April 17, 2025 • 21 mins
Mayor Bass's ratings are in, and they are what we thought they would be. We have Michael Monks Live at the courthouse for the Mendendez Hearing. This Thursday, we are doing Motivational Monday.
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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. Well, when you are the mayor
of Los Angeles, you have to kind of do a
cost benefit analysis when it comes to your schedule. Yeah,
you've got this super cool trip planned, but oh, here's
this forecast on your desk Monday morning that says fire
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danger is off the charts. It is going to be
next level this week. There are several problem areas in
your jurisdiction. What do you do? Do you roll the
dice and go on your trip and hope all will
be well. Well, that's exactly what Mayor Karen Bass did.
And now the reviews are in and they are not good,
as you can imagine, because not only did she not
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stay in a Los Angeles, she went on the trip,
and then she did not cut the trip short. If
I remember correctly, she.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Didn't cut it short enough.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
This was a George w at the class when he
got news about the towers. You know what I mean,
you got to show a sense of urgency. You got
to get up and you've got to move your ass.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Well, I mean, I don't want to. He didn't want
to scare the kids.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
That was that. They've said that, Well.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
He didn't have to announce to the kids.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Well that's the thing, which is why when they did
a news conference kind of impromptu, he was nowhere near them,
but he was still at that school. Now, in this case,
the survey of La County residents by UCLA School of
Public Affairs showed that her unfavorability ratings, Karen Bass's unfavorability
ratings shot up by seventeen percentage points compared with a
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year ago. Because remember, it's not just it's not just
the problem. It's one thing to be out of town
despite being told that they were severe danger. It's another
too when you get here not show the appropriate remorse
for what you did.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
And instead just play cover your ass per week.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
The thing is, we see, we all see that when
it happens, it's okay. It's human to make a mistake. Yes,
it's political to try to cover it up. Yes, and
there's a huge everybody can understand. I would assume everybody
can understand she made the wrong calculus. Now it's surprising
considering we said repeatedly not that she listens to us.
(02:17):
We said repeatedly during that week, this is weird. We've
never seen alerts like this from the National Weather Service.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
It was Monday and never said day right, it was Monday.
We got the forecast and we're like, we need to
stay on top of this is going to be huge.
And then Tuesday is when s hit the fan, right,
and we knew that it was good and she knew,
and you're right, like, what if she came back and
she's like, I screwed up. I screwed up. I'm ready
to get to work. Please forgive me. I screwed up.
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I was super excited about this trip. I went thinking
that things would be under control. They were not. I'm
sorry how I mean her ratings would have gone through
the roof if she had done that. I feel like
politicians don't understand the value of being human and how
much we love to see that. We don't want to
see perfection. We want to see ourselves and the people
that we elect. We want to see imperfections. That's the
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beauty of connection and that's what we all look for.
And she and Gavin Newsome and I can go down
the list of people who do not appear to have
a human bone in their body.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Well, I don't know how you get to that level
of politician, regardless of what party you are, just that job,
that world of politics, without having that human connection, without
having she.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Had to have it at some point she did. They
all do well, they don't. They're not born completely soulless.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Use Anthony Wiener as an example, and this may be
stretching it. I think we know who he is, right,
But I mean, had he come out and set you know,
when when it came out soon after we interviewed him,
that he'd been sending a d pics to this Sydney
Leathers or whatever her name was, and with his kid
in the picture.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Like I think by this time it was the college
student that he was selling.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I think that's who I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
But had he just come out and just said, you
know what, I'm an idiot.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I like my penis.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I was drinking, I was shooting my shot three thousand
miles away. I was just it was a stupid Instead,
he wanted to talk about, oh, my phone got hacked,
not me. I didn't do that. It's just it's that frustrating,
immediate knee jerk reaction of it's not me it was
somebody else's.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Do you think that story would have the legs that
it had had it come out now, Like when you
think he was one of the first people sent in
is junk. It was like Brett Favre and then Anthony Wiener,
And it was a big deal because it was kind
of new, Right, you didn't hear about people sending penis
pictures all the time. It wasn't like a Tuesday like
it is now.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, I think it depends on the proximity to people important.
