WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:05.360 A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on 3 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:07.280 demand on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:09.000 It's time for swamp Watch. 5 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:12.119 And Elijah And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing 6 00:00:12.119 --> 00:00:12.800 their LOLLIPOPX. 7 00:00:12.839 --> 00:00:15.960 Here we got the real problem is that our leaders 8 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:16.519 are done. 9 00:00:16.559 --> 00:00:17.800 The other side never quits. 10 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:23.280 So what I'm not going anywhere so that you train 11 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:24.199 the swap. 12 00:00:24.239 --> 00:00:26.519 I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by 13 00:00:26.519 --> 00:00:27.079 what has been. 14 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:30.480 You know, Americans have always been going at president, but 15 00:00:30.559 --> 00:00:31.359 they're not stupid. 16 00:00:31.399 --> 00:00:34.320 A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth. 17 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:37.039 Why have the people voted for you were not swamp Watch? 18 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:38.079 They're all counting on. 19 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:44.280 Well, we are back onto tariff watch. We had quite 20 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:47.560 a bit of movement this week. They went into effect 21 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:52.320 these tariffs on Mexico and Canada midnight on Tuesday. The 22 00:00:52.359 --> 00:00:56.880 markets responded and not well. So we saw this administration 23 00:00:57.119 --> 00:01:01.439 back off of the tariffs. If first, we saw the 24 00:01:01.479 --> 00:01:05.640 President take a conversation via telephone with the Big Three, 25 00:01:05.719 --> 00:01:08.719 the Big three leaders of the auto industry, and they 26 00:01:08.879 --> 00:01:12.439 told him, look, President, our supply lanes are all over 27 00:01:12.599 --> 00:01:16.799 North America. We've got parts made in Mexico and Canada 28 00:01:16.840 --> 00:01:20.079 for cars built in America, and vice versa. We've got 29 00:01:20.120 --> 00:01:23.680 cars built in Canada, parts made. Things are constantly going 30 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:27.120 back and forth over these borders. And they said that 31 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:30.760 if these tariffs remained, we would see new car prices 32 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:34.920 jump from four thousand to twelve thousand a vehicle like now, 33 00:01:35.079 --> 00:01:38.079 like this week. So the President said, all right, we're 34 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:41.200 gonna put a hold on this for one month. Then 35 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:46.319 next came Mexico. His conversation with Claudia Schinbaum happened, and 36 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:49.799 he backed off the tariffs from Mexico for a month, 37 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:54.879 and then came Canada yesterday, and then this morning we're 38 00:01:54.879 --> 00:02:01.359 hearing about the President threatening sanctions on Russia. There has 39 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:05.799 been talk that he has been too cozy with Vladimir Putin, 40 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:09.199 especially what had happened in the Oval office last Friday 41 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:13.360 with Vladimir Zelenski, the head of Ukraine, that he seemed 42 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:17.919 to be kind of doing Putin's bidding. And Zelenski came 43 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:20.400 back this week and he said, you know what, I 44 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:24.199 regret the way that I acted. He did not approach 45 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:27.400 Donald Trump with the reverence that the president so wanted 46 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:29.919 him to and the thank yous and all of that, 47 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:33.479 and so Zelensky decided to play the game. I play 48 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:35.280 it on Trump's playing field. And he came and said, 49 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:37.680 I regret it, and I worked to and I look 50 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:40.960 to work with the United States to helping us get 51 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:46.080 peace in that area. Well now maybe he's been rewarded 52 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:48.759 for that. With the talk that Trump is threatening to 53 00:02:48.759 --> 00:02:51.919 play sanctions on Russia. It was a truth social post. 54 00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:56.000 This morning, Trump said he's strongly considering large scale banking 55 00:02:56.080 --> 00:02:59.719 sanctions and tariffs on Russia. He said they would be 56 00:02:59.719 --> 00:03:03.120 put in place until a ceasefire with Ukraine has reached. 