July 9, 2026 • 31 mins
HOUR 3 (07/09) – Gary & Shannon break down the day's biggest headlines, including Graham Platner ending his Senate campaign, the latest U.S.-Iran developments, Air Force One security precautions, Boyle Heights' ongoing odor crisis, and LAPD's plan to shift academy officers back to patrol ahead of the 2028 Olympics. Plus, The Hill's Ryan Mancini joins the show to discuss Platner's political fallout, the debate over whether America is becoming "post-literate," and Taco Bell pulls fresh ingredients as a parasite outbreak sparks a multi-state health investigation.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
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on demand on the iHeartRadio app. I mean, I got
a preview here and.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Oh boy, you want to give anybody a clue.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, there's murder, there's genital self genital mutilation it, there's
a public exposure of genitals. There's cannibalism.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Okay, do you need more? That's all once.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Do you need more.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Time for what's happening? Well, we told you that earlier
later yesterday, but earlier today was really the headline. Graham
Platner has dropped out of the Senate race in a Maine,
which means that Democrats in Maine are going to have
to figure out a way to replace him on the ticket.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
PS.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
He hasn't formally dropped out yet.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
He hasn't filed the paperwork.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Right, we are suspending campaign operations. This is incredibly difficult
because I know that some will think it's an admission
of guilt, and it most certainly is not. We're not
doing it because of the allegations. We're doing it because
of the structures that are being taken away from us
by those in power. It's not the false allegations though,
that have brought us to where we are. It's the
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fact that they are being used by the political establishment.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
No accountability whatsoever, not even I put myself in a
place where this could be a narrative that's been developed
about me, like nothing, no accountability whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And like you said, he hasn't filed the paperwork, you
know what, it's not out of the realm of.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Possibility that he changes his mind apparently behind closed doors.
And again we talked about the top of the show.
If you want to hear, it's worth a podcast because
it is fascinating if you're into politics to learn about
the struggle between the upstart, grassroots socialist Democrats now that
are trying to take over for the establishment Democrats and
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the fight between them. He did not go quietly, and
the people that put him as the candidate are not
going quietly. They want to say, and what's going on
in Maine and who's going to replace him? And it's
a real old guard versus the new guard there that
may be a precursor of what we see in other
states as we move further left into this new socialism world.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
The United States launched some new EUR strikes against Iran today.
Iran responded by targeting US allied Mid East countries. These
back and forth attacks, they say, according to the La Times,
repeatedly threatened the ceasefire. It's over, it is done. There
is no ceasefire anymore. Thursdays appeared the biggest all around
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siren sounder at least three times in Bahrain, which is
home to the United States Navy's Fifth Fleet Headquarters. Missiles
also targeted Kuwait and caught her. Sirens also sounded in
Jordan as well, where Americans have airplanes and troops. The
Iranian officials are accusing the US of launching air strikes
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targeting the area around the nuclear plant. The bashir I
believe it is nuclear plant, although not targeting the plant specifically,
supposedly just targeting the area around it.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
President Trump flew out of a Turkey on the old
Air Force one instead of the Katari donated Boeing as
a security precaution because he listens to the show.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
He said he wanted to show it off to the
men and women at Minden Hall. Then the White House
sources were telling just about every media outlet, well, it
was actually the Secret Service who told him, sir, we
can't use that plane. We can't guarantee safety.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
The fire that burned for eight days in Boil Heights
has resulted in a awful smell downtown eighty five million
pounds of food, making that thing just just awful. There's
going to be a town hall meeting. We did talk
about it. One hundred and twenty truckloads of rotten food
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have already been removed, but the smell, as we mentioned,
it's July, it is lnkered. People are upset as they
should be. Imagine living in there, living there and you
just feel probably nauseous all the time.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Awful. Palisades Village speaking of fire, set to reopen over
a year after the January January twenty five wildfire that
rolled through their Palisades village. Is that open air shopping center.
They said it will reopen in August, I think mid August,
specifically Saturday, August fifteenth, a bunch of public events and
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activities as well more. The details will be coming out
a courtesy of the owner of the property, Rick Caruso.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
The LAPD is considering shutting down its police academy for
part of twenty twenty eight in order to return hundreds
of officers to the streets to get in time, in
time to get ready for the Olympics and the Paralympic Games.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And I get at first, I understand this. They're talking
about using the officers that staff the academy to put
them on the streets.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I didn't know so many staffed the academy. I guess not,
but it's about three hundred officers. They want to do
it for about seven months beginning January twenty eight, allowing
the department to temporarily reassign those three hundred officers from
the Training Division to field duty during the games. I
feel like in the movie Police Academy, there weren't that many.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
In the movie Police Academy, there weren't that many.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
There weren't as many, you know, I believe you were
like three instructors in that movie.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
You are correct. It's going to be hot. The heated
is up through Tuesday. Now they have extended it. And
with that heat advisory comes the Pooh advisory. If you're
headed to the beach, stay on the beach, or if
you go in the water, keep your eyes closed, your
mouth closed, close all orifices, close your orify. Will Rogers
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state Beach, Paradise, Covid Malibu, Mother's Beach and Marina in
Heer Cabrio Beach and sam Pedro to Panga County Beach
to pank A Canyon Beach in Malibu, and then Santa
Monica Pear. They're saying all of those areas have to
put this nicely at around lunchtime, higher concentrations of bacteria
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levels than they would like to see in an ocean
water environment.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Bonnie Tyler died, I know, oh are you okay? Well,
that's tough seventy five. She was in great health too.
