Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
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Speaker 2: It's time for swamp Watch.
Speaker 3: And Elijah And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing
Speaker 3: their LOLLIPOPX.
Speaker 4: Here we got the real problem is that our leaders
Speaker 4: are done.
Speaker 2: The other side never quits.
Speaker 3: So what I'm not going anywhere so that you train
Speaker 3: the swap.
Speaker 2: I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
Speaker 2: what has been.
Speaker 4: You know, Americans have always been going at president, but
Speaker 4: they're not stupid.
Speaker 1: A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 2: Why have the people voted for you were not swamp Watch?
Speaker 2: They're all counting on.
Speaker 1: Well, we are back onto tariff watch. We had quite
Speaker 1: a bit of movement this week. They went into effect
Speaker 1: these tariffs on Mexico and Canada midnight on Tuesday. The
Speaker 1: markets responded and not well. So we saw this administration
Speaker 1: back off of the tariffs. If first, we saw the
Speaker 1: President take a conversation via telephone with the Big Three,
Speaker 1: the Big three leaders of the auto industry, and they
Speaker 1: told him, look, President, our supply lanes are all over
Speaker 1: North America. We've got parts made in Mexico and Canada
Speaker 1: for cars built in America, and vice versa. We've got
Speaker 1: cars built in Canada, parts made. Things are constantly going
Speaker 1: back and forth over these borders. And they said that
Speaker 1: if these tariffs remained, we would see new car prices
Speaker 1: jump from four thousand to twelve thousand a vehicle like now,
Speaker 1: like this week. So the President said, all right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna put a hold on this for one month. Then
Speaker 1: next came Mexico. His conversation with Claudia Schinbaum happened, and
Speaker 1: he backed off the tariffs from Mexico for a month,
Speaker 1: and then came Canada yesterday, and then this morning we're
Speaker 1: hearing about the President threatening sanctions on Russia. There has
Speaker 1: been talk that he has been too cozy with Vladimir Putin,
Speaker 1: especially what had happened in the Oval office last Friday
Speaker 1: with Vladimir Zelenski, the head of Ukraine, that he seemed
Speaker 1: to be kind of doing Putin's bidding. And Zelenski came
Speaker 1: back this week and he said, you know what, I
Speaker 1: regret the way that I acted. He did not approach
Speaker 1: Donald Trump with the reverence that the president so wanted
Speaker 1: him to and the thank yous and all of that,
Speaker 1: and so Zelensky decided to play the game. I play
Speaker 1: it on Trump's playing field. And he came and said,
Speaker 1: I regret it, and I worked to and I look
Speaker 1: to work with the United States to helping us get
Speaker 1: peace in that area. Well now maybe he's been rewarded
Speaker 1: for that. With the talk that Trump is threatening to
Speaker 1: play sanctions on Russia. It was a truth social post.
Speaker 1: This morning, Trump said he's strongly considering large scale banking
Speaker 1: sanctions and tariffs on Russia. He said they would be
Speaker 1: put in place until a ceasefire with Ukraine has reached.
Speaker 1: He urged Russia and Ukraine to get to the table
Speaker 1: right now before it is too late. He has paused
Speaker 1: military aid and intelligence sharing just this week with Ukraine
Speaker 1: following that meeting in the Oval Office. But clearly some
Speaker 1: movement there in terms of hey, I'm not a Russian
Speaker 1: putin apologist. I just want this thing done, so to speak,
Speaker 1: so that we don't have to keep pouring money and
Speaker 1: resources into Ukraine. Those are the lines I'm reading between,
Speaker 1: and that's what I'm seeing. And now we've got movement
Speaker 1: when it comes to Iran just moments ago. This cross
Speaker 1: is the Associated Press wire that President Trump has sent
Speaker 1: a letter to iran Supreme Leader seeking a new deal
Speaker 1: with Tehran to restrain its rapidly advancing nuclear program and
Speaker 1: to replace the agreement he withdrew America from in his
Speaker 1: first term in office. Iranian state media has picked up
Speaker 1: on the acknowledgment immediately, though there's no confirmation from the
Speaker 1: from the Supreme Leader's office that any letter had been received.
Speaker 1: Apparently this interview is going to air in full on Sunday.
