October 24, 2025 • 28 mins
Solo Gary takes the reins with a jam-packed hour of #SwampWatch: from Trump vs. Canada over a Reagan quote, to Venezuelan drug-boat battles amid a shutdown. Then, filmmaker and professional prankster Oobah Butler (follow him @Oobahs) joins the show to talk about his new documentary and the wild success of The Great Amazon Heist 🎬. Plus, #EntertainmentReport with Heather Brooker covers Emma Stone’s dark comedy Bugonia and Ethan Hawke’s new film Blue Moon.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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we're following today is that Alaska Airlines has resumed operations
had to ground all of its planes for several hours
because of an information technology outage, they said said in
a statement that a couple hundred flights two hundred and
twenty nine were canceled because of the outage, and that
more flight disruptions are expected as they reposition aircraft and cruise.
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Alaska said it's working on getting travelers affected by this
whole thing to where they need to go. Ask the
passengers check their flights that before heading to the airport.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Of course, Hey, Gary, Hey Shannon, love the show always listen,
and as most regular listeners do, I keep scorer at home.
Oh and I've been pouring over the scorecards since Shannon's
last suspension, and I don't see anything here that constitutes
a one day suspension. Sure, underwear talk did move the needle.
There was some boob talk, but as a female, we
(01:23):
should overlook that, right, and her genital talk per show
average is way down right. I think she should appeal.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I don't know if she can, but but she'll be
back on Monday.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
It's time for swamp watch.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar,
and when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
Here we got.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
The real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
So what I'm not going anywhere?
Speaker 7 (01:50):
So you train the squat.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
what has been. You know, Americans have always been going
at president.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Why have the people voted for you wear nap watch?
They're all canaos.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Well, here's the huge commercial, the commercial that's been paid
for by Canadian politicians to argue against American tariffs on
Canadian products.
Speaker 8 (02:19):
When someone says, let's impose tariffs on foreign imports, it
looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American
products and generals, and sometimes for a short environment works,
but only for a short time.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Okay, I'm not gonna play the whole thing. I'll just
say this.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
It came from a radio address in April of nineteen
eighty seven when President Reagan was talking specifically about the
relationship between the United States and Japan over semiconductors, and
he was talking about specific targeted tariffs on the semiconductor
industry because Japan was not playing fair. He did mention
(03:00):
also Canada as part of that. Now, our relationship with
Canada has our biggest trading partner, and it for the
most part, has been a compared to other countries, compared
to our trade deficits with other countries, our relationship with
Canada is pretty good. If you're just using the metrics
(03:23):
of how much they sell us versus how much we
sell them, it's pretty good, not the greatest good. And
President Trump has said that all trade talks with Canada
are terminated. Because of what he referred to as that
fake commercial. He said, Canada's long cheated on Terraft's chair,
(03:44):
charging our farmers as much as four hundred percent. Now
they and other countries can't take advantage of the US
any longer. All caps Canada cheated and got caught. They
fraudulently took a big buy ad saying that Reagan did
not like tariffs when actually he loved tariffs for our
country in its national security. Okay, he's one hundred percent right.
This is a very heavily edited spot. It uses about
(04:08):
sixty seconds of what was a five minute radio address,
and the sentences there's I think there's five six sentences
that are used in all sixty seconds, and they're completely
out of order when you look at the transcript of
what Reagan said back in nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
But this is where it gets a little sticky.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Reagan was arguing for targeted and very specific tariffs, basically
arguing that they were kind of a last resort when
it came to how tariffs would be used to even
the playing field. He also argued against Congress taking power
(04:54):
away from the president who impose terariffs, which is something
that he opposed. He wanted to have the ability to
do so, and he said that there were people in
the legislature that were trying to block his ability to
do that.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
There are those in Congress.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
He referred to the Smoot Holly Act, and said, just
as we were back in the thirties, who want to
go for the quick political advantage. Who would risk America's
prosperity for the sake of a short term appeal to
some special interest group. Who forget that more than five
million American jobs directly tied to the foreign export business
and additional millions tied to imports.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Again, those are Reagan's words.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
He talked specifically about the targeted use of tariffs, not
blanket tariffs. Now Trump has been the guy who's argued
for blanket tariffs, saying that the trade imbalance today is
completely different than it was forty years ago, forty five
years ago when Reagan was in office. And he's not wrong,
(05:48):
but it is a different argument about how you use
tariffs and why you use tariffs.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Is it a complete reversal?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Perhaps, And what Ronald Reagan was saying, I don't know
if I'd go that far, but Reagan did prioritize free trade.
