(01/02) GAS Hour 3 - Swamp Watch / #TechTalk

Swamp Watch. #TechTalk.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
An Kevin mckayhill with the LA Sorry, Las Vegas Metro
PD Sheriff talking about the cyber truck explosion yesterday.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Just a couple of quick things.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
The body they found in the truck they believe to
be this Matthew Liveelsberger, but they have not confirmed it yet.
He said there was a gunshot wound to the head, wow,
but that the body itself was burned beyond recognition, so
they have to do dental work before they can get
this guy. They did find a military ID, credit cards
and a passport that belonged to that guy, so circumstantially

(00:35):
it looks like it is him, but they haven't gotten
official ID yet. So this is Kevin mcmayhill, Las Vegas
metroped shaft to.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Las Vegas from Colorado and Carlos will put up the
map there for you. And we know that he rented
the cyber truck in Denver on December twenty eighth. We
tracked his movements through the Tesla charging stations to Monument, Colorado.
On December thirtieth. On the thirty first of December, the
truck was charged in Trinidad, Colorado, Las Vegas, New Mexico,

(01:07):
and Albertquerque and Gallop, New Mexico. On January first, the
truck was charged in Holebrook, Flagstaff and Kingman, Arizona. We
last tracked the truck in Kingman at zero five thirty
three yesterday morning. The truck was first spotted in Las

(01:30):
Vegas at seven twenty nine am yesterday and Carlos will
pull up a picture of the truck pulling onto Fashion
Show Drive here and that picture was observed at about
seven thirty four am. We know that he pulled into
the Trump Valet and I believe we have a video

(01:52):
of that. You can see the cyber truck highlighted there.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
They're showing a video of the cyber truck, but based
on surveillance cameras from outside the Trump condominiums.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
But he pulls through and doesn't stro extence the surveillance video.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
We were able to track him leaving there, and we
know that he went to several different places along Las
Vegas Boulevard and he spent some time in a parking
lot of a business near Flamingo in Las Vegas Boulevard.
We didn't have a video of the truck pulling back
onto Las Vegas Boulevard from the Sands. See that there

(02:45):
goes that's north on the boulevard from Sands at eight
thirty nine, where he then immediately heads to the Trump Hotel,
pulls into the valet area, and as of course you
all know, the explosion occurs within seventeen seconds of his
arrival at the valet. There are some additional investigative updates
that are going to be provided to you by a

(03:06):
couple of the other speakers here, the first of which
will be our special Agent in charge of the FBI
local Office, Spencer Evans.

Speaker 5 (03:12):
Spencer, good morning.

Speaker 6 (03:17):
My name is Spencer Evans.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
I'm the Special Agent in charge of.

Speaker 6 (03:19):
The FBI's Las Vegas Division. So the sheriff mentioned, we've
been working through the night with our partners, the Las
Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and other agencies to gather all
the facts and determine a motive to what was initially
reported to the FBI as a bombing incident, to which
our special agent, bomb techs and others responded. Obviously, we're
always concerned in these sorts of events, to ascertain what

(03:42):
the motive is. We understand that's everybody's at the forefront
of everyone's thoughts, and so looking into exactly what the
motivation is remains our number one priority. This is why
the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force has been brought into play,
the Joint Tearism Task Force. Most important part of that
acronym is joint. It is done in concert with our partners,
which are comprised of more than a dozen investigative agencies

(04:05):
here throughout the state of Nevada. We've been working hand
in glove, side by side, tirelessly to determine is there
any ongoing threat to the public, to identify the subject,
to determine any potential connection to other events going on
in the world, most notably in New Orleans, and then
obviously to determine if there's anything else that we need
to be tracking down at this time. Is the Sheriff's

(04:27):
pointed out, we feel that the subject has been identified,
although not conclusively, waiting for DNA evidence on that front. However,
we do feel like we have the subject identified and
at this time there is no information about additional subjects
that the FBI is tracking on. We are resources as
I mentioned that have been deployed in support of this

(04:47):
event include Special Agent bomb techs, our Evidence Response Team,
which is processing crime scenes side by side with the
forensics folks from Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Our investigators
are intelligence analysts, and then outside of the FBI Las
Vegas Field Office, we have investigative leads that are being
conducted by FBI field offices both internationally and domestically as

