January 2, 2025 • 33 mins
Gary and Shannon begin the second hour of the show with a recap of this years Rose Parade, some of the NCAA Bowl games and the LASD outage on New Years Eve. Gary and Shannon also talk about the lawsuits between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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demand on the iHeartRadio app. We got some unhinged mail
that I'm not even gonna.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hour on the air. Yes, you know how radio works, right,
we do a show here, Darren the red light, Yes,
you point the red light.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Don't worry, it's not like he
sells advertising. Oh we got our calendar, our bird calendar
from autumn. I love our bird calendar.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
That is a very well put together oka.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
At the western meadow lark as January's bird. It's a
member of the blackbird family, flashes a vibrant yellow breast
crossed by a distinctive black V shaped band. Or a
fun fact about the western meadow lark, because there's one
right here. They stick their closed bills into the ground
and then open them while they're.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Stuck in the dirt like a like a your posthold digger.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Sure. This is to reach insects that other birds can't
get to. This is called gaping. Do you want to
know what a group of meadow larks is called?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
A lemon? A podka? A couple stories that we are following.
The FBI now says that that pickup truck driver that
drove through New Orleans Bourbon Street acted alone. Officials said
yesterday that they were looking for some additional suspects in
an attack that's being investigated as an attack of an
active terrorism but the Deputy Assistant Director of the counter
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Terrorism Division said evidence now shows that this guy acted alone.
There weren't other people who planted explosive devices that apparently
he did it by himself, went changed clothes and then
got into the truck and plowed through the crowd. Law
enforcement also said that the person who died in the
explosion of that Tesla cyber truck packed with explosives and
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fireworks outside of Las Vegas hotel was an active duty
Army soldier. Officials told the AP that they had identified
him as Matthew Levelsberger. The official spoke to the AP
on the condition of anonymity. Apparently they have been searching
his residence and other properties, apparently in Colorado.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Patrick Mahomes was not selected to the Pro Bowl. This
is for the first time since becoming the quarterback starting
quarterback in Kansas City in a second season. He is
a three time Super Bowl MVP, six time Pro Bowl
pick was not among the five chiefs chosen. Travis Kelcey
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made it for the tenth time. However, are people just
mad at at Patrick Mahomes or do they realize his
quarterback play has not been stellar.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
This year despite their records.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
He's had moments. But it's just kind of interesting, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Well. Tradition has states that on January first, you get
up and you watch the Rose Parade.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Right, I hate watch that thing, and I feel bad
about it because they're fellow broadcasters, but they're just awful.
They're so phony. They hate each other. It's obvious. I mean,
like I was just saying off the air, one of
the opening moments was Mark right, I can never get done.
I could not pick him out of a lineup. Is
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he an actor?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Always a TV guy? Oh? Where? I think he's on
like one of the entertainment shows, Entertainment and I.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Okay, so that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
That's why they would pair him with Lisa Gibbons.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, okay. One of the things that he said is, oh,
you're just the best partner ever to work with ever ever,
And she's like, well, you know, she's maybe that's too much.
And he's like, well, I just wanted to check that box.
And I mean that set the tone for how much
fakery exists in that booth.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Well it's and it's so it's a weird thing because
they they'll do obviously the national broadcast, there's you know
CBS at NBC and ABC, they they'll do their broadcast.
But then you've got the local channels that will do
a broadcast, and and the one on KTLA's that's kind
of the traditional one that you go to. That was
the one that was always Bob and Stephanie.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
And Chris Shauble looks like he actually loves doing the parade,
like he wants to be there. He loves it. He's
got excitement for it. He's great. The other two that
you know, they could be doing their taxes. They don't care.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And I don't know if it's just axitement of proximity.
I mean, Chris is right there. I think he called
a TV corner. He's on that corner where they got
to make that sharp turn. And sometimes they will do
a performance on one side of the of that intersection
and then they'll come around where all the TV boots
are and then they'll do another presentation in this section.
He's right there, so he gets to see all of this.
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He was interviewing the president from the University of Oregon.
Obviously they were in the Rose Bowl yesterday. Then it's
enormously wonderful achievement. It brings us off. Microphone doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
It is so frustrating a first season covering the Chargers
on the sideline, I had a microphone that consistently did
not work. They would to me, I would start talking.
I could tell I was not on the air. It
is so frustrating as a reporter for that to happen,
because a you want to do your job, and this
is an exciting job. It's the kt LA Rose Parade,
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and he's killing it and the microphone cuts out. So
he did a couple hits. I think that was the
third hit with that president. He also to interviewed the
Ohio state president as well. Cut out there, and then
they just didn't go to him because he didn't have
a working micro How does that happen? How do you
how do you have a broadcast at large and not
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have a working microphone with no interference down there where
you know he's going to be broadcasting. It's not like
he's going.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Rogue run a cable, run run a cable cable. I
know that what one hundred feet run one hundred foot table?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I started, I started losing my monusor texting rich Ramos,
our engineer here. I was like, what the hell is
this happened. I'm like, I'm so thankful for you and
always having a microphone for me that works, because.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
It is so frustrating. Here he is with the president
of the Ohio State University. You're pretty joining us.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Before we get into please.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Explain to the audience your military background, because it is,
if just depressive.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I was in the Navy for thirty eight years, retired
as a pike Piple animal flew up in nineteen different
aircraft carriers, over two thousand carrier landings.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
It's American record.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Very privileged to serve for that long. My last five years,
baby was leading the US Table Academy.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Also top guy the overmodulation.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Well that's the other part about it. Listen, Chris is
a loud guy, and I had the okay, so I
was doing my daughter's volleyball games for a while. I
remember that whole chapter in my life. Chris's kids went
to the same school, so Chris and I got to
know each other through that, and I would there were
times when I couldn't do it, and he would. And
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people were saying, could we turn his microphone down? Not
because he was not because they didn't like his enthusiasm.
It's that no, but he was there to turn it
down to the right level so you could still get
the enthusiasm without having the overmodulation.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Are you did you infiltrate Chris Jobble's microphone yesterday because
you were jealous that he outshown you at the volleyball games?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I did not. I did not. I love Chris. He's
such a great guy.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
He really seems like it. I don't know him, but.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
That personality, he is that nice and that excited about everything,
that happy. He's that happy.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
And him doing the intro for Jackson State was awesome
and it made the two in the booth sound even dumber. Sorry, God,
New Year's Same b Good Lord, I'm.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Awful it didn't go anywhere. That's really good. In a
couple of weeks, I actually have my baseball camp coming
up and they had a question for me, which was,
what do you want your walk up song to? Be,
and I don't know the full context. I'm not sure
when they're going to use it, or if they wait
until the last day, or if they're going to use
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it every time that I go up to bat. So
if you have a suggestion about what it should be,
let me know. We've got a couple of suggestions.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yes, And I think the booty song is a strong entry,
except for it might creep out some of the guys
that you'll be playing with right, like like you want
it's almost like you want them to look.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
At your booty, right And that's not what I'm going for.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
It's not what are you going for?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I don't know. That's why I'm That's why I'm I'm
open to suggestion because I had a list that I
put together when I saw this, and I thought, well,
some of these, some of these would be funny. Some
of them are traditional, like walk up songs where it's
like a heavy guitar riff or something like that for
the first ten or fifteen seconds, because it's not long.