He did talk about free trade being important. He would
often say it was essential for human progress. The other
parts about this is, I mean, you're gonna have people
(06:16):
arguing back and forth. Would Reagan have approved tariffs that
are imposed by President Trump vice versa, He probably would
say that they are based on that radio address. The
way that Trump is using tariffs would be a trade
barrier that could hurt every American if the disputes aren't
(06:36):
worked out quickly. He talked about the immediate initial benefit
for Americans when it comes to trade tariffs, but that
if they're imposed and they stay in place too long,
they could hurt all of us. So it's kind of
one of those where it's right down the middle. Unfortunately, Yeah,
they completely butchered what Reagan said. They took everything out
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of order, but that doesn't necessarily mean they took it
out of context. Pete Hegseth Secretary of Defense or Secretary
of War. However, you see his business card. He has
announced that we struck yet another drug ferrying boat, and
there are more American war platforms that are making their
(07:18):
way towards Venezuela. We'll update that when we come back also,
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Well done, well done? Fourteen years old? That's when you
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we the United States are sending an aircraft carrier group
to the waters off South America. The USS Gerald Ford
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and its strike group to deploy to the US Southern
Command to quote bolster US capacity to detect, monitor, and
disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and
prosperity of these United States. That came from a Pentagon spokesman.
The Ford is currently deployed to the Mediterranean along with
(09:18):
three destroyers. It's going to take a few days for
the ships to make the journey towards South America. Also
announced today from the Pentagon was that the United States
conducted its tenth strike now on a suspected drug running boat,
Pete Hegseth said that this was a trend de Aragua
gang that was operating the vessel. Six people were turned
(09:43):
into fine pink mist. In a social media post, he
said the strike occurred overnight marks the second time that
the administration has tied one of its operations to Trend
de Arragua. This is a gang that originated from a
Venezuelan prison and has been the boogeyman in a lot
of a lot of administration discussions and talking points. This
(10:05):
has picked up quite a bit in terms of the
strikes on these drug ferrying boats, from one every few
weeks when they first began, to three this week, and
as of right now, we believe at least forty three
people have been killed in these strikes since September.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Also, it's not just in the Caribbean.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Earlier this week there were two strikes that were carried
out on the Pacific, expanding the area where we have
been launching these attacks and shifting to where much of
the cocaine from the world's.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Largest producers is smuggled.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Now again, Pete Hegseth said this happened in international waters
and said it was the first one that was conducted
at night. He said in a post, if you are
a narco terrorist smuggling drugs in our hemisphere, we will
treat you like we treat Al Qaeda, day or night,
all caps, we will map your networks track your people.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Hunt you down and kill you.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Still some people at this point in Congress, for example,
who are not quite sure about the legality of this.
I think John Thune, the Senate Majority leader, was asked
about it, but whether or not it is legal, and
he simply said something along the lines of I'm not
sure I can answer that. According to Elizabeth Dickinson, International
(11:23):
Crisis Group senior analyst for the Andes Region, said, the
US military's presence in that area of the world, that
area of the north end of South America, is less
about drugs than it is sending a message to countries
in the region to align with US interests. She said
that the expression she's hearing a lot is drugs are
(11:45):
the excuse, and everyone knows that. I think the message
is very clear in regional capitals for the messaging here
is US's intent on pursuing specific objectives. You can't just
be we want to kill bad guys who want to
do bad things. That's the part I don't quite understand
about the explanation now. The Wall Street Journal also reported
(12:06):
that the United States flew nuclear capable B one bombers
near Venezuela yesterday. Two B one Lancers took off from
Dias Air Force Base right in the middle of Texas
and flew near Venezuela. Though they didn't go into Venezuelan airspace.
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They stayed at international airspace. That's according to US official.
They said that they also looked at flight tracking information.
The B one can fly at supersonic speeds, carry seventy
five thousand pounds of bombs, can conduct maritime surveillance, and
the airplanes again, they haven't been moved anywhere. They just
took off from Texas, turn around and went back because
(12:48):
they're capable. I mean, the range is that high. President Trump, however, yesterday,
when asked about it, denied and said that they report
in the Wall Street Journal was not true. He did say, though,
that land is going to be next in terms of
whatever potential targeting we've done with narco traffickers on the water,
(13:12):
that the land is going to be next. He was
talking to reporters at the White House yesterday and said
that Hegseth has been asked to notify Congress of the
upcoming plans. Didn't talk about targets specifically, that he's repeatedly
said that he could order the military to escalate attacks
by hitting infrastructure on land, things like drug production facilities,
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drug trafficking facilities that are used, especially right along the
waterfront there in terms of packaging and shipping when it
comes to getting those boats into the water. So it
is possible, and no one in Congress seems to have
either the willingness or the ability to do anything about
it to call him out on this, because he's been
(13:57):
given sort of carte blanche when it comes to narco trafficking.
All right, up next, how I made a million pounds
in ninety days. Explain what that guy is and how
rich you can get very quickly.
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Speaker 2 (14:47):
What you learned this week on the Gary and Shannon
Show comes up at twelve thirty We'll also be doing
the nine newsnugget you need to know coming up. But
we're going to talk here with Uba Butler. You may
know his name if you're in the UK. I guarantee
you know his name. Filmmaker, author, journalist. He's got a
new project out called How I Made a Million Pounds
(15:07):
in ninety Days, not yet available here in the United States.
But he's done some other stuff, in fact, the Great
Amazon Heist, you can check out on wece right now.