She recently was talking about how she was doing plates
and staying active and the whole.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
That she had something going on and then was doing
very well in recovery. And it's just.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
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Speaker 2 (07:14):
Why don't we just jump right into swamp watch.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar,
and when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Here we got the real problem is that our leaders
are done.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
The other side never quits, So what I'm not going
anywhere so that.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
The swap. I can imagine what can be and be
unburdened by what has been. You know, Americans have always
been gone at president. They're not stupid. A political plunder
is when a politician actually tells the truth. Whether people
voted for you werena swamp watch, they're all gun of knowing.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
We've been talking about Graham Plattner dropping out in Maine
and the effect of what goes on in Maine and
having an effect on what happens with the rest of
the country because of that all important Senate seat and
it's importance when it comes to turning the Senate to
the Democrats or if they lose the seat to the Republicans,
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and the mess between the establishment Democratic Party there in
Maine and this new regime of socialist Democrats that want
to run their candidates join us.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Joining us for more on this local kid Northridge report.
A Northridge graduate and we always like to say hello
to our local guys. Ryan Mancini one of the staff
writers in breaking news reporters for The Hill dot Com. Ryan,
thanks for taking time for us today.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Hello Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Hey, so we've been talking about this Graham Platner story.
I mean, it seems like since his name was announced
there were problems with his candidacy. Problematic candidate is probably
a nice way to put what he is. He has
announced that he's going to drop out, he hasn't officially
filed the paperwork, what kind of what's the process now
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for the Democratic Party in Maine.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
So essentially he has to formally declare that he's going
to be no longer in the race. So I know
that the process now is that there's got to be
a replacement nomination for the general election by five pm on.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
July twenty seventh.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
But the Platner campaign is facing a Monday deadline where
that's when he can say I'm no longer in the race.
I'm no longer going to be your Democratic nominee for
the Senate. And already we're seeing a bunch of candidates
come forward, come forward and essentially say they're going to
be trying to vy for his spot to see if
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they can face.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Susan Collins in November.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
So at the moment, it's gone from appearing to be
what could have been a complete vacuum to all of
a sudden a very packed race that within a short
window of time, one of them one of those candidates
will be the nominee.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
How much power does the socialist faction have in Maine
versus the democratic establishment in terms of picking a candidate.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
I think with Maine it's certainly the momentum is there
for Troy Jackson, who was a former state senator there,
and he previously had gotten the support from Maine DSA
Democratic Socialists of America when he ran for governor.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Earlier this year. So I think that if.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
There's anyone who's going to fill Platiner's shoes from a
policy standpoint, it would probably be Jackson. I know there's
been some debate online as to whether or not he's
one for one like Platiner on politics, but all just
the same, I think there's enough popularity behind him between
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the more progressive left and the democratic socialist left, and
even some of the Democrats up there you're more sort
of typical blue blood Democrats that I think you have
a shot at having some kind of some kind of
party unity to have someone like Jackson make it up
to go up against Susan Collins. But I think it
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may be a bit of an uphill battle given the
fact that you now have I think at least from
the last I saw there were three candidates, including Jackson,
so it could be, you know, a scenario where you
see more sort of typical liberal Democrats decide, you know what,
we prefer nirvav Shaw, who is the former acting director
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of the CDC's he's thrown his.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Hat in the ring, just using him as an example.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
But it's I don't know. I think it could be
a very tight battle, but I think it really just
depends on the popular momentum and it has so far
been built up for Platner and whether or not the
main Democratic party looks at that and says, you know what,
let's use that to our advantage and maybe we can
get Jackson in this spot and maybe sail through the
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election season with a Democrat in that Senate seat.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Pulled back a little bit and do a ten thousand
foot look at this where this seat Susan Collins of
course running for reelection, and whoever they choose to run
against her. You've got Mitch McConnell's seat in Kentucky. These
are a couple of the very important seats that the
nation will be watching when it comes to the special
election in November. Does that weigh in beyond just who's
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going to be the next senator, and perhaps they try
to figure out who would be a strong Democrat senator
for the state of Maine.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
I think it, Darry Well, could I know that there's
enough people in Maine.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Having been to Maine myself, having lived in your England
for three years, after previously being in socals of my life,
certainly you've got enough people in Maine that I think
are very tired of the fact that, you know, Susan
Collins has for a long time been seen as.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
A very moderate, very middle of the road.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Republican senator who at times has gone up against Donald
Trump and has at times been an opponent to his
agenda and his policies, but in a lot of cases
has very much supported his agenda and policies, even if
she's shown opposition. And I think you are going to
have enough main voters that might feel like, Okay, you
know what, this this time frame, this regime, it's over,
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It's time for a change, and certainly Maine it's I
know it's kind of gone back and forth over the
years between more of a being more of a red
state or a blue state. But I think that sense
of we need some kind of change, that we need
something fresh and something different representing our state. I think
that's very powerful. It's not a guarantee that it's going
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to lead to Collins being moved out of her seat
by the end of the year, but at the same time,
I think it's very very strong, and I think you
have a lot of people that are very passionate, who
are passionate about Blatner's campaign, but are still passionate about
at least getting somebody in there who stands a chance
to potentially become the new Senator.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Ryan Mancini, reporter for The Hill, Thank you so much
for your insight in joining us and reporting. We'll check
back in with you.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Definitely happy to be here.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Thanks. There was an article in The Atlantic magazine, which
is ironic because it's in a magazine and you have
to read it, but the headline of it is the
end of reading is here.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
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Speaker 2 (14:58):
There was a law suit that there's not a giant surprise,
but a couple of World Cup customers are trying to
get a class action lawsuit against stub Hub alleging false
and misleading advertising that left them without tickets or a
refund they had bought tickets. A couple of people from
California are suing in New York because StubHub is a
New York based company. They bought, they said, match tickets
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on stub Hub. They then booked their hotel rooms and
their flights to the tune of thousands and thousands of dollars,
only to be told by stub Hub a few days
before their match, your tickets are going to be refunded
and you don't have tickets for no real explanation. Now,
FIFA had said long ago we will not honor resold
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or we will not back up resold tickets. If you
want to buy tickets to World Cup, go through the
FIFA official ticket providers. That sucks, though, so and listen.
