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Speaker 4 (01:00):
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Speaker 5 (01:30):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. Coming up at the bottom of
the hour, we will go live to Washington and get
an update on all of the fallout from Matt Gates
withdrawing from consideration as Trump's Attorney general.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
Happened just a couple hours ago.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
And to use your favorite word, what does this portend
for uh pete hegsef if anything? Is there any connection
perhaps between the two of problematic the cabinet picks and
whether or not they're going to become an issue for
the Trump transition TEAMMM, I.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
Don't think I used poor tend in real life?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
You did? You used it earlier?
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I use it on the show. Oh but I don't
think I use it all the time in real life.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Well, do you use tittle bits or what was the
other one they were talking about.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Did, Yeah, don't be ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Tittle bits sounds made up.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
Ittle bits. Yeah, that sounds like a dirty word.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Well it is a dirty word probably.
Speaker 8 (02:28):
Hey, Garyan Shannon, this is Dion from a Canoga Park.
My god, when Deborah Mark said if she didn't take
anything while eating beans, she just kind of blow the
place up. I literally almost crashed the car.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
On the freeways.
Speaker 8 (02:43):
So hilarious. Guys are the best show on here. I
swear to God. Keep up the good work.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Thank you guys, thank you.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Yeah, the just the visual of Deborah Mark letting out
one two back in the chair because she's so let
alone enough to blow up the room.
Speaker 9 (03:02):
I hold it in. I said that if I if I,
you know, if I didn't take something, Yes, it would.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
We have a lot of.
Speaker 9 (03:08):
Vegetables and a lot of beans on a daily beach.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
It's just so great.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
DeVore sitting on that bench right outside that front door
there as soon as she gets to the outside and
just lets.
Speaker 10 (03:18):
Him go, Oh my god, you guys are killing me today,
all I can imagine is every time Shannon takes a
step down the stairs, like every time she walks just parting.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I will neither what what?
Speaker 6 (03:35):
What's the word?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Don't do that either? What else is going on?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Time?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
What's happening?
Speaker 5 (03:47):
What's happening is sponsored by water damage fire damage glory.
Speaker 11 (03:54):
Called Public adjust nine one seven, five two five six.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Well, the big story, of course today is that Matt
Gates has withdrawn his name for a nomination to be
the next Attorney General.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
At this point, we do not know if Trump has
chosen a.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
Second person to be Attorney General, but we'll talk about
it more at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
So more proof that that woman from Hawaii wanted to
get away from her family, Like the more we learned
about the family, the more I get it. She's thirty
one years old. They say she's missing. She's been seen
on surveillance video in LA just living her life. She
was allegedly on her way from Maui to New York
but had to stop over at Lax where she allegedly
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went missing. The family of this woman is now going
to hold a rally in downtown LA to find volunteers
to help with their search.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
Can I add a wrinkle to this that we didn't
know it up until this point. Sure, she was traveling
from Maui to Hawaii. She was supposed to stop in
lax That's where she apparently got on but did not
take her flight to JFK. She had the same itinerary
as an ex boyfriend, and they decided that they would
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keep their flights since they couldn't get a refund, but
they were going to be going their separate ways once
they landed at JFK.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Is there a situation where she wants to be with
this guy and the family hated him, and she came
up with the narrative that they had broken up, but
they hadn't. They just wanted to escape the overbearing family. Yes,
but I will remind you we have been very wrong
on stories like this.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Right to Deniseuskins rule and had to be had to
eat crow right.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
I understand that. But here's the other thing.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
She was also spotted at a Lebron James event. The
family's going to Crypto dot Com Arena just hours before
the Lakers tip off to look for volunteers to find her.
I think they're trying to catch her at the Laker game.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Why would they announce that they were going to go
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
It's all very bizarre.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
The latest in the Idaho college killings, the judge overseeing
Brian Coberger's murder case has ruled that the death penalty
is still on the table as this case moves forward,
rejecting a request from Coburger's attorneys to take it off.
I made a sweeping play to get capital punishment tossed.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Out, But what I saw earlier was.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
The judge ruled against all twelve of Colberger's motions, challenging
various aspects of Idaho's capital punishment scheme. Among other things,
they said that it was death penalties out of step
with current social mores. Apparently in this claim they said
that if you're going to challenge Idaho's method of execution,
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you have to provide an alternative method of execution, and
that they didn't. So that was one of the reasons
that the judge got rid of it.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Remember the guy in Wisconsin who said he was going
out on his kayak faked his own death.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
They fail it out.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
He faked his own death, and they said, you know, hey,
why don't you call your family come home. He left
his wife and three kids. He's been found in Europe.
He says he's safe, but he's not going to tell
you where he is. And no, he's not coming home.
Eastern Europe is where Yes with the girl Kobayashi.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
No, As we've seen this trend of the parents of
school shooters now being held responsible for at least some
of what happens. Colin Gray, the alleged the father sorry
of the alleged Georgia school shooter cult, Gray, has pleaded
not guilty to charges that connected him to that shooting
in September at Appalachi High School that killed four people.
(07:45):
Attorneys for the dad entered this not guilty plea. He
was indicted last month on twenty nine counts, including second
degree murder, secondary cruelty to children, involuntary manslaughter, and reckless conduct.
They said it's the first time in Georgia state history
that a parent of a suspect in a school shooting
has been charged. Matt Gates has withdrawn as Trump's pick
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for attorney General after scrutiny over a federal sex trafficking investigation.
