September 9, 2024 • 29 mins
Gary is out and Phil Shuman fills in with Shannon. Swamp Watch.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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on the iHeartRadio app. Stories We're following for you today.
Stock surging on Wall Street. The Dow has been up
six hundred points at times during the session. Nasdaq has
been up over one hundred points at times this well
as well.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Excuse me.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
The Fed is set to make an announcement on interest
rates later this month, widely expected to make a cut. Also,
Tropical Storm Francine has formed, expected to intensify into a
hurricane before making landfall, this one along the Louisiana coast.
On Wednesday, They said that there could be a life
threatening storm surge for parts of Upper Texas and Louisiana coastlines.
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Risk of flash and urban flooding exists across portions of
the Mid South from Wednesday into Friday morning.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And then.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Kate, the Princess of Princess of Wales is done with
her chemo treatment. She made the announcement in a video
message released today. It was in Mark she revealed she
had been diagnosed with an unspecified form of cancer. She
said the last nine months incredibly tough for the family,
but she's looking forward to be back at work.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
So when we heard that, we both said the same thing.
What we both said, work back at work work. I
guess it's charitable endeavors and things like that. Right, we're
horrible people. I mean, she just beat cancer and we're.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Like, what is it you do? What does it you
say you do here?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Well, the whole royal family, it doesn't seem rather outdated
to you.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yes, yeah, and our obsession with it here, yeah, yeah,
it's wild. They'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Tabloids will tell you if they put the Royals on
the cover, they sell like fifty percent more of those
than they do with Why that is.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Why we're so fascinated by all that. I don't know,
you don't have it here. I guess didn't we leave
all that behind?
Speaker 5 (01:46):
I think that was one of the reasons.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
So all right, so you know that, by the way
it's starting, that interest rate story is big because you
know it'll impact the cost of housing, especially here in
southern California, which is one of the big issues is
affording the house.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Right, So if I think the rates are right now
are around six percent, So if they go down a
percentage of two.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
It's great for home sales.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I don't think I could have gotten my house if
it was like six percent.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, it was like three percent or something.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Definitely okay.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
So we asked you earlier about undecideds, right, like, who's
still undecided? And what would make you decide? Were you
a Trump? Were you going to vote for Trump and
then change it to Kamala vice versa?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
What's the deal? And you hit us up on the
talkback feature, Hey.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
My question would be and it would be to Donald Trump.
His lawyers asserted that he could have Seal Team six,
have his political opponents assassinated, and the only thing that
could be done is that he could be removed from office.
There's no legal problem with that action. I would ask
him if he agrees with that.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Hi, Shannon and the friend b Lincoln on the name.
I am actually still undecided, but not in the way
that you think I am not voting for Kamala. I
am actually a pretty centrist Republican, and I think a
lot of the crime in the state has to do
with progressive things that she has put into place. So
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definitely not going that camp. But either Trump or a
write in, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (03:22):
I would ask Trump how he plans on ending the
Ukraine War and under what conditions? And I would ask
Harris on how she supports Ukraine and under what conditions.
I would ask Trump is he going to pull out
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of NATO? And under what conditions? What do you stay
in NATO? And then I would ask Trump also how
what are the actual plans of round of identifying and
rounding up and departing reporting eleven million illegal aliens?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Well, yeah, I mean Ukraine's not really something that's been
talked about, but also important. I think it is where
people stand in terms of, you know, America first, and
who are we going to help and to what extent
are we going to help everybody?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
On that?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Yeah, he's pretty clear on that. America first and then
we'll worry about everybody else.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Okay, before we get to this.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Those were good. Those were good to sure comments.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, oh yeah, asking what you would ask if you
were the moderator at the debate. By the way, it's
going to be tomorrow at six hour time. I guess
we can officially start swamp watch. It's still unclear on
what percentage of voters out there are undecided. I mean,
I've seen different polls that's say three percent, eight percent,
some higher.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
I think it's got to be low.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
It's horrible the government, I think.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Make it like a reality TV show. Corn Pop was
a bad news.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Always a pleasure to be anywhere from Washington, d C.
Speaker 7 (04:59):
Hey, you know it's a town hall too, clearly built
on a swamp and in so many ways.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Still a swamp. I have a watch of Malarkey.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Boy said drained the swamp.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
I said, Oh, that's so he'll keep.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
You know the thing.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
Well.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I over the weekend was reading some things in Politico
and happened upon a political magazine item and it's called
the Kamala and Tim Show that it's a it's kind
of a buddy comedy act that feels familiar, and they
they mentioned the Tacos video that was released in the
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campaign just days before the convention. It shows Kamala and
Tim Walls chatting at a jazz club in Detroit. They're
new running mates. They appear to be sudden besties. They're
laughing about their differences. They're comparing musical tastes. He's Springsteen
and Seeger, She's Aretha and Prince. She teased him for
eating what he calls white guy tacos.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Saying what is that mean? Like mayonnaise and tuna? What
are you doing?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
And the article brings up a number of interesting points
as they say, the running mate relationship is one of
the most artificial alliances in politics, and that is why
campaigns struggle to define it. They say that some candidates
wanted to portray like an instant soulmate relationship nineteen ninety
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two Bill Clinton and Al Gore dancing to Fleetwood Mac
and pretending to embark on a buddy movie road trip.
Then there's the business arrangement, think Trump Pence right, That
was definitely not a buddy relationship. And they say that
the Harris Walls campaign has tried a different kind of introduction,
that it's filled with banter, self deprecating jokes, a pitch
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to the TikTok generation in terms of bites. But for
older voters it has this familiarity, familiar feeling to it
that it's like a sitcom. It's like those multi camera
family shows of the eighties. When both of these people
came of age, they say, you know, Growing Pains, Cosby Show,
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Kitchen Table Talk, even that interview they did with Dana
Bash felt like they were at a kitchen table, and
that it's just this nice, aesthetic, wholesome, wholehearted, a blended
family approach.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
The theory is that translates into votes because people say, oh.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yes, I like that. It's a nostalgic, feel good kind
of feeling.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
What do you think.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I think there's something to this scenario.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Certainly a contrast between your other choice.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, right, right right, they say, you know, family ties
with that political premise too, hippies fighting themselves raising a
briefcase toting Reagan Republican and Alex P.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Keaton, right, but they all always wound up hugging in
the end.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
These are two people who come from very different parts
of the country, and that's why they compare to like
a blended family, like different strokes or whatever. And then
there's the whole Kamala Harris Doug m Hoff thing of
the meet cute and it's the cool girl and the
nerdy guy, and that reminds us of like John Hughes movies, right,
So it's kind of like a hearkening back.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
To the eighties. And I'm not loving that whole premise
from that Politico piece. I mean, I get it. This
certainly has some validity to it. But again, if I'm
am I voting, yes, I vote partly on personality, but
I want some substance there too.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
I'm not really not looking for like a cute couple.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I don't think it's saying it's going to translate to voters.