It's not just because we.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Mainly honor resale tickets. We do, yeah, because we're good people.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
But places like Coachella other events that stub hub has
been selling tickets to, they getting in trouble for that
same kind of same kind of action. I'm just gonna
mention this.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Patrick Dempsey apparently kept getting asked if he would run
for Senate in Maine the actor. Yeah, he said he
considered a Senate run after being asked about it more
than once in recent days as this gram Platner thing
has played out, apparently, he said, I've given it a
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lot of thought, and I've realized the answer is no.
He's from Maine. He wrote an op ed published by
the Portland Press Herald, and about four hours before Platner
dropped out they published it. He said, not because public
service isn't honorable, it absolutely is, but because I believe
I can contribute more effectively through the life I've already built.
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I didn't know that he was politically minded, that he
was into it.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I didn't either, but why would we because we're not
in Maine, right. So the Atlantic magazine came out with
a story called the End of Reading, and it was
decrying how cultures in the past, once they give up
on education, disintegrate. His specifics were the Library of Alexandria
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was lost, and the belief is that during the Siege
of Alexandria, Julius Caesar started a fire that incinerated tens
of thousands of scrolls, and at the time the king
had been encouraging everybody to learn as much as possible
by visiting the library of Alexandria two thousand years later.
They point to this gathering darkness where Americans read less
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than we used to. National Endowment for the Arts does
the most comprehensive survey of reading habits. National Endowment for
the Arts said fewer than half of all adults reported
having read a book of any kind in the year
twenty twenty two, which is apparently the last time they
did such a survey. Only thirty eight percent said they
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read a novel or a short story, now the idea.
Another survey found the proportion of Americans who read for
pleasure on any given day fell from twenty eight percent
twenty years ago to just sixteen percent a few years ago.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I said gambling has become a more common leisure activity
than reading a book. Last year, fifty seven percent of
Americans place to bet. Well, why wouldn't it If gambling
has come to all of our phones, which it has,
why not?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
They also said that the books that people do read
tend to be simpler than they used to be.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
New York Times I find that a lot of the
New York Times bestsellers these days are written for children.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yeah, They said that they have sentences that are about
a third shorter than they were a century ago, which
is a funny way to measure how simple or complex
it might be.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I don't want to say it's hard to find a
smart book, because it's not. But a lot of popular
books are not smart books.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Top five on the New York Times bestseller list right
now for fiction, Yesteryear Yea is number two. Yeah, THEO
of Golden is still number one, Yesteryear number two. The
Calamity Club is number three. Reading that now, I've read
the other two. Whistler by Anne Patchett is number four.
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It's relatively new. And then something called Dungeon Crawler. Oh yeah,
Dungeon Crawler Carl. Yeah, you might like that. That's really good.
It's a book series. Sci fi, pretty fantasy. Is pretty
well done. Yeah. So those are all examples of books.
You gave me a book for Christmas. The Louis Lamore
(19:56):
book Flint, that nice leather bound one. Okay, you remember, no,
I do. I'm reading it and it was published in
fifty nine. I don't know when it was published, but
decades and decades ago. The writing in it is so
much more complex, Yeah, than you would find in other
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books today. It's good.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
It's good to weave one of those in all the
stupid books we read.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
The other thing is, and I'm I was trying to
think of this during the during the break. I find
that there's something about the analog process of reading words
on a page, seeing your progress as you make your
way through this book, you know, a slow, steady progress,
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the stories, the way that they come out, Understanding how
other people write these books. All these things are good
for your brain. And there's and what I was going
to say is, I know very few unhealthy people who
regularly read books. I'm sure there are some, and you know,
and I don't just mean physically unhealthy. I mean people
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who struggle with anxiety or struggle with concern whatever it
is a struggle. I know very few people who read
unhealthy people who regularly read that. I love getting into
a book. I noticed that it improves my mood. It's
something to focus on. You're not being overstimulated on the screen.
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I've also recently got into audio books, and I believe
that those are two different experiences. The experience I have
listening to an audiobook is different than I would get
reading the same book. And I know that.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Because I've started a book, reading a book, and then
gone to the audio version and come back to reading it.
It's more intimate in my headspace to read the book
than to hear the audiobook, for whatever reason, probably because
when I'm listening to the audiobook, I'm also driving, so
you've got a different You've got your focus. Sure it's
on the book, but it's also on driving, so you're
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not completely focusing on the words on the page and
the whole different world that you're into, so you're not
into it as much.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
My parents both used to read with the television on. Yeah,
I've tried that and that that also. I can do
it if like.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
My husband's watching a baseball game, but that's the only
time really, because I'm not good with with other noises
going on when when I'm trying to read, because i'm
you know, mentally compromised.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
All I wouldn't say that, No, not out loud.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Are you're going to be mean because we only have
one day left this week, so you're going to try
and start getting it in now.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Can we talk about diarrhea when we come back?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yeah, you've been itching to talk about diarrhea all day.
Mark Ronner's face lights up when we say diarrhea.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Well, I think he's been kind of a diarrhea teas.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Today he has, He's teased it a lot. How dare you?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
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Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yeah, all your diarrhea talk. I don't know if it's
going to be good for you.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Why?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Well, I think maybe this is what gets you suspended.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
M It's possible, but I don't. I'm pretty confident that
I can say cyclist bariasis without.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Especially because the boss really likes Taco Bell. Oh really, no,
who doesn't?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Really?