He made the announcement just this morning, right during the
show the first.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Hour of our show.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
The withdrawal is they say it's a blow to push
to install loyalists, that is, Trump loyalists in the upcoming administration.
First signed that there's going to be some resistance from
members of his own party, which I don't think should
come as a surprise. There are plenty of Republicans in
Congress who are no fans of Donald Trump. They like
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the fact that there is a Republican in the White House.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Well, we've all heard about people who fudge their work expenses, right,
but some of them belong in the as it's called
in the Wall Street Journal, the expense account Shenanigan's Hall
of Fame, admit Ray Lopez.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Yeah, he's to that hall of fame all right.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
The president and chief executive of a fire protection consulting
and engineering firm was interviewed.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
His name's Jame Tomas.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
He says he tries to be a generous boss, but
employees do take advantage.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
He says a few.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Put date nights on the corporate tab without asking, but
one particular case stands out. He says one guy bought
his whole family's Christmas presents with the company credit card.
They fired the employee over the twenty five hundred dollars bill.
He said he traveled a lot and the company owed
this to him.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Well, that same guy, that same boss tells his employees
to treat themselves and their spouses to dinner on the
company dime if they ever come back from a week
of travel. That's a great that's a great boss that
tells you, Hey, I know you've been away for a week.
Why don't you take the family out for dinner and
reintroduce yourself.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Yeah, that's pretty nice.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Nice boss, he says.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
When his bus business was young in the early nineties,
he discovered a bookkeeper had fabricated roughly fifty thousand dollars
of invoices for phony, janitorial, furniture, and consulting services and
pocketed the money. I've heard in the real world people
who do this, People who have like secretaries or the like,
who will drum up expenses for things like I don't know,
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paper clips or what have.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
You fill out all of that, get it.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Approved, the money comes through, and it's just you know,
you're going to it's fraud. You're going to Staples and
you're buying this stuff. You're turning in the receipts and
then you're taking it back and the stuff never makes
it to the office and you get the money in
your pocket.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Sarah Jane Martin is a director at a financial automation
company called Quadiant, and says that her firm's clients have
uncovered all kinds of abuse when it comes to these
corporate cards, Romantic getaways booked with a company card. Said
in that case, an employee picked vacation destinations where he
was frequently traveling for business, so the extra trips would
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go undetected until they got involved.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Of course, one of the big stories comes out of
the NFL. The Jacksonville Jaguars. Their former financial manager was
sentenced more than six years in prison. Was able to
steal twenty two million dollars from the team. Skimmed money
by inflating hotel, airfare, catering, and other expenses for.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
At least three years.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
He pleaded guilty, said he stole the fuel, alcohol.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
And gambling addictions.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
That'll do it.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
I mean, this thing is like he gets away with
a little bit, and then you get away with a
little bit more, and so on and so forth.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
At SAP, that's the software company that makes concur we
use concur to auditors VI for unofficial quarterly awards for
exposing the most outlandish charges. For example, one employee of
a client put his seventy dollars mortgage on the company
tab said he got away with it for several months
(12:04):
by disguising his lender as a business vendor. In another one,
someone tried to buy an RV with a corporate card
because they said on the road for a six month assignment,
the motor home would be cheaper than hotels.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Needless to say, the transaction was declined.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
What does concur.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
That's what you used for your expense report when you
went to Chicago. Oh, I still have to do that.
I haven't done that.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
There may be a limit on that. I think maybe
out of luck. Really, yeah, you gotta have a boss
approve it. And if you don't currently have.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
A boss, I don't have that. Oh you're right, I
should have gotten that done.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Well, uh, anyway, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 11 (12:52):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (12:52):
My friend says, it was about the farts. This is
what you guys talk about when you have no boss.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
The farts.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
We talk about it.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
We've never done an entire segment on farts.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
I guarantee we have because Jacob always used to play
the little yeah, but he.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Would play that when it would come up, not when
we spent eight minutes on it.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Well, you were the one who wanted to do the
story about beans. Where did you expect that was going
to go?
Speaker 5 (13:13):
I thought it would be a nice story that we
can talk about with Deborah Childish about oh now it's
my fault.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
No.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
I thought it was a nice story we could talk
about with you, and we had nice memories of family,
three bean salads and things before you. Gary let it
digress into the world of farts like an eight year old.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
I allowed it to digress to.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
All right, let's pull it together because we're going to
go to Washington when we come back to get the
latest on all of the fallout from Matt Gates withdrawing
his name from the nomination for Attorney General because of
underage girls.
Speaker 10 (13:49):
Good morning, guys.
Speaker 11 (13:50):
You guys are killing us out here talking about all
the farting, you.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
Know, in the office when we'd have to get up
and we'd walk around to do what Gary was saying.
Speaker 11 (14:01):
We used to call that crop dusting, so be getting samebody.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Getting up and just kind of moving around.
Speaker 11 (14:08):
That's probably what they're doing.
Speaker 10 (14:09):
Okay, love your show.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
But it's been uh went ty.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Four no, twenty one years since I heard that term.
Very first person I ever heard use that term was
a former Seattle Mariner Jay Buner.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Oh, I've heard that before.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
The good thing about this place now that we're down
to about six employees is you can start all.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
You want out there. We're not going to get anywhere
near it.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah, deb feel free to.