It's just the description to give off. Yeah, the architect.
Going back to what we were talking about earlier.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Right, which is a clear choice that would have been
maybe different it was Shapiro or Buddha Jeedge or another candidate.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
You have to do that kind of when there's a
woman involved, and find a way to soften it but
also be strong. Okay, Coming up next, we will do
an up on the debate prep Right, what's going on?
A method acting, insults, tough questions.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
They're going to all of that.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Former President Trump has celebrated the birthday of Mary in
a truth social post and a post on X Happy
Birthday Mary, he posted on his social media platform, along
with a photo of Our Lady of Guadaloupe, image bearing
particular significance to Catholics in Mexico, where an Aztec man
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named Wan Diego so that Mary appeared to him several
times in visions in fifteen thirty one.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Okay, interesting, Yes, I'm sure how it helps him win
the presidency, but I think he already has the religious vote,
which is kind of confusing to make it.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
It is Catholics hold the image to be a miracle
sign of Mary's love and protection for the America's.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
So he's wishing happy birthday. Good for him, it's his
softer side. I know his kid's birthdays.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
No, I got it comes days after he announced Catholics
for Trump, a coalition that his campaign describes as committed
to safeguarding the vital principles of religious liberty and defending
family values.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
It's hard to be against that family values. What are
his family values?
Speaker 5 (10:18):
That's what?
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Because you remember after the Bide sorry, the Harris Walls
Dana Bash interview, when the takeaway from that is her
repeating like five times, my positions may have changed, but
my values haven't changed. So then she never followed up
by saying, well, what are those values? That would be
a question for Trump and Harris tomorrow night, right, Yeah,
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what are your values?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I was talking to a friend who is in the
evangelical community, and I said, break this down for me.
Does the how does the evangelic. I mean, I'm not
knocking it or what have you. You vote for who
you want to vote for. But explain it to me
how the evangelicals have rallied behind Trump when he has
not shown the best of values, shall we say, through
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the years. And he says to me, while it's kind
of like a plumber. Your toilet is broken, you call
a plumber, the plumber comes out. You don't care what
the plumber has going on his life, you don't care
who he's cheated on. You just want him to fix
the toilet. And that's how they're kind of looking at Trump,
I guess, in fact, just looking at the fact of
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his policy, that policy is advantageous for them, and that
they're voting for the policy, not the person.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Well.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yeah, and in reading about this, you know, you ask
that question that evangelical leaders, and they say that people
feel that Trump understands them. They don't necessarily agree with
some of his behavior, some of his choice of language,
maybe even his lifestyle choices, but they feel that he
understands them, and so that's enough.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
And I don't know that that's enough. I don't quite
understand that that he said it earlier. Some people they don't.
They don't vote for policy, they vote for a feeling personality. Personality.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Yeah, it's an interesting it's sort of an interesting issue
in this in this time that we're in with him,
because you know, if you listed traditional Christian values, he
probably wouldn't line up with any of those.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
But would he legislate?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Would he would he talk out of both sides of
his mouth in that regard where he doesn't live like that,
But would he advocate for stronger family values?
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I think so it's he kind of has it both ways,
yet he's trying to have it both ways, which so
far he seems to have been succeeding at, which is
a little bit confusing to me.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
So the debate is tomorrow, six o'clock our time. Kamala
Harris has been holed up for five days in a
Pittsburgh hotel doing highly choreographed debate practice sessions. There is
a stage replica lighting an advisor in full method acting mode.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Well, that makes sense. I mean, they've all done that
to some degree except for Trump.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
From my understanding, they even have someone dressing like Donald
Trump in a boxy suit a long tie.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I don't know if we need to go that far
what about the hair. Oh good question.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
So it's kind of like a an NFL team right
where you're going against the scout team that you're preparing
for the opponent based on their tendencies and history. Yeah,
it makes sense. You're not just going to go in
there and wing it. With the stakes this high, bringing.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Out Trump's most self destructive instincts is a priority for
Kamala Harris, and that is why he in his uh.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
That's why he wanted the microphones off.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
That's why he wanted the microphones off. And that's why
he needs to be his most controlled self, not to
give her that. I mean, if he goes out there,
like we were saying earlier, and he treats her with
kindness and respect, that's a lose for her.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
She needs him to fly off the hand. That's why
she wanted the mics open, because she wanted that. Excuse me,
I am speaking now moment. And I also read an
update that JD. Vance is going to be in the
spin room. You know, the spin room is the post
debate comments from the surrogates. Yeah, Vance is going to
be there, and then that'll be interesting to have him
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on live afterwards. I like the live aspect to all
of this. Yes, you know, it's it's more unpredictable, more real.
The debate is going to be somewhat rehearsed. I mean,
let's say it's ninety minutes. They have two minutes answer
to three minutes, So how many questions can you really
get in?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
It's a limited amount, and it's got to all be rehearsed.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
And by rehearsed, I mean from each side anticipating questions
and then how the other side's going to answer them,
and then what you're going to say.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
And obviously the major issues that we've talked about before.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
And we'll talk about it tomorrow because we'll be talking
about the latest and I wanted to talk about you know,
what do you think the wow? Is there going to
be a wild card question? And we should also probably
create a drinking bingo as well. Well you are going
to be a drinking Thursday morning. But but yeah, the
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stakes are high for this, right, wouldn't you say?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I'd say they're higher for Harrison for Trump. That's my
take on it initially, because she's still, you know, we
know what he is, She's still trying to define herself.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Right, and we've only seen the choreographed movie of Kamala
Harriston Walls. So it's going to be off the cuff.
