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on all 64,146 of those blue seats. Really? Yeah, right next to the seat number. It says Gillette Stadium. Okay. The World Cup put a piece of blue tape over a lot of tape. 64,146 seats. One of the games yesterday was in Kansas City at G-E-H-A, is that what it's called? Arrowhead. Where the Chiefs play. Yeah. And the same thing with Seattle, same thing here at SoFi. Every sign that says the sponsor's name of those stadiums is completely covered over inside and outside the stadiums. That's funny. Individual seats that they had to do. There is a game going on right now. Portugal against the Democratic Republic of Congo. I like how you just said Portugal. Portugal. They are playing in Houston. England, Croatia plays later. They're in Dallas. Ghana and Panama this afternoon in Toronto and Uzbekistan, Colombia. Late tonight in Mexico City. So far so good here at all the activities around the Los Angeles Stadium and Los Angeles with all our visitors. We'll be talking to LAPD Chief Jim McDonald about how the LAPD has pulled this off. And is it a precursor to the Olympics? Los Angeles on the international stage a few times. You know, there's an article in the L.A. Times today specifically about how. The atmosphere around World Cup activities here in L.A. is marked by unity, I think was the headline. That's beautiful. The run-up, they said, was marked by anxiety over how travel restrictions might play out or anti-Trump attitudes or immigration enforcement. And there's so many people, if you get 70,000 people inside SoFi slash Los Angeles Stadium to watch a soccer match, they're going to watch a soccer match. There are absolute fervent sports fans. and even more acutely the soccer fans who would watch any team play any other team and be completely engrossed with it and not worry about the outside world. It's one of those things that I'm surprised. Well, I'm not surprised. The LA Times is showing a level of surprise that people are willing to forego all of the political BS that goes on and just have a good time. Just enjoy themselves. And as we've seen in all of these games, sorry, matches wherever they happen to take place throughout North America. That's what it appears people are doing is they're having a good time. James Winston, if you pay attention to the NFL even a little bit, you know that this is the most colorful, exciting, fun to watch, interviewed player.

in a long time. He right now plays for the Giants. He's a backup quarterback there. And he did not disappoint. He has been all over social media this morning attending the World Cup. Argentina's opening round against Algeria last night. And he brought a goat to the watch party, a live goat. And the goat was wearing a Lionel Messi jersey. Okay. And he... Preciant, considering Messi had a hat trick last night. He is just... James Winston is just much watch TV. I mean, he is just, if you, if he's, he's, he's, He's sounding like a... I can't even... I can't even mess it up with retelling what James Winston did in terms of his performance with the goat. But he was talking like a goat. He was calling goals. It was a whole thing. It was a whole to do. And this isn't the first time that James Winston has captured headlines in the World Cup. He helped Japanese fans pick up trash from stadium seats after the game on Sunday. He's everywhere. I mean, I think that he, once he is done playing, is going to be all over, all over television. He and Rob Grunkowski are doing a series, sort of a video podcast on Tubey, of all things that channel. It's called The Other Football, and it's an eight episode thing. These two guys get together and talk about World Cup stuff, but obviously known for their time in the NFL. Yeah. That'd be fun to watch. Those two guys going after each other. But listen, everything's fine. Is Gronk really a dumb dumb, or does he just play a dumb dumb dumb? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know anybody who's ever met. You've never met him. Does he have like an incredible business acumen that we don't know about? It sounds like he's got a great team around and we know that. And I mean, whatever relationship he's got with Tom Brady probably doesn't hurt. I know that this is a Tom Brady produced podcast. It's a Tom Brady production, Tom Brady joint, if you will. I feel like he's leaned into this and is not as dumb as he seems. I think he's probably a very smart person. Is that why you play dumb sometimes? Who?

