WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.839 This is Gary and Shannon, and you're listening to kf 2 00:00:02.879 --> 00:00:05.200 I A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show 3 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:07.120 on demand on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:07.160 --> 00:00:09.039 I'm gonna start calling him Steve not. 5 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:11.199 A fan Gary Shannon and Steve. 6 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:14.439 Steve is not a fan of much. 7 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:17.920 You know what, that's a false mischaracterization. 8 00:00:18.120 --> 00:00:19.399 I was thinking of you last night. 9 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:22.559 I was one four after zucchini. 10 00:00:22.920 --> 00:00:27.920 I didn't have any more zucchini. Yeah, salmon and spinach 11 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:28.399 last night? 12 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:31.920 What is that? 13 00:00:32.600 --> 00:00:36.079 What is that over salmon? What does that mean? Bragging? 14 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:37.320 Yes? Really? 15 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:38.479 Well? What did you have for dinner? 16 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:40.240 Spaghetti with meat sauce? 17 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:42.119 Oh? 18 00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:47.799 Meat, It would have been nice anyway. I was thinking 19 00:00:47.799 --> 00:00:51.200 about you, Steve, because I was watching Whiplash again. Oh 20 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:55.320 such a great film. Oh never gets old for me. 21 00:00:55.399 --> 00:00:57.759 You know what I binged the other day over last 22 00:00:57.759 --> 00:01:01.200 weekend was Tokyo Swindlers on Netflix. 23 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:02.039 I don't know what that is. 24 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:06.799 That's a pretty amazing the chap music. No, no, no, 25 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:08.560 it's about real estate swindlers. 26 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:12.599 That's that was apropos of nothing. I brought up Whiplash 27 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:15.000 because you're a band guy. Yeah, but no, I thought 28 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:17.719 you were what you watch on Wednesday. 29 00:01:17.319 --> 00:01:20.680 Were you sorry but whiplash? 30 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:24.439 I love whiplash, and I thought it was just that 31 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:27.959 was a great homage to to all the bangee oh 32 00:01:28.040 --> 00:01:28.439 so good. 33 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:37.319 Were you rushing or were you dragging? I had teachers 34 00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:37.599 like that. 35 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:46.599 Like that. I think I would like to be yelled 36 00:01:46.599 --> 00:01:47.040 at like that. 37 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:54.480 Okay, weirdo. Just to quick Friday guys of our stories 38 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:55.120 that were following. 39 00:01:55.159 --> 00:01:57.599 Today, the US and Russia have made their biggest prisoner 40 00:01:57.640 --> 00:02:01.799 swap in post Soviet history. Oscar released US journalist Evan 41 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:06.359 Gershkovich Michigan corporate security executive Paul Wheelan, along with dissidents 42 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:09.800 including Vladimir Kara Murza, in a multi national deal that 43 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:12.719 officials say has set two dozen people free. 44 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:15.080 They said it was convicted in Germany. 45 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:19.199 Of the Russians got back Vadim Krazikov, convicted in Germany 46 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:21.719 of killing a former chech and Reba in a park 47 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:22.080 in Berlin. 48 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:23.919 I think you just love these stories because you like 49 00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:25.479 to get to say the names. I just love it 50 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:27.360 when you say all the names, because I think you 51 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:30.039 just love doing that. You love all the foreign names. 52 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:33.479 You take such pride to this. Vladimir Kara Murza, Yeah, 53 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:35.319 I just think you love saying those. I think it 54 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:37.400 would be very boring for you. It's like John Smith 55 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:40.560 just came home today on a Russian plane. I don't 56 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:42.759 think you'd like that. I think I just thought it was. 57 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:44.360 I rushing or was I draft? 58 00:02:44.840 --> 00:02:46.840 No, you were great, and I just love how you. 59 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:49.199 I love how you take great care in pronouncing all 60 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:49.919 these names. 