(05:10):
well as Always, when the FBI is involved with any
sort of case like this, we ask for help for
the public. Anyone with information related to this incident, we
encourage you to please call one eight hundred call FBI,
or you can submit a tip online at tips dot
FBI dot gov. We've already received thousands of tips related

(05:32):
to this incident. The challenge that we face moving forward
is to separate those that are pertinent and relevant and
those that can be verified for those from those that
have not. For example, one of the tips that we
receive just today relates to information alluding to this subject's
personal experiences related to his time and activity in the military. Again,
that's unverified and uncorroborated, but one of many tips and

(05:54):
leads that we will be following up in the days
that come. If you have any additional information, again, encourage
everyone one eight hundred call FBI or submitted online tips
dot FBI dot gov. We will tirelessly work to exhaust
all investigative leads and conclusively determine what the nature of
this particular incident was, what the motivation was, and to

(06:15):
the extent possible, share all that information as we obtain it.

Speaker 7 (06:18):
Well.

Speaker 6 (06:18):
Now turn some time over to the Assistant Special Agent
Charge from the ATF, Kenny Cooper.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
We're getting an update out of the Vegas law enforcement
community about the bombing.

Speaker 5 (06:31):
My name's Kenny Cooper.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
I'm this cyber truck explosion outside the Trump.

Speaker 5 (06:34):
Ats San Francisco Field Division. ATF is bringing our expertise
in post blasts investigations and our crime gun intelligence to
specifically assist in this investigation. I will tell you that
our special agent bomb techs are working with FBI and
with Las Vegas Metro and sifting through that post blast

(06:56):
debris to find components and investigative leads will derive from
that evidence process. We're too early into that investigation process
to give any determination as far as how this device
was initiated. I will say that we do know that
the components primarily consist of fireworks, mortars, aerio shells, and

(07:21):
are all consumer fireworks. Nothing commercial grade has been discovered
at this point, and we've identified some fuel enhancers like
the Coman fuel and VP Racing fuel, and some explosive
targets that can be purchased at any sporting goods store.
We've also, as you as a sheriff mentioned, we've identified

(07:43):
two semi automatic handguns recovered from the Tesla. We have
successfully traced those firearms and I can tell you that
Matthew Leyvesburg lawfully purchased both of these firearms on December thirtieth,
twenty twenty four. We have agents following up those investigative leads.

(08:04):
We know exactly where those firearms were purchased, and we
will share any developments from those leads as they come in.
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (08:19):
We also have the Clark County Fire Chief here, John Steinbeck,
and he didn't have any additional updates, but if there's
any questions in regards to what the fire fire fire
Department did during this he's here to answer those questions
as well. With that, things that are going around on
social media. We're going to continue to do that, but
I'm also confident to tell the Las Vegas community and

(08:40):
this great nation that we don't believe there's any further
threat from this subject or anybody associated to him here
in Las Vegas. With that, Denise, I saw you had
your hand up if you could just identify yourself please.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
Question is whether or not this suspect say the question
was that he.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
Had to subject have any ties to Las Vegas or
had he ever been here before. I do believe we
had had one instance a number of years ago where
he stayed at a local hotel, but we're still trying
to verify that information as well.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Sir the David Charles Klis TV, there was.

Speaker 7 (09:22):
You have a gentleman in a cyber Trump Trump hotel.
There's information that the NBI was in Colorado Springs last night,
possibly at this gentleman's home. Any information about.

Speaker 4 (09:37):
Why, I think I'll let Spencer answer that question.

Speaker 6 (09:45):
So, as I mentioned, the motivation at this point is unknown.
We are, as I mentioned earlier, following investigative leads both
domestically and internationally as well, and so that includes search
warrants and witness interviews, collecting forensic information and basically trying to.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Compile the facts.

Speaker 6 (10:04):
And so there's investigative activity taking place literally around the
globe trying to determine what the potential nexus is. But
at this time, at this particular moment in time, as
the sheriff aptly said, we have to focus on what
we know and what we don't know. We know we
have a bombing, absolutely, and it's a bombing that certainly
has factors that raise concerned. It's not lost on us

(10:25):
that it's in front of, you know, of the Trump Building,
that it's a TESTLA vehicle, But we don't have information
at this point that definitively tells us or suggests it
was because of this particular ideology or that you know,
any of the reasoning behind it. That's the purpose of
the investigation that we're conducting is to get to the
bottom of exactly what happened, why and how, Sir.