You know, I'm not playing the whole song, so it's
got to hit hard right away.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
You could play the old KFI news What was that warrant?
Rat Rat round and round that might be fun as
kind of like a but again might get you fired
up to do a newscast.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I don't know if somebody is going to be then
I get it, you get it. I'm the only one
that's kind of.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
What your walk up song is for. It's to amp
yourself up, That's what it is. That's why guys get
to pick their own walk up songs, like what amps
you up? Like what makes you want to hit it
out of the park. One of the things you'll have
to keep in mind is you'll probably be going with
other guys that are in your age range, and we'll
be picking out similar songs.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yes, right, so you got to be a little esoteric.
You got a little esoteric, which is kind of why
I chose the ones that I think. I have five.
I have five that I chose that could be possibilities. Okay,
but I'm open to others. Are you going to share
those with us? Yes? I will share them with you
a little bit later. New organ go you first.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I was just gonna say. New Orleans is preparing to
reopen Bourbon Street to the public after that deadly truck
attack on New Year's Day. The governor there says there
would be an unprecedented law enforcement presence prior to the
Sugar Bowl that will be this afternoon. The he would
reopen Bourbon Street, he says, to the public at three
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thirty pm, which is twelve thirty hour time, a half
an hour before Georgia and Notre Dame are scheduled to
play that All state Sugar Bowl, which was postponed twenty
four hours because of that deadly truck attack that killed
at least fourteen people injured dozens more.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah, I don't know what. I don't know the exact
conversations that took place about deciding to postpone it. I
wasn't surprised that they did. I was surprised that they
only did it twenty four hours and the Attorney general
in the state Louisiana said, Hey, my idea was you
got to go at least Friday or Saturday. We need time,
And I don't know if it was the we need
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time to heal or we need time to prepare. Security wise,
it's already a humongous event, may not be the Super
Bowl in terms of the level of security that would
be required or would be given, especially help from federal agencies.
And things like that. But it's already a massive, massive event,
I mean New Orleans. On New Year's Eve they said
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it was one hundred percent staffing already because of the
you know what happened they previous to what happened with
the attack.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Right, They've called in resources too. The National Guard is
coming in. Correctional officers and members of other state law
enforcement divisions have been deployed to help the city with
security for the Sugar Bowl as well. So all hands
on deck and then some.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Ohio state did crush Oregon forty one to twenty one
in the Rose Bowl yesterday. They move on to the
CFP semi finals, of course, and then Texas took overtime,
two overtimes to beat the Sun Devils in what turned
out to be it was fun, a very fun gamer watch.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And to end on a pick like.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
That, well, a few hours before the ball dropped, the
computer dispatch system for the La County Sheriff's Department crashed
and we had to go back through the old fashioned
way of calling out one atom twelve, one atom twelve.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
All patrol car computers were nearly useless, and like you said,
the decks handled all the calls by radio. They first
learned about the problem around eight pm when deputies at
several stations were having trouble logging onto their patrol car
computers for something.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
For some reason, they said, it was not allowing personnel
to log on with the new year, which made it inoperable.
It's not cleared out how long they said that it
was going to take to fix the problem. But deputies
and dispatchers are doing everything old school radio's patrol car computers.
One deputy said early yesterday, it's our own little Y
two K.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I wonder if there I read a couple of things
on Twitter over the weekend about different computer systems malfunctioning
to roll over to twenty twenty five, and I thought, wow,
this is very y two K. But y two K
nothing happened. Everyone expected something to happen. It did not happen.
Very minor things that happened. There was a what was it?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
There was a Chinese hack of the Treasury Department that
took place while we were out, and it was one
of those things where this is minor. You know, this
is a potential minor thing compared to what happens when
the Department of Treasury has its computers infiltrated by a
Chinese sponsored government group. They said that there was some
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concern of course dealing with the Rose Bowl football game,
rose parade, etc. And of course the law enforcement and
specifically the Sheriff's participation in security around those things. And
they said that they're definitely behind on some technology. It's
an antiquated system, and we have recognized that for some time.
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This was an issue not just under Sheriff Luna who
was in the Rose Parade, but it was also under
former Sheriff Vinueva as well. He posted a letter to
the Board of supervisors in twenty twenty two. He said
that he wanted funding for a new computer aided dispatch system,
saying the existing system was so old that it couldn't
comply with the data collection requirements. They said that we
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have now officially officially issued a request for proposals to
acquire a new modernized centralized CAD system that will greatly
enhance the capabilities the union. Of course, this said, this
is a proof that we need more money from the
county specifically and from other agencies to make sure that
we stay up to date on that kind of a
kind of information.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
So what are some of your ideas.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Okay, so my ideas, well, let me see if i'll
play them so that you have an idea about them,
because I've got some. I've got some ideas, and I
think I think they're good ones. But again, I'm not
so in love with them that I'm not willing to
listen to other options. Okay, Now again, this is a
walk up song, which ones.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
This is for adult fantasy camp.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
That that one, that one, that one.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I should say, adult fantasy baseball camp.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I was trying to explain this to Richie today and
I said, f see camp and his eyes lit up,
and I had to clarify exactly what I meant by that.
So I mean because it's a g it's literally g right,
a little out of character for me.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Yeah, I don't know if you can pull that one off.