61 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:51.000 It's not fetish. 62 00:02:51.039 --> 00:02:56.759 Friday, Steve all right, So, an LAPD officer has been 63 00:02:56.840 --> 00:02:59.680 under scrutiny for punching a man under arrest during a 64 00:02:59.719 --> 00:03:02.280 trap stop. You've seen the video. It's been everywhere. The 65 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:05.439 guys in handcuffs. Steve Gregory came in here this morning 66 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:07.800 says that he has looked at new evidence that show 67 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:09.439 the whole story is not being told. 68 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:12.439 This is the sound that made its way through social 69 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:16.719 media when video was taken from bystanders watching the arrest 70 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:29.520 of this guy. So that was the punch, yeah, And 71 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:32.800 that starts half a second before the punch. 72 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:35.800 And that and that's the perspective and that's the only 73 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:40.639 context that everyone got for that incident. LAPD released body 74 00:03:40.639 --> 00:03:44.280 worn video from both officers that were at that traffic 75 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:47.560 stop on July twenty eighth in the South East part 76 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:50.439 of Los Angeles, I believe, near the intersection of one 77 00:03:50.479 --> 00:03:54.039 hundred and thirteenth in Graham Avenue. And what had happened 78 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:58.039 was officers noticed this car, this sedan, parked on the 79 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:02.879 wrong way on a street with heavily tinted windows, which 80 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:06.960 sparks suspicion if a car is parked on the wrong way, 81 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:11.840 facing the wrong direction with heavily illegally tinted windows. Officers 82 00:04:11.879 --> 00:04:16.399 approach and they look in, and initially they didn't think 83 00:04:16.439 --> 00:04:17.360 anyone was in the car. 84 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:19.279 They thought someone just parked it there and ran in 85 00:04:19.319 --> 00:04:19.959 and got something. 86 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:24.480 Now, in this first cut, this is audio from the 87 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:28.680 first officer's perspective and the exchange that happened. 88 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:35.519 Hey, throw the windows down. You roll the windows down, 89 00:04:36.759 --> 00:04:38.879 roll the windows down. You're parked in your double parked. 90 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:42.519 So was going over your double park, man, and you're 91 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:49.199 sitting in the car walk the car. 92 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:50.519 You got a license on the. 93 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:52.759 Going over? 94 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:56.360 I just told you, man, was going on. 95 00:04:56.439 --> 00:04:59.959 I'm I have an idea on you your double park 96 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:02.879 But what does that mean though there's a cut your 97 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:04.920 double parking in the street. 98 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:06.160 What does that mean? 99 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:06.319 Why? 100 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:09.360 Youse? I got everything? 101 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:11.040 Why license for me? 102 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:11.279 Man? 103 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:16.160 I do why because you're ignoring me. I didn't ignore it. 104 00:05:16.199 --> 00:05:17.000 Did you step on the car? 105 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:17.959 The car? 106 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:20.360 Aren't that? 107 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:21.720 Where does the car. 108 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:23.680 For? 109 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:27.959 What had you down for weapons? Okay? 110 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:30.600 So from there it starts to de escalate, or it 111 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:34.560 starts to escalate rather and it gets really you know, 112 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:35.720 it just it goes on and on. 113 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:37.680 That guy just kept saying what did I do? What 114 00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:38.839 did I do? What did I do? 115 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:41.600 He would never provide I d never provide idea And 116 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:44.920 it just kept going back and forth. The entire incident 117 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:48.560 took about thirty three minutes. So you saw that snapshot 118 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:51.600 of a few seconds. Now in this next cut, you're 119 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:54.720 gonna hear the moment. You heard the moment there where 120 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:58.519 the bystander caught the punch. And then this is the 121 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:03.360 audio from the other officers, the second officers perspective. 