August 26, 2024 • 26 mins
Swamp Watch. The Breakfast Club’s Charlemagne the God joins the show to talk about the DNC and his new book.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon, and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. Well, Trump has kind of floated
the idea of maybe backing out of the ABC News debate.
On September tenth is where we kick off Swamp Watch.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Swamp is horrible.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
The government doesn't work.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Mann, make this like a reality TV show, A bad noos.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Always a pleasure to be anywhere from Washington, DC.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Hey, Joey, A town all too clearly built on a
swamp and in so many ways still a swamp.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I have a watch of Malarkey.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Boy, he said, Drained the Swamp.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I said, oh that's so he keeppph.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
You know the thing, we can't have another dummy as
a president.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Okay, if we can't have another dummy as a president,
all right. He was asked if he wants these microphones muted.
If you remember during the CNN debate with Joe Biden
back in June, when the candidate that wasn't speaking it
wasn't his turn, the candidate's microphone would be turned off.
(01:04):
That's what and this is the weird math in my head,
but that's what the Trunk campaign wants in the September
tenth debate is microphones that get turned off.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
Would you want the microphone muted in the debate whenever
you're out speaking?
Speaker 5 (01:18):
We agree to the same rules.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
It doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
I'd rather have it probably on. But the agreement was
that it would be the same as it.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Was last time.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
In that case, it was muted. I didn't like it
the last time, but it worked out fine. When asked
Biden how it worked out, it was fine. And I
think it should be the same. We agreed to the
same rules, same rules, the same specifications, and I.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Think that's probably what it should be. But they're trying
to change it.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
The truth is they're trying to get out of it
because she doesn't want a debate. She's not a good debater,
she's not a smart person. She doesn't want a debate.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
You said this morning that you think that the Harris
camp Pain wants the mic to stay unmuted so that
they catch him losing it, being unhinged off the cuff,
and it's not going to be good for him. That's
kind of what his people love, but this isn't really
for his people.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Is it.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
It's for the swing states and the still undecided voters.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Well, I think her.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Listen, she didn't get any votes for president, and her
best debate moment was when she said to Joe Biden,
who would eventually choose her to be his running mate,
that she was that little girl. You remember that the
whole thing about bussing, and basically she was insinuating that
Joe Biden was racist because of his support for bussing
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or it was an It was a moment. It didn't
help her in her presidential run back then, but it
was a moment that made its way into the sort
of the viral sphere of what is presidential politics. I
think that's the only thing I can think is that
they would want another moment like that where where Trump
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kind of gets flustered. He's saying things like she's lying,
she's lying in the middle of her answer, so that
she can have that moment where she puts her finger
up and says, excuse me, I'm speaking now.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Are you familiar with the Angus Reid Institute? Never heard it,
nor have I. It's a nonprofit research organization. It conducted
a survey as the DNC formally nominated her as the
presidential candidate, and the Angus Reid Institute found that she
has extended her lead over former President Trump. They say
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that the national poll reveals a growing generational and demographic
divide in voter preferences. She holds a substantial lead among
thirteen eighteen to thirty four year olds, fifty nine percent
favor Harris compared to thirty percent for Trump. It's even
more pronounced among Black voters, she leads sixty seven percent
to sixteen percent. And Hispanic voters she's really he'd been
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able to claw back some of the voters that abandon Biden,
some of the Hispanic voting block. She maintains a fifty
seven percent edge over his thirty three percent the poll.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
There was another poll.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Fairleigh Dickinson University came out their relatively.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Well regarded poll, the sixteen seat exactly. I only know
them from basketball.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
They came out with a poll that suggested it was
released on Friday, that said that Harris has a seven
point lead nationally. Again, a nationwide pole like that isn't
going to be what decides this. This is going to
be state by state and we're going to get into
more battleground issues. But you've got to throw in the
RFK Junior if it makes an impact. We'll see in
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the next few days the RFK Junior suspending his campaign,
throwing his weight behind Donald Trump. He is speaking of
President former President Trump is speaking before the National Guard
right now, and he just called up former Democratic Congress
Will and Tulci Gabbard.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Up to the stage. Two.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I don't know if she's officially endorsed him.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
I don't know what the exact relationship is, but I
know that she's been much more supportive of him than
she was of Kamala Harris or Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
All right, coming up next, let's get down to dollars
and cents. How much is the Harris campaign raised in
the post coming out party. We'll tell you about it.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
And Gavin Newsom on a podcast, uh oh said the
quiet part out loud.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, look at you your hip quiet part out loud.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Well, he was very de muorus, very mindful.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Oh my goodness, who are you?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I'm a TikToker now sorry, I'll take that back.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Jen wrote to us if Kamala wanted the mics unmuted,
it would be so she will be interrupted. Because the
more she's being interrupted, the less she's speaking, A major
win for someone who notoriously can't speak clearly or effectively.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
That's an interesting take, I do. It's weird to me
that that's even an issue. I mean, the idea of
turning on and off the microphones, because we saw this
leading up to the debate at the end of June's
comparisons to previous debates where you know, like Mitt Romney
and Barack Obama were very gentlemanly, you know, nice to
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each other. Disagreed, but were nice to each other. And
how different that is. Gavin Newsom was in Chicago last week.
