October 1, 2024 • 29 mins
The White House believes Oran is preparing imminent ballistic missile attack against Israel. Helene flooded “several thousand” homes with feet of storm surge in the Tampa area. Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas began walking picket lines early Tuesday in a strike over wages and automation that could reignite inflation and cause shortages of goods if it goes on more than a few weeks. BREAKING NEWS about Iran and Israel attack. Pete Rose died at 83 and the American baseball people are sad.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Doc workers are on strike the debate tonight. It's hot
as hell here today. Pete Rose is dead. None of
that matters, because all of this is going to go
up in flames very very quickly.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
The White House says Iran is going to launch a
ballistic missile attack on Israel soon. The White House has
said that there are indications Iran is preparing to imminently
launch a ballistic missile attack against Israel.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
We're talking hundreds of missiles, and.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
That the US was actively supporting defensive preparations to defend
Israel against this attack. This is the biggest escalation of
our involvement thus far. They say that it will carry
severe consequences for Iran, and I feel like this is
a preemptive strike, like, hey, before you do anything, Iran,
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the United States is involved now and we are going
to give full support to Israel.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Mc milroy is a former Defense Department official and he
works now with ABC News and describes what our reaction
could be when if those missiles start flying.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
The US is going to play a similar role as
we did in April, where we set aircraft in and
start shooting down these missiles and drones. Hopefully, just like
in April, we shoot down a majority of them. That
doesn't have a big impact in Israel. But if we
don't and it has a big impact in Israel, that's
where the real consideration is this, say excelating exponentially with
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Israel attacking directly, back substantially and or on.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
Yeah, that's the biggest concern.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
So along those lines you mentioned the United States and
the potential for this to be a preemptive strike, the
Defense Department is already sending more Air Force F fifteens,
F sixteens, and eight tens. They also have F TWE
twenty twos in that area, but they said that they're
not going to throw any more F twenty twos out there.
So the increase in the Air Force fighters is significant
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because those fifteens and sixteens did play a major role,
as Mick was talking there in April, shooting down the
Iranian drones when Tehran mounted a missile and drone attack
against Israel back in April.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You know, you think about what's going on, you think
about us getting extremely involved in this within the next
twelve hours. You think about us having a severe supply
chain disruption with the longshoremen and that strike, and then
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you think about the two unserious people that we have
debating tonight for Vice President of the United States, two
people who arguably, and you can make the case for
both of them, have no business being a heartbeat away
from making the decisions for this country.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
There's something to be said. I totally agree with you,
but there's something to be said that I think I
have enough confidences. As politically manipulated as the Defense Department
has been recently at how it's gotten into politics as
opposed to doing its job of protecting and defending, I
still have plenty of confidence in the men and women
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of the military. The problem is, I think that we're
first of all.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Who's running the country.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Who is the commander in chief?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Who who is the commander in chief is if it's
Joe Biden, I'd love to see some proof that he's
capable of standing up to this job.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Well, this is why this is all happening right now,
is because we are weak. We are circling the drain,
and I'm not trying to be mean to poor old
Joe Biden. But there's no muscle, there's no show of
strength from the United States, and there hasn't been for months.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
And that's the thing is, that's not a political that's
not a partisan comment that you're making. It's not to
say the Republicans would do better or the Democrats have
failed at this. There just simply has to be a person,
a serious person with gravitas and power and the support
of the American people in the office standing up and
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saying just so you know, the full faith and force
of this American military will reign terror upon your people
if you make the wrong decision here. And we are
like this, well, you guys, we feel like and cease fire,
and we should make sure and please don't and please
hurt our feelings and make sure the diversity is part
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of it.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
And we're too busy slinging mud at each other to
even be paying attention or being taken seriously.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I mean your point about how many times cats will
come up in the right how many times will iron
and Israel come up.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I wasn't trying to law and Hamas come up. I
wasn't trying to be cute. I know asking that question.
I was just saying, how ridiculous do we look right
now when all of this is going on. I mean,
did the doc workers do they even think about striking?
If they don't think that this is a weekend government
that will bow down to them, you know they're a
terrorist organization too.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I actually have sound from one of those dock workers,
one of the International longshoremen. First of all, I could
listen to the guy talk all days the head of
the union. Is this the Daggett guy? I think is yeah,
Harold Daggett.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
But who else would you expect to be head of
the Longshoreman's union. I covered a strike in Sacramento years ago,
two thousand and two, two thousand and three, something like that,
and went out there at four in the morning. When
I was working mornings as a reporter and talking.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
To those guys.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
They all sound like that. I mean, salt of the
earth and salty as hell.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
We will.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
We will, by the way, be airing tonight's vice presidential
debate starting at six o'clock right here on kfive, of course,
between JD.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Vance and Tim Walls.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
More on what's going on in the aftermath of Helene
It is getting even worse. If you thought it was
bad a couple of days after the rain, it just
is going to get worse before it gets any better.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
We'll talk about that when we come back.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
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Speaker 2 (06:13):
Do you know anybody running for governor in twenty twenty six? Elena,
that's one person. Okay, that's the only one. Not a quiz.
I'm just just generally, can you think of anybody else?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
No?
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
A new poll comes out and it also says no
one has any clue who is running for governor, but
we're still a ways out. Yes we are, although they
did do a debate.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Last week. I think, oh really, yes.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
So this poll, done by usc CAL State Long Beach
and cal Poly Pomona, asked likely California voters to select
their preferred candidate from politicians that from a group of politicians.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
The top two in.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
This poll Congresswoman Katie Porter fourteen percent. She lost out
on her bid to be become a senator. She is
not declared that she's running for president.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I'm looking at a picture of the stage of four
people debating, and I'm looking at their pictures.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, and I can't name them. So Katie Porter came
in with fourteen percent. Republican State Senator Brian Dolly came
in with five percent, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco under
five percent, Former Fox host Steve Hilton at about four percent.
