August 19, 2024 • 28 mins
Gary and Shannon are LIVE at the Democratic National Convention!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, welcome to Chicago.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
We've been up since three am Pacific time.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
By the way, Yeah, this is a weird.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I've already had a few days to adjust the Central
time and I'm still not adjusted to Central time.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Well, the good news is is we get to go
to the bathroom together. We already have gone to the
bathroom together there on that Well we did we not
walk into a bathroom together, Yes.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
But against my better judgment, and I turned around and
immediately walked out.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Right, that's not good.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
You you turned about sixteen shades of red as you
walked in because it was one of those unisex bathrooms,
neutral bathroom. But we went in and it was all
women in there, which I don't understand because there's female bathrooms,
there's male bathrooms, and then there's the gender neutral bathrooms.
And like my issue in Philly was, you know, sitting
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down to pee and seeing.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
A do you would shoes.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
In the stall next to me and he's pointed for
me and all that separated my face from his genitals
because you meet, because that's what you used to urinate
was a thin partition, and it was really troubling to me.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Well, we are live at the United Center here in
Chicago for this week's Democratic National Convention. We desperately wanted
to go to the Republican National Convention, but could not
get that together in terms of the sales department. So
we are here because we knew that this was going
to be a show. I think that's probably the best
way to put it. It's going to be a show.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
So I've already run a foul with some of the
people here. I was on a flight Southwest Lax to
Chicago Midway specifically, and Karen Bass was on my flight.
Mayor Karen Bass and producer Oscar pointed her out and
she was sitting I think she was singing an exit
row right, So maybe a little bit of an optimal
(02:00):
problem there, maybe a little bit of an elite thing.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
The exit row on Southwest is a big flex. It
means I'm important.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I didn't know that. I didn't know that. Oh yeah,
call that extra legroom. Come on, all right. So, uh
so I got off the.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Plane first because I was further up in the seating
and I waited in the jetway for the mayor and
she comes out and I immediately accost her by saying,
I didn't know what to say, like, you know, the
more I try to seem cool or act cool, the
(02:34):
more I make a fool of myself pretty routinely, yeah,
pretty routinely. And it's just it's just something that I
need to get over and accept. But I saw her
and I said, Mayor Bass, Hi, my name is Shannon.
I do a radio show in LA and you looked
so good.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
At the Olympics. I was, and.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I said, I've spent all week talking about your dress.
And as soon as I said that, I'm like, what
the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Like that? Who are you hitting on? The woman?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Like what are you doing? And she looked at me
kind of blankly, like what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
And I said, I don't know who your people are.
She's like this guy right here, and I was like
all right. So then I grab him and I'm like,
can I give me your phone number? Give me your
phone number. I didn't even say introduce myself. I didn't
get his name. I just said give me your phone number.
He gave me a number I don't even know if
that's his phone number. I sounded like a crazy person,
Like you looked great in that dress. Hey, you give
me your number because I want to talk to her,
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but I'm going to go through you.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah. Well, I mean that's why you do it. But
you know, so we apoliticize. We have seen the mayor.
Mayor Bass was on CNN this morning.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
She had walked right past our little area here and
ignored us.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah she did.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
If she saw me, she probably ran for the hills.
Like there's that weird, creepy woman who likes to talk
about my clothing. Not creepy and like that's such a
like it's such like a woman thing too write, Like
here's this powerful woman, I mean, agree or disagree.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
She's the mayor of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yeah, and I had to reduce her to her dress.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Like how anti woman was that?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
But it was a compliment. I mean you say, like
that dress didn't fit you?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You looked great in that dress. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Here at the United Center, they have opened the doors,
but most of the delegates probably won't be here until
much later this afternoon because the activities really don't start
until later this afternoon. So that's when we'll see a
lot of the activity. But there's still plenty of people
that we've already seen. Minority Speaker I'm sorry, Minority Leader
(04:32):
Haqeen Jeffries came through a little bit earlier. The Reverend
Al Sharpton is here. There's a bunch of different celebrities, etc.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
That Will Rosserman Schultz has escaped from the closet in Philadelphia,
apparently still working with the DNC.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
So funny that that was eight years ago and you
still that's what we remember.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Well, it was a complete mess.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I mean, all of the people that felt that Bernie
Sanders was sandbagged by the machine that she represented. So
there was the breakfast this morning. Oscar actually tried to
get to go to this and I think I threatened
to jump off a roof before I went. But there
was a delegates breakfast this morning. Chuck Schumer was there,
Jaqem Jeffries was there. And the big message coming out
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of that was Hopey, changey. That's what they're that's what
they're doing.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Hope, change Joy, Joy, don't forget joy.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Vice President Kamala Harris Jeffries told reporters represents hope, she
represents change well.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
There has been the excitement that's been generated about the
campaign means they don't have to talk about specifics, and
this week they especially don't have to talk about specifics because,
like I said.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
At the beginning, this is a giant show.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
It's a choreographed movie, right, every there's not going to
be any surprises. Everyone's going to be polished. It's going
to be cheerleading. You're gonna see Biden tonight, you're going
to see Hillary Clinton. So out with the old on Monday,
in with the new, and you're gonna have Obama. You're
gonna have Bill Clinton speaking. It's his birthday. By the way,
we don't have a clock. You got a clock on
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your big clock says it's nine to twelve.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah, because in California, right, it's nine to twelve.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Listen, It's like it would be outlandish for it to
be nine to twelve.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
But we got here too early to begin with.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
And then I saw the time on the computer and
I thought we were two hours even earlier.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Well, and this is going to be a weird time
because I think, more so than we saw eight years ago,
the protests are going to be an issue.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
We'll actually talk more about them. At the bottom of
the hour, we'll get into what we.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Saw last night, some of the protests around town, what
we can expect today because the biggest protest is only
going to take place about four or five blocks away
from where we are right now.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Here's a fun fact. There's no caffeine in this building. Odd.
