November 14, 2024 • 25 mins
Gary and Shannon begin the show with Donald Trump considering Congressman Matt Gaetz for Attorney General. The online publication, TheOnion, buys Alex Jone’s Infowars at an auction.
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Speaker 3 (01:02):
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Speaker 4 (01:08):
I mean, he's got no chance in the Senate, right Ah.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
I'm trying to figure it out.
Speaker 6 (01:13):
I'm trying to see is there is there some pathway
level of chess that we're not quite understanding? Like no, like,
like Trump knows that by nominating Matt Gates to be
the Attorney General, he knows it's not going to go anywhere.
So then all of the other picks look normal by comparison.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
No, no, no, no, he doesn't care. He doesn't care
what looks normal. He wants to see people's heads explode.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
He loves that they're gonna I mean, with a three
vote majority in the Senate, Republicans still have.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
That's a pretty slim margin.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
Still, especially when you have a controversial figure like Matt Gates.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
What is the vetting going to look like? What is
the questioning going to look like? I mean, he escaped
this ethics report or investigation into him hooking up with
underage girls. But this is going to be that on steroids.
It's going to be all of anyone is talking about.
When they question him and they go through all of
the allegations and all the smoke to find if there's
(02:11):
any fire.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
This is the head of the It's a Mississippi congressman
who's the head of the Ethics Committee and explained if
Matt Gates resigns, which he has or at least he's
told Mike Johnson he wants to resign, then there is
no ethics report.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
If mister Gates were to resign, theok calls he is
taking a position with the administration as the attorney General,
then the Ethics Committee loses jurisdiction at that point. Now,
if we lose youurisdiction, there would not.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Be a report that would be issued. There's no report.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
And the thing is The New York Times says that report,
which was supposed to be voted on tomorrow, is highly
critical of Matt Gates.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Now that's not to say that he wouldn't be vetted.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Obviously, the FBI or Department of Justice in general would
have some set about this guy's background. It's not just
a matter of you get to throw a name in there.
And Senate Democrats have every opportunity to go through and
find just as much information about Matt Gates as the
House Ethics Committee did. So, I mean, it's an uphill
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climb for a guy like Matt Gates, who, by the way, listen,
even if you love Matt Gates and you think Matt
Gates is the greatest thing since sliced Republican fundraisers. Whatever
he's he brings with him an awful pantload of luggage.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
He's a showman.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
He goes on television, he likes to stir the pot,
he likes to set fires. That's not who you want
as your United States Attorney general.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
And that's the That's who Donald Trump wants. This is
attorney general.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
And Tulsi gabberd.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
The more I think about that pick for intelligence, that's
insane too.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
I'm I'm less concerned about that one that I am
about Matt Gates.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Well I am too. If we're gonna if you had,
if we're gonna pick, it's all us midget to put
him in order or little person.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Now again, specifically about Matt Gates, they Republicans in Congress
have already said, are you serious? Some people, not all
of them, but even John Cornan, who is arguably going
to be now the number two Republican in the Senate
behind John Thune, who was just elected as majority leader
for the next session of Congress.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Even John Cornyan.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
The way that it was written up, I think it
was by the Hill was it looked like he just
ate something bad when somebody told him that Matt Gates
was the choice to be Attorney general.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
You cannot.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
He's made a mockery of a career that many people
feel very serious about when it comes to being a
lawmaker in Washington and being a DC power player.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Let me just say this, I don't know Trump loves
that well.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
I don't know about the allegations about illicit drug use,
about state I D records, converted campaign funds to personal you,
impermissible gifts under House rules, sharing inappropriate images or videos
on the House floor.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
This is a I mean, among other things.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
But when I see him, and I've watched him and
I understand who this guy is, all of the problem
is all of that stuff is believable to me, Like
you could convince me clearly that he did those things.
I don't know if he has or not, but it's
believable and that's part of the problem.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Well, the Onion has bought all of Alex Jones platform,
the satirical website. The Onion announced it has purchased the
info Wars media platform in this bankruptcy auction. That is
going to be very entertaining, is it not? What are
you doing with the white bees over there and wiped
this whole thing down?
Speaker 4 (05:47):
She silk would scrub this studio and I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Did you smell the bleach when we walked in? Oh,
you're going to do a second secondary. Yeah, that's probably
a good call.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
It's gonna get get.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
That microphone all all cleaned up. I don't even know
if you can clean up.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
All of that four hours and that it's hard to
clean that up, Isn't it all?
Speaker 7 (06:10):
Right?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Coming up next, we'll talk about the Onion and the auction.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Gary and Chennon. This is so funny.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
I just saw Valentine in the hallway and Valentine, my
husband heard him on the air the day after the
election saying, Hey, here, we're just going to keep it light.