Speaker 9 (14:40):
Yeah, but I'm in a small room, and if somebody
comes in. If I did that, that's so embarrassing. It's
obvious that it was me.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yeah, right, crack the door.
Speaker 9 (14:47):
Well, I'm just going to hold it in if I Fortunately,
I'm okay today.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
You know, Amy King does the majority of her shift
with the door open.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Maybe there's something to that.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Northern California right now, seventeen thousand people without power in
parts of northern California, just about three hundred thousand without
power in Washington State. As this storm rolls through, most
of the very heavy rain up in northern California as
parts of San Francisco North and there were some reports
that we could see as much as twelve to sixteen
(15:21):
inches of rain by tomorrow morning.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
From this storm, the.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Massive news today, we thought it was going to happen
sooner rather than later, But former Republican Representative Matt Gates
announced he is withdrawing his name from consideration to be
Trump's ag. He wrote in a post on X I
had excellent meetings with the senators yesterday.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
That's a lie. That's a tadidyl right there.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
It did not go well yesterdayn Capitol Hill, which precipitated
the decision today. Joining us now from Washington, Will Staken,
ABC News National politics reporter.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Will what's going on?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (15:58):
Nothing, just some gigantic news today.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yeah, the simple stuff.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
This was, like Shannon reference, We have both believed that
this was going to end somehow, that it was never
really even going to get to an actual confirmation hearing.
Does the timing of this surprise you at all?
Speaker 11 (16:19):
I guess that I'm a little surprised this early. I
had also my doubts that this would ever get to
a confirmation hearing. Well, you know, just from reporting on
the story for years regarding Congressman former Congressman Gates, it
did not seem like he wanted any of these details
out there, let alone a nationally televised hearing where that
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would be front and center. So I kind of always
assumed it was either a recess appointment or bust. But
this is certainly I mean, a week after or I
don't even know if it's less than a week is
pretty quick work.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
So the story this afternoon that has emerged is that twelve.
The narrative initially was that Matt Gates had sex with
this underage girl at the time, found out she was underage,
and then did not have any more interactions with her
until after she was eighteen. The story that emerged this
afternoon was that CNN made a call to Gates for
comment about a second alleged incident that happened with this
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girl while she was still under eighteen.
Speaker 11 (17:21):
Right, I don't know what's so, I think clear up
a couple of things. He's always been alleged to have
done it twice. That is what the miner, the woman
who was a minor has testified to the House Ethics Committee.
But the timeline is he had sex with her once
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she was seventeen, and when he found out he stopped.
So the two times were terms of the testimony is
before he found out and then he did once she
turned eighteen. According to testimony, they did start meeting up again.
But so I think that's the timeline that at least
has been told to Ethics and the Justice Department.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
What are the chances we ever see the official ethics
report come out of the House.
Speaker 11 (18:14):
So I would say slim at this point, at least
in a formal way. I think they were slim before
if they were ever going to be formally released. I
don't think there's much appetite on the Republican side to
release it even before he was true, and now I
think there's probably not even going to be a lot
of appatite for Democrats. I mean, you know, what would
be the precedent for releasing this now that he is
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solely a private citizen. Now, could it leak?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Certainly?
Speaker 11 (18:42):
I know. I do know that more people have it
in their hand than had it before he was Attorney general,
So it could certainly still leak. I think that might
be the best chance that I'd ever seen the light
of day.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Do we have any names that have surfaced about possible
second choices, third choices, fourth choices for Trump for this post.
Speaker 11 (19:03):
I haven't seen any. It just happened earlier today, So
I haven't seen any names that have come up. I
think the one name that I have heard and is
maybe potentially a little obvious, is who President elect Trump
picked for his deputy attorney general, which is his actual
criminal defense attorney, Todd Blanche, who represented him in the
New York trial. He you know, he was a I
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would view him as a night and day candidate to
Congressman Gates. Todd Blanche has extensive experience as a prosecutor
and also, like I said, defended Donald Trump in the
New York trials. So I think people are going to
look to him. Whether or not he wants to do that,
I think is a is a question whether or not
that's you know, is President elect Trump going to want
(19:48):
to come back with an equally fiery names as might
get Matt Gates. That that seems like more.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
His m O.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
The other.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Nominee that is dealing with some of these shoes is
also Pete Hegseth nominated to be Secretary of Defense. Does
this make it easier for Republicans to push him out?
I mean, if you want to make the argument that
Matt Gates was pushed out at least by Center Republicans
who already said they weren't going to vote for him,
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maybe they coalesce around getting a new Secretary of Defense
nominee as well.
Speaker 11 (20:24):
I mean you could view it as like, you know,
once the kind of the floodgates open, you got one
person who has already withdrawn, it wouldn't really be that
far fretch for someone else to withdraw. So I think
that's right. I think we'll have to see how that
plays out. I think his circumstances are a little different
than Congressman Gates because so much, you know, just from
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our reporting, there is so much information that is out
there because he has been investigated, you know, twice now,
So I think just the drip of what is out
there was obviously a little too much for the trunk
team and obviously for Matt Gets himself. So that's been
a little different for HEGSEF. But I mean it's definitely
(21:07):
whatn't wouldn't surprise me if that's if that happened at
some point.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Well, appreciate your time, thank you, thank you. It's time
for strange science. It's a live s It's like weird science,
but strange. I just thought I felt a little earthquake.
