September 4, 2024 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
I A M six forty the Gary and Shannon Show
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Gary and Shannon showed Nil Sevandri and Marlon tay Is
filling in. Yeah you are back.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I am back. I'm sorry I loved you and left you.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
No, that was totally fine. A. I just was bored
sitting by myself.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
No, you weren't. But you weren't.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I'm not the type of person that gets bored, really,
but I will tell you you like you give off
the energy of you know, let's let's go with to
me Moore in wow, Yes, but I was actually no,
you weren't thinking stript No, the other military one with
(00:51):
a few good men. Oh, you just seemed like nothing
stops you. You barrel through everything. Uh, don't assume your
side is your power, that's right. And and so I
think I was just surprised that anything took you down,
even for a day an hour.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Well, okay, so to that point, I think it's all
that running.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I know, I know, you know what you know what
it was.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I've started to feel this calcium build up around my.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
It's all that indifference running.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, sorry, you gotta you gotta pack on the pounds.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
And you know what I was yesterday? I was a
couch elite.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Oh did you Yes, you use.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
That phrase on Labor Day and uh, yes, that was
me yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Anything in particular you were watching?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
No, I read a lot yesterday actually, and then watched
just a mindless rom com last night just to clean
cleanse the palate.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, do that sometimes?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah, anyone?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
But you how do you like it?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Do you know what I'm talking about? Have you heard
of it? Of course with Glenn Pale?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah, and Sweeny Yeah, it was cute.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I like both of them. Actually, Oh yeah, they're great.
I think I think he's fun to watch.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
He's a great actor. Yeah, yeah, he's.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Just well he's a hitman. One I did. I saw
that was fun. It was fun about it. But I
thought he was excellent and that and a lot of fun.
And then his co star in that.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Oh she's gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah she I saw her in Oh god, what was
the Star Wars series? Anyways? I saw her in that
and I looked at my wife while we were watching,
and she goes, I.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Know what that?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
She like that? Just that is to me, just a
quintessential beautiful woman.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Oh yeah, she's stunning, stunning.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I'm trying to look up her name right now because
let's put a name to her, and she's Ajorna.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah. I think, yeah, I think that's her. She plays
a strong, tough person in the gosh, what the.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Amy King blink twice?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
What?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
What was the that? The series? The star Wars series.
It's a Star Wars story.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Which one the Acola no specific room rising.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
No, I'm lucky to have her Rogue one.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
No, it's it's it's actually pre dates Rogue Rogue one,
same actor and door. He didn't need me after all,
so I always do. Amy. Anyways, it is a what
you watch on Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
That's right, that's coming out technically.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Okay, we're not We're not being slopped anyway. I'm sorry
about yesterday. I was going to say, this is my
first sick day in more than two years, so not here,
my first one.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, not here. You can take all that TV time
and cram it because here in radio that's your first
ding system.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
That's right. I dropped. I dropped. I was already low
on the on the total pool. I'm even lower. Hi Amy,
it's good to have you and good to see you.
I walked by, but you were busy.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I was going to say hi, and see I was
going to get like a complex about that because you just.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Walk on by.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
No, you were, you were knee deep in it. Yeah,
I didn't want to interrupt.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, the the news ladies love them some. Marla. Oh yeah,
they all wine up and and then Marla and Marla
comes play. Amy kneels down to hug you. It's cute.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Well I have to because I'm about twice as tall
as she is. She's just a little slip of a thing.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Little slip indeed, all right, so I look up to
Amy in many ways, yes, only literally.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Right slip into this day's news, of course, it starts
with hot, hot, hot.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
You know this is We talked about this yesterday, and
I know you and I spoke about it on Monday.
But the it is sooner or later, we're not going
to do these stories anymore, because it's going to be
the norm. Do you know that it has been? And
this is a close cousin to us there in Arizona,
Phoenix one hundred days of one hundred degrees or.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
More I couldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
One hundred days now. I was in Arizona a couple
of weeks ago visiting family, and I mean it was hot.
It was walk outside and go, oh my gosh, run
inside hot. But it was actually pretty nice. It was
it was a balance of little bit degrees. Yeah, that
seriously is as much as that's a punchline. That is
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the difference, especially as a bald man, because I got
nothing to absorb nothing.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Well, I hope you're putting some SPF there. I have to,
you have to.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You want to know a fun little kidney transplant fact.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Oh we do that.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
When you get a hard organ transplant and you're on
certain medications, you are more susceptible to skin cancer. Isn't
that crazy? So yeah, I have that's another great reason
to wear a hat for me. But yeah, even it
happens more on the lighter, the more European side coloring,
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so I have a little a little protection there. But
the reality is, yeah, that can be a.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Problem, a big one.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Well good, oh whoa why because there's a lot of
mass that it could the sun can hit. What do
you what do you mean there's more skin for the sun.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
You got a big old heead because you got a
big old brain.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
You got a big one.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
It's like buttonnick, that's right.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah. So there's gonna be lots of heat, and what
comes with the heat?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Will the power stay on?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah? Yeah. Do you you remember when Captain Hansome, our governor,
had had said, you know, we're gonna have all these
rolling blackouts than we did. We had the brown outs,
the rolling blackouts, all these we had them even during
Jerry Brown and it was a mass and then all
of a sudden, now by thirty thirty or twenty thirty
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six or whatever, we're supposed to all be driving electric cars.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Except that's not make it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah. So now now we're hearing about the concern of
whether we're going to go through those blackouts or brennouts.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Well, so cal Edison is saying that there are peers,
appears to be no danger of any of us ending
up in the dark.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
So what changed there? Did they get battery backups? Did they?
