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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.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
The iHeartRadio app. What else is going on?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Time four? What's happening?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Of course we have our eyes on all of these fires.
The fire that started in San Gabriel Canyon made its
way through Rightwood is the largest fire in the States.
Destroyed twenty homes in the Mount Baldy area, thirteen in Rightwood,
six cabins in the wilderness there. It's forty eight thousand acres.
The one that started in Orange County and Tribuco Canyon
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has pressed into Riverside County. That thing has eaten up
twenty two than three hundred acres. Also zero containment. That
was the one sparked by public works.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Equipment, right and you know one of the biggest concerns now,
which is like the lowest form of human life looters.
Oh yeah, and these evacuated areas right the sheriff's departments,
we're talking about that in Los Angeles County, Riverside, Sandberg.
You know, kind of they have to use resources to
guard the abandoned neighborhoods.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, and if you think about what's going on with
the neighborhoods that are not abandoned with people and home
invasions these days.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Yeah, there's a story this morning.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Did you see Reggie Bush's home maybe the victim of
a home invasion?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (01:15):
In the valley.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yeah, it's a tough time right now. The fires are
just they're so scary, you know, and so unpredictable that
it just makes things so much more. I mean, what's
worse a fire, an earthquake, a flood. We have lots
of calamities here in southern California.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
One good thing forecasters say by tomorrow high temps will
settle in the seventies and eighties, So that's.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
A relief wind issues.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Now there are wind issues and continued dry conditions as well. Opposite,
in New Orleans, Hurricane Francine predicted to make landfall there.
The storm is forecast to make landfall today and then
weaken as it moves into Mississippi tomorrow. We're still talking
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about last night though, Yes, the debate draw drew a
huge audience, sixty five million viewers. Everyone tuned in to
see what would happen, and as we've been pointing out,
it was by and large a Kamala Harris win. By
everyone's account, even conservative news sources are saying that it
was not Trump's best night.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
He disagrees, but it.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Was three against one, Shannon, three against one the ABC moderators.
I mean, they're called a disgrace by Trump supporters. That's
a little extreme, but three and one's not fair.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
They did get contentious.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
She said people should go to a Trump rally so
he can see how Trump talks about fictional characters like
Hannibal Lecter. He accused her of bussing in people to
her rallies. He tried to tie her to some of
the Biden administration's unpopular policies. She responded with, I am
not Joe Biden. He said she's destroying the border, mentioned
false claims about immigrants eating cats and dogs and ducks
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in Ohio.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It was a circus.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
And he cited the leader of Hungary as one of
the most important men who support him and his positions
is And then what was a great line.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
She talked about how.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
He loved dictators who would somebody like Putin, who would
quote eat him for lunch. I thought that was a
powerful line she got. You know, he's been criticized because
of his insults. She got a few zingers in there,
but she gets she does. She doesn't get criticized for being insulting.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Justin Timberlake is not going to face drunk driving charges
any longer. He has sealed a plea deal in his
DWI case. He will avoid a drunk driving charge after
he agreed to plead guilty to a traffic violation yesterday.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
He's going to admit to.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Driving while a ability impaired, ability impaired. He'll pay a
three hundred interesting term it is three hundred to five
hundred dollars fine. As part of the agreement, he will
also do a public service video for mothers against drunk driving.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
That's probably a good outcome for him. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Yeah, but the public service announcement, I mean people will
pay attention to that.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I thought it was.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, that's true. Tyreek Hill. By the way, we mentioned this.
The fallout continues, but it seems to be dying down
a little bit. He said that, you know, he should
have he should have handled himself, handled himself better. He
should not have rolled that window up and the like.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Yeah, he said he should have been more cooperative. I've
thought about it. My whole life is all about accountability.
