May 29, 2025 • 33 mins
Gary and Shannon live from a dangerous prison cell due to some technical difficulties. Federal court blocks Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs under emergency powers law. U.S. Will ‘Aggressively’ Revoke Visas of Chinese Students. Elon Musk officially leaves the White House.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Yeah, we're we're we're in
a closet location today. We got this vague email in
the middle of the night that our studio was broken.
There was no timetable, there was no details. It was
(00:22):
just you're going to be in a closet today. Good luck.
There's nobody here. Uh, it's just us Elmer Keana, and
we're in a closet. We have no clock in here, Peter.
There's no clock. There's no television that functions, and there's
no clock. There's no windows. There is a door barely.
(00:44):
But you guys, we have we have literally a stopwatch
that we can use to tell time. Yeah, which we
have to remember what hour it is. But I mean
when I got started in radio in market one ninety
eight in Chico, California, which was great, I mean that
was like the Fox Business Studios. Compared to where we're
(01:05):
at right now, right in this closet, Like the walls
aren't even really padded. It sounds probably a little echo. Wee. No,
it sounds like you're in a closet. Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah it sounds awful. No, it doesn't sound awful. It
just sounds like you're in a little teeny tiny room.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Like I feel.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
There's also blood spot KANU show the blood splatter, of
the blood pattern there, of the there was there was
a murder in this room at some point.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Well, there's gonna be a lot more murders that happen
if they don't get this all figured out. This is insane.
And I'm not talking about the engineers. They're great. Yeah,
they're the ones who are running around, running around, they're sweating,
they're doing stuff. But like how it works out where
in Los Angeles the main studio for KFI is broken
and then like nobody is just like it's just broken.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Okay, cool, So we're in a closet, like what you
guys should have been here when it broke. Tell me more, Well,
it broke it about five five.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Oh so it was Amy, it was Conway.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
No, I'm blaming it on Kno.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, it was about five oh five and all of
a sudden, everything just start stopped working. Everything was fine,
we started wake up call, we did you know, Here's
what's going on, Here's who we're talking to when we
went to go to our first interview and we could
hear him, but he couldn't hear us. And then Cono said, well,
everything's broken, the boards down, the computers are down.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Just keep talking, is it China? Might be? Might be? Yeah,
I mean I was my.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
First valiation that for for you know, kicking out the
Chinese visa holder, say one more.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
S talking item go on. Of all the redundancy around
this place, we don't have redundancy for the main board
in the studio, like for all the TPS reports that
are asked about on this floor repeated late, we don't
have a backup thing for the for the studio.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
The good news is we have a backup hand sanitizer.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
There's there's seen different hand sanitizers. I don't know what's
scene of the same email about something completely irrelevant, right,
But we don't have a working studio in Los Angeles.
Well this technically we do work still in Los Angeles?
Are we Dick and Sandy? Are we in Milwaukee? No?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
No, Milwaukee has wake up. Milwaukee got their studios redone
last summer.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
They did. You're right, you're right, they did. We actually
know that for a fact.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, so so, because we were going to do our
show from their studio. Its beautiful, and we were supposed
to go to the Republican Convention last year.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
The taxes, aren't they It is so cold in here
as well Milwaukee.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
In here, there is no there's no common air conditioning
system in this entire Each room is its own.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It's a BAC system. Yeah, it's thirty two degrees here.