57 00:03:03.800 --> 00:03:06.240 He urged Russia and Ukraine to get to the table 58 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:09.960 right now before it is too late. He has paused 59 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:14.719 military aid and intelligence sharing just this week with Ukraine 60 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:18.479 following that meeting in the Oval Office. But clearly some 61 00:03:18.719 --> 00:03:23.759 movement there in terms of hey, I'm not a Russian 62 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:27.240 putin apologist. I just want this thing done, so to speak, 63 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:29.520 so that we don't have to keep pouring money and 64 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:34.000 resources into Ukraine. Those are the lines I'm reading between, 65 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:36.960 and that's what I'm seeing. And now we've got movement 66 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:40.560 when it comes to Iran just moments ago. This cross 67 00:03:40.599 --> 00:03:43.960 is the Associated Press wire that President Trump has sent 68 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:49.560 a letter to iran Supreme Leader seeking a new deal 69 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:54.000 with Tehran to restrain its rapidly advancing nuclear program and 70 00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:58.120 to replace the agreement he withdrew America from in his 71 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:03.199 first term in office. Iranian state media has picked up 72 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:09.159 on the acknowledgment immediately, though there's no confirmation from the 73 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:13.759 from the Supreme Leader's office that any letter had been received. 74 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:17.759 Apparently this interview is going to air in full on Sunday. 75 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:22.920 We don't know how the Supreme Leader will react. He's 76 00:04:22.959 --> 00:04:27.439 eighty five years old. For reference. Former President Barack Obama 77 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:31.600 kept his letters to this guy secret ahead of the 78 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:35.399 startup negotiations that led to Tehran's twenty fifteen deal with 79 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:40.680 world leaders World Powers. Now. Trump did not mention the 80 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:44.879 letter directly to reporters today when he spoke to them 81 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:47.199 in the Oval Office, but he did say, in a 82 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:51.120 thinly veiled reference, we have a situation with Iran that 83 00:04:51.639 --> 00:04:55.920 something's going to happen very soon, very very soon. I 84 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:59.079 would call that a thinly veiled reference. I think that 85 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:02.680 is even see a veil there at all, he said, 86 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:05.240 hopefully we can have a piece deal. He says, I'm 87 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:07.480 not speaking out of strength or weakness. I'm just saying 88 00:05:07.480 --> 00:05:10.000 I'd rather see a piece deal than the other, but 89 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:13.480 the other will solve the problem. Apparently trying to get 90 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:16.879 a lot accomplished. Trump is when it comes to relationships 91 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:20.720 between the United States and several different countries. Not just 92 00:05:20.800 --> 00:05:25.680 our nearest partners are trading partners in Mexico, Canada, and China, 93 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:32.160 but now are staunchest enemies in Russia and Iran. Very interesting. 94 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:35.000 Like I said, keep your head on that swivel. A 95 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:37.399 lot's going on. You used to think Friday was nothing's 96 00:05:37.399 --> 00:05:39.920 going to happen Friday. Well it could be that with 97 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:44.079 this administration things do go down on Fridays. And then 98 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:48.439 again today he said his administration couldn't impose reciprocal tariffs 99 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:51.160 on Canada for those dairy products that we've been reporting about, 100 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:55.079 not just dairy but lumber as well, because he doesn't 101 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:57.600 like it. Apparently somebody just slit a piece of paper 102 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:00.480 in front of him that said these are the. 103 00:06:00.439 --> 00:06:02.240 Tariffs on dairy products. 104 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:05.519 They're super steep and it's not cool, and he just said, 105 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:07.040 I agree, that's not cool. 106 00:06:07.319 --> 00:06:09.040 Let's get rid of those dairy tariffs. 107 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:11.639 So anyway, we will stay on top of all the 108 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:13.680 news coming out and let you know as it happens 109 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:17.120 right here, coming up and update on everything that people 110 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:18.079 really want to know about. 