August 21, 2024 • 29 mins
Gary and Shannon broadcast LIVE from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Live today from Chicago.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
The DNC Day three losing track already, It's only day three.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Protesters last night ended up getting arrested. Some of them
were out in front of the Israeli consulate, I believe,
and it was organized by a group called Behind Enemy Lines.
Another group behind the protest was Samadone. I think it
is how you say it. Germany and Israel have actually
banned that group from those countries because of the allegations
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that there are ties to terrorist groups.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Not so in the United States.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
But there are no we understand, no permitted protests that
are planned for today, but that doesn't mean that there
won't be protests.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Well, we heard from President Biden passing the torch so
to speak on day one that evening he was the
closing speaker.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
The Obama brought the house down.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yesterday and Representative Scott Peters joins US now representative congressman
out of San Diego, and Representative Peters was one of
the first people to call on Biden to essentially step aside.
Was on making the rounds about a month ago talking
about Biden not bringing what we need to the table
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on this ticket.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Congressman, thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
So is Kamala Harris bringing what you need to the table?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Well, I've heard a lot better shape than we were
a month ago.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I must say I.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Anticipated a really sad convention. I think that there wasn't
a lot of confidence in Joe Biden as a candidate,
even though we love him as a president and a
lot of us who thought he deserved to be re elected.
We're just seeing that it wasn't showing up with voters,
and they were really concerned about his agent. There was
nothing we were going to be able to do about
that issue. So we really had to move on. And
you have in this convention a lot of enthusiasm, and
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I hear stories from the field that there's a lot
of enthusiasm outside.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I'll just give you one.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Talk to my colleague in Michigan who they have a
regular voter turnout rally to just recruit volunteers. They usually
about a hundred people, one hundred and fifty people. She said,
four hundred people showed up this time, and in Michigan.
That's going to be really important. It's gonna be important
getting voters out across the country and house races and
races and then winning the presidency. So this is where
we want to be, and we got a lot of
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work to do, but I'm feeling pretty good about it.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Is it too early?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I mean I've been watching this and expecting there to
be some sort of draw down of the enthusiasm, But
it's not going to come this week. I mean, maybe
it comes next week the week after that. Is Are
you concerned at all about sort of a softening in
the polls?
Speaker 5 (02:41):
So you know, it's funny because a lot of people
are concerned we wouldn't have enough time to mount a
new campaign, and other people think it's too long, that's
too much time, that we might lose enthusiasm. I think,
you know, we're used to camp from a few decades ago.
We used to campaigns starting on Labor Day, and I
think we have plenty of time to do this. I
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think there's a lot more to learn about Kamala Harris
for voters and Tim Walls. We have to have a
good policy discussion. I think it's going to get more
interesting and I have to think that there's every reason
to think this camp. First of all, this Hairs campaign
has made no mistakes. They've been they've done a beautiful job,
and as a candidate, she's done a tremendous job. I
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don't think there's any reason to think that they that
she won't be able to continue. That there's going to
be some bumps in the road, like there is in
every campaign, but I feel really good about the way
that they're coming out of the Blox.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
We were talking about the enthusiasm specifically with the youth voters,
the young people, and it's it's true that there are
more young voters this time around and fewer of the
older voters, the Trump voters her to figure this morning's
twelve million of them have died, right, you know, and
so they really is, you know, an injection of enthusiasm
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with that voting block.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Well, I think that's true. I also think we should
not take.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Folks for granted on policy side either, So we're going
to have to have a discussion about what President Harris is,
what the President Harrison tends to accomplish as a president
as well.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
But we have time for.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
That, and I think part of it is part of
this campaign, which we're doing really well at, is enthusiasm
and that looks like it's going to turn into turnout
and that's great. Well part of it also, let's also
talk to the centrist voters who are sort of undecided
between what they might see as two polar opposite parties.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Part of it we were talking about this yesterday, is
the campaign that you see and the convention, and then
the side campaign with the youth voters online on social
media and just getting those little bites of information, whether
it's funny clips or what have you, just little snack
sized bites of information. I'm not hearing a bunch of
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people clamoring to hear the deep policy Elizabeth Warren seventy
five page right drill down.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
No, I don't mean that.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I just think that we're just gonna have to flesh
out a policy discussion over the next month. This campaign's
only a month old, and there are people out there
who are are persuasion voters. We have to figure out
how to get those people who remain undecided. It's hard
for me to imagine you haven't decided between Biden or
Harris and Trump on the other hand, but there are
people out there that we have to remember to speak
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to as well, and I think we have time.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
To do that.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
We're talking with Congressman Scott Peters out of the fiftieth
District down in the San Diego area. Climate policy, clean
energy is one of the big things that you have
worked for, and in fact, I mean to this to
kind of continue what Shannon was talking about.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
The New York Times.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Today had an article that just said that there is
really no climate policy that's been spelled out by the
Harris Walls campaign, and everybody's okay with that right now?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
It would you agree with that?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I mean, you're okay with that, Like you said, not
necessarily getting into the nitty gritty policy points of a
specific thing that.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
You work so hard for.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Well, I'm comfortable that you know, the Biden Harris administration
led Congress to make the biggest investment in climate action
in the history of the world. There's a lot of
money in the bank. And when we used to think
that having the money to do things was the problem,
that's not the problem anymore.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Now.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
The problem is execution and implementation. That's what I've been
working on.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Gary.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
We have to make these processes go a lot faster
for everything we do. You know, as Americans were so
comfortable with the delay and the processing and the permitting
and everything takes forever. I think I hope that the
administration will that the that the campaign, the Harris Walls campaign,
will take it on themselves to say, what can we
do to make this stuff really deployed? Because we're really
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proud of our success. We're proud of our progress, but
if we don't get stuff built, it's not going to
mean as much. So I think that's the next step,
and I kind of think that's what the discussion we
should expect.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
All right, Congressman Scott Peters, thank you wonderful conversation.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Much.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
We keep meeting intelligent people.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Yeah, I know, it's so weird.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Odd.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
What is your We were talking kind of off here a
little bit about like your schedule, and I'm fast needed by.
