June 11, 2024 • 24 mins
Fox 11’s Marla Tellez fills in for Shannon! Gary and Marla begin the second hour of the show with the latest on the 25 pro-Palestinian protest being arrest on UCLA’s campus. LA City Council is considering ending a vaccine mandate for its employees. New data pout of the Pentagon shows that U.S. soldiers are more likely to die by suicide than in combat.
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This is Gary and Shannon and you'relistening to kf I AM six forty,
the Gary and Shannon Show on demandon the iHeartRadio app. Gary, you're
full of crap if you think thatsaying something and Agreen with something that there's
a huge divide between the two.By Agreen, you are affirming what the
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person said, definition and basically thesame thing. Okay, but but I'm
gonna make this distinction. Also,she did this and and set up this
line of questioning in an attempt toget him to say yes. So he
did not open the conversation saying this, and she said, oh okay,
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she wasn't. He wasn't. Sorry, Justice Alito was not the one doing
the heavy lifting here. And wehaven't heard the recording specifically, there are
they do exist. Let me seeif I've got let's see this is this
is the version of the return toGodliness, and this is what it's now.
Pardon the room noise. This iswhat happens when you do this kind
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of journalism. People in this countrywho believe in God have got to keep
fighting for that to return our countryto a place of a godliness. Oh,
I agree with you. I agreewith you. Because we look at
like the decline of our society,the decline of a nuclear family and liberals.
I just feel like want to seethat happen and full of great and
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Okay, so let me give youjust when I see this, the mental
picture I have is Samuel Alito sittingthere with a cosmopolitan, looking around,
waiting to find someone else to talkto. Because this woman is driven.
Remember, she has an agenda.She's going into that party with an agenda.
She's gonna she's gonna corner Samuel Alito, and she's gonna say this stuff
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and try to get him to agreewith her. And he's like, well,
but he knows Clarence, I needto go talk to Clarience. But
he knows his role. He knowshis role despite of where he is with
a cocktail. I wouldn't think ofCosmo. I think, I think Martinez
or but he knows his role.He could easily have just said, you
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know, who are you? Like, I have no comment and and you
know where's my wife? This thiscomment also may may solidify a way to
delineate between what he's or how heresponded, and how Chief Justice Roberts responded.
I agree with you on the gotchajournalism. But the woman also interviewed
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John and John Roberts, Chief JusticeRoberts and pose Its basically asked the same
type of questions and for comments,and he basically answered like a justice should
answer. Alto answered like a politician, not like a justice. Elita's comments
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were perfect, really acceptable as apolitician, but not as a justice.
And that's a good distinction. Yeah, he does make Yes, did he
leave his name? He didn't.Well, I appreciate that comment. Yes.
Once again, protests rock the UCLAcampus. Rock may be a little
bit dramatic, but once again peoplethought that this was a good idea to
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go on to campus to vandalize,to prevent other people from moving about the
campus freely. And you can't dothat. And why are people still wearing
masks to hide their identity? Yeah, so this this happened yesterday afternoon.
We're very close to where the otherprotests happened at the end of May.
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Did I get the month right?No, April April, and we saw
tenths go up. We saw reddye put into a fountain. That's right
there, right to be representative ofthe bloodshed of the Palestinians and then right
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away really we you see, policedeclared it an unlawful assembly, and then
we thought, oh, here wego again, right and it was here
we go again because last night ongood Night in La, which is when
I'm on the air eleven pm,our at Laskos was out there and he
was live with me and they werestill arrest being, you know, underway.
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The protesters said that they weren't goingto leave, so they did break
down the tents. But then theyhad makeshift coffins that they were carrying that
looked like, you know, aPalestinian flag was draped on it. They
had body parts seeming like mannequins outthere that they were carrying. Bloodied.
It was a bloody demonstration in thatregard visually obviously not real. But many
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arrests. At last check it waswhat a couple a dozen, Yeah,
last night many more detained, butit was a bigger or quicker, much
quicker police response what we saw.They were arrested on what they referred to
as suspicion of willful disruption of universityoperations, which should have been done in
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April, but they didn't. Thestatement didn't really do anything in April.
The statement from police said that thegroup was tampering with fire safety equipment,
had stripped wires from electrical equipment,and caused some other damage on campus.