Speaker 8 (10:49):
Typically to a PBCY of Los Angeles, you mentioned a
number of similarities between this case and New Orleans. How
far are the investigating cross if you guys go to
try to rule out that they are connect knowing that
you already.

Speaker 9 (11:01):
Have a couple of things that seem to connect them together.

Speaker 4 (11:05):
So the question is is how are we working to
rule in or rule out any connections to the New
Orleans event. And the answer to that is, every tip
and lead that comes in, every piece of evidence that
comes in, we don't discount it. We work it through.
You know, it's an interesting thing during these kinds of
investigations that if these turn out to be simplely similarities,

(11:26):
very strange similarities to have, and so we're not prepared
to rule in or rule out anything at this point.
There's lots more for us to do in this investigation.
We haven't even gotten into the phones or the computers,
which are usually very very instructive and informative to us
as we investigate. And we've got a lot more work
to do to trace him, to see the stores that

(11:49):
he went to, to rule out anybody else, lots of
lots of investigative work to do, and we're just trying
to give you an update on what we know now
that is factual.

Speaker 5 (12:03):
We believe.

Speaker 4 (12:03):
The question is was the gunshot self inflicted and we
do believe it was, since he was the only person
in the vehicle and it occurred immediately prior to the
vehicle blown up. Back there, sir, with the evidence you've seen.

Speaker 9 (12:19):
So far, are you comfortable without calling this a suicide vision?

Speaker 4 (12:28):
The question is, off, I comfortable calling it a suicide mission.
I'm comfortable calling it a suicide with the bombing that
occurred immediately thereafter, I'm.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Not giving it any other labels.

Speaker 9 (12:37):
And with the family who's spoken so far that they
shared getting prior red flags.

Speaker 4 (12:45):
The question is, did we have any of the family
members share any particular red flags? Again, I'll go back
to what I know is circulating on social media, but
none of that has been verified at this point.

Speaker 9 (12:58):
All the found inside a cyber truck where they all
purchase in Colorado.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
The question is did we were all the components found
inside of the cyber truck purchased in Colorado?

Speaker 10 (13:10):
And I don't know the answer to that.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
That's part of why we're doing the extensive part of
the investigation.

Speaker 8 (13:14):
Associated press, Can you talk a little bit about the
security measures you have in place at the hotel now?

Speaker 4 (13:20):
So, as you all know, we had just successfully completed
a New Year's Eve event where hundreds of thousands of
people come to Las Vegas. I've extended our posture just
like it is for a New Year's Eve event where
I have thousands of police officers that are working day
in and day out. Obviously dozens and dozens of people
that are working on this investigation as well. We'll continue

(13:42):
to look at what that security posture looks like, but
I'm confident in the safety of our community as we
move forward, go ahead. In the middle.

Speaker 8 (13:49):
There criminal record.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
Also, you know, the question was is there any criminal record?
None that I'm aware of that has not been brought
to my attention that he had a criminal record, And
I said that the cyber truck was rented on December
twenty eighth in Denver, Colorado?

Speaker 7 (14:14):
Are here?

Speaker 3 (14:16):
Hi?

Speaker 4 (14:20):
That the question is that we know if he checked
into the Resorts World the day before this, I'm not
aware of that information certain.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
There and how long you The question is.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
Generally about the security posture, and that's that's entirely our
entire community, not only uh Fremont Street and the Strip,
but surrounding neighborhoods as well, just to make sure that
we have the community fill in that level of safety
that they need to fill after an event such as this.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
All right, you've been listening to share Kevin mcmayhill from
Metro Las Vegas Police Department about the cyber truck explosion
yesterday outside the Trump Condominiums. The most significant in terms
of the information is that they have found Matthew Livelsberger's
military ID, credit cards, and passport inside the cyber truck,

(15:20):
but at this point are not confirming that, in fact,
that was him. They said they're going to await DNA
because of the condition of the body. You can understand
that he died apparently now died before the explosion, but
was burned beyond recognition because they said that he had
a gunshot wound to his head.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
They've got a lot of footage of this truck, but
I didn't see any footage of anything indicating a gunshot
wound to the head coming from inside the vehicle. And
he said that there's no reason to believe that somebody
else shot him because it happened right before the explosion
and there was nobody else in the vehicle. I don't
know how you could rule that out unless there was