111 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:19.079 How are we going to keep. 112 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:22.360 These baby eaglets safe with weather coming into Big Bear. 113 00:06:22.439 --> 00:06:25.319 We'll go live there when we return. 114 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:29.920 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM. 115 00:06:29.639 --> 00:06:34.399 Six forty New Life and a Life that has expired 116 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:37.480 in the Life of a dead Bird. That will be 117 00:06:37.720 --> 00:06:41.279 the lunch for the babies coming up in just moments. 118 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:45.480 Sandy Steers is executive director of the Friends of Big 119 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:48.839 Bear Valley and she joins us. Now, Sandy, so much 120 00:06:48.879 --> 00:06:53.000 for your time. I know you're very busy these days. 121 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:56.199 Yes, Hi, thank you so Sandy. 122 00:06:56.439 --> 00:06:59.120 How long have you been with Friends of Big Bear. 123 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:02.519 Valley since two thousand and one? 124 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:06.800 Okay, so you have been along for the ride here 125 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:12.560 with Jackie in Shadow the whole time? Absolutely, yes, And 126 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:16.040 so what is for people who don't know the story 127 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:20.360 behind Jackie and Shadow, This was a couple of eagles 128 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:25.040 that I believe first came on our radar as the 129 00:07:25.079 --> 00:07:28.600 public twenty fourteen, something like that twenty twelve when a 130 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:31.759 local third grader noticed them. 131 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:37.079 Yes, twenty twelve, the third grader saw the first eagle 132 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:39.959 hatched in Big Bear Valley. We believe that was Jackie, 133 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:42.480 although she's not tagged, so we can't be sure. But 134 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:46.639 Ricky and Lucy were her parents at that year. 135 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:50.319 That's right, I do remember Ricky and Lucy. What is 136 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:53.560 the life expectancy of eagles? 137 00:07:53.959 --> 00:07:57.839 It's actually they've found some that have been tagged over 138 00:07:57.920 --> 00:08:00.000 thirty eight years, so it's a long time. 139 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:00.639 Wow. 140 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:08.079 Okay, so we've been watching these developments unfold before our eyes. Here, 141 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:13.040 this is not Jackie in shadows first rodeo they have had. 142 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:15.439 They've been through this before. 143 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:20.839 They have twice before. They had two chicks in twenty 144 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:23.000 nineteen and one in twenty twenty two. 145 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:28.759 And what happens after we see these chicks be born? 146 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:31.360 They leave the nest or some of them are taged, 147 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:34.600 some of them are not. Where did they go and 148 00:08:34.639 --> 00:08:36.120 do we believe they're still in the area. 149 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:42.120 The chicks usually leave the area of their parents because 150 00:08:42.159 --> 00:08:46.000 after the when it gets to the next nesting season, 151 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:50.399 then they would be considered intruders and be chased away. 152 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:53.759 So they can't usually stay in the same area. Every 153 00:08:53.759 --> 00:08:55.519 once in a while one will do that, but we 154 00:08:55.600 --> 00:08:56.200 haven't had that. 155 00:08:56.840 --> 00:09:00.360 It's so fascinating, isn't it. I live in an area. 156 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:03.399 I mean, it's it's you learn about these things as 157 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:06.480 a child, about how nature works and about how the 158 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:08.919 you know, the parents kick the birds out of the 159 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:13.039 nest or what have you. Or where I live, I 160 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:15.879 back up against the mountains, and so we have bears 161 00:09:15.960 --> 00:09:18.480 in the in the backyard and in the front yard 162 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:22.519 and on the street. And sometimes we'll see, you know, 163 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:26.879 in the springtime in particular, mama bear with her cub. 164 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:28.840 And then the next. 165 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:32.440 Year you'll see a little bit of a bigger cub 166 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:35.679 san's mom and you're like, oh, that's probably the three 167 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:38.360 year old that got kicked out, and mom's onto something, 168 00:09:38.879 --> 00:09:41.919 you know, and it's it's it's fascinating to watch it 169 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:44.200 happen right in front of your eyes. 170 00:09:45.559 --> 00:09:47.960 Yes, I love being able to watch all of this. 171 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:48.960 I'm fascinated. 