Which You're more than welcome and encouragedto protest and stand up for your beliefs
on UC campus, but you cannotdamage and destroy property and vandalize and prevent
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other people from going about their schoolingor doing their jobs. Weird study out
of China or sorry story out ofChina. Four instructors from a college in
Iowa who were teaching in China wereattacked by a guy with a knife in
a park. Jonathan Brand is thepresident of Cornell College, it's a private,
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little liberal arts college in the cityof Mount Vernon, Iowa, and
said that the instructors had been injuredin a serious incident. They were visiting
this park in this town. Thepresident of the school set in a statement
they were with a member of thefaculty of Baye Hua University, which is
a partner to Cornell College in northeasternChina, when this attack occurred. Apparently,
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one of the faculty members accidentally bumpedinto a guy who just happened to
have a knife and then stabbed peopleand the wounds. They all looked pretty
minor because the video I saw ofthem lying on the ground, they were
all holding their stab wounds. Idon't know if they got stabbed once each
year they got sliced. Yeah,so Apple took the wraps off of their
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long awaited new artificial intelligence features yesterdayduring their developers conference. Well, you
saw the plan on words that theydid, right, Yes, they didn't
call artificial intelligence. They called itApple Intelligence. Well played. I think
there's going to be a market forI don't know if you notice if you
try to google something lately that itspits out the AI generated answer. First,
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Oh, I didn't notice that.It's really it is really weird,
and sometimes it's very wrong. It'slike reading English instructions when you're building something
that were originally written in Chinese.They just don't translation doesn't as is just
well, you know, you haveto remember and a lot of people,
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I think, tend to forget thatAI is created by humans and we are
imperfect, right, so AI technicallywill never be perfect, and there will
always be those imperfections, hence thename artificially. Yeah. Today, today
we expect that the l City CanCouncil is going to finally rescind the COVID
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nineteen vaccine policy for all current andfuture city workers. That would be retroactive
to the second of June. Theysaid it would establish a pathway back to
employment for city workers who'd been terminated. This was part of the interview if
you will allow me, the interviewthat you did yesterday with City council Member
Tracy Park. I'm really excited tosee this. This is related to a
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motion that I introduced last year torepeal this mandate mate, to catch us
up with the Feds, the state, the county, our local school district,
and to end barriers to employment inthe city. This is actually coming
to us in council finally tomorrow.So do you expect it to pass.
I'm cautiously optimistic that it will.It's the other aspects of this and you
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pointed also pointed out in this interview, was there are a number of employees
who were fired because they didn't getthe COVID vaccine. Yeah, many of
them are firefighters, and many ofthem are going to be showing up to
the council I hope, so meetingtoday. I've already received some text messages
from folks who are there. Ithink they're supposed to take this up at
eleven am, so we're just comingup on the heels of that. A
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total gary of eighty six employees.This doesn't allow for them or it doesn't
provide immediate re hiring for them.It just says that they're eligible for rehiring.
They have to reapply like anybody else. Do the meaning apply for a
job as if? And I said, well, you know, there's the
issue of retaliation. This was fromlast week. I did an interview with
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the La City administrative officer who puttogether Matt Zabo. He put together the
motion for the council to take thisup. So that's what they're taking up
today. And I asked them aboutthe fear of retaliation, like, if
I'm going to reapply for my jobyou fired me from you know, do
I get a head? I said, obviously they have the experience, they
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know what they're doing. And hesaid, obviously, of course. I
mean the line is no, there'sno fear of retaliation, but can you
trust that go ahead? But dothey go back to one? I mean,
imagine a firefighter who's got twelve fifteenyears experience. Great question. There's
so many unknowns and then the issueof they want back pay too. Well,
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listen, and there are lawsuits,there are. We've had attorneys on,
We've had firefighters with their attorneys onwho have filed suit already. So
more to come on that, forsure. But you heard Tracy Parks say
she's cautiously optimistic. This does alreadyhave the backing of Mayor Karen Bass,
by the way, but this isto catch La City up with federal state
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county. I mean, this wentinto effect for what is it, fifty
five thousand city employees, a numberlike that, a lot of people who
had to get the COVID vaccine shot. And this went into effect in August
of twenty twenty one. President Bidenis expected to speak on guns today.
The timing of this is not intended, but it's something called gun Sense University.
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We see the stage. We seethe stage, so I don't know
exactly what that is, but he'lltalk today. The President will the special
Council David Weiss that was overseeing thecases against Hunter. Biden has also spoken
just basically stand up for the jurysystem in America. I mean, it
wasn't wasn't anything particularly crazy. Therewas a question though that came in.
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Now that he is a convicted felon, will Hunter Biden be able to vote?
So far, I haven't heard anycommentary on that. Oh, good
question. Great. So to beeligible to vote in Delaware, you lose
your voting right upon a conviction ofa felony. However, once you complete
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the term of incarceration or probation orparole, your voting rights immediately come back.
