If we weren't so busy. It's time for your honorable mention,
Speaker 3: Honorable mention, not the most to mention.
Speaker 4: It's been an honor serving.
Speaker 5: With you, a.
Speaker 1: Great and honorable most is.
Speaker 5: So today we're holding auditions to become the newest member
Speaker 5: of honorable Mention.
Speaker 2: So one of Evansville, Indiana's Halloween staples is going to
Speaker 2: have a new home this fall.
Speaker 3: I guess. In Evansville, one of the things they do.
Speaker 2: Is they take a give tours of the catacombs in
Speaker 2: the old courthouse there in Evansville. They use it as
Speaker 2: a haunted attraction down in the basement. It's lived in
Speaker 2: the former Vanderberg County Courthouse for years. However, they've got
Speaker 2: to move it now because it's full of asbestos.
Speaker 1: Raydon right on, right on, rad On, that's one of
Speaker 1: the elements, isn't it It is? Look at me, I'm
Speaker 1: basically a chemist.
Speaker 3: Raid On Gas said that the attraction's going.
Speaker 2: To move beneath the House of Lector on Main Street.
Speaker 2: The House of Lector is a companion attraction, they said
Speaker 2: to the old catech the old Courthouse catacombs. According to
Speaker 2: the county Commissioner Justin Elpers, they said, the elevated levels
Speaker 2: of radon in the courthouse sub basement forced them to move,
Speaker 2: and they're trying to fix the whole problem.
Speaker 1: I see your haunted catacombs, and I raise you a
Speaker 1: haunted house ghost. Here is number nine at number nine,
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 6: Nine plays of the Cops Dirty nine times out of
Speaker 6: tennis Partner's Dirty too.
Speaker 5: Can I speak nine languages killing right basically.
Speaker 4: Everybody at table?
Speaker 1: Then I'll be al ready to go another nine?
Speaker 3: And niner? Did I catch a niner in there where
Speaker 3: you're calling from? All?
Speaker 4: Walkie Talks.
Speaker 1: A karate expert in Japan who broke a haunted house
Speaker 1: worker's jaw with a kick in twenty eleven, has lost
Speaker 1: his thirteen year long lawsuit against an amusement park where
Speaker 1: the incident took place. The High Court dismissed the man's
Speaker 1: claims that the park was partly responsible for the altercations.
Speaker 3: I see he knows his judo.
Speaker 1: Well well played, well played. This was in Kyoto the
Speaker 1: Kyoto Studio park while the karate expert was visiting with colleagues.
Speaker 1: Before entering the haunted house, the man did admit to
Speaker 1: consuming alcohol, Well haven't we all.
Speaker 2: Once inside, he was startled when a park employee stepped
Speaker 2: forward to frighten him. That park employee dressed as it goes,
Speaker 2: and he went hey, yeah. He reacted by kicking the
Speaker 2: ghost in the face, breaking the worker's jaw, and the
Speaker 2: man later claimed that his actions were simply a reflex
Speaker 2: and he really couldn't do much about it.
Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about that. I think that that is
Speaker 1: a pretty strong defense. I agree, you're an expert in karate.
Speaker 1: That's all you do all day is just kicking. You're punching,
Speaker 1: You're doing this, you're paint all of that, and people
Speaker 1: are looking at me like, what the hell is she doing? Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is I can't I keep forgetting we're in public, Keep.
Speaker 3: Having you put your put your hands down public, do that.
Speaker 1: With your hands, whatever you're doing with your hands, stop
Speaker 1: doing it. But it would be natural that that that
Speaker 1: would be a reflex.
Speaker 2: Well, I've been in situations like that where seeing somebody
Speaker 2: react in a very very potentially violent way. My wife
Speaker 2: and I were one of those haunted attractions at Universal
Speaker 2: Studios many years ago, and some.
Speaker 3: Guy came out.
Speaker 2: They're not supposed to touch you, right, that's not what
Speaker 2: they do, but they'll come pretty close and they'll get
Speaker 2: in your face.
Speaker 1: Your hands, sorry, and they'll.
Speaker 3: Get in your face.
Speaker 2: She reacted like she was going to punch the guy
Speaker 2: that just that jumped out at us, and I mean
Speaker 2: we were out of there.
Speaker 1: A strong right hook.
Speaker 2: Well, I yes, sometimes when I'm not paying attention to her,
Speaker 2: I'm yes when I'm bad. In this lawsuit, the karate
Speaker 2: expert argued that the park had been negligent by failing
Speaker 2: to train its staff to prevent such attacks from visitors.