172 00:09:49.480 --> 00:09:51.600 I bet a lot of people wish that they had 173 00:09:51.720 --> 00:09:55.000 your job, Sandy, that they could that they could get 174 00:09:55.000 --> 00:09:57.120 paid for what they're doing when they're pretending to get 175 00:09:57.120 --> 00:09:58.240 paid to do something else. 176 00:09:59.559 --> 00:09:59.759 Right. 177 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:01.799 No, I love my job, thank you. 178 00:10:02.440 --> 00:10:05.720 So what are the challenges with the with the weather 179 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:10.679 situation last year it presented some serious challenges for these two. 180 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:15.720 Well, it did because we think, well, the snow is 181 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:19.320 so deep on the nest and we're at high altitude already, 182 00:10:19.399 --> 00:10:22.399 so it's low oxygen. So we think the eggs weren't 183 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:26.120 able to get enough airflow to have, you know, get 184 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:29.919 the breathing inside that they have poors. The egg has poors, 185 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:34.120 so it does get air inside, So we think that's 186 00:10:34.159 --> 00:10:36.320 what happened. It also could have been just the cold. 187 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:38.320 We're not sure exactly what happened. 188 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:42.759 And so now we had three eggs. It is that 189 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:45.440 normal three eggs? Is that kind of like a common 190 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:47.399 litter size? 191 00:10:47.639 --> 00:10:52.720 No, actually two is average and most common. Three is 192 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:57.120 not totally rare, but it's more unusual. Wow, right that 193 00:10:57.240 --> 00:10:58.080 Jackie three? 194 00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:01.279 Yes, that's very cool. That adds another layer of cool 195 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:05.120 to this story. So we had the two Well, we 196 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:08.799 had three eggs, like we mentioned, and earlier this week 197 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:09.720 we had. 198 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:13.279 Some we had was that just this week? That was 199 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:14.080 just this week? Right? 200 00:11:15.039 --> 00:11:15.480 It was? 201 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:17.840 It feels like it's been forever. 202 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:22.720 So we had the first crack and then we had 203 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:25.240 what became a crack that became kind of a whole. 204 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:28.200 And I remember we were talking about it, and we're thinking, like, these, 205 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:31.240 these these baby eglets look like they are. 206 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:32.159 Going to come out soon. 207 00:11:32.279 --> 00:11:33.840 They I don't think they're going to wait the three 208 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:37.279 days or whatever that they could wait. And these first 209 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:40.279 two came out with a quickness. And now it looks like, 210 00:11:40.519 --> 00:11:42.840 I mean, what in your experience, does it look like 211 00:11:42.919 --> 00:11:46.600 this third egg is getting ready to this eglets make 212 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:47.919 getting ready to make his arrival. 213 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:51.759 Yeah, it looked like there was a little bit of 214 00:11:51.840 --> 00:11:55.080 what's called zippering happening when I saw it. The last 215 00:11:55.159 --> 00:11:59.679 check and what that is? The final It's like the 216 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:03.279 fine part of the hatching process. It kind of puts 217 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:07.720 its egg tooth into the shell and then pushes itself 218 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:09.960 around the shell with its feet, so it makes like 219 00:12:10.039 --> 00:12:13.559 a zipper all the way around, cutting the eggshell so 220 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:14.879 that it can crack in half. 221 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:17.240 Oh, that's cool. I had not heard of that term 222 00:12:17.320 --> 00:12:19.679 yet before. So we go from pipping to zippering. 223 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:22.080 Yes, we're all. 224 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:24.080 Going to be experts after this, after this. 225 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:27.799 Oh, that would be great. 