I mean, she did the interview with Dana Bash, but
this is going to be truly off the cuff.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
But then again, it's not like she's inexperienced. I mean,
she's been an elected official or her entire adult life
to the most, she hasn't had great moments off the
cuff in that way. And I remember the first presidential
when she ran, you know, four years ago, she dropped
up before the first primary.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
She had no traction whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
So see, this is what's interesting the people that are
anti Harris that make this point, it's like she went nowhere.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
The first time she ran for president.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
She was selected by Biden for you know, various reasons
depending on your perspective, merit or not. She's done nothing
as a vice president. She was put in charge of
immigration policy incorrectly labeled as the borders are did.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Nothing on that.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
So Biden flames out in the first Trump debate, and
now all of a sudden, she's the golden child.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Right, this is the quote unquote knock on her.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
So this is why tomorrow night she needs to step
up to the plate and show people she can do
the job.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Show the math, right, Yeah, I don't want to just
see the headlines.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I want to see her dig into something and appear
to have strength and intelligence so he can stop saying
that she's not intelligent. Right, that's been a talking point.
I don't think it doesn't many favors. You know how
much I appreciate it that much? Is that I.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I'm a diehard forty.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Nine er fan and I'm sitting with you while you're
wearing Rams insignia and I'm still having a great time,
and that speaks volumes.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
You know, you have to expand your horizons a little bit.
I have to expand my horizons, Okay, to talk to
the enemies, Yeah, exactly. Embrace your enemy, you know. Let's
put an end to this divisiveness, Okay, Let's come together
as a nation not be.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
So polarized on opposite sides of the NFC West.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
It is a good looking shirt, that, don't you think
it is a good looking shirt? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
So Tyreek Hill right, speaking of the NFL. Yes, he
was arrested or detained or whatever you want to say,
yesterday right before the game, right outside the stadium.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
It didn't look good. He was put in handcuffs, the
whole bit. The union representing Miami Dade Police officers have
issued a statement now saying that Tyreek Hill was uncooperative
and was only redirected to the ground while in handcuffs
during his detainment because he refused orders to sit.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Redirected to the ground. That's a very creative term. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Before the Dolphins game yesterday. Reading from the statement, now,
an incident occurred where Tyreek Hill was placed in handcuffs
before being released.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
At no time was he ever under arrest.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
He was briefly detained for officer safety after driving in
a manner in which he was putting himself and others
in great danger. Upon being stopped, mister Hill was not
immediately cooperative with the officers on the scene, who pursue
into policy and for their immediate safety, placed him in handcuffs.
He was still uncooperative, refused to sit on the ground,
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and therefore was redirected to the ground. Once the situation
was sorted out within a few minutes, he was issued
two traffic citations and was free to leave.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Is that the end of the story?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
YEP?
Speaker 4 (18:37):
I mean redirected to the ground as one of those
creative law enforcement terms. Sure, right, redirected to the ground.
I mean he's driving a McLaren, which I think is
about a four million dollar car.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
If you're Tyreek Hill, what is this? What is the
threat to the officers?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Exactly?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
He doesn't have a weapon on him. Well, if he was,
I mean, you don't drive a McLaren on the speed limit.
You don't drive it twenty five miles an hour or
what have you your Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
You don't walk twenty five miles an hour. Nothing he
does is slow. So he was probably So are we
saying this is a racial thing?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I don't know. I want to know how fast he
was speeding. I'd like to see vivicit.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Reckless driving apparently like that. Yeah, when you have that
kind of a car.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
But you know, you have to ask yourself what Tom
Brady ben Hand's house?
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Yeah, and I think we know the answer to that.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
So there was an article in the Washington Post about
a guy by the name of Bradley caden Head. He's
nineteen years old and he's only in year two of
his eighty year prison sentence. What did Bradley do to
deserve such a long sentence at such a young age. Well,
they believe that starting when Bradley was fifteen, he founded
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an online group that pressured vulnerable children to commit violence
or degrading acts. This was a kid whose mother was
moved out of the home. She's a drinker, a partier,
and all all the things. So it's already unsettled at home.
He goes into middle school, faces constant bullying. He was
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viewed as an easy target, they say, isolated suffering breakdowns,
didn't care about anything. At fifteen years old, he drops
out of school and retreats to his room. They said
that's where he became. As opposed to the isolated, lonely
teenager he was, he became a notorious predator of the
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social media age.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Discord. Discord comes up all the time, which he's monster.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Yeah, And they said that he used discord to cultivate
a domineering online persona, and that he built a global
following among sadists who preyed on vulnerable children. They would
convince these kids to share explicit images and then blackmail
them into doing awful stuf on video.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I mean, really, the worst of the worst the prosecutor.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Told the judge at his sentencing last year, very rarely
do we get a chance to look evil in the face,
and this is one of those times.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
And he was sentenced to eighty years.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yes, apparently there are safeguards on Discord that it's a
platform that relies largely on other users to flag abuse
that occurs in private chat rooms. But if you're surrounded
by these weird sadists and things like that, nobody's going
to raise the red flag and say this guy's doing
bad things.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Because you're doing bad things too.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Well, this is one of our theories that we've been
talking about, right, is the downside of the Internet and.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Who should be held accountable?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Should it be the digital platform, should they be Should
they have the onus to police their platforms?
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Well, they say they do, and this is an example
of that that he was caught, tried and convicted. But
is that enough? I mean, and you wonder what else
goes on that is never brought to their attention.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Just what I'm saying, what is Discord's responsibility here? You know,
it's like Telegram. The CEO arrested in France last month
on charges that Telegram was enabling distribution of child porn
images or sex abuse.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Images, I should say. And so it's just I think again,
this is something that needs to be right.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
But this again the bigger picture, is this the dark
side of the Internet, and how teenagers who are bullied
or troubled or come from a broken family or whatever
the issue might be, retreat like this article.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
This is an incredible article in the Washington Post. It's
really like detailed.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Unis really strong stomach to get through this.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Yeah, but it's an example of what can happen with
someone who retreats, as it said, into their bedroom and
into cyber world.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
It's never good for any of us to retreat into
a loneliness and a loneeness.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
And it's it's sad because you know, in retrospect, you
look at it, you say, obvious, this person had signs
is trouble. The same thing with the with Gray, the
shooter and Georgia and many others who were in similar situations.
