November 21, 2024 • 32 mins
Gary and Shannon start their second hour of the show with the news of no charges being filed on a Temecula predator. Gary and Shannon also talk about an LA homelessness audit and a good football story.
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Speaker 5 (01:30):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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on the iHeartRadio app. So it is possible for Ron
De Santis to appoint Matt Gates to fill Marco Rubio's
vacated Senate seat because Trump has nominated.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Rubio to serve as Secretary of State.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Some people, Peter Bergerson being one of them, PhD, Professor
Emeritus of poly Psi at Florida Gulf Coast University, who's
connected obviously in Florida, says it's very doubtful that that's
going to happen because there was a long line of
individuals very interested in the Senate vacancy, kind of like, oh,
what can you do for me? Despite Matt Gates and
(02:12):
Ronda Santas being friends for a long time.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
And Ronda Santis has to be careful because that's what
got Rod Blagoyevich in trouble. Sure, when he was basically
selling Barack Obama Senate seats.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yes, but that's how it's done. He just got caught.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Yeah, I mean we saw it here when Diane Feinstein
passed away and Lafonsea Butler was put in her place
as the placeholder for the rest of that term. Not
that there was necessarily any hijinks in there, but there's
there's a high degree of lobbying that goes into getting
that position, a lot.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Of not only the ball washing, but it's the you know,
what can you do for me? You know, line, line,
my pockets, wash everything at that point everything.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
I have to admit.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
People listen to the show.
Speaker 8 (02:57):
So Matt Gates is resigning from his assignment or his nomination,
he listens to the show.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
That's pretty fricking cool, isn't it It is? Yeah. Donald J.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Trump, on his truth Social did write a few minutes ago,
I greatly appreciate the recent efforts of Matt Gates in
seeking approval to be Attorney general. He was doing very well,
but at the same time did not want to be
a distraction for the administration, for which he has much respect.
Matt has a wonderful future and I look forward to
watching all of the great things he will do.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
CNN is running.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
With a story that says that the team that the
transition team knew that Gates was going to pull his
name out of consideration and believed that the Ethics Report,
whatever form it is right now that the House Ethics
Committee is sitting on and trying to figure out what
they're going to do with it, that this was going
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to have even more bad information about Matt Gates in it.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Hey, well, and they were going to comb through it
and it was going to be the main focus. So
there will be a special election. He can run for
his own seat. But then what happens to ethics report
if he gets act comes back. Yeah, well, that's why
he's never going to do that, right, He's going to
go have a lucrative career on some sort of board.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
But I mean the Senate, it's Republican controlled, so it
wouldn't happen. But the Senate would have the power to
open its own in ethics investigation into one of its members.
In that case, Matt Gates if he's appointed by Ron
De Santis.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
That's true. I mean they're still I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
I mean he doesn't get to be appointed though. Remember
to the Senate, he could take Margarobias that one. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
The problem I think that exists with the conspiracy theories, right.
The one theory that we've heard is Donald Trump owed
Matt Gates a favor, and what he did was he
appointed him as the nominee for Attorney General, knowing that
he was going to resign from Congress, and knowing that
that would put the kibosh on any sort of ethics
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report that comes out.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And it feels like.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
There's been enough momentum from either Senators or other people
in the House to get their hands on that ethics report.
You know, they had this false belief that once he
resigned from Congress, that ethics report was going to die
in a fire somewhere. That hasn't happened yet, I mean yesterday.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Well, now there's no grounds to open it or find
anything in it because he's withdrawn his name, so he's
not connected to Washington at all presently.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
But like I said, there are times in the past
when hal at the House Ethics Committee has released reports.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
They're not going to do it for Congress.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
This this whole storm, to me, proves that there are
other names connected to Matt Gates. There are other things
in that report that people are terrified about it getting out.
Matt Gates is basically collateral damage for Washington right now.
There was a lot of worried people that that this
thing was going to come out, And then what what
does that pretend for the future, i e. What Mike
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Johnson was saying, setting a precedent, It's not a precedent
to you know, up, you know, to uphold the laws
of the House and the Senate and sharing and things
like that. No, no, no, it's a president of airing out
dirty laundry for all those guys.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Well, and that goes to what you said about Marjorie
Taylor Green and her threat of if we're gonna if
we're gonna do this with Matt Gates, we're doing it
with all four hundred and thirty five members of the House. Yeah,
and if you guys want to do that, she said,
I'll make it happen. What'd you say, every Well, we'll
take into the Yeah. Yea's a weird way to put it.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
But it's chilling, isn't it? Every time I hear that line,
it's chilling.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
This morning, just about an hour ago, Matt Gates announced
that he was taking his name out of consideration to
be the next attorney General. Today, Jade Vance is there
with the lobbying senators to approve Pete Hegseth as the
next Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Joh Donald J.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Trump, of course, has told advisors that he standing by
Hegseth after an allegation that he sexually assaulted a woman
from twenty seventeen, and a newer police report that's been
making its rounds provided some details about that encounter. Heg
Seth insisted it was consensual. No charges criminal charges wherever
filed against him. Nearly half of Mayor Bass's one point
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three billion dollar homelessness budget has not been spent.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I don't know if that's good news or bad news.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
And analysis by the city Controller Kenneth Mahea found that
about six hundred million had been spent, another two hundred
million was encumbered, and that leaves about a half a billion,
five hundred and thirteen million specifically unspent. We'll talk more
about that a little bit later. In the show we.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Told you yesterday about the group of vigilante teens who
were able to lure a pervert, by all accounts, to
a park where he was arrested for sending nude type
things to an underage girl.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
It's a nude What that nude type thing? I just
don't know what kind of nudes we're talking about? If
his taste nudes? Was it other people's nudes? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Was it a forearm or was it an ankle or
was it a foot?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I don't know a lot of options.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Okay, forty six year old man from Riverside County was
ambushed by this group of teenagers. Oh, because he provided
a girl with nude photos photos of himself. Ah, thanks
for this specific So also that's yeah, okay, all right, whatever,
Why would a girl want nude photos of your forty
six year old ass?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Whoa watch your step here, lady.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
I mean, because I saw his mugshot. This is not
someone in shape. Okay, that's not a summer body. Tried
to arrange a sexual encounter with the girl as well.