226 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:29.919 So are you concerned at all? 227 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:32.000 I saw that it looks like a pretty nice weekend 228 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:34.960 of forty six fifty two for the high Saturday and Sunday, 229 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:36.720 and it looks like snow on Tuesday. 230 00:12:38.600 --> 00:12:41.799 They'll be fine at this size. They can all fit 231 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:45.679 under the adult and they will work and Jackie and 232 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:48.159 Shadow will work very hard at keeping them all tucked 233 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:51.879 in nicely, you know, unless they're feeding them, and they'll 234 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:54.679 wait for you know, the weather to slow down before 235 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:58.320 they do that. So they'll they'll be perfectly fine at 236 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:02.440 this size. The only issue comes when they get too 237 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:05.960 big to all fit under the parent and the you know, 238 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:08.360 then they have and if they're not don't have their 239 00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:11.600 waterproof feathers yet, then that could be a problem. But 240 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:14.440 we have a few weeks before anything like that could happen. 241 00:13:14.799 --> 00:13:16.480 Okay, so we've got a few weeks till they get 242 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:20.639 too big to be underneath the parents. 243 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:24.480 Yes, and they will still be under there, but sometimes 244 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:28.559 they aren't fully under there or and so they can 245 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:30.440 get a little bit wet and things like that. 246 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:32.519 And then how long do they live in the nest 247 00:13:32.600 --> 00:13:35.519 before they go on and live their eagle lives. 248 00:13:36.799 --> 00:13:39.519 They're in the nest from ten to fourteen weeks, and 249 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:43.080 it takes them that long that long to grow up fully. 250 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:46.720 They have to be fully physically grown before they can fly, 251 00:13:47.840 --> 00:13:50.159 but they do that from a few inches to over 252 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:52.840 three feet toll in ten to fourteen weeks. 253 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:55.840 Sandy, we've got a whole season of entertainment here, ten 254 00:13:55.879 --> 00:14:00.200 to fourteen weeks. Yeah, Debora and I were I was 255 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:03.159 talking we needed a new TV show to watch because 256 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:07.399 we just blew through our latest our binge show that 257 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:09.360 we were doing. And so now we've got a new 258 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:12.879 one and it is Jackie and Shadow and their babies. 259 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:17.240 That's great, all right, Sandy Steers, executive director of Friends 260 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:20.399 of Big Bear Valley, with an update on our Eglitz, 261 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:23.720 our local eagles here, Jackie and Shadow and the three babies. 262 00:14:24.360 --> 00:14:26.799 Thanks so much for your time, Sandy, and we'll talk 263 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:27.240 to you soon. 264 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:28.919 Yeah, thank you. 265 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:31.559 All right there, there she goes, Sandy Steers, the woman 266 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:34.200 who we all want to be, somebody whose job it 267 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:37.720 is to watch this live cam and take care for 268 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:42.720 these eagles and Eglitz, unlike us who just completely have 269 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:46.559 zero productivity at work because we're obsessed with us, even 270 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:49.679 if it involves the carcass of a dead bird, which 271 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:53.039 is what the live cam really involves right now, coming 272 00:14:53.159 --> 00:14:53.679 up next. 273 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:54.919 If you didn't hear this. 274 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:59.799 Story yesterday, it is worth a google in the break. Actually, 275 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:02.600 the La Times did a great story about a guy 276 00:15:02.639 --> 00:15:05.440 who's kind of making his own road as a local 277 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:07.519 news reporter in the Inland Empire. 278 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:10.919 A guy who's had quite the lived quite the life. 279 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:16.000 He spent some time inside and now wants to change 280 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:18.080 it all up and wants to give you. 281 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:19.759 The news and tell it like it is. 282 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:22.399 He is going to be joining us about how he's 283 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:25.159 been able to gain such a following just by being himself. 