August 21, 2024 • 27 mins
Gary and Shannon broadcast LIVE from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
A M. Six forty The Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And we are live
this week in Chicago at the United Center for the
Democratic National Convention now Day three.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Full disclosure.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
We got up in the middle of the night essentially
because we did a hit with News Nation here in
Chicago at WGN, which was a bizarre experience. It was
a blind spot for me. The Bozo the Bozo.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Show, So I guess that was the eighties or something,
the original student No, No, far before, before the fifties
and sixties, probably Boso Super Sunday Show.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
So you walk into this TV station and you're walking
through like the bowels of it right to get to
where they broadcast from. And they have all these pillars
in this tunnel and they're all painted and they're different clowns.
It was terrifying, very large clown faces, huge clown faces
on these massive I'm like, what's with the clowns? But
(01:03):
apparently that's where they broadcast the Bozo Super Sunday Show.
So we're gonna be really punchy and a lot of
fun today.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I can feel it already.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Something bad's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I think very bad it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
But I have decided that I'm gonna wait till Friday
to climb the Michael Jordan statue. Oh right, well, because
I saw the Secret Service and they were kind of
milling about around it. And if I get kicked out today,
then you'll have to do this show all on your own.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
You're running on fumes already.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
You don't have the sleep built up to do it
on your own. Yeah, so I'm doing I'm sacrificing for you.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Day three of the Democratic National Convention. We'll see if
they can match what they've done for the first two nights. Obviously,
the first night had a lot of a lot of
emotion tied to it, with President Biden kind of passing
the torch I guess officially at least with his heart
to get Kama Harris at the top of the ticket.
(02:01):
And then last night we saw both Barack and Michelle Obama.
They are arguably the biggest celebrities. They're the biggest people
that were in the room last night, you know. And
this is the thing. The optics for Kamala Harris. Yes,
she's a flimsy candidate. Yes, we don't know what her
record is. She's kind of skated along. She's been under
the Biden umbrella for four years. We don't really know
(02:21):
where she stands on things because when she has taken questions,
it's been a bit of a word soup, salad, whatever
you want to say, a soup sandwich, someone says. But
she has the optics right now this week of the backup.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
She's got backup.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
She's got Michelle Obama and Barack Obama. They've got her six,
she's got you know, Joe Biden bending the knee.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
It's giving her strength at.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Least, it's the optics are that she has gotten strength
this week.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Well, and I wonder tonight obviously the keynote is going
to be Tim Walls, the vice presidential candidate, and he's
going to officially accept the nomination, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
It's going to sound like a real barnb Well.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I think that he's a good speaker in this kind
of environment, in this party kind of atmosphere, this made
for TV show, He's going to do pretty well.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
He speaks to the people that Michelle Obama doesn't speak
to Yeah, he's that folksy guy, grew up on a
farm in Nebraska, that whole bit.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
And I think that's going to be successful for them. Now,
can you stomach it? Can we do more nights of this?
I mean, the thing about conventions like this is if
you're just a casual viewer, you're a casual listener, this
is tiring.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
This is just tireso.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I mean last night, the excitement.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
If I was a person that was excited excitable by politics,
it would be worried, exhaust It would be.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Well, I'd be worried as well, but it would be
exhausting at this point.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Well, and the thing is that room.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Part of the reason that they do it the way
that they do it now is that room.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Is full of those people.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
These people traveled from all across the country literally to
be here. That's an expensive an expensive trip, as we know,
to get here and to do this and to celebrate
and to cry and to be that emotionally involved with it.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Okay, So a couple things with the speeches last night.
Number one, Michelle Obama had the line of the night
when she said, I wonder who's gonna tell him a.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Job he's currently seeking.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
This was going to tell him that the job he's
currently seeking might just.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Be one of those black jobs. I mean, what a
great line cost their mind.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
It's a callback, of course, to when he went to
the Black Society of Journalists and said that the people
coming over the border are taking black jobs, and they said.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Well, what are you talking about? What's a black job?
Who is that? Who are you waving to Kennedy?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Oh, we should talk to her later.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
We should talk to her later.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
That was a line Barack Obama with his line about
I'm the only one dumb enough to take the stage
and speak after Michelle, that was great.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
There was one thing I want to say something about
what she was saying. What Michelle Obama was saying, She
was describing this feeling in the room.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Something wonderfully magical is in the air, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
You know, we're feeling it here in.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
This arena, but it's spreading all across this country. We
love a familiar feeling that's been buried too deep for
far too long.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
It's the contagious power of hope.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
The one thing she goes on and describes sort of we've.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Been in darkness for a while.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Wait a minute, you're three and a half years into
the Joe Biden Kamala Harris administration.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Are we still in those dark days now? Or are we?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I mean, because it almost feels like they're She was
making a statement to run against an incumbent Republican and
that's not who's in the White House right now. It
was just a weird dichotomy. It's sort of a weird
visual that she was trying to pay me.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, because the darkness, it's if she's referring to the
darkness was four years of Republican rule in the past
sixteen years, right? Was it that dark I mean, was
it that did that darkness overcome all the light of
the sixteen years of Democrats in the White House?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I don't know, But can we just.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Have a moment when we come back to talk about
Doug m Hoff.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Oh my god, it's Doug.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Holy hell.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
This guy was a hard I was cringing the whole time, like, oh.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Ah, no, no, Doug. And I figured out who he
looks like and who he sounds like.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
All right, I mean almost a dead on a ringer
for this stand up comedian.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
We'll do that when we come back.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Also, it's not going to be all politics today, all right.