Okay, So as of right now, he cannot, he cannot vote,
he's a convicted felon. But oncehe finishes whatever sentence he is handed
down to him, then well hecan vote again. But so he can't
vote for his dad in November,right because he will not as Yeah,
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assuming assuming, Yeah, still ongoingat that right. Good morning, Gary
and Marla Stephen Bakersfield. Hey,you know, Gary, you're one hundred
percent right. May be true thatJustice Alito actually feels this way in his
heart, but the way she gotthere totally wrong, totally wrong. It's
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like saying, here, have abeer, Oh, sure, I don't
mind if I do. Oh,now, you're an alcoholic, you know,
Like, I don't't know if anythingperfect analogy, but I but I
get it. And the other thingis okay. He he has a right,
he has a right as a SupremeCourt justice to believe in what he
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believes in. When he can't shinethrough, right, it can't shine through
when he does his job. That'sthe hard I mean, we can all,
we all have the right to believein what we want to believe in.
If it conflicts with what the jobis that we're asked to perform,
then that's where the issue comes in. Right. And then finally, Carrie
is such an apologist for the right. He shows his white privilege. Where's
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it on his sleeve? It's justincredible how he will bend over backwards to
keep the status quote when we knowit's not okay, the status quo is
not right. So thooy on youfooie, oh mister journalist. Not I
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don't even yeah, I don't knowwhere where to start. I am wearing
sleeves and there's no white privilege onthese slaves. No, I'm gonna leave
that one there. Good idea.So there is a restaurant called Bliss right
outside of Saint Louis, and Blissis apparently pretty hopin' spot in order to
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keep the grown sexy vibe grown theGrown Sexy Vibe. They've decided to limit
patrons females over the age of thirtymales over the age of thirty five because
the young'ins are apparently too rowdy inthis restaurant. But why not just have
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the same age. Why the menthirty five and women women mature? Yeah?
Of course, hello, yes,I'm well aware of that. Well
aware. Jordan Johnson, who DJ'sWednesday Nights at Bliss under the moniker DJ
Dirty Bird with You using ours,says that the policies have drawn crowds who
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do appreciate the older school acts.I mean, he's the music part of
it. So he's talking about Usherand Tevin Campbell and Bobby Brown, which
is funny because those kids are alllike eighteen nineteen years old in my mind.
Oh yeah, Kevin Campbell was Iloved when he started making music,
I know. But they're the oldercrowd now. A lot of the people
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when they posted this on Facebook,they got some feedback which was, hey,
why don't you just kick out theguys who were a holes? Yeah?
I mean, age does not wantone person on Facebook, right.
Age does not guarantee behavior. Weknow that. So this person's point is
this is silly. It should allbe about behavior, not age. I
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do like this, though. Onthe other side, somebody wrote, if
you can't eat broccoli without cheese,you ain't old enough to get in to
bliss. There is Listen, asyou get to a certain age, there
is There are restaurants you want togo into and restaurants that you don't.
And there are times like if I'mgoing to dinner with my wife, she's
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the person I go to dinner mostoften with. That's not shouldn't be a
surprise. No. I hate goinginto a restaurant where I have to yell
to have a conversation and it dependson my mood. And I don't want
to go to a call. Idon't want to go to a silent restaurant.
I enjoy the am beyond the musicof whatever, the lot of people,
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that part of it. But ifit's if it's too loud where you
can't even hold a conversation, whereit sounds like after when you get out
your ears are ringing. Yeah,yeah, it just goes go back to
a bar in Chico when I'm twentytwo years old. But I like to
feel that. I like to feellike, oh, this is when I
was younger. It's nice and youknow the people who are upset by this,
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by the way, just wait untilyou're older, meaning I wish that
I wouldn't be allowed to get inand I'm still in my twenties. Oh
oh yeah, I know. I'mgonna have to go to more hip place.
It is, But there is aplace in Los Angeles that does this,
Melody's Bar and Grill. I hadnever heard of it until now.
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They do this a thirty plus night, so it's not it's not every night,
but they do have a thirty plusnight. I'd like to get id'd
anyway. I can. Still standingby for President Biden speaking on guns safety.
Ironic timing considering his son was justconvicted of firearms conviction in Delaware,
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so that we'll hear from and we'llalso talk about that conviction what it means.