They say today he's not facing charge. The prosecutors say
they will not be filing charges against the guy's name
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is William vanden Bush sent the case back to the
sheriff's department for further investigation. It just means they don't
have enough right now. It doesn't mean nothing is going
to happen. It's just we need more evidence to prosecute. Probably.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
Yeah, and by the way, I know this is going
to surprise you, but twenty juveniles may not have the
same what's the word attention to detail when it comes
to crossing their t's and dotting their eyes. For a
criminal prosecution set of evidence, right.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
You have to prove the chain of custody with those nudes.
You have to prove it came from him. You got
to prove that. All of that stuff needs to be done.
It's not just you can go to the prosecutor's office
and say, hey, these kids say they sent Gina over
there the picture of a penis, and then that's enough
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to prosecute.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
It's not. Many of the teenagers.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
When the deputies did show up at that park, by
the way, many of the teenagers had their cell phones out.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
They were recording the whole thing.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
And the deputies did detain him, but they waited for
detectives to get there to make the full determination about
what was going to happen.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
I get the kids wanting to make a situation out
of this, and there's even a gosh a feeling of
success and accomplishment with luring him there and taping it,
videoing it and all of that. But you know what's
more effective, kids, if you're listening and you want to
control and contain and convict the pervs, call your local
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police agency, ask for a detective and say this is
what's going on, so that they can catch them red
handed and have the evidence needed to prosecute.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, because this is not But that doesn't look as
cool on YouTube. It doesn't.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
But when you think about the great to Catch a
Predator series that was on when Scott Hansen was doing it,
they didn't do it with an NBC News crew. They
did it with an NBC News crew backed up by
the local law enforcement agents, usually a couple dozen of them.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Because of that, you don't know what's going on, You
don't know who these people are. If these people.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Are willing to bring you know, no Panda Express in
a box of condoms or something like that.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
That was a lot cleaner than I thought where you
were going to go edit it. I saw your head
and it was bad, and then you've sweitch you edited it. Yeah,
you were going to say something else.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
But if they're willing to go to a stranger's house
to have some sort of relationship whatever they think they
were doing with a twelve year old boy or a
fourteen year old girl or whatever, they're going to go
pretty far to hide that, right. So I mean just
the potential for danger.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
You were going to say the things that Matt Gates
is said to have smelled like.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Weren't you No? Oh, you went further than that. It
was bad. Wow.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
I could tell that you were up to no good
inside your brain?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Why it stays there? Wow, you are a dark man.
Stop it. You are very dark. I have a sad
death to tell you about. You are such the angel
of the Important Thing. That guy James Bond, No, the
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guitar player.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
That came up with that lick from the James Bond themes. Wow,
his name was Vic Flick, pretty prolific session guitarist.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
He played that that guitar riff on the theme.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
He died a couple of days ago at a nursing
home here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
So Sean Connery is still with us. No, no, is he.
I don't think he is. Really, Yeah, that's unfortunate. He
is my favorite. Vic Flick was eighty seven years old.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
He had Alzheimer's oh Man dead, Sean Connery dead.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Well, that's not breaking news. No, it happened in twenty twenty.
To you, it might be breaking news. There was a
lot that went on that year.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
It was October of twenty twenty. Yeah, we were dealing
with things.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Flick was an in demand session musician for a long time.
He worked with singers like Shirley Bassey, Patula Clark, Engelbert Humperdink,
Cliff Richard, Dusty Springfield. He worked with a George Martin
who was a producer for the Beatles. In fact, he
played did Vic Flick on Tom Jones's early hits, including
It's not Unusual.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
You know, I don't get the Tom Jones thing.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
He even helped Jimmy Page read music, taught him how
to read music well, just before Page left to join
the Yardbirds and start led Zeppelin.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Tom Jones, who's like the heartthrob guy right garn toutin.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
I don't get it, you don't get why in the
day back in the day, late sixties.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Tom Jones.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Yeah, I'm looking at pictures of that, and it's not
for me.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
The voice, the showmanship, all that stuff. I don't know
about that. I'm just the hair and the chest hair.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Again, you're thinking of him in the wrong terms. I
think you're you're looking at him through the wrong lens.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
I'm going to watch a video of Tom Jones during
the break and.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
I will Thursday night football tonight, Pittsburgh eight and two
at Cleveland two and eight.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Oh boy, trap game?
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Okay, April twenty first, nineteen sixty eight. That's what I'm
going to look at. What's the trap.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Game Pittsburgh at Cleveland. There's no reason Pittsburgh should lose
that game. Those are the ones you watch out for.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
That, that's right. But Mike Tomlin doesn't have trap games.
He looks at a trap game and punches it in
the face. I hope so boom. Matt Gates withdrawing his
nomination for attorney General in Trump's cabinet. He is accused
of having sex with a minor in the past, and
there were a lot of reservations about the nomination, delivered
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exactly to his face yesterday in closed door meetings with
Senate Republicans, so the results of the House Ethics Committee
investigation will not be released.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
He stepped on from his seat last week.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
There will be a special election if he wants to
run for his seat again.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Who knows what would happen to that report.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
And there's also the possibility that Ron DeSantis could appoint
Matt Gates to take over from Marco Robio, who Trump
has tapped for Secretary of State.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
The Illinois Supreme Court has reversed the conviction of actor
Jesse Smolette. He took his case to the Illinois Supreme
Court in September in this effort to have his conviction overturn,
and they ruled today that the deal with Cook County
prosecutors back when they originally dropped the case against him
a case against him, had to be honored. At the time,
the state's attorney struck a deal with the actor requiring
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him to forfeit the ten thousand dollars bond to fifteen
hours of community service, which he did. He actually did
eighteen hours apparently, but that he should not have been
subjected to a second prosecution. It's the second prosecution when
he was convicted of the felony disorderly conduct and sent
to jail. I think he was sentenced if I saw
it correctly. Today he was sent to one hundred and
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fifty days in jail and served six. So that's all
he ever served was the six days in jail. And again,
it's not that the Illinois Supreme Court ruled on the
evidence of the case.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
They ruled on the prosecution style of the case. I
just wanted to say.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
We mentioned that jd Vance was with Matt Gates yesterday
trying to calm all the concerns of those Republican senators
in closed door meetings. Jd Vance is going for round
two today. He's having those same meetings with Pete haig Seth,
who we talked about earlier. The allegations that he assaulted
a woman in Monterey of years ago.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Earthquake.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
By the way, earthquakes where Connecticut, oh two point three.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
That's nothing. Why would you even mention that that's well? Okay?
