September 3, 2024 • 30 mins
“Prime Weekend” for Covid spread in California. Guest Derricke Dennis joins to talk about the 5 victims shot during NYC parade, 2 left in critical condition. Netanyahu pushes back against new pressure over Gaza and hostages. Young people are taking over the workplace, and that’s a problem for bosses.
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Neil Savadra in for Gary and Shannon. Today.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Marla was supposed to be with me marlateas Fox eleven's
TVs Marla Teas.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
But she's under the weather today. She's not feeling well.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
So although I went ahead and texted her and said, hey,
I want you to feel better, I do want to
make some scientific point to you. Yesterday we were talking
about that new study. It's actually a study that's been
replicated multiple times about how endurance runners and endurance athletes
(00:47):
have higher cases of calcium in their main arteries. And
we talked about that a little bit yesterday. Now, I
am not a scientist. That is not my job. However,
I will tell you fat guy in the studio today,
(01:07):
skinny runner at home sick. Moving on to more science,
COVID maps. I love this. I don't know what it
is with COVID and the color schemes. You remember we
had all those color charts, but they never had green
on them because Captain Hansome, our governor, said well, because
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we're never basically never going to be in the green
sot out all these different color charts. We had to
remember as to what place we were in. Well, now
I'm staring out a newsweek dot com a map of
these United States, and there's like a deep red, there's
a bright red, there's white. There's a golden bar. Sorry
(01:52):
I used to work in the printing industry, a gold
color like golden rod or something like that, and it's
very colorful. With the headline COVID map update shows states
with very high viral activity in wastewater. So what does
that mean. Well, the current way that they are testing
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how this virus moves is in our movements. They go
through the wastewater and they look for viral content and
they are finding this surge in wastewater that has very
high levels. And this is in the vast majority of
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the states. This is the CDC looking at this and
saying this is their concern. Not only is it up
from July. It was just in seven states or so
in mid July. Now it's up in August. They fear
that this past weekend everybody was up and around. Did
you see everything? My wife and my son while I
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was on the area yesterday went to the roller rink. Yeah,
that's still a thing, and said it was packed. The
beaches have been packed, and the fear is there's going
to be another burst of the covids. However, going through
the numbers and poking around a little bit, as far
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as the steady rise and infections is seen in the
waste water, that still the hospitalizations have remained relatively low.
So all these different standards or you know, makeshift rules
that we went through in the past four plus years,
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roughly four years, I guess are they keep changing like
the goalposts were? I mean, why are they telling us
that it's in the poop if it's not in the hospitals.
Do you remember flat in the curve? May we take
a little wayback machine when it was about flattening the
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curve and the problem then was about the strain on
the hospitals. So if people are not dying in the
same numbers, and we have the vaccine and yes I've
taken the vaccine multiple times, as has my wife and
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as has my son, that we have all these things
now and we're still getting maps and colorful things and
all of this, yet we're not seeing the surge or
the problems. My sister was the first one in the
Caneo Valley to be hospitalized for it.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
She was secluded.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
And basically people in hazmat suits, nurses god bless them,
and has matt suits had to take care of her.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
With very very very rare exceptions.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
And I could be seen as that I have, you know,
multiple comorbidities, which is worse than like calling me morbidly obese.
There's something about comorbidity that's like, oh, all right, fatty,
You've got multiple reasons to fear this thing. So I've got,
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you know, repressed or suppressed immune system. It might be
repressed as well, suppressed immune system, all of these things,
and and still I can go out and live. I've
not gotten it yet, nor has my wife that we
are aware of. If we did, it would have been
prior to the outbreak. It would have been in November
of twenty nineteen. That's the most sick I have been
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in a long time, and it was right before my
surgery to get my kidney transplant.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I just think, is it real absence? Can it be problematic? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
To some most definitely fever, chills, cough, shortness of breath, fatigue,
muscle or body aches, headache, gloss of taste or smell,
sore throat running. That's basically the list you have as
a parent when you wake up, nausea or vomiting, Yeah,
sometimes diarrhea. Well, you know, I like spicy food. So
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we still get these things. And it's not that it's
not important for us to know, but we we don't.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Have a.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
There's not a goal or an enemy anymore. There's not
a face of an enemy. There's no one.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
It's like this. This just kind of.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Blob that it's there. It's not flattening the curve. It's
not be careful of this, be careful of that. We're
told that masks don't really do anything, mostly because of
you user error, by the way, and all.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Of these things.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
And yet we're still concerned about it, even though the
CDC he says hospitalizations have remained relatively low. And if
that's not the concern, and people aren't dying in the
same way young people certainly are not, then what is
our concern with that?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Are they saying now that it's kind of become like
the flu in that it's seasonal and that we should
start getting just planned to get regularly vaccinated for it. Like, yeah,
adding it to the flu, the RSV, the COVID vaccine,
you know what I mean, Like.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Heather Brooker, you are right.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Did you get a story today with a color frol
map about the flu?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
I didn't, But you know, I interviewed an epidemiologist this
morning on wake up Call, and she talked about kind
of talk about ahead of the curve.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
No.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
He talked about how this new variant that's out there
is pretty serious and can can cause more harm if
you don't get vaccinated, like if you get COVID, the
damage it can do and risk or whatever will outweigh
just anything with the COVID shots. So he said that
this new vaccine will be out any day now, really,
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and that everybody should plan to get it, and they
should plan to get it sometime in September October pretty
much every year.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Oh yeah, and there's the long COVID and there's a
lot of haziness. I've talked to people who said they
never quite fully recovered or felt like themselves. Again, there's
definitely stuff to it, but I think we're in that
stage where get vaccinated, you know, take care of yourself,
and it's going to be around forever.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
It is like luggage. It is not going away anytime soon.
