July 22, 2025 • 25 mins
Hunter Biden accuses George Clooney and the Democrats of undermining his father. He also suggests that Ambien could be responsible for his father's disastrous debate performance.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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I don't feel that same buzz. Oh.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I mean I don't want to, you know, rain on
your parade or anything, but I feel it very in tuned.
I still feel like you're over caffeinated.
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It's funny your volume goes up like gero point seven,
not a full notch, not a full notch, but just
like a point seven. No, because then it sounds Dad
sounds creepy when you do that. Please don't do that.
It's uh. But but yeah, I know there's a there's
a level, there's a you know, four espresso shots.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
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Speaker 1 (00:46):
I had a couple of coffees this morning at home,
and then I was on my way to work and
I thought, you know, it sounds good war coffee. It's payback.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I think the resting heart rate of a eighty seven
is not high enough. I am going to do cardio
without doing cardio today, that's what you said.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
But I say that because instead of True Crime Tuesday,
we are doing True Love Tuesday coming up. We have
toyed with the idea of doing a gas dating game
or a gas love connection. We've talked about Chuck Woolery
and our love for the shows of our past, and
we kind of landed on something with at least we
have a single dude who is looking for a wife
(01:31):
around here, and we thought, why not start with him.
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And listen, it's not one of those like generic, Oh,
Eric needs a girlfriend.
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No, he needs a wife.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
He's very specific.
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He's got an idea, he knows what he wants well Jewish, well,
so there's that. Yeah, but I mean, but so we've
got that.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
So we got that.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
We know, you know, we because you can't just open
it up and say there's you know, four million people
in the LA area that we qualify to be Eric's
new bride.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
The next test in on our what are we calling it,
gas match, The next contestant on gas Match may be
looking for Protestant.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I mean, who knows.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
We're not shutting the door on any sort of you know,
specifics that you're into. But the first, the first young
single man we have we will be introducing to you
this afternoon, and we will be taking women who are
interested in the form of pictures and a short bio,
and we will be posting all of his information on
(02:29):
our socials at Gary and Shannon as well.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
White Powder is in the news for a couple of
different reasons. Number One, Hunter Biden claims that he's sober,
and I have zero evidence to prove that he is.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I haven't heard the audio. He's got all this round
of interviews. Now, I haven't heard the audio, and I
haven't seen a picture of him. But I will say this,
there are people who abused drugs and or alcohol for
enough years to where when they do get sober, they
still appear to be a little bit impaired. They still
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have that will do that. Cocaine will do that. If
you were into amphetamines for like a good twenty years,
you always have that vibe. Unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah, and it's one of those things that even if
you are are trying to portray an image of clean
and sober, or at least working on clean and sober,
that might be one of the things.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
That you would want to just be aware of.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
This three hour podcast video interview that he did.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Oh there is video. Oh yeah, Oh, I got to
see it. Oh you've seen it. Oh dear, oh really.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Oh, just onions.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
But this is the interview asking him about George Clooney. Remember,
George Clooney is the one that wrote the New York
Times ed suggesting it Biden be kicked out.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Onions but him, him, him and everybody around him, or
not to be nice. Number one I agree with and Tarantino.
George Clooney is not an actor.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Okay, that's not sober, just a bit.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yeah, you're right. He goes on to talk that's not
a bit.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
The potential good qualities of crack cocaine versus normal powdered cocaine.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Really, oh, I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
He takes everyone to task.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
He is un hinged, hinged, Yeah, and that's not one
somewhere needs to thank him. Whether it was him in
his own mind or a friend or somebody said to him.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Hey, you know what would be a good idea? You
sit down for a three hour completely unhinged podcast.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
You know what I am surprised that I did in
this situation is I was reading through the things that
he said in these podcasts that he's done he started
doing this week late last week, this round of interviews.
I was reading it like he was talking like a
normal person. I was reading it like taking him for
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his word that he is sober, because yesterday we heard
about the cocaine and he said it wasn't my cocaine.
I haven't had a drop of alcohol or any drug
since twenty nineteen, and I'm proud of that. And I
read that as like a different hunter, like a new hunter.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I will say this in the context of what we're doing.
We don't have three hours to go over this guy's
three hour interviews, so there are times in his interview
where he's just a guy. He's just talking about his
own struggles. I mean, I'm I'm a little fascinated, not
too deeply because I feel like there's very little redemptive
quality that this guy has, but I'm fascinated with his
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own take on his downfall.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Well, we'll get into that. What he said about George Clooney,
what he said about the DNC, who he largely blames
for what happened to his dad, and what Joe Biden
he says was on the night.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Of that debate, not crack cocaine.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Now, we'll do that when we come back.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
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Speaker 1 (05:58):
The President is taking questions in the Oval office, and
just mentioned that he did not know that the Deputy
Attorney General was going to reach out to Glaine Maxwell
and find out what she knows about Jeffrey Epstein or
what she's willing to spill. Of course, this is in
reaction to the Maga Bass clamoring for the Jeffrey Epstein information.