It's very odd they do.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I mean it's a basketball slash hockey arena. So there's
all kinds of concession stands and not one.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Drop of coffee or diet coke. For some same I'm
going to kill someone for a diet coke. That guy's
got child water from somewhere.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Chilled water is not diet coke, I mean the cancer
causing chemicals.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
We're still in regular show stuff, some of it.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
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Speaker 1 (07:17):
I've spent more time on a deep dive of this
Michael Jordan's statue than I have anything convention related.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yeah, this is what we're going to look at for
the next several days.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Is this giant statue of Michael Jordan slammed dunking on
someone that you can't.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Tell who it is or man who is just like
this ambiguous NBA player And Michael Jordan's ass is right
on top of his head. Yeah, I mean, and you
can imagine he's really sweaty at that point in the game.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
And that man is black.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Guys got lucky wet on his head and he's a
lucky man for It's awful. I'm surprised there's not more
shows here in this media media area. Oh there's a
bunch of them over there. Oh oh, well, because it was.
It was just like it was in Philadelphia. It was
just like show show. I mean it was it was
table after table after table.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
We actually have a nice setup so we get to
judge people from up here.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
That's nice.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
We do. We probably have the best set up place
of height.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah, we look because on the one side is the
Michael Jordan statute, which is actually the most popular landmark
probably here outside of the unit or in the United
Center and outside of the arena itself. But everybody's taking
pictures in front of that and taking pictures of it,
and they're not paying attention to us.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Do you think that that was totally fun? Do you
think that would.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Result in an arrest or just a detaining situation.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I don't think you'd get very f I don't know
if you've noticed, but there are law enforcement officers agency.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I think I could just jump that that that fencing,
that what would you call it?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Oh, they're by Mayor bass Is just yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I knew she was going to be a show dodger.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I could tell the first there's that creepy lady that
curned me about my dress.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
First official show dodger.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
But I think I could, in one swift motion get
over that barrier and make my way onto the statue.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I doubt it. That's a pretty long leap between the
barrier and the standards. Why I should have worn pants.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
That's why you should have worn pants. There is other
stuff that's going on around the world.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
We talked.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
We found out this morning Phil Donahue died. Phil Donahue,
at the age of eighty eight, died at his home,
surrounded by his family. The family said he had a
long illness. Later today, back in La Da George Gascone
is going to announce criminal charges in that shooting of
General Hospital actor Johnny Whacter. But there was also speaking
of George Gascon an La Times poll that came out
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today that suggested that Nathan Hockman has forty five percent
of the support compared to twenty percent for George Gascon.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I have been double the support for Nathan Hoffman.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I'm curious about that polling who was spoken to, because
that kind of gives you a false sense of security,
doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
You mean like likely voters versus registered voters. They said
it was likely voters, so that's probably more securate than others.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
That was one of the things I was going to
ask Karen bass Is if she has given her support
to George Gascon.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
That was going to be my hard hitting question. Oh,
that would be a good one.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
There are six major protests planned on the streets of
Chicago during the DNC. The biggest is planned for today.
We'll talk about it coming up next. Tens of thousands
expected to march just blocks from the United Center.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Here, and a little bit of action last night. Not
a lot in terms of protests. There were a couple
of arrests, but it was people spray painting things where
they shouldn't have. Tonight is going to be again all
of this is a show, So it's going to start
the show tonight. They have some afternoon business that they
have to do with the delegates.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
They actually do.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
A party platform vote, they report voting results for the nomination,
they affirm the vice presidential nominee as well, and they're
doing a thing here again to lean into this word
that this is a show. They have celebrity hosts each
and every night. So tonight the host is Tony Goldwyn
from the.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You're going to have to help me out with that one.
Tony Goldwyn. This is the actor right here. That's the
picture of them. I have no idea who this is.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
He was in the show with Kerry Washington where he
was the president or she was the president.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
He was having an affair with her.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I didn't watch any of it. Scandal, thank you, she's beautiful.
Kerry Washington is actually going to host Thursday Night. So
Tony Goldwyn is going to be the host for tonight's tonight.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Oh he was.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
He was in Friday the thirteenth, Part six. Jason Lives
also not that was off of my radar. Any of
the bad Guy and Ghost. Yes, okay, yeah, all right,
I need a nice I need a nice, strong nineteen
ninety reference to really figure out who people are.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Now it's tight end, now you get it. They have
a theme for tonight. It's called for the People, and
the list of speakers is going to start with Show Dodger.
Karen Vass, the mayor of Los Angeles. She's going to
speak after Tony Goldwin. And then you've got some very
familiar names. Andy Basheer, one of the names that was
you know, thrown around us as possible vice presidential candidate.
(12:30):
Jill Biden, doctor Jill Biden. Of course this is in
alphabetical order, so it's not I don't know the exacts.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Order that they're going to speak. Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
I can't wait. Former First Lady and former Secretary of State.
I'm being facetious. Chris Coons.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
We've already seen him walking around here. The senator from
Delaware will speak. Sean Fain, President of the U a W.
The New York Governor Kathy Hochel will be around, the
Mayor of Chicago, Brandon.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Johnny, exhausted with this list, is going to welcome everybody.
How many hours does this show go on?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
It's about three, two or three depending on how long
people speak. And then the closer tonight they do say
that Reverend Jesse Jackson will be around, that he is
going to speak.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
What about a musical number? Will there be a musical guest?
I didn't see any.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
There are concerts in town this week, but I didn't
see any for the specific. Are you talking about the
rumors that it's going to be Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
That's a bunch of boloney, because then they look like
the elite party, right. If they can pull Taylor Swift
and Beyonce, then it's then it's what was that?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
It's a message? Oh from my wife? Oh what did
she say? It sounds good? Oh good? Yeah, good good?
So how is Texas? Are we going to do that?
Are we going to talk about Texas? Let's do that
when we come back.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Now, we're going to talk about protests when we come back.
We'll wait, We'll wait till the end of the hour
to do Texas. Because I had to drop my daughter
off right at college grad school.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Specific and I was worried about your mental health. How
do you okay?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
You've seen me for several hours now after we met
at the airport.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Yeah, goot, dinner, you had more luggage than I did.
