Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
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Speaker 2: There's a lot.
Speaker 3: There's a lot going on in the world, the most
Speaker 3: local stuff. In fact, not too far away from here
Speaker 3: in Burbank is this police standoff you heard. We'll mention
Speaker 3: it there in traffic, somebody in an suv prompted officials
Speaker 3: to close a pair of those freeway ramps right next
Speaker 3: to Griffith Park, So the zoo drive exits are shut
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 2: Sigal art was issued very early this morning.
Speaker 3: Now, the suv that they're talking about is in the
Speaker 3: parking lot at the Autry Museum, so it's relatively close
Speaker 3: to the freeway, and there's several different laped cruisers that
Speaker 3: are out there. There's just a car. It's the only
Speaker 3: one in the entire parking lot, it looks like. So
Speaker 3: they're waiting, I guess, trying to negotiate a way for
Speaker 3: somebody to get out of their vehicle. They believe that
Speaker 3: there's a gun involved. I did a store. This is
Speaker 3: a weird and it's a long time ago, so more
Speaker 3: than twenty years ago. Covered a similar story to this
Speaker 3: when I was working as a reporter in Seattle where
Speaker 3: for hours there were officers trying to negotiate with somebody
Speaker 3: in a car who had been reported as having a
Speaker 3: gun and they were suicidal. Some family member had said that,
Speaker 3: and when the cops located the car in the park,
Speaker 3: they tried to get this person to come out before
Speaker 3: they hurt themselves, And it turns out that as soon
Speaker 3: as they got to the park they had shot themselves,
Speaker 3: So the police were only negotiating with a dead body.
Speaker 2: That was a long time ago.
Speaker 3: I don't think that's the case here, but there will
Speaker 3: be problems if you are on I five through Griffith
Speaker 3: Park right next to the Autre Museum. Again police are
Speaker 3: working on hopefully getting somebody out of an suv there
Speaker 3: that may be armed and may be interested in hurting themselves. Well,
Speaker 3: Ukraine is at it again. They carried out a couple
Speaker 3: more strikes. We told you yesterday about this ridiculously successful
Speaker 3: drone strikes across different parts of Russia where they hid
Speaker 3: these explosive drones in what appeared to be like modular
Speaker 3: cabins or sheds or something that were packed on different
Speaker 3: big rig semi trucks, the roofs would come off, roofs
Speaker 3: would come off of these sheds, and the drones would
Speaker 3: fly up and attack some of the most valuable bombers
Speaker 3: that Russia has in its entire air fleet. I think
Speaker 3: about a third of them were destroyed, according to Ukraine
Speaker 3: at least so today. They followed up on that with
Speaker 3: an attack on the Kirch Bridge, which connects Crimea with Russia.
Speaker 3: Crimea of course that peninsula that is being currently occupied
Speaker 3: by Russia. Ukrainian agents were able to mine the supports
Speaker 3: of the bridge. Now, this bridge has been attacked multiple
Speaker 3: times before because it is the main security the main
Speaker 3: supply line for Russian troops that are in occupied Crimea.
Speaker 2: Those mines detonated this morning.
Speaker 3: Ukrainian officials claim they severely damaged the underwater supports on
Speaker 3: the bridge. According to the SBU, the head of the
Speaker 3: secret police, I guess you could say in Ukraine the
Speaker 3: Crimean Bridge is an absolutely legitimate target, especially considering that
Speaker 3: the enemy used it as a logistical artery to supply
Speaker 3: its troops. And on top of that, Ukraine drones attacked
Speaker 3: several electricity substations. No immediate comment from Ukraine, but This attack,
Speaker 3: targeted the Zaparisia and the Kershan regions, appeared to be
Speaker 3: one of the largest of its kind in that Russian
Speaker 3: held territory. Since everything began back in February of twenty two.
Speaker 3: There are about seven hundred thousand people without power in
Speaker 3: those areas, so upwards, depending on the estimate, could be
Speaker 3: as much as a million.