(06:22):
I mean, this was stuff that they have touted for
at least a decade now of saying, oh my gosh,
what's in the Jeffrey Epstein file. And when I say they,
I mean Trump and his counterparts of like, what's in
the Jeffrey Epstein files. And that's what's fueled this whole
Hillary Clinton pizzeria child rape ring, underground New York Pizzagate thing.
(06:45):
That's where this all started was the Jeffrey Epstein files.
And this has been propagated through the years and then
all of a sudden, oh, there's nothing there.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
What None of it has made a whole lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
It made sense to fire up the base right ten
years ago to make the Clinton's the boogeyman.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Well, it's red meat to suggest that the government is
hiding that.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I mean that.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
It's red meat to push the theory right, to say
we need new leadership in Washington to root out this
kind of corruption and then when okay, now you have
that power and you have the and then to suggest
that it was all a ruse.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
The right time.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Kisses people off and I get it. So we'll get
into that all the latest because there's a lot they
especially if they get into Glene Maxwell, into that cell.
You got to be very careful because what does she know.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
She knows, she knows a lot. I'm just assuming she knows, yeah, plenty.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
So Hunter Biden is making the rounds on the interview circuit,
choosing a couple podcasts to go on, and he's been
trashing Democrats, including George Clooney.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Pinions but him, him, him, and everybody around him.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I don't have to be nice.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Number one. I agree with Quentin Tarantino. George Clooney is
not an actor. He is a like I don't know
what he is. He's a brand. And by the way,
and God bless him, you know what. He closely treats
his friends really well, you know what I mean, buys
them things. And he's got a really great place in
Lake Como, and he's great friends with Barack Obama.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
You what do you have to do with anything?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
What do I have to bore you?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
What right do you have to step on a man
who's given fifty two years of his in life to
the services of this country and decide that you, George Clooney,
are going to take out basically a full page ad
in the New York Times.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
You know what waters down the admirable support of your
father and your father's record in politics, the f words
sixteen times.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
The forty three seconds, cramming the effort in there as
many times as you possibly can.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
It just completely takes away any credit ability that you
may have had at any point.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
And listen one of the arguments about I understand it's
a family thing, and it's father son and they have
a special relationship because of whatever he's been protecting his dad,
his dad's been protecting him. I get that part of
it is completely understandable to me. What I don't quite
understand is the math of and he's not the only
one who's done this, the math of Joe Biden served
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this country for fifty years. Well, the Biden family is
very very well off right now. Very well off. You
don't get that from service. That's very different. Serving the
country is very different than what many many politicians do.
And the suggestion that somehow he is then granted this
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untouchable status because he spent decades in the Senate or
even time as president or vice president, that's never the
way that this country should work.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
No one's disputing the fact that Joe Biden put in
five days decades of service in politics in this country.
No one's disputing his record as somebody who was able
to cross the aisle and make friends amongst Republicans in
those fifty years. No one's disputing any of that. What
we are saying, and what we were saying is just
(10:19):
because you put in fifty years doesn't mean you're of
sound mind to be president of the United States. He wasn't.
His time essentially was Barack Obama's time. That was Joe
Biden's time to be president. That's when he had if
he was ever going to have the presence of mind
to do it, that's when it was. I mean, all
of these people they have to wait in line to
(10:40):
get the crown, and it's this whole deal, and it's
not fair, right, But that's the whole point. Was not
that everyone hates Joe Biden and that he didn't have
this illustrious record in Congress. It's that he didn't get
the chance in time. He was senile, and we all
saw it, and George Kloone saw it, and all the
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Democrats saw it, and the people that hit it, the
Hunter Biden and the Jill Biden's of the world and
all that. Yes, in one hand, it's for your dad,
it's for your family, your husband, what have you. But
on the other hand, it's abuse to that person to
let them be exposed in the way that Joe Biden
was exposed on that debate stage.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
His explanation, by the way, for the debate stage, that's
exactly what happened in that debate.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
He flew around the world basically the mileage that he
could have flown around the world three times.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, he's eighty one years old, he's tired.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Could give him ambient.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
To be able to sleep.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
He gets up on the stage and he looks like
he's a deer in the headlights.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Ambient.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
You're suggesting that you gave an eighty year old man ambient.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
We have heard people that have taken ambient, Yeah, and
the next day. I mean, Handle's been open about it
right years ago. I remember Handle saying that he took
ambient for whatever. I think he had, like a surgery
or something. I don't remember. It was years ago, and
I was listening to him in the morning and he
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was like, I'm sorry, I'm totally out of it. I
took an AMBM last night. Like it does affect you
the next day? Sure, the next morning. Does it affect
you into the prime time?