He somehow naggled Amazon into paying for the filling of potholes,
which could be a massive pr win for them if
they did so.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Uba is joining us now to talk about this this
new ninety days trying to bs his way to a
million pounds.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Thanks for joining us, man, Thank you very much for
having me. I love the sort of beginning discussion.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I saw a write up you talked about the process
of trying to make a million pounds in ninety days
and the difference between.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Old money and new money. Talk about that first.
Speaker 9 (15:57):
Yeah, I suppose it's just you know, then he just
moved here from London to New York and I've got
cut croaches, which is awesome, but the just the kind
of I suppose there's a reverence for old money in Britain,
where you know, it is the old world. You know,
the heads of most industries, people in like politicians, most
(16:18):
people were a lot of these people disproportioned. You went
to a small group of schools, you know, they're kind
of all sort of part of the old aristocracy really.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
And here you just don't have that in the same way.
So you know, you don't have this.
Speaker 9 (16:30):
It's all just a little more open, like you don't
have the same reverence around money.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
It's just like, this is how it works. I'm going
to go and get it.
Speaker 9 (16:39):
So I suppose culturally that was a bit of a
change for me to sort of and it kind of
made sense for me to do this, to do the
project here. You know, during the project the ninety days,
I moved from London to New York.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
And yeah, it was fascinating. It was fascinating.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I make my living obviously doing this, which is weird,
but I'm more fascinated by people who can make money
using social media as a platform. And I know it's
similar to radio and TV, but the amount of money
that's available that people will just throw at influencers, at
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social media personalities.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Doesn't that surprise you?
Speaker 9 (17:17):
Well, I suppose. I mean, look, you know, I'm a
sort of, as you said, of a filmmaker, journalist type thing.
I didn't go to college or anything. I sort of
started doing it in my own time, so you know,
I could.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
I have to sort of, you.
Speaker 9 (17:28):
Know, thank the Internet for having a career. I was
working in a car factory before. So I think the
thing that I found doing this film was just where
there is money being made at the moment is in
quite interesting places.
Speaker 8 (17:43):
You know.
Speaker 9 (17:44):
The first thing I did, well, one of the first
things I did was managed to get in the room
with a billionaire and just ask them for a million,
because I just thought, well, they're reasonable, you know, it's
not much to them. Why can't I have a million?
Unfortunately he said no. But I mean in terms of
just social media people kind of utilizing their platforms, you know,
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the thing that I found was mean coins, Well, what
a lot of them are doing, which is basically like
a you know, creating their own type of crypto and
selling that, which was really interesting.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
You know, I kept on having it. No matter where
I turned.
Speaker 9 (18:18):
It seemed to be someone trying to get me to
help them flog a cryptocurrency or help them or I.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
Create my own one or whatever.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
It was just like it seemed like in the world
of Get Rich Quick, you know, mean, coins and crypto
were the kind of other thing of the moment.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
The other one I love is the idea of selling
classes on how to make money, the idea of charging
fundy and people will just fork over money left and
right for that. Usually, oh, this person must be successful
because I'm paying the money to learn how to make money.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
Yeah, I mean it's kind of yeah.
Speaker 9 (18:56):
The amount of people, like the amount of people who
have courses now, you know, kind of like I'll teach
you how to be a success.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
And look, a lot of people are struggling.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
So they people, you know, feel like they need help
and they need advice. They turn to these people, you know.
In the film, I obviously try and make my own
class called Million Dollar Ideas. While I'm trying to make
a million which is kind of had sort of nailing
it on the head.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
I put out a trailer for it.
Speaker 9 (19:20):
Two million people watch the trailer in the first twenty
four hours.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
One person bought it.
Speaker 9 (19:25):
So I think that basically what I realized making this
was that the grift often with these kind of people
who are trying to teach you how to make money
because they're successful. The way they are successful is by
convincing you that they can make you successful, if that
makes sense. It's sort of like that's where the grift
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takes place. It's convincing you that they can lead you
to the promised land of financial security. And like, you know,
when I was younger in the I grew up in
the nineties and my parents were kind of lost a
lot of money in a pyramid scheme. There was a
kind of similar well, they didn't lose a lot of money,
but they a lot lost a lot of money to them,
and it was a sort of similar type of thing
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where it's someone saying, you know, if you.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Do this, then you you'll make money.
Speaker 9 (20:10):
And then after a while they realized, oh god, I've
just been paying the money to hear that, and I
don't they didn't actually make any money from what they
were telling them to do.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Yeah, uh, did you end up waking making the million
pounds or am I gonna.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
But yeah, I mean I managed to One of the
main people in the film is a guy called Ikram
who started Venmo, which a lot of you guys will know,
I'm sure, and you know, me and him start this
company together and then it goes down the pan and
then he basically says to me, you should sell off
a piece of yourself for the rest of your life.