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Now?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I want a Mexican pizza anyway. Taco Bell restaurants are
pulling fresh ingredients from the menu because of a fast
growing parasite outbreak, the one that's been linked to explosive
diarrhea that has spread across multiple states. Who told you
about it being prevalent in the Great Lakes area?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
They call it green apple splatter up there? Did you
know that? Did they? Really? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
See stuff like that is not good for you. I
don't think you should be playing fast and loose with
the diarrhea talk. I do love that you've it's a
pretty serious thing.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Come the adult on the show.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
It's a pretty serious thing. Which part it kills people? Gary,
it can sure, it's and it's probably killed a lot
more people than nuclear Someone someone listening right now probably
has a relative that's died from diarrhea, and you're not
being sensitive. I think they died from the dehydration. That's socighty.
But it started with the runs the hershey sports, you
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mean see stuff like that. Like, I really think it's
a bad taste.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I really do. Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Some locations of Taco Bell, like in Detroit, have been
posting signs telling customers that they can't serve several items
because of the diarrhea that they're currently unable to sell lettuce, cilantro, onion,
pico di diyo, guacamole due to the nationwide recall that
includes that knocks several favorites off the menu, including tacos,
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crunch traps of frames. Man, what a what a f
and loss? Can I get my Taco Bell beeferun traps?
Do I go back to nineteen eighty four to get
a Taco Bell Beefer?
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I like the chilopas and the Gorditas so that.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I may blow mud later. You know what, You've got
to stop with that.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
We're going to get We're going to hear from the
people that have lost someone to diarrhea. I doubt it,
but listen right before the Marilyn Monks show. So that
means all the people are going to be using the
talkback feature to talk about how they've lost an uncle,
uncle Steve to diarrhea.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
My aunt Mary had duty stew for four years.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I'm not getting my fingerprints on what you're doing over
there with this. They said that the diarrhea could last
for a month or longer. This specific strength.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Oh, if you get a hold of it, it will
get a hold of you, that is for certain. You
get a little Arkansas Onolay going on. And it's just
it's hard to it's hard to fight that you've ever
had a bout with it. I mean, you've never in
all of your worldly travels, you've never had come back
with a chili rainbow accidentally. And you didn't you didn't
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know how to fight back.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
You know, maybe that's a difference between you and me.
You've never had to engage with a bucket at an
urgent care, have you. Maybe that makes me a little
bit more sensitive to people whose Aunt Mary have succumbed.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
To the salad shooter. You ever have a is that
a Charger shirt? Thank you? I didn't know you were
a Charger fan. Chris Merril free shirt.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Get in here, let's talk about it. Let's talk about
about it.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I wasn't trying to steal your airtime.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
I didn't know you were a Charger fan.
Speaker 7 (27:06):
I was in San Diego when the Chargers were there.
I was there, Yeah, in San Diego, that's true.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
We left at the same time roughly. Oh really.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (27:14):
It was a big thing because they wanted to build
a new stadium, and the mayor, Kevin Faulkner at the time,
like basically said they will not leave on my watch,
and he did.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
It's like when Jerry Rice followed me to Seattle. Yeah, similar, Yeah, yeah,
so that's exciting, so you'll come back to the Chargers
games of course.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
Well not only that, but there were few people as
excited as me when John Harbaugh, a Michigan guy, right,
and I hated that he left the university, but then
he went to the Chargers.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
And I was very excited about that. He's great. No,
I love him. I think he is one exactly who
you think he is. It's not an act. Yeah, no,
I'm really kidding sick. Do you get that at all? Wow?
I mean that in a great way. I mean he's
solely one hundred percent focused on the life of football. Yes,
he is saying multitask. He's a bad family.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Man, singularly focused.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
And he was not saved by the bell. Yeah he did.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Yeah, yeah, he made I don't know, he made like
a cameo and say the bell.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Isn't that cool? That's such a bizarre thing for him
to do.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
He was like my childhood I was. I would go
to grandma and Grandpa's house and Grandpa always had the
game on. If he wasn't at the game, he would
go down to Narboro all the time. And you know,
we watched Jim quarterback the Wolverine. So that was like
there's a there's like a when I think of Jim,
I kind of think of Grandpa.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Kind of thing. Oh that's funny, sweet, I love that.
Listen to you being real very nice. Well, it's football.
That's really all I care about. There is we cut through?
Do you get that she's a little autistic Gary, A
little yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Do you think so hey, you ever have diarrhea?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
That's my cue?
Speaker 6 (28:58):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
No, no, no, no, it's not.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
You're in a safe space.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah, we can talk. I don't think we are, because listen,
Taco Bell locations have had to pull some of their
ingredients off of the menu because the cyclist bariasis you know,
continues to ravage, specifically through Michigan. Very hot and heavy
there now, I mean people with bubble guts left and right.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
That's this is my favorite candy.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
A lot of fat people there too, so there's a
lot coming out. Whoa, we don't fat shame on our show.
I do them from there. I feel like I can.
I'm a fat guy.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I can say that you're not fat, you're tall. I
sound like your mother now, I like selling.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Come on, Chrissy, you're not fat. You boys are just
jealous of you. That's why my day we used to
just call that husky.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
You're a boy, gee fluffy, festively plump. My grandmother, same grandmother,
She used to go, bye, you're getting fat.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
What is what is her name? Jeanjean? Wow?
Speaker 7 (29:57):
No longer with us. Jeane can be a strong She
was My mom was gene. She was like five foot
three of just say whatever. Oh yeah, yeah, zero. She
never had any f to get none. That's just not
like you lost them. She never had them. No, yeah, no,
she gave them all back in the day. The Nazis
took him and she was like.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Now we've took it taken. Yeah, that was her, that
was her day. You guys, shared family has heard Nazis. Okay,
that's good. Well I hope nobody has hot Melvin with
a cork She's yet another euphemism that I've thrown in there.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
I think.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Do you feel like he's a little autistic?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Yeah? Yeah, he's singularly focused.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah what diy? Why is e anything going to gut
her with you? Gary, enjoy your talkbacks.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
We got them all cued up for you.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
I thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
The Monks and Meryll show coming up next. See I
did it right.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
It's just funny. We cued up all of the talk
bags for them. Yeah, you're gonna have to wade through
a layer of hot mud before you get to anything good. Okay,
we'll see tomor stay drive everybody, blessings.
