August 7, 2025 • 33 mins
#SWAMPWATCH – TRUE LOVE THURSDAY – Eric goes through dating bootcamp #TECHTALK w/ Marc Saltzman – T-Mobile Launches Its Cellular Starlink Service / Instagram adds reposting, location map, and more. China's 'biggest threat' to US is a 'tech kill-switch' after 'malicious' claims.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
We're gonna take out this wall. How do you know
what I was gonna say. I've been an advocate for
that for years.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Oh remember that time they moved us into the studio
and they're like, don't worry, it's temporary. Yeah, and that
was four years ago. Right, Yeah, let's take that wall down. Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
So what we're gonna do is, I'm gonna go get
to engineering.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
They have a sledgehammer there in that room with all
the machinery and stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, I don't think you're allowed to carry that here.
Carry it.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I'm not gonna just carry it. I'm gonna take out
this wall with it. What are they gonna do if
I do that? If I start it right, they'll patch
it up and tell you not to do it again.
They're gonna patch it up rather than just let me
finish taking it down. Yeah, well that's silly. Is it
a load bearing wall here? Let me find out not
(00:56):
in here it's not? Okay, and knock on it and
tell me if it's a load bearing wall. No, what's
a load bearing wall, A wall that if you removed
the building would come down. Yeah, like if you need it,
and it bears the load of the weight of the roof,
et cetera. But no, that's not it's not.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It feels pretty sturdy in there when I was knocking.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
It's probably all metal stud in there. It's not that
hard to get you know. That's not that's not good
or bad. It's just a matter of you.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
When you, you.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Know, punch through the drywall. You want to hit just drywalls.
You don't want to hit the metal stud.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Well, how do we get rid of the metal stud?
Do I have to take a chainsuck.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
And take it out? Oh, but you got to get
rid of the drywall first to get to right.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
How long you think I could do that in a show?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
No carry from Shadow Hills.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
I just want to let you know.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
I've been o'she's dog roomer for eighteen years, and his
little dog's name was Pete.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
He just sadly passed away.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Oh but I just thought you might find that interesting. Thanks, mate.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Well, I'm kind of glad we didn't know.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
No, I am glad I bring up his dead dog.
I would have because I'm very uncool.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Eh, yeah, I'm caring professal food professional.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It was a water Wait what did you say about
Oh that's right, processed foods. You're now you're a law
Now you're a load bearing professional.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
It's time for swamp watch. I'm a politician, which means
I'm a cheap and a liar.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing the we
got the No.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
Problem is that our leaders are dumb.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 8 (02:39):
Anywhere.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
what has been.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
You know, always been gone president. But they're not stupid.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
A political plunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
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Speaker 1 (03:09):
Okay, So, now Netanyahu is going in and going to
control all of Gaza.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
That's the plan. That's kind of what it has sounded like.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Apparently a couple of news channels are reporting that within
the last hour or so, Israel's Defense forces has ordered
the evacuation of all civilians out of central Gaza.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
The last time I checked, he's the only one who
wants this. There's been opposition from the Israeli military, opposition
from people in Israel that this is going to endanger hostages,
international pressure.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Protests right now on the streets of Tel Aviv against
all of this, and Nenyaho has said he wants Israel
to go in and completely occupy Gaza in an attempt
to wipe out Hamas. One way to stop it might
be to, I don't know, release the hostages. That's just
me just to guess. The Kremlin has said that Vladimir
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Putin and Donald Trump are finalizing details from a meeting
within the next few days. The White House says that
they don't want to meet unless Putin agrees to meet
with Zelenski as well. We don't know if it would
be at exactly the same time. That would seem unlikely,
But the US and Russia, according to Bloomberg, have agreed
on a venue for a meeting between their leaders, that
(04:24):
they will disclose the location later, and that they're starting
to work on some of the specifics of the meeting
in order to speed it up, maybe that they could
hold talks as soon as next week.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Would you like to talk about what could be more
expensive with the tariffs that have kicked in today? Here
is the list computers Among the top goods that we
imported the US imported last year, and the top countries
that exported computers and other electronic products to US last
year China, Mexico.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Taiwan, Vietnam, and Malaysia.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Goods from China already face a minimum tariff of thirty percent,
except for computers, which face tariffs of only twenty percent. However,
rates could soon shoot higher if a trade deal is
not reached with China in next.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Week August twelfth.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
So you've got goods from Taiwan, Vietnam, and Malaysia nearly
doubled today from the ten percent they were charged in
April to the twenty percent that kicks in today. So electronics, computers,
all of that is going to be an issue until
this is all ironed out. Clothing, we get most of
our stuff from other countries. That's why when you order
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something off Instagram, it comes to you from China and
it smells like it. China, Vietnam. I don't know if
that's what China smells like. It smells like the mail
that takes a long time, like if something's just in
the mail for a long time and it's musty. China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, India,
and Indonesia. That's where we get our clothes from.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
The tariffs they say placed on these.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Countries are impactful, especially since it's one of the things
that we import the most close clothes and electronics.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Right, watches, watches.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
If you are the type to buy your watch a
Swiss watch, who's that guy? You're facing a thirty nine
percent reciprocal tariff. So if you're into watches, into the
watch game, they're going to cost you more, but maybe
you don't care.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Shoes.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Shoes are going to cost more. Alcohol alcohol is going
to cost more. Why imported wine and spirit? You just
buy from California?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Buy uh plenty of stuff here.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, buy your whiskey from Kentucky and buy your wine
from California. What are you doing buying French or Italian wines?
Come on, aren't you an American? Furniture? Vietnam is the
top source of imported furniture followed by China toys as well.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeah, and as we get closer to the kids are
going to get cold, as we get closer to the holidays,
that's going to be that's gonna be significant. So the
other other issue that continues and has kind of spread
past DC into other areas now maybe going back to DC,
and that is this plans for mid decade redistricting. When
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you redistrict, it usually comes after the census. The census
comes every ten years. It counts people, figures out how
many representatives your state has based on population. We know
that Texas is trying to redistrict right now so that
they can kind of fudge the numbers and give Republicans
a more of a pad when it comes to the
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majority in the House of Representatives. California, New York, a
couple other places, Illinois, they have said that they would
do that they would redistrict in response as well and
carve out more democratic.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Districts.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Kevin Kyleie, congressman from up in northern California, is introducing
legislation that he says is going to ban all mid
decade redistricting efforts nationwide. He wants to nullify any of
the new maps that are approved at any point before
the twenty thirty census. Kevin is actually going to be
on with John later today during the John Cobelt Show
(08:09):
to talk about this plan to not just scuttle Texas's
plan for redistricting, but anybody's plan for mid decade redistricting.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Disaster a Chargers training camp, Oh, for Shaan Slater was
just carted off the field. Team fears he's torn as
ACL That means he's gone for the season. For Shawn
just signing a deal making him the four year, one
hundred and thirteen million dollar extension, making the highest paid
O Ligneman I.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Believe in the league. But my god, I mean.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
This is disastrous for the Chargers in terms of protection
for Justin Herbert. They said trainers were out, Kart came out,
teammates hugging him.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
My god.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
That is a that's a disaster. That's the worst injury
that could happen on that team.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
My god. Oh awful. Well, we're not an action this weekend, right,
Prayers up.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Charters play the Saints on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
There are a few other preseason games that start tonight
for the what's arguably the first weekend of preseason. So anyway,
when we come back, Eric, we're trying to get him
a date. We need to go through SMS things. We
need to do a little dating boot camp when we
come back. Yeah, Gary and Channon will continue.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
On our True Love Tuesdays.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
We've been talking with our friend Eric, who's a border
for the John Cobel Show.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Eric's a great guy, We've known him for quite some time.
