1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:04,320 Speaker 1: On air at am five seventy LA Sports and I'm 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 1: demand on the iHeartRadio app. This is the Petros and 3 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: Money Show. You are one of the kind, hosted by 4 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: Petros Papaday guests left school after sixth grade. Look at 5 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:17,760 Speaker 1: him and the voice of the Bolts, Matt money Smith. 6 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 1: The answer is money. There is nothing you can do. 7 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 1: You know it's coming. This is the Petros and Money Show. 8 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 2: On the home of your world champion, Los Angeles Dodgers. 9 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 1: Make us your top preset on the iHeartRadio app. 10 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 3: Permanently stationed on the outskirts of Regret. Going with you, 11 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 3: Spetos Money. 12 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 4: Hey, five seventy LA Sports Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 13 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 4: If you're in the Greater LA area, you will get 14 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 4: Dodger Baseball on the iHeartRadio app from the gallpin Ford 15 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 4: Broadcast booth. There is a five twenty first pitch, which 16 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 4: is why this is our second hour. We were on 17 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 4: at two off at four for Dodgers on deck. 18 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 3: On the iHeartRadio app. It's all there in the podcast 19 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 3: or streamlve. 20 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 5: We have a. 21 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:11,400 Speaker 3: Local story of interest, very local. In the very next segment. 22 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 3: That story will also be a flick of the finger 23 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 3: towards Tim Conway Junior, who sees himself as the king 24 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 3: of the La River or the river master of sorts, 25 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:27,960 Speaker 3: as if he stands on on logs and rolls logs 26 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 3: down the river. 27 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 4: Like hes a nice raft, like you have a long 28 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 4: stick to push yourself through. 29 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 3: I like that idea. Yeah, and that he doesn't. Okay, 30 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:37,360 Speaker 3: he wears short sleeve button downs. 31 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:40,560 Speaker 4: That's what he does, as opposed to what would he 32 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 4: wear if he were manning a raft with his. 33 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 3: Staff, Probably like more of a Dion Sanders style Carhart overalls, okay, 34 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:51,559 Speaker 3: or board shorts. You know the way you surf it, Matt. 35 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 3: Everybody serves differently. Get our show on demand, Like we said, 36 00:01:56,360 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 3: Clipper Spurs, Dodgers, Guardians, David Vasse will be within the 37 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 3: Marongo Casino. We thought we'd give him a day off today, 38 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 3: but he'll be within the Marongo Casino. Dodgers day you 39 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 3: have with Tim Cats coming up at four o'clock. Dodgers 40 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 3: are doing just fine. Everybody. Don't worry about those hitters. 41 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 3: They'll be fine. It's time of the word of the day. 42 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 5: His words the word of the day, Matt. 43 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 3: This is pretty random, but when I saw it, I 44 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 3: thought immediately of you. I thought, Wow, this is a 45 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:37,960 Speaker 3: guy that if we didn't have Sweet James Berginer, that 46 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 3: Matt and I could go to for legal advice. Even 47 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 3: though he's probably not licensed in this state, I would 48 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 3: try to hire this man. This man's name is Beauregard Mercer. Yeah, exactly. 49 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 3: He's a lawyer and this week he joined Instagram and 50 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 3: this was his first Instagram message in front of a courthouse, 51 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:06,079 Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, A great attorney that we would hire 52 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 3: if we didn't have Sweet James already. Beauregard Mercer. 53 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 6: Friends, let me take a moment to introduce myself. My 54 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:19,920 Speaker 6: name is Beauregard Mercer, the fourth Esquire, and I'd like 55 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 6: to welcome you to my inaugural post on Instagram. That's right, 56 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 6: I'm an Esquire, A fancy name for a lawyer. Now 57 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 6: imagine many of you have heard of traveling nurses. Well, 58 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 6: I'm a traveling lawyer. Something I will tell you all 59 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 6: about as we go along. Today I'm standing in front 60 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 6: of the palatial Barrow County Courthouse and historic Wanda, Georgia, 61 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 6: the place where I just slaid the last fool lawyer 62 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 6: who attempted to challenge my legal skills and acumen. Now 63 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 6: just a little more about me. 64 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 3: Not only am I a lawyer, I'm. 65 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 6: Also an entrepreneur, a raconteur, all mixed in with a 66 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 6: healthy nose of bull manure. As I traveled the back 67 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 6: roads of Northeast Georgia, I will be interacting with people 68 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 6: and defending the rights of ordinary citizens, something I have 69 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 6: proudly done my entire legal career. So these are my stories, 70 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,599 Speaker 6: and I appreciate you tuning in and joining me as 71 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 6: I continue to seek justice for my clients. 72 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 3: I mean, we do commercials for lawyers, but I don't 73 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 3: think anybody could ever do a better job speaking for themselves. 74 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:43,280 Speaker 3: Or regard Mercer the fourth that's choir horse manure. I 75 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 3: am a racontour, all mixed in with a healthy amount 76 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 3: of horse manure. 77 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 6: The place where I just slaid the last fool lawyer 78 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 6: who attempted to challenge my legal skills and acumen. 79 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 3: Anyway, I thought you would enjoyed Beauregard Mercer, I did. 80 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 3: Where did you find that? A great Southern lawyer? Somebody 81 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 3: said it to me, and uh I will be following 82 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:13,479 Speaker 3: his stories throughout Northwest. The backgrounds of Northwest Georgia. Delivering 83 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:17,720 Speaker 3: justice to ordinary people. I think that's important in today's 84 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 3: day and age. Thank god we have sweet James Bergener. 