I mean, we see probably five thousand people over the
course of our show walk right in front of us,
and we don't.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Know what their day is. Like it's terrible. I'll tell
you why. So, Like I'm like an early guy. I
like to get up early and go to bed early.
That is not here. You cannot do that. Basically nothing
starts till noon.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
You have a couple of meetings, and then you have
a bunch of receptions where people you know are starting
to uh have bad nutrition habits early on. Sure, and
then you have a dinner. You go out there for
your dinner friends, and you go to the convention. And
then afterward, like tonight, we've got the California Party.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I got to show up at.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
That started just thinking of that.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
So you know, there's no.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Yoga class here or anything to make you feel better.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
You just got to power. We all now have diabetes.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yes, I definitely have diabetes.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
All right, thank you so much, Congressman.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
I have to go, Padres.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yes, Scott Peters again, Congressman out of the fiftieth district
in the San Diego area. We are alive today in
Chicago for Democratic National Convention Day three.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
The Harris Walls election effort.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Has been raking in the money, raised about five hundred
million dollars since she became the Democratic presidential candidate. Reuters
had said that four sources familiar with the fundraising effort
told them the figure had been banked for Harris in
the four weeks since she got into the race.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
On July twenty first.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
So Donald Trump has a rally in North Carolina today
at the Aviation Museum and they say there's a fortress
of portable storage units, moving truck staffed stacked up behind
the media riser. They are not cutting any corners. The
Secret Service going all out with bulletproof glass and other
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measures to make sure he is safe and sound.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Yeah, I guess jd Vance is going to be there
as well. They're holding a joint rally today. PCH had
to be shut down overnight.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
It's reopened again.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
They have arrested the guy that was barricaded inside that
little Volkswagen van that was there.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
So that's that's out of the way.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
So last night as the delegates rolled in or not,
was it last night?
Speaker 4 (09:09):
It was?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
It was last night, Yeah, right, Sorry, I'm getting things
mixed up.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Welcome to Day is Dave Popcord.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
So Gavin Newsom was kind of the flag bearer for
the California delegation that went last to kind of show
the love that her home state has for her, playing
California Love and doing so, and Gavin Newsom lost his
ever loving mind.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
It sounded unhinged. It almost sounded like he was doing
it through gritted teeth.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
The great state of California.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
How do you pass your vote?
Speaker 6 (09:43):
My name's Governor Gavin newsomis oh Man.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
From the great State of Nancy Pelosi. The State of
Nancy Pelosi.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Now from a state there flag nerves of.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Innovators that prides itself on being on the leading and cutting.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Edge of uideas.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
California is the most diverse state in the world's most
diverse delocracy.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
We have the most homeless people, we have the most people.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Were having on our choirs together and you monsper together
across every conceivable and imaginable difference. But the thing we
pride ourselves most on is that we believe.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
The future happens in California.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
First, I remember when I was the future.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
And Democrats.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
I've had the privilege for over twenty years right to
see that future taking shape.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Going with a star in.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Alameda courtroom by the name of Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
He hates himself right now, Scar.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
I saw that star, and I tried to extinguish justice,
racial justice, economic justice.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Social justice.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Does I saw that star.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Get even brighter as Attorney General of California, as a
United States Senator, and as Vice president of the United
States of America.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Grow he's growling out.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
Yeah, the.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Wild animals done the right thing.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
A champion for voting rights, for civil rights, LGBTQ rights,
the rights.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
For women and girls. So Democrats and independents.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
It's time for us to do the right thing, and
that is to elect Kamala Harris as the next President
of the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I hate my time pass over. The window is closing
for me. I want the White House, Sarah the U.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
So all of that music that was in the background,
that's not stuff we added.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
That was part of the DJ lines.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
It looks like he was gonna burst blood vessels in
his face, his veins, Like I have a vein right here. Yeah, okay,
well I'm saying, all right, well I have a little bit.
I'm a little bit you know, what's the word self
conscious about the vein.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
I didn't see it.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Well, sometimes it just pops out, you know, when you're thinking,
is it.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
So?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Not that often? Anyway, He's he's got that too. He
had like veins bulging in his forehead because he was
so pissed off that that this is her coronation event
and not his.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
The Sacramento b had an article today that was headlined
Gavin Newsom was a rising star in the Democratic Party
and then Kamala Harris rose faster.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah, it's a great article.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
He hates this, it lays it out, absolutely hates it.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
He's not scheduled to speak outside of what he did yesterday,
at least not scheduled to speak at the convention, So.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
No, he's not.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
They completely left him out, which I think is is telling,
isn't it. I mean, if they're such great friends, if
they've rose up through the ranks together in California, why wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
He get a spot.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
I mean, we've gone through all the riffraff that has
gotten a spot speaking on the main stage.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
A riffraff.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
But I guess it's like California is a given, so
they'd rather give it to the riff raff from the
state's account right.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Governor Newston was also tracked down by reporters walking through
one of the hallways.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
He won't sit down and.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Talk to us, but he will talk to reporters in
a crowded hallway, and was asked about his support for
Kamala Harris.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Let me go ahead and play times the same for
Kamala Harris. Absolutely, Kamala Is.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
We knew each other decade before we both got into politics,
one of my oldest friends.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Here's the difference.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
I'm a solution in search of a problem. Every one
of their mother's jumping on to help, So I'm as needed,
but obviously all in.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
So we'll see you in the battlegund.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
We'll see you. I'm asked, but I may not be asked.