Speaker 1: We don't know how the Supreme Leader will react. He's
Speaker 1: eighty five years old. For reference. Former President Barack Obama
Speaker 1: kept his letters to this guy secret ahead of the
Speaker 1: startup negotiations that led to Tehran's twenty fifteen deal with
Speaker 1: world leaders World Powers. Now. Trump did not mention the
Speaker 1: letter directly to reporters today when he spoke to them
Speaker 1: in the Oval Office, but he did say, in a
Speaker 1: thinly veiled reference, we have a situation with Iran that
Speaker 1: something's going to happen very soon, very very soon. I
Speaker 1: would call that a thinly veiled reference. I think that
Speaker 1: is even see a veil there at all, he said,
Speaker 1: hopefully we can have a piece deal. He says, I'm
Speaker 1: not speaking out of strength or weakness. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: I'd rather see a piece deal than the other, but
Speaker 1: the other will solve the problem. Apparently trying to get
Speaker 1: a lot accomplished. Trump is when it comes to relationships
Speaker 1: between the United States and several different countries. Not just
Speaker 1: our nearest partners are trading partners in Mexico, Canada, and China,
Speaker 1: but now are staunchest enemies in Russia and Iran. Very interesting.
Speaker 1: Like I said, keep your head on that swivel. A
Speaker 1: lot's going on. You used to think Friday was nothing's
Speaker 1: going to happen Friday. Well it could be that with
Speaker 1: this administration things do go down on Fridays. And then
Speaker 1: again today he said his administration couldn't impose reciprocal tariffs
Speaker 1: on Canada for those dairy products that we've been reporting about,
Speaker 1: not just dairy but lumber as well, because he doesn't
Speaker 1: like it. Apparently somebody just slit a piece of paper
Speaker 1: in front of him that said these are the.
Speaker 2: Tariffs on dairy products.
Speaker 1: They're super steep and it's not cool, and he just said,
Speaker 1: I agree, that's not cool.
Speaker 2: Let's get rid of those dairy tariffs.
Speaker 1: So anyway, we will stay on top of all the
Speaker 1: news coming out and let you know as it happens
Speaker 1: right here, coming up and update on everything that people
Speaker 1: really want to know about.
Speaker 2: How are we going to keep.
Speaker 1: These baby eaglets safe with weather coming into Big Bear.
Speaker 1: We'll go live there when we return.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 1: Six forty New Life and a Life that has expired
Speaker 1: in the Life of a dead Bird. That will be
Speaker 1: the lunch for the babies coming up in just moments.
Speaker 1: Sandy Steers is executive director of the Friends of Big
Speaker 1: Bear Valley and she joins us. Now, Sandy, so much
Speaker 1: for your time. I know you're very busy these days.
Speaker 4: Yes, Hi, thank you so Sandy.
Speaker 2: How long have you been with Friends of Big Bear.
Speaker 4: Valley since two thousand and one?
Speaker 1: Okay, so you have been along for the ride here
Speaker 1: with Jackie in Shadow the whole time? Absolutely, yes, And
Speaker 1: so what is for people who don't know the story
Speaker 1: behind Jackie and Shadow, This was a couple of eagles
Speaker 1: that I believe first came on our radar as the
Speaker 1: public twenty fourteen, something like that twenty twelve when a
Speaker 1: local third grader noticed them.
Speaker 4: Yes, twenty twelve, the third grader saw the first eagle
Speaker 4: hatched in Big Bear Valley. We believe that was Jackie,
Speaker 4: although she's not tagged, so we can't be sure. But
Speaker 4: Ricky and Lucy were her parents at that year.
Speaker 1: That's right, I do remember Ricky and Lucy. What is
Speaker 1: the life expectancy of eagles?
Speaker 4: It's actually they've found some that have been tagged over
Speaker 4: thirty eight years, so it's a long time.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we've been watching these developments unfold before our eyes. Here,
Speaker 1: this is not Jackie in shadows first rodeo they have had.
Speaker 2: They've been through this before.
Speaker 4: They have twice before. They had two chicks in twenty
Speaker 4: nineteen and one in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: And what happens after we see these chicks be born?
Speaker 1: They leave the nest or some of them are taged,
Speaker 1: some of them are not. Where did they go and
Speaker 1: do we believe they're still in the area.
Speaker 4: The chicks usually leave the area of their parents because
Speaker 4: after the when it gets to the next nesting season,
Speaker 4: then they would be considered intruders and be chased away.
Speaker 4: So they can't usually stay in the same area. Every
Speaker 4: once in a while one will do that, but we
Speaker 4: haven't had that.