So that is that, all right?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Five shot too critically or too in critical condition in
New York City. There was a parade yesterday, a big
parade and one that has been rife with warnings for many,
many years. And we'll find out more about that as
we talk to Derek Dennis from ABC News.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
So go nowhere. Nils Savedra in for Gary and Shannon
this morning.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Neil Savedra KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. It is the Gary and Shannon Show. Gary
and Shannon are on vacation. Apparently Shannon doesn't do well
with vacations and has to liften listen.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I'm flattered. It'll be funny. I will dance for you,
dance for me.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Monkey Marlatteez was supposed to be in today, but she's
not feeling well, so I'm nursing the end of a cold.
She's out and we're going to be in the remainder
of the week. For Gary and Shannon, well, they vacate
and do their vacating, all right, let's bring Derek Dennis
on from ABC News.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Welcome to the program, Derek, I'm healthy. Good.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Well, then get your ass in here, sir, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Yeah, listen. I'm here to talk about terrible shooting at
the New York Carnival Caribbean Parade, known here as the
West Indian Day Parade, was yesterday. In the middle of
the parade, there was a shooting. Five people shot by
a single gunman, and authorities just updated us saying that
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they believe the shooting was not only targeted, but gang related.
But still the victims appear to have all been innocent bystanders.
They are celebrating the parade. And one thing to note,
the parade went on as planned.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Many people didn't even notice right something take place.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
It was so loud, so many people, so much going on,
that a lot of the parade goers had no idea
there was a shooting along the route.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
This is a parade that happens every year, same time
in New York City's Caribbean community, and very colorful right
into so let you know those who have never seen
it or heard of it. It is packed, It is
incredibly celebratory. It is, like you said, loud and all
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these things and the four other victims other than the
twenty five year old who man who was shot in
the abdomen and dies, right, yeah, so other than that,
there were four other victims, and these ages show you
the diversity and the type of people that are going
to this event. You've got a sixteen year old boy
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since my nine year old woman. They're in stable condition, correct.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Right, the sixty nine year olds who shot in the shoulder,
the sixteen year old shot in the left arm. A
thirty six year old man though was shot in the head,
so he's you know, his injuries are serious. And then
there was a sixty four year old man shot in
the arm. So listen, you know, authorys really want to
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catch the suspect. They're holding news conferences, they're asking the
public if anybody's got any cell phone video to please
come forward. They believe that they may have someone, or
at least a description that will lead them to make
an arrest of the suspect, and so they're working hard
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on that, tracking down every lead. They really want to
catch this person because look, if they can open fire
in the middle of a crowded parade, what else can
they do? And that's what the concern is Derek going over.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Some you know, past stories about this event. Some have
said that they've heard, you know, there's been violence before.
They even last year they said they heard gunfire. It
has been noted in the news that they were on
high alert already. I even see photographs of security and
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the NYPD holding you know, the magnetometers, the metal detectors
handheld as people are coming in and out. They had
heightened security for this year knowing that there could be
the possibility of problems. Were they anticipating something dealing with
gangs or general just because there were you know, large
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amounts of humanity in one place.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Well large amounts. But there have been shootings and other
incidents in the past at this very parade. In fact,
in twenty fifteen, an aid to then mayor build a
Blasio of New York City was shot and later died
as a result of being shot during the parade. So
there's some history here with this event. Be for it
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to happen just yesterday and for the guvernment to still
be on the run has got everyone really concerned.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
And any leads are they not? You know mums the
word with the New York Police Department.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Yeah, I mean other than a good description. You know,
they're tracking down a bunch of leads, but they don't
have any that they really want to go full on
public with yet. They are asking, though, as I mentioned,
for cell phone video to try to piece it all together.
And you know, everybody's got a cell phone in their hand,
everybody's got a camera, and there are street cameras as well,
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so it won't be long before they, you know, seem
to get at least a handle on who they're looking for.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
But they're confident in their statement they being the NYPD,
that it is gang related, that it was targeted. I'm
guessing that's based on the twenty five year old who.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Was shot, right.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
You know, they haven't gone very deep into how they
know it was gang related. They haven't gone into you know,
a lot of their what they've gathered so far in
terms of questioning and evidence and those types of things.