284 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:25.919 Isn't that nice? 285 00:15:27.159 --> 00:15:30.639 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 286 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:31.720 AM six forty. 287 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:32.919 I want to get right. 288 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:35.559 To this because we have a special guest in studio. 289 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:38.159 Yesterday in the ten o'clock hour, I told you the 290 00:15:38.200 --> 00:15:40.559 story of Ahmed, and I'm my conscript. Your name I 291 00:15:40.559 --> 00:15:44.720 forgot to ask you belowso I'm Edoso. Okay, So Ahmed 292 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:46.960 joins me now. If you heard the story. If you 293 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:49.000 didn't hear the story, check out the podcast at Gary 294 00:15:49.039 --> 00:15:51.639 and Shannon. But if you did, you know Ahmed's story. 295 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:55.799 This is a guy who spends some time inside, but 296 00:15:55.960 --> 00:16:00.879 it's eight years after leaving present prison. Ahmed has been 297 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:03.720 able to become a one man band in terms of 298 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:08.840 being a news reporter in his Inland Empire, breaking news reports, 299 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:13.759 whether it's fires or accidents or murders, whether it's Inland 300 00:16:13.799 --> 00:16:18.200 Empire history, different places there that mean a lot to 301 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:20.720 the community. Places maybe you don't even know about, even 302 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:23.000 if you spent your entire life in the Inland Empire. 303 00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:25.480 And Ahmed tells it like it is and that's why 304 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:29.159 he is able to develop the following that he has 305 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:31.879 on social media. And thank you so much for making 306 00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:34.200 the trek from Riverside this morning. 307 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:37.440 Thank you for having me, And I want to say 308 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:43.200 that I'm deeply humbled, grateful and happy. If you could 309 00:16:43.200 --> 00:16:45.480 see me, I'm literally leaping out of my skin right now, 310 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:47.600 just a little bit, you know, So thank you for that, 311 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:50.799 Shannon and Jake as well for having me. 312 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:52.279 Well, we appreciate what you do. 313 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:56.159 I was saying yesterday when I was a reporter for years, 314 00:16:56.159 --> 00:16:59.080 that's how I got into this. So when I first 315 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:02.600 got my first job is a street reporter, I got 316 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:04.599 a book from my boss at the time, and it 317 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:09.000 was called Creating Powerful Radio by Valerie Geller, and she 318 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:11.599 tells this story in the book about and I told 319 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:13.400 this yesterday, but I'll tell you it to you. She 320 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:16.359 tells the story in the book about a radio reporter 321 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:20.079 who is covering a fire and he goes on the 322 00:17:20.119 --> 00:17:22.799 air and he says, it was a three alarm blaze 323 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:27.480 and fourteen fire trucks responded and they worked through the 324 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:29.960 night to put the fire out. We don't know how 325 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:33.960 it started. Reporting live, I'm Bob schmob you know wherever. 326 00:17:34.839 --> 00:17:36.720 And then he gets off the air. 327 00:17:36.799 --> 00:17:40.160 He goes into the newsroom and he calls up his girlfriend. 328 00:17:39.640 --> 00:17:41.599 And he gets on the phone. He goes, oh my god, 329 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:42.480 it was insane. 330 00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:44.440 The flames were shooting out of this place, and the 331 00:17:44.440 --> 00:17:46.799 firefighters are running in and they couldn't even breathe. They 332 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:49.519 were breathing so hard, and they're pulling out babies. 333 00:17:49.559 --> 00:17:51.119 And I saw a dog and I was like, who's 334 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:51.960 gonna get that dog? 335 00:17:52.279 --> 00:17:55.119 And that was the point of the story in the book, 336 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:58.400 is be the reporter on that phone call. Don't be 337 00:17:58.480 --> 00:18:01.559 the guy that did the boring about x's and o's. 338 00:18:02.200 --> 00:18:06.039 Tell me a story and that's what you do with 339 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:09.400 your reporting, which which is what I freaking loved and 340 00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:10.519 gravitated towards. 