Because I've not heard that anything has technically changed. And
I remember, I don't know about your neck of the woods,
but on the eastern side of Los Angeles are our
power would go out A couple times this summer.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
No, so so, SoCal says.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
So Cal Edison says that the systems performing well and
they're seeing the benefits of all the work that they
completed over the past several years on equipment replacement, upgrades
and electric grid hardening.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Okay, why why then, well.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
After the after the brownouts, I.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
See years and years and years.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yes, yes, so now of course, though, for those you
bring up the evs, for those who do have electric vehicles,
they're saying, don't charge them.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
No, are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Don't charge it.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Avoid charging your electric vehicles right now because we need
to preserve, especially from four to nine pm in the afternoon,
avoid using major appliances, which would obviously one.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Of those would be your vehicle.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Marla Rose, Marie Table, I don't know your lessen you
my middle name? Yeah, that I will tell you.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Marla.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Is it what?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
No, it's Christine, Christine.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I'll look at that. What I don't know just because
you work with Christine.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Well, it's that brings up a good point where whenever
reporter throws it back to the two of us when
we're anchoring together and they say, Marla Christine and.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
You go what, Yes, Yeah, you're in trouble.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
And that's what I say to myself.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
What I'm mad at myself too, Marla Christine. So then
I perk up, Okay, thank you?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Oh my gosh, so that I'm sorry. I'm gobsmacked. They're saying,
don't charge your evs.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah, they're saying, to avoid amid the extreme heat, and
of course, despite the upgrades and the electrical grid and
all that we need to preserve during the peak demand
between four to nine, explode and avoid charging and explode
all electric vehicles.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
And all the kings, horses and all the kings.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
We're going to have our first, our first brown out.
And let's go to the breaking news that actually is
underway right now in Georgia. So there is another school
shooting that just happened with two dead. This is at
a high school and at least four injureds injured, and
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FBI has responded out there. The suspect is in custody.
This is at Appalachi High School and winder Georgia.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
And it looks like local hospitals are already receiving patients
they've got gunshot wounds. The Georgia State Patrol previously said
that it had responded to this active scene at the school.
Very little information at this point, but more and more.
We'll be pouring out throughout the day, and as it
comes out, we'll bring it to you. But not seeing
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other than casualties.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
We are actually neil. We're getting word in and we're
looking for double confirmation. But NBC is are reporting that
two are dead and four are hurt.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, and the governor there, Brian Kemp, is directing all
available state resources to assist, of course, at the scene.
Their statements out there on social media right now. This
is winder Georgia. As mentioned, this is just a community
about an hour outside of Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
It's a pretty small population of about just some change
over eighteen thousand as of twenty twenty twenty, fourth largest
school district in the state, and quite a bit of
students in this particular school. You're looking at just under
two thousand who are enrolled in that high school and
high schools. You know, there might be some change here
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and there. I know that someplace to have middle schools
in the like, but typically you're going through ninth grade
through twelfth grade, and so that age is what is
that fourteen or fourteen through seventeen typically about yes and
so as Amy just told us, two are dead. We
don't know how many of the other casualties there are,
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but this again local hospitals being filled up with patients
with gunshot wounds. I imagine depending on how the situation
rolls out, too, there can be other There can be
other harm as well, if there is any stampeding or
running or trying to get out of a certain place.
But ultimately the unfortunate thing is usually it's going to
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be more gunshot wounds.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah, at least five ambulances, large law enforcement presence there.
One medical helicopter could be seen or lefting a patient
from the scene. So very chaotic, scary situation at this
high school in Georgia. We will keep a watch again.
NBC News reporting too dead, four injured.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
It looks like other footage is showing the scene people
gathering in the football field near the school. It seems
some of the video that is there is showing students
appearing to be praying. So I don't know if that
is a if that is the typical when there's a concern,
or if they've gone through training for active shooting that
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they are to meet out at the football field or
what have you. But as this story unfolds, we of
course will bring you more. All right, Ezra Freck LA
is a champion. Yeah, and he has been on the
program here with Gary and Shannon many many times. And
this is really a great story, period, but a great
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local story.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I mean, talk about the power of manifesting your dreams.
So Ezra Freck is the La born and he is
the USC commit UH paralympian who has been in Paris
performing participating in the games.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
And he had three events. He had the long jump.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
He had the UH the one and his event quote
his event was yesterday in the high jump and he
got a gold medal in that and he had this
is this comes the day after he got a he
got a gold medal in the one hundred meter. So
he's coming home back to Los Angeles with two Paralympian
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gold medals.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
That's insane. It's insane said about you know, his event
or like what he's known for what he you.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Know, UH has because he was a world record holder
the Paralympics.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Fantastic.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Oh his run was.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Come from behind and he I will say, you know,
barely qualified for it because there was a prelims the
day before and he was third in that and it
was just by a hair and so then going into it,
I would say maybe he was the underdog, and then
he just shattered.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
It was awesome.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
And it wasn't just super clean out of the gate,
which I love. It was like, I don't know, it's
all earned. I'm not going to get up and run there,
but the fact that you have to power through when
you see to keep your heart focused, when you see
people ahead of you, and still go, I'm going to
push through and I'm going to win. Oh yeah, impressive.
