October 2, 2024 • 26 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio apps. What else is going on?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Time for what's happening?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Well, I saw this story yesterday and it blew me
away in terms of the size and the number of
lawsuits that have been filed or will be filed against Diddy.
This was an attorney out of Texas. His name is
Tony Busby. He has said, this is the damn about
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to break.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
The biggest secret in the entertainment industry that really wasn't
a secret at all, has finally been revealed to the world.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Now listen to what he said. In terms of the number,
the sheer number of leads that have come into his office, our.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Team has had at this point more than three thousand
and two hundred and eighty five individuals contact us with
claiming people claiming to have been victimized by Sean Combes.
After vetting, we now represent one hundred and twenty individuals
who intend to bring civil claims in civil court against
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Sean Diddy Combes, as well as claims against many other
individuals and entities that we will name as defendants. As
we file these individual cases.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
He said, of the clients that he is taking on,
half of them are men, half are women, sixty two
percent identifies African American, thirty percent white. Twenty five of
his clients said that they were underage when they were victimized,
and one of them was nine nine years old. Federal
and law enforcement officials are set to an ounce court
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filings and arrests related to organized crime ring in La
THEOS attorney said this bust being announced this morning is
one of the largest takedowns in the history of the
DOJ when it comes to Neo Nazi white supremacist violent
extremist organization. They were called the Peckerwood Gang. Sixty eight
people in died it. The landslide that we've covered for
(02:09):
many weeks now a couple of months at Portuguese Bend
in Palas Verdes has slowed down. Geologists told the city
council last night that although the land is still moving,
they said it has decelerated from an average of thirteen
inches a week down to about eight inches a week.
That's about a thirty eight percent decrease. But they quickly
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clarified that it was expected because of the lack of
rain for the last five months. If we do start
to see more rain, that could pick right back up. Unfortunately,
mentioned that the Wildcard playoffs are underway. Detroit is in
Houston right now for Game two of their Wildcard series.
Scoreless right now. Detroit won yesterday. But other baseball news
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is that Fernando valence wa Fernando Valenzuela is going to
step away from the broadcast booth for the remainder of
the year. The Dodgers announced in a statement that was
posted today that he is going to step away because
of some health issues. He stepped away from the broadcast
booth last week and they didn't explain why. We just
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know that he wasn't doing the broadcast. Then we found
out that he was in the hospital. And according to
the Dodgers' statement, it says Fernando and his family truly
appreciate the love and support of fans as he aims
to return for the next season, and they've asked for
privacy during this time. They did not discuss the details
of whatever health whatever health condition has led to him
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being hospitalized. One of the two doctors charged in the
investigation of the death of Matthew Perry is in federal
court today. Doctor Mark Chavez of San Diego, fifty four
year old guy, signed a plea agreement with the prosecutors
in August. He will be the third person to plead
guilty in the aftermath of Perry's fatal overdose. He was
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offered lesser charges and two others in exchange for the
cooperation as they go after the larger targets that they
say are probably most responsible for the overdose deaths. There's
another doctor and the alleged dealer that we have referred
to as the ketamine Queen. The lawyer said after Chavez's
first court appearance in August that he is incredibly remorseful
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and that he's going to try to do everything in
his power to right the wrong that happened here. Also
working with the prosecutors would be Matthew Perry's assistant admitted
to helping him obtain an inject ketamine, and a friend
of Matthew Perry, who admitted to acting as a drug
messenger and a middleman. Live Nation said that they're not
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liable for three campers deaths at the Michigan Music Festival.
A concert promoter was found not responsible for the death
of these three men who succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning
from a generator while they were camping. A two to
one opinion in this court the blame does not rest
with Live Nation. Even soh the families said the small
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camp sites at the Faster Horses Music festival contributed to
hazardous conditions. They died while they were inside a camper
at the Michigan International Speedway west of Detroit. They were
likely asleep as they inhaled carbon monoxide. There were a
couple other people apparently in that place who were able
to survive. And then finally, Toyota is investing in an
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air taxi company, the one that we talked about that's
working on trying to get air taxis here in La
Toyota's investing five hundred million dollars in Jobe Aviation as
part of a partnership aimed at helping getting the American
air taxi company's commercial business off the ground. We have
had the absolute pleasure over the last couple of years
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of getting to know doctor Stephen Foreman from City of Hope.
The largest, most successful bone marrow and blood stem cell
transplant program in the nation have been performed there at
City of Hope. Just I like to say, world renowned
is doctor Foreman. So first of all, thanks again for
coming in today. Get that microphone right up close to
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your face and there it is right there.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
So thank you.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
It's always an honor for me to be here at
the station and with you and with Shannon when she's here,
So thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I love when you come in. You are a very
calming presence because I think the idea of cancer, cancer research,
cancer research, cancer treatment is so frightening for so many people.
