September 17, 2024 • 23 mins
Gary and Shannon start the show off with the news of Congress considering to increase funding to the Secret Service after recent assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump. Gary and Shannon also talk about Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs being charged with racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. Instagram will now automatically put teens into private accounts with increased restrictions and parental controls.
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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
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
You didn't watch that game last night with any Eagles fans,
did you?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
God?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
No, what a great game, What a great game, and
what an absolute collapse and failure.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
But you know what, do not ever discount Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
No, no matter what uniform he's wearing, doesn't matter. It
doesn't matter who he's throwing to. Sometimes. Yeah, that was
at last drive?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Where was the defense? What happened to Philadelphia?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Quite a fun end there, man, There's some weird stuff
going on. We'll get into the secret service and the
funding and the assassination attempt in just a moment. The
bottom of the hour, we're going to talk about this
exploding pagers story out of the Middle East, where it
appears that Israel was able to target pagers kids. Pagers
are like cell phones that you can't talk into. They
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targeted pagers that were being used by Hesbelaw and somehow
made them explode. According to HESBLA, at least three people
have been killed. But we'll talk about that weirdness. Did
you hear about the otter. There's a different order.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
It's a different order.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I did not hear about the otter this time. My
first pet was.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
In a potter.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Like an otter like otter.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
So there was a young child in Washington, Bremerton, Marina,
you know where that is sure recovering now after being
dragged underwater by a river otter in a rare attack.
It called a human river otter incidents. Good news, Give
me otter, good news. The child's mother said a river
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otter pulled her child off the dock they were walking down.
The otter then dragged the child underwater, and the child
came back up above the surface after a few moments.
The child's mom lifted them out of the water as
the otter was still attacking, resulting in her sustaining an
otter bite on her arm. The otter continued to pursue
the family as they left. The child was taken to
(01:59):
a hospital, where the child received treatment for bites and
scratches on the face, legs, and top of the head.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Minor injuries. The child's gonna get okay.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Minor injuries.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Oh yeah, look at that.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Ronald Road Junior is the acting director of the US
Secret Service.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
The agent who was visually sweeping the area of the
six screen, saw the subjects armed with what he perceived
to be a rifle and immediately discharged his firearm. The subject,
who did not have line of sight to the former president,
fled the scene. He did not fire or get off
any shots at our agent.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
That from that news conference yesterday where again the acting
director of the US Secret Service said, Hey, guys and
gals in Congress, we need help.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Our folks are rising to this moment, but it requires
all of us to be able to have good conversations
and make sure that we're getting the Secret Service where
it needs to be, and I'm confident that we will
achieve that.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
He said they need a paradigm shift in the way
they do business there. I don't know if you need
to be that dramatic. Just sweep the area. They did
not sweep the outskirts of that golf course because it
was not on his official schedule. If the former president
of the United States is going to make a side
trip and play a round of golf, your first call
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is to the Secret Service making sure it is on
their official schedule. This doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Well, you're right, because in terms of the idea of
it being a paradigm shift to simply search the outer
perimeter of a golf course. That doesn't make any sense.
Why is that a shift? I understand if they, like
you said, it was an add on to the calendar
that didn't exist. If a last minute, the Secret Service
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has the ability to say to the president, Hey, mister President,
I know you have a nine o'clock tea time. We're
going to push that back ninety minutes simply because we
need to do a perimeter search. That's it. However they
do it, they have the ability to do that. The
weirder part about it is we know that the former
president often plays golf on Sunday, not always, but often
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plays golf on Sundays. Is that the thing that this
gunman was counting on when he got there at two
in the morning.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I don't think so. This is a crazy person.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
This is not somebody who works for the CIA and
can figure out where the former president is and be
able to know.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I mean, there's just no way.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
There's just no way that he It's just all too
much of a coincidence for me.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I totally agree. It's there's so many weirdness things. There's
the nice part about this that's not that's not the
right word. The perhaps fulfilling part about this is that
the guy is alive and can talk and may be
able to answer some of those questions that we have about, Wow,
what the hell are you doing there for twelve hours?
How did you know that that was the place he
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was going to be or did you just guess?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Or was he just there to shoot anybody and that
was not even the target.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
The other thing that's going on is that Ron de Santis,
the governor of Florida, has said, hey, guys, listen, we're
going to also do an investigation into this.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
I'm signing an executive order assigning the case involving the
attempt at assassination of former President Donald Trump to the
office of Statewide Prosecutor under the supervision of Attorney General
Ashley Moody. The suspect, Ryan Routh, has believed of committed
state law violations across multiple judicial circuits in the state.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And he also pointed out he didn't feel comfortable with
the FBI and the Department of Justice investigating this attempt
when they're also pursuing criminal cases against Donald Trump, which listen.
