August 21, 2024 • 28 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
AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. We are here in Chicago, DNC
Day three. I got to say a lot more buzz
yesterday for the Obamas, Michelle and Barack Obama, who brought
down the house last night with those speeches. Today people
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are just kind of milling about, not as many people,
not as well attended so far. Again, things don't get
rolling here for quite some time.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, as we left yesterday, there were several hundred people,
at least through the exit that we went, several hundred
people waiting to get in get their seats before the
speakers really started. And then as we were leaving, volunteers
were being coached on how to approach like volunteer ushers
being coached on how it is they were going to
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explain to people that not everybody's going to get a seat.
That was one of the things basically that came out
that they were going to have a full full house
last night.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I don't know if that's going to be the same
for tonight.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
What else is going on?
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Time for what's happening?
Speaker 6 (01:05):
Wow, Although suspects charged in the murder of the General
Hospital actor Johnny Whack are also suspected in a series
of burglaries across southern California got new details yesterday at
the La Bord of Police Commissioners meeting.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
They discussed a.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Search warrant that led to the arrests earlier this month.
During that searche, the department's Organized Retail Task Force found
evidence related to a series of pharmacy and clothing store
the fs, multiple burglaries, and the cities of Lenox, Beverly Hills,
rialto Ontario.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
A divers searching the wreck of that super yacht owned
by the family of British Attech Mogul that sank off
the coast of Sicily on Monday, working to recover the
remains of most of the six people left missing after
the accident. Sicily's Civil Protection Agency has confirmed a couple
of bodies were brought to shore importedg Cllo near Palermo.
(02:01):
Two more in the process of being brought ashore. They
said they have found five bodies in total, one person
still missing. The rescue efforts, they said, have been pretty
challenging because this yacht, the Bayesian, is now lying on
the seabed at a ninety degree angle at a depth
of over sixty sorry, over one hundred and sixty feet,
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and they said basically they can only spend about ten
minutes at the dive site per person before having to
resurface to avoid decompression, sickness or the bends.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
They said they have found the bodies.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Of Mike Lynch, that tech and entrepreneur who owned the ship,
the yacht I guess I should say, with his eighteen
year old daughter. Those were among the remains that were
recovered today.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
A little bit of breaking news out of the DNC
here in Chicago in terms of the star studded performances.
At least two more A listers are now said to
take the stage tonight, Stevie Wonder and Keenan Thompson.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
What's Keenan Thompson going to do?
Speaker 4 (02:59):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
This won't be Stevie's first rodeo at a DNZ. In
two thousand and eight in Denver, he played Signed, Sealed, Delivered,
I'm yours, unclear what song he'll play tonight. He will
take the podium as well in deliver a speech.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Some weird stories coming out of the Labor Department the
economy added far fewer jobs in twenty twenty three and
early twenty four than previously reported, So that is the
potential sign that there may be some cracks in the
labor market more severe than initially believed. Today, the Labor
Department said monthly payroll figures overstated job growth by about
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eight hundred and eighteen thousand jobs in the twelve months
that ended in March, So that suggests employers added one
hundred and seventy four thousand jobs per month during that period.
That's down from what would have been two hundred and
forty two thousand jobs originally reported.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Like I said, Trump.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
And Kennedy are trending as long as as well as
RFK Junior also trending because of the news this hour
that they may be giving up the ghosts, They may
be giving up and suspending their campaign and joining the
ranks of Trump.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
We know that there was at least.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
A conversation about a potential cabinet position a weeks ago,
so we'll wait and see what happens there.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
And then, of course we have any death music.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Of course we have deaf Okay, that's silly.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
You've been a little bit down today, and I think
it's because we all got the alerts on our phone
that that j Lo and Ben Affleck broke up.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Listen, I think she was sending a signal.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Divorce. Yeah, on their second anniverse.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah, that's an F you signal, isn't it. It's like
a big is it a batman in the sky?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
It's a big fu.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
These two have annoyed me for so long. I mean,
who asked for a second round of this? Is it
a second round or a third round?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I don't even know. I don't pay attention.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
They have oversaturated pop culture market with their with their movies,
and their their constant calls.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
To the paparazzi.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Here we are, here, we are, take our picture, their
stupid wedding randomly in Vegas that they like took off
for and the videos surrounding.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Now there's odd people. Oh, I mean, thank.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
God that we did not become rich, famous people, because
something weird happens to people. The more you hear celebrities talk, the.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
More you're like, who are what? They're the looney people.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
There was a story I want to say it was
in the Daily Mail today speaking of Kennedy and writing
for the Daily Mail. There was a story in the
Daily Mail about even Jennifer Lopez's closest friends are saying
she's been hard to deal with. Yeah, she's really really
difficult that they can't stand the fact she got back
to together with Jlo.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Or sorry, back to with Ben Affleck in the first place.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Whatever happened to Jenny from the block? You know Jenny
from the block.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
She's still cool, She's still you know, she's your holler
back girl. She's Jenny from the block. Now she's high maintenance.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Jenny's hy maintenance Jenny?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
And is she getting too much heat? Should he be
shouldering some of the blame?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Listens?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
He looked like Scott Peterson at the border. The last
time I saw him. He cut his hair, he died it.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
He's doing weird stuff with his clothing.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
He looked angry, he looks awful. He looked very angry
for the last two years. And when did it?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Is he not going through his program? Is he's a
sober person?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Right?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
He is?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I think so maybe he's not doing the things that
you do to Oh, look the coastguards here just in case.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I think it's funny that they have us situated here
in the United Center, just across from the Michael Jordan statue,
and that is by far the most photographed landmark in
all of.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
The city of Chicago.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
I think absolutely.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I mean it is during the games, it's where you know,
the lockhocks fans come to congregate. I think this is
what happens all the time in this place. Everyone wants
a picture with the statue.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Have we taken one?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
One picture with the statue? No? No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Oh we should do that before I climb it.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
You don't want to climb that thing.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I might climb it.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
You don't know where that's You don't know where that
statue has been.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
That's a good point. That's a good point.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Did the floor of a pizza parlor?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
And last night we were getting pizza? And how did
that start?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
With? A?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Oh? Somebody said that.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
They could do one hundred and twenty five push ups
or something.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Yes, there was a claim of push up prowess.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Okay, who made that claim?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I don't It wasn't me.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
So you said, I bet you could do twenty five
push ups or something like that, and so I dropped
down like it was boot camp.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Yeah, and you gave me one and I.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Did one, and then people started, people who worked there
started saying, you don't want to touch this floor. You
don't know what's happy you were doing live at the
DMC in Chicago and joining us now. Don Byer, He
is the US representative for Virginia's eighth congressional district, and Don,
thanks for spending some time with us.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Thank you, Shannon.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
I'm glad you're here in Chicago for this exciting week.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
It is exciting, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
What do you think about this week so far?