I mean Anthony Wiener today definitely not it's just some
dirt bag living in the Bronx like whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
But because he was so.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Close through Huma Abidin, so close to Hillary Clinton, right,
It's like that was what made it just Yeah, even
if by the time we got to the convention in
twenty sixteen, even if by that time he'd kind of
been persona non grata, like not everybody is really hip
on this guy. Remember he was walking around that convention
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center in Philadelphia by himself.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Nobody wanted to talk to that guy. He was not
a likable being, which is.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Why when we interviewed him, he was such an a hole.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
He was awful, just boop, just an a hole awful.
It was so awful.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Now listen.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
That's not to say that Karen Bass has to go
down that path that Anthony Wiener did, but it's an
example of messing up. Is human doing something wrong. We've
all done it. It's how you handle it from that
point on, right, do you try to cover your butt?
Do you try to blame somebody else for your problems?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Honest?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Just be honest and listen.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
The little peepe match that she got into with the
chief of the fire department was another example of this.
They could have easily both said, hey, well she was
We both had we both had shortcomings.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
We need to continue to work together.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
We're going to do it on behalf of the people
that we let down, right or or I would.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Man, I would have loved to sit in on those meetings.
That would have been fun between the mayor and the
first Yeah, no love loss there. I bet you've been
frust We are on top of what's going down in
Tallahassee again. Details are scanned coming in slowly active shooter
at FSU Florida State University.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
There.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
The reports from local people on the scene are that
four hospitalized people. As we reported. Initially four people have
been taken to the hospital. There is a shelter in
place order. As you can imagine, the campus is blocked off.
There is quite the police presence there at FSU. We
have heard reports on Twitter from people that have been
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sheltering in place in various buildings on campus. So we
will stay on top of that. But when we come
back the latest on the Menendez brother's quest for freedom.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
The Menendez brothers premeditatedly shot and killed their parents back
in nineteen eighty nine. They were given the Netflix Ryan
Murphy treatment, which spawned a new popularity for the Menendez brothers.
A lot of people focused on the narrative that were
they molested by the father and that's why they they
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shot and killed both the father and the mother, and
they should be free. In what's going on in George Gascone,
hanging by a thread at the DA's office, decided to
use this as a hail Mary pass to keep his seat.
He was un sixsful, but the legal ball got rolling
and a judge decided that possibly these two could be resentenced.
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Looks like that was the way things were headed. PS
Gavin Newsom wanted in on the circus and decided to
ask the State Parole Board, Hey, take a look at
these two and get together a report about risk assessment. Well,
that report came back. The Day's office happens to have
that report. Mark Garrigis wants this resentencing hearing to go on,
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which it is as we speak. But the DA's office says,
let's pump the brakes till the judge sees this report,
which leads me to believe there's something in this parole
report that is not good for the Menendez brothers.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
We shall see.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Michael Monks has been out there all morning and has
been covering all of this. Michael, what's going on? Hey,
good morning.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
That was the big news this morning that I don't
think any of us expected to hear. When DA Nathan
Hoffman came over to talk to the media before he
went into the courthouse here in Van Nye, he says, look,
my office has received that risk assessment report from the
State Parole Board. We didn't ask for it. We haven't
been working with the Parole Board at all. It showed
up a couple days ago. That's why we asked the
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courthouse today the judge to say, why don't we take
a little break, take a review of this, and then
decide how to proceed. Mark garre Goes, the defense attorney
does not expect that to happen. He says, he expects
this resentencing hearing to go forward today. It could be
all day today. It could go into tomorrow as well,
and even after tomorrow. If it goes that far, we
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might not know what the judge has to say. You
can make a ruling on the bench. You can decide
to take his time and issue a ruling and writing.
So we're in a waiting mode right now to see
what type of timeframe we're looking at and what role
this risk assessment might play in.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
The whole thing.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Michael, because we're jammed for time, can you hang on.
We'll come back when you have another segment with you.
It would be my pleasure. Excellent, Michael monks again, they're
live in Van Eys later right on the Menendez Michael
Brother's hearing that's going on. He's motivational in a very
calming way.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
It's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
It's nice to have a friend who's just solid solid.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I keep not slow rolling, the opposite of slow rolling,
making Michael Monks be my best friend, pushing a little
I'm pushing a little bit too hard.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
He did say something about that.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Michael Monks is covering this Menendez hearing for us, and
where we last left off, we were talking about how
this hearing is continuing despite the DA's office request yesterday
to delay it because they got their hands on a
report from the Parole Board that took a look at
what the Menandez brothers have been up to and was
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going to assess the risk of these guys being let out.