It's going to be great. We know it's appreciated. On
a morning like this where people you don't know where
they're at. And if you want to hear people yelling
and screaming about the election, go to KFI.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
And so I said, oh, really, yelling and screaming? Is
that really what we do?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
And what did I just spend the first I just
kept screaming, just screamed at him, kept screaming on the air.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
I guess he hit the nail on the head. I
came by about four minutes later and he goes, don't.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Start with me.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Alex Jones was ordered to pay about one point five
billion dollars to families of victims of the twenty twelve
Sandy Hook school shooting for repeatedly claiming the shooting was
a hoax on his Info Wars show, which I will
never be able to wrap my head around. If you
want to say that the left wing media highlights shootings
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willy nilly and elevates them above other news items to
try and crack down on guns in America, that's one thing.
But to say those kids were not slaughtered is a
whole another level of absolute crazy and cruelty.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Or that it was somehow orchestrated by the government, that
they were actors that these kids never existed before this event.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I mean, it's an awful and I know that he.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
I know that Alex Jones has changed his stance when
it comes to that kind of a thing.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Well, there's truly believing that, and then there's pedaling that
to get the ire of the people list. A judge
allowed Alex Jones to liquidate his assets in order to
pay the families. And The Onion, the satirical newspaper, has
bought that platform. So they say they're going to shut
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down info Wars and recreate the website to feature humor
writers and content creators.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Why don't If I'm the Onion, if I'm every town,
what is it? Every town for gun Safety? This nonprofit
that came up after a Sandy Hook kill it, kill it,
Let it die in a corner somewhere, and do not
breathe life back into info Wars. Just let it die
in the corner. Don't try to rebrand it as something else.
(08:41):
I think I get why they want to do it,
but to me, the better thing is never to exist again.
That I mean, it's such a tainted product that there's
no way to rehabilitate damage.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
And it's almost like the Onion is making light of
what he alleged or what you know what I mean,
because they're a satirical newspaper and because they pedal phony
stories that are supposed to, you know, get you to
think and laugh, and.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
They go there, they just exaggerate.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Things to the nth degree. It's almost kind of like,
why would you want to associate his pedaling of a
phony story with yours.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
With your phony story?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Right?
Speaker 6 (09:28):
It's funny because Ben Collins is the CEO of Global Tetrahedron,
which owns The Onion. He says, we thought this would
be a hilarious joke. Now to me, that's kind of
unfortunate terminology to use. Again, I understand what he's saying,
but he says, this is going to be our answer
to this no guardrails world where there are no gatekeepers
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and everything's kind of insane. As you mentioned, the Sandy
Hook shooting victims won that billion and a half dollar
defamation lawsuit against in wars against Alex Jones against Free
Speech Systems, which was the parent company and one of
the things that allowed the Onion to do this. I
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don't think they have a billion We don't know what
the final price was the winning auction bid on this,
but basically Every Town for Gun Safety, the group that
was to receive the proceeds from the auction, agreed to
forego at least part of their share of it so
that the Onion could afford it. So they have helped
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facilitate this thing in conjunction with the Onion or the
group that owns them, Global Tetrahedron.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
But again, I.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Just well, there will be no I mean, are they
going to use the word info wars?
Speaker 5 (10:46):
I hope not.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
That's what I'm saying is I think that that's a
brand that needs to God to go into history, never
to be resurrected.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
They said they planned to relaunch info Wars in January,
turning it into a parody of itself that mocks weird
inner personalities like Alex Jones who propagate conspiracy theories. Aren't
you just propagating conspiracy theories? By propagating them.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
You run into you run the risk of people believing
it exactly. I mean, that's part of what the Onion
is is great at from a satirical point, is that
there's enough truth in some of the stuff that they
write that it makes it funny. If you do this
with info wars, you run the risk of making people
believe that it's still.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
In that world.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
And that was the problem with Alex Jones is he
gave people just enough truth to kind of buy into
that crazy theory.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Okay, well, we'll talk about it later, I know, but
can we talk about peanut please?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yes, we will talk about peanut, because I frankly am outraged.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
If Attorney General Matt Gates has one priority I wanted
to be to prosecute those people who went after Peenue.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
I could not agree with you more.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
We don't always agree, we don't always see eye to eye,
but when it comes to peanut.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Yeah, those little brown little beat brown.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Eyes, peanuts little eyes.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Say it again, Peanut apostrophe s eyes eyes. You heard,
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Speaker 6 (12:41):
There is a another name in terms of a high
profile job in the upcoming Trump administration. A Lena Habba
remember represented him, was a lawyer representing him, showed up
in the conventions, has been an advocate for him on
behalf of Trump this morning, she says she is not
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in contention to be a press secretary, that she would not.
She said that although I love screaming from a podium,
I will be better served in other capacities.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
House Republicans are nominating Speaker Mike Johnson to retain the
gavel for another two years. He was running unopposed, won
the speakership nomination on a voice vote. Republicans also voted
Steve Scalise as House majority leader. Nominations came just after
Republicans secured majority control of the House.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Every time I see Steve Scalise or read his name.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
You think of the shooting at the baseball game.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
That guy was dead, I mean that guy was is
he dead? He was very close to dead. I mean,
and that he's still what a glow up. Let's stop
with that term tropically saying that you said it yesterday.