(14:34):
And now he's basically the face of the of everything. Yeah, well,
he's all over the place.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
He really already was, so now this is just elevating
him that much more. He was on the Or, he
will be in the third hour on the Today Show
this morning. So of course he's going to make the
rounds there as he should. Once he gets back in town,
we're going to have him on Fox eleven. You better
have him on here too.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Oh yeah, we love him. He's been I literally watched
him grow up coming in into the station. Of course,
he's nineteen years old now, got that dramatic gold in
the men's one hundred meter that we just talked about,
but by age eleven, he had watched the Rio twenty
sixteen Paralympic Paralympics. He vowed to his friends and family
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that he would make into Tokyo twenty twenty and just
you know, people saying, really all that now we look
back at all that hard work.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
What I talk about manifesting his dreams. So on social
media on him if you follow him, and he is
a very inspiring follow on Instagram at Ezra Frek It's
fre c h. He has been manifesting one hundred days
out so he started this is day ninety nine of
one hundred until I win Paralympic gold. Every single day
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for the last one hundred days, he has put that
out there into the universe, just betting on himself. That's
why it's so beautiful. And so yeah, he won his
first gold medal on ninety nine, day ninety nine of
one hundred, and then of course he clinched with day
one hundred of one hundred his second gold.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
You know that you talk about being inspirational, but you
see someone like this and you know his whole focus,
you know, not only the metals, not only world records,
not only the wins, but it meant, in his words,
that he could normalize disability in the process, and that's
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his focus.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I'm so glad you brought that up. That's exactly what
he does. I mean, that's what his family does too.
So they started Angel City Sports is a nonprofit that
provides adaptive sports to people with disabilities. And it's just
it's not it's anybody, veterans, everybody of all ages is welcome,
and they hold these clinics where you can you thought
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that you couldn't do something, No, there's none of that.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
That mentality is all out the window.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
So they give the people these experiences that they otherwise
wouldn't have. So the family is all about it angel
City Sports, and Ezra is just using his platform to
make this known that your disability is not a disability.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Well no, it hasn't stopped him at all.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
You're just getting started. Uh so exciting.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, so that that message continues to be even as
a small child. And it is really fascinating because we've
even changed the configuration here at the station. So I
remember in the older studios down the hall seeing him
and his lovely family come in and he's just a
little one.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Oh he's tiny. He was tiny.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I have a picture with him where you know, I'm I'm.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
You're taller than he is?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Oh yeah, wow, yep, he was below my shoulders, little kid.
And I was honored to MC actually their biggest fundraiser
for Angel City Sports that was earlier this summer. And
you know there he is now towering over me at
nineteen years old, and we showed the before and after.
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He's literally grown up before our eyes and we could
be more.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Proud and a handsome kid to boot I'm smart like
this is he's focused on academics as well. It's not
just athletics. He is a well rounded chap as well.
And uh, he's taken ladies, Oh is he really? Yeah,
he's got a he's got a lovely girlfriend. Oh you asked,
(18:21):
Oh I've met her, I asked, I'm.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Taken to.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Just checking. That was a test. John asked me to
do it. You passed, You got a D minus. Uh yeah,
But that is is a great story and it's a
great local story as well. And then everyone should be
proud here in the US and here in the Southland
because that is definitely one of our own and a
great story to boot what was do you know what
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his handle is again?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
At Ezra freck at Ezra fre easy r A f
R e c h.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Alrighty. When we come back, we're going to get in
to you know, early voting coming up as well, and
we are then going to move into Newsome in the
state of emergency. As of yesterday when we were talking
about everything going on in us.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
We're going to tuot our own horns. What we're gonna
do because I think the governor was listening to us,
because we talked about this. We had the mayor on.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
It's a big gas listener, that's right. He just he
tuned in. He said, who are these new people? And
he said, I'll give this a listen. That's my Newsom.
You can add the rasp later. I don't want to
hurt my throat.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Well, we got to get you the aviators.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I told you, yes, the aviators and the wrangler jeans
or whatever he wears when he's trying to look like
he's I don't think, but okay, ags, Wow, look at
you throwing out the high end jeans.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I bet money on it.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Well done. We are following the news about the high
school shooting. They're at the Appalaich Appalachi High School and
they're in Georgia. Casualties reported. Amy King was just bringing
us up to date. At least two have passed and
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more are in critical condition. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
This is in winder Georgia, just about an hour outside
of Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Fbis on the scene.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
You can imagine the police presence that has taken over
Appalachi High School all because of this.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
The shooter is in custody.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
No word if this shooter is a student, was a student,
former student, current student, No idea the age just yet.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
So all very fluid.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
And onto voting. Early voting options are growing in popularity now.
We saw burst in twenty twenty. Obviously when you had.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Well it came out of the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah, with a pandemic, So obviously when you have the pandemic,
there was people that are looking for ways to get
their vote out without going in person. We weren't even
allowed to per se and I remember standing in lines
and doing that whole thing. But it's been a while.
I'm mailing my vote.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
We like to actively go to do it, to do
our civic duty, but we have been doing the mail
in ballot at home and then just dropping it off.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Civic duty is standing in line with a bunch of people.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
It just makes you feel I do like the feeling
of it. But then then I'm running late. I'm like, here,
I'm going to fill it out and then I'll drive
it to an actual voting site and deliver it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I just got used to that. Yeah, I used to
like doing the whole standing in line. Yeah, it does
feel like, hey, look, I'm going to get your sticker.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
You don't strike me as the kind that wears a sticker.