I had more luggage than you did.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah, yeah, we did. Well, let's let's talk about your
mental health coming up later. We're up against a break
and that's going to take a lot to unpack.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
The keynote speaker tonight, of course, is the President of
the United States.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I don't know if you've seen that. Oh I did
see that. So he will be speaking later. Is that
going to be after eight.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Pm eight pm Eastern time?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Definitely? Or no?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah, after eight pm Eastern time? So babe, listen, I
think I'm the one who needs the naw.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Clocks are tough, I know.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
So we were walking around in the uh the bowels of.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
The vowels, thank you for that term.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Well, we were looking specifically for the gender neutral bathrooms,
which we found.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
We did find those pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
We also found the gender neutral prayer area. I post
did this on our Instagram story at Gary and Shannon.
But there's this like curtained off area in the bowels
so to speak, or on the concourse because this is
a basketball arena, right, and there's a just like a
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big black curtain, and on the left side it says
women's prayer area, and then in the middle it says
men's prayer area, and then on the far right it
said gender neutral prayer area. That was a little bit confusing.
I think, well, I bet there would be a prayer
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area period, and then we've got to break it down
to the sexes, like I don't want to pray alongside
Some places pray with men and women and children and everybody.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Right, not every church.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Really, there are different religions where you're not supposed to
do that.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Oh I had no idea, Yes I don't. I knew
everything about religion.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Those same religion to me saying religions would not necessarily
be comfortable with a gender neutral prayer area either, they
do the two and they wouldn't go for a third.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
And then there were the people behind the curtain that
said visibility volunteers. There was a hell as a visibility volunteer.
Is that like people that come out of from the
curtain and they go up to strangers and they go,
I see you, I hear you.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I honestly think so.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
And it's funny because it was a it was a
comedy bit as we're walking through there, there's a bunch
of stuff that's kind of cordoned off for people, and
they're smaller private areas.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Whether it's like.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
The Democratic National I think it's the Congressional Democrats have
an area that's kind of cordoned off. They have a
whole bank of phones back there and they're drumming up
of fundraising and all that sort of stuff. So there's that,
there's all these little smaller spaces in that space. Was
this visibility visibility cordeer?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
And as we're walking through, you said, what the hell.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Is a visibility volunteer? And this woman behind the.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Curtains, she's like, that's me, that's me who was completely invisible. Now, wait,
do you get to pick the gender of the person
who gets to see you and feel you and hear you? Like,
can I get a gender neutral visibility volunteer?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
You were speaking in languages that I don't quite comprehend.
So I mean, because the question is why when we
walked into the gender neutral restroom, was it all women?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Because as a woman, I'm more particular about only wanting
to pee with other women, and I would think that
other women felt the same way. But there was like
six women in there that were cool with like you
going in there, sitting at a stall next to them.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I don't know if they were because they were in
their own read.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Flinch when you walked in. It's not one of those
women flinched.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
The big show will continue to be the protest that
is going to be a massive story this week here
in Chicago. Last night there were the There were some protests.
They weren't very large, they were loud, according to Chicago
Police Department. They only arrested a couple of people. But
it was the first of seven protests that took place
last night. Was right along Michigan a Michigan Avagoot Avenue,
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not too far away from our hotel.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
So there are six major protests planned. The biggest is
planned for today. They say tens of thousands will march
just blocks from where we are now inside.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
The United Center. They say it's a family friendly march.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
It was organized under a pro Palestinian umbrella coalition that
includes groups devoted to a variety of causes. Others are
being bussed in from Michigan, Minnesota, Indiana, Wisconsin. Activists coming
from New York and California. It was clear who on
that Southwest plane was an activates.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yeah, they did really have luggage.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I did the same exact thing in terms of trying
to see who was boarding a plane in Dallas to
come here for that reason, and there were a couple
people you could tell that they were I don't know
if they were here to protest or they were coming
here to protest, but they were definitely here, not because
they had any official business with the Democratic National Convention, right,
So that was an interesting experiment just in terms of
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looking in the airplane terminal or airport terminal there.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
They say the switch up at the top of the
ticket prompted a conversation in the pro Palestinian movement about tactics.
They were going to plan on being here obviously when
Biden was at the top of the ticket, and they
thought this would be the biggest stage to argue that
the US should change his policies toward Israel. Harris, who
called for a ceasefire earlier than some others, made some
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activists wonder about maybe taking a softer approach. So they
met and decided Nope, full steam ahead.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Yeah, there's a thing that I think that they run
the risk of, and that is watering down each of
their individual messages. I mean, there are literally two hundred
and fifty four different protest groups that have said that
they will participate on in these protests.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
The majority of.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Them are going to be concentrating on Palestinian rights, ending
the war in Gaza, reducing USA to Israel.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
But when you've got.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Others that come in, I mean there's literally a group
called Shout Your Abortion. So they're going to water down
each other's message by not necessarily conflicting messages, but they're
they're just they're they're flooding the zone with too much,
too much message.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Some time we're going to have to talk about the
mobile abortion units and the soldering stations for men to
get their best sectomies.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Planned Parenthood has a mobile. Awful, Clint, It's just awful, Like,
what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
That's that's strengthening the other side's argument against what you want.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Well, one of the.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Things that Jade Vance was talking about when when he
made his uh, you know, old ladies, old cat ladies
comment was that there's less of an emphasis on families. Now,
what worst way to highlight that than to have a
mobile abortion clinic and vas sectomy clinic.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Right, I mean, you've got I mean, the vasectomy thing's
kind of funny, but you've got the Republicans out there
at podiums screaming to the whole world that you want
to abort people in the eighth or ninth month, or
or in the fifth grade, according to some Republicans. Right,
what better way to highlight that for them than rolling
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in a mobile abortion clinic to your coming out party
in Chicago. It's ridiculous. You're not doing yourself any favors.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Again.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Those protests, the largest of which expected today, we'll continue
throughout the week we're here. At any time that we
see anything, we're definitely going to go out and check
it out up next though, I had an interesting couple
of days because I had to take some time off
and go out to Texas. My daughter's headed off to
grad school. I'm fine, everything's fine. You seem to be okay,
(21:54):
it's fine.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
You are you right?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
You want me to go get somebody to give you
a hug, Well, there's a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I'll go down to the gender neutral hug area and
see fighter peel off a couple quick ones, all right,
Gary and Shannon will continue live.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
A couple quick ones live in Chicago United Center for
the Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
But just remind everybody we're alive today in Chicago, will
be here all week for the Democratic National Convention and
the show that exists not just in the arena today
but throughout the entire city.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
It's going to be interesting. It is everywhere.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
It's gonna be interesting to see how they use Biden
tonight or this afternoon. Last week, I read that it
was going to be a curtain opening speech, that he
would not be the closer. And so if he's going
to be one of the first guys.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
That's coffee, Yeah, that is coffee. Yeah. Where did that
come from?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I don't know, But of the list of people that
we saw who would close, I mean, he's the prime.
