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There's a lot.
There's a lot going on in the world, the most local stuff. In fact, not too far away from here in Burbank is this police standoff you heard. We'll mention it there in traffic, somebody in an suv prompted officials to close a pair of those freeway ramps right next to Griffith Park, So the zoo drive exits are shut right now.
Sigal art was issued very early this morning.
Now, the suv that they're talking about is in the parking lot at the Autry Museum, so it's relatively close to the freeway, and there's several different laped cruisers that are out there. There's just a car. It's the only one in the entire parking lot, it looks like. So they're waiting, I guess, trying to negotiate a way for somebody to get out of their vehicle. They believe that there's a gun involved. I did a store. This is a weird and it's a long time ago, so more
than twenty years ago. Covered a similar story to this when I was working as a reporter in Seattle where for hours there were officers trying to negotiate with somebody in a car who had been reported as having a
gun and they were suicidal. Some family member had said that, and when the cops located the car in the park, they tried to get this person to come out before they hurt themselves, And it turns out that as soon as they got to the park they had shot themselves, So the police were only negotiating with a dead body.
That was a long time ago.
I don't think that's the case here, but there will be problems if you are on I five through Griffith Park right next to the Autre Museum. Again police are working on hopefully getting somebody out of an suv there that may be armed and may be interested in hurting themselves. Well, Ukraine is at it again. They carried out a couple
more strikes. We told you yesterday about this ridiculously successful drone strikes across different parts of Russia where they hid these explosive drones in what appeared to be like modular cabins or sheds or something that were packed on different big rig semi trucks, the roofs would come off, roofs would come off of these sheds, and the drones would fly up and attack some of the most valuable bombers
that Russia has in its entire air fleet. I think about a third of them were destroyed, according to Ukraine at least so today. They followed up on that with an attack on the Kirch Bridge, which connects Crimea with Russia. Crimea of course that peninsula that is being currently occupied by Russia. Ukrainian agents were able to mine the supports
of the bridge. Now, this bridge has been attacked multiple times before because it is the main security the main supply line for Russian troops that are in occupied Crimea.
Those mines detonated this morning.
Ukrainian officials claim they severely damaged the underwater supports on the bridge. According to the SBU, the head of the secret police, I guess you could say in Ukraine the Crimean Bridge is an absolutely legitimate target, especially considering that the enemy used it as a logistical artery to supply its troops. And on top of that, Ukraine drones attacked
several electricity substations. No immediate comment from Ukraine, but This attack, targeted the Zaparisia and the Kershan regions, appeared to be one of the largest of its kind in that Russian held territory. Since everything began back in February of twenty two. There are about seven hundred thousand people without power in those areas, so upwards, depending on the estimate, could be as much as a million.
People without power. This all.
While there tends to be some sort of at least talk about a ceasefire deal, the Trump administration hasn't really said much of a strategy beyond telling Vladimir Putin to stop and suggesting that there would be some other thing that would happen. The administration is very quiet about what that other thing might actually be, whether it's military action
or stronger sanctions or something. At this point, the president has not tried to ratchet up the economic or military pressure on Russia and has not yet involved himself in planning for defense of Ukraine. There's been no talk about future weapons needs or anything like that. So you've got Vladimir's Lenski on one hand, who is saying I'm ready to come to the table, while I am continuing these very successful to this point largest attacks that Ukraine has
ever been able to pull off. Zelenski also said this is an important point in terms of the the peace talks that are going on. He did say that the President of Turkey, Ertowan, has proposed a four person summit, and that would be Erdowan, Zelenski, Putin, and Trump, although Trump has not been saying if he would actually attend such a meeting. You remember, he didn't attend one in
the middle of May even though that was proposed. So that is what's popping off on the other side of the world, and it's not going to get any better anytime soon. That is something that we will continue to talk about. There was a couple of stories though, that I wanted to get to later in the show, and these have to do with this ongoing story about movie and television production in Los Angeles and why it is leaving.