Do you want me to be honest? Yes, Okay, I'll
sugarcoat things all right.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
So that's it's good.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I like it. I like a hook, right, I just
think it's.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Just on a little higher energy.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Okay, a little macklemore. I like that for you.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I don't like him politically, but he's a Seahawks fan too. Yeah,
there's that.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
That's a problem that I don't get over that. I'm
gonna have to beta that one.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Okay, you get into a little bit more. Uh, I
guess you'd say, well, this goes back a few years. Hell,
I wish I was.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I like that fun good. I like that.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
That's Gilo money and and good good, stronger guitar lick
at the beginning.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
No, I like this song, but not for a walk
up song. It doesn't make me want to hit the
ball out of the park. It makes me want to
step into a pitch a little bit.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
And this was probably the most esoteric choice on the list,
Ban and Connecting.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
And there was single one in my brain is Electra
like that?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Just like the rest Jack White singing Elizaretto.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah, just that one again doesn't get the blood pump in.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Okay. Sometimes, So out of those you have said.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Maclamore, potentially, No, you said not one Snoop, I love,
I wish, but that one's my front runner. But like you,
I'm not in love with it to the point where
I'm old on it. It's just an option.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I was thinking, like Spice Up your Life by the
Spice Girl, Ooh.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I love that? Or what or what about shout out
to Matt Maybe Senaia Twain Let's go.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Girls saw her on New Year's Eve. Looked like she
could care less about what she was doing, couldn't care
less about what she was doing, really so from her
residency in Vegas. They did part of I don't remember
which channel I was on, but.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Careful say something like that around here.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I'm just saying. And she still got it, but it
did not look like she was in it. Blake Lively
and Justin Baldoni. This is not about these two high
profile people. It's about the dirty ass nature of pr
firms in Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Also, it's a warning to not talk about a woman's
weight ever, they will destroy you. They will destroy you.
I think that's what this is.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
The explosive devices and to areas. But Christopher Riah, Deputy
Assistant director of FBI's counter Terrorism Division, said that now
the evidence shows that this guy was solely responsible for
the attack. He had professed his allegiance to Isis, although
they're not saying exactly when they believe or how he
was radicalized to take on this act of terror.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
What do you think is the most on time airline
in the world.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
In the world something from Greenland, something from Greenland. I
don't know. Aero Mexico okay.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Most on time airline in the world, the US airline
that fared the best Delta, but Aero Mexico slightly ahead
of the Saudi Arabian airlines Saudia and Atlanta based Delta.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
You know, airlines build in certain delays of you know,
they'll say the flight.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
For the Sacramento Southwest is classic for this.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, they'll they'll tell you it'll take you an hour
and twenty minutes minutes from sacram out of a Burbank.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
My sister flew Sacramento to Burbank early satter day morning.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Flight time forty three minutes.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
First of all, they took off seven minutes early. Wow.
And the flight time was early. They landed thirty two
minutes early. Wow. Now I'm watched. I'm sitting at home.
I'm gonna come pick her up. And here in Burbank,
I'm sitting at home. I can time it out, right,
it's about twenty five minutes to get to the airport.
If I time it out so that I leave five minutes,
or if I leave twenty minutes before they land, it's perfect.
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She's just going to walk off the airplane, get right
in the car, and off we go. Well, she lands,
and it was early, so I had back timed and
I had to get everything right. I'm doing the math
in my head, and she says, but don't rush because
our gate's not ready yet. They sat on the tarmac
in Burbank for twenty five minutes.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
That's what happened to wait for the gate. That happened
to me flying back from Sacramento when whenever that was
right a few days before Christmas?
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Did you take the early flight? Is it because the
early flight later early flight?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
But it wasn't that, or it wasn't like the first
flight out or anything like that. But I sat on
the tarmac for forty five minutes waiting for the gate.
And that's infuriating when you have to pee right, And
so I get up because I'm like.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I got a pee, Like, I go ahead, try and
stop me.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, And one of the flight attendts like she's like, ma'am,
we can't take off if you're in the lavatory. And
I'm like, we're not taking off. We landed here, Well.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I guess we're not taking off.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
I was like, I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
All right, so let's let's let's go through this whole
story about Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. This is a
story about the movie It Ends with Us, which came
out over the summer. I never saw it. It's on
Netflix now. I'm sure it's getting a renovated you know,
look at at what it is.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
It was based off a very popular book by a
very popular author, and what some of the early high
that it got, or the publicity that it got, I
should say, was that it was being kind of sold
or publicized as this romantic comedy, when in fact it's
a movie about domestic violence.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
The trailers definitely made it seem very lighthearted, and I
remember when you saw it and you were like, that
is not what I signed up for. At least that's
not what the expectation was for a lot of people.
So the story came out when it made it into
movie theaters back in the summer. There were stories of
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kind of rumors, kind of hints about how Blake Lively
wasn't easy to work with and she had these sort
of diva behaviors, and she threatened not to show up
to work some days, and she was throwing a wrench
into the production schedule and all of the stuff that
was going on, that she wasn't going to be involved
with the pre release press tour that all movies now have.
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Well come to find out that she claims all of
those stories were part of a PR campaign against her
because she had threatened to sue Justin Baldoni, who not
only was one of the stars of the show, he's
also the director of it and a producer. That they
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thought she was going to come out and either sue
him or at least bad mouth him, so they fired
the peremptory shot and went after her with this low
level but wildly successful campaign that Blake Lively is a bee.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
She has all of the text messages too, that went
back and forth between Justin's team and the movie's publicity
firm and the operatives that exist there. How she got
those text messages is wild. Somebody had to roll.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
It was the head of the PR firm that was
doing his bidding, But now the allegation, at least from
the head of the PR firm is it wasn't our firm.
The individuals that were working for us.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Well, she drops this massive lawsuit claiming that her co
star Justin Baldoni showed nude videos or images of women
to Blake, that he discussed alleged pass porn addictions or
sexual conquests, that this was kind of the way it
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was on the set, with him being wildly inappropriate.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
One of the things was that she had texted him
a message something along the lines of I'm going to
be in my trailer if you want to run lines
because we got new dialogue, and that he would burst
into her trailer while she was breastfeeding or while she
was pumping breast milk or something like that, and that
he would ogle her while she was doing that. Now,
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in the New York Times write up about this, it
said that he was sexualizing this thing about her breastfeeding
and making comments about it when his countersuit. By the way,
he sued the New York Times on New Year's Eve
and said that everything that article was only taken from
her perspective and he was never allowed the response, which was,
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I was put in this position of those are the
only times that she's available is when she's breastfeeding. I
didn't This was not a sexual thing. It's just that's
what was happening when we were running live.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
I've seen breastfeeding and breast pumping numerous times. I know
I'm not a breast person. That's not my thing, but
it's never been a sexual thing whatsoever. In fact, these
not a dude. I'm not a dude. Now.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I'm not saying all dudes, but I can understand why
a dude would see that and.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Be like, I think that's like the not the least. Yes, yes,
and I know it's beautiful and it's giving life and
food and nourishment to your baby. I get it, but
it's not sexy.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Well, I saw one opinion piece about this today and
kind of looking at how what's going on is more
an indicator of this is like the last vestiges of
the Me too movement, where we've gone beyond the actual
allegations between a woman and what she says this man did,
and now we're getting into the gross, swampy, nasty work
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of publicists. Uh yeah, that's uh so.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Mike Johnson doesn't have the votes needed to remain in
that role they're saying.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
It does as of right. As of right now, the
only Republican who has come out and definitively said that
he would not vote for Johnson. As speaker again is
Thomas Massey out of Kentucky. Others have said that they
doubt that they would, but they're not being specific because
that's how you bargain in Washington, DC. You get what
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you want by you dangle your put your yes vote
over someone's head, and in that case, that's going to
But Trump has endorsed Mike Johnson. He doesn't want to
change horses mid stream, and Mike Johnson's done for I guess,
for the President the lex purposes. So he's done a
fine job so far and has been a Trump acolyte
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for the for the most part. So we'll see. I mean,
I'm on pins and needles.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Couple things. If you miss any part of the show,
you can check out our podcast. We do a live
podcast every day.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Every day, but tell your kids.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
If you're not around when we're doing our live podcast,
you can I don't know, download the full podcast after
the show on the iHeartRadio app. Also, we are asking
for suggestions for Gary's Adult Fantasy Baseball camp walk up song.