We're watching we have ESPN on one of the TVs
in here, and you're watching the Pat McAfee shows.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
All these old linemen show up.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
I said, the glow up for offensive linemen.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
They draw, defensive they do, they retire, they get skinny.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Quick sports note. San Antonio Spurs coach Greg Popovich suffered
a stroke. Yeah, he's seventy five years old. They said
he's going to take an indefinite period of leave. And
it's in terms of what they it's a stroke, but
they describe it as mild. Any stroke is not mild.
I mean, that's that would be terrifying. And he's seventy five,
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so I mean, he's probably in fantastic shape, but still
it's a it's a terrifying health scare for him.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Tropical Storm Sarah expected to farm in the Caribbean soon.
Storm is projected to deliver a life threatening conditions to
Central America as it heads to the Gulf of Mexico.
They're warning people on Florida's Gulf coast to watch the
forecast as it could hit the US next week.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
You may not remember the name originally, but you do
know the case that he started. Dane Brown survived drug
overdose in twenty nineteen, and that drug overdose prompted an
investigation into ed Buck. Oh yeah, Democratic donor and activist
Dane Brown was found dead last week down.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
In South LA.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Called to police that he originally made and his testimony
helped lead a jury to convict ed Buck of luring
these young black men into his apartment in West Hollywood
for almost a decade for what they referred to as
party in play sessions, sex, drug into drugs.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
So that's not really a surprise.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Unfortunately, well they haven't said what I mean, we can
kind of assume that was kind of the way the
trajectory was going, so that he would die this way,
but they have not yet released a cause of death.
Two men did die in ed Buck's apartment in twenty
seventeen and twenty nineteen from drug overdoses.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Wasn't it a big thing that what was the political ramifications?
He was a big Democratic donor and people thought that
it was being pushed under the rug by Democrats.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Yeah, that they that they I mean, how many people
have died of drug overdoses in any apartment you've ever
lived in.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Well, I had one guy go have an overdose in
front of me. We had to take him to the hospital.
It was in a shady hotel in Tahoe, right, But
you weren't little turn. It was the white two K
in New Year's did it way too much cocaine and
started convulsing.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
It was terrifying. I did not do the cocaine.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Oh, this is the story I've not yet heard.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
You don't know the story about the kid that convulsed. Yeah,
So there was like we were I guess I was
twenty at the time.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Yeah, y two K.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
So I wasn't even twenty one yet, and we were
all poor, and there was about ten or twelve of
us staying in.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
One rammed into one of those crammed into one.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Of those little hotels and south shore of.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Lake Tahoe.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
And actually one of those guys is dead now of
an overdose in the years that followed. But anyway, party
guys and they were doing drugs all day or whatever,
and it was the end of the night and all
of a sudden we look over and this kid is
in like laying on the bed and just starts freaking
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convulsing and like the foaming at the mouth thing, the
whole bit, and call nine one one. The paramedics come
and they're like, what did this kid do? And it
was one of those moments where everyone got quiet and
I was like, you, guys, he did this, he did that,
He did it, Like you could say, they need to know.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
They're not the.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Police, and they're not gonna they're not gonna hold it
against you, right, they're not judging you, They're right.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Their job is to try to rescue the guy.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
So he was one of my girlfriend's good friends at
San Diego State, and so we went. I went with
her to the hospital to wait to find out, like
if this kid was gonna be okay. So that's how
I spent the y two k new Year's was in
the Lake Tahoe emergency room waiting to hear about this
dumb ass who overdosed.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
I don't even remember what I was doing at that point.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
I get from ninety nine to two thousand, right, yeah,
I guess, well, my kid was six weeks old.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
You got a baby, that's what you were doing. You
probably don't remember that because you weren't sleeping.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
I did very little cocaine, Yeah, very little.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I didn't have any money for cocaine back then.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Guys, the story about Peanut just got worse. Yeah, I
mean I didn't think that peanut is the squirrel that
was taken away from it.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Quite a whiplash.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Sorry, The peanut is the squirrel that was taken away
from that guy up in upstate New York.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
And they killed it.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
They killed it right away and then said they had
to kill it because it bit someone. We don't even
know who that someone is, Like, we never got clarification
on who exactly was bitten. I call bs on somebody
bite peanut biting someone right, Like, he wouldn't do that.
So they put him down, And they said we had
to put him down because that's the only way we
can has for rabies is after a pet is deceased.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
The latest on the peanut saga.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Have you heard about the beaver Moon?
Speaker 5 (19:10):
No? Is this another one of your country songs that
I shouldn't listen to?
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Okay, first of all, it wasn't my country song.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Okay, all right, that's fine.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
We got a lot of feedback on that.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yeah, and I actually yesterday opened up TikTok for the
first time in five hundred years.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
To look at the reaction videos.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Oh yeah, of Dixon Dallas and that was a fun
couple of minutes before I washed my eyes out with bleach.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
A TV story.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Veteran NBC host and news anchor Craig Melvin is going
to replace Hoda Kopy as a co host of the
seven to nine AM hours of The Today Show.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
He is a familiar face.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
He's currently host the third hour and is the news
anchor during the first two. He'll continue hosting the third
hour with Al Roker and Dylan Dryer and Janelle Jones.