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I'm just, there's a big difference. So that's why. Speaking of children. Yes. I just saw this story before we get to the view. I want to get into this later. A couple in Florida gave birth through IVF. I know exactly the story you're talking of. Okay. Good. Do you want to talk about it later? That one? Yeah. Yeah, we'll do that. We'll definitely talk about it. Okay. They were shocked to learn the baby as not genetically theirs, but they want to keep the baby. I have a question. Now, have you seen the pictures? Yeah. Okay. Do they look at that baby and they're like, I mean, what was their first indication? Maybe that was it was the first indication. I mean, I can understand day one. The baby comes out. The pigment's not there yet. All kinds of different colors. But the pigment comes into the baby. Quickly. Pretty quickly. By day five, you're pretty sure you got a black baby and you're white as the snow in your mirror. Pretty obvious it's not your baby. At that point, you give the baby back probably. And you say something happened here. I've got somebody else's baby. Somebody mixed up. But anyway. Yesterday, Vice President JD Vance in this interestingly high profile time he finds himself in went on the view. Joy Behar. Give me this computer. Oh, boy. Everyone brace yourself for Joy Behar. She's talking about affordability and the things that the president is doing like a UFC fight and the arch that he wants and the reflecting glow. Why is he doing them? When you just, everybody knows that Americans are struggling. What is he spending all this money for? Well, I got to defend the president on the hoax point. What the president said is the idea that Republicans cause the affordability problem is a hoax. And I think that's true. If you go back to the Biden administration, inflation got up to 9% under the Biden administration, okay? Right now is at 3.5%. By the way, too high. We're doing everything that we can to bring it back down to 2.5%, which is where most people would like to see it. He just said he loves the inflation. What he said, Anna, what he said is that he loves the fact that the inflation is going to come down when this war is over. That's what he said. That's not what he said. Are you his interpreter or are you his vice president? Okay, so he goes into a place he's not welcome, to put it lightly. They do not like it. It's a hostile environment. Yeah. So if you want more of the view, they have a podcast called Behind the Table. Oh, boy. And it's the rest of these cackling hens going after each other with their executive producer asking them questions about the previous show, what happened, et cetera. Now. Oh, that sounds awful. Could you imagine? Joy Behar. repeatedly describes herself as a liberal. That's her thing. She likes to say that over and over again in that beautiful, sultry voice that she's got. She says she's never voted for a Republican in her life. And the executive producer, Brian Teta, says who are on this podcast, you told him during the JD Vance, that is, you told him during the commercial break that he should run for president because he has a good vibe.

And Joy Behar says, yeah, but I mean for a Republican, and then went on to say she's not a Republican. She has no intention of backing him personally. I don't, this is the weird logic that she says she has. I don't mind a Republican on the city level because it needs a little discipline. But on the national level, I want somebody with a good heart. So she also says that it would be interesting to see if... I don't have a problem with that, with her telling him in the commercial bike he should run for president. It actually gives her a likeability point that she can see that he would have a shot at it. She says if he runs against Gavin Newsom, that would be interesting debate to see those two because they're both intelligent. I also think her saying, but her saying you should run for president is seeing his reaction to it. Because everybody who's been paying attention knows that it's a competition between Marco Rubio and JD Vance. Who is in the best graces of the president, who's kissing the ring the best, who is going to get the endorsement from him. And I think when she was saying that to him, she knows what she's doing. She wants to get a reaction. She wants to see what he says to that. Even if it's in the commercial break? Yeah, especially if it's in the commercial break. Because then she's kind of a cohort. As a journalist, that's what you do. You know, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, do, you, you, you, you do, you know, um, to, to do your show. Well, I mean, we, we sit here with, with, with politicians and people, and we talk during the breaks and we ask personal questions and we say things, you know. We learn a lot during the breaks. Yes, yes, we do. You know? And some of that's available for air and some of it's not. Right. By the way, these stupid water breaks that they're taking in the hydration breaks that are going on in these World Cup matches in each half. It's a new thing for FIFA. They're saying they're trying to cut back on the impact of global warming because so many of the games they play are now in places that are hot. Well, you've got Norway athletes coming over here and playing in Tallis or L.A. And it's a shock to the system. Yeah. Learn to drink water. But they're taking three-minute commercial breaks that are called hydration breaks. Fox is said to be making close to a quarter of a billion dollars in advertising just in the hydration breaks. Now you know why there are hydration breaks. And it's not because they care about the athlete. LAPD chief Jim McDonald is going to join us when we come back. You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM 640. Gary and Shannon, KFI, AM 640 live everywhere on the IHurt Radio app. There is a fire that's getting some attention. This is way out in the Lancaster area. So it's going to be west of Lancaster. It's called the Bella Fire. It's at about 20 acres right now, but they have issued an evacuation warning for an area that is very close to West Avenue B8 and 265th Street West. There are a few dozen homes.