Whether it's a cancer diagnosis or even just a cancer fear,
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it can be debilitating for people.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
It absolutely is, and I think not only what we
do focused on the research to make things better, but
also to have people cared for in a place where
they will be feeling valued and comfortable. I saw a
patient just recently who came from another institution who told
me that what they noticed at the other was that
they were invisible, and when they came to the City
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of Hope, they felt like they were being seen. And
I was very struck by that observation in a very
short period of time. So I think it's I still
think of it as a privilege that people come to
us for care and we need to.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Respect that in a general sense. Do you feel like
or do you get the impression that there is a
trend back to the humanity of medicine. I mean because,
and I'll say this because I've had experiences with my
parents and other family members who have had cancer where
the treatments or the options that are available are based
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on the science of it and not so much on
the humanity of what that person is individually going through.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
So I think for us it's both. It has to
be both.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
You have to be cognizant that this is a human
being sitting in front of you who has a life
and family and a community and.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
A culture a place of worship.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Well at the same time to do for them what
we think tomorrow's best therapy is going to be, and
that's why they come. So no matter what happens, we
have to be respectful and caring for them. And I
think they noticed that. They also see and I feel
it myself. The progress has been made over the last
certainly ten, fifteen, twenty years to do things now we
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couldn't do before, whether it's transplant or iminotherapy or targeted therapy,
and that's why they come, that's why they stay.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
We give them both.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Let's talk about immunotherapy because in the last couple of
years that you've been in we've been able to talk
about advances specifically in immunotherapy. What are the exciting things
that are going on now.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
So the exciting things are going on now in that
area has to do with the increasing number of diseases
for which aneminotherapy can be helpful successful, and we're trying
to expand that. The other thing that I noticed, and
I talked to them about this with people the other day,
is some of the things that we were doing in
aminotherapy that were therapies of lat resort, we're moving it
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all the way up into the frontline therapy. So the
idea of doing an immune therapy instead of chemotherapy and
getting a better result is where we want to go.
We have a leukemia study that is looking very good
right now where we've shortened therapy from three years to
six months. Wow, And I think people appreciate that, but
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that's all based on the laboratory work and clinical trials
that we've done.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Is that a change in thinking or that is that
a change in the results that you've seen are more
promising that you want to put it at the front
of the line.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Based on what we saw in people with very advanced disease,
at least in that disease. The question is why are
we waiting, Why can't we do this upfront? And will
we get a better result? And the next few years
will tell us whether we were right or whether we
were wrong. But the patients are our partners and we
are their partners to try to answer it and do
something for them.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
At the same time, the other question is in it
also in a very general sense, is the overall state
of can to research and new treatments and things like that.
A lot of times, people like I said at the beginning,
are afraid of the word, they're afraid of the condition,
they're afraid of what it means going forward. But there
have to be people on your side of it that
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are willing to try the new things and try, you know,
ask the new questions or or you know, look at
the same old problem in a new way to come
up with a new treatment that continues. Right. I mean, that's.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Absolutely the case, and that that is the soul of
the city of Hope to care for the human being.
But to bring them something that didn't exist before. And
you know, I think we've talked before, at least over
the years that I've been doing this, how there are
therapies that we have developed very effective, both in the
field and a city of Hope. Where had we known
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then what we know now, there are a lot of
people who would be with us, and so there's a
there's a need to move faster, and I think we
want to move with all great speed to tackle the
tyranny of time time that happens for.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
People, tyranny of time. I didn't realize you were a
poet as well. There have also been a series of
headlines in the last couple of months that catch my
eye because of my age, because of the age of
my kids, that suggest that there are certain types of
cancer that are showing up more commonly and in younger people.
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What's going on with this? What are we doing?
Speaker 5 (11:24):
I don't know the explanation for that, but I can
tell you that in the last year I have been
recontacting patients in their forties, men to get their and
women to get their colonoscopies done. Not at fifty, maybe
not into forty five.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
But younger.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
I mean between the age of forty and forty five
to get it done because of what you observed or
what you read about seeing colon cancer and a thirty
year old and a forty year old. So we're moving
it earlier. But why that's happening is not clear to
all of us, but it's being being studied. So earlier detection, earlier,
better outcome.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And are you aware of what I have seen is
sort of a small but a resurgent push towards prevention
of chronic diseases in general in terms of the foods
that we eat, specifically the foods that we eat, the
way that we farm, the foods that we do intake.
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Is any of that a part of the way that
you think about going forward with when it comes to
the very general subject of cancer in US?
Speaker 5 (12:28):
So in a very general way, yes, there are diets,
things to avoid excessive amounts of things that have health consequences.
I mean, the cholesterol story was one, of course, but
the cancer one.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Is also there also.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
But what the specifics are and what the intervention should
be is still I would say, an evolution. But you know,
all of us interact with the world, our environment, air, water, food,
and how all that affects a given genetic type is
probably what the interplay is. But you know, we encourage people,
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we work with them to live a healthy life in
part because if they're in better health when they get sick,
they'll do better with our therapy.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, you get you're healthier when you get in a
car crash, Hopefully it's going to recover quicker as well.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
It sounds, you know, a little odd, but it sounds
too simple, is what it is.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah, but we see that.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
I mean, I see eighty year old who are in
better condition than a fifty year old, and I could
do more for them, And so we want that fifty
year old to take better care of themselves in terms
of health, whether it's psychological or physical or weight, blood pressure, screening,
all those things are part of keeping people vibrant and
healthy going forward.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Are you still working out?
Speaker 4 (13:43):
I am?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
How much? How oftch do you work out? What do
you do? What do you do to keep it high
and tight?