(16:00):
footage of that moment, and there might be. There might be,
and they may not show it.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
I could from the image that most everybody sees the
moment it explodes, it's from up at an angle behind
the truck. So if there was a flash inside the truck,
the actual gunshot that this guy took his own life
right before the truck detonated, it would be hard to
see at least from that angle. But that is they

(16:28):
said they found a couple of guns, at least two
semi automatic guns with ammunition, along with all kinds of fireworks.
They have all, I mean the image that they have
posted Vegas PD has posted of the investigation of the
truck itself. It's in some warehouse somewhere and they've been

(16:48):
able to basically cut the top off of this thing
and go through, just centimeter by centimeter all of the
stuff that was found in the bed of the truck,
the fireworks, the different camp fuels. There was one can
of racing fuel that was even involved.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
This was a guy who served in the Green Berets,
of course, highly trained special forces worked a counter terrorism
abroad train partners. He had served in the Army since
two thousand and six, rising through the ranks long career
of overseas assignments, deploying twice to Afghanistans, serving in Ukraine, Georgia, Congo.

(17:23):
He was awarded two Bronze Store Stars, including one with
a Valor device for Courage under Fire Combat Infantry Badge
Army Commendation Medal with Valor. He was on approved leave
when this happened.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah, he grew up at Ohio. He was on leave
from his duty in Germany. His wife had said she
hadn't heard from him for several days. He and his
wife apparently bought a home in Colorado Springs together several
years ago twenty fifteen, but that they said that they
have several addresses that are linked to him throughout the

(17:59):
city of Colorado, including townhouses that were rated overnight.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
There have been some online sleuths that have dug up
her Facebook account her clear hatred for Donald Trump. That
has not that that has been verified. Yeah, that one
has anything to do with this.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
But one of the questions to the FBI was, here's
an Elon Musk product in the cyber truck in front
of a Trump product in the condominiums. Yeah, was there
a connection? And they basically say it's way too early.
They don't have any evidence one way or the other.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
But it seems like quite the coincidence, doesn't it.

Speaker 4 (18:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Well, and the other coincidences that people are talking about
is the coincidences that occur. It's the same day of
this attack in New Orleans a few hours later. The
guy had the every opportunity to hear about it, you know,
to hear about the other attack. That he rented an

(18:54):
electric truck through the same app, you know, through this
Touro app couple of days before the attack itself, and
then made his way from Colorado through to to Las
Vegas for the attack on early yesterday morning.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
So anyway, that's the latest.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Again, they have not confirmed the identity, but they said
they've got all these pieces of evidence that point to
this Matthew Libbelsberger as the perpetrator in this attack. So
if there's anything new, obviously we will we'll bring it
to you. In the meantime, let's do a very now.
It's a super truncated swamp watch.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
Swamp is horrible. It's a government work man. We're gonna
make this like a reality TV show, A bad bos.
Always a pleasure to be anywhere from Washington, d C.

Speaker 6 (19:39):
Hey Joe, a town all too clearly built on a
swamp and in so many ways still a swamp.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
I have a watch of Malwarkee, he said, the swamp.
I said, oh, that's so.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
Keep You know the thing, Well, the biggest deal in Washington,
d C. Tomorrow they're going to swear in a new Congress. Yay,
everybody loves that. But that gives them the opportunity to
vote in a new Speaker of the House.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yay, everybody loves that as well.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
In this case, the current Speaker, Mike Johnson, is not
going to have an easy time. And I don't know
if this is just the future of Speakers of the
House going forward after we saw what happened with Kevin McCarthy.
But Johnson has been endorsed by the President elect to
keep that post. He's still racing to win over a
bunch of holdouts from the Republican Party, and they said

(20:29):
that this could be another day's long floor fight to
figure out who is or remains the Speaker of the House.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
Donald Trump has restated his backing of Mike Johnson. How
much will that play a role in this trending towards
Mike Johnson.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
It definitely gives him a hand up, But guys like
Thomas The only known Republican defector in this vote is
Thomas Massey. He has stated publicly he will not vote
for Mike Johnson for speaker because of the numbers going
into the new Congress. If everyone shows up, and it's

(21:06):
the first day of school, so I assume everybody would.
If everyone shows up, he can only lose two votes
and retain his speakership. And he's got one already publicly
saying that he wouldn't vote for him. So pins and
needles tomorrow, everybody, Pins and needles.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Would you like your jeopardy question?