He's thirty one. Now he's thinking seriously about making babies,
settling down, finding a wife, making babies, the whole bit.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
And why are you laughing?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Eric? See this is what we're going to have to
boot camp out of you. If you want to be serious,
be serious, none of this little boy dan around you.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Got it? Okay, I captain, all right.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
See that's the attitude you need to take into your dates.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
You know. Let her run the show. So we have
a candidate we're trying to flesh. We have but like, we.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Have gone through a lot of women for you, and
we have found the one that we feel, I feel,
I wouln't want to speak for you is definite marriage material.
I could see her being the mother of your children.
If you don't f this up, well, I hope I
don't have this up.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I was thinking of floating her.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I was thinking about getting Eric's parents opinion about what
they think.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Oh, that's interesting, Well who knows him better? Get another
set of eyes on this.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
But who knows him better than his parents? Well probably
his roommates at least right now?
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Yeah, no, I mean that's that's that's quite quite the
toss up.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
But you can't bring her back there, No, to the apartment.
You're going to need a place, no, not a faith place.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
I'm taking her parents either.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Well, I don't think that's a bad option.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
I mean, how far are you willing to drive? I mean,
you go to my house.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
But no, that's weird.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
We're not giving him like, we're not pimping him out
and giving him strange.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Places to entertain. Yeah, you're right, that'd bed.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I could just do a normal first date at a
what the bar?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
What's your idea?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
So okay, so you drink drinks. Okay, what are you
going to order? Probably an old old what if it's it?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
You know, okay, at any time of day.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
I mean this is probably going to be a nighttime date.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
To your first drinks.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Wait a minute, Hold on a second, I'm asking Shannon here.
Would you would you suggest he'd do it a little
earlier in the day.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I would.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I mean, clearly, your weekday schedule is going to be
jammed up by work, but maybe a Saturday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Saturday afternoon, I'd say, an afternoon, And I'd say I
wouldn't have an old fashioned first.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I'd get a first an old fashion guy.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah, but an old fat that's like an end of
the evening kind of a thing, that's like a thing
that's a nice.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Thing to sip on for a few, like twenty minutes minutes.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
We haven't three of them. Is my grandfather like having
an old fashion at six pm?
Speaker 4 (12:16):
I don't agree with that.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I think an old fashion is perfectly fine. Okay.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
I'm more intrigued about this earlier in the day, only
because I've never done that before.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Only because I.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Don't think you want to there to even be the
appearance of any sort of pressure on her, Like, hey,
you've said this before, You've planned things after a first date,
just so you know you have an escape route. Yes, yeah,
if you if you start a date at seven thirty
eight whatever, there's nothing to do afterwards. She doesn't have
an escape route. Always make her feel comfortable. She's got
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an escape route, right, she.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Can plan like you know she has. She's meeting a
friend at eight pm or whatever. Right, interesting, Yeah, that's
why you.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
I always suggest a date for like eight eight thirty.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Now I would too, because I think that's a god,
that's a series killer.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
That escalated so quickly.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I can't with that.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
If you get that slot, like you don't get that
spot off the gate at the bat.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
I'm taking the pressure off of not trying to order
a full meal during the day, where hey, let's just
go grab drinks at like eight thirty, hang out for
like an hour.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
No, no, I don't like it. Let's pick an outdoor location,
like five thirty. It's before dinner, it's afternoon, you're out
of they have one beer, you're out of there. Don't
do the old fast it's too heavy. Old fashion is
too heavy. I think, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Okay, that's perfect. All right, there we go because that's
light and crispy.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Do not drink beer.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Yeah, it's not my preference, Okay, I mean, what if
you forced him to.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
I mean, I'll have him Madelo at the dog Name,
but you order.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
A couple of appetizers, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Okay, Yeah, that's good. That's good because it's not a
full meal. She's not going to want to eat a
full meal.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And not sliders. Don't make her put a whole burger
in her mouth.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Buffalo cauliflower if.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
She's into that, Yeah, that's a good move. It shows
that you're open to a vegetable.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Not out Michaels.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
So I just don't want you to like go into
this date like with your your dating app stick of
like what you usually do, because that's doesn't come off
as authentic.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Well, it hasn't been working either, right.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
So we need you to find your authentic self.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Okay, be a good first date.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I love that. That's also great. That's a really good idea.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
But in like a hiking trail with multiple.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah exactly. He's not going to take her out to
like Mount Baldy.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
I wouldn't even do that period pine mountains.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Pretty sure. I can get us lost here. I'm where
nikes for a hike. I'm not wearing boots.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I love that. I think she likes hiking too. Yeah,
she did say something about outdoors. E No, that's a
great idea. That's okay, Yeah, play to your strengths.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
That's good because then there's the old fashion for later,
like at the end you're like, hey, I'm parched.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I no, No, that's weird because they're gonna go on
a hike before the heat kicks in, so it's gonna
be in the morning, like on a Saturday or Sunday morning,
and then you know, you don't need to have beverages
after you have your water and your hike, and then
it's like, hey, that was fun, Like maybe we'll get
drinks another time or something like that.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Okay, by I have a great day, have a great weekend.
That's it. It doesn't need to be a two part date.
You have a hike.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
That way, you've got other people to talk us about.