I understand his political motivation for that, but I mean,
he's got his governor of state of Florida, he's got
a right to do that.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Do you see this stupid training we have to do.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
We had to do that like four hour sex training,
and now we have to do business conduct and ethics.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, I thought, come on, when did that email come through?
Was that Ken.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Jacob just told me about it? Because I didn't I
see it.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I thought I saw it on vacation. I put it
in my to think about later box and I have
not thought about it yet.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Holy hell.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
So you're trying to be productive here at work. I'm
bogged down by this unnecessary training.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
A story that we'll do a little bit later, and
we'd actually love to get some input on this about
your kids.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I love this story because I've noticed this with some
of my friend's kids and it's so perplexing to me.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Well, it's a study out of the University of Michigan
Health cs Mott Children's Hospital, and it said a surprising
number of children are struggling to make friends. In fact,
now it's actually from the parents perspective, but one in
five parents fear that their children do not have any friends.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
And that is such an important thing to have to
learn socialization well man, just for support and mental health
and well being.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
To have a friend and learning the people are different
than you and how they live life and how you
can live life like them, or you know, emulate the
things that you like in them, and you know, try
to convince them that they're doing other things wrong. I mean,
there's also what I think part of the problem is
is the changing definition of what a friend is, you know,
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just you know, playing fall out with somebody.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Is it playing fallout?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Is it just sending memes back and forth, or is
it getting together face to face for an extended period
of time, putting your devices away and laughing and sharing and.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
All of it.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yeah, Okay, Well they're calling it a bombshell indictment, and
I don't know if it's a bombshell. Because we knew
Diddy was a bad guy. We knew that the Feds
had raided his homes. We knew that the Feds like
to dot their eyes and cross their t's and they're
ready to roll when they move on this stuff. So
we knew this was coming. But the details are so
lurid in this indictment that he forced women Sean Diddy
(08:09):
Coombs forced women into these sick, freakoff sex sessions with
male prostitutes that were often recorded while he was freaking.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Off by himself. Yeah. Damian Williams is the US attorney
in the Southern District of New York.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
They sees firearms and ammunition, including three defaced AR fifteens
and the large capacity drum magazine.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
They also sees evidence of.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
The freakoffs, electronic devices that contain images and videos of
the freakoffs with multiple victims.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
And they seize cases and cases.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Of the kinds of personal lubricant and baby oil that
combs The staff allegedly used to stock hotel rooms for
the freakoffs, more than one thousand bottles all together.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Now, that's the selatious part of it, the loop thing,
But the gun thing also explains why back in March,
if you remember when they raided the home here in
la and holmbe Hills and the one in Miami, the
federal agents were armed to the teeth. They were not
messing around because of the assumption that there were weapons involved.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Day's long sexual performances as part of his pattern of abuse.
As you heard in Amy's news going back more than
a decade. These were he was basically a director for
live porn that was violent. They would they would injure
these women to the point where they would take days
or weeks until they were able to be released. They
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would keep them captive, kidnap them until their injuries healed.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
What a monster.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
The victims would receive regular ivy fluids in the aftermath
to recover from the physical exertion and the drug use.
He would monitor their medical records.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
This was.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I mean, you know, it's one thing to be a
womanizer and an abuser and an assaulterer. But the fact
that this seems to be so widespread, I mean, yes,
that the baby oil, the thousand bottles is you know,
that's what people are going. Well, that sounds like a lot,
you know, what's the deal there? But I mean, you
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know what that says to me is how many women
were involved?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah, I mean this seems like there was a number
of women, maybe hundreds of women for a decade that
were involved in this.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
And the attorney made the point. The US attorney Damian
Williams again made that point. This is an ongoing investigation.
There likely will be more charges, not even just against Diddy,
but they charged. They charged with conspiracy. I mean that
there that by definition means that there are other people involved.
So there could be many other people that are involved
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to be charged. But there also, he said, could be
many people who have not come forward yet that we're
victims of all of this. So he is in jail,
is Diddy? He will and we can start calling him
Sean again. He is expected to make a court appearance,
I believe about eleven thirty hour time. I mean there
was a specific time, not to confuse you.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
A flurry of lawsuits in the past year by people
who said that he subjected them to physical or sexual
abuse during the height of his fame as a producer
in the nineties. So I mean, this seems like one
of those open secrets that people knew about but just
turned their heads.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Was gross.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah. And the thing that's you're going to see today also,
and I've already seen it a couple of times, is
the replaying of that video from the hotel here in
la from twenty sixteen when he chased Cassie right, chased
her down in the hotel, threw her to the ground,
kicked her a couple of times and then literally dragged
her down the hallway of the hotel room back into
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the back into the room.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yeah, and you knew when you saw that video that
was not something where he just flew off the handle.