He of course, was the one who made the announcement
for the California delegates to push Kamala Harris over the
top that she needed to secure the nomination. Looked like
he was giving that speech through gritted teeth. He has
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been caught, I think that might be the right word,
caught joking about the process by which Kamala Harris was
chosen to take over. It seemed logical, right, It seemed
like a logical choice that the vice presidential candidate would
be the one who took over for the president on
the campaign.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
But she was not.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I mean remember in say February, March April, we were
talking about her not even being a likable candidate, and
then when it happens where Biden steps down and she's chosen.
It's weird how everybody coalesced behind her so quickly. Well,
Gavin Newsom was on a podcast called Pod Save America
last week and when he was they asked jokingly about
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this very compact switch process whereby Biden steps down, Kamala
Harris has chosen as the anointed one.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
There's an intangible it's different.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
How are you feeling about the switch?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I mean this switch.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Now, we went through a very open process, very inclusive process.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
It was bottom up.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I don't know if you know that.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yes, that's what I've been told.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yes, the primary.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Very very fast.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
It was a primary that thirty minutes convention between tweets
and amazing.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
Yeah, it's been amazing, But it is What is amazing
is how unified everybody is.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
The facade is crumbling.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
It is so weird. That whole exchange was very weird.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yes, Well, and I got to point out the fact
that we were talking to some people at the convention
who off the air were telling us, how thin skinned
he is, and how this is not going over well,
and he is pissed off, and the fact that he
was left out and that he got that stupid assignment to,
you know, be the face.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Of the delegation. Oh man, he's mad. What's interesting is
the way that that is being written up. One of
the Newsweek articles said that he was simply joking about
how Vice President Kamala Harris was chosen to be the nominee,
but it didn't mention anything about the line where he says,
that's what I've been told to say. Newsweek doesn't mention
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that at all. A couple other different writeups of it
do include that line where that's what he was told
to say. Kamala Harris did see that polling boot. She
also saw a fundraising boost. The Harris campaign says it
has raised five hundred and forty million dollars for its
election fight, no problems getting supporters to open their wallets
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since July twenty first, of course, which was when Biden
said that he was going to step down. Campaign chair
Jen O'Malley Dylan wrote in a memo that was released
by the campaign just before the acceptance speech Thursday night,
they officially crossed the five hundred million dollar mark, and
immediately after the speech, she says, we saw our best
fundraising hour since launch day, which is expected, right. I mean,
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that kind of momentum, that kind of honeymoon period is
exactly what we were expecting going into or I should say,
coming out of. Now that we're at the end of it,
coming out of that convention, when is.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
The interview happening? When is that going to happen?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
So?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Maybe a rumor that it's NBC, but I don't I
have seen anything specific on that.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Charlemagne the God joins us. Now, we were hoping to
hook up with you when we were in Chicago, but
I guess we just missed each other. Not like anyone
was busy or anything all week.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
Right, Yeah, it was a pretty I came in Wednesday
and Thursday THO it was a pretty hectic forty eight out.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
So let me ask you this, what are the odds
that you are the first interview that Kamala Harris agrees
to sit down for.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Oh, I think we all already lost that. Bet.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
I think, well, if if I saw correctly, Herrington Walls
are sitting down with NBC News this week, So I'm
not mistaken. But if you mean like a one on
one with me and Kamala, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I couldn't even tell you what those odds are.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
You were one of the people who was advocating make
sure she did get out there and do one of
these long form, long form interviews.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Why why was that so important?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Do you think? Well, I think what she.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Did the first three weeks was incredible, you know, as
far as her ground game, Like you know, I think
I think going and doing that first made a lot
of sense.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I thought it was important just because that.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Was literally the only thing they were they were using
against her. But I mean it made sense to wait
until after the Democratic National Convention because you know, you
go to the DNC, you do your speech, you know,
you lay out your you know, agenda. What she hadn't
been doing at those pepperalities even paying attention like you know,
just her wanting to rebuild the middle class and you know,
having every everybody have the opportunity to own the home,
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everybody had the opportunity to own a small.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Business, putting more money into working class. So she had
she had been saying those things at the rallies.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
But you know, saying that at the DNC it hit different.
You know, everybody gets to hear it. They know that's
what she stands for. So now when she's going out
doing her interviews, is just about her explaining those those positions.
I think if she would have probably did interviews over
the last three weeks, everybody would have been asking her
about President Biden.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
And you know, why didn't you speak up?
Speaker 6 (12:01):
You know in regards to President Biden condition how long
did y'all you know, know or think that he wasn't
able to you know, carry on.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I think it would have been a lot of that.
Now is really more so about.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
Her, her and her agenda when she when she goes
out there and does it her interviews.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, I don't think I heard your take on when
Biden stepped down. What was your reaction to that?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Oh? My take was about time I had.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
I've been saying this for the past year and a half,
Like I've been saying this on every platform I've been on,
whether it was Brekdays Club, whether it was The Daily Show,
and I was catching a lot of flag for it.
I said it back in December, I said that, you know,
President Biden not getting no younger, you know, he's not
getting a new running mate, you know, because that was
another criticism. They wanted him to potentially cook or pick
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a new running mate, which I never agreed with. But
I was just like, Yo, he's not getting no younger
and he's not getting.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
A new running mate.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
So it's just like, yo, do us all the biggest
favor and step down. Because another question that I was
asking for the past year some change, is the Biden
Harris ticket a winnable ticket. November twenty twenty four, I just.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Felt like it wasn't.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
I felt like all the polls and everything was pointing
to you know, President Biden getting his ass kicked, you know,
come November. And so I think that they absolutely positively
made the right decision. I did an interview with John
Carl on This Week ABC earlier this year, and I said,
he needs to be leaning on the Vice President Moore,
he needs to be leaning on hysterrogates like Governor Joshapiro
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and Governor Whitmerton and Governor Wes Moore and more.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I set that back in February.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
So when he stepped down, I was just like, finally
about time, because I'm not a political pundit in no way,
shape or form, nor of my political political strategists. I'm
just the person who has some eyes and some ears.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
So I can see that.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Come that he wasn't the person that should be running.
