June 17, 2025 • 29 mins
#WHATSHAPPENING / At the capybara cafe, people line up to snuggle the world’s largest rodents. #TCT – Man allegedly admits to killing neighbors at Inland Empire nudist resort over a hot dog. The Shocking True Story Behind Cocaine Air / The four US states where psychopaths are most likely to live.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. LA Mayor Karen Bath has lifted
the curfew in downtown La. These was the curfew put
in place in response to protests against Trump's immigration crackdown.
(00:20):
She says she's lifting the curfew following successful crime prevention
and suppression efforts. Yesterday, she trimmed back the hours after
fewer arrest during the evening demonstrations. As we talked about earlier,
as long as the curfew was in place, or maybe
the curfew made matters worse.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
There were stores.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
And restaurants and all of it just completely abandoned ghost
towns in downtown Boyle Heights.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
People worried about ice raids and things like that.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
That's going to continue, probably, but not as much so
with the curfew in place.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I would imagine.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
I mean, if you're so inclined, that would be a
great option, is to get something from a downtown restaurant
or you know, place of business. Kind of leave those
guys back, leg back up. The NAACP is not going
to invite Donald Trump to its national convention.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
This year.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
That will be the first time in the organization's history
that goes back one hundred and sixteen years that has
excluded the invitation to a sitting president.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
So what else is going on? Time for What's Happening?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Wow? What's Happening? Brought to you by Trajan Wealth. Trajan
Wealth will help you set and achieve your financial goals
for retirement your local trusted financial fiduciary Trajanwealth dot com.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
President Trump is right now meeting with his National Security
Council trying to figure out what we the United States
will be doing in this ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran.
President Trump returned from the G seven summit overnight to
focus on what's going on in the middle He's told
reporters on Air Force One overnight that he wasn't interested
(02:03):
in any sort of a ceasefire, but once what he
referred to as a real end to the war and
to Iran's nuclear program. There was also an American killed
in Ukraine overnight. An American citizen was among the fifteen
people killed in Russian air strikes on Kiev overnight. President
(02:24):
Trump just yesterday suggested Putin be allowed back into the
G seven to make it the G eight again, and
then a couple hours later, Putin launches what is probably
the most lethal attack on Ukraine so far this year.
One hundred and seventy five drones, fourteen cruise missiles, at
least two ballistic missiles hit residential areas in and around
(02:45):
that city overnight, and I said the death toll at fifteen,
including an American citizen.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Hot out today, hot weather and poor air quality through
this week here in southern California. Henri de Carlo, our friend,
says that in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties it's gonna
be a little tough, higher pressure, warmer weather, so that's
when you get the bad air quality. High pressure, hotter afternoons.
(03:15):
Downtown La reached eighty seven yesterday, ten degrees above normal.
Sevens No, no, no, no. We should notice a cool
down beginning on Thursday because the winds will cool will
come in. Okay, so no, and they're bringing cooler air
off the Pacific anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
That's a full It's not one here all the time. Yeah,
can I get I don't think we could you get
an evening with her? Would you survive that?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I don't know how old is Pat Benattardi days?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Pat Editar is in her seventies.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, she got to be what seventy five? Yeah, pretty sure,
seventy five, seventy two. All right, so you're telling me
this and you're yeah, she's telling me.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
There's a chance you're damn right there.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
She looks good. Who's Jack?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Who's Pat Benny?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Elmer, you know where the door is?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
No, no, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, okay. The
most famous song has hit me with your best shot?
You know that one?
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Oh yeah, I do okay, fair, Yeah, okay, that's a
cool name.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
That's a great song, such a great songs. No, it
was a woman, okay, see all right, listen, it's all right.
We're here to teach. We're here to learn.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Gary Bell SI learned this week on The Gary and
Shannon Show is that Pat Bennettar is a woman.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
All Right, you know what, listen, she he has some
big balls on her.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
I don't disagree with it.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Love is a battlefield.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I wouldn't want to face off in battle with Pat Bennettar.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
That's awesome. That's a good one. I like to We
were talking about news.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Sorry, the la County DA has announced some additional criminal
charges filed in connection with those ice protests. Nathan Hawkman
today talked about the dozens and dozens of additional criminal
charges that would be filed as investigators continue to cone
through social media posts and video and an effort to
identify people suspected of committing crimes during the protests or
(05:33):
the protest related events. Also, CHP did announce the arrest
of at least one of the guys that was dropping
cement blocks onto those CHP vehicles. They were stuck on
the one oh one a week ago Sunday.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Fast moving brushfire in Hawaii on what on Maui. It's
on the opposite side of the island where you know
the line of fire where it killed over one hundred people.
This is a fire that started Sunday, very sparsely populated
area land set aside for Native Hawaiians. It's about three
(06:08):
hundred and thirty acres, but it is eighty five percent contained.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Kahi kun kahi kinui is what they're calling the fire.