It's notable none of those top four are declared that
they're going to run for aguin.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
So the picture of the people I'm looking at now
that I see their names former State Controller Betty Ye,
State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tony Thurmond, Lieutenant Governor Elaney Kunelakis,
and State Senator Tony Atkins.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
No, none of those four garnered more than two point
seven percent support and they are running for governor.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
But that was a ninety minute debate.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
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Speaker 6 (08:29):
Twenty five years. Never seen anything like this.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
Never.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
We've lost everything, I mean every everything over twenty five
years of being in the house is gone.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
It's my house. I've lived here for my daughter's entire life.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Everything's pretty much gone. We took on three feet plus
of water.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
All the furniture has destroyed, all the clients that are gone,
the electronics are gone.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
I've said this before.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I lived through a flood in the nineteen eighty and
it was eighty one. Perhaps it was devastating the amount
of destruction that slow moving water can do. This is
slow moving water, fast moving water, wind damage. The entire
roadway system of western North Carolina has been wiped out
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by what was Hurricane Helene. They're still talking about six
hundred thousand people without power in South Carolina, another four
hundred thousand or so in North Carolina. For the most part,
I mean, we were all concerned about Florida. Florida got
got away with I think eleven, not that eleven deaths
(09:34):
is great, but I'm saying in terms of the number
of what we were concerned about, it is North Carolina
that really took the brunt of all of them.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yes, would you like to hear some good stories out
of the hurricane?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (09:46):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
A father from South Carolina was going to drive two
hours to his daughter's wedding, but that was not possible,
so it turned into a thirty mile walk through flood debris.
David Jones traveled for five and a half hours on
foot after initially driving seven hours to escort his daughter
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Elizabeth down the aisle at her wedding in Johnson City, Tennessee.
He is a marathon runner, and he was determined to
make it to his daughter's wedding. When state troopers on
Interstate twenty six told him about two am the rest
of the way was unna.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
You couldn't drive it.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
He put on his running shoes and made the incredible
journey over seven to ten feet piles of debris in
total darkness.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I was up to my knees, he says.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
He was able to free himself when he got stuck
at one point, Continuing to walk with a reflective stake
so cars wouldn't hit him. Elizabeth said she had no
idea the lengths her dad went to get to her wedding.
She said, that's so emotionally moving that my dad loves
me so much that he would come and go through
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all of that just to get to my wedding. He
did walk her down the aisle, and he did have
his trusty reflective steak that had gotten him through the night.
There's another guy in North Carolina. Sam Perkins hadn't heard
from his parents for a while, and they live up
outside of Asheville, North Carolina, in an area that was
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probably you could argue ground zero for the amount of destruction.
In fact, in Buncombe County where Asheville is, at least
thirty people were killed out of the one hundred and
thirty who were killed in six different states. When he
realized that the roads were cut off, Sam Perkins got
out of his car near a closed highway at the
bottom of the mountain and started hiking to his parents'
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house in an area that he described a mountain between
Spruce Pine and Little Switzerland. He said, my parents live
in an absolute gem of the North Carolina Mountains and
if you were driving, it's about an hour out of Ashville.
He said, I tried every road I could, but the roads,
no matter where you go, are blocked by landslides or failures.
I can't tell you how many failing roads and deep
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mudslides I had to cross, how many fallen trees I'd
have to take my backpack off for and navigate through.
He ran into several people as he was hiking, trapped
because of the devastated highway in for more than three
and a half hours, he hiked eleven miles about twenty
two thousand foot elevation change, and he says, I've never
been so relieved to see my parents.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
They're in their seventies. They're pretty resourceful people.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
He says, I just hugged them, filled them in on
all the news they were missing, walked around the property,
decided how to help them, decided how to approach some
of the challenges. Said mom and Dad were fine, and
they had plenty of supplies, and I didn't want to
use them, so he turned around and hiked out. He
was able to hitchhike a part of the way at
least to get back to his car, and he says
(12:50):
Mom and Dad, are going to be fine.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
It's beautiful. Who would you hike for? How far do
I act? Eleven miles through mud?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And I think I could do it one time for
somebody I love. Yeah, you didn't say who you love,
but I love many people.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
I love all the people.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
I wouldn't do.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
It for you.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Is that what you were asking?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I'm hoping that I was resourceful enough that I didn't.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I would hope, so I would rely on you to
be resourceful enough to where I don't have to hike
eleven miles.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I'll just getting message to you. It says, don't worry
about it. I got this, Yeah, hope. So, DOC workers
are on strike on the East Coast. This could not yet,
but it could have an impact on West Coast sports.
We'll talk about what's going on, and we'll hear from
one of the most character driven Absolute Central Central Cast.
Just going to say Central Casting Longshoreman. When we come back,
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Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
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Speaker 6 (13:52):
Okay, we do have news out of Israel.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
The Inner Israeli Defense Force says that missiles have been
launched from ira On.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
They are on their way to Israel right now.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
We mentioned this earlier, that the White House put out
a statement today that said that this was going to happen,
that there were indications that Iran was preparing to imminently
launch a ballistic missile attack against Israel. There were other
reports that suggested that we would see somewhere between two
hundred let's see. ABC News reported Iran was expected to
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launch two hundred and forty to two hundred and fifty
missiles at four targets in Israel. The Inner Israeli Defense
Force has warned Tel Aviv residents to be on alert sirens.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
We're going off all over Israel right now.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
We know that American Air Force F fifteen's, F sixteen's
a tens are out there deployed in the Middle East.