And it's easy versa look back when we read these
you know, well researched newspaper articles and say all the
warning signs were there, you know, But it's not that simple, right, Yeah,
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I mean, as a parent, how much. Do you know
what your kid is doing when they're in their room
on their computer right right now. This is obviously an
extreme case, but again it goes back to where one
of our central theories here in KFI, or at least
one of my central theories, is that when history of
our time is written, the Internet may turn out to
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be a negative for all of the great things that
it enables us to do.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
There's there's there's too many ways to abuse.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
It without a doubt, because we're humans and we are
not perfect people, and left to our devices, it's not
always the best thing.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Every once in a while, your Boston accent comes out
right there.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yeah, when I said Florida, Yeah, yeah, that is weird
a couple of words.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Yeah, it comes out on and I love that.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Austin, Oh, what's a great city.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Egg recall underway in nine states. More than sixty salmonella.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Cases were reported.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I guess it's a Wisconsin based Milo's Poultry Farms been
recalling all eggs branded Milo's Poultry Farms does include California, Virginia, Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, Utah, California,
and Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Can I give you one other update on the Trump story,
get it So. In addition to saying that he's going
to vote to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana and Florida,
which again is about twenty years behind the times, he
also said that if he wins in November, his administration
will quote focus on research to unlock the medical uses
of marijuana. Again cutting edge concepts. We've had that for
(24:49):
how long in California?
Speaker 5 (24:51):
About twenty years?
Speaker 7 (24:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Yeah, hey, you know he's making progress. Sure, one issue
at a time.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Beetlejuice, Beetle Juice dominating the Bax office. The sequel to
that eighty eight hit horror comedy earned one hundred and
ten million dollars in its opening weekend. I watched the
original original one recently just to see if.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
It holds up.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
And it does. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Part of it is does it hold up? Or is
it just my nostalgia kicking in?
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Maybe a little of both. But I happened to be
a huge Michael Keaton fan. Me too, and I'll watch
anything that Michael.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Keaton is in.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Is he your favorite Batman?
Speaker 5 (25:30):
I wasn't really that.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Much into the Batman's I liked what he I mean,
I'm not a superhero movie guy, and the MCUs and
you know, the Mulverine and Tangerine and whatever whatever. But
I remember, did you ever watch Dope Sick with Michael Keaton?
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (25:45):
He won an Emmy for that well deserved moving Michael Keaton.
You know you don't if you say, okay, list our
top ten actors in the country right now, you don't
necessarily put Michael Keaton on that list, but maybe you should.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
So good for him.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
On Beetlejuice beetled all the way, I thought, maybe they
got to come up with a better title for the sequel.
When was the last time you went to a movie
in a movie theater?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I went after we were allowed back out in the wild.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Yeah, and I hated it because I during the pandemic,
I got used to watching things at home and streaming
things and being able to hit pause or what have you.
And when I went to the first movie after the pandemic, people.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Do not know how to act. I mean they're talking
the whole.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Time, they're on their phones, they're yelling things at the
I think Barbie was the last Barby I went to,
but that was like a premiere also, so everyone was
called Pressed Up, and.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Now I miss going to the movies. I think the
last movie I maybe saw him the big screen was
like Oppenheimer. Okay, like in three D Imax super Duper.
I think a Man's Chinese Theater or whatever whatever it's called.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Now, let's not sleep on the Dream Team from nineteen
eighty nine with Michael Keaton.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Wow, I'd have to go back and look at that one.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I loved him as Batman, all right, anyway, all right,
So I saw this as kind of cute. It's in
People magazine and it's a four sentence obituary. This is
it's gone viral. The daughter wrote it for a woman
now by the name of Florence goes By Flow Harrelson,
sixty five. It says Flow Harrelson, sixty five, formerly of Chelsea,
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died without family by her side due to burnt bridges
and a wake of destruction left in her path. Florence
did not want an obituary or anyone, including family, to
know she died. That's because even in depth, she wanted
those she terrorized to still be living in fear, looking
over their shoulders. So this isn't so much an obituary
but a public service announcement.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
From the daughter. From the daughter, it's a lot of
love in that family, huh.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
She says she hasn't spoken to her mom in a decade.
She only discovered what had happened after a discussion with
a friend about how things were too quiet around town lately.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
It's from me, right right.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
She said that her mom took sport in ruining every
birthday in Chrismis played cruel pranks on her when she
was little, taking her to the top of a bridge,
having her and her partner grabbed the daughter's legs and
arms and act like they were going to throw her
into the water below. The daughter says, I still can't
drive over a bridge without getting an anxiety attack.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
See, it's a good thing this daughter didn't have access
to a computer as a young child. Exactly.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
She knows how she would have turned up.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
But I like it when obituaries are honest, you know,
instead of she she lit up every room she walked into.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
She was kind of an a hole.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Yeah, but this one, I mean was taken to extreme.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
This isn't so much an obituary, but more of a
public service announcement that she's did.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
I love it. That's from people dot com. Also, you
never know what you find.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Michael Keaton Pacific Heights nineteen ninety.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Okay, great movie. Yeah that was that was frightening, right,
it was terrifying. I still keep coming back to dope
sic though. What a story that was and what a
what a performance that was by him. I've gone down
the Michael Keaton hole.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
Now what else you got?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Didn't know he was in Dumbo? Did?
Speaker 5 (29:03):
What about the one?
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Remember the one about McDonald's. Yes, the founder, the founder. Yeah,
that was really interesting and well done. All right, all right,
I mean I love going to the movies. I really
missed that.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
My wife and I would go to the Arc Light
in Hollywood all the time, which is to me, it's
like a crime that that is not open, I know.
And the Cinerama Dome, which is like a national landmark
really and you drive by there and it's like boarded up.