Speaking of Hawaii. Thirty year old guy had to be
rescued at Hawaiian National Park by first responders after he
fell about thirty feet off of a cliff while trying
to get a better view of a volcano. He was
(06:33):
trying to get a better view of the Kilauea, a
volcanic eruption earlier this month, back on June eleventh, the
volcano started spewing at about noon that day. Lava fountains
reached more than one thousand feet drew crowds of onlookers.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
This thirty year old guy, a guy.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
From Boston, did not have a flashlight or a head lamp,
and he veered off of the Byron Ledge Trail. First
responders were there because they were managing track at the
time of the incident, quickly able to get to the
guy perform a high angle rescue that required rescuers to
repel down the heavily vegetated cliff face and hoist this
(07:09):
guy back to safety and then punch him in the
arm and tell him to knock it off.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
All right, Gary and Shannon will continue. We do have
true crime Tuesday on the way. Remember that couple killed
at the nwdiest resort out there in Redlands area, only
now learn what the motive was.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Never eat the hot dogs at the nudist resort.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I mean it sounds like not a bad idea. The
hot dog, well, it's easy to eat, it's not a messy,
but okay.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
The biggest stories, the best stories were following, all of
them speaking of President Trump pushing for an unconditional surrender
from Iran. In a new post, he has warned, we
know exactly where the so called Supreme Leader is hiding.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
We're not going to take him out, at least not
for now.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
He left the G seven in Canada to huddle with
his top national security staff to decide his next move
in the Iran Israel conflict. Growing speculation whether the US
will enter the conflict offensively on behalf of Israel and
take out Iran's remaining underground nuclear facilities.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
What is it called Florida Florida, Yeah, Foorido.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Israel has already dealt a significant blow to Iran's nuclear program,
but lacks of technology to reach the sites buried beneath
layers of mountain. We have sent resources that way. The
story with that so far is that they are in
defensive postures to protect our forty thousand or so US
troops in the Middle East.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
A three judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals is right now hearing arguments about whether President Trump
had the legal authority to overrule Governor Newsom and take
control of the National Guard. The mobilization of the Guard
came after the protest started in la back on the
sixth of June, mark the first time since the nineteen
sixties that a president was able to seize control of
(09:10):
a state's National Guard without consulting the state's governor, and
of course, in that case, back in the sixties, it
was President Johnson commanded the troops to protect protesters who.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Were marching in Alabama.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
This hearing comes five days after a district judge, Charles Bryer,
ordered the Trump administration to return control of the National
Guard troops to the governor, and then within hours of
that ruling, the appeals court blocked it and scheduled today's
hearing to consider the legality. It is worth pointing out
that the three judge panel includes two Trump appointees and
(09:45):
one Biden appointee, so we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Do you ever worry when you put down your credit
card at a hotel that there could be somehow damage
cause to the room that's going to end up on
your card. You don't think you're going to do it,
But like what if a dog? I don't know, what
if something happened. So there was evidence today in the
Diddy trial that at one point in twenty twelve, the
(10:10):
Inner Continental Hotel charge Combs more than forty six thousand
dollars for damage done to a penthouse.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Wow, forty six grand Yeah, I knew that they had.
When he would put his card down, basically they would
they would automatically charge him something extra.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Usually for all of us, it's like a couple hundred dollars,
they'll put a hold on it for just in case.
But for Diddy, what is that fifty thousand?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
My god?
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Well, if you're interested in finding a new animal to
cuddle up to, maybe you're just an animal person. You
like the cats, or the dogs, or the birds, or
the lizards or whatever, bunnies.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Up to all of that, even a lizard?
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Would you would you cuddle up to a cappy bara?
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Yes, there is a new calf in Saint Augustine, Florida,
claims to be the first cappy bara cafe in all
of the United States. I mean it might also be
in the world, but it allows you to feed and
pet and snuggle Cappy Bara where world's largest rodent Saint Augustine.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Florida Gianna.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I'm thinking we take the show there and we do
a show where everyone cuddles with the kapy Barras.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Oh, that'd be fun.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
The idea for this cafe stemmed from an animal rescue
and rehab center that needed money to stay open.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
See it's for It's also for charity charity.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
The cafes owner Stephanie, said she was surprised at how
popular it became after it opened back in October and
was getting about one hundred customers a day.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
So what we'll do is we'll get like a caravan
of r v's and we'll just make this a road trip.
We'll take one of the mobile units and uh we'll
hit up, you know, places where we can use Wi
Fi and stuff on the way, and we'll just take
a road trip with the show to the Saint Augustine.
You know what if like on our way we stopped
(12:03):
at like cafes that were like animal cafes with different
kinds of animals.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I'm sure in Texas they've probably got an armadillo cafe.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Armadillos, sure, And I also wouldn't rule out goats just
along the way, just doing stuff with goats, all right,
that sounds fun, you know, petting the goats, milking the goats,
just throwing it out there.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
They need to be milked, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (12:23):
How you get the cream for your cast.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
You're damn right, that's how you get the cream.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
What about that pacas Alpaca's great great addition, Almer great edition,
thank you, just petting their fur so peaceful.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
The cafe, the Kappy Bar Cafe, is owned by Noah's
Ark Sanctuary, houses more than a hand one hundred animals.
Now I'm gonna add we've already covered some of the
animals in that Noah's Ark Sanctuary, but they also have foxes, oh, skunks, squirrels, possums, raccoons, tortoises, snakes, goats,
miniature donkeys, lizards, and guinea pigs.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I don't feel the need for the squirrels nor skunks.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
You don't like the squirrels, I don't.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I'll take all the squirrels you will, sure, interesting. I'd
even take a skunk if I knew it wasn't gonna
spray me. You're not gonna know that it.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Feels fear the Oh, that's sad. A skunk without his
he's in a sanctuary.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Ah, that's sad. Though.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Imagine if you couldn't make odors like you do, if
somebody took that from you.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
That's I'm not the one who.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Okay, what never mind? You just made it sound like
I do odor stuff in here, and I do not.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
I don't think anyone's most stinky in there.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I don't think, thank you either of Elmer.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
The dog size cappy bar have become popular because of
their calm demeanors, their friendliness, and their big snouts that
make them look like they're cuddly a bull.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
The snouts stuffed.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Kappy barras had become a fixture at build a bear
workshops across the United States. Really, I didn't know that
that was. We used to have one in our mall
that's gone. I didn't know they made them videos.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
There was always such a racket, right, They charged you
a million dollars just for the bear, and then all
the bear accoutrem is nasty. A bunch of little rich
kids building bears.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
The rodents live in a twelve hundred square foot enclosure
in Hastings, Florida, with a pond. Employees place them in
secure crates most mornings and then transport them to the
cafe in a van. The motto of the cafe they
sell T shirts and bumper stickers.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Ready, motto of the cafe. Is it something with cuddles?