Speaker 5 (08:21):
It's been. It's been.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
This is my fifth convention and by far the most exciting.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
I mean, the change in excitement from a month ago
is dramatic, and I don't think I could ever have
anticipated how much the Democratic base came together enthusiasm for
commonwa Well.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Let me ask you this, because we were doing an
interview earlier today and I came up with this theory
that one of the reasons why there's so much enthusiasm
this week is there was a pent up frustration and
fear that with Joe Biden at the top of the ticket,
it wasn't the greatest ticket that the Democratic Party could
put forward. I mean, we saw that after the debate performance,
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polls were showing that the Democrats were slipping, and then
this almost regardless of who it is. I mean, there
is reason to be excited abou Kamala Harris for Democrats,
but that there was this frustration that it was building
and building, and then finally you have this release of
who we have a younger person at the top of
the ticket. We have a woman at the top of
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the ticket. We have a woman of color at the
top of the ticket. Is any of that ring true
that there is Kerry? I think a lot of that
rings true.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
We had this strange ambivalence with Joe Biden that on
the one hand, he had an extraordinary record you got
to go back to Linda Johnson or FDR to have
a president who's gotten as much done. At the same time,
he was the oldest person ever to run for president
and had a weak debate performance. So you had the
n and the aang and now we just have the
positive all because it was.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
The Biden Harris campaign. They got all this done.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
And now you have a young woman of color with
a great background, full of energy, and she's running against
the oldest person ever run for president.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Right, We've talked a lot on the show about AI
and how terrifying it is. Every day it gets more terrifying.
Last week there was a paper. It was a group
of thirty two researchers from Open AI, Microsoft, Harvard, other
institutions calling on policy makers to develop new ways to
verify humans without sacrificing our privacy and things like that.
(10:15):
It seems like the legislation has not kept up with
the advance in technology. Yesterday even we talked about the
terrifying images of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. I don't
know if you've seen these, but you know one image
is them walking hand in hand on the beach like
a romantic It's terrified.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Yeah, the fake Taylor Swift endorsement.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Is this a priority for you? And is it a
priority for a lot of people in Washington?
Speaker 5 (10:40):
It is?
Speaker 7 (10:41):
And if there is a major task force twelve down
Crest twelve Republicans, I'm on it.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
That's responsible.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
I think in the next month to have a comprehensive
report on the initial AI legislation we should do.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
You know, social media is twenty five years old.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
We've done nothing in twenty five years except you can
tell you can't soe social media companies, So we're trying
to get ahead of it. Congress is never going to
be ahead of the American people, but we're trying to
catch up.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
So I'm glad you said that, because what I've always
said is, oh, we're really no offense, but we're going
to trust the government with figuring out how to put
a handcuffs on this thing. Really, And do you have
people coming in from Silicon Valley or the world.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
Every day and all the thing tanks And one of
the very first things we want to address is the
deep fakes, not just because of political advertising, the Kamala
and Trump on the beach, but things like child sexual
assault material or the kids that are being hassed harassed
or you know, naked pictures of your high school girlfriend
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when she dumped you, the things like that that are
really terrible.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
But then there's gonna be a lot more that we
have to address.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
And the big thing which everyone has to be concerned
about is what does it due to employment?
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Because it's good middle.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
Managers can all be largely eliminated by artificial intelligence, and
we have lots of other jobs, but it and when
it happens so quickly, there can be a lot of
turmoil in the economy.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
So where does Congress come down on this, Where can
you start to build some of those guard rails that
are necessary around you know, that's.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
The really difficult question because the EU, the European Unions
come out with their AIX, which everyone sees is very repressive.
They license everything and as a consequence, they don't.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Get much creativity.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
We're getting enormous creativity out of it, and including breakthroughs
and healthcare every single day.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
So we want it to be a light touch.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
We don't want it to be super regulatory because we
don't want to dampen the enthusiasm the creativity of the
American people. At the same time, we have to look
at what are the real downsides and try to protect
against those and hopefully those would be relatively few.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Is that going to be a partnership with social media companies?
Speaker 7 (12:48):
Yes, so far, People, Anthropic, Open AI, Google, They've all been.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Pretty good about wanting to work with us.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
And happily I don't always get to say this, it's
about the most bipartisan thing going on in Congress.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Well, that is very rare to say something that's good.
And then finally, I guess what is what does the
future hold for?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
What is?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I mean you you've studied computer science. This is something
that that's you know, near and dear to you.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
I really think that it's going to be one of
the two things that most changes our lives in a
really positive way. I mean all of all of technology
solving problems allows us to have a better quality.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Of life day after day after day. And just on
the healthcare alone, do you.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
See it as life changing as say the Internet has
been much more so more so so so we're lucky
enough the three of us who have lived in the
beginning of the internet, widespread you know, use of the
World Wide Web, and potentially artificial intelligence and having a sea.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
If I can add one more thing, we're getting close
to fusion energy too.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
It's happening in Washington State.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
And southern California, Wisconsin, Massachusetts. When we get basically free
you piquitous energy, it's gonna it will be the most
important things to inspire.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I'm a big fan of the fact that it's never
too late to be what you might have been. And
the congressman, during his congressional career two years ago enrolled
at George Mason University in pursuit of a master's degree
in computer science. That's that's awesome. I keep wanting to
do that at some point. Go back to school computer science.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Please do it.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
It's really it's quite fun. It's much more fulfilling than
the New York Times.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Sunda across your puzzle every.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Sunday and you run with me.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
I had a hundred four days with Sundays in a row,
and then I lost it because I have to be studying,
and then you're strounded by young people, which makes you on.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Your Yeah, that's true, that's very neat. Well, nice to
me too, as Shannon Congressman Don Bayer out of Virginia.
Of course.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
We're live today at United Center in Chicago, which is
the home of the Democratic National Convention. We're getting close
today threes activities that will start in just a bit.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
David Urban is an American lobbyist political commentator for CNN.
I'm clearly reading off your Wikipedia page. Sorry, we're running
on fumes right now.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Answer as well.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Yeah, and super handsome.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
You can't see it's radio, but you get trust.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
I buried the lead there.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
David Urban, you have been talking recently about the need
for Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
To button it up.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
We talked a little bit earlier in the week about
how when that Access Hollywood tape came out, he was
kind of at the time.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
A little unhinged.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
The tape comes out, He's got to button it up,
and some believe that that kind of gave him the
presidency when he did appear to be disciplined.
