March 20, 2025 • 32 mins
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SMALL BIZ: Colony Wine Merchant, Sonya Villegas Kelsen
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
You'd rather just watch the decline yourself than share it
with others.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Sometimes I can't believe the things, and I suppose do
you act like the South side of work? Not a
lot now, but there are times, yeah, yeah, there are times.
A couple stories that we're following.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
There was a call between President Trump and President Zelensky
and talked about that a couple.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Of days ago.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
The President Trump apparently suggested that Zelensky consider transferring ownership
of Ukraine's power plants to the United States for long
term security. Zelensky said the discussion with Trump focused specifically
on the Zaparisia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine that
is currently occupied by the Russians, still connected to Ukraine's
(00:56):
energy grid, but is not producing electricity. It's under Russian
control since Russia went into Ukraine a few years ago.
It's still not clear what future involvement would look like
in terms of US, the United States, being in control
of that. A little bit more than an hour from now,
we expect to see an executive order a ceremony at
the White House where the President is going to sign
(01:19):
the executive order that calls for the dismantling of the
Education Department. The expected announcement would be met with what
will be an interesting fight going forward because Congress would
have to approve the dissolution of a cabinet level agency
like the Department of Education.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
And we'll see if that goes anywhere. What else is
going on? Time for what's happening?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I've seen it on the news all morning long, this
home Pacoima that blew up.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
At some point.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Search and rescue teams were there looking for a dog
that may have been in the house. The home they
say is partially destroyed. That looked more than partially destroyed.
It was pretty pretty district.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
That's a teardown.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
There was one entire wall that was blown out and
was leaning against the neighbor neighboring house. Just to give
me an idea, and the reason that we knew there
was a dog in there is the TV helicopters that
were flying over could see through the giant gaping hole
in the roof that there was in fact a dog.
There were four dogs that were found inside that single
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family home.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
And they are all said to be okay.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Please in Arizona searching for three family members who were
last seen driving together after visiting the Grand Canyon. They
were in a rented white twenty twenty four BMW and
they had been traveling westbound on I four Interstate forty
about three thirty pm on the thirteenth, and then the
storm hit winter weather, causing a large multi vehicle accident there.
(02:50):
It involved twenty two vehicles, thirteen passenger vehicles. But we
don't know if this family's vehicle was involved in the accident.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
I do you not know?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
How do you not know?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
How is that not a license plate that's recorded by
the responding officers.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
The Coconino County Sheriff's offices, it knows that there was
a crash this, like you said, twenty two vehicles, thirteen
of them passenger cars, thirty six people involved, But does
the Sheriff's department does not know if the family's vehicle was.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Involved in the accident.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Bizarre unless they're saying it like they may have been
involved in the accident and then took off and left.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I guess that's the only way they could mean that.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
But wouldn't other ple a car or something like, Yeah,
there was a car.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
It was a late model BM do it.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Was snow, but in the snow, maybe they didn't see it.
You're in a wreck, you're not really looking around.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Police are looking for a couple of guys who used
an explosive device to rip open an ATM inside a
Target in West Hills last night. About eleven thirty last night,
two men broke into the Target store on Fallbrook Avenue.
When they when the cops showed up, they had already
left and they used some sort of they said, gas
device or explosive device or gas to make an explosive
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device to break into an ATM. They took an undisclosed
amount of money. The front glass doors to the store
appeared to be severely damaged. Part of the store was
ransacked as well. Just early this morning, they called the
bomb squad into for a post blast investigations see if
they could narrow down exactly what they used.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Hospital employee is shot a coworker multiple times in Troy, Michigan.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
You can understand that right, well, the shooting of the coworker.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah, employee was struck twice in the arms.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Just nice little I was just going to say, I'd
just hit you in the leg because I want to
use my legs.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Walker.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Wow, I just aimed for the hairs part.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
The hairyest part of Okay, this is stupid. Speaking of which,
I thought this was a funny story.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
How is this? I don't this one.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I don't get how it's the news like there's gotta
be because you don't see mugshots like this. You did
not like the story of the hot guy mug shot?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
What do you mean I didn't like it? I thought
that you poo pooed it.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Trust me, there are for every hot girl mugshot story,
there's twenty five hot guy mugshots story true.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
So this is why it's unusual.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
It also blows me away that you can be arrested
for speeding. Yeah, I mean ticketed.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I granted, you know you're doing one hundred and thirty five.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I can understand being arrested for reckless driving.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
But twenty year old Lily Stewart is a sorority girl
from the University of Georgia. She was arrested in Morgan
County after being pulled over for speeding. She got a ticket,
but then said she accidentally started speeding again, and that
same officer pulled her over and arrested her.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
So she is going viral for her hot mugshot. Very pretty,
very pretty girl. Now, I think that if The New
York Times would ever feature a profile of a couple
getting married that one had been arrested, which it wouldn't,
but if it did, this would be the beginning of
the story, right whoever the cop is arrests her in
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the Hallmark movie. In my mind, they get together, they
have a couple kids, white picket fence, maybe some peach trees,
orange trees, whatever grows in Georgia.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I think it's both of those things.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Peanuts, maybe someone's a peanut farmer and Jimmy Carter descendant.
And then one day their son crashes through the white
picket fence in his Chevy pickup and they say, you know, son,
you shouldn't speed, and he says, well, ma and Pa,
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if you didn't, if maudn't speed, and I wouldn't be
here something like that.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Listen, this is.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Very working on it, very new in the screenwriting, but
you know where it's headed.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
But you don't like her.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
You think she's ugly and she doesn't deserve the note right,
that's what I said.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Oh, I thought that's what you're going on.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
No, I said, I think it's silly and stupid, because
how does this become news? Like how does a I mean,
there's mugshots of pretty people.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I would all the time.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Sure, and I'm the thing is, she doesn't appear to
be She's not impaired at all. No, not impaired, not
concerned nothing.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Well, isn't there a school of thought that you should
smile in your mugshot.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I've never I've never had a mugshot taken, so I've
never been coached on how to take a mug shot.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
What would you do with your face?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I don't know. I've never thought of that. I would
do a lot of this.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Speaking of, well, speaking of I don't think that I
ever got to a story that I teased last week,
and I'm only remembering it because the time about mugshots. Remember,
I said there was an actor in Hollywood who's gotten
more votes to run for governor?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Oh earlier this week? Yes?