We decided to spend the last segment of every hour
not talking about politics.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
This hour, we're going to tell you about the squirrel spa.
That's right, squirrels already buckle up, kids. So Kamala, well.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
You're gonna jump right into that. You're not even to
talk about the pizza that you had last night.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I'll talk about the pizza. I could do an hour
on that pizza.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
It was.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
It was really great.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
We went to lou Yes and we had gone to
Gino's when we first got here. We're here for maybe
an hour forty five minutes before we had pizza in
our face. And then we tried the other one last
night and you got the deep dish. I got the
thin crust with sausage.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
That's sausage.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
That sausage deserves like an hour. Yeah right, that would
take light sausage.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
It wasn't too heavy.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
It was just like perfect an Oscar and I couldn't
even finish.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I mean, we didn't finish anything.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
And for the second time we gave food to homeless people.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
I feel like we're making a real difference.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I feel like you're homeless.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
Guy.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Totally appreciated it more than mine. Like my homeless people.
On the first night, they were more into you know, meth,
I think, than pizza.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
They were trying to figure could they sell resell?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
They've eaten in two weeks gifted pizza in order to get.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
Drugs on Hungarian Shannon, I think we're all running on
the little funes.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
But my news face because it smells like a porta
potty in my front yard because of Tijuana and the
sewers jumping in Imperial Beach.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
But that's another story.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
The question is, Shannon, when are you giving a Chicago dog?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I need to know pickle spear, the neon green, relish, tomato.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
And the poppy seed.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Wow, all of it.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Let's go tonight, girl, I am ahead of you. We
are going to the Cubs game tonight. I will have
a hot I might have a hot dog and a broughtwurst.
I don't know, but uh, I'm not shutting the door
on love.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
One of the speakers last night was a Second Gentleman. Oh,
this is a song called Second Gentleman, Doug am Hoff describing,
among other things, it's a listen. Outside of this context,
I think this would have been a fun story.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
But this was not a fun story.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
The dating, well, the delivery is awful.
Speaker 9 (08:53):
Right.
Speaker 10 (08:53):
People have debated when to call the person you're being
set up with, and never in history, as anyone suggested
eight thirty am.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
And yet that's when I dialed.
Speaker 10 (09:13):
I got Kamala's voicemail, and I just started.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Rambling, Hey, it's Dug.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
I'm on my way to an early meet.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Oh my gosh, it's Dug. Oh man.
Speaker 10 (09:30):
I remember I was trying to grab the words out
of the air and just put them back into my mouth.
And I understand that seem far too many minutes.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
I hung up. By the way, Tamala saved.
Speaker 10 (09:43):
That voicemail and she makes me listen to it on
every anniversary.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
He went on to say that they the first day
went fine, but he would call and they would talk.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
But that's when she called me back and.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
We talked for an hour and we laughed.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
You know that laugh. I love that laugh.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Is kind of cute. That part was kind of cute.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
It's cute, but there's.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Not Hey it's d that's awful.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Here's who I decided.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
He sounds like Okay, again, this is Doug m Hoff.
Speaker 10 (10:15):
People have debated when to call the person you're being
set up with.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Okay, and then this is who he sounds like.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
I think, going recently to a women's exercise class, it's
going pretty well. You know, I'm not as good in
the class as you might think. Sometimes I'll kind of
skip whole sections of the more difficult exercises.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Mike Burbiglia, the stand up comedian, That's what it is.
And they look alike to Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
So I was just going to say that Kamala Harris
was not here last night for the Obamas. She was
in Milwaukee in the same arena where the RNC held
their convention, and the optics being important because they are,
as a politico said this morning, haunted by twenty six team,
(11:00):
and that trip to Wisconsin in the middle of the
convention here in Chicago was proof that they are wooing Wisconsin,
that they want to win over Wisconsin, crucial battleground state
of course, and this was one of than fifteen thousand people.
So he had the optics of her filling this arena,
the optics of her filling that one, and they say
(11:24):
it really it shows that Wisconsin remains vital when it
comes to the path to two seventy.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Well. I think it was David Pluff, the longtime Obama
advisor who has now lined up with Kamala Harris's campaign.
He said that this is basically a seven state race
and that Wisconsin is definitely one of those.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, because they lost the state.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
They lost the state because Hillary Clinton did not campaign there,
and they got pissed. The people of Wisconsin they need
their attention, so they wanted to definitely signal to the
people of Wisconsin, you matter so much that we're going
to ditch the night the Obamas come to our convention
to come see you.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Speaking of what David Pluff was saying, he said it
actually yesterday outside one of the events here at the convention,
he told axios is Mike Allen that Sun Belt battlegrounds
are back in play. He said a month ago, I
think it would have been hard for Democrats to compete
in places like Nevada or Arizona, or Georgia or North Carolina.
And he says, I think all of those are back
(12:30):
as credible states that Kamala Harris could win, and that
the seven key battleground states would be Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania,
and North Carolina, and specifically Nebraska's second congressional district.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
The visit to Wisconsin in the middle of the convention
also speaks to these the one hundred meters dash essentially right,
one hundred day dash. I guess you could call it
where they have to make every state, all these states
feel important in a very small amount of time.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Hey, it's Congressman Dean Phillips.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
He remembers us, he does, who could forget us all this?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Look at your hair?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Look at my hair?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Well, when we went to the TV station and we
sat down in hair and makeup, they took one look
at your hair. Those ladies in there and they were like,
this is perfect. You've got product and there's nothing we
need to change.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Well, and I was like wow.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
They looked at me, and as you pointed out there
are power tools that came out.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I was like, four people realize Makita made an eighteen
volt rechargeable makeup application brush.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
But I also made the decision of not washing it off,
So now I feel like there's like four pounds of
gunk on my face.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
They put something on my eyebrows.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yeah, well they needed to obtain those things. What they
see those yesterday?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
They were like raw, I don't know, I feel like
there's still stuff on there.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
There is, and you're better for it. I'm just kidding.