Speaker 2: People without power. This all.
Speaker 3: While there tends to be some sort of at least
Speaker 3: talk about a ceasefire deal, the Trump administration hasn't really
Speaker 3: said much of a strategy beyond telling Vladimir Putin to
Speaker 3: stop and suggesting that there would be some other thing
Speaker 3: that would happen. The administration is very quiet about what
Speaker 3: that other thing might actually be, whether it's military action
Speaker 3: or stronger sanctions or something. At this point, the president
Speaker 3: has not tried to ratchet up the economic or military
Speaker 3: pressure on Russia and has not yet involved himself in
Speaker 3: planning for defense of Ukraine. There's been no talk about
Speaker 3: future weapons needs or anything like that. So you've got
Speaker 3: Vladimir's Lenski on one hand, who is saying I'm ready
Speaker 3: to come to the table, while I am continuing these
Speaker 3: very successful to this point largest attacks that Ukraine has
Speaker 3: ever been able to pull off. Zelenski also said this
Speaker 3: is an important point in terms of the the peace
Speaker 3: talks that are going on. He did say that the
Speaker 3: President of Turkey, Ertowan, has proposed a four person summit,
Speaker 3: and that would be Erdowan, Zelenski, Putin, and Trump, although
Speaker 3: Trump has not been saying if he would actually attend
Speaker 3: such a meeting. You remember, he didn't attend one in
Speaker 3: the middle of May even though that was proposed. So
Speaker 3: that is what's popping off on the other side of
Speaker 3: the world, and it's not going to get any better
Speaker 3: anytime soon. That is something that we will continue to
Speaker 3: talk about. There was a couple of stories though, that
Speaker 3: I wanted to get to later in the show, and
Speaker 3: these have to do with this ongoing story about movie
Speaker 3: and television production in Los Angeles and why it is leaving.
Speaker 3: There's a couple versions of it. Number One, there is
Speaker 3: a good debate going on in these major production houses,
Speaker 3: specifically movies, about what makes sense more from a monetary standpoint.
Speaker 2: Dream movies.
Speaker 3: I mean, do you, immediately, if you're Netflix, do you
Speaker 3: produce a movie like Oh, I don't know, Frankenstein, which
Speaker 3: is supposed to open later this year. Do you produce
Speaker 3: that and only put it on your streaming service, or
Speaker 3: do you produce that and put it in theaters to
Speaker 3: make money. Leelo and Stitch, for example, was not going
Speaker 3: to be in the theaters originally, it was just going
Speaker 3: to go to Disney.
Speaker 2: Plus.
Speaker 3: Now you're looking at six seven hundred, eight hundred billion
Speaker 3: dollars and Disney made the right call to put that
Speaker 3: in movie theaters. How much UH thought goes into that
Speaker 3: and what are those projects? So we'll talk about that,
Speaker 3: but also why studio space in LA has gone empty
Speaker 3: for years and it's not getting better anytime soon.
Speaker 2: That's still to come.
Speaker 3: But on the other side, the latest on the Sean
Speaker 3: Diddy Combs trial. The people who knew about the tape,
Speaker 3: the tape being the International or Intercontinental hotel where he
Speaker 3: was beating up Cassie on the floor. The people who
Speaker 3: took the money to stay quiet about that are the
Speaker 3: ones on this. We'll talk about that latest case when
Speaker 3: we come back.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty.
Speaker 3: The latest in the Sean Ditty Combs trial. We're in
Speaker 3: week four. This testimony was probably the most interesting lately.
Speaker 3: The Cassi Ventura testimony when she was on the stand
Speaker 3: originally was pretty amazing in that she described in great
Speaker 3: detail the abuse that she suffered at the hands of
Speaker 3: Sean Combs. One of the instances, of course, was the
Speaker 3: one that was caught on close circuit TV at the
Speaker 3: Intercontinental Hotel in March of twenty sixteen, and CNN got
Speaker 3: the tape they eventually aired it. That kind of led
Speaker 3: to the downfall and the federal case against Sean Ditty Combs.