But they did come out pretty forcefully today saying the
shooting was gang related, after saying yesterday that it was
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definitely targeted. So they've got some information that they're going on.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I just look over at this and I figure sixteen
year old boy maybe, but sixty nine year old woman
probably not the target. Twenty five year old man probably
hits that nose right on the nose rather all right, well,
I appreciate you taking the time a sad story, indeed
during a what should have been just a great celebratory
event about you know, the emancipation from enslavement and the parade,
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the annual parade that celebrates that.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
And it's a real shame.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Derek Dennis of ABC News with Us this morning, Thanks
so much, Derek.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Sure than all right, stick around. There is much more
to come.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Net and Yahoo is getting a major pressure there over
the Gaza and over Gaza and hostages, the latest six
that were dead, you know, and it's a really weird
tight rope to walk, because that's I'd piss you off
all the more about hamas at AnyWho and then young
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people taking over the workplace a good thing, bad thing. Well,
bosses may not be thrilled. I will tell you why
it is. Neil Savandra in for Gary and Shannon today.
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I invite you to do so. At Fork Reporter at
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Speaker 2 (16:34):
I will tell you.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I posted an image of a breakfast meal earlier today.
You could find it on my Instagram at fork Reporter,
and it's one of my favorites. I don't know if
I got it from my mom or from my dad
or from a brother or sister or something, but I
love it. And the responses are like, are funny because
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people are saying, oh, like core memory unlocked.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
So you can check that out at Folk Reporter.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
All right.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
On too crappy news.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
The discovery of six more dead hostages in the battle
that continues to rage in Gaza with Israel is heartbreaking period.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
War sucks.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
People being killed sucks, Muslims being killed sucks. Israeli's being
killed sucks. War sucks. I think you know where I
stand on all of that. It sucks, but you and
I will never have to feel, hopefully, will never have
to be in the position of making the decisions that
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go with.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
War.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin net Yahoo, however, is in a
different position and he is pushing back. There is lots
of pressure pushing against him. This is because of those
most recent hostages that were discovered. He is now pushing
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back in an intense way and saying do not and
you cannot preach to me on this issue. He says,
no one is more committed to freeing the hostages than me.
No one will preach to me on this issue. Now,
I will tell you from my observation, Benjamin Netanyahoo is
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a strict, brick fortified, lacking nuanced individual. He has one
core purpose and one core purpose only, and that is
to eliminate Hamas.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Will he be able to do it. No.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
It is the equivalent in that region the world of
saying I want to eliminate crime. There will always be
new criminals. If you wiped out one game, there will
be another game. You know why because on the other side,
there is an equal amount of individuals that are a
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brick fortified, unyielding and lacking nuance when it comes to
their focus, which is to eliminate not only the Jews,
but Christians and other belief systems and gays and to
control women in all of these things. Not a good
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group of humans. Now, does that mean that Muslims are
that way? No, absolutely not. I've always said that when
people say Muslim terrorists or Islamic terrorists, that they put
the emphasis on the wrong thing. They put the emphasis
on the Islam part and not the terrorist part. Islam fine,
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terrorism bad. And in this particular case, you've got one
major sticking point with Netanyahu that he feels is the
choke point. He feels is the breath, the oxygen producer
of Hamas in Gaza, and that is the Philadelphi Corridor.
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That's this tiny, little narrow band. I know it's already small,
but this narrow band along Gaza's border, this border is
with Egypt, and Israel's belief is that Hamas smuggles weapons
into Gaza from this location. Egypt denies it, and Hamas
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denies it. Now Hamas, who gives a rodents behind whether
they deny anything, because they're pieces of crap and they
don't care.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
But this is it.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Net Nyaho called this corridor vital, that it is the
location that re arms Hamas, and that this is the
thing that he doesn't want to give up. These hostages
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were not killed because net Nyaho is negotiating poorly. In
my view, these hostages were killed because there is a
group of very dark and ugly people running Gaza, and
they are a terrorist group by the name of Hamas.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
And I get.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
That.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
When you're in your home heaven Forbid, and someone breaks
in and says, I want your money. You give them
your money because you want them to leave your home
and leave your family intact, I get those instincts. I'm
on the street heaven forbid with my family, someone goes
to mug us. I give them what they want, so
my family is good. But if somebody comes into my
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house or mugs me on the street and says, give
me everything, including your life, because my goal is for
you to be dead, I have nothing to give them,
and only everything in my heart and in my head
to destroy them, because until they are destroyed, I will
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not be able to live. And that doesn't mean that
I agree with the way this is being done. It's horrific,
but man put it in a little bit of context
about the ugliness of the situation. And it's not just
give them the money, because more than six will die,
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and more than one hundred will die, and then more
than a thousand will die, and over and over and
over again. And Hamas and people like them will only
be happy when all are gone. That is more than
giving up your watch, your wallet and your credit cards. Neil,
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Savandra Infegary and Shannon today. Oh let's let's shift gears
into something a little lighter. Huh, young people, boy, huh,
they're the problem.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Am I right? I'll explain. Well, come back.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 2 (23:49):
Hey, everybody, it is Neil savedra In for Gary and Shannon. Today.