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Oh boy, you want to give anybody a clue.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, there's murder, there's genital self genital mutilation it, there's
a public exposure of genitals. There's cannibalism.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Okay, do you need more? That's all once.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Do you need more.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Time for what's happening? Well, we told you that earlier
later yesterday, but earlier today was really the headline. Graham
Platner has dropped out of the Senate race in a Maine,
which means that Democrats in Maine are going to have
to figure out a way to replace him on the ticket.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
PS.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
He hasn't formally dropped out yet.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
He hasn't filed the paperwork.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Right, we are suspending campaign operations. This is incredibly difficult
because I know that some will think it's an admission
of guilt, and it most certainly is not. We're not
doing it because of the allegations. We're doing it because
of the structures that are being taken away from us
by those in power. It's not the false allegations though,
that have brought us to where we are. It's the
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fact that they are being used by the political establishment.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
No accountability whatsoever, not even I put myself in a
place where this could be a narrative that's been developed
about me, like nothing, no accountability whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And like you said, he hasn't filed the paperwork, you
know what, it's not out of the realm of.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Possibility that he changes his mind apparently behind closed doors.
And again we talked about the top of the show.
If you want to hear, it's worth a podcast because
it is fascinating if you're into politics to learn about
the struggle between the upstart, grassroots socialist Democrats now that
are trying to take over for the establishment Democrats and
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the fight between them. He did not go quietly, and
the people that put him as the candidate are not
going quietly. They want to say, and what's going on
in Maine and who's going to replace him? And it's
a real old guard versus the new guard there that
may be a precursor of what we see in other
states as we move further left into this new socialism world.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
The United States launched some new EUR strikes against Iran today.
Iran responded by targeting US allied Mid East countries. These
back and forth attacks, they say, according to the La Times,
repeatedly threatened the ceasefire. It's over, it is done. There
is no ceasefire anymore. Thursdays appeared the biggest all around
(02:58):
siren sounder at least three times in Bahrain, which is
home to the United States Navy's Fifth Fleet Headquarters. Missiles
also targeted Kuwait and caught her. Sirens also sounded in
Jordan as well, where Americans have airplanes and troops. The
Iranian officials are accusing the US of launching air strikes
(03:20):
targeting the area around the nuclear plant. The bashir I
believe it is nuclear plant, although not targeting the plant specifically,
supposedly just targeting the area around it.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
President Trump flew out of a Turkey on the old
Air Force one instead of the Katari donated Boeing as
a security precaution because he listens to the show.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
He said he wanted to show it off to the
men and women at Minden Hall. Then the White House
sources were telling just about every media outlet, well, it
was actually the Secret Service who told him, sir, we
can't use that plane. We can't guarantee safety.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
The fire that burned for eight days in Boil Heights
has resulted in a awful smell downtown eighty five million
pounds of food, making that thing just just awful. There's
going to be a town hall meeting. We did talk
about it. One hundred and twenty truckloads of rotten food
(04:20):
have already been removed, but the smell, as we mentioned,
it's July, it is lnkered. People are upset as they
should be. Imagine living in there, living there and you
just feel probably nauseous all the time.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Awful. Palisades Village speaking of fire, set to reopen over
a year after the January January twenty five wildfire that
rolled through their Palisades village. Is that open air shopping center.
They said it will reopen in August, I think mid August,
specifically Saturday, August fifteenth, a bunch of public events and
(04:52):
activities as well more. The details will be coming out
a courtesy of the owner of the property, Rick Caruso.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
The LAPD is considering shutting down its police academy for
part of twenty twenty eight in order to return hundreds
of officers to the streets to get in time, in
time to get ready for the Olympics and the Paralympic Games.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And I get at first, I understand this. They're talking
about using the officers that staff the academy to put
them on the streets.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I didn't know so many staffed the academy. I guess not,
but it's about three hundred officers. They want to do
it for about seven months beginning January twenty eight, allowing
the department to temporarily reassign those three hundred officers from
the Training Division to field duty during the games. I
feel like in the movie Police Academy, there weren't that many.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
In the movie Police Academy, there weren't that many.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
There weren't as many, you know, I believe you were
like three instructors in that movie.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
You are correct. It's going to be hot. The heated
is up through Tuesday. Now they have extended it. And
with that heat advisory comes the Pooh advisory. If you're
headed to the beach, stay on the beach, or if
you go in the water, keep your eyes closed, your
mouth closed, close all orifices, close your orify. Will Rogers
(06:18):
state Beach, Paradise, Covid Malibu, Mother's Beach and Marina in
Heer Cabrio Beach and sam Pedro to Panga County Beach
to pank A Canyon Beach in Malibu, and then Santa
Monica Pear. They're saying all of those areas have to
put this nicely at around lunchtime, higher concentrations of bacteria
(06:39):
levels than they would like to see in an ocean
water environment.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Bonnie Tyler died, I know, oh are you okay? Well,
that's tough seventy five. She was in great health too.
She recently was talking about how she was doing plates
and staying active and the whole.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
That she had something going on and then was doing
very well in recovery. And it's just.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Why don't we just jump right into swamp watch.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar,
and when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Here we got the real problem is that our leaders
are done.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
The other side never quits, So what I'm not going
anywhere so that.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
The swap. I can imagine what can be and be
unburdened by what has been. You know, Americans have always
been gone at president. They're not stupid. A political plunder
is when a politician actually tells the truth. Whether people
voted for you werena swamp watch, they're all gun of knowing.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
We've been talking about Graham Plattner dropping out in Maine
and the effect of what goes on in Maine and
having an effect on what happens with the rest of
the country because of that all important Senate seat and
it's importance when it comes to turning the Senate to
the Democrats or if they lose the seat to the Republicans,
(08:09):
and the mess between the establishment Democratic Party there in
Maine and this new regime of socialist Democrats that want
to run their candidates join us.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Joining us for more on this local kid Northridge report.