How can I get better? I mean, he's saying all
the right things right now, and then he says the
thing about me is I don't want attention.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I'm sure that would be.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
True, although I'm sure he doesn't want attention about this
particular sit sure, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
A CNN poll taken after the debate last night found
that the percentage of voters who trust Trump more on
the economy rose from based on what, from sixteen percent
to twenty perc Well, he did start on point. He said,
you know, we've had a terrible economy because inflation has
been a country buster.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
It breaks up countries.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
We have inflation like very few people have ever seen,
probably the worst in our nation's history. He said, everyone
knows I'm an open book. Everyone knows what I'm going
to do. Cut taxes very substantially. And so I think
that that was a salient point he made on his
policy and what he's going to do, and people bought
into that.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I mean, it was more of a criticism of them
than anything more about what he's going to I mean, yes,
cut taxes, We've heard that over and over again.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
I understand the point, but I'm not sure I agree
with it.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
The survey conducted in July found the most important issue
for at least a quarter of Americans was inflation and prices,
and then a further ten percent We're most concerned about
jobs in the economy, so that remains the big.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
One, well, sort of the same larger issue, right. I'd
be interested hearing what they had to say to each
other today. I remember we were talking earlier at how
they were all together at the nine to one to
one Memorial nine to eleven Memorial service in New York City,
shaking hands and standing next to each other.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Speaking of nine to eleven you mentioned earlier. The Drudge
Report had a quip that this was Trump's nine to
eleven last night at the debate, and I said, oh,
that rubs me the wrong way, the way that Hitler
analogies do as well. And there was an article in
Rolling Stone this morning about how to be on social
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media in twenty twenty four is to be swimming in
jokes and memes about nine to eleven TikTok videos.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
The image of former President George W.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Bush being informed by his chief of staff that the
US was under attack now frequently used to mock everything
from Ozembic to Drake and Kendrick Lamar's fight.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
I mean, that's how it bounds to me.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
It is that would use that would you need to
source That's where you need to generate humor from.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Social media did not exist at the time of the attacks,
but has given rise to this digital space for the
jokes that are you know, things like jet fuel can't
melt steel beams, or Bush did nine to eleven. All
those little conspiracy theories are taking on comedic.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Space.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I guess you could say on social media that it's
the younger generation that doesn't really know the severity, doesn't. Yes,
sure they're ta they're taught about it, but that it
just doesn't hit them the way it hit us.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Obviously.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Yeah, again the downside of the Internet, right.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Ruby Karp is a twenty four year old comedian. She
told Rolling Stone she can understand why so many in
her generation feel distance from nine to eleven. She says, obviously,
we're not in sensitive a holes. Nine to eleven is
a tragedy.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
We know this.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
They are insensitive, But I think she says, it's kind
of the point, right that we feel less emotionally connected
to it or less emotionally triggered by it because none
of us were alive or we were barely conscious.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
It's all about them though, right, yeah, you.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Know, right, yeah, it's such a powerful just powerful memories.
You know, three thousand people gone, almost one hundred of
them were Californians. As a matter of fact, I've covered
this and for a number of years in North Hollywood
Park in Magnolia and to Hunga planted a grove of trees,
one in honor of every one of the Californians, and
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there's plaques on some of the boulders there were their names.
It's just there are many powerful nine to eleven memorials,
especially here in southern California, and that's really one of
them here in that area.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
I would encourage people to go by and check it out.
It's very well done.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, and if you're one of the people who spreads
the memes, maybe do a deep dive on what that
meant to people, because it was. It was very traumatizing
for all of us here I mean globally, but also
very unique to an attack on our soil for the
first time since Pearl Harbor, Right.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Yeah, I mean the idea that people are making jokes
about it is just mind boggling to mean that that
same article in Rolling Stones.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
I mean, you remember Gilbert Gottfried.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yes, what did he say again?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
So he could you imagine this? In the weeks after
nine to eleven, he's doing his stand up comedy routine
and he's in New York and he says, I have
to leave early tonight. I have a flight to California.
I can't get a direct flight. They said, I have
to stop the Empire State Building first. What First of all,
the Empire State Building nothing to do with it, but
it was just kind of lame.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
And then it was another target.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
In the weeks following, there were all these soft and
hard targets that they were still looking at.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
And then remember Bill Maher, he had his show Politically
and correct got canceled. He made the comments about the
terrorists whatever they are, they weren't cowards.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Oh remember how controversial that was at the time.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
At any rate, it seems like there's plenty of other
sources of humor besides weaponizing nine to eleven to memes.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
They said the passage of time is a key component
of the benign violation theory, a framework for comedy about
controversial events and time proposed by academics Peter McGraw and
Caleb warning A.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Warren the benign violation theory.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
They say, it's a theory from twenty ten and it
explored a study by the pair into the acceptability of
Hurricane Sandy jokes before, during, and after that storm in
twenty twelve, and it says that the perfect joke must
be a violation of social norms or good taste while
also being relatively benign or harmless.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I don't think you can do that for nine to eleven.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Those seem like kind of opposites because you always hear
that expression where a comedian where he bombs and they'll
say too soon, right, It's like.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yeah, yeah, it's always too soon.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
There's no expiration date on that one.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
All right, what you watch in Wednesday when we come back?