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Oh my goodness that everybody and everything, And it's a
different You were with me in New Hanshia.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
There wasn't that many of us, so that was a
very different Everything about that was very different.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Right now and everybody is out there.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
He is so level creepy.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Here's next level.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Everybody's sort of jumping over each.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Other to be out there on the campaign trail. So
I'm as needed, you.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Know that whole What would you rather see in the
forest a bear or a man? I take the bear
over that guy. There's just something about him.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Then.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I don't know me.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
You don't think anyone knows him. But he's just one
of those guys. He's like that frat guy that you
know that you don't want to be alone in the
room with kind of guy.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
The One of the paragraphs from this story in the
Sacramento Bee says that Kamala Harris always had the potential
to get in his way in Gaven Newsom's way. She
and Newsom rose through the San Francisco, California political game
at the same time. He was the city's mayor and
then the state's governor. She was the city's top prosecutor
and then the attorney general and then obviously senator. But
let me clean that.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Up real quick.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I know that they're upstanding frat people. I understand that,
But you know which guy I'm talking about?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Okay, Well, speaking of though, the guy who wants to
become the governor, Antonio Vira Goosa. I mean, we have
to kind of reveal, not reveal, revisit the story of
him when we were in Philly eight years ago.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Well, and have you seen him recently. I mean, he's
seventy one years old. He's grown his hair out, so
it's a little long, and it's curly, and there's some
gray in it, and he's wearing like some sort of
burning man chain.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
With a medallion or something.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I don't know what this look is going for It's
definitely a new chapter.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
There was a big story back at home, Noah.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
A guy wanted for assault arrested after he barricaded himself
in a van in Malibu today and in fact, a
section of PCH had to be closed for several hours
because of this. Standoffs started very early this morning and
the Point Doom area near Zoom of Beach.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
All lanes of PCH.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Were closed from Heathercliff to Bush Drive.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Everybody was told to go around.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
They eventually arrested this guy right about eight point thirty
this morning in the road was reopened about an hour afterwards.
I guess they haven't released his name right away, but
he was in this van and it.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Was parked illegally.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
When deputies went to tell him to move it, he
whips out a fire extinguisher and blasts this fire extinguisher
at them.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
So they don't take too kindly to that.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Former La Mayor Antonio via Ragosa is here one of
many California Democrats that are come to the DNC here
in Chicago, and he is seventy one now and he
is eyeing a return to elected office. He's announced another
run for governor. This will be in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
He looks different. He's definitely not. I mean, you look
at some of the pictures of.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Him back as man, dark hair, you know, jet black hair.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Yeah, he's not.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
He doesn't fit very tan, very still tan, still fit,
but now he is. He's got his hair grown out
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
This isn't the.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
First time he has put his hat in the race
for governor. He finished third behind Gavin Newsom and Republican
John Cox in twenty eighteen. So yesterday he did an
interview with Inside California Politics host Nicki Lorenzo, and he
says he promises to campaign on results over rhetoric.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Yeah. He refers to the.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Things that have become big issues in California, housing, homelessness,
high cost of living, COMPSOM combination of all three, and
he says he's one guy who's actually done those things.
His quote was, I think people are looking for somebody
that's going to tackle that in a way that's compassionate,
but in a way that has to make the tough calls.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
He addressed go ahead of He addressed the polarized nature
of our current political landscape here, including the RNC. He
described it with filled with anger, divisiveness. Everybody's screaming at
the other side.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
I mean, it's not exclusively a Republican thing.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Democrats do plenty of smack talking and you know, silly
pet names that don't do anything to further political discourse.
He said, I'm unabashedly a Democrat, someone who stands up
for women's reproductive freedom, sensible gun laws, expanding healthcare, taking
on climate change. But I like doing it in a
way where we're working with people to find the common
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ground instead of screaming at them.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Who is he banging around with now, I don't know,
because that was a big story throughout his tenure of
who his latest was. I mean, his name's Tony Vallar, Right,
he took one of his wive's last name and made
it into Via Ragosa, which is a much better name
to run for office with.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
In Los Angeles and in California, he.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Hooked up with a TV reporter that we know of,
at least two of them, one from Univision, one from KTLA.
Oh right, okay, And so I just wonder, I mean
it fascinates me. I like to get the tabloid version
of Antonio Vivergos's life sometimes.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Well, and as we've seen, the tabloid version doesn't disqualify
somebody from service, has it ever. I mean, there were
always rumors about, you know, politicians in the days of
your old that had had long standing affairs.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I never disqualified when it came out that he was
hooking up with the woman who worked at Univision, who
actually reported on I believe his divorce live on the air,
and we were all trying to uncover whether this relationship
was happening. This is when I was covering him as
a reporter, and I remember at one press conference there
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in the in the in the mayor's room, I asked
to kind of get some information about it or get
a reaction from him. I said, are you in love?
And his press person runs over and he's like.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
What the hell are you thinking.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I was like, what, We're not going to address the
elephant in the room, come on, And I got the
reaction I wanted, you know, he started, he blushed, he
started giggling a little bit.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
He's like, well, well, well I can't you know, you
know how he used to do pretty good impress But yeah,
the last time we saw him was at the convention
in Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Yeah, that was a that was a weird Okay, that
was a weird time because, for one thing, we were
on running on fumes, on fumes. We had just left
Cleveland a couple of days earlier, and we're back at
Lax to get on a flight to go to Philadelphia
and lo and behold Antonio via Goosu rolls in. And
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what happened was he he well, he took a picture
with us, for one thing, and then when we got
on the plane, he just very carefully made his way
down the aisle, shaking hands, kissing babies, things like that,
despite having anybody that wanted to be with him.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
I mean, it didn't seem like.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
There were a lot of people who were climbing over
themselves to shake this guy's hand. But he nonetheless made
his way down the aisle until the flight attendants made
him go sit back down and put his seatbelt back on.
He's going to be in this pretty crowded field on
the Democratic side of people who are running for governor,
State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Tony Thurman is one of
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the guys Party Vice chair Betty Ye, Lieutenant Governor Landy Kunlachus.
They have all said that they will be running for governor.
Coming up twenty twenty six is when that election is
going to be held.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Gary and Shannon in a non politics talk when we return,
how about a wellness segment, Gary and shann A wellness segment.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I mean, it's not completely uplifting, but it's.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Not about your well It's a little breaky break break.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
We're live in chicag for day three of the Democratic
National Convention. Just a quick reminder we could not go
to the Republican National Convention because we wanted to desperately.