That's something that he regular literally does. And that was
not the first, the second, or maybe the four hundredth time. Yesterday,
I was leaving the studios here and it was raining
and I'm like, so it just rains here. I said
to Rich so it just rains here. And this woman
was in a lobby and she looks at me, she
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starts laughing. I was like, I'm sorry, I'm from California.
I'm not used to this stuff, Like wow, okay. And
then the rain just kept coming and it kept coming
and it was unrelenting. And I go back to my
hotel room and it's whipping against the window and I'm like, wow,
this is a lot of rain. This morning, I wake
up and I find that it was historic amounts of
rainfall in the Coralina in the Carolinas, both of them
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a very powerful storm system, not quite a tropical storm,
but the roads were washed out, cars were flooded, businesses,
it collapsed roads as well. It was wild winds forty
miles per hour with the rain, So so.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
You weren't just overreacting time.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
I wasn't just overreacting. It was a real storm.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Did I tell you my experience with rain on my vacation. No,
I don't think I did.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
So.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Part of our trip was driving. We were driving basically
the length of Tennessee. We went from Nashville over to Gatlinburg,
and on the trip we made a stop in Knoxville.
That three hour drive from Nashville to Knoxville starts out
just cloudy sky, is no big deal. By the time
we got to Knoxville, I had driven through rain for
about forty five minutes, and it was more rain than
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I had seen in fifty years of living. It was
the heaviest rainstorm I had ever driven in, and I
lived in Seattle for six years. It was the heaviest rain.
I mean to the point where you're going twenty miles
an hour on the freeway, there's no one around, you
can barely see the roadway itself, and there's nothing that
your windshield wipers can do to keep up with it.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
It's a good thing that your wife was there so
she could drive you through that because I know you're
you're a little shaky.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I'm such a nervous driver. She was in the passenger
seat and I could tell she was looking at me,
and every once in a while she'd be like, how
you doing. I'd be like, I'm just fine, totally calm,
everything's fine. And she said at the end of it
that she could see my hands gripping the steering wheel.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Yeah, like that.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
My hands were tense, which I don't think they were.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
But when you're not used to it and you're in
a place you've never driven through, you know, you don't
know what the condition, how they're going to get worse,
if what the road condition is like, you just don't know,
so it is a stressful situation.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
It was nice that there was no traffic and it's
basically a straight road.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah, that is nice.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
You remember when we were in Philadelphia and it was
just that downpour on the freeway and we were in
an uber and kind of looking at each other like, this.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Is how we go, this is what we're doing. I
guess here we go.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Speaking of weird weather in different parts of the world,
this isn't weather, but there was a five point one
magnitude earthquake in Texas yesterday. They said it's the I
think the fourth largest, fifth largest ever in the state
of Texas ever recorded.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Your daughter bring that with her to college or not.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
She didn't feel it, I don't think if she did,
she didn't say anything. But it was a five point
one magnitude quake in Martin County, about twenty one miles
south of the little town of Ackerly.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
The news today that thousands of people have been injured
and several killed when their pagers exploded across Lebanon was
news to me for a couple reasons. Number one, pagers
were exploding, but number two, thousands of people have pagers.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Well, now this is important because they believe that Hezbollah
has been using pagers because they're lower technology. For example,
here's Alistair Berkhol, who's a correspondent international correspondent for Sky News.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
This is extraordinary and sounds like something out of a
Hollywood spy movie. The idea that pages have been exploding
all over the route, possibly some reports unconfirmed around Damascus
as well, and pages belonging we think to members of
the group has BOLLA. Now, number of things to ont
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pick here. Firstly, I think that if they were carrying pages,
they would probably be senior members of Hezbollah. And the
reason they'll be using pages which most people probably would
not have touched for decades is because they're fairly low
fi technology and they are considered probably safer for communications.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Hesbella's Information minister has come out and said that at
least I think it's eight people have been killed by
these exploding pagers, and that the Health Ministry says at
least twenty seven hundred people have been injured by them.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Now again, I'm trying to wrap my head around. I'm
hoping within the next couple of hours somebody will be
able to explain this to me. What is there to explode?