You've got like Flora, Florida, Flora and fauna.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
But you'd be willing to cut it off at the
end of it and be like, now we're back to
our cars.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Hey, it was great to meet.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
You always leave her wanting more.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
But what if the vibe calls for hey, let's go
grab a bite to eat.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
That's her or are you saying that guys are too
stupid that we would automatically assume that that's the case, and.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
It may not be.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I don't know, because I would not like in the moment,
she's like, we should just we should keep going.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
It's like we just we just did a hike. We
just some energy. Let's go get some sustenance. Like okay,
so get a sandwich or something after hike. Sometimes you're
sweaty and you don't want to just like sit in it. Right,
you're both sweaty. It's what if like we want to
go get like a smoothie.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, yeah, that's cool. I like that. I like that.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I just still want her to feel trapped spending more
time with you than she allotted.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Oh no, trust me, I'm not going to make a
woman feel trapped.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Okay, I feel trapped right now? Well you thinking about
a second location? I feel that traps me.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
You are atypical, though, I have to true like to
get in and get out. You are a typical. She'd
start jingling her keys one hundred yards into the walk.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Can what do you think?
Speaker 6 (16:59):
I think I agree with all that, But if they're
enjoying each other during this day and like enjoying their time.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Why not go to lunch afterwards?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, okay, that's what I think. That'd be my worst nightmare.
But I can see how women would like that.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
It just depends on how the what the vibe is. Yeah,
Like if like they're just like, oh, this is a
great time like things, maybe I'll text you whatever like
in the day, or go get a smoothie and.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Then all so you'll know right away if she says
no to the smoothie that she's not into you, right, Yeah,
that's true.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Okay, but they can also make plans for like another.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Day, yeah, to go to That's kind of what I
was thinking that it's all based off like the vibe.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
H how do you think your vibe meter is? Do
you think it's a tuned up pretty well? Yeah, I
can be able to figure that out.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah okay, yeah, yeah, Oh my god. I love this.
I feel it. I feel like I'm.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Excited that you came up with the idea for a hike,
Like that's great, that's really good.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
You got me thinking outside the box.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Okay, So the next steps a lot of this is
going to have to take place behind closed doors. You
don't get to see all how this magic has made.
But but hopefully we'll be able to uh get something
going here in the next couple.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Of days weeks.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Is it completely off the table that you and I
are like hiding in the bushes?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Probably?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Okay, because how would you how would that? You say?
Speaker 4 (18:21):
No?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
You said probably, I said probably. Well, if you guys
end up on the same hike that we.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
End up on, happened to be walking ten feet behind
you the whole time.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
With a camera and a hat behind you like trench
coat in the heat inspector gadget like magnifying glass.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
What closer, walk closer, terror walk closer?
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Walk too fast? Now at the dogs? Help ask she
needs water? All right?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Eric, thank you, Thanks guys. Tech Talk with Mark Saltzman.
I think we did, and we've got some we got
some groundwork established.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Check.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
Then you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
It is Thursday at eleven thirty, which means it's time
for tech Talk.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
I surprised Elmer when I said that, I.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Know, well, I mean, he's busy talking to Tom Hanks dancing.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
The machines are getting smarter.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
This is tech Talk brought to you by skynet.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Bler friend Mark Saltzman joined us to talk about technology
and Mark, I am a Tembile customer and had the
satellite beta available to me over the course of the
last couple of months. And it was fun because in
my neighborhood there's a couple of dead spots cellular wise,
and I get a notification on my phone that said, hey,
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if you need to send a message, you could send
a message via satellite right now.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
I didn't need to, but it was nice to.
Speaker 8 (19:54):
Know, well, you might, right, I mean, according to the company,
there's over five hundred thousand miles of area of terrain
in the US that has not has no coverage with
cellular towers, so you may in an emergency situation find
yourself needing this, which is which is handy to have,
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and unlike some of the other solutions, like what Apple
and Samsung are doing, where you need a certain type
of phone, you got to hold it up and move
it around and find the satellites and all, this is
a much simpler process.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
So you're right though, Gary.
Speaker 8 (20:26):
It was in beta for a while, but they officially
launched it last week. It's it's official, and it's also
open to non mobile customers as well, which a lot
of people don't know about. But it is a partnership
with Starlink, and yeah, you may find yourself off the grid.
It's it's a it's a great service that is right
now text only, but it's early days, right it's it's
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just launched, but one day there could be voice communications,
maybe video, but right now it's for those who need
to reach someone and it works with virtually any.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Phone over the last four years. That's the good.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
And you don't have to do any kind of funny
sort of tin hat thing where you're you know, trying
to get service.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
This will just work.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
It'll seamlessly connect from going from cellular towers to satellite.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
It's so funny these days, since this this signal is
so great everywhere. When you do lose the signal, when
you're you know, on a date with Eric, hiking or something, oh,
it's so odd and you feel this weird sense. I
don't want to use the A word, but this just
weird sense of not being connected. I mean, part of
it's freeing, but part of it's like, ooh, what if
something happened yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
So, now I'm curious to know what that a word
is in my anxiety, like it's overused. Yeah so, but
I hear you.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
I visited my elder my eldest son who's working at
a summer camp in the middle of the wilderness, and
I visited him for Visitor's Day. Please allow myself to
introduce myself and I, yeah, I wanted to contact my
folks so that they're great. Son can say hi, and
it's like zero bars. It's like kind of on an island.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
That's weird. And yeah. So it's like, yeah, you really
do feel it because you're right.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
It's that contrast to the fact that we have ubiquitous
five G in urban areas. But yeah, so this is
newly launched. It has been in beta for a while.
You can read more about it at T Mobile's website.
But it is a partnership with Starlink. Other carriers are
doing similar things as well, not always with Starlink, there's
other partners but the ideas that we're having a greater
(22:31):
connection with those who matter when you need it, which
is always good.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Instagram is changing some things up too. I'm not the
most savvy Instagram user, but I realized that they did
not allow reposting of things for a long time, and
now they're going.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
To Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
So if you saw something on Facebook that you liked
or on x, you can easily, you know, a click
of a button or tap of an icon, share that
content with your fam, your fam family or friends or
followers and which all may be the same thing. And
so now you can do that on Instagram. It was
(23:10):
not easy before there were third party apps that let
you copy and paste a story or a post a
real but now you can do it. What's get garnering
more buzz about the new Instagram features and speaking of
staying connected everywhere you go, Like we just talked about,
they're rolling out something that Snapchat has had for years,
(23:31):
and that's a mapping feature. So people either love or
hate this, but just know that it's opt in. But
the idea is that you can share your location on
a map, so that your friends on Instagram can instantly
see your little icon when they're looking at a map
of where they are. I remember with Snapchat. I remember
we took a family vacation a couple of years ago
to Aruba, and my kids were I think in high
(23:53):
school at the time, they're like, oh, I wonder if
any of our friends are nearby. And they opened up
their phones and went to Snapchat and they saw a
couple of people that they didn't realize we're on vacation
on the same island that we were on, and they're like, oh, we.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Should And then they ended up getting together and going.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
To a club.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
And so now Instagram and they've copied Snapchat before with stories.