Speaker 3: Testifying today was a guy named Eddie Garcia, a hotel
Speaker 3: security employee for the Intercontinental, and he was the first
Speaker 3: witness to to take the stand today. Talked about he
Speaker 3: testified under an immunity order so that he wouldn't self incriminate, etc.
Speaker 3: But he testified that he was working when he was
Speaker 3: informed of a fight up in the hotel in March
Speaker 3: of twenty sixteen. Saw the surveillance footage but didn't realize
Speaker 3: who was in it. He just saw this guy beating
Speaker 3: this woman. He didn't realize it was Shawn Combs and
Speaker 3: Cassie Ventura.
Speaker 2: He said he believed that.
Speaker 3: Law enforcement was not called to respond to that fight
Speaker 3: because at the time Cassie Ventura did not request police
Speaker 3: or medical attention the same day that that happened. The
Speaker 3: same day of the fight, Cassie said she was in
Speaker 3: one of those freak off things. There was a male
Speaker 3: escort apparently in the other room when Sean Combs hit
Speaker 3: Cassie Ventura. Originally she grabbed her stuff and left out
Speaker 3: into the hallway, and that's when we saw him in
Speaker 3: his towel, throwing her to the ground and kicking her.
Speaker 2: Day again.
Speaker 3: Eddie Garcia, the security employee, said, a chief of staff
Speaker 3: for Sean Combs asked if it was possible for her
Speaker 3: to get a copy of the video, and he said,
Speaker 3: you got to either call hotel management or you got
Speaker 3: to get a subpoena. We don't just give it out.
Speaker 3: So Sean Combs himself later calls the security desk, sounds
Speaker 3: very nervous, asks him to get the video and says
Speaker 3: if the footage gets out, it could ruin him. So
Speaker 3: Combs called Eddie Garcia's personal phone later that night and
Speaker 3: asked again to see the footage and told Eddie Garcia
Speaker 3: that he would take care of him, which at the time,
Speaker 3: obviously that means he's going to write a big check,
Speaker 3: so Eddie Garcia, security guy at the hotel, calls his
Speaker 3: boss tells him that Shawn Combs is willing to pay
Speaker 3: for the video. The security boss asks him to pay
Speaker 3: fifty thousand dollars for it, and Eddie Garcia relays that
Speaker 3: to Sean Combs. Sean Combe says he would. The next day,
Speaker 3: they download the video onto a thumb drive that they
Speaker 3: give to Eddie Garcia, hands it off to Sean Combs
Speaker 3: in person, and then signs an NDA. He signs an
Speaker 3: NDA with a million dollar penalty. If the story ever
Speaker 3: gets out, Eddie Garcia's got to pay a million bucks.
Speaker 3: Garcia also testified that he spoke with Cassie Ventura that
Speaker 3: same day that all of this took place. He signed
Speaker 3: the NDA, got one hundred thousand dollars in cash, and
Speaker 3: that Cassie Ventura also assured him that she wanted this
Speaker 3: thing to go away, so he kept fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: Fifty thousand dollars went to Eddie Garcia, and his testimony
Speaker 3: has wrapped up for the day. The next one is
Speaker 3: the head of finances for Sean Diddy Coombe's company and
Speaker 3: what he's expected to testify is more into this racketeering charge,
Speaker 3: because again, the video that they show doesn't show racketeering.
Speaker 3: It doesn't show sex trafficking. It just shows domestic violence,
Speaker 3: which is not a charge that he's facing in this trial.