I'm not sure what a tens will do against those missiles,
but the F twenty two's are also there.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
There's a shooting that just happened at a rail station
as well.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Yeah, that was in Jafa.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
You're saying that multi casualties, but that's very preliminary.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
They said at least nine Israelis and a dog wounded
in a shooting tear attack in Jaffa. At least four
reported critically wounded that occurred near a light rail station.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
To seventeen injuries, six of which are serious at this point.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
The two gunmen apparently shot dead by security forces who
were there. There's at least one picture that shows these
two guys getting offa one of the trains there in
Jaffa with their weapons trained on the people.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
All right, we'll keep an eye on this. Get you
caught up on all developments as they happen. Today, tens
of thousands of DOC workers have gone on strike at
ports along the east coast in the Gulf of Mexico.
That means stranded stacks of shipping containers on docks idling ships.
This is going to be a huge threat to the economy.
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Just five weeks before this election, we're talking about billions
of dollars a day. Harold Dagget is the international President
of the long Shoreman's Union.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
We want five hours across the board for six years
or better or better, and there's a lot more on
the back end of our contract to make it stronger
with automation. Strong of words, strong of words for new technology.
We don't ever want to see an automation pier put over.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Here in the United States.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Our royalty back, yes, and our container royalty. We want
it all back to the men where it belongs.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Now, there's no guy in America who has a better
accent than that guy being the international president of the Longshoreman. Now,
when asked about what impact this is going to have
on the everyday American.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Are you worried that this strike is going to hurt
the everyday American? The farmers that need to read they
reached the export market.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
They're telling me that they're gonna hurt them.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
Start to realize who the long shoremen are, right.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Nobody can.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
People never gave about us until now when they finally
realize that the chain is being broke.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Now, cars won't come in, food won't.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
Come in, clothing won't come in clothing.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
You've got to spend more time on the East Coast.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Every guy sounds like that's every accent a.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
Time for Washington to put so much fresh on him
to take care of us, because we took care of him,
and we're here one hundred and thirty five years and.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Brought to where they are today, and they don't want
to share.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Now they say that there have been hundreds of billions
in profits that operators have made in recent years, and
they deserve a piece of the pie, especially after working
through the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Again, the impact in the first couple of days is
going to be relatively minor, probably even unnoticeable to a
bunch of people. But as this drags on, you're going
to see automakers produce cars in the United States might
have to slow production or even impost temporary layoffs because
they can't get enough parts and components that come from overseas.
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The Biden administration has said at this point they are
not considering invoking the Taft Hartley Act to break the strike,
which which would force the dock workers back on the
job for eighty days. I believe it is to try
to get some sort of a deal worked out before
that eighty days.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
If you're curious, their current contract was agreed to in
twenty eighteen, and it provides top wages of thirty nine
dollars an hour. They want significant pay raises after rates
and that deal failed to keep up with inflation. That's
been a big argument for getting a raise.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Speaking of the West Coast sports, we're in a different
union here represented by a different union. They agreed to
a new contract last year, so there's no expectation that
this is going to expand over here. But the ports
of LA and Long Beach had their busiest August ever
just two months ago, and both of them, they said,
have prepared for even more cargo volume in anticipation of
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what's going on on the East coast.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
We saw a great meme this morning and said, uh,
Pete Rose should have had an interpreter with a picture
of Pete Rose and shohe Atani.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
That's awful. Pete Rose?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Who what.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Hits?
Speaker 4 (19:16):
All time?
Speaker 7 (19:16):
Hits?
Speaker 6 (19:17):
All time hits?
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (19:19):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (19:20):
All time singles, doubles as well.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Career hits, career singles, career games played, career at bat's
career played appearances holds all those records dead at eighty
three years old. You know the stet My husband and
I were talking about it. The stuff you got in
trouble for today is like nothing like the stuff that
athletes get dinged for.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Well, some of that stuff that they get dinged for
today we didn't talk about. Right, Yeah, that's true, Dallians.
Is perhaps the day that is true.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
You're absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
We didn't have TMZ in twenty four hour news cycles,
and we had owners that would hide all of that.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
We'll talk Pete Rose when we come back.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Breaking news this morning.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Iran is firing missiles at Israel. There are sirens heard
across the country there and we put out a statement
the White House did this morning saying that should Iran
and Husbila go forward with this as it's happening, there
will be severe consequences, which just means that we waited
further into what now seems like an all out war.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
The IDF has been saying specifically one hundred and two missiles,
very specific number one hundred and two missiles fired from
Iran towards Israel.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
They have a stockpile of about two hundred thousand missiles.
Allegedly they began stockpiling weapons as a deterrent and a
threat after that two thousand and six war. Iran obviously
has been a big help in this regard. It obtained
Hesbila did not just missiles, but also precision guided.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Weapons and air defense systems.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
So if Hesbola really goes balls to the wall, with this,
the Israel defense forces will wipe out Hesbela. Probably if
that iron dome is susceptible, which it is. With this
kind of firepower, Hesbla is done for. It's probably the end.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
Yeah, we know that. There have been some explosions heard
in the Tel Aviv area.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
There was one report, according to Haaretz how you say it,
report of a direct hit on a building in the
northern part of Tel Aviv. But there have been warning
sirens non stop in the large areas in the southern
West Bank, in Negev, in Tel Aviv, in Jerusalem, across Israel.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
In the north is where they say the iron Dome
is most vulnerable. It is one of the most advanced
defense systems in operation. It consists of about ten batteries
mobile batteries that can be deployed across the country. Each
battery has got three or four launchers carrying dozens of
those interceptor missiles and radar, of course, but a breach
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of this is where the experts say the US will
step in to defend Israel.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Some of the reporters in the different cable networks a
national and international, are in Tel Aviv and they have
been showing images of the Tel Aviv skyline. It's about
ten minutes to eight at night there, and they have
been showing images of the missile defense system, those rockets
firing up towards the incoming missiles from Iran, and you
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can see some of the explosions when they hit. But again,
there's one report one so far of a building having
been hit in northern tel Aviv. But we'll keep an
eye on this and see if there's any new updates
over the course of the show today. Well, we got
word just yesterday afternoon that an absolute legend in baseball,
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arguably top say twenty five baseball players of all time,
but not in the Hall of Fame, Pete Rose, died
at the age of eighty three.