122 00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:17.439 Way for yourself, just put your head on, put your 123 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:20.399 hands on, your hand on your back. 124 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:36.079 That's the punch. Okay. 125 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:38.079 Did you hear the click of the handcuffs there right 126 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:40.240 toward the end, that's when he was handcuffed. 127 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:42.839 Okay, So the he had only had one cuff on the. 128 00:06:42.920 --> 00:06:45.040 Left hand was cuffed and they had to use two 129 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:48.040 pair of handcuffs because a big fellow, because he's. 130 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:48.519 Such a big guy. 131 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:51.560 Over six two, I believe is what the analysis was, 132 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:54.199 and over three hundred and something pounds. 133 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:57.240 Because for some reason, the city of Los Angeles sticks 134 00:06:57.279 --> 00:07:00.920 with the same civil rights activist for twenty five years. 135 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:04.120 Nausea Lee. That was his sticking point. 136 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:07.360 This young man at his hands behind his back, handcuffed, 137 00:07:07.399 --> 00:07:09.519 he was not a threat, and and that's when the 138 00:07:09.560 --> 00:07:11.319 officer punched him in the face for no reason. 139 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:15.279 Yeah, so that has been kind of the main point there. 140 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:16.639 Steve Gregory has joined us. 141 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:19.199 We're talking about this video that has made its way 142 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:23.160 around southern Californian and around the country as a matter 143 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:27.720 of fact, in an arrest of or an attempted detention 144 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:33.639 of twenty eight year old guy Alexander Mitchell, who was 145 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:38.480 initially stopped at a traffic stop, or he had been stopped, 146 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:40.279 but he was double parked facing the wrong way on 147 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:44.560 a street when the officers first approached him. The video 148 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:46.959 that made its way around showed one of the officers 149 00:07:47.079 --> 00:07:51.000 punching this guy while they were trying to handcuff him. 150 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:57.240 So you can, with a closed fist punch somebody in 151 00:07:57.279 --> 00:08:00.720 the face. According to policy. Well, here's how works. 152 00:08:00.920 --> 00:08:02.879 And in that particular case, if you watch the video, 153 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:05.759 how would you characterize the severity of that punch. 154 00:08:06.879 --> 00:08:09.319 Well, on a guy that's that size, I mean, it'd 155 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:12.639 be like it'd be like me punching a bag of wheat, Okay, 156 00:08:12.639 --> 00:08:14.600 And it didn't appear to have much of an impact, 157 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:18.120 although it did stun the guy enough that it's appeared 158 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:19.160 that he stopped struggling. 159 00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:19.800 There you go. 160 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:22.720 It's called a distraction strike, and that's what the LAPD 161 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:27.560 trains for. It's part of the training so that when 162 00:08:27.560 --> 00:08:31.079 there's a subject that's being detained. And let's make it 163 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:34.320 perfectly clear, in the beginning of this incident. 