Speaker 2 (21:25):
I haven't done this for so long ancient Greeks for
four hundred dollars, not like my wife just walked around
asking you random trivia question.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
Scholar Richard I. Jenko believes this poet made irreversible mistakes
in writing the Odyssey?

Speaker 3 (21:44):
Who was Homer?

Speaker 1 (21:45):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (21:47):
I thought that was going to be some sort of
a trick or I misunderstood it.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
You always do this, You second guess yourself. And the
new year, I'd like you to stop second guessing yourself.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
I just got to go with my gut. Yeah, believe
in yourself.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yes, well, what a true eat. We get to talk
to Mark Saltzman.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
The machines are getting smarter.

Speaker 11 (22:04):
This is tech Talk, brought to you by Sky net
Mark Saltzman.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
Happy New Year too.

Speaker 10 (22:12):
Heay, and to you, it's been a few weeks.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
I think it's been a long time.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you have a cold.

Speaker 11 (22:19):
Nah, I just got nasal issues. I gotta I got
a book of something with my E M T. Your
throat person didn't. Yeah, I had something a year ago.

Speaker 10 (22:29):
I had, like I.

Speaker 3 (22:30):
Don't want to thing.

Speaker 11 (22:33):
I don't want to bore or annoy your listeners with
talk health ailments. We're too young to talk about our
health conditions. But yeah, no, it's all good. I feel great.
I'm just chronically congested, and so I need to up
my game. I don't know, maybe a deviated septum surgery
or something. I don't know that very something something.

Speaker 10 (22:54):
But yeah, yeah, right when you think rhinoplasty. Yeah, it's
all good.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Okay. So do you make New Year's resolutions?

Speaker 10 (23:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (23:03):
I mean for this year, I think I just want
to sleep a little more. I think that's my New
Year's nothing too exciting. I think just if I can
get into if I can slip into bed about an
hour earlier, that I would probably feel like one hundred
bucks better A hundred bucks that's good.

Speaker 6 (23:18):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (23:18):
No, I feel like you know. That's that's it for me.
Other than that you could drop a few lbs. That's
a that's one that I say every year and I
don't do it.

Speaker 10 (23:27):
But yeah, so I wrote a piece.

Speaker 11 (23:28):
I know where you're going with this, and I know
I Shannon thinks Gary's New Year's resolution should be to
stop second guessing himself.

Speaker 10 (23:35):
If that's it, If that's it, that's that's it.

Speaker 11 (23:37):
That's what you were saying in your last segment, Then
you're good, Gary, You're You're good. But all kidning Aside
wrote a piece for National Post, which is a national
Canadian publication on the free apps that can help help
you reach your New Year's resolution goals. And they do
very of course from person to person, but hey, it's
a new year, a fresh start.

Speaker 10 (23:57):
So I've got a few that I think.

Speaker 11 (23:59):
I like to share with your listeners to see if
it can help them, or maybe they've already tried it
and they've got some feedback.

Speaker 10 (24:05):
They can always hit me up on social media afterwards.

Speaker 11 (24:08):
The first one would be to yeah, again, drop some
weight if that is something that you've been wanting to do.
One of my favorite apps in this area is called
my Fitness Pal. It is free to start, and it's
essentially a calorie counter. So you set a goal, like
I want to lose five pounds in one month, and
then it'll tell you how many calories that you're able

(24:30):
to ingest per day in order to meet your goal.

Speaker 10 (24:32):
So let's say it's two thousand calories per day.

Speaker 11 (24:35):
So you log your information with the free version of
the app, or if you want to pay a couple
of bucks, you can snap like scan the barcode of
popular food items and it'll automatically log those calories for you.
And then when you exercise, you're allowed to have more
food too, obviously, So it's just a motivating kind of app.
It helps you see what's going in your body and

(24:56):
what you're putting out, and it also things like recipes
and all that, so it's really great my Fitness Pal.
It is free to start, and then there's that optional
I think it's eighty bucks a year to.