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I do pull up?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
I do chin ups.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Roy used to be able to do pull ups. He
can't anymore.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
But yeah, they cheer for me in the gym with
this old guy pulling him up. Oh yeah, I get
this all the time.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
But that is awesome, you know that kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Yeah, but also stress reduction certainly for health and diet.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, it calms my brain sometimes.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Yes, there's that's an important part of all this because
of what you said earlier about when we take care
of somebody, we're not taking care of cancer. We're taking
care of a person who has that cancer. Right, that's
a big deal.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
That's a good point, doctor Stephen Foreman, City of Hope.
If people have questions, they can always go in the
City of Hope websites. There's all kinds of information on there,
doctors that are available as well, the answer questions and stuff.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
So it's see and my colleagues across the disease spectrum
in City of Hope are available to anybody in need.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Excellent, thank you for coming in again. It's good to
see you.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
It's great for me to be here. Thank you for
having me.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Great. It's time for what you're watching Wednesday. The following
program is brought to you in living color, but you're
watching in the Americans love television. They win their kids
dollars USA television.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Watching too many of those live television shows.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
All right, I know I was late. I know, it
was very very late to this, but my wife and
I finally finished Showgun, of course, the Hulu FX TV
show based on the James Clavell novel and it actually
was a computer game at one point, which is crazy.
But the series actually won a bunch of Emmy Awards,
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which is one of the reasons that we wanted to
watch it because of how well it was received. Interesting
because I thought about this and I had to look
into it a bit. But Shogun is the story of
would have been what sixteenth seventeenth century Japan and a
British guy who ends up shipwrecked in Japan. He doesn't
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know what's going on. He finally gets basically held by
one of the lords that is making up the leadership
in Japan, and it's a story of sort of pre
civil war Japan and how this guy would have risen
to the level that he was even though he was
a foreigner and he didn't know a lick of Japanese.
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It's very very well put together, and some of the
actors in it, the Japanese actors ended up being some
of the producers on the show itself. Beautifully shot, amazingly
shot in both the UK and in Japan a very
well written story. It is available for you to watch
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most of the languages Japanese and then they do subtitles,
or you could do it with English dubbed over. We
didn't even try that. We realized that a couple episodes
in it wasn't that bad watching or reading. I guess
you could say the dialogue in the subtitles and then
still being able to keep an eye on what was
going on on the screen itself, which I thought was
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going to be annoying, it turned out to be pretty good. Now.
The question I had about this this was made for
arguably made for American Awe audiences, but clearly there's a
huge the history of Japan plays a giant role in that.
So I wanted to know kind of what this was
how it was received by by Japanese audience, and they said,
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actually it was critically acclaimed. There's a couple of people
a history buff. A guy named Kunihiro Matsumura praised the
series for its authenticity. One of the guys who played
a sort of a lieutenant to the main lord that
we see, praised the skilled acting has effort to bring
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more historical authenticity to the series as a producer and said,
I was a little worried about the Japanese reaction because
they know what is authentic and what is not. But surprisingly,
all the reviews, all the reactions from the audience, the
Japanese audience were great, and that was exactly what we wanted.
So there is a plan apparently for a video game
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version of this, and the discussion is whether or not
they're going to do a second series. Of course, they
won all kinds of Emmy awards from US from Stats
to stats, from stunts to prosthetics to title music, Picture Editing,
Production designed for a narrative period or fantasy piece, sound editing,
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all of that stuff. Guest Actor in a Drama Series,
Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series. All of these were
awarded to Showgun. It's available on FX if you wanted
to watch the whole thing. A couple other stories that
we'll get to, including Megalopolis, this new Francis Ford Coppola
movie that is apparently showing to almost empty theaters. The
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only people who are seeing this movie are people who
belong to the Francis Ford Coppola family. We asked what
you were watching on what you're watching Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Gary Cliff in Vegas. You're doing a great job.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Listen. Well, I'm late to the game on this one,
but I gotta tell you, probably the best TV show
I've seen in at least ten years Beef. I just
finished it the other night. What a ride, intense, hilarious, intimate, dangerous, unpredictable.
What a great, great show. Anyway, that's all. Take care, Cliff.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
There's nothing wrong with being late to the show. I mean,
I spent the first segment talking about Showgun, and that
thing is several months old by now. But yeah, Beef
was a great show on Netflix, and it is. It's
gonna thanks. I think they're doing a second season of Beef.
I'm pretty sure they are definitely worth it. The other
show that I'm excited to start, and I wanted to
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wait until we were wrapped up with Showgun before we
watched the second season of The Old Man. It premiered
on FX a couple of years ago. The first season
was just seven episodes, It was renewed for a second season,
and then just the middle of September is when it debuted.
This is a story about Dan Chase, played by Jeff Bridges,
former CIA guy, former Vietnam vett, living off the grid
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for thirty years and then somebody breaks into his home
and you know, the former CIA guy is never really
a former CIA guy. He goes into hiding. He rents
a room from a woman played by Amy Brenneman, who
becomes his kind of forced partner while he's on the run.