164 00:08:34.120 --> 00:08:37.240 A compliance punch, Well, it's. 165 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:40.000 A distraction strike. You can call it whatever you want. 166 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:40.679 Yeah I will. 167 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:46.919 But the guy was not under arrest right initially, and 168 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:49.120 at the very least they were trying to pat him 169 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:52.080 down because of two things. First of all, the car 170 00:08:52.279 --> 00:08:54.720 was suspicious parked where it was and how it was 171 00:08:54.799 --> 00:09:00.799 parked with heavily tinted windows in rolling nineties cripshborhoods in 172 00:09:00.919 --> 00:09:04.679 that territory, so officers know this going in, so they've 173 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:06.519 got a little bit of intel when they're walking up 174 00:09:06.519 --> 00:09:09.600 to a situation like this, There could be anybody in 175 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:11.320 that car with a gun. There could be anybody in 176 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:13.759 that car who knows and they have to walk up 177 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:16.960 to that car very cautiously. So when they determined that 178 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:19.320 there was at least one person in there, and they 179 00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:22.000 ask him to roll his windows down and they wanted 180 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:23.720 to get a full view of what's going on, which 181 00:09:23.799 --> 00:09:27.639 is still legal. Now the argument had been made, well, 182 00:09:27.879 --> 00:09:30.519 you know, he was racially profiled. How do you racially 183 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:33.799 profile somebody when you can't see in the windows. So 184 00:09:34.639 --> 00:09:36.799 they finally get the guy to come out, and they 185 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:39.519 want to pad him down because that is standard operating 186 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:41.879 procedure in a case like this, according to officers. 187 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:42.399 Why is that? 188 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:45.159 Is it because of the neighborhood a potential threat? 189 00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:48.159 If they've identified a potential threat, I don't know what. 190 00:09:49.080 --> 00:09:51.159 How would he be identified? And I'm just I'm not 191 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:54.720 trying to play Devil's advocate. I'm just I'm curious. How 192 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:56.799 would he be labeled as a threat? Is it the 193 00:09:56.879 --> 00:09:59.080 tinted windows and the initial failure to. 194 00:09:59.159 --> 00:10:02.600 Comply, that's the beginning of it. And in the area 195 00:10:02.679 --> 00:10:03.320 that you're at and. 196 00:10:03.480 --> 00:10:06.480 In the area so it's a right confluence of things exactly. 197 00:10:06.600 --> 00:10:08.960 And I don't know what was going through that officer's mind, 198 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:11.600 and presumably that will come out in the investigation, what 199 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:15.519 he was thinking and how far he went. But according 200 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:17.600 to everyone I've talked to this far, both on the 201 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:21.600 command level and the training level and the LAPD, they 202 00:10:21.720 --> 00:10:25.759 told me that everything up to that point was being 203 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:29.840 followed per protocol. You know, the point of the strike, 204 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:33.240 and it was protocol to pat him down and figure 205 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:35.799 out what was going on people that are detained, and 206 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:39.840 that's the difference between detained and arrested. Detained, you can 207 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:44.279 be handcuffed and not arrested. You're handcuffed and detained while 208 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:47.559 they figure out if the area is safe and clear. 209 00:10:47.960 --> 00:10:50.440 Yeah, and sometimes they have to check your car for 210 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:51.799 weapons or right. 211 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:53.840 And they do it in a way where they need 212 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:56.159 to be assured that that person's not going to do 213 00:10:56.320 --> 00:10:59.320 something right. I know it's demeaning and demoralizing to be 214 00:10:59.399 --> 00:11:02.039 handcuffed when you probably didn't do anything wrong. I get that, 215 00:11:02.399 --> 00:11:04.480 but that's a society we live in, and that's to 216 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:08.360 ensure the safety of the officers and bystanders. Possibly, so 217 00:11:08.759 --> 00:11:11.679 he was going to be detained initially, and then he 218 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:15.759 escalated the situation by being well, as you look on 219 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:17.840 the video from the perspective of the body cam, at 220 00:11:17.960 --> 00:11:22.600 least he's he clearly appears to resist lawful commands. 221 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:25.200 Well, I mean, and that's that's one of the problems 222 00:11:25.240 --> 00:11:27.759 we've seen over and over again when a video comes 223 00:11:27.799 --> 00:11:31.320 out from a bystander, it's often we don't get the 224 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:32.960 context is mix is. 225 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:35.720 Nothing the lead up to that incident, and then and 226 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:39.000 then it exacerbates the situation when a sitting member of 227 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:42.320 the LA Police Commission indicts the officer. On the meeting Tuesday, 228 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:46.440 a commissioner Klancha said, you know, this was uncalled for, 229 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:49.679 and she's already judge and jury without having seen the 230 00:11:49.679 --> 00:11:50.519 body worn video. 