And a crypto hedge fund manager in Miami makes me
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the offer for a million, and we signed the contract
and then something else happens.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
But that's uh, that's kind of yeah. So yes, I
do make the money. But there's more.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Follow Butler on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Uhbazo bhs on Instagram you can find out some more information,
including the other stuff that he's been working on.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Again, how I made a million pounds in ninety.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Days on BBC Channel four and it'll eventually, we hope,
make it away over here to the United States or
find a VPN and I'm sure you can watch it
somehow cheating the internet. That's the way to do it. Uba,
Thanks for your time today. Appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
Yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
So I appreciate this absolutely Uber Butler again. Follow him
on social media. Uhbas oo b a hs.
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Shannon's out today, but she shall be back. She'll be
back on Monday. As a matter of fact, no one
needs to know why she's gone, but she's just taken.
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A day off.
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Everybody gets very upset about why she takes time off,
and we all do.
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And therefore you can't hear me. You can't hear anything.
Heather Brooker is here. Can you guys hear I can
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Gonna warn you about that too.
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There's there's uh like line in and I don't even
know what the terms are, but one of them is
very amplified and one is not. Yes, So all right,
what's going on this this weekend? And entertainment so much?
Speaker 6 (22:56):
There's some really interesting movies at the box office this weekend,
and one of them is Bogonia. This is getting a
lot of critical acclaim. It stars Emma Stone Jesse Plemons.
I don't know if you've seen the trailers for it,
but it's where she's got like a shaved head or
looks like she's painted white kind of and it's a
it's an interesting I almost want to say commentary on
(23:20):
how do I want to phrase this?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
I don't want to watch it, Okay, please do get
started with It's like a commentary on the No.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
It's a very arty film, Okay, listen. It's it's very
it's dark humor and it's really entertaining and it's very
well acted. It's about this two paranoid extremists who kidnap
a billionaire, heartless corporate CEO type who's played by Emma Stone.
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And the places that it goes are very bizarre, very strange.
The whole thing basically takes place like kind of in
a basement and during this whole kidnapped you know scenario,
and it doesn't quite follow the same kind of storyline
and those types of movies that you think will wear
a crazy extremist kidnapp a billionaire and they think they're
(24:12):
going to make a change or you know whatever. It's
really interesting. It is very arty. It's also very dark,
very violent, and a little bit graphic.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
This is also a Your Ghost Lenth the Moost thing,
and he worked with Emma Stone for Poor Things, Thank You.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Which she won the Oscar for.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
Right.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Yeah, so they apparently are, you know, similar to when
Jennifer Lawrence collaborated with Oh I'm forgetting the big director's
name that she did all those movies with the Silver
Linings playbook.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Sure, okay, that guy.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
That guy. This is a similar kind of collaboration where
a star and a director are teaming up a lot
and they are making great movies together and they like
working together.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
David or Russell, that's it, thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
So it's a similar kind of situation for her. She's
great in this movie. Jesse Plemmons is getting a ton
of attention. He's fantastic. He's like wasting away. He's on
the of Zempie and yeah, and he's like wasting away.
He's so tiny, but he's great. It's a brilliant actor.
It's a very interesting movie. I think it's gonna get
a lot of awards buzz. It may even earn her
(25:14):
another Oscar nomination.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Interesting.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
Yeah, so we'll see how that goes. And next up. Honestly,
out of all the movies we're talking about today, this
is the one that I really want everybody to see
because I'm a musical theater nerd. This is uh, We're
gonna be talking about Blue Moon stars Ethan Hawk and
Andrew Scott, and it basically tells the story you know,
(25:37):
Rogers and Hammerstein, very famous musical writers and you know lyricists.
This tells the story of Lorenz Hart, who's played by
Ethan Hawk, who was originally Richard Rogers' partner during the
nineteen thirties and forties, and they made all of these
brilliant musicals together and Connecticut Yankee Babes and arms, those
(25:58):
types of things, but they never quite reached this huge
like critical acclaim. So they split up because Lorentz Heart
had a drinking problem, he had a lot of other
issues going on, and Richard Rogers partnered with Hammerstein and
they created Oklahoma, which fundamentally changed musical theater forever. And
this tells the story of sort of like the guy
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watching somebody live out his dreams and his hopes right
in front of him.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
So this is to modernize it a little bit.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
It's probably like Brian Dunkleman on American co hosting with
Ryan Seacrest on American Idol.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
I think about that guy more often than I should.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Is that he just stand up?
Speaker 6 (26:40):
I haven't no, but I just think he must just
be punching the air on a regular basis.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Yeah, you know it wasn't going to be a big deal.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Well you never know.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
But I mean it's a different situation.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
But it's similar in that watching somebody who you were
partners with for twenty years and like, once you guys
break up, then they actually have this success. You're pointing
to Shannon, I am the ghost of Yeah, so when
she when she leaves you guys and you eventually break up,
and she gets on national television and they're going to
be just like she dumps alight and she'll be fine,
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
I'll be drunkn at I'll be drunk at Sardi's.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
So no, that's where this that's where this whole movie
takes place in the bar place one place, And somehow
they managed to make Ethan Hawk look very short in
this movie. He's not a short guy, but they make
him look really short in the whole film. It's it's
beautifully told, it's funny, it's charming, and it's also just
like one of those things that make you go, what if?