This is not an endorsement of one side or the other,
but just an opportunity to know that this is the
biggest story of the week, and we're happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
When we talked to Congressman Scott Peters earlier out of
San Diego, I mentioned that there's a couple campaigns going on,
at least for the Democrats, and one of them is
here what you see on the news with the speakers
and the enthusiasm and the delegates, and the other is
online on social media. They're calling this the TikTok Convention.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
The TikTok Convention.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Tonight's speaker lineup includes, of course, Tim Walls, Bill Clinton,
and a social media creator from Houston, Texas named Olivia Juliana.
She's one of five creators and addressing the convention this week.
They're trying to get into the social media world with
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these people who reach huge numbers of young people, young voters,
who are not tuning into CNN, They're not reading the
New York Times, They're spending their days on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
We've seen the lounges.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
They're called creator lounges, and you have to be there's
like pillows and stuff in there, right.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Yeah, I mean, it's not too far away from here.
In the United Center. One of the around the concourse
there is a walled off area. I mean it's just
the pipe and drape walls, but it's walled off from
everywhere else and it's called a Creative Zone or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Now, for the first time this year, the DNC doled
out credentials to two hundred social media influencers. They have
the working lounges, they have a blue carpet for interviews,
a prime position in the convention hall.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
In exchange.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
They're bringing their followers along, one post at a time.
For Juliana that's more than a million followers on x
and TikTok combined.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Outside the convention, we saw protesters, fifty five of them.
At least fifty five protesters arrested last night after fighting
with the police in Chicago, the second night of the DNC.
The police chief said this is a danger to the city.
The police Superintendent Larry Snelling said today those people arrested
outside the Israeli consulate last night where Democrats are meeting,
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showed up with the intention of committing acts of violence
and vandalism.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
A couple of groups that were.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Behind these protests are known to have militant leanings, I
think is.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
The way that it was described earlier.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
So today there are no permitted plans or permitted protests
that we know of, but we do see expect to
see some protests of some kind.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Well.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
The average age of hip and knee replacement patients is
getting younger. I say, as the average life expectancy ticks up,
a lot of Americans are no longer willing to sacrifice
decades doing their favorite activities skiing, hiking, playing pickleball or
whatever to sit in pain.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Yeah, being sporty in your fifties and your sixties is
going to be good for your health overall, of course,
but that means that if you are more active, and
especially if you're doing you know, higher impact sports, you're
going to blow out your joints.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I remember when my grandmother broke her hip and she
didn't want to get hip replacement surgery because it was
such a thing, it was an ordeal.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
She didn't want to do.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
It, so she kind of walked around with a hobble
for the rest of her life. How old was she
do think when she I don't know. I think she
was in her fifties, not sure. But now it's kind
of streamlined, like a lot of operations, it's not as
big of an ordeal any.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Longer, it's not as invasive a lot of time.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
There's been a two hundred and eleven percent increase in
hip replacements between the ages of forty five and sixties.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Is it because people are active and need the replacement surgery.
I have a friend her mom is a skier and
she needed a hip replacement surgery in her.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Fifties because she's so active.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
But I have a feeling it's because of the growing
rates of obesity.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Well, clearly more than forty percent of adults in America
are obese, more than forty percent. That's up from about
thirty percent ten fifteen years ago. Now the weight puts
more pressure on your joints, about four pounds for each
additional pound of body weight.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Think about that, four more pounds.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Of pressure for each single pound of body weight.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I can totally tell when I gain I so you're
looking at me. No, No, when I game, like five
pounds or whatever, you could feel the difference, feel the
difference when I'm working out or doing anything. And then
if I lose that five pounds, get back and forth.
I can tell it's easier for me. Well, you feel
a lot lighter.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
And if you watch the shows I mean doctor now
of course on my what is it my six hundred
pounds something something?
Speaker 2 (27:08):
If you and Kelly and Gabby Gifford's, oh.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Yeah, I did see them come. It was a surprise.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
If you watch those shows, the people who do lose
you know, forty to fifty sixty pounds of weight right away,
they immediately say that they feel better, and their knees
don't hurt, and their hipstone and it's easier for them
to walk around.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Right.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
So, I mean the other one is knee replacements. In
patient knee replacements between twenty between the year two thousand
and twenty seventeen, we saw a two hundred and forty
percent increase.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
And I wonder how many of those people would not
opt to get the surgery if it was still the
way it was.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Back when my grandmother broke her hip.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
You know, the fact that it's not as big of
an ordeal any longer, I think more people would sign
up for it.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
It's less invasive, the technology allows it to stay in
there better. You know, your new knee is going to
last you fifteen or twenty years instead of five or ten.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Right.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
The other the other aspect of this is ozempic. These
we goo vi ozempic, these other smagalati GLP one.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
I don't read it, just injected that you're going to
see dramatic weight loss for some of these people.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
And that's going to be uh.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
That's going to cut back down on the on the
number of knee replacement hip replacement surgeries going forward.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
So all right, coming up next, we will have more
from the d n C here in Chicago. We are
running on fumes a little bit. We apologize, but we
were booked for News Nation this morning, and so we
got up pretty much in the middle of the night.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Can I play that for you?
Speaker 3 (28:46):
I want to play the very beginning of it because
we sound like complete idiots at the very beginning of it.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Now listen. Uh.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Hanna Doba was the host, and you hear her voice
first this morning.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Gary Hoffman and Shannon Farren, hosts of the Gary and
Shannon radio show on ks I six forty Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
We're at the DNC in Chicago this week. Guys, welcome
to Chicago. Good morning.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Thanks, I've been.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Listening to We knew we were going to do it too.
We both talked about it.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
How there.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
We knew what was going to happen.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
We saw it coming, but we still continued on that course, idiots.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
And thanks dub dubber.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Hey, it's du.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yeah, who are we to go after Doug M hoff for.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
His cute little phone call.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
He sounded thanks for having us moronic and.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
We said it in perfect uness.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I know, idiots, you've been listening to the Gary and
Shannon Show. You can always hear us live on kf
I AM six forty nine am to one pm every
Monday through Friday. And anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app but.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Live today from Chicago.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
The DNC Day three losing track already, It's only day three.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Protesters last night ended up getting arrested. Some of them
were out in front of the Israeli consulate, I believe,
and it was organized by a group called Behind Enemy Lines.