(21:32):
But was that just you? Is that I know what
goes on over there now?
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Scientists are rejoicing over the recent discovery of the first
mummified saber tooth cub in the history of paleontology cub huh,
a frozen mummy cub in northeast Russia. The mummy was
covered in short, thick, soft, dark brown fur, featured a
well preserved head, the front part of the body incomplete,
(22:04):
pelvic bones, femur bones, and shin bones.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Something maybe got to it, chop, chomp, chop before it froze.
I mean, if that's an actual picture of what they
have left, that's a lot. That's a lot. That's a
really good, well preserved specimen.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Do you want to know how old that cub is?
Thirty five to thirty seven thousand years old?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Oh, I was gonna say, like six eight months.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
From the ice age. Well, no, you know what I mean.
Don't be ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
They said.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
It's got the unusually shaped muzzle of sabertoothed tiger, the
large mouth, small ears, massive neck, longer fore limbs, the
dark coat. Also two rows of whiskers on the upper lip,
and the elongated hair that comes from the corners of
the mouth. There is a late story that just came
in a short time ago. Science wise, a byproduct of
(22:55):
a chemical used to disinfect tap water in about a
third of the United States finally been identified. Now we
know that they add chloramines, which is the mixture of
chlorine ammonia basically to municipal water supplies to kill bacteria
and prevent water borne illnesses. Way back in the seventies,
they said, you know what, the chlorine that we add
(23:18):
to our water supply does kill things, but when it
reacts with organic compounds like decaying plant material, it creates
what they referred to as disinfection by products. There was
a concern that some of those contaminants have been linked
to cancer's, miscarriages and things like that. They're regulated by
the EPA now, which limits their concentration in water supplies.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Chloro chloramination.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
Chloramination provides an alternative way to disinfect water, but it
creates byproducts of its own. So at this point they
called this thing for decades an unidentified product. Now they
say they have figured out exactly what that product is.
They're calling it chloronitromide anion.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Hmmm.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
They're not saying it's dangerous necessarily because they honestly have
no idea. They said, we need to investigate it. We
don't know the toxicity. But it's been in our it's
been in our water for forty years, so they're saying
it's probably not as dangerous. If it was that dangerous,
we would know it right away. But they still have
to figure it out just how toxic this this thing is.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Archaeologists in Turkey say they've discovered an ancient amulet depicting
a biblical figure in a battle against the devil, King Solomon. Wow,
this was obviously a rare artifact, found near the ancient
city of Kabuk, dated to the fifth century.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
On this coin, you can see Solomon riding a horse
holding a while defeating the devil. Of course Solomon, everybody
claims him. Solomon shows up in Judaism, Solomon shows up in.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Christians says, like something that Luke Skywalker would have looked for, right, No, yeah,
like the Arc of the Covenant.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I'm not even looking at you.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Have we talked about the art Venant the box, big.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Luke Skywalker.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Yeah, Arc of the Covenant, Well, grown up, Luke Skywalker, Right,
same dude, what do you mean, same dude, same guy,
Indiana Jones.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
Is Luke Skywalker grown up.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Right beneath the alps of what? You're hurting my head?
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Aren't they the same?
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Dude?
Speaker 6 (25:55):
No?
Speaker 7 (25:56):
No, what do you I can't tell if you're being
SERI now, I just mean Luke Skywalker the actors played.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
He's played by Mark Hamill.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Oh, I was getting Harrison Ford confused. I thought he
was Luke Skywalker.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Was he in it? Was he somebody completely different? Huh?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
He was Captain Kirk.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
No, no, no, don't be stupid.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Oh me, don't be stupid me me.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Wait, in my head, I feel like it's Harrison Ford
with the light up sword.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
He didn't.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
He was never in. He was never in.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
He was in Star Wars, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Exactly doing what what was he.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
In piloting the Millennium Falcon along with Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:50):
See he was in it. I just got him confused
of who he was. What was his name in it?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Hans Solo?
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Hans Solo, Luke Skywalker very similar? What was their relationship like?
Were they friends? At least they didn't live in the
same area, did they? I'm legitimately asking you.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Speaking of I'm curious.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Was it like a different planet, or Harrison Ford was
just a fighter that that piloted the war vehicles.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
The Millennium Falcon right the cargo ship.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
There's a lot, there's a lot of layers to that movie. No,
you can't just tell me what their relationship was, if
at all. Did they have a relationship in the movie.
Did they have scenes together where I could yes, okay,
so it's understandable that I could be confused.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
No, you won't.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
Even look at me eye contact.
Speaker 10 (28:02):
It's okay, it's.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
Time to go now, Thank.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
The all powerful Baby Jesus, and I don't have to
hear you stumble through that anymore. Yeah, Raiders Lost Dark,
Ark of the Covenant, Luke Skywalker.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
He's fighting with his light swords.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
If you would just take the time to explain to
the plot, no, I could get it right and we
wouldn't have to do this.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Watch the movie. You don't even have to watch all
of them.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Watch one, which one, the first one that's the Raider.
Speaker 7 (28:35):
It's technically episode four, But just watch Star Wars.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Star Wars, the Raiders of the Last arc, A New Hope,
A New Hope. It's called star Wars.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
Okay, the original.