Speaker 8 (23:03):
No one cared about winning more than Pete Rose. He
volunteered that he played in more winning games in his
career that Joe DiMaggio played in games, and all that
desire was the primary reason that Rose played in more
games and got more hits than any player in baseball history.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Yeah, his big downfall was that he was found to
have bet on baseball, and Bart Giamatti, the commissioner at
the time, decided to banish him from baseball. Basically, the
banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
Is the sad end of a sorry episode.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah, and he admitted finally, despite what happened at the time,
which would have been in the late eighties. In two
thousand and four, he finally came out in an interview
and admitted finally that he did bet on baseball.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
You're now saying for the first time publicly, Yes, I
bet on baseball.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
I've bet on baseball in nineteen eighty seven and nineteen
eighty eight.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Did you bet on your own team? Yes? Did you
ever believe in my team? I mean I knew my team.
Did you ever bet against you?
Speaker 7 (24:18):
And I believe that that would be That'd be the
last thing I'd ever even even consider.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
And it's funny that you mentioned that. I mean the
honor with which he played, he was dedicated to his team.
The idea of betting against his team, right, I mean that,
aren't you?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Always?
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Probably more offensive than anything that that would could have
been said out was.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Always betting for your team.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
When you're the manager, when you have your livelihood on
this team, you're always betting that your team's going to win.
If you're a coach or a manager, and you don't
think you have a shot winning any game, in particular,
you're not betting on your team. There's no reason that
you should be there. I always thought it was dulous.
I mean, you have all those records and your everything
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you've done for the game, and all the excitement and
all the people that saw you being as untypical physical
type person to do so well in baseball, being so
inspirational like that and doing so much for the game.
You bet on your team to win, and you get
banned for life F and you life f and you people.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Are gonna like me because the way I played, because
I know I played like a Hall of Fame player,
And all you got to do is check the stats.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
They know I busted my ass every night.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
That's right, Yes he did.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Pete Rose is one of those guys where a lot
of the baseball fans I know have stories about meeting
Pete Rose at some point. He was one of those
guys that was always available, partly because that's how he
made money. In the last thirty years of his life.
He made money by signing autographs. My wife ran into
him in Vegas one time. My wife he signed in
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Baseball's outside of sports memorabilia shop in Vegas on the
Strip for you know, fifteen hundred bucks a pop.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
It was, got to be careful with your wife around
Pete Rose. You know he likes those playboy bunnies.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Well, his girlfriend at one time owned a haircut place
where I was going to get my haircut years ago.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Is that one of the ones where you get massages?
Speaker 5 (26:18):
No?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
No, no, this was this was an established chain of
fantastic Sam's.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
No.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Oh, I was just going to say it was a
fantastic hair cut.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
Ah.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
But there was.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
The woman cutting my hair was talking to the owner
as she came in, walked back and forth, and she
said something to me about are you a sports fan,
which is an odd question while you're getting your haircut
and there's no TV there for me to watch sports.
And I said yes, and she says, well, her boyfriend
is Peter, Peter. I can't remember his last name. And
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I said Peter and she said yes, Peter, and he
plays football. No, no, not football, baseball. And I said Pete,
is it Pete Pete Rose? And oh, yes, that's what
it is. Pete Rose.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
With us.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
This would have been twenty years ago.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Oh my gosh, that's funny.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
And it was funny because she knew that there was
She knew that enough that he was a celebrity that
she could mention the name and I would know who
it was.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
She just messed up the name.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Is our switch hitter still a thing?
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
I mean I feel like they're kind of dying out,
partly because we're seeing so many successful left handed batters.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
You don't need to pick the switch hitter as much.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
But yeah, that's exciting. I love a switch hitter.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
What do you think happens? I mean today they're doing
the first first games of the wild Card Series. There's
four games today in baseball, they've all got to do something.
Regardless of whether or not he has a reputation, he
was always a baseball guy, though, I mean he wasn't.
He wasn't there for the celebration of the money making
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right the thing, But he was a baseball guy.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
The Reds, I'm assuming, are not in the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
They are not in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
That's too bad.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Yeah, you gotta do something. Moment of silence or something
like that. That first game I think starts at about
eleven thirty. Are we going to put it on the telly,
or are we going to watch war?
Speaker 4 (28:18):
We can do both, We can do both, can do both.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
That's why you demanded to have sixteen television screens in here?