There's a couple versions of it. Number One, there is a good debate going on in these major production houses, specifically movies, about what makes sense more from a monetary standpoint.
Dream movies.
I mean, do you, immediately, if you're Netflix, do you produce a movie like Oh, I don't know, Frankenstein, which is supposed to open later this year. Do you produce that and only put it on your streaming service, or do you produce that and put it in theaters to make money. Leelo and Stitch, for example, was not going to be in the theaters originally, it was just going to go to Disney.
Plus.
Now you're looking at six seven hundred, eight hundred billion dollars and Disney made the right call to put that in movie theaters. How much UH thought goes into that and what are those projects? So we'll talk about that, but also why studio space in LA has gone empty for years and it's not getting better anytime soon.
That's still to come.
But on the other side, the latest on the Sean Diddy Combs trial. The people who knew about the tape, the tape being the International or Intercontinental hotel where he was beating up Cassie on the floor. The people who took the money to stay quiet about that are the ones on this. We'll talk about that latest case when we come back.
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The latest in the Sean Ditty Combs trial. We're in week four. This testimony was probably the most interesting lately. The Cassi Ventura testimony when she was on the stand originally was pretty amazing in that she described in great detail the abuse that she suffered at the hands of Sean Combs. One of the instances, of course, was the one that was caught on close circuit TV at the Intercontinental Hotel in March of twenty sixteen, and CNN got
the tape they eventually aired it. That kind of led to the downfall and the federal case against Sean Ditty Combs. Testifying today was a guy named Eddie Garcia, a hotel security employee for the Intercontinental, and he was the first witness to to take the stand today. Talked about he testified under an immunity order so that he wouldn't self incriminate, etc. But he testified that he was working when he was informed of a fight up in the hotel in March
of twenty sixteen. Saw the surveillance footage but didn't realize who was in it. He just saw this guy beating this woman. He didn't realize it was Shawn Combs and Cassie Ventura.
He said he believed that.
Law enforcement was not called to respond to that fight because at the time Cassie Ventura did not request police or medical attention the same day that that happened. The same day of the fight, Cassie said she was in one of those freak off things. There was a male escort apparently in the other room when Sean Combs hit Cassie Ventura. Originally she grabbed her stuff and left out into the hallway, and that's when we saw him in his towel, throwing her to the ground and kicking her.
Day again.
Eddie Garcia, the security employee, said, a chief of staff for Sean Combs asked if it was possible for her to get a copy of the video, and he said, you got to either call hotel management or you got to get a subpoena. We don't just give it out. So Sean Combs himself later calls the security desk, sounds very nervous, asks him to get the video and says
if the footage gets out, it could ruin him. So Combs called Eddie Garcia's personal phone later that night and asked again to see the footage and told Eddie Garcia that he would take care of him, which at the time, obviously that means he's going to write a big check, so Eddie Garcia, security guy at the hotel, calls his boss tells him that Shawn Combs is willing to pay for the video. The security boss asks him to pay fifty thousand dollars for it, and Eddie Garcia relays that
to Sean Combs. Sean Combe says he would. The next day, they download the video onto a thumb drive that they give to Eddie Garcia, hands it off to Sean Combs in person, and then signs an NDA. He signs an NDA with a million dollar penalty. If the story ever gets out, Eddie Garcia's got to pay a million bucks. Garcia also testified that he spoke with Cassie Ventura that
same day that all of this took place. He signed the NDA, got one hundred thousand dollars in cash, and that Cassie Ventura also assured him that she wanted this thing to go away, so he kept fifty thousand dollars. Fifty thousand dollars went to Eddie Garcia, and his testimony
has wrapped up for the day. The next one is the head of finances for Sean Diddy Coombe's company and what he's expected to testify is more into this racketeering charge, because again, the video that they show doesn't show racketeering. It doesn't show sex trafficking. It just shows domestic violence, which is not a charge that he's facing in this trial. So racketeering means he's they have to be able to
prove that he was involved in some illegal scheme. That it's not just one single criminal act, it's at least two instances of a racketeering activity. To convict someone under law,
they have to prove a criminal enterprise existed. They had to prove that he's spending money to inflict crimes or to commit crimes, and that he was having people cover up for it, that the defendant was associated with or employed by the enterprise, that he engaged in this pattern of racketeering, that he participated in at least two acts of racketeering. All of this the prosecution really hasn't gotten
into that part of it yet. But now we have the head of finance for the Shandity Combs Company on trial, or i should say, on the stand, that may be where it goes.