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Was that this week? Yeah? Who was mel Gibson? Ah
on the Republican ticket.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I have heard that it's a straw pole, but heavily
favored over any other Republican would be candidate for twenty
twenty six?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Can he run for governor? Why wouldn't he? Why couldn't
he because of the Jews? Is that? Wow? I mean
that part is just him saying thing.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
He has since to apologize for that whole yang like
he is. I think he even has gone on a
life transformation or something he may have.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Is that drugs or booze?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I think it was booze, well, at least the Sheriff's
department thing when he was like, hey, nice, nice honkers.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Oh I don't remember that part. I just remember the
part about the Jews. He's got some. He did a
honker thing. Did he touch him? No, he pointed them out.
He said nice.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Well, I'll tell you off there well than saying I
don't like those our small busin shop when we come back.
If you're going to bring him up, you might should
be a compliment them.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty on Thursdays.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
We'd like to welcome in some of our small business
entrepreneurs around southern California, and today it's Sonya viegis Kelson,
who is the founder and owner of Colony Wine Merchant
that you can find right down there on South Lemon
Street and downtown.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Oh my gosh, living the dream. I mean I think
that up there on the dream goals is to own
a wine bar like Wine and Cheese Place. Is it
as much fun as it sounds?
Speaker 8 (09:46):
I don't think I could do anything else. Quite frankly, yeah,
I mean it's not without its challenges. But I'm very
very blessed.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
How long have you been there?
Speaker 8 (09:53):
And we just turned ten years old in December. Oh
that's exciting, very exciting, that milestone.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
That is huge for staying power ten years in the industry.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Actually through the pandemic and all that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
How did you guys do deal with that? I mean
you obviously closed down like everybody else did.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
We did.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
We followed the rules, but we pivoted and I think
that we came up with a new business model every
single week. I mean we hustled. We hustled, did a
lot of retail. We immediately pivoted to online sales, which
we didn't have that presence before, and just got creative
with specials and people walking up and buying all kinds
of goodies.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
People drink a lot during that time, and.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
It's always fun to have a wine flight at a
wine store or even a wine bar, what have you,
because it introduces people to new things that they may
not even know they like, or different areas of wine.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
So you do do that as well.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
We actually have a different wine flight every single week,
and so the wines I brought for you to taste
this week or today are the wines that we're featuring
this week. And it's called Sonoma Standouts. So there's always
a different theme, always three wines, always three three ounce pores.
And this time I wanted to feature wines that stood
out to us when we went to Sonoma in January.
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We wanted to go and discover new tasting rooms and
meet new vintnors. And these were the absolute standouts. And
what I mean by standouts is when you go to
a winery and every single wine in the lineup is
fantastic and they overd deliver for the price. So we've
got beautiful pats and Hall Shardenay.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
So that's the first one that you bought for.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I see on this you've got a rose from Lone Madrone,
which is one of the places I love to go
to the central Central California is in my opinion, like
the place for wine tasting right now.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Oh it's one of my favorites. And it's so close.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, it's close, it's doable, it's chill, it's not wildly
overpriced the way Nap and Sonoma have gone in recent years,
and so it's really nice to see that them featured
on your wine list. I like, get the commitment to
California wine areas.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Oh, absolutely done here.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (12:06):
We always like to focus on small family owned vineyards
and wineries. You know, there's so many great wines all
over the world, but our focus is small family owned.
So you'll see a little bit of Bordeaux featured there.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Italy.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
It's like going to like four different wineries, but you
just have to go to your place. At Colony Wine Merchant,
you have to write, I mean, it's a one stop shop.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Now.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Tell me about the cheese situation.
Speaker 8 (12:33):
Okay, So, like our wines, our cheese selection is always
changing because we want our guests to discover something new
every single time they come. And what we have here
is a five cheese plate and I have Fromage Dapf
and Wa which is beautiful with the chardonnay. And sometimes
you like to pair things that are opposite, like spicy
food and sweet wine, and sometimes you want to go MATCHI, MATCHI.
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And so a creamy, dreamy degree is beautiful. Full was
a creamy, dreamy oky shardiney. So that's a great pairing.
And then I have drunken goat that is.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
A fantastic cheese.
Speaker 8 (13:07):
Yeah, and I've always loved this cheese.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
It's submerged in red wine for three days, and.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
That's I don't even like goat milk, but I like
that cheese.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Fantastic.
Speaker 8 (13:17):
Yeah, we have a beautiful cheddar, we have a truffle cheese.
We've got everything represented there.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I wish I could, Yes, I wish I could claim
this joke. But it's from my brother in law.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
When we went wine tasting and they had a giant
charcuterie plate like this, he said, who's the fat, drunk
person who gets to try all of the different pairings?
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Did you raise your.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I said, I'll try. I'll make those mistakes. I don't mind.
That's very pejorative, but it but it was mintstreek I
could reach there. Oh there you go, Sorry about that.
You tell me when whenever you want.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I've never been really good with like which wine to
pair with which cheese?
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Well, I never met a cheese it didn't like a
wine exactly.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I've never gone wrong.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
You can't go wrong, but for a perfect pairing. I
mean there, there's there's no such thing as a perfect pairing.
You you pair light like white wine with light food
like let's say chicken red wine with red meat. And
then the most important rule is there are no rules.
You drink whatever you want and you enjoy it with
whatever you do.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Is that the manchego right there, closest to me.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
I don't have manchego. That is the Chellar.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
It's delicious, that's a nice hard Yeah. How often does
the menu rotate weekly? Wow?
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Yeah, yeah, that's why it's paper because.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
And then a Sunday afternoon wine tasting is coming up
on the twenty seventh. Yes, forty wines, some boutique producers.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
Yes, that is our annual tasting. We do one in
the spring and one in the fall, and we have
vendors come and showcase their wines. It's along the same
lines as our menu, small family owned producers. We love
to show case sustainable producers, women owned you name it.