It's like foxless. So there's no crop, there's no TV,
there's no windows. Uh, this is like Guantanamo Bay.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Right, Maybe they're maybe they're trying to get us to
confess to something.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Holy crap, is that for real? This may be? There
is this our YouTube video.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
This is their attempt at breaking us.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
You know what, well, we're already broken.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
We're not gonna let them win. Not in this case,
We're not gonna let them win.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Good luck.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Oh so we have more hand sanitizer and bleach wipes
in it. We have like what do they think happens
in these places?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Can they just give a shout out to Elmer who's
running our board and doing it. Well, it's like it's
like a lake of glass, Like there's no ripples, there's
no stress. He does drama. I appreciate that. I like
mess if I was Elmer, and it's not Elmer's fault
at all. If anything goes wrong, it's still not Elmer's fault,
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but his his surree nature.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I would say, even though this thing started, as Amy
said soon after five o'clock, I would blame everybody who's
not here exactly that there's gotta be.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Something around with their heads on fire if our studio
is cold. Put I made it.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
There was a comment one time when when we were
in the original studios, this would have been five years ago,
whatever it was, somebody had spilled coke or diet coke,
and I'm not going to send it onto the on
off button on the primary microphone in that studio. And
this is back when there was another talk show host
(05:32):
that that was on right before us, and he made
a comment to me about, hey, just so you know,
the the button is sticky, the on off button is
sticky for the microphone, and I said, well, why haven't
we gotten it fixed.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
It is literally the most important button.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Not just in this room but in this building because
this radio station and what it means and the responsibilit
that we have as an emergency alert system and all that.
I mean all of that stuff that goes on the
law the one the one most important button in the
entire building, and we allow people to get it gooey
(06:13):
with spilled drinks and it's not fixed immediately. I blew
my mind. That was years ago. That is never that
has not been a problem in a long time. But
it was one of those things where it was like, Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Well, if we run a little late today, it's because again,
we have no clock in the closet.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I would like to say we're running on a sun dial,
but then we realize we have no access to the
sun because there's no windows in here.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
So what do you say?
Speaker 5 (06:39):
How long you think it's been since we started?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I don't. I have no idea, but I would like
to say this guys. Elm Gary, you guys are good
prison cellmates. Well, like I feel like a good vibe
in here despite the hell surround hell is surroundings.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Smash cut to smash, cut to about nine four five.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I don't care. You're right we are in early start
selling us for cigarettes. That sounds so good right now.
You're an awful cell mate. I could go south really quick.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Well, I think Elmer has the first turn in the yard.
He's got a full hour out there for for R
and R.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I'm gonna get I have to rims can drive me insane.
He's just gonna go walk around the hallway fluorescent lighting.
My skin is yellow. You have John.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I think I am John because it is liver failure.
My liver and kidneys are just shot.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
As a reservs. Very doesn't do well with lighting, not
the sun, not fluorescent. But it's a very sensitive pigment
that we're dealing with here.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
I mean, we could turn some of the lights off,
can't we.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I mean, it doesn't It doesn't have to look like
we're in a slaughterhouse in here.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
It's pretty awful. Yeah, that's nice. That's nice, that kind
of mood light.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Do we have some candles somewhere we could go?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Don't we have some candles we can burn the effing
building down with when we come back.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Some actual stuff that's going on today, A couple of
court that well, there's like three or four different court
things that the Trump administration is involved with today.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Does it even matter?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
I feel like, I mean, for other people who are
not in the closet.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Feel like there's a good experiment to be had with
with all of this today, Like you know, the argument
when you put people in prison, like what do you
expect them to do? You expect them to flourish? You
expect them to just thrive. Do you expect them to
talk about tariffs in the court system?