I don't know why people are way smarter than me
who get paid to do that couldn't see it. So
I was glad that he probably said that.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
We're talking with Charlottage and the God of course, host
of the radio show The Breakfast Club, author of a
new book, by the way, coming out, Get Honest or Die, Lion,
small talk socks, and we'll talk about that coming up
in a little bit. But I wanted to ask you
more about this Joe Biden thing, so we had talked
about it too. We talked about, hey, wait a minute,
this guy's showing signs of decline. Whether it's cognitive, whether
it's physical, whatever it is, it's declined, and no one
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seems to be acknowledging it. Do you feel like the
party or the White House was deceptive in the way
they talked about the condition of the president.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
I'm not gonna say it was deceptive. I just thought
that they were pretty delusional, and I really think they
were underestimating Donald Trump yet again, same way the underestimated
Donald Trump and twenty sixteen, same way, you know, they
underestimated them slightly in twenty.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Twenty, even though Biden President Biden did win.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
I just felt like they were underestimating again, especially even
more so now because they're looking like, oh, this guy's
got you know, all of these criminal charges, he's been
in peached twice, Like there's no way the American people whatever,
you know, they're vote for him again. The poles were
saying otherwise. So I think that you know, even if
you know President Biden was showing slight signs of decline,
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can't sit here and act like he wasn't doing some
good things, you know, while he was in office. And
I think that they thought that that was going to
carry them over until they realized that, hey, no, it's not.
Seventy percent of Americans said they did not want a
Biden Trump rematch.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
One in four.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Americans said they had unfavorable views of both Biden and Trump.
Nicki Haley was absolutely correct when she said the first
party to get rid of their eighty year old candidate
is going to be the party that winted this election.
I don't know if that's going to necessarily be the case,
but if you look at it, you know, the way
it's trending right now, Poles say it will be, you know,
so so we'll see, you know. But I don't know
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if they were deceptive as much as they were just
you know, delusional and more so just underestimating underestimating Donald Trump.
That's that's that's what I really believe. That's un estimating Trump.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
How did you I think the convention went. I mean,
we've talked about how it was kind of like a scripted,
choreographed movie that they put on, right, and that there's
not a lot of surprises this day and age when
you get to those conventions. But there is some knock
on the DNC for focusing on celebrities and not everyday
Americans that need the Democrats to win.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
I don't know if that's the case. They didn't have
any more celebrities than the RNC had. They might have
had more popular celebrities. I mean, the RNC had Hulk Hogan.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Yeah, but that L. Holgan's from like nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Yeah, but I mean it's the same. I mean, no,
I love Oprah, but Oprah's from the eighties nineties as well. Like,
I mean, it's just it's the same type of energy.
Who do they have on the stage, Like Keenan Thompson
was out there right, who else?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Kerry Washington.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
I don't think it was a celebrit really driven is
people are making.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
It out to be.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
And I mean, you know, people like Carry Washington, They've
been at every DNC convention that as far as far
as I can remember. I mean, just be sitting at home,
Washington on television. This is the first convention I have
actually went to. But I don't, I don't. I don't
think it was celebrity driven. And it just sounds kind
of crazy for anybody, you know. That's that's that's part
of the GOP to be talking about folks being celebrity
driven when the executive producer of Celebrity Apprentice.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Is the nominee.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Donald Trump is an actual celebrity, actual reality show star.
So it just seems kind of scrange to say that
the DNC is focused on celebrity. Uh.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
You can order Charlemagne's book called Get Honest or Die Lion,
Why Small Talk Sucks?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
What's this book about?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Man? Exactly?
Speaker 6 (17:45):
What the title says, you know, you know, I went
away on a.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Spiritual retreat earlier this year, and you.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Know, one of the things that came up from me
because it's just the way that I try to live
my life, and it was just kind of like a
reinforcement of a value that I have. And it's like,
stop lying to yourself and stop volunteer you're in those
lives to other people. Because when I was young, my
dad would always tell me, you're not.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Lying to yourself. You're not lying to me. When you lie,
you're lying to yourself.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
And I just think, like that's like the ultimate form.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Of delusion, Like, you know, there's no bigger lack of
self awareness and look in the mirror every day and you.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Know, tell yourself a complete and total lie. So I'm
just challenging people to, you know, wake up and be
the most honest versions of themselves. You know, don't lie
to yourself. When you can do that, then it'll be
easy to not lie to other the other people. And
then you know, the why Small talks up is exactly that.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Why what if someone what if.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Someone's an a hole? Though, don't don't you should? They
should lie to themselves in the mirror and talk themselves
into not being an ahole.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
No, they gotta they should tell themselves they're ahole. First,
you gotta look in the mirror and say, I'm an
a hole.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I'm a complete douche. You know, this is why nobody
likes me. Things aren't working out for me because it's me.