We're on vacation.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
I was supposed to be with our buddy Marlateez from
Fox eleven. She is now under the way and taking
the day to rest. I hope she's back tomorrow, but
we don't know, but love that lady. We had a
good time yesterday and they hope that she ends up
feeling beta a lot to get to. Coming up in
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a little bit, we'll talk to our very own Blake
Trolley about an intruder stab demand in Long Beach.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
You know, more horrible stories.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
The power cut off geese in Rancho Palace verities. We
talked a little bit about that yesterday. Of course, the
ground is sliding at ten to twelve inches a week,
pretty major when you're an inch and change. What a
little about one point five one point seven inches a day.
(24:46):
That's pretty crazy. So there's a lot going on. And
Swap Watch coming up, and then Tasy Tuesday, who's coming
into oh with Neil Savedra from the Forek Report.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
That should be fun.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I like that guy. Seems like a friendly fella. All right,
So young people taking over the workplace. That makes it
sound like it's a swarm of locusts, but it's not.
What it means is gen Z workers are going to
outnumber at least that's what the numbers look like baby
boomers in the US workforce this year. Okay, what's the problem. Well, unfortunately,
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bosses don't get them. They don't understand them. Now, many
of you know, I've been here at KFI for a
long time and I've worn just about every single hat.
And my last hat was assistant program director, so I
was in management. I have stepped away from management at
this point.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
WHOOA look at me. I'm free, not really, sort of.
But this is a thing.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
As you get an influx of different culture that comes
with different generations, you have to adapt. You can't just
strong armed people to do it the way that they've
always done it. Now I have some pretty complex theories,
not that they're complex, but they're hard to explain over
the air without visuals. But I will say this, there
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has been generations that every generation overlaps, so imagine they're
not a baton per se, but you're kind of running alongside,
and then you pass it over to the next generation.
There is usually a continuing theme, and that is similarity
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in schooling, similarity in home life. They're fairly similar in
the different generations. Now, one generation might have gone through
the Great Depression, and that may make them a little
more savvy when it comes to saving money or a
little more frugal.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
If you will.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
So those things happen that modify light things, but normally
the basic experience is very similar. My belief is that
with the digital age and starting with millennials with different
different systems in place, that we're all together separating the
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generation before that there is going to be that so
called generation gap, but in a different way. My son
at seven will know way more about digital technology than
I ever did because it didn't exist when I was seven,
and also that will be a part of his upbringing.
So we are separate, and it's not just lingo. It's
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not going so you groovy kids, so you making them widgets.
I think I'm gonna go have a Glizzy for lunch.
No gap, am I right? So it's not about the language.
It's these companies finding that these younger employees are difficult
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to work with. You know, Executives are trying to gauge
them more, find out what makes them tick. They're arranging
mentorships for employees, you know, workforce that have been working
remotely during the pandemic. Bringing them is there's all this this.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Shift to go.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
How do we engage them because it's not like you
can just start bringing people who have retired back. You know,
the people are younger. People are really big on communicating,
you know, wanting to share what their thoughts are and
why they asked questions that we were brought up not
asking how much do you make? How much have you
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paid for your house? All kinds of things. They're looking
at new perks companies. Businesses are saying, okay, on site
therapists very popular because at some point we thought it
was more important to teach people about their feelings than reading,
writing and arithmetic. But now on site therapy and all
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of that, which is, you know, I thank you very much.