85 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 3: Some lawyers. 86 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:25,159 Speaker 4: Some lawyers, you're unnoticed, man, You know you're unnoticed. Beauregard 87 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:25,720 Speaker 4: is out there. 88 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:28,720 Speaker 6: Well, these are my stories, and I appreciate you tuning 89 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 6: in and joining me as I continue to seek justice 90 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:33,040 Speaker 6: for my clients. 91 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 3: I mean, some lawyers you call them up and all 92 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 3: they want to do is tell you about what they 93 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:42,279 Speaker 3: think about the Lakers rotation. You know, well, that's what 94 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:45,040 Speaker 3: I want to hear. Well some people, yeah, really. 95 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:49,719 Speaker 6: Lead The last food lawyer who attempted to challenge my 96 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 6: legal skills and acumen. 97 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 3: Bull Regard Mercer. If the SEC was a lawyer, there 98 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 3: he is are It is time for the number of 99 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 3: the day. 100 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:04,720 Speaker 5: The top number of the day. 101 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:06,839 Speaker 3: Number of the day is one eighty. 102 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 4: Always love measuring ourselves against others? How do you measure 103 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:15,919 Speaker 4: yourself by height? When it comes to the rankings that 104 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:19,280 Speaker 4: many of these outlets do. Oftentimes it's US News and 105 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 4: World Report. They're very good with the lists. 106 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 3: They cut us with. 107 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:29,839 Speaker 4: Healthiest places to live pee, that's what we're measuring. We 108 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:33,279 Speaker 4: want to live long, healthy, enjoyable lives in the United 109 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:37,280 Speaker 4: States or in the whole world. This US only well Denver. 110 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 3: Right, is in Denver, very health in my man, I 111 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 3: mean it's always Denver. Denver is in the top ten. 112 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 3: They always are, I mean the joggers. 113 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 4: Here's your top ten. There are some interesting, uh, some 114 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 4: interesting rankings in here. So they do it overall, they 115 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 4: do it based on what your healthcare situation. Like you 116 00:06:57,240 --> 00:06:59,200 Speaker 4: would assume, you know, the bigger cities are going to 117 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 4: be fine there because as they got or I guess 118 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 4: it depends on where do you have one of these 119 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 4: fancy research hospitals. Right, They've got food rank, you know, 120 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 4: like are you eating good food? They've got fitness, the exercise, 121 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 4: I guess. Green spaces are a big deal. You feel 122 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 4: healthier when you get a chance to breathe some clean air, 123 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 4: sit under a tree, catch some shade, something like that. 124 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 4: But all of these things go in to determine the 125 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 4: healthiest city in America, and as you would expect, near 126 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 4: the bottom because of the perhaps lack of fitness and 127 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 4: certain eating habits. You do find a lot of the 128 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 4: towns in Alabama, Georgia. Y don't you attack the people 129 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 4: I'm attacking them. I'm attacking them all right, because it's 130 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 4: right here in front of me, So I can't. 131 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 3: Say Southern American. You said something that got up underneath 132 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 3: my skin talking about my white bread and barbecue lunch. 133 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:01,119 Speaker 3: West Virginia a lot of there. You by the place 134 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 3: of my birth as a Southern American, you said something 135 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 3: that got up underneath my skin. 136 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, Huntington, West Virginia, pretty much a crossed the board. 137 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 3: Well that's where I've been, Matt. I've been there, and 138 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 3: the first thing I saw was a four hundred pound 139 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 3: man in a hoo farted tank top with a two 140 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 3: liters of mountain dew saying welcome to Marshall. There you 141 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 3: go pretty much. 142 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 4: I think that says it right there, Las, as you 143 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 4: would expect when it comes to you eat pretty well. 144 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 4: Everybody seems to work out LA's doing all right. They 145 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 4: clock in at fifteen. 146 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:36,520 Speaker 3: Well, we used to be number eight when you lived here, Matt, 147 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 3: but you moved down and knocked him down seventy. 148 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 4: Knocked them down seven spots ahead of LA. In the 149 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:46,559 Speaker 4: state of California, Irvine at number twelve. All those pickleball 150 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 4: courts number two, San Diego. 151 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:55,440 Speaker 3: It's all those healthy vegetarian burritos. 152 00:08:55,880 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 4: And the number one. Well, it really really punched me 153 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 4: in the d man. When I read this, I was like, 154 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 4: this is the healthiest city. Really, I think it was 155 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 4: going to be Sealed Beach Man. 156 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I didn't think it was going 157 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 3: to be Sealed Beach necessarily. You were begging for Seal Beach. 158 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:17,080 Speaker 3: It's when you're walking around the city. 159 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 4: You don't get the feeling as you're looking around, like, 160 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 4: you know what, these people are healthy. I'm looking at 161 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 4: a healthy bunch right now. 162 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 3: I hope to chime in if it's someplace that I've been, 163 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:30,320 Speaker 3: but it might not be a place. 164 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 4: Oh you've been there, I promise you you've been there. San Francisco, California. 165 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:44,800 Speaker 3: Like now, they have some of the in the Tenderloin, 166 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 3: Matt some of the most pimps. 