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Remember?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
That was the thing is that they there was There
was a lot of travel, and they did spend a
lot of time on Air Force one. As luxurious as
it is, you're still traveling across time zones that can
really mess you up. But the idea that ambion would
have been the answer for that. It doesn't make a
good time. It wasn't first thing in the morning.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
It wasn't five am or six am, which would make
sense if you were still groggy.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
There's a couple more pieces we'll get to here, including
what Hunter Biden says he would do if he were presidents.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Oh, I can't not wait.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
It's specific to the issue of immigration, but also his
discussion about why.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Crack cocaines might a little bit better than regularly.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I feel like I'm throwing stones over here with six
of espresso under my belts.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Different, very different, that's true.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
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Speaker 1 (13:09):
Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert last night apparently told
Trump to go f yourself. But Donald Trump just took
to truth social saying the word is and it's strong
word at that. Jimmy Kimmel's next to go and the
untalented Late Night Sweepstakes, and shortly thereafter Fallen will be gone.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
You mentioned the President was sitting in the Oval Office
today with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Junior,
who goes by Bongbong.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Because of his parents' great scandals.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
His dad was president of the Philippines for like twenty
plus years, some of that time under martial law and
took a bunch of power, and then mom owned half
a million pairs of shoes or something, so he.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Didn't want to use the family name and chose Bongbong Minstead.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Okay, but President Bong Bong Marcos.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
That's right up there with you if you had stuck
with Phonsie.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I suppose that's very similar.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
If you're listening Santa Barbara, Ventura, Sanlos Obispoal Counties, there's
going to be a SpaceX launch in a couple hours,
and they are warning people that as the booster comes
back down to land, there could be a couple of
sonic booms. We heard one of those a month and
a half ago, I want to say, And it sounded
(14:34):
like somebody was banging on our door in our bedroom,
like there's a door to the outside. It sounded like
somebody was banging on our door. And my wife was
concerned that we were about to be raped and murdered.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Is it that she was worried you were going to
be raped?
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Ah, she's looking out for me.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
That's sweet.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
That's sweet.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
We have this awful running joke in our fan never mind,
it's not a funny thing to say.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I'd love to save that.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
So we're talking about we're talking about this interview.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Hunter Biden has has given a three hour interview.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Some of it is very introspective.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Now you'll hear a lot of the highlights where he
drops every f well every other words, an F bomb,
where he goes after some of the Democratic establishment, he says,
basically for cutting the legs out from under his father
during the end of his term and basically forcing him
out of the nomination for president, including taking advantage of
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the fact that he had a severe case of COVID
in July of last year, okay, where we saw the
images of a very frail man dealing with a very
bad illness who looked worse than normal, you know, being
helped on and off the airplane, and then dilemmo. I
mean it just it looked bad and people were concerned
(16:02):
about this guy being the leader of the free world,
regardless of the debate performance from the month previous, and
there was a lot of Like I said in the
last segment, there's clearly a lot of love between Joe
and Hunter, as pained as the relationship might be. Joe
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has protected Hunter for a long time. Hunter is doing
what he can to protect at least the legacy of
his father, and I can respect that.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I can completely understand that.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
But he also outside of the emotional introspection, he goes
scorched earth on some of these big names from the
Democratic Party, whether it's a George Clooney, I pledged you
that clip he goes after Jake Tapper for the book
that came out about people in the White House hiding
the president's mental decline. Anita Dunn, one of the advisors
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David Axelrod, other people who had called for the president
to step down from the nomination.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Does the Democratic Party need another black eye? Is that
what he delivers? I don't think that's what he delivers anymore.
I think that everybody listens to this and just feel
saddened by it.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
This is an embarrassed fish thing.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
It's a very selfish thing. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Anyway, but the issue of immigration came up, immigration being
one of those issues that is front and center for
the last several months because President Trump made it a
big campaign issue and has been going through and doing
the things that he said he was going to do.
So among other things, he did this weird calculus. Have
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never been comfortable with this. But basically, who do you
think is going to pick your lettuce if we kick
out all the immigrants?
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Democrats say, you have to talk about and realize that
people are really upset about illegal immigration. Do you how
do you think your hotel room gets cleaned? How do
you think that food on your table? Who do you
think washes your dishes? Who do you think does your garden?