I mean, there's a battery, but how do you hack
into a pager to make it explode?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I don't know, but I'm watching footage from Reuters. It's
like an open air type market, fruits and things and vegetables,
and quite the explosion that comes from that little just
that little tiny pager.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
It takes out you and the people that are near
you as well. I mean it's not a small, little
like tasing type explosion.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
It's pretty big and they'd have to know the model
of the pager. I mean, they're all they all us
in the same one. They'd have to know serial numbers
potentially to get a signal directly to the pager to
infiltrate the system in it. They also said that I
think he mentioned in that report there that there was
some reports out of Damascus, Syria where pagers were exploding
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at the same time. I mean, that's a pretty weirdly
coordinated that is complete spine novel stuff that happened. Producer
and ran down the hallway and gave me this this
article about how it's possible that Israel could have triggered
these Hesbela pager explosions. Now again, Israel not claimed responsibility,
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but as Blas says, it was Israel. They said that
especially in these older pagers, they probably use lithium ion batteries.
Many phones have them now still, and they can overheat
and catch on fire. And if you had a way
to do it, you could actually hack the devices and
overcharge the battery remotely triggering what they refer to as
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a thermal runaway. Wow, it's a chemical chain reaction which
occurs when the battery experience is a rapid temperature change
a lot of times. It obviously heats up and can
get very hot. You see that in your normal phone,
regardless of you know whether it's going to blow up
or not, but that they can manipulate it so much
that it would in many cases actually explode and you
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can't track it. A one way pager is a passive receiver,
so you couldn't track it necessarily, but if you sent
it a message that activated pagers in the area, you
may be able to actually overcharge it and cause that
thermal runaway.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Instagram is revamping its youth safety strategy, giving parents more
oversight over what their kids their teenagers are doing online.
Meta says it's going to bolster efforts to limit the
time teenagers spend on Instagram, what content they see, which
strangers are able to find their.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Accounts and talk to them.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
It'll give parents more insight into the people their children
are talking to, the types of posts they're consuming. Now,
if you're a parent that is going to engage in
all of this, you probably are not the parent that
we're worried about, right.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
That's a good point. It's a strange approch. Well, it's
not strange, it's a much needed approach. It's still not
quite I think is far enough, but it is better
than what they have right now. The company Meta is
going to force both news new Instagram sign ups, and
any existing user under the age of eighteen into what
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they refer to as a teen account. It's got these
safety default standards for example. For example, it's private by default,
and if you're sixteen or seventeen years old, you can
actually make the account public, and if you're under sixteen,
you can't do that without a parent signing off on it.
I don't know how they make sure that it's the
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parent that signs off on it. The other thing is
they said they're going to use artificial intelligence to proactively
find teenagers its suspects of lying about their age. They
said they're they're going to more often ask suspected teenagers
to verify their identity through some sort of an outside
contractor Now I've only seen these a couple of times,
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but a company that might ask you to take a
video selfie, or might ask you to take a picture
of your government ID, your driver license or whatever that
is to verify your age, that alone brings privacy issues
into it. Do you tell your kids even if it's
a gu you know, finger quotes guaranteed to you know,
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eliminate the picture once it takes it. I'm thinking of UTSA.
There is a fear, I think, a healthy fear that
that information does exist somewhere and could potentially be used
against you.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
It already exists. Yeah, but here's what I like. They're
going to stop notifications between the hours of ten pm
and seven a m.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Now, the company will also start reminding teens to get
off the app after an hour of usage a day,
just like you.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Can just like mind Tendo Wii when you'd play too
long and it would tell you, hey, you don't you
want to go outside for a while?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah, and then you say no and you keep playing.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Parents will be allowed to block their teens Instagram usage
after a certain amount of time or within certain windows
of time.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
The company's also asking.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Teens to proactively choose the topics like arts are sports,
that they favor for recommended content.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
As opposed to the company running the algorithm.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Right, and then parents will be able to see what
topics their teens have chosen to see as well.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Well. Again, it's not it's not not perfect, but it's better.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yeah, and I mean, if you go further, then you
get into First Amendment rights and the whole kitten kaboodle.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Next hour, we're going to talk a little bit about
this study that says that parents don't think their kids
have friends, in some cases don't have any friends. And
I wanted to know what your experience is with your kids.