167 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 4: If San Diego's won or Seattle, which is three, or 168 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 4: Salt Lake, that's four, fine, But when we've got San 169 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 4: Francisco at one and at five Portland, Oregon, now, I 170 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 4: know I'm been there in a minute, but I feel 171 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:08,240 Speaker 4: like I've been there recently enough to kind of get eyes. 172 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:11,840 Speaker 3: It's hard to eat when you're spending your money on drugs. 173 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:18,040 Speaker 4: Right, very unhealthy lot. Yet somehow this particular survey as 174 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 4: San Francisco as the number one most healthy place to live. 175 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,560 Speaker 4: By the way, this is not like the most healthy 176 00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:27,679 Speaker 4: popular to say. If you want to move somewhere where 177 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 4: you're gonna feel good and healthy and things are going right, it's. 178 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:34,440 Speaker 3: The exercise Matt to take the fentanyl and then do 179 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 3: the fold over where you're standing up, but you're laying 180 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,080 Speaker 3: down with your upper body. That's not easy. 181 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 4: So congratulations. I guessed if you're looking for a place 182 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 4: to move and you want to feel good about where 183 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 4: you live San Francisco, I thought they says the food 184 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:49,560 Speaker 4: rank is number one. 185 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:53,199 Speaker 3: Well you know what it is. They have puto bayball 186 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 3: cone flow oh flowing conor, and we don't have that here, 187 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:01,440 Speaker 3: and we do not have that. It's time for Ronnie's 188 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 3: song of the day. 189 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:05,160 Speaker 5: This is a song of the day. 190 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 7: Yes, I yes. 191 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 8: Today's song of the day is by a band from 192 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 8: San Diego called Crocodiles, and today's song of the day 193 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 8: is called fooling Around because today is the first of 194 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 8: April and the Petros and Money Show is fooling around 195 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 8: in the midst of a Flex Alert as the Dodgers 196 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 8: wrap up the first week at home with the Cleveland 197 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 8: Guardians and the rubber match of the series before embarking 198 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 8: on their first road trip of the season, with Tim 199 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 8: Kates starting things off a little earlier than usual with 200 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 8: your Marongo Casino Dodgers on Deck. Show begins promptly four o'clock. 201 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 4: Say you, Ronnie, got about forty minutes leapt in the 202 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:47,360 Speaker 4: hour before we pass it off to Tim Kates and 203 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 4: then Yamamoto on the mound. A five twenty DM start 204 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:55,679 Speaker 4: Dodgers four and one after the big o'canni victory last night, 205 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 4: try to win through out of three year against the 206 00:11:57,800 --> 00:11:59,079 Speaker 4: Guardians before their day off. 207 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 1: Talk Petro's Papadakis that money snick, This is Petro send 208 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:29,680 Speaker 1: money on demand. 209 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:32,720 Speaker 4: Petro said money A five seventy LA Sports Live Everywhere 210 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 4: on the iHeartRadio app nearly a super flex today. We're 211 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 4: off at four. First pitch coming up just after five 212 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:41,679 Speaker 4: to twenty pm. Get away day for the Cleveland Guardians 213 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 4: and the Dodgers as well. They will take on the 214 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 4: Washington Nationals after a day off tomorrow. 215 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:47,680 Speaker 3: In DC. 216 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 4: And a very odd Friday one o'clock started as the 217 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 4: home opener for the Nationals, so that's why I end 218 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:58,199 Speaker 4: up getting kind of that weird one. Not a getaway 219 00:12:58,200 --> 00:12:59,839 Speaker 4: game or a week end of the season, but the 220 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 4: you're still playing one pm starts here, so that's going 221 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:08,440 Speaker 4: to be an early contest ten am Pacific, one pm 222 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 4: out there in the district. So nearly a full show 223 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:14,240 Speaker 4: tomorrow and a full four hour show on Friday. 224 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:17,480 Speaker 3: So we're looking forward to that, and we have the 225 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 3: content to fill it. Don't you worry, no doubt, only 226 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:24,199 Speaker 3: two hours today. We won't have Adam Oslin on to 227 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,160 Speaker 3: milk him. Don't worry, only two out. You know, Clippers 228 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:29,680 Speaker 3: are on a heater. The only two hours today, but 229 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:34,000 Speaker 3: you can podcast all of it on the iHeartRadio app 230 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 3: for your smartphone. Don't forget Tim Kats coming up with 231 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 3: Marongo Casino Dodgers on deck at four. As Matt said, 232 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:46,720 Speaker 3: all right, Matt, we'll call this the flip top story 233 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 3: of clip you out. 234 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 5: I will flip you out. This is the flip top 235 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 5: story of the day. 236 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 3: Well as your La River Show of record, Matt. And 237 00:13:56,200 --> 00:14:00,439 Speaker 3: we can't say it's not even close because Tim Kahn 238 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 3: also thinks that he has the La River Show of Record. 239 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 3: He thinks that his show is the La River Show 240 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 3: of Record. Well, he thinks he's the Hot Dog Day 241 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:12,720 Speaker 3: Show a record too. That's true. He does live here 242 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:17,559 Speaker 3: in Burbank right on he lives. One thought he was immortal, 243 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 3: the other thought he could fly. They were both wrong. 244 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:23,880 Speaker 3: He does live right on the banks of the river 245 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 3: here in Burbank. But we have Tim Kayes who's a 246 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 3: real Burbank burnout and he was born and raised in Burbank. 