Who do you think is here by the here? This
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is sad and will that they've figured out a way
to get here because they thought that they could give
themselves in their family a better chance.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Everything is completely everything that he says, every point that
he makes, not that it hasn't been made one hundred
thousand times over again by now, but it's all wiped
out by the F word. It's fine, listen, I support
the F word, but you've got to use it sparingly
for emphasis. He sounds like somebody who's going through something still.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
This is the guy at the end of the bar. Yeah. Yeah,
and he's been there a long time.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah, he's been there for decades.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
In terms of what he would do if he were president,
he referred to immigrants who had been deported out of
the United States and taken to the prison and El South.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
These guys think that we need to run away from
all values in order for us to lead. I say you,
how are we getting those people back from in El Salvador?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Because I'll tell you what if.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
I became president in two years from now or four
years from now or three years from now, I would
pick up the phone and call the president of El
Salvador and say, you either send them back or I'm
going to invade.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
It's again crime. Is anyone even listening to the substance
of what he's saying. It's completely lost by that. I
don't know what he's trying to do with that.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
I think the most entertaining part of it, and I
mean that in a sad way, was when he talked
about his expertise in drugs.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I want to I want to hear about this, even
though it's sad. I got to hear how he's going
to sugarcoat yeah, crack cocaine.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
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Speaker 1 (19:58):
Let's all get off our high horse of the government
shutting down free speech in the media. Stephen Colbert does
not belong on a network late night show. That's not
what those were originally doing. That's not what we grew
up watching. We grew up watching guys that stayed out
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of the fray.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
And that's a great point. Yeah, I have Johnny Carson.
I pulled this cut because I've seen it many times
it's Johnny Carson. I believe it's on sixty minutes being
asked about Well, you don't get into any of the
important I think the word that they used was important,
but you could substitute it.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
For you say something to the effect of, I'm not
a dumb ass. Of course I don't.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Yeah, it's a brilliant answer to a question that we
have completely forgotten.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I have not forgotten it because I remember the first
time I saw the Daily Show in Stephen Colbert and
the thought that I had, and the fact that some
of this has made its way onto the late night
at work shows, to me is nonsensical. There's a place
for those shows. It's not on network late night.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
A couple other stories.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers, I should say long, I guess
you could say Chargers quarterback now again, he's going to
retire as a Charger. They made the big announcement on
Chargers social media accounts yesterday in what was a.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Really great video.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
It was it's only about four minutes long. It's on
the Chargers Twitter account. It's if you're a fan. You
don't have to be a fan of the Chargers or
Philip Rivers, a fan of life. Just ye, he's such
a good guy. And then he starts getting choked up.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
But he golly, he kept saying, golly, the end of
an era, I mean, the end of a quarterback era,
like he was the last goy. I mean. I was
talking to Brian at the Dodger game about it. Philip
Rivers isn't conditioning Philip Rivers. You know, come on, Philip Rivers.
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You know it's like the Vloody devaka smoking a pack. Know,
Philip Riverson smoked cigarettes. But he was just a quarterbacks quarterback, dudes,
dude who just loved the game.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Love the game, loved playing with love playing behind his
offensive line. They wanted to protect them, They wanted to
protect him.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Now, there's so many people that get into it to
make the money and there's not the love there. And
for him, it was all the love of the game.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
We were talking about the Hunter Biden interview that he did,
a big, sit down, three hour interview, and one of
the obviously you can't talk to Hunter Biden without talking
about his struggles with addiction, and the interviewer was asking
him a handful of things about that and kind of
how he got started and how it accelerated and how
bad it got at times, just in terms of a
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full handle of vodka that he would drink per day,
per day, on top of the amphetamines and the cocaine
and everything that he was using. He denied that that
bag of cocaine that was found in the White House
was his.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
You can drink a handle of vodka or anything a
day if you've got some amphetamines to go with it.
That'll soo bring up. That's a nice little one two punch.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
But he was also asked about the difference between cocaine
cocaine and the crack cocaine.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Crack cocaine make you act any differently?
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Now?
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Is it safer than alcohol?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Probably?
Speaker 5 (23:23):
People think of crack as being dirty.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
It's the exact opposite.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
When you make crack, what you're doing is you're burning
off all the impurities and you're combined with the stuting
by carbonate, which makes it smokeable.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
That's all okay. Now, I don't know how true it is.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
I'm not going to argue with what it's more got
cleaner drug than alcohol.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Or it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. Wow, that is
next level rationalization. Yeah, that is real, real addiction right there,
and to be honest, real denial.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
I'm curious if for people who have struggled with addictions
and sobriety, if you still have that attitude.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
About it, are you really over it?
Speaker 5 (24:08):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I mean there's that thing.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I don't think, so I don't know. I don't want
I don't want to judge him or what he's going through.
But we talked about.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
This before that I the painkillers that I've taken for
whatever in my life, wisdom teeth or something like that.
I didn't I didn't like the feeling. I just I
never liked that feeling. And we'd also talk about I
think it was a friend of yours who said she
was constantly thinking about the pill and where it was
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in the content. That kind of that's a very dangerous
thing to me. That sounds like a guy who's still
living in that moment. He's still living in that It
would take a very little nudge for him to get
right back into that life.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Unfortunately. All right, scary, I know, scary. When we come back,
we'll get all the latest on the investigation into that
explosion that killed three members of the La County Sheriff's department.
It looks like the investigation has now shifted from that
apartment complex and the storage unit to Marina del Rey
(25:11):
will have all the latest coming up next.