Speaker 10 (25:08):
Unlock all of the features. And on a related.

Speaker 11 (25:11):
Note, if exercise is something you've been wanting to do
but you can't afford a gym, or you'd rather do
it from home where you travel a lot, you want
something easy to do in hotels. Eight Fit Workouts is
a good app. It's just a number eight Fit. It's
got over five hundred workouts ranging in time from fifteen
to thirty five minutes. But you don't need to have
any equipment. You don't even need dumbbells. It uses your body,

(25:33):
whether you're doing strength training or cardio, running on the spot,
that kind of thing, push ups, it depends on your
comfort level and what you want to work on or
the part of the body that you want to work on, but.

Speaker 10 (25:42):
Really easy workouts to follow along.

Speaker 11 (25:46):
And it's also a meal planner, so it'll also give
you recipes and break down the nutritional value of each
recipe that you can make in fifteen.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
Minutes or twenty minutes.

Speaker 11 (25:54):
So a good one called eight Fit, the Number eight
fi T workouts, So those are a couple I think
if you're trying to watch your waistline and maybe you know,
be more heart to healthy in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
A lot of these, and I know you're talking about
Matt My Fitness is one of those. I've actually used
that one before to keep track of runs and progress
and that sort of thing, and they come a lot
of them have different levels. So the free version is
nowhere near as robust as the paid version.

Speaker 10 (26:21):
Yeah, as you can imagine. That's yeah.

Speaker 11 (26:23):
So these are apps that we call freemium, so they're
free to start, but if you want the premium experience,
you do have to pay, Yeah, Matt. My Fitness is
the same company as my Fitness Pal. It used to
actually be owned by under Armor and they sold it
last year.

Speaker 10 (26:37):
But that's a good one.

Speaker 11 (26:38):
What is free though, if you want to have some
fun while you're exercising. Another app called Zombies Run is
a lot of fun. As the name suggests, you're hearing
this kind of scary story in your earbuds and it's
tied to this, you know, post apocalyptic world where zombies
are are chasing you and it motivates you to move.
But it's a little bit more fun than that. You're

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collecting supplies and excuse me. So it's fun and that's
called Zombies Run, and it.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
Is trail, but you're on a run.

Speaker 10 (27:07):
Yeah, right, part.

Speaker 11 (27:08):
Of that game that's good for quitting smoking. This one
is free, not freemium. It's called Quit so that's kW
it and it's based on decades of research. The company
says they've created a dashboard where you can see your progress,
both the money that you're saving as you're kicking the habit,
as well as how many months or years you're adding

(27:29):
onto your life by quitting smoking. So you're able to
save money and gain some life back. You can see
it all in this calendar. And it's gamified as well,
similar to that Zombies Run game in the sense that
you can earn XP or experience points that you can
redeem within the app. There's a daily check in to
see how you're feeling. You can tap what mood you're
in in the Quit app, and if you're feeling really

(27:52):
crusty you got some really bad cravings that day, it'll
recommend some alternatives to smoking, you know, like gum or
two minute breathing exercise, something to get your mind off
of it. And yeah, it's really a great app called
quit that is completely free. There's no paid element, and
if we have time for one more. Money management I

(28:12):
think is a big one as well, especially after the
year we just had a lot of us get a
little over our head, you know, with the higher cost
of living and all that. So one of my favorite
apps is called y nab, which is you need a
budget and it's.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
Free to start.

Speaker 11 (28:27):
You can get thirty four days for free, and then
after that it's one hundred and nine bucks a year.
But the company says on average, y NAB users save
six hundred dollars their first two months.

Speaker 10 (28:39):
So you're allowing it to.

Speaker 11 (28:41):
Securely link to your bank account and your credit cards,
and it's bank level encryption two hundred fifty six bit
you know encryption, so it's supposed to be bulletproof. And
the idea is that it's helping you manage what's coming
in like your salary and maybe investments, and what's going
out your expenses and entertainment or whatever you're spending it on, and.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
Puts it into buckets.

Speaker 11 (29:02):
You can see, like these color coded charts and graphs
what you're spending your money. You'll see like restaurants, and
you'll be like, wow, I've spent that much on restaurants in.