This was all at the request of the governor. But
the hearing continues, Michael exactly, and.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
The judge in this case might take a look at
that risk assessment report and decide, yeah, we maybe do
need pump the brakes a little bit and revisit this
another day. That was what La County District Attorney Nathan
Hawkman said as he talked to the media before he
went into the courthouse. He even said, look, we got
this two days ago. We didn't even ask for it.
We're not collaborating or colluding with the Parole Board. It
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just was delivered to us. We've taken a look. We
thought the judge might like to see it. He didn't
tell us what's in it. He didn't give us any
hint of what it says. So whether it reflects well
on the Menindez brothers or reflects poorly upon them, we
don't know yet. But for whatever reason, he thinks it's
worth taking some time so that the judge can take
a look at this review and then decide how to
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move forward. We have to keep in mind and remind
the audience that there are multiple paths to freedom for
the Menindez brothers. This resentencing hearing is one of them.
That risk assessment comes from the other one, which is
the state system, the clemency system, which could be granted
by Governor Newsom. He's the one who asked for this
risk assessment from the Parole Board and now does apparently out.
There was a bit of a surprise to learn that
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this morning.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Who do we expect to hear from in terms of testify,
assuming that the hearing goes forward?
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Not clear on that either. Neither party delivered any and
they didn't show their hand. Basically, Mark gere Goes, the
defense attorney for the Menindez brothers. He was asked outright
whether the Menindez brothers would testify.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
He didn't say.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Nathan Hakman did not want to predict whether the brothers
would testify. They are appearing in court again via video
from the prison closer to San Diego, so we're not sure.
And one thing that we do know that won't be
in the courtroom this time are any gruesome images from
the crime scene. LA County District Attorney Nathan Hawkman his
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team showed some pretty graphic images from the crime scene
last week when they were first trying to withdraw their
motion for this resentencing hearing. That was made by George
Gascon and that really upset the family.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
There was no warning, not.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Like it was breaking news. These pictures have been publicized
for thirty five years.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
That's kind of how Hawkman qualified his apology. He did say,
he apologized me. He's like, look, we've been describing the
crime scene for a long time. And also the crime
scene was pretty well documented in some of those the
shows that drew a lot of new or renewed interest
in this case.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
But he's did say, if we do.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Move in the direction of showing those At any point again,
we will issue a warning so that folks could leave.
Of course, some family members of the Nindezes who are
in support of their release say one of their older
family members had to go to the hospital after which
she was so traumatized by it.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Well, they should good, because that's why those boys, that's
why those men are locked up, because of that crime scene,
because of what they did.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
That's what Nathan Hochman said again today. You know, Mark Garrigos, the.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Defense attorney, says that Nathan Hockman in his office, they're
not giving enough credit to the rehabilitation of the Minnetz brothers.
They've been model prisoners, they've grown and they deserve a
chance at freedom. But Hawkman says, look, the facts haven't
changed from the nineties. This was premeditated. It was Bruce,
and they lied about it. They tried to make it
look like a mafia hit. And then they had other
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evolving stories since then, and even now as they inch
close to freedom, they have yet to take full responsibility
or offer an apology or any remorse that is sufficient
to a level that Nathan Hawkman could agree.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
With that would ruin the book tour, Michael, that would
ruin the appearance tour that they're going to do and
earn all that money that was snatched away from them
all those years ago by their evil parents. This way
they could get out and maintain their innocence and rack
up all the money in all those appearances, and they'll
be superstars and they'll be on TikTok. It'll be great.
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Think of all the money and the cars and the
rolexes they can buy. It's the same moo that it
was in nineteen eighty nine. They're looking out for number one. Otherwise,
if they really wanted to get out and just own
up to it and be on your way.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
It's as if you're speaking through Nathan Hoffman himself. Those
are the that's the exact same sentiment, exactly that.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Chance says she wants.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Have you ever thought about Navian Hawkman speaking through me?