Speaker 6 (28:24):
There are seven. I did ask for eight, but there
are seven.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
So that then seems a little They also didn't need
to buy new televisions.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
There's a stack of them.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Do you feel like a little bit of a prima
donna when they brought in the new televisions and put
up seven screens in here.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
I told them I would have done it myself. I
know it would have been that.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
It would have been a lot cheaper, because remember they
had like a crew of a half a dozen people.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Yeah, it was a hole to do.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
All you wanted to do was take the TVs out
there that are just in the lounge where nobody looks
at them, and bring them in here.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
You're pointing at a wall that no one You are just.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Trying to rearrange the furniture in the house, the furniture
that we had.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
But no, we had to go at new stuff. That
was a big SiGe. That was a female side.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Doc workers are on strike the debate tonight. It's hot
as hell here today. Pete Rose is dead. None of
that matters, because all of this is going to go
up in flames very very quickly.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
The White House says Iran is going to launch a
ballistic missile attack on Israel soon. The White House has
said that there are indications Iran is preparing to imminently
launch a ballistic missile attack against Israel.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
We're talking hundreds of missiles, and.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
That the US was actively supporting defensive preparations to defend
Israel against this attack. This is the biggest escalation of
our involvement thus far. They say that it will carry
severe consequences for Iran, and I feel like this is
a preemptive strike, like, hey, before you do anything, Iran,
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the United States is involved now and we are going
to give full support to Israel.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Mc milroy is a former Defense Department official and he
works now with ABC News and describes what our reaction
could be when if those missiles start flying.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
The US is going to play a similar role as
we did in April, where we set aircraft in and
start shooting down these missiles and drones. Hopefully, just like
in April, we shoot down a majority of them. That
doesn't have a big impact in Israel. But if we
don't and it has a big impact in Israel, that's
where the real consideration is this, say excelating exponentially with
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Israel attacking directly, back substantially and or on.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
Yeah, that's the biggest concern.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
So along those lines you mentioned the United States and
the potential for this to be a preemptive strike, the
Defense Department is already sending more Air Force F fifteens,
F sixteens, and eight tens. They also have F TWE
twenty twos in that area, but they said that they're
not going to throw any more F twenty twos out there.
So the increase in the Air Force fighters is significant
(02:06):
because those fifteens and sixteens did play a major role,
as Mick was talking there in April, shooting down the
Iranian drones when Tehran mounted a missile and drone attack
against Israel back in April.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You know, you think about what's going on, you think
about us getting extremely involved in this within the next
twelve hours. You think about us having a severe supply
chain disruption with the longshoremen and that strike, and then
(02:40):
you think about the two unserious people that we have
debating tonight for Vice President of the United States, two
people who arguably, and you can make the case for
both of them, have no business being a heartbeat away
from making the decisions for this country.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
There's something to be said. I totally agree with you,
but there's something to be said that I think I
have enough confidences. As politically manipulated as the Defense Department
has been recently at how it's gotten into politics as
opposed to doing its job of protecting and defending, I
still have plenty of confidence in the men and women
(03:19):
of the military. The problem is, I think that we're
first of all.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Who's running the country.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Who is the commander in chief?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Who who is the commander in chief is if it's
Joe Biden, I'd love to see some proof that he's
capable of standing up to this job.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Well, this is why this is all happening right now,
is because we are weak. We are circling the drain,
and I'm not trying to be mean to poor old
Joe Biden. But there's no muscle, there's no show of
strength from the United States, and there hasn't been for months.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
And that's the thing is, that's not a political that's
not a partisan comment that you're making. It's not to
say the Republicans would do better or the Democrats have
failed at this. There just simply has to be a person,
a serious person with gravitas and power and the support
of the American people in the office standing up and
(04:18):
saying just so you know, the full faith and force
of this American military will reign terror upon your people
if you make the wrong decision here. And we are
like this, well, you guys, we feel like and cease fire,
and we should make sure and please don't and please
hurt our feelings and make sure the diversity is part
(04:38):
of it.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
And we're too busy slinging mud at each other to
even be paying attention or being taken seriously.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I mean your point about how many times cats will
come up in the right how many times will iron
and Israel come up.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I wasn't trying to law and Hamas come up. I
wasn't trying to be cute. I know asking that question.
I was just saying, how ridiculous do we look right
now when all of this is going on. I mean,
did the doc workers do they even think about striking?
If they don't think that this is a weekend government
that will bow down to them, you know they're a
terrorist organization too.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I actually have sound from one of those dock workers,
one of the International longshoremen. First of all, I could
listen to the guy talk all days the head of
the union. Is this the Daggett guy? I think is yeah,
Harold Daggett.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
But who else would you expect to be head of
the Longshoreman's union. I covered a strike in Sacramento years ago,
two thousand and two, two thousand and three, something like that,
and went out there at four in the morning. When
I was working mornings as a reporter and talking.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
To those guys.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
They all sound like that. I mean, salt of the
earth and salty as hell.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
We will.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
We will, by the way, be airing tonight's vice presidential
debate starting at six o'clock right here on kfive, of course,
between JD.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Vance and Tim Walls.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
More on what's going on in the aftermath of Helene
It is getting even worse. If you thought it was
bad a couple of days after the rain, it just
is going to get worse before it gets any better.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
We'll talk about that when we come back.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
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AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Do you know anybody running for governor in twenty twenty six? Elena,
that's one person. Okay, that's the only one. Not a quiz.
I'm just just generally, can you think of anybody else?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
No?
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
A new poll comes out and it also says no
one has any clue who is running for governor, but
we're still a ways out. Yes we are, although they
did do a debate.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Last week. I think, oh really, yes.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
So this poll, done by usc CAL State Long Beach
and cal Poly Pomona, asked likely California voters to select
their preferred candidate from politicians that from a group of politicians.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
The top two in.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
This poll Congresswoman Katie Porter fourteen percent. She lost out
on her bid to be become a senator. She is
not declared that she's running for president.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I'm looking at a picture of the stage of four
people debating, and I'm looking at their pictures.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, and I can't name them. So Katie Porter came
in with fourteen percent. Republican State Senator Brian Dolly came
in with five percent, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco under
five percent, Former Fox host Steve Hilton at about four percent.