Another group behind the protest was Samadone. I think it
is how you say it. Germany and Israel have actually
banned that group from those countries because of the allegations
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that there are ties to terrorist groups.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Not so in the United States.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
But there are no we understand, no permitted protests that
are planned for today, but that doesn't mean that there
won't be protests.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Well, we heard from President Biden passing the torch so
to speak on day one that evening he was the
closing speaker.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
The Obama brought the house down.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yesterday and Representative Scott Peters joins US now representative congressman
out of San Diego, and Representative Peters was one of
the first people to call on Biden to essentially step aside.
Was on making the rounds about a month ago talking
about Biden not bringing what we need to the table
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on this ticket.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Congressman, thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
So is Kamala Harris bringing what you need to the table?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Well, I've heard a lot better shape than we were
a month ago.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I must say I.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Anticipated a really sad convention. I think that there wasn't
a lot of confidence in Joe Biden as a candidate,
even though we love him as a president and a
lot of us who thought he deserved to be re elected.
We're just seeing that it wasn't showing up with voters,
and they were really concerned about his agent. There was
nothing we were going to be able to do about
that issue. So we really had to move on. And
you have in this convention a lot of enthusiasm, and
(01:58):
I hear stories from the field that there's a lot
of enthusiasm outside.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I'll just give you one.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Talk to my colleague in Michigan who they have a
regular voter turnout rally to just recruit volunteers. They usually
about a hundred people, one hundred and fifty people. She said,
four hundred people showed up this time, and in Michigan.
That's going to be really important. It's gonna be important
getting voters out across the country and house races and
races and then winning the presidency. So this is where
we want to be, and we got a lot of
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work to do, but I'm feeling pretty good about it.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Is it too early?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I mean I've been watching this and expecting there to
be some sort of draw down of the enthusiasm, But
it's not going to come this week. I mean, maybe
it comes next week the week after that. Is Are
you concerned at all about sort of a softening in
the polls?
Speaker 5 (02:41):
So you know, it's funny because a lot of people
are concerned we wouldn't have enough time to mount a
new campaign, and other people think it's too long, that's
too much time, that we might lose enthusiasm. I think,
you know, we're used to camp from a few decades ago.
We used to campaigns starting on Labor Day, and I
think we have plenty of time to do this. I
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think there's a lot more to learn about Kamala Harris
for voters and Tim Walls. We have to have a
good policy discussion. I think it's going to get more
interesting and I have to think that there's every reason
to think this camp. First of all, this Hairs campaign
has made no mistakes. They've been they've done a beautiful job,
and as a candidate, she's done a tremendous job. I
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don't think there's any reason to think that they that
she won't be able to continue. That there's going to
be some bumps in the road, like there is in
every campaign, but I feel really good about the way
that they're coming out of the Blox.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
We were talking about the enthusiasm specifically with the youth voters,
the young people, and it's it's true that there are
more young voters this time around and fewer of the
older voters, the Trump voters her to figure this morning's
twelve million of them have died, right, you know, and
so they really is, you know, an injection of enthusiasm
(03:56):
with that voting block.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Well, I think that's true. I also think we should
not take.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Folks for granted on policy side either, So we're going
to have to have a discussion about what President Harris is,
what the President Harrison tends to accomplish as a president
as well.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
But we have time for.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
That, and I think part of it is part of
this campaign, which we're doing really well at, is enthusiasm
and that looks like it's going to turn into turnout
and that's great. Well part of it also, let's also
talk to the centrist voters who are sort of undecided
between what they might see as two polar opposite parties.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Part of it we were talking about this yesterday, is
the campaign that you see and the convention, and then
the side campaign with the youth voters online on social
media and just getting those little bites of information, whether
it's funny clips or what have you, just little snack
sized bites of information. I'm not hearing a bunch of
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people clamoring to hear the deep policy Elizabeth Warren seventy
five page right drill down.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
No, I don't mean that.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I just think that we're just gonna have to flesh
out a policy discussion over the next month. This campaign's
only a month old, and there are people out there
who are are persuasion voters. We have to figure out
how to get those people who remain undecided. It's hard
for me to imagine you haven't decided between Biden or
Harris and Trump on the other hand, but there are
people out there that we have to remember to speak
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to as well, and I think we have time.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
To do that.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
We're talking with Congressman Scott Peters out of the fiftieth
District down in the San Diego area. Climate policy, clean
energy is one of the big things that you have
worked for, and in fact, I mean to this to
kind of continue what Shannon was talking about.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
The New York Times.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Today had an article that just said that there is
really no climate policy that's been spelled out by the
Harris Walls campaign, and everybody's okay with that right now?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
It would you agree with that?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I mean, you're okay with that, Like you said, not
necessarily getting into the nitty gritty policy points of a
specific thing that.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
You work so hard for.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Well, I'm comfortable that you know, the Biden Harris administration
led Congress to make the biggest investment in climate action
in the history of the world. There's a lot of
money in the bank. And when we used to think
that having the money to do things was the problem,
that's not the problem anymore.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Now.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
The problem is execution and implementation. That's what I've been
working on.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Gary.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
We have to make these processes go a lot faster
for everything we do. You know, as Americans were so
comfortable with the delay and the processing and the permitting
and everything takes forever. I think I hope that the
administration will that the that the campaign, the Harris Walls campaign,
will take it on themselves to say, what can we
do to make this stuff really deployed? Because we're really
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proud of our success. We're proud of our progress, but
if we don't get stuff built, it's not going to
mean as much. So I think that's the next step,
and I kind of think that's what the discussion we
should expect.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
All right, Congressman Scott Peters, thank you wonderful conversation.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Much.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
We keep meeting intelligent people.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Yeah, I know, it's so weird.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Odd.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
What is your We were talking kind of off here a
little bit about like your schedule, and I'm fast needed by.