Actually with everything that we do, like the honey I
have here is local. Everything that we do is just
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very thoughtful in my opinion. But yes, on the twenty seventh,
we'll have over forty wines and it's a time that
people can experience tasting more wines than they normally would
and then we have them for sale at really great
prices that you wouldn't normally see out in the marketplace
that day.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Do you sorry, do you work with family or friends.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
Or yes, Well, I've actually been in the industry, the
wine industry for decades. I grew up in the restaurant
business and thought I never wanted to be in the
restaurant business, so of course wine. Never wanted to own
a restaurant, so of course a.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Wine bar, you know, right, I really got out of it.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
So I have the pleasure of working with a lot
of friends and family and the industry and we're actually
family owned and family run.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Okay, yeah, that's cool. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
And then the wine colony is the would you call
it a club? I don't know, I don't what people
call it, but the opportunity for you to curate for
other people. Oh yes, the kinds of wines that are available. Absolutely,
so tell us about the colony.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
Yeah, so our wine club, we have releases every other month.
Our next release is actually at the end of this month.
It's four wines. It's one hundred and twenty five dollars.
You also get perks like discounts on events and on
bottles of wine and anything retail. Actually, and I always
do something vibrant like a white or sparkling or rose,
and then three reds, something light like maybe a Peina
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and noir or and a red blend, and then something
big like a Cabernet Savignan or a blend. That's a
great value. And I have a blast curating these.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Can imagine that.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I mean that sounds like an incredible, like she said,
dream job kind of territory. There's a lot of people
who have been backed into opening a wine stock.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I got this wine. I guess I should taste this.
This was this admire pina and water.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
Yeah, so this is Dan Costa's admire pin and noir. Again,
something that just really stood out to us when we
were in Sonoma. I would try it with the truffle cheese.
It's like Kevin Pino noir is typically at earthy, has
some mushroom character to characteristics to it, and so of
course truffle you can't go.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Right and then we will get to it. But what
is the third one they have?
Speaker 8 (17:13):
So Hamil Estate, this was an absolute standout. This is
a family that has invested so much in their farming
and production that I don't think that they'll see a
return on their investment in this lifetime. But I really
appreciate that because they're really farming and investing for future generations.
So everything that I represent I believe in. I believe
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in their farming, I believe in their production. A lot
of the wines are unfine and filtered natural yeast remitation.
So I'm very proud of our lineup and it's just
a pleasure to introduce these wines to people that aren't familiar.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
And like you said, these three this featured wine flight
is all from Sonoma.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
It's so refreshing too when you were talking about that
the pino is doing things right, although you may not
get the returns right away.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
That's that's the wine industry.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah, And it's like it seems like the family run
vineyards are more interested in that much, you know, and
and maybe that's because that's the way everyone starts before
they sell out. I mean, not that everyone sells out,
but it does happen. But it's nice to catch the
family run vineyards when they are just that family.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Run, absolutely, and that's really what we stick with.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Sonya Viegas Kelson is the founder and owner of Colony
Wine Merchant. You can follow them on Instagram at Colony
Wine Merchant. The website is Colonywinemerchant dot com or check
them out right there in downtown Anaheim on South Lemon
Street in that Colony Historic district.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Sonya, nice, Thank you to drive it all the way
up here.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Thank you to do our strange science stories when we
come back.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
You guys wanted to be obvious, you guys, The eglitz
are big.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Uh yeah, I guess that's a thing.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Can you still hear me through all the cheese I
just put down you.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
You got a little bit of cheese? Or do I
have a little bit of cheese there?
Speaker 8 (19:07):
You know?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
The elits are so big now and there are wings?
Are the wingspans pretty big? They actually look like they
could go feed themselves.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
You did say they have wings now, but I had
to remind you they've always had wings.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Right, But they have wings that look like they could
be used as wings.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
They cannot be used as wings. They still don't have feathers.
The jacket you see them wearing is just like a sock.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
It's just down.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
But they have these the bone structure for wings. Yeah, yes,
so it's the feathers that do the flying.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Well, it's not the feathers that do the flying, but
it's the feathers that help them fly, for sure.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
But I certainly land like the flaps on a plane.
When we flaps down. Dog flaps down. Why now dad
is tweeding the babies up in the nest. Yeah, if
you were wondering, ain't feeding her wine or cheese too bad?
Feeding her?
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Nice dog?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Yeah? Okay, it's great.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I mean fresh right, who doesn't like fresh fish? Wait,
that's not a fish, that's a talent. That's another dead bird.
They're doing the cannibal thing. Oh wait, no, that's the
actual dad's talents.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
What are they eating? Hey, Tony, just a heads up,
This one's forcada here. I just wanted to say that
the bumper music today. It's insanely great. There you go.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Please huge shout out to Tony Sorentino for the music. Uh,
it's time for our stringe science segment.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
It's a lot. It's like weird science strange. Are you
putting away.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
Again?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
All right, so we've got somebody who can smell Parkinson's.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Let's'll start there. Okay, you want to finish chewing first,
I'll just swallow it and get it out of the way.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
There is a woman who has quite the nose. Her
name is Joy Milne and she says she has gone
through quite the life change when she ambushed in a
stem cell biologist to talk in Edinburgh, and she dumbfounded
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him when she asked him why smell isn't used to
detect Parkinson's. She noticed a distinctive change to the odor
of her husband less about a decade before he was diagnosed.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I have been.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Highly sensitive two smell or smells aromas odors name it
only because well, we've talked about this many times before
about thank you for wearing deodorant most of the time.
Most of the time I've never smelled, you know.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
I shouldn't say most of the time.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
I've never smelled you in an offensive way. Sometimes you
wear lotions that are like, okay, let's pump the brakes,
but it's not offensive. It's like if you were to
slap a Hamburger patty under your armpits, that'd be different.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Raw Hamburger patty. I'm going down different.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
But I've been because I know, because I know what
my parents smelled like, and not in a negative way.
I just I know they're aroma, right, You know you
kind of have a For example, my dad had a
pickup truck from nineteen sixty five.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I've talked about it before.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
When you open that thing to this day, it smells
like him because he spent so much time in that
thing commuting back and forth to work. So there are
I'm very sensitive to that kind of the emotional connection
that exists between smells and your memories. This is weird
to me because she talks about that her husband's odor changed.