Speaker 6 (17:09):
So the only reason I mentioned it is because we
probably have a fifty a few dozen throughout the state
of California every day that measure about a two point three,
But in Connecticut it's unusual. Yes, So it gets it
gets a little headline well about half of Mayor Karen
Bass's one point three billion dollar homelessness budget for the
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fiscal year of twenty three twenty four was never spent.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Of course it wasn't because they can't agree on how
to spend it. They don't know how to spend it.
There are too many cooks in the freaking kitchen.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
So if you can't if even.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Governments bloated and they get nothing done, period.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I just.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
I just get so frustrated at this being a specific issue.
It's it's a perfect example of we keep doing the
same dumb things over and over again and then expect
some sort of different result.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
How many times have I said, as my mother would say,
I sound like a broken record.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
The money is not the problem. The money is there,
The money.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
For homelessness and to eat away at homelessness is there.
They just don't know how to spend it. When they
come to us every election cycle with new bond measures
for homelessness and eradicating homelessness, I say no to everything.
Because the money is there, they're just not directing it
where it needs to be directed to because they don't
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have a stomach for it. Nobody has a stomach for
actually treating addiction, and that's what it has to be.
Letting people shoot up and do drugs and open air
drug markets because of oh it would be wrong to
criminalize them, is doing them no favors.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
And if you're not treating the addictions, if you're.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Just put in a heroin addict or whatever they're into
into housing for free, that doesn't solve their problems.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
They're just doing their problems in a new location. All
you did was put a.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
You put a heroin addict in a room, right, You
didn't change anything about their life, their lifestyles.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Or controviutionals side going to get them to stop.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
So my question I think when when I was reading
through this earlier today, is what's what's better? I mean,
the city has enough money to put up some massive
programs for homelessness. One point three billion dollars is massive,
and that's just the city of Los Angeles, not the county.
So what what would be better for the city controller
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to find out that we've spent half of it and
made zero impact, or that we spent all of it
and made zero impact. I mean, the numbers of people
that get helped by these things I and I don't
even necessarily blame Karen Bass for this lack of change
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in the process here because it's so overwhelming. There's not
one person, obviously that's going to be able to solve
this problem. But this doesn't necessarily mean it's no. It
means that government is broken. It doesn't necessarily mean that
the process that they're trying to undertake is broken. But
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it would be even worse if they spent all of
their one point three billion dollars and had so little
to show for that.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
That is true.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Way to shine up that piece of excrements.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Well, you know, China and the corny turret is one
of the things I do.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Well, I still need to hear about what you thought
the pet of the pervert was bringing to the party.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
I forgot to ask you about that. What do you
mean what he was bringing to the party. Oh, I'm
in my to catch a predator scenario? Yeah, I it's
probably not.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
A great idea to say it. Very Do you want
me to traw your picture? Yeah, there's pictures. I love
a multimedia presentation. Well, I would say this it was
a whole does it go in there? What like justin No, no, no, no,
uh and then so far you've just drawn a picture
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of a box.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
That's the Yeah, well that's what I okay, yeah, but
of it right, yeah, the whole case of it.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I got it right, Okay. Yeah, remember what that guy said.
Matt Gate smelled like vaguely. Oh, yes, that's what. Yes,
So I did nail it. I do know how dark
you are. It wasn't my thought. It was that guy
that sure.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Ben Dominic, Oh, by the way, is married, I believe
to Megan McCain, I didn't know that story.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Where is my good football story? You promised?
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Well, I have it over here. As long as you
don't read your version, I'm not reading it. I'll gladly
share it with you when.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
We come back. I can't wait.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
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Speaker 5 (22:29):
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Nick found at like a Goodwill or Salvation Army for
thirty six dollars or thirty five dollars, and it was
a Tuesday that he bought it, so it was half off.
And he bought a pulpit from.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
The Korean church for seventeen dollars. Understood us out And
I'd never been in the pulpit of a church before,
so I didn't know those things had drawers and like
hidden like uh doors.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
And I don't think the priests are on the sauce too.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
So we just put any time people would give us.
Why did we bottle? I don't think we It's not.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
That we had.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Yes, we did. We amassed. There was like twelve bottles
of liquor in there. One of them were full.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
We were just.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Talking off the air about I was like, because we
were listening to something we used to play on the show,
and I'm like, God, I don't even have no memory
of that. We've been doing the show so long. There's
stuff we don't even remember. I said, it doesn't feel
like it's been that many years. And Gary says, well,
there's three or four years there where we were drunk
a lot.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
This is the enough going seven and quarterbacks, dude.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
And when we say Larry, that means Larry, go on
body up, Larry.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Dot a dot California at what.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
Everybody's touchy touchy touchy feel on his assy assy as
wait with him, cannot win with him, cannot.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Coach with him, can't do it. I won't winners California.
And that's singletary, right.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Yeah, So that was when Vernon Davis made him mad
and waked him out of the game.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Apparently we're talking about hard knocks a lot enough to
the point where we did that.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Put that whole thing together.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
I love it. I have forgot about that Larry quote.
That's a great one. And when we say Larry, that
means go have somebody up Larry.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Larry love it.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
And when we say Larry that means Larry go pool
somebody up, Larry.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
That's so good. I can't Greg Williams be our motivational speak.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
I've tried to make that connection, but I think I
scared the hell out of him.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
He leaves teams to get away from you. Yeah, that's
what I understand.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
So let me introduce you to Toby Astrub. Okay, Toby
Hastrup has offers from two dozen colleges to play football.
For you to get two dozen scholarship offers from Division
I schools means what pretty good? You're really good? Yeah,
(26:20):
really really good. August thirtieth of twenty twenty four was
Toby Hastrup's first football game ever. Oh, he's seventeen years old.