Hota Copy's last day on the show will be January tenth.
They have not yet said who is going to replace
Hoda Copy in the other role, which is co anchoring
the ten am hour, which she does with Jenna bush
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Hager and Baseball News. Just very quickly, Tampa Bay Rays,
remember the hurricane that came through and blasted Tropicana Field apart,
I mean blew the roof off, literally. The Tampa Bay
Rays are going to play next season's home games at
the New York Yankees Spring training Ballpark. The Ray's owner
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said that Steinbrenner Field in Tampa is the best fit
for the team and its fan base. It's only got
about eleven thousand seats. Also the largest of the spring
training sites in Florida. So similar to the Oakland A's,
I guess the Vegas A's or this next couple seasons
the Sacramento A's, they're going to be playing in a
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much smaller ballpark than they're used to.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Maybe skip the onions. Still at McDonald's, the number of
people affected by that E. Coli outbreak tied to the
slivered onions that were served on the quarter pounder Hamburger's
is still rising. At least one hundred and four people
have been sickened so far. McDonald's facing several lawsuits over
all of this. They say they're committed to doing the
right thing. Did Peanut die for nothing?
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Peanut did not.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Have rabies, which means putting Peanut down was all for not.
I need to know who was bitten by peanut. I
need to have a name you want. I need to
hear from that person. I need to see documentation of
said bite. There needs to be an investigation. You can't
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just go into someone's home. This is why Elon Musk
and Vivek ramers Sharmaship to me are going to be
very valuable to this country and going in and clearing
out bureaucracy, government bureaucracy that results in the government meddling
into a private home where there is a pet raccoon
and a pet squirrel and they are taken away and killed.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Officials in Chimmung County in the southern tier of New
York made the announcement at a news conference this week
that Peanut, a gray squirrel who also went by Peanut
because I guess his official name is p apostrophe Nut, but.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
He also went by Pea and.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
Ut of course, seized back at the end of October
from his home in Pine City after complaints about wildlife
being kept without necessary permits. If you remember, his buddy,
the raccoon named Fred, was also taken.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
During the apprehension.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
The squirrel Peanut or Peanut, also bit a wildlife biologist
through two pairs of gloves, which necessitated the rabies testing,
which can only be after you put him down.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I need to see that that injured hand. I need
to see the peanut marks on the fingers.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
The animals, both Peanut and Fred were euthanized the same way.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Why did Fred have to get euthanized? Fred didn't bite anyone.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
No idea, No idea.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
At a news conference, the county executive, a guy named
Chris Moss, presented certificates that showed both animals negative test results,
but also defended the decision to youthanize Peanut and Fred.
He provided a timeline of events that led up to
the decision, which noted the county Health Department officials and
animal control had discussed testing that would have required the
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animals euthanasia as early as the October twenty second, more
than a week before the actual raid on the home
of Mark and Daniella long ago.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I'm going to tweet Elon Musk and ask him to
look into this. Does that sound like a good course
of that as.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Already I guarantee you getting into this.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I just am like workshopping it in my head, you know,
like Musk for Peanuts, something like that, Peanut Fighters, Peanuts Fighters.
I don't know, there's something there, There's something there to
make Peanut the name like the driving force to cutting
bureaucracy that results in the government coming into your home
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and killing your pets.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
The State Police Union.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
They're killing the squirrels, they're killing the raccoons.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
The State Police Union has had to get involved and
put out a statement because they have been receiving bomb
threats from people.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Yeah, who are upset about all of them.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
You don't mess with animals. That is what America can
come together on.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
The union said agents had warned long Ago earlier this
year that he could not keep a wild animal, and
that he told them he released Peanut into the wild.
Longo said he never told investigators he had released After
an abortive attempt to reintroduce Peanut into the wild a
couple of years ago, mister Longo said he had no
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plans to set the animal free, believing that he would
not be able to survive in the animal. I'm sorry
in the wild.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Social media posts about Peanut and Fred were what led
a judge to order a search warrant. The couple also
keeps rescue alpacas, horses, and other animals at their property,
which is known as Peanuts Freedom Farm Animal Sanctuary. Testing
for rabies cannot be done on a living animal and
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must be performed by sampling brain matter.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
I'm going to tweet him, can you please look into
peanut hashtag musk or peanuts. See if we can get
(25:55):
that going.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
Speaking of animals, this weird trip murder that had ties
to the furry community.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
I used our Twitter account.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
Great, that's fantastic. Well, we'll see if Elon is busy
with his new government job or if he's cleaned.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Oh I should have done hastag doze. Damn it.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
You can edit it.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
I can edit sure.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Okay, yeah, all right, Gary and Shannon, we'll continue right
after this.