I am the problem, Teller Swift.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
It's me the problem. Literally, you have to be completely
honest with yourself and then you'll you'll be able to
correct some things.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
That's actually, you know, a great point.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Like you know, you you have to look in the
mirror and see what's.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Wrong with you, like the mirror.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
We tend to make it work one way, right, Like
we can look in the mirror and check on.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Everything that's absolutely correct.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
But can you look in the mirror and see what's wrong,
like you've seen it. There's somebody walking around right now
with an outfit that they had no business leaving the house,
and they looked in the mirror and saw it. But
they convinced themselves and looked good. But everybody else is
seeing them and they're like, why would you leave the house.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Dressed like that? They could have just been honest with
themselves before they left out.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
No nobody else would have to tell them.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Now, I'm going to be self conscious for the rest
of the week.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
We missed it. We sure would have loved to have
met you in Chicago. But thanks for taking time for
us today.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
History was made just a short time ago in baseball.
Danny Jansen became the first player in Major League Baseball
history to play for.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Both teams in one game.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Boston Red Sox and Toronto Blue Jays started a game
back on June twenty sixth, and it got interrupted because
of rain. Danny Jansen was at bat for the Blue
Jays when the game was suspended. About a month later,
he was traded to the Red Sox, so he started well,
started the continuation of the game behind the plate as
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the catcher for the Blue Jay or for the Red Sox,
and then the Blue Jays had to have a pinch
hitter come in and finish his at back.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Walmart is recalling almost ten thousand cases of apple juice.
The batch of Great Value brand apple juice was found
to have potentially dangerous levels of arsenic.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
It could cost supposed to put that in apple juice.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I thought no you're not could cause minor health issues temporarily,
not likely to cause serious problems. Huh. That's something you
don't hear every day. Yeah, you got arsenic in your juice,
but you should be fine.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
It's just minor. It's just minor.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
And then finally, the two astronauts stranded at the International
Space Station will come back aboard a SpaceX capsule in February.
NASA made the official announcement yesterday. A Boeing Starliner took
them up in June. Took the two astronauts in June
for what was supposed to be an eight day mission.
There were some helium leaks malfunctioning thrusters, so instead of
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an eight day mission, it goes to eight months.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Dale Wilcox is a guy who lives in Alesian Heights
and he enjoys goats. Recently, two of his goats were
taken by authorities who claim that Dale is allowing the
aggressive animals to roam untethered and near other residences and
that is a breach of the law. I also did
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not know that if goats are seized that they are
then put up for adoption by the Department of Animal Services.
Now that's something I could get on board with which
part the adoption of the goats. Knew that was the
part they're lovely creatures.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Dale says that this was goat napping.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
He sued the city over it.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yeah, and he said it was all brought on because
his neighbors are unhappy that he's got goats, and they
do things. They do goat things like, oh, I don't know,
eat the plants, climb on cars, bleat all the time.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
He says that they're helpful clearing the land of unwanted brush, branches, grass,
things like that frosty chunky goat the color of a
softly toasted marshmallow is from northern California. And then he
moved to Riverside with Frosty and Frosty's new friend, Pepe.
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He expanded his herd further that year, adding Beatrice and Benito.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
And they had a baby and they named that baby
a baby goat is named a kid, right, sure.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I don't know why does Dale Wilcox's story receive six
pages in the La Times. I guess what I do?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I guess it's.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Because it's a neighborhood war. I mean, he but they
didn't have to do.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
A whole profile.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
You know, that's like his love of animals began. When
can we have some music please? His love of animals
began when he was young. He grew up with dogs, cats,
a parakeet, and a parrot that lived to sixty chose
a close childhood friend had a goat, and Dale learned
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to milk the animal. When he was at Pacific Union
College in the eighties, he liked to visit a Russian
great uncle who owned goats. He would drink the goat milk.
I could have done without that paragraph, right, the milk part.
I don't picture young Dale milking goats and drinking the milk.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Dale says he brings those goats in from Riverside to
LA to work for his business, which is like a
landscaping goat scaping LA. They keep down the tall grasses
and weeds. They just eat it. They just eat constantly.
It's a great business plan, especially here in California when
you need to make sure that you keep your weeds
down around your house. He keeps a goat shed in
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Alleesian Heights. Does that smell like some supplies for his
b rescue business? And despite the fact that he has
an address in Allegian Heights. He says he lives he
and the goats live in Riverside, and it's not clear
how much time the animals actually spend in la but
a bunch of neighbors in that Allsian Park area say,
oh no, no, he's always here, as are the goats.
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The goats have gotten loose a half a dozen times,
according to neighbor Andrew pez Terco, and Pasterco's family has
had to help him round up the goats using brooms.
They've also attacked the neighbors. They've climbed on top of
a car and a shared driveway to eat the leaves
off of an overhanging tree.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Goats will get after it man, they said.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
The most shocking incident came one night when the neighbors
were about to go to sleep. Daughter and grandhok grandkids
were visiting and five goats walked into their living room.
That's pretty cool. I would like that for me, he
called to his wife. He was frozen in the chair.
Goats were in the living room, walking slowly around, smelling things.
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After that, I had to clean the house because they
pooped everywhere.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
How long were they there for?
Speaker 4 (25:40):
In just a couple of minutes, I suppose, but interesting
maybe they felt like that was the appropriate place.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
You can't really housebreak a goat. I mean, I'm sure
you could if you tell.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
You to keep it outside in some sort of you know,
goat are goats shed a goat. A pen. A pen
for goats and for.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Goats is a good one.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
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on the iHeartRadio app. Well, Trump has kind of floated
the idea of maybe backing out of the ABC News debate.