(23:13):
And I don't know if it's too personal, but do
you know what your husband smells.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Like like when he smells whatever, whatever, however you want
to interpret that, After he works out, after he takes
a shower in his dressed nice he gets grossed out
by well, yes, to answer your question without oversh perfect.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
It's a very strange thing because we know that dogs
can do this. Dogs have a much more advanced sense
of smell than humans do. So it's weird that Joy
had the ability, or that Joy had the recognition that
her husband's scent changed and that it may have had
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something to do with his parkinson.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Well, when somebody is sick and has a sickness, no
matter what it is, the scent changes. It could be cancer,
it could be cirrhosis, it could be anything. It could
be a lot of things where the scent changes, and
you know, you may notice it on yourself. Your spouse
certainly notice it, and she did. She said, for one thing,
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the t shirts, all of them were very ripe.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
It's such a strange thing. Now she has been because
of her story has been out there. She has been
inundated with people sending her things to sniff.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Really, so she's been able to sniff other illnesses.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
So she was working with a professor Perdita Bahan, a
chemist now at the University of Manchester, asked to help
with this pilot study to see if in fact she
could follow through with her claim of smelling Parkins have.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
A medical background, yes, okay, because if you have a
medical background sometimes you can with your knowledge look at
someone and tell you what's wrong with them.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Some time, well, yes, what afflicts them.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
But I and I've also because the body, the body
tells stories.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
There's two different versions of that.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
One of them is someone is so studied, someone is
so smart after everything that they've learned, that they can
do that. The other version of that could be that
person was gifted with that in before they were born,
or maybe it's a little bit of both drove them
into the medical field.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Like house.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
You know, he could just look exactly like a fictional character.
A lot of the doctors and the stories, they can
just look at you.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
In this case, Joy was asked to in this do
a pilot's study. She was asked to sniff and pronounce
on a set of T shirts that had been worn overnight,
either by someone who did have diagnosed Parkinson's or by
a control somebody who didn't. She aced the test. She
made one mistake by assigning a control group shirt to
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the Parkinson's group, but wait nine months later, the wearer
of that shirt was then diagnosed with parkinson so she
pre diagnosed or pre identified the person who was eventually
diagnosed with Parkinson's.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Wow, very very strange. I'm gonna smell you right now.
Probably not a great idea. I smell you. Smelled me
from over there.
Speaker 7 (26:36):
I smelled cheese. Yes, I diagnosed cheddar with you like
cheddar disease. The stoned ape theory. Have you heard this before?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
No, Gary and Shannon will continue with the stoned ape theory.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Six forty people stopped asking us that was the problem.
Did they ever start? Also, probably a great point.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Now you're not high yet, but if you were, these
next two stories would probably tickle that high bone.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
You should have told me I would have brought in
my ganja.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Sorry, you would have smoked some my reefer your grass.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
There has been this story.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
And an American ethnobotanist, mystic, and psychotropic drug advocate has introduced.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
This is many years ago. This is not new.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Many years ago. He introduced the stoned ape theory. Terence
McKenna back in nineteen ninety three. Story was the book
was Food of the Gods and argued that regular psilocybin
mushroom use catalyzed the increase in brain size from Homo
erectus to Homo sapiens, and he said the low doses
(27:59):
of microdosing of these psilocybin mushrooms could probably sharpen your
vision for hunting. Larger doses might make it easier for
you to socially bond, might ramp up the old sex
drive a little bit, and the higher doses would trigger
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those mystical states that would lead an otherwise dumb animal
and advanced ape, but still an ape two advanced thinking
like humans, the abstract thinking, the spiritual awareness that we have.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
I feel like I'm high already.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Now take that, just that little theory, right, that's again,
that's not a new thing. But I want you to
remember you have to be a little high to think
that feeling that apes were eating mushrooms and turned into humans.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Right, I must say it's not I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
I'm just saying, well, they kind that's exactly what happened.
Because if you think about it, go on, what else
were the apes eating? They were eating mushrooms among other things,
and then did they turn on to humans?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
So how were we to say? Who are we to
say they're not connected.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
There is a new observation from a research at Kansas
State University.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
His name is le Or Shamir.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
He has been looking at the James web Telescope for
Advanced Extraglastic sorry, James Web Space Telescope Advanced Deep Extragalactic
Survey and suggests that our universe has existed unscathed for
tens of billions of years because we are inside a
(29:48):
super super super massive black hole. His theory, Okay, still high,
aren't you very much? His theory is I think the cheese.
He took a closer look at two hundred and sixty
three galaxies that you can see with the James Webb's
Telescope Advanced Deep extra Galactic Survey and that they show
(30:09):
up clearly enough. He picked two hundred and sixty three
that show up clearly enough to show their rotation based
on their shape, and he found two thirds of those galaxies,
not half, two thirds of them rotate in a direction
that is opposite.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
The rotation of the Milky Way galaxy.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Well, duh, because they're in different galaxies. Did he find
mister bumber Puss.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
We haven't had mister bumber puss since last year do
you realize that's the first that's the first mention of
bumber Puss in twenty five.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
You are high.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
He said there should be approximately equal amounts of galaxies
rotating clockwise and counterclockwise. So the idea that two thirds
of them are rotating clockwise, camp rotating opposite of what
the Milky Way is operating rotating.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Then well, like in.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Space Wars, the ice planet it rotates a different direction,
and then and then the forest plant it rotates both ways.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
You are high again.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Well, it's not called forest planet. It's called forest plant
because the planet is a big plant.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Do you get it? Yeah? Mean high, I do get it.
I'm not being mean. I just don't understand why you're
not understanding this.
Speaker 9 (31:34):
Gary and Shannon. Gary, flaps down would be for takeoff
and flaps up would be for landing. Do you think
a season pilot like yourself would know that that's true?
Speaker 3 (31:45):
As He's right, it just appears that they're down, but
they're really up. No.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Yeah, like when you're on descent, they put those flaps up, and.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Well they don't. The flaps go like that.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
They extend off the front of the wing and they
extend off the back of the wing right.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Yeah, but slow what do they slow down? They slow rotors?
The rotors all speed? Please tell me you know what.
You don't even get slow down.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
The rotors in my seven thirty seven. Yeah, okay, you're
mean when you get high. John Cobot shows up next.
We'll see you tomorrow for a Friday show. Oh my god,
it's going to be all about mister bumber Puss. Can
we find the song?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
What?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
No? Right away?
Speaker 6 (32:27):
No?
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Yep, you don't want to sleep on it? Nope, stay dry.