Speaker 7 (28:54):
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Speaker 5 (01:30):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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on the iHeartRadio app. Coming up at the bottom of
the hour, we will go live to Washington and get
an update on all of the fallout from Matt Gates
withdrawing from consideration as Trump's Attorney general.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
Happened just a couple hours ago.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
And to use your favorite word, what does this portend
for uh pete hegsef if anything? Is there any connection
perhaps between the two of problematic the cabinet picks and
whether or not they're going to become an issue for
the Trump transition TEAMMM, I.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
Don't think I used poor tend in real life?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
You did? You used it earlier?
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I use it on the show. Oh but I don't
think I use it all the time in real life.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Well, do you use tittle bits or what was the
other one they were talking about.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Did, Yeah, don't be ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Tittle bits sounds made up.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
Ittle bits. Yeah, that sounds like a dirty word.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Well it is a dirty word probably.
Speaker 8 (02:28):
Hey, Garyan Shannon, this is Dion from a Canoga Park.
My god, when Deborah Mark said if she didn't take
anything while eating beans, she just kind of blow the
place up. I literally almost crashed the car.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
On the freeways.
Speaker 8 (02:43):
So hilarious. Guys are the best show on here. I
swear to God. Keep up the good work.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Thank you guys, thank you.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Yeah, the just the visual of Deborah Mark letting out
one two back in the chair because she's so let
alone enough to blow up the room.
Speaker 9 (03:02):
I hold it in. I said that if I if I,
you know, if I didn't take something, Yes, it would.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
We have a lot of.
Speaker 9 (03:08):
Vegetables and a lot of beans on a daily beach.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
It's just so great.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
DeVore sitting on that bench right outside that front door
there as soon as she gets to the outside and
just lets.
Speaker 10 (03:18):
Him go, Oh my god, you guys are killing me today,
all I can imagine is every time Shannon takes a
step down the stairs, like every time she walks just parting.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I will neither what what?
Speaker 6 (03:35):
What's the word?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Don't do that either? What else is going on?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Time?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
What's happening?
Speaker 5 (03:47):
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Speaker 11 (03:54):
Called Public adjust nine one seven, five two five six.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Well, the big story, of course today is that Matt
Gates has withdrawn his name for a nomination to be
the next Attorney General.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
At this point, we do not know if Trump has
chosen a.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
Second person to be Attorney General, but we'll talk about
it more at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
So more proof that that woman from Hawaii wanted to
get away from her family, Like the more we learned
about the family, the more I get it. She's thirty
one years old. They say she's missing. She's been seen
on surveillance video in LA just living her life. She
was allegedly on her way from Maui to New York
but had to stop over at Lax where she allegedly
(04:37):
went missing. The family of this woman is now going
to hold a rally in downtown LA to find volunteers
to help with their search.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
Can I add a wrinkle to this that we didn't
know it up until this point. Sure, she was traveling
from Maui to Hawaii. She was supposed to stop in
lax That's where she apparently got on but did not
take her flight to JFK. She had the same itinerary
as an ex boyfriend, and they decided that they would
(05:10):
keep their flights since they couldn't get a refund, but
they were going to be going their separate ways once
they landed at JFK.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Is there a situation where she wants to be with
this guy and the family hated him, and she came
up with the narrative that they had broken up, but
they hadn't. They just wanted to escape the overbearing family. Yes,
but I will remind you we have been very wrong
on stories like this.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Right to Deniseuskins rule and had to be had to
eat crow right.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
I understand that. But here's the other thing.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
She was also spotted at a Lebron James event. The
family's going to Crypto dot Com Arena just hours before
the Lakers tip off to look for volunteers to find her.
I think they're trying to catch her at the Laker game.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Why would they announce that they were going to go
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
It's all very bizarre.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
The latest in the Idaho college killings, the judge overseeing
Brian Coberger's murder case has ruled that the death penalty
is still on the table as this case moves forward,
rejecting a request from Coburger's attorneys to take it off.
I made a sweeping play to get capital punishment tossed.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Out, But what I saw earlier was.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
The judge ruled against all twelve of Colberger's motions, challenging
various aspects of Idaho's capital punishment scheme. Among other things,
they said that it was death penalties out of step
with current social mores. Apparently in this claim they said
that if you're going to challenge Idaho's method of execution,
(06:45):
you have to provide an alternative method of execution, and
that they didn't. So that was one of the reasons
that the judge got rid of it.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Remember the guy in Wisconsin who said he was going
out on his kayak faked his own death.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
They fail it out.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
He faked his own death, and they said, you know, hey,
why don't you call your family come home. He left
his wife and three kids. He's been found in Europe.
He says he's safe, but he's not going to tell
you where he is. And no, he's not coming home.
Eastern Europe is where Yes with the girl Kobayashi.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
No, As we've seen this trend of the parents of
school shooters now being held responsible for at least some
of what happens. Colin Gray, the alleged the father sorry
of the alleged Georgia school shooter cult, Gray, has pleaded
not guilty to charges that connected him to that shooting
in September at Appalachi High School that killed four people.
(07:45):
Attorneys for the dad entered this not guilty plea. He
was indicted last month on twenty nine counts, including second
degree murder, secondary cruelty to children, involuntary manslaughter, and reckless conduct.
They said it's the first time in Georgia state history
that a parent of a suspect in a school shooting
has been charged. Matt Gates has withdrawn as Trump's pick
(08:08):
for attorney General after scrutiny over a federal sex trafficking investigation.