(27:37):
What if I'm the one dragging you down?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Don't go anywhere I want to, I want to push
our what's happening? I want to shrink a second because
I want to talk about this Bruce Springsteen movie too
when we come back. All right, Heather Brooker is joined
us talking about entertainment stuff. You've been listening to The
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had to ground all of its planes for several hours
because of an information technology outage, they said said in
a statement that a couple hundred flights two hundred and
twenty nine were canceled because of the outage, and that
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Speaker 3 (01:01):
Of course, Hey, Gary, Hey Shannon, love the show always listen,
and as most regular listeners do, I keep scorer at home.
Oh and I've been pouring over the scorecards since Shannon's
last suspension, and I don't see anything here that constitutes
a one day suspension. Sure, underwear talk did move the needle.
There was some boob talk, but as a female, we
(01:23):
should overlook that, right, and her genital talk per show
average is way down right. I think she should appeal.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I don't know if she can, but but she'll be
back on Monday.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
It's time for swamp watch.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar,
and when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
Here we got.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
The real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
So what I'm not going anywhere?
Speaker 7 (01:50):
So you train the squat.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
what has been. You know, Americans have always been going
at president.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Why have the people voted for you wear nap watch?
They're all canaos.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Well, here's the huge commercial, the commercial that's been paid
for by Canadian politicians to argue against American tariffs on
Canadian products.
Speaker 8 (02:19):
When someone says, let's impose tariffs on foreign imports, it
looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American
products and generals, and sometimes for a short environment works,
but only for a short time.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Okay, I'm not gonna play the whole thing. I'll just
say this.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
It came from a radio address in April of nineteen
eighty seven when President Reagan was talking specifically about the
relationship between the United States and Japan over semiconductors, and
he was talking about specific targeted tariffs on the semiconductor
industry because Japan was not playing fair. He did mention
(03:00):
also Canada as part of that. Now, our relationship with
Canada has our biggest trading partner, and it for the
most part, has been a compared to other countries, compared
to our trade deficits with other countries, our relationship with
Canada is pretty good. If you're just using the metrics
(03:23):
of how much they sell us versus how much we
sell them, it's pretty good, not the greatest good. And
President Trump has said that all trade talks with Canada
are terminated. Because of what he referred to as that
fake commercial. He said, Canada's long cheated on Terraft's chair,
(03:44):
charging our farmers as much as four hundred percent. Now
they and other countries can't take advantage of the US
any longer. All caps Canada cheated and got caught. They
fraudulently took a big buy ad saying that Reagan did
not like tariffs when actually he loved tariffs for our
country in its national security. Okay, he's one hundred percent right.
This is a very heavily edited spot. It uses about
(04:08):
sixty seconds of what was a five minute radio address,
and the sentences there's I think there's five six sentences
that are used in all sixty seconds, and they're completely
out of order when you look at the transcript of
what Reagan said back in nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
But this is where it gets a little sticky.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Reagan was arguing for targeted and very specific tariffs, basically
arguing that they were kind of a last resort when
it came to how tariffs would be used to even
the playing field. He also argued against Congress taking power
(04:54):
away from the president who impose terariffs, which is something
that he opposed. He wanted to have the ability to
do so, and he said that there were people in
the legislature that were trying to block his ability to
do that.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
There are those in Congress.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
He referred to the Smoot Holly Act, and said, just
as we were back in the thirties, who want to
go for the quick political advantage. Who would risk America's
prosperity for the sake of a short term appeal to
some special interest group. Who forget that more than five
million American jobs directly tied to the foreign export business
and additional millions tied to imports.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Again, those are Reagan's words.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
He talked specifically about the targeted use of tariffs, not
blanket tariffs. Now Trump has been the guy who's argued
for blanket tariffs, saying that the trade imbalance today is
completely different than it was forty years ago, forty five
years ago when Reagan was in office. And he's not wrong,
(05:48):
but it is a different argument about how you use
tariffs and why you use tariffs.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Is it a complete reversal?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Perhaps, And what Ronald Reagan was saying, I don't know
if I'd go that far, but Reagan did prioritize free trade.
He did talk about free trade being important. He would
often say it was essential for human progress. The other
parts about this is, I mean, you're gonna have people
(06:16):
arguing back and forth. Would Reagan have approved tariffs that
are imposed by President Trump vice versa, He probably would
say that they are based on that radio address. The
way that Trump is using tariffs would be a trade
barrier that could hurt every American if the disputes aren't
(06:36):
worked out quickly. He talked about the immediate initial benefit
for Americans when it comes to trade tariffs, but that
if they're imposed and they stay in place too long,
they could hurt all of us. So it's kind of
one of those where it's right down the middle. Unfortunately, Yeah,
they completely butchered what Reagan said. They took everything out
(06:57):
of order, but that doesn't necessarily mean they took it
out of context. Pete Hegseth Secretary of Defense or Secretary
of War. However, you see his business card. He has
announced that we struck yet another drug ferrying boat, and
there are more American war platforms that are making their
(07:18):
way towards Venezuela. We'll update that when we come back also,
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Okay, so you're fourteen? How'd you do that so fast?