I've seen some.
Crazy things in this time in my life. This one is probably a new one. Remember the story about the inmates, the ten innates who broke out of the New Orleans jail. Well, one of them is posted a video still on the run, and he's begging for help from a very unusual person.
I'll explain who that is when we come back.
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NATO is asking European member states to expand ground based air defense capabilities by fivefold as they try to fill this gap in response to the threat of whatever Russia is planning on doing. The ramp up will be discussed at a gathering of NATO defense ministers in Brussels coming up this week. I believe it's on Thursday. Mentioned the
Shawn Combs trial. Well, Harvey Ryan Weinstein trial is going on as well in New York, and there was some discussion the last couple of days over the weekend about whether or not he would testify.
He will not.
His defense team confirmed yesterday that he was not going to take the stand because it would open him up to undue risk, is what they said. So they are in closing arguments today. The defense expected to rest the case today, a little bit more than a month after the opening arguments began back on the twenty third. Jurors will then get the case probably later today. You can always leave us a talkback if you are listening on
the app. There's a little microphone button and if you hit that microphone button, it'll record whatever you say and send it to us. One of the questions I was going to ask today is would you rather see think of the greatest movie you've ever seen. Would you rather see it in a movie theater or would you rather see it in your home? Because there's a lot of discussion lately about movie production studios making those decisions with
their big tent blockbuster movies. Do they put it in movie theaters or do they just put it on a streaming service? Where would you rather watch a big movie like that? You may not know the name Antwine Massey. I will just describe young Antoine as one of the two remaining escapees from the Orleans Parish jail from a couple of weeks ago. He was one of ten that got out, although he says they were let out. I'll get to that in a second. There are still two that are on the run. There was a two part
video that is claims to be Antoine Massey. I mean the tattoos all match up, so the expect, the belief is that this is who it was. It was an Instagram video that was posted over the weekend, and I'll get to some of that stuff here in a second, because it's pretty richly ironic.
This guy.
Has a history of not just the violent criminal charges since he was an early teenager, but he's been able to escape at least four times. His first jail break was when he was fifteen and a juvenile detention center. He and five other kids took advantage of a broken lock to get into a room that contained metal shackles. They used heavy objects to break a window and get out. They found him on a service road in New Orleans about fifteen days later and arrested him. He was in
on armed robbery and aggravated assault charges. The second escape from jail was much shorter. He was caught the same day of the jail break. He broke out of a detention center in Moorhouse Parish, twenty miles outside of Monroe, Louisiana. They had cut a hole in a fence and escaped in a rental car that pulled up nearby. They were arrested that same day about three hundred miles away. He's also twice been sentenced for breaking out of his ankle monitors,
both of those in the fall of twenty three. The exact timelines are a little bit more difficult because they're not always immediately reported, but he was charged for the first broken ankle monitor after booked on unrelated charges, and the second one he was arrested within a few hours.
Lengthy criminal record, as I mentioned, convictions for violent crime, armed robbery, aggravated flight from an officer, fell in possession of a firearm, simple theft, damage to property twice for tampering with that electronic monitoring equipment that breakouts from the ankle bracelets. And right now he is on he's a waiting trial for domestic abuse and motor vehicle theft. Also wanted for a rape and a kidnapping in Saint Tammany Parish.
I mean wonderful guy, right, I mean, this guy has got everything going wrong in his life, all from the bad decisions that he's made. However, in this video, he claims that he didn't escape from the Orleans Parish jail.