My wife is a therapist and has her own private practice,
and so keep let's all keep being focused.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
On our mental health. Pays the bills. So this is
going to be something different.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
And I would love to say, hey, we're just gonna,
you know, force everybody into doing it the way that
they always have or we always have, but no one
has directed them how to be who to be.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
There is no there is.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
It's not the latch key syndrome that might have been
with us exers.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
It is.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
It's almost the it's almost the exact opposite. We were
kind of forced into learning the ways of life a
little bit. Where this generation is just different and their
emotions are I mean, they deal with stuff that we
never had to deal with. Of course, bullying on a
digital level and all of these things. But finding that
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middle ground modifying the workplace not to the degree of
your Googles and the like, because they're finding that didn't
really work either and they've had to pull back. But
finding ways to engage and to understand their way of
living in culture and melding it into the modern workplace
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is going to be imminent and important. Neil Sevadra in
for Gary and Shannon stick around Blake Trolley. Our very
own is going to be joining us about a story
coming out of Long Beach, So go nowhere. This is
KFI heard everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Neil Savadra in for Gary and Shannon. Today.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Marla was supposed to be with me marlateas Fox eleven's
TVs Marla Teas.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
But she's under the weather today. She's not feeling well.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
So although I went ahead and texted her and said, hey,
I want you to feel better, I do want to
make some scientific point to you. Yesterday we were talking
about that new study. It's actually a study that's been
replicated multiple times about how endurance runners and endurance athletes
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have higher cases of calcium in their main arteries. And
we talked about that a little bit yesterday. Now, I
am not a scientist. That is not my job. However,
I will tell you fat guy in the studio today,
(01:07):
skinny runner at home sick. Moving on to more science,
COVID maps. I love this. I don't know what it
is with COVID and the color schemes. You remember we
had all those color charts, but they never had green
on them because Captain Hansome, our governor, said well, because
(01:29):
we're never basically never going to be in the green
sot out all these different color charts. We had to
remember as to what place we were in. Well, now
I'm staring out a newsweek dot com a map of
these United States, and there's like a deep red, there's
a bright red, there's white. There's a golden bar. Sorry
(01:52):
I used to work in the printing industry, a gold
color like golden rod or something like that, and it's
very colorful. With the headline COVID map update shows states
with very high viral activity in wastewater. So what does
that mean. Well, the current way that they are testing
(02:14):
how this virus moves is in our movements. They go
through the wastewater and they look for viral content and
they are finding this surge in wastewater that has very
high levels. And this is in the vast majority of
(02:34):
the states. This is the CDC looking at this and
saying this is their concern. Not only is it up
from July. It was just in seven states or so
in mid July. Now it's up in August. They fear
that this past weekend everybody was up and around. Did
you see everything? My wife and my son while I
(02:58):
was on the area yesterday went to the roller rink. Yeah,
that's still a thing, and said it was packed. The
beaches have been packed, and the fear is there's going
to be another burst of the covids. However, going through
the numbers and poking around a little bit, as far
(03:20):
as the steady rise and infections is seen in the
waste water, that still the hospitalizations have remained relatively low.
So all these different standards or you know, makeshift rules
that we went through in the past four plus years,
(03:45):
roughly four years, I guess are they keep changing like
the goalposts were? I mean, why are they telling us
that it's in the poop if it's not in the hospitals.
Do you remember flat in the curve? May we take
a little wayback machine when it was about flattening the
(04:09):
curve and the problem then was about the strain on
the hospitals. So if people are not dying in the
same numbers, and we have the vaccine and yes I've
taken the vaccine multiple times, as has my wife and
(04:31):
as has my son, that we have all these things
now and we're still getting maps and colorful things and
all of this, yet we're not seeing the surge or
the problems. My sister was the first one in the
Caneo Valley to be hospitalized for it.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
She was secluded.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
And basically people in hazmat suits, nurses god bless them,
and has matt suits had to take care of her.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
With very very very rare exceptions.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
And I could be seen as that I have, you know,
multiple comorbidities, which is worse than like calling me morbidly obese.
There's something about comorbidity that's like, oh, all right, fatty,
You've got multiple reasons to fear this thing. So I've got,
(05:27):
you know, repressed or suppressed immune system. It might be
repressed as well, suppressed immune system, all of these things,
and and still I can go out and live. I've
not gotten it yet, nor has my wife that we
are aware of. If we did, it would have been
prior to the outbreak. It would have been in November
of twenty nineteen. That's the most sick I have been
(05:50):
in a long time, and it was right before my
surgery to get my kidney transplant.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I just think, is it real absence? Can it be problematic? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
To some most definitely fever, chills, cough, shortness of breath, fatigue,
muscle or body aches, headache, gloss of taste or smell,
sore throat running. That's basically the list you have as
a parent when you wake up, nausea or vomiting, Yeah,
sometimes diarrhea. Well, you know, I like spicy food. So
(06:24):
we still get these things. And it's not that it's
not important for us to know, but we we don't.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Have a.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
There's not a goal or an enemy anymore. There's not
a face of an enemy. There's no one.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
It's like this. This just kind of.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Blob that it's there. It's not flattening the curve. It's
not be careful of this, be careful of that. We're
told that masks don't really do anything, mostly because of
you user error, by the way, and all.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Of these things.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
And yet we're still concerned about it, even though the
CDC he says hospitalizations have remained relatively low. And if
that's not the concern, and people aren't dying in the
same way young people certainly are not, then what is
our concern with that?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Are they saying now that it's kind of become like
the flu in that it's seasonal and that we should
start getting just planned to get regularly vaccinated for it. Like, yeah,
adding it to the flu, the RSV, the COVID vaccine,
you know what I mean, Like.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Heather Brooker, you are right.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Did you get a story today with a color frol
map about the flu?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
I didn't, But you know, I interviewed an epidemiologist this
morning on wake up Call, and she talked about kind
of talk about ahead of the curve.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
No.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
He talked about how this new variant that's out there
is pretty serious and can can cause more harm if
you don't get vaccinated, like if you get COVID, the
damage it can do and risk or whatever will outweigh
just anything with the COVID shots. So he said that
this new vaccine will be out any day now, really,
(08:03):
and that everybody should plan to get it, and they
should plan to get it sometime in September October pretty
much every year.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Oh yeah, and there's the long COVID and there's a
lot of haziness. I've talked to people who said they
never quite fully recovered or felt like themselves. Again, there's
definitely stuff to it, but I think we're in that
stage where get vaccinated, you know, take care of yourself,
and it's going to be around forever.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
It is like luggage. It is not going away anytime soon.