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You don't feel it.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I don't feel that same buzz. Oh.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I mean I don't want to, you know, rain on
your parade or anything, but I feel it very in tuned.
I still feel like you're over caffeinated.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Oh, I have that you have.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
It's funny your volume goes up like gero point seven,
not a full notch, not a full notch, but just
like a point seven. No, because then it sounds Dad
sounds creepy when you do that. Please don't do that.
It's uh. But but yeah, I know there's a there's
a level, there's a you know, four espresso shots.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I had a couple of coffees this morning at home,
and then I was on my way to work and
I thought, you know, it sounds good war coffee. It's payback.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I think the resting heart rate of a eighty seven
is not high enough. I am going to do cardio
without doing cardio today, that's what you said.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
But I say that because instead of True Crime Tuesday,
we are doing True Love Tuesday coming up. We have
toyed with the idea of doing a gas dating game
or a gas love connection. We've talked about Chuck Woolery
and our love for the shows of our past, and
we kind of landed on something with at least we
have a single dude who is looking for a wife
(01:31):
around here, and we thought, why not start with him.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
And listen, it's not one of those like generic, Oh,
Eric needs a girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
No, he needs a wife.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
He's very specific.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
He's got an idea, he knows what he wants well Jewish, well,
so there's that. Yeah, but I mean, but so we've
got that.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
So we got that.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
We know, you know, we because you can't just open
it up and say there's you know, four million people
in the LA area that we qualify to be Eric's
new bride.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
The next test in on our what are we calling it,
gas match, The next contestant on gas Match may be
looking for Protestant.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I mean, who knows.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
We're not shutting the door on any sort of you know,
specifics that you're into. But the first, the first young
single man we have we will be introducing to you
this afternoon, and we will be taking women who are
interested in the form of pictures and a short bio,
and we will be posting all of his information on
(02:29):
our socials at Gary and Shannon as well.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
White Powder is in the news for a couple of
different reasons. Number One, Hunter Biden claims that he's sober,
and I have zero evidence to prove that he is.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I haven't heard the audio. He's got all this round
of interviews. Now, I haven't heard the audio, and I
haven't seen a picture of him. But I will say this,
there are people who abused drugs and or alcohol for
enough years to where when they do get sober, they
still appear to be a little bit impaired. They still
(03:03):
have that will do that. Cocaine will do that. If
you were into amphetamines for like a good twenty years,
you always have that vibe. Unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah, and it's one of those things that even if
you are are trying to portray an image of clean
and sober, or at least working on clean and sober,
that might be one of the things.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
That you would want to just be aware of.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
This three hour podcast video interview that he did.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Oh there is video. Oh yeah, Oh, I got to
see it. Oh you've seen it. Oh dear, oh really.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Oh, just onions.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
But this is the interview asking him about George Clooney. Remember,
George Clooney is the one that wrote the New York
Times ed suggesting it Biden be kicked out.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Onions but him, him, him and everybody around him, or
not to be nice. Number one I agree with and Tarantino.
George Clooney is not an actor.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Okay, that's not sober, just a bit.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yeah, you're right. He goes on to talk that's not
a bit.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
The potential good qualities of crack cocaine versus normal powdered cocaine.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Really, oh, I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
He takes everyone to task.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
He is un hinged, hinged, Yeah, and that's not one
somewhere needs to thank him. Whether it was him in
his own mind or a friend or somebody said to him.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Hey, you know what would be a good idea? You
sit down for a three hour completely unhinged podcast.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
You know what I am surprised that I did in
this situation is I was reading through the things that
he said in these podcasts that he's done he started
doing this week late last week, this round of interviews.
I was reading it like he was talking like a
normal person. I was reading it like taking him for
(04:57):
his word that he is sober, because yesterday we heard
about the cocaine and he said it wasn't my cocaine.
I haven't had a drop of alcohol or any drug
since twenty nineteen, and I'm proud of that. And I
read that as like a different hunter, like a new hunter.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I will say this in the context of what we're doing.
We don't have three hours to go over this guy's
three hour interviews, so there are times in his interview
where he's just a guy. He's just talking about his
own struggles. I mean, I'm I'm a little fascinated, not
too deeply because I feel like there's very little redemptive
quality that this guy has, but I'm fascinated with his
(05:34):
own take on his downfall.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Well, we'll get into that. What he said about George Clooney,
what he said about the DNC, who he largely blames
for what happened to his dad, and what Joe Biden
he says was on the night.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Of that debate, not crack cocaine.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Now, we'll do that when we come back.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from kfi
am six forty.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
The President is taking questions in the Oval office, and
just mentioned that he did not know that the Deputy
Attorney General was going to reach out to Glaine Maxwell
and find out what she knows about Jeffrey Epstein or
what she's willing to spill. Of course, this is in
reaction to the Maga Bass clamoring for the Jeffrey Epstein information.