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Speaker 3 (01:02):
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Speaker 4 (01:08):
I mean, he's got no chance in the Senate, right Ah.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
I'm trying to figure it out.
Speaker 6 (01:13):
I'm trying to see is there is there some pathway
level of chess that we're not quite understanding? Like no, like,
like Trump knows that by nominating Matt Gates to be
the Attorney General, he knows it's not going to go anywhere.
So then all of the other picks look normal by comparison.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
No, no, no, no, he doesn't care. He doesn't care
what looks normal. He wants to see people's heads explode.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
He loves that they're gonna I mean, with a three
vote majority in the Senate, Republicans still have.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
That's a pretty slim margin.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
Still, especially when you have a controversial figure like Matt Gates.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
What is the vetting going to look like? What is
the questioning going to look like? I mean, he escaped
this ethics report or investigation into him hooking up with
underage girls. But this is going to be that on steroids.
It's going to be all of anyone is talking about.
When they question him and they go through all of
the allegations and all the smoke to find if there's
(02:11):
any fire.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
This is the head of the It's a Mississippi congressman
who's the head of the Ethics Committee and explained if
Matt Gates resigns, which he has or at least he's
told Mike Johnson he wants to resign, then there is
no ethics report.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
If mister Gates were to resign, theok calls he is
taking a position with the administration as the attorney General,
then the Ethics Committee loses jurisdiction at that point. Now,
if we lose youurisdiction, there would not.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Be a report that would be issued. There's no report.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
And the thing is The New York Times says that report,
which was supposed to be voted on tomorrow, is highly
critical of Matt Gates.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Now that's not to say that he wouldn't be vetted.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Obviously, the FBI or Department of Justice in general would
have some set about this guy's background. It's not just
a matter of you get to throw a name in there.
And Senate Democrats have every opportunity to go through and
find just as much information about Matt Gates as the
House Ethics Committee did. So, I mean, it's an uphill
(03:16):
climb for a guy like Matt Gates, who, by the way, listen,
even if you love Matt Gates and you think Matt
Gates is the greatest thing since sliced Republican fundraisers. Whatever
he's he brings with him an awful pantload of luggage.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
He's a showman.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
He goes on television, he likes to stir the pot,
he likes to set fires. That's not who you want
as your United States Attorney general.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
And that's the That's who Donald Trump wants. This is
attorney general.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
And Tulsi gabberd.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
The more I think about that pick for intelligence, that's
insane too.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
I'm I'm less concerned about that one that I am
about Matt Gates.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Well I am too. If we're gonna if you had,
if we're gonna pick, it's all us midget to put
him in order or little person.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Now again, specifically about Matt Gates, they Republicans in Congress
have already said, are you serious? Some people, not all
of them, but even John Cornan, who is arguably going
to be now the number two Republican in the Senate
behind John Thune, who was just elected as majority leader
for the next session of Congress.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Even John Cornyan.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
The way that it was written up, I think it
was by the Hill was it looked like he just
ate something bad when somebody told him that Matt Gates
was the choice to be Attorney general.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
You cannot.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
He's made a mockery of a career that many people
feel very serious about when it comes to being a
lawmaker in Washington and being a DC power player.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Let me just say this, I don't know Trump loves
that well.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
I don't know about the allegations about illicit drug use,
about state I D records, converted campaign funds to personal you,
impermissible gifts under House rules, sharing inappropriate images or videos
on the House floor.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
This is a I mean, among other things.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
But when I see him, and I've watched him and
I understand who this guy is, all of the problem
is all of that stuff is believable to me, Like
you could convince me clearly that he did those things.
I don't know if he has or not, but it's
believable and that's part of the problem.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Well, the Onion has bought all of Alex Jones platform,
the satirical website. The Onion announced it has purchased the
info Wars media platform in this bankruptcy auction. That is
going to be very entertaining, is it not? What are
you doing with the white bees over there and wiped
this whole thing down?
Speaker 4 (05:47):
She silk would scrub this studio and I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Did you smell the bleach when we walked in? Oh,
you're going to do a second secondary. Yeah, that's probably
a good call.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
It's gonna get get.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
That microphone all all cleaned up. I don't even know
if you can clean up.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
All of that four hours and that it's hard to
clean that up, Isn't it all?
Speaker 7 (06:10):
Right?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Coming up next, we'll talk about the Onion and the auction.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Gary and Chennon. This is so funny.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
I just saw Valentine in the hallway and Valentine, my
husband heard him on the air the day after the
election saying, Hey, here, we're just going to keep it light.
It's going to be great. We know it's appreciated. On
a morning like this where people you don't know where
they're at. And if you want to hear people yelling
and screaming about the election, go to KFI.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
And so I said, oh, really, yelling and screaming? Is
that really what we do?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
And what did I just spend the first I just
kept screaming, just screamed at him, kept screaming on the air.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
I guess he hit the nail on the head. I
came by about four minutes later and he goes, don't.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Start with me.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Alex Jones was ordered to pay about one point five
billion dollars to families of victims of the twenty twelve
Sandy Hook school shooting for repeatedly claiming the shooting was
a hoax on his Info Wars show, which I will
never be able to wrap my head around. If you
want to say that the left wing media highlights shootings
(07:21):
willy nilly and elevates them above other news items to
try and crack down on guns in America, that's one thing.