Coming up a little bit later.Tasty Tuesday with Nil Sevadra and True
Crime Tuesday comes up late in theshow. There is a story you remember
in the Persian Gulf War, whenAmerican soldiers were looking for the bad guys
that were part of Saddam Hussein's government. They were given decks of playing cards
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with pictures on them. Yeah,Cold case detectives in Florida are doing something
very similar to that, giving playingcards to prisoners. See if maybe any
of them recognize any of these victims. I haven't been able to. So
we'll we'll talk about that at TrueCrime Tuesday. Okay, and then Neil
Tasty Tuesday coming up. Yep,does he bring food today? Oh?
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He never bring I know it neverbrings it. Okay us. According to
a study that was published last monthfor the Defense Health Agency from the Pentagon
found that suicide was the leading causeof death among active duty soldiers from twenty
fourteen to twenty nineteen, eight hundredand eighty three suicide deaths during that time
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period. Accidents were the number twocause eight hundred and fourteen deaths over those
five years, and there were ninetysix combat deaths. Now, that would
tended to be a pretty quiet periodin terms of American military might, where
what we were doing overseas Afghanistan wasarguably the biggest conflict that we were still
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in during that time. Well,so far in this year alone, we're
halfway through, or just about fiftyfive soldiers have died by suicide for all
Americans, the rate of suicide hasclimbed thirty seven percent since two thousand.
I mean, obviously, then youthink about mental health and the decline of
it in this country over the years. You know, you often hear the
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stat Gary, and I'm sure youhave too, that it's veterans. The
number twenty two. On average,twenty two American veterans die by suicide every
day. These numbers were put togetherfor the most part before the Army and
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the Pentagon in general. Army specificallythe Pentagon in general put together initiatives to
combat suicide. They talk about aworkforce now that addresses harmful behaviors. They
talk about alcohol use and any otherharmful behavior that can contribute to suicide death
by suicide. In addition, thecombat deaths actually went down from thirty four
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sorry thirty one in twenty fourteen tosixteen and twenty nineteen because deployments, like
I was mentioning Middle East Afghanistan,we had been drawing down forces in those
areas, but that they suicide increasedamong active duty soldiers. So the military
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did put money behind this, thinkingthat money might have not money itself,
but the programs would have some sortof effect on this. There were eight
suicide deaths among soldiers posted to Alaskaspecifically in twenty nineteen, seven in twenty
twenty, and then seventeen in twentytwenty one. The Army surge dozens of
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mental health professionals to Alaska, likeFort Wainwright up in the interior of that
state, and the suicides did godown to six in twenty twenty two.
But this is arguably the biggest issuethat the Pentagon is dealing dealing with in
terms of I mean, it's aweird thing to wrap your head around.
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You're asking men and women to signup for a service like this that they
know going into it is going tobe highly charged. Even if you're not
serving in a combat role, whatyou're doing can be a very highly charged
environment. And of course there's goingto be pressures. Of course, there's
going to be strains and stressors onthese men and women. Why is it
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different now than it was sixty yearsago, fifty years ago? Well,
and as I just pointed out,this suicide rate in the country has increased
right overall for all Americans. ThePentagon started to take more steps to combat
this. So just in September theyoutlined a strategy to improve access to mental
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health counseling and incentives for safe storageof firearms, which account for seventy percent
of suicide deaths, and then alsothe Pentagon plans to hire as many as
two thousand people over the next fouryears to focus on preventing problem behaviors like
excessive drinking that can certainly lead tosuicide and sexual assaults. The other thing
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that they've talked about is it's notjust specifically a mental health problem in the
individual person who's dealing with it.They talk about it is it can impact
your relationships, It can impact yourfinancial situation or those relationships, and find
situations can impact your own mental health. Well, that's why I always say,
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first of all, I wear redon Friday to remember everyone deployed.
It's the acronym. And I alwaysthink the family members of people who serve
too, because their deployment you're impactedby it. Even though they're not the
ones actually serving, they by extension, they are and they feel the impacts.
There's a commercial that's running now,and I know it can be cliche,
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but they say that the second toughestjob. I'm sorry that the hardest
job in the Navy, for example, is being the Navy wife, you
know, being the spouse of somebodywho's deployed Navy specifically, I guess because
they're on a ship somewhere and it'snot easy to get out of there sometimes,
you know, wherever they happen tobe. Yeah, and we saw
a little bit of that a littlein the Blue Angels documentary on the family
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life and a lot of them thoughthe spouses are also in the military.