He claims that he was let out so as peace for helping young boy eat news with.
L d L. And I'm saying people that have been through the system that Lewis come up, Lil Wayne, don't please.
I'm answer for help, you know what I'm saying.
He's holding papers in this video that he says are from the alleged victim in the rape who wanted to drop the charges that said she was never around the guy him the day that the alleged.
Rape took place. He as asking.
Lil Wayne meek Mill a couple other guys, including President Donald Trump, for help, saying that there needs to be a federal investigation into law enforcement in the state of Louisiana because that's why he's in jail. That's a shot in the dark. It might work. We'll do a terror in the sky segment when we come back. A couple of things. Number One, when's the last time you saw a naked flight attendant? Not since that movie in college.
To be honest, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI A six four of the Gary.
And Shannon Show.
Period. Gary, you're okay here, set by yourself.
You're just okay, okay unless you advertise it that way.
What but you're advertising Gary and Shannon's show.
Where the hell is Shannon?
She'll be back tomorrow. I appreciate you telling me that I'm okay though.
That's nice.
In the Shan ditty Combs trial, the prosecutors are asking the judge to keep the jury later today to make sure that Derek Ferguson finishes testifying. Derek Ferguson is the ex finance chief for Sean ditty Comb's company. They're on a lunch break as of right now. The jury is at least before that request was made at the top of the hour. There are decisions that have to be made in those C suite rooms in producer or production companies around town these days, which is do you stream
it or do you put it in movie theaters? And we'll talk about sort of the decisions that have to be made in some of the different movies that have gone one way or the other for financial success or not. And we'll talk about a couple of the movies that are coming out soon and what those decisions look like. But I wanted to ask, what's your favorite place to watch a movie? Do you would you prefer to watch
it in a movie theater? Big blockbuster kind of movie, or would you rather watch it at home now that you've got your son speakers or a big TV or something like that.
In the meantime, it's time for Terror in the Skies.
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So there's an The new rule for United Airlines, the check in cutoff for most US flights will be forty five minutes before departure. Your bags also have to be checked at least forty five minutes before the flight takes off.
This is specific for United.
You can check in up to twenty four hours before you fly on United, but they're saying that they want to up it from thirty minutes the cutoff of thirty minutes before flight time to forty five minutes before flight time.
It will.
Vary, they say, depending on location and route. For example, the Saint Thomas Airport in the Virgin Islands has a check in time limit of ninety minutes prior to departure. The same cutoff listed for flights between Guam, Honolulu, et cetera. And for international flights you have to check in an
hour before departure. Some of them say an hour and fifteen minutes, some or an hour and a half, depending on where they are, but United says they made the change to bring greater consistency for the customers by a line the current check bag deadline with the blah blah blah blah blah, and if you don't meet your check in time limits, they say, we'll do our best to find another option, but they may have to cancel your flight.
A British Airways flight attendant got a little nasty arrested last week after being discovered naked and dancing inside a business class restroom mid flight on this journey from San Francisco all the way to London.
That's a hefty haul.
Forty one year old crew member not named publicly, apparently vanished during the mid mid flight meal service.
On the A three eighty.
That's one of the big babies, so everybody started looking for Bob or whatever his name was. He was eventually located in the Club World cabin bathroom, where, according to one of the colleagues, he had turned the space into a one man disco. Fellow staff eventually dressed him in first class pajamas because they were available, restrained him in a first class seat for the remainder of the ten
and a half hour flight. The plane obviously landed safely at Heathrow Airport on May twenty fifth, four hundred and seventy passengers and crew on board, and upon arrival they took him off. Police came in and said that he was arrested on suspicion of being unfit for duty.
He has been suspended.
All inquiries have been turned over from British Airways to law enforcement to answer questions. No idea exactly what happened to the guy? All right, when we come back, movie decisions Do you stream it or do you project it?
What would you prefer?
And I'll tell you why studios are struggling with these kinds of decisions when we come back.
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