In that first first season, an assistant FBI assistant director
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played by John Lithgow comes into all of this, all
of it, it's just they have a complicated pass because
of their work during the Soviet Afghan War. There are
stories that get into his daughter. FBI agent Angela Adams
is played by Alia Shakatt, who, if you remember, was
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on Arrested Development. She was a cousin maybe in that
and she does a fantastic job. So anyway, the second
season of that is up, and it's got, you know,
another eight episodes, I believe it is, And it's got
the first several first four episodes are already out and
then another one drops tomorrow. Episode I guess it would
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be the fifth one in the second season drops tomorrow,
so we have a couple that we can catch up on.
All of it is really cool because It's one of
those shows that you can get in those bite size
You don't have to spend six hours watching a mini
series like this. You can get them a little bit
at a time. There is a bunch of trailers. We
have a trio of trailers up on the website. If
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you go to KFIAM six forty dot com slash Gary
and Shannon, you'll see the information there, including a trailer
for a new Clint Eastwood movie. It's called Juror Number two.
Clint Eastwood just pointing this out, ninety four years old,
he says, this is a film I would want to
see that. I think a lot of people would enjoy
a look at the gray area between the black and
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white of everyday circumstances and makes you decide for yourself.
This is about Nicholas Holt, the actor, playing a guy
who is a family man who serves as a juror
in a high profile murder trial and then finds himself
struggling with a serious moral dilemma that could use to
sway the jury and potentially the verdicts, maybe convict or
even free this accused killer. The other one is a
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show called The Franchise. The latest from Armando Yanucci did Veep,
did Avenue five. There's so much phoniness, they said, behind
the scenes in the superhero movies that we see, and
they said that this is kind of a takeoff on
Marvel movies and the superhero movies that we have seen
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so many of. It's called the franchise. And again the
trailer is up on the website. Megalopolis is this Francis
Ford Coppola movie that came out died on arrival over
the weekend. According to The New York Times, he spent
decades on this. He's eighty five years old. The original
ideas for Megalopolis came out in the late seventies. He
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worked on on the eighties. The sort of a start
and stop production process for all of this about one
hundred and twenty million dollars in production costs, another twenty
million or so in marketing and distribution. The vast majority
of it came from him. He had to sell part
of his wine business. Did Coppola to fund this movie,
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and they said nobody liked it. The ticket sales from
Thursday night through Sunday about four million dollars in North America.
As a comparison, I don't know if it's even a
great comparison. The movie Am I a Racist that came
out from Daily Wire from Matt Walsh that had more
money than a Francis Ford Coppola movie. In its first
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week of release, Megalopolis played in two thousand theaters in
the United States and Canada two thousand and brought in
four million dollars. So the idea of anybody going to
see this movie outside of those people who were paid
to see it is pretty crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
The whole story is about an architect played by Adam
Driver who wants this futuristic to society to lift itself
out of the gutter. Nobody liked it. Nobody liked it,
And I mentioned that when we're talking with Jason Nathanson
about the reviews of this thing. Somebody suggested that the
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entire movie was just a giant pos and they wrote
it out in the San Francisco Chronicle. That was the
Chronicles takedown of that movie, calling it a giant pos.
The other name that is getting back into the world
of television is Brian Williams, nearing a deal with Amazon
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to host an election night special on Prime Video. Three
people have been talking to business Insider about all of this.
They said that they expect this to be broadcast globally.
They said it will probably be ad free. Details of
this thing have been trickling out over the last few days.
Outlets like Variety and CNN have done it. Amazon itself
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itself has not actually confirmed this deal, they said, partly
because they're not sure it's going to be official, that
it's not going to actually come to fruition. There could
be some sticking points in this deal, but it did
spark questions about whether or not Amazon is going to
expand as deeply into the news business as it has
with entertainment and sports and things like that. Obviously, you
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have to know that Amazon, owned by Jeff Bezos, is
also Bezos is also the owner of The Washington Post,
so he does have some news making resources, news making
news gathering resources that could be used in all of this.
If it does go through, this special would apparently be
produced by Jonathan Wald, a veteran TV news producer. He
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produced The Eleventh Hour with Brian Williams on MSNBC. Lately
focused on new news formats, he helped Don Lemon launch
shows on social media. If you remember the one on
Twitter that didn't go very far. So all of that
is what's going on on what you're watch on Wednesday.
A reminder of a couple things. Number One, I'm hosting
the Walk to End also at Mike Word Community Park
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in Irvine on Saturday morning. You can get on out there.
The weather's going to be absolutely gorgeous. We will put
a link up on our social media where you can
look at the details of the event, you can donate,
you can sign up to walk, et cetera. And then
Moe Kelly is also m seeing the Blue Door Bash
for the Blue Door Bash gala for the Boys and
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Girls Club of Carson at Sofi Stadium on Saturday. He's
going to do it in the evening. You can find
out information on donations and how to bid on some
of the auction items that are up there. Go to
BGC Carson dot org. That's a Boys Girls Club Carson
dot org. You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
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This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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on the iHeartRadio apps. What else is going on?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Time for what's happening?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Well, I saw this story yesterday and it blew me
away in terms of the size and the number of
lawsuits that have been filed or will be filed against Diddy.