That's crazy. Yeah, the ideathat you would be deployed in two different
plays with kids. I think itwas the command was that the commander of
the unit and his wife they hadkids and they were just crossing their fingers
that they got deployed to the samearea of the world. Yeah, if
you haven't checked out that is iton Prime Netflix? Yeah, it's on
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Amazon Prime, Amazon Prime. Ifyou have access to that, check out
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This is Gary and Shannon and you'relistening to kf I AM six forty,
the Gary and Shannon Show on demandon the iHeartRadio app. Gary, you're
full of crap if you think thatsaying something and Agreen with something that there's
a huge divide between the two.By Agreen, you are affirming what the
(00:22):
person said, definition and basically thesame thing. Okay, but but I'm
gonna make this distinction. Also,she did this and and set up this
line of questioning in an attempt toget him to say yes. So he
did not open the conversation saying this, and she said, oh okay,
(00:43):
she wasn't. He wasn't. Sorry, Justice Alito was not the one doing
the heavy lifting here. And wehaven't heard the recording specifically, there are
they do exist. Let me seeif I've got let's see this is this
is the version of the return toGodliness, and this is what it's now.
Pardon the room noise. This iswhat happens when you do this kind
(01:06):
of journalism. People in this countrywho believe in God have got to keep
fighting for that to return our countryto a place of a godliness. Oh,
I agree with you. I agreewith you. Because we look at
like the decline of our society,the decline of a nuclear family and liberals.
I just feel like want to seethat happen and full of great and
(01:32):
Okay, so let me give youjust when I see this, the mental
picture I have is Samuel Alito sittingthere with a cosmopolitan, looking around,
waiting to find someone else to talkto. Because this woman is driven.
Remember, she has an agenda.She's going into that party with an agenda.
She's gonna she's gonna corner Samuel Alito, and she's gonna say this stuff
(01:53):
and try to get him to agreewith her. And he's like, well,
but he knows Clarence, I needto go talk to Clarience. But
he knows his role. He knowshis role despite of where he is with
a cocktail. I wouldn't think ofCosmo. I think, I think Martinez
or but he knows his role.He could easily have just said, you
(02:17):
know, who are you? Like, I have no comment and and you
know where's my wife? This thiscomment also may may solidify a way to
delineate between what he's or how heresponded, and how Chief Justice Roberts responded.
I agree with you on the gotchajournalism. But the woman also interviewed
(02:39):
John and John Roberts, Chief JusticeRoberts and pose Its basically asked the same
type of questions and for comments,and he basically answered like a justice should
answer. Alto answered like a politician, not like a justice. Elita's comments
(02:59):
were perfect, really acceptable as apolitician, but not as a justice.
And that's a good distinction. Yeah, he does make Yes, did he
leave his name? He didn't.Well, I appreciate that comment. Yes.
Once again, protests rock the UCLAcampus. Rock may be a little
bit dramatic, but once again peoplethought that this was a good idea to
(03:20):
go on to campus to vandalize,to prevent other people from moving about the
campus freely. And you can't dothat. And why are people still wearing
masks to hide their identity? Yeah, so this this happened yesterday afternoon.
We're very close to where the otherprotests happened at the end of May.
(03:40):
Did I get the month right?No, April April, and we saw
tenths go up. We saw reddye put into a fountain. That's right
there, right to be representative ofthe bloodshed of the Palestinians and then right
(04:02):
away really we you see, policedeclared it an unlawful assembly, and then
we thought, oh, here wego again, right and it was here
we go again because last night ongood Night in La, which is when
I'm on the air eleven pm,our at Laskos was out there and he
was live with me and they werestill arrest being, you know, underway.
(04:27):
The protesters said that they weren't goingto leave, so they did break
down the tents. But then theyhad makeshift coffins that they were carrying that
looked like, you know, aPalestinian flag was draped on it. They
had body parts seeming like mannequins outthere that they were carrying. Bloodied.
It was a bloody demonstration in thatregard visually obviously not real. But many
(04:50):
arrests. At last check it waswhat a couple a dozen, Yeah,
last night many more detained, butit was a bigger or quicker, much
quicker police response what we saw.They were arrested on what they referred to
as suspicion of willful disruption of universityoperations, which should have been done in
(05:15):
April, but they didn't. Thestatement didn't really do anything in April.
The statement from police said that thegroup was tampering with fire safety equipment,
had stripped wires from electrical equipment,and caused some other damage on campus.