Everybody listen. You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
You'd rather just watch the decline yourself than share it
with others.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Sometimes I can't believe the things, and I suppose do
you act like the South side of work? Not a
lot now, but there are times, yeah, yeah, there are times.
A couple stories that we're following.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
There was a call between President Trump and President Zelensky
and talked about that a couple.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Of days ago.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
The President Trump apparently suggested that Zelensky consider transferring ownership
of Ukraine's power plants to the United States for long
term security. Zelensky said the discussion with Trump focused specifically
on the Zaparisia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine that
is currently occupied by the Russians, still connected to Ukraine's
(00:56):
energy grid, but is not producing electricity. It's under Russian
control since Russia went into Ukraine a few years ago.
It's still not clear what future involvement would look like
in terms of US, the United States, being in control
of that. A little bit more than an hour from now,
we expect to see an executive order a ceremony at
the White House where the President is going to sign
(01:19):
the executive order that calls for the dismantling of the
Education Department. The expected announcement would be met with what
will be an interesting fight going forward because Congress would
have to approve the dissolution of a cabinet level agency
like the Department of Education.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
And we'll see if that goes anywhere. What else is
going on? Time for what's happening?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I've seen it on the news all morning long, this
home Pacoima that blew up.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
At some point.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Search and rescue teams were there looking for a dog
that may have been in the house. The home they
say is partially destroyed. That looked more than partially destroyed.
It was pretty pretty district.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
That's a teardown.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
There was one entire wall that was blown out and
was leaning against the neighbor neighboring house. Just to give
me an idea, and the reason that we knew there
was a dog in there is the TV helicopters that
were flying over could see through the giant gaping hole
in the roof that there was in fact a dog.
There were four dogs that were found inside that single
(02:23):
family home.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
And they are all said to be okay.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Please in Arizona searching for three family members who were
last seen driving together after visiting the Grand Canyon. They
were in a rented white twenty twenty four BMW and
they had been traveling westbound on I four Interstate forty
about three thirty pm on the thirteenth, and then the
storm hit winter weather, causing a large multi vehicle accident there.
(02:50):
It involved twenty two vehicles, thirteen passenger vehicles. But we
don't know if this family's vehicle was involved in the accident.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
I do you not know?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
How do you not know?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
How is that not a license plate that's recorded by
the responding officers.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
The Coconino County Sheriff's offices, it knows that there was
a crash this, like you said, twenty two vehicles, thirteen
of them passenger cars, thirty six people involved, But does
the Sheriff's department does not know if the family's vehicle was.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Involved in the accident.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Bizarre unless they're saying it like they may have been
involved in the accident and then took off and left.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I guess that's the only way they could mean that.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
But wouldn't other ple a car or something like, Yeah,
there was a car.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
It was a late model BM do it.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Was snow, but in the snow, maybe they didn't see it.
You're in a wreck, you're not really looking around.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Police are looking for a couple of guys who used
an explosive device to rip open an ATM inside a
Target in West Hills last night. About eleven thirty last night,
two men broke into the Target store on Fallbrook Avenue.
When they when the cops showed up, they had already
left and they used some sort of they said, gas
device or explosive device or gas to make an explosive
(04:05):
device to break into an ATM. They took an undisclosed
amount of money. The front glass doors to the store
appeared to be severely damaged. Part of the store was
ransacked as well. Just early this morning, they called the
bomb squad into for a post blast investigations see if
they could narrow down exactly what they used.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Hospital employee is shot a coworker multiple times in Troy, Michigan.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
You can understand that right, well, the shooting of the coworker.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah, employee was struck twice in the arms.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Just nice little I was just going to say, I'd
just hit you in the leg because I want to
use my legs.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Walker.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Wow, I just aimed for the hairs part.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
The hairyest part of Okay, this is stupid. Speaking of which,
I thought this was a funny story.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
How is this? I don't this one.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I don't get how it's the news like there's gotta
be because you don't see mugshots like this. You did
not like the story of the hot guy mug shot?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
What do you mean I didn't like it? I thought
that you poo pooed it.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Trust me, there are for every hot girl mugshot story,
there's twenty five hot guy mugshots story true.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
So this is why it's unusual.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
It also blows me away that you can be arrested
for speeding. Yeah, I mean ticketed.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I granted, you know you're doing one hundred and thirty five.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I can understand being arrested for reckless driving.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
But twenty year old Lily Stewart is a sorority girl
from the University of Georgia. She was arrested in Morgan
County after being pulled over for speeding. She got a ticket,
but then said she accidentally started speeding again, and that
same officer pulled her over and arrested her.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
So she is going viral for her hot mugshot. Very pretty,
very pretty girl. Now, I think that if The New
York Times would ever feature a profile of a couple
getting married that one had been arrested, which it wouldn't,
but if it did, this would be the beginning of
the story, right whoever the cop is arrests her in
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the Hallmark movie. In my mind, they get together, they
have a couple kids, white picket fence, maybe some peach trees,
orange trees, whatever grows in Georgia.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I think it's both of those things.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Peanuts, maybe someone's a peanut farmer and Jimmy Carter descendant.
And then one day their son crashes through the white
picket fence in his Chevy pickup and they say, you know, son,
you shouldn't speed, and he says, well, ma and Pa,
(07:00):
if you didn't, if maudn't speed, and I wouldn't be
here something like that.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Listen, this is.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Very working on it, very new in the screenwriting, but
you know where it's headed.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
But you don't like her.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
You think she's ugly and she doesn't deserve the note right,
that's what I said.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Oh, I thought that's what you're going on.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
No, I said, I think it's silly and stupid, because
how does this become news? Like how does a I mean,
there's mugshots of pretty people.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I would all the time.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Sure, and I'm the thing is, she doesn't appear to
be She's not impaired at all. No, not impaired, not
concerned nothing.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Well, isn't there a school of thought that you should
smile in your mugshot.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I've never I've never had a mugshot taken, so I've
never been coached on how to take a mug shot.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
What would you do with your face?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I don't know. I've never thought of that. I would
do a lot of this.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Speaking of, well, speaking of I don't think that I
ever got to a story that I teased last week,
and I'm only remembering it because the time about mugshots. Remember,
I said there was an actor in Hollywood who's gotten
more votes to run for governor?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Oh earlier this week? Yes?