I wear the sticker.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I have one that says I vomited. Oh gosh, of
course you did, and I wear that. But the polling
states around the country are changing so that you have
or pulling sites rather around the country are gearing up.
They believe it's going to be not only by the
numbers provide experts, that's going to be a huge turnout
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for election day. And they're saying these key races that
we're also anxious about might be cast long before election
day itself, you know. So people are going to be
doing and depending where you are, could change their Alabama
New Hampshire offer no in person early voting options. Some
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states do have them. Twenty seven states in the District
of Columbia give voters both in person and absentee and
early in person polling sites. So you have to check
with your local area as to what they're going to
be doing. But I think more and more people, especially
younger folks, are digging the early process and then you know,
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if it's not too tight. The hope is that you
learn something on election night.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Yeah, during the twenty twenty election, more than sixty nine
percent of votes cast and the election we're done through
either mail in ballots are early in person voting. By comparison,
only forty percent voted early in the twenty sixteen election
and thirty three percent in the twenty twelve election. So yeah,
there's been a significant bump up. The first North Carolina
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is the first eight for those ballots to go out.
I believe they go out either later this week or
early next week.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
So and we're sixty three days out from the election.
But who's counting.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Yeah, isn't that crazy? So we're going to be knocking
on the door of mid September and not only can
you go out and get a pumpkin spice.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Lot you can get a ballot today.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
You can get your ballot on.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Well, typically after Labor Day it's really sort of the
home stretch to the election. And yes it's still the
home stretch until the election, but now it's really sort
of the ramp up to the election given the turn
of events of Kamala Harris now the nominee and not Biden.
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So it's completely it's just sort of it's a different
take on this the home stretch of the election as
we get closer and closer to November the fifth.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
It was a crazy pivot.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
It was turned everything upside down.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
It actually was expected slightly prior to and then President
Biden seemed to, you know, put his heels in and
say nope, I'm going to do this.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
It seemed to die down, I know, terrible phrase. After
all the pressure was on him to step aside. And
it was the June twenty seventh.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Debate that was it.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Oh yeah, that was really well, all the analogies, nailing
the coffin, all those just sorry, sorry, but it really
was like, no, you're not okay, and this we need
something better for the country. Whether this is or not,
(25:11):
I don't know, but it's different, and at least that
option is going to put people in the polls. You
cannot say that Kamala Harris has not injected some excitement
and enthusiasm and energy into the race.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
No, because like or no, she's made up significant ground
that Biden did not have. But at the same time,
four years ago, Biden had a significant lead in the
double digits over Trump, and right now it's a virtual tie,
it's a dead heat. So while she has made up ground,
(25:48):
it's still not where they were four years ago.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
And it's weird that the chess game that goes with
all of this if you look at at it from
a bird's eye view, because we're talking right now about
voting early, like people wanting to go out and cast
their vote in September, whether that's mail in, whether you
go in person, whether it's a hybrid type thing. What
do they call that? Absent in person absent devoting, which
(26:14):
is the weirdest. It's like, you're not here right but here,
drop it off here. So we're talking about that aspect
of it. But when you look at it at big
picture and not the whole, democracy is at stake. Democracy
is at stake in every election you know, alternate that's
the point of an election. Yeah, and that's what it
comes down to. But let's do the hypotheticals. So let's
(26:37):
say Kamala Harris wins. Does that put Trump out? Because
now he's getting up in age, so that puts him
out for another four years? Does does the whole probably right?
And then maggnet does someone else take that? Does that die?
(26:58):
Do the Republicans look and say, you know what, we
have lost our way, let's refocus and rebuild. Does Kamala
Harris last one term? And then people go, you know what,
now that Donald Trump's not the option, we need a
conservative in the office.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
And on the Democratic side, who else would run? Because
would it be it's not going to be our governor
Gavin Newsom and going up against Kamala Well, they wouldn't, right,
So I'm saying, so, you know, if Trump proves to
be victorious, then I think then then that would mean
(27:41):
that Gavin Newsom would run.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Interesting, Yeah, I guess, well what fag are they're going
to reach into? But when you look at it this way,
when Kamala Harris ran on our own, she had hissed
poor performance. She was like, oh for less than five
percent or something, so it things change quickly. And then
(28:05):
you can also get those you know, someone running like
Obama that comes pretty much out of nowhere and then
all of a sudden becomes the star.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Well she's being sort of talented as the Obama candidate,
the change candidate.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah, but I.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
And of course the race is being framed as the
prosecutor versus the convict, and.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Which is that's funny that that is actually a funny,
Like that's the marketing thing I would focus on.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Well, and the Dams are spending significantly more money than
the Republicans right now. I mean, if you're in a
swing state, I don't need to tell you you're just
inundated with ads after ads after ad more so Kamala
Harris versus Trump, so well.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Not a whole lot of ads here in California, and
then the California pretty much votes the same way. No.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
I mean, I was in Nevada recently in the end
of July, and you know, just watching local news, every
single commercial was a Trump commercial or a Harris commercial,
and there were some locals who were saying, We're not
even going to watch anymore, We're not watching local news.