Which You're more than welcome and encouragedto protest and stand up for your beliefs
on UC campus, but you cannotdamage and destroy property and vandalize and prevent
(05:39):
other people from going about their schoolingor doing their jobs. Weird study out
of China or sorry story out ofChina. Four instructors from a college in
Iowa who were teaching in China wereattacked by a guy with a knife in
a park. Jonathan Brand is thepresident of Cornell College, it's a private,
(06:00):
little liberal arts college in the cityof Mount Vernon, Iowa, and
said that the instructors had been injuredin a serious incident. They were visiting
this park in this town. Thepresident of the school set in a statement
they were with a member of thefaculty of Baye Hua University, which is
a partner to Cornell College in northeasternChina, when this attack occurred. Apparently,
(06:26):
one of the faculty members accidentally bumpedinto a guy who just happened to
have a knife and then stabbed peopleand the wounds. They all looked pretty
minor because the video I saw ofthem lying on the ground, they were
all holding their stab wounds. Idon't know if they got stabbed once each
year they got sliced. Yeah,so Apple took the wraps off of their
(06:49):
long awaited new artificial intelligence features yesterdayduring their developers conference. Well, you
saw the plan on words that theydid, right, Yes, they didn't
call artificial intelligence. They called itApple Intelligence. Well played. I think
there's going to be a market forI don't know if you notice if you
try to google something lately that itspits out the AI generated answer. First,
(07:14):
Oh, I didn't notice that.It's really it is really weird,
and sometimes it's very wrong. It'slike reading English instructions when you're building something
that were originally written in Chinese.They just don't translation doesn't as is just
well, you know, you haveto remember and a lot of people,
(07:38):
I think, tend to forget thatAI is created by humans and we are
imperfect, right, so AI technicallywill never be perfect, and there will
always be those imperfections, hence thename artificially. Yeah. Today, today
we expect that the l City CanCouncil is going to finally rescind the COVID
(08:03):
nineteen vaccine policy for all current andfuture city workers. That would be retroactive
to the second of June. Theysaid it would establish a pathway back to
employment for city workers who'd been terminated. This was part of the interview if
you will allow me, the interviewthat you did yesterday with City council Member
Tracy Park. I'm really excited tosee this. This is related to a
(08:26):
motion that I introduced last year torepeal this mandate mate, to catch us
up with the Feds, the state, the county, our local school district,
and to end barriers to employment inthe city. This is actually coming
to us in council finally tomorrow.So do you expect it to pass.
I'm cautiously optimistic that it will.It's the other aspects of this and you
(08:52):
pointed also pointed out in this interview, was there are a number of employees
who were fired because they didn't getthe COVID vaccine. Yeah, many of
them are firefighters, and many ofthem are going to be showing up to
the council I hope, so meetingtoday. I've already received some text messages
from folks who are there. Ithink they're supposed to take this up at
eleven am, so we're just comingup on the heels of that. A
(09:16):
total gary of eighty six employees.This doesn't allow for them or it doesn't
provide immediate re hiring for them.It just says that they're eligible for rehiring.
They have to reapply like anybody else. Do the meaning apply for a
job as if? And I said, well, you know, there's the
issue of retaliation. This was fromlast week. I did an interview with
(09:39):
the La City administrative officer who puttogether Matt Zabo. He put together the
motion for the council to take thisup. So that's what they're taking up
today. And I asked them aboutthe fear of retaliation, like, if
I'm going to reapply for my jobyou fired me from you know, do
I get a head? I said, obviously they have the experience, they
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know what they're doing. And hesaid, obviously, of course. I
mean the line is no, there'sno fear of retaliation, but can you
trust that go ahead? But dothey go back to one? I mean,
imagine a firefighter who's got twelve fifteenyears experience. Great question. There's
so many unknowns and then the issueof they want back pay too. Well,
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listen, and there are lawsuits,there are. We've had attorneys on,
We've had firefighters with their attorneys onwho have filed suit already. So
more to come on that, forsure. But you heard Tracy Parks say
she's cautiously optimistic. This does alreadyhave the backing of Mayor Karen Bass,
by the way, but this isto catch La City up with federal state
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county. I mean, this wentinto effect for what is it, fifty
five thousand city employees, a numberlike that, a lot of people who
had to get the COVID vaccine shot. And this went into effect in August
of twenty twenty one. President Bidenis expected to speak on guns today.
The timing of this is not intended, but it's something called gun Sense University.
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We see the stage. We seethe stage, so I don't know
exactly what that is, but he'lltalk today. The President will the special
Council David Weiss that was overseeing thecases against Hunter. Biden has also spoken
just basically stand up for the jurysystem in America. I mean, it
wasn't wasn't anything particularly crazy. Therewas a question though that came in.
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Now that he is a convicted felon, will Hunter Biden be able to vote?
So far, I haven't heard anycommentary on that. Oh, good
question. Great. So to beeligible to vote in Delaware, you lose
your voting right upon a conviction ofa felony. However, once you complete
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the term of incarceration or probation orparole, your voting rights immediately come back.