Every player has a song they walk up to the
plate to get them all fired up. Some guys go
with funny, some guys go with what amps them up.
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Sometimes it is a team inside joke, like I think
it was a Miley Cyrus song the Dodgers had a
handful of years ago, Won't Stop, We Won't Stop.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Some of them are goofy, like Will Smith's walk up
song was by Will Smith. It's a different other Will Smith.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
It can be funny or it can be serious.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
And I'm not looking for the one. You made a
great point that some of those songs, like the World's
great at one hundred greatest walk up songs, they're all
gonna be taking, they're gonna be they're gonna be used,
and that I don't need that.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I don't need any four guys all using enter Sandman Metallica.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
That's what Which is one that I have? You know
some people have already suggested, So I'm looking for something
that's I don't know that I not even just me
uh that that would have fun.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I kind of like the whole Metallica. I see more
of a ride the lightning situation, maybe fade to black.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Let me also point out, because it's a San Francisco
giants just gonna say that.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
So if we get a Bay Area band like Metallica,
that'd be cool.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Yeah, or what about starship Jeffers star No, that's too deep.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
We can build this this world together. What is it
We've built this city. Wait, nothing's going to stop us now.
Don't they sing that one as well? Yes, that's what
I was thinking. That sounds awful. I love that idea.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
No, nothing, because again it's the same thing you're talking
like forty fifty sixty year old guys.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
You know that right. I will not let you use
you're going to do.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I'm going to do Sarah the first slow down song
that anyway, we'll take those suggestions. We're talking about this.
This and this was the term Purduccan of lawsuits between
Justin Baldoni and Blake Live, Too many, unnecessary, all of that,
she started getting a bad rep in the summer when
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the movie was coming out. She alleges that that was
because of a PR campaign put together by his people.
He at least has some amount of separation from that
because the allegations that he directed his PR people to
do this, there's very little evidence. There are some messages
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that went back and forth between the PR people themselves,
but not with Justin Baldoni specifically. They said the guy
was an a hole, he's showing her naked pictures of women,
talked about his past porn addiction. Here's one of the
things that I saw the allegation as well. He invited
people onto the set the day that they were doing
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her sex scenes, and he cast his buddy. Haven't seen
the movie, so I don't know the context of it,
but he cast his buddy as the obgyn during a
birthing scene, which means in the production of it, he
is all up in her business when they're shooting the scene. Now,
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she claims, among other things, that this guy was just
an a hole and was mean and was vindictive. He
in a countersuit to The New York Times, he said
he would also sue her, but said that everything that
they did in the New York Times article was completely wrong.
She then filed not only the civil rights the civil
suit she has filed now a federal court in New
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York against him.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
This all started by the bye. One of the first
things I heard about this fight between the two of
them was the fact, allegedly that he asked her personal
trainer how much she weighed. Asked Blake Lively's personal trainer
how much she weighed because he didn't want to hurt
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his back in a scene where he's lifting her up.
That was the first sign of trouble that anybody heard about.
And then things just went to hell for him because
how embarrassing is that. One of the things that sticks
out about this film. If you were a Gossip Girl
fan or whatever, and you saw Blake Lively as a
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teenager essentially, and now she's a woman. She looks like
a woman. She looks like a normal weight woman, and
it's very different from the girl you're used to seeing
on Gossip Girl fifteen years ago. It's not that she's fat,
she's just a woman. Now. She's a mom. She has
a woman's body, and I think that a lot of
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people when they saw this were like, oh, that's she's
put on weight. No, she doesn't put on weight. She's
just a real woman now, as opposed to the girl
that you saw mom of three kids. I think, yeah,
something like that with them.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
One of her one of her family members, Bart Johnson,
actually is a brother in law. I believe he said
that of Justin Baldoni. He's a fraud. He puts on
the costume of a hero man bun and all. He
used all the trendy catchphrases and buzzwords, but none of
it is genuine. Everyone fell for it for years. Rewatch
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his videos with more critical eye and watch him compliment
and praise himself with faux humility and self deprecation water performance.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
He seemed he came across like an a hole when
I watched that movie, which is sometimes you can kind
of get who somebody really is despite them acting. I mean,
and not just because he plays an abuser in the movie.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
And Jenny Slat played the sister I guess in the movie,
played Baldoni's sister in the movie Opens the Shop or
something like that. With her, Yeah, she said, I voiced
my support. She takes action against those reported to have
planned and carried out an attack on her reputation. Blake
is a leader, a loyal friend, and a trusted source
of emotional support for me and so many who know
and love her. As I mentioned the text messages, those
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damning text messages that Blake Lively's lawyers got a hold
of came from the head of the PR firm. The
head of the PR firm is not named in the lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Someone calling you people, no, oh yeah, oh, it's a
scam A scam.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yeah. Oh they hung up before I had a chance
to out them on the air.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Oh, that would have been fun.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Would have been fun. We'll do a quick swamp what
you know what, let's make a new Year's resolution, yes politics, Yes,
less politics, and we can eat up one of the
swamps Watch segments with some of our walk up song stories. Yeah, okay,
we'll do that. We'll do one section of swamp Watch. Yes.
By the way, for those who have been asking there
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is a new swamp Watch introduction, there is not yet.
Oh I'm saying when the new president is inaugurated, that
will be the day that we tell you and play
for you the new introduction.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
So we're not just going to go back to the
old swamp Watch when he was president the first time.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
No, oh okay, that would be my route less work.