Speaker 3: So racketeering means he's they have to be able to
Speaker 3: prove that he was involved in some illegal scheme. That
Speaker 3: it's not just one single criminal act, it's at least
Speaker 3: two instances of a racketeering activity. To convict someone under law,
Speaker 3: they have to prove a criminal enterprise existed. They had
Speaker 3: to prove that he's spending money to inflict crimes or
Speaker 3: to commit crimes, and that he was having people cover
Speaker 3: up for it, that the defendant was associated with or
Speaker 3: employed by the enterprise, that he engaged in this pattern
Speaker 3: of racketeering, that he participated in at least two acts
Speaker 3: of racketeering. All of this the prosecution really hasn't gotten
Speaker 3: into that part of it yet. But now we have
Speaker 3: the head of finance for the Shandity Combs Company on trial,
Speaker 3: or i should say, on the stand, that may be
Speaker 3: where it goes.
Speaker 2: I've seen some.
Speaker 3: Crazy things in this time in my life. This one
Speaker 3: is probably a new one. Remember the story about the inmates,
Speaker 3: the ten innates who broke out of the New Orleans jail. Well,
Speaker 3: one of them is posted a video still on the run,
Speaker 3: and he's begging for help from a very unusual person.
Speaker 2: I'll explain who that is when we come back.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty.
Speaker 3: NATO is asking European member states to expand ground based
Speaker 3: air defense capabilities by fivefold as they try to fill
Speaker 3: this gap in response to the threat of whatever Russia
Speaker 3: is planning on doing. The ramp up will be discussed
Speaker 3: at a gathering of NATO defense ministers in Brussels coming
Speaker 3: up this week. I believe it's on Thursday. Mentioned the
Speaker 3: Shawn Combs trial. Well, Harvey Ryan Weinstein trial is going
Speaker 3: on as well in New York, and there was some
Speaker 3: discussion the last couple of days over the weekend about
Speaker 3: whether or not he would testify.
Speaker 2: He will not.
Speaker 3: His defense team confirmed yesterday that he was not going
Speaker 3: to take the stand because it would open him up
Speaker 3: to undue risk, is what they said. So they are
Speaker 3: in closing arguments today. The defense expected to rest the
Speaker 3: case today, a little bit more than a month after
Speaker 3: the opening arguments began back on the twenty third. Jurors
Speaker 3: will then get the case probably later today. You can
Speaker 3: always leave us a talkback if you are listening on
Speaker 3: the app. There's a little microphone button and if you
Speaker 3: hit that microphone button, it'll record whatever you say and
Speaker 3: send it to us. One of the questions I was
Speaker 3: going to ask today is would you rather see think
Speaker 3: of the greatest movie you've ever seen. Would you rather
Speaker 3: see it in a movie theater or would you rather
Speaker 3: see it in your home? Because there's a lot of
Speaker 3: discussion lately about movie production studios making those decisions with
Speaker 3: their big tent blockbuster movies. Do they put it in
Speaker 3: movie theaters or do they just put it on a
Speaker 3: streaming service? Where would you rather watch a big movie
Speaker 3: like that? You may not know the name Antwine Massey.
Speaker 3: I will just describe young Antoine as one of the
Speaker 3: two remaining escapees from the Orleans Parish jail from a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago. He was one of ten that
Speaker 3: got out, although he says they were let out. I'll
Speaker 3: get to that in a second. There are still two
Speaker 3: that are on the run. There was a two part
Speaker 3: video that is claims to be Antoine Massey. I mean
Speaker 3: the tattoos all match up, so the expect, the belief
Speaker 3: is that this is who it was. It was an
Speaker 3: Instagram video that was posted over the weekend, and I'll
Speaker 3: get to some of that stuff here in a second,
Speaker 3: because it's pretty richly ironic.
Speaker 2: This guy.
Speaker 3: Has a history of not just the violent criminal charges
Speaker 3: since he was an early teenager, but he's been able
Speaker 3: to escape at least four times. His first jail break
Speaker 3: was when he was fifteen and a juvenile detention center.
Speaker 3: He and five other kids took advantage of a broken
Speaker 3: lock to get into a room that contained metal shackles.
Speaker 3: They used heavy objects to break a window and get out.
