Phil Bonafede talks rattlesnakes, wild west, gardening and more on “Up Close Show” this Friday (12/20)

Rattlesnakes, dogs, a wild west show and gardening.

Phil Bonafede

That’s the eclectic lineup as local icon Phil Bonafede joins host Gary Daigneault for the Z107.7 “Up Close” show this Friday (12/20). Phil teaches K9 Rattlesnake Aversion classes, founded the “Rattlesnake Removal Team”, teaches a professional Rattlesnake Wrangler class, and relocates rattlesnakes.

He is the founder of the “Mane Street Stampede Wild West Show” in Pioneertown and “Joshua Tree Gardening.”

Hear from one of the fascinating people that make up our unique desert, Phil Bonafede, live this Friday and then as a podcast at z1077fm.com

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Gary Daigneault
Gary Daigneault has been a broadcast journalist for 45 years with awards and citations from the Associated Press, National Association of Broadcasters, Radio-Television News Association, Radio Inc. Magazine, five “Golden Mic” and four “Mark Twain” awards. In 2010 he was inducted into the Associated Press Hall of Fame. Daigneault taught Broadcasting for 27 years. He is President of Theatre 29, six term Past-President of Rotary Clubs, Past-President of Twentynine Palms and Joshua Tree Chambers of Commerce and chaired the Joshua Tree National Park Commission. Gary and wife Cindy live in Twentynine Palms since 1979. They have two children and five grandchildren.