I've never noticed your eyebrows before they were a problem.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Later in the show, Gavin Newsom gave one of the
most angry oh my.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Gosh, it's yesterday.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
He was so pissed.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Oh boy, we'll talk about that. We've got not all politics.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Right, We're gonna be talking about those personhood credentials with
artificial intelligence.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
And hype replacements for people in their forties.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Why are young people getting those things done?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Either they're super active or they're super not.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Active, and there's no middle ground.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
No, I think we're the middle ground kind kind of right.
Eight thirty six am. That is the time that researchers say,
you know if your day is after or not by
eight thirty six, you know if it's.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Going to be a good day or a crap day.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
What was I doing at eight? We were sitting right
here wait.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Wait, no, no, eight thirty six what time is it here?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Right now? Where am I?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
What's happening? It's eleven thirty seven. Oh we were We
left the hotel at nine.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Oh, okay, I was stretched.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I was stretching at eight thirty seven.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Okay, So what did you feel. I felt good about it.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I was like, I'm glad that we're taking some downtime,
that we're having some alone time, but we can stretch
and and be mindful and demure.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Well, that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
What were you doing at eight thirty six?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
I was trying to get the internet to work in
my room.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Oh so that's kind of the whole way you set
the tone, because remember you couldn't get the audition.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
To fire this.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
It was a rough It was a rough one.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You're going through things with technology. Yeah, lately I think
and I think that it's letting you down as a
man because you want to make sure that I mean,
as a man, you know how to work.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Everything right, and that's important, and.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Then when something doesn't work, it makes you feel not great.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
That's what we've learned from this article so far. One
of the things that you no.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
It's just that when you know okay, yeah, it's just
that you know, you like you pride your on getting.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Things to work. Correctly.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I like things in control, yes, to be under control, right.
And I did call the front desk and say that
your internet's not working.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
And what did they say?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
They said, just type in whatever words they were, but
I didn't. They didn't explain where to type them in
or what. Anyway, nobody cares about my problem.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Another night of fiery speeches. Last night, of course, the
big headliner was former President Barack Obama.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
I am feeling hopeful.
Speaker 9 (16:30):
Because this convention has always been pretty good to kids
with funny names who believe in a country where anything
is possible. Because we have a chance to elect someone
who has spent her entire life trying to give people
(16:52):
the same chance as America gave her.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Someone who sees you.
Speaker 9 (16:58):
And here's you, and we'll get up every single day
and fight for you. The next President of the United States.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Of America, Kama Harris. I am feeling hopeful.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Yeah, he's gonna repeat that.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
A lot of hope, a lot of.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Change, a lot of joyful warriors out here.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
And the thing is that was one of it's We
haven't seen them them being the Obamas.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
We haven't seen them out in public very much.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
They were supposedly pretty active behind the scenes in the
month of July, you know, post debate, pre Biden deciding
to take himself out of contention, And that is probably
the one of the more notable speeches that Barack Obama's
ever given, and he's given it. He's given a handful
(17:47):
of him at these conventions where he's done pretty well
for him.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
So I thought Michelle kind of stole the stage.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
From Barack Obama.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
But I think it's probably because of all the women,
the women vibes that this convention brings.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
There was a there was a piece in speaking of
women in fashion, because that's how apparently now we judge
women is by fashion, right The New York Time, the
New York Times. That's why she didn't do the interview
with Peter no The New York Times wrote an entire
piece about Michelle Obama's dress from last night, really, and
(18:25):
I want to read to you part of it because
it is a little bit, a little, a little over
the top.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Okay, I'm ready it might shock you, but I would
not have clicked on this story this morning.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
Again.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
It says from The New York Times, Michelle wore a
dark navy sleeveless jacket belted over cropped trousers. The lapels
of the top were d and reconstructed to cross over
the throat in an almost militaristic way. The shoulders jutted
(18:56):
out to frame the biceps. It was both under stated
and edgy, kind of armorial.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
But what is that worth having to do with armor?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Okay, this was going to be a fight her tunic
and oh my god, stop and.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Everyone should gear themselves up to get.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Out the vote.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Who wrote this, I don't know. But the slathering of
the oils and the.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Sad an what a This is the New York Times, right,
and you wrote an entire article on the fashion that
Michelle Obama.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
That is a strong point. This is the New York Times.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
This isn't the you know, one of those I don't
even know enough to know what the left leaning where
all the liberals go to get the things that they
want to hear in their echo chamber Slate dot com.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Maybe is that really?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Oh? I don't know that.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
So tonight the focus is going to shift away a
bit away from Kamala Harrison more towards Tim Walls, Governor
Tim Walls, of course, the vice presidential candidate. He is
going to be the keynote tonight. Uh, the former President
Bill Clinton, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, of course, Transportation Secretary
Pete Boodhagic. They are also expected to address the convention tonight.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
All right, coming up, are you tired of hearing about politics?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Same same, same?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
We will bring you non politics stories sprinkled in throughout
this show today as we try to wean ourselves off
all of this enthusiasm.