He made the announcement just this morning, right during the
show the first.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Hour of our show.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
The withdrawal is they say it's a blow to push
to install loyalists, that is, Trump loyalists in the upcoming administration.
First signed that there's going to be some resistance from
members of his own party, which I don't think should
come as a surprise. There are plenty of Republicans in
Congress who are no fans of Donald Trump. They like
(08:39):
the fact that there is a Republican in the White House.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Well, we've all heard about people who fudge their work expenses, right,
but some of them belong in the as it's called
in the Wall Street Journal, the expense account Shenanigan's Hall
of Fame, admit Ray Lopez.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Yeah, he's to that hall of fame all right.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
The president and chief executive of a fire protection consulting
and engineering firm was interviewed.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
His name's Jame Tomas.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
He says he tries to be a generous boss, but
employees do take advantage.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
He says a few.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Put date nights on the corporate tab without asking, but
one particular case stands out. He says one guy bought
his whole family's Christmas presents with the company credit card.
They fired the employee over the twenty five hundred dollars bill.
He said he traveled a lot and the company owed
this to him.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Well, that same guy, that same boss tells his employees
to treat themselves and their spouses to dinner on the
company dime if they ever come back from a week
of travel. That's a great that's a great boss that
tells you, Hey, I know you've been away for a week.
Why don't you take the family out for dinner and
reintroduce yourself.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Yeah, that's pretty nice.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Nice boss, he says.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
When his bus business was young in the early nineties,
he discovered a bookkeeper had fabricated roughly fifty thousand dollars
of invoices for phony, janitorial, furniture, and consulting services and
pocketed the money. I've heard in the real world people
who do this, People who have like secretaries or the like,
who will drum up expenses for things like I don't know,
(10:23):
paper clips or what have.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
You fill out all of that, get it.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Approved, the money comes through, and it's just you know,
you're going to it's fraud. You're going to Staples and
you're buying this stuff. You're turning in the receipts and
then you're taking it back and the stuff never makes
it to the office and you get the money in
your pocket.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Sarah Jane Martin is a director at a financial automation
company called Quadiant, and says that her firm's clients have
uncovered all kinds of abuse when it comes to these
corporate cards, Romantic getaways booked with a company card. Said
in that case, an employee picked vacation destinations where he
was frequently traveling for business, so the extra trips would
(11:03):
go undetected until they got involved.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Of course, one of the big stories comes out of
the NFL. The Jacksonville Jaguars. Their former financial manager was
sentenced more than six years in prison. Was able to
steal twenty two million dollars from the team. Skimmed money
by inflating hotel, airfare, catering, and other expenses for.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
At least three years.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
He pleaded guilty, said he stole the fuel, alcohol.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
And gambling addictions.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
That'll do it.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
I mean, this thing is like he gets away with
a little bit, and then you get away with a
little bit more, and so on and so forth.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
At SAP, that's the software company that makes concur we
use concur to auditors VI for unofficial quarterly awards for
exposing the most outlandish charges. For example, one employee of
a client put his seventy dollars mortgage on the company
tab said he got away with it for several months
(12:04):
by disguising his lender as a business vendor. In another one,
someone tried to buy an RV with a corporate card
because they said on the road for a six month assignment,
the motor home would be cheaper than hotels.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Needless to say, the transaction was declined.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
What does concur.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
That's what you used for your expense report when you
went to Chicago. Oh, I still have to do that.
I haven't done that.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
There may be a limit on that. I think maybe
out of luck. Really, yeah, you gotta have a boss
approve it. And if you don't currently have.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
A boss, I don't have that. Oh you're right, I
should have gotten that done.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Well, uh, anyway, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 11 (12:52):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (12:52):
My friend says, it was about the farts. This is
what you guys talk about when you have no boss.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
The farts.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
We talk about it.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
We've never done an entire segment on farts.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
I guarantee we have because Jacob always used to play
the little yeah, but he.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Would play that when it would come up, not when
we spent eight minutes on it.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Well, you were the one who wanted to do the
story about beans. Where did you expect that was going
to go?
Speaker 5 (13:13):
I thought it would be a nice story that we
can talk about with Deborah Childish about oh now it's
my fault.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
No.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
I thought it was a nice story we could talk
about with you, and we had nice memories of family,
three bean salads and things before you. Gary let it
digress into the world of farts like an eight year old.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
I allowed it to digress to.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
All right, let's pull it together because we're going to
go to Washington when we come back to get the
latest on all of the fallout from Matt Gates withdrawing
his name from the nomination for Attorney General because of
underage girls.
Speaker 10 (13:49):
Good morning, guys.
Speaker 11 (13:50):
You guys are killing us out here talking about all
the farting, you.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
Know, in the office when we'd have to get up
and we'd walk around to do what Gary was saying.
Speaker 11 (14:01):
We used to call that crop dusting, so be getting samebody.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Getting up and just kind of moving around.
Speaker 11 (14:08):
That's probably what they're doing.
Speaker 10 (14:09):
Okay, love your show.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
But it's been uh went ty.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Four no, twenty one years since I heard that term.
Very first person I ever heard use that term was
a former Seattle Mariner Jay Buner.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Oh, I've heard that before.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
The good thing about this place now that we're down
to about six employees is you can start all.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
You want out there. We're not going to get anywhere
near it.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah, deb feel free to.