By the way, if you remember, uh, that's another thing
that Snapchat started that Instagram borrowed.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Uh, so Meta's doing it again. So with Instagram, it's
opt in.
Speaker 8 (24:18):
You can share your location so that you can get
together with friends when you happen to be in the
same place. You could just quickly at a glance see
who's near you if you want to grab a cup.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Of Joe or go to a club.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
He'll get nervous. No, a were No, it's all good.
Speaker 8 (24:38):
What mom and dad didn't have the A in the
hotel rooms were.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
In the strange country. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
It seems with these updates and these changes that all
of our social media apps that for you know that
five eight years ago were all very different, they're all
becoming the same kind of app, now, aren't they.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
That's fair, that's fair.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
They're all borrowing features from each other, and I'm sure
Snapchat also, I can't think of any examples, but they're
also copying something that Meta is doing. But Threads is
basically a town's town square digital town square that you
know that Twitter was is so look, I mean, Meta
may have been the first with Facebook, even though that
(25:19):
was you know, not exactly uniquely unique at the time,
but they were kind of they sort of were the trailblazer,
I think, and they paved the way for everybody else.
Meta is now copying some of the things that work
on other platforms, right, and then and and Elon is
looking to China at what some of those apps are doing,
like we Chat, where it's like an all, all in
(25:41):
one app. It's your digital wallet, it's your it's your
communications app, it's your social media thinks. I mean, it's
they're trying he's trying to roll X into all of that.
And so yeah, it's it's imitation. Is the sincere's form
of flattery, as they say. So it's all good.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I just choose, choose your poison, pick your poison, right,
have planned for the weekend that's that's a better question.
Speaker 8 (26:03):
Well, my wife is in Vermont on a road trip
with some girlfriends. Oh, she's coming back on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
What are they up to in Vermont?
Speaker 8 (26:11):
Well, they're in Stowe, which is I think one of
the bigger cities. They went to Burlington as well. They
visited the the Ben and Jerry factory again, which is Yeah,
they're just that's they're at a friend's, like a friend's
summer home, just chilling and my wife loves road trips.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Great strippers and Stow.
Speaker 8 (26:29):
Oh I didn't know. Okay, yeah, I don't think that's
on that that I'm aware of.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
You've never been to a Smuggler's notch. Come on, that's
not a real name.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
It is.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
No, it's a state park.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
State park sounds.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I was just going to say, that's a great name
for a striper.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I thought, so, there's actually a state park in Stowe,
Vermont called Smugglers not state Park.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
And just googled it and made it up. No, No, I
did google it, but I did not make it up.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Oh, Mark, I hope that your wife brings you home
a T shirt from Smugglers.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
I've got the A.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Now, I've got the A. Here all. Thanks a lot, Mark,
and that does not stand for a rouse.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Okay, thank you Mark. Follow Mark on your favorite social
media again. Follow him on x at Mark Underscore Saltsman,
m A r C Underscore Saltsman.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from kf
I AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
A bunch of stories that are going on today.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Today is likely, by the way, to be the warmest
day of the week, probably the warmest day we've seen
all summer. After temperatures approaching levels throughout LA County five
to ten degrees above normal, Downtown LA could top out
above ninety degrees, which is pretty pretty toasty. President Trump
also has announced he's ordered a mid decade census, and
(27:57):
this census, he said, would exclude illegal immigrants. He wrote
on truth Social quote, I instructed our Department of Commerce
to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate
census based on modern day facts and figures, and most importantly,
using the results in information gained from the presidential election
of twenty four And then he wrote, people who are
in our country illegally will not be counted in the census.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
I got mail, what is that?
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Another legos hit oh?
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I don't know unless I ordered something that.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Look, very few Amazon boxes comes as gifts.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Who is it?
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Maybe it is a gift.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
It comes up.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I like the reason. I like the reason why Gary
doesn't like the cat. Please he wanted his own lego.
Please give this to him from Janet.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Oh, Janet, that gave you the lego cat in the
first place. Well, look at this. It's baseball. That's fun.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
You can make your own baseball glove and ball and.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Bat and trophy too. It comes with a little trophy.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
You will have a trophy.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
That's funny.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
That's very sweet.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Thank you, thank you, very nice. It's very nice. It's
eight plus two.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Oh good, she knows us.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
A cybersecurity expert has delivered an alert that one of
the greatest technological threats we face in the future, hopefully
it's not the near future.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Is a kill switch.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
The United States has initiated a bunch of different investigations
into Chinese made technology, and several of those investigations have
shown that there appears to be some sort of malicious,
mysterious computer codes that could be could be remotely triggered
to disable critical infrastructure. Think of natural gas pipelines, power
(30:02):
grids things like that. In fact, one of the former
one of the co founders of connect Wise cybersecurity firm,
considers this the most serious threat that confronts America. That
Chinese tech companies often have strong connections with the Chinese
Communist Party leadership, which has consistently expressed its goal of
(30:24):
undermining the West, specifically the United States, but the United
States and allies. And there is this huge concern that
of all of those things that we buy from China,
stuff that's built in China, the technology that comes from China,
everything from your wireless router to your phone to I
(30:45):
don't know, small appliances, large appliances in your home, etc.
For example, security experts a couple months ago to discovered
a hidden back door in a robot dog.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
It's called the Go one robot dog.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
The back door is a software feature hidden software feature
that allows for secret, remote access and control over the devices.
Once connected to the Internet, that robot automatically establishes a
connection to the original company's servers through a tunnel service,
and that concealed channel enables remote operation, camera access, which
(31:24):
is important and system infiltration. The issue of power converters
particularly alarming because these kill switches could potentially allow Beijing
to shut down entire electricity grids, leading to widespread blackouts
throughout the United States throughout other Western countries. They said
power inverters are the ones that are crucial for converting
(31:44):
DC currents from solar panels or wind turbines into AC current,
which is what we use on our grids. And it's
not new. Kill switch functions have been found in equipment
at American solar facilities. In twenty twenty three. Were concerned
about cranes specifically that were made in China, including those
by Shanghai jen Hua Heavy Industries. Several US ports use
(32:09):
those cranes, including some ports that have a very strong
military connection, and if they're able to knock those things
out with just one little switch somewhere in a bunker
in China, then.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
We are in.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Uh, We're in for some pain if that's the case.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Thank goodness.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
What a fun look at our dystopian future. Can you
believe that it's here?