He has never played football before August thirtieth of this.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Year, and in the ensuing weeks and months he's gotten
all these offers.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
So yes, so Toby Hastrub, seventeen year old kid six
four two thirty five runs about ten point seven second
one hundred meters dash. He had never lined up in
a defensive stance before August thirtieth. He isn't sure what
it meant to jump off sides. He had no idea
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what a tackle for loss even meant. He didn't know
what a first down was compared to a fourth down.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Punting meant something completely different than him raw talent. At
this point, he.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Was working out with the Mayde Creek High School football
team in Houston, after spending the first seventeen years.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Of his life in England. Oh, the English kid he
didn't play rugby or anything.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
His defensive line coach, also happens to be the assistant
track coach, said you should you should try football. I
guess he ran track in the spring, but said you
should try football.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
You're big enough kid.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
And he said he would try it because at least, hey,
I graduate high school.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I tried a little bit of everything. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
So he plays his first ever football game August thirtieth,
first ever football game. He finishes with five sacks. Wow,
oh and three off sides penalty because again, sure, he
doesn't know exactly how to play. Within a week, more
than a dozen FBS schools think of Ole, miss LSU, Tennessee, Texas, A,
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and M. They had all reached out with scholarship offers.
Three months later, he's up to twenty four offers and
is said to be one of the most coveted and
uncommitted class of twenty five prospects leading up to the
early signing period next month.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
They refer to him as the accidental Superstar.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
What is his last name?
Speaker 6 (28:31):
Hastrup HAA Strup Strup. He has official visits scheduled to
Boston College, Missouri, Vanderbilt, Florida State, Texas Tech and was
just out here in southern California.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Go check out USC.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
Two more stops on his trek before he becomes He's
going to Michigan this week in Oregon.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
That is a grown ass man, is what that is,
which is probably why the track coach was like, Hey,
you should go try to beat up on those little kids. Looks,
I mean, those arms. That's kind of reminiscent of Khalil Mack.
The way his mother will tell you that he arrived.
He arrived with muscles. Yeah, as a baby.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
I mean, you talk about being born on third base,
just genetically right. He moved to Sacramento. Originally, he was
born in England, spent the first nine years of his
life in southeastern London. There is no such thing as
American football there. I mean, obviously there are games that
are played there, but if you're a kid growing up there,
it's kind of hard to get into American.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Football like that.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
So he goes to California, if a short time later
relocates to Houston, where Toby starts to come into his own.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
He's the youngest of three kids.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
Apparently Mike arag Bonlow hired as the high school's head
coach in May after a stint as a quarterbacks coach
at another high school in Texas, considered one of their
powerhouse schools, and Texas has plenty of powerhouse schools when
it comes to football. A few of his new assistant
coaches wasted little time in filling him in on their
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priority number one, which is if I could get this
kid to come out that looks so great. He's a
great athlete, And he said, I started talking to him,
convinced him that American football is the way to go.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
He said.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
They hit it off quickly. They bonded over their ancestry.
Both have family that comes from Nigeria, and they said
that there was an innocence. There was an innocence that
Toby had that really made him like the kid more
than anything.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Oh cool, he was willing to learn.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
He had no problem acknowledging what he didn't know, a
lot of questions like what's the first step?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
What is the down marker?
Speaker 6 (30:41):
Yeah, what's the difference between a defensive vent and that
outside linebacker?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
But he said he was just an excellent question soaking
all of that stuff in.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Yeah, there's something about a kid who's willing to ask questions.
And be vulnerable about what they don't know. That's very appealing. Okay,
do you want your Jeopardy question?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Well, one more thing.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
The coach that loves this kid said he's getting all
kinds of questions from college coaches, but not questions about
can he play?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Or is he good? Or does he have a future.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
The question, he said he most commonly gets is is
he six three or six four?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Why? I don't know? And he's because and the head
coach is like, why does that matter?
Speaker 6 (31:21):
Right, He's blowing the doors off of everybody in Texas football,
which is something.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
To be said.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Wild.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Okay, here's your question.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
Okay, the sixteenth century for four hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Oh, it's not working. Why it hasn't been on the
whole day? Relax? Was it like my WiFi? My WiFi
is out? Relax, Calm down, don't be hysterical. You nailed it.
Neither this Portuguese.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
Explorer nor his flagship the Trinidad completed his circums navigation
of the globe. Who's Marco Polo Spanish?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Not Portuguese America, Vespucci? He's Italian?
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Yes, Okay, I actually didn't know that. He did not
complete that trip.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
See, you got to go back to your geography classes.
They play Marco.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
Polo was from Venice, not Spain, Italy, No California.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
That would be quite an adventure.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
He started his life in California, sales under the Spanish king.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
Why do we play Marco Polo in the pool?
Speaker 6 (32:50):
I haven't played Marco Polo in the pool for a
good six months.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Do you want to know why we Why we play
that game? And we say Marco Polo. It is said
that Marco.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Polo is something racist.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
No, what's the matter with you? That's your other games
you play?
Speaker 2 (33:08):
I got it.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
It is said that Marco Polo once became lost in
the desert while traveling through China with his family, and
he thought he heard voices calling his first name.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Wild. That that story would evolve.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
Into suburban kids playing a pool game in America.
Speaker 8 (33:28):
But everybody's touchy, touchy, touchy, feel on his assy Assi.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Assy so good, so good. What a genius of a man.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
A lot of breaking news coming out of Washington, DC.
We'll get to that next and when he starts one.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
The bounty thing. Be damned.
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Speaker 5 (01:30):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. So it is possible for Ron
De Santis to appoint Matt Gates to fill Marco Rubio's
vacated Senate seat because Trump has nominated.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Rubio to serve as Secretary of State.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Some people, Peter Bergerson being one of them, PhD, Professor
Emeritus of poly Psi at Florida Gulf Coast University, who's
connected obviously in Florida, says it's very doubtful that that's
going to happen because there was a long line of
individuals very interested in the Senate vacancy, kind of like, oh,
what can you do for me? Despite Matt Gates and
(02:12):
Ronda Santas being friends for a long time.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
And Ronda Santis has to be careful because that's what
got Rod Blagoyevich in trouble. Sure, when he was basically
selling Barack Obama Senate seats.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yes, but that's how it's done. He just got caught.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Yeah, I mean we saw it here when Diane Feinstein
passed away and Lafonsea Butler was put in her place
as the placeholder for the rest of that term. Not
that there was necessarily any hijinks in there, but there's
there's a high degree of lobbying that goes into getting
that position, a lot.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Of not only the ball washing, but it's the you know,
what can you do for me? You know, line, line,
my pockets, wash everything at that point everything.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
I have to admit.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
People listen to the show.