That's lazy, and.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I get it. I get it. You've been listening to
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hour on the air. Yes, you know how radio works, right,
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Don't worry, it's not like he
sells advertising. Oh we got our calendar, our bird calendar
from autumn. I love our bird calendar.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
That is a very well put together oka.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
At the western meadow lark as January's bird. It's a
member of the blackbird family, flashes a vibrant yellow breast
crossed by a distinctive black V shaped band. Or a
fun fact about the western meadow lark, because there's one
right here. They stick their closed bills into the ground
and then open them while they're.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Stuck in the dirt like a like a your posthold digger.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Sure. This is to reach insects that other birds can't
get to. This is called gaping. Do you want to
know what a group of meadow larks is called?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
A lemon? A podka? A couple stories that we are following.
The FBI now says that that pickup truck driver that
drove through New Orleans Bourbon Street acted alone. Officials said
yesterday that they were looking for some additional suspects in
an attack that's being investigated as an attack of an
active terrorism but the Deputy Assistant Director of the counter
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Terrorism Division said evidence now shows that this guy acted alone.
There weren't other people who planted explosive devices that apparently
he did it by himself, went changed clothes and then
got into the truck and plowed through the crowd. Law
enforcement also said that the person who died in the
explosion of that Tesla cyber truck packed with explosives and
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fireworks outside of Las Vegas hotel was an active duty
Army soldier. Officials told the AP that they had identified
him as Matthew Levelsberger. The official spoke to the AP
on the condition of anonymity. Apparently they have been searching
his residence and other properties, apparently in Colorado.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Patrick Mahomes was not selected to the Pro Bowl. This
is for the first time since becoming the quarterback starting
quarterback in Kansas City in a second season. He is
a three time Super Bowl MVP, six time Pro Bowl
pick was not among the five chiefs chosen. Travis Kelcey
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made it for the tenth time. However, are people just
mad at at Patrick Mahomes or do they realize his
quarterback play has not been stellar.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
This year despite their records.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
He's had moments. But it's just kind of interesting, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Well. Tradition has states that on January first, you get
up and you watch the Rose Parade.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Right, I hate watch that thing, and I feel bad
about it because they're fellow broadcasters, but they're just awful.
They're so phony. They hate each other. It's obvious. I mean,
like I was just saying off the air, one of
the opening moments was Mark right, I can never get done.
I could not pick him out of a lineup. Is
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he an actor?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Always a TV guy? Oh? Where? I think he's on
like one of the entertainment shows, Entertainment and I.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Okay, so that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
That's why they would pair him with Lisa Gibbons.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, okay. One of the things that he said is, oh,
you're just the best partner ever to work with ever ever,
And she's like, well, you know, she's maybe that's too much.
And he's like, well, I just wanted to check that box.
And I mean that set the tone for how much
fakery exists in that booth.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Well it's and it's so it's a weird thing because
they they'll do obviously the national broadcast, there's you know
CBS at NBC and ABC, they they'll do their broadcast.
But then you've got the local channels that will do
a broadcast, and and the one on KTLA's that's kind
of the traditional one that you go to. That was
the one that was always Bob and Stephanie.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
And Chris Shauble looks like he actually loves doing the parade,
like he wants to be there. He loves it. He's
got excitement for it. He's great. The other two that
you know, they could be doing their taxes. They don't care.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And I don't know if it's just axitement of proximity.
I mean, Chris is right there. I think he called
a TV corner. He's on that corner where they got
to make that sharp turn. And sometimes they will do
a performance on one side of the of that intersection
and then they'll come around where all the TV boots
are and then they'll do another presentation in this section.
He's right there, so he gets to see all of this.
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He was interviewing the president from the University of Oregon.
Obviously they were in the Rose Bowl yesterday. Then it's
enormously wonderful achievement. It brings us off. Microphone doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
It is so frustrating a first season covering the Chargers
on the sideline, I had a microphone that consistently did
not work. They would to me, I would start talking.
I could tell I was not on the air. It
is so frustrating as a reporter for that to happen,
because a you want to do your job, and this
is an exciting job. It's the kt LA Rose Parade,
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and he's killing it and the microphone cuts out. So
he did a couple hits. I think that was the
third hit with that president. He also to interviewed the
Ohio state president as well. Cut out there, and then
they just didn't go to him because he didn't have
a working micro How does that happen? How do you
how do you have a broadcast at large and not
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have a working microphone with no interference down there where
you know he's going to be broadcasting. It's not like
he's going.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Rogue run a cable, run run a cable cable. I
know that what one hundred feet run one hundred foot table?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I started, I started losing my monusor texting rich Ramos,
our engineer here. I was like, what the hell is
this happened. I'm like, I'm so thankful for you and
always having a microphone for me that works, because.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
It is so frustrating. Here he is with the president
of the Ohio State University. You're pretty joining us.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Before we get into please.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Explain to the audience your military background, because it is,
if just depressive.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I was in the Navy for thirty eight years, retired
as a pike Piple animal flew up in nineteen different
aircraft carriers, over two thousand carrier landings.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
It's American record.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Very privileged to serve for that long. My last five years,
baby was leading the US Table Academy.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Also top guy the overmodulation.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Well that's the other part about it. Listen, Chris is
a loud guy, and I had the okay, so I
was doing my daughter's volleyball games for a while. I
remember that whole chapter in my life. Chris's kids went
to the same school, so Chris and I got to
know each other through that, and I would there were
times when I couldn't do it, and he would. And
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people were saying, could we turn his microphone down? Not
because he was not because they didn't like his enthusiasm.
It's that no, but he was there to turn it
down to the right level so you could still get
the enthusiasm without having the overmodulation.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Are you did you infiltrate Chris Jobble's microphone yesterday because
you were jealous that he outshown you at the volleyball games?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I did not. I did not. I love Chris. He's
such a great guy.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
He really seems like it. I don't know him, but.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
That personality, he is that nice and that excited about everything,
that happy. He's that happy.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
And him doing the intro for Jackson State was awesome
and it made the two in the booth sound even dumber. Sorry, God,
New Year's Same b Good Lord, I'm.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Awful it didn't go anywhere. That's really good. In a
couple of weeks, I actually have my baseball camp coming
up and they had a question for me, which was,
what do you want your walk up song to? Be,
and I don't know the full context. I'm not sure
when they're going to use it, or if they wait
until the last day, or if they're going to use
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it every time that I go up to bat. So
if you have a suggestion about what it should be,
let me know. We've got a couple of suggestions.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yes, And I think the booty song is a strong entry,
except for it might creep out some of the guys
that you'll be playing with right, like like you want
it's almost like you want them to look.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
At your booty, right And that's not what I'm going for.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
It's not what are you going for?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I don't know. That's why I'm That's why I'm I'm
open to suggestion because I had a list that I
put together when I saw this, and I thought, well,
some of these, some of these would be funny. Some
of them are traditional, like walk up songs where it's
like a heavy guitar riff or something like that for
the first ten or fifteen seconds, because it's not long.