It's just fourteen years. It's not one hundred and seventy
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Well done, well done? Fourteen years old? That's when you
turned fourteen. Oh yeah, that would be my freshman year
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we the United States are sending an aircraft carrier group
to the waters off South America. The USS Gerald Ford
(08:57):
and its strike group to deploy to the US Southern
Command to quote bolster US capacity to detect, monitor, and
disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and
prosperity of these United States. That came from a Pentagon spokesman.
The Ford is currently deployed to the Mediterranean along with
(09:18):
three destroyers. It's going to take a few days for
the ships to make the journey towards South America. Also
announced today from the Pentagon was that the United States
conducted its tenth strike now on a suspected drug running boat,
Pete Hegseth said that this was a trend de Aragua
gang that was operating the vessel. Six people were turned
(09:43):
into fine pink mist. In a social media post, he
said the strike occurred overnight marks the second time that
the administration has tied one of its operations to Trend
de Arragua. This is a gang that originated from a
Venezuelan prison and has been the boogeyman in a lot
of a lot of administration discussions and talking points. This
(10:05):
has picked up quite a bit in terms of the
strikes on these drug ferrying boats, from one every few
weeks when they first began, to three this week, and
as of right now, we believe at least forty three
people have been killed in these strikes since September.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Also, it's not just in the Caribbean.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Earlier this week there were two strikes that were carried
out on the Pacific, expanding the area where we have
been launching these attacks and shifting to where much of
the cocaine from the world's.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Largest producers is smuggled.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Now again, Pete Hegseth said this happened in international waters
and said it was the first one that was conducted
at night. He said in a post, if you are
a narco terrorist smuggling drugs in our hemisphere, we will
treat you like we treat Al Qaeda, day or night,
all caps, we will map your networks track your people.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Hunt you down and kill you.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Still some people at this point in Congress, for example,
who are not quite sure about the legality of this.
I think John Thune, the Senate Majority leader, was asked
about it, but whether or not it is legal, and
he simply said something along the lines of I'm not
sure I can answer that. According to Elizabeth Dickinson, International
(11:23):
Crisis Group senior analyst for the Andes Region, said, the
US military's presence in that area of the world, that
area of the north end of South America, is less
about drugs than it is sending a message to countries
in the region to align with US interests. She said
that the expression she's hearing a lot is drugs are
(11:45):
the excuse, and everyone knows that. I think the message
is very clear in regional capitals for the messaging here
is US's intent on pursuing specific objectives. You can't just
be we want to kill bad guys who want to
do bad things. That's the part I don't quite understand
about the explanation now. The Wall Street Journal also reported
(12:06):
that the United States flew nuclear capable B one bombers
near Venezuela yesterday. Two B one Lancers took off from
Dias Air Force Base right in the middle of Texas
and flew near Venezuela. Though they didn't go into Venezuelan airspace.
(12:27):
They stayed at international airspace. That's according to US official.
They said that they also looked at flight tracking information.
The B one can fly at supersonic speeds, carry seventy
five thousand pounds of bombs, can conduct maritime surveillance, and
the airplanes again, they haven't been moved anywhere. They just
took off from Texas, turn around and went back because
(12:48):
they're capable. I mean, the range is that high. President Trump, however, yesterday,
when asked about it, denied and said that they report
in the Wall Street Journal was not true. He did say, though,
that land is going to be next in terms of
whatever potential targeting we've done with narco traffickers on the water,
(13:12):
that the land is going to be next. He was
talking to reporters at the White House yesterday and said
that Hegseth has been asked to notify Congress of the
upcoming plans. Didn't talk about targets specifically, that he's repeatedly
said that he could order the military to escalate attacks
by hitting infrastructure on land, things like drug production facilities,
(13:34):
drug trafficking facilities that are used, especially right along the
waterfront there in terms of packaging and shipping when it
comes to getting those boats into the water. So it
is possible, and no one in Congress seems to have
either the willingness or the ability to do anything about
it to call him out on this, because he's been
(13:57):
given sort of carte blanche when it comes to narco trafficking.
All right, up next, how I made a million pounds
in ninety days. Explain what that guy is and how
rich you can get very quickly.
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Speaker 2 (14:47):
What you learned this week on the Gary and Shannon
Show comes up at twelve thirty We'll also be doing
the nine newsnugget you need to know coming up. But
we're going to talk here with Uba Butler. You may
know his name if you're in the UK. I guarantee
you know his name. Filmmaker, author, journalist. He's got a
new project out called How I Made a Million Pounds
(15:07):
in ninety Days, not yet available here in the United States.
But he's done some other stuff, in fact, the Great
Amazon Heist, you can check out on wece right now.