Speaker 3: They found him on a service road in New Orleans
Speaker 3: about fifteen days later and arrested him. He was in
Speaker 3: on armed robbery and aggravated assault charges. The second escape
Speaker 3: from jail was much shorter. He was caught the same
Speaker 3: day of the jail break. He broke out of a
Speaker 3: detention center in Moorhouse Parish, twenty miles outside of Monroe, Louisiana.
Speaker 3: They had cut a hole in a fence and escaped
Speaker 3: in a rental car that pulled up nearby. They were
Speaker 3: arrested that same day about three hundred miles away. He's
Speaker 3: also twice been sentenced for breaking out of his ankle monitors,
Speaker 3: both of those in the fall of twenty three. The
Speaker 3: exact timelines are a little bit more difficult because they're
Speaker 3: not always immediately reported, but he was charged for the
Speaker 3: first broken ankle monitor after booked on unrelated charges, and
Speaker 3: the second one he was arrested within a few hours.
Speaker 3: Lengthy criminal record, as I mentioned, convictions for violent crime,
Speaker 3: armed robbery, aggravated flight from an officer, fell in possession
Speaker 3: of a firearm, simple theft, damage to property twice for
Speaker 3: tampering with that electronic monitoring equipment that breakouts from the
Speaker 3: ankle bracelets. And right now he is on he's a
Speaker 3: waiting trial for domestic abuse and motor vehicle theft. Also
Speaker 3: wanted for a rape and a kidnapping in Saint Tammany Parish.
Speaker 3: I mean wonderful guy, right, I mean, this guy has
Speaker 3: got everything going wrong in his life, all from the
Speaker 3: bad decisions that he's made. However, in this video, he
Speaker 3: claims that he didn't escape from the Orleans Parish jail.
Speaker 2: He claims that he was let out so as peace
Speaker 2: for helping young boy eat news with.
Speaker 1: L d L. And I'm saying people that have been
Speaker 1: through the system that Lewis come up, Lil Wayne, don't please.
Speaker 2: I'm answer for help, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: He's holding papers in this video that he says are
Speaker 3: from the alleged victim in the rape who wanted to
Speaker 3: drop the charges that said she was never around the
Speaker 3: guy him the day that the alleged.
Speaker 2: Rape took place. He as asking.
Speaker 3: Lil Wayne meek Mill a couple other guys, including President
Speaker 3: Donald Trump, for help, saying that there needs to be
Speaker 3: a federal investigation into law enforcement in the state of
Speaker 3: Louisiana because that's why he's in jail. That's a shot
Speaker 3: in the dark. It might work. We'll do a terror
Speaker 3: in the sky segment when we come back. A couple
Speaker 3: of things. Number One, when's the last time you saw
Speaker 3: a naked flight attendant? Not since that movie in college.
Speaker 1: To be honest, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on
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Speaker 2: And Shannon Show.
Speaker 1: Period. Gary, you're okay here, set by yourself.
Speaker 2: You're just okay, okay unless you advertise it that way.
Speaker 3: What but you're advertising Gary and Shannon's show.
Speaker 2: Where the hell is Shannon?
Speaker 3: She'll be back tomorrow. I appreciate you telling me that
Speaker 3: I'm okay though.
Speaker 2: That's nice.
Speaker 3: In the Shan ditty Combs trial, the prosecutors are asking
Speaker 3: the judge to keep the jury later today to make
Speaker 3: sure that Derek Ferguson finishes testifying. Derek Ferguson is the
Speaker 3: ex finance chief for Sean ditty Comb's company. They're on
Speaker 3: a lunch break as of right now. The jury is
Speaker 3: at least before that request was made at the top
Speaker 3: of the hour. There are decisions that have to be
Speaker 3: made in those C suite rooms in producer or production
Speaker 3: companies around town these days, which is do you stream
Speaker 3: it or do you put it in movie theaters? And
Speaker 3: we'll talk about sort of the decisions that have to
Speaker 3: be made in some of the different movies that have
Speaker 3: gone one way or the other for financial success or not.