You know, I'm not playing the whole song, so it's
got to hit hard right away.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
You could play the old KFI news What was that warrant?
Rat Rat round and round that might be fun as
kind of like a but again might get you fired
up to do a newscast.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I don't know if somebody is going to be then
I get it, you get it. I'm the only one
that's kind of.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
What your walk up song is for. It's to amp
yourself up, That's what it is. That's why guys get
to pick their own walk up songs, like what amps
you up? Like what makes you want to hit it
out of the park. One of the things you'll have
to keep in mind is you'll probably be going with
other guys that are in your age range, and we'll
be picking out similar songs.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yes, right, so you got to be a little esoteric.
You got a little esoteric, which is kind of why
I chose the ones that I think. I have five.
I have five that I chose that could be possibilities. Okay,
but I'm open to others. Are you going to share
those with us? Yes? I will share them with you
a little bit later. New organ go you first.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I was just gonna say. New Orleans is preparing to
reopen Bourbon Street to the public after that deadly truck
attack on New Year's Day. The governor there says there
would be an unprecedented law enforcement presence prior to the
Sugar Bowl that will be this afternoon. The he would
reopen Bourbon Street, he says, to the public at three
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thirty pm, which is twelve thirty hour time, a half
an hour before Georgia and Notre Dame are scheduled to
play that All state Sugar Bowl, which was postponed twenty
four hours because of that deadly truck attack that killed
at least fourteen people injured dozens more.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah, I don't know what. I don't know the exact
conversations that took place about deciding to postpone it. I
wasn't surprised that they did. I was surprised that they
only did it twenty four hours and the Attorney general
in the state Louisiana said, Hey, my idea was you
got to go at least Friday or Saturday. We need time,
And I don't know if it was the we need
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time to heal or we need time to prepare. Security wise,
it's already a humongous event, may not be the Super
Bowl in terms of the level of security that would
be required or would be given, especially help from federal agencies.
And things like that. But it's already a massive, massive event,
I mean New Orleans. On New Year's Eve they said
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it was one hundred percent staffing already because of the
you know what happened they previous to what happened with
the attack.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Right, They've called in resources too. The National Guard is
coming in. Correctional officers and members of other state law
enforcement divisions have been deployed to help the city with
security for the Sugar Bowl as well. So all hands
on deck and then some.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Ohio state did crush Oregon forty one to twenty one
in the Rose Bowl yesterday. They move on to the
CFP semi finals, of course, and then Texas took overtime,
two overtimes to beat the Sun Devils in what turned
out to be it was fun, a very fun gamer watch.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And to end on a pick like.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
That, well, a few hours before the ball dropped, the
computer dispatch system for the La County Sheriff's Department crashed
and we had to go back through the old fashioned
way of calling out one atom twelve, one atom twelve.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
All patrol car computers were nearly useless, and like you said,
the decks handled all the calls by radio. They first
learned about the problem around eight pm when deputies at
several stations were having trouble logging onto their patrol car
computers for something.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
For some reason, they said, it was not allowing personnel
to log on with the new year, which made it inoperable.
It's not cleared out how long they said that it
was going to take to fix the problem. But deputies
and dispatchers are doing everything old school radio's patrol car computers.
One deputy said early yesterday, it's our own little Y
two K.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I wonder if there I read a couple of things
on Twitter over the weekend about different computer systems malfunctioning
to roll over to twenty twenty five, and I thought, wow,
this is very y two K. But y two K
nothing happened. Everyone expected something to happen. It did not happen.
Very minor things that happened. There was a what was it?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
There was a Chinese hack of the Treasury Department that
took place while we were out, and it was one
of those things where this is minor. You know, this
is a potential minor thing compared to what happens when
the Department of Treasury has its computers infiltrated by a
Chinese sponsored government group. They said that there was some
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concern of course dealing with the Rose Bowl football game,
rose parade, etc. And of course the law enforcement and
specifically the Sheriff's participation in security around those things. And
they said that they're definitely behind on some technology. It's
an antiquated system, and we have recognized that for some time.
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This was an issue not just under Sheriff Luna who
was in the Rose Parade, but it was also under
former Sheriff Vinueva as well. He posted a letter to
the Board of supervisors in twenty twenty two. He said
that he wanted funding for a new computer aided dispatch system,
saying the existing system was so old that it couldn't
comply with the data collection requirements. They said that we
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have now officially officially issued a request for proposals to
acquire a new modernized centralized CAD system that will greatly
enhance the capabilities the union. Of course, this said, this
is a proof that we need more money from the
county specifically and from other agencies to make sure that
we stay up to date on that kind of a
kind of information.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
So what are some of your ideas.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Okay, so my ideas, well, let me see if i'll
play them so that you have an idea about them,
because I've got some. I've got some ideas, and I
think I think they're good ones. But again, I'm not
so in love with them that I'm not willing to
listen to other options. Okay, Now again, this is a
walk up song, which ones.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
This is for adult fantasy camp.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
That that one, that one, that one.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I should say, adult fantasy baseball camp.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I was trying to explain this to Richie today and
I said, f see camp and his eyes lit up,
and I had to clarify exactly what I meant by that.
So I mean because it's a g it's literally g right,
a little out of character for me.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Yeah, I don't know if you can pull that one off.
Do you want me to be honest? Yes, Okay, I'll
sugarcoat things all right.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
So that's it's good.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I like it. I like a hook, right, I just
think it's.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Just on a little higher energy.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Okay, a little macklemore. I like that for you.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I don't like him politically, but he's a Seahawks fan too. Yeah,
there's that.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
That's a problem that I don't get over that. I'm
gonna have to beta that one.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Okay, you get into a little bit more. Uh, I
guess you'd say, well, this goes back a few years. Hell,
I wish I was.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I like that fun good. I like that.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
That's Gilo money and and good good, stronger guitar lick
at the beginning.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
No, I like this song, but not for a walk
up song. It doesn't make me want to hit the
ball out of the park. It makes me want to
step into a pitch a little bit.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
And this was probably the most esoteric choice on the list,
Ban and Connecting.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
And there was single one in my brain is Electra
like that?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Just like the rest Jack White singing Elizaretto.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah, just that one again doesn't get the blood pump in.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Okay. Sometimes, So out of those you have said.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Maclamore, potentially, No, you said not one Snoop, I love,
I wish, but that one's my front runner. But like you,
I'm not in love with it to the point where
I'm old on it. It's just an option.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I was thinking, like Spice Up your Life by the
Spice Girl, Ooh.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I love that? Or what or what about shout out
to Matt Maybe Senaia Twain Let's go.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Girls saw her on New Year's Eve. Looked like she
could care less about what she was doing, couldn't care
less about what she was doing, really so from her
residency in Vegas. They did part of I don't remember
which channel I was on, but.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Careful say something like that around here.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I'm just saying. And she still got it, but it
did not look like she was in it. Blake Lively
and Justin Baldoni. This is not about these two high
profile people. It's about the dirty ass nature of pr
firms in Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Also, it's a warning to not talk about a woman's
weight ever, they will destroy you. They will destroy you.