Speaker 9 (14:40):
Yeah, but I'm in a small room, and if somebody
comes in. If I did that, that's so embarrassing. It's
obvious that it was me.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yeah, right, crack the door.
Speaker 9 (14:47):
Well, I'm just going to hold it in if I Fortunately,
I'm okay today.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
You know, Amy King does the majority of her shift
with the door open.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Maybe there's something to that.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Northern California right now, seventeen thousand people without power in
parts of northern California, just about three hundred thousand without
power in Washington State. As this storm rolls through, most
of the very heavy rain up in northern California as
parts of San Francisco North and there were some reports
that we could see as much as twelve to sixteen
(15:21):
inches of rain by tomorrow morning.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
From this storm, the.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Massive news today, we thought it was going to happen
sooner rather than later, But former Republican Representative Matt Gates
announced he is withdrawing his name from consideration to be
Trump's ag. He wrote in a post on X I
had excellent meetings with the senators yesterday.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
That's a lie. That's a tadidyl right there.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
It did not go well yesterdayn Capitol Hill, which precipitated
the decision today. Joining us now from Washington, Will Staken,
ABC News National politics reporter.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Will what's going on?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (15:58):
Nothing, just some gigantic news today.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yeah, the simple stuff.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
This was, like Shannon reference, We have both believed that
this was going to end somehow, that it was never
really even going to get to an actual confirmation hearing.
Does the timing of this surprise you at all?
Speaker 11 (16:19):
I guess that I'm a little surprised this early. I
had also my doubts that this would ever get to
a confirmation hearing. Well, you know, just from reporting on
the story for years regarding Congressman former Congressman Gates, it
did not seem like he wanted any of these details
out there, let alone a nationally televised hearing where that
(16:42):
would be front and center. So I kind of always
assumed it was either a recess appointment or bust. But
this is certainly I mean, a week after or I
don't even know if it's less than a week is
pretty quick work.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
So the story this afternoon that has emerged is that twelve.
The narrative initially was that Matt Gates had sex with
this underage girl at the time, found out she was underage,
and then did not have any more interactions with her
until after she was eighteen. The story that emerged this
afternoon was that CNN made a call to Gates for
comment about a second alleged incident that happened with this
(17:16):
girl while she was still under eighteen.
Speaker 11 (17:21):
Right, I don't know what's so, I think clear up
a couple of things. He's always been alleged to have
done it twice. That is what the miner, the woman
who was a minor has testified to the House Ethics Committee.
But the timeline is he had sex with her once
(17:45):
she was seventeen, and when he found out he stopped.
So the two times were terms of the testimony is
before he found out and then he did once she
turned eighteen. According to testimony, they did start meeting up again.
But so I think that's the timeline that at least
has been told to Ethics and the Justice Department.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
What are the chances we ever see the official ethics
report come out of the House.
Speaker 11 (18:14):
So I would say slim at this point, at least
in a formal way. I think they were slim before
if they were ever going to be formally released. I
don't think there's much appetite on the Republican side to
release it even before he was true, and now I
think there's probably not even going to be a lot
of appatite for Democrats. I mean, you know, what would
be the precedent for releasing this now that he is
(18:37):
solely a private citizen. Now, could it leak?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Certainly?
Speaker 11 (18:42):
I know. I do know that more people have it
in their hand than had it before he was Attorney general,
So it could certainly still leak. I think that might
be the best chance that I'd ever seen the light
of day.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Do we have any names that have surfaced about possible
second choices, third choices, fourth choices for Trump for this post.
Speaker 11 (19:03):
I haven't seen any. It just happened earlier today, So
I haven't seen any names that have come up. I
think the one name that I have heard and is
maybe potentially a little obvious, is who President elect Trump
picked for his deputy attorney general, which is his actual
criminal defense attorney, Todd Blanche, who represented him in the
New York trial. He you know, he was a I
(19:26):
would view him as a night and day candidate to
Congressman Gates. Todd Blanche has extensive experience as a prosecutor
and also, like I said, defended Donald Trump in the
New York trials. So I think people are going to
look to him. Whether or not he wants to do that,
I think is a is a question whether or not
that's you know, is President elect Trump going to want
(19:48):
to come back with an equally fiery names as might
get Matt Gates. That that seems like more.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
His m O.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
The other.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Nominee that is dealing with some of these shoes is
also Pete Hegseth nominated to be Secretary of Defense. Does
this make it easier for Republicans to push him out?
I mean, if you want to make the argument that
Matt Gates was pushed out at least by Center Republicans
who already said they weren't going to vote for him,
(20:17):
maybe they coalesce around getting a new Secretary of Defense
nominee as well.
Speaker 11 (20:24):
I mean you could view it as like, you know,
once the kind of the floodgates open, you got one
person who has already withdrawn, it wouldn't really be that
far fretch for someone else to withdraw. So I think
that's right. I think we'll have to see how that
plays out. I think his circumstances are a little different
than Congressman Gates because so much, you know, just from
(20:47):
our reporting, there is so much information that is out
there because he has been investigated, you know, twice now,
So I think just the drip of what is out
there was obviously a little too much for the trunk
team and obviously for Matt Gets himself. So that's been
a little different for HEGSEF. But I mean it's definitely
(21:07):
whatn't wouldn't surprise me if that's if that happened at
some point.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Well, appreciate your time, thank you, thank you. It's time
for strange science. It's a live s It's like weird science,
but strange. I just thought I felt a little earthquake.