There's an article that came out about that, because they're
so tired of seeing all the ads inundated.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
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Gary and Shannon showed Nil Sevandri and Marlon tay Is
filling in. Yeah you are back.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I am back. I'm sorry I loved you and left you.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
No, that was totally fine. A. I just was bored
sitting by myself.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
No, you weren't. But you weren't.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I'm not the type of person that gets bored, really,
but I will tell you you like you give off
the energy of you know, let's let's go with to
me Moore in wow, Yes, but I was actually no,
you weren't thinking stript No, the other military one with
(00:51):
a few good men. Oh, you just seemed like nothing
stops you. You barrel through everything. Uh, don't assume your
side is your power, that's right. And and so I
think I was just surprised that anything took you down,
even for a day an hour.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Well, okay, so to that point, I think it's all
that running.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I know, I know, you know what you know what
it was.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I've started to feel this calcium build up around my.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
It's all that indifference running.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, sorry, you gotta you gotta pack on the pounds.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
And you know what I was yesterday? I was a
couch elite.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Oh did you Yes, you use.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
That phrase on Labor Day and uh, yes, that was
me yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Anything in particular you were watching?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
No, I read a lot yesterday actually, and then watched
just a mindless rom com last night just to clean
cleanse the palate.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, do that sometimes?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah, anyone?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
But you how do you like it?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Do you know what I'm talking about? Have you heard
of it? Of course with Glenn Pale?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah, and Sweeny Yeah, it was cute.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I like both of them. Actually, Oh yeah, they're great.
I think I think he's fun to watch.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
He's a great actor. Yeah, yeah, he's.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Just well he's a hitman. One I did. I saw
that was fun. It was fun about it. But I
thought he was excellent and that and a lot of fun.
And then his co star in that.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Oh she's gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah she I saw her in Oh god, what was
the Star Wars series? Anyways? I saw her in that
and I looked at my wife while we were watching,
and she goes, I.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Know what that?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
She like that? Just that is to me, just a
quintessential beautiful woman.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Oh yeah, she's stunning, stunning.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I'm trying to look up her name right now because
let's put a name to her, and she's Ajorna.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah. I think, yeah, I think that's her. She plays
a strong, tough person in the gosh, what the.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Amy King blink twice?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
What?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
What was the that? The series? The star Wars series.
It's a Star Wars story.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Which one the Acola no specific room rising.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
No, I'm lucky to have her Rogue one.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
No, it's it's it's actually pre dates Rogue Rogue one,
same actor and door. He didn't need me after all,
so I always do. Amy. Anyways, it is a what
you watch on Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
That's right, that's coming out technically.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Okay, we're not We're not being slopped anyway. I'm sorry
about yesterday. I was going to say, this is my
first sick day in more than two years, so not here,
my first one.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, not here. You can take all that TV time
and cram it because here in radio that's your first
ding system.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
That's right. I dropped. I dropped. I was already low
on the on the total pool. I'm even lower. Hi Amy,
it's good to have you and good to see you.
I walked by, but you were busy.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I was going to say hi, and see I was
going to get like a complex about that because you just.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Walk on by.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
No, you were, you were knee deep in it. Yeah,
I didn't want to interrupt.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, the the news ladies love them some. Marla. Oh yeah,
they all wine up and and then Marla and Marla
comes play. Amy kneels down to hug you. It's cute.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Well I have to because I'm about twice as tall
as she is. She's just a little slip of a thing.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Little slip indeed, all right, so I look up to
Amy in many ways, yes, only literally.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Right slip into this day's news, of course, it starts
with hot, hot, hot.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
You know this is We talked about this yesterday, and
I know you and I spoke about it on Monday.
But the it is sooner or later, we're not going
to do these stories anymore, because it's going to be
the norm. Do you know that it has been? And
this is a close cousin to us there in Arizona,
Phoenix one hundred days of one hundred degrees or.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
More I couldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
One hundred days now. I was in Arizona a couple
of weeks ago visiting family, and I mean it was hot.
It was walk outside and go, oh my gosh, run
inside hot. But it was actually pretty nice. It was
it was a balance of little bit degrees. Yeah, that
seriously is as much as that's a punchline. That is
(05:27):
the difference, especially as a bald man, because I got
nothing to absorb nothing.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Well, I hope you're putting some SPF there. I have to,
you have to.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You want to know a fun little kidney transplant fact.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Oh we do that.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
When you get a hard organ transplant and you're on
certain medications, you are more susceptible to skin cancer. Isn't
that crazy? So yeah, I have that's another great reason
to wear a hat for me. But yeah, even it
happens more on the lighter, the more European side coloring,
(06:01):
so I have a little a little protection there. But
the reality is, yeah, that can be a.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Problem, a big one.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Well good, oh whoa why because there's a lot of
mass that it could the sun can hit. What do
you what do you mean there's more skin for the sun.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
You got a big old heead because you got a
big old brain.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
You got a big one.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
It's like buttonnick, that's right.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah. So there's gonna be lots of heat, and what
comes with the heat?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Will the power stay on?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah? Yeah. Do you you remember when Captain Hansome, our governor,
had had said, you know, we're gonna have all these
rolling blackouts than we did. We had the brown outs,
the rolling blackouts, all these we had them even during
Jerry Brown and it was a mass and then all
of a sudden, now by thirty thirty or twenty thirty
(06:48):
six or whatever, we're supposed to all be driving electric cars.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Except that's not make it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah. So now now we're hearing about the concern of
whether we're going to go through those blackouts or brennouts.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Well, so cal Edison is saying that there are peers,
appears to be no danger of any of us ending
up in the dark.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
So what changed there? Did they get battery backups? Did they?