Speaker 8 (20:28):
Enthusiasm and listener I love you guys, but oh my god,
you're hating.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
I'm good.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
I thought he was great and it was super.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
Cute and loved loved it.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Love you guys.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I thought it was cute when he said that he
loved her laugh.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
That was sweet.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I guess it's because I guess it's because it's somebody
who also has a wildly obnoxious, annoying laugh. The idea
that someone could like it makes me happy.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
You realize how lucky you are to have found a
husband that enjoys your liver.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Said he enjoys my laughter. Oh well, no, not a
one way, just one of.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
Your loyal listeners. I just heard you guys talking about
getting done up in the makeup chair for TV. Soh
what were you on so I could pull it up?
I'd sure love to see it, and I'm sorry I
missed it live, but if you could please let us know.
(21:31):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Yes, it's because we were on the TV in the
cover of darkness, because.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
It would be it would have been in the five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
It would have been five fifteen. Yeah, didn't we post
it somewhere?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
We're going to try to post it.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
They did send us a clip where we are efforting
so that.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
You will be able to find it on our social media.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
A couple of stories though, that we are following.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
One was that that crazy mega super yacht that capsized
near Italy. Two bodies now found inside have been identified
British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and one of his teenage daughters.
London Telegraph said the wife Lynch's wife Angela, was able
to get out of the ship.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Before it capsized.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Dive teams have been searching for the missing passengers, including
a Morgan Stanley chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife, New
York City lawyer Christopher Morvillo and his jewelry designer wife
Nita Morvillo.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Yeah, there were twenty two people on board that yacht,
and I'm thinking that's a lot of people for a yacht.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
But then I'm like, you're an idiot. You watch below deck.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Twelve of those people were crew members and ten were guests.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
pH is also closed right now. There's a standoff between
the Sheriff's department and a guy barricaded in a Volkswagen van,
one of those weird vans that has the top that
folds up. Apparently the guy was armed with a fire
extinguisher of some kind, and when the Sheriff's department came
out to get him because it was parked illegally and
didn't have plates on, he shot the fire extinguisher at them.
(23:02):
So he's been in there since about one o'clock this morning.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
May I please have some storytime music?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Sure, yes, storytime storytime.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Brianna Ilwell never liked rodents, but it soon became clear
that the squirrels in the neighborhood were suffering from heat
there in New braun.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Falls, Texas, and she started to feel for the squirrels.
It was hot outside.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
She was playing with her toddler out on the deck.
She had a fan out there for them. Because it
was hot. And after they finished playing, she noticed a
local squirrel. He's sitting came to realize the value of
that fan, and that squirrel plopped himself on the railing
to cool down, right next to the fan. What this prompted?
What is now a squirrel resort the arburial rodents and
(24:00):
stop by, cool down, grab a bite, and lounge with
the fan until the heat of the day passes.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
At the time when she.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
First encountered the local squirrel, there was a drought. She
remembered that the animal looked full of relief, so she
has invested in batteries to keep that fan running. After
the first local squirrel and the new fresh set of batteries,
she realized that the following day, two other local squirrels
(24:30):
came to visit.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And why are you looking at me like that? Why
are you enjoying this?
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Do you want to talk more about Doug em Hoff? No,
you want to hear more about the squirrels.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
I don't want to hear anything about Doug Emhoff.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
So she put a video of the squirrels.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
On her TikTok account, and companies are now sending her
free fans to help cool more.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Squirrels down.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Are you giving them food at all?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Or is it just it's a completely new, unforeseen hobby
for Brianna as manager of the squirrel resort.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
She's built little tables.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
She's attached some to sides of trees so the squirrels
can stay outside, bask in the breeze of the fans.
They can munch on nuts and corn and fruit frozen
and ice cubes. Of course it must have if the
temperatures over one hundred degrees. Look at this little local
squirrel splluting in front of the flame fan.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
That's a splute.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
That's a great picture.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
She's placed logs between the trees so that they can
be squirrel paths. She's built a courtyard for the squirrels
to stay in. She's got specialized feeders, she's got some
special wooden decorations from thrift stores in the area. She's
even hooked up a water fountain for the local squirrels.
She puts up the resort. Takes her two hours to
(25:52):
set all this.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Up every day.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Yeah, I'm so glad that the congressman we're talking to
next is like so far away from us.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Because here's insane.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah, this is insane.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
It's probably better that way. Yeah, there's no actual speaker here, so.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
That thank God for that.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Could you imagine what a gift for us not to
have a speaker here if other people.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Heard this show?
Speaker 4 (26:17):
You mean people couldn't hear this?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Wait a minute here anyway, I thought that was a
nice story.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
That's a great story, you know.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I mean, I think that there's two types of people
in this world. People who love squirrels and people who
loathe squirrels. There's somebody that works in our building that
has like a squirrel bumper sticker. I break for squirrels.