Speaker 2: He also contended that the park should have prevented him
Speaker 2: from entering the attraction given the fact that he had
Speaker 2: been drinking. They should have known it and should not
Speaker 2: have allowed a drunk karate master to go through the
Speaker 2: haunted house.
Speaker 1: I see you know your judo. Well, here's number eight.
Speaker 4: Would be great if you.
Speaker 6: Could a chive his bold every eight second, listening to
Speaker 6: eight different bosses drawn on about mission statements.
Speaker 2: Well, police are looking for a woman who climbed over
Speaker 2: a barrier surrounding a tiger enclosure at a zoo in
Speaker 2: New Jersey, before she approached the tigers and put a
Speaker 2: hand through a metal fence and amazingly was not bitten.
Speaker 1: Why when you just let her be eaten by the tiger?
Speaker 1: This is Darwinism.
Speaker 2: Bridgeton Police said they wanted to speak to the woman
Speaker 2: after video of her inside that enclosure at Kohanzik Zoo
Speaker 2: in Bridgeton emerged. Police Department released the video, said it's
Speaker 2: not clear when this incident took place, but she went
Speaker 2: over the wooden fence at the tiger enclosure and started
Speaker 2: enticing the tiger, almost getting bit by putting her hand
Speaker 2: through the wire enclosure.
Speaker 1: Again, don't you think she should have just been eaten?
Speaker 3: You just leave her in there, I mean, leave her in.
Speaker 1: There, Let let the let the tiger get its prize.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming tigers would enjoy human meat, even stupid human meat.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't I don't know what.
Speaker 1: Did tigers eat? Well do tigers eat?
Speaker 3: If you're in the if you're in the tiger enclosure,
Speaker 3: el you.
Speaker 1: Tigers are carnivores, and a carnivores basic diet consists of
Speaker 1: raw meat. Mmmmmmmmm.
Speaker 2: She This woman went right up to the tall metal fence,
Speaker 2: puts her hand through the gap and looked like she
Speaker 2: was probably trying to pet the animal. The tiger quickly
Speaker 2: moves its jaws toward her, forcing her to remove her hand.
Speaker 3: And step away. She stops.
Speaker 2: She poses as if somebody was taking a photograph, before
Speaker 2: she climbs back over the wooden enclosure.
Speaker 1: I want to know what's on the tiger menu. It's
Speaker 1: a wild boar deer also known to consume. Listen to this, monkeys, buffalo,
Speaker 1: sloth bears, leopards, and even crocodiles. Wow, that's a They
Speaker 1: may also feed on cattle.
Speaker 3: Or goats, making me hungry.
Speaker 1: I know we've been in Chicago too long if we're
Speaker 1: trying to get into a sloth bear.
Speaker 2: Here's number seven, the seventh son of the seventh son.
Speaker 6: We're on with seven days with the government, seven seven
Speaker 6: a seven years of college down to dra.
Speaker 1: Seven seven seven days.
Speaker 3: Well, a guy is oh my gosh, that picture is awful.
Speaker 2: Guy was left bleeding after a hair transplant, and he he.
Speaker 3: Refused to get off of a plane. This is in Miami.
Speaker 1: You can't go onto a plane with blood pouring out
Speaker 1: of your skull.
Speaker 2: So weird Uhanio Ernesto Hernandez Garnier and a female companion
Speaker 2: taking off that airplane in Miami this week. Staff were
Speaker 2: concerned about the state of his head. I mean, it
Speaker 2: looks like somebody, it looks helped him, Yeah, stopped him.
Speaker 2: It looked like a scene out of Silence of the
Speaker 2: Lambs or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like that's when the guy takes the skull off.
Speaker 2: The other guy, twenty seven year old, said he didn't
Speaker 2: have any fresh bandages to clean up the wound.
Speaker 3: They refused to.
Speaker 2: Leave with an arrest report, stating that this woman you wow,
Speaker 2: that's a name. You Slatus Loyola said, if they could
Speaker 2: not fly, then no one's gonna fly, So police were
Speaker 2: called on board. More in the pair that they would
Speaker 2: be arrested. She started live streaming the incident on TikTok.
Speaker 2: Eventually they were handcuffed by the police taking off the
Speaker 2: American Airlines flight to Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: What's that that?
Speaker 3: You know what?