You can't not have him as the closer on I know.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
But that's what they said last week, that he would
be a curtain opening. It wouldn't even be the main centerpiece.
But it's really awkward because he's the sitting president. Yeah,
and he is kind of forced to go on the
worst day being it Monday, and then it's going to
raise all these questions.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
If he screws up or if he stutters or what
have you.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Mental exercise though, if you're in that planning meeting where
they're like, okay, we got four days. We know that
that Harris is going to speak on Thursday and officially
accept the nomination. We know that Walts is going to
speak on Wednesday and officially accept his nomination.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
When do we put the president on?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
And would have I would have said, you put him
on on Thursday to officially pass the torch right to
his vice president as the nominee on Thursday, that he's
the one who introduces him.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
They're kind of hiding him away on a Monday.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Yeah, it doesn't seem it doesn't seem to make sense,
but we'll talk about it.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
We'll see what he says tonight.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Of course, all right, guys, you need to find out
and get to the bottom of why there would be
no diet coke and no copy.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
In the whole arena. That's very bizarre. Is there pepsi
or there's just no diet coach? I think it is building.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I'm gonna go in the next break and find if
that because I did see PEPSI like I saw a
like a concession stand like that would be open for
the basketball game, and they did have PEPSI there. I'm
gonna like go and I'm gonna go on that mission
for us.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Okay, yea Goldwyn is Goldwyn as in Metro Goldwyn Mayor.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Good point. The guy comes from monumental amounts of Hollywood money.
He is richer than by Jesus. That's who Tony is.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, that would make sense. Richer than Jesus. Jesus was
a poor man. Jesus didn't even have you know, full shoes.
Jesus had sandals. Not a lot of guys had like
air Force ones. That's a good point. But Jesus isn't
known for having money.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
He was poor. He was born in a freaking barn. Manger, Manger, I.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Love listening to your show and your broadcasters because it
gives me local news. But really, I feel like, are
you guys really unbiased? I mean, when are you gonna
call Robert F. Kennedy Junior and have him on the show,
because we feel like we need to hear what he
stands for and what his policies are going to be
(25:30):
when he's president?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
You know, November? I actually wait at January?
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Can you tell I didn't pay attention and stead.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Yes, I actually wouldn't be surprised if if R. F.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
K Junior does make his way through here this.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I haven't heard anything specifically, but it would kind of
behoove him.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I think it's it's not a good sign that he
reached out to the Harris campaign last week and there
was talk that he was asking for a cabinet position
and they didn't take the meeting with him. He reached
out to the Trump people a few weeks ago for
maybe a cabinet position health or something like that, so
you can keep all the vaccines out of your kids arms.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I think it's that's what you would want. I mean,
we can't.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
That's what you would want in somebody who would be
willing to serve in either of the administrations.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
I think, what do you mean somebody that wants it?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Well, I mean think of it in the terms of
somebody that would present themselves for an interview with us.
Do we want them? Well, you know, I'm just I
just argued your point. Never mind, I was going to.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Say, you don't want anyone that wants us that's a
that's yeah, that's it. I want the people we can't
get okay.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
So this weekend or this previous weekend, I flew up
from Texas because I was out there to help move
our daughter to grad school, set her up in her apartment,
get everything figured out.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
We even went to the DMV.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Well it wasn't the DMV, but it was like the
county tax assessor office to get license plates for the car.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Do you do you know what that's like?
Speaker 4 (27:04):
No?
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Do you know how easy it was to walk in
and say, I need to register the car in the
state of Texas And they said great.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
So they weren't all flunkies like in r DMV.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
So then you walk in and he says, how can
I help you, and my daughter says, we're registering my
car in Texas.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
And he reaches over and he grabs two new, brand.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
New license plates out of a random drawer to the
next to the side of him, and he's like, okay,
we just got a couple of things here, and they'll,
you know, pay the tax on the flow.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
You'd have to wait for three weeks for him to
show up in the mail. Incredible. He didn't give it.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
He didn't ask for birth certificates or anything like that.
A lot of trust on that I needed to prove
insurance coverage levels and things like that. But anyway, we
got a lot of that stuff done and it was
very nice and she's she's set up and it was
very tarf, very tarf, very what tarf what its TRD?
And tough the same time. Yeah, but you saw me yesterday.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
You didn't think I was a I didn't think you
were a broken man. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
No, but sometimes these things take time. They start to
settle in, they start to seep in, they get into your.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Bones, come out at the most inopportune times.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Could still happen.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
It could still be a long week because also you're
running on not a lot of sleep, and you might
be a complete disaster. You may be the one to
climb the Michael Jordan statue.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Yeah, even though you were the one that you thought
you were going to do that. Berrie Sanders, awesome, thank you.