But to say those kids were not slaughtered is a
whole another level of absolute crazy and cruelty.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Or that it was somehow orchestrated by the government, that
they were actors that these kids never existed before this event.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I mean, it's an awful and I know that he.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
I know that Alex Jones has changed his stance when
it comes to that kind of a thing.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Well, there's truly believing that, and then there's pedaling that
to get the ire of the people list. A judge
allowed Alex Jones to liquidate his assets in order to
pay the families. And The Onion, the satirical newspaper, has
bought that platform. So they say they're going to shut
(08:13):
down info Wars and recreate the website to feature humor
writers and content creators.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Why don't If I'm the Onion, if I'm every town,
what is it? Every town for gun Safety? This nonprofit
that came up after a Sandy Hook kill it, kill it,
Let it die in a corner somewhere, and do not
breathe life back into info Wars. Just let it die
in the corner. Don't try to rebrand it as something else.
(08:41):
I think I get why they want to do it,
but to me, the better thing is never to exist again.
That I mean, it's such a tainted product that there's
no way to rehabilitate damage.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
And it's almost like the Onion is making light of
what he alleged or what you know what I mean,
because they're a satirical newspaper and because they pedal phony
stories that are supposed to, you know, get you to
think and laugh, and.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
They go there, they just exaggerate.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Things to the nth degree. It's almost kind of like,
why would you want to associate his pedaling of a
phony story with yours.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
With your phony story?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Right?
Speaker 6 (09:28):
It's funny because Ben Collins is the CEO of Global Tetrahedron,
which owns The Onion. He says, we thought this would
be a hilarious joke. Now to me, that's kind of
unfortunate terminology to use. Again, I understand what he's saying,
but he says, this is going to be our answer
to this no guardrails world where there are no gatekeepers
(09:48):
and everything's kind of insane. As you mentioned, the Sandy
Hook shooting victims won that billion and a half dollar
defamation lawsuit against in wars against Alex Jones against Free
Speech Systems, which was the parent company and one of
the things that allowed the Onion to do this. I
(10:09):
don't think they have a billion We don't know what
the final price was the winning auction bid on this,
but basically Every Town for Gun Safety, the group that
was to receive the proceeds from the auction, agreed to
forego at least part of their share of it so
that the Onion could afford it. So they have helped
(10:31):
facilitate this thing in conjunction with the Onion or the
group that owns them, Global Tetrahedron.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
But again, I.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Just well, there will be no I mean, are they
going to use the word info wars?
Speaker 5 (10:46):
I hope not.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
That's what I'm saying is I think that that's a
brand that needs to God to go into history, never
to be resurrected.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
They said they planned to relaunch info Wars in January,
turning it into a parody of itself that mocks weird
inner personalities like Alex Jones who propagate conspiracy theories. Aren't
you just propagating conspiracy theories? By propagating them.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
You run into you run the risk of people believing
it exactly. I mean, that's part of what the Onion
is is great at from a satirical point, is that
there's enough truth in some of the stuff that they
write that it makes it funny. If you do this
with info wars, you run the risk of making people
believe that it's still.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
In that world.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
And that was the problem with Alex Jones is he
gave people just enough truth to kind of buy into
that crazy theory.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Okay, well, we'll talk about it later, I know, but
can we talk about peanut please?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yes, we will talk about peanut, because I frankly am outraged.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
If Attorney General Matt Gates has one priority I wanted
to be to prosecute those people who went after Peenue.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
I could not agree with you more.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
We don't always agree, we don't always see eye to eye,
but when it comes to peanut.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Yeah, those little brown little beat brown.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Eyes, peanuts little eyes.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Say it again, Peanut apostrophe s eyes eyes. You heard,
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Speaker 3 (12:37):
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Speaker 6 (12:41):
There is a another name in terms of a high
profile job in the upcoming Trump administration. A Lena Habba
remember represented him, was a lawyer representing him, showed up
in the conventions, has been an advocate for him on
behalf of Trump this morning, she says she is not
(13:02):
in contention to be a press secretary, that she would not.
She said that although I love screaming from a podium,
I will be better served in other capacities.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
House Republicans are nominating Speaker Mike Johnson to retain the
gavel for another two years. He was running unopposed, won
the speakership nomination on a voice vote. Republicans also voted
Steve Scalise as House majority leader. Nominations came just after
Republicans secured majority control of the House.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Every time I see Steve Scalise or read his name.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
You think of the shooting at the baseball game.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
That guy was dead, I mean that guy was is
he dead? He was very close to dead. I mean,
and that he's still what a glow up. Let's stop
with that term tropically saying that you said it yesterday.