Speaker 1: I was just remembering when I was on a flight
Speaker 1: and actually had to have an emergency landing in rural
Speaker 1: Canada like Siberia. Crazy, and it was just all covered
Speaker 1: in snow and it was because a guy who made
Speaker 1: his way towards the back of the aircraft where we
Speaker 1: were had a medical emergency and his face was covered
Speaker 1: in blood and it was terrified. I don't know why
Speaker 1: it was terrifying for me because my face wasn't covered
Speaker 1: in blood, but it's weird to see someone bleeding like
Speaker 1: that on an airplane.
Speaker 3: Were you headed to Europe?
Speaker 1: Headed back from backing?
Speaker 3: Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Here's number seven six six, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Got six, you got six, she got six, number six.
Speaker 3: There's six more weeks of later a picture of me,
Speaker 3: a rabbi, and six drunken longshore.
Speaker 4: Taking a nation home closer to us.
Speaker 3: I don't have to think that.
Speaker 6: Drink another shit pack.
Speaker 2: Well, speaking of airplanes, a passenger was arrested at an
Speaker 2: Australian airport after he left a stationary airliner through an
Speaker 2: emergency exit. This is white along a wing and then
Speaker 2: climbed down a jet engine on the tarmac.
Speaker 1: So I think what was going on here is this
Speaker 1: passenger was trying to relive that twilight zone. Oh, the
Speaker 1: one with something at thousand feet?
Speaker 3: Yes, William William.
Speaker 1: Shatner, isn't that one? Yeah? Exactly?
Speaker 2: Jetstar flight JQ five oh seven had arrived at Melbourne
Speaker 2: Airport from Sydney, parked at a terminal gate when.
Speaker 3: The guy left the plane by the right side.
Speaker 1: You ever wanted to do this? I on a wing,
Speaker 1: walk around on it.
Speaker 2: Well, I've looked at it, just just this flight coming
Speaker 2: here from Dallas last Sunday. I was standing, or I
Speaker 2: was sitting in a seat right over the wing, and
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the arrows that tell you where to
Speaker 2: go once you're out on the wing. Yeah, like I
Speaker 2: did think about, you know, it might be fun to
Speaker 2: get out there, maybe not at thirty thousand feet, But
Speaker 2: so we're.
Speaker 1: Leaving today and I am just going to tell you
Speaker 1: before we get to the airport.
Speaker 3: Don't do that.
Speaker 1: Well, the good news is I don't want to do
Speaker 1: the show alone.
Speaker 2: Now we're not even going to the same airport, so
Speaker 2: you can't control me anymore. This guy opened the open
Speaker 2: the exit, which of course automatically deployed the slide from
Speaker 2: the back of the wing at the fuselage to the ground.
Speaker 2: But instead he walked out along the wing and then
Speaker 2: climb down on one of the two engines that's out
Speaker 2: there and a.
Speaker 1: Way, my gosh, I just looked at the next story.
Speaker 2: They said that the band was exhibiting some very strange behavior.
Speaker 1: Here's number five for five.
Speaker 3: I have five rules. We begin bombing in five minutes.
Speaker 1: Five little long geese, specially the year five point five five.
Speaker 3: My favorite, lose five pounds immediately.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I do not like that picture either.
Speaker 1: No, it's awful. So giant spiders that can grow to
Speaker 1: the size of rats. Oh, I felt like it was
Speaker 1: on me, wrong with me. It was just giant spiders.
Speaker 3: Nothing even touched you. That was funny, I know.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Giant spiders that can grow to the
Speaker 1: size of rats and live off fish or making a
Speaker 1: comeback in the UK.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: For centuries, the fen raft spider used to live in
Speaker 2: the wetlands around the United Kingdom, but after the Industrial
Speaker 2: Revolution a lot of their habitats were drained. The species
Speaker 2: almost went extinct. And now after years of conversation, sorry,
Speaker 2: con conservation work.
Speaker 1: Why would you want to conserve these months?
Speaker 2: I don't know, they said, it's now back to thriving
Speaker 2: in the UK. It hit a load just three years,
Speaker 2: three areas where they were to exist. But now there's
Speaker 2: an estimated ten thousand breeding females across the UK.
Speaker 3: Think about that ten thousand of those things.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, stop showing me that. Here's number four,
Speaker 1: poor minute.
Speaker 5: It's probably on his fourth tranquilizer by now, number four.
Speaker 4: This isn't the same world you left four years version.