Speaker 6 (08:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
No, they sit here and they do not flourish, and
they don't want to talk about anything important because they're
pissed off.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
No, I know why that guy tried to swim away
from any where.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
It's a morbid story, but it's one that needs to
be told and talked about. You've had kids, correct, You've
had miners in your home under your roof where you
make the rules. They were my kids. Yeah, but your friend,
I know, would you say, would.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
I have miners in my home? It sounds like it's something.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
That your kids have had friends over. Okay, yes, and
under your roof, your rules. Something were to happen to
one of those kids where you kind of make the rules, you're.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
On the hook for that, right.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yeah. Yeah, that's kind of what's going on with the
City of La when it likes to rule based on feelings,
and it's not nice to force homeless people into treatment
or off the street. You're setting the rules for your house,
and the rules are anything goes in our house. So
when a woman dies in your house under your rules
(09:50):
and her family finds her body being eaten by dogs,
it's on you, La, And that's exactly what's happening. And
not a lot of people are paying attention to this
because this is a family that doesn't look like Lacy Peterson,
so not a lot of people are paying attention to
what's going on. But this family is saying, wait a
minute here, you didn't clean up that encampment, and we
(10:11):
found our mother dead and being eaten by docs. Right,
what the hell? What's going on? And the city should
be held accountable. We'll talk about it coming up in
the next hour.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
A couple of rulings that have come down that have
been pretty swift kicks to the Trump administration. One of
them just came down as we were starting the show
in the Closet today, a federal judge extended in order
to block the Trump administration's attempt to bar Harvard from
enrolling foreign students. So in this case, the district judge
granted the Harvard's request for this preliminary injunction. This blocks
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the government's action until they can decide the case. It
had already been paused since last week, when that same
judge issued a temporary restraining order.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Speaking of judges, I'm sure you've heard the news by
now that a federal judge says that those global tariff
policies are blowney Well, Trump's head of the National Economic
Council has gone on Fox Business this morning and called
the decision just a heacup in the whole tariff plan.
Love the way you say that heacup.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Yes, I know it sounds like you're saying a thing like, oh,
he's only a he coup and from Peru.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Say he always said he cup that was caused by
activist judges. He said, in a month or two, you're
going to look ahead and see that countries have opened
their markets to American products, they've lowered their non tariff barriers,
they've lowered their tariffs, and blah blah blah. Basically, you're
going to see as time plays out, that the tariff
Plan is working and that this judge is not in
(11:46):
possession of the jurisdiction to make this all go away.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
This, by the way, this Court of International Trade. Very
few people knew about the Court of International Trade until
they took that case last week.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
So that was one.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I mean, that's one issue of all of this. The
second is, you know, the White House's assertion that this
is activist judges making foreign policy or trade policy. This
is judges paying attention to the Constitution of the United
States and the laws as they exist.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
And they're trying to.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Parse out the specifics of what responsibilities, sorry, what capability
the president has under that International Emergency Economic Powers Act
of nineteen seventy seven to impose tariffs on other nations.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
So that is exactly what is in question, and that
is exactly what the judge in this case was looking at.
Trump based his decision on that nineteen seventy seven International
Economic Emergency Powers Act. The grounds were that the large
and persistent trade deficit represented a national emergency. So you
(12:55):
have to believe that we're in a national emergency to
say that the tariffs that were put in place are okay,
what constitutes a national emergency. The Court of International Trade
ruled that Trump overstepped his authority in imposing the tariffs.
One of them, now, the guy who went on Fox Business. Sorry,
(13:18):
just to put a bow on it. The guy that
went on Fox Business and said in a month or
two this is all going to play out activist judges
blah blah blah. He said, no, no, no, bentanyl Ventanyl's a
national crisis. And that's why we heard that so often, right,
what fentanyl the border of Canada and were like, Canada,
there's been like four cases of fentanyl in the past
eighteen months or something that acrossed the border. But that's
(13:39):
exactly the that's what they're hanging their hat on, is
a fentanyl crisis.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
It's got to be something like that because you can't
you can't point to our trade deficit, for example, and
say that that's become an emergency because we've run trade
deficits for four plus decades that that part of it
is not would not stand up to scrutiny under this case.
The idea of it being fentanel being the main issue,
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that's going to be a harder issue for the INN.
I mean this again, this is international Trade Court that
we're talking about, So how are they going to be
able to decide on that. This is one of those
issues as well that goes back to very basic constitutional
separation of powers, because the Constitution gives Congress most of
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the power when it comes to imposing tariffs for foreign trade,
but over the course of one hundred years or so,
the Congress has given the executive branch more and more
power when it comes to imposing terriffs, which is why
they're using that International Emergency Economic Powers Act of nineteen
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seventy seven as the filter through which they're looking at
this case.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
It's not over.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
It seems to me, based on the way that they
ruled this panel of federal judges, that the Supreme Court
would agree with them based on the text that they used.