Speaker 4 (32:34):
The new Hour? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:36):
I do have a football question for you when we
come back to It's.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
A football beer question, Okay, okay, but it's a very
important thing there. I found a hole in this connection
between football and beer, and I need you to help,
maybe figure it out for me. More than happy to help,
all right.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
That's just around the corner.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Also strained science, ultra processed foods, all of that just
in time for lunch.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Die a.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
We're gonna take out this wall. How do you know
what I was gonna say. I've been an advocate for
that for years.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Oh remember that time they moved us into the studio
and they're like, don't worry, it's temporary. Yeah, and that
was four years ago. Right, Yeah, let's take that wall down. Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
So what we're gonna do is, I'm gonna go get
to engineering.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
They have a sledgehammer there in that room with all
the machinery and stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, I don't think you're allowed to carry that here.
Carry it.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I'm not gonna just carry it. I'm gonna take out
this wall with it. What are they gonna do if
I do that? If I start it right, they'll patch
it up and tell you not to do it again.
They're gonna patch it up rather than just let me
finish taking it down. Yeah, well that's silly. Is it
a load bearing wall here? Let me find out not
(00:56):
in here it's not? Okay, and knock on it and
tell me if it's a load bearing wall. No, what's
a load bearing wall, A wall that if you removed
the building would come down. Yeah, like if you need it,
and it bears the load of the weight of the roof,
et cetera. But no, that's not it's not.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It feels pretty sturdy in there when I was knocking.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
It's probably all metal stud in there. It's not that
hard to get you know. That's not that's not good
or bad. It's just a matter of you.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
When you, you.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Know, punch through the drywall. You want to hit just drywalls.
You don't want to hit the metal stud.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Well, how do we get rid of the metal stud?
Do I have to take a chainsuck.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
And take it out? Oh, but you got to get
rid of the drywall first to get to right.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
How long you think I could do that in a show?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
No carry from Shadow Hills.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
I just want to let you know.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
I've been o'she's dog roomer for eighteen years, and his
little dog's name was Pete.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
He just sadly passed away.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Oh but I just thought you might find that interesting. Thanks, mate.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Well, I'm kind of glad we didn't know.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
No, I am glad I bring up his dead dog.
I would have because I'm very uncool.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Eh, yeah, I'm caring professal food professional.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It was a water Wait what did you say about
Oh that's right, processed foods. You're now you're a law
Now you're a load bearing professional.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
It's time for swamp watch. I'm a politician, which means
I'm a cheap and a liar.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing the we
got the No.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
Problem is that our leaders are dumb.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 8 (02:39):
Anywhere.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
what has been.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
You know, always been gone president. But they're not stupid.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
A political plunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
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Speaker 1 (03:09):
Okay, So, now Netanyahu is going in and going to
control all of Gaza.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
That's the plan. That's kind of what it has sounded like.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Apparently a couple of news channels are reporting that within
the last hour or so, Israel's Defense forces has ordered
the evacuation of all civilians out of central Gaza.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
The last time I checked, he's the only one who
wants this. There's been opposition from the Israeli military, opposition
from people in Israel that this is going to endanger hostages,
international pressure.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Protests right now on the streets of Tel Aviv against
all of this, and Nenyaho has said he wants Israel
to go in and completely occupy Gaza in an attempt
to wipe out Hamas. One way to stop it might
be to, I don't know, release the hostages. That's just
me just to guess. The Kremlin has said that Vladimir
(04:03):
Putin and Donald Trump are finalizing details from a meeting
within the next few days. The White House says that
they don't want to meet unless Putin agrees to meet
with Zelenski as well. We don't know if it would
be at exactly the same time. That would seem unlikely,
But the US and Russia, according to Bloomberg, have agreed
on a venue for a meeting between their leaders, that
(04:24):
they will disclose the location later, and that they're starting
to work on some of the specifics of the meeting
in order to speed it up, maybe that they could
hold talks as soon as next week.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Would you like to talk about what could be more
expensive with the tariffs that have kicked in today? Here
is the list computers Among the top goods that we
imported the US imported last year, and the top countries
that exported computers and other electronic products to US last
year China, Mexico.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Taiwan, Vietnam, and Malaysia.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Goods from China already face a minimum tariff of thirty percent,
except for computers, which face tariffs of only twenty percent. However,
rates could soon shoot higher if a trade deal is
not reached with China in next.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Week August twelfth.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
So you've got goods from Taiwan, Vietnam, and Malaysia nearly
doubled today from the ten percent they were charged in
April to the twenty percent that kicks in today. So electronics, computers,
all of that is going to be an issue until
this is all ironed out. Clothing, we get most of
our stuff from other countries. That's why when you order
(05:37):
something off Instagram, it comes to you from China and
it smells like it. China, Vietnam. I don't know if
that's what China smells like. It smells like the mail
that takes a long time, like if something's just in
the mail for a long time and it's musty. China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, India,
and Indonesia. That's where we get our clothes from.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
The tariffs they say placed on these.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Countries are impactful, especially since it's one of the things
that we import the most close clothes and electronics.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Right, watches, watches.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
If you are the type to buy your watch a
Swiss watch, who's that guy? You're facing a thirty nine
percent reciprocal tariff. So if you're into watches, into the
watch game, they're going to cost you more, but maybe
you don't care.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Shoes.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Shoes are going to cost more. Alcohol alcohol is going
to cost more. Why imported wine and spirit? You just
buy from California?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Buy uh plenty of stuff here.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, buy your whiskey from Kentucky and buy your wine
from California. What are you doing buying French or Italian wines?
Come on, aren't you an American? Furniture? Vietnam is the
top source of imported furniture followed by China toys as well.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeah, and as we get closer to the kids are
going to get cold, as we get closer to the holidays,
that's going to be that's gonna be significant. So the
other other issue that continues and has kind of spread
past DC into other areas now maybe going back to DC,
and that is this plans for mid decade redistricting. When
(07:12):
you redistrict, it usually comes after the census. The census
comes every ten years. It counts people, figures out how
many representatives your state has based on population. We know
that Texas is trying to redistrict right now so that
they can kind of fudge the numbers and give Republicans
a more of a pad when it comes to the
(07:33):
majority in the House of Representatives. California, New York, a
couple other places, Illinois, they have said that they would
do that they would redistrict in response as well and
carve out more democratic.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Districts.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Kevin Kyleie, congressman from up in northern California, is introducing
legislation that he says is going to ban all mid
decade redistricting efforts nationwide. He wants to nullify any of
the new maps that are approved at any point before
the twenty thirty census. Kevin is actually going to be
on with John later today during the John Cobelt Show
(08:09):
to talk about this plan to not just scuttle Texas's
plan for redistricting, but anybody's plan for mid decade redistricting.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Disaster a Chargers training camp, Oh, for Shaan Slater was
just carted off the field. Team fears he's torn as
ACL That means he's gone for the season. For Shawn
just signing a deal making him the four year, one
hundred and thirteen million dollar extension, making the highest paid
O Ligneman I.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Believe in the league. But my god, I mean.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
This is disastrous for the Chargers in terms of protection
for Justin Herbert. They said trainers were out, Kart came out,
teammates hugging him.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
My god.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
That is a that's a disaster. That's the worst injury
that could happen on that team.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
My god. Oh awful. Well, we're not an action this weekend, right,
Prayers up.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Charters play the Saints on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
There are a few other preseason games that start tonight
for the what's arguably the first weekend of preseason. So anyway,
when we come back, Eric, we're trying to get him
a date. We need to go through SMS things. We
need to do a little dating boot camp when we
come back. Yeah, Gary and Channon will continue.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
On our True Love Tuesdays.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
We've been talking with our friend Eric, who's a border
for the John Cobel Show.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Eric's a great guy, We've known him for quite some time.