It's like, with all the money in Hollywood, you think
someone would want to get those going.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
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Stock surging on Wall Street. The Dow has been up
six hundred points at times during the session. Nasdaq has
been up over one hundred points at times this well
as well.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Excuse me.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
The Fed is set to make an announcement on interest
rates later this month, widely expected to make a cut. Also,
Tropical Storm Francine has formed, expected to intensify into a
hurricane before making landfall, this one along the Louisiana coast.
On Wednesday, They said that there could be a life
threatening storm surge for parts of Upper Texas and Louisiana coastlines.
(00:42):
Risk of flash and urban flooding exists across portions of
the Mid South from Wednesday into Friday morning.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And then.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Kate, the Princess of Princess of Wales is done with
her chemo treatment. She made the announcement in a video
message released today. It was in Mark she revealed she
had been diagnosed with an unspecified form of cancer. She
said the last nine months incredibly tough for the family,
but she's looking forward to be back at work.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
So when we heard that, we both said the same thing.
What we both said, work back at work work. I
guess it's charitable endeavors and things like that. Right, we're
horrible people. I mean, she just beat cancer and we're.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Like, what is it you do? What does it you
say you do here?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Well, the whole royal family, it doesn't seem rather outdated
to you.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yes, yeah, and our obsession with it here, yeah, yeah,
it's wild. They'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Tabloids will tell you if they put the Royals on
the cover, they sell like fifty percent more of those
than they do with Why that is.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Why we're so fascinated by all that. I don't know,
you don't have it here. I guess didn't we leave
all that behind?
Speaker 5 (01:46):
I think that was one of the reasons.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
So all right, so you know that, by the way
it's starting, that interest rate story is big because you
know it'll impact the cost of housing, especially here in
southern California, which is one of the big issues is
affording the house.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Right, So if I think the rates are right now
are around six percent, So if they go down a
percentage of two.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
It's great for home sales.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I don't think I could have gotten my house if
it was like six percent.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, it was like three percent or something.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Definitely okay.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
So we asked you earlier about undecideds, right, like, who's
still undecided? And what would make you decide? Were you
a Trump? Were you going to vote for Trump and
then change it to Kamala vice versa?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
What's the deal? And you hit us up on the
talkback feature, Hey.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
My question would be and it would be to Donald Trump.
His lawyers asserted that he could have Seal Team six,
have his political opponents assassinated, and the only thing that
could be done is that he could be removed from office.
There's no legal problem with that action. I would ask
him if he agrees with that.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Hi, Shannon and the friend b Lincoln on the name.
I am actually still undecided, but not in the way
that you think I am not voting for Kamala. I
am actually a pretty centrist Republican, and I think a
lot of the crime in the state has to do
with progressive things that she has put into place. So
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definitely not going that camp. But either Trump or a
write in, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (03:22):
I would ask Trump how he plans on ending the
Ukraine War and under what conditions? And I would ask
Harris on how she supports Ukraine and under what conditions.
I would ask Trump is he going to pull out
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of NATO? And under what conditions? What do you stay
in NATO? And then I would ask Trump also how
what are the actual plans of round of identifying and
rounding up and departing reporting eleven million illegal aliens?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Well, yeah, I mean Ukraine's not really something that's been
talked about, but also important. I think it is where
people stand in terms of, you know, America first, and
who are we going to help and to what extent
are we going to help everybody?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
On that?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Yeah, he's pretty clear on that. America first and then
we'll worry about everybody else.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Okay, before we get to this.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Those were good. Those were good to sure comments.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, oh yeah, asking what you would ask if you
were the moderator at the debate. By the way, it's
going to be tomorrow at six hour time. I guess
we can officially start swamp watch. It's still unclear on
what percentage of voters out there are undecided. I mean,
I've seen different polls that's say three percent, eight percent,
some higher.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
I think it's got to be low.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
It's horrible the government, I think.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Make it like a reality TV show. Corn Pop was
a bad news.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Always a pleasure to be anywhere from Washington, d C.
Speaker 7 (04:59):
Hey, you know it's a town hall too, clearly built
on a swamp and in so many ways.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Still a swamp. I have a watch of Malarkey.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Boy said drained the swamp.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
I said, Oh, that's so he'll keep.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
You know the thing.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
Well.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I over the weekend was reading some things in Politico
and happened upon a political magazine item and it's called
the Kamala and Tim Show that it's a it's kind
of a buddy comedy act that feels familiar, and they
they mentioned the Tacos video that was released in the
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campaign just days before the convention. It shows Kamala and
Tim Walls chatting at a jazz club in Detroit. They're
new running mates. They appear to be sudden besties. They're
laughing about their differences. They're comparing musical tastes. He's Springsteen
and Seeger, She's Aretha and Prince. She teased him for
eating what he calls white guy tacos.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Saying what is that mean? Like mayonnaise and tuna? What
are you doing?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
And the article brings up a number of interesting points
as they say, the running mate relationship is one of
the most artificial alliances in politics, and that is why
campaigns struggle to define it. They say that some candidates
wanted to portray like an instant soulmate relationship nineteen ninety
(06:23):
two Bill Clinton and Al Gore dancing to Fleetwood Mac
and pretending to embark on a buddy movie road trip.
Then there's the business arrangement, think Trump Pence right, That
was definitely not a buddy relationship. And they say that
the Harris Walls campaign has tried a different kind of introduction,
that it's filled with banter, self deprecating jokes, a pitch
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to the TikTok generation in terms of bites. But for
older voters it has this familiarity, familiar feeling to it
that it's like a sitcom. It's like those multi camera
family shows of the eighties. When both of these people
came of age, they say, you know, Growing Pains, Cosby Show,
(07:08):
Kitchen Table Talk, even that interview they did with Dana
Bash felt like they were at a kitchen table, and
that it's just this nice, aesthetic, wholesome, wholehearted, a blended
family approach.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
The theory is that translates into votes because people say, oh.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yes, I like that. It's a nostalgic, feel good kind
of feeling.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
What do you think.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I think there's something to this scenario.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Certainly a contrast between your other choice.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, right, right right, they say, you know, family ties
with that political premise too, hippies fighting themselves raising a
briefcase toting Reagan Republican and Alex P.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Keaton, right, but they all always wound up hugging in
the end.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
These are two people who come from very different parts
of the country, and that's why they compare to like
a blended family, like different strokes or whatever. And then
there's the whole Kamala Harris Doug m Hoff thing of
the meet cute and it's the cool girl and the
nerdy guy, and that reminds us of like John Hughes movies, right,
So it's kind of like a hearkening back.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
To the eighties. And I'm not loving that whole premise
from that Politico piece. I mean, I get it. This
certainly has some validity to it. But again, if I'm
am I voting, yes, I vote partly on personality, but
I want some substance there too.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
I'm not really not looking for like a cute couple.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I don't think it's saying it's going to translate to voters.