Have you ever thought about that? Michael?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I will now unfortunately now just kidding, Michael, just to
quick aside, do you think she's pushing too hard to
be your friend? I'm open to friendship, but I.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
That I'm just not fun, Like I'm not that guy.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
I'm not fun.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I'm not fun either. Yes, so we could go.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I've invited you.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
I've said, let's get let's try this in about six
months when the Down Abbey movie comes out. That way,
I have enough time to mentally prepare, you have enough
time to reconsider and UH.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
And you know on the connecter come up between now
and then. Perfect. All right, Michael, thank you. If anything happens,
you let us know. I sure will thank Michael. Monks
there out at the Vani's courthouse again covering the story
of the UH, the hearing, the latest hearing for Menanda's brothers.
Promise this, We'll do this when we come back. The
motivation Monday on a Thursday. It's a good one. It's pertinent,
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it's topical. It's somebody that we've talked about many, many
times in the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Forty Florida State University. We do now know that the
suspect has been taken into police custody. Multiple victims reported
in this shooting there at FSU.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
The Governor of Florida, Ronde Santis, the President President Trump
both have been briefed on this. There are some reports
that there have been fatalities. Action News of Fox affiliate
out of Jacksonville is reporting that there are five fatalities
in this I'm not quite sure if that number has
been corroborated by others. Another TV station, WCTV has suggested
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that there were six put in the hospital, but no
known conditions on those, but that they do have one
person in custody, and of course we have to go
with the Always it seems like there's always a point
where someone says, but.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
There may be others.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah, very rarely is that the case, but it is
something that they are looking on.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Ryan Cedar Grin is a twenty one year old communication student.
He says he and about thirty others hid in a
bowling alley in the lower level of the student union
after seeing students run from a nearby bar. He said,
in that moment, it was survival. About fifteen minutes of hiding,
university police escorting the students out of the union. This
guy says, you saw somebody getting emergency treatment on the lawn.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
One of the other stations does say that the lockdown continues.
According to Florida State, they're asking for everybody who is
still on campus to remain in their shelter in place
mode at this point. Although the images that we've seen
it doesn't look very tense. I mean, whatever has happened
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appears to have happened. I haven't even seen images of officers.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Going room to room to try to sweep for anybody.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
So I don't know if that belief is that there
is somebody else or if they're just doing that out
of an abundance of caution. Of course, all Florida State
in for events, athletics, everything, they've been canceled for the day,
and they're telling you if you're not on that Florida
State campus already, to not go there for the rest
of the day. Again, we know that the governor and
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that the President have both been briefed on whatever's going
on at Florida State, and if we do get information,
then we will bring it to you as well.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
All right, Well, we've skipped on motivational Monday this past Monday,
so let's just get right to it on this Thursday.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
So this was actually a late addition to the potential
motivational moments, and it comes from not from the show
Love on the Spectrum, but from one of the part
anticipants in the show Love on the Spectrum. Tanner is
a guy who lives in I believe he's in South Carolina,
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and he's always got a smile on his face.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
He's always happy.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
We talked about him yesterday in that his mom had
said she was upset that one of the dates that
he had on this show didn't turn out to be
what he thought it was going to be, and she
was uncomfortable because he wants somebody who's outgoing, and they
matched him up with somebody who was really quiet and reserved.
But this is a guy, so he delivers a cameo
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to someone and cameo. As you go on the website
and you celebrity of some kind, you have them record
a message a happy birthday, or you had one from
William hung from American Idol talking about space wars, and
you pay however however much it is, and they'll record
something for you. My wife was watching this today all
right last night, and I had her send it to
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me today and this is again from cameo Tanner delivering
a message to someone I think her name is jam
and from somebody named Gary.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Garrett told me that you need some daily motivation well here,
I have to give it to you. This is your
reminder that you're brilliant and beautiful, indulgent and indeligent and capable,
and you have really good energy. You're a bright light
to be around, and you are amazing friends and white,
and you smoke it. You look good, and you're soft
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and your fears and you're capable of doing hard things
through cushing it every day, and you're blessed and your
love of a great laugh and a great spoul.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
That's wonderful. Will you send me that so I can
listen to it every morning where I get out of bed.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Maybe you should listen to it as you're driving out
of the parking lot at so Far Stadium.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I don't know if that would have the right effect.
All right, we've got tons to get to and swamp watch.