I mean, we see probably five thousand people over the
course of our show walk right in front of us,
and we don't.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Know what their day is. Like it's terrible. I'll tell
you why. So, Like I'm like an early guy. I
like to get up early and go to bed early.
That is not here. You cannot do that. Basically nothing
starts till noon.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
You have a couple of meetings, and then you have
a bunch of receptions where people you know are starting
to uh have bad nutrition habits early on. Sure, and
then you have a dinner. You go out there for
your dinner friends, and you go to the convention. And
then afterward, like tonight, we've got the California Party.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I got to show up at.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
That started just thinking of that.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
So you know, there's no.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Yoga class here or anything to make you feel better.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
You just got to power. We all now have diabetes.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yes, I definitely have diabetes.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
All right, thank you so much, Congressman.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
I have to go, Padres.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yes, Scott Peters again, Congressman out of the fiftieth district
in the San Diego area. We are alive today in
Chicago for Democratic National Convention Day three.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
The Harris Walls election effort.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Has been raking in the money, raised about five hundred
million dollars since she became the Democratic presidential candidate. Reuters
had said that four sources familiar with the fundraising effort
told them the figure had been banked for Harris in
the four weeks since she got into the race.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
On July twenty first.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
So Donald Trump has a rally in North Carolina today
at the Aviation Museum and they say there's a fortress
of portable storage units, moving truck staffed stacked up behind
the media riser. They are not cutting any corners. The
Secret Service going all out with bulletproof glass and other
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measures to make sure he is safe and sound.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Yeah, I guess jd Vance is going to be there
as well. They're holding a joint rally today. PCH had
to be shut down overnight.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
It's reopened again.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
They have arrested the guy that was barricaded inside that
little Volkswagen van that was there.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
So that's that's out of the way.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
So last night as the delegates rolled in or not,
was it last night?
Speaker 4 (09:09):
It was?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
It was last night, Yeah, right, Sorry, I'm getting things
mixed up.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Welcome to Day is Dave Popcord.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
So Gavin Newsom was kind of the flag bearer for
the California delegation that went last to kind of show
the love that her home state has for her, playing
California Love and doing so, and Gavin Newsom lost his
ever loving mind.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
It sounded unhinged. It almost sounded like he was doing
it through gritted teeth.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
The great state of California.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
How do you pass your vote?
Speaker 6 (09:43):
My name's Governor Gavin newsomis oh Man.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
From the great State of Nancy Pelosi. The State of
Nancy Pelosi.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Now from a state there flag nerves of.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Innovators that prides itself on being on the leading and cutting.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Edge of uideas.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
California is the most diverse state in the world's most
diverse delocracy.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
We have the most homeless people, we have the most people.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Were having on our choirs together and you monsper together
across every conceivable and imaginable difference. But the thing we
pride ourselves most on is that we believe.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
The future happens in California.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
First, I remember when I was the future.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
And Democrats.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
I've had the privilege for over twenty years right to
see that future taking shape.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Going with a star in.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Alameda courtroom by the name of Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
He hates himself right now, Scar.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
I saw that star, and I tried to extinguish justice,
racial justice, economic justice.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Social justice.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Does I saw that star.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Get even brighter as Attorney General of California, as a
United States Senator, and as Vice president of the United
States of America.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Grow he's growling out.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
Yeah, the.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Wild animals done the right thing.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
A champion for voting rights, for civil rights, LGBTQ rights,
the rights.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
For women and girls. So Democrats and independents.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
It's time for us to do the right thing, and
that is to elect Kamala Harris as the next President
of the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I hate my time pass over. The window is closing
for me. I want the White House, Sarah the U.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
So all of that music that was in the background,
that's not stuff we added.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
That was part of the DJ lines.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
It looks like he was gonna burst blood vessels in
his face, his veins, Like I have a vein right here. Yeah, okay,
well I'm saying, all right, well I have a little bit.
I'm a little bit you know, what's the word self
conscious about the vein.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
I didn't see it.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Well, sometimes it just pops out, you know, when you're thinking,
is it.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
So?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Not that often? Anyway, He's he's got that too. He
had like veins bulging in his forehead because he was
so pissed off that that this is her coronation event
and not his.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
The Sacramento b had an article today that was headlined
Gavin Newsom was a rising star in the Democratic Party
and then Kamala Harris rose faster.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah, it's a great article.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
He hates this, it lays it out, absolutely hates it.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
He's not scheduled to speak outside of what he did yesterday,
at least not scheduled to speak at the convention, So.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
No, he's not.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
They completely left him out, which I think is is telling,
isn't it. I mean, if they're such great friends, if
they've rose up through the ranks together in California, why wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
He get a spot.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
I mean, we've gone through all the riffraff that has
gotten a spot speaking on the main stage.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
A riffraff.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
But I guess it's like California is a given, so
they'd rather give it to the riff raff from the
state's account right.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Governor Newston was also tracked down by reporters walking through
one of the hallways.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
He won't sit down and.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Talk to us, but he will talk to reporters in
a crowded hallway, and was asked about his support for
Kamala Harris.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Let me go ahead and play times the same for
Kamala Harris. Absolutely, Kamala Is.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
We knew each other decade before we both got into politics,
one of my oldest friends.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Here's the difference.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
I'm a solution in search of a problem. Every one
of their mother's jumping on to help, So I'm as needed,
but obviously all in.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
So we'll see you in the battlegund.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
We'll see you. I'm asked, but I may not be asked.