Because I've not heard that anything has technically changed. And
I remember, I don't know about your neck of the woods,
but on the eastern side of Los Angeles are our
power would go out A couple times this summer.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
No, so so, SoCal says.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
So Cal Edison says that the systems performing well and
they're seeing the benefits of all the work that they
completed over the past several years on equipment replacement, upgrades
and electric grid hardening.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Okay, why why then, well.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
After the after the brownouts, I.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
See years and years and years.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yes, yes, so now of course, though, for those you
bring up the evs, for those who do have electric vehicles,
they're saying, don't charge them.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
No, are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Don't charge it.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Avoid charging your electric vehicles right now because we need
to preserve, especially from four to nine pm in the afternoon,
avoid using major appliances, which would obviously one.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Of those would be your vehicle.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Marla Rose, Marie Table, I don't know your lessen you
my middle name? Yeah, that I will tell you.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Marla.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Is it what?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
No, it's Christine, Christine.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I'll look at that. What I don't know just because
you work with Christine.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Well, it's that brings up a good point where whenever
reporter throws it back to the two of us when
we're anchoring together and they say, Marla Christine and.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
You go what, Yes, Yeah, you're in trouble.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
And that's what I say to myself.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
What I'm mad at myself too, Marla Christine. So then
I perk up, Okay, thank you?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Oh my gosh, so that I'm sorry. I'm gobsmacked. They're saying,
don't charge your evs.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah, they're saying, to avoid amid the extreme heat, and
of course, despite the upgrades and the electrical grid and
all that we need to preserve during the peak demand
between four to nine, explode and avoid charging and explode
all electric vehicles.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
And all the kings, horses and all the kings.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
We're going to have our first, our first brown out.
And let's go to the breaking news that actually is
underway right now in Georgia. So there is another school
shooting that just happened with two dead. This is at
a high school and at least four injureds injured, and
(09:43):
FBI has responded out there. The suspect is in custody.
This is at Appalachi High School and winder Georgia.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
And it looks like local hospitals are already receiving patients
they've got gunshot wounds. The Georgia State Patrol previously said
that it had responded to this active scene at the school.
Very little information at this point, but more and more.
We'll be pouring out throughout the day, and as it
comes out, we'll bring it to you. But not seeing
(10:17):
other than casualties.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
We are actually neil. We're getting word in and we're
looking for double confirmation. But NBC is are reporting that
two are dead and four are hurt.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, and the governor there, Brian Kemp, is directing all
available state resources to assist, of course, at the scene.
Their statements out there on social media right now. This
is winder Georgia. As mentioned, this is just a community
about an hour outside of Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
It's a pretty small population of about just some change
over eighteen thousand as of twenty twenty twenty, fourth largest
school district in the state, and quite a bit of
students in this particular school. You're looking at just under
two thousand who are enrolled in that high school and
high schools. You know, there might be some change here
(11:09):
and there. I know that someplace to have middle schools
in the like, but typically you're going through ninth grade
through twelfth grade, and so that age is what is
that fourteen or fourteen through seventeen typically about yes and
so as Amy just told us, two are dead. We
don't know how many of the other casualties there are,
(11:32):
but this again local hospitals being filled up with patients
with gunshot wounds. I imagine depending on how the situation
rolls out, too, there can be other There can be
other harm as well, if there is any stampeding or
running or trying to get out of a certain place.
But ultimately the unfortunate thing is usually it's going to
(11:56):
be more gunshot wounds.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah, at least five ambulances, large law enforcement presence there.
One medical helicopter could be seen or lefting a patient
from the scene. So very chaotic, scary situation at this
high school in Georgia. We will keep a watch again.
NBC News reporting too dead, four injured.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
It looks like other footage is showing the scene people
gathering in the football field near the school. It seems
some of the video that is there is showing students
appearing to be praying. So I don't know if that
is a if that is the typical when there's a concern,
or if they've gone through training for active shooting that
(12:37):
they are to meet out at the football field or
what have you. But as this story unfolds, we of
course will bring you more. All right, Ezra Freck LA
is a champion. Yeah, and he has been on the
program here with Gary and Shannon many many times. And
this is really a great story, period, but a great
(12:57):
local story.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I mean, talk about the power of manifesting your dreams.
So Ezra Freck is the La born and he is
the USC commit UH paralympian who has been in Paris
performing participating in the games.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
And he had three events. He had the long jump.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
He had the UH the one and his event quote
his event was yesterday in the high jump and he
got a gold medal in that and he had this
is this comes the day after he got a he
got a gold medal in the one hundred meter. So
he's coming home back to Los Angeles with two Paralympian
(13:42):
gold medals.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
That's insane. It's insane said about you know, his event
or like what he's known for what he you.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Know, UH has because he was a world record holder
the Paralympics.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Fantastic.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Oh his run was.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Come from behind and he I will say, you know,
barely qualified for it because there was a prelims the
day before and he was third in that and it
was just by a hair and so then going into it,
I would say maybe he was the underdog, and then
he just shattered.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
It was awesome.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
And it wasn't just super clean out of the gate,
which I love. It was like, I don't know, it's
all earned. I'm not going to get up and run there,
but the fact that you have to power through when
you see to keep your heart focused, when you see
people ahead of you, and still go, I'm going to
push through and I'm going to win. Oh yeah, impressive.