231 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:50.919 Right. 232 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:54.120 The attorney and the mother of the guy involved has 233 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:56.919 a press conference in front of headquarters on Tuesday before 234 00:11:57.000 --> 00:11:59.720 seeing the body worn video and starts to make all 235 00:11:59.799 --> 00:12:04.080 kinds of accusations. As Shannon mentioned, Naji Ali, he's already 236 00:12:04.279 --> 00:12:05.360 you know, piling. 237 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:05.720 Onto this thing. 238 00:12:06.200 --> 00:12:07.879 No one has seen the other side of the story, 239 00:12:08.559 --> 00:12:11.559 and the mother asserted that the officer that hit her 240 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:16.679 son was white. The officer is Hispanic. The other officer 241 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:20.519 is African American. So what happened to the officer through 242 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:22.960 the punch? He has been taken off of field duty 243 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:26.039 as per protocol, and he will he sit me on 244 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:29.039 a desk and tell the investigations over force investigation divisions 245 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:29.440 looking at. 246 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:31.919 Her, you know. Okay, So here's the question is he 247 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:35.279 placed on that Is he taken off of field duty 248 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:38.360 just because of the situation or is he taken off 249 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:40.639 of field duty because someone files a complaint? 250 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:44.440 Both because there was a non coutgorical use of force. 251 00:12:45.320 --> 00:12:48.159 Anytime there's a use of force, you're taken off duty 252 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:51.080 like that and tell the investigations complete. So that's standard 253 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:54.240 procedure in this case. Obviously there's a complaint being filed 254 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:56.279 against him too, so he's going to have to sit 255 00:12:56.799 --> 00:13:00.639 in the in the bullpen, if you will, until it's adjudicated. Now, 256 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:02.639 whether this thing goes and I will tell you this. 257 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:06.399 Somebody at command level that I spoke with about this, 258 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:09.519 while they characterized it as they felt like it was 259 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:13.759 a pretty fair, you know, a fair reaction from officers. 260 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:16.639 They also said this would not be the first time 261 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:19.039 that officers in the LAPD were thrown under the bus 262 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:19.759 by leadership. 263 00:13:19.960 --> 00:13:20.080 Right. 264 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:23.759 So they suspect because it's a political season and other 265 00:13:23.799 --> 00:13:27.159 things that are going on, they suspect that these officers 266 00:13:27.240 --> 00:13:29.240 will probably have to fall on the sword. 267 00:13:30.360 --> 00:13:32.799 Sorry, I was just watching some own biles on the beam. 268 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:34.879 I get nervous. 269 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:38.279 Oh, we sorry to take you away from the Olympics. 270 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:39.480 Steve. 271 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:42.720 I'm an American. Okay, First of all, you're also a 272 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:44.600 talk show host. I'm an American. 273 00:13:44.679 --> 00:13:50.559 First who thank you for spending time with us, Steve. 274 00:14:25.799 --> 00:14:28.720 That's enough, no sense? 275 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:37.600 Did you want a good story? I want what you 276 00:14:37.639 --> 00:14:37.840 want it? 277 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:41.120 Okay? Do we have any good story music? Or should 278 00:14:41.159 --> 00:14:46.360 we just not do that? That's about a father and 279 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:51.519 a daughter, so probably not. I I don't know what 280 00:14:51.639 --> 00:14:54.000 their orientation is with the Lord. 281 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:00.440 Again, father daughter forgetting. 282 00:15:00.639 --> 00:15:05.000 Yeah, it's just about something that works. 283 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:07.399 And I know it's Christmasy, but it is Christmasy. It's 284 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:10.200 kind of feels sacrilegious Christmas in August. 