(21:32):
But was that just you? Is that I know what
goes on over there now?
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Scientists are rejoicing over the recent discovery of the first
mummified saber tooth cub in the history of paleontology cub huh,
a frozen mummy cub in northeast Russia. The mummy was
covered in short, thick, soft, dark brown fur, featured a
well preserved head, the front part of the body incomplete,
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pelvic bones, femur bones, and shin bones.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Something maybe got to it, chop, chomp, chop before it froze.
I mean, if that's an actual picture of what they
have left, that's a lot. That's a lot. That's a
really good, well preserved specimen.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Do you want to know how old that cub is?
Thirty five to thirty seven thousand years old?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Oh, I was gonna say, like six eight months.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
From the ice age. Well, no, you know what I mean.
Don't be ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
They said.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
It's got the unusually shaped muzzle of sabertoothed tiger, the
large mouth, small ears, massive neck, longer fore limbs, the
dark coat. Also two rows of whiskers on the upper lip,
and the elongated hair that comes from the corners of
the mouth. There is a late story that just came
in a short time ago. Science wise, a byproduct of
(22:55):
a chemical used to disinfect tap water in about a
third of the United States finally been identified. Now we
know that they add chloramines, which is the mixture of
chlorine ammonia basically to municipal water supplies to kill bacteria
and prevent water borne illnesses. Way back in the seventies,
they said, you know what, the chlorine that we add
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to our water supply does kill things, but when it
reacts with organic compounds like decaying plant material, it creates
what they referred to as disinfection by products. There was
a concern that some of those contaminants have been linked
to cancer's, miscarriages and things like that. They're regulated by
the EPA now, which limits their concentration in water supplies.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Chloro chloramination.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
Chloramination provides an alternative way to disinfect water, but it
creates byproducts of its own. So at this point they
called this thing for decades an unidentified product. Now they
say they have figured out exactly what that product is.
They're calling it chloronitromide anion.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Hmmm.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
They're not saying it's dangerous necessarily because they honestly have
no idea. They said, we need to investigate it. We
don't know the toxicity. But it's been in our it's
been in our water for forty years, so they're saying
it's probably not as dangerous. If it was that dangerous,
we would know it right away. But they still have
to figure it out just how toxic this this thing is.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Archaeologists in Turkey say they've discovered an ancient amulet depicting
a biblical figure in a battle against the devil, King Solomon. Wow,
this was obviously a rare artifact, found near the ancient
city of Kabuk, dated to the fifth century.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
On this coin, you can see Solomon riding a horse
holding a while defeating the devil. Of course Solomon, everybody
claims him. Solomon shows up in Judaism, Solomon shows up in.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Christians says, like something that Luke Skywalker would have looked for, right, No, yeah,
like the Arc of the Covenant.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I'm not even looking at you.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Have we talked about the art Venant the box, big.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Luke Skywalker.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Yeah, Arc of the Covenant, Well, grown up, Luke Skywalker, Right,
same dude, what do you mean, same dude, same guy,
Indiana Jones.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
Is Luke Skywalker grown up.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Right beneath the alps of what? You're hurting my head?
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Aren't they the same?
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Dude?
Speaker 6 (25:55):
No?
Speaker 7 (25:56):
No, what do you I can't tell if you're being
SERI now, I just mean Luke Skywalker the actors played.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
He's played by Mark Hamill.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Oh, I was getting Harrison Ford confused. I thought he
was Luke Skywalker.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Was he in it? Was he somebody completely different? Huh?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
He was Captain Kirk.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
No, no, no, don't be stupid.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Oh me, don't be stupid me me.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Wait, in my head, I feel like it's Harrison Ford
with the light up sword.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
He didn't.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
He was never in. He was never in.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
He was in Star Wars, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Exactly doing what what was he.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
In piloting the Millennium Falcon along with Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:50):
See he was in it. I just got him confused
of who he was. What was his name in it?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Hans Solo?
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Hans Solo, Luke Skywalker very similar? What was their relationship like?
Were they friends? At least they didn't live in the
same area, did they? I'm legitimately asking you.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Speaking of I'm curious.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Was it like a different planet, or Harrison Ford was
just a fighter that that piloted the war vehicles.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
The Millennium Falcon right the cargo ship.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
There's a lot, there's a lot of layers to that movie. No,
you can't just tell me what their relationship was, if
at all. Did they have a relationship in the movie.
Did they have scenes together where I could yes, okay,
so it's understandable that I could be confused.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
No, you won't.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
Even look at me eye contact.
Speaker 10 (28:02):
It's okay, it's.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
Time to go now, Thank.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
The all powerful Baby Jesus, and I don't have to
hear you stumble through that anymore. Yeah, Raiders Lost Dark,
Ark of the Covenant, Luke Skywalker.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
He's fighting with his light swords.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
If you would just take the time to explain to
the plot, no, I could get it right and we
wouldn't have to do this.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Watch the movie. You don't even have to watch all
of them.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Watch one, which one, the first one that's the Raider.
Speaker 7 (28:35):
It's technically episode four, But just watch Star Wars.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Star Wars, the Raiders of the Last arc, A New Hope,
A New Hope. It's called star Wars.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
Okay, the original.
Speaker 7 (28:54):
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