in that area and they're telling people in that area to get out ahead of this because the potential for this to grow is uh is concerning but right now it's at about 20 acres and again out uh way up in the high desert just west of lancaster we are very lucky on this show that we've got the lAPD chief of police jim mcdonald who feels comfortable enough and uh is cool enough spending some time with us. And we're so thrilled every time we hear that he's going to be coming into the building. And especially now with everything going on in the city of Los Angeles, the World Cup is, we're in the midst of it. And it's going to be an add-a-boy that you, the LAPD probably won't get. Because you haven't heard about any problems, right? The plane has landed safely and nobody ever applauds for that. But here we are. People were worried about what was going to happen with Los Angeles, all eyes on us. Police staffing levels not up to what they should be to handle an event this size. And everything has gone off without a hitch so far, knock on wood. Chief Jim McDonald, thank you for joining us. Now are you... Sorry. What are you doing? I'm talking to Kono. Try one. Now try it. Can you hear me? There is. Yeah, my fault. So, Chief, are you a World Cup fan? Are you a soccer fan? You know, I'm not usually, but when the World Cup comes, everybody, I think, is a soccer fan. So to be able to watch the best in the world play, and for Los Angeles to play a role in that is really, really special. So how has it been with assigning different officers to different spots and how have you been handling that? You know, it's a heavy lift because we... prepare for the worst and hope for the best, work everything we can, every angle to ensure that everybody has a safe experience and an enjoyable experience coming to Los Angeles. And at this point now, we've got the event that we had for four days at the Coliseum went off very, very well. Good crowds, families came out there, everybody enjoyed their time. Looking back on that, that was a challenge going into the whole season here, if you will, 39 days. And then we've had watch parties throughout the city, and those have gone off exceptionally well also. So we're doing as well as we could possibly have hoped for, and I don't want to jinx anything because we still have a long way to go. But I think what I walk away with is... The network, the partnerships we have with federal, state, and local partners that we need to work so closely with has been exceptional. Everybody working well together. You hear about the counter-drawn efforts that we've had. That's something that we're only going to see more and more of. So to be able to refine that, to be able to use this as kind of a practice round for the Olympics down the road, but also for... the type of things that we see day in and day out, probably not to this magnitude, but drone incursions, cyber attacks, those kind of things that most people don't think of until they happen, multiple assault capabilities of people like we saw this past weekend at the White House.

the plans to do that very very scary when you think about that so we have to prepare for the worst thing that can happen and we do our very best at that and we cannot possibly do it alone but Working with our, particularly our federal partners, the CHP at the state level, we have a very robust team that comes together and people with tremendous expertise and fields that were unknown 10 years ago. Any major metropolitan law enforcement agency is going to have a lot of diversity, or he's going to have a lot of diversity in terms of international visitors. I mean, LA, New York, Chicago, all these places. Yeah. How many languages does the LAPD speak? And how does that come into effect when you're dealing with people from all over the world? Yeah, we do have people that speak. We have over 200 languages and dialect spoken in Los Angeles. And you look at the L.A. Unified School District to see that. We have officers who speak most of those, but they're not going to be available. when the need is there, is there spread all over the city. But we do have an ability using the technology we have today to be able to be able to identify what language, somebody speaking, who needs help, and then to be able to respond to them in a way that's effective. So we've come a long way on that front. We still certainly will refine things as the Olympics gets closer. But I look at the use of AI as it relates to language identification and the ability to communicate. And that's only going to get more refined moving forward. So we want to be able to take advantage of the good things that AI can provide and to be able to provide the highest level of service we can. When it comes to threats against events like the World Cup, what is the thought process on that? Do you sit on those threats? Do you not publicize if there have been threats because you don't want more? You don't want attention. You don't want them to know that you're maybe three or four steps ahead of them. How does that work? Yeah, there are so many threats that we're aware of that we pick up from so many different venues. You know, on the web itself, there's chatter. There's different types of express threats and those threats that are not expressed, that we run them to ground. We work with all of our partners to be able to figure out, is this actionable? Is it not? Is it somebody just talking or is it somebody who's planning? And, you know, to say hundreds of threats a day would probably not... understate the issue that we deal with. And they come in from anywhere around the world. So whether it's a bomb threat or somebody, you know, talking about shooting up something or any other number of different things, cyber threats, those kind of things. We deal with those on a daily basis. We have a team that vets those and works closely with our Joint Terrorism Task Force. We have the Joint Regional Intelligence Center as well in the region. And they're constantly running down. The threat squad runs down.