Okay, So as of right now, he cannot, he cannot vote,
he's a convicted felon. But oncehe finishes whatever sentence he is handed
down to him, then well hecan vote again. But so he can't
vote for his dad in November,right because he will not as Yeah,
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assuming assuming, Yeah, still ongoingat that right. Good morning, Gary
and Marla Stephen Bakersfield. Hey,you know, Gary, you're one hundred
percent right. May be true thatJustice Alito actually feels this way in his
heart, but the way she gotthere totally wrong, totally wrong. It's
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like saying, here, have abeer, Oh, sure, I don't
mind if I do. Oh,now, you're an alcoholic, you know,
Like, I don't't know if anythingperfect analogy, but I but I
get it. And the other thingis okay. He he has a right,
he has a right as a SupremeCourt justice to believe in what he
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believes in. When he can't shinethrough, right, it can't shine through
when he does his job. That'sthe hard I mean, we can all,
we all have the right to believein what we want to believe in.
If it conflicts with what the jobis that we're asked to perform,
then that's where the issue comes in. Right. And then finally, Carrie
is such an apologist for the right. He shows his white privilege. Where's
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it on his sleeve? It's justincredible how he will bend over backwards to
keep the status quote when we knowit's not okay, the status quo is
not right. So thooy on youfooie, oh mister journalist. Not I
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don't even yeah, I don't knowwhere where to start. I am wearing
sleeves and there's no white privilege onthese slaves. No, I'm gonna leave
that one there. Good idea.So there is a restaurant called Bliss right
outside of Saint Louis, and Blissis apparently pretty hopin' spot in order to
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keep the grown sexy vibe grown theGrown Sexy Vibe. They've decided to limit
patrons females over the age of thirtymales over the age of thirty five because
the young'ins are apparently too rowdy inthis restaurant. But why not just have
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the same age. Why the menthirty five and women women mature? Yeah?
Of course, hello, yes,I'm well aware of that. Well
aware. Jordan Johnson, who DJ'sWednesday Nights at Bliss under the moniker DJ
Dirty Bird with You using ours,says that the policies have drawn crowds who
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do appreciate the older school acts.I mean, he's the music part of
it. So he's talking about Usherand Tevin Campbell and Bobby Brown, which
is funny because those kids are alllike eighteen nineteen years old in my mind.
Oh yeah, Kevin Campbell was Iloved when he started making music,
I know. But they're the oldercrowd now. A lot of the people
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when they posted this on Facebook,they got some feedback which was, hey,
why don't you just kick out theguys who were a holes? Yeah?
I mean, age does not wantone person on Facebook, right.
Age does not guarantee behavior. Weknow that. So this person's point is
this is silly. It should allbe about behavior, not age. I
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do like this, though. Onthe other side, somebody wrote, if
you can't eat broccoli without cheese,you ain't old enough to get in to
bliss. There is Listen, asyou get to a certain age, there
is There are restaurants you want togo into and restaurants that you don't.
And there are times like if I'mgoing to dinner with my wife, she's
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the person I go to dinner mostoften with. That's not shouldn't be a
surprise. No. I hate goinginto a restaurant where I have to yell
to have a conversation and it dependson my mood. And I don't want
to go to a call. Idon't want to go to a silent restaurant.
I enjoy the am beyond the musicof whatever, the lot of people,
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that part of it. But ifit's if it's too loud where you
can't even hold a conversation, whereit sounds like after when you get out
your ears are ringing. Yeah,yeah, it just goes go back to
a bar in Chico when I'm twentytwo years old. But I like to
feel that. I like to feellike, oh, this is when I
was younger. It's nice and youknow the people who are upset by this,
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by the way, just wait untilyou're older, meaning I wish that
I wouldn't be allowed to get inand I'm still in my twenties. Oh
oh yeah, I know. I'mgonna have to go to more hip place.
It is, But there is aplace in Los Angeles that does this,
Melody's Bar and Grill. I hadnever heard of it until now.
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They do this a thirty plus night, so it's not it's not every night,
but they do have a thirty plusnight. I'd like to get id'd
anyway. I can. Still standingby for President Biden speaking on guns safety.
Ironic timing considering his son was justconvicted of firearms conviction in Delaware,
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so that we'll hear from and we'llalso talk about that conviction what it means.
Coming up a little bit later.Tasty Tuesday with Nil Sevadra and True
Crime Tuesday comes up late in theshow. There is a story you remember
in the Persian Gulf War, whenAmerican soldiers were looking for the bad guys
that were part of Saddam Hussein's government. They were given decks of playing cards
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with pictures on them. Yeah,Cold case detectives in Florida are doing something
very similar to that, giving playingcards to prisoners. See if maybe any
of them recognize any of these victims. I haven't been able to. So
we'll we'll talk about that at TrueCrime Tuesday. Okay, and then Neil
Tasty Tuesday coming up. Yep,does he bring food today? Oh?