Speaker 8 (02:57):
So Matt Gates is resigning from his assignment or his nomination,
he listens to the show.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
That's pretty fricking cool, isn't it It is? Yeah. Donald J.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Trump, on his truth Social did write a few minutes ago,
I greatly appreciate the recent efforts of Matt Gates in
seeking approval to be Attorney general. He was doing very well,
but at the same time did not want to be
a distraction for the administration, for which he has much respect.
Matt has a wonderful future and I look forward to
watching all of the great things he will do.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
CNN is running.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
With a story that says that the team that the
transition team knew that Gates was going to pull his
name out of consideration and believed that the Ethics Report,
whatever form it is right now that the House Ethics
Committee is sitting on and trying to figure out what
they're going to do with it, that this was going
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to have even more bad information about Matt Gates in it.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Hey, well, and they were going to comb through it
and it was going to be the main focus. So
there will be a special election. He can run for
his own seat. But then what happens to ethics report
if he gets act comes back. Yeah, well, that's why
he's never going to do that, right, He's going to
go have a lucrative career on some sort of board.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
But I mean the Senate, it's Republican controlled, so it
wouldn't happen. But the Senate would have the power to
open its own in ethics investigation into one of its members.
In that case, Matt Gates if he's appointed by Ron
De Santis.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
That's true. I mean they're still I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
I mean he doesn't get to be appointed though. Remember
to the Senate, he could take Margarobias that one. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
The problem I think that exists with the conspiracy theories, right.
The one theory that we've heard is Donald Trump owed
Matt Gates a favor, and what he did was he
appointed him as the nominee for Attorney General, knowing that
he was going to resign from Congress, and knowing that
that would put the kibosh on any sort of ethics
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report that comes out.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And it feels like.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
There's been enough momentum from either Senators or other people
in the House to get their hands on that ethics report.
You know, they had this false belief that once he
resigned from Congress, that ethics report was going to die
in a fire somewhere. That hasn't happened yet, I mean yesterday.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Well, now there's no grounds to open it or find
anything in it because he's withdrawn his name, so he's
not connected to Washington at all presently.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
But like I said, there are times in the past
when hal at the House Ethics Committee has released reports.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
They're not going to do it for Congress.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
This this whole storm, to me, proves that there are
other names connected to Matt Gates. There are other things
in that report that people are terrified about it getting out.
Matt Gates is basically collateral damage for Washington right now.
There was a lot of worried people that that this
thing was going to come out, And then what what
does that pretend for the future, i e. What Mike
(06:05):
Johnson was saying, setting a precedent, It's not a precedent
to you know, up, you know, to uphold the laws
of the House and the Senate and sharing and things
like that. No, no, no, it's a president of airing out
dirty laundry for all those guys.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Well, and that goes to what you said about Marjorie
Taylor Green and her threat of if we're gonna if
we're gonna do this with Matt Gates, we're doing it
with all four hundred and thirty five members of the House. Yeah,
and if you guys want to do that, she said,
I'll make it happen. What'd you say, every Well, we'll
take into the Yeah. Yea's a weird way to put it.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
But it's chilling, isn't it? Every time I hear that line,
it's chilling.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
This morning, just about an hour ago, Matt Gates announced
that he was taking his name out of consideration to
be the next attorney General. Today, Jade Vance is there
with the lobbying senators to approve Pete Hegseth as the
next Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Joh Donald J.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Trump, of course, has told advisors that he standing by
Hegseth after an allegation that he sexually assaulted a woman
from twenty seventeen, and a newer police report that's been
making its rounds provided some details about that encounter. Heg
Seth insisted it was consensual. No charges criminal charges wherever
filed against him. Nearly half of Mayor Bass's one point
(07:20):
three billion dollar homelessness budget has not been spent.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I don't know if that's good news or bad news.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
And analysis by the city Controller Kenneth Mahea found that
about six hundred million had been spent, another two hundred
million was encumbered, and that leaves about a half a billion,
five hundred and thirteen million specifically unspent. We'll talk more
about that a little bit later. In the show we.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Told you yesterday about the group of vigilante teens who
were able to lure a pervert, by all accounts, to
a park where he was arrested for sending nude type
things to an underage girl.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
It's a nude What that nude type thing? I just
don't know what kind of nudes we're talking about? If
his taste nudes? Was it other people's nudes? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Was it a forearm or was it an ankle or
was it a foot?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I don't know a lot of options.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Okay, forty six year old man from Riverside County was
ambushed by this group of teenagers. Oh, because he provided
a girl with nude photos photos of himself. Ah, thanks
for this specific So also that's yeah, okay, all right, whatever,
Why would a girl want nude photos of your forty
six year old ass?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Whoa watch your step here, lady.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
I mean, because I saw his mugshot. This is not
someone in shape. Okay, that's not a summer body. Tried
to arrange a sexual encounter with the girl as well.
They say today he's not facing charge. The prosecutors say
they will not be filing charges against the guy's name
(09:05):
is William vanden Bush sent the case back to the
sheriff's department for further investigation. It just means they don't
have enough right now. It doesn't mean nothing is going
to happen. It's just we need more evidence to prosecute. Probably.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
Yeah, and by the way, I know this is going
to surprise you, but twenty juveniles may not have the
same what's the word attention to detail when it comes
to crossing their t's and dotting their eyes. For a
criminal prosecution set of evidence, right.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
You have to prove the chain of custody with those nudes.
You have to prove it came from him. You got
to prove that. All of that stuff needs to be done.