Speaker 3: And we'll talk about a couple of the movies that
Speaker 3: are coming out soon and what those decisions look like.
Speaker 3: But I wanted to ask, what's your favorite place to
Speaker 3: watch a movie? Do you would you prefer to watch
Speaker 3: it in a movie theater? Big blockbuster kind of movie,
Speaker 3: or would you rather watch it at home now that
Speaker 3: you've got your son speakers or a big TV or
Speaker 3: something like that.
Speaker 2: In the meantime, it's time for Terror in the Skies.
Speaker 1: Like narronire, you are a player at the day off Roger,
Speaker 1: get off my plane, PROGERI Rogers.
Speaker 2: Let's our Victor?
Speaker 1: Victor is not I have handed.
Speaker 2: To put these multi playton snakes on this money to pride.
Speaker 1: Right, It's Gary and Shannon's Terror in the Skies on KFI.
Speaker 3: So there's an The new rule for United Airlines, the
Speaker 3: check in cutoff for most US flights will be forty
Speaker 3: five minutes before departure. Your bags also have to be
Speaker 3: checked at least forty five minutes before the flight takes off.
Speaker 2: This is specific for United.
Speaker 3: You can check in up to twenty four hours before
Speaker 3: you fly on United, but they're saying that they want
Speaker 3: to up it from thirty minutes the cutoff of thirty
Speaker 3: minutes before flight time to forty five minutes before flight time.
Speaker 2: It will.
Speaker 3: Vary, they say, depending on location and route. For example,
Speaker 3: the Saint Thomas Airport in the Virgin Islands has a
Speaker 3: check in time limit of ninety minutes prior to departure.
Speaker 3: The same cutoff listed for flights between Guam, Honolulu, et cetera.
Speaker 3: And for international flights you have to check in an
Speaker 3: hour before departure. Some of them say an hour and
Speaker 3: fifteen minutes, some or an hour and a half, depending
Speaker 3: on where they are, but United says they made the
Speaker 3: change to bring greater consistency for the customers by a
Speaker 3: line the current check bag deadline with the blah blah
Speaker 3: blah blah blah, and if you don't meet your check
Speaker 3: in time limits, they say, we'll do our best to
Speaker 3: find another option, but they may have to cancel your flight.
Speaker 3: A British Airways flight attendant got a little nasty arrested
Speaker 3: last week after being discovered naked and dancing inside a
Speaker 3: business class restroom mid flight on this journey from San
Speaker 3: Francisco all the way to London.
Speaker 2: That's a hefty haul.
Speaker 3: Forty one year old crew member not named publicly, apparently
Speaker 3: vanished during the mid mid flight meal service.
Speaker 2: On the A three eighty.
Speaker 3: That's one of the big babies, so everybody started looking
Speaker 3: for Bob or whatever his name was. He was eventually
Speaker 3: located in the Club World cabin bathroom, where, according to
Speaker 3: one of the colleagues, he had turned the space into
Speaker 3: a one man disco. Fellow staff eventually dressed him in
Speaker 3: first class pajamas because they were available, restrained him in
Speaker 3: a first class seat for the remainder of the ten
Speaker 3: and a half hour flight. The plane obviously landed safely
Speaker 3: at Heathrow Airport on May twenty fifth, four hundred and
Speaker 3: seventy passengers and crew on board, and upon arrival they
Speaker 3: took him off. Police came in and said that he
Speaker 3: was arrested on suspicion of being unfit for duty.
Speaker 2: He has been suspended.
Speaker 3: All inquiries have been turned over from British Airways to
Speaker 3: law enforcement to answer questions. No idea exactly what happened
Speaker 3: to the guy? All right, when we come back, movie
Speaker 3: decisions Do you stream it or do you project it?
Speaker 2: What would you prefer?
Speaker 3: And I'll tell you why studios are struggling with these
Speaker 3: kinds of decisions when we come back.
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