Speaker 3 (14:37):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Is it snuggle snout? Snuggle the snout something like that.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
No, that's probably a good secondary one.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Don't worry be cappy?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Oh, that's cute. That's cute. I see us all in
that T shirt.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Okay, when we come back, nudist colony, fight over the
hot dog.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Murder.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
That's pretty good. I'm gonna stick around. Gary and Channon
will continue. Don't worry be cappy.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
You can sing any time you like.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
No, yeah, yeah, no, there's you know, there's singing ability,
positive singing ability, and I'm so far in the negative.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I'm so far in the red on that chart.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
President Trump meeting with the National Security Council at the
White House today. This meeting, according to the White House,
has been going on for some time trying to figure
out what to do and how involved to be with
Israel's strikes on Iran. At least fifty one Palestinians killed
over two hundred wounded in the Gaza Strip while waiting
for UN and commercial trucks to enter the territory with food.
(15:58):
Six of the seven G Seven leaders are doing their
best to wrap up their summit and to prove that
the Nation's club has still got clout in order to
shape the world events. Of course, President Trump left early
last night to come back to the US and help
get ready for whatever's about to happen between the US
(16:18):
and Israel. And of course the hearing going on up
in San Francisco. The legal battle over President Trump's deployment
of the National Guard in la is continuing with this
Federal Appeals Court in San Francisco. Regardless of how this
three judge panel rules, it is expected that either side
(16:39):
would appeal. Either losing side would appeal to the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
You remember the Alive Dell Ranch newdist Resort, of course,
you do. We talked about it because this was a
newdist resort in Redlands where there was a double murder.
It was an elderly couple at a newdist resort who
was murdered. Does it get better? I'm glad you asked, yes,
(17:09):
Yes it does. This is the murder of Dan Menard,
seventy nine and his seventy three year old wife Stephanie
in August, and apparently they had myriad disputes with their neighbor,
Michael Sparks at the Olive Dell Ranch nudist resort before
Michael killed, mutilated, and dismembered this couple.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
But wait, there's more.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Sparky as he is referred to by many of the
people who live in this about one hundred strong community
of nudists.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Although I guess they're not always nude. No, they're not
always nude. How could you always be nude?
Speaker 5 (17:52):
I could do that?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
You could, sure, huh. I mean I'm not going to
the grocery store that way, but I assume.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
But what if you're doing you're doing work with like
power tools or something, you don't want to be nude
for that, just for safety reasons.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Well, I could wear some sort of an apron sure cloth,
leather apron leather loincloth, leather loincloth.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Okay, in my.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Version, I don't know what what do you think of
when you close your eyes go.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
If you were on love on the spectrum, I would
totally outfit you in a leather loincloth, like in one
of those you know those festivals that you like to
go to where you dress up like a different Yeah,
like like a Renaissance fair but different. Okay, more of
like a reenact reenactment in like a local park.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Got it, LARPing. LARPing. I don't know what that is,
but it sounds exactly with what I'm Yes.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
I don't like that if you are getting on this train. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Not just a neighborly dispute, right, not the limbs hanging over,
the dog barking too much or anything like that. At
at Michael Sparks's preliminary hearing last week this week, sorry,
just yesterday, the Redlands Police detective guy named Tom Williams
testified that about three weeks after he was arrested. After
(19:14):
Sparks was arrested for the murders of Dan and Stephanie,
he told a story to one of the other inmates
at the West Valley Detention Center, and the story went
something like this, that Dan Menard had purchased a hot
dog for him but it was a cheap one dollar
(19:34):
hot dog, and for some reason, Sparky again their nickname
for him, not mine, felt that the hot dog was
a jab at him, making him feel like he was
worth only a dollar hot dog, and that that's what
set him off that day.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Just can I pull the car over and ask what
is a feel good hot dog? How much money do
you have to spend on your hot dog to feel
good about it? Is it a three dollars hot dog?
Is it an overpriced Dodger dog?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
I wouldn't go that far, but I'd say five bucks
is about to cut off five bucks four I would
even go with but about five bucks.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
So you're saying, because you know, if you get a
pack of hot dogs, just a pack of oscar My
hot dogs at the store, and you take those home
and grill thems, it's a good taste in hot dog. Sure,
I'm sure those are about a buck apiece when you
buy them and bring them home.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
But at that point you're putting in the effort.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Is there made with love?
Speaker 4 (20:32):
At that point, I'm also attributing labor costs to that.
If you bought hot pack of hot dogs and made
the hot dogs and the bun and put it maybe
some onions and maybe a little bit of relish, depending
on how I would then factor in the cost of
your labor.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Would you do mustard relish and onions or I feel
like you're just a catch up guy.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
No, no, not a lot of ketchup. No, m'd be
a mustard onion definitely, and probably.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Some sweet rawlish.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Oh okay, no catchup?
Speaker 4 (21:07):
No, not if I'm mistaking if I'm going for the
gore mace, like I want this hot dog right right?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
If but just doing like a picnic day and yeah,
like you're at home. It's no fuss, nobody's home.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
I'm eating it by myself.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Yeah, you're eating that hot dog all alone? Then what
do you put on it?