We're watching we have ESPN on one of the TVs
in here, and you're watching the Pat McAfee shows.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
All these old linemen show up.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
I said, the glow up for offensive linemen.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
They draw, defensive they do, they retire, they get skinny.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Quick sports note. San Antonio Spurs coach Greg Popovich suffered
a stroke. Yeah, he's seventy five years old. They said
he's going to take an indefinite period of leave. And
it's in terms of what they it's a stroke, but
they describe it as mild. Any stroke is not mild.
I mean, that's that would be terrifying. And he's seventy five,
(14:29):
so I mean, he's probably in fantastic shape, but still
it's a it's a terrifying health scare for him.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Tropical Storm Sarah expected to farm in the Caribbean soon.
Storm is projected to deliver a life threatening conditions to
Central America as it heads to the Gulf of Mexico.
They're warning people on Florida's Gulf coast to watch the
forecast as it could hit the US next week.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
You may not remember the name originally, but you do
know the case that he started. Dane Brown survived drug
overdose in twenty nineteen, and that drug overdose prompted an
investigation into ed Buck. Oh yeah, Democratic donor and activist
Dane Brown was found dead last week down.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
In South LA.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Called to police that he originally made and his testimony
helped lead a jury to convict ed Buck of luring
these young black men into his apartment in West Hollywood
for almost a decade for what they referred to as
party in play sessions, sex, drug into drugs.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
So that's not really a surprise.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Unfortunately, well they haven't said what I mean, we can
kind of assume that was kind of the way the
trajectory was going, so that he would die this way,
but they have not yet released a cause of death.
Two men did die in ed Buck's apartment in twenty
seventeen and twenty nineteen from drug overdoses.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Wasn't it a big thing that what was the political ramifications?
He was a big Democratic donor and people thought that
it was being pushed under the rug by Democrats.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Yeah, that they that they I mean, how many people
have died of drug overdoses in any apartment you've ever
lived in.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Well, I had one guy go have an overdose in
front of me. We had to take him to the hospital.
It was in a shady hotel in Tahoe, right, But
you weren't little turn. It was the white two K
in New Year's did it way too much cocaine and
started convulsing.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
It was terrifying. I did not do the cocaine.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Oh, this is the story I've not yet heard.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
You don't know the story about the kid that convulsed. Yeah,
So there was like we were I guess I was
twenty at the time.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Yeah, y two K.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
So I wasn't even twenty one yet, and we were
all poor, and there was about ten or twelve of
us staying in.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
One rammed into one of those crammed into one.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Of those little hotels and south shore of.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Lake Tahoe.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
And actually one of those guys is dead now of
an overdose in the years that followed. But anyway, party
guys and they were doing drugs all day or whatever,
and it was the end of the night and all
of a sudden we look over and this kid is
in like laying on the bed and just starts freaking
(17:16):
convulsing and like the foaming at the mouth thing, the
whole bit, and call nine one one. The paramedics come
and they're like, what did this kid do? And it
was one of those moments where everyone got quiet and
I was like, you, guys, he did this, he did that,
He did it, Like you could say, they need to know.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
They're not the.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Police, and they're not gonna they're not gonna hold it
against you, right, they're not judging you, They're right.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Their job is to try to rescue the guy.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
So he was one of my girlfriend's good friends at
San Diego State, and so we went. I went with
her to the hospital to wait to find out, like
if this kid was gonna be okay. So that's how
I spent the y two k new Year's was in
the Lake Tahoe emergency room waiting to hear about this
dumb ass who overdosed.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
I don't even remember what I was doing at that point.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
I get from ninety nine to two thousand, right, yeah,
I guess, well, my kid was six weeks old.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
You got a baby, that's what you were doing. You
probably don't remember that because you weren't sleeping.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
I did very little cocaine, Yeah, very little.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I didn't have any money for cocaine back then.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Guys, the story about Peanut just got worse. Yeah, I
mean I didn't think that peanut is the squirrel that
was taken away from it.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Quite a whiplash.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Sorry, The peanut is the squirrel that was taken away
from that guy up in upstate New York.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
And they killed it.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
They killed it right away and then said they had
to kill it because it bit someone. We don't even
know who that someone is, Like, we never got clarification
on who exactly was bitten. I call bs on somebody
bite peanut biting someone right, Like, he wouldn't do that.
So they put him down, And they said we had
to put him down because that's the only way we
can has for rabies is after a pet is deceased.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
The latest on the peanut saga.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Have you heard about the beaver Moon?
Speaker 5 (19:10):
No? Is this another one of your country songs that
I shouldn't listen to?
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Okay, first of all, it wasn't my country song.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Okay, all right, that's fine.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
We got a lot of feedback on that.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yeah, and I actually yesterday opened up TikTok for the
first time in five hundred years.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
To look at the reaction videos.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Oh yeah, of Dixon Dallas and that was a fun
couple of minutes before I washed my eyes out with bleach.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
A TV story.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Veteran NBC host and news anchor Craig Melvin is going
to replace Hoda Kopy as a co host of the
seven to nine AM hours of The Today Show.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
He is a familiar face.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
He's currently host the third hour and is the news
anchor during the first two. He'll continue hosting the third
hour with Al Roker and Dylan Dryer and Janelle Jones.