(06:22):
I mean, this was stuff that they have touted for
at least a decade now of saying, oh my gosh,
what's in the Jeffrey Epstein file. And when I say they,
I mean Trump and his counterparts of like, what's in
the Jeffrey Epstein files. And that's what's fueled this whole
Hillary Clinton pizzeria child rape ring, underground New York Pizzagate thing.
(06:45):
That's where this all started was the Jeffrey Epstein files.
And this has been propagated through the years and then
all of a sudden, oh, there's nothing there.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
What None of it has made a whole lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
It made sense to fire up the base right ten
years ago to make the Clinton's the boogeyman.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Well, it's red meat to suggest that the government is
hiding that.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I mean that.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
It's red meat to push the theory right, to say
we need new leadership in Washington to root out this
kind of corruption and then when okay, now you have
that power and you have the and then to suggest
that it was all a ruse.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
The right time.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Kisses people off and I get it. So we'll get
into that all the latest because there's a lot they
especially if they get into Glene Maxwell, into that cell.
You got to be very careful because what does she know.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
She knows, she knows a lot. I'm just assuming she knows, yeah, plenty.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
So Hunter Biden is making the rounds on the interview circuit,
choosing a couple podcasts to go on, and he's been
trashing Democrats, including George Clooney.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Pinions but him, him, him, and everybody around him.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I don't have to be nice.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Number one. I agree with Quentin Tarantino. George Clooney is
not an actor. He is a like I don't know
what he is. He's a brand. And by the way,
and God bless him, you know what. He closely treats
his friends really well, you know what I mean, buys
them things. And he's got a really great place in
Lake Como, and he's great friends with Barack Obama.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
You what do you have to do with anything?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
What do I have to bore you?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
What right do you have to step on a man
who's given fifty two years of his in life to
the services of this country and decide that you, George Clooney,
are going to take out basically a full page ad
in the New York Times.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
You know what waters down the admirable support of your
father and your father's record in politics, the f words
sixteen times.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
The forty three seconds, cramming the effort in there as
many times as you possibly can.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
It just completely takes away any credit ability that you
may have had at any point.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
And listen one of the arguments about I understand it's
a family thing, and it's father son and they have
a special relationship because of whatever he's been protecting his dad,
his dad's been protecting him. I get that part of
it is completely understandable to me. What I don't quite
understand is the math of and he's not the only
one who's done this, the math of Joe Biden served
(09:25):
this country for fifty years. Well, the Biden family is
very very well off right now. Very well off. You
don't get that from service. That's very different. Serving the
country is very different than what many many politicians do.
And the suggestion that somehow he is then granted this
(09:47):
untouchable status because he spent decades in the Senate or
even time as president or vice president, that's never the
way that this country should work.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
No one's disputing the fact that Joe Biden put in
five days decades of service in politics in this country.
No one's disputing his record as somebody who was able
to cross the aisle and make friends amongst Republicans in
those fifty years. No one's disputing any of that. What
we are saying, and what we were saying is just
(10:19):
because you put in fifty years doesn't mean you're of
sound mind to be president of the United States. He wasn't.
His time essentially was Barack Obama's time. That was Joe
Biden's time to be president. That's when he had if
he was ever going to have the presence of mind
to do it, that's when it was. I mean, all
of these people they have to wait in line to
(10:40):
get the crown, and it's this whole deal, and it's
not fair, right, But that's the whole point. Was not
that everyone hates Joe Biden and that he didn't have
this illustrious record in Congress. It's that he didn't get
the chance in time. He was senile, and we all
saw it, and George Kloone saw it, and all the
(11:00):
Democrats saw it, and the people that hit it, the
Hunter Biden and the Jill Biden's of the world and
all that. Yes, in one hand, it's for your dad,
it's for your family, your husband, what have you. But
on the other hand, it's abuse to that person to
let them be exposed in the way that Joe Biden
was exposed on that debate stage.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
His explanation, by the way, for the debate stage, that's
exactly what happened in that debate.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
He flew around the world basically the mileage that he
could have flown around the world three times.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, he's eighty one years old, he's tired.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Could give him ambient.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
To be able to sleep.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
He gets up on the stage and he looks like
he's a deer in the headlights.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Ambient.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
You're suggesting that you gave an eighty year old man ambient.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
We have heard people that have taken ambient, Yeah, and
the next day. I mean, Handle's been open about it
right years ago. I remember Handle saying that he took
ambient for whatever. I think he had, like a surgery
or something. I don't remember. It was years ago, and
I was listening to him in the morning and he
(12:05):
was like, I'm sorry, I'm totally out of it. I
took an AMBM last night. Like it does affect you
the next day? Sure, the next morning. Does it affect
you into the prime time?