This was an attorney out of Texas. His name is
Tony Busby. He has said, this is the damn about
(00:35):
to break.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
The biggest secret in the entertainment industry that really wasn't
a secret at all, has finally been revealed to the world.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Now listen to what he said. In terms of the number,
the sheer number of leads that have come into his office, our.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Team has had at this point more than three thousand
and two hundred and eighty five individuals contact us with
claiming people claiming to have been victimized by Sean Combes.
After vetting, we now represent one hundred and twenty individuals
who intend to bring civil claims in civil court against
(01:14):
Sean Diddy Combes, as well as claims against many other
individuals and entities that we will name as defendants. As
we file these individual cases.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
He said, of the clients that he is taking on,
half of them are men, half are women, sixty two
percent identifies African American, thirty percent white. Twenty five of
his clients said that they were underage when they were victimized,
and one of them was nine nine years old. Federal
and law enforcement officials are set to an ounce court
(01:46):
filings and arrests related to organized crime ring in La
THEOS attorney said this bust being announced this morning is
one of the largest takedowns in the history of the
DOJ when it comes to Neo Nazi white supremacist violent
extremist organization. They were called the Peckerwood Gang. Sixty eight
people in died it. The landslide that we've covered for
(02:09):
many weeks now a couple of months at Portuguese Bend
in Palas Verdes has slowed down. Geologists told the city
council last night that although the land is still moving,
they said it has decelerated from an average of thirteen
inches a week down to about eight inches a week.
That's about a thirty eight percent decrease. But they quickly
(02:30):
clarified that it was expected because of the lack of
rain for the last five months. If we do start
to see more rain, that could pick right back up. Unfortunately,
mentioned that the Wildcard playoffs are underway. Detroit is in
Houston right now for Game two of their Wildcard series.
Scoreless right now. Detroit won yesterday. But other baseball news
(02:51):
is that Fernando valence wa Fernando Valenzuela is going to
step away from the broadcast booth for the remainder of
the year. The Dodgers announced in a statement that was
posted today that he is going to step away because
of some health issues. He stepped away from the broadcast
booth last week and they didn't explain why. We just
(03:12):
know that he wasn't doing the broadcast. Then we found
out that he was in the hospital. And according to
the Dodgers' statement, it says Fernando and his family truly
appreciate the love and support of fans as he aims
to return for the next season, and they've asked for
privacy during this time. They did not discuss the details
of whatever health whatever health condition has led to him
(03:35):
being hospitalized. One of the two doctors charged in the
investigation of the death of Matthew Perry is in federal
court today. Doctor Mark Chavez of San Diego, fifty four
year old guy, signed a plea agreement with the prosecutors
in August. He will be the third person to plead
guilty in the aftermath of Perry's fatal overdose. He was
(03:56):
offered lesser charges and two others in exchange for the
cooperation as they go after the larger targets that they
say are probably most responsible for the overdose deaths. There's
another doctor and the alleged dealer that we have referred
to as the ketamine Queen. The lawyer said after Chavez's
first court appearance in August that he is incredibly remorseful
(04:19):
and that he's going to try to do everything in
his power to right the wrong that happened here. Also
working with the prosecutors would be Matthew Perry's assistant admitted
to helping him obtain an inject ketamine, and a friend
of Matthew Perry, who admitted to acting as a drug
messenger and a middleman. Live Nation said that they're not
(04:40):
liable for three campers deaths at the Michigan Music Festival.
A concert promoter was found not responsible for the death
of these three men who succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning
from a generator while they were camping. A two to
one opinion in this court the blame does not rest
with Live Nation. Even soh the families said the small
(05:02):
camp sites at the Faster Horses Music festival contributed to
hazardous conditions. They died while they were inside a camper
at the Michigan International Speedway west of Detroit. They were
likely asleep as they inhaled carbon monoxide. There were a
couple other people apparently in that place who were able
to survive. And then finally, Toyota is investing in an
(05:25):
air taxi company, the one that we talked about that's
working on trying to get air taxis here in La
Toyota's investing five hundred million dollars in Jobe Aviation as
part of a partnership aimed at helping getting the American
air taxi company's commercial business off the ground. We have
had the absolute pleasure over the last couple of years
(05:47):
of getting to know doctor Stephen Foreman from City of Hope.
The largest, most successful bone marrow and blood stem cell
transplant program in the nation have been performed there at
City of Hope. Just I like to say, world renowned
is doctor Foreman. So first of all, thanks again for
coming in today. Get that microphone right up close to
(06:09):
your face and there it is right there.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
So thank you.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
It's always an honor for me to be here at
the station and with you and with Shannon when she's here,
So thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I love when you come in. You are a very
calming presence because I think the idea of cancer, cancer research,
cancer research, cancer treatment is so frightening for so many people.