It's notable none of those top four are declared that
they're going to run for aguin.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
So the picture of the people I'm looking at now
that I see their names former State Controller Betty Ye,
State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tony Thurmond, Lieutenant Governor Elaney Kunelakis,
and State Senator Tony Atkins.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
No, none of those four garnered more than two point
seven percent support and they are running for governor.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
But that was a ninety minute debate.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
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Speaker 6 (08:29):
Twenty five years. Never seen anything like this.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
Never.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
We've lost everything, I mean every everything over twenty five
years of being in the house is gone.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
It's my house. I've lived here for my daughter's entire life.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Everything's pretty much gone. We took on three feet plus
of water.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
All the furniture has destroyed, all the clients that are gone,
the electronics are gone.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
I've said this before.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I lived through a flood in the nineteen eighty and
it was eighty one. Perhaps it was devastating the amount
of destruction that slow moving water can do. This is
slow moving water, fast moving water, wind damage. The entire
roadway system of western North Carolina has been wiped out
(09:14):
by what was Hurricane Helene. They're still talking about six
hundred thousand people without power in South Carolina, another four
hundred thousand or so in North Carolina. For the most part,
I mean, we were all concerned about Florida. Florida got
got away with I think eleven, not that eleven deaths
(09:34):
is great, but I'm saying in terms of the number
of what we were concerned about, it is North Carolina
that really took the brunt of all of them.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yes, would you like to hear some good stories out
of the hurricane?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (09:46):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
A father from South Carolina was going to drive two
hours to his daughter's wedding, but that was not possible,
so it turned into a thirty mile walk through flood debris.
David Jones traveled for five and a half hours on
foot after initially driving seven hours to escort his daughter
(10:11):
Elizabeth down the aisle at her wedding in Johnson City, Tennessee.
He is a marathon runner, and he was determined to
make it to his daughter's wedding. When state troopers on
Interstate twenty six told him about two am the rest
of the way was unna.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
You couldn't drive it.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
He put on his running shoes and made the incredible
journey over seven to ten feet piles of debris in
total darkness.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I was up to my knees, he says.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
He was able to free himself when he got stuck
at one point, Continuing to walk with a reflective stake
so cars wouldn't hit him. Elizabeth said she had no
idea the lengths her dad went to get to her wedding.
She said, that's so emotionally moving that my dad loves
me so much that he would come and go through
(11:03):
all of that just to get to my wedding. He
did walk her down the aisle, and he did have
his trusty reflective steak that had gotten him through the night.
There's another guy in North Carolina. Sam Perkins hadn't heard
from his parents for a while, and they live up
outside of Asheville, North Carolina, in an area that was
(11:23):
probably you could argue ground zero for the amount of destruction.
In fact, in Buncombe County where Asheville is, at least
thirty people were killed out of the one hundred and
thirty who were killed in six different states. When he
realized that the roads were cut off, Sam Perkins got
out of his car near a closed highway at the
bottom of the mountain and started hiking to his parents'
(11:44):
house in an area that he described a mountain between
Spruce Pine and Little Switzerland. He said, my parents live
in an absolute gem of the North Carolina Mountains and
if you were driving, it's about an hour out of Ashville.
He said, I tried every road I could, but the roads,
no matter where you go, are blocked by landslides or failures.
I can't tell you how many failing roads and deep
(12:06):
mudslides I had to cross, how many fallen trees I'd
have to take my backpack off for and navigate through.
He ran into several people as he was hiking, trapped
because of the devastated highway in for more than three
and a half hours, he hiked eleven miles about twenty
two thousand foot elevation change, and he says, I've never
been so relieved to see my parents.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
They're in their seventies. They're pretty resourceful people.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
He says, I just hugged them, filled them in on
all the news they were missing, walked around the property,
decided how to help them, decided how to approach some
of the challenges. Said mom and Dad were fine, and
they had plenty of supplies, and I didn't want to
use them, so he turned around and hiked out. He
was able to hitchhike a part of the way at
least to get back to his car, and he says
(12:50):
Mom and Dad, are going to be fine.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
It's beautiful. Who would you hike for? How far do
I act? Eleven miles through mud?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And I think I could do it one time for
somebody I love. Yeah, you didn't say who you love,
but I love many people.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
I love all the people.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
I wouldn't do.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
It for you.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Is that what you were asking?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I'm hoping that I was resourceful enough that I didn't.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I would hope, so I would rely on you to
be resourceful enough to where I don't have to hike
eleven miles.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I'll just getting message to you. It says, don't worry
about it. I got this, Yeah, hope. So, DOC workers
are on strike on the East Coast. This could not yet,
but it could have an impact on West Coast sports.
We'll talk about what's going on, and we'll hear from
one of the most character driven Absolute Central Central Cast.
Just going to say Central Casting Longshoreman. When we come back,
(13:45):
Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
Okay, we do have news out of Israel.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
The Inner Israeli Defense Force says that missiles have been
launched from ira On.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
They are on their way to Israel right now.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
We mentioned this earlier, that the White House put out
a statement today that said that this was going to happen,
that there were indications that Iran was preparing to imminently
launch a ballistic missile attack against Israel. There were other
reports that suggested that we would see somewhere between two
hundred let's see. ABC News reported Iran was expected to
(14:25):
launch two hundred and forty to two hundred and fifty
missiles at four targets in Israel. The Inner Israeli Defense
Force has warned Tel Aviv residents to be on alert sirens.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
We're going off all over Israel right now.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
We know that American Air Force F fifteen's, F sixteen's
a tens are out there deployed in the Middle East.