Speaker 9 (15:29):
Wow, So so believe it or not. I was around
during that Access all I.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Would tape right.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
I had the first public event with Donald Trump right
after that Access Hollywood tape came out in Ambridge, Pennsylvania,
and I was really concerned.
Speaker 9 (15:45):
I didn't know who was going to show up.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
We had a big, growdy planned and you know, over
the weekend, the world melted down that weekend, So I
was concerned whether there's going to be a show up
or not. And so lo and behold, we got it
was in the high school, Ambridge High School, and we
got there and there were people inside, probably four thousand
people outside. So it was you know, it was kind
of an affirmation that we were going to live, We're
gonna make it through. And but yeah, you're right, listen,
(16:08):
I don't know button it up is the right kind
of phraseology. I think it's like stick to the knitting right,
Like let's let's focus on the things that we know
that the voters care about Donald Trump. In the most recent.
Speaker 9 (16:20):
CBS pollar came out.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
You know, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are kind of
neck and neck in a lot of areas, but in
three areas, Donald Trump is still dominant, dominant over Kamala Harrison, Immigration, inflation,
and the economy seventy percent Trump, sixty percent Trump fifty percent.
Trump crushing Kamala Harris today. Still even they've actually said
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an incredible thirty days, Trump still way ahead.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
I was with him on.
Speaker 8 (16:46):
Saturday this past Saturday. I spent some time with him
in Pennsylvania. I was at the rally, spent it one
on one time with the President.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Said, you know, he.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
Said, are we going to win? He said, And I said, well, it's.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Up to you. Some to you.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
You're gonna win.
Speaker 8 (16:57):
If you talk about these issues, you're gonna crush it.
You're gonna crush it. And if you don't, it's gonna
be a hell of a race.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
What do you said?
Speaker 9 (17:04):
Just looked at me, kept walking.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
And listen.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
Last night in this arena and the night before. You
heard secret Clinton the night before. Then you heard the
Obamas last night say hey, crowd, strap in, like we
may be ahead, but you better strap in because this
is gonna be a one heck of a fight between
now an election day. They have been through the battles
Obama and Clinton. They've been through the worst. They know
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that Donald Trump, he's been punched in the nose so
many times you.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Can't even count.
Speaker 8 (17:33):
This team has never had a glove light on him yet. Right,
so think about you know, Kama Harris ran in California,
it's pretty you know, you get through the primary, you're.
Speaker 9 (17:40):
Kind of you're done. She ran in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, didn't.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
Fare so well, right was out her Her positions were
a little extremelyting for the Democratic Party of the time.
She got bounced before before Iowa. So she hasn't really
been you know, battle tested. No, the Walls runs at
a pretty safe district himself. Trump every day is getting
hit with a two by four every day, just getting beaten, beaten,
and he you know, throws up punches and he keeps coming.
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So we're going to see starting Friday, when this is over, Monday, Tuesday,
Wed the next seventy eight sixty seventy days till election day.
Who could take those blows and who could respond Comwell,
Harrison has an answer to question. So you know, my state,
I'm the only thing I really know about is Pennsylvania.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Right, It's my little superpower.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
The CommonWell of Pennsylvania is a huge gun ownership, right.
Speaker 9 (18:28):
Cracking is how they mostly a lot of people make
their livings. And by the way, snack food.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
It's a snack food capital.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Of the world, buddy, do you know?
Speaker 9 (18:35):
So you know hers chips and.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
The pretzels, all these things made kind of in the Redding.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Area as well.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
So she comes out here's likes snack food inflation and shrinkflation,
just taking a whack of that industry.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
So that's they're not so happy.
Speaker 8 (18:47):
But on fracking, you know, Kyle Harrison for for for
years has been kind of queen of the Green New
Deal for lack of a better word, and and said
I will end fracking day one. There's so much video
you could bout audio, you can pull it, and that
is an ananthemut of people in Pennsylvania work in the
oil and gas industry. To two hundred thousand people that
make their living. And so suddenly a few weeks ago
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she says, some faceless.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Staff or put out a slide.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
A piece of paper under the door to suppress people.
Speaker 9 (19:15):
That says, we are now for frocking Okay, Like that
doesn't seem so genuine to me, right.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
So she's going to answer that de Pennsylvanians. Then a
lot of Democrats have good positions on gunning from you.
Hope your Democrats will say, we don't want your guns.
Speaker 9 (19:30):
We're not coming for your guns.
Speaker 8 (19:31):
We want we want to close the gun show loophole.
We want to have you know, end bump stocks, we
want to have red flag loss things.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
That makes sense that people people can all get behind
and say, yeah, well, well we could pass us.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
Kamala Harris's position to date has been something completely radical
that says, we want to take your guns. Mandatory gun buyback,
needs confiscation. And in a state where lots of kids
don't go to school on the first day of deer
season because your dad's taking them out hunting, that doesn't
go over so well.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I know an angel's game and you'll see all that
hue orange.
Speaker 8 (20:03):
She may have to she might as well just come
out and say I don't like the Pittsburgh Steelers and
I don't like the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
That's about her position right now.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
So she's got to answer a lot of questions.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
We're talking with David Urban about one of the very
oftentimes the lone conservative voice on a panel on CNN.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
Well, listen, I appreciate the opportunity that CN gives me.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
I am treated very well.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
The network is great, my colleagues are great, the anchors
are great.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
So look, it's up to me to make my points
to the American people.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Let me ask you something about that, because I know
that when viewers, whether it's CNN or Fox or whatever
channel they're watching, when viewers see you.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Guys go after each other.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
And I don't even mean that in necessarily a negative way,
but you counter each other's points and the argument is
civil ninety nine percent of the time, and you get
along with these people outside of that. To me is
a great example that people don't appreciate them.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
So listen.
Speaker 8 (20:57):
America's best when we're a marketplace of ideas. That's how
the world should work. People should sit around, have discussions
about important issues, talk about them, and then be able
to disagree, say Listen, I don't think that everybody in
this room, everybody in this building wants a good America.
They want to great America. They want the best America
they can have for their kids, their grandkids.
Speaker 9 (21:16):
They don't want to see anybody fail. How we get
there is how we differ on things.
Speaker 8 (21:20):
Right.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
Some people view one way we should go love, we should.