different types of threats every day. When you think about the visibility of the LAPD, it used to be more what you see is what you get in terms of police response to crowd control and things like the safety around perimeters. But now it's almost like half or more is not visible. The iceberg. The work is not visible. Right. So much more of it's under the water that's still. important but you just don't see it right yeah you know yeah our backbone is still the uh patrol function in the department when people call 911 on the worst day of their life they want a unit to respond uh quickly and to be uh receptive and and helpful to them and whatever their need is uh and we do the very best we can in doing that but that's not where it ends. We have to have the support services, civilian professional staff to be able to back them up and then also trained specialized detectives to be able to run down whatever patrol comes across. There's going to need to be follow up to be able to do that. And whether that's a regular crime, a robbery, or a homicide, or any number of other things, we have detectives who are the best in the country on that. But then we also have those who that are doing cyber, that are doing all of these type of fraud cases that... were unknown to us not too long ago, and now they are something we really have to focus our energies on. Most of the public is not aware that we're involved in those type of things. And as we mentioned, the drones and the cyber, those are relatively new, but extremely serious. We're talking with LAPD Chief Jim McDonald. There were a couple of officer-involved shootings that we'll talk about when we come back. Yeah, social media has been inflamed by an incident involving a dog, and the chief wants to. address that and also some interesting things for the summer coming up too. What are you going to do with those kids this summer? You know what I mean? It's a lot of free time. The LAPD has some options for you. You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM 640.

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We're talking with LAPD Chief Jim McDonald, who was nice enough to stop by and bring a team with him, and we've terrified everybody in the building to think that you're going to take us out here. Please, please do. I don't even care if the handcuffs are too tight. You don't get me out of here. So there are a couple of officer-involved shootings in the last two weeks now that have obviously raised to the level of everybody's attention. One of the ones, the more current or the more recent one was the shooting in Canoga Park. There was a disturbance. It was called in, potential domestic violence situation. A woman was apparently celebrating the Knicks win. Still not exactly clear. In the confusion that happened soon after that, her dog was shot and killed by an officer. So where do we even begin? Obviously, we were not there. But how do we begin wrapping our heads around what appears to be just a tragic situation? Yeah, no, absolutely a tragic situation. And I can understand the pain and the sadness that everybody's feeling when they hear about this case. The loss of a pet is something deeply personal. And for many, a dog is not simply an animal. It's a companion, a source of comfort, and a member of the family. And so, you know, I can just say that, you know, a large number of our LAPD personnel or dog owners at home. And in their professional lives, you know, the canine friends serve alongside them. for generations now. They're trusted partners and some have given their lives and service to the mission. But there's no incident more serious than when an officer discharges their firearm. And there is a procedure and a process we work through to evaluate the propriety of those actions. So we're in the midst of that now. We take that very seriously. But certainly we understand the public concern over this. this situation, looking at what other options possibly could have been available. And we're committed to be in the very best we can in everything that we handle and try and learn from every experience that we have. But at the end of the day, you know, the loss of a pet like this, we understand the trauma that causes. And then how, you know, everybody who looks at this is concerned as well. So we keep that front of mind. The last thing officers want to do. when they respond to a scene like this. I mean, the trauma extends to them as well when something like this happens. Oh, absolutely. There's been a call for the release of body cam footage, not specific to this case, but what is that process that the department goes through before that becomes public? Yeah, we release for officer-involved shootings. We don't usually release body cam footage on a dog shooting. We will consider that in this case because of the public concern over. this or normally in an officer involved shooting within 45 days of our adjudication of the case we release the footage and it's on our website and it's on YouTube for anybody to see whereas transparent as an organization as you'll find anywhere in policing as it relates to that certainly I would encourage people to look at YouTube and see some of the critical incident reviews we call them and they can go through it it's a