It's not just you can go to the prosecutor's office
and say, hey, these kids say they sent Gina over
there the picture of a penis, and then that's enough
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to prosecute.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
It's not. Many of the teenagers.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
When the deputies did show up at that park, by
the way, many of the teenagers had their cell phones out.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
They were recording the whole thing.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
And the deputies did detain him, but they waited for
detectives to get there to make the full determination about
what was going to happen.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
I get the kids wanting to make a situation out
of this, and there's even a gosh a feeling of
success and accomplishment with luring him there and taping it,
videoing it and all of that. But you know what's
more effective, kids, if you're listening and you want to
control and contain and convict the pervs, call your local
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police agency, ask for a detective and say this is
what's going on, so that they can catch them red
handed and have the evidence needed to prosecute.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, because this is not But that doesn't look as
cool on YouTube. It doesn't.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
But when you think about the great to Catch a
Predator series that was on when Scott Hansen was doing it,
they didn't do it with an NBC News crew. They
did it with an NBC News crew backed up by
the local law enforcement agents, usually a couple dozen of them.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Because of that, you don't know what's going on, You
don't know who these people are. If these people.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Are willing to bring you know, no Panda Express in
a box of condoms or something like that.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
That was a lot cleaner than I thought where you
were going to go edit it. I saw your head
and it was bad, and then you've sweitch you edited it. Yeah,
you were going to say something else.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
But if they're willing to go to a stranger's house
to have some sort of relationship whatever they think they
were doing with a twelve year old boy or a
fourteen year old girl or whatever, they're going to go
pretty far to hide that, right. So I mean just
the potential for danger.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
You were going to say the things that Matt Gates
is said to have smelled like.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Weren't you No? Oh, you went further than that. It
was bad. Wow.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
I could tell that you were up to no good
inside your brain?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Why it stays there? Wow, you are a dark man.
Stop it. You are very dark. I have a sad
death to tell you about. You are such the angel
of the Important Thing. That guy James Bond, No, the
(12:40):
guitar player.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
That came up with that lick from the James Bond themes. Wow,
his name was Vic Flick, pretty prolific session guitarist.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
He played that that guitar riff on the theme.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
He died a couple of days ago at a nursing
home here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
So Sean Connery is still with us. No, no, is he.
I don't think he is. Really, Yeah, that's unfortunate. He
is my favorite. Vic Flick was eighty seven years old.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
He had Alzheimer's oh Man dead, Sean Connery dead.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Well, that's not breaking news. No, it happened in twenty twenty.
To you, it might be breaking news. There was a
lot that went on that year.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
It was October of twenty twenty. Yeah, we were dealing
with things.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Flick was an in demand session musician for a long time.
He worked with singers like Shirley Bassey, Patula Clark, Engelbert Humperdink,
Cliff Richard, Dusty Springfield. He worked with a George Martin
who was a producer for the Beatles. In fact, he
played did Vic Flick on Tom Jones's early hits, including
It's not Unusual.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
You know, I don't get the Tom Jones thing.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
He even helped Jimmy Page read music, taught him how
to read music well, just before Page left to join
the Yardbirds and start led Zeppelin.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Tom Jones, who's like the heartthrob guy right garn toutin.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
I don't get it, you don't get why in the
day back in the day, late sixties.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Tom Jones.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Yeah, I'm looking at pictures of that, and it's not
for me.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
The voice, the showmanship, all that stuff. I don't know
about that. I'm just the hair and the chest hair.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Again, you're thinking of him in the wrong terms. I
think you're you're looking at him through the wrong lens.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
I'm going to watch a video of Tom Jones during
the break and.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
I will Thursday night football tonight, Pittsburgh eight and two
at Cleveland two and eight.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Oh boy, trap game?
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Okay, April twenty first, nineteen sixty eight. That's what I'm
going to look at. What's the trap.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Game Pittsburgh at Cleveland. There's no reason Pittsburgh should lose
that game. Those are the ones you watch out for.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
That, that's right. But Mike Tomlin doesn't have trap games.
He looks at a trap game and punches it in
the face. I hope so boom. Matt Gates withdrawing his
nomination for attorney General in Trump's cabinet. He is accused
of having sex with a minor in the past, and
there were a lot of reservations about the nomination, delivered
(15:12):
exactly to his face yesterday in closed door meetings with
Senate Republicans, so the results of the House Ethics Committee
investigation will not be released.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
He stepped on from his seat last week.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
There will be a special election if he wants to
run for his seat again.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Who knows what would happen to that report.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
And there's also the possibility that Ron DeSantis could appoint
Matt Gates to take over from Marco Robio, who Trump
has tapped for Secretary of State.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
The Illinois Supreme Court has reversed the conviction of actor
Jesse Smolette. He took his case to the Illinois Supreme
Court in September in this effort to have his conviction overturn,
and they ruled today that the deal with Cook County
prosecutors back when they originally dropped the case against him
a case against him, had to be honored. At the time,
the state's attorney struck a deal with the actor requiring
(16:06):
him to forfeit the ten thousand dollars bond to fifteen
hours of community service, which he did. He actually did
eighteen hours apparently, but that he should not have been
subjected to a second prosecution. It's the second prosecution when
he was convicted of the felony disorderly conduct and sent
to jail. I think he was sentenced if I saw
it correctly. Today he was sent to one hundred and
(16:26):
fifty days in jail and served six. So that's all
he ever served was the six days in jail. And again,
it's not that the Illinois Supreme Court ruled on the
evidence of the case.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
They ruled on the prosecution style of the case. I
just wanted to say.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
We mentioned that jd Vance was with Matt Gates yesterday
trying to calm all the concerns of those Republican senators
in closed door meetings. Jd Vance is going for round
two today. He's having those same meetings with Pete haig Seth,
who we talked about earlier. The allegations that he assaulted
a woman in Monterey of years ago.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Earthquake.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
By the way, earthquakes where Connecticut, oh two point three.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
That's nothing. Why would you even mention that that's well? Okay?
Speaker 6 (17:09):
So the only reason I mentioned it is because we
probably have a fifty a few dozen throughout the state
of California every day that measure about a two point three,
But in Connecticut it's unusual. Yes, So it gets it
gets a little headline well about half of Mayor Karen
Bass's one point three billion dollar homelessness budget for the
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fiscal year of twenty three twenty four was never spent.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Of course it wasn't because they can't agree on how
to spend it. They don't know how to spend it.