Speaker 5 (21:24):
The same? More onions.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Sparky apparently told the the fellow inmate at the West
Valley Detention Center that after the hot dog jab he
went outside and struck Dan in the head until his
head caved in, and then Stephanie came out of the
house yelling no, no, no, and then he began striking
Stephanie and Dan with a rake, a hoe, and a hand.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
It seems like a gross over reaction to a hot
dog further more.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
But remember, like you said, myriad issues with Yeah, this
was it's not about the hot dog, is it.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Right?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
But if your neighbor brought you over a hot dog,
like you're out there, you're mowing the lawn or whatever
on a Saturday, and your neighbor brings you over a
tasty hot dog, that's a wonderful surprise, is it not.
Of course you're not looking at that hot dog putting
a value on it.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
But if you also feel like they're out to get
you in the first place, or that there have been
other confrontations between you and your neighbor.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Wait, is he mowing naked?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
You're mowing in my hypothetical, you're mowing your lawn. You
can be naked or not. But the man brings you
a hot dog because he thinks she might have worked
up some hunger.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
I would definitely be wearing shoes. Right, You get some pebbles,
get thrown out by that.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
But even if you think the hot dog's a cheap
hot dog and you feel like you're being disrespected over
the hot dog, you don't respond by hitting him with
a rake, a hoe, and a hammer.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Right, Maybe one of the three, but not all three.
Of the utensils. Now, the judge in the case did
say that the area is sufficient evidence to hold Sparky
over for trial on two charges of murder and one
count of animal cruelty.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
We'll get to that here in just a moment.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Ye's because there's a dog named Cuddles.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Gary, there was.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
How come we never heard about the hot dog nor Cuddles.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
The big meeting between President Trump and the National Security
Council has ended that they spent more than an hour
in the situation room. They were talking about, of course,
the Israel Iran conflict and what involvement, if any of
the United States is going to have with that going forward.
We mentioned that the Pentagon has confirmed that there are
assets that are moving into the area, but we don't
(23:44):
know exactly what role they would take. On Tonight, Dodgers
taken on the padres at Dodger Stadium, first pitch at seven.
Listen to all the Dodgers' games on A five seventy
LA sports and stream all the games on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Used that keyword AM five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Asahi super dry discovered Japan's number one selling beer at
your favorite bar, or grosser.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
We're talking about the double murder of the elderly couple
at the Olive Dell Ranch nudist resort in Redlands. It
all sounds like it's make believe. Dan Minard seventy nine
his wife Stephanie seventy three, were killed, mutilated, and dismembered
by their neighbor, Michael Sparks, known locally as Sparky. Apparently
(24:26):
they were getting into fights all the time over things
like tree limbs, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Neighbor stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Right, Well, it seems like it all came to a
head over Sparky's humiliation over a hot dog that was
offered to him by the couple. Apparently the hot dog
was not high end enough for Sparky, and so he
struck Dan Minard in the head until his head caved
in with a raygahoe and a hammer, and then started
(24:57):
in on the woman.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Some of the evidence in yesterday's preliminary hearing came from
a police detective who had spoken about Michael Sparks having
loose lips while he was at the West Valley Detention
Center that he admitted to a fellow inmate that he
beat about the head and neck with several utensils both
Dan and Stephanie, and then and then took the monards
(25:20):
into the concrete bunker that he had built beneath his trailer,
dismembered her, mutilated him, and put their body parts in
several black plastic bags and an orange home depot bucket.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
He also admitted to drowning the couple's dog, a white
shit zoo named Cuddles, drowning Cuddles in a sink, and
throwing away her body.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Ah but wait, the garbage didn't come when they were
supposed to, so he took Cuddles into the hills, where
he believes the coyotes disposed of her in the natural way.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
His attorney did not present a defense. Huh.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Interesting. Some of the other people that are that are
at that all of Dell what would you call it,
nudist colonies, resort area something like that.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Said that.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
They were all alerted when Dan and Stephanie start started
not showing up to things, And originally this became this
was a missing person's case. And I remember when we
first caught wind of it, it was just that it
was a missing person's case people looking for Dan and Stephanie.
Now one of the people who lives there. Tammy Wilkerson
(26:36):
said that, or sorry, Mary Ferrell, there's another one. Mary
Ferrell said that she had kind of a strange happening
with Sparky Michael Sparks again, and that kind of echoes
what Gail Heidelberg said. She used to work at a
(26:58):
diesel repair place in where Michael Sparks once worked as
a truck driver. She kne him pretty well. She drove
him home a few times. She wrote to Sparks, I'm
watching the news. Something is going on where you live.
Are you in town? That was, of course, at the time,
the search for the missing couple, and what Sparks replied
(27:19):
was it's me committing suicide today. Take care by, And
Gail writes, wait, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Where are you?
Speaker 4 (27:28):
And Sparks writes back to her on text, chopped up.
My neighbors didn't know I had it in me And
then all caps snapped.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
You've probably sent a couple text message you wish you
had back that.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
None of them that specific.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
They described Mike or Sparky as friendly, handy with construction
projects at their homes, just like every other serial killer.
Quiet sometimes stayed in his home for a week at times, so.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
If you remember they was he nude too? Probably at
times they used a bulldozer to tear apart his trailer
once they knew about those text messages where he said
he'd chopped them up, and they tried to get him
to come out of the trailer and he didn't come out.
They used a bulldozer to pull that thing apart, and
when they found him, he was in that bunker, that
(28:23):
concrete bunker below.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Can you imagine the smell holding a rifle, tried to
shoot himself with the rifle. Jammed should have hit himself
with the rake and the hoe and the hammer.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
First before hitting the name lord?
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Who knew a hot dog could cause so much trouble?
I'm auditioning for Keith Morrison spotw Am I doing?