So that is that, all right?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Five shot too critically or too in critical condition in
New York City. There was a parade yesterday, a big
parade and one that has been rife with warnings for many,
many years. And we'll find out more about that as
we talk to Derek Dennis from ABC News.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
So go nowhere. Nils Savedra in for Gary and Shannon
this morning.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Neil Savedra KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. It is the Gary and Shannon Show. Gary
and Shannon are on vacation. Apparently Shannon doesn't do well
with vacations and has to liften listen.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I'm flattered. It'll be funny. I will dance for you,
dance for me.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Monkey Marlatteez was supposed to be in today, but she's
not feeling well, so I'm nursing the end of a cold.
She's out and we're going to be in the remainder
of the week. For Gary and Shannon, well, they vacate
and do their vacating, all right, let's bring Derek Dennis
on from ABC News.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Welcome to the program, Derek, I'm healthy. Good.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Well, then get your ass in here, sir, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Yeah, listen. I'm here to talk about terrible shooting at
the New York Carnival Caribbean Parade, known here as the
West Indian Day Parade, was yesterday. In the middle of
the parade, there was a shooting. Five people shot by
a single gunman, and authorities just updated us saying that
(10:19):
they believe the shooting was not only targeted, but gang related.
But still the victims appear to have all been innocent bystanders.
They are celebrating the parade. And one thing to note,
the parade went on as planned.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Many people didn't even notice right something take place.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
It was so loud, so many people, so much going on,
that a lot of the parade goers had no idea
there was a shooting along the route.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
This is a parade that happens every year, same time
in New York City's Caribbean community, and very colorful right
into so let you know those who have never seen
it or heard of it. It is packed, It is
incredibly celebratory. It is, like you said, loud and all
(11:11):
these things and the four other victims other than the
twenty five year old who man who was shot in
the abdomen and dies, right, yeah, so other than that,
there were four other victims, and these ages show you
the diversity and the type of people that are going
to this event. You've got a sixteen year old boy
(11:31):
since my nine year old woman. They're in stable condition, correct.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Right, the sixty nine year olds who shot in the shoulder,
the sixteen year old shot in the left arm. A
thirty six year old man though was shot in the head,
so he's you know, his injuries are serious. And then
there was a sixty four year old man shot in
the arm. So listen, you know, authorys really want to
(11:59):
catch the suspect. They're holding news conferences, they're asking the
public if anybody's got any cell phone video to please
come forward. They believe that they may have someone, or
at least a description that will lead them to make
an arrest of the suspect, and so they're working hard
(12:19):
on that, tracking down every lead. They really want to
catch this person because look, if they can open fire
in the middle of a crowded parade, what else can
they do? And that's what the concern is Derek going over.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Some you know, past stories about this event. Some have
said that they've heard, you know, there's been violence before.
They even last year they said they heard gunfire. It
has been noted in the news that they were on
high alert already. I even see photographs of security and
(12:54):
the NYPD holding you know, the magnetometers, the metal detectors
handheld as people are coming in and out. They had
heightened security for this year knowing that there could be
the possibility of problems. Were they anticipating something dealing with
gangs or general just because there were you know, large
(13:15):
amounts of humanity in one place.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Well large amounts. But there have been shootings and other
incidents in the past at this very parade. In fact,
in twenty fifteen, an aid to then mayor build a
Blasio of New York City was shot and later died
as a result of being shot during the parade. So
there's some history here with this event. Be for it
(13:41):
to happen just yesterday and for the guvernment to still
be on the run has got everyone really concerned.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
And any leads are they not? You know mums the
word with the New York Police Department.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Yeah, I mean other than a good description. You know,
they're tracking down a bunch of leads, but they don't
have any that they really want to go full on
public with yet. They are asking, though, as I mentioned,
for cell phone video to try to piece it all together.
And you know, everybody's got a cell phone in their hand,
everybody's got a camera, and there are street cameras as well,
(14:17):
so it won't be long before they, you know, seem
to get at least a handle on who they're looking for.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
But they're confident in their statement they being the NYPD,
that it is gang related, that it was targeted. I'm
guessing that's based on the twenty five year old who.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Was shot, right.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
You know, they haven't gone very deep into how they
know it was gang related. They haven't gone into you know,
a lot of their what they've gathered so far in
terms of questioning and evidence and those types of things.