If you think that your kids have trouble finding friends
to play with, or your kids outside all the time,
but no one else is how do you instigate that,
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how do you get how do you make sure that
your kids do have those those friend relationships. You can
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
You didn't watch that game last night with any Eagles fans,
did you?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
God?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
No, what a great game, What a great game, and
what an absolute collapse and failure.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
But you know what, do not ever discount Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
No, no matter what uniform he's wearing, doesn't matter. It
doesn't matter who he's throwing to. Sometimes. Yeah, that was
at last drive?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Where was the defense? What happened to Philadelphia?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Quite a fun end there, man, There's some weird stuff
going on. We'll get into the secret service and the
funding and the assassination attempt in just a moment. The
bottom of the hour, we're going to talk about this
exploding pagers story out of the Middle East, where it
appears that Israel was able to target pagers kids. Pagers
are like cell phones that you can't talk into. They
(00:51):
targeted pagers that were being used by Hesbelaw and somehow
made them explode. According to HESBLA, at least three people
have been killed. But we'll talk about that weirdness. Did
you hear about the otter. There's a different order.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
It's a different order.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I did not hear about the otter this time. My
first pet was.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
In a potter.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Like an otter like otter.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
So there was a young child in Washington, Bremerton, Marina,
you know where that is sure recovering now after being
dragged underwater by a river otter in a rare attack.
It called a human river otter incidents. Good news, Give
me otter, good news. The child's mother said a river
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otter pulled her child off the dock they were walking down.
The otter then dragged the child underwater, and the child
came back up above the surface after a few moments.
The child's mom lifted them out of the water as
the otter was still attacking, resulting in her sustaining an
otter bite on her arm. The otter continued to pursue
the family as they left. The child was taken to
(01:59):
a hospital, where the child received treatment for bites and
scratches on the face, legs, and top of the head.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Minor injuries. The child's gonna get okay.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Minor injuries.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Oh yeah, look at that.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Ronald Road Junior is the acting director of the US
Secret Service.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
The agent who was visually sweeping the area of the
six screen, saw the subjects armed with what he perceived
to be a rifle and immediately discharged his firearm. The subject,
who did not have line of sight to the former president,
fled the scene. He did not fire or get off
any shots at our agent.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
That from that news conference yesterday where again the acting
director of the US Secret Service said, Hey, guys and
gals in Congress, we need help.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Our folks are rising to this moment, but it requires
all of us to be able to have good conversations
and make sure that we're getting the Secret Service where
it needs to be, and I'm confident that we will
achieve that.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
He said they need a paradigm shift in the way
they do business there. I don't know if you need
to be that dramatic. Just sweep the area. They did
not sweep the outskirts of that golf course because it
was not on his official schedule. If the former president
of the United States is going to make a side
trip and play a round of golf, your first call
(03:20):
is to the Secret Service making sure it is on
their official schedule. This doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Well, you're right, because in terms of the idea of
it being a paradigm shift to simply search the outer
perimeter of a golf course. That doesn't make any sense.
Why is that a shift? I understand if they, like
you said, it was an add on to the calendar
that didn't exist. If a last minute, the Secret Service
(03:48):
has the ability to say to the president, Hey, mister President,
I know you have a nine o'clock tea time. We're
going to push that back ninety minutes simply because we
need to do a perimeter search. That's it. However they
do it, they have the ability to do that. The
weirder part about it is we know that the former
president often plays golf on Sunday, not always, but often
(04:10):
plays golf on Sundays. Is that the thing that this
gunman was counting on when he got there at two
in the morning.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I don't think so. This is a crazy person.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
This is not somebody who works for the CIA and
can figure out where the former president is and be
able to know.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I mean, there's just no way.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
There's just no way that he It's just all too
much of a coincidence for me.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I totally agree. It's there's so many weirdness things. There's
the nice part about this that's not that's not the
right word. The perhaps fulfilling part about this is that
the guy is alive and can talk and may be
able to answer some of those questions that we have about, Wow,
what the hell are you doing there for twelve hours?
How did you know that that was the place he
(05:02):
was going to be or did you just guess?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Or was he just there to shoot anybody and that
was not even the target.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
The other thing that's going on is that Ron de Santis,
the governor of Florida, has said, hey, guys, listen, we're
going to also do an investigation into this.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
I'm signing an executive order assigning the case involving the
attempt at assassination of former President Donald Trump to the
office of Statewide Prosecutor under the supervision of Attorney General
Ashley Moody. The suspect, Ryan Routh, has believed of committed
state law violations across multiple judicial circuits in the state.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And he also pointed out he didn't feel comfortable with
the FBI and the Department of Justice investigating this attempt
when they're also pursuing criminal cases against Donald Trump, which listen.