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Was that this week? Yeah? Who was mel Gibson? Ah
on the Republican ticket.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I have heard that it's a straw pole, but heavily
favored over any other Republican would be candidate for twenty
twenty six?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Can he run for governor? Why wouldn't he? Why couldn't
he because of the Jews? Is that? Wow? I mean
that part is just him saying thing.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
He has since to apologize for that whole yang like
he is. I think he even has gone on a
life transformation or something he may have.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Is that drugs or booze?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I think it was booze, well, at least the Sheriff's
department thing when he was like, hey, nice, nice honkers.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Oh I don't remember that part. I just remember the
part about the Jews. He's got some. He did a
honker thing. Did he touch him? No, he pointed them out.
He said nice.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Well, I'll tell you off there well than saying I
don't like those our small busin shop when we come back.
If you're going to bring him up, you might should
be a compliment them.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty on Thursdays.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
We'd like to welcome in some of our small business
entrepreneurs around southern California, and today it's Sonya viegis Kelson,
who is the founder and owner of Colony Wine Merchant
that you can find right down there on South Lemon
Street and downtown.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Oh my gosh, living the dream. I mean I think
that up there on the dream goals is to own
a wine bar like Wine and Cheese Place. Is it
as much fun as it sounds?
Speaker 8 (09:46):
I don't think I could do anything else. Quite frankly, yeah,
I mean it's not without its challenges. But I'm very
very blessed.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
How long have you been there?
Speaker 8 (09:53):
And we just turned ten years old in December. Oh
that's exciting, very exciting, that milestone.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
That is huge for staying power ten years in the industry.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Actually through the pandemic and all that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
How did you guys do deal with that? I mean
you obviously closed down like everybody else did.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
We did.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
We followed the rules, but we pivoted and I think
that we came up with a new business model every
single week. I mean we hustled. We hustled, did a
lot of retail. We immediately pivoted to online sales, which
we didn't have that presence before, and just got creative
with specials and people walking up and buying all kinds
of goodies.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
People drink a lot during that time, and.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
It's always fun to have a wine flight at a
wine store or even a wine bar, what have you,
because it introduces people to new things that they may
not even know they like, or different areas of wine.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
So you do do that as well.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
We actually have a different wine flight every single week,
and so the wines I brought for you to taste
this week or today are the wines that we're featuring
this week. And it's called Sonoma Standouts. So there's always
a different theme, always three wines, always three three ounce pores.
And this time I wanted to feature wines that stood
out to us when we went to Sonoma in January.
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We wanted to go and discover new tasting rooms and
meet new vintnors. And these were the absolute standouts. And
what I mean by standouts is when you go to
a winery and every single wine in the lineup is
fantastic and they overd deliver for the price. So we've
got beautiful pats and Hall Shardenay.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
So that's the first one that you bought for.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I see on this you've got a rose from Lone Madrone,
which is one of the places I love to go
to the central Central California is in my opinion, like
the place for wine tasting right now.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Oh it's one of my favorites. And it's so close.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, it's close, it's doable, it's chill, it's not wildly
overpriced the way Nap and Sonoma have gone in recent years,
and so it's really nice to see that them featured
on your wine list. I like, get the commitment to
California wine areas.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Oh, absolutely done here.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (12:06):
We always like to focus on small family owned vineyards
and wineries. You know, there's so many great wines all
over the world, but our focus is small family owned.
So you'll see a little bit of Bordeaux featured there.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Italy.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
It's like going to like four different wineries, but you
just have to go to your place. At Colony Wine Merchant,
you have to write, I mean, it's a one stop shop.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Now.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Tell me about the cheese situation.
Speaker 8 (12:33):
Okay, So, like our wines, our cheese selection is always
changing because we want our guests to discover something new
every single time they come. And what we have here
is a five cheese plate and I have Fromage Dapf
and Wa which is beautiful with the chardonnay. And sometimes
you like to pair things that are opposite, like spicy
food and sweet wine, and sometimes you want to go MATCHI, MATCHI.
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And so a creamy, dreamy degree is beautiful. Full was
a creamy, dreamy oky shardiney. So that's a great pairing.
And then I have drunken goat that is.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
A fantastic cheese.
Speaker 8 (13:07):
Yeah, and I've always loved this cheese.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
It's submerged in red wine for three days, and.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
That's I don't even like goat milk, but I like
that cheese.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Fantastic.
Speaker 8 (13:17):
Yeah, we have a beautiful cheddar, we have a truffle cheese.
We've got everything represented there.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I wish I could, Yes, I wish I could claim
this joke. But it's from my brother in law.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
When we went wine tasting and they had a giant
charcuterie plate like this, he said, who's the fat, drunk
person who gets to try all of the different pairings?
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Did you raise your.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I said, I'll try. I'll make those mistakes. I don't mind.
That's very pejorative, but it but it was mintstreek I
could reach there. Oh there you go, Sorry about that.
You tell me when whenever you want.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I've never been really good with like which wine to
pair with which cheese?
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Well, I never met a cheese it didn't like a
wine exactly.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I've never gone wrong.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
You can't go wrong, but for a perfect pairing. I
mean there, there's there's no such thing as a perfect pairing.
You you pair light like white wine with light food
like let's say chicken red wine with red meat. And
then the most important rule is there are no rules.
You drink whatever you want and you enjoy it with
whatever you do.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Is that the manchego right there, closest to me.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
I don't have manchego. That is the Chellar.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
It's delicious, that's a nice hard Yeah. How often does
the menu rotate weekly? Wow?
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Yeah, yeah, that's why it's paper because.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
And then a Sunday afternoon wine tasting is coming up
on the twenty seventh. Yes, forty wines, some boutique producers.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
Yes, that is our annual tasting. We do one in
the spring and one in the fall, and we have
vendors come and showcase their wines. It's along the same
lines as our menu, small family owned producers. We love
to show case sustainable producers, women owned you name it.