We're on top of what's going on in Florida, and
we've got eyes and ears in the courtroom for the
Menanda's brothers hearing and keep it right here.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
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Speaker 3 (21:04):
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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. Well, when you are the mayor
of Los Angeles, you have to kind of do a
cost benefit analysis when it comes to your schedule. Yeah,
you've got this super cool trip planned, but oh, here's
this forecast on your desk Monday morning that says fire
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danger is off the charts. It is going to be
next level this week. There are several problem areas in
your jurisdiction. What do you do? Do you roll the
dice and go on your trip and hope all will
be well. Well, that's exactly what Mayor Karen Bass did.
And now the reviews are in and they are not good,
as you can imagine, because not only did she not
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stay in a Los Angeles, she went on the trip,
and then she did not cut the trip short. If
I remember correctly, she.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Didn't cut it short enough.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
This was a George w at the class when he
got news about the towers. You know what I mean,
you got to show a sense of urgency. You got
to get up and you've got to move your ass.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Well, I mean, I don't want to. He didn't want
to scare the kids.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
That was that. They've said that, Well.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
He didn't have to announce to the kids.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Well that's the thing, which is why when they did
a news conference kind of impromptu, he was nowhere near them,
but he was still at that school. Now, in this case,
the survey of La County residents by UCLA School of
Public Affairs showed that her unfavorability ratings, Karen Bass's unfavorability
ratings shot up by seventeen percentage points compared with a
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year ago. Because remember, it's not just it's not just
the problem. It's one thing to be out of town
despite being told that they were severe danger. It's another
too when you get here not show the appropriate remorse
for what you did.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
And instead just play cover your ass per week.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
The thing is, we see, we all see that when
it happens, it's okay. It's human to make a mistake. Yes,
it's political to try to cover it up. Yes, and
there's a huge everybody can understand. I would assume everybody
can understand she made the wrong calculus. Now it's surprising
considering we said repeatedly not that she listens to us.
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We said repeatedly during that week, this is weird. We've
never seen alerts like this from the National Weather Service.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
It was Monday and never said day right, it was Monday.
We got the forecast and we're like, we need to
stay on top of this is going to be huge.
And then Tuesday is when s hit the fan, right,
and we knew that it was good and she knew,
and you're right, like, what if she came back and
she's like, I screwed up. I screwed up. I'm ready
to get to work. Please forgive me. I screwed up.
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I was super excited about this trip. I went thinking
that things would be under control. They were not. I'm
sorry how I mean her ratings would have gone through
the roof if she had done that. I feel like
politicians don't understand the value of being human and how
much we love to see that. We don't want to
see perfection. We want to see ourselves and the people
that we elect. We want to see imperfections. That's the
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beauty of connection and that's what we all look for.
And she and Gavin Newsome and I can go down
the list of people who do not appear to have
a human bone in their body.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Well, I don't know how you get to that level
of politician, regardless of what party you are, just that job,
that world of politics, without having that human connection, without
having she.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Had to have it at some point she did. They
all do well, they don't. They're not born completely soulless.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Use Anthony Wiener as an example, and this may be
stretching it. I think we know who he is, right,
But I mean, had he come out and set you know,
when when it came out soon after we interviewed him,
that he'd been sending a d pics to this Sydney
Leathers or whatever her name was, and with his kid
in the picture.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Like I think by this time it was the college
student that he was selling.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I think that's who I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
But had he just come out and just said, you
know what, I'm an idiot.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I like my penis.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I was drinking, I was shooting my shot three thousand
miles away. I was just it was a stupid Instead,
he wanted to talk about, oh, my phone got hacked,
not me. I didn't do that. It's just it's that frustrating,
immediate knee jerk reaction of it's not me it was
somebody else's.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Do you think that story would have the legs that
it had had it come out now, Like when you
think he was one of the first people sent in
is junk. It was like Brett Favre and then Anthony Wiener,
And it was a big deal because it was kind
of new, Right, you didn't hear about people sending penis
pictures all the time. It wasn't like a Tuesday like
it is now.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, I think it depends on the proximity to people important.
I mean Anthony Wiener today definitely not it's just some
dirt bag living in the Bronx like whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
But because he was so.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Close through Huma Abidin, so close to Hillary Clinton, right,
It's like that was what made it just Yeah, even
if by the time we got to the convention in
twenty sixteen, even if by that time he'd kind of
been persona non grata, like not everybody is really hip
on this guy. Remember he was walking around that convention
(05:28):
center in Philadelphia by himself.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Nobody wanted to talk to that guy. He was not
a likable being, which is.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Why when we interviewed him, he was such an a hole.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
He was awful, just boop, just an a hole awful.