He somehow naggled Amazon into paying for the filling of potholes,
which could be a massive pr win for them if
they did so.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Uba is joining us now to talk about this this
new ninety days trying to bs his way to a
million pounds.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Thanks for joining us, man, Thank you very much for
having me. I love the sort of beginning discussion.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I saw a write up you talked about the process
of trying to make a million pounds in ninety days
and the difference between.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Old money and new money. Talk about that first.
Speaker 9 (15:57):
Yeah, I suppose it's just you know, then he just
moved here from London to New York and I've got
cut croaches, which is awesome, but the just the kind
of I suppose there's a reverence for old money in Britain,
where you know, it is the old world. You know,
the heads of most industries, people in like politicians, most
(16:18):
people were a lot of these people disproportioned. You went
to a small group of schools, you know, they're kind
of all sort of part of the old aristocracy really.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
And here you just don't have that in the same way.
So you know, you don't have this.
Speaker 9 (16:30):
It's all just a little more open, like you don't
have the same reverence around money.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
It's just like, this is how it works. I'm going
to go and get it.
Speaker 9 (16:39):
So I suppose culturally that was a bit of a
change for me to sort of and it kind of
made sense for me to do this, to do the
project here. You know, during the project the ninety days,
I moved from London to New York.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
And yeah, it was fascinating. It was fascinating.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I make my living obviously doing this, which is weird,
but I'm more fascinated by people who can make money
using social media as a platform. And I know it's
similar to radio and TV, but the amount of money
that's available that people will just throw at influencers, at
(17:13):
social media personalities.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Doesn't that surprise you?
Speaker 9 (17:17):
Well, I suppose. I mean, look, you know, I'm a
sort of, as you said, of a filmmaker, journalist type thing.
I didn't go to college or anything. I sort of
started doing it in my own time, so you know,
I could.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
I have to sort of, you.
Speaker 9 (17:28):
Know, thank the Internet for having a career. I was
working in a car factory before. So I think the
thing that I found doing this film was just where
there is money being made at the moment is in
quite interesting places.
Speaker 8 (17:43):
You know.
Speaker 9 (17:44):
The first thing I did, well, one of the first
things I did was managed to get in the room
with a billionaire and just ask them for a million,
because I just thought, well, they're reasonable, you know, it's
not much to them. Why can't I have a million?
Unfortunately he said no. But I mean in terms of
just social media people kind of utilizing their platforms, you know,
(18:04):
the thing that I found was mean coins, Well, what
a lot of them are doing, which is basically like
a you know, creating their own type of crypto and
selling that, which was really interesting.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
You know, I kept on having it. No matter where
I turned.
Speaker 9 (18:18):
It seemed to be someone trying to get me to
help them flog a cryptocurrency or help them or I.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
Create my own one or whatever.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
It was just like it seemed like in the world
of Get Rich Quick, you know, mean, coins and crypto
were the kind of other thing of the moment.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
The other one I love is the idea of selling
classes on how to make money, the idea of charging
fundy and people will just fork over money left and
right for that. Usually, oh, this person must be successful
because I'm paying the money to learn how to make money.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
Yeah, I mean it's kind of yeah.
Speaker 9 (18:56):
The amount of people, like the amount of people who
have courses now, you know, kind of like I'll teach
you how to be a success.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
And look, a lot of people are struggling.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
So they people, you know, feel like they need help
and they need advice. They turn to these people, you know.
In the film, I obviously try and make my own
class called Million Dollar Ideas. While I'm trying to make
a million which is kind of had sort of nailing
it on the head.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
I put out a trailer for it.
Speaker 9 (19:20):
Two million people watch the trailer in the first twenty
four hours.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
One person bought it.
Speaker 9 (19:25):
So I think that basically what I realized making this
was that the grift often with these kind of people
who are trying to teach you how to make money
because they're successful. The way they are successful is by
convincing you that they can make you successful, if that
makes sense. It's sort of like that's where the grift
(19:45):
takes place. It's convincing you that they can lead you
to the promised land of financial security. And like, you know,
when I was younger in the I grew up in
the nineties and my parents were kind of lost a
lot of money in a pyramid scheme. There was a
kind of similar well, they didn't lose a lot of money,
but they a lot lost a lot of money to them,
and it was a sort of similar type of thing
(20:06):
where it's someone saying, you know, if you.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Do this, then you you'll make money.
Speaker 9 (20:10):
And then after a while they realized, oh god, I've
just been paying the money to hear that, and I
don't they didn't actually make any money from what they
were telling them to do.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Yeah, uh, did you end up waking making the million
pounds or am I gonna.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
But yeah, I mean I managed to One of the
main people in the film is a guy called Ikram
who started Venmo, which a lot of you guys will know,
I'm sure, and you know, me and him start this
company together and then it goes down the pan and
then he basically says to me, you should sell off
a piece of yourself for the rest of your life.