Speaker 5 (28:45):
That's pretty good?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Okay? John Cobalt show hot Dog so much? Yeah, it
just came to me.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
John's up next. We'll see you tomorrow. Stay dry, everybody, blessings.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
forty nine am to one pm every Monday through Friday,
and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio ap
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. LA Mayor Karen Bath has lifted
the curfew in downtown La. These was the curfew put
in place in response to protests against Trump's immigration crackdown.
(00:20):
She says she's lifting the curfew following successful crime prevention
and suppression efforts. Yesterday, she trimmed back the hours after
fewer arrest during the evening demonstrations. As we talked about earlier,
as long as the curfew was in place, or maybe
the curfew made matters worse.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
There were stores.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
And restaurants and all of it just completely abandoned ghost
towns in downtown Boyle Heights.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
People worried about ice raids and things like that.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
That's going to continue, probably, but not as much so
with the curfew in place.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I would imagine.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
I mean, if you're so inclined, that would be a
great option, is to get something from a downtown restaurant
or you know, place of business. Kind of leave those
guys back, leg back up. The NAACP is not going
to invite Donald Trump to its national convention.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
This year.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
That will be the first time in the organization's history
that goes back one hundred and sixteen years that has
excluded the invitation to a sitting president.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
So what else is going on? Time for What's Happening?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Wow? What's Happening? Brought to you by Trajan Wealth. Trajan
Wealth will help you set and achieve your financial goals
for retirement your local trusted financial fiduciary Trajanwealth dot com.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
President Trump is right now meeting with his National Security
Council trying to figure out what we the United States
will be doing in this ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran.
President Trump returned from the G seven summit overnight to
focus on what's going on in the middle He's told
reporters on Air Force One overnight that he wasn't interested
(02:03):
in any sort of a ceasefire, but once what he
referred to as a real end to the war and
to Iran's nuclear program. There was also an American killed
in Ukraine overnight. An American citizen was among the fifteen
people killed in Russian air strikes on Kiev overnight. President
(02:24):
Trump just yesterday suggested Putin be allowed back into the
G seven to make it the G eight again, and
then a couple hours later, Putin launches what is probably
the most lethal attack on Ukraine so far this year.
One hundred and seventy five drones, fourteen cruise missiles, at
least two ballistic missiles hit residential areas in and around
(02:45):
that city overnight, and I said the death toll at fifteen,
including an American citizen.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Hot out today, hot weather and poor air quality through
this week here in southern California. Henri de Carlo, our friend,
says that in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties it's gonna
be a little tough, higher pressure, warmer weather, so that's
when you get the bad air quality. High pressure, hotter afternoons.
(03:15):
Downtown La reached eighty seven yesterday, ten degrees above normal.
Sevens No, no, no, no. We should notice a cool
down beginning on Thursday because the winds will cool will
come in. Okay, so no, and they're bringing cooler air
off the Pacific anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
That's a full It's not one here all the time. Yeah,
can I get I don't think we could you get
an evening with her? Would you survive that?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I don't know how old is Pat Benattardi days?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Pat Editar is in her seventies.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, she got to be what seventy five? Yeah, pretty sure,
seventy five, seventy two. All right, so you're telling me
this and you're yeah, she's telling me.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
There's a chance you're damn right there.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
She looks good. Who's Jack?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Who's Pat Benny?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Elmer, you know where the door is?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
No, no, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, okay. The
most famous song has hit me with your best shot?
You know that one?
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Oh yeah, I do okay, fair, Yeah, okay, that's a
cool name.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
That's a great song, such a great songs. No, it
was a woman, okay, see all right, listen, it's all right.
We're here to teach. We're here to learn.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Gary Bell SI learned this week on The Gary and
Shannon Show is that Pat Bennettar is a woman.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
All Right, you know what, listen, she he has some
big balls on her.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
I don't disagree with it.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Love is a battlefield.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I wouldn't want to face off in battle with Pat Bennettar.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
That's awesome. That's a good one. I like to We
were talking about news.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Sorry, the la County DA has announced some additional criminal
charges filed in connection with those ice protests. Nathan Hawkman
today talked about the dozens and dozens of additional criminal
charges that would be filed as investigators continue to cone
through social media posts and video and an effort to
identify people suspected of committing crimes during the protests or
(05:33):
the protest related events. Also, CHP did announce the arrest
of at least one of the guys that was dropping
cement blocks onto those CHP vehicles. They were stuck on
the one oh one a week ago Sunday.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Fast moving brushfire in Hawaii on what on Maui. It's
on the opposite side of the island where you know
the line of fire where it killed over one hundred people.
This is a fire that started Sunday, very sparsely populated
area land set aside for Native Hawaiians. It's about three
(06:08):
hundred and thirty acres, but it is eighty five percent contained.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Kahi kun kahi kinui is what they're calling the fire.