Speaker 2: It's so fascinating, isn't it. I live in an area.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's you learn about these things as
Speaker 1: a child, about how nature works and about how the
Speaker 1: you know, the parents kick the birds out of the
Speaker 1: nest or what have you. Or where I live, I
Speaker 1: back up against the mountains, and so we have bears
Speaker 1: in the in the backyard and in the front yard
Speaker 1: and on the street. And sometimes we'll see, you know,
Speaker 1: in the springtime in particular, mama bear with her cub.
Speaker 2: And then the next.
Speaker 1: Year you'll see a little bit of a bigger cub
Speaker 1: san's mom and you're like, oh, that's probably the three
Speaker 1: year old that got kicked out, and mom's onto something,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's it's it's fascinating to watch it
Speaker 1: happen right in front of your eyes.
Speaker 4: Yes, I love being able to watch all of this.
Speaker 4: I'm fascinated.
Speaker 1: I bet a lot of people wish that they had
Speaker 1: your job, Sandy, that they could that they could get
Speaker 1: paid for what they're doing when they're pretending to get
Speaker 1: paid to do something else.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: No, I love my job, thank you.
Speaker 1: So what are the challenges with the with the weather
Speaker 1: situation last year it presented some serious challenges for these two.
Speaker 4: Well, it did because we think, well, the snow is
Speaker 4: so deep on the nest and we're at high altitude already,
Speaker 4: so it's low oxygen. So we think the eggs weren't
Speaker 4: able to get enough airflow to have, you know, get
Speaker 4: the breathing inside that they have poors. The egg has poors,
Speaker 4: so it does get air inside, So we think that's
Speaker 4: what happened. It also could have been just the cold.
Speaker 4: We're not sure exactly what happened.
Speaker 1: And so now we had three eggs. It is that
Speaker 1: normal three eggs? Is that kind of like a common
Speaker 1: litter size?
Speaker 4: No, actually two is average and most common. Three is
Speaker 4: not totally rare, but it's more unusual. Wow, right that
Speaker 4: Jackie three?
Speaker 1: Yes, that's very cool. That adds another layer of cool
Speaker 1: to this story. So we had the two Well, we
Speaker 1: had three eggs, like we mentioned, and earlier this week
Speaker 1: we had.
Speaker 2: Some we had was that just this week? That was
Speaker 2: just this week? Right?
Speaker 4: It was?
Speaker 2: It feels like it's been forever.
Speaker 1: So we had the first crack and then we had
Speaker 1: what became a crack that became kind of a whole.
Speaker 1: And I remember we were talking about it, and we're thinking, like, these,
Speaker 1: these these baby eglets look like they are.
Speaker 2: Going to come out soon.
Speaker 1: They I don't think they're going to wait the three
Speaker 1: days or whatever that they could wait. And these first
Speaker 1: two came out with a quickness. And now it looks like,
Speaker 1: I mean, what in your experience, does it look like
Speaker 1: this third egg is getting ready to this eglets make
Speaker 1: getting ready to make his arrival.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it looked like there was a little bit of
Speaker 4: what's called zippering happening when I saw it. The last
Speaker 4: check and what that is? The final It's like the
Speaker 4: fine part of the hatching process. It kind of puts
Speaker 4: its egg tooth into the shell and then pushes itself
Speaker 4: around the shell with its feet, so it makes like
Speaker 4: a zipper all the way around, cutting the eggshell so
Speaker 4: that it can crack in half.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's cool. I had not heard of that term
Speaker 1: yet before. So we go from pipping to zippering.
Speaker 4: Yes, we're all.
Speaker 2: Going to be experts after this, after this.
Speaker 4: Oh, that would be great.
Speaker 2: So are you concerned at all?
Speaker 1: I saw that it looks like a pretty nice weekend
Speaker 1: of forty six fifty two for the high Saturday and Sunday,
Speaker 1: and it looks like snow on Tuesday.
Speaker 4: They'll be fine at this size. They can all fit
Speaker 4: under the adult and they will work and Jackie and
Speaker 4: Shadow will work very hard at keeping them all tucked
Speaker 4: in nicely, you know, unless they're feeding them, and they'll
Speaker 4: wait for you know, the weather to slow down before
Speaker 4: they do that. So they'll they'll be perfectly fine at
Speaker 4: this size. The only issue comes when they get too
Speaker 4: big to all fit under the parent and the you know,
Speaker 4: then they have and if they're not don't have their
Speaker 4: waterproof feathers yet, then that could be a problem. But
Speaker 4: we have a few weeks before anything like that could happen.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we've got a few weeks till they get
Speaker 1: too big to be underneath the parents.
Speaker 4: Yes, and they will still be under there, but sometimes
Speaker 4: they aren't fully under there or and so they can
Speaker 4: get a little bit wet and things like that.