247 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 3: A rat. Yeah, So the La River, as far as 248 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 3: I'm concerned, is up for grabs and it belongs to 249 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:48,040 Speaker 3: the Petrosen money Show. Now you might know, Matt, that 250 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 3: the La River around Griffith Park, which is our La 251 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 3: River piece right here in Burbank where our studio is, 252 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 3: has a re underground society hobo problem. There's an underground 253 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 3: weirdo society on the La River, and the people that 254 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 3: live in and around the banks of the La River 255 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 3: are almost like from a comic book or something. Yeah, 256 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 3: it's like chud. Yeah, yeah, it's like shud. But don't 257 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 3: take it from me, Matt. Let's get out to Fox 258 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 3: eleven where Christine Divine, she still got it is going 259 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 3: to throw it out to the new foot Soldier at 260 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 3: Channel four. What was the name of the old foot 261 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:43,720 Speaker 3: Soldier or guy Pat Healy? Right? Yeah, and now it's 262 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:51,200 Speaker 3: this guy, Matthew Seededorf, Matt Seedorf, the Dwarf of the Sea. 263 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 3: His name is Matthew Seedorf and he's on the river. 264 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:59,040 Speaker 3: What listen, Christina Divine's gonna throw it to Seadorf and 265 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 3: they're gonna talk about the weirdo society that lives on 266 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 3: the banks of the La River right by our studio 267 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 3: Only on. 268 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 8: Fox eleven tonight, shocking scene along the La River. 269 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 9: Gang activity, open drug use, and growing homeless encampments. 270 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 8: Residents say it's been a problem. 271 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 5: For years, it's only getting worse. 272 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:22,680 Speaker 3: We go live to Fox eleventh. Hold on real quick. 273 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:25,240 Speaker 3: When I say, Christine Divine still got it. You know 274 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 3: she's doing better than Pat Harvey. 275 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:33,480 Speaker 9: Well, Christine, this really is an escape for the homeless. 276 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 9: Sat around here more than a dozen years. 277 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 3: Right now, Stop that there. You're living in the La 278 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 3: River for a dozen You're getting your mail of the 279 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 3: La River. You're like, I mean, you're. 280 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 4: Like, I haven't found any better real estate. You know, 281 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 4: it just keeps appreciating why would I leave it more. 282 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 9: Than a dozen years? Dangers hidden in plain sight along 283 00:16:57,040 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 9: the La River. 284 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:00,880 Speaker 10: You can see the cap of the needle, right, that's 285 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 10: where they put them. 286 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 9: In signs of illegal drug use, stolen property, in what 287 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:08,440 Speaker 9: some describe as gang activity. 288 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:11,560 Speaker 10: Some of these gang members, you know, they carry backpacks 289 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:15,040 Speaker 10: with tools and ghost guns and a lot of narcotics. 290 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 9: This is too dangerous, very just steps from a busy 291 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 9: trail near Griffith. 292 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 3: Did you hear Seedorf drop dangerous? Yeah, well in the interview, 293 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:28,680 Speaker 3: and then she dropped the very kind of like a 294 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:32,440 Speaker 3: few good men, you know, right, they're really playing with 295 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 3: each other, are we clear? Crystal and a lot of narcotics. 296 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 3: This is too. 297 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 9: Dangerous, very just steps from a busy trail near Griffith Park. 298 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 9: Dozens live in fourty fine shelters, tense and even storm 299 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:49,919 Speaker 9: drains with murky water below. 300 00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:51,360 Speaker 3: How long have you been out here? 301 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:52,960 Speaker 5: Thirteen years? 302 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 9: Place time stands still over ten years? 303 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:58,760 Speaker 4: Ten years, yeah, over ten twenty years up that I 304 00:17:58,840 --> 00:17:59,119 Speaker 4: know of. 305 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:03,359 Speaker 3: Do they try all for you? Yes, I've been offered housing. 306 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 5: Why not take those resources? 307 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:08,919 Speaker 3: I did? It's just really the river for me, and 308 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 3: I just always come back out to. 309 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:13,359 Speaker 10: This and I just like it sort of ver people 310 00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 10: who have been forgotten or who want. 311 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 3: To be for that. 312 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:19,960 Speaker 9: Dirty sites. Many who use the trail have grown numb too. 313 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 9: You get use for sure. 314 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:25,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like seeing a gooser, like just seeing something else. 315 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 5: Or don't want to talk about. 316 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:29,640 Speaker 3: I'm just asking about the homelessness. About that, you know, 317 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 3: seeing a guy goose, No, seeing a guy shooting up, 318 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:34,120 Speaker 3: It's just like seeing a goose. 319 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 4: See it, I crap it in his hand and throwing 320 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:38,400 Speaker 4: it at a tree. It's like seeing a ghost. 321 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:42,360 Speaker 3: Seeing an ogre arise from a storm drain. You get 322 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 3: use for sure. 323 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like seeing a gooser, like just. 324 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 7: Seeing something else. 325 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:49,640 Speaker 9: Or don't want to talk about. I'm just asking about 326 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:50,440 Speaker 9: the homeless society. 327 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 5: That's exactly. 328 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 7: I don't think that's I don't want to. I don't 329 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:53,359 Speaker 7: want to comment on that. 330 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:54,119 Speaker 3: Why not? 331 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:55,639 Speaker 7: I mean, I don't want to. 332 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:58,719 Speaker 3: They put on the boke. How about that guy? Everybody 333 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:00,359 Speaker 3: want to talk to se door, But I don't want 334 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 3: to get in trouble. I don't want to get in trouble. 335 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 3: Out of here I say something about the homeless, I 336 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:07,360 Speaker 3: might be canceled. King of the underground's gonna come out kill. 337 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 9: You don't want to talk about I'm just asking about 338 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 9: the homelessness UTA. 339 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:10,960 Speaker 5: That's exactly. 