He's thirty one. Now he's thinking seriously about making babies,
settling down, finding a wife, making babies, the whole bit.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
And why are you laughing?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Eric? See this is what we're going to have to
boot camp out of you. If you want to be serious,
be serious, none of this little boy dan around you.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Got it? Okay, I captain, all right.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
See that's the attitude you need to take into your dates.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
You know. Let her run the show. So we have
a candidate we're trying to flesh. We have but like, we.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Have gone through a lot of women for you, and
we have found the one that we feel, I feel,
I wouln't want to speak for you is definite marriage material.
I could see her being the mother of your children.
If you don't f this up, well, I hope I
don't have this up.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I was thinking of floating her.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I was thinking about getting Eric's parents opinion about what
they think.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Oh, that's interesting, Well who knows him better? Get another
set of eyes on this.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
But who knows him better than his parents? Well probably
his roommates at least right now?
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Yeah, no, I mean that's that's that's quite quite the
toss up.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
But you can't bring her back there, No, to the apartment.
You're going to need a place, no, not a faith place.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
I'm taking her parents either.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Well, I don't think that's a bad option.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
I mean, how far are you willing to drive? I mean,
you go to my house.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
But no, that's weird.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
We're not giving him like, we're not pimping him out
and giving him strange.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Places to entertain. Yeah, you're right, that'd bed.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I could just do a normal first date at a
what the bar?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
What's your idea?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
So okay, so you drink drinks. Okay, what are you
going to order? Probably an old old what if it's it?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
You know, okay, at any time of day.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
I mean this is probably going to be a nighttime date.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
To your first drinks.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Wait a minute, Hold on a second, I'm asking Shannon here.
Would you would you suggest he'd do it a little
earlier in the day.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I would.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I mean, clearly, your weekday schedule is going to be
jammed up by work, but maybe a Saturday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Saturday afternoon, I'd say, an afternoon, And I'd say I
wouldn't have an old fashioned first.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I'd get a first an old fashion guy.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah, but an old fat that's like an end of
the evening kind of a thing, that's like a thing
that's a nice.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Thing to sip on for a few, like twenty minutes minutes.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
We haven't three of them. Is my grandfather like having
an old fashion at six pm?
Speaker 4 (12:16):
I don't agree with that.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I think an old fashion is perfectly fine. Okay.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
I'm more intrigued about this earlier in the day, only
because I've never done that before.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Only because I.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Don't think you want to there to even be the
appearance of any sort of pressure on her, Like, hey,
you've said this before, You've planned things after a first date,
just so you know you have an escape route. Yes, yeah,
if you if you start a date at seven thirty
eight whatever, there's nothing to do afterwards. She doesn't have
an escape route. Always make her feel comfortable. She's got
(12:47):
an escape route, right, she.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Can plan like you know she has. She's meeting a
friend at eight pm or whatever. Right, interesting, Yeah, that's
why you.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
I always suggest a date for like eight eight thirty.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Now I would too, because I think that's a god,
that's a series killer.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
That escalated so quickly.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I can't with that.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
If you get that slot, like you don't get that
spot off the gate at the bat.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
I'm taking the pressure off of not trying to order
a full meal during the day, where hey, let's just
go grab drinks at like eight thirty, hang out for
like an hour.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
No, no, I don't like it. Let's pick an outdoor location,
like five thirty. It's before dinner, it's afternoon, you're out
of they have one beer, you're out of there. Don't
do the old fast it's too heavy. Old fashion is
too heavy. I think, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Okay, that's perfect. All right, there we go because that's
light and crispy.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Do not drink beer.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Yeah, it's not my preference, Okay, I mean, what if
you forced him to.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
I mean, I'll have him Madelo at the dog Name,
but you order.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
A couple of appetizers, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Okay, Yeah, that's good. That's good because it's not a
full meal. She's not going to want to eat a
full meal.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And not sliders. Don't make her put a whole burger
in her mouth.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Buffalo cauliflower if.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
She's into that, Yeah, that's a good move. It shows
that you're open to a vegetable.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Not out Michaels.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
So I just don't want you to like go into
this date like with your your dating app stick of
like what you usually do, because that's doesn't come off
as authentic.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Well, it hasn't been working either, right.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
So we need you to find your authentic self.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Okay, be a good first date.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I love that. That's also great. That's a really good idea.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
But in like a hiking trail with multiple.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah exactly. He's not going to take her out to
like Mount Baldy.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
I wouldn't even do that period pine mountains.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Pretty sure. I can get us lost here. I'm where
nikes for a hike. I'm not wearing boots.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I love that. I think she likes hiking too. Yeah,
she did say something about outdoors. E No, that's a
great idea. That's okay, Yeah, play to your strengths.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
That's good because then there's the old fashion for later,
like at the end you're like, hey, I'm parched.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I no, No, that's weird because they're gonna go on
a hike before the heat kicks in, so it's gonna
be in the morning, like on a Saturday or Sunday morning,
and then you know, you don't need to have beverages
after you have your water and your hike, and then
it's like, hey, that was fun, Like maybe we'll get
drinks another time or something like that.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Okay, by I have a great day, have a great weekend.
That's it. It doesn't need to be a two part date.
You have a hike.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
That way, you've got other people to talk us about.
You've got like Flora, Florida, Flora and fauna.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
But you'd be willing to cut it off at the
end of it and be like, now we're back to
our cars.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Hey, it was great to meet.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
You always leave her wanting more.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
But what if the vibe calls for hey, let's go
grab a bite to eat.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
That's her or are you saying that guys are too
stupid that we would automatically assume that that's the case, and.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
It may not be.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I don't know, because I would not like in the moment,
she's like, we should just we should keep going.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
It's like we just we just did a hike. We
just some energy. Let's go get some sustenance. Like okay,
so get a sandwich or something after hike. Sometimes you're
sweaty and you don't want to just like sit in it. Right,
you're both sweaty. It's what if like we want to
go get like a smoothie.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, yeah, that's cool. I like that. I like that.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I just still want her to feel trapped spending more
time with you than she allotted.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Oh no, trust me, I'm not going to make a
woman feel trapped.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Okay, I feel trapped right now? Well you thinking about
a second location? I feel that traps me.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
You are atypical, though, I have to true like to
get in and get out. You are a typical. She'd
start jingling her keys one hundred yards into the walk.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Can what do you think?