285 00:15:10.639 --> 00:15:16.159 Okay, a father and see me, Valley gave his daughter 286 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:17.600 the gift of a lifetime. 287 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:20.639 What did he give her? Was it a pony? 288 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:25.600 No, nay, pony, it was his It was dumb. Listen, 289 00:15:25.720 --> 00:15:28.399 I get accused of a lot of dumb jokes that 290 00:15:28.679 --> 00:15:30.639 was dumb. Yeah, well, thank you should be. 291 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:33.320 I'm glad that you called me out on it, because 292 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:34.919 if you were just going to let that slip by, 293 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:36.919 that's not a real friend. 294 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:38.840 I did say something yesterday. My wife said to me, 295 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:40.799 you're not old enough to make that joke. 296 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:41.559 What was it. 297 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:43.919 I'd have to look at it, but I'll say that 298 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:46.080 to you as well. You or not, I am not old. 299 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:47.679 That's my husband's kind of joke. 300 00:15:47.759 --> 00:15:50.519 That joke, Okay. 301 00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:53.960 A father and CV Valley gave his daughter the gift 302 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:55.000 of a lifetime. 303 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:59.320 When he gave her his free Disneyland ticket from nineteen 304 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:03.639 eighty five. It was August of nineteen eighty five when 305 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:08.320 Scott King won a free park ticket after visiting the 306 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:12.360 Magic Kingdom during its thirtieth anniversary see. As part of 307 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:15.840 the celebration, every thirtieth guest received a prize. 308 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:19.399 Wow, he said, I forgot all about it. I really 309 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:21.679 didn't pay much attention to it over the years. 310 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:25.919 Instead of redeeming the prize shortly after, he held onto 311 00:16:25.960 --> 00:16:33.039 the ticket for thirty nine years, he stuck the free 312 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:37.000 ticket in a scrapbook. Forgot about it until now, he said. 313 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:39.240 My daughter decided she wanted to go to Disneyland with 314 00:16:39.320 --> 00:16:42.000 her boyfriend. She was telling me how expensive it was 315 00:16:42.200 --> 00:16:46.240 and everything. I said, you know, I have a ticket. 316 00:16:46.519 --> 00:16:49.279 Let me see if I can grab it. So he 317 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:53.080 goes into the garage. Scott does and goes through all 318 00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:55.360 the boxes and all the albums and things, and he 319 00:16:55.440 --> 00:16:57.960 finds the album where he had put the golden ticket, 320 00:16:58.399 --> 00:17:00.159 and there it was sitting in one of the old 321 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:00.919 scrap books. 322 00:17:01.799 --> 00:17:05.119 But the problem is is this ticket was from nineteen 323 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:05.799 eighty five. 324 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:09.720 The price of admission to Disneyland in nineteen eighty five 325 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:12.119 was just sixteen dollars and fifty cents. 326 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:13.920 That's not that long ago. 327 00:17:14.200 --> 00:17:16.720 That was the first year I went to Disneyland eighty five. Yeah, 328 00:17:16.960 --> 00:17:20.279 sixteen dollars and fifty cents. Today the price is start 329 00:17:20.359 --> 00:17:24.799 at roughly one hundred dollars sixteen fIF However, when she 330 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:28.839 took the ticket from nineteen eighty five face value sixteen 331 00:17:28.920 --> 00:17:32.720 dollars and fifty cents to Disneyland in twenty twenty four, 332 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:35.000 Disneyland honored it. 333 00:17:36.359 --> 00:17:37.920 Good for them, What a. 334 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:43.400 Great story, you know, what a smart move by Disneyland. 335 00:17:43.759 --> 00:17:46.640 Oh yeah, if you didn't honor it, how short sighted 336 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:49.279 would that be? You're trying to make up eighty bucks, 337 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:51.880 eighty five bucks, something like that, instead of having the 338 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:53.799 good publicity that this is. 339 00:17:54.599 --> 00:17:59.920 There was a of course, I mean ABC seven did 340 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:01.839 the story. Yeah, owned by Disney. 341 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:05.720 Oh I see not saying that it's not it's still 342 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:06.400 a good story. 