Speaker 1: Am I allowed to say penis at this time of day?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 1: Okay? Costco's not safe for work. Penis cups are eliciting
Speaker 1: some naughty reactions.
Speaker 2: A Reddit user uploaded an image asking people how Costco
Speaker 2: expects customers to be fine with what they're seeing.
Speaker 1: Do you want me to explain the penis cup?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, So it's a soda cup with a plastic lid
Speaker 1: on top cup, and you know the plastic lids that
Speaker 1: pull back like I'm thinking of gas station coffee places.
Speaker 1: For sure, there were McDonald's or what have you pulls back.
Speaker 1: So this one has a pullback tab as well, but
Speaker 1: when you pull it back, it's in the shape of
Speaker 1: a male genitalia wiganberries.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 2: A bunch of readers said that it was pretty funny.
Speaker 2: An onslaught of dirty jokes. Somebody wrote, hate to say it,
Speaker 2: but looks like you got shafted.
Speaker 4: Get it?
Speaker 2: I usually wow, can't refer to that one Hi brow
Speaker 2: Remember now, I can't read you can't read.
Speaker 1: Any of them. Those are awful. Then he printed that
Speaker 1: in the post.
Speaker 2: All of them says make eye contact with the other
Speaker 2: guys at the food court while you're sitting your drink
Speaker 2: after No, anyway, I can't read any of those.
Speaker 3: No, no, you can't.
Speaker 1: No, you can't.
Speaker 2: Well you've seen the inadvertent genitalia pictures before.
Speaker 3: I'm not asking you, I'm not well.
Speaker 1: There was that at the Olympics most recently. That man's genitals.
Speaker 3: Very was not inadvertent. That was very advert But that
Speaker 3: wasn't a penis.
Speaker 1: That was the other stuff, right, Hello, was it a penis? What?
Speaker 1: I don't remember it that he that he hit them?
Speaker 1: Oh no, heard the guy from the opening ceremonies.
Speaker 2: I don't remember. Yes guy, Yes, the guy hanging out. Yeah,
Speaker 2: those were the next other blue guy. Yeah, that was
Speaker 2: other stuff. Those were other parties.
Speaker 1: There was a number of penis incursions at the at
Speaker 1: the Olympics.
Speaker 3: Incursions. I feel like the word is being misused there.
Speaker 1: No, I think it's it.
Speaker 6: It was.
Speaker 2: It was very genital heavy Olympics, probably the most genitally
Speaker 2: heavy Olympics.
Speaker 1: Recursion, an invasion or attack, especially a sudden or brief one.
Speaker 1: That's exactly how I felt by those two penises at
Speaker 1: the Olympics. It was like, WHOA, what's that doing there?
Speaker 1: Here's number three.
Speaker 5: Number three shall be the number count and the number
Speaker 5: of the counting shall be three.
Speaker 4: Three out three Security clearance level three.
Speaker 3: All three three.
Speaker 1: I got all three of you guys, for the rest
Speaker 1: of your naturally born live.
Speaker 3: After about three days, they both start to stink. Three.
Speaker 2: Well, here we are in Chicago, right and it's the
Speaker 2: absolute the center of the world.
Speaker 3: When it comes to Deep Dish pizza. In Miami Springs, Florida.
Speaker 2: A fifty five year old guy is facing a felony
Speaker 2: charge for an impersonation scheme that left a bunch of
Speaker 2: pizza customers getting a raw deal. Said that he was
Speaker 2: running an elaborate scheme to defraud tourists staying in the
Speaker 2: hotels in and around Miami Springs by pretending to be
Speaker 2: a well known pizza parlor, and according to police, customers
Speaker 2: who thought they were ordering pizzas from Romans Pizzeria were
Speaker 2: instead getting slices made by a guy named Jose Marty Alvarez.
Speaker 1: Well was the pizza good.
Speaker 2: No, it was he was distributing fake pizza flyers to
Speaker 2: hotel rooms along Northwest thirty Street near Miami International and
Speaker 2: it was advertising Roman Pizzeria, which was I guess famous
Speaker 2: for its high quality pies.
Speaker 3: That is not what people were getting.
Speaker 2: So Heyeseuss, the proprietor of the Real Romans Pizzeria had
Speaker 2: been cooking up pies for four decades, says that the
Speaker 2: pizzas were bad. They were uncooked. Sometimes they were sent
Speaker 2: in a box with a piece of raw dough, and
Speaker 2: he says, they just give it to them and by
Speaker 2: the time they realize it, they've gone away.