That's great.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Live today United Center there for the Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Wonderful. You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, welcome to Chicago.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
We've been up since three am Pacific time.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
By the way, Yeah, this is a weird.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I've already had a few days to adjust the Central
time and I'm still not adjusted to Central time.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Well, the good news is is we get to go
to the bathroom together. We already have gone to the
bathroom together there on that Well we did we not
walk into a bathroom together, Yes.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
But against my better judgment, and I turned around and
immediately walked out.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Right, that's not good.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
You you turned about sixteen shades of red as you
walked in because it was one of those unisex bathrooms,
neutral bathroom. But we went in and it was all
women in there, which I don't understand because there's female bathrooms,
there's male bathrooms, and then there's the gender neutral bathrooms.
And like my issue in Philly was, you know, sitting
(00:56):
down to pee and seeing.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
A do you would shoes.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
In the stall next to me and he's pointed for
me and all that separated my face from his genitals
because you meet, because that's what you used to urinate
was a thin partition, and it was really troubling to me.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Well, we are live at the United Center here in
Chicago for this week's Democratic National Convention. We desperately wanted
to go to the Republican National Convention, but could not
get that together in terms of the sales department. So
we are here because we knew that this was going
to be a show. I think that's probably the best
way to put it. It's going to be a show.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
So I've already run a foul with some of the
people here. I was on a flight Southwest Lax to
Chicago Midway specifically, and Karen Bass was on my flight.
Mayor Karen Bass and producer Oscar pointed her out and
she was sitting I think she was singing an exit
row right, So maybe a little bit of an optimal
(02:00):
problem there, maybe a little bit of an elite thing.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
The exit row on Southwest is a big flex. It
means I'm important.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I didn't know that. I didn't know that. Oh yeah,
call that extra legroom. Come on, all right. So, uh
so I got off the.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Plane first because I was further up in the seating
and I waited in the jetway for the mayor and
she comes out and I immediately accost her by saying,
I didn't know what to say, like, you know, the
more I try to seem cool or act cool, the
(02:34):
more I make a fool of myself pretty routinely, yeah,
pretty routinely. And it's just it's just something that I
need to get over and accept. But I saw her
and I said, Mayor Bass, Hi, my name is Shannon.
I do a radio show in LA and you looked
so good.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
At the Olympics. I was, and.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I said, I've spent all week talking about your dress.
And as soon as I said that, I'm like, what
the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Like that? Who are you hitting on? The woman?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Like what are you doing? And she looked at me
kind of blankly, like what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
And I said, I don't know who your people are.
She's like this guy right here, and I was like
all right. So then I grab him and I'm like,
can I give me your phone number? Give me your
phone number. I didn't even say introduce myself. I didn't
get his name. I just said give me your phone number.
He gave me a number I don't even know if
that's his phone number. I sounded like a crazy person,
Like you looked great in that dress. Hey, you give
me your number because I want to talk to her,
(03:29):
but I'm going to go through you.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah. Well, I mean that's why you do it. But
you know, so we apoliticize. We have seen the mayor.
Mayor Bass was on CNN this morning.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
She had walked right past our little area here and
ignored us.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah she did.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
If she saw me, she probably ran for the hills.
Like there's that weird, creepy woman who likes to talk
about my clothing. Not creepy and like that's such a
like it's such like a woman thing too write, Like
here's this powerful woman, I mean, agree or disagree.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
She's the mayor of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yeah, and I had to reduce her to her dress.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Like how anti woman was that?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
But it was a compliment. I mean you say, like
that dress didn't fit you?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You looked great in that dress. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Here at the United Center, they have opened the doors,
but most of the delegates probably won't be here until
much later this afternoon because the activities really don't start
until later this afternoon. So that's when we'll see a
lot of the activity. But there's still plenty of people
that we've already seen. Minority Speaker I'm sorry, Minority Leader
(04:32):
Haqeen Jeffries came through a little bit earlier. The Reverend
Al Sharpton is here. There's a bunch of different celebrities, etc.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
That Will Rosserman Schultz has escaped from the closet in Philadelphia,
apparently still working with the DNC.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
So funny that that was eight years ago and you
still that's what we remember.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Well, it was a complete mess.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I mean, all of the people that felt that Bernie
Sanders was sandbagged by the machine that she represented. So
there was the breakfast this morning. Oscar actually tried to
get to go to this and I think I threatened
to jump off a roof before I went. But there
was a delegates breakfast this morning. Chuck Schumer was there,
Jaqem Jeffries was there. And the big message coming out
(05:14):
of that was Hopey, changey. That's what they're that's what
they're doing.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Hope, change Joy, Joy, don't forget joy.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Vice President Kamala Harris Jeffries told reporters represents hope, she
represents change well.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
There has been the excitement that's been generated about the
campaign means they don't have to talk about specifics, and
this week they especially don't have to talk about specifics because,
like I said.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
At the beginning, this is a giant show.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
It's a choreographed movie, right, every there's not going to
be any surprises. Everyone's going to be polished. It's going
to be cheerleading. You're gonna see Biden tonight, you're going
to see Hillary Clinton. So out with the old on Monday,
in with the new, and you're gonna have Obama. You're
gonna have Bill Clinton speaking. It's his birthday. By the way,
we don't have a clock. You got a clock on
(06:00):
your big clock says it's nine to twelve.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah, because in California, right, it's nine to twelve.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Listen, It's like it would be outlandish for it to
be nine to twelve.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
But we got here too early to begin with.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
And then I saw the time on the computer and
I thought we were two hours even earlier.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Well, and this is going to be a weird time
because I think, more so than we saw eight years ago,
the protests are going to be an issue.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
We'll actually talk more about them. At the bottom of
the hour, we'll get into what we.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Saw last night, some of the protests around town, what
we can expect today because the biggest protest is only
going to take place about four or five blocks away
from where we are right now.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Here's a fun fact. There's no caffeine in this building. Odd.