There are too many cooks in the freaking kitchen.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
So if you can't if even.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Governments bloated and they get nothing done, period.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I just.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
I just get so frustrated at this being a specific issue.
It's it's a perfect example of we keep doing the
same dumb things over and over again and then expect
some sort of different result.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
How many times have I said, as my mother would say,
I sound like a broken record.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
The money is not the problem. The money is there,
The money.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
For homelessness and to eat away at homelessness is there.
They just don't know how to spend it. When they
come to us every election cycle with new bond measures
for homelessness and eradicating homelessness, I say no to everything.
Because the money is there, they're just not directing it
where it needs to be directed to because they don't
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have a stomach for it. Nobody has a stomach for
actually treating addiction, and that's what it has to be.
Letting people shoot up and do drugs and open air
drug markets because of oh it would be wrong to
criminalize them, is doing them no favors.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
And if you're not treating the addictions, if you're.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Just put in a heroin addict or whatever they're into
into housing for free, that doesn't solve their problems.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
They're just doing their problems in a new location. All
you did was put a.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
You put a heroin addict in a room, right, You
didn't change anything about their life, their lifestyles.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Or controviutionals side going to get them to stop.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
So my question I think when when I was reading
through this earlier today, is what's what's better? I mean,
the city has enough money to put up some massive
programs for homelessness. One point three billion dollars is massive,
and that's just the city of Los Angeles, not the county.
So what what would be better for the city controller
(19:46):
to find out that we've spent half of it and
made zero impact, or that we spent all of it
and made zero impact. I mean, the numbers of people
that get helped by these things I and I don't
even necessarily blame Karen Bass for this lack of change
(20:08):
in the process here because it's so overwhelming. There's not
one person, obviously that's going to be able to solve
this problem. But this doesn't necessarily mean it's no. It
means that government is broken. It doesn't necessarily mean that
the process that they're trying to undertake is broken. But
(20:29):
it would be even worse if they spent all of
their one point three billion dollars and had so little
to show for that.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
That is true.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Way to shine up that piece of excrements.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Well, you know, China and the corny turret is one
of the things I do.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Well, I still need to hear about what you thought
the pet of the pervert was bringing to the party.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
I forgot to ask you about that. What do you
mean what he was bringing to the party. Oh, I'm
in my to catch a predator scenario? Yeah, I it's
probably not.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
A great idea to say it. Very Do you want
me to traw your picture? Yeah, there's pictures. I love
a multimedia presentation. Well, I would say this it was
a whole does it go in there? What like justin No, no, no, no,
uh and then so far you've just drawn a picture
(21:26):
of a box.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
That's the Yeah, well that's what I okay, yeah, but
of it right, yeah, the whole case of it.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I got it right, Okay. Yeah, remember what that guy said.
Matt Gate smelled like vaguely. Oh, yes, that's what. Yes,
So I did nail it. I do know how dark
you are. It wasn't my thought. It was that guy
that sure.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Ben Dominic, Oh, by the way, is married, I believe
to Megan McCain, I didn't know that story.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Where is my good football story? You promised?
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Well, I have it over here. As long as you
don't read your version, I'm not reading it. I'll gladly
share it with you when.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
We come back. I can't wait.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Hey a reminder, the fourteenth annual KFI Pastathon is here.
Chef Bruno's charity, Caterinas Club, provides more than twenty five
thousand meals every week to kids in need here in
southern California, and it is all because of your generosity.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
So there's three ways to donate.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Number One, you can donate right now at KFI am
six forty dot com slash Pastathon, and you can shop
at any Smart and Final store donate any amount at checkout. Also,
go into any Wendy's restaurant in southern California donate five
bucks or more and get a coupon book for Wendy's
goodies Chomp, Chomp Chop.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
By the way, we have a few live events that
we're doing this Friday. Conway Tomorrow is going to be
broadcasting live at the brand new Wendy's in Mission Viejo
on Alicia Parka. You go on by, say hi, donate
five bucks or more in store, get a coupon book.
On Saturday, Neil is going to be broadcasting live the
Smart and Final in Lake Forest on Altoro Road. Hit
(23:11):
some Thanksgiving shopping done, say hi to Neil, and then
our all day live broadcast for this year's Pastathon is
going to be on Giving Tuesday. Will be at the
Anaheim White House Restaurant in Anaheim twelve three, that is
December third. We'll be out there all day starting from
Amy King and wake up call from five o'clock through
the morning show on our show and John and Tim
(23:33):
and Moe and everybody. You can donate on site and
drop off pasta and sauce donations as well, on that
day again Giving Tuesday, which is December third, former producer
Nick found at like a Goodwill or Salvation Army for
thirty six dollars or thirty five dollars, and it was
a Tuesday that he bought it, so it was half off.
And he bought a pulpit from.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
The Korean church for seventeen dollars. Understood us out And
I'd never been in the pulpit of a church before,
so I didn't know those things had drawers and like
hidden like uh doors.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
And I don't think the priests are on the sauce too.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
So we just put any time people would give us.
Why did we bottle? I don't think we It's not.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
That we had.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Yes, we did. We amassed. There was like twelve bottles
of liquor in there. One of them were full.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
We were just.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Talking off the air about I was like, because we
were listening to something we used to play on the show,
and I'm like, God, I don't even have no memory
of that. We've been doing the show so long. There's
stuff we don't even remember. I said, it doesn't feel
like it's been that many years. And Gary says, well,
there's three or four years there where we were drunk
a lot.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
This is the enough going seven and quarterbacks, dude.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
And when we say Larry, that means Larry, go on
body up, Larry.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Dot a dot California at what.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
Everybody's touchy touchy touchy feel on his assy assy as
wait with him, cannot win with him, cannot.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Coach with him, can't do it. I won't winners California.
And that's singletary, right.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Yeah, So that was when Vernon Davis made him mad
and waked him out of the game.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Apparently we're talking about hard knocks a lot enough to
the point where we did that.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Put that whole thing together.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
I love it. I have forgot about that Larry quote.