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Remember?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
That was the thing is that they there was There
was a lot of travel, and they did spend a
lot of time on Air Force one. As luxurious as
it is, you're still traveling across time zones that can
really mess you up. But the idea that ambion would
have been the answer for that. It doesn't make a
good time. It wasn't first thing in the morning.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
It wasn't five am or six am, which would make
sense if you were still groggy.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
There's a couple more pieces we'll get to here, including
what Hunter Biden says he would do if he were presidents.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Oh, I can't not wait.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
It's specific to the issue of immigration, but also his
discussion about why.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Crack cocaines might a little bit better than regularly.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I feel like I'm throwing stones over here with six
of espresso under my belts.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Different, very different, that's true.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert last night apparently told
Trump to go f yourself. But Donald Trump just took
to truth social saying the word is and it's strong
word at that. Jimmy Kimmel's next to go and the
untalented Late Night Sweepstakes, and shortly thereafter Fallen will be gone.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
You mentioned the President was sitting in the Oval Office
today with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Junior,
who goes by Bongbong.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Because of his parents' great scandals.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
His dad was president of the Philippines for like twenty
plus years, some of that time under martial law and
took a bunch of power, and then mom owned half
a million pairs of shoes or something, so he.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Didn't want to use the family name and chose Bongbong Minstead.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Okay, but President Bong Bong Marcos.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
That's right up there with you if you had stuck
with Phonsie.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I suppose that's very similar.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
If you're listening Santa Barbara, Ventura, Sanlos Obispoal Counties, there's
going to be a SpaceX launch in a couple hours,
and they are warning people that as the booster comes
back down to land, there could be a couple of
sonic booms. We heard one of those a month and
a half ago, I want to say, And it sounded
(14:34):
like somebody was banging on our door in our bedroom,
like there's a door to the outside. It sounded like
somebody was banging on our door. And my wife was
concerned that we were about to be raped and murdered.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Is it that she was worried you were going to
be raped?
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Ah, she's looking out for me.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
That's sweet.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
That's sweet.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
We have this awful running joke in our fan never mind,
it's not a funny thing to say.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I'd love to save that.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
So we're talking about we're talking about this interview.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Hunter Biden has has given a three hour interview.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Some of it is very introspective.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Now you'll hear a lot of the highlights where he
drops every f well every other words, an F bomb,
where he goes after some of the Democratic establishment, he says,
basically for cutting the legs out from under his father
during the end of his term and basically forcing him
out of the nomination for president, including taking advantage of
(15:39):
the fact that he had a severe case of COVID
in July of last year, okay, where we saw the
images of a very frail man dealing with a very
bad illness who looked worse than normal, you know, being
helped on and off the airplane, and then dilemmo. I
mean it just it looked bad and people were concerned
(16:02):
about this guy being the leader of the free world,
regardless of the debate performance from the month previous, and
there was a lot of Like I said in the
last segment, there's clearly a lot of love between Joe
and Hunter, as pained as the relationship might be. Joe
(16:23):
has protected Hunter for a long time. Hunter is doing
what he can to protect at least the legacy of
his father, and I can respect that.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I can completely understand that.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
But he also outside of the emotional introspection, he goes
scorched earth on some of these big names from the
Democratic Party, whether it's a George Clooney, I pledged you
that clip he goes after Jake Tapper for the book
that came out about people in the White House hiding
the president's mental decline. Anita Dunn, one of the advisors
(16:57):
David Axelrod, other people who had called for the president
to step down from the nomination.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Does the Democratic Party need another black eye? Is that
what he delivers? I don't think that's what he delivers anymore.
I think that everybody listens to this and just feel
saddened by it.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
This is an embarrassed fish thing.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
It's a very selfish thing. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Anyway, but the issue of immigration came up, immigration being
one of those issues that is front and center for
the last several months because President Trump made it a
big campaign issue and has been going through and doing
the things that he said he was going to do.
So among other things, he did this weird calculus. Have
(17:43):
never been comfortable with this. But basically, who do you
think is going to pick your lettuce if we kick
out all the immigrants?
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Democrats say, you have to talk about and realize that
people are really upset about illegal immigration. Do you how
do you think your hotel room gets cleaned? How do
you think that food on your table? Who do you
think washes your dishes? Who do you think does your garden?