It's very odd they do.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I mean it's a basketball slash hockey arena. So there's
all kinds of concession stands and not one.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Drop of coffee or diet coke. For some same I'm
going to kill someone for a diet coke. That guy's
got child water from somewhere.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Chilled water is not diet coke, I mean the cancer
causing chemicals.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
We're still in regular show stuff, some of it.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
So you can always send us talkback messages on your
iHeart app. If you get that little button and leave
us a quick message, we can listen to them and
play them through our supercomputer setup that we've got here.
You can also send us emails at gas Bag at
iHeartMedia dot com.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I've spent more time on a deep dive of this
Michael Jordan's statue than I have anything convention related.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yeah, this is what we're going to look at for
the next several days.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Is this giant statue of Michael Jordan slammed dunking on
someone that you can't.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Tell who it is or man who is just like
this ambiguous NBA player And Michael Jordan's ass is right
on top of his head. Yeah, I mean, and you
can imagine he's really sweaty at that point in the game.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
And that man is black.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Guys got lucky wet on his head and he's a
lucky man for It's awful. I'm surprised there's not more
shows here in this media media area. Oh there's a
bunch of them over there. Oh oh, well, because it was.
It was just like it was in Philadelphia. It was
just like show show. I mean it was it was
table after table after table.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
We actually have a nice setup so we get to
judge people from up here.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
That's nice.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
We do. We probably have the best set up place
of height.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah, we look because on the one side is the
Michael Jordan statute, which is actually the most popular landmark
probably here outside of the unit or in the United
Center and outside of the arena itself. But everybody's taking
pictures in front of that and taking pictures of it,
and they're not paying attention to us.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Do you think that that was totally fun? Do you
think that would.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Result in an arrest or just a detaining situation.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I don't think you'd get very f I don't know
if you've noticed, but there are law enforcement officers agency.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I think I could just jump that that that fencing,
that what would you call it?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Oh, they're by Mayor bass Is just yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I knew she was going to be a show dodger.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I could tell the first there's that creepy lady that
curned me about my dress.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
First official show dodger.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
But I think I could, in one swift motion get
over that barrier and make my way onto the statue.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I doubt it. That's a pretty long leap between the
barrier and the standards. Why I should have worn pants.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
That's why you should have worn pants. There is other
stuff that's going on around the world.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
We talked.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
We found out this morning Phil Donahue died. Phil Donahue,
at the age of eighty eight, died at his home,
surrounded by his family. The family said he had a
long illness. Later today, back in La Da George Gascone
is going to announce criminal charges in that shooting of
General Hospital actor Johnny Whacter. But there was also speaking
of George Gascon an La Times poll that came out
(09:51):
today that suggested that Nathan Hockman has forty five percent
of the support compared to twenty percent for George Gascon.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I have been double the support for Nathan Hoffman.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I'm curious about that polling who was spoken to, because
that kind of gives you a false sense of security,
doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
You mean like likely voters versus registered voters. They said
it was likely voters, so that's probably more securate than others.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
That was one of the things I was going to
ask Karen bass Is if she has given her support
to George Gascon.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
That was going to be my hard hitting question. Oh,
that would be a good one.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
There are six major protests planned on the streets of
Chicago during the DNC. The biggest is planned for today.
We'll talk about it coming up next. Tens of thousands
expected to march just blocks from the United Center.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Here, and a little bit of action last night. Not
a lot in terms of protests. There were a couple
of arrests, but it was people spray painting things where
they shouldn't have. Tonight is going to be again all
of this is a show, So it's going to start
the show tonight. They have some afternoon business that they
have to do with the delegates.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
They actually do.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
A party platform vote, they report voting results for the nomination,
they affirm the vice presidential nominee as well, and they're
doing a thing here again to lean into this word
that this is a show. They have celebrity hosts each
and every night. So tonight the host is Tony Goldwyn
from the.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You're going to have to help me out with that one.
Tony Goldwyn. This is the actor right here. That's the
picture of them. I have no idea who this is.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
He was in the show with Kerry Washington where he
was the president or she was the president.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
He was having an affair with her.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I didn't watch any of it. Scandal, thank you, she's beautiful.
Kerry Washington is actually going to host Thursday Night. So
Tony Goldwyn is going to be the host for tonight's tonight.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Oh he was.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
He was in Friday the thirteenth, Part six. Jason Lives
also not that was off of my radar. Any of
the bad Guy and Ghost. Yes, okay, yeah, all right,
I need a nice I need a nice, strong nineteen
ninety reference to really figure out who people are.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Now it's tight end, now you get it. They have
a theme for tonight. It's called for the People, and
the list of speakers is going to start with Show Dodger.
Karen Vass, the mayor of Los Angeles. She's going to
speak after Tony Goldwin. And then you've got some very
familiar names. Andy Basheer, one of the names that was
you know, thrown around us as possible vice presidential candidate.
(12:30):
Jill Biden, doctor Jill Biden. Of course this is in
alphabetical order, so it's not I don't know the exacts.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Order that they're going to speak. Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
I can't wait. Former First Lady and former Secretary of State.
I'm being facetious. Chris Coons.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
We've already seen him walking around here. The senator from
Delaware will speak. Sean Fain, President of the U a W.
The New York Governor Kathy Hochel will be around, the
Mayor of Chicago, Brandon.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Johnny, exhausted with this list, is going to welcome everybody.
How many hours does this show go on?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
It's about three, two or three depending on how long
people speak. And then the closer tonight they do say
that Reverend Jesse Jackson will be around, that he is
going to speak.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
What about a musical number? Will there be a musical guest?
I didn't see any.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
There are concerts in town this week, but I didn't
see any for the specific. Are you talking about the
rumors that it's going to be Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
That's a bunch of boloney, because then they look like
the elite party, right. If they can pull Taylor Swift
and Beyonce, then it's then it's what was that?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
It's a message? Oh from my wife? Oh what did
she say? It sounds good? Oh good? Yeah, good good?
So how is Texas? Are we going to do that?
Are we going to talk about Texas? Let's do that
when we come back.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Now, we're going to talk about protests when we come back.