Speaker 1: And then how long do they live in the nest
Speaker 1: before they go on and live their eagle lives.
Speaker 4: They're in the nest from ten to fourteen weeks, and
Speaker 4: it takes them that long that long to grow up fully.
Speaker 4: They have to be fully physically grown before they can fly,
Speaker 4: but they do that from a few inches to over
Speaker 4: three feet toll in ten to fourteen weeks.
Speaker 1: Sandy, we've got a whole season of entertainment here, ten
Speaker 1: to fourteen weeks. Yeah, Debora and I were I was
Speaker 1: talking we needed a new TV show to watch because
Speaker 1: we just blew through our latest our binge show that
Speaker 1: we were doing. And so now we've got a new
Speaker 1: one and it is Jackie and Shadow and their babies.
Speaker 1: That's great, all right, Sandy Steers, executive director of Friends
Speaker 1: of Big Bear Valley, with an update on our Eglitz,
Speaker 1: our local eagles here, Jackie and Shadow and the three babies.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for your time, Sandy, and we'll talk
Speaker 2: to you soon.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1: All right there, there she goes, Sandy Steers, the woman
Speaker 1: who we all want to be, somebody whose job it
Speaker 1: is to watch this live cam and take care for
Speaker 1: these eagles and Eglitz, unlike us who just completely have
Speaker 1: zero productivity at work because we're obsessed with us, even
Speaker 1: if it involves the carcass of a dead bird, which
Speaker 1: is what the live cam really involves right now, coming
Speaker 1: up next.
Speaker 2: If you didn't hear this.
Speaker 1: Story yesterday, it is worth a google in the break. Actually,
Speaker 1: the La Times did a great story about a guy
Speaker 1: who's kind of making his own road as a local
Speaker 1: news reporter in the Inland Empire.
Speaker 2: A guy who's had quite the lived quite the life.
Speaker 1: He spent some time inside and now wants to change
Speaker 1: it all up and wants to give you.
Speaker 2: The news and tell it like it is.
Speaker 1: He is going to be joining us about how he's
Speaker 1: been able to gain such a following just by being himself.
Speaker 2: Isn't that nice?
Speaker 3: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 3: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: I want to get right.
Speaker 1: To this because we have a special guest in studio.
Speaker 1: Yesterday in the ten o'clock hour, I told you the
Speaker 1: story of Ahmed, and I'm my conscript. Your name I
Speaker 1: forgot to ask you belowso I'm Edoso. Okay, So Ahmed
Speaker 1: joins me now. If you heard the story. If you
Speaker 1: didn't hear the story, check out the podcast at Gary
Speaker 1: and Shannon. But if you did, you know Ahmed's story.
Speaker 1: This is a guy who spends some time inside, but
Speaker 1: it's eight years after leaving present prison. Ahmed has been
Speaker 1: able to become a one man band in terms of
Speaker 1: being a news reporter in his Inland Empire, breaking news reports,
Speaker 1: whether it's fires or accidents or murders, whether it's Inland
Speaker 1: Empire history, different places there that mean a lot to
Speaker 1: the community. Places maybe you don't even know about, even
Speaker 1: if you spent your entire life in the Inland Empire.
Speaker 1: And Ahmed tells it like it is and that's why
Speaker 1: he is able to develop the following that he has
Speaker 1: on social media. And thank you so much for making
Speaker 1: the trek from Riverside this morning.
Speaker 5: Thank you for having me, And I want to say
Speaker 5: that I'm deeply humbled, grateful and happy. If you could
Speaker 5: see me, I'm literally leaping out of my skin right now,
Speaker 5: just a little bit, you know, So thank you for that,
Speaker 5: Shannon and Jake as well for having me.
Speaker 2: Well, we appreciate what you do.
Speaker 1: I was saying yesterday when I was a reporter for years,
Speaker 1: that's how I got into this. So when I first
Speaker 1: got my first job is a street reporter, I got
Speaker 1: a book from my boss at the time, and it
Speaker 1: was called Creating Powerful Radio by Valerie Geller, and she
Speaker 1: tells this story in the book about and I told
Speaker 1: this yesterday, but I'll tell you it to you. She
Speaker 1: tells the story in the book about a radio reporter
Speaker 1: who is covering a fire and he goes on the
Speaker 1: air and he says, it was a three alarm blaze
Speaker 1: and fourteen fire trucks responded and they worked through the
Speaker 1: night to put the fire out. We don't know how
Speaker 1: it started. Reporting live, I'm Bob schmob you know wherever.