Speaker 10 (29:10):
The year, you know.

Speaker 11 (29:10):
So it helps you make decisions. It'll help you make
goal reach goals, like you could say, I want to
raise three thousand dollars by May for a trip, so
it'll tell you how much you should save per week.
It'll even take that money out of the account if
you want to segregate it. There's a loan calculator again,
spending reports and charts, so it's either one O nine
a year after that thirty four days for why and

(29:33):
ab you need a budget or fifteen bucks a month
if you don't want to commit to it.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
I love that they're trying to get you to save
your money by charging right r right dollars.

Speaker 10 (29:42):
Well, you know, I hear it.

Speaker 11 (29:43):
But you know these these free apps you're paying in
some way, like if you're not really paying money, you
should question why is that app for free? Like that
quit app? It sounds very altruistic. But you know there's
ads and I'm sure you know you have to see
what's happening with your data. You want to read what
what are they doing with your data? And so nothing
is truly free. But yeah, I hear you.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
It's a bit ironic.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Good life lisson right there, Mark Saltzman, Is it ever
really fair? There?

Speaker 9 (30:08):
You go?

Speaker 3 (30:08):
Always something well awesome to hear from you. Have a
great new year.

Speaker 9 (30:11):
And to you.

Speaker 11 (30:12):
Hey, look, next week we're going to chat from the
Consumer Electronic Show in Vegas. So well I'll give you
a report on all the future tech.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
I'll be kicking the tires. Good. Thanks guys, looking forward
to you.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Make sure you follow Mark on x m ARC Underscore
Saltsman Mark Saltzman you get more information about these apps
and all the other great stuff that he writes about.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
So what do you think about Saquon Barkley. He is
one hundred and one shy of Eric Dickerson's single season
rushing record. They've got one game left, that means nothing.
They initially came out post game after he got that
close past the two thousand mark, which I believe only
eight other backs in NFL history have done. So that's

(30:53):
a feat in itself. But that Eric Dickerson record that
has been around for five hundred years, that would have
been really nice, although it would be an asterisk record
because there were fewer games that Eric played than Saquon plays. Yeah,
but still, Sirianni came out last week and said, well,
I'm going to talk to him about it, and I'd
love to see him get the record, but I'm gonna

(31:14):
see what he thinks. And so it was like kind
of understood after that game that he would go for it,
at least start to go for it in this pointless
game of Week eighteen or what have you. And then
it came out yesterday that he will not be playing.
They're not going to play him. So I wonder if
that came from above, Sirianni, you know, ownership or something,

(31:35):
or the GM, because between Saquon and Siriani, it sounded
like they were gonna go for it.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
Yeah, And I wonder how much even if the GM
does say that, don't you have a conversation with the player. Yeah,
you'd have this a big deal, but we would really
prefer you not.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
And there's not a nicer guy than Saquon Barklay who
wants it for the team, like wants to be as
successful as possible in the playoffs. But still that's hard
to come that close to such an unattainable goal.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
And this is also the weekend because it's the last
weekend of the regular season, and as we were talking about,
a lot of these games mean nothing that there are
playoff implications, but it's basically just seeding at this point,
where they're going to end up and who they're going
to play in the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
Some of these are.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
For the Lions and the freaking Vikings.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
Well, but some of them are as meaningless as some
of those preseason games. That's why you're going to see
Jimmy Garoppolo start for the Rams and things like that.
You're going to see these players that second string players
that would otherwise not get a lot of snaps, end
up playing the whole game because the game itself doesn't matter. Okay,
So we have been asking for suggestions for.

Speaker 3 (32:43):
Walk up songs.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
For me at Fantasy Baseball camp, and some of them
are great. Some of them we kind of ran into
a couple of issues. Number One, well, I'm about the
same age as all the guys are going to be
play so we're all growing up in the northern California,
most of us San Francisco Bay area, so the music

(33:08):
selection is limited, and I wanted to be out on
the outer edges of that so that it's recognizable. It's
not just an inside joke that I'm the only one
who's going to get. But I don't want it to be,
you know whatever. I don't want it to be Enter
Sandman by Metallica because it feels like everybody is going
to do Enter Sandman by Metallica. So we were taking

(33:29):
suggestions about what should be a good walk up song.