Hota Copy's last day on the show will be January tenth.
They have not yet said who is going to replace
Hoda Copy in the other role, which is co anchoring
the ten am hour, which she does with Jenna bush
(20:14):
Hager and Baseball News. Just very quickly, Tampa Bay Rays,
remember the hurricane that came through and blasted Tropicana Field apart,
I mean blew the roof off, literally. The Tampa Bay
Rays are going to play next season's home games at
the New York Yankees Spring training Ballpark. The Ray's owner
(20:36):
said that Steinbrenner Field in Tampa is the best fit
for the team and its fan base. It's only got
about eleven thousand seats. Also the largest of the spring
training sites in Florida. So similar to the Oakland A's,
I guess the Vegas A's or this next couple seasons
the Sacramento A's, they're going to be playing in a
(20:57):
much smaller ballpark than they're used to.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Maybe skip the onions. Still at McDonald's, the number of
people affected by that E. Coli outbreak tied to the
slivered onions that were served on the quarter pounder Hamburger's
is still rising. At least one hundred and four people
have been sickened so far. McDonald's facing several lawsuits over
all of this. They say they're committed to doing the
right thing. Did Peanut die for nothing?
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Peanut did not.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Have rabies, which means putting Peanut down was all for not.
I need to know who was bitten by peanut. I
need to have a name you want. I need to
hear from that person. I need to see documentation of
said bite. There needs to be an investigation. You can't
(21:48):
just go into someone's home. This is why Elon Musk
and Vivek ramers Sharmaship to me are going to be
very valuable to this country and going in and clearing
out bureaucracy, government bureaucracy that results in the government meddling
into a private home where there is a pet raccoon
and a pet squirrel and they are taken away and killed.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Officials in Chimmung County in the southern tier of New
York made the announcement at a news conference this week
that Peanut, a gray squirrel who also went by Peanut
because I guess his official name is p apostrophe Nut, but.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
He also went by Pea and.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
Ut of course, seized back at the end of October
from his home in Pine City after complaints about wildlife
being kept without necessary permits. If you remember, his buddy,
the raccoon named Fred, was also taken.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
During the apprehension.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
The squirrel Peanut or Peanut, also bit a wildlife biologist
through two pairs of gloves, which necessitated the rabies testing,
which can only be after you put him down.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I need to see that that injured hand. I need
to see the peanut marks on the fingers.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
The animals, both Peanut and Fred were euthanized the same way.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Why did Fred have to get euthanized? Fred didn't bite anyone.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
No idea, No idea.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
At a news conference, the county executive, a guy named
Chris Moss, presented certificates that showed both animals negative test results,
but also defended the decision to youthanize Peanut and Fred.
He provided a timeline of events that led up to
the decision, which noted the county Health Department officials and
animal control had discussed testing that would have required the
(23:42):
animals euthanasia as early as the October twenty second, more
than a week before the actual raid on the home
of Mark and Daniella long ago.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I'm going to tweet Elon Musk and ask him to
look into this. Does that sound like a good course
of that as.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Already I guarantee you getting into this.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I just am like workshopping it in my head, you know,
like Musk for Peanuts, something like that, Peanut Fighters, Peanuts Fighters.
I don't know, there's something there, There's something there to
make Peanut the name like the driving force to cutting
bureaucracy that results in the government coming into your home
(24:23):
and killing your pets.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
The State Police Union.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
They're killing the squirrels, they're killing the raccoons.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
The State Police Union has had to get involved and
put out a statement because they have been receiving bomb
threats from people.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Yeah, who are upset about all of them.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
You don't mess with animals. That is what America can
come together on.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
The union said agents had warned long Ago earlier this
year that he could not keep a wild animal, and
that he told them he released Peanut into the wild.
Longo said he never told investigators he had released After
an abortive attempt to reintroduce Peanut into the wild a
couple of years ago, mister Longo said he had no
(25:02):
plans to set the animal free, believing that he would
not be able to survive in the animal. I'm sorry
in the wild.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Social media posts about Peanut and Fred were what led
a judge to order a search warrant. The couple also
keeps rescue alpacas, horses, and other animals at their property,
which is known as Peanuts Freedom Farm Animal Sanctuary. Testing
for rabies cannot be done on a living animal and
(25:30):
must be performed by sampling brain matter.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
I'm going to tweet him, can you please look into
peanut hashtag musk or peanuts. See if we can get
(25:55):
that going.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
Speaking of animals, this weird trip murder that had ties
to the furry community.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
I used our Twitter account.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
Great, that's fantastic. Well, we'll see if Elon is busy
with his new government job or if he's cleaned.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Oh I should have done hastag doze. Damn it.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
You can edit it.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
I can edit sure.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Okay, yeah, all right, Gary and Shannon, we'll continue right
after this.
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