Speaker 2: And then he gets off the air.
Speaker 1: He goes into the newsroom and he calls up his girlfriend.
Speaker 2: And he gets on the phone. He goes, oh my god,
Speaker 2: it was insane.
Speaker 1: The flames were shooting out of this place, and the
Speaker 1: firefighters are running in and they couldn't even breathe. They
Speaker 1: were breathing so hard, and they're pulling out babies.
Speaker 2: And I saw a dog and I was like, who's
Speaker 2: gonna get that dog?
Speaker 1: And that was the point of the story in the book,
Speaker 1: is be the reporter on that phone call. Don't be
Speaker 1: the guy that did the boring about x's and o's.
Speaker 1: Tell me a story and that's what you do with
Speaker 1: your reporting, which which is what I freaking loved and
Speaker 1: gravitated towards.
Speaker 5: Thank you well, I think one of my most famous
Speaker 5: phrases is that we never know what's going on. I
Speaker 5: get to the story, as Huge House used to say,
Speaker 5: willy nilly, and we pull up just now, coming here
Speaker 5: in Burdbank off a Baller Street. I've seen about fifteen
Speaker 5: cops right in front of your building right now, and
Speaker 5: I think they're doing some sort of I don't know,
Speaker 5: training video. They were taking selfies and stuff. I told
Speaker 5: them you were coming.
Speaker 2: Good one. I don't kidd it.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: But and you know what's funny.
Speaker 5: Is that that's the thing that we never know what's
Speaker 5: going on and have the fun is piecing the story
Speaker 5: together and you ask questions and some people are willing
Speaker 5: and some people are more reserved, and that's okay.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: You know, we take a lot of yes. It is
Speaker 5: a no every now and then we can't get mad
Speaker 5: at the one no. We just got nine yes is right.
Speaker 5: And so that's why I kind of look at it
Speaker 5: that it's always something that we build up too.
Speaker 1: So I love talking to different people every day as
Speaker 1: a reporter. Like, as you said, there's a story behind everything.
Speaker 1: There used to be this old bit where a guy,
Speaker 1: I forget what market this was in but he would
Speaker 1: just call people out of the phone book and say,
Speaker 1: tell me your story.
Speaker 2: And it was the best.
Speaker 1: It was such an entertaining program because everybody has a story,
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 5: True, and some people there's a lot of judgment in
Speaker 5: our society today. People look at me and I fit
Speaker 5: the personification of a five time fallon. You know, you
Speaker 5: could look at me and probably say, this dude done
Speaker 5: some time before, and I did a lot of work
Speaker 5: to clean myself up. If you would have seen me
Speaker 5: three years ago, I looked very different than I do today.
Speaker 5: I had a crucifix tattoo under my eye, I had
Speaker 5: a tattooed tear drop. I had my whole throat completely
Speaker 5: covered in tattoos. My hands, as you can see, we're
Speaker 5: completely blackened, and so I lasered. I had a big
Speaker 5: kiss on my face, big pink red kiss. And it's
Speaker 5: just like I had a name above my eyebrow. So
Speaker 5: if you would have looked at me today trying to
Speaker 5: report on a murder in Los Angeles or Samorandino and
Speaker 5: I got all these times, you would have probably thought
Speaker 5: I did it and thought I might've been some kind
Speaker 5: of sociopath trying to get recognition for or you know,
Speaker 5: some kind of sinister like this out there, and so
Speaker 5: I want. I knew that if I didn't clean myself
Speaker 5: up and try to take this serious, then I would
Speaker 5: have just been like every other blopsided reporter out there
Speaker 5: that doesn't get it. And I knew that there's work
Speaker 5: because nobody's gonna give you anything for free. If you're
Speaker 5: really gonna make an impact, then you got to put
Speaker 5: in the work because they make too many people with
Speaker 5: no talent, no nothing real to put out and they
Speaker 5: make them so famous. And then you see the crash
Speaker 5: out and then you feel kind of guilty because you
Speaker 5: gave this person a little bit of yourself, and then
Speaker 5: you and then you ask yourself, Man, do I do
Speaker 5: that to everybody? And then you kind of ask yourself,
Speaker 5: maybe you wonder why you have really achieved whatever you
Speaker 5: have set out to or in your goals or in
Speaker 5: your life and your dreams.
Speaker 2: That's because you keep letting people hold you back.
Speaker 5: And so me myself, I've learned now to not pay
Speaker 5: attention to what other people. I don't even follow nobody.