I understand his political motivation for that, but I mean,
he's got his governor of state of Florida, he's got
a right to do that.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Do you see this stupid training we have to do.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
We had to do that like four hour sex training,
and now we have to do business conduct and ethics.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, I thought, come on, when did that email come through?
Was that Ken.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Jacob just told me about it? Because I didn't I
see it.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I thought I saw it on vacation. I put it
in my to think about later box and I have
not thought about it yet.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Holy hell.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
So you're trying to be productive here at work. I'm
bogged down by this unnecessary training.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
A story that we'll do a little bit later, and
we'd actually love to get some input on this about
your kids.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I love this story because I've noticed this with some
of my friend's kids and it's so perplexing to me.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Well, it's a study out of the University of Michigan
Health cs Mott Children's Hospital, and it said a surprising
number of children are struggling to make friends. In fact,
now it's actually from the parents perspective, but one in
five parents fear that their children do not have any friends.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
And that is such an important thing to have to
learn socialization well man, just for support and mental health
and well being.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
To have a friend and learning the people are different
than you and how they live life and how you
can live life like them, or you know, emulate the
things that you like in them, and you know, try
to convince them that they're doing other things wrong. I mean,
there's also what I think part of the problem is
is the changing definition of what a friend is, you know,
(07:32):
just you know, playing fall out with somebody.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Is it playing fallout?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Is it just sending memes back and forth, or is
it getting together face to face for an extended period
of time, putting your devices away and laughing and sharing and.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
All of it.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yeah, Okay, Well they're calling it a bombshell indictment, and
I don't know if it's a bombshell. Because we knew
Diddy was a bad guy. We knew that the Feds
had raided his homes. We knew that the Feds like
to dot their eyes and cross their t's and they're
ready to roll when they move on this stuff. So
we knew this was coming. But the details are so
lurid in this indictment that he forced women Sean Diddy
(08:09):
Coombs forced women into these sick, freakoff sex sessions with
male prostitutes that were often recorded while he was freaking.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Off by himself. Yeah. Damian Williams is the US attorney
in the Southern District of New York.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
They sees firearms and ammunition, including three defaced AR fifteens
and the large capacity drum magazine.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
They also sees evidence of.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
The freakoffs, electronic devices that contain images and videos of
the freakoffs with multiple victims.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
And they seize cases and cases.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Of the kinds of personal lubricant and baby oil that
combs The staff allegedly used to stock hotel rooms for
the freakoffs, more than one thousand bottles all together.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Now, that's the selatious part of it, the loop thing,
But the gun thing also explains why back in March,
if you remember when they raided the home here in
la and holmbe Hills and the one in Miami, the
federal agents were armed to the teeth. They were not
messing around because of the assumption that there were weapons involved.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Day's long sexual performances as part of his pattern of abuse.
As you heard in Amy's news going back more than
a decade. These were he was basically a director for
live porn that was violent. They would they would injure
these women to the point where they would take days
or weeks until they were able to be released. They
(09:39):
would keep them captive, kidnap them until their injuries healed.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
What a monster.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
The victims would receive regular ivy fluids in the aftermath
to recover from the physical exertion and the drug use.
He would monitor their medical records.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
This was.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I mean, you know, it's one thing to be a
womanizer and an abuser and an assaulterer. But the fact
that this seems to be so widespread, I mean, yes,
that the baby oil, the thousand bottles is you know,
that's what people are going. Well, that sounds like a lot,
you know, what's the deal there? But I mean, you
(10:21):
know what that says to me is how many women
were involved?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah, I mean this seems like there was a number
of women, maybe hundreds of women for a decade that
were involved in this.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
And the attorney made the point. The US attorney Damian
Williams again made that point. This is an ongoing investigation.
There likely will be more charges, not even just against Diddy,
but they charged. They charged with conspiracy. I mean that
there that by definition means that there are other people involved.
So there could be many other people that are involved
(10:55):
to be charged. But there also, he said, could be
many people who have not come forward yet that we're
victims of all of this. So he is in jail,
is Diddy? He will and we can start calling him
Sean again. He is expected to make a court appearance,
I believe about eleven thirty hour time. I mean there
was a specific time, not to confuse you.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
A flurry of lawsuits in the past year by people
who said that he subjected them to physical or sexual
abuse during the height of his fame as a producer
in the nineties. So I mean, this seems like one
of those open secrets that people knew about but just
turned their heads.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Was gross.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah. And the thing that's you're going to see today also,
and I've already seen it a couple of times, is
the replaying of that video from the hotel here in
la from twenty sixteen when he chased Cassie right, chased
her down in the hotel, threw her to the ground,
kicked her a couple of times and then literally dragged
her down the hallway of the hotel room back into
(11:52):
the back into the room.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yeah, and you knew when you saw that video that
was not something where he just flew off the handle.