But they did come out pretty forcefully today saying the
shooting was gang related, after saying yesterday that it was
(14:59):
definitely targeted. So they've got some information that they're going on.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I just look over at this and I figure sixteen
year old boy maybe, but sixty nine year old woman
probably not the target. Twenty five year old man probably
hits that nose right on the nose rather all right, well,
I appreciate you taking the time a sad story, indeed
during a what should have been just a great celebratory
event about you know, the emancipation from enslavement and the parade,
(15:29):
the annual parade that celebrates that.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
And it's a real shame.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Derek Dennis of ABC News with Us this morning, Thanks
so much, Derek.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Sure than all right, stick around. There is much more
to come.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Net and Yahoo is getting a major pressure there over
the Gaza and over Gaza and hostages, the latest six
that were dead, you know, and it's a really weird
tight rope to walk, because that's I'd piss you off
all the more about hamas at AnyWho and then young
(16:06):
people taking over the workplace a good thing, bad thing. Well,
bosses may not be thrilled. I will tell you why
it is. Neil Savandra in for Gary and Shannon today.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
If you aren't hanging out with me on social media,
I invite you to do so. At Fork Reporter at
Fork Reporter on all the biggies, and I'm probably on
Instagram the most.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
I will tell you.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I posted an image of a breakfast meal earlier today.
You could find it on my Instagram at fork Reporter,
and it's one of my favorites. I don't know if
I got it from my mom or from my dad
or from a brother or sister or something, but I
love it. And the responses are like, are funny because
(16:56):
people are saying, oh, like core memory unlocked.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
So you can check that out at Folk Reporter.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
All right.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
On too crappy news.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
The discovery of six more dead hostages in the battle
that continues to rage in Gaza with Israel is heartbreaking period.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
War sucks.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
People being killed sucks, Muslims being killed sucks. Israeli's being
killed sucks. War sucks. I think you know where I
stand on all of that. It sucks, but you and
I will never have to feel, hopefully, will never have
to be in the position of making the decisions that
(17:40):
go with.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
War.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin net Yahoo, however, is in a
different position and he is pushing back. There is lots
of pressure pushing against him. This is because of those
most recent hostages that were discovered. He is now pushing
(18:07):
back in an intense way and saying do not and
you cannot preach to me on this issue. He says,
no one is more committed to freeing the hostages than me.
No one will preach to me on this issue. Now,
I will tell you from my observation, Benjamin Netanyahoo is
(18:32):
a strict, brick fortified, lacking nuanced individual. He has one
core purpose and one core purpose only, and that is
to eliminate Hamas.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Will he be able to do it. No.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
It is the equivalent in that region the world of
saying I want to eliminate crime. There will always be
new criminals. If you wiped out one game, there will
be another game. You know why because on the other side,
there is an equal amount of individuals that are a
(19:20):
brick fortified, unyielding and lacking nuance when it comes to
their focus, which is to eliminate not only the Jews,
but Christians and other belief systems and gays and to
control women in all of these things. Not a good
(19:42):
group of humans. Now, does that mean that Muslims are
that way? No, absolutely not. I've always said that when
people say Muslim terrorists or Islamic terrorists, that they put
the emphasis on the wrong thing. They put the emphasis
on the Islam part and not the terrorist part. Islam fine,
(20:05):
terrorism bad. And in this particular case, you've got one
major sticking point with Netanyahu that he feels is the
choke point. He feels is the breath, the oxygen producer
of Hamas in Gaza, and that is the Philadelphi Corridor.
(20:31):
That's this tiny, little narrow band. I know it's already small,
but this narrow band along Gaza's border, this border is
with Egypt, and Israel's belief is that Hamas smuggles weapons
into Gaza from this location. Egypt denies it, and Hamas
(20:52):
denies it. Now Hamas, who gives a rodents behind whether
they deny anything, because they're pieces of crap and they
don't care.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
But this is it.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Net Nyaho called this corridor vital, that it is the
location that re arms Hamas, and that this is the
thing that he doesn't want to give up. These hostages
(21:29):
were not killed because net Nyaho is negotiating poorly. In
my view, these hostages were killed because there is a
group of very dark and ugly people running Gaza, and
they are a terrorist group by the name of Hamas.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
And I get.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
That.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
When you're in your home heaven Forbid, and someone breaks
in and says, I want your money. You give them
your money because you want them to leave your home
and leave your family intact, I get those instincts. I'm
on the street heaven forbid with my family, someone goes
to mug us. I give them what they want, so
my family is good. But if somebody comes into my
(22:21):
house or mugs me on the street and says, give
me everything, including your life, because my goal is for
you to be dead, I have nothing to give them,
and only everything in my heart and in my head
to destroy them, because until they are destroyed, I will
(22:43):
not be able to live. And that doesn't mean that
I agree with the way this is being done. It's horrific,
but man put it in a little bit of context
about the ugliness of the situation. And it's not just
give them the money, because more than six will die,
(23:05):
and more than one hundred will die, and then more
than a thousand will die, and over and over and
over again. And Hamas and people like them will only
be happy when all are gone. That is more than
giving up your watch, your wallet and your credit cards. Neil,
(23:26):
Savandra Infegary and Shannon today. Oh let's let's shift gears
into something a little lighter. Huh, young people, boy, huh,
they're the problem.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Am I right? I'll explain. Well, come back.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Hey, everybody, it is Neil savedra In for Gary and Shannon. Today.