(14:34):
And now he's basically the face of the of everything. Yeah, well,
he's all over the place.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
He really already was, so now this is just elevating
him that much more. He was on the Or, he
will be in the third hour on the Today Show
this morning. So of course he's going to make the
rounds there as he should. Once he gets back in town,
we're going to have him on Fox eleven. You better
have him on here too.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Oh yeah, we love him. He's been I literally watched
him grow up coming in into the station. Of course,
he's nineteen years old now, got that dramatic gold in
the men's one hundred meter that we just talked about,
but by age eleven, he had watched the Rio twenty
sixteen Paralympic Paralympics. He vowed to his friends and family
(15:15):
that he would make into Tokyo twenty twenty and just
you know, people saying, really all that now we look
back at all that hard work.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
What I talk about manifesting his dreams. So on social
media on him if you follow him, and he is
a very inspiring follow on Instagram at Ezra Frek It's
fre c h. He has been manifesting one hundred days
out so he started this is day ninety nine of
one hundred until I win Paralympic gold. Every single day
(15:46):
for the last one hundred days, he has put that
out there into the universe, just betting on himself. That's
why it's so beautiful. And so yeah, he won his
first gold medal on ninety nine, day ninety nine of
one hundred, and then of course he clinched with day
one hundred of one hundred his second gold.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
You know that you talk about being inspirational, but you
see someone like this and you know his whole focus,
you know, not only the metals, not only world records,
not only the wins, but it meant, in his words,
that he could normalize disability in the process, and that's
(16:26):
his focus.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I'm so glad you brought that up. That's exactly what
he does. I mean, that's what his family does too.
So they started Angel City Sports is a nonprofit that
provides adaptive sports to people with disabilities. And it's just
it's not it's anybody, veterans, everybody of all ages is welcome,
and they hold these clinics where you can you thought
(16:48):
that you couldn't do something, No, there's none of that.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
That mentality is all out the window.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
So they give the people these experiences that they otherwise
wouldn't have. So the family is all about it angel
City Sports, and Ezra is just using his platform to
make this known that your disability is not a disability.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Well no, it hasn't stopped him at all.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
You're just getting started. Uh so exciting.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, so that that message continues to be even as
a small child. And it is really fascinating because we've
even changed the configuration here at the station. So I
remember in the older studios down the hall seeing him
and his lovely family come in and he's just a
little one.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Oh he's tiny. He was tiny.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I have a picture with him where you know, I'm I'm.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
You're taller than he is?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Oh yeah, wow, yep, he was below my shoulders, little kid.
And I was honored to MC actually their biggest fundraiser
for Angel City Sports that was earlier this summer. And
you know there he is now towering over me at
nineteen years old, and we showed the before and after.
(17:57):
He's literally grown up before our eyes and we could
be more.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Proud and a handsome kid to boot I'm smart like
this is he's focused on academics as well. It's not
just athletics. He is a well rounded chap as well.
And uh, he's taken ladies, Oh is he really? Yeah,
he's got a he's got a lovely girlfriend. Oh you asked,
(18:21):
Oh I've met her, I asked, I'm.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Taken to.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Just checking. That was a test. John asked me to
do it. You passed, You got a D minus. Uh yeah,
But that is is a great story and it's a
great local story as well. And then everyone should be
proud here in the US and here in the Southland
because that is definitely one of our own and a
great story to boot what was do you know what
(18:47):
his handle is again?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
At Ezra freck at Ezra fre easy r A f
R e c h.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Alrighty. When we come back, we're going to get in
to you know, early voting coming up as well, and
we are then going to move into Newsome in the
state of emergency. As of yesterday when we were talking
about everything going on in us.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
We're going to tuot our own horns. What we're gonna
do because I think the governor was listening to us,
because we talked about this. We had the mayor on.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
It's a big gas listener, that's right. He just he
tuned in. He said, who are these new people? And
he said, I'll give this a listen. That's my Newsom.
You can add the rasp later. I don't want to
hurt my throat.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Well, we got to get you the aviators.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I told you, yes, the aviators and the wrangler jeans
or whatever he wears when he's trying to look like
he's I don't think, but okay, ags, Wow, look at
you throwing out the high end jeans.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I bet money on it.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Well done. We are following the news about the high
school shooting. They're at the Appalaich Appalachi High School and
they're in Georgia. Casualties reported. Amy King was just bringing
us up to date. At least two have passed and
(20:16):
more are in critical condition. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
This is in winder Georgia, just about an hour outside
of Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Fbis on the scene.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
You can imagine the police presence that has taken over
Appalachi High School all because of this.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
The shooter is in custody.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
No word if this shooter is a student, was a student,
former student, current student, No idea the age just yet.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
So all very fluid.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
And onto voting. Early voting options are growing in popularity now.
We saw burst in twenty twenty. Obviously when you had.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Well it came out of the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah, with a pandemic, So obviously when you have the pandemic,
there was people that are looking for ways to get
their vote out without going in person. We weren't even
allowed to per se and I remember standing in lines
and doing that whole thing. But it's been a while.
I'm mailing my vote.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
We like to actively go to do it, to do
our civic duty, but we have been doing the mail
in ballot at home and then just dropping it off.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Civic duty is standing in line with a bunch of people.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
It just makes you feel I do like the feeling
of it. But then then I'm running late. I'm like, here,
I'm going to fill it out and then I'll drive
it to an actual voting site and deliver it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I just got used to that. Yeah, I used to
like doing the whole standing in line. Yeah, it does
feel like, hey, look, I'm going to get your sticker.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
You don't strike me as the kind that wears a sticker.