I'm not sure what a tens will do against those missiles,
but the F twenty two's are also there.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
There's a shooting that just happened at a rail station
as well.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Yeah, that was in Jafa.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
You're saying that multi casualties, but that's very preliminary.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
They said at least nine Israelis and a dog wounded
in a shooting tear attack in Jaffa. At least four
reported critically wounded that occurred near a light rail station.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
To seventeen injuries, six of which are serious at this point.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
The two gunmen apparently shot dead by security forces who
were there. There's at least one picture that shows these
two guys getting offa one of the trains there in
Jaffa with their weapons trained on the people.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
All right, we'll keep an eye on this. Get you
caught up on all developments as they happen. Today, tens
of thousands of DOC workers have gone on strike at
ports along the east coast in the Gulf of Mexico.
That means stranded stacks of shipping containers on docks idling ships.
This is going to be a huge threat to the economy.
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Just five weeks before this election, we're talking about billions
of dollars a day. Harold Dagget is the international President
of the long Shoreman's Union.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
We want five hours across the board for six years
or better or better, and there's a lot more on
the back end of our contract to make it stronger
with automation. Strong of words, strong of words for new technology.
We don't ever want to see an automation pier put over.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Here in the United States.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Our royalty back, yes, and our container royalty. We want
it all back to the men where it belongs.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Now, there's no guy in America who has a better
accent than that guy being the international president of the Longshoreman. Now,
when asked about what impact this is going to have
on the everyday American.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Are you worried that this strike is going to hurt
the everyday American? The farmers that need to read they
reached the export market.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
They're telling me that they're gonna hurt them.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
Start to realize who the long shoremen are, right.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Nobody can.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
People never gave about us until now when they finally
realize that the chain is being broke.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Now, cars won't come in, food won't.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
Come in, clothing won't come in clothing.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
You've got to spend more time on the East Coast.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Every guy sounds like that's every accent a.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
Time for Washington to put so much fresh on him
to take care of us, because we took care of him,
and we're here one hundred and thirty five years and.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Brought to where they are today, and they don't want
to share.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Now they say that there have been hundreds of billions
in profits that operators have made in recent years, and
they deserve a piece of the pie, especially after working
through the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Again, the impact in the first couple of days is
going to be relatively minor, probably even unnoticeable to a
bunch of people. But as this drags on, you're going
to see automakers produce cars in the United States might
have to slow production or even impost temporary layoffs because
they can't get enough parts and components that come from overseas.
(17:54):
The Biden administration has said at this point they are
not considering invoking the Taft Hartley Act to break the strike,
which which would force the dock workers back on the
job for eighty days. I believe it is to try
to get some sort of a deal worked out before
that eighty days.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
If you're curious, their current contract was agreed to in
twenty eighteen, and it provides top wages of thirty nine
dollars an hour. They want significant pay raises after rates
and that deal failed to keep up with inflation. That's
been a big argument for getting a raise.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Speaking of the West Coast sports, we're in a different
union here represented by a different union. They agreed to
a new contract last year, so there's no expectation that
this is going to expand over here. But the ports
of LA and Long Beach had their busiest August ever
just two months ago, and both of them, they said,
have prepared for even more cargo volume in anticipation of
(18:57):
what's going on on the East coast.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
We saw a great meme this morning and said, uh,
Pete Rose should have had an interpreter with a picture
of Pete Rose and shohe Atani.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
That's awful. Pete Rose?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Who what.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Hits?
Speaker 4 (19:16):
All time?
Speaker 7 (19:16):
Hits?
Speaker 6 (19:17):
All time hits?
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (19:19):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (19:20):
All time singles, doubles as well.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Career hits, career singles, career games played, career at bat's
career played appearances holds all those records dead at eighty
three years old. You know the stet My husband and
I were talking about it. The stuff you got in
trouble for today is like nothing like the stuff that
athletes get dinged for.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Well, some of that stuff that they get dinged for
today we didn't talk about. Right, Yeah, that's true, Dallians.
Is perhaps the day that is true.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
You're absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
We didn't have TMZ in twenty four hour news cycles,
and we had owners that would hide all of that.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
We'll talk Pete Rose when we come back.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Breaking news this morning.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Iran is firing missiles at Israel. There are sirens heard
across the country there and we put out a statement
the White House did this morning saying that should Iran
and Husbila go forward with this as it's happening, there
will be severe consequences, which just means that we waited
further into what now seems like an all out war.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
The IDF has been saying specifically one hundred and two missiles,
very specific number one hundred and two missiles fired from
Iran towards Israel.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
They have a stockpile of about two hundred thousand missiles.
Allegedly they began stockpiling weapons as a deterrent and a
threat after that two thousand and six war. Iran obviously
has been a big help in this regard. It obtained
Hesbila did not just missiles, but also precision guided.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Weapons and air defense systems.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
So if Hesbola really goes balls to the wall, with this,
the Israel defense forces will wipe out Hesbela. Probably if
that iron dome is susceptible, which it is. With this
kind of firepower, Hesbla is done for. It's probably the end.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
Yeah, we know that. There have been some explosions heard
in the Tel Aviv area.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
There was one report, according to Haaretz how you say it,
report of a direct hit on a building in the
northern part of Tel Aviv. But there have been warning
sirens non stop in the large areas in the southern
West Bank, in Negev, in Tel Aviv, in Jerusalem, across Israel.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
In the north is where they say the iron Dome
is most vulnerable. It is one of the most advanced
defense systems in operation. It consists of about ten batteries
mobile batteries that can be deployed across the country. Each
battery has got three or four launchers carrying dozens of
those interceptor missiles and radar, of course, but a breach
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of this is where the experts say the US will
step in to defend Israel.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Some of the reporters in the different cable networks a
national and international, are in Tel Aviv and they have
been showing images of the Tel Aviv skyline. It's about
ten minutes to eight at night there, and they have
been showing images of the missile defense system, those rockets
firing up towards the incoming missiles from Iran, and you
(22:31):
can see some of the explosions when they hit. But again,
there's one report one so far of a building having
been hit in northern tel Aviv. But we'll keep an
eye on this and see if there's any new updates
over the course of the show today. Well, we got
word just yesterday afternoon that an absolute legend in baseball,
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arguably top say twenty five baseball players of all time,
but not in the Hall of Fame, Pete Rose, died
at the age of eighty three.