Speaker 8 (21:22):
Go right, and we should be able to be able
to come together and not vilify one another for your beliefs,
whether it's you.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
That's why I.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
Don't like the you know, the mag and the progressive
of this. Listen, where are America's Everybody wants the best
for the country, right, So let's talk about ideas. This
is what I said to the president. Right, Let's not
call people names. Let's like, you know, Barack Obama got
a little bit last night. They give us that a
little bit bent up energy from all those years he
took a whack and show up with last night. But
I think America is not great when we do that.
I think America's best. We talk about ideas.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah, I was just going to ask you about Pennsylvania.
I mean, there were some top that Josh Shapiro would
have been the picks and to kind of bring that home.
Do you think that that would have mattered at all
based on the things that you think are concerns for
her there?
Speaker 8 (22:06):
Yeah, so wacky as it is. Josh Shapiro is a
great friend of mine. This is that politics works, right.
So I'm a Republican. Josh Shapiro is a Democrat. I
worked with Josh Shapiro. I was a senator named Arlen
Spector's chief of staff one hundred years ago.
Speaker 9 (22:18):
Was a very moderate Republican.
Speaker 8 (22:20):
And Josh is the chief of staff for Democratic congressman
from Philadelphia area. We have to know each other nineteen
ninety seven. We've become friends, been friends ever since. I'm
a great fan of his. I don't agree with everything
he says. I'm sure he doesn't agree with that thing
I say. But I have a great to respect for him.
He's a great public servant. And his motto is and
I know this is radio, so I can't say he's
get s done. Yeah right, And he's got a pain
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and that's that's and that's why he's so popular.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
We heard him deliver that message Californy because.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
Guess because people don't care, they just want they want
their streets fixed, they want their lights fixed, they want
to make sure the roads work.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Great, that's the job of government.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
That's what you should do, right, That's what people think
the government's for, not like.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
And so Josh is all about that.
Speaker 8 (22:58):
He's all about that, and he's you know, he's not
where I think he'd excel is that people love him
in the state of Pennsylvania, in a state that's going
to be won by a percent, maybe a half percent,
joshauld probably plus that up big time, right, plus it
up big time?
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Is he an attack dog?
Speaker 8 (23:14):
Is Josh a guy who's full of vitriol and hatred
and venom?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Like?
Speaker 8 (23:18):
Josh is a great thing.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
He's a good guy.
Speaker 9 (23:20):
I don't know if he's suited to being, you know, a.
Speaker 8 (23:23):
Nasty at nasty attack dog. He's a really decent human being.
And that's why I think it'd be a great president.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Right.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
So I don't know what's gonna happen in this convention,
but in.
Speaker 8 (23:32):
Twenty twenty eight, I know I might be working for
Josh Shapiro if he's up next time. Maybe maybe here's
a as a Shapiro supporter next time. But he's that great.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Of a guy.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Yeah, we'll check him out on CNN. David Urban, thanks
for coming in, Thanks for me, thank you, thanks for
having me.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
Gus.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Why do I have to inject football into every political conversation?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah, it's just political conversations that you inject football in.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Two.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I don't know if you've met you, but uh, that's
pretty much every conversation.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
That's fine. It could be worse.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
It's true.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
You could inject feelings of every conversation. That would be
even more annoying.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Day three of the Democratic National Convention here in Chicago,
quite a little buzz around the United Center right now
because Keenan Thompson is going to be part of the
program tonight, and he made.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
His way into the arena, and at least.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
In the three days that we've been here so far,
that was probably the most excitement. The biggest crowd I
think that gathered around him. Corey Brooker also, Corey Brooker
definitely had a bigger entourage, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Here night three, if you're going to watch any of this,
you're going to see Governor Tim Wallas.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Give not only his acceptance of the nomination for vice president,
but his huge introduction of himself to the general public,
to any independent voters, to anybody that.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Might be interested in learning about him.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Of course, before that, you're going to see former President
Bill Clinton to whip up the crowd.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Two days after his wife did just as much.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
The theme for tonight is a fight for our freedoms.
Like I said, Bill Clinton is expected to be there
is one of the speakers, Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan,
Governor Josh Shapiro Pennsylvania. They are both expected to speak,
as is Roy Cooper, Governor of North Carolina. So you
got some of the people who are on that sort
of short list for Kamala Harris's vice presidential picks that
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will be expected tonight.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
And then the host of the whole evening.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I haven't really seen what the host does other than
a quick intro and maybe appears every once in a while.
But Mindy Kaling I think is the host for tonight.
And then Carrie Washington is going to do the final night.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Did you get me any baseball music?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
No, but I'll work on it.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
So you know Bobby Witt Junior, right, Kansas City Royals
American League MVP candidate Bobby Witch Junior, So the Royals
are playing the Anaheim Angels yesterday and it's the ninth inning.
It's a non safe situation. Ben Joyce is in as
a reliever.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
And it is it is the ninth He strikes out MJ.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Melendez, got infielder Michael Massey to ground out to second
and Bobby Witt Junior takes the plate and I don't
know what Bobby Witt.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Junior did to Ben Joyce. Ben Joyce on August.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Third set the record for a strikeout pitch at one
hundred and four point seven miles per hour.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Coach, that was a record.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
What did he do yesterday against Bobby Witt Junior? Three
pitches over one hundred.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
And three miles per hour?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
He hit him at one hundred and three point two,
one hundred and four point five and then one hundred
and four point eight.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
That is a record.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
And back to.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Back to back like that, like one at bat the
fastest at bat ever.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
And you you just have to kind of tip your
hat and say you.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Got the best of me. At that point.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
There's not much that you're going to do as a
batter in that case.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
You know what, though, Bobby Junior, he's going to be
a footnote now in that stat for who for who
knows how long is this baseball music? Yeah, I was
kind of thinking like center field or something like speck
do do do do do do do do do?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Do?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
You know what time it is? It's nap time. Guess
what We're going to the Cubs game.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
We're going to.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Wrigley Field this afternoon, seven o'clock, first pitch.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
This is a great stadium, legendary stadium. We're gonna have
so much Wriggly information tomorrow, it's gonna be insane.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Well, you gotta take your earbuds because you've gotta have
you listening to Governor Tim Wallas give his pub fiction.
No so, no, Well, you're probably gonna want to listen
to Bill Clinton.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I'll catch that on socials when I get back.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Oh is that the way we do it?
Speaker 8 (27:50):
Now?
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Do we just do things on social.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Nothing needs to really be live anymore.