Actually with everything that we do, like the honey I
have here is local. Everything that we do is just
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very thoughtful in my opinion. But yes, on the twenty seventh,
we'll have over forty wines and it's a time that
people can experience tasting more wines than they normally would
and then we have them for sale at really great
prices that you wouldn't normally see out in the marketplace
that day.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Do you sorry, do you work with family or friends.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
Or yes, Well, I've actually been in the industry, the
wine industry for decades. I grew up in the restaurant
business and thought I never wanted to be in the
restaurant business, so of course wine. Never wanted to own
a restaurant, so of course a.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Wine bar, you know, right, I really got out of it.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
So I have the pleasure of working with a lot
of friends and family and the industry and we're actually
family owned and family run.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Okay, yeah, that's cool. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
And then the wine colony is the would you call
it a club? I don't know, I don't what people
call it, but the opportunity for you to curate for
other people. Oh yes, the kinds of wines that are available. Absolutely,
so tell us about the colony.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
Yeah, so our wine club, we have releases every other month.
Our next release is actually at the end of this month.
It's four wines. It's one hundred and twenty five dollars.
You also get perks like discounts on events and on
bottles of wine and anything retail. Actually, and I always
do something vibrant like a white or sparkling or rose,
and then three reds, something light like maybe a Peina
(16:28):
and noir or and a red blend, and then something
big like a Cabernet Savignan or a blend. That's a
great value. And I have a blast curating these.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Can imagine that.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I mean that sounds like an incredible, like she said,
dream job kind of territory. There's a lot of people
who have been backed into opening a wine stock.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I got this wine. I guess I should taste this.
This was this admire pina and water.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
Yeah, so this is Dan Costa's admire pin and noir. Again,
something that just really stood out to us when we
were in Sonoma. I would try it with the truffle cheese.
It's like Kevin Pino noir is typically at earthy, has
some mushroom character to characteristics to it, and so of
course truffle you can't go.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Right and then we will get to it. But what
is the third one they have?
Speaker 8 (17:13):
So Hamil Estate, this was an absolute standout. This is
a family that has invested so much in their farming
and production that I don't think that they'll see a
return on their investment in this lifetime. But I really
appreciate that because they're really farming and investing for future generations.
So everything that I represent I believe in. I believe
(17:36):
in their farming, I believe in their production. A lot
of the wines are unfine and filtered natural yeast remitation.
So I'm very proud of our lineup and it's just
a pleasure to introduce these wines to people that aren't familiar.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
And like you said, these three this featured wine flight
is all from Sonoma.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
It's so refreshing too when you were talking about that
the pino is doing things right, although you may not
get the returns right away.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
That's that's the wine industry.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah, And it's like it seems like the family run
vineyards are more interested in that much, you know, and
and maybe that's because that's the way everyone starts before
they sell out. I mean, not that everyone sells out,
but it does happen. But it's nice to catch the
family run vineyards when they are just that family.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Run, absolutely, and that's really what we stick with.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Sonya Viegas Kelson is the founder and owner of Colony
Wine Merchant. You can follow them on Instagram at Colony
Wine Merchant. The website is Colonywinemerchant dot com or check
them out right there in downtown Anaheim on South Lemon
Street in that Colony Historic district.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Sonya, nice, Thank you to drive it all the way
up here.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Thank you to do our strange science stories when we
come back.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
You guys wanted to be obvious, you guys, The eglitz
are big.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Uh yeah, I guess that's a thing.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Can you still hear me through all the cheese I
just put down you.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
You got a little bit of cheese? Or do I
have a little bit of cheese there?
Speaker 8 (19:07):
You know?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
The elits are so big now and there are wings?
Are the wingspans pretty big? They actually look like they
could go feed themselves.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
You did say they have wings now, but I had
to remind you they've always had wings.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Right, But they have wings that look like they could
be used as wings.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
They cannot be used as wings. They still don't have feathers.
The jacket you see them wearing is just like a sock.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
It's just down.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
But they have these the bone structure for wings. Yeah, yes,
so it's the feathers that do the flying.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Well, it's not the feathers that do the flying, but
it's the feathers that help them fly, for sure.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
But I certainly land like the flaps on a plane.
When we flaps down. Dog flaps down. Why now dad
is tweeding the babies up in the nest. Yeah, if
you were wondering, ain't feeding her wine or cheese too bad?
Feeding her?
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Nice dog?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Yeah? Okay, it's great.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I mean fresh right, who doesn't like fresh fish? Wait,
that's not a fish, that's a talent. That's another dead bird.
They're doing the cannibal thing. Oh wait, no, that's the
actual dad's talents.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
What are they eating? Hey, Tony, just a heads up,
This one's forcada here. I just wanted to say that
the bumper music today. It's insanely great. There you go.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Please huge shout out to Tony Sorentino for the music. Uh,
it's time for our stringe science segment.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
It's a lot. It's like weird science strange. Are you
putting away.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
Again?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
All right, so we've got somebody who can smell Parkinson's.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Let's'll start there. Okay, you want to finish chewing first,
I'll just swallow it and get it out of the way.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
There is a woman who has quite the nose. Her
name is Joy Milne and she says she has gone
through quite the life change when she ambushed in a
stem cell biologist to talk in Edinburgh, and she dumbfounded
(21:32):
him when she asked him why smell isn't used to
detect Parkinson's. She noticed a distinctive change to the odor
of her husband less about a decade before he was diagnosed.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I have been.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Highly sensitive two smell or smells aromas odors name it
only because well, we've talked about this many times before
about thank you for wearing deodorant most of the time.
Most of the time I've never smelled, you know.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
I shouldn't say most of the time.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
I've never smelled you in an offensive way. Sometimes you
wear lotions that are like, okay, let's pump the brakes,
but it's not offensive. It's like if you were to
slap a Hamburger patty under your armpits, that'd be different.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Raw Hamburger patty. I'm going down different.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
But I've been because I know, because I know what
my parents smelled like, and not in a negative way.
I just I know they're aroma, right, You know you
kind of have a For example, my dad had a
pickup truck from nineteen sixty five.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I've talked about it before.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
When you open that thing to this day, it smells
like him because he spent so much time in that
thing commuting back and forth to work. So there are
I'm very sensitive to that kind of the emotional connection
that exists between smells and your memories. This is weird
to me because she talks about that her husband's odor changed.