340 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:12,520 Speaker 7: I don't think that's I don't want to I don't 341 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 7: want to comment with that. 342 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 3: Why not? 343 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:18,400 Speaker 10: I meant they put on the blinders. Honestly, they look 344 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 10: on their phones, they focus on their workout on the bike. 345 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 10: They don't want to deal with it because homelessness is everywhere. 346 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 9: In a statement to Fox eleven, council member and mayoral 347 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 9: candidate Nitthia Rahman calls homelessness along the La River a 348 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:33,879 Speaker 9: unique challenge, adding steep concrete slopes, culverts, and hard to 349 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 9: reach areas make these encamments among the most difficult to 350 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 9: address in the city. That the pravacis in the city 351 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 9: has to bring people inside, and we are pursuing that 352 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:46,400 Speaker 9: solution with urgency. Many people in the area time now 353 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:49,719 Speaker 9: calling for more urgency, wanting to help those that sometimes 354 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 9: don't want help, reporting live Matthew Sedor Fox eleven News. 355 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:55,840 Speaker 3: Nice, Why not? 356 00:19:57,080 --> 00:19:58,480 Speaker 4: You know they just look at their phones and they 357 00:19:58,480 --> 00:19:59,919 Speaker 4: don't want to deal with it. Why do I have 358 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:02,960 Speaker 4: deal with it? You deal with it when they walk 359 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:03,920 Speaker 4: along the freaking river. 360 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 3: Hey, is there a ghost cut in your backpack? Assay, 361 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 3: let me see, Yeah, let me see what is it, Katie. 362 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 11: This was all made worse by that erection in the 363 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:16,439 Speaker 11: middle of the La River, Lacretz Bridge right there off 364 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:18,680 Speaker 11: the five ride by every day. Yeah, it was put 365 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:24,679 Speaker 11: up in twenty twenty at a cost of sixteen million dollars. 366 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:27,400 Speaker 11: That's a nice bridge to taxpayers, which is now graffeiti 367 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:29,120 Speaker 11: by the way at the base all the way across, 368 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:31,439 Speaker 11: but looks like a big erection in the middle of 369 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 11: the La Rig Boner. 370 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:34,760 Speaker 3: And here's the problem. It's a phallic symbol. 371 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:39,240 Speaker 11: It connects Griffith Park and Atwater Village, so all those 372 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 11: homes in Atwater Village have been gentrified. 373 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:45,120 Speaker 3: And it's like the Mountain Lion Bridge but for hobos. 374 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:47,719 Speaker 11: Yes, it's now a bridge for the hobos to go 375 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:48,560 Speaker 11: back and forth on. 376 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a whole edge of town underground vibe out there, 377 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 3: Matt and perhaps man, we could get Burt and Craig 378 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 3: to rig it and we could do a remote from 379 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:02,440 Speaker 3: the bowels of the La River, you know, the one 380 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 3: thing it reminded me of. And maybe you could be 381 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:08,920 Speaker 3: adverse to this or think it's not connected, but to me, 382 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 3: it was shades of Police Academy too, their first assignment 383 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 3: from nineteen eighty five, featuring Bobcat Goldthwaite, who is a 384 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:23,440 Speaker 3: gang leader named Zed. It leads a chaotic underground storm 385 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:29,680 Speaker 3: drained gang that terrorizes the city. Remember that, Oh yeah, absolutely. 386 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,040 Speaker 4: To me, I'm one of the iconic characters in the 387 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 4: history of the Police Academy series. 388 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 3: To me, I believe that's what's happening right now. Like 389 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 3: if you go and. 390 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:41,159 Speaker 4: They're going to rise up against an LAPD is going 391 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:42,119 Speaker 4: to have to band together. 392 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 3: Let's say the LAPD has like a fair over at 393 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 3: the train station museum, right, and they have like a 394 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 3: police fair, and then Zed and the underground gang pops 395 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 3: out of the La River to cause trouble. It might 396 00:21:56,840 --> 00:22:01,600 Speaker 3: sound a little something like this, what's what's. 397 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 4: Going on here? 398 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:03,960 Speaker 6: Tops are having a. 399 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:09,679 Speaker 9: Fair, yeah, and trying to raise money to clean up 400 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 9: the neighborhood. 401 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 3: That's awful mess. I think I think I have gang. 402 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:22,840 Speaker 3: I think I have a fast man. 403 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 4: All I got a bad stomach that makes me say. 404 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 3: You don't have to ride on it. How good you're 405 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:50,680 Speaker 3: going with? Let's talk. That's what's going down to the 406 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:54,200 Speaker 3: l A River right now, Matt Z and his leather clad. 407 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:57,639 Speaker 4: Dang Sooner or later, we're gonna have to pull our 408 00:22:57,640 --> 00:22:59,280 Speaker 4: eyes off our phones and pay attention. 409 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:03,080 Speaker 3: That's right. It's not a goose. It's a guy squatted 410 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,119 Speaker 3: down crapping at his dickies. Yes. 411 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 4: Yeah. 412 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,119 Speaker 11: Growing up back in the eighties, there used to be 413 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 11: those cat heads that were painted on to the outlets 414 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,439 Speaker 11: that dumped into the La River. If you were to 415 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:16,119 Speaker 11: go up and down the five freeway, look at those 416 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:18,440 Speaker 11: outlets that are never opened, of course because it's never raining, 417 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:20,320 Speaker 11: but when it does rain, they open up and water 418 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 11: comes in there to alleviate, you know, the water in. 419 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:23,399 Speaker 3: The streets barfing. 420 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,359 Speaker 11: It used to be cat heads that somebody drew on 421 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:29,520 Speaker 11: all these outlets and kind of graffiti style, but kind 422 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 11: of good art. Now it's just needles and guns and drugs, 423 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 11: and we wish we had the cat heads. 