Why would you feel that strongly about that and put
to put a bumper sticker on your car? About squirrels
and how you break for them?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Maybe they had squirrels when they were young, like the
squirrels as pets, like an order, like an honor.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Yes, but a tree.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Who has squirrels as pets.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
There are people who have squirrels as pets.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Really well remember velcrow.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Sure, we have an engineer at the station who had
a squirrel velcrow what was his name? Because he would
just latch on the squirrel, not the not the engineer, No,
he would do the velcrow. The squirrel would just latch on,
you know.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, it is a good thing that there are no
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And we are live
this week in Chicago at the United Center for the
Democratic National Convention now Day three.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Full disclosure.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
We got up in the middle of the night essentially
because we did a hit with News Nation here in
Chicago at WGN, which was a bizarre experience. It was
a blind spot for me. The Bozo the Bozo.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Show, So I guess that was the eighties or something,
the original student No, No, far before, before the fifties
and sixties, probably Boso Super Sunday Show.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
So you walk into this TV station and you're walking
through like the bowels of it right to get to
where they broadcast from. And they have all these pillars
in this tunnel and they're all painted and they're different clowns.
It was terrifying, very large clown faces, huge clown faces
on these massive I'm like, what's with the clowns? But
(01:03):
apparently that's where they broadcast the Bozo Super Sunday Show.
So we're gonna be really punchy and a lot of
fun today.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I can feel it already.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Something bad's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I think very bad it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
But I have decided that I'm gonna wait till Friday
to climb the Michael Jordan statue. Oh right, well, because
I saw the Secret Service and they were kind of
milling about around it. And if I get kicked out today,
then you'll have to do this show all on your own.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
You're running on fumes already.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
You don't have the sleep built up to do it
on your own. Yeah, so I'm doing I'm sacrificing for you.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Day three of the Democratic National Convention. We'll see if
they can match what they've done for the first two nights. Obviously,
the first night had a lot of a lot of
emotion tied to it, with President Biden kind of passing
the torch I guess officially at least with his heart
to get Kama Harris at the top of the ticket.
(02:01):
And then last night we saw both Barack and Michelle Obama.
They are arguably the biggest celebrities. They're the biggest people
that were in the room last night, you know. And
this is the thing. The optics for Kamala Harris. Yes,
she's a flimsy candidate. Yes, we don't know what her
record is. She's kind of skated along. She's been under
the Biden umbrella for four years. We don't really know
(02:21):
where she stands on things because when she has taken questions,
it's been a bit of a word soup, salad, whatever
you want to say, a soup sandwich, someone says. But
she has the optics right now this week of the backup.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
She's got backup.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
She's got Michelle Obama and Barack Obama. They've got her six,
she's got you know, Joe Biden bending the knee.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
It's giving her strength at.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Least, it's the optics are that she has gotten strength
this week.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Well, and I wonder tonight obviously the keynote is going
to be Tim Walls, the vice presidential candidate, and he's
going to officially accept the nomination, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
It's going to sound like a real barnb Well.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I think that he's a good speaker in this kind
of environment, in this party kind of atmosphere, this made
for TV show, He's going to do pretty well.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
He speaks to the people that Michelle Obama doesn't speak
to Yeah, he's that folksy guy, grew up on a
farm in Nebraska, that whole bit.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
And I think that's going to be successful for them. Now,
can you stomach it? Can we do more nights of this?
I mean, the thing about conventions like this is if
you're just a casual viewer, you're a casual listener, this
is tiring.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
This is just tireso.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I mean last night, the excitement.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
If I was a person that was excited excitable by politics,
it would be worried, exhaust It would be.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Well, I'd be worried as well, but it would be
exhausting at this point.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Well, and the thing is that room.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Part of the reason that they do it the way
that they do it now is that room.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Is full of those people.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
These people traveled from all across the country literally to
be here. That's an expensive an expensive trip, as we know,
to get here and to do this and to celebrate
and to cry and to be that emotionally involved with it.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Okay, So a couple things with the speeches last night.
Number one, Michelle Obama had the line of the night
when she said, I wonder who's gonna tell him a.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Job he's currently seeking.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
This was going to tell him that the job he's
currently seeking might just.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Be one of those black jobs. I mean, what a
great line cost their mind.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
It's a callback, of course, to when he went to
the Black Society of Journalists and said that the people
coming over the border are taking black jobs, and they said.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Well, what are you talking about? What's a black job?
Who is that? Who are you waving to Kennedy?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Oh, we should talk to her later.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
We should talk to her later.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
That was a line Barack Obama with his line about
I'm the only one dumb enough to take the stage
and speak after Michelle, that was great.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
There was one thing I want to say something about
what she was saying. What Michelle Obama was saying, She
was describing this feeling in the room.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Something wonderfully magical is in the air, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
You know, we're feeling it here in.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
This arena, but it's spreading all across this country. We
love a familiar feeling that's been buried too deep for
far too long.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
It's the contagious power of hope.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
The one thing she goes on and describes sort of we've.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Been in darkness for a while.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Wait a minute, you're three and a half years into
the Joe Biden Kamala Harris administration.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Are we still in those dark days now? Or are we?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I mean, because it almost feels like they're She was
making a statement to run against an incumbent Republican and
that's not who's in the White House right now. It
was just a weird dichotomy. It's sort of a weird
visual that she was trying to pay me.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, because the darkness, it's if she's referring to the
darkness was four years of Republican rule in the past
sixteen years, right? Was it that dark I mean, was
it that did that darkness overcome all the light of
the sixteen years of Democrats in the White House?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I don't know, But can we just.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Have a moment when we come back to talk about
Doug m Hoff.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Oh my god, it's Doug.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Holy hell.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
This guy was a hard I was cringing the whole time, like, oh.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Ah, no, no, Doug. And I figured out who he
looks like and who he sounds like.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
All right, I mean almost a dead on a ringer
for this stand up comedian.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
We'll do that when we come back.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Also, it's not going to be all politics today, all right.