I wanted to men in this. It seems like we're
all watching the NFL. The NFL is boasting record viewership
for the opening week of the twenty twenty four season.
Each game averaged twenty one million viewers across TV and
digital platforms, making it the most watched Week one on record.
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NBC's Thursday kickoff game and Sunday Night Football drough the
biggest audiences. That makes sense, each game averaging twenty five
million viewers. Meanwhile, ESPN's Monday Night Football averaged twenty point
four million viewers, and CBS and Fox's afternoon games eighteen
point four million viewers.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Wow, and that's how they can pay the big bucks
to those players, right, zactly did you you didn't get
a chance to watch the Manning cast?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Did you?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I did not, because it was we talking about that
a little bit.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
And I know you wanted to see the mainstream coverage,
right having Bill Belichick chopping it up with the eline
Peyton Manning.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Did he have a personality?
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Yeah, he has a great personality that he intentionally kept
hidden right during all those years as the grumpy lobster
boat captain a Manning the helm of the Patriots.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
But now he's everywhere.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
You can't turn on the TV or go online without
seeing Belichick.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
It is time for what you watch on Wednesday.
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Last night was great?
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Well, it's football season.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I don't know.
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That's always my excuse.
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I don't care.
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It's a football season and I'm too busy.
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It's a it's a limited season because they're afraid people
are going to die, so there's not that many episodes.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Well, I don't think it's because they think people are
going to die. And I think it's because it's football season.
What is the age of the the election year? Come
on the go. Yeah, they're they're out there. They're they're
the one that he chose, and and the guy ended
up being a real jerk and the woman got angry
and it didn't last right away. But the Bachelorette this
year ended very poorly as well.
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They put her, They literally put her.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Somebody texted me this. They put her in the wood
Schipper like Fargo. She had to sit there and watch
the engagement and watch the whole thing go down.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
I mean it was.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
You're not saying you actually watched that show.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Oh, I have to I cut it up. We do
it on the air. Actually, this year I missed an episode.
It's funny. I missed an episode, you know, and sometime
in August or skipped in like Tuesday, we didn't do it,
And I got this long text from the air of
the Carl's Junior Fortune, Carl Karcher's grandson. I said, Carl
Karcher's daughter is a big fan of The Bachelor Report,
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and we play it for her and when it is
not available the day after the show, she gets a
little angry with h my god, wow, So if you
care about the star so I said, okay, you know,
my god, of all the double Western bacon cheeseburgers I've eaten.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Over the ar but I owe this woman.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
They have the nuggets that are in the star shape,
No doubt, Petros in the chicken. It's better for dipping
into the barbecue sauce. Those those prongs on the stars.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
I was having a discussion with some family members, including
my thirty something year old daughter, and it's when football
season was starting. Like, people that don't follow sports, I
feel like they're missing something in life, right.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
They don't have that connection. And she says to.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Me, well, I have The Bachelor, Like, I'm not sure
that's the same.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
It's a sport.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Well, I mean it's a game.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
It's a connection to something else.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I mean it's something to talk about with others.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Your muscles are your manipulation in this game of the Bachelor.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
But you know what, I think that's an interesting point
because I grew up as of football as my identity, right, okay,
and my whole.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Life is just a football player.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
And then show them you're missing nipple.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
When I please don't.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
When I got done playing football, I went immediately into
broadcas into sports talking about the broadcast, and uh, you know,
so I've never been to a tailgate, you know, I've
never sat in the stands really and watched a football game,
you know, maybe once every five years, you know, in
a high school game or or something like that. And
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the interesting thing that I came to realize is a
lot of people don't care if USC is good or
TCU or whatever.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
They went to school.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
It's where they gather to be with other people they
went to school with seven times a year, four times
a year.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
It's a party.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
They go to the home games, they meet up with others,
They have their tailgate, they eat their snossages.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Football is family.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Yeah, it's And I.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Know that that's your experience, you know what I mean,
And and so like that is not My experience in
football is looking through a face mask going you know,
like that that's you know, and it's just completely frantically,
you know, feeling like you're going to die.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
You ever watched football or analyzing when you're not being
paid to do it?