A Northridge graduate and we always like to say hello
to our local guys. Ryan Mancini one of the staff
writers in breaking news reporters for The Hill dot Com. Ryan,
thanks for taking time for us today.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Hello Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Hey, so we've been talking about this Graham Platner story.
I mean, it seems like since his name was announced
there were problems with his candidacy. Problematic candidate is probably
a nice way to put what he is. He has
announced that he's going to drop out, he hasn't officially
filed the paperwork, what kind of what's the process now
(09:01):
for the Democratic Party in Maine.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
So essentially he has to formally declare that he's going
to be no longer in the race. So I know
that the process now is that there's got to be
a replacement nomination for the general election by five pm on.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
July twenty seventh.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
But the Platner campaign is facing a Monday deadline where
that's when he can say I'm no longer in the race.
I'm no longer going to be your Democratic nominee for
the Senate. And already we're seeing a bunch of candidates
come forward, come forward and essentially say they're going to
be trying to vy for his spot to see if
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they can face.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Susan Collins in November.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
So at the moment, it's gone from appearing to be
what could have been a complete vacuum to all of
a sudden a very packed race that within a short
window of time, one of them one of those candidates
will be the nominee.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
How much power does the socialist faction have in Maine
versus the democratic establishment in terms of picking a candidate.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
I think with Maine it's certainly the momentum is there
for Troy Jackson, who was a former state senator there,
and he previously had gotten the support from Maine DSA
Democratic Socialists of America when he ran for governor.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Earlier this year. So I think that if.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
There's anyone who's going to fill Platiner's shoes from a
policy standpoint, it would probably be Jackson. I know there's
been some debate online as to whether or not he's
one for one like Platiner on politics, but all just
the same, I think there's enough popularity behind him between
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the more progressive left and the democratic socialist left, and
even some of the Democrats up there you're more sort
of typical blue blood Democrats that I think you have
a shot at having some kind of some kind of
party unity to have someone like Jackson make it up
to go up against Susan Collins. But I think it
(11:25):
may be a bit of an uphill battle given the
fact that you now have I think at least from
the last I saw there were three candidates, including Jackson,
so it could be, you know, a scenario where you
see more sort of typical liberal Democrats decide, you know what,
we prefer nirvav Shaw, who is the former acting director
(11:46):
of the CDC's he's thrown his.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Hat in the ring, just using him as an example.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
But it's I don't know. I think it could be
a very tight battle, but I think it really just
depends on the popular momentum and it has so far
been built up for Platner and whether or not the
main Democratic party looks at that and says, you know what,
let's use that to our advantage and maybe we can
get Jackson in this spot and maybe sail through the
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election season with a Democrat in that Senate seat.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Pulled back a little bit and do a ten thousand
foot look at this where this seat Susan Collins of
course running for reelection, and whoever they choose to run
against her. You've got Mitch McConnell's seat in Kentucky. These
are a couple of the very important seats that the
nation will be watching when it comes to the special
election in November. Does that weigh in beyond just who's
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going to be the next senator, and perhaps they try
to figure out who would be a strong Democrat senator
for the state of Maine.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
I think it, Darry Well, could I know that there's
enough people in Maine.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Having been to Maine myself, having lived in your England
for three years, after previously being in socals of my life,
certainly you've got enough people in Maine that I think
are very tired of the fact that, you know, Susan
Collins has for a long time been seen as.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
A very moderate, very middle of the road.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Republican senator who at times has gone up against Donald
Trump and has at times been an opponent to his
agenda and his policies, but in a lot of cases
has very much supported his agenda and policies, even if
she's shown opposition. And I think you are going to
have enough main voters that might feel like, Okay, you
know what, this this time frame, this regime, it's over,
(13:45):
It's time for a change, and certainly Maine it's I
know it's kind of gone back and forth over the
years between more of a being more of a red
state or a blue state. But I think that sense
of we need some kind of change, that we need
something fresh and something different representing our state. I think
that's very powerful. It's not a guarantee that it's going
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to lead to Collins being moved out of her seat
by the end of the year, but at the same time,
I think it's very very strong, and I think you
have a lot of people that are very passionate, who
are passionate about Blatner's campaign, but are still passionate about
at least getting somebody in there who stands a chance
to potentially become the new Senator.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Ryan Mancini, reporter for The Hill, Thank you so much
for your insight in joining us and reporting. We'll check
back in with you.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Definitely happy to be here.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Thanks. There was an article in The Atlantic magazine, which
is ironic because it's in a magazine and you have
to read it, but the headline of it is the
end of reading is here.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
There was a law suit that there's not a giant surprise,
but a couple of World Cup customers are trying to
get a class action lawsuit against stub Hub alleging false
and misleading advertising that left them without tickets or a
refund they had bought tickets. A couple of people from
California are suing in New York because StubHub is a
New York based company. They bought, they said, match tickets
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on stub Hub. They then booked their hotel rooms and
their flights to the tune of thousands and thousands of dollars,
only to be told by stub Hub a few days
before their match, your tickets are going to be refunded
and you don't have tickets for no real explanation. Now,
FIFA had said long ago we will not honor resold
(15:46):
or we will not back up resold tickets. If you
want to buy tickets to World Cup, go through the
FIFA official ticket providers. That sucks, though, so and listen.