We decided to spend the last segment of every hour
not talking about politics.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
This hour, we're going to tell you about the squirrel spa.
That's right, squirrels already buckle up, kids. So Kamala, well.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
You're gonna jump right into that. You're not even to
talk about the pizza that you had last night.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I'll talk about the pizza. I could do an hour
on that pizza.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
It was.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
It was really great.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
We went to lou Yes and we had gone to
Gino's when we first got here. We're here for maybe
an hour forty five minutes before we had pizza in
our face. And then we tried the other one last
night and you got the deep dish. I got the
thin crust with sausage.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
That's sausage.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
That sausage deserves like an hour. Yeah right, that would
take light sausage.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
It wasn't too heavy.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
It was just like perfect an Oscar and I couldn't
even finish.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I mean, we didn't finish anything.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
And for the second time we gave food to homeless people.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
I feel like we're making a real difference.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I feel like you're homeless.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
Guy.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Totally appreciated it more than mine. Like my homeless people.
On the first night, they were more into you know, meth,
I think, than pizza.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
They were trying to figure could they sell resell?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
They've eaten in two weeks gifted pizza in order to get.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
Drugs on Hungarian Shannon, I think we're all running on
the little funes.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
But my news face because it smells like a porta
potty in my front yard because of Tijuana and the
sewers jumping in Imperial Beach.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
But that's another story.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
The question is, Shannon, when are you giving a Chicago dog?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I need to know pickle spear, the neon green, relish, tomato.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
And the poppy seed.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Wow, all of it.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Let's go tonight, girl, I am ahead of you. We
are going to the Cubs game tonight. I will have
a hot I might have a hot dog and a broughtwurst.
I don't know, but uh, I'm not shutting the door
on love.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
One of the speakers last night was a Second Gentleman. Oh,
this is a song called Second Gentleman, Doug am Hoff describing,
among other things, it's a listen. Outside of this context,
I think this would have been a fun story.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
But this was not a fun story.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
The dating, well, the delivery is awful.
Speaker 9 (08:53):
Right.
Speaker 10 (08:53):
People have debated when to call the person you're being
set up with, and never in history, as anyone suggested
eight thirty am.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
And yet that's when I dialed.
Speaker 10 (09:13):
I got Kamala's voicemail, and I just started.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Rambling, Hey, it's Dug.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
I'm on my way to an early meet.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Oh my gosh, it's Dug. Oh man.
Speaker 10 (09:30):
I remember I was trying to grab the words out
of the air and just put them back into my mouth.
And I understand that seem far too many minutes.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
I hung up. By the way, Tamala saved.
Speaker 10 (09:43):
That voicemail and she makes me listen to it on
every anniversary.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
He went on to say that they the first day
went fine, but he would call and they would talk.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
But that's when she called me back and.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
We talked for an hour and we laughed.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
You know that laugh. I love that laugh.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Is kind of cute. That part was kind of cute.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
It's cute, but there's.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Not Hey it's d that's awful.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Here's who I decided.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
He sounds like Okay, again, this is Doug m Hoff.
Speaker 10 (10:15):
People have debated when to call the person you're being
set up with.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Okay, and then this is who he sounds like.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
I think, going recently to a women's exercise class, it's
going pretty well. You know, I'm not as good in
the class as you might think. Sometimes I'll kind of
skip whole sections of the more difficult exercises.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Mike Burbiglia, the stand up comedian, That's what it is.
And they look alike to Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
So I was just going to say that Kamala Harris
was not here last night for the Obamas. She was
in Milwaukee in the same arena where the RNC held
their convention, and the optics being important because they are,
as a politico said this morning, haunted by twenty six team,
(11:00):
and that trip to Wisconsin in the middle of the
convention here in Chicago was proof that they are wooing Wisconsin,
that they want to win over Wisconsin, crucial battleground state
of course, and this was one of than fifteen thousand people.
So he had the optics of her filling this arena,
the optics of her filling that one, and they say
(11:24):
it really it shows that Wisconsin remains vital when it
comes to the path to two seventy.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Well. I think it was David Pluff, the longtime Obama
advisor who has now lined up with Kamala Harris's campaign.
He said that this is basically a seven state race
and that Wisconsin is definitely one of those.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, because they lost the state.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
They lost the state because Hillary Clinton did not campaign there,
and they got pissed. The people of Wisconsin they need
their attention, so they wanted to definitely signal to the
people of Wisconsin, you matter so much that we're going
to ditch the night the Obamas come to our convention
to come see you.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Speaking of what David Pluff was saying, he said it
actually yesterday outside one of the events here at the convention,
he told axios is Mike Allen that Sun Belt battlegrounds
are back in play. He said a month ago, I
think it would have been hard for Democrats to compete
in places like Nevada or Arizona, or Georgia or North Carolina.
And he says, I think all of those are back
(12:30):
as credible states that Kamala Harris could win, and that
the seven key battleground states would be Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania,
and North Carolina, and specifically Nebraska's second congressional district.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
The visit to Wisconsin in the middle of the convention
also speaks to these the one hundred meters dash essentially right,
one hundred day dash. I guess you could call it
where they have to make every state, all these states
feel important in a very small amount of time.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Hey, it's Congressman Dean Phillips.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
He remembers us, he does, who could forget us all this?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Look at your hair?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Look at my hair?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Well, when we went to the TV station and we
sat down in hair and makeup, they took one look
at your hair. Those ladies in there and they were like,
this is perfect. You've got product and there's nothing we
need to change.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Well, and I was like wow.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
They looked at me, and as you pointed out there
are power tools that came out.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I was like, four people realize Makita made an eighteen
volt rechargeable makeup application brush.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
But I also made the decision of not washing it off,
So now I feel like there's like four pounds of
gunk on my face.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
They put something on my eyebrows.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yeah, well they needed to obtain those things. What they
see those yesterday?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
They were like raw, I don't know, I feel like
there's still stuff on there.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
There is, and you're better for it. I'm just kidding.