That's something that he regular literally does. And that was
not the first, the second, or maybe the four hundredth time. Yesterday,
I was leaving the studios here and it was raining
and I'm like, so it just rains here. I said
to Rich so it just rains here. And this woman
was in a lobby and she looks at me, she
(12:14):
starts laughing. I was like, I'm sorry, I'm from California.
I'm not used to this stuff, Like wow, okay. And
then the rain just kept coming and it kept coming
and it was unrelenting. And I go back to my
hotel room and it's whipping against the window and I'm like, wow,
this is a lot of rain. This morning, I wake
up and I find that it was historic amounts of
rainfall in the Coralina in the Carolinas, both of them
(12:36):
a very powerful storm system, not quite a tropical storm,
but the roads were washed out, cars were flooded, businesses,
it collapsed roads as well. It was wild winds forty
miles per hour with the rain, So so.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
You weren't just overreacting time.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
I wasn't just overreacting. It was a real storm.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Did I tell you my experience with rain on my vacation. No,
I don't think I did.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
So.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Part of our trip was driving. We were driving basically
the length of Tennessee. We went from Nashville over to Gatlinburg,
and on the trip we made a stop in Knoxville.
That three hour drive from Nashville to Knoxville starts out
just cloudy sky, is no big deal. By the time
we got to Knoxville, I had driven through rain for
about forty five minutes, and it was more rain than
(13:24):
I had seen in fifty years of living. It was
the heaviest rainstorm I had ever driven in, and I
lived in Seattle for six years. It was the heaviest rain.
I mean to the point where you're going twenty miles
an hour on the freeway, there's no one around, you
can barely see the roadway itself, and there's nothing that
your windshield wipers can do to keep up with it.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
It's a good thing that your wife was there so
she could drive you through that because I know you're
you're a little shaky.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I'm such a nervous driver. She was in the passenger
seat and I could tell she was looking at me,
and every once in a while she'd be like, how
you doing. I'd be like, I'm just fine, totally calm,
everything's fine. And she said at the end of it
that she could see my hands gripping the steering wheel.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Yeah, like that.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
My hands were tense, which I don't think they were.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
But when you're not used to it and you're in
a place you've never driven through, you know, you don't
know what the condition, how they're going to get worse,
if what the road condition is like, you just don't know,
so it is a stressful situation.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
It was nice that there was no traffic and it's
basically a straight road.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah, that is nice.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
You remember when we were in Philadelphia and it was
just that downpour on the freeway and we were in
an uber and kind of looking at each other like, this.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Is how we go, this is what we're doing. I
guess here we go.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Speaking of weird weather in different parts of the world,
this isn't weather, but there was a five point one
magnitude earthquake in Texas yesterday. They said it's the I
think the fourth largest, fifth largest ever in the state
of Texas ever recorded.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Your daughter bring that with her to college or not.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
She didn't feel it, I don't think if she did,
she didn't say anything. But it was a five point
one magnitude quake in Martin County, about twenty one miles
south of the little town of Ackerly.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
The news today that thousands of people have been injured
and several killed when their pagers exploded across Lebanon was
news to me for a couple reasons. Number one, pagers
were exploding, but number two, thousands of people have pagers.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Well, now this is important because they believe that Hezbollah
has been using pagers because they're lower technology. For example,
here's Alistair Berkhol, who's a correspondent international correspondent for Sky News.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
This is extraordinary and sounds like something out of a
Hollywood spy movie. The idea that pages have been exploding
all over the route, possibly some reports unconfirmed around Damascus
as well, and pages belonging we think to members of
the group has BOLLA. Now, number of things to ont
(15:58):
pick here. Firstly, I think that if they were carrying pages,
they would probably be senior members of Hezbollah. And the
reason they'll be using pages which most people probably would
not have touched for decades is because they're fairly low
fi technology and they are considered probably safer for communications.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Hesbella's Information minister has come out and said that at
least I think it's eight people have been killed by
these exploding pagers, and that the Health Ministry says at
least twenty seven hundred people have been injured by them.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Now again, I'm trying to wrap my head around. I'm
hoping within the next couple of hours somebody will be
able to explain this to me. What is there to explode?