(23:13):
And I don't know if it's too personal, but do
you know what your husband smells.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Like like when he smells whatever, whatever, however you want
to interpret that, After he works out, after he takes
a shower in his dressed nice he gets grossed out
by well, yes, to answer your question without oversh perfect.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
It's a very strange thing because we know that dogs
can do this. Dogs have a much more advanced sense
of smell than humans do. So it's weird that Joy
had the ability, or that Joy had the recognition that
her husband's scent changed and that it may have had
(23:59):
something to do with his parkinson.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Well, when somebody is sick and has a sickness, no
matter what it is, the scent changes. It could be cancer,
it could be cirrhosis, it could be anything. It could
be a lot of things where the scent changes, and
you know, you may notice it on yourself. Your spouse
certainly notice it, and she did. She said, for one thing,
(24:22):
the t shirts, all of them were very ripe.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
It's such a strange thing. Now she has been because
of her story has been out there. She has been
inundated with people sending her things to sniff.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Really, so she's been able to sniff other illnesses.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
So she was working with a professor Perdita Bahan, a
chemist now at the University of Manchester, asked to help
with this pilot study to see if in fact she
could follow through with her claim of smelling Parkins have.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
A medical background, yes, okay, because if you have a
medical background sometimes you can with your knowledge look at
someone and tell you what's wrong with them.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Some time, well, yes, what afflicts them.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
But I and I've also because the body, the body
tells stories.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
There's two different versions of that.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
One of them is someone is so studied, someone is
so smart after everything that they've learned, that they can
do that. The other version of that could be that
person was gifted with that in before they were born,
or maybe it's a little bit of both drove them
into the medical field.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Like house.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
You know, he could just look exactly like a fictional character.
A lot of the doctors and the stories, they can
just look at you.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
In this case, Joy was asked to in this do
a pilot's study. She was asked to sniff and pronounce
on a set of T shirts that had been worn overnight,
either by someone who did have diagnosed Parkinson's or by
a control somebody who didn't. She aced the test. She
made one mistake by assigning a control group shirt to
(26:09):
the Parkinson's group, but wait nine months later, the wearer
of that shirt was then diagnosed with parkinson so she
pre diagnosed or pre identified the person who was eventually
diagnosed with Parkinson's.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Wow, very very strange. I'm gonna smell you right now.
Probably not a great idea. I smell you. Smelled me
from over there.
Speaker 7 (26:36):
I smelled cheese. Yes, I diagnosed cheddar with you like
cheddar disease. The stoned ape theory. Have you heard this before?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
No, Gary and Shannon will continue with the stoned ape theory.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Six forty people stopped asking us that was the problem.
Did they ever start? Also, probably a great point.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Now you're not high yet, but if you were, these
next two stories would probably tickle that high bone.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
You should have told me I would have brought in
my ganja.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Sorry, you would have smoked some my reefer your grass.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
There has been this story.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
And an American ethnobotanist, mystic, and psychotropic drug advocate has introduced.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
This is many years ago. This is not new.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Many years ago. He introduced the stoned ape theory. Terence
McKenna back in nineteen ninety three. Story was the book
was Food of the Gods and argued that regular psilocybin
mushroom use catalyzed the increase in brain size from Homo
erectus to Homo sapiens, and he said the low doses
(27:59):
of microdosing of these psilocybin mushrooms could probably sharpen your
vision for hunting. Larger doses might make it easier for
you to socially bond, might ramp up the old sex
drive a little bit, and the higher doses would trigger
(28:19):
those mystical states that would lead an otherwise dumb animal
and advanced ape, but still an ape two advanced thinking
like humans, the abstract thinking, the spiritual awareness that we have.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
I feel like I'm high already.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Now take that, just that little theory, right, that's again,
that's not a new thing. But I want you to
remember you have to be a little high to think
that feeling that apes were eating mushrooms and turned into humans.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Right, I must say it's not I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
I'm just saying, well, they kind that's exactly what happened.
Because if you think about it, go on, what else
were the apes eating? They were eating mushrooms among other things,
and then did they turn on to humans?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
So how were we to say? Who are we to
say they're not connected.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
There is a new observation from a research at Kansas
State University.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
His name is le Or Shamir.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
He has been looking at the James web Telescope for
Advanced Extraglastic sorry, James Web Space Telescope Advanced Deep Extragalactic
Survey and suggests that our universe has existed unscathed for
tens of billions of years because we are inside a
(29:48):
super super super massive black hole. His theory, Okay, still high,
aren't you very much? His theory is I think the cheese.
He took a closer look at two hundred and sixty
three galaxies that you can see with the James Webb's
Telescope Advanced Deep extra Galactic Survey and that they show
(30:09):
up clearly enough. He picked two hundred and sixty three
that show up clearly enough to show their rotation based
on their shape, and he found two thirds of those galaxies,
not half, two thirds of them rotate in a direction
that is opposite.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
The rotation of the Milky Way galaxy.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Well, duh, because they're in different galaxies. Did he find
mister bumber Puss.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
We haven't had mister bumber puss since last year do
you realize that's the first that's the first mention of
bumber Puss in twenty five.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
You are high.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
He said there should be approximately equal amounts of galaxies
rotating clockwise and counterclockwise. So the idea that two thirds
of them are rotating clockwise, camp rotating opposite of what
the Milky Way is operating rotating.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Then well, like in.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Space Wars, the ice planet it rotates a different direction,
and then and then the forest plant it rotates both ways.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
You are high again.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Well, it's not called forest planet. It's called forest plant
because the planet is a big plant.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Do you get it? Yeah? Mean high, I do get it.
I'm not being mean. I just don't understand why you're
not understanding this.
Speaker 9 (31:34):
Gary and Shannon. Gary, flaps down would be for takeoff
and flaps up would be for landing. Do you think
a season pilot like yourself would know that that's true?
Speaker 3 (31:45):
As He's right, it just appears that they're down, but
they're really up. No.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Yeah, like when you're on descent, they put those flaps up, and.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Well they don't. The flaps go like that.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
They extend off the front of the wing and they
extend off the back of the wing right.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Yeah, but slow what do they slow down? They slow rotors?
The rotors all speed? Please tell me you know what.
You don't even get slow down.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
The rotors in my seven thirty seven. Yeah, okay, you're
mean when you get high. John Cobot shows up next.
We'll see you tomorrow for a Friday show. Oh my god,
it's going to be all about mister bumber Puss. Can
we find the song?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
What?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
No? Right away?
Speaker 6 (32:27):
No?
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Yep, you don't want to sleep on it? Nope, stay dry.
Everybody listen. You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
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