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Well, yeah, because you know, you have to keep up
with what people are doing and how football is, what
people are saying about football, and like anything, you know,
familiarity breeds interest or curiosity, like Col football. You know,
I played at Cal for like a month in nineteen
ninety five, and I follow Cal football. You know, they're
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the acc I follow Cal football, whether I call their
games or not, you know, I follow it.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
So for me as a broadcaster, that's what I do.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
But most people, you know, when I started football broadcasting
in two thousand and one.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Football was not this popular.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
The pro football in college football were enormously popular and
millions of dollars were being made. But now billions of
dollars are being made, and that has really changed the
dynamic of the sport and changed the interest in a
lot of different ways.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
To gambling. I mean, we never used to talk about gambling.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
If you said something about gambling and you weren't out Michaels,
you know that field Goald meant something to say yeah,
and everybody's like, oh.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
You know like that, No, you didn't do that.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
You know you got now like I do commercials like
for prize picks, Eryl to Morocco with a you know,
gigantic headdress on, like it's a mess, you know, I mean.
And so there's a lot to wrangle with the sport,
just because there's so much money being made and a
lot of people don't know what to do with it.
There's so much being made that they paid Tom Brady
three hundred and seventy five million dollars.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
And look what Dak Prescott just signed for.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yeah, I mean, you know, but at least he's between the.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Lines just to lose to the Niners every year in
the divisional series.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Meantime, the price of tickets keeps going up, up, up up,
and the average fan, how do you go to a game?
Speaker 6 (18:40):
I remember in the future too, Remember when Marty goes
through the future and Doc Brown goes get me a pepsi,
here's a fifty And I feel like, look, every day
we get closer to the fifty dollars pepsi.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
You're done with me.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
I see both of you guys do like the strat
No no, no, no, you both did the strats No
I know, I thought the body language around here.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I could talk to you for hours.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
So we're talking about watching WED. I wish you were
still on with Fred.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yeah, I've been fired.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Well.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
I had the fun part about that one, mister Shu,
is that they called me this year and said, would
you come back to the show? Really, I said yeah?
And then they called me again and they said are
you sure you'd come back? I said yeah. And then
they called me a third time and they said yeah,
they didn't go for it. So wow, really wow.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I was like, well, why did you call me?
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Uh? So, yeah, I spent my Sunday nights drinking and
avoiding the television.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
And answering my texts about hey.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Uh shortyardage running gap. Yeah, they used that fullback. They
use him beyond the shortyardist world, and.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I was I was already. I did a bunch of
Boise State research. I did a bunch of research on
Jim Kleinsasser and all now he was just so instrumental
in that Adrian Peterson single rushing game record against the Bolts.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Not to mention what lorenzo'neil did for you, your friend Ladanian.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Exactly exactly. I love hot full back talk. Sorry, most
teams don't even have a full bit. You know what
they'll do is they'll move a tight end back there
and call them an age.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
And it's a lot.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
I've been watching The Man Steak boobs.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Did you see the pizza?
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Did you see the Man in cast with Belichick? No,
I don't, come on, I'm not a star effort.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
No, but worried about Wyoming winning a game? Belichicks on TV? Yeah,
it doesn't with insight. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
You know what I've learned about stars is they never
watch other stars.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I'm not a star, Like, I'm just a bitter old
full back.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I played usc football.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Like, once you get to that level of football stardom.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
There's no watch other dudes.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Most of the things, I'm a football analyst, and I'm
most I'm offended by that football analysis.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Really.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
Yeah, I think we go way overboard, and I probably
you know, when I watch my games back, I feel
the same way about myself. But you know the best
thing about football on TV is that we have pictures.