kind of a giant PowerPoint presentation with documentation in there to include the footage you get from the officer body one camera, the digital in-car video, any of the cameras that are in the environment are all put together to be able to tell the story, allow us to evaluate the case in a way that we never were able to do previously. And all of that is available there for the public. They watch it as they would watch, you know, a movie. play out and you see really looking at this how quickly things evolve when an officer gets to a scene what they go through the ramp up to the situation and then leading up to the ultimate incident and then how they how they deal with that but I think what the public would be amazed at is just how quickly they have to respond to a deadly threat when that happens and you know something that every one of us take serious and hope that we never have to deal with that in our career. And most people don't have to deal with that in their career. But for those who do, it is certainly something very traumatic for them. We were talking about the work the LAPD does that you don't necessarily see all the time. And a lot of that work is in the neighborhoods. And summer can be a very trying time in some neighborhoods of Los Angeles. It's a rough time in some neighborhoods in Los Angeles when there isn't school to go to. And the LAPD has learned that and wants to keep kids out of trouble and wants to just make more relationships in communities. And that's why, one of the reasons why the LAPD has so many youth programs that a lot of people don't don't know about right they involve athletics they involve leadership the development character development all of that Yeah, no, we've done for generations now. We've done a lot. We see the need. And while it's not a traditional police role to try and fill that need, you would think the school system or somewhere else would. We try and supplement that with what we can. And just some of the programs, we have the cadet program. We have over 1,100 kids involved in that age 13 to 17. They gain insight into the policing profession during that. But more importantly, they get disciplined. They get a focus on a mission on goal achievement. They were able to then come away from the program with the level of self-confidence that they wouldn't have had otherwise. Saturday we had a graduation and there was 185 graduates in the class. And I would estimate there were probably 1,500 to 2,000 family and friends that showed up at the police academy with this graduation. The pride in the graduates and in their families was something that just left me humbled. And to see really what our officers are doing out there for kids every day that goes unnoticed. And they're not looking for a notice or accolades. They're looking to try and be able to help these kids, you know, be successful in whatever field they choose. We have a junior cadets program with over 600 kids involved. And those are young kids, 8 to 12, physical and mental preparation to be able to join the cadet program. We have the police activities leave with almost 1,500 kids. Those are kids 8 to 17. The Jeopardy program.

Graham, 224 kids, then we have Police Academy magnet schools. We have over 1,100 kids in that in seven high schools and three middle schools throughout the LA Unified School District. And then the police orientation and preparation program or the POP program, over 130 people involved in that, preparing students for careers and law enforcement and public service. So I look at all of those things going on, and that is something that I think most people aren't aware of. Something certainly I would ask people in the public if they have an interest to look into it. We can use volunteers, certainly. And, you know, we have people in Los Angeles here who are the best and the brightest in so many fields out there. And our young people are looking for mentors. They're looking for people that can tell them, hey, in this field, here's what you need to do. Here's what you need to study in school. Here's the approach you need to take. These are enrichment things. Those are the kind of things that most young people don't get the opportunity to take advantage of. And, you know, here in L.A., you know, we just have so many people who are the best in the business. And if they were able to take a few minutes a month to be able to reach out and talk to someone on the phone even, that would make us such a major difference in so many young people's lives. Well said. Well said, Chief. Where can parents go? I'm assuming just the LAPD website to sign their kids up for these. Or the local station. Okay. Or your local station. Very cool. Well, we're always, it's always such a pleasure to have you and we greatly appreciate it. Thank you. Always a nice time. Enjoy it. All right. When we come back, huge 11 o'clock hour for the rest of the can't take enough. Two hours wasn't enough. Oh, we got to do that story about the Florida couple who gave birth through IVF turned up with the wrong baby and they're going to keep the baby. They're trying to keep the baby. You're more than welcome to stick around, Chief, for that one. They're trying to sue the IVF company and keep the baby. Talk about having your cake and eating it too. Gary and Shannon will continue right after this. This is KFI. You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show. You can always hear us live on KFI AM 6.40, 9 a.m. to noon every Monday through Friday and any time on demand on the IHeart Radio app. What's going on, everyone? It's Bluff here, and you know what's more American than America's 250th birthday? Supporting American-owned companies like SpinQuest. America's number one social casino with over 1,000 games like Live Dealer Blackjack and Craps. They're offering new users a $30 coin package for just $10. Go to SpinQuest.com and sign up today. SpinQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visit spendquest.com for more details. You know what your customers are doing right this second? The exact same thing you are, listening to me, which, let's be honest, is kind of flattering.

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