It was so awful.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Now listen.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
That's not to say that Karen Bass has to go
down that path that Anthony Wiener did, but it's an
example of messing up. Is human doing something wrong. We've
all done it. It's how you handle it from that
point on, right, do you try to cover your butt?
Do you try to blame somebody else for your problems?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Honest?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Just be honest and listen.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
The little peepe match that she got into with the
chief of the fire department was another example of this.
They could have easily both said, hey, well she was
We both had we both had shortcomings.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
We need to continue to work together.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
We're going to do it on behalf of the people
that we let down, right or or I would.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Man, I would have loved to sit in on those meetings.
That would have been fun between the mayor and the
first Yeah, no love loss there. I bet you've been
frust We are on top of what's going down in
Tallahassee again. Details are scanned coming in slowly active shooter
at FSU Florida State University.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
There.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
The reports from local people on the scene are that
four hospitalized people. As we reported. Initially four people have
been taken to the hospital. There is a shelter in
place order. As you can imagine, the campus is blocked off.
There is quite the police presence there at FSU. We
have heard reports on Twitter from people that have been
(07:10):
sheltering in place in various buildings on campus. So we
will stay on top of that. But when we come
back the latest on the Menendez brother's quest for freedom.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
The Menendez brothers premeditatedly shot and killed their parents back
in nineteen eighty nine. They were given the Netflix Ryan
Murphy treatment, which spawned a new popularity for the Menendez brothers.
A lot of people focused on the narrative that were
they molested by the father and that's why they they
(07:47):
shot and killed both the father and the mother, and
they should be free. In what's going on in George Gascone,
hanging by a thread at the DA's office, decided to
use this as a hail Mary pass to keep his seat.
He was un sixsful, but the legal ball got rolling
and a judge decided that possibly these two could be resentenced.
(08:09):
Looks like that was the way things were headed. PS
Gavin Newsom wanted in on the circus and decided to
ask the State Parole Board, Hey, take a look at
these two and get together a report about risk assessment. Well,
that report came back. The Day's office happens to have
that report. Mark Garrigis wants this resentencing hearing to go on,
(08:31):
which it is as we speak. But the DA's office says,
let's pump the brakes till the judge sees this report,
which leads me to believe there's something in this parole
report that is not good for the Menendez brothers.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
We shall see.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Michael Monks has been out there all morning and has
been covering all of this. Michael, what's going on? Hey,
good morning.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
That was the big news this morning that I don't
think any of us expected to hear. When DA Nathan
Hoffman came over to talk to the media before he
went into the courthouse here in Van Nye, he says, look,
my office has received that risk assessment report from the
State Parole Board. We didn't ask for it. We haven't
been working with the Parole Board at all. It showed
up a couple days ago. That's why we asked the
(09:11):
courthouse today the judge to say, why don't we take
a little break, take a review of this, and then
decide how to proceed. Mark garre Goes, the defense attorney
does not expect that to happen. He says, he expects
this resentencing hearing to go forward today. It could be
all day today. It could go into tomorrow as well,
and even after tomorrow. If it goes that far, we
(09:31):
might not know what the judge has to say. You
can make a ruling on the bench. You can decide
to take his time and issue a ruling and writing.
So we're in a waiting mode right now to see
what type of timeframe we're looking at and what role
this risk assessment might play in.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
The whole thing.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Michael, because we're jammed for time, can you hang on.
We'll come back when you have another segment with you.
It would be my pleasure. Excellent, Michael monks again, they're
live in Van Eys later right on the Menendez Michael
Brother's hearing that's going on. He's motivational in a very
calming way.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
It's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
It's nice to have a friend who's just solid solid.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I keep not slow rolling, the opposite of slow rolling,
making Michael Monks be my best friend, pushing a little
I'm pushing a little bit too hard.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
He did say something about that.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Michael Monks is covering this Menendez hearing for us, and
where we last left off, we were talking about how
this hearing is continuing despite the DA's office request yesterday
to delay it because they got their hands on a
report from the Parole Board that took a look at
what the Menandez brothers have been up to and was
(10:44):
going to assess the risk of these guys being let out.