I wear the sticker.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I have one that says I vomited. Oh gosh, of
course you did, and I wear that. But the polling
states around the country are changing so that you have
or pulling sites rather around the country are gearing up.
They believe it's going to be not only by the
numbers provide experts, that's going to be a huge turnout
(22:15):
for election day. And they're saying these key races that
we're also anxious about might be cast long before election
day itself, you know. So people are going to be
doing and depending where you are, could change their Alabama
New Hampshire offer no in person early voting options. Some
(22:37):
states do have them. Twenty seven states in the District
of Columbia give voters both in person and absentee and
early in person polling sites. So you have to check
with your local area as to what they're going to
be doing. But I think more and more people, especially
younger folks, are digging the early process and then you know,
(23:00):
if it's not too tight. The hope is that you
learn something on election night.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Yeah, during the twenty twenty election, more than sixty nine
percent of votes cast and the election we're done through
either mail in ballots are early in person voting. By comparison,
only forty percent voted early in the twenty sixteen election
and thirty three percent in the twenty twelve election. So yeah,
there's been a significant bump up. The first North Carolina
(23:26):
is the first eight for those ballots to go out.
I believe they go out either later this week or
early next week.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
So and we're sixty three days out from the election.
But who's counting.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Yeah, isn't that crazy? So we're going to be knocking
on the door of mid September and not only can
you go out and get a pumpkin spice.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Lot you can get a ballot today.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
You can get your ballot on.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Well, typically after Labor Day it's really sort of the
home stretch to the election. And yes it's still the
home stretch until the election, but now it's really sort
of the ramp up to the election given the turn
of events of Kamala Harris now the nominee and not Biden.
(24:13):
So it's completely it's just sort of it's a different
take on this the home stretch of the election as
we get closer and closer to November the fifth.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
It was a crazy pivot.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
It was turned everything upside down.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
It actually was expected slightly prior to and then President
Biden seemed to, you know, put his heels in and
say nope, I'm going to do this.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
It seemed to die down, I know, terrible phrase. After
all the pressure was on him to step aside. And
it was the June twenty seventh.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Debate that was it.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Oh yeah, that was really well, all the analogies, nailing
the coffin, all those just sorry, sorry, but it really
was like, no, you're not okay, and this we need
something better for the country. Whether this is or not,
(25:11):
I don't know, but it's different, and at least that
option is going to put people in the polls. You
cannot say that Kamala Harris has not injected some excitement
and enthusiasm and energy into the race.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
No, because like or no, she's made up significant ground
that Biden did not have. But at the same time,
four years ago, Biden had a significant lead in the
double digits over Trump, and right now it's a virtual tie,
it's a dead heat. So while she has made up ground,
(25:48):
it's still not where they were four years ago.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
And it's weird that the chess game that goes with
all of this if you look at at it from
a bird's eye view, because we're talking right now about
voting early, like people wanting to go out and cast
their vote in September, whether that's mail in, whether you
go in person, whether it's a hybrid type thing. What
do they call that? Absent in person absent devoting, which
(26:14):
is the weirdest. It's like, you're not here right but here,
drop it off here. So we're talking about that aspect
of it. But when you look at it at big
picture and not the whole, democracy is at stake. Democracy
is at stake in every election you know, alternate that's
the point of an election. Yeah, and that's what it
comes down to. But let's do the hypotheticals. So let's
(26:37):
say Kamala Harris wins. Does that put Trump out? Because
now he's getting up in age, so that puts him
out for another four years? Does does the whole probably right?
And then maggnet does someone else take that? Does that die?
(26:58):
Do the Republicans look and say, you know what, we
have lost our way, let's refocus and rebuild. Does Kamala
Harris last one term? And then people go, you know what,
now that Donald Trump's not the option, we need a
conservative in the office.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
And on the Democratic side, who else would run? Because
would it be it's not going to be our governor
Gavin Newsom and going up against Kamala Well, they wouldn't, right,
So I'm saying, so, you know, if Trump proves to
be victorious, then I think then then that would mean
(27:41):
that Gavin Newsom would run.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Interesting, Yeah, I guess, well what fag are they're going
to reach into? But when you look at it this way,
when Kamala Harris ran on our own, she had hissed
poor performance. She was like, oh for less than five
percent or something, so it things change quickly. And then
(28:05):
you can also get those you know, someone running like
Obama that comes pretty much out of nowhere and then
all of a sudden becomes the star.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Well she's being sort of talented as the Obama candidate,
the change candidate.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah, but I.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
And of course the race is being framed as the
prosecutor versus the convict, and.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Which is that's funny that that is actually a funny,
Like that's the marketing thing I would focus on.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Well, and the Dams are spending significantly more money than
the Republicans right now. I mean, if you're in a
swing state, I don't need to tell you you're just
inundated with ads after ads after ad more so Kamala
Harris versus Trump, so well.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Not a whole lot of ads here in California, and
then the California pretty much votes the same way. No.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
I mean, I was in Nevada recently in the end
of July, and you know, just watching local news, every
single commercial was a Trump commercial or a Harris commercial,
and there were some locals who were saying, We're not
even going to watch anymore, We're not watching local news.
There's an article that came out about that, because they're
so tired of seeing all the ads inundated.
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