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Speaker 2 (28:12):
About what we did this morning, which was that hit
on News Nation, some of the other stuff, the behind
the scenes stuff here at United Center in Chicago for
the Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
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on the iHeartRadio app. We are here in Chicago, DNC
Day three. I got to say a lot more buzz
yesterday for the Obamas, Michelle and Barack Obama, who brought
down the house last night with those speeches. Today people
(00:20):
are just kind of milling about, not as many people,
not as well attended so far. Again, things don't get
rolling here for quite some time.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, as we left yesterday, there were several hundred people,
at least through the exit that we went, several hundred
people waiting to get in get their seats before the
speakers really started. And then as we were leaving, volunteers
were being coached on how to approach like volunteer ushers
being coached on how it is they were going to
(00:50):
explain to people that not everybody's going to get a seat.
That was one of the things basically that came out
that they were going to have a full full house
last night.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I don't know if that's going to be the same
for tonight.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
What else is going on?
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Time for what's happening?
Speaker 6 (01:05):
Wow, Although suspects charged in the murder of the General
Hospital actor Johnny Whack are also suspected in a series
of burglaries across southern California got new details yesterday at
the La Bord of Police Commissioners meeting.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
They discussed a.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Search warrant that led to the arrests earlier this month.
During that searche, the department's Organized Retail Task Force found
evidence related to a series of pharmacy and clothing store
the fs, multiple burglaries, and the cities of Lenox, Beverly Hills,
rialto Ontario.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
A divers searching the wreck of that super yacht owned
by the family of British Attech Mogul that sank off
the coast of Sicily on Monday, working to recover the
remains of most of the six people left missing after
the accident. Sicily's Civil Protection Agency has confirmed a couple
of bodies were brought to shore importedg Cllo near Palermo.
(02:01):
Two more in the process of being brought ashore. They
said they have found five bodies in total, one person
still missing. The rescue efforts, they said, have been pretty
challenging because this yacht, the Bayesian, is now lying on
the seabed at a ninety degree angle at a depth
of over sixty sorry, over one hundred and sixty feet,
(02:22):
and they said basically they can only spend about ten
minutes at the dive site per person before having to
resurface to avoid decompression, sickness or the bends.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
They said they have found the bodies.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Of Mike Lynch, that tech and entrepreneur who owned the ship,
the yacht I guess I should say, with his eighteen
year old daughter. Those were among the remains that were
recovered today.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
A little bit of breaking news out of the DNC
here in Chicago in terms of the star studded performances.
At least two more A listers are now said to
take the stage tonight, Stevie Wonder and Keenan Thompson.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
What's Keenan Thompson going to do?
Speaker 4 (02:59):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
This won't be Stevie's first rodeo at a DNZ. In
two thousand and eight in Denver, he played Signed, Sealed, Delivered,
I'm yours, unclear what song he'll play tonight. He will
take the podium as well in deliver a speech.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Some weird stories coming out of the Labor Department the
economy added far fewer jobs in twenty twenty three and
early twenty four than previously reported, So that is the
potential sign that there may be some cracks in the
labor market more severe than initially believed. Today, the Labor
Department said monthly payroll figures overstated job growth by about
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eight hundred and eighteen thousand jobs in the twelve months
that ended in March, So that suggests employers added one
hundred and seventy four thousand jobs per month during that period.
That's down from what would have been two hundred and
forty two thousand jobs originally reported.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Like I said, Trump.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
And Kennedy are trending as long as as well as
RFK Junior also trending because of the news this hour
that they may be giving up the ghosts, They may
be giving up and suspending their campaign and joining the
ranks of Trump.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
We know that there was at least.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
A conversation about a potential cabinet position a weeks ago,
so we'll wait and see what happens there.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
And then, of course we have any death music.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Of course we have deaf Okay, that's silly.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
You've been a little bit down today, and I think
it's because we all got the alerts on our phone
that that j Lo and Ben Affleck broke up.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Listen, I think she was sending a signal.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Divorce. Yeah, on their second anniverse.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah, that's an F you signal, isn't it. It's like
a big is it a batman in the sky?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
It's a big fu.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
These two have annoyed me for so long. I mean,
who asked for a second round of this? Is it
a second round or a third round?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I don't even know. I don't pay attention.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
They have oversaturated pop culture market with their with their movies,
and their their constant calls.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
To the paparazzi.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Here we are, here, we are, take our picture, their
stupid wedding randomly in Vegas that they like took off
for and the videos surrounding.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Now there's odd people. Oh, I mean, thank.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
God that we did not become rich, famous people, because
something weird happens to people. The more you hear celebrities talk, the.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
More you're like, who are what? They're the looney people.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
There was a story I want to say it was
in the Daily Mail today speaking of Kennedy and writing
for the Daily Mail. There was a story in the
Daily Mail about even Jennifer Lopez's closest friends are saying
she's been hard to deal with. Yeah, she's really really
difficult that they can't stand the fact she got back
to together with Jlo.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Or sorry, back to with Ben Affleck in the first place.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Whatever happened to Jenny from the block? You know Jenny
from the block.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
She's still cool, She's still you know, she's your holler
back girl. She's Jenny from the block. Now she's high maintenance.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Jenny's hy maintenance Jenny?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
And is she getting too much heat? Should he be
shouldering some of the blame?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Listens?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
He looked like Scott Peterson at the border. The last
time I saw him. He cut his hair, he died it.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
He's doing weird stuff with his clothing.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
He looked angry, he looks awful. He looked very angry
for the last two years. And when did it?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Is he not going through his program? Is he's a
sober person?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Right?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
He is?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I think so maybe he's not doing the things that
you do to Oh, look the coastguards here just in case.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I think it's funny that they have us situated here
in the United Center, just across from the Michael Jordan statue,
and that is by far the most photographed landmark in
all of.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
The city of Chicago.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
I think absolutely.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I mean it is during the games, it's where you know,
the lockhocks fans come to congregate. I think this is
what happens all the time in this place. Everyone wants
a picture with the statue.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Have we taken one?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
One picture with the statue? No? No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Oh we should do that before I climb it.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
You don't want to climb that thing.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I might climb it.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
You don't know where that's You don't know where that
statue has been.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
That's a good point. That's a good point.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Did the floor of a pizza parlor?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
And last night we were getting pizza? And how did
that start?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
With? A?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Oh? Somebody said that.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
They could do one hundred and twenty five push ups
or something.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Yes, there was a claim of push up prowess.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Okay, who made that claim?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I don't It wasn't me.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
So you said, I bet you could do twenty five
push ups or something like that, and so I dropped
down like it was boot camp.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Yeah, and you gave me one and I.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Did one, and then people started, people who worked there
started saying, you don't want to touch this floor. You
don't know what's happy you were doing live at the
DMC in Chicago and joining us now. Don Byer, He
is the US representative for Virginia's eighth congressional district, and Don,
thanks for spending some time with us.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Thank you, Shannon.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
I'm glad you're here in Chicago for this exciting week.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
It is exciting, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
What do you think about this week so far?