I've never noticed your eyebrows before they were a problem.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Later in the show, Gavin Newsom gave one of the
most angry oh my.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Gosh, it's yesterday.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
He was so pissed.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Oh boy, we'll talk about that. We've got not all politics.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Right, We're gonna be talking about those personhood credentials with
artificial intelligence.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
And hype replacements for people in their forties.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Why are young people getting those things done?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Either they're super active or they're super not.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Active, and there's no middle ground.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
No, I think we're the middle ground kind kind of right.
Eight thirty six am. That is the time that researchers say,
you know if your day is after or not by
eight thirty six, you know if it's.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Going to be a good day or a crap day.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
What was I doing at eight? We were sitting right
here wait.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Wait, no, no, eight thirty six what time is it here?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Right now? Where am I?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
What's happening? It's eleven thirty seven. Oh we were We
left the hotel at nine.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Oh, okay, I was stretched.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I was stretching at eight thirty seven.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Okay, So what did you feel. I felt good about it.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I was like, I'm glad that we're taking some downtime,
that we're having some alone time, but we can stretch
and and be mindful and demure.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Well, that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
What were you doing at eight thirty six?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
I was trying to get the internet to work in
my room.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Oh so that's kind of the whole way you set
the tone, because remember you couldn't get the audition.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
To fire this.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
It was a rough It was a rough one.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You're going through things with technology. Yeah, lately I think
and I think that it's letting you down as a
man because you want to make sure that I mean,
as a man, you know how to work.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Everything right, and that's important, and.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Then when something doesn't work, it makes you feel not great.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
That's what we've learned from this article so far. One
of the things that you no.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
It's just that when you know okay, yeah, it's just
that you know, you like you pride your on getting.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Things to work. Correctly.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I like things in control, yes, to be under control, right.
And I did call the front desk and say that
your internet's not working.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
And what did they say?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
They said, just type in whatever words they were, but
I didn't. They didn't explain where to type them in
or what. Anyway, nobody cares about my problem.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Another night of fiery speeches. Last night, of course, the
big headliner was former President Barack Obama.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
I am feeling hopeful.
Speaker 9 (16:30):
Because this convention has always been pretty good to kids
with funny names who believe in a country where anything
is possible. Because we have a chance to elect someone
who has spent her entire life trying to give people
(16:52):
the same chance as America gave her.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Someone who sees you.
Speaker 9 (16:58):
And here's you, and we'll get up every single day
and fight for you. The next President of the United States.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Of America, Kama Harris. I am feeling hopeful.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Yeah, he's gonna repeat that.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
A lot of hope, a lot of.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Change, a lot of joyful warriors out here.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
And the thing is that was one of it's We
haven't seen them them being the Obamas.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
We haven't seen them out in public very much.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
They were supposedly pretty active behind the scenes in the
month of July, you know, post debate, pre Biden deciding
to take himself out of contention, And that is probably
the one of the more notable speeches that Barack Obama's
ever given, and he's given it. He's given a handful
(17:47):
of him at these conventions where he's done pretty well
for him.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
So I thought Michelle kind of stole the stage.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
From Barack Obama.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
But I think it's probably because of all the women,
the women vibes that this convention brings.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
There was a there was a piece in speaking of
women in fashion, because that's how apparently now we judge
women is by fashion, right The New York Time, the
New York Times. That's why she didn't do the interview
with Peter no The New York Times wrote an entire
piece about Michelle Obama's dress from last night, really, and
(18:25):
I want to read to you part of it because
it is a little bit, a little, a little over
the top.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Okay, I'm ready it might shock you, but I would
not have clicked on this story this morning.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
Again.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
It says from The New York Times, Michelle wore a
dark navy sleeveless jacket belted over cropped trousers. The lapels
of the top were d and reconstructed to cross over
the throat in an almost militaristic way. The shoulders jutted
(18:56):
out to frame the biceps. It was both under stated
and edgy, kind of armorial.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
But what is that worth having to do with armor?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Okay, this was going to be a fight her tunic
and oh my god, stop and.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Everyone should gear themselves up to get.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Out the vote.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Who wrote this, I don't know. But the slathering of
the oils and the.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Sad an what a This is the New York Times, right,
and you wrote an entire article on the fashion that
Michelle Obama.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
That is a strong point. This is the New York Times.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
This isn't the you know, one of those I don't
even know enough to know what the left leaning where
all the liberals go to get the things that they
want to hear in their echo chamber Slate dot com.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Maybe is that really?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Oh? I don't know that.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
So tonight the focus is going to shift away a
bit away from Kamala Harrison more towards Tim Walls, Governor
Tim Walls, of course, the vice presidential candidate. He is
going to be the keynote tonight. Uh, the former President
Bill Clinton, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, of course, Transportation Secretary
Pete Boodhagic. They are also expected to address the convention tonight.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
All right, coming up, are you tired of hearing about politics?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Same same, same?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
We will bring you non politics stories sprinkled in throughout
this show today as we try to wean ourselves off
all of this enthusiasm.