Whether it's a cancer diagnosis or even just a cancer fear,
(06:40):
it can be debilitating for people.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
It absolutely is, and I think not only what we
do focused on the research to make things better, but
also to have people cared for in a place where
they will be feeling valued and comfortable. I saw a
patient just recently who came from another institution who told
me that what they noticed at the other was that
they were invisible, and when they came to the City
(07:03):
of Hope, they felt like they were being seen. And
I was very struck by that observation in a very
short period of time. So I think it's I still
think of it as a privilege that people come to
us for care and we need to.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Respect that in a general sense. Do you feel like
or do you get the impression that there is a
trend back to the humanity of medicine. I mean because,
and I'll say this because I've had experiences with my
parents and other family members who have had cancer where
the treatments or the options that are available are based
(07:37):
on the science of it and not so much on
the humanity of what that person is individually going through.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
So I think for us it's both. It has to
be both.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
You have to be cognizant that this is a human
being sitting in front of you who has a life
and family and a community and.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
A culture a place of worship.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Well at the same time to do for them what
we think tomorrow's best therapy is going to be, and
that's why they come. So no matter what happens, we
have to be respectful and caring for them. And I
think they noticed that. They also see and I feel
it myself. The progress has been made over the last
certainly ten, fifteen, twenty years to do things now we
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couldn't do before, whether it's transplant or iminotherapy or targeted therapy,
and that's why they come, that's why they stay.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
We give them both.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Let's talk about immunotherapy because in the last couple of
years that you've been in we've been able to talk
about advances specifically in immunotherapy. What are the exciting things
that are going on now.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
So the exciting things are going on now in that
area has to do with the increasing number of diseases
for which aneminotherapy can be helpful successful, and we're trying
to expand that. The other thing that I noticed, and
I talked to them about this with people the other day,
is some of the things that we were doing in
aminotherapy that were therapies of lat resort, we're moving it
(09:01):
all the way up into the frontline therapy. So the
idea of doing an immune therapy instead of chemotherapy and
getting a better result is where we want to go.
We have a leukemia study that is looking very good
right now where we've shortened therapy from three years to
six months. Wow, And I think people appreciate that, but
(09:21):
that's all based on the laboratory work and clinical trials
that we've done.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Is that a change in thinking or that is that
a change in the results that you've seen are more
promising that you want to put it at the front
of the line.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Based on what we saw in people with very advanced disease,
at least in that disease. The question is why are
we waiting, Why can't we do this upfront? And will
we get a better result? And the next few years
will tell us whether we were right or whether we
were wrong. But the patients are our partners and we
are their partners to try to answer it and do
something for them.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
At the same time, the other question is in it
also in a very general sense, is the overall state
of can to research and new treatments and things like that.
A lot of times, people like I said at the beginning,
are afraid of the word, they're afraid of the condition,
they're afraid of what it means going forward. But there
have to be people on your side of it that
(10:14):
are willing to try the new things and try, you know,
ask the new questions or or you know, look at
the same old problem in a new way to come
up with a new treatment that continues. Right. I mean, that's.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Absolutely the case, and that that is the soul of
the city of Hope to care for the human being.
But to bring them something that didn't exist before. And
you know, I think we've talked before, at least over
the years that I've been doing this, how there are
therapies that we have developed very effective, both in the
field and a city of Hope. Where had we known
(10:47):
then what we know now, there are a lot of
people who would be with us, and so there's a
there's a need to move faster, and I think we
want to move with all great speed to tackle the
tyranny of time time that happens for.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
People, tyranny of time. I didn't realize you were a
poet as well. There have also been a series of
headlines in the last couple of months that catch my
eye because of my age, because of the age of
my kids, that suggest that there are certain types of
cancer that are showing up more commonly and in younger people.
(11:22):
What's going on with this? What are we doing?
Speaker 5 (11:24):
I don't know the explanation for that, but I can
tell you that in the last year I have been
recontacting patients in their forties, men to get their and
women to get their colonoscopies done. Not at fifty, maybe
not into forty five.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
But younger.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
I mean between the age of forty and forty five
to get it done because of what you observed or
what you read about seeing colon cancer and a thirty
year old and a forty year old. So we're moving
it earlier. But why that's happening is not clear to
all of us, but it's being being studied. So earlier detection, earlier,
better outcome.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And are you aware of what I have seen is
sort of a small but a resurgent push towards prevention
of chronic diseases in general in terms of the foods
that we eat, specifically the foods that we eat, the
way that we farm, the foods that we do intake.
(12:20):
Is any of that a part of the way that
you think about going forward with when it comes to
the very general subject of cancer in US?
Speaker 5 (12:28):
So in a very general way, yes, there are diets,
things to avoid excessive amounts of things that have health consequences.
I mean, the cholesterol story was one, of course, but
the cancer one.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Is also there also.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
But what the specifics are and what the intervention should
be is still I would say, an evolution. But you know,
all of us interact with the world, our environment, air, water, food,
and how all that affects a given genetic type is
probably what the interplay is. But you know, we encourage people,
(13:05):
we work with them to live a healthy life in
part because if they're in better health when they get sick,
they'll do better with our therapy.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, you get you're healthier when you get in a
car crash, Hopefully it's going to recover quicker as well.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
It sounds, you know, a little odd, but it sounds
too simple, is what it is.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah, but we see that.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
I mean, I see eighty year old who are in
better condition than a fifty year old, and I could
do more for them, And so we want that fifty
year old to take better care of themselves in terms
of health, whether it's psychological or physical or weight, blood pressure, screening,
all those things are part of keeping people vibrant and
healthy going forward.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Are you still working out?
Speaker 4 (13:43):
I am?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
How much? How oftch do you work out? What do
you do? What do you do to keep it high
and tight?