Speaker 5 (08:21):
It's been. It's been.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
This is my fifth convention and by far the most exciting.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
I mean, the change in excitement from a month ago
is dramatic, and I don't think I could ever have
anticipated how much the Democratic base came together enthusiasm for
commonwa Well.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Let me ask you this, because we were doing an
interview earlier today and I came up with this theory
that one of the reasons why there's so much enthusiasm
this week is there was a pent up frustration and
fear that with Joe Biden at the top of the ticket,
it wasn't the greatest ticket that the Democratic Party could
put forward. I mean, we saw that after the debate performance,
(08:58):
polls were showing that the Democrats were slipping, and then
this almost regardless of who it is. I mean, there
is reason to be excited abou Kamala Harris for Democrats,
but that there was this frustration that it was building
and building, and then finally you have this release of
who we have a younger person at the top of
the ticket. We have a woman at the top of
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the ticket. We have a woman of color at the
top of the ticket. Is any of that ring true
that there is Kerry? I think a lot of that
rings true.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
We had this strange ambivalence with Joe Biden that on
the one hand, he had an extraordinary record you got
to go back to Linda Johnson or FDR to have
a president who's gotten as much done. At the same time,
he was the oldest person ever to run for president
and had a weak debate performance. So you had the
n and the aang and now we just have the
positive all because it was.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
The Biden Harris campaign. They got all this done.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
And now you have a young woman of color with
a great background, full of energy, and she's running against
the oldest person ever run for president.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Right, We've talked a lot on the show about AI
and how terrifying it is. Every day it gets more terrifying.
Last week there was a paper. It was a group
of thirty two researchers from Open AI, Microsoft, Harvard, other
institutions calling on policy makers to develop new ways to
verify humans without sacrificing our privacy and things like that.
(10:15):
It seems like the legislation has not kept up with
the advance in technology. Yesterday even we talked about the
terrifying images of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. I don't
know if you've seen these, but you know one image
is them walking hand in hand on the beach like
a romantic It's terrified.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Yeah, the fake Taylor Swift endorsement.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Is this a priority for you? And is it a
priority for a lot of people in Washington?
Speaker 5 (10:40):
It is?
Speaker 7 (10:41):
And if there is a major task force twelve down
Crest twelve Republicans, I'm on it.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
That's responsible.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
I think in the next month to have a comprehensive
report on the initial AI legislation we should do.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
You know, social media is twenty five years old.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
We've done nothing in twenty five years except you can
tell you can't soe social media companies, So we're trying
to get ahead of it. Congress is never going to
be ahead of the American people, but we're trying to
catch up.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
So I'm glad you said that, because what I've always
said is, oh, we're really no offense, but we're going
to trust the government with figuring out how to put
a handcuffs on this thing. Really, And do you have
people coming in from Silicon Valley or the world.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
Every day and all the thing tanks And one of
the very first things we want to address is the
deep fakes, not just because of political advertising, the Kamala
and Trump on the beach, but things like child sexual
assault material or the kids that are being hassed harassed
or you know, naked pictures of your high school girlfriend
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when she dumped you, the things like that that are
really terrible.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
But then there's gonna be a lot more that we
have to address.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
And the big thing which everyone has to be concerned
about is what does it due to employment?
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Because it's good middle.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
Managers can all be largely eliminated by artificial intelligence, and
we have lots of other jobs, but it and when
it happens so quickly, there can be a lot of
turmoil in the economy.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
So where does Congress come down on this, Where can
you start to build some of those guard rails that
are necessary around you know, that's.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
The really difficult question because the EU, the European Unions
come out with their AIX, which everyone sees is very repressive.
They license everything and as a consequence, they don't.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Get much creativity.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
We're getting enormous creativity out of it, and including breakthroughs
and healthcare every single day.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
So we want it to be a light touch.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
We don't want it to be super regulatory because we
don't want to dampen the enthusiasm the creativity of the
American people. At the same time, we have to look
at what are the real downsides and try to protect
against those and hopefully those would be relatively few.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Is that going to be a partnership with social media companies?
Speaker 7 (12:48):
Yes, so far, People, Anthropic, Open AI, Google, They've all been.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Pretty good about wanting to work with us.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
And happily I don't always get to say this, it's
about the most bipartisan thing going on in Congress.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Well, that is very rare to say something that's good.
And then finally, I guess what is what does the
future hold for?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
What is?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I mean you you've studied computer science. This is something
that that's you know, near and dear to you.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
I really think that it's going to be one of
the two things that most changes our lives in a
really positive way. I mean all of all of technology
solving problems allows us to have a better quality.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Of life day after day after day. And just on
the healthcare alone, do you.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
See it as life changing as say the Internet has
been much more so more so so so we're lucky
enough the three of us who have lived in the
beginning of the internet, widespread you know, use of the
World Wide Web, and potentially artificial intelligence and having a sea.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
If I can add one more thing, we're getting close
to fusion energy too.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
It's happening in Washington State.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
And southern California, Wisconsin, Massachusetts. When we get basically free
you piquitous energy, it's gonna it will be the most
important things to inspire.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I'm a big fan of the fact that it's never
too late to be what you might have been. And
the congressman, during his congressional career two years ago enrolled
at George Mason University in pursuit of a master's degree
in computer science. That's that's awesome. I keep wanting to
do that at some point. Go back to school computer science.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Please do it.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
It's really it's quite fun. It's much more fulfilling than
the New York Times.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Sunda across your puzzle every.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Sunday and you run with me.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
I had a hundred four days with Sundays in a row,
and then I lost it because I have to be studying,
and then you're strounded by young people, which makes you on.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Your Yeah, that's true, that's very neat. Well, nice to
me too, as Shannon Congressman Don Bayer out of Virginia.
Of course.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
We're live today at United Center in Chicago, which is
the home of the Democratic National Convention. We're getting close
today threes activities that will start in just a bit.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
David Urban is an American lobbyist political commentator for CNN.
I'm clearly reading off your Wikipedia page. Sorry, we're running
on fumes right now.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Answer as well.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Yeah, and super handsome.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
You can't see it's radio, but you get trust.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
I buried the lead there.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
David Urban, you have been talking recently about the need
for Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
To button it up.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
We talked a little bit earlier in the week about
how when that Access Hollywood tape came out, he was
kind of at the time.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
A little unhinged.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
The tape comes out, He's got to button it up,
and some believe that that kind of gave him the
presidency when he did appear to be disciplined.