Speaker 5: I don't watch the I haven't watched the news in
Speaker 5: about three years. I couldn't tell you. I barely know
Speaker 5: who's running for president. I know Trump is president now, No,
Speaker 5: I really it's God's on his shoes. I pay attention
Speaker 5: to what's in front.
Speaker 2: Of you, your life, your family, your life. I don't
Speaker 2: have friends.
Speaker 5: Yeah, my friends is my family, my dog, my birds,
Speaker 5: and the people I meet every day. You're my friend
Speaker 5: for today, but that doesn't make you my friend forever.
Speaker 2: Like if you're my friend tomorrow. Cool, that's because you're
Speaker 2: just a good person. You can do it well as
Speaker 2: a reporter with that kind of attitude.
Speaker 5: Trust, I have a beautiful gift of discernment now and
Speaker 5: I could read booth mad.
Speaker 1: Oh no, you can't say that. Sorry, it's okay. See
Speaker 1: I forgot we were even on the air. So sorry,
Speaker 1: you can just say bs or crap or.
Speaker 2: Can you hold on?
Speaker 1: Because I want to talk to you about the moment.
Speaker 1: There's a moment that you had where you realized, all right,
Speaker 1: I got to get my ass together and you came
Speaker 1: up with this idea. And I want to talk about
Speaker 1: some stories that you've covered recently and the stuff that
Speaker 1: you really enjoy, like what beat you would enjoy?
Speaker 2: Things like that?
Speaker 1: Ahmed coming back, We will get more about him and
Speaker 1: his life as Inland Empire reporter, kind of off the cuff,
Speaker 1: doing it on his own one man band. He's his reporter,
Speaker 1: is writer, the editor, the videographer, all the things.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from kfi A.
Speaker 1: We are talking with Ahmed Baozos. I say that current
Speaker 1: and you can call him Ed if you want. He
Speaker 1: is the host of on the Tira. Now that is
Speaker 1: a term I did not know. He is a news reporter.
Speaker 1: He does it all himself in the Inland Empire and
Speaker 1: he tells it like it is and how refreshing is
Speaker 1: that he grew up watching hughle Houser. He loves California's
Speaker 1: gold and he's all about breaking news feature reporting as well,
Speaker 1: and he has a very devoted following. You can check
Speaker 1: him out at on the Tira on Instagram. He is
Speaker 1: super active and if you're in the ie, there have
Speaker 1: been a lot of news resources that have just been
Speaker 1: pillaged and they don't exist any longer, and he's bringing it.
Speaker 2: All back to life.
Speaker 1: So I'm it is with us in studio, So gut
Speaker 1: tell me on the Tierra what does it mean?
Speaker 2: It's an inside term.
Speaker 1: And the only jail I've been to is the Disneyland jail.
Speaker 2: That's the one I haven't been to. Oh, it's the
Speaker 2: only one bars in everything. Just kidding, No on the
Speaker 2: FDA is old.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: It derives from prison prisonology, I guess you would call it.
Speaker 5: You know, as you mentioned yesterday, it's very from the
Speaker 5: pond to yell out your door in prison, because you know,
Speaker 5: people learn their cells or writing letters to their wives,
Speaker 5: or on their cell phones, talking to their kid, whatever,
Speaker 5: whatever the case may be.
Speaker 2: You know, it's very from upon to yell out.
Speaker 5: So when somebody has to yell out the door, for instance,
Speaker 5: it could be a man down situation. You know, so
Speaker 5: even in a man down, you're excelledly could be having
Speaker 5: an heart attack, and instead of just yelling out the door,
Speaker 5: you say excuse me on the tier, man down, man down,
Speaker 5: or whatever whatever it may be. And then at the
Speaker 5: end you say thank you on a tier and then
Speaker 5: you go back up because whenever you say excuse me
Speaker 5: on the tier, the chatter drops to a very minimum,
Speaker 5: and then you can literally hear your announcement all the
Speaker 5: way across the block or the unit.
Speaker 1: So it's gotta be a serious announcement. You can't cry wolf.
Speaker 5: Well, you're not gonna You're not gonna yell out the
Speaker 5: door and be like Spence on Natia. Anybody you gotta
Speaker 5: slice the bread, You're not gonna do that, right, You're
Speaker 5: gonna be on there like I'm spending on the tiers.
Speaker 5: Maybe you're kind of tear tender because you need to,
Speaker 5: you know, shoot a kite to another cell, or maybe
Speaker 5: you're having plumbing problems or you know, something serious. So
Speaker 5: it's like, hey, you know, and then you can get
Speaker 5: your attention out there and you excuse me, and then
Speaker 5: it goes back up to normal and then you.