On September tenth is where we kick off Swamp Watch.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Swamp is horrible.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
The government doesn't work.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Mann, make this like a reality TV show, A bad noos.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Always a pleasure to be anywhere from Washington, DC.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Hey, Joey, A town all too clearly built on a
swamp and in so many ways still a swamp.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I have a watch of Malarkey.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Boy, he said, Drained the Swamp.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I said, oh that's so he keeppph.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
You know the thing, we can't have another dummy as
a president.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Okay, if we can't have another dummy as a president,
all right. He was asked if he wants these microphones muted.
If you remember during the CNN debate with Joe Biden
back in June, when the candidate that wasn't speaking it
wasn't his turn, the candidate's microphone would be turned off.
(01:04):
That's what and this is the weird math in my head,
but that's what the Trunk campaign wants in the September
tenth debate is microphones that get turned off.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
Would you want the microphone muted in the debate whenever
you're out speaking?
Speaker 5 (01:18):
We agree to the same rules.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
It doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
I'd rather have it probably on. But the agreement was
that it would be the same as it.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Was last time.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
In that case, it was muted. I didn't like it
the last time, but it worked out fine. When asked
Biden how it worked out, it was fine. And I
think it should be the same. We agreed to the
same rules, same rules, the same specifications, and I.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Think that's probably what it should be. But they're trying
to change it.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
The truth is they're trying to get out of it
because she doesn't want a debate. She's not a good debater,
she's not a smart person. She doesn't want a debate.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
You said this morning that you think that the Harris
camp Pain wants the mic to stay unmuted so that
they catch him losing it, being unhinged off the cuff,
and it's not going to be good for him. That's
kind of what his people love, but this isn't really
for his people.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Is it.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
It's for the swing states and the still undecided voters.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Well, I think her.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Listen, she didn't get any votes for president, and her
best debate moment was when she said to Joe Biden,
who would eventually choose her to be his running mate,
that she was that little girl. You remember that the
whole thing about bussing, and basically she was insinuating that
Joe Biden was racist because of his support for bussing
(02:41):
or it was an It was a moment. It didn't
help her in her presidential run back then, but it
was a moment that made its way into the sort
of the viral sphere of what is presidential politics. I
think that's the only thing I can think is that
they would want another moment like that where where Trump
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kind of gets flustered. He's saying things like she's lying,
she's lying in the middle of her answer, so that
she can have that moment where she puts her finger
up and says, excuse me, I'm speaking now.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Are you familiar with the Angus Reid Institute? Never heard it,
nor have I. It's a nonprofit research organization. It conducted
a survey as the DNC formally nominated her as the
presidential candidate, and the Angus Reid Institute found that she
has extended her lead over former President Trump. They say
(03:37):
that the national poll reveals a growing generational and demographic
divide in voter preferences. She holds a substantial lead among
thirteen eighteen to thirty four year olds, fifty nine percent
favor Harris compared to thirty percent for Trump. It's even
more pronounced among Black voters, she leads sixty seven percent
to sixteen percent. And Hispanic voters she's really he'd been
(04:00):
able to claw back some of the voters that abandon Biden,
some of the Hispanic voting block. She maintains a fifty
seven percent edge over his thirty three percent the poll.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
There was another poll.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Fairleigh Dickinson University came out their relatively.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Well regarded poll, the sixteen seat exactly. I only know
them from basketball.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
They came out with a poll that suggested it was
released on Friday, that said that Harris has a seven
point lead nationally. Again, a nationwide pole like that isn't
going to be what decides this. This is going to
be state by state and we're going to get into
more battleground issues. But you've got to throw in the
RFK Junior if it makes an impact. We'll see in
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the next few days the RFK Junior suspending his campaign,
throwing his weight behind Donald Trump. He is speaking of
President former President Trump is speaking before the National Guard
right now, and he just called up former Democratic Congress
Will and Tulci Gabbard.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Up to the stage. Two.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I don't know if she's officially endorsed him.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
I don't know what the exact relationship is, but I
know that she's been much more supportive of him than
she was of Kamala Harris or Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
All right, coming up next, let's get down to dollars
and cents. How much is the Harris campaign raised in
the post coming out party. We'll tell you about it.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
And Gavin Newsom on a podcast, uh oh said the
quiet part out loud.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, look at you your hip quiet part out loud.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Well, he was very de muorus, very mindful.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Oh my goodness, who are you?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I'm a TikToker now sorry, I'll take that back.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Jen wrote to us if Kamala wanted the mics unmuted,
it would be so she will be interrupted. Because the
more she's being interrupted, the less she's speaking, A major
win for someone who notoriously can't speak clearly or effectively.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
That's an interesting take, I do. It's weird to me
that that's even an issue. I mean, the idea of
turning on and off the microphones, because we saw this
leading up to the debate at the end of June's
comparisons to previous debates where you know, like Mitt Romney
and Barack Obama were very gentlemanly, you know, nice to
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each other. Disagreed, but were nice to each other. And
how different that is. Gavin Newsom was in Chicago last week.
He of course, was the one who made the announcement
for the California delegates to push Kamala Harris over the
top that she needed to secure the nomination. Looked like
he was giving that speech through gritted teeth. He has
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been caught, I think that might be the right word,
caught joking about the process by which Kamala Harris was
chosen to take over. It seemed logical, right, It seemed
like a logical choice that the vice presidential candidate would
be the one who took over for the president on
the campaign.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
But she was not.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I mean remember in say February, March April, we were
talking about her not even being a likable candidate, and
then when it happens where Biden steps down and she's chosen.