It's not just because we.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Mainly honor resale tickets. We do, yeah, because we're good people.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
But places like Coachella other events that stub hub has
been selling tickets to, they getting in trouble for that
same kind of same kind of action. I'm just gonna
mention this.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Patrick Dempsey apparently kept getting asked if he would run
for Senate in Maine the actor. Yeah, he said he
considered a Senate run after being asked about it more
than once in recent days as this gram Platner thing
has played out, apparently, he said, I've given it a
(16:38):
lot of thought, and I've realized the answer is no.
He's from Maine. He wrote an op ed published by
the Portland Press Herald, and about four hours before Platner
dropped out they published it. He said, not because public
service isn't honorable, it absolutely is, but because I believe
I can contribute more effectively through the life I've already built.
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I didn't know that he was politically minded, that he
was into it.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I didn't either, but why would we because we're not
in Maine, right. So the Atlantic magazine came out with
a story called the End of Reading, and it was
decrying how cultures in the past, once they give up
on education, disintegrate. His specifics were the Library of Alexandria
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was lost, and the belief is that during the Siege
of Alexandria, Julius Caesar started a fire that incinerated tens
of thousands of scrolls, and at the time the king
had been encouraging everybody to learn as much as possible
by visiting the library of Alexandria two thousand years later.
They point to this gathering darkness where Americans read less
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than we used to. National Endowment for the Arts does
the most comprehensive survey of reading habits. National Endowment for
the Arts said fewer than half of all adults reported
having read a book of any kind in the year
twenty twenty two, which is apparently the last time they
did such a survey. Only thirty eight percent said they
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read a novel or a short story, now the idea.
Another survey found the proportion of Americans who read for
pleasure on any given day fell from twenty eight percent
twenty years ago to just sixteen percent a few years ago.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I said gambling has become a more common leisure activity
than reading a book. Last year, fifty seven percent of
Americans place to bet. Well, why wouldn't it If gambling
has come to all of our phones, which it has,
why not?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
They also said that the books that people do read
tend to be simpler than they used to be.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
New York Times I find that a lot of the
New York Times bestsellers these days are written for children.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yeah, They said that they have sentences that are about
a third shorter than they were a century ago, which
is a funny way to measure how simple or complex
it might be.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I don't want to say it's hard to find a
smart book, because it's not. But a lot of popular
books are not smart books.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Top five on the New York Times bestseller list right
now for fiction, Yesteryear Yea is number two. Yeah, THEO
of Golden is still number one, Yesteryear number two. The
Calamity Club is number three. Reading that now, I've read
the other two. Whistler by Anne Patchett is number four.
(19:36):
It's relatively new. And then something called Dungeon Crawler. Oh yeah,
Dungeon Crawler Carl. Yeah, you might like that. That's really good.
It's a book series. Sci fi, pretty fantasy. Is pretty
well done. Yeah. So those are all examples of books.
You gave me a book for Christmas. The Louis Lamore
(19:56):
book Flint, that nice leather bound one. Okay, you remember, no,
I do. I'm reading it and it was published in
fifty nine. I don't know when it was published, but
decades and decades ago. The writing in it is so
much more complex, Yeah, than you would find in other
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books today. It's good.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
It's good to weave one of those in all the
stupid books we read.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
The other thing is, and I'm I was trying to
think of this during the during the break. I find
that there's something about the analog process of reading words
on a page, seeing your progress as you make your
way through this book, you know, a slow, steady progress,
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the stories, the way that they come out, Understanding how
other people write these books. All these things are good
for your brain. And there's and what I was going
to say is, I know very few unhealthy people who
regularly read books. I'm sure there are some, and you know,
and I don't just mean physically unhealthy. I mean people
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who struggle with anxiety or struggle with concern whatever it
is a struggle. I know very few people who read
unhealthy people who regularly read that. I love getting into
a book. I noticed that it improves my mood. It's
something to focus on. You're not being overstimulated on the screen.
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I've also recently got into audio books, and I believe
that those are two different experiences. The experience I have
listening to an audiobook is different than I would get
reading the same book. And I know that.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Because I've started a book, reading a book, and then
gone to the audio version and come back to reading it.
It's more intimate in my headspace to read the book
than to hear the audiobook, for whatever reason, probably because
when I'm listening to the audiobook, I'm also driving, so
you've got a different You've got your focus. Sure it's
on the book, but it's also on driving, so you're
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not completely focusing on the words on the page and
the whole different world that you're into, so you're not
into it as much.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
My parents both used to read with the television on. Yeah,
I've tried that and that that also. I can do
it if like.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
My husband's watching a baseball game, but that's the only
time really, because I'm not good with with other noises
going on when when I'm trying to read, because i'm
you know, mentally compromised.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
All I wouldn't say that, No, not out loud.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Are you're going to be mean because we only have
one day left this week, so you're going to try
and start getting it in now.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Can we talk about diarrhea when we come back?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yeah, you've been itching to talk about diarrhea all day.
Mark Ronner's face lights up when we say diarrhea.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Well, I think he's been kind of a diarrhea teas.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Today he has, He's teased it a lot. How dare you?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yeah, all your diarrhea talk. I don't know if it's
going to be good for you.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Why?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Well, I think maybe this is what gets you suspended.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
M It's possible, but I don't. I'm pretty confident that
I can say cyclist bariasis without.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Especially because the boss really likes Taco Bell. Oh really, no,
who doesn't?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Really?
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Now?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I want a Mexican pizza anyway. Taco Bell restaurants are
pulling fresh ingredients from the menu because of a fast
growing parasite outbreak, the one that's been linked to explosive
diarrhea that has spread across multiple states. Who told you
about it being prevalent in the Great Lakes area?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
They call it green apple splatter up there? Did you
know that? Did they? Really? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
See stuff like that is not good for you. I
don't think you should be playing fast and loose with
the diarrhea talk. I do love that you've it's a
pretty serious thing.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Come the adult on the show.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
It's a pretty serious thing. Which part it kills people? Gary,
it can sure, it's and it's probably killed a lot
more people than nuclear Someone someone listening right now probably
has a relative that's died from diarrhea, and you're not
being sensitive. I think they died from the dehydration. That's socighty.