Speaker 2: Know, that's catchy. I like that. That's a good thing.
Speaker 1: That's a good brand for a news agency that you've developed.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's it's very catchy. And it started off
Speaker 5: just kind of targeting my audience, you know, people like me.
Speaker 5: That's why I always say brought to you by foods
Speaker 5: like you kind of like how you know, how do
Speaker 5: you say brought to you.
Speaker 2: By you know? Uh?
Speaker 5: You know that was his logo, his heel Hawser was
Speaker 5: always saying brought to you by people like you, or
Speaker 5: brought to you by you know, we're just like you. Yeah,
Speaker 5: And so I adapted that into my page. And so
Speaker 5: that's what on theatia means is.
Speaker 2: So, how do you go about your day?
Speaker 1: You're driving around, obviously you are super alert to everything.
Speaker 1: What was the cop presence out here today? Did you
Speaker 1: ever find it going on?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: This is little stevery fever in front of the CVS.
Speaker 5: Not I don't a lot of the times these officers
Speaker 5: won't tell me more than that. And so that's all
Speaker 5: I really needed, you know, you know, because I said,
Speaker 5: either we're having a publicity stun pr or there's some
Speaker 5: sort of crime here, which is it?
Speaker 2: And there's like, yeah, those steevery okay. So that's all
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 5: And then they all took their selfies with me and
Speaker 5: got their stickers and we all went about our way.
Speaker 2: That's awesome, Okay.
Speaker 1: So you'll just like set out for your day and
Speaker 1: if you see something happening, you pull over and you
Speaker 1: find out what's going on.
Speaker 5: So the thing is is that I have a lot
Speaker 5: of appointments now all over Southern California. Like one day
Speaker 5: I be in San Diego, one day I'll be in Coachella.
Speaker 5: The next day I'll be on a burbank, right, and
Speaker 5: so I didn't have riverside. So from riverside to here's
Speaker 5: a good two hours, right, and so you bound to
Speaker 5: catch something. A car on fire on a hillside, overturned
Speaker 5: big rig, people walking on the freeway. I mean, you
Speaker 5: could catch literally anything. And the thing is when people
Speaker 5: get annoyed by it, I get intrigued. Oh, they just
Speaker 5: want to get around the the.
Speaker 2: What are they hiding?
Speaker 5: Well, it's the fact that everybody got there was soon
Speaker 5: a hurry to get somewhere, and I really don't got
Speaker 5: nowhere to be now, and so I just stopped and
Speaker 5: kind of figured out. And I'm only there ten minutes.
Speaker 5: I don't stick around for an hour and make, you know,
Speaker 5: become a burden.
Speaker 1: You stumbled upon in your travels a death of a woman,
Speaker 1: and was it in a homeless encampment, Sonny, Sonny, tell
Speaker 1: me about that?
Speaker 2: What happened?
Speaker 5: So what happened was there was a fire up in Highland.
Speaker 5: It up in the you know where the line fire
Speaker 5: area was that And there's a big homelean encampment there
Speaker 5: in the wash of Highway three thirty and Highland Avenue.
Speaker 2: And so I was up there covering the fire, and
Speaker 2: I go to gamble a. We all do it out there. Yamava, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I love Yamava. And so and so I was up
Speaker 2: there covering the.
Speaker 5: Fire and I just started seeing graffiti written all over there.
Speaker 5: I mean they graffiti everywhere, on rocks, on you know, posts,
Speaker 5: on the bricks, on anything they could get their hands on.
Speaker 5: And so it started saying Sonny Rfi's sonny, and so
Speaker 5: I just started I thought it was a guy at first,
Speaker 5: and then when she told me that it was a girl,
Speaker 5: I was like, so, who's sonny it.
Speaker 2: She turned out to be like a twenty three year
Speaker 2: old young white female.
Speaker 5: Down in the river, her cop. Her dad was an
Speaker 5: ex chief of police for Sammordino.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 5: Now now he's an attorney in Fontana. Adopted parents, mother,
Speaker 5: you know. So, once I started breaking down the story,
Speaker 5: my followers started kind of investigating her. And then we
Speaker 5: got her Facebook, we got her face, We interviewed the dog,
Speaker 5: I mean her dog, her dog that was there when
Speaker 5: she got murdered. We went two of the site where
Speaker 5: she was murdered. We you know, little clues. We talked
Speaker 5: to probably like fifteen witnesses, and it just seems that
Speaker 5: this whole case was just swept under the rug, and
Speaker 5: I just was so intrigued. And so we brought out
Speaker 5: the case of Sonny and she's making her rounds, you know,
Speaker 5: and now she's on KFI.