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Oh my goodness that everybody and everything, And it's a
different You were with me in New Hanshia.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
There wasn't that many of us, so that was a
very different Everything about that was very different.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Right now and everybody is out there.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
He is so level creepy.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Here's next level.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Everybody's sort of jumping over each.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Other to be out there on the campaign trail. So
I'm as needed, you.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Know that whole What would you rather see in the
forest a bear or a man? I take the bear
over that guy. There's just something about him.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Then.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I don't know me.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
You don't think anyone knows him. But he's just one
of those guys. He's like that frat guy that you
know that you don't want to be alone in the
room with kind of guy.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
The One of the paragraphs from this story in the
Sacramento Bee says that Kamala Harris always had the potential
to get in his way in Gaven Newsom's way. She
and Newsom rose through the San Francisco, California political game
at the same time. He was the city's mayor and
then the state's governor. She was the city's top prosecutor
and then the attorney general and then obviously senator. But
let me clean that.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Up real quick.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I know that they're upstanding frat people. I understand that,
But you know which guy I'm talking about?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Okay, Well, speaking of though, the guy who wants to
become the governor, Antonio Vira Goosa. I mean, we have
to kind of reveal, not reveal, revisit the story of
him when we were in Philly eight years ago.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Well, and have you seen him recently. I mean, he's
seventy one years old. He's grown his hair out, so
it's a little long, and it's curly, and there's some
gray in it, and he's wearing like some sort of
burning man chain.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
With a medallion or something.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I don't know what this look is going for It's
definitely a new chapter.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
There was a big story back at home, Noah.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
A guy wanted for assault arrested after he barricaded himself
in a van in Malibu today and in fact, a
section of PCH had to be closed for several hours
because of this. Standoffs started very early this morning and
the Point Doom area near Zoom of Beach.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
All lanes of PCH.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Were closed from Heathercliff to Bush Drive.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Everybody was told to go around.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
They eventually arrested this guy right about eight point thirty
this morning in the road was reopened about an hour afterwards.
I guess they haven't released his name right away, but
he was in this van and it.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Was parked illegally.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
When deputies went to tell him to move it, he
whips out a fire extinguisher and blasts this fire extinguisher
at them.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
So they don't take too kindly to that.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Former La Mayor Antonio via Ragosa is here one of
many California Democrats that are come to the DNC here
in Chicago, and he is seventy one now and he
is eyeing a return to elected office. He's announced another
run for governor. This will be in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
He looks different. He's definitely not. I mean, you look
at some of the pictures of.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Him back as man, dark hair, you know, jet black hair.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Yeah, he's not.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
He doesn't fit very tan, very still tan, still fit,
but now he is. He's got his hair grown out
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
This isn't the.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
First time he has put his hat in the race
for governor. He finished third behind Gavin Newsom and Republican
John Cox in twenty eighteen. So yesterday he did an
interview with Inside California Politics host Nicki Lorenzo, and he
says he promises to campaign on results over rhetoric.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Yeah. He refers to the.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Things that have become big issues in California, housing, homelessness,
high cost of living, COMPSOM combination of all three, and
he says he's one guy who's actually done those things.
His quote was, I think people are looking for somebody
that's going to tackle that in a way that's compassionate,
but in a way that has to make the tough calls.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
He addressed go ahead of He addressed the polarized nature
of our current political landscape here, including the RNC. He
described it with filled with anger, divisiveness. Everybody's screaming at
the other side.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
I mean, it's not exclusively a Republican thing.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Democrats do plenty of smack talking and you know, silly
pet names that don't do anything to further political discourse.
He said, I'm unabashedly a Democrat, someone who stands up
for women's reproductive freedom, sensible gun laws, expanding healthcare, taking
on climate change. But I like doing it in a
way where we're working with people to find the common
(18:37):
ground instead of screaming at them.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Who is he banging around with now, I don't know,
because that was a big story throughout his tenure of
who his latest was. I mean, his name's Tony Vallar, Right,
he took one of his wive's last name and made
it into Via Ragosa, which is a much better name
to run for office with.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
In Los Angeles and in California, he.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Hooked up with a TV reporter that we know of,
at least two of them, one from Univision, one from KTLA.
Oh right, okay, And so I just wonder, I mean
it fascinates me. I like to get the tabloid version
of Antonio Vivergos's life sometimes.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Well, and as we've seen, the tabloid version doesn't disqualify
somebody from service, has it ever. I mean, there were
always rumors about, you know, politicians in the days of
your old that had had long standing affairs.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I never disqualified when it came out that he was
hooking up with the woman who worked at Univision, who
actually reported on I believe his divorce live on the air,
and we were all trying to uncover whether this relationship
was happening. This is when I was covering him as
a reporter, and I remember at one press conference there
(19:55):
in the in the in the mayor's room, I asked
to kind of get some information about it or get
a reaction from him. I said, are you in love?
And his press person runs over and he's like.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
What the hell are you thinking.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I was like, what, We're not going to address the
elephant in the room, come on, And I got the
reaction I wanted, you know, he started, he blushed, he
started giggling a little bit.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
He's like, well, well, well I can't you know, you
know how he used to do pretty good impress But yeah,
the last time we saw him was at the convention
in Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Yeah, that was a that was a weird Okay, that
was a weird time because, for one thing, we were
on running on fumes, on fumes. We had just left
Cleveland a couple of days earlier, and we're back at
Lax to get on a flight to go to Philadelphia
and lo and behold Antonio via Goosu rolls in. And
(20:51):
what happened was he he well, he took a picture
with us, for one thing, and then when we got
on the plane, he just very carefully made his way
down the aisle, shaking hands, kissing babies, things like that,
despite having anybody that wanted to be with him.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
I mean, it didn't seem like.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
There were a lot of people who were climbing over
themselves to shake this guy's hand. But he nonetheless made
his way down the aisle until the flight attendants made
him go sit back down and put his seatbelt back on.
He's going to be in this pretty crowded field on
the Democratic side of people who are running for governor,
State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Tony Thurman is one of
(21:34):
the guys Party Vice chair Betty Ye, Lieutenant Governor Landy Kunlachus.
They have all said that they will be running for governor.
Coming up twenty twenty six is when that election is
going to be held.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Gary and Shannon in a non politics talk when we return,
how about a wellness segment, Gary and shann A wellness segment.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I mean, it's not completely uplifting, but it's.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Not about your well It's a little breaky break break.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
We're live in chicag for day three of the Democratic
National Convention. Just a quick reminder we could not go
to the Republican National Convention because we wanted to desperately.