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I do pull up?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
I do chin ups.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Roy used to be able to do pull ups. He
can't anymore.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
But yeah, they cheer for me in the gym with
this old guy pulling him up. Oh yeah, I get
this all the time.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
But that is awesome, you know that kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Yeah, but also stress reduction certainly for health and diet.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, it calms my brain sometimes.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Yes, there's that's an important part of all this because
of what you said earlier about when we take care
of somebody, we're not taking care of cancer. We're taking
care of a person who has that cancer. Right, that's
a big deal.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
That's a good point, doctor Stephen Foreman, City of Hope.
If people have questions, they can always go in the
City of Hope websites. There's all kinds of information on there,
doctors that are available as well, the answer questions and stuff.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
So it's see and my colleagues across the disease spectrum
in City of Hope are available to anybody in need.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Excellent, thank you for coming in again. It's good to
see you.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
It's great for me to be here. Thank you for
having me.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Great. It's time for what you're watching Wednesday. The following
program is brought to you in living color, but you're
watching in the Americans love television. They win their kids
dollars USA television.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Watching too many of those live television shows.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
All right, I know I was late. I know, it
was very very late to this, but my wife and
I finally finished Showgun, of course, the Hulu FX TV
show based on the James Clavell novel and it actually
was a computer game at one point, which is crazy.
But the series actually won a bunch of Emmy Awards,
(15:23):
which is one of the reasons that we wanted to
watch it because of how well it was received. Interesting
because I thought about this and I had to look
into it a bit. But Shogun is the story of
would have been what sixteenth seventeenth century Japan and a
British guy who ends up shipwrecked in Japan. He doesn't
(15:45):
know what's going on. He finally gets basically held by
one of the lords that is making up the leadership
in Japan, and it's a story of sort of pre
civil war Japan and how this guy would have risen
to the level that he was even though he was
a foreigner and he didn't know a lick of Japanese.
(16:07):
It's very very well put together, and some of the
actors in it, the Japanese actors ended up being some
of the producers on the show itself. Beautifully shot, amazingly
shot in both the UK and in Japan a very
well written story. It is available for you to watch
(16:28):
most of the languages Japanese and then they do subtitles,
or you could do it with English dubbed over. We
didn't even try that. We realized that a couple episodes
in it wasn't that bad watching or reading. I guess
you could say the dialogue in the subtitles and then
still being able to keep an eye on what was
going on on the screen itself, which I thought was
(16:51):
going to be annoying, it turned out to be pretty good. Now.
The question I had about this this was made for
arguably made for American Awe audiences, but clearly there's a
huge the history of Japan plays a giant role in that.
So I wanted to know kind of what this was
how it was received by by Japanese audience, and they said,
(17:14):
actually it was critically acclaimed. There's a couple of people
a history buff. A guy named Kunihiro Matsumura praised the
series for its authenticity. One of the guys who played
a sort of a lieutenant to the main lord that
we see, praised the skilled acting has effort to bring
(17:38):
more historical authenticity to the series as a producer and said,
I was a little worried about the Japanese reaction because
they know what is authentic and what is not. But surprisingly,
all the reviews, all the reactions from the audience, the
Japanese audience were great, and that was exactly what we wanted.
So there is a plan apparently for a video game
(18:00):
version of this, and the discussion is whether or not
they're going to do a second series. Of course, they
won all kinds of Emmy awards from US from Stats
to stats, from stunts to prosthetics to title music, Picture Editing,
Production designed for a narrative period or fantasy piece, sound editing,
(18:24):
all of that stuff. Guest Actor in a Drama Series,
Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series. All of these were
awarded to Showgun. It's available on FX if you wanted
to watch the whole thing. A couple other stories that
we'll get to, including Megalopolis, this new Francis Ford Coppola
movie that is apparently showing to almost empty theaters. The
(18:46):
only people who are seeing this movie are people who
belong to the Francis Ford Coppola family. We asked what
you were watching on what you're watching Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Gary Cliff in Vegas. You're doing a great job.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Listen. Well, I'm late to the game on this one,
but I gotta tell you, probably the best TV show
I've seen in at least ten years Beef. I just
finished it the other night. What a ride, intense, hilarious, intimate, dangerous, unpredictable.
What a great, great show. Anyway, that's all. Take care, Cliff.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
There's nothing wrong with being late to the show. I mean,
I spent the first segment talking about Showgun, and that
thing is several months old by now. But yeah, Beef
was a great show on Netflix, and it is. It's
gonna thanks. I think they're doing a second season of Beef.
I'm pretty sure they are definitely worth it. The other
show that I'm excited to start, and I wanted to
(19:40):
wait until we were wrapped up with Showgun before we
watched the second season of The Old Man. It premiered
on FX a couple of years ago. The first season
was just seven episodes, It was renewed for a second season,
and then just the middle of September is when it debuted.
This is a story about Dan Chase, played by Jeff Bridges,
former CIA guy, former Vietnam vett, living off the grid
(20:03):
for thirty years and then somebody breaks into his home
and you know, the former CIA guy is never really
a former CIA guy. He goes into hiding. He rents
a room from a woman played by Amy Brenneman, who
becomes his kind of forced partner while he's on the run.