And the person that's the real star for football on
TV is the director. Yeah, because if you understand the sport,
you know, if you understand the sport at all, all
you have to do is watch the direct I know
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the Nats sound is good and the crowd is great
and all that, and the band and all that, but
I'm so offended by announcers. I watch so much much
of it on mute because I know what's happening. The
director is telling me absolutely everything that's happening, showing me face,
is showing me everybody's reaction, and that way, I don't
get so bitter and change it.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
I do feel that the color guy talks way too
much in general.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yeah, I'm the color I know.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Yeah, I don't mean, I.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Don't mean you specifically. You're you seem to be aware
of Well, what's important is you know, whatever you're talking about,
like it, what's what's on the screen is what people
are watching, you know, So it's really important to address that, right,
you know. And if the job is so hard of
a job that we're paying people hundreds of millions of
dollars to.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Do it, how do you think Brady did on Game one?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
I thought he sounded like Tom Brady, you know.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
I mean, I've known Tom Brady a long time, not well,
but you know, I think it's really interesting because you know,
you get put that much attention on a guy calling
a football game, and you put him right in the
number one spot, and all of a sudden, everybody's going
to It's like what happened to Jason wentten. You know,
everybody's going to supplice up every word he says and
talk about whether he's comfortable or not. I mean, that's
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not an easy place to start. No, nobody wants to
start on Broadway, Buddy.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Hanley, Petros? What time is the show on today?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Three? But I have a bunch of tough to do?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Okay, three o'clock Petro's and money check it out, AM
five seventy LA Sports getting the game, We love LA
Home of Show, Hey Atani, and you're LA Dodgers, right
all right? Petros was talking about legal gambling, and I
saw this that amid the explosion of legal gambling in
the US, some things have been off limits, including betting
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on the outcome of US elections, but that may be
about to change. Federal Judge and Washington has struck down
a decision by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to prohibit
a company from offering what amounts to bets on the
outcome of congressional elections, but the matter is on hold,
at least through a planned hearing tomorrow involving a New
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York company's plan to take what amounts to bets on
control of Congress in this fall's elections. If you're betting
on congressional elections, I think that's a that's a real
sign of a problem.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
I think there's enough other things to bet on in
the world, right.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I mean, there's you know, Japanese women's basketball you can
bet on if you're really hard up and you need
to find something.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
But once you start betting on races in Congress.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
But maybe there's a whole world of people, politicos that
are into that kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Maybe I was just looking it up when we were talking.
We're talking about gambling one hundred billion dollars a year
bet on the NFL legally.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yes, sportsbooks. I'm rather does all the time. Really for years.
He has used those apps.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Yeah, every time I start to make my picks, I lose,
and so I remind myself why I don't bet.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I'm awful, awful.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I mean I did win gas Fantasy four play last season.
Remember Jacob, when I beat you?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Are you there?
Speaker 6 (24:14):
No?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
But but it's shocking to me that gambling's not legal
in California yet. Remember the last election we had those
competing initiatives. Yeah, and every four years it comes around.
I'm sure it'll just be a matter of time and
then California'll be the biggest betting market anywhere.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
It's just for something that I spend so much time doing. Usually,
you think I could pick more accurate outcomes of games,
and I cannot. And that's probably why the NFL is
so popular, because you don't know what's going to happen
any given Sunday, right, right, So, the MTV Video Music
Awards are tonight a whole lot of Taylor Swift. If
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you are tuning in, she may soon become the most
awarded musician in VMA's history. She enters tonight's show with
twelve nominations. If she takes home eight, her career total
will be thirty one, one ahead of the current record holder.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Who is who do you think it is?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
The current record holder for VMAs? Yeah, Beyonce, you are right?
Really look at you wow with your finger on the pulse.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
You know.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
She She did not get nominated for a CMA, despite
her despite her Texas hold them.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
She was snubbed, y snubbed. Last year, Swift won nine awards.
This will be at the UBS Arena on Long Island,
hosted by Megan thee Stallion. Katie Perry will receive the
Video Vanguard Award That will be tonight at five eminem Sabrina.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Now do you watch these kinds of things?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I do not?
Speaker 3 (25:43):
You do not?
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I do not Why I like the highlights.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
I've decided to if something big happens, it's going to
be all over Twitter.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
I mean, if Megan the Stallion is hosting, I'm there.
I know you know, Yeah, you had Jarry Rusty TV. Yes, yes,
So you like Taylor Swift though, right, I love Taylor Swift.
What are some of your favorites?
Speaker 3 (26:03):
What era?
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Well, I don't go by the errors. I just go
by the songs. I love Cruel Summer. So when I
covered the Taylor Swift events at at SOFI, I knew
that Alex Michaelson was gonna quiz me. So I made
a point of studying Taylor Swift's songs because, like a
lot of people, you know, you like the songs but
internestedly know their names. So I knew it at the
end of my live shot for Fox eleven, Lex says
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to me, so, Phil, what's your favorite Taylor Swift song?
So I had a couple ready for him.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Was he surprised? He was, Yeah, you're ready?
Speaker 1 (26:35):
All right now, all I'm gonna think about you drunk
in the backseat of a car.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
No, no, no, that's in that song.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
I know.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Okay, I can see you singing that in the car.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
You know. I wish I could sing.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Actually, yeah, I am a horrible singer.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
It's awful. That would be my one skill. I would
like that, besides that and NFL talent. You've been listening
to The Gary and Shannon Show.
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