This is not an endorsement of one side or the other,
but just an opportunity to know that this is the
biggest story of the week, and we're happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
When we talked to Congressman Scott Peters earlier out of
San Diego, I mentioned that there's a couple campaigns going on,
at least for the Democrats, and one of them is
here what you see on the news with the speakers
and the enthusiasm and the delegates, and the other is
online on social media. They're calling this the TikTok Convention.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
The TikTok Convention.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Tonight's speaker lineup includes, of course, Tim Walls, Bill Clinton,
and a social media creator from Houston, Texas named Olivia Juliana.
She's one of five creators and addressing the convention this week.
They're trying to get into the social media world with
(23:03):
these people who reach huge numbers of young people, young voters,
who are not tuning into CNN, They're not reading the
New York Times, They're spending their days on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
We've seen the lounges.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
They're called creator lounges, and you have to be there's
like pillows and stuff in there, right.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Yeah, I mean, it's not too far away from here.
In the United Center. One of the around the concourse
there is a walled off area. I mean it's just
the pipe and drape walls, but it's walled off from
everywhere else and it's called a Creative Zone or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Now, for the first time this year, the DNC doled
out credentials to two hundred social media influencers. They have
the working lounges, they have a blue carpet for interviews,
a prime position in the convention hall.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
In exchange.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
They're bringing their followers along, one post at a time.
For Juliana that's more than a million followers on x
and TikTok combined.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Outside the convention, we saw protesters, fifty five of them.
At least fifty five protesters arrested last night after fighting
with the police in Chicago, the second night of the DNC.
The police chief said this is a danger to the city.
The police Superintendent Larry Snelling said today those people arrested
outside the Israeli consulate last night where Democrats are meeting,
(24:22):
showed up with the intention of committing acts of violence
and vandalism.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
A couple of groups that were.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Behind these protests are known to have militant leanings, I
think is.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
The way that it was described earlier.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
So today there are no permitted plans or permitted protests
that we know of, but we do see expect to
see some protests of some kind.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Well.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
The average age of hip and knee replacement patients is
getting younger. I say, as the average life expectancy ticks up,
a lot of Americans are no longer willing to sacrifice
decades doing their favorite activities skiing, hiking, playing pickleball or
whatever to sit in pain.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Yeah, being sporty in your fifties and your sixties is
going to be good for your health overall, of course,
but that means that if you are more active, and
especially if you're doing you know, higher impact sports, you're
going to blow out your joints.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I remember when my grandmother broke her hip and she
didn't want to get hip replacement surgery because it was
such a thing, it was an ordeal.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
She didn't want to do.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
It, so she kind of walked around with a hobble
for the rest of her life. How old was she
do think when she I don't know. I think she
was in her fifties, not sure. But now it's kind
of streamlined, like a lot of operations, it's not as
big of an ordeal any.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Longer, it's not as invasive a lot of time.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
There's been a two hundred and eleven percent increase in
hip replacements between the ages of forty five and sixties.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Is it because people are active and need the replacement surgery.
I have a friend her mom is a skier and
she needed a hip replacement surgery in her.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Fifties because she's so active.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
But I have a feeling it's because of the growing
rates of obesity.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Well, clearly more than forty percent of adults in America
are obese, more than forty percent. That's up from about
thirty percent ten fifteen years ago. Now the weight puts
more pressure on your joints, about four pounds for each
additional pound of body weight.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Think about that, four more pounds.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Of pressure for each single pound of body weight.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I can totally tell when I gain I so you're
looking at me. No, No, when I game, like five
pounds or whatever, you could feel the difference, feel the
difference when I'm working out or doing anything. And then
if I lose that five pounds, get back and forth.
I can tell it's easier for me. Well, you feel
a lot lighter.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
And if you watch the shows I mean doctor now
of course on my what is it my six hundred
pounds something something?
Speaker 2 (27:08):
If you and Kelly and Gabby Gifford's, oh.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Yeah, I did see them come. It was a surprise.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
If you watch those shows, the people who do lose
you know, forty to fifty sixty pounds of weight right away,
they immediately say that they feel better, and their knees
don't hurt, and their hipstone and it's easier for them
to walk around.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Right.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
So, I mean the other one is knee replacements. In
patient knee replacements between twenty between the year two thousand
and twenty seventeen, we saw a two hundred and forty
percent increase.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
And I wonder how many of those people would not
opt to get the surgery if it was still the
way it was.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Back when my grandmother broke her hip.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
You know, the fact that it's not as big of
an ordeal any longer, I think more people would sign
up for it.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
It's less invasive, the technology allows it to stay in
there better. You know, your new knee is going to
last you fifteen or twenty years instead of five or ten.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Right.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
The other the other aspect of this is ozempic. These
we goo vi ozempic, these other smagalati GLP one.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
I don't read it, just injected that you're going to
see dramatic weight loss for some of these people.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
And that's going to be uh.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
That's going to cut back down on the on the
number of knee replacement hip replacement surgeries going forward.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
So all right, coming up next, we will have more
from the d n C here in Chicago. We are
running on fumes a little bit. We apologize, but we
were booked for News Nation this morning, and so we
got up pretty much in the middle of the night.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Can I play that for you?
Speaker 3 (28:46):
I want to play the very beginning of it because
we sound like complete idiots at the very beginning of it.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Now listen. Uh.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Hanna Doba was the host, and you hear her voice
first this morning.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Gary Hoffman and Shannon Farren, hosts of the Gary and
Shannon radio show on ks I six forty Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
We're at the DNC in Chicago this week. Guys, welcome
to Chicago. Good morning.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Thanks, I've been.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Listening to We knew we were going to do it too.
We both talked about it.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
How there.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
We knew what was going to happen.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
We saw it coming, but we still continued on that course, idiots.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
And thanks dub dubber.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Hey, it's du.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yeah, who are we to go after Doug M hoff for.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
His cute little phone call.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
He sounded thanks for having us moronic and.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
We said it in perfect uness.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I know, idiots, you've been listening to the Gary and
Shannon Show. You can always hear us live on kf
I AM six forty nine am to one pm every
Monday through Friday. And anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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