In that first first season, an assistant FBI assistant director
(20:26):
played by John Lithgow comes into all of this, all
of it, it's just they have a complicated pass because
of their work during the Soviet Afghan War. There are
stories that get into his daughter. FBI agent Angela Adams
is played by Alia Shakatt, who, if you remember, was
(20:47):
on Arrested Development. She was a cousin maybe in that
and she does a fantastic job. So anyway, the second
season of that is up, and it's got, you know,
another eight episodes, I believe it is, And it's got
the first several first four episodes are already out and
then another one drops tomorrow. Episode I guess it would
(21:09):
be the fifth one in the second season drops tomorrow,
so we have a couple that we can catch up on.
All of it is really cool because It's one of
those shows that you can get in those bite size
You don't have to spend six hours watching a mini
series like this. You can get them a little bit
at a time. There is a bunch of trailers. We
have a trio of trailers up on the website. If
(21:30):
you go to KFIAM six forty dot com slash Gary
and Shannon, you'll see the information there, including a trailer
for a new Clint Eastwood movie. It's called Juror Number two.
Clint Eastwood just pointing this out, ninety four years old,
he says, this is a film I would want to
see that. I think a lot of people would enjoy
a look at the gray area between the black and
(21:51):
white of everyday circumstances and makes you decide for yourself.
This is about Nicholas Holt, the actor, playing a guy
who is a family man who serves as a juror
in a high profile murder trial and then finds himself
struggling with a serious moral dilemma that could use to
sway the jury and potentially the verdicts, maybe convict or
even free this accused killer. The other one is a
(22:14):
show called The Franchise. The latest from Armando Yanucci did Veep,
did Avenue five. There's so much phoniness, they said, behind
the scenes in the superhero movies that we see, and
they said that this is kind of a takeoff on
Marvel movies and the superhero movies that we have seen
(22:34):
so many of. It's called the franchise. And again the
trailer is up on the website. Megalopolis is this Francis
Ford Coppola movie that came out died on arrival over
the weekend. According to The New York Times, he spent
decades on this. He's eighty five years old. The original
ideas for Megalopolis came out in the late seventies. He
(22:56):
worked on on the eighties. The sort of a start
and stop production process for all of this about one
hundred and twenty million dollars in production costs, another twenty
million or so in marketing and distribution. The vast majority
of it came from him. He had to sell part
of his wine business. Did Coppola to fund this movie,
(23:20):
and they said nobody liked it. The ticket sales from
Thursday night through Sunday about four million dollars in North America.
As a comparison, I don't know if it's even a
great comparison. The movie Am I a Racist that came
out from Daily Wire from Matt Walsh that had more
money than a Francis Ford Coppola movie. In its first
(23:40):
week of release, Megalopolis played in two thousand theaters in
the United States and Canada two thousand and brought in
four million dollars. So the idea of anybody going to
see this movie outside of those people who were paid
to see it is pretty crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
The whole story is about an architect played by Adam
Driver who wants this futuristic to society to lift itself
out of the gutter. Nobody liked it. Nobody liked it,
And I mentioned that when we're talking with Jason Nathanson
about the reviews of this thing. Somebody suggested that the
(24:16):
entire movie was just a giant pos and they wrote
it out in the San Francisco Chronicle. That was the
Chronicles takedown of that movie, calling it a giant pos.
The other name that is getting back into the world
of television is Brian Williams, nearing a deal with Amazon
(24:37):
to host an election night special on Prime Video. Three
people have been talking to business Insider about all of this.
They said that they expect this to be broadcast globally.
They said it will probably be ad free. Details of
this thing have been trickling out over the last few days.
Outlets like Variety and CNN have done it. Amazon itself
(24:58):
itself has not actually confirmed this deal, they said, partly
because they're not sure it's going to be official, that
it's not going to actually come to fruition. There could
be some sticking points in this deal, but it did
spark questions about whether or not Amazon is going to
expand as deeply into the news business as it has
with entertainment and sports and things like that. Obviously, you
(25:20):
have to know that Amazon, owned by Jeff Bezos, is
also Bezos is also the owner of The Washington Post,
so he does have some news making resources, news making
news gathering resources that could be used in all of this.
If it does go through, this special would apparently be
produced by Jonathan Wald, a veteran TV news producer. He
(25:41):
produced The Eleventh Hour with Brian Williams on MSNBC. Lately
focused on new news formats, he helped Don Lemon launch
shows on social media. If you remember the one on
Twitter that didn't go very far. So all of that
is what's going on on what you're watch on Wednesday.
A reminder of a couple things. Number One, I'm hosting
the Walk to End also at Mike Word Community Park
(26:01):
in Irvine on Saturday morning. You can get on out there.
The weather's going to be absolutely gorgeous. We will put
a link up on our social media where you can
look at the details of the event, you can donate,
you can sign up to walk, et cetera. And then
Moe Kelly is also m seeing the Blue Door Bash
for the Blue Door Bash gala for the Boys and
(26:22):
Girls Club of Carson at Sofi Stadium on Saturday. He's
going to do it in the evening. You can find
out information on donations and how to bid on some
of the auction items that are up there. Go to
BGC Carson dot org. That's a Boys Girls Club Carson
dot org. You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
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