But it started with the runs the hershey sports, you
(24:34):
mean see stuff like that. Like, I really think it's
a bad taste.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I really do. Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Some locations of Taco Bell, like in Detroit, have been
posting signs telling customers that they can't serve several items
because of the diarrhea that they're currently unable to sell lettuce, cilantro, onion,
pico di diyo, guacamole due to the nationwide recall that
includes that knocks several favorites off the menu, including tacos,
(25:06):
crunch traps of frames. Man, what a what a f
and loss? Can I get my Taco Bell beeferun traps?
Do I go back to nineteen eighty four to get
a Taco Bell Beefer?
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I like the chilopas and the Gorditas so that.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I may blow mud later. You know what, You've got
to stop with that.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
We're going to get We're going to hear from the
people that have lost someone to diarrhea. I doubt it,
but listen right before the Marilyn Monks show. So that
means all the people are going to be using the
talkback feature to talk about how they've lost an uncle,
uncle Steve to diarrhea.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
My aunt Mary had duty stew for four years.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I'm not getting my fingerprints on what you're doing over
there with this. They said that the diarrhea could last
for a month or longer. This specific strength.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Oh, if you get a hold of it, it will
get a hold of you, that is for certain. You
get a little Arkansas Onolay going on. And it's just
it's hard to it's hard to fight that you've ever
had a bout with it. I mean, you've never in
all of your worldly travels, you've never had come back
with a chili rainbow accidentally. And you didn't you didn't
(26:31):
know how to fight back.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
You know, maybe that's a difference between you and me.
You've never had to engage with a bucket at an
urgent care, have you. Maybe that makes me a little
bit more sensitive to people whose Aunt Mary have succumbed.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
To the salad shooter. You ever have a is that
a Charger shirt? Thank you? I didn't know you were
a Charger fan. Chris Merril free shirt.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Get in here, let's talk about it. Let's talk about
about it.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I wasn't trying to steal your airtime.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
I didn't know you were a Charger fan.
Speaker 7 (27:06):
I was in San Diego when the Chargers were there.
I was there, Yeah, in San Diego, that's true.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
We left at the same time roughly. Oh really.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (27:14):
It was a big thing because they wanted to build
a new stadium, and the mayor, Kevin Faulkner at the time,
like basically said they will not leave on my watch,
and he did.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
It's like when Jerry Rice followed me to Seattle. Yeah, similar, Yeah, yeah,
so that's exciting, so you'll come back to the Chargers
games of course.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
Well not only that, but there were few people as
excited as me when John Harbaugh, a Michigan guy, right,
and I hated that he left the university, but then
he went to the Chargers.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
And I was very excited about that. He's great. No,
I love him. I think he is one exactly who
you think he is. It's not an act. Yeah, no,
I'm really kidding sick. Do you get that at all? Wow?
I mean that in a great way. I mean he's
solely one hundred percent focused on the life of football. Yes,
he is saying multitask. He's a bad family.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Man, singularly focused.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
And he was not saved by the bell. Yeah he did.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Yeah, yeah, he made I don't know, he made like
a cameo and say the bell.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Isn't that cool? That's such a bizarre thing for him
to do.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
He was like my childhood I was. I would go
to grandma and Grandpa's house and Grandpa always had the
game on. If he wasn't at the game, he would
go down to Narboro all the time. And you know,
we watched Jim quarterback the Wolverine. So that was like
there's a there's like a when I think of Jim,
I kind of think of Grandpa.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Kind of thing. Oh that's funny, sweet, I love that.
Listen to you being real very nice. Well, it's football.
That's really all I care about. There is we cut through?
Do you get that she's a little autistic Gary, A
little yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Do you think so hey, you ever have diarrhea?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
That's my cue?
Speaker 6 (28:58):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
No, no, no, no, it's not.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
You're in a safe space.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah, we can talk. I don't think we are, because listen,
Taco Bell locations have had to pull some of their
ingredients off of the menu because the cyclist bariasis you know,
continues to ravage, specifically through Michigan. Very hot and heavy
there now, I mean people with bubble guts left and right.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
That's this is my favorite candy.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
A lot of fat people there too, so there's a
lot coming out. Whoa, we don't fat shame on our show.
I do them from there. I feel like I can.
I'm a fat guy.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I can say that you're not fat, you're tall. I
sound like your mother now, I like selling.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Come on, Chrissy, you're not fat. You boys are just
jealous of you. That's why my day we used to
just call that husky.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
You're a boy, gee fluffy, festively plump. My grandmother, same grandmother,
She used to go, bye, you're getting fat.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
What is what is her name? Jeanjean? Wow?
Speaker 7 (29:57):
No longer with us. Jeane can be a strong She
was My mom was gene. She was like five foot
three of just say whatever. Oh yeah, yeah, zero. She
never had any f to get none. That's just not
like you lost them. She never had them. No, yeah, no,
she gave them all back in the day. The Nazis
took him and she was like.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Now we've took it taken. Yeah, that was her, that
was her day. You guys, shared family has heard Nazis. Okay,
that's good. Well I hope nobody has hot Melvin with
a cork She's yet another euphemism that I've thrown in there.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
I think.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Do you feel like he's a little autistic?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Yeah? Yeah, he's singularly focused.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah what diy? Why is e anything going to gut
her with you? Gary, enjoy your talkbacks.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
We got them all cued up for you.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
I thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
The Monks and Meryll show coming up next. See I
did it right.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
It's just funny. We cued up all of the talk
bags for them. Yeah, you're gonna have to wade through
a layer of hot mud before you get to anything good. Okay,
we'll see tomor stay drive everybody, blessings.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
This is KFI.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
You can always hear us live on kf I am
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