424 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 3: What about zaid? What about Hey, it's a hole. It's 425 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,760 Speaker 3: a whole society. I mean they it's a whole society. 426 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:45,600 Speaker 3: People been out there a dozen years. 427 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:50,560 Speaker 11: The lady in twenty they're ten to twenty, doesn't even 428 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:51,760 Speaker 11: have ten to twenty teeth, and. 429 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:55,000 Speaker 3: She had one tooth. Well, yeah, well we haven't got 430 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 3: a dentist down there yet, you know, but it can 431 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:02,240 Speaker 3: happen sooner or later. Get Hugh Freeze's dental chair down 432 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,400 Speaker 3: there and get the get some poles lined up. He's 433 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:05,400 Speaker 3: not using it anymore. 434 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,399 Speaker 4: My question to Matt who likes to paddle out in 435 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,680 Speaker 4: the water San Gabriel River, by the way, not the 436 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,239 Speaker 4: uh not the l A. I get to deal with 437 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:16,720 Speaker 4: the encampments along in the San Gabriel. 438 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:19,160 Speaker 3: And there's very there's none none there, that's all none. 439 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:22,359 Speaker 3: That's oh totally, that's very fang. 440 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:24,240 Speaker 11: I mean, I just think of the holidays when it 441 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:26,680 Speaker 11: was a Christmas even Christmas Day, and it was absolutely 442 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,160 Speaker 11: dumping rain here in Los Angeles, and I just think 443 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 11: of all those needles just washing in to where you're 444 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 11: a surfing. 445 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's it's needles. 446 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's uh, some sofas, some refrigerators, but the saltwater 447 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:42,639 Speaker 4: kills the mattresses. Oh no, it's you know, just you 448 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:46,280 Speaker 4: gotta you gotta recognize the immune system has to eventually 449 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:48,880 Speaker 4: take this bacteria in and we're all stronger because of it. 450 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 3: We've got the movies refrigerators, that's right, we'll be back. 451 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 3: Uh so to keep a head on a swivel out 452 00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 3: there at Griffith Park. That's not a goose, that's a 453 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:01,840 Speaker 3: guy poop in his pants. Yeah, I mean, come on, 454 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,720 Speaker 3: don't just look down at your phone. Look around you 455 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,399 Speaker 3: and say what can I do to make this horner? 456 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:09,639 Speaker 9: Don't want to talk about I'm just asking about the 457 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:10,280 Speaker 9: homeless society. 458 00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 5: That's exactly. 459 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 7: I don't think that's I don't want to I don't 460 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:13,199 Speaker 7: want to comment on that. 461 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 3: Why not? I mean, I don't want what an enormous? 462 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,159 Speaker 3: It's like, why don't you want to talk about it? 463 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,880 Speaker 3: I like the dow why not? Why not? What on? 464 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:30,800 Speaker 3: There's needles, there's gangs, there's guys, guns, dangerous, fairy very. 465 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 3: The fact that he left it in this story. This 466 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:36,400 Speaker 3: guy not wanting to talk about it, right, Yeah, well 467 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 3: it's perfect. Some people don't even want to discuss it. 468 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:40,920 Speaker 3: I don't even want to talk about I'm not un comfortable. 469 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 3: They put on the blank yes se dwarf? What on? 470 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:49,600 Speaker 3: That guy's got the blinders on. He thinks he's looking 471 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:53,680 Speaker 3: at ducks and geese. 472 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 5: He's like seeing a gooser, like just seeing something else. 473 00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 3: It's not like seeing a goose. Yeah, got smoking crag 474 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:10,200 Speaker 3: over there. That's not a goose. My god. All right, 475 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,400 Speaker 3: we'll be bad with your Dead of the Life guid 476 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:16,639 Speaker 3: Birthday of the Day. How that Conway beat? That story 477 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:17,720 Speaker 3: you face? 478 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,680 Speaker 5: This is pet on Demand. 479 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:38,520 Speaker 3: Julian got one, Ronnie didn't. Nobody's calling about it. Good night, everybody, 480 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,920 Speaker 3: and we'll be back on tomorrow for another Petros and 481 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:45,879 Speaker 3: Money show, four hours of great sports talk three and 482 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:49,320 Speaker 3: a half. Excuse me, great sports Talk Tomorrow will have 483 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:55,160 Speaker 3: USC baseball coach Andy Stankowitz on and James Worthy. Should 484 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 3: be a great time the two hours today. You can 485 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:04,919 Speaker 3: podcast on the iHeartRadio app for your smartphone. Dodger Baseball, 486 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 3: Wow Catch the fever. 487 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,680 Speaker 5: Man, wow Man breaked out. 488 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 4: Indeed day off Tomorrow they will travel to the nation's 489 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 4: capital for a weekend series. But they finish up the 490 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 4: opening stretch that began here at Dodger Stadium, averaging over 491 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 4: fifty three thousand per game with this five twenty start tonight. 492 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,640 Speaker 4: Yamamoto back on the mound. 493 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,160 Speaker 3: I'm worried about the shadows. Were a little worried about 494 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:31,800 Speaker 3: the shadows. 495 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, shadows can be a handful. I don't know if 496 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,880 Speaker 4: it's for the hitters, or the pitchers, or the broadcasters, 497 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:42,119 Speaker 4: heavy umpires, or the mascots. 498 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 3: Or the ballgirls and guys. But yes, the shadows hard 499 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:46,720 Speaker 3: on Olivia Garvey. 500 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:51,359 Speaker 2: No doubt everybody knows that in Dalton Rushing watching the 501 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 2: game from the bench, beware the shadows. The guy banging 502 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:57,840 Speaker 2: the mud out of o oh that guy with the 503 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:00,520 Speaker 2: mud guy, Yeah, shadows. 504 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 3: Your dead guy. Birthday of the Day today, Matt, A 505 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:09,600 Speaker 3: good old story, blue star. ALBERTA. Hunter would have been 506 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:14,320 Speaker 3: one hundred and thirty one years old today. Born in Memphis. 