Speaker 1: You know, I as a we were talking a little
Speaker 1: bit about it off the air, but I would sit
Speaker 1: through ads to hear you do a podcast on that alone,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like, there's so many podcasts
Speaker 1: out there for true crime stories, and the most some
Speaker 1: of the most popular ones are the stories that people
Speaker 1: have forgotten or never spent the time to learn, Like
Speaker 1: the stories of a woman who fell on hard times,
Speaker 1: probably ended up in a homeless encampment, she gets she dies,
Speaker 1: or she's murdered or whatever, and nobody pays attention because
Speaker 1: she's living on the margins of society. That's the kind
Speaker 1: of stuff that people really want to hear about. And
Speaker 1: I mean, you have a really great way of telling stories.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 5: I think that the story of Sunny, which her name
Speaker 5: was Ashley Nicole Jones by the way, she was from
Speaker 5: the city of Highland, adopted out as a young girl.
Speaker 5: Her and her brother Zach, same name. I don't know
Speaker 5: if that was a coincidence or family. But the man
Speaker 5: who adopted it was also named Jones, and so, like
Speaker 5: I said, I don't know if it was family, but
Speaker 5: she did reach out to her adopted mother ended up
Speaker 5: in Hemmet, and uh, you know, Hemmett had its own problems,
Speaker 5: so I think she brought some of those problems from
Speaker 5: Hemmett back down. And what made this story so interesting
Speaker 5: is that her father being the chief of police at
Speaker 5: one point, Like, how come nobody, like you would think
Speaker 5: that if I was the chief, that River would be
Speaker 5: like the Fugitive movie down there with dogs and hounds
Speaker 5: and helicopters. And I mean if I was the chief, right,
Speaker 5: And so when I went down and asking all these people,
Speaker 5: nobody's seen anything. And so I uh, it got to
Speaker 5: the point where Samardino County Sheriff's Department called me and
Speaker 5: asked me to come down to the.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I see, so they need help. They've got a
Speaker 2: lot of cases, you know.
Speaker 5: So Yeah, But any how, the story of Sunny very intriguing,
Speaker 5: true true crime, very appealing to people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's a lot of like I said, everyone's
Speaker 1: got a story, and there's a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of crimes that you don't even hear about I'm ed.
Speaker 2: I We could talk all day to you. We gotta go.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much and I really appreciate you. Can
Speaker 2: follow him on the TIRA at Instagram just stud T
Speaker 2: I R A. Can I just say one thing before
Speaker 2: I leave?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just want to say that if you have
Speaker 5: a dream out there, and doesn't matter what kind of
Speaker 5: background you came from. Dude, I was in Foster Crat
Speaker 5: ten years old, molested, you know, heroin addict, I'm fitnal
Speaker 5: just three years ago.
Speaker 2: I've been sober.
Speaker 5: I tell I lasered the tattoos off, the visible tattoos
Speaker 5: off my face.
Speaker 2: If you do the work and you really change.
Speaker 5: Your heart and your life around, and you really give
Speaker 5: it a go, I mean, you could be sitting here
Speaker 5: next to Miss Shannon on KFI Radio from Pomona through
Speaker 5: Riverside all the way to La bro on the top.
Speaker 5: I don't know what we're on the high rise, but
Speaker 5: I'm looking over Burbank right now. This is a dream
Speaker 5: come true, just to see. And so I want to
Speaker 5: tell your listeners that don't let your past define you.
Speaker 5: Don't let the past you know shape who you are.
Speaker 5: You know, remember that child. If you go back to
Speaker 5: your childlike dreams and just live life that way and
Speaker 5: not care what anybody says, I think you'll be very,
Speaker 5: very successful and happy at the same time.
Speaker 2: So that's just my opinion.
Speaker 1: That's why I woke up this morning. I'm thank you
Speaker 1: so much. That's love talking to you, thank you and
Speaker 1: having me. I'm to be told of your phone number
Speaker 1: because we're gonna call you when something happens in the
Speaker 1: ie and get you back on the show.
Speaker 2: Well, if you need a correspondent, as you said, you
Speaker 2: know we are on the market. Got it all right?
Speaker 1: All right, Shannon, I'm at Veozo there on the home
Speaker 1: how you find him.
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