That's a great one. And when we say Larry, that
means go have somebody up Larry.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Larry love it.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
And when we say Larry that means Larry go pool
somebody up, Larry.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
That's so good. I can't Greg Williams be our motivational speak.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
I've tried to make that connection, but I think I
scared the hell out of him.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
He leaves teams to get away from you. Yeah, that's
what I understand.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
So let me introduce you to Toby Astrub. Okay, Toby
Hastrup has offers from two dozen colleges to play football.
For you to get two dozen scholarship offers from Division
I schools means what pretty good? You're really good? Yeah,
(26:20):
really really good. August thirtieth of twenty twenty four was
Toby Hastrup's first football game ever. Oh, he's seventeen years old.
He has never played football before August thirtieth of this.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Year, and in the ensuing weeks and months he's gotten
all these offers.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
So yes, so Toby Hastrub, seventeen year old kid six
four two thirty five runs about ten point seven second
one hundred meters dash. He had never lined up in
a defensive stance before August thirtieth. He isn't sure what
it meant to jump off sides. He had no idea
(27:05):
what a tackle for loss even meant. He didn't know
what a first down was compared to a fourth down.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Punting meant something completely different than him raw talent. At
this point, he.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Was working out with the Mayde Creek High School football
team in Houston, after spending the first seventeen years.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Of his life in England. Oh, the English kid he
didn't play rugby or anything.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
His defensive line coach, also happens to be the assistant
track coach, said you should you should try football. I
guess he ran track in the spring, but said you
should try football.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
You're big enough kid.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
And he said he would try it because at least, hey,
I graduate high school.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I tried a little bit of everything. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
So he plays his first ever football game August thirtieth,
first ever football game. He finishes with five sacks. Wow,
oh and three off sides penalty because again, sure, he
doesn't know exactly how to play. Within a week, more
than a dozen FBS schools think of Ole, miss LSU, Tennessee, Texas, A,
(28:11):
and M. They had all reached out with scholarship offers.
Three months later, he's up to twenty four offers and
is said to be one of the most coveted and
uncommitted class of twenty five prospects leading up to the
early signing period next month.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
They refer to him as the accidental Superstar.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
What is his last name?
Speaker 6 (28:31):
Hastrup HAA Strup Strup. He has official visits scheduled to
Boston College, Missouri, Vanderbilt, Florida State, Texas Tech and was
just out here in southern California.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Go check out USC.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
Two more stops on his trek before he becomes He's
going to Michigan this week in Oregon.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
That is a grown ass man, is what that is,
which is probably why the track coach was like, Hey,
you should go try to beat up on those little kids. Looks,
I mean, those arms. That's kind of reminiscent of Khalil Mack.
The way his mother will tell you that he arrived.
He arrived with muscles. Yeah, as a baby.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
I mean, you talk about being born on third base,
just genetically right. He moved to Sacramento. Originally, he was
born in England, spent the first nine years of his
life in southeastern London. There is no such thing as
American football there. I mean, obviously there are games that
are played there, but if you're a kid growing up there,
it's kind of hard to get into American.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Football like that.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
So he goes to California, if a short time later
relocates to Houston, where Toby starts to come into his own.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
He's the youngest of three kids.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
Apparently Mike arag Bonlow hired as the high school's head
coach in May after a stint as a quarterbacks coach
at another high school in Texas, considered one of their
powerhouse schools, and Texas has plenty of powerhouse schools when
it comes to football. A few of his new assistant
coaches wasted little time in filling him in on their
(30:04):
priority number one, which is if I could get this
kid to come out that looks so great. He's a
great athlete, And he said, I started talking to him,
convinced him that American football is the way to go.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
He said.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
They hit it off quickly. They bonded over their ancestry.
Both have family that comes from Nigeria, and they said
that there was an innocence. There was an innocence that
Toby had that really made him like the kid more
than anything.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Oh cool, he was willing to learn.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
He had no problem acknowledging what he didn't know, a
lot of questions like what's the first step?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
What is the down marker?
Speaker 6 (30:41):
Yeah, what's the difference between a defensive vent and that
outside linebacker?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
But he said he was just an excellent question soaking
all of that stuff in.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Yeah, there's something about a kid who's willing to ask questions.
And be vulnerable about what they don't know. That's very appealing. Okay,
do you want your Jeopardy question?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Well, one more thing.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
The coach that loves this kid said he's getting all
kinds of questions from college coaches, but not questions about
can he play?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Or is he good? Or does he have a future.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
The question, he said he most commonly gets is is
he six three or six four?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Why? I don't know? And he's because and the head
coach is like, why does that matter?
Speaker 6 (31:21):
Right, He's blowing the doors off of everybody in Texas football,
which is something.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
To be said.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Wild.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Okay, here's your question.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
Okay, the sixteenth century for four hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Oh, it's not working. Why it hasn't been on the
whole day? Relax? Was it like my WiFi? My WiFi
is out? Relax, Calm down, don't be hysterical. You nailed it.
Neither this Portuguese.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
Explorer nor his flagship the Trinidad completed his circums navigation
of the globe. Who's Marco Polo Spanish?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Not Portuguese America, Vespucci? He's Italian?
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Yes, Okay, I actually didn't know that. He did not
complete that trip.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
See, you got to go back to your geography classes.
They play Marco.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
Polo was from Venice, not Spain, Italy, No California.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
That would be quite an adventure.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
He started his life in California, sales under the Spanish king.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
Why do we play Marco Polo in the pool?
Speaker 6 (32:50):
I haven't played Marco Polo in the pool for a
good six months.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Do you want to know why we Why we play
that game? And we say Marco Polo. It is said
that Marco.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Polo is something racist.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
No, what's the matter with you? That's your other games
you play?
Speaker 2 (33:08):
I got it.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
It is said that Marco Polo once became lost in
the desert while traveling through China with his family, and
he thought he heard voices calling his first name.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Wild. That that story would evolve.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
Into suburban kids playing a pool game in America.
Speaker 8 (33:28):
But everybody's touchy, touchy, touchy, feel on his assy Assi.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Assy so good, so good. What a genius of a man.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
A lot of breaking news coming out of Washington, DC.
We'll get to that next and when he starts one.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
The bounty thing. Be damned.
Speaker 6 (33:44):
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