507 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:21,080 Speaker 3: Mom was a brothel maid, Dad a pullman porter. 508 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,200 Speaker 4: Brothel maide. Seems like a very unfortunate job. 509 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:32,080 Speaker 3: What do you mean, would you rather be a horror? 510 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,280 Speaker 4: I would not rather be a wore a horror, But 511 00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:38,160 Speaker 4: I also would not want to clean the mess made 512 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:39,920 Speaker 4: by the hoore and her. 513 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:46,040 Speaker 3: John You mean they get such very little pay the 514 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:48,800 Speaker 3: ones that clean the mess. Minority that sits on top 515 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:56,040 Speaker 3: rates themselves the best. It just seems an unfortunate professional. Well, Matt, 516 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,680 Speaker 3: you can imagine a difficult child, no doubt. She left 517 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:03,720 Speaker 3: home at eleven for Chicago to sing, started singing in 518 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,960 Speaker 3: a Chicago bordello. That's a better job than being a 519 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 3: her as well singing, She became a pianist run in 520 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:21,640 Speaker 3: her early teens. Her work at Daego Franks, a very 521 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:27,360 Speaker 3: famous brothel in Chicago, was legendary. She also had improvisational 522 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 3: skills like a Zalea Banks. King Oliver, who's the same 523 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,719 Speaker 3: guy that gave Louis Armstrong his big break, gave her 524 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 3: her big break. She sang by day and peeled potatoes. 525 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 3: She sang by night in peeled potatoes, by day in 526 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:48,520 Speaker 3: her boarding house. She is very persistent and because of 527 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:53,840 Speaker 3: her persistence, she became a headliner. What are the Headlines? 528 00:29:54,920 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 3: She toured Europe in nineteen seventeen, Paris and London. She 529 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,800 Speaker 3: couldn't believe how much reverence they showed her and treated 530 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 3: her with, even though she was black. In those days 531 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:13,560 Speaker 3: in Europe, her career flourished. Matt in the twenties and thirties. 532 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:18,320 Speaker 3: She appeared in musicals and on stage in New York 533 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:23,680 Speaker 3: and in London and recorded prolifically and wrote the song 534 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:28,160 Speaker 3: the Downtown the Downhearted Blues, which was recorded with Louis 535 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:33,160 Speaker 3: Armstrong and Sid Bishett. She did a tour in the 536 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:37,200 Speaker 3: forties for World War Two in Japan and Korea for USO. 537 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,720 Speaker 3: Her mother is the one that wanted her to get 538 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:53,400 Speaker 3: into showbiz, and when her mother died, she enrolled in 539 00:30:53,840 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 3: nursing school. She created a diploma basically invented one that 540 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:06,120 Speaker 3: reduced her age and created a career in healthcare because 541 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 3: she wasn't inspired to do it anymore. After her mom died, 542 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:13,719 Speaker 3: her last job in healthcare forced her to retire because 543 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:16,920 Speaker 3: they thought that she was seventy years old. She was 544 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:28,520 Speaker 3: actually eighty two, and she became once again introduced to 545 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,320 Speaker 3: the jazz and blues world through the Great Bobby Short. 546 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,040 Speaker 3: She became a huge New York jazz star again in 547 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 3: cafe society. In the nineteen seventies, she wrote again did 548 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:45,920 Speaker 3: a movie soundtrack for a Robert Altman film, Jeez, did 549 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:50,760 Speaker 3: some great late in life Columbia albums after decades in healthcare, 550 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:53,719 Speaker 3: married once, but in real life she was from the 551 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:59,400 Speaker 3: Isle of Lesbos, A big nosed woman, alberta Hunter Yoshi style. 552 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:04,240 Speaker 4: You're a live guy, pee, I don't think, I don't 553 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,120 Speaker 4: even think I need to say. I don't think we've 554 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,720 Speaker 4: never done a mercenary as a live guy. 555 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:09,800 Speaker 3: A mercenary. 556 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:13,840 Speaker 4: Yes, dead guy, sure, but alive a modern day gun 557 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,160 Speaker 4: for hire quite rare. 558 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,840 Speaker 3: Happy. You don't know their story, you know. 559 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,440 Speaker 4: Right until they're gone, and then they tell the tale 560 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:26,080 Speaker 4: that this person. And I'm gonna need Canadian news, Kate's 561 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,280 Speaker 4: if you don't mind queuing that up. I'm sorry, I 562 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:32,800 Speaker 4: forgot to tell you, but eighty nine years old today 563 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:40,800 Speaker 4: is still living a gun for hire. Third world countries. 564 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:44,760 Speaker 4: We need an ace and we need Lynn Garrison. He 565 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:49,760 Speaker 4: will fly a fighter jet and blow up our opponents 566 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,760 Speaker 4: targets for us for a fee. 567 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:59,640 Speaker 3: It's Canadian news. It's Canadian news. 568 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:02,320 Speaker 5: You don't rick our show, you hoser. 569 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:09,040 Speaker 4: Hey got into flying very young, pilot's license as a teenager. 570 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:12,200 Speaker 4: By his early twenties, he was the best of the 571 00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:16,000 Speaker 4: best in the competitive world of air racing and aerobatics 572 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:17,320 Speaker 4: that led. 573 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:20,600 Speaker 3: To the film If you never saw that movie, One 574 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:27,320 Speaker 3: Day's got Eric roberts Man, the film industry called, oh no. 575 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,520 Speaker 4: So he was a pilot, He was an aerial coordinator. 576 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:35,280 Speaker 4: Suck suck, it does suck. He was a technical advisory. 