Speaker 1: Now I want pizza real bad.
Speaker 2: Police said that the guy was doing this for years
Speaker 2: and caused significant hardships for the Real Romans Pizzeria, including
Speaker 2: complaints to the Better Business Bureau, a bunch of negative
Speaker 2: reviews on yelp upset customers.
Speaker 1: Of course, what do you think Roman did to that
Speaker 1: guy to deserve this?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but they said.
Speaker 2: After Roman went to the police, officers did arrest the
Speaker 2: fake Roman on a charge of organized scheme to defraud,
Speaker 2: booked him into county jail this week.
Speaker 1: Can't mess with people's pizza that they will throw the
Speaker 1: book at you for that.
Speaker 2: By the way, he's also facing an aggravated battery charge
Speaker 2: because he'd been running away from hotel staff in his
Speaker 2: vehicle and hit one of the hotel staff members as
Speaker 2: he was doing it.
Speaker 1: Here's number two.
Speaker 3: What's going on? You two forgot two things?
Speaker 6: One?
Speaker 1: Two? There's two sons and no women who ring. Well,
Speaker 1: you've got a tax guy. You like a tax loophole
Speaker 1: just as much as the next guy, right, sure, Well,
Speaker 1: there is a city center office building in Liverpool that
Speaker 1: has been home to a snail farm for more than
Speaker 1: a year. The council bosses allege it's to avoid at tax.
Speaker 1: About fifteen covered crates containing as few as two snails
Speaker 1: each have been kept on the lower ground floor of
Speaker 1: this building for about a year. Under current law, this
Speaker 1: could qualify as agricultural use and this part of the
Speaker 1: building would be exempt from business rates. How about that.
Speaker 1: We've never thought about bringing in snails and housing them
Speaker 1: to avoid.
Speaker 3: Taxes snail farm.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but snails are kind of easy, right, You just
Speaker 1: leave them in the boxes. They don't really move around
Speaker 1: a lot, they said.
Speaker 2: The number of snails per crate is kept to a
Speaker 2: minimum to avoid snail cannibalism, snail group sex, and snail orgies.
Speaker 1: Stop it. That's fake. That is not fake, silly, But
Speaker 1: you do.
Speaker 2: Need thousands and thousands of snails otherwise there's no business.
Speaker 2: And that snail farming usually involves feeding and cleaning daily.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that snails were cannibals. I think I
Speaker 1: would rather die than eat a person. There's number one,
Speaker 1: number one, number one.
Speaker 4: We're number one, ben.
Speaker 3: Number one. Are you the number one roll?
Speaker 1: Number one, number one, number one?
Speaker 2: Well, I feel like this is your future. And I
Speaker 2: mean this in the most positive positive way. When you
Speaker 2: work someplace for forty years, someone's gonna give you an
Speaker 2: award of some kind.
Speaker 3: Right, what would you like? Would you like a jacket? Meat?
Speaker 3: Would you like a gold watch? You want a new
Speaker 3: pair of shoes?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: Maybe a zero sick leave jacket like that?
Speaker 2: The meats there's a shop assistant in Britain has been
Speaker 2: awarded forty sausage rolls for forty years of service.
Speaker 1: Oh man, have you ever had a sausage roll from
Speaker 1: Frankie's in Chico?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that was like the fancy restaurant that
Speaker 1: I went to. Maybe once in four years because someone's
Speaker 1: parents came to town and they had money, and so
Speaker 1: we went to Frankie's and they had a sausage roll
Speaker 1: there and it was delicious. It's just a sausage covered
Speaker 1: in like paste, like puff pastry. Oh Man.
Speaker 3: Fifty six year.
Speaker 2: Old Kevin Parson started working at the Alliance Supermarket back
Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty four. They said they marked the anniversaries
Speaker 2: fortieth anniversary, giving him a certificate, a tropical themed mural
Speaker 2: for his home that's nice, and a sausage roll for
Speaker 2: each of his next forty shifts.
Speaker 3: They said that this guy is basically a celebrity in
Speaker 3: that store.
Speaker 1: That's wonderful.
Speaker 3: Well why not end with good meets? Yes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's the way this week began, from meat
Speaker 1: to meet.
Speaker 2: All right, Well that's it for us here in Chicago.
Speaker 2: We'll see everybody back, I mean, I guess we'll see
Speaker 2: everybody back at work, right, sure, Okay, you've been listening
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