Speaker 9 (15:29):
Wow, So so believe it or not. I was around
during that Access all I.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Would tape right.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
I had the first public event with Donald Trump right
after that Access Hollywood tape came out in Ambridge, Pennsylvania,
and I was really concerned.
Speaker 9 (15:45):
I didn't know who was going to show up.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
We had a big, growdy planned and you know, over
the weekend, the world melted down that weekend, So I
was concerned whether there's going to be a show up
or not. And so lo and behold, we got it
was in the high school, Ambridge High School, and we
got there and there were people inside, probably four thousand
people outside. So it was you know, it was kind
of an affirmation that we were going to live, We're
gonna make it through. And but yeah, you're right, listen,
(16:08):
I don't know button it up is the right kind
of phraseology. I think it's like stick to the knitting right,
Like let's let's focus on the things that we know
that the voters care about Donald Trump. In the most recent.
Speaker 9 (16:20):
CBS pollar came out.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
You know, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are kind of
neck and neck in a lot of areas, but in
three areas, Donald Trump is still dominant, dominant over Kamala Harrison, Immigration, inflation,
and the economy seventy percent Trump, sixty percent Trump fifty percent.
Trump crushing Kamala Harris today. Still even they've actually said
(16:42):
an incredible thirty days, Trump still way ahead.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
I was with him on.
Speaker 8 (16:46):
Saturday this past Saturday. I spent some time with him
in Pennsylvania. I was at the rally, spent it one
on one time with the President.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Said, you know, he.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
Said, are we going to win? He said, And I said, well, it's.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Up to you. Some to you.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
You're gonna win.
Speaker 8 (16:57):
If you talk about these issues, you're gonna crush it.
You're gonna crush it. And if you don't, it's gonna
be a hell of a race.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
What do you said?
Speaker 9 (17:04):
Just looked at me, kept walking.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
And listen.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
Last night in this arena and the night before. You
heard secret Clinton the night before. Then you heard the
Obamas last night say hey, crowd, strap in, like we
may be ahead, but you better strap in because this
is gonna be a one heck of a fight between
now an election day. They have been through the battles
Obama and Clinton. They've been through the worst. They know
(17:28):
that Donald Trump, he's been punched in the nose so
many times you.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Can't even count.
Speaker 8 (17:33):
This team has never had a glove light on him yet. Right,
so think about you know, Kama Harris ran in California,
it's pretty you know, you get through the primary, you're.
Speaker 9 (17:40):
Kind of you're done. She ran in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, didn't.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
Fare so well, right was out her Her positions were
a little extremelyting for the Democratic Party of the time.
She got bounced before before Iowa. So she hasn't really
been you know, battle tested. No, the Walls runs at
a pretty safe district himself. Trump every day is getting
hit with a two by four every day, just getting beaten, beaten,
and he you know, throws up punches and he keeps coming.
(18:06):
So we're going to see starting Friday, when this is over, Monday, Tuesday,
Wed the next seventy eight sixty seventy days till election day.
Who could take those blows and who could respond Comwell,
Harrison has an answer to question. So you know, my state,
I'm the only thing I really know about is Pennsylvania.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Right, It's my little superpower.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
The CommonWell of Pennsylvania is a huge gun ownership, right.
Speaker 9 (18:28):
Cracking is how they mostly a lot of people make
their livings. And by the way, snack food.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
It's a snack food capital.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Of the world, buddy, do you know?
Speaker 9 (18:35):
So you know hers chips and.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
The pretzels, all these things made kind of in the Redding.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Area as well.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
So she comes out here's likes snack food inflation and shrinkflation,
just taking a whack of that industry.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
So that's they're not so happy.
Speaker 8 (18:47):
But on fracking, you know, Kyle Harrison for for for
years has been kind of queen of the Green New
Deal for lack of a better word, and and said
I will end fracking day one. There's so much video
you could bout audio, you can pull it, and that
is an ananthemut of people in Pennsylvania work in the
oil and gas industry. To two hundred thousand people that
make their living. And so suddenly a few weeks ago
(19:10):
she says, some faceless.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Staff or put out a slide.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
A piece of paper under the door to suppress people.
Speaker 9 (19:15):
That says, we are now for frocking Okay, Like that
doesn't seem so genuine to me, right.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
So she's going to answer that de Pennsylvanians. Then a
lot of Democrats have good positions on gunning from you.
Hope your Democrats will say, we don't want your guns.
Speaker 9 (19:30):
We're not coming for your guns.
Speaker 8 (19:31):
We want we want to close the gun show loophole.
We want to have you know, end bump stocks, we
want to have red flag loss things.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
That makes sense that people people can all get behind
and say, yeah, well, well we could pass us.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
Kamala Harris's position to date has been something completely radical
that says, we want to take your guns. Mandatory gun buyback,
needs confiscation. And in a state where lots of kids
don't go to school on the first day of deer
season because your dad's taking them out hunting, that doesn't
go over so well.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I know an angel's game and you'll see all that
hue orange.
Speaker 8 (20:03):
She may have to she might as well just come
out and say I don't like the Pittsburgh Steelers and
I don't like the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
That's about her position right now.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
So she's got to answer a lot of questions.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
We're talking with David Urban about one of the very
oftentimes the lone conservative voice on a panel on CNN.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
Well, listen, I appreciate the opportunity that CN gives me.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
I am treated very well.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
The network is great, my colleagues are great, the anchors
are great.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
So look, it's up to me to make my points
to the American people.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Let me ask you something about that, because I know
that when viewers, whether it's CNN or Fox or whatever
channel they're watching, when viewers see you.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Guys go after each other.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
And I don't even mean that in necessarily a negative way,
but you counter each other's points and the argument is
civil ninety nine percent of the time, and you get
along with these people outside of that. To me is
a great example that people don't appreciate them.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
So listen.
Speaker 8 (20:57):
America's best when we're a marketplace of ideas. That's how
the world should work. People should sit around, have discussions
about important issues, talk about them, and then be able
to disagree, say Listen, I don't think that everybody in
this room, everybody in this building wants a good America.
They want to great America. They want the best America
they can have for their kids, their grandkids.
Speaker 9 (21:16):
They don't want to see anybody fail. How we get
there is how we differ on things.
Speaker 8 (21:20):
Right.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
Some people view one way we should go love, we should.