We'll wait, We'll wait till the end of the hour
to do Texas. Because I had to drop my daughter
off right at college grad school.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Specific and I was worried about your mental health. How
do you okay?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
You've seen me for several hours now after we met
at the airport.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Yeah, goot, dinner, you had more luggage than I did.
I had more luggage than you did.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah, yeah, we did. Well, let's let's talk about your
mental health coming up later. We're up against a break
and that's going to take a lot to unpack.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
The keynote speaker tonight, of course, is the President of
the United States.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I don't know if you've seen that. Oh I did
see that. So he will be speaking later. Is that
going to be after eight.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Pm eight pm Eastern time?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Definitely? Or no?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah, after eight pm Eastern time? So babe, listen, I
think I'm the one who needs the naw.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Clocks are tough, I know.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
So we were walking around in the uh the bowels of.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
The vowels, thank you for that term.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Well, we were looking specifically for the gender neutral bathrooms,
which we found.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
We did find those pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
We also found the gender neutral prayer area. I post
did this on our Instagram story at Gary and Shannon.
But there's this like curtained off area in the bowels
so to speak, or on the concourse because this is
a basketball arena, right, and there's a just like a
(15:17):
big black curtain, and on the left side it says
women's prayer area, and then in the middle it says
men's prayer area, and then on the far right it
said gender neutral prayer area. That was a little bit confusing.
I think, well, I bet there would be a prayer
(15:38):
area period, and then we've got to break it down
to the sexes, like I don't want to pray alongside
Some places pray with men and women and children and everybody.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Right, not every church.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Really, there are different religions where you're not supposed to
do that.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Oh I had no idea, Yes I don't. I knew
everything about religion.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Those same religion to me saying religions would not necessarily
be comfortable with a gender neutral prayer area either, they
do the two and they wouldn't go for a third.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
And then there were the people behind the curtain that
said visibility volunteers. There was a hell as a visibility volunteer.
Is that like people that come out of from the
curtain and they go up to strangers and they go,
I see you, I hear you.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I honestly think so.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
And it's funny because it was a it was a
comedy bit as we're walking through there, there's a bunch
of stuff that's kind of cordoned off for people, and
they're smaller private areas.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Whether it's like.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
The Democratic National I think it's the Congressional Democrats have
an area that's kind of cordoned off. They have a
whole bank of phones back there and they're drumming up
of fundraising and all that sort of stuff. So there's that,
there's all these little smaller spaces in that space. Was
this visibility visibility cordeer?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
And as we're walking through, you said, what the hell.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Is a visibility volunteer? And this woman behind the.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Curtains, she's like, that's me, that's me who was completely invisible. Now, wait,
do you get to pick the gender of the person
who gets to see you and feel you and hear you? Like,
can I get a gender neutral visibility volunteer?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
You were speaking in languages that I don't quite comprehend.
So I mean, because the question is why when we
walked into the gender neutral restroom, was it all women?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Because as a woman, I'm more particular about only wanting
to pee with other women, and I would think that
other women felt the same way. But there was like
six women in there that were cool with like you
going in there, sitting at a stall next to them.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I don't know if they were because they were in
their own read.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Flinch when you walked in. It's not one of those
women flinched.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
The big show will continue to be the protest that
is going to be a massive story this week here
in Chicago. Last night there were the There were some protests.
They weren't very large, they were loud, according to Chicago
Police Department. They only arrested a couple of people. But
it was the first of seven protests that took place
last night. Was right along Michigan a Michigan Avagoot Avenue,
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not too far away from our hotel.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
So there are six major protests planned. The biggest is
planned for today. They say tens of thousands will march
just blocks from where we are now inside.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
The United Center. They say it's a family friendly march.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
It was organized under a pro Palestinian umbrella coalition that
includes groups devoted to a variety of causes. Others are
being bussed in from Michigan, Minnesota, Indiana, Wisconsin. Activists coming
from New York and California. It was clear who on
that Southwest plane was an activates.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yeah, they did really have luggage.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I did the same exact thing in terms of trying
to see who was boarding a plane in Dallas to
come here for that reason, and there were a couple
people you could tell that they were I don't know
if they were here to protest or they were coming
here to protest, but they were definitely here, not because
they had any official business with the Democratic National Convention, right,
So that was an interesting experiment just in terms of
(19:14):
looking in the airplane terminal or airport terminal there.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
They say the switch up at the top of the
ticket prompted a conversation in the pro Palestinian movement about tactics.
They were going to plan on being here obviously when
Biden was at the top of the ticket, and they
thought this would be the biggest stage to argue that
the US should change his policies toward Israel. Harris, who
called for a ceasefire earlier than some others, made some
(19:39):
activists wonder about maybe taking a softer approach. So they
met and decided Nope, full steam ahead.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Yeah, there's a thing that I think that they run
the risk of, and that is watering down each of
their individual messages. I mean, there are literally two hundred
and fifty four different protest groups that have said that
they will participate on in these protests.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
The majority of.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Them are going to be concentrating on Palestinian rights, ending
the war in Gaza, reducing USA to Israel.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
But when you've got.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Others that come in, I mean there's literally a group
called Shout Your Abortion. So they're going to water down
each other's message by not necessarily conflicting messages, but they're
they're just they're they're flooding the zone with too much,
too much message.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Some time we're going to have to talk about the
mobile abortion units and the soldering stations for men to
get their best sectomies.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Planned Parenthood has a mobile. Awful, Clint, It's just awful, Like,
what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
That's that's strengthening the other side's argument against what you want.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Well, one of the.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Things that Jade Vance was talking about when when he
made his uh, you know, old ladies, old cat ladies
comment was that there's less of an emphasis on families. Now,
what worst way to highlight that than to have a
mobile abortion clinic and vas sectomy clinic.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Right, I mean, you've got I mean, the vasectomy thing's
kind of funny, but you've got the Republicans out there
at podiums screaming to the whole world that you want
to abort people in the eighth or ninth month, or
or in the fifth grade, according to some Republicans. Right,
what better way to highlight that for them than rolling
(21:24):
in a mobile abortion clinic to your coming out party
in Chicago. It's ridiculous. You're not doing yourself any favors.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Again.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Those protests, the largest of which expected today, we'll continue
throughout the week we're here. At any time that we
see anything, we're definitely going to go out and check
it out up next though, I had an interesting couple
of days because I had to take some time off
and go out to Texas. My daughter's headed off to
grad school. I'm fine, everything's fine. You seem to be okay,
(21:54):
it's fine.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
You are you right?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
You want me to go get somebody to give you
a hug, Well, there's a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I'll go down to the gender neutral hug area and
see fighter peel off a couple quick ones, all right,
Gary and Shannon will continue live.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
A couple quick ones live in Chicago United Center for
the Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
But just remind everybody we're alive today in Chicago, will
be here all week for the Democratic National Convention and
the show that exists not just in the arena today
but throughout the entire city.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
It's going to be interesting. It is everywhere.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
It's gonna be interesting to see how they use Biden
tonight or this afternoon. Last week, I read that it
was going to be a curtain opening speech, that he
would not be the closer. And so if he's going
to be one of the first guys.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
That's coffee, Yeah, that is coffee. Yeah. Where did that
come from?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I don't know, But of the list of people that
we saw who would close, I mean, he's the prime.