It's just the description to give off. Yeah, the architect.
Going back to what we were talking about earlier.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Right, which is a clear choice that would have been
maybe different it was Shapiro or Buddha Jeedge or another candidate.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
You have to do that kind of when there's a
woman involved, and find a way to soften it but
also be strong. Okay, Coming up next, we will do
an up on the debate prep Right, what's going on?
A method acting, insults, tough questions.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
They're going to all of that.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Former President Trump has celebrated the birthday of Mary in
a truth social post and a post on X Happy
Birthday Mary, he posted on his social media platform, along
with a photo of Our Lady of Guadaloupe, image bearing
particular significance to Catholics in Mexico, where an Aztec man
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named Wan Diego so that Mary appeared to him several
times in visions in fifteen thirty one.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Okay, interesting, Yes, I'm sure how it helps him win
the presidency, but I think he already has the religious vote,
which is kind of confusing to make it.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
It is Catholics hold the image to be a miracle
sign of Mary's love and protection for the America's.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
So he's wishing happy birthday. Good for him, it's his
softer side. I know his kid's birthdays.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
No, I got it comes days after he announced Catholics
for Trump, a coalition that his campaign describes as committed
to safeguarding the vital principles of religious liberty and defending
family values.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
It's hard to be against that family values. What are
his family values?
Speaker 5 (10:18):
That's what?
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Because you remember after the Bide sorry, the Harris Walls
Dana Bash interview, when the takeaway from that is her
repeating like five times, my positions may have changed, but
my values haven't changed. So then she never followed up
by saying, well, what are those values? That would be
a question for Trump and Harris tomorrow night, right, Yeah,
(10:41):
what are your values?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I was talking to a friend who is in the
evangelical community, and I said, break this down for me.
Does the how does the evangelic. I mean, I'm not
knocking it or what have you. You vote for who
you want to vote for. But explain it to me
how the evangelicals have rallied behind Trump when he has
not shown the best of values, shall we say, through
(11:05):
the years. And he says to me, while it's kind
of like a plumber. Your toilet is broken, you call
a plumber, the plumber comes out. You don't care what
the plumber has going on his life, you don't care
who he's cheated on. You just want him to fix
the toilet. And that's how they're kind of looking at Trump,
I guess, in fact, just looking at the fact of
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his policy, that policy is advantageous for them, and that
they're voting for the policy, not the person.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Well.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yeah, and in reading about this, you know, you ask
that question that evangelical leaders, and they say that people
feel that Trump understands them. They don't necessarily agree with
some of his behavior, some of his choice of language,
maybe even his lifestyle choices, but they feel that he
understands them, and so that's enough.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
And I don't know that that's enough. I don't quite
understand that that he said it earlier. Some people they don't.
They don't vote for policy, they vote for a feeling personality. Personality.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Yeah, it's an interesting it's sort of an interesting issue
in this in this time that we're in with him,
because you know, if you listed traditional Christian values, he
probably wouldn't line up with any of those.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
But would he legislate?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Would he would he talk out of both sides of
his mouth in that regard where he doesn't live like that,
But would he advocate for stronger family values?
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I think so it's he kind of has it both ways,
yet he's trying to have it both ways, which so
far he seems to have been succeeding at, which is
a little bit confusing to me.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
So the debate is tomorrow, six o'clock our time. Kamala
Harris has been holed up for five days in a
Pittsburgh hotel doing highly choreographed debate practice sessions. There is
a stage replica lighting an advisor in full method acting mode.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Well, that makes sense. I mean, they've all done that
to some degree except for Trump.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
From my understanding, they even have someone dressing like Donald
Trump in a boxy suit a long tie.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I don't know if we need to go that far
what about the hair. Oh good question.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
So it's kind of like a an NFL team right
where you're going against the scout team that you're preparing
for the opponent based on their tendencies and history. Yeah,
it makes sense. You're not just going to go in
there and wing it. With the stakes this high, bringing.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Out Trump's most self destructive instincts is a priority for
Kamala Harris, and that is why he in his uh.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
That's why he wanted the microphones off.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
That's why he wanted the microphones off. And that's why
he needs to be his most controlled self, not to
give her that. I mean, if he goes out there,
like we were saying earlier, and he treats her with
kindness and respect, that's a lose for her.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
She needs him to fly off the hand. That's why
she wanted the mics open, because she wanted that. Excuse me,
I am speaking now moment. And I also read an
update that JD. Vance is going to be in the
spin room. You know, the spin room is the post
debate comments from the surrogates. Yeah, Vance is going to
be there, and then that'll be interesting to have him
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on live afterwards. I like the live aspect to all
of this. Yes, you know, it's it's more unpredictable, more real.
The debate is going to be somewhat rehearsed. I mean,
let's say it's ninety minutes. They have two minutes answer
to three minutes, So how many questions can you really
get in?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
It's a limited amount, and it's got to all be rehearsed.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
And by rehearsed, I mean from each side anticipating questions
and then how the other side's going to answer them,
and then what you're going to say.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
And obviously the major issues that we've talked about before.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
And we'll talk about it tomorrow because we'll be talking
about the latest and I wanted to talk about you know,
what do you think the wow? Is there going to
be a wild card question? And we should also probably
create a drinking bingo as well. Well you are going
to be a drinking Thursday morning. But but yeah, the
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stakes are high for this, right, wouldn't you say?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I'd say they're higher for Harrison for Trump. That's my
take on it initially, because she's still, you know, we
know what he is, She's still trying to define herself.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Right, and we've only seen the choreographed movie of Kamala
Harriston Walls. So it's going to be off the cuff.