Speaker 6 (16:59):
I think I agree with all that, But if they're
enjoying each other during this day and like enjoying their time.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Why not go to lunch afterwards?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, okay, that's what I think. That'd be my worst nightmare.
But I can see how women would like that.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
It just depends on how the what the vibe is. Yeah,
Like if like they're just like, oh, this is a
great time like things, maybe I'll text you whatever like
in the day, or go get a smoothie and.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Then all so you'll know right away if she says
no to the smoothie that she's not into you, right, Yeah,
that's true.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Okay, but they can also make plans for like another.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Day, yeah, to go to That's kind of what I
was thinking that it's all based off like the vibe.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
H how do you think your vibe meter is? Do
you think it's a tuned up pretty well? Yeah, I
can be able to figure that out.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah okay, yeah, yeah, Oh my god. I love this.
I feel it. I feel like I'm.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Excited that you came up with the idea for a hike,
Like that's great, that's really good.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
You got me thinking outside the box.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Okay, So the next steps a lot of this is
going to have to take place behind closed doors. You
don't get to see all how this magic has made.
But but hopefully we'll be able to uh get something
going here in the next couple.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Of days weeks.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Is it completely off the table that you and I
are like hiding in the bushes?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Probably?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Okay, because how would you how would that? You say?
Speaker 4 (18:21):
No?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
You said probably, I said probably. Well, if you guys
end up on the same hike that we.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
End up on, happened to be walking ten feet behind
you the whole time.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
With a camera and a hat behind you like trench
coat in the heat inspector gadget like magnifying glass.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
What closer, walk closer, terror walk closer?
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Walk too fast? Now at the dogs? Help ask she
needs water? All right?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Eric, thank you, Thanks guys. Tech Talk with Mark Saltzman.
I think we did, and we've got some we got
some groundwork established.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Check.
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Then you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
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Speaker 3 (19:09):
It is Thursday at eleven thirty, which means it's time
for tech Talk.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
I surprised Elmer when I said that, I.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Know, well, I mean, he's busy talking to Tom Hanks dancing.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
The machines are getting smarter.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
This is tech Talk brought to you by skynet.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Bler friend Mark Saltzman joined us to talk about technology
and Mark, I am a Tembile customer and had the
satellite beta available to me over the course of the
last couple of months. And it was fun because in
my neighborhood there's a couple of dead spots cellular wise,
and I get a notification on my phone that said, hey,
(19:47):
if you need to send a message, you could send
a message via satellite right now.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
I didn't need to, but it was nice to.
Speaker 8 (19:54):
Know, well, you might, right, I mean, according to the company,
there's over five hundred thousand miles of area of terrain
in the US that has not has no coverage with
cellular towers, so you may in an emergency situation find
yourself needing this, which is which is handy to have,
(20:14):
and unlike some of the other solutions, like what Apple
and Samsung are doing, where you need a certain type
of phone, you got to hold it up and move
it around and find the satellites and all, this is
a much simpler process.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
So you're right though, Gary.
Speaker 8 (20:26):
It was in beta for a while, but they officially
launched it last week. It's it's official, and it's also
open to non mobile customers as well, which a lot
of people don't know about. But it is a partnership
with Starlink, and yeah, you may find yourself off the grid.
It's it's a it's a great service that is right
now text only, but it's early days, right it's it's
(20:49):
just launched, but one day there could be voice communications,
maybe video, but right now it's for those who need
to reach someone and it works with virtually any.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Phone over the last four years. That's the good.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
And you don't have to do any kind of funny
sort of tin hat thing where you're you know, trying
to get service.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
This will just work.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
It'll seamlessly connect from going from cellular towers to satellite.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
It's so funny these days, since this this signal is
so great everywhere. When you do lose the signal, when
you're you know, on a date with Eric, hiking or something, oh,
it's so odd and you feel this weird sense. I
don't want to use the A word, but this just
weird sense of not being connected. I mean, part of
it's freeing, but part of it's like, ooh, what if
something happened yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
So, now I'm curious to know what that a word
is in my anxiety, like it's overused. Yeah so, but
I hear you.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
I visited my elder my eldest son who's working at
a summer camp in the middle of the wilderness, and
I visited him for Visitor's Day. Please allow myself to
introduce myself and I, yeah, I wanted to contact my
folks so that they're great. Son can say hi, and
it's like zero bars. It's like kind of on an island.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
That's weird. And yeah. So it's like, yeah, you really
do feel it because you're right.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
It's that contrast to the fact that we have ubiquitous
five G in urban areas. But yeah, so this is
newly launched. It has been in beta for a while.
You can read more about it at T Mobile's website.
But it is a partnership with Starlink. Other carriers are
doing similar things as well, not always with Starlink, there's
other partners but the ideas that we're having a greater
(22:31):
connection with those who matter when you need it, which
is always good.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Instagram is changing some things up too. I'm not the
most savvy Instagram user, but I realized that they did
not allow reposting of things for a long time, and
now they're going.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
To Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
So if you saw something on Facebook that you liked
or on x, you can easily, you know, a click
of a button or tap of an icon, share that
content with your fam, your fam family or friends or
followers and which all may be the same thing. And
so now you can do that on Instagram. It was
(23:10):
not easy before there were third party apps that let
you copy and paste a story or a post a
real but now you can do it. What's get garnering
more buzz about the new Instagram features and speaking of
staying connected everywhere you go, Like we just talked about,
they're rolling out something that Snapchat has had for years,
(23:31):
and that's a mapping feature. So people either love or
hate this, but just know that it's opt in. But
the idea is that you can share your location on
a map, so that your friends on Instagram can instantly
see your little icon when they're looking at a map
of where they are. I remember with Snapchat. I remember
we took a family vacation a couple of years ago
to Aruba, and my kids were I think in high
(23:53):
school at the time, they're like, oh, I wonder if
any of our friends are nearby. And they opened up
their phones and went to Snapchat and they saw a
couple of people that they didn't realize we're on vacation
on the same island that we were on, and they're like, oh, we.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Should And then they ended up getting together and going.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
To a club.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
And so now Instagram and they've copied Snapchat before with stories.
By the way, if you remember, uh, that's another thing
that Snapchat started that Instagram borrowed.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Uh, so Meta's doing it again. So with Instagram, it's
opt in.