Speaker 12 (33:32):
I gotta do the booty song while you're walking up
Booty Booty booty.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
Hymn Booty booty booty booty booty booty booty booty booty
booty booty.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
Booty booty Yeah y boo okay, which is funny, but
I think sends kind of the wrong message.

Speaker 8 (33:46):
Gary.

Speaker 10 (33:47):
If you don't use booty booty Booty.

Speaker 6 (33:49):
Booty booty as your walk up song, you're a loser.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
And sow's your dog? Oh happy to you?

Speaker 9 (33:55):
Guys?

Speaker 3 (33:56):
What does the dog have to do with it?

Speaker 1 (33:58):
It's the more I think about it, the more it's
pretty funny. Yeah. I mean, initially I thought if you
played the booty song, you'd be inviting strange men to
look at your booty like you thought that your booty
should be looked at, like it should get attention. Okay,
But the more I think about it, the more that's
absurd and it's just funny, Like, who's not gonna chuckle

(34:19):
when they hear that? Every time? And then you could
do this.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
Well, I could do I could shake it well, shaky shake.
Do you think that's gonna earn me points with my teammates?

Speaker 1 (34:28):
Maybe depends on if they have a sense of humor
or not. That's the other thing.

Speaker 5 (34:32):
Your walk up song has to be Centerfield by John Foger.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Two on the Nose.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
It's two on the nose and they're going to be
playing that in between an it sure, right, So that's
not what.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
We're not doing stadium rock.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
No, we're not doing stadium rock.

Speaker 12 (34:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (34:46):
As a team building thing, Gary should use a warrant
cherry Pie as his uh walk up.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
That is a little that's I don't if that would
be funny, and like the booty song is obviously funny.
That sounds like it is your walk up song to
the stargarden.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
Right, which that's a different fantasy camp and we'll do
that later in the year probably.

Speaker 6 (35:11):
Hey, Gary, I think you should use Crazy Train again.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
It's one of those that's two objects to you're gonna
hear it probably, you know, it's like using that the
song with the drums, the song with the you know,
the drums that everyone knows how to play, every dude,
I can feel it, right.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
That's definitely not gonna be every different.

Speaker 12 (35:44):
Don't have a walk up song, you know, like Babe
Ruth and those guys didn't.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
They just went up and showed them who's boss.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
Yeah, you're going to have to distract people from you
not being Babe Ruth. You're gonna need your own walk
up song. I mean, if you were a Babe Ruth show,
screw the walk up song. But here's something that's not
going to shock you what you're not Babe Ruth.

Speaker 10 (36:05):
Wow, I got your I got your walk up song.
All right, Gary, it's gonna be certified freak seven days
a week.

Speaker 3 (36:13):
We blank blank blank. That is funny.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
Although they say on the form that you're supposed to
fill out, yeah, understand that this is potentially a family thing,
which it's not. I mean there's not a lot of family.
There's no one in the stands. But I don't know
who else is.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
Going to be there and who would be offended by that.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
Can you have people show up for you?

Speaker 3 (36:41):
Well it depends on yes.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
Well yeah no, because my wife is gone, you may
just show up into the stadium.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
Yeah, there's no the gates open, you don't have to
pay my.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
Gosh field trip. But there was nobody else hearing it.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
But to that end, a couple of years ago, they
actually had to shut down one of the games mid
game because homeless Guy was being tackled by the Scottsfield
Police Department out in right Field.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
Okay, so it's in Scottsdale. Yes, that's a quick drive drive.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
Yeah, five or six.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
I have those days off too, So maybe we all
go as a group.

Speaker 12 (37:16):
That would be funny. More of these suggestions. We could
make signs a little later in the show. We could
chanting you. That'd be like the movie Major League.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
And by the way, somebody suggested wild Thing Now, which
was Rob Loos. Not sorry, Martin Sheen. Not Martin Sheen, Sorry,
Charlie Sheen. I'll get through it. I'll get through it,
turning into my grandmother Charlie Sheen's entrance song. But he
was a picture. It's different, It's very different.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Jacob says, we have cognitive declient.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
We don't.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
It's we're just it's we're out of practice. We're rusty, Jacob,
you haven't been able to do this. They locked us
out for a week and a half. Gary and Shannon
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