It's weird how everybody coalesced behind her so quickly. Well,
Gavin Newsom was on a podcast called Pod Save America
last week and when he was they asked jokingly about
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this very compact switch process whereby Biden steps down, Kamala
Harris has chosen as the anointed one.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
There's an intangible it's different.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
How are you feeling about the switch?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I mean this switch.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Now, we went through a very open process, very inclusive process.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
It was bottom up.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I don't know if you know that.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yes, that's what I've been told.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yes, the primary.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Very very fast.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
It was a primary that thirty minutes convention between tweets
and amazing.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
Yeah, it's been amazing, But it is What is amazing
is how unified everybody is.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
The facade is crumbling.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
It is so weird. That whole exchange was very weird.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yes, Well, and I got to point out the fact
that we were talking to some people at the convention
who off the air were telling us, how thin skinned
he is, and how this is not going over well,
and he is pissed off, and the fact that he
was left out and that he got that stupid assignment to,
you know, be the face.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Of the delegation. Oh man, he's mad. What's interesting is
the way that that is being written up. One of
the Newsweek articles said that he was simply joking about
how Vice President Kamala Harris was chosen to be the nominee,
but it didn't mention anything about the line where he says,
that's what I've been told to say. Newsweek doesn't mention
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that at all. A couple other different writeups of it
do include that line where that's what he was told
to say. Kamala Harris did see that polling boot. She
also saw a fundraising boost. The Harris campaign says it
has raised five hundred and forty million dollars for its
election fight, no problems getting supporters to open their wallets
(09:12):
since July twenty first, of course, which was when Biden
said that he was going to step down. Campaign chair
Jen O'Malley Dylan wrote in a memo that was released
by the campaign just before the acceptance speech Thursday night,
they officially crossed the five hundred million dollar mark, and
immediately after the speech, she says, we saw our best
fundraising hour since launch day, which is expected, right. I mean,
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that kind of momentum, that kind of honeymoon period is
exactly what we were expecting going into or I should say,
coming out of. Now that we're at the end of it,
coming out of that convention, when is.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
The interview happening? When is that going to happen?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
So?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Maybe a rumor that it's NBC, but I don't I
have seen anything specific on that.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Charlemagne the God joins us. Now, we were hoping to
hook up with you when we were in Chicago, but
I guess we just missed each other. Not like anyone
was busy or anything all week.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
Right, Yeah, it was a pretty I came in Wednesday
and Thursday THO it was a pretty hectic forty eight out.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
So let me ask you this, what are the odds
that you are the first interview that Kamala Harris agrees
to sit down for.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Oh, I think we all already lost that. Bet.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
I think, well, if if I saw correctly, Herrington Walls
are sitting down with NBC News this week, So I'm
not mistaken. But if you mean like a one on
one with me and Kamala, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I couldn't even tell you what those odds are.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
You were one of the people who was advocating make
sure she did get out there and do one of
these long form, long form interviews.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Why why was that so important?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Do you think? Well, I think what she.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Did the first three weeks was incredible, you know, as
far as her ground game, Like you know, I think
I think going and doing that first made a lot
of sense.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I thought it was important just because that.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Was literally the only thing they were they were using
against her. But I mean it made sense to wait
until after the Democratic National Convention because you know, you
go to the DNC, you do your speech, you know,
you lay out your you know, agenda. What she hadn't
been doing at those pepperalities even paying attention like you know,
just her wanting to rebuild the middle class and you know,
having every everybody have the opportunity to own the home,
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everybody had the opportunity to own a small.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Business, putting more money into working class. So she had
she had been saying those things at the rallies.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
But you know, saying that at the DNC it hit different.
You know, everybody gets to hear it. They know that's
what she stands for. So now when she's going out
doing her interviews, is just about her explaining those those positions.
I think if she would have probably did interviews over
the last three weeks, everybody would have been asking her
about President Biden.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
And you know, why didn't you speak up?
Speaker 6 (12:01):
You know in regards to President Biden condition how long
did y'all you know, know or think that he wasn't
able to you know, carry on.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I think it would have been a lot of that.
Now is really more so about.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
Her, her and her agenda when she when she goes
out there and does it her interviews.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, I don't think I heard your take on when
Biden stepped down. What was your reaction to that?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Oh? My take was about time I had.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
I've been saying this for the past year and a half,
Like I've been saying this on every platform I've been on,
whether it was Brekdays Club, whether it was The Daily Show,
and I was catching a lot of flag for it.
I said it back in December, I said that, you know,
President Biden not getting no younger, you know, he's not
getting a new running mate, you know, because that was
another criticism. They wanted him to potentially cook or pick
(12:44):
a new running mate, which I never agreed with. But
I was just like, Yo, he's not getting no younger
and he's not getting.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
A new running mate.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
So it's just like, yo, do us all the biggest
favor and step down. Because another question that I was
asking for the past year some change, is the Biden
Harris ticket a winnable ticket. November twenty twenty four, I just.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Felt like it wasn't.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
I felt like all the polls and everything was pointing
to you know, President Biden getting his ass kicked, you know,
come November. And so I think that they absolutely positively
made the right decision. I did an interview with John
Carl on This Week ABC earlier this year, and I said,
he needs to be leaning on the Vice President Moore,
he needs to be leaning on hysterrogates like Governor Joshapiro
(13:24):
and Governor Whitmerton and Governor Wes Moore and more.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I set that back in February.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
So when he stepped down, I was just like, finally
about time, because I'm not a political pundit in no way,
shape or form, nor of my political political strategists. I'm
just the person who has some eyes and some ears.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
So I can see that.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Come that he wasn't the person that should be running.