Speaker 8 (24:18):
You can share your location so that you can get
together with friends when you happen to be in the
same place. You could just quickly at a glance see
who's near you if you want to grab a cup.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Of Joe or go to a club.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
He'll get nervous. No, a were No, it's all good.
Speaker 8 (24:38):
What mom and dad didn't have the A in the
hotel rooms were.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
In the strange country. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
It seems with these updates and these changes that all
of our social media apps that for you know that
five eight years ago were all very different, they're all
becoming the same kind of app, now, aren't they.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
That's fair, that's fair.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
They're all borrowing features from each other, and I'm sure
Snapchat also, I can't think of any examples, but they're
also copying something that Meta is doing. But Threads is
basically a town's town square digital town square that you
know that Twitter was is so look, I mean, Meta
may have been the first with Facebook, even though that
(25:19):
was you know, not exactly uniquely unique at the time,
but they were kind of they sort of were the trailblazer,
I think, and they paved the way for everybody else.
Meta is now copying some of the things that work
on other platforms, right, and then and and Elon is
looking to China at what some of those apps are doing,
like we Chat, where it's like an all, all in
(25:41):
one app. It's your digital wallet, it's your it's your
communications app, it's your social media thinks. I mean, it's
they're trying he's trying to roll X into all of that.
And so yeah, it's it's imitation. Is the sincere's form
of flattery, as they say. So it's all good.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I just choose, choose your poison, pick your poison, right,
have planned for the weekend that's that's a better question.
Speaker 8 (26:03):
Well, my wife is in Vermont on a road trip
with some girlfriends. Oh, she's coming back on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
What are they up to in Vermont?
Speaker 8 (26:11):
Well, they're in Stowe, which is I think one of
the bigger cities. They went to Burlington as well. They
visited the the Ben and Jerry factory again, which is Yeah,
they're just that's they're at a friend's, like a friend's
summer home, just chilling and my wife loves road trips.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Great strippers and Stow.
Speaker 8 (26:29):
Oh I didn't know. Okay, yeah, I don't think that's
on that that I'm aware of.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
You've never been to a Smuggler's notch. Come on, that's
not a real name.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
It is.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
No, it's a state park.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
State park sounds.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I was just going to say, that's a great name
for a striper.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I thought, so, there's actually a state park in Stowe,
Vermont called Smugglers not state Park.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
And just googled it and made it up. No, No, I
did google it, but I did not make it up.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Oh, Mark, I hope that your wife brings you home
a T shirt from Smugglers.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
I've got the A.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Now, I've got the A. Here all. Thanks a lot, Mark,
and that does not stand for a rouse.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Okay, thank you Mark. Follow Mark on your favorite social
media again. Follow him on x at Mark Underscore Saltsman,
m A r C Underscore Saltsman.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from kf
I AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
A bunch of stories that are going on today.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Today is likely, by the way, to be the warmest
day of the week, probably the warmest day we've seen
all summer. After temperatures approaching levels throughout LA County five
to ten degrees above normal, Downtown LA could top out
above ninety degrees, which is pretty pretty toasty. President Trump
also has announced he's ordered a mid decade census, and
(27:57):
this census, he said, would exclude illegal immigrants. He wrote
on truth Social quote, I instructed our Department of Commerce
to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate
census based on modern day facts and figures, and most importantly,
using the results in information gained from the presidential election
of twenty four And then he wrote, people who are
in our country illegally will not be counted in the census.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
I got mail, what is that?
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Another legos hit oh?
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I don't know unless I ordered something that.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Look, very few Amazon boxes comes as gifts.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Who is it?
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Maybe it is a gift.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
It comes up.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I like the reason. I like the reason why Gary
doesn't like the cat. Please he wanted his own lego.
Please give this to him from Janet.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Oh, Janet, that gave you the lego cat in the
first place. Well, look at this. It's baseball. That's fun.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
You can make your own baseball glove and ball and.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Bat and trophy too. It comes with a little trophy.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
You will have a trophy.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
That's funny.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
That's very sweet.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Thank you, thank you, very nice. It's very nice. It's
eight plus two.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Oh good, she knows us.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
A cybersecurity expert has delivered an alert that one of
the greatest technological threats we face in the future, hopefully
it's not the near future.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Is a kill switch.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
The United States has initiated a bunch of different investigations
into Chinese made technology, and several of those investigations have
shown that there appears to be some sort of malicious,
mysterious computer codes that could be could be remotely triggered
to disable critical infrastructure. Think of natural gas pipelines, power
(30:02):
grids things like that. In fact, one of the former
one of the co founders of connect Wise cybersecurity firm,
considers this the most serious threat that confronts America. That
Chinese tech companies often have strong connections with the Chinese
Communist Party leadership, which has consistently expressed its goal of
(30:24):
undermining the West, specifically the United States, but the United
States and allies. And there is this huge concern that
of all of those things that we buy from China,
stuff that's built in China, the technology that comes from China,
everything from your wireless router to your phone to I
(30:45):
don't know, small appliances, large appliances in your home, etc.
For example, security experts a couple months ago to discovered
a hidden back door in a robot dog.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
It's called the Go one robot dog.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
The back door is a software feature hidden software feature
that allows for secret, remote access and control over the devices.
Once connected to the Internet, that robot automatically establishes a
connection to the original company's servers through a tunnel service,
and that concealed channel enables remote operation, camera access, which
(31:24):
is important and system infiltration. The issue of power converters
particularly alarming because these kill switches could potentially allow Beijing
to shut down entire electricity grids, leading to widespread blackouts
throughout the United States throughout other Western countries. They said
power inverters are the ones that are crucial for converting
(31:44):
DC currents from solar panels or wind turbines into AC current,
which is what we use on our grids. And it's
not new. Kill switch functions have been found in equipment
at American solar facilities. In twenty twenty three. Were concerned
about cranes specifically that were made in China, including those
by Shanghai jen Hua Heavy Industries. Several US ports use
(32:09):
those cranes, including some ports that have a very strong
military connection, and if they're able to knock those things
out with just one little switch somewhere in a bunker
in China, then.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
We are in.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Uh, We're in for some pain if that's the case.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Thank goodness.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
What a fun look at our dystopian future. Can you
believe that it's here?
Speaker 4 (32:34):
The new Hour? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:36):
I do have a football question for you when we
come back to It's.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
A football beer question, Okay, okay, but it's a very
important thing there. I found a hole in this connection
between football and beer, and I need you to help,
maybe figure it out for me. More than happy to help,
all right.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
That's just around the corner.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Also strained science, ultra processed foods, all of that just
in time for lunch.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Die a.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
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