This was all at the request of the governor. But
the hearing continues, Michael exactly, and.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
The judge in this case might take a look at
that risk assessment report and decide, yeah, we maybe do
need pump the brakes a little bit and revisit this
another day. That was what La County District Attorney Nathan
Hawkman said as he talked to the media before he
went into the courthouse. He even said, look, we got
this two days ago. We didn't even ask for it.
We're not collaborating or colluding with the Parole Board. It
(11:14):
just was delivered to us. We've taken a look. We
thought the judge might like to see it. He didn't
tell us what's in it. He didn't give us any
hint of what it says. So whether it reflects well
on the Menindez brothers or reflects poorly upon them, we
don't know yet. But for whatever reason, he thinks it's
worth taking some time so that the judge can take
a look at this review and then decide how to
(11:35):
move forward. We have to keep in mind and remind
the audience that there are multiple paths to freedom for
the Menindez brothers. This resentencing hearing is one of them.
That risk assessment comes from the other one, which is
the state system, the clemency system, which could be granted
by Governor Newsom. He's the one who asked for this
risk assessment from the Parole Board and now does apparently out.
There was a bit of a surprise to learn that
(11:56):
this morning.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Who do we expect to hear from in terms of testify,
assuming that the hearing goes forward?
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Not clear on that either. Neither party delivered any and
they didn't show their hand. Basically, Mark gere Goes, the
defense attorney for the Menindez brothers. He was asked outright
whether the Menindez brothers would testify.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
He didn't say.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Nathan Hakman did not want to predict whether the brothers
would testify. They are appearing in court again via video
from the prison closer to San Diego, so we're not sure.
And one thing that we do know that won't be
in the courtroom this time are any gruesome images from
the crime scene. LA County District Attorney Nathan Hawkman his
(12:36):
team showed some pretty graphic images from the crime scene
last week when they were first trying to withdraw their
motion for this resentencing hearing. That was made by George
Gascon and that really upset the family.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
There was no warning, not.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Like it was breaking news. These pictures have been publicized
for thirty five years.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
That's kind of how Hawkman qualified his apology. He did say,
he apologized me. He's like, look, we've been describing the
crime scene for a long time. And also the crime
scene was pretty well documented in some of those the
shows that drew a lot of new or renewed interest
in this case.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
But he's did say, if we do.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Move in the direction of showing those At any point again,
we will issue a warning so that folks could leave.
Of course, some family members of the Nindezes who are
in support of their release say one of their older
family members had to go to the hospital after which
she was so traumatized by it.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Well, they should good, because that's why those boys, that's
why those men are locked up, because of that crime scene,
because of what they did.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
That's what Nathan Hochman said again today. You know, Mark Garrigos, the.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Defense attorney, says that Nathan Hockman in his office, they're
not giving enough credit to the rehabilitation of the Minnetz brothers.
They've been model prisoners, they've grown and they deserve a
chance at freedom. But Hawkman says, look, the facts haven't
changed from the nineties. This was premeditated. It was Bruce,
and they lied about it. They tried to make it
look like a mafia hit. And then they had other
(14:04):
evolving stories since then, and even now as they inch
close to freedom, they have yet to take full responsibility
or offer an apology or any remorse that is sufficient
to a level that Nathan Hawkman could agree.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
With that would ruin the book tour, Michael, that would
ruin the appearance tour that they're going to do and
earn all that money that was snatched away from them
all those years ago by their evil parents. This way
they could get out and maintain their innocence and rack
up all the money in all those appearances, and they'll
be superstars and they'll be on TikTok. It'll be great.
(14:38):
Think of all the money and the cars and the
rolexes they can buy. It's the same moo that it
was in nineteen eighty nine. They're looking out for number one. Otherwise,
if they really wanted to get out and just own
up to it and be on your way.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
It's as if you're speaking through Nathan Hoffman himself. Those
are the that's the exact same sentiment, exactly that.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Chance says she wants.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Have you ever thought about Navian Hawkman speaking through me?