You can't not have him as the closer on I know.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
But that's what they said last week, that he would
be a curtain opening. It wouldn't even be the main centerpiece.
But it's really awkward because he's the sitting president. Yeah,
and he is kind of forced to go on the
worst day being it Monday, and then it's going to
raise all these questions.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
If he screws up or if he stutters or what
have you.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Mental exercise though, if you're in that planning meeting where
they're like, okay, we got four days. We know that
that Harris is going to speak on Thursday and officially
accept the nomination. We know that Walts is going to
speak on Wednesday and officially accept his nomination.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
When do we put the president on?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
And would have I would have said, you put him
on on Thursday to officially pass the torch right to
his vice president as the nominee on Thursday, that he's
the one who introduces him.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
They're kind of hiding him away on a Monday.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Yeah, it doesn't seem it doesn't seem to make sense,
but we'll talk about it.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
We'll see what he says tonight.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Of course, all right, guys, you need to find out
and get to the bottom of why there would be
no diet coke and no copy.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
In the whole arena. That's very bizarre. Is there pepsi
or there's just no diet coach? I think it is building.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I'm gonna go in the next break and find if
that because I did see PEPSI like I saw a
like a concession stand like that would be open for
the basketball game, and they did have PEPSI there. I'm
gonna like go and I'm gonna go on that mission
for us.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Okay, yea Goldwyn is Goldwyn as in Metro Goldwyn Mayor.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Good point. The guy comes from monumental amounts of Hollywood money.
He is richer than by Jesus. That's who Tony is.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, that would make sense. Richer than Jesus. Jesus was
a poor man. Jesus didn't even have you know, full shoes.
Jesus had sandals. Not a lot of guys had like
air Force ones. That's a good point. But Jesus isn't
known for having money.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
He was poor. He was born in a freaking barn. Manger, Manger, I.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Love listening to your show and your broadcasters because it
gives me local news. But really, I feel like, are
you guys really unbiased? I mean, when are you gonna
call Robert F. Kennedy Junior and have him on the show,
because we feel like we need to hear what he
stands for and what his policies are going to be
(25:30):
when he's president?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
You know, November? I actually wait at January?
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Can you tell I didn't pay attention and stead.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Yes, I actually wouldn't be surprised if if R. F.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
K Junior does make his way through here this.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I haven't heard anything specifically, but it would kind of
behoove him.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I think it's it's not a good sign that he
reached out to the Harris campaign last week and there
was talk that he was asking for a cabinet position
and they didn't take the meeting with him. He reached
out to the Trump people a few weeks ago for
maybe a cabinet position health or something like that, so
you can keep all the vaccines out of your kids arms.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I think it's that's what you would want. I mean,
we can't.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
That's what you would want in somebody who would be
willing to serve in either of the administrations.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
I think, what do you mean somebody that wants it?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Well, I mean think of it in the terms of
somebody that would present themselves for an interview with us.
Do we want them? Well, you know, I'm just I
just argued your point. Never mind, I was going to.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Say, you don't want anyone that wants us that's a
that's yeah, that's it. I want the people we can't
get okay.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
So this weekend or this previous weekend, I flew up
from Texas because I was out there to help move
our daughter to grad school, set her up in her apartment,
get everything figured out.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
We even went to the DMV.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Well it wasn't the DMV, but it was like the
county tax assessor office to get license plates for the car.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Do you do you know what that's like?
Speaker 4 (27:04):
No?
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Do you know how easy it was to walk in
and say, I need to register the car in the
state of Texas And they said great.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
So they weren't all flunkies like in r DMV.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
So then you walk in and he says, how can
I help you, and my daughter says, we're registering my
car in Texas.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
And he reaches over and he grabs two new, brand.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
New license plates out of a random drawer to the
next to the side of him, and he's like, okay,
we just got a couple of things here, and they'll,
you know, pay the tax on the flow.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
You'd have to wait for three weeks for him to
show up in the mail. Incredible. He didn't give it.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
He didn't ask for birth certificates or anything like that.
A lot of trust on that I needed to prove
insurance coverage levels and things like that. But anyway, we
got a lot of that stuff done and it was
very nice and she's she's set up and it was
very tarf, very tarf, very what tarf what its TRD?
And tough the same time. Yeah, but you saw me yesterday.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
You didn't think I was a I didn't think you
were a broken man. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
No, but sometimes these things take time. They start to
settle in, they start to seep in, they get into your.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Bones, come out at the most inopportune times.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Could still happen.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
It could still be a long week because also you're
running on not a lot of sleep, and you might
be a complete disaster. You may be the one to
climb the Michael Jordan statue.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Yeah, even though you were the one that you thought
you were going to do that. Berrie Sanders, awesome, thank you.
That's great.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Live today United Center there for the Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Wonderful. You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
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