Speaking of Hawaii. Thirty year old guy had to be
rescued at Hawaiian National Park by first responders after he
fell about thirty feet off of a cliff while trying
to get a better view of a volcano. He was
(06:33):
trying to get a better view of the Kilauea, a
volcanic eruption earlier this month, back on June eleventh, the
volcano started spewing at about noon that day. Lava fountains
reached more than one thousand feet drew crowds of onlookers.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
This thirty year old guy, a guy.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
From Boston, did not have a flashlight or a head lamp,
and he veered off of the Byron Ledge Trail. First
responders were there because they were managing track at the
time of the incident, quickly able to get to the
guy perform a high angle rescue that required rescuers to
repel down the heavily vegetated cliff face and hoist this
(07:09):
guy back to safety and then punch him in the
arm and tell him to knock it off.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
All right, Gary and Shannon will continue. We do have
true crime Tuesday on the way. Remember that couple killed
at the nwdiest resort out there in Redlands area, only
now learn what the motive was.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Never eat the hot dogs at the nudist resort.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I mean it sounds like not a bad idea. The
hot dog, well, it's easy to eat, it's not a messy,
but okay.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
The biggest stories, the best stories were following, all of
them speaking of President Trump pushing for an unconditional surrender
from Iran. In a new post, he has warned, we
know exactly where the so called Supreme Leader is hiding.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
We're not going to take him out, at least not
for now.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
He left the G seven in Canada to huddle with
his top national security staff to decide his next move
in the Iran Israel conflict. Growing speculation whether the US
will enter the conflict offensively on behalf of Israel and
take out Iran's remaining underground nuclear facilities.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
What is it called Florida Florida, Yeah, Foorido.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Israel has already dealt a significant blow to Iran's nuclear program,
but lacks of technology to reach the sites buried beneath
layers of mountain. We have sent resources that way. The
story with that so far is that they are in
defensive postures to protect our forty thousand or so US
troops in the Middle East.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
A three judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals is right now hearing arguments about whether President Trump
had the legal authority to overrule Governor Newsom and take
control of the National Guard. The mobilization of the Guard
came after the protest started in la back on the
sixth of June, mark the first time since the nineteen
sixties that a president was able to seize control of
(09:10):
a state's National Guard without consulting the state's governor, and
of course, in that case, back in the sixties, it
was President Johnson commanded the troops to protect protesters who.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Were marching in Alabama.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
This hearing comes five days after a district judge, Charles Bryer,
ordered the Trump administration to return control of the National
Guard troops to the governor, and then within hours of
that ruling, the appeals court blocked it and scheduled today's
hearing to consider the legality. It is worth pointing out
that the three judge panel includes two Trump appointees and
(09:45):
one Biden appointee, so we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Do you ever worry when you put down your credit
card at a hotel that there could be somehow damage
cause to the room that's going to end up on
your card. You don't think you're going to do it,
But like what if a dog? I don't know, what
if something happened. So there was evidence today in the
Diddy trial that at one point in twenty twelve, the
(10:10):
Inner Continental Hotel charge Combs more than forty six thousand
dollars for damage done to a penthouse.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Wow, forty six grand Yeah, I knew that they had.
When he would put his card down, basically they would
they would automatically charge him something extra.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Usually for all of us, it's like a couple hundred dollars,
they'll put a hold on it for just in case.
But for Diddy, what is that fifty thousand?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
My god?
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Well, if you're interested in finding a new animal to
cuddle up to, maybe you're just an animal person. You
like the cats, or the dogs, or the birds, or
the lizards or whatever, bunnies.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Up to all of that, even a lizard?
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Would you would you cuddle up to a cappy bara?
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Yes, there is a new calf in Saint Augustine, Florida,
claims to be the first cappy bara cafe in all
of the United States. I mean it might also be
in the world, but it allows you to feed and
pet and snuggle Cappy Bara where world's largest rodent Saint Augustine.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Florida Gianna.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I'm thinking we take the show there and we do
a show where everyone cuddles with the kapy Barras.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Oh, that'd be fun.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
The idea for this cafe stemmed from an animal rescue
and rehab center that needed money to stay open.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
See it's for It's also for charity charity.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
The cafes owner Stephanie, said she was surprised at how
popular it became after it opened back in October and
was getting about one hundred customers a day.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
So what we'll do is we'll get like a caravan
of r v's and we'll just make this a road trip.
We'll take one of the mobile units and uh we'll
hit up, you know, places where we can use Wi
Fi and stuff on the way, and we'll just take
a road trip with the show to the Saint Augustine.
You know what if like on our way we stopped
(12:03):
at like cafes that were like animal cafes with different
kinds of animals.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I'm sure in Texas they've probably got an armadillo cafe.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Armadillos, sure, And I also wouldn't rule out goats just
along the way, just doing stuff with goats, all right,
that sounds fun, you know, petting the goats, milking the goats,
just throwing it out there.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
They need to be milked, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (12:23):
How you get the cream for your cast.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
You're damn right, that's how you get the cream.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
What about that pacas Alpaca's great great addition, Almer great edition,
thank you, just petting their fur so peaceful.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
The cafe, the Kappy Bar Cafe, is owned by Noah's
Ark Sanctuary, houses more than a hand one hundred animals.
Now I'm gonna add we've already covered some of the
animals in that Noah's Ark Sanctuary, but they also have foxes, oh, skunks, squirrels, possums, raccoons, tortoises, snakes, goats,
miniature donkeys, lizards, and guinea pigs.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I don't feel the need for the squirrels nor skunks.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
You don't like the squirrels, I don't.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I'll take all the squirrels you will, sure, interesting. I'd
even take a skunk if I knew it wasn't gonna
spray me. You're not gonna know that it.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Feels fear the Oh, that's sad. A skunk without his
he's in a sanctuary.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Ah, that's sad. Though.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Imagine if you couldn't make odors like you do, if
somebody took that from you.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
That's I'm not the one who.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Okay, what never mind? You just made it sound like
I do odor stuff in here, and I do not.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
I don't think anyone's most stinky in there.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I don't think, thank you either of Elmer.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
The dog size cappy bar have become popular because of
their calm demeanors, their friendliness, and their big snouts that
make them look like they're cuddly a bull.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
The snouts stuffed.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Kappy barras had become a fixture at build a bear
workshops across the United States. Really, I didn't know that
that was. We used to have one in our mall
that's gone. I didn't know they made them videos.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
There was always such a racket, right, They charged you
a million dollars just for the bear, and then all
the bear accoutrem is nasty. A bunch of little rich
kids building bears.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
The rodents live in a twelve hundred square foot enclosure
in Hastings, Florida, with a pond. Employees place them in
secure crates most mornings and then transport them to the
cafe in a van. The motto of the cafe they
sell T shirts and bumper stickers.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Ready, motto of the cafe. Is it something with cuddles?