Who do you think is here by the here? This
(18:12):
is sad and will that they've figured out a way
to get here because they thought that they could give
themselves in their family a better chance.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Everything is completely everything that he says, every point that
he makes, not that it hasn't been made one hundred
thousand times over again by now, but it's all wiped
out by the F word. It's fine, listen, I support
the F word, but you've got to use it sparingly
for emphasis. He sounds like somebody who's going through something still.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
This is the guy at the end of the bar. Yeah. Yeah,
and he's been there a long time.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah, he's been there for decades.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
In terms of what he would do if he were president,
he referred to immigrants who had been deported out of
the United States and taken to the prison and El South.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
These guys think that we need to run away from
all values in order for us to lead. I say you,
how are we getting those people back from in El Salvador?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Because I'll tell you what if.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
I became president in two years from now or four
years from now or three years from now, I would
pick up the phone and call the president of El
Salvador and say, you either send them back or I'm
going to invade.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
It's again crime. Is anyone even listening to the substance
of what he's saying. It's completely lost by that. I
don't know what he's trying to do with that.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
I think the most entertaining part of it, and I
mean that in a sad way, was when he talked
about his expertise in drugs.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I want to I want to hear about this, even
though it's sad. I got to hear how he's going
to sugarcoat yeah, crack cocaine.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Let's all get off our high horse of the government
shutting down free speech in the media. Stephen Colbert does
not belong on a network late night show. That's not
what those were originally doing. That's not what we grew
up watching. We grew up watching guys that stayed out
(20:19):
of the fray.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
And that's a great point. Yeah, I have Johnny Carson.
I pulled this cut because I've seen it many times
it's Johnny Carson. I believe it's on sixty minutes being
asked about Well, you don't get into any of the
important I think the word that they used was important,
but you could substitute it.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
For you say something to the effect of, I'm not
a dumb ass. Of course I don't.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Yeah, it's a brilliant answer to a question that we
have completely forgotten.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I have not forgotten it because I remember the first
time I saw the Daily Show in Stephen Colbert and
the thought that I had, and the fact that some
of this has made its way onto the late night
at work shows, to me is nonsensical. There's a place
for those shows. It's not on network late night.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
A couple other stories.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers, I should say long, I guess
you could say Chargers quarterback now again, he's going to
retire as a Charger. They made the big announcement on
Chargers social media accounts yesterday in what was a.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Really great video.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
It was it's only about four minutes long. It's on
the Chargers Twitter account. It's if you're a fan. You
don't have to be a fan of the Chargers or
Philip Rivers, a fan of life. Just ye, he's such
a good guy. And then he starts getting choked up.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
But he golly, he kept saying, golly, the end of
an era, I mean, the end of a quarterback era,
like he was the last goy. I mean. I was
talking to Brian at the Dodger game about it. Philip
Rivers isn't conditioning Philip Rivers. You know, come on, Philip Rivers.
(21:55):
You know it's like the Vloody devaka smoking a pack. Know,
Philip Riverson smoked cigarettes. But he was just a quarterbacks quarterback, dudes,
dude who just loved the game.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Love the game, loved playing with love playing behind his
offensive line. They wanted to protect them, They wanted to
protect him.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Now, there's so many people that get into it to
make the money and there's not the love there. And
for him, it was all the love of the game.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
We were talking about the Hunter Biden interview that he did,
a big, sit down, three hour interview, and one of
the obviously you can't talk to Hunter Biden without talking
about his struggles with addiction, and the interviewer was asking
him a handful of things about that and kind of
how he got started and how it accelerated and how
bad it got at times, just in terms of a
(22:45):
full handle of vodka that he would drink per day,
per day, on top of the amphetamines and the cocaine
and everything that he was using. He denied that that
bag of cocaine that was found in the White House
was his.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
You can drink a handle of vodka or anything a
day if you've got some amphetamines to go with it.
That'll soo bring up. That's a nice little one two punch.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
But he was also asked about the difference between cocaine
cocaine and the crack cocaine.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Crack cocaine make you act any differently?
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Now?
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Is it safer than alcohol?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Probably?
Speaker 5 (23:23):
People think of crack as being dirty.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
It's the exact opposite.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
When you make crack, what you're doing is you're burning
off all the impurities and you're combined with the stuting
by carbonate, which makes it smokeable.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
That's all okay. Now, I don't know how true it is.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
I'm not going to argue with what it's more got
cleaner drug than alcohol.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Or it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. Wow, that is
next level rationalization. Yeah, that is real, real addiction right there,
and to be honest, real denial.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
I'm curious if for people who have struggled with addictions
and sobriety, if you still have that attitude.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
About it, are you really over it?
Speaker 5 (24:08):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I mean there's that thing.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I don't think, so I don't know. I don't want
I don't want to judge him or what he's going through.
But we talked about.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
This before that I the painkillers that I've taken for
whatever in my life, wisdom teeth or something like that.
I didn't I didn't like the feeling. I just I
never liked that feeling. And we'd also talk about I
think it was a friend of yours who said she
was constantly thinking about the pill and where it was
(24:35):
in the content. That kind of that's a very dangerous
thing to me. That sounds like a guy who's still
living in that moment. He's still living in that It
would take a very little nudge for him to get
right back into that life.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Unfortunately. All right, scary, I know, scary. When we come back,
we'll get all the latest on the investigation into that
explosion that killed three members of the La County Sheriff's department.
It looks like the investigation has now shifted from that
apartment complex and the storage unit to Marina del Rey
(25:11):
will have all the latest coming up next.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
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