I think that's what this is.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
The explosive devices and to areas. But Christopher Riah, Deputy
Assistant director of FBI's counter Terrorism Division, said that now
the evidence shows that this guy was solely responsible for
the attack. He had professed his allegiance to Isis, although
they're not saying exactly when they believe or how he
was radicalized to take on this act of terror.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
What do you think is the most on time airline
in the world.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
In the world something from Greenland, something from Greenland. I
don't know. Aero Mexico okay.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Most on time airline in the world, the US airline
that fared the best Delta, but Aero Mexico slightly ahead
of the Saudi Arabian airlines Saudia and Atlanta based Delta.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
You know, airlines build in certain delays of you know,
they'll say the flight.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
For the Sacramento Southwest is classic for this.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, they'll they'll tell you it'll take you an hour
and twenty minutes minutes from sacram out of a Burbank.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
My sister flew Sacramento to Burbank early satter day morning.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Flight time forty three minutes.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
First of all, they took off seven minutes early. Wow.
And the flight time was early. They landed thirty two
minutes early. Wow. Now I'm watched. I'm sitting at home.
I'm gonna come pick her up. And here in Burbank,
I'm sitting at home. I can time it out, right,
it's about twenty five minutes to get to the airport.
If I time it out so that I leave five minutes,
or if I leave twenty minutes before they land, it's perfect.
(19:32):
She's just going to walk off the airplane, get right
in the car, and off we go. Well, she lands,
and it was early, so I had back timed and
I had to get everything right. I'm doing the math
in my head, and she says, but don't rush because
our gate's not ready yet. They sat on the tarmac
in Burbank for twenty five minutes.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
That's what happened to wait for the gate. That happened
to me flying back from Sacramento when whenever that was
right a few days before Christmas?
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Did you take the early flight? Is it because the
early flight later early flight?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
But it wasn't that, or it wasn't like the first
flight out or anything like that. But I sat on
the tarmac for forty five minutes waiting for the gate.
And that's infuriating when you have to pee right, And
so I get up because I'm like.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I got a pee, Like, I go ahead, try and
stop me.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, And one of the flight attendts like she's like, ma'am,
we can't take off if you're in the lavatory. And
I'm like, we're not taking off. We landed here, Well.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I guess we're not taking off.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
I was like, I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
All right, so let's let's let's go through this whole
story about Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. This is a
story about the movie It Ends with Us, which came
out over the summer. I never saw it. It's on
Netflix now. I'm sure it's getting a renovated you know,
look at at what it is.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
It was based off a very popular book by a
very popular author, and what some of the early high
that it got, or the publicity that it got, I
should say, was that it was being kind of sold
or publicized as this romantic comedy, when in fact it's
a movie about domestic violence.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
The trailers definitely made it seem very lighthearted, and I
remember when you saw it and you were like, that
is not what I signed up for. At least that's
not what the expectation was for a lot of people.
So the story came out when it made it into
movie theaters back in the summer. There were stories of
(21:31):
kind of rumors, kind of hints about how Blake Lively
wasn't easy to work with and she had these sort
of diva behaviors, and she threatened not to show up
to work some days, and she was throwing a wrench
into the production schedule and all of the stuff that
was going on, that she wasn't going to be involved
with the pre release press tour that all movies now have.
(21:57):
Well come to find out that she claims all of
those stories were part of a PR campaign against her
because she had threatened to sue Justin Baldoni, who not
only was one of the stars of the show, he's
also the director of it and a producer. That they
(22:19):
thought she was going to come out and either sue
him or at least bad mouth him, so they fired
the peremptory shot and went after her with this low
level but wildly successful campaign that Blake Lively is a bee.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
She has all of the text messages too, that went
back and forth between Justin's team and the movie's publicity
firm and the operatives that exist there. How she got
those text messages is wild. Somebody had to roll.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
It was the head of the PR firm that was
doing his bidding, But now the allegation, at least from
the head of the PR firm is it wasn't our firm.
The individuals that were working for us.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Well, she drops this massive lawsuit claiming that her co
star Justin Baldoni showed nude videos or images of women
to Blake, that he discussed alleged pass porn addictions or
sexual conquests, that this was kind of the way it
(23:22):
was on the set, with him being wildly inappropriate.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
One of the things was that she had texted him
a message something along the lines of I'm going to
be in my trailer if you want to run lines
because we got new dialogue, and that he would burst
into her trailer while she was breastfeeding or while she
was pumping breast milk or something like that, and that
he would ogle her while she was doing that. Now,
(23:48):
in the New York Times write up about this, it
said that he was sexualizing this thing about her breastfeeding
and making comments about it when his countersuit. By the way,
he sued the New York Times on New Year's Eve
and said that everything that article was only taken from
her perspective and he was never allowed the response, which was,
(24:11):
I was put in this position of those are the
only times that she's available is when she's breastfeeding. I
didn't This was not a sexual thing. It's just that's
what was happening when we were running live.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
I've seen breastfeeding and breast pumping numerous times. I know
I'm not a breast person. That's not my thing, but
it's never been a sexual thing whatsoever. In fact, these
not a dude. I'm not a dude. Now.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I'm not saying all dudes, but I can understand why
a dude would see that and.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Be like, I think that's like the not the least. Yes, yes,
and I know it's beautiful and it's giving life and
food and nourishment to your baby. I get it, but
it's not sexy.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Well, I saw one opinion piece about this today and
kind of looking at how what's going on is more
an indicator of this is like the last vestiges of
the Me too movement, where we've gone beyond the actual
allegations between a woman and what she says this man did,
and now we're getting into the gross, swampy, nasty work
(25:15):
of publicists. Uh yeah, that's uh so.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Mike Johnson doesn't have the votes needed to remain in
that role they're saying.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
It does as of right. As of right now, the
only Republican who has come out and definitively said that
he would not vote for Johnson. As speaker again is
Thomas Massey out of Kentucky. Others have said that they
doubt that they would, but they're not being specific because
that's how you bargain in Washington, DC. You get what
(25:44):
you want by you dangle your put your yes vote
over someone's head, and in that case, that's going to
But Trump has endorsed Mike Johnson. He doesn't want to
change horses mid stream, and Mike Johnson's done for I guess,
for the President the lex purposes. So he's done a
fine job so far and has been a Trump acolyte
(26:05):
for the for the most part. So we'll see. I mean,
I'm on pins and needles.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Couple things. If you miss any part of the show,
you can check out our podcast. We do a live
podcast every day.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Every day, but tell your kids.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
If you're not around when we're doing our live podcast,
you can I don't know, download the full podcast after
the show on the iHeartRadio app. Also, we are asking
for suggestions for Gary's Adult Fantasy Baseball camp walk up song.