Speaker 3 (14:37):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Is it snuggle snout? Snuggle the snout something like that.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
No, that's probably a good secondary one.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Don't worry be cappy?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Oh, that's cute. That's cute. I see us all in
that T shirt.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Okay, when we come back, nudist colony, fight over the
hot dog.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Murder.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
That's pretty good. I'm gonna stick around. Gary and Channon
will continue. Don't worry be cappy.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
You can sing any time you like.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
No, yeah, yeah, no, there's you know, there's singing ability,
positive singing ability, and I'm so far in the negative.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I'm so far in the red on that chart.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
President Trump meeting with the National Security Council at the
White House today. This meeting, according to the White House,
has been going on for some time trying to figure
out what to do and how involved to be with
Israel's strikes on Iran. At least fifty one Palestinians killed
over two hundred wounded in the Gaza Strip while waiting
for UN and commercial trucks to enter the territory with food.
(15:58):
Six of the seven G Seven leaders are doing their
best to wrap up their summit and to prove that
the Nation's club has still got clout in order to
shape the world events. Of course, President Trump left early
last night to come back to the US and help
get ready for whatever's about to happen between the US
(16:18):
and Israel. And of course the hearing going on up
in San Francisco. The legal battle over President Trump's deployment
of the National Guard in la is continuing with this
Federal Appeals Court in San Francisco. Regardless of how this
three judge panel rules, it is expected that either side
(16:39):
would appeal. Either losing side would appeal to the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
You remember the Alive Dell Ranch newdist Resort, of course,
you do. We talked about it because this was a
newdist resort in Redlands where there was a double murder.
It was an elderly couple at a newdist resort who
was murdered. Does it get better? I'm glad you asked, yes,
(17:09):
Yes it does. This is the murder of Dan Menard,
seventy nine and his seventy three year old wife Stephanie
in August, and apparently they had myriad disputes with their neighbor,
Michael Sparks at the Olive Dell Ranch nudist resort before
Michael killed, mutilated, and dismembered this couple.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
But wait, there's more.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Sparky as he is referred to by many of the
people who live in this about one hundred strong community
of nudists.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Although I guess they're not always nude. No, they're not
always nude. How could you always be nude?
Speaker 5 (17:52):
I could do that?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
You could, sure, huh. I mean I'm not going to
the grocery store that way, but I assume.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
But what if you're doing you're doing work with like
power tools or something, you don't want to be nude
for that, just for safety reasons.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Well, I could wear some sort of an apron sure cloth,
leather apron leather loincloth, leather loincloth.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Okay, in my.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Version, I don't know what what do you think of
when you close your eyes go.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
If you were on love on the spectrum, I would
totally outfit you in a leather loincloth, like in one
of those you know those festivals that you like to
go to where you dress up like a different Yeah,
like like a Renaissance fair but different. Okay, more of
like a reenact reenactment in like a local park.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Got it, LARPing. LARPing. I don't know what that is,
but it sounds exactly with what I'm Yes.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
I don't like that if you are getting on this train. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Not just a neighborly dispute, right, not the limbs hanging over,
the dog barking too much or anything like that. At
at Michael Sparks's preliminary hearing last week this week, sorry,
just yesterday, the Redlands Police detective guy named Tom Williams
testified that about three weeks after he was arrested. After
(19:14):
Sparks was arrested for the murders of Dan and Stephanie,
he told a story to one of the other inmates
at the West Valley Detention Center, and the story went
something like this, that Dan Menard had purchased a hot
dog for him but it was a cheap one dollar
(19:34):
hot dog, and for some reason, Sparky again their nickname
for him, not mine, felt that the hot dog was
a jab at him, making him feel like he was
worth only a dollar hot dog, and that that's what
set him off that day.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Just can I pull the car over and ask what
is a feel good hot dog? How much money do
you have to spend on your hot dog to feel
good about it? Is it a three dollars hot dog?
Is it an overpriced Dodger dog?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
I wouldn't go that far, but I'd say five bucks
is about to cut off five bucks four I would
even go with but about five bucks.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
So you're saying, because you know, if you get a
pack of hot dogs, just a pack of oscar My
hot dogs at the store, and you take those home
and grill thems, it's a good taste in hot dog. Sure,
I'm sure those are about a buck apiece when you
buy them and bring them home.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
But at that point you're putting in the effort.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Is there made with love?
Speaker 4 (20:32):
At that point, I'm also attributing labor costs to that.
If you bought hot pack of hot dogs and made
the hot dogs and the bun and put it maybe
some onions and maybe a little bit of relish, depending
on how I would then factor in the cost of
your labor.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Would you do mustard relish and onions or I feel
like you're just a catch up guy.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
No, no, not a lot of ketchup. No, m'd be
a mustard onion definitely, and probably.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Some sweet rawlish.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Oh okay, no catchup?
Speaker 4 (21:07):
No, not if I'm mistaking if I'm going for the
gore mace, like I want this hot dog right right?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
If but just doing like a picnic day and yeah,
like you're at home. It's no fuss, nobody's home.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
I'm eating it by myself.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Yeah, you're eating that hot dog all alone? Then what
do you put on it?
Speaker 5 (21:24):
The same? More onions.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Sparky apparently told the the fellow inmate at the West
Valley Detention Center that after the hot dog jab he
went outside and struck Dan in the head until his
head caved in, and then Stephanie came out of the
house yelling no, no, no, and then he began striking
Stephanie and Dan with a rake, a hoe, and a hand.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
It seems like a gross over reaction to a hot
dog further more.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
But remember, like you said, myriad issues with Yeah, this
was it's not about the hot dog, is it.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Right?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
But if your neighbor brought you over a hot dog,
like you're out there, you're mowing the lawn or whatever
on a Saturday, and your neighbor brings you over a
tasty hot dog, that's a wonderful surprise, is it not.