Speaker 8 (23:03):
No one cared about winning more than Pete Rose. He
volunteered that he played in more winning games in his
career that Joe DiMaggio played in games, and all that
desire was the primary reason that Rose played in more
games and got more hits than any player in baseball history.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Yeah, his big downfall was that he was found to
have bet on baseball, and Bart Giamatti, the commissioner at
the time, decided to banish him from baseball. Basically, the
banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
Is the sad end of a sorry episode.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah, and he admitted finally, despite what happened at the time,
which would have been in the late eighties. In two
thousand and four, he finally came out in an interview
and admitted finally that he did bet on baseball.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
You're now saying for the first time publicly, Yes, I
bet on baseball.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
I've bet on baseball in nineteen eighty seven and nineteen
eighty eight.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Did you bet on your own team? Yes? Did you
ever believe in my team? I mean I knew my team.
Did you ever bet against you?
Speaker 7 (24:18):
And I believe that that would be That'd be the
last thing I'd ever even even consider.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
And it's funny that you mentioned that. I mean the
honor with which he played, he was dedicated to his team.
The idea of betting against his team, right, I mean that,
aren't you?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Always?
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Probably more offensive than anything that that would could have
been said out was.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Always betting for your team.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
When you're the manager, when you have your livelihood on
this team, you're always betting that your team's going to win.
If you're a coach or a manager, and you don't
think you have a shot winning any game, in particular,
you're not betting on your team. There's no reason that
you should be there. I always thought it was dulous.
I mean, you have all those records and your everything
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you've done for the game, and all the excitement and
all the people that saw you being as untypical physical
type person to do so well in baseball, being so
inspirational like that and doing so much for the game.
You bet on your team to win, and you get
banned for life F and you life f and you people.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Are gonna like me because the way I played, because
I know I played like a Hall of Fame player,
And all you got to do is check the stats.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
They know I busted my ass every night.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
That's right, Yes he did.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Pete Rose is one of those guys where a lot
of the baseball fans I know have stories about meeting
Pete Rose at some point. He was one of those
guys that was always available, partly because that's how he
made money. In the last thirty years of his life.
He made money by signing autographs. My wife ran into
him in Vegas one time. My wife he signed in
(25:57):
Baseball's outside of sports memorabilia shop in Vegas on the
Strip for you know, fifteen hundred bucks a pop.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
It was, got to be careful with your wife around
Pete Rose. You know he likes those playboy bunnies.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Well, his girlfriend at one time owned a haircut place
where I was going to get my haircut years ago.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Is that one of the ones where you get massages?
Speaker 5 (26:18):
No?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
No, no, this was this was an established chain of
fantastic Sam's.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
No.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Oh, I was just going to say it was a
fantastic hair cut.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
Ah.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
But there was.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
The woman cutting my hair was talking to the owner
as she came in, walked back and forth, and she
said something to me about are you a sports fan,
which is an odd question while you're getting your haircut
and there's no TV there for me to watch sports.
And I said yes, and she says, well, her boyfriend
is Peter, Peter. I can't remember his last name. And
(26:51):
I said Peter and she said yes, Peter, and he
plays football. No, no, not football, baseball. And I said Pete,
is it Pete Pete Rose? And oh, yes, that's what
it is. Pete Rose.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
With us.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
This would have been twenty years ago.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Oh my gosh, that's funny.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
And it was funny because she knew that there was
She knew that enough that he was a celebrity that
she could mention the name and I would know who
it was.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
She just messed up the name.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Is our switch hitter still a thing?
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
I mean I feel like they're kind of dying out,
partly because we're seeing so many successful left handed batters.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
You don't need to pick the switch hitter as much.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
But yeah, that's exciting. I love a switch hitter.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
What do you think happens? I mean today they're doing
the first first games of the wild Card Series. There's
four games today in baseball, they've all got to do something.
Regardless of whether or not he has a reputation, he
was always a baseball guy, though, I mean he wasn't.
He wasn't there for the celebration of the money making
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right the thing, But he was a baseball guy.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
The Reds, I'm assuming, are not in the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
They are not in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
That's too bad.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Yeah, you gotta do something. Moment of silence or something
like that. That first game I think starts at about
eleven thirty. Are we going to put it on the telly,
or are we going to watch war?
Speaker 4 (28:18):
We can do both, We can do both, can do both.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
That's why you demanded to have sixteen television screens in here?
Speaker 6 (28:24):
There are seven. I did ask for eight, but there
are seven.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
So that then seems a little They also didn't need
to buy new televisions.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
There's a stack of them.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Do you feel like a little bit of a prima
donna when they brought in the new televisions and put
up seven screens in here.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
I told them I would have done it myself. I
know it would have been that.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
It would have been a lot cheaper, because remember they
had like a crew of a half a dozen people.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Yeah, it was a hole to do.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
All you wanted to do was take the TVs out
there that are just in the lounge where nobody looks
at them, and bring them in here.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
You're pointing at a wall that no one You are just.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Trying to rearrange the furniture in the house, the furniture
that we had.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
But no, we had to go at new stuff. That
was a big SiGe. That was a female side.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
No, you've been listening to the Gary and Shannon show.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
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