I mean, there's a battery, but how do you hack
into a pager to make it explode?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I don't know, but I'm watching footage from Reuters. It's
like an open air type market, fruits and things and vegetables,
and quite the explosion that comes from that little just
that little tiny pager.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
It takes out you and the people that are near
you as well. I mean it's not a small, little
like tasing type explosion.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
It's pretty big and they'd have to know the model
of the pager. I mean, they're all they all us
in the same one. They'd have to know serial numbers
potentially to get a signal directly to the pager to
infiltrate the system in it. They also said that I
think he mentioned in that report there that there was
some reports out of Damascus, Syria where pagers were exploding
(17:40):
at the same time. I mean, that's a pretty weirdly
coordinated that is complete spine novel stuff that happened. Producer
and ran down the hallway and gave me this this
article about how it's possible that Israel could have triggered
these Hesbela pager explosions. Now again, Israel not claimed responsibility,
(18:01):
but as Blas says, it was Israel. They said that
especially in these older pagers, they probably use lithium ion batteries.
Many phones have them now still, and they can overheat
and catch on fire. And if you had a way
to do it, you could actually hack the devices and
overcharge the battery remotely triggering what they refer to as
(18:25):
a thermal runaway. Wow, it's a chemical chain reaction which
occurs when the battery experience is a rapid temperature change
a lot of times. It obviously heats up and can
get very hot. You see that in your normal phone,
regardless of you know whether it's going to blow up
or not, but that they can manipulate it so much
that it would in many cases actually explode and you
(18:50):
can't track it. A one way pager is a passive receiver,
so you couldn't track it necessarily, but if you sent
it a message that activated pagers in the area, you
may be able to actually overcharge it and cause that
thermal runaway.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Instagram is revamping its youth safety strategy, giving parents more
oversight over what their kids their teenagers are doing online.
Meta says it's going to bolster efforts to limit the
time teenagers spend on Instagram, what content they see, which
strangers are able to find their.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Accounts and talk to them.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
It'll give parents more insight into the people their children
are talking to, the types of posts they're consuming. Now,
if you're a parent that is going to engage in
all of this, you probably are not the parent that
we're worried about, right.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
That's a good point. It's a strange approch. Well, it's
not strange, it's a much needed approach. It's still not
quite I think is far enough, but it is better
than what they have right now. The company Meta is
going to force both news new Instagram sign ups, and
any existing user under the age of eighteen into what
(20:06):
they refer to as a teen account. It's got these
safety default standards for example. For example, it's private by default,
and if you're sixteen or seventeen years old, you can
actually make the account public, and if you're under sixteen,
you can't do that without a parent signing off on it.
I don't know how they make sure that it's the
(20:26):
parent that signs off on it. The other thing is
they said they're going to use artificial intelligence to proactively
find teenagers its suspects of lying about their age. They
said they're they're going to more often ask suspected teenagers
to verify their identity through some sort of an outside
contractor Now I've only seen these a couple of times,
(20:48):
but a company that might ask you to take a
video selfie, or might ask you to take a picture
of your government ID, your driver license or whatever that
is to verify your age, that alone brings privacy issues
into it. Do you tell your kids even if it's
a gu you know, finger quotes guaranteed to you know,
(21:08):
eliminate the picture once it takes it. I'm thinking of UTSA.
There is a fear, I think, a healthy fear that
that information does exist somewhere and could potentially be used
against you.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
It already exists. Yeah, but here's what I like. They're
going to stop notifications between the hours of ten pm
and seven a m.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Now, the company will also start reminding teens to get
off the app after an hour of usage a day,
just like you.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Can just like mind Tendo Wii when you'd play too
long and it would tell you, hey, you don't you
want to go outside for a while?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah, and then you say no and you keep playing.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Parents will be allowed to block their teens Instagram usage
after a certain amount of time or within certain windows
of time.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
The company's also asking.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Teens to proactively choose the topics like arts are sports,
that they favor for recommended content.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
As opposed to the company running the algorithm.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Right, and then parents will be able to see what
topics their teens have chosen to see as well.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Well. Again, it's not it's not not perfect, but it's better.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yeah, and I mean, if you go further, then you
get into First Amendment rights and the whole kitten kaboodle.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Next hour, we're going to talk a little bit about
this study that says that parents don't think their kids
have friends, in some cases don't have any friends. And
I wanted to know what your experience is with your kids.
If you think that your kids have trouble finding friends
to play with, or your kids outside all the time,
but no one else is how do you instigate that,
(22:44):
how do you get how do you make sure that
your kids do have those those friend relationships. You can
always leave us a talk back on the iHeart app.
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