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He never bring I know it neverbrings it. Okay us. According to
a study that was published last monthfor the Defense Health Agency from the Pentagon
found that suicide was the leading causeof death among active duty soldiers from twenty
fourteen to twenty nineteen, eight hundredand eighty three suicide deaths during that time
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period. Accidents were the number twocause eight hundred and fourteen deaths over those
five years, and there were ninetysix combat deaths. Now, that would
tended to be a pretty quiet periodin terms of American military might, where
what we were doing overseas Afghanistan wasarguably the biggest conflict that we were still
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in during that time. Well,so far in this year alone, we're
halfway through, or just about fiftyfive soldiers have died by suicide for all
Americans, the rate of suicide hasclimbed thirty seven percent since two thousand.
I mean, obviously, then youthink about mental health and the decline of
it in this country over the years. You know, you often hear the
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stat Gary, and I'm sure youhave too, that it's veterans. The
number twenty two. On average,twenty two American veterans die by suicide every
day. These numbers were put togetherfor the most part before the Army and
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the Pentagon in general. Army specificallythe Pentagon in general put together initiatives to
combat suicide. They talk about aworkforce now that addresses harmful behaviors. They
talk about alcohol use and any otherharmful behavior that can contribute to suicide death
by suicide. In addition, thecombat deaths actually went down from thirty four
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sorry thirty one in twenty fourteen tosixteen and twenty nineteen because deployments, like
I was mentioning Middle East Afghanistan,we had been drawing down forces in those
areas, but that they suicide increasedamong active duty soldiers. So the military
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did put money behind this, thinkingthat money might have not money itself,
but the programs would have some sortof effect on this. There were eight
suicide deaths among soldiers posted to Alaskaspecifically in twenty nineteen, seven in twenty
twenty, and then seventeen in twentytwenty one. The Army surge dozens of
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mental health professionals to Alaska, likeFort Wainwright up in the interior of that
state, and the suicides did godown to six in twenty twenty two.
But this is arguably the biggest issuethat the Pentagon is dealing dealing with in
terms of I mean, it's aweird thing to wrap your head around.
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You're asking men and women to signup for a service like this that they
know going into it is going tobe highly charged. Even if you're not
serving in a combat role, whatyou're doing can be a very highly charged
environment. And of course there's goingto be pressures. Of course, there's
going to be strains and stressors onthese men and women. Why is it
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different now than it was sixty yearsago, fifty years ago? Well,
and as I just pointed out,this suicide rate in the country has increased
right overall for all Americans. ThePentagon started to take more steps to combat
this. So just in September theyoutlined a strategy to improve access to mental
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health counseling and incentives for safe storageof firearms, which account for seventy percent
of suicide deaths, and then alsothe Pentagon plans to hire as many as
two thousand people over the next fouryears to focus on preventing problem behaviors like
excessive drinking that can certainly lead tosuicide and sexual assaults. The other thing
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that they've talked about is it's notjust specifically a mental health problem in the
individual person who's dealing with it.They talk about it is it can impact
your relationships, It can impact yourfinancial situation or those relationships, and find
situations can impact your own mental health. Well, that's why I always say,
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first of all, I wear redon Friday to remember everyone deployed.
It's the acronym. And I alwaysthink the family members of people who serve
too, because their deployment you're impactedby it. Even though they're not the
ones actually serving, they by extension, they are and they feel the impacts.
There's a commercial that's running now,and I know it can be cliche,
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but they say that the second toughestjob. I'm sorry that the hardest
job in the Navy, for example, is being the Navy wife, you
know, being the spouse of somebodywho's deployed Navy specifically, I guess because
they're on a ship somewhere and it'snot easy to get out of there sometimes,
you know, wherever they happen tobe. Yeah, and we saw
a little bit of that a littlein the Blue Angels documentary on the family
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life and a lot of them thoughthe spouses are also in the military.
That's crazy. Yeah, the ideathat you would be deployed in two different
plays with kids. I think itwas the command was that the commander of
the unit and his wife they hadkids and they were just crossing their fingers
that they got deployed to the samearea of the world. Yeah, if
you haven't checked out that is iton Prime Netflix? Yeah, it's on
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Amazon Prime, Amazon Prime. Ifyou have access to that, check out
Blue Angels. It's really well donedocumentary. You've been listening to The Gary
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