Have you ever thought about that? Michael?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I will now unfortunately now just kidding, Michael, just to
quick aside, do you think she's pushing too hard to
be your friend? I'm open to friendship, but I.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
That I'm just not fun, Like I'm not that guy.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
I'm not fun.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I'm not fun either. Yes, so we could go.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I've invited you.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
I've said, let's get let's try this in about six
months when the Down Abbey movie comes out. That way,
I have enough time to mentally prepare, you have enough
time to reconsider and UH.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
And you know on the connecter come up between now
and then. Perfect. All right, Michael, thank you. If anything happens,
you let us know. I sure will thank Michael. Monks
there out at the Vani's courthouse again covering the story
of the UH, the hearing, the latest hearing for Menanda's brothers.
Promise this, We'll do this when we come back. The
motivation Monday on a Thursday. It's a good one. It's pertinent,
(16:03):
it's topical. It's somebody that we've talked about many, many
times in the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Forty Florida State University. We do now know that the
suspect has been taken into police custody. Multiple victims reported
in this shooting there at FSU.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
The Governor of Florida, Ronde Santis, the President President Trump
both have been briefed on this. There are some reports
that there have been fatalities. Action News of Fox affiliate
out of Jacksonville is reporting that there are five fatalities
in this I'm not quite sure if that number has
been corroborated by others. Another TV station, WCTV has suggested
(16:50):
that there were six put in the hospital, but no
known conditions on those, but that they do have one
person in custody, and of course we have to go
with the Always it seems like there's always a point
where someone says, but.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
There may be others.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah, very rarely is that the case, but it is
something that they are looking on.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Ryan Cedar Grin is a twenty one year old communication student.
He says he and about thirty others hid in a
bowling alley in the lower level of the student union
after seeing students run from a nearby bar. He said,
in that moment, it was survival. About fifteen minutes of hiding,
university police escorting the students out of the union. This
guy says, you saw somebody getting emergency treatment on the lawn.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
One of the other stations does say that the lockdown continues.
According to Florida State, they're asking for everybody who is
still on campus to remain in their shelter in place
mode at this point. Although the images that we've seen
it doesn't look very tense. I mean, whatever has happened
(17:58):
appears to have happened. I haven't even seen images of officers.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Going room to room to try to sweep for anybody.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
So I don't know if that belief is that there
is somebody else or if they're just doing that out
of an abundance of caution. Of course, all Florida State
in for events, athletics, everything, they've been canceled for the day,
and they're telling you if you're not on that Florida
State campus already, to not go there for the rest
of the day. Again, we know that the governor and
(18:25):
that the President have both been briefed on whatever's going
on at Florida State, and if we do get information,
then we will bring it to you as well.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
All right, Well, we've skipped on motivational Monday this past Monday,
so let's just get right to it on this Thursday.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
So this was actually a late addition to the potential
motivational moments, and it comes from not from the show
Love on the Spectrum, but from one of the part
anticipants in the show Love on the Spectrum. Tanner is
a guy who lives in I believe he's in South Carolina,
(19:07):
and he's always got a smile on his face.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
He's always happy.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
We talked about him yesterday in that his mom had
said she was upset that one of the dates that
he had on this show didn't turn out to be
what he thought it was going to be, and she
was uncomfortable because he wants somebody who's outgoing, and they
matched him up with somebody who was really quiet and reserved.
But this is a guy, so he delivers a cameo
(19:33):
to someone and cameo. As you go on the website
and you celebrity of some kind, you have them record
a message a happy birthday, or you had one from
William hung from American Idol talking about space wars, and
you pay however however much it is, and they'll record
something for you. My wife was watching this today all
right last night, and I had her send it to
(19:54):
me today and this is again from cameo Tanner delivering
a message to someone I think her name is jam
and from somebody named Gary.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Garrett told me that you need some daily motivation well here,
I have to give it to you. This is your
reminder that you're brilliant and beautiful, indulgent and indeligent and capable,
and you have really good energy. You're a bright light
to be around, and you are amazing friends and white,
and you smoke it. You look good, and you're soft
(20:24):
and your fears and you're capable of doing hard things
through cushing it every day, and you're blessed and your
love of a great laugh and a great spoul.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
That's wonderful. Will you send me that so I can
listen to it every morning where I get out of bed.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Maybe you should listen to it as you're driving out
of the parking lot at so Far Stadium.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I don't know if that would have the right effect.
All right, we've got tons to get to and swamp watch.
We're on top of what's going on in Florida, and
we've got eyes and ears in the courtroom for the
Menanda's brothers hearing and keep it right here.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
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