Of course you're not looking at that hot dog putting
a value on it.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
But if you also feel like they're out to get
you in the first place, or that there have been
other confrontations between you and your neighbor.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Wait, is he mowing naked?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
You're mowing in my hypothetical, you're mowing your lawn. You
can be naked or not. But the man brings you
a hot dog because he thinks she might have worked
up some hunger.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
I would definitely be wearing shoes. Right, You get some pebbles,
get thrown out by that.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
But even if you think the hot dog's a cheap
hot dog and you feel like you're being disrespected over
the hot dog, you don't respond by hitting him with
a rake, a hoe, and a hammer.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Right, Maybe one of the three, but not all three.
Of the utensils. Now, the judge in the case did
say that the area is sufficient evidence to hold Sparky
over for trial on two charges of murder and one
count of animal cruelty.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
We'll get to that here in just a moment.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Ye's because there's a dog named Cuddles.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Gary, there was.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
How come we never heard about the hot dog nor Cuddles.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
The big meeting between President Trump and the National Security
Council has ended that they spent more than an hour
in the situation room. They were talking about, of course,
the Israel Iran conflict and what involvement, if any of
the United States is going to have with that going forward.
We mentioned that the Pentagon has confirmed that there are
assets that are moving into the area, but we don't
(23:44):
know exactly what role they would take. On Tonight, Dodgers
taken on the padres at Dodger Stadium, first pitch at seven.
Listen to all the Dodgers' games on A five seventy
LA sports and stream all the games on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Used that keyword AM five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Asahi super dry discovered Japan's number one selling beer at
your favorite bar, or grosser.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
We're talking about the double murder of the elderly couple
at the Olive Dell Ranch nudist resort in Redlands. It
all sounds like it's make believe. Dan Minard seventy nine
his wife Stephanie seventy three, were killed, mutilated, and dismembered
by their neighbor, Michael Sparks, known locally as Sparky. Apparently
(24:26):
they were getting into fights all the time over things
like tree limbs, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Neighbor stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Right, Well, it seems like it all came to a
head over Sparky's humiliation over a hot dog that was
offered to him by the couple. Apparently the hot dog
was not high end enough for Sparky, and so he
struck Dan Minard in the head until his head caved
in with a raygahoe and a hammer, and then started
(24:57):
in on the woman.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Some of the evidence in yesterday's preliminary hearing came from
a police detective who had spoken about Michael Sparks having
loose lips while he was at the West Valley Detention
Center that he admitted to a fellow inmate that he
beat about the head and neck with several utensils both
Dan and Stephanie, and then and then took the monards
(25:20):
into the concrete bunker that he had built beneath his trailer,
dismembered her, mutilated him, and put their body parts in
several black plastic bags and an orange home depot bucket.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
He also admitted to drowning the couple's dog, a white
shit zoo named Cuddles, drowning Cuddles in a sink, and
throwing away her body.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Ah but wait, the garbage didn't come when they were
supposed to, so he took Cuddles into the hills, where
he believes the coyotes disposed of her in the natural way.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
His attorney did not present a defense. Huh.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Interesting. Some of the other people that are that are
at that all of Dell what would you call it,
nudist colonies, resort area something like that.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Said that.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
They were all alerted when Dan and Stephanie start started
not showing up to things, And originally this became this
was a missing person's case. And I remember when we
first caught wind of it, it was just that it
was a missing person's case people looking for Dan and Stephanie.
Now one of the people who lives there. Tammy Wilkerson
(26:36):
said that, or sorry, Mary Ferrell, there's another one. Mary
Ferrell said that she had kind of a strange happening
with Sparky Michael Sparks again, and that kind of echoes
what Gail Heidelberg said. She used to work at a
(26:58):
diesel repair place in where Michael Sparks once worked as
a truck driver. She kne him pretty well. She drove
him home a few times. She wrote to Sparks, I'm
watching the news. Something is going on where you live.
Are you in town? That was, of course, at the time,
the search for the missing couple, and what Sparks replied
(27:19):
was it's me committing suicide today. Take care by, And
Gail writes, wait, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Where are you?
Speaker 4 (27:28):
And Sparks writes back to her on text, chopped up.
My neighbors didn't know I had it in me And
then all caps snapped.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
You've probably sent a couple text message you wish you
had back that.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
None of them that specific.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
They described Mike or Sparky as friendly, handy with construction
projects at their homes, just like every other serial killer.
Quiet sometimes stayed in his home for a week at times, so.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
If you remember they was he nude too? Probably at
times they used a bulldozer to tear apart his trailer
once they knew about those text messages where he said
he'd chopped them up, and they tried to get him
to come out of the trailer and he didn't come out.
They used a bulldozer to pull that thing apart, and
when they found him, he was in that bunker, that
(28:23):
concrete bunker below.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Can you imagine the smell holding a rifle, tried to
shoot himself with the rifle. Jammed should have hit himself
with the rake and the hoe and the hammer.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
First before hitting the name lord?
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Who knew a hot dog could cause so much trouble?
I'm auditioning for Keith Morrison spotw Am I doing?
Speaker 5 (28:45):
That's pretty good?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Okay? John Cobalt show hot Dog so much? Yeah, it
just came to me.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
John's up next. We'll see you tomorrow. Stay dry, everybody, blessings.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
forty nine am to one pm every Monday through Friday,
and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio ap
Gary and Shannon News
Popular Podcasts
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy And Charlamagne Tha God!
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.