Speaker 8 (21:22):
Go right, and we should be able to be able
to come together and not vilify one another for your beliefs,
whether it's you.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
That's why I.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
Don't like the you know, the mag and the progressive
of this. Listen, where are America's Everybody wants the best
for the country, right, So let's talk about ideas. This
is what I said to the president. Right, Let's not
call people names. Let's like, you know, Barack Obama got
a little bit last night. They give us that a
little bit bent up energy from all those years he
took a whack and show up with last night. But
I think America is not great when we do that.
I think America's best. We talk about ideas.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah, I was just going to ask you about Pennsylvania.
I mean, there were some top that Josh Shapiro would
have been the picks and to kind of bring that home.
Do you think that that would have mattered at all
based on the things that you think are concerns for
her there?
Speaker 8 (22:06):
Yeah, so wacky as it is. Josh Shapiro is a
great friend of mine. This is that politics works, right.
So I'm a Republican. Josh Shapiro is a Democrat. I
worked with Josh Shapiro. I was a senator named Arlen
Spector's chief of staff one hundred years ago.
Speaker 9 (22:18):
Was a very moderate Republican.
Speaker 8 (22:20):
And Josh is the chief of staff for Democratic congressman
from Philadelphia area. We have to know each other nineteen
ninety seven. We've become friends, been friends ever since. I'm
a great fan of his. I don't agree with everything
he says. I'm sure he doesn't agree with that thing
I say. But I have a great to respect for him.
He's a great public servant. And his motto is and
I know this is radio, so I can't say he's
get s done. Yeah right, And he's got a pain
(22:40):
and that's that's and that's why he's so popular.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
We heard him deliver that message Californy because.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
Guess because people don't care, they just want they want
their streets fixed, they want their lights fixed, they want
to make sure the roads work.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Great, that's the job of government.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
That's what you should do, right, That's what people think
the government's for, not like.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
And so Josh is all about that.
Speaker 8 (22:58):
He's all about that, and he's you know, he's not
where I think he'd excel is that people love him
in the state of Pennsylvania, in a state that's going
to be won by a percent, maybe a half percent,
joshauld probably plus that up big time, right, plus it
up big time?
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Is he an attack dog?
Speaker 8 (23:14):
Is Josh a guy who's full of vitriol and hatred
and venom?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Like?
Speaker 8 (23:18):
Josh is a great thing.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
He's a good guy.
Speaker 9 (23:20):
I don't know if he's suited to being, you know, a.
Speaker 8 (23:23):
Nasty at nasty attack dog. He's a really decent human being.
And that's why I think it'd be a great president.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Right.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
So I don't know what's gonna happen in this convention,
but in.
Speaker 8 (23:32):
Twenty twenty eight, I know I might be working for
Josh Shapiro if he's up next time. Maybe maybe here's
a as a Shapiro supporter next time. But he's that great.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Of a guy.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Yeah, we'll check him out on CNN. David Urban, thanks
for coming in, Thanks for me, thank you, thanks for
having me.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
Gus.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Why do I have to inject football into every political conversation?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah, it's just political conversations that you inject football in.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Two.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I don't know if you've met you, but uh, that's
pretty much every conversation.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
That's fine. It could be worse.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
It's true.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
You could inject feelings of every conversation. That would be
even more annoying.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Day three of the Democratic National Convention here in Chicago,
quite a little buzz around the United Center right now
because Keenan Thompson is going to be part of the
program tonight, and he made.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
His way into the arena, and at least.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
In the three days that we've been here so far,
that was probably the most excitement. The biggest crowd I
think that gathered around him. Corey Brooker also, Corey Brooker
definitely had a bigger entourage, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Here night three, if you're going to watch any of this,
you're going to see Governor Tim Wallas.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Give not only his acceptance of the nomination for vice president,
but his huge introduction of himself to the general public,
to any independent voters, to anybody that.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Might be interested in learning about him.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Of course, before that, you're going to see former President
Bill Clinton to whip up the crowd.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Two days after his wife did just as much.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
The theme for tonight is a fight for our freedoms.
Like I said, Bill Clinton is expected to be there
is one of the speakers, Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan,
Governor Josh Shapiro Pennsylvania. They are both expected to speak,
as is Roy Cooper, Governor of North Carolina. So you
got some of the people who are on that sort
of short list for Kamala Harris's vice presidential picks that
(25:21):
will be expected tonight.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
And then the host of the whole evening.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I haven't really seen what the host does other than
a quick intro and maybe appears every once in a while.
But Mindy Kaling I think is the host for tonight.
And then Carrie Washington is going to do the final night.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Did you get me any baseball music?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
No, but I'll work on it.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
So you know Bobby Witt Junior, right, Kansas City Royals
American League MVP candidate Bobby Witch Junior, So the Royals
are playing the Anaheim Angels yesterday and it's the ninth inning.
It's a non safe situation. Ben Joyce is in as
a reliever.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
And it is it is the ninth He strikes out MJ.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Melendez, got infielder Michael Massey to ground out to second
and Bobby Witt Junior takes the plate and I don't
know what Bobby Witt.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Junior did to Ben Joyce. Ben Joyce on August.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Third set the record for a strikeout pitch at one
hundred and four point seven miles per hour.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Coach, that was a record.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
What did he do yesterday against Bobby Witt Junior? Three
pitches over one hundred.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
And three miles per hour?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
He hit him at one hundred and three point two,
one hundred and four point five and then one hundred
and four point eight.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
That is a record.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
And back to.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Back to back like that, like one at bat the
fastest at bat ever.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
And you you just have to kind of tip your
hat and say you.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Got the best of me. At that point.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
There's not much that you're going to do as a
batter in that case.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
You know what, though, Bobby Junior, he's going to be
a footnote now in that stat for who for who
knows how long is this baseball music? Yeah, I was
kind of thinking like center field or something like speck
do do do do do do do do do?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Do?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
You know what time it is? It's nap time. Guess
what We're going to the Cubs game.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
We're going to.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Wrigley Field this afternoon, seven o'clock, first pitch.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
This is a great stadium, legendary stadium. We're gonna have
so much Wriggly information tomorrow, it's gonna be insane.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Well, you gotta take your earbuds because you've gotta have
you listening to Governor Tim Wallas give his pub fiction.
No so, no, Well, you're probably gonna want to listen
to Bill Clinton.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I'll catch that on socials when I get back.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Oh is that the way we do it?
Speaker 8 (27:50):
Now?
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Do we just do things on social.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Nothing needs to really be live anymore.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
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Speaker 2 (28:12):
About what we did this morning, which was that hit
on News Nation, some of the other stuff, the behind
the scenes stuff here at United Center in Chicago for
the Democratic National Convention.
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