Speaker 8 (20:28):
Enthusiasm and listener I love you guys, but oh my god,
you're hating.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
I'm good.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
I thought he was great and it was super.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
Cute and loved loved it.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Love you guys.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I thought it was cute when he said that he
loved her laugh.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
That was sweet.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I guess it's because I guess it's because it's somebody
who also has a wildly obnoxious, annoying laugh. The idea
that someone could like it makes me happy.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
You realize how lucky you are to have found a
husband that enjoys your liver.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Said he enjoys my laughter. Oh well, no, not a
one way, just one of.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
Your loyal listeners. I just heard you guys talking about
getting done up in the makeup chair for TV. Soh
what were you on so I could pull it up?
I'd sure love to see it, and I'm sorry I
missed it live, but if you could please let us know.
(21:31):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Yes, it's because we were on the TV in the
cover of darkness, because.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
It would be it would have been in the five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
It would have been five fifteen. Yeah, didn't we post
it somewhere?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
We're going to try to post it.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
They did send us a clip where we are efforting
so that.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
You will be able to find it on our social media.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
A couple of stories though, that we are following.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
One was that that crazy mega super yacht that capsized
near Italy. Two bodies now found inside have been identified
British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and one of his teenage daughters.
London Telegraph said the wife Lynch's wife Angela, was able
to get out of the ship.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Before it capsized.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Dive teams have been searching for the missing passengers, including
a Morgan Stanley chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife, New
York City lawyer Christopher Morvillo and his jewelry designer wife
Nita Morvillo.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Yeah, there were twenty two people on board that yacht,
and I'm thinking that's a lot of people for a yacht.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
But then I'm like, you're an idiot. You watch below deck.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Twelve of those people were crew members and ten were guests.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
pH is also closed right now. There's a standoff between
the Sheriff's department and a guy barricaded in a Volkswagen van,
one of those weird vans that has the top that
folds up. Apparently the guy was armed with a fire
extinguisher of some kind, and when the Sheriff's department came
out to get him because it was parked illegally and
didn't have plates on, he shot the fire extinguisher at them.
(23:02):
So he's been in there since about one o'clock this morning.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
May I please have some storytime music?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Sure, yes, storytime storytime.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Brianna Ilwell never liked rodents, but it soon became clear
that the squirrels in the neighborhood were suffering from heat
there in New braun.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Falls, Texas, and she started to feel for the squirrels.
It was hot outside.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
She was playing with her toddler out on the deck.
She had a fan out there for them. Because it
was hot. And after they finished playing, she noticed a
local squirrel. He's sitting came to realize the value of
that fan, and that squirrel plopped himself on the railing
to cool down, right next to the fan. What this prompted?
What is now a squirrel resort the arburial rodents and
(24:00):
stop by, cool down, grab a bite, and lounge with
the fan until the heat of the day passes.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
At the time when she.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
First encountered the local squirrel, there was a drought. She
remembered that the animal looked full of relief, so she
has invested in batteries to keep that fan running. After
the first local squirrel and the new fresh set of batteries,
she realized that the following day, two other local squirrels
(24:30):
came to visit.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And why are you looking at me like that? Why
are you enjoying this?
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Do you want to talk more about Doug em Hoff? No,
you want to hear more about the squirrels.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
I don't want to hear anything about Doug Emhoff.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
So she put a video of the squirrels.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
On her TikTok account, and companies are now sending her
free fans to help cool more.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Squirrels down.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Are you giving them food at all?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Or is it just it's a completely new, unforeseen hobby
for Brianna as manager of the squirrel resort.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
She's built little tables.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
She's attached some to sides of trees so the squirrels
can stay outside, bask in the breeze of the fans.
They can munch on nuts and corn and fruit frozen
and ice cubes. Of course it must have if the
temperatures over one hundred degrees. Look at this little local
squirrel splluting in front of the flame fan.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
That's a splute.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
That's a great picture.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
She's placed logs between the trees so that they can
be squirrel paths. She's built a courtyard for the squirrels
to stay in. She's got specialized feeders, she's got some
special wooden decorations from thrift stores in the area. She's
even hooked up a water fountain for the local squirrels.
She puts up the resort. Takes her two hours to
(25:52):
set all this.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Up every day.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Yeah, I'm so glad that the congressman we're talking to
next is like so far away from us.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Because here's insane.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah, this is insane.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
It's probably better that way. Yeah, there's no actual speaker here, so.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
That thank God for that.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Could you imagine what a gift for us not to
have a speaker here if other people.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Heard this show?
Speaker 4 (26:17):
You mean people couldn't hear this?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Wait a minute here anyway, I thought that was a
nice story.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
That's a great story, you know.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I mean, I think that there's two types of people
in this world. People who love squirrels and people who
loathe squirrels. There's somebody that works in our building that
has like a squirrel bumper sticker. I break for squirrels.
Why would you feel that strongly about that and put
to put a bumper sticker on your car? About squirrels
and how you break for them?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Maybe they had squirrels when they were young, like the
squirrels as pets, like an order, like an honor.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Yes, but a tree.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Who has squirrels as pets.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
There are people who have squirrels as pets.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Really well remember velcrow.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Sure, we have an engineer at the station who had
a squirrel velcrow what was his name? Because he would
just latch on the squirrel, not the not the engineer, No,
he would do the velcrow. The squirrel would just latch on,
you know.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, it is a good thing that there are no
speakers here. Yeah, you've been listening to the Gary and
Shannon Show. 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 app.
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