341 00:18:10.519 --> 00:18:15.319 Thank you well, I think one of my most famous 342 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:18.799 phrases is that we never know what's going on. I 343 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:21.279 get to the story, as Huge House used to say, 344 00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:25.119 willy nilly, and we pull up just now, coming here 345 00:18:25.200 --> 00:18:28.640 in Burdbank off a Baller Street. I've seen about fifteen 346 00:18:28.680 --> 00:18:31.440 cops right in front of your building right now, and 347 00:18:31.559 --> 00:18:34.119 I think they're doing some sort of I don't know, 348 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:37.519 training video. They were taking selfies and stuff. I told 349 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:38.359 them you were coming. 350 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:42.920 Good one. I don't kidd it. 351 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:43.160 No. 352 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:45.200 But and you know what's funny. 353 00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:47.640 Is that that's the thing that we never know what's 354 00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:50.640 going on and have the fun is piecing the story 355 00:18:50.680 --> 00:18:55.160 together and you ask questions and some people are willing 356 00:18:55.240 --> 00:18:58.000 and some people are more reserved, and that's okay. 357 00:18:58.480 --> 00:18:58.599 Uh. 358 00:18:58.920 --> 00:19:00.839 You know, we take a lot of yes. It is 359 00:19:01.319 --> 00:19:03.680 a no every now and then we can't get mad 360 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:05.759 at the one no. We just got nine yes is right. 361 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:07.640 And so that's why I kind of look at it 362 00:19:07.720 --> 00:19:10.319 that it's always something that we build up too. 363 00:19:10.359 --> 00:19:13.319 So I love talking to different people every day as 364 00:19:13.319 --> 00:19:17.319 a reporter. Like, as you said, there's a story behind everything. 365 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:19.880 There used to be this old bit where a guy, 366 00:19:19.920 --> 00:19:22.079 I forget what market this was in but he would 367 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:23.920 just call people out of the phone book and say, 368 00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:25.160 tell me your story. 369 00:19:25.559 --> 00:19:26.640 And it was the best. 370 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:29.920 It was such an entertaining program because everybody has a story, 371 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:30.960 it is. 372 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:34.720 True, and some people there's a lot of judgment in 373 00:19:34.759 --> 00:19:38.599 our society today. People look at me and I fit 374 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:43.200 the personification of a five time fallon. You know, you 375 00:19:43.240 --> 00:19:45.119 could look at me and probably say, this dude done 376 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:47.200 some time before, and I did a lot of work 377 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:49.119 to clean myself up. If you would have seen me 378 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:51.920 three years ago, I looked very different than I do today. 379 00:19:52.240 --> 00:19:55.359 I had a crucifix tattoo under my eye, I had 380 00:19:55.440 --> 00:19:58.319 a tattooed tear drop. I had my whole throat completely 381 00:19:58.319 --> 00:20:01.759 covered in tattoos. My hands, as you can see, we're 382 00:20:01.839 --> 00:20:05.519 completely blackened, and so I lasered. I had a big 383 00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:08.440 kiss on my face, big pink red kiss. And it's 384 00:20:08.519 --> 00:20:12.440 just like I had a name above my eyebrow. So 385 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:14.000 if you would have looked at me today trying to 386 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:17.799 report on a murder in Los Angeles or Samorandino and 387 00:20:17.839 --> 00:20:19.279 I got all these times, you would have probably thought 388 00:20:19.279 --> 00:20:21.720 I did it and thought I might've been some kind 389 00:20:21.720 --> 00:20:25.400 of sociopath trying to get recognition for or you know, 390 00:20:25.559 --> 00:20:28.079 some kind of sinister like this out there, and so 391 00:20:28.440 --> 00:20:31.200 I want. I knew that if I didn't clean myself 392 00:20:31.319 --> 00:20:34.799 up and try to take this serious, then I would 393 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:38.720 have just been like every other blopsided reporter out there 394 00:20:38.799 --> 00:20:41.039 that doesn't get it. And I knew that there's work 395 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:43.319 because nobody's gonna give you anything for free. If you're 396 00:20:43.319 --> 00:20:45.839 really gonna make an impact, then you got to put 397 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:48.039 in the work because they make too many people with 398 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:52.599 no talent, no nothing real to put out and they 399 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:55.680 make them so famous. And then you see the crash 400 00:20:55.720 --> 00:20:58.119 out and then you feel kind of guilty because you 401 00:20:58.160 --> 00:21:00.559