We're on vacation.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
I was supposed to be with our buddy Marlateez from
Fox eleven. She is now under the way and taking
the day to rest. I hope she's back tomorrow, but
we don't know, but love that lady. We had a
good time yesterday and they hope that she ends up
feeling beta a lot to get to. Coming up in
(24:17):
a little bit, we'll talk to our very own Blake
Trolley about an intruder stab demand in Long Beach.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
You know, more horrible stories.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
The power cut off geese in Rancho Palace verities. We
talked a little bit about that yesterday. Of course, the
ground is sliding at ten to twelve inches a week,
pretty major when you're an inch and change. What a
little about one point five one point seven inches a day.
(24:46):
That's pretty crazy. So there's a lot going on. And
Swap Watch coming up, and then Tasy Tuesday, who's coming
into oh with Neil Savedra from the Forek Report.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
That should be fun.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I like that guy. Seems like a friendly fella. All right,
So young people taking over the workplace. That makes it
sound like it's a swarm of locusts, but it's not.
What it means is gen Z workers are going to
outnumber at least that's what the numbers look like baby
boomers in the US workforce this year. Okay, what's the problem. Well, unfortunately,
(25:25):
bosses don't get them. They don't understand them. Now, many
of you know, I've been here at KFI for a
long time and I've worn just about every single hat.
And my last hat was assistant program director, so I
was in management. I have stepped away from management at
this point.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
WHOOA look at me. I'm free, not really, sort of.
But this is a thing.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
As you get an influx of different culture that comes
with different generations, you have to adapt. You can't just
strong armed people to do it the way that they've
always done it. Now I have some pretty complex theories,
not that they're complex, but they're hard to explain over
the air without visuals. But I will say this, there
(26:12):
has been generations that every generation overlaps, so imagine they're
not a baton per se, but you're kind of running alongside,
and then you pass it over to the next generation.
There is usually a continuing theme, and that is similarity
(26:35):
in schooling, similarity in home life. They're fairly similar in
the different generations. Now, one generation might have gone through
the Great Depression, and that may make them a little
more savvy when it comes to saving money or a
little more frugal.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
If you will.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
So those things happen that modify light things, but normally
the basic experience is very similar. My belief is that
with the digital age and starting with millennials with different
different systems in place, that we're all together separating the
(27:15):
generation before that there is going to be that so
called generation gap, but in a different way. My son
at seven will know way more about digital technology than
I ever did because it didn't exist when I was seven,
and also that will be a part of his upbringing.
So we are separate, and it's not just lingo. It's
(27:37):
not going so you groovy kids, so you making them widgets.
I think I'm gonna go have a Glizzy for lunch.
No gap, am I right? So it's not about the language.
It's these companies finding that these younger employees are difficult
(27:59):
to work with. You know, Executives are trying to gauge
them more, find out what makes them tick. They're arranging
mentorships for employees, you know, workforce that have been working
remotely during the pandemic. Bringing them is there's all this this.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Shift to go.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
How do we engage them because it's not like you
can just start bringing people who have retired back. You know,
the people are younger. People are really big on communicating,
you know, wanting to share what their thoughts are and
why they asked questions that we were brought up not
asking how much do you make? How much have you
(28:42):
paid for your house? All kinds of things. They're looking
at new perks companies. Businesses are saying, okay, on site
therapists very popular because at some point we thought it
was more important to teach people about their feelings than reading,
writing and arithmetic. But now on site therapy and all
(29:03):
of that, which is, you know, I thank you very much.
My wife is a therapist and has her own private practice,
and so keep let's all keep being focused.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
On our mental health. Pays the bills. So this is
going to be something different.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
And I would love to say, hey, we're just gonna,
you know, force everybody into doing it the way that
they always have or we always have, but no one
has directed them how to be who to be.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
There is no there is.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
It's not the latch key syndrome that might have been
with us exers.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
It is.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
It's almost the it's almost the exact opposite. We were
kind of forced into learning the ways of life a
little bit. Where this generation is just different and their
emotions are I mean, they deal with stuff that we
never had to deal with. Of course, bullying on a
digital level and all of these things. But finding that
(30:05):
middle ground modifying the workplace not to the degree of
your Googles and the like, because they're finding that didn't
really work either and they've had to pull back. But
finding ways to engage and to understand their way of
living in culture and melding it into the modern workplace
(30:25):
is going to be imminent and important. Neil Sevadra in
for Gary and Shannon stick around Blake Trolley. Our very
own is going to be joining us about a story
coming out of Long Beach, So go nowhere. This is
KFI heard everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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