And a crypto hedge fund manager in Miami makes me
(20:47):
the offer for a million, and we signed the contract
and then something else happens.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
But that's uh, that's kind of yeah. So yes, I
do make the money. But there's more.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Follow Butler on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Uhbazo bhs on Instagram you can find out some more information,
including the other stuff that he's been working on.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Again, how I made a million pounds in ninety.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Days on BBC Channel four and it'll eventually, we hope,
make it away over here to the United States or
find a VPN and I'm sure you can watch it
somehow cheating the internet. That's the way to do it. Uba,
Thanks for your time today. Appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
Yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
So I appreciate this absolutely Uber Butler again. Follow him
on social media. Uhbas oo b a hs.
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A day off.
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And therefore you can't hear me. You can't hear anything.
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Gonna warn you about that too.
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There's there's uh like line in and I don't even
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very amplified and one is not. Yes, So all right,
what's going on this this weekend? And entertainment so much?
Speaker 6 (22:56):
There's some really interesting movies at the box office this weekend,
and one of them is Bogonia. This is getting a
lot of critical acclaim. It stars Emma Stone Jesse Plemons.
I don't know if you've seen the trailers for it,
but it's where she's got like a shaved head or
looks like she's painted white kind of and it's a
it's an interesting I almost want to say commentary on
(23:20):
how do I want to phrase this?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
I don't want to watch it, Okay, please do get
started with It's like a commentary on the No.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
It's a very arty film, Okay, listen. It's it's very
it's dark humor and it's really entertaining and it's very
well acted. It's about this two paranoid extremists who kidnap
a billionaire, heartless corporate CEO type who's played by Emma Stone.
(23:51):
And the places that it goes are very bizarre, very strange.
The whole thing basically takes place like kind of in
a basement and during this whole kidnapped you know scenario,
and it doesn't quite follow the same kind of storyline
and those types of movies that you think will wear
a crazy extremist kidnapp a billionaire and they think they're
(24:12):
going to make a change or you know whatever. It's
really interesting. It is very arty. It's also very dark,
very violent, and a little bit graphic.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
This is also a Your Ghost Lenth the Moost thing,
and he worked with Emma Stone for Poor Things, Thank You.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Which she won the Oscar for.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
Right.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Yeah, so they apparently are, you know, similar to when
Jennifer Lawrence collaborated with Oh I'm forgetting the big director's
name that she did all those movies with the Silver
Linings playbook.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Sure, okay, that guy.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
That guy. This is a similar kind of collaboration where
a star and a director are teaming up a lot
and they are making great movies together and they like
working together.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
David or Russell, that's it, thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
So it's a similar kind of situation for her. She's
great in this movie. Jesse Plemmons is getting a ton
of attention. He's fantastic. He's like wasting away. He's on
the of Zempie and yeah, and he's like wasting away.
He's so tiny, but he's great. It's a brilliant actor.
It's a very interesting movie. I think it's gonna get
a lot of awards buzz. It may even earn her
(25:14):
another Oscar nomination.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Interesting.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
Yeah, so we'll see how that goes. And next up. Honestly,
out of all the movies we're talking about today, this
is the one that I really want everybody to see
because I'm a musical theater nerd. This is uh, We're
gonna be talking about Blue Moon stars Ethan Hawk and
Andrew Scott, and it basically tells the story you know,
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Rogers and Hammerstein, very famous musical writers and you know lyricists.
This tells the story of Lorenz Hart, who's played by
Ethan Hawk, who was originally Richard Rogers' partner during the
nineteen thirties and forties, and they made all of these
brilliant musicals together and Connecticut Yankee Babes and arms, those
(25:58):
types of things, but they never quite reached this huge
like critical acclaim. So they split up because Lorentz Heart
had a drinking problem, he had a lot of other
issues going on, and Richard Rogers partnered with Hammerstein and
they created Oklahoma, which fundamentally changed musical theater forever. And
this tells the story of sort of like the guy
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watching somebody live out his dreams and his hopes right
in front of him.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
So this is to modernize it a little bit.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
It's probably like Brian Dunkleman on American co hosting with
Ryan Seacrest on American Idol.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
I think about that guy more often than I should.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Is that he just stand up?
Speaker 6 (26:40):
I haven't no, but I just think he must just
be punching the air on a regular basis.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Yeah, you know it wasn't going to be a big deal.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Well you never know.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
But I mean it's a different situation.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
But it's similar in that watching somebody who you were
partners with for twenty years and like, once you guys
break up, then they actually have this success. You're pointing
to Shannon, I am the ghost of Yeah, so when
she when she leaves you guys and you eventually break up,
and she gets on national television and they're going to
be just like she dumps alight and she'll be fine,
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
I'll be drunkn at I'll be drunk at Sardi's.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
So no, that's where this that's where this whole movie
takes place in the bar place one place, And somehow
they managed to make Ethan Hawk look very short in
this movie. He's not a short guy, but they make
him look really short in the whole film. It's it's
beautifully told, it's funny, it's charming, and it's also just
like one of those things that make you go, what if?
(27:37):
What if I'm the one dragging you down?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Don't go anywhere I want to, I want to push
our what's happening? I want to shrink a second because
I want to talk about this Bruce Springsteen movie too
when we come back. All right, Heather Brooker is joined
us talking about entertainment stuff. You've been listening to The
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