I don't know why people are way smarter than me
who get paid to do that couldn't see it. So
I was glad that he probably said that.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
We're talking with Charlottage and the God of course, host
of the radio show The Breakfast Club, author of a
new book, by the way, coming out, Get Honest or Die, Lion,
small talk socks, and we'll talk about that coming up
in a little bit. But I wanted to ask you
more about this Joe Biden thing, so we had talked
about it too. We talked about, hey, wait a minute,
this guy's showing signs of decline. Whether it's cognitive, whether
it's physical, whatever it is, it's declined, and no one
(14:15):
seems to be acknowledging it. Do you feel like the
party or the White House was deceptive in the way
they talked about the condition of the president.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
I'm not gonna say it was deceptive. I just thought
that they were pretty delusional, and I really think they
were underestimating Donald Trump yet again, same way the underestimated
Donald Trump and twenty sixteen, same way, you know, they
underestimated them slightly in twenty.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Twenty, even though Biden President Biden did win.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
I just felt like they were underestimating again, especially even
more so now because they're looking like, oh, this guy's
got you know, all of these criminal charges, he's been
in peached twice, Like there's no way the American people whatever,
you know, they're vote for him again. The poles were
saying otherwise. So I think that you know, even if
you know President Biden was showing slight signs of decline,
(15:08):
can't sit here and act like he wasn't doing some
good things, you know, while he was in office. And
I think that they thought that that was going to
carry them over until they realized that, hey, no, it's not.
Seventy percent of Americans said they did not want a
Biden Trump rematch.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
One in four.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Americans said they had unfavorable views of both Biden and Trump.
Nicki Haley was absolutely correct when she said the first
party to get rid of their eighty year old candidate
is going to be the party that winted this election.
I don't know if that's going to necessarily be the case,
but if you look at it, you know, the way
it's trending right now, Poles say it will be, you know,
so so we'll see, you know. But I don't know
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if they were deceptive as much as they were just
you know, delusional and more so just underestimating underestimating Donald Trump.
That's that's that's what I really believe. That's un estimating Trump.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
How did you I think the convention went. I mean,
we've talked about how it was kind of like a scripted,
choreographed movie that they put on, right, and that there's
not a lot of surprises this day and age when
you get to those conventions. But there is some knock
on the DNC for focusing on celebrities and not everyday
Americans that need the Democrats to win.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
I don't know if that's the case. They didn't have
any more celebrities than the RNC had. They might have
had more popular celebrities. I mean, the RNC had Hulk Hogan.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Yeah, but that L. Holgan's from like nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Yeah, but I mean it's the same. I mean, no,
I love Oprah, but Oprah's from the eighties nineties as well. Like,
I mean, it's just it's the same type of energy.
Who do they have on the stage, Like Keenan Thompson
was out there right, who else?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Kerry Washington.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
I don't think it was a celebrit really driven is
people are making.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
It out to be.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
And I mean, you know, people like Carry Washington, They've
been at every DNC convention that as far as far
as I can remember. I mean, just be sitting at home,
Washington on television. This is the first convention I have
actually went to. But I don't, I don't. I don't
think it was celebrity driven. And it just sounds kind
of crazy for anybody, you know. That's that's that's part
of the GOP to be talking about folks being celebrity
driven when the executive producer of Celebrity Apprentice.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Is the nominee.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Donald Trump is an actual celebrity, actual reality show star.
So it just seems kind of scrange to say that
the DNC is focused on celebrity. Uh.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
You can order Charlemagne's book called Get Honest or Die Lion,
Why Small Talk Sucks?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
What's this book about?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Man? Exactly?
Speaker 6 (17:45):
What the title says, you know, you know, I went
away on a.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Spiritual retreat earlier this year, and you.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Know, one of the things that came up from me
because it's just the way that I try to live
my life, and it was just kind of like a
reinforcement of a value that I have. And it's like,
stop lying to yourself and stop volunteer you're in those
lives to other people. Because when I was young, my
dad would always tell me, you're not.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Lying to yourself. You're not lying to me. When you lie,
you're lying to yourself.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
And I just think, like that's like the ultimate form.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Of delusion, Like, you know, there's no bigger lack of
self awareness and look in the mirror every day and you.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Know, tell yourself a complete and total lie. So I'm
just challenging people to, you know, wake up and be
the most honest versions of themselves. You know, don't lie
to yourself. When you can do that, then it'll be
easy to not lie to other the other people. And
then you know, the why Small talks up is exactly that.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Why what if someone what if.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Someone's an a hole? Though, don't don't you should? They
should lie to themselves in the mirror and talk themselves
into not being an ahole.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
No, they gotta they should tell themselves they're ahole. First,
you gotta look in the mirror and say, I'm an
a hole.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I'm a complete douche. You know, this is why nobody
likes me. Things aren't working out for me because it's me.