I mean, she did the interview with Dana Bash, but
this is going to be truly off the cuff.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
But then again, it's not like she's inexperienced. I mean,
she's been an elected official or her entire adult life
to the most, she hasn't had great moments off the
cuff in that way. And I remember the first presidential
when she ran, you know, four years ago, she dropped
up before the first primary.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
She had no traction whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
So see, this is what's interesting the people that are
anti Harris that make this point, it's like she went nowhere.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
The first time she ran for president.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
She was selected by Biden for you know, various reasons
depending on your perspective, merit or not. She's done nothing
as a vice president. She was put in charge of
immigration policy incorrectly labeled as the borders are did.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Nothing on that.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
So Biden flames out in the first Trump debate, and
now all of a sudden, she's the golden child.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Right, this is the quote unquote knock on her.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
So this is why tomorrow night she needs to step
up to the plate and show people she can do
the job.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Show the math, right, Yeah, I don't want to just
see the headlines.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I want to see her dig into something and appear
to have strength and intelligence so he can stop saying
that she's not intelligent. Right, that's been a talking point.
I don't think it doesn't many favors. You know how
much I appreciate it that much? Is that I.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I'm a diehard forty.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Nine er fan and I'm sitting with you while you're
wearing Rams insignia and I'm still having a great time,
and that speaks volumes.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
You know, you have to expand your horizons a little bit.
I have to expand my horizons, Okay, to talk to
the enemies, Yeah, exactly. Embrace your enemy, you know. Let's
put an end to this divisiveness, Okay, Let's come together
as a nation not be.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
So polarized on opposite sides of the NFC West.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
It is a good looking shirt, that, don't you think
it is a good looking shirt? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
So Tyreek Hill right, speaking of the NFL. Yes, he
was arrested or detained or whatever you want to say,
yesterday right before the game, right outside the stadium.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
It didn't look good. He was put in handcuffs, the
whole bit. The union representing Miami Dade Police officers have
issued a statement now saying that Tyreek Hill was uncooperative
and was only redirected to the ground while in handcuffs
during his detainment because he refused orders to sit.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Redirected to the ground. That's a very creative term. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Before the Dolphins game yesterday. Reading from the statement, now,
an incident occurred where Tyreek Hill was placed in handcuffs
before being released.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
At no time was he ever under arrest.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
He was briefly detained for officer safety after driving in
a manner in which he was putting himself and others
in great danger. Upon being stopped, mister Hill was not
immediately cooperative with the officers on the scene, who pursue
into policy and for their immediate safety, placed him in handcuffs.
He was still uncooperative, refused to sit on the ground,
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and therefore was redirected to the ground. Once the situation
was sorted out within a few minutes, he was issued
two traffic citations and was free to leave.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Is that the end of the story?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
YEP?
Speaker 4 (18:37):
I mean redirected to the ground as one of those
creative law enforcement terms. Sure, right, redirected to the ground.
I mean he's driving a McLaren, which I think is
about a four million dollar car.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
If you're Tyreek Hill, what is this? What is the
threat to the officers?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Exactly?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
He doesn't have a weapon on him. Well, if he was,
I mean, you don't drive a McLaren on the speed limit.
You don't drive it twenty five miles an hour or
what have you your Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
You don't walk twenty five miles an hour. Nothing he
does is slow. So he was probably So are we
saying this is a racial thing?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I don't know. I want to know how fast he
was speeding. I'd like to see vivicit.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Reckless driving apparently like that. Yeah, when you have that
kind of a car.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
But you know, you have to ask yourself what Tom
Brady ben Hand's house?
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Yeah, and I think we know the answer to that.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
So there was an article in the Washington Post about
a guy by the name of Bradley caden Head. He's
nineteen years old and he's only in year two of
his eighty year prison sentence. What did Bradley do to
deserve such a long sentence at such a young age. Well,
they believe that starting when Bradley was fifteen, he founded
(19:48):
an online group that pressured vulnerable children to commit violence
or degrading acts. This was a kid whose mother was
moved out of the home. She's a drinker, a partier,
and all all the things. So it's already unsettled at home.
He goes into middle school, faces constant bullying. He was
(20:12):
viewed as an easy target, they say, isolated suffering breakdowns,
didn't care about anything. At fifteen years old, he drops
out of school and retreats to his room. They said
that's where he became. As opposed to the isolated, lonely
teenager he was, he became a notorious predator of the
(20:33):
social media age.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Discord. Discord comes up all the time, which he's monster.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Yeah, And they said that he used discord to cultivate
a domineering online persona, and that he built a global
following among sadists who preyed on vulnerable children. They would
convince these kids to share explicit images and then blackmail
them into doing awful stuf on video.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I mean, really, the worst of the worst the prosecutor.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Told the judge at his sentencing last year, very rarely
do we get a chance to look evil in the face,
and this is one of those times.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
And he was sentenced to eighty years.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yes, apparently there are safeguards on Discord that it's a
platform that relies largely on other users to flag abuse
that occurs in private chat rooms. But if you're surrounded
by these weird sadists and things like that, nobody's going
to raise the red flag and say this guy's doing
bad things.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Because you're doing bad things too.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Well, this is one of our theories that we've been
talking about, right, is the downside of the Internet and.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Who should be held accountable?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Should it be the digital platform, should they be Should
they have the onus to police their platforms?
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Well, they say they do, and this is an example
of that that he was caught, tried and convicted. But
is that enough? I mean, and you wonder what else
goes on that is never brought to their attention.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Just what I'm saying, what is Discord's responsibility here? You know,
it's like Telegram. The CEO arrested in France last month
on charges that Telegram was enabling distribution of child porn
images or sex abuse.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Images, I should say. And so it's just I think again,
this is something that needs to be right.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
But this again the bigger picture, is this the dark
side of the Internet, and how teenagers who are bullied
or troubled or come from a broken family or whatever
the issue might be, retreat like this article.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
This is an incredible article in the Washington Post. It's
really like detailed.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Unis really strong stomach to get through this.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Yeah, but it's an example of what can happen with
someone who retreats, as it said, into their bedroom and
into cyber world.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
It's never good for any of us to retreat into
a loneliness and a loneeness.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
And it's it's sad because you know, in retrospect, you
look at it, you say, obvious, this person had signs
is trouble. The same thing with the with Gray, the
shooter and Georgia and many others who were in similar situations.