577 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:39,840 Speaker 4: Remember this is pre CGI and action films wanted kick 578 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 4: ass aerial sequences. So Lynn Garrison was the guy that 579 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:48,600 Speaker 4: every studio called high demand. He was a military man. 580 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:50,520 Speaker 4: He flew in the Royal Canadian Air Force, a lot 581 00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:55,000 Speaker 4: of action un emergency force on the Sinai Peninsula, eluded 582 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:58,760 Speaker 4: two MiGs that engaged in sixty two his caribou fifty 583 00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:02,640 Speaker 4: two to thirty. Throughout his career, his projects required flying 584 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:07,280 Speaker 4: and demanding conditions, coordinating intricate aerial operations. He would push 585 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:12,120 Speaker 4: boundaries while having a disciplined and methodical approach. Had earned 586 00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,680 Speaker 4: him respect in both aviation and when he was doing 587 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:17,520 Speaker 4: it for the silver screen all the film communities. 588 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:20,160 Speaker 3: But here's the good sp. 589 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:28,120 Speaker 4: Garrison became a mercenary, allegedly with the support and at 590 00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:31,400 Speaker 4: the behest of several US government agencies. 591 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,359 Speaker 3: A military mercenary. 592 00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,480 Speaker 4: Like he was just he was. He was out of 593 00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:38,640 Speaker 4: the military at this point. They would pluck Garrison and 594 00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:42,759 Speaker 4: send him to take part in the Nigerian Civil War, 595 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:50,520 Speaker 4: a group of mercenaries fighting for breakaway state Biafra. August 596 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:54,080 Speaker 4: nineteen sixty seven. Flies a mission and an almost unserviceable 597 00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:55,160 Speaker 4: B twenty six. 598 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:03,400 Speaker 3: Right destroys three megs Operation Tiger Claw. She had to 599 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:07,160 Speaker 3: take on the piling in Africa. Nobody can shoot me down. 600 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,399 Speaker 3: And then this guy showed up. That's what the Black 601 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:11,319 Speaker 3: Scorpions said. 602 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:16,239 Speaker 4: And then freaking Lynn Garrison shows up and works under 603 00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:18,560 Speaker 4: Colonel ogbu Ogie. 604 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:23,000 Speaker 3: And he's lighting things on fire. A lot of people 605 00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,000 Speaker 3: said that about Phil Jackson, you know, I mean he 606 00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:28,240 Speaker 3: had Michael Jordan, right, That's what they said about Colonel 607 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:31,719 Speaker 3: agbu Abby had Lynn Garrison. 608 00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:38,239 Speaker 4: Sixty nine. They drop him into the Football War Al 609 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:43,640 Speaker 4: Salvador v. Honder Us. Preceding months, they had shipped twelve 610 00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:47,640 Speaker 4: Mustangs to El Salvador with a team that included Garrison. 611 00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:51,800 Speaker 4: He flew in the last military conflict involving propeller driven 612 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:57,120 Speaker 4: fighters a p FIE. During the Football War. He had 613 00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:02,080 Speaker 4: a long term relationship with Haiti. August nineteen eighty He 614 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:03,200 Speaker 4: goes with Burt Lancast. 615 00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:04,920 Speaker 3: He worked for Papa Doc. 616 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:10,279 Speaker 4: Not Papa Doc. Not Papa Doc. He worked for Doc 617 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:18,160 Speaker 4: is terrible. He worked for Raoul Sidrus, the leader of 618 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:22,640 Speaker 4: the Haitian military, but it did not work for Papa Doc. 619 00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:28,279 Speaker 4: He was there with Burt Land exactly, good question. He 620 00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:31,680 Speaker 4: was there on a film assignment when Raoul got word 621 00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:33,680 Speaker 4: that he was down there, and he was like, hey, 622 00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:37,759 Speaker 4: your nickname is the shadow, and you're gonna work for me, 623 00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:40,640 Speaker 4: and he would hang out. He basically just kind of 624 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,680 Speaker 4: set up shop in Haiti, blew a bunch of stuff up, 625 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:47,160 Speaker 4: would hold the gig through the late nineties, and he 626 00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:51,239 Speaker 4: was basically the point person for the Reagan, Bush and 627 00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:54,200 Speaker 4: Clinton administrations for whatever they needed done in Haiti. 628 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:56,920 Speaker 3: This was the guy a mercenary and you know they 629 00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,000 Speaker 3: were doing something. Oh, they were doing lots. 630 00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:05,200 Speaker 4: Now balance it out, call our man in Haiti, Lynn Garrison. 631 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,759 Speaker 4: He did want to balance that out humanitarian aid. He 632 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:14,000 Speaker 4: invented a method to put a sack of food inside 633 00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,640 Speaker 4: a larger sack before supply drops, so when the package 634 00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:18,759 Speaker 4: hit the ground, the innsack would rupture, the outer one 635 00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:22,239 Speaker 4: would keep its contents intact. They said he saved thousands 636 00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,799 Speaker 4: who would have otherwise died of starvation during these conflicts. 637 00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:31,600 Speaker 3: And is the children's choir at the end. That's especially horrible. 638 00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:37,560 Speaker 4: Terrible Children's squire is terrible on our particular version of 639 00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:43,239 Speaker 4: this song still alive today. He owns, maintains, and flies 640 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:47,440 Speaker 4: historic military aircraft. He's got like forty five of these planes. 641 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:49,320 Speaker 4: It's worth tens of millions of dollars. 642 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:49,800 Speaker 3: His collection. 643 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:54,960 Speaker 4: He's eighty nine today, Mercenary Wings for hire, good Lison. 644 00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:56,960 Speaker 3: Would it be funny if you like try to hire 645 00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:59,799 Speaker 3: him today and he just like totally crashed because he's 646 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:01,680 Speaker 3: so is eighty nine. 647 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:05,920 Speaker 4: You see, there's only one man for this job and 648 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,279 Speaker 4: it's the shadow, Lynn Garrison. 649 00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:11,600 Speaker 3: So what do we need? 650 00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:13,560 Speaker 4: We need someone to fight for the be offeras in 651 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,960 Speaker 4: the Nigerian War, call Lynn Garrison. 652 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:18,240 Speaker 3: Fell asleep in the cockpit and crowded through the kettle. 653 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,560 Speaker 3: That's not funny, I'm suying. No, you know, still alive. Yeah, 654 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:28,480 Speaker 3: happy birthday, Mercenary. We'll be back tomorrow. We'll have a 655 00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:31,560 Speaker 3: good show. Three and a half hours before the Clippers play, 656 00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:41,960 Speaker 3: the Dodgers are off, traveling to the Curly Dives.