I am the problem, Teller Swift.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
It's me the problem. Literally, you have to be completely
honest with yourself and then you'll you'll be able to
correct some things.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
That's actually, you know, a great point.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Like you know, you you have to look in the
mirror and see what's.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Wrong with you, like the mirror.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
We tend to make it work one way, right, Like
we can look in the mirror and check on.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Everything that's absolutely correct.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
But can you look in the mirror and see what's wrong,
like you've seen it. There's somebody walking around right now
with an outfit that they had no business leaving the house,
and they looked in the mirror and saw it. But
they convinced themselves and looked good. But everybody else is
seeing them and they're like, why would you leave the house.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Dressed like that? They could have just been honest with
themselves before they left out.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
No nobody else would have to tell them.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Now, I'm going to be self conscious for the rest
of the week.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
We missed it. We sure would have loved to have
met you in Chicago. But thanks for taking time for
us today.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
History was made just a short time ago in baseball.
Danny Jansen became the first player in Major League Baseball
history to play for.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Both teams in one game.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Boston Red Sox and Toronto Blue Jays started a game
back on June twenty sixth, and it got interrupted because
of rain. Danny Jansen was at bat for the Blue
Jays when the game was suspended. About a month later,
he was traded to the Red Sox, so he started well,
started the continuation of the game behind the plate as
(20:27):
the catcher for the Blue Jay or for the Red Sox,
and then the Blue Jays had to have a pinch
hitter come in and finish his at back.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Walmart is recalling almost ten thousand cases of apple juice.
The batch of Great Value brand apple juice was found
to have potentially dangerous levels of arsenic.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
It could cost supposed to put that in apple juice.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I thought no you're not could cause minor health issues temporarily,
not likely to cause serious problems. Huh. That's something you
don't hear every day. Yeah, you got arsenic in your juice,
but you should be fine.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
It's just minor. It's just minor.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
And then finally, the two astronauts stranded at the International
Space Station will come back aboard a SpaceX capsule in February.
NASA made the official announcement yesterday. A Boeing Starliner took
them up in June. Took the two astronauts in June
for what was supposed to be an eight day mission.
There were some helium leaks malfunctioning thrusters, so instead of
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an eight day mission, it goes to eight months.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Dale Wilcox is a guy who lives in Alesian Heights
and he enjoys goats. Recently, two of his goats were
taken by authorities who claim that Dale is allowing the
aggressive animals to roam untethered and near other residences and
that is a breach of the law. I also did
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not know that if goats are seized that they are
then put up for adoption by the Department of Animal Services.
Now that's something I could get on board with which
part the adoption of the goats. Knew that was the
part they're lovely creatures.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Dale says that this was goat napping.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
He sued the city over it.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yeah, and he said it was all brought on because
his neighbors are unhappy that he's got goats, and they
do things. They do goat things like, oh, I don't know,
eat the plants, climb on cars, bleat all the time.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
He says that they're helpful clearing the land of unwanted brush, branches, grass,
things like that frosty chunky goat the color of a
softly toasted marshmallow is from northern California. And then he
moved to Riverside with Frosty and Frosty's new friend, Pepe.
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He expanded his herd further that year, adding Beatrice and Benito.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
And they had a baby and they named that baby
a baby goat is named a kid, right, sure.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I don't know why does Dale Wilcox's story receive six
pages in the La Times. I guess what I do?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I guess it's.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Because it's a neighborhood war. I mean, he but they
didn't have to do.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
A whole profile.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
You know, that's like his love of animals began. When
can we have some music please? His love of animals
began when he was young. He grew up with dogs, cats,
a parakeet, and a parrot that lived to sixty chose
a close childhood friend had a goat, and Dale learned
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to milk the animal. When he was at Pacific Union
College in the eighties, he liked to visit a Russian
great uncle who owned goats. He would drink the goat milk.
I could have done without that paragraph, right, the milk part.
I don't picture young Dale milking goats and drinking the milk.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Dale says he brings those goats in from Riverside to
LA to work for his business, which is like a
landscaping goat scaping LA. They keep down the tall grasses
and weeds. They just eat it. They just eat constantly.
It's a great business plan, especially here in California when
you need to make sure that you keep your weeds
down around your house. He keeps a goat shed in
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Alleesian Heights. Does that smell like some supplies for his
b rescue business? And despite the fact that he has
an address in Allegian Heights. He says he lives he
and the goats live in Riverside, and it's not clear
how much time the animals actually spend in la but
a bunch of neighbors in that Allsian Park area say,
oh no, no, he's always here, as are the goats.
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The goats have gotten loose a half a dozen times,
according to neighbor Andrew pez Terco, and Pasterco's family has
had to help him round up the goats using brooms.
They've also attacked the neighbors. They've climbed on top of
a car and a shared driveway to eat the leaves
off of an overhanging tree.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Goats will get after it man, they said.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
The most shocking incident came one night when the neighbors
were about to go to sleep. Daughter and grandhok grandkids
were visiting and five goats walked into their living room.
That's pretty cool. I would like that for me, he
called to his wife. He was frozen in the chair.
Goats were in the living room, walking slowly around, smelling things.
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After that, I had to clean the house because they
pooped everywhere.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
How long were they there for?
Speaker 4 (25:40):
In just a couple of minutes, I suppose, but interesting
maybe they felt like that was the appropriate place.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
You can't really housebreak a goat. I mean, I'm sure
you could if you tell.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
You to keep it outside in some sort of you know,
goat are goats shed a goat. A pen. A pen
for goats and for.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Goats is a good one.
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