343 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:09.079 I don't know what news we have one good news 344 00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:11.319 story and you have to go crap. 345 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:13.720 All over it. There is a corporate thread that kind 346 00:18:13.759 --> 00:18:14.440 of runs through that. 347 00:18:14.599 --> 00:18:16.279 You can why can't we have something nice? 348 00:18:16.640 --> 00:18:21.920 I believe that I also have free tickets to Disneyland somewhere. 349 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:24.079 Well, now they're not going to honor it because of 350 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:24.759 what you've said. 351 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:27.359 They don't know that they why would they not have 352 00:18:27.559 --> 00:18:28.000 They're going to. 353 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:31.440 Say, we heard what you said. They're at the gate 354 00:18:31.559 --> 00:18:32.400 to do something nice. 355 00:18:32.440 --> 00:18:33.920 They do not check me at the gate. 356 00:18:34.839 --> 00:18:38.400 But it was the reason that we got these tickets was, 357 00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:40.359 and I've told this story before, my wife and I 358 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:44.559 went before we were married. We drove from northern California. 359 00:18:44.599 --> 00:18:46.079 It was going to be a big trip for us, 360 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:49.359 a first time, like to drive that long together. And 361 00:18:50.039 --> 00:18:54.480 we're staying with her family members down in Tustin and 362 00:18:54.720 --> 00:18:59.720 we go to Disneyland on a Friday, maybe Saturday, one 363 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:01.559 of the It was a weekend. 364 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:04.200 Day though, and it was very busy. It was June. 365 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:10.119 It was also very hot, and we just were standing 366 00:19:10.160 --> 00:19:12.240 in line. We're not riding any rides, right, and there's 367 00:19:12.359 --> 00:19:15.359 nothing fun about it. We're sweating, we're making soup like 368 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:18.440 none of it was good. And we finally decided we're 369 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:22.599 going to leave. So we get it's maybe three o'clock 370 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:25.079 in the afternoon. We're going to go back to her 371 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:28.559 cousin's house and swim in the pool or something, something relaxing, 372 00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:32.480 we know what. Before we go, she says, I'm going 373 00:19:32.559 --> 00:19:36.920 to stop by Disney City Hall. Why because I'm going 374 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:39.279 to tell them this is not safe. There's too many 375 00:19:39.279 --> 00:19:43.440 people here. Fire marshalls should be told. We could probably 376 00:19:43.559 --> 00:19:45.960 just go No, no, we're going to go to city Hall. 377 00:19:46.440 --> 00:19:48.160 So we go into City Hall you know where that 378 00:19:48.359 --> 00:19:53.880 is before you leave, and we walk in and she's like, listen, 379 00:19:54.359 --> 00:19:56.240 we spent a lot of money. We drove a long time. 380 00:19:56.640 --> 00:19:59.200 This is awful. This is really really bad. There's way 381 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:02.119 too many people walking through people's parts. I'm getting people's 382 00:20:02.279 --> 00:20:05.759 strollers in my ankles all day long. This is really awful. 383 00:20:05.839 --> 00:20:09.880 You've let too many people into Disneyland. The beautiful cast 384 00:20:09.960 --> 00:20:12.599 member was so nice. I'm sure she'd heard it a 385 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:15.720 dozen times by that point. She says, we're really sorry 386 00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:18.160 that you haven't had a great day. And here's what 387 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:20.680 we're gonna do. We're gonna give you two free passes 388 00:20:20.880 --> 00:20:24.160 that you can use anytime in the calendar year. Come 389 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:27.279 back anytime on us, and we hope that next time 390 00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:32.799 is better. Okay, Oh that was nice because they were expensive. Yeah, sure, 391 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:36.160 she said. The only catch is that you have to 392 00:20:36.240 --> 00:20:39.799 leave the park like you can't do this and then 393 00:20:39.880 --> 00:20:41.680 just get free tickets and go back into the park. 394 00:20:42.279 --> 00:20:44.559 And we're like, that's fine. We're on our way out anyway, 395 00:20:44.799 --> 00:20:45.960 so she says. 396 00:20:46.119 --> 00:20:48.799 She beckons over another cast member, a guy named Frankie, 397 00:20:49.279 --> 00:20:51.640 and says to Frankie, could you please they didn't have 398 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:54.720 the greatest time, you know, and whatever escort them out. 399 00:20:55.640 --> 00:20:57.960 So he's walking with us, and he's a really nice guy, 400 00:20:58.039 --> 00:21:02.000 and he continue the whole I'm really sorry it wasn't great, 401 00:21:02.119 --> 00:21:02.279