And it's easy versa look back when we read these
you know, well researched newspaper articles and say all the
warning signs were there, you know, But it's not that simple, right, Yeah,
(23:16):
I mean, as a parent, how much. Do you know
what your kid is doing when they're in their room
on their computer right right now. This is obviously an
extreme case, but again it goes back to where one
of our central theories here in KFI, or at least
one of my central theories, is that when history of
our time is written, the Internet may turn out to
(23:37):
be a negative for all of the great things that
it enables us to do.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
There's there's there's too many ways to abuse.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
It without a doubt, because we're humans and we are
not perfect people, and left to our devices, it's not
always the best thing.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Every once in a while, your Boston accent comes out
right there.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yeah, when I said Florida, Yeah, yeah, that is weird
a couple of words.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Yeah, it comes out on and I love that.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Austin, Oh, what's a great city.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Egg recall underway in nine states. More than sixty salmonella.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Cases were reported.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I guess it's a Wisconsin based Milo's Poultry Farms been
recalling all eggs branded Milo's Poultry Farms does include California, Virginia, Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, Utah, California,
and Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Can I give you one other update on the Trump story,
get it So. In addition to saying that he's going
to vote to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana and Florida,
which again is about twenty years behind the times, he
also said that if he wins in November, his administration
will quote focus on research to unlock the medical uses
of marijuana. Again cutting edge concepts. We've had that for
(24:49):
how long in California?
Speaker 5 (24:51):
About twenty years?
Speaker 7 (24:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Yeah, hey, you know he's making progress. Sure, one issue
at a time.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Beetlejuice, Beetle Juice dominating the Bax office. The sequel to
that eighty eight hit horror comedy earned one hundred and
ten million dollars in its opening weekend. I watched the
original original one recently just to see if.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
It holds up.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
And it does. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Part of it is does it hold up? Or is
it just my nostalgia kicking in?
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Maybe a little of both. But I happened to be
a huge Michael Keaton fan. Me too, and I'll watch
anything that Michael.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Keaton is in.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Is he your favorite Batman?
Speaker 5 (25:30):
I wasn't really that.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Much into the Batman's I liked what he I mean,
I'm not a superhero movie guy, and the MCUs and
you know, the Mulverine and Tangerine and whatever whatever. But
I remember, did you ever watch Dope Sick with Michael Keaton?
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (25:45):
He won an Emmy for that well deserved moving Michael Keaton.
You know you don't if you say, okay, list our
top ten actors in the country right now, you don't
necessarily put Michael Keaton on that list, but maybe you should.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
So good for him.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
On Beetlejuice beetled all the way, I thought, maybe they
got to come up with a better title for the sequel.
When was the last time you went to a movie
in a movie theater?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I went after we were allowed back out in the wild.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Yeah, and I hated it because I during the pandemic,
I got used to watching things at home and streaming
things and being able to hit pause or what have you.
And when I went to the first movie after the pandemic, people.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Do not know how to act. I mean they're talking
the whole.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Time, they're on their phones, they're yelling things at the
I think Barbie was the last Barby I went to,
but that was like a premiere also, so everyone was
called Pressed Up, and.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Now I miss going to the movies. I think the
last movie I maybe saw him the big screen was
like Oppenheimer. Okay, like in three D Imax super Duper.
I think a Man's Chinese Theater or whatever whatever it's called.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Now, let's not sleep on the Dream Team from nineteen
eighty nine with Michael Keaton.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Wow, I'd have to go back and look at that one.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I loved him as Batman, all right, anyway, all right,
So I saw this as kind of cute. It's in
People magazine and it's a four sentence obituary. This is
it's gone viral. The daughter wrote it for a woman
now by the name of Florence goes By Flow Harrelson,
sixty five. It says Flow Harrelson, sixty five, formerly of Chelsea,
(27:15):
died without family by her side due to burnt bridges
and a wake of destruction left in her path. Florence
did not want an obituary or anyone, including family, to
know she died. That's because even in depth, she wanted
those she terrorized to still be living in fear, looking
over their shoulders. So this isn't so much an obituary
but a public service announcement.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
From the daughter. From the daughter, it's a lot of
love in that family, huh.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
She says she hasn't spoken to her mom in a decade.
She only discovered what had happened after a discussion with
a friend about how things were too quiet around town lately.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
It's from me, right right.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
She said that her mom took sport in ruining every
birthday in Chrismis played cruel pranks on her when she
was little, taking her to the top of a bridge,
having her and her partner grabbed the daughter's legs and
arms and act like they were going to throw her
into the water below. The daughter says, I still can't
drive over a bridge without getting an anxiety attack.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
See, it's a good thing this daughter didn't have access
to a computer as a young child. Exactly.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
She knows how she would have turned up.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
But I like it when obituaries are honest, you know,
instead of she she lit up every room she walked into.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
She was kind of an a hole.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Yeah, but this one, I mean was taken to extreme.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
This isn't so much an obituary, but more of a
public service announcement that she's did.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
I love it. That's from people dot com. Also, you
never know what you find.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Michael Keaton Pacific Heights nineteen ninety.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Okay, great movie. Yeah that was that was frightening, right,
it was terrifying. I still keep coming back to dope
sic though. What a story that was and what a
what a performance that was by him. I've gone down
the Michael Keaton hole.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
Now what else you got?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Didn't know he was in Dumbo? Did?
Speaker 5 (29:03):
What about the one?
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Remember the one about McDonald's. Yes, the founder, the founder. Yeah,
that was really interesting and well done. All right, all right,
I mean I love going to the movies. I really
missed that.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
My wife and I would go to the Arc Light
in Hollywood all the time, which is to me, it's
like a crime that that is not open, I know.
And the Cinerama Dome, which is like a national landmark
really and you drive by there and it's like boarded up.
It's like, with all the money in Hollywood, you think
someone would want to get those going.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Again, we're isolating. We're still isolating. What's going on.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
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