Every player has a song they walk up to the
plate to get them all fired up. Some guys go
with funny, some guys go with what amps them up.
(26:44):
Sometimes it is a team inside joke, like I think
it was a Miley Cyrus song the Dodgers had a
handful of years ago, Won't Stop, We Won't Stop.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Some of them are goofy, like Will Smith's walk up
song was by Will Smith. It's a different other Will Smith.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
It can be funny or it can be serious.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
And I'm not looking for the one. You made a
great point that some of those songs, like the World's
great at one hundred greatest walk up songs, they're all
gonna be taking, they're gonna be they're gonna be used,
and that I don't need that.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I don't need any four guys all using enter Sandman Metallica.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
That's what Which is one that I have? You know
some people have already suggested, So I'm looking for something
that's I don't know that I not even just me
uh that that would have fun.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I kind of like the whole Metallica. I see more
of a ride the lightning situation, maybe fade to black.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Let me also point out, because it's a San Francisco
giants just gonna say that.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
So if we get a Bay Area band like Metallica,
that'd be cool.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Yeah, or what about starship Jeffers star No, that's too deep.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
We can build this this world together. What is it
We've built this city. Wait, nothing's going to stop us now.
Don't they sing that one as well? Yes, that's what
I was thinking. That sounds awful. I love that idea.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
No, nothing, because again it's the same thing you're talking
like forty fifty sixty year old guys.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
You know that right. I will not let you use
you're going to do.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I'm going to do Sarah the first slow down song
that anyway, we'll take those suggestions. We're talking about this.
This and this was the term Purduccan of lawsuits between
Justin Baldoni and Blake Live, Too many, unnecessary, all of that,
she started getting a bad rep in the summer when
(28:40):
the movie was coming out. She alleges that that was
because of a PR campaign put together by his people.
He at least has some amount of separation from that
because the allegations that he directed his PR people to
do this, there's very little evidence. There are some messages
(29:00):
that went back and forth between the PR people themselves,
but not with Justin Baldoni specifically. They said the guy
was an a hole, he's showing her naked pictures of women,
talked about his past porn addiction. Here's one of the
things that I saw the allegation as well. He invited
people onto the set the day that they were doing
(29:22):
her sex scenes, and he cast his buddy. Haven't seen
the movie, so I don't know the context of it,
but he cast his buddy as the obgyn during a
birthing scene, which means in the production of it, he
is all up in her business when they're shooting the scene. Now,
(29:43):
she claims, among other things, that this guy was just
an a hole and was mean and was vindictive. He
in a countersuit to The New York Times, he said
he would also sue her, but said that everything that
they did in the New York Times article was completely wrong.
She then filed not only the civil rights the civil
suit she has filed now a federal court in New
(30:05):
York against him.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
This all started by the bye. One of the first
things I heard about this fight between the two of
them was the fact, allegedly that he asked her personal
trainer how much she weighed. Asked Blake Lively's personal trainer
how much she weighed because he didn't want to hurt
(30:27):
his back in a scene where he's lifting her up.
That was the first sign of trouble that anybody heard about.
And then things just went to hell for him because
how embarrassing is that. One of the things that sticks
out about this film. If you were a Gossip Girl
fan or whatever, and you saw Blake Lively as a
(30:48):
teenager essentially, and now she's a woman. She looks like
a woman. She looks like a normal weight woman, and
it's very different from the girl you're used to seeing
on Gossip Girl fifteen years ago. It's not that she's fat,
she's just a woman. Now. She's a mom. She has
a woman's body, and I think that a lot of
(31:12):
people when they saw this were like, oh, that's she's
put on weight. No, she doesn't put on weight. She's
just a real woman now, as opposed to the girl
that you saw mom of three kids. I think, yeah,
something like that with them.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
One of her one of her family members, Bart Johnson,
actually is a brother in law. I believe he said
that of Justin Baldoni. He's a fraud. He puts on
the costume of a hero man bun and all. He
used all the trendy catchphrases and buzzwords, but none of
it is genuine. Everyone fell for it for years. Rewatch
(31:46):
his videos with more critical eye and watch him compliment
and praise himself with faux humility and self deprecation water performance.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
He seemed he came across like an a hole when
I watched that movie, which is sometimes you can kind
of get who somebody really is despite them acting. I mean,
and not just because he plays an abuser in the movie.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
And Jenny Slat played the sister I guess in the movie,
played Baldoni's sister in the movie Opens the Shop or
something like that. With her, Yeah, she said, I voiced
my support. She takes action against those reported to have
planned and carried out an attack on her reputation. Blake
is a leader, a loyal friend, and a trusted source
of emotional support for me and so many who know
and love her. As I mentioned the text messages, those
(32:29):
damning text messages that Blake Lively's lawyers got a hold
of came from the head of the PR firm. The
head of the PR firm is not named in the lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Someone calling you people, no, oh yeah, oh, it's a
scam A scam.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yeah. Oh they hung up before I had a chance
to out them on the air.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Oh, that would have been fun.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Would have been fun. We'll do a quick swamp what
you know what, let's make a new Year's resolution, yes politics, Yes,
less politics, and we can eat up one of the
swamps Watch segments with some of our walk up song stories. Yeah, okay,
we'll do that. We'll do one section of swamp Watch. Yes.
By the way, for those who have been asking there
(33:14):
is a new swamp Watch introduction, there is not yet.
Oh I'm saying when the new president is inaugurated, that
will be the day that we tell you and play
for you the new introduction.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
So we're not just going to go back to the
old swamp Watch when he was president the first time.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
No, oh okay, that would be my route less work.
That's lazy, and.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I get it. I get it. You've been listening to
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