I mean, I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know
the entire ruling, but this seems to be one of
those things where if the president wants to impose tariffs
(15:14):
individually for individual reasons on individual countries, that's one thing,
But this mostly affects those blanket tariffs that he was
imposing over the course of the last couple of months.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
We talked about it yesterday and now it has happened.
Elon Musk is pulling out of the administration, and not
just fracturing his relationship with Trump or severing it at
least this phase of the friendship, but now going after
Republicans as a whole. Very interesting. Be careful who you
make bedfellows with bedfellows. I don't know if I've ever
(15:49):
used that word.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Yes, you have, have I sure it seems like something
you'd say all the time.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
It really doesn't. Where did I pick that up from? Enemy?
Where am I learning these things? I don't know the
official term? Awful one are my eighty nine bedfellows? What's next?
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Various creams and lotions that you put on your skin.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I'm already doing that. Oh, you need to get back
into the beef on your face? Are you right? Do
you have the jail cough?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I've got Legionaire's disease from being in this place too long.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
The metal toilet sink combo in the corner hasn't been
pulled away from the wall yet. Yeah, that's how we're
getting out of here. We don't even have a toilet. Hey, guys,
that's how we're getting out of here.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
We don't even have a toilet. Well, PS, guess what,
it's not just us. It's broken our Yeah, there is.
There is a garbage can, or as they say, a toilet.
It's for everything, it's for everything. It's a catch all.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
We're in a temporary studio today. We hope it's temporary.
We hope it's temporary. Also, we don't know how long
this is going to be, but they told us before
that temporary studios only last a certain amount of time.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Pump up the volume. The major motion picture starring Christian
Slater had more advanced technology than what we're dealing with
in our closet. Yeah all ps. The talkback feature also
not working. I don't know why. So that's not working.
A completely different system.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
The lights, the lights in that room over there. Everything
we're flickering on lights like I was having a seizure yea,
and I wasn't check.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Well anyway, this could be the end, And the best
part about it is nobody cares. Nobody cares. Nobody cares.
But that's okay. We've got work to do. If anyone's
still listening, if this is still on, we will do
the show.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Chinese visas guys, Marco Rubio has basic decided that we
are going to revoke the visas of Chinese students, and
it's in his purview to do so, we believe, and
the Chinese students are now very anxious and angry after
he is vowed to do this. Rubio said that the
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State Department was revising visa criteria to enhance scrutiny of
all future applications from China, including Hong Kong. The statement
that made the announcement yesterday didn't define actually what critical
fields of study were, but anybody who might have ties
to the Chinese Communist Party or who studies in those
(18:36):
critical fields would be would have their visas revoked.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
This has been a major.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Issue that feels like has never been addressed by any
president over the course of the last twenty five thirty
forty years.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Well, how do you determine which students have ties to
the Communist Party? I mean, I don't want to go
back to Japanese war camps, but this is right.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Just saying they're from China doesn't necessarily mean that they
have ties to the Chinese Communist.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Party, especially in twenty twenty five. I don't know how
you determine that.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
But if you think about we get a lot.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Of talent from China, obviously to international students pay full
tuition as well.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Now to mention that the long cultural history that Chinese
Americans have embedded in part, especially along the West coast,
in parts and cities along the West coast, but there
has to be an acknowledgment that China is emerging as
our number one potential enemy.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
I mean, the way they like to describe it now.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Is that they're it's sailed, China is entrenched. The whole
we go back to the balloon that was flying around
for China. China's already feels like twenty years ago. In
our phones and our computers and our homes. We need China.
We're relying on China. That ship has sailed. This seems
very nineteen fifty three to me. And I understand why
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the Trump administration has picked this fight with universities. I
understand the fight between protecting our information protecting our country,
and I get that. And I also understand just the
distaste for the elite community that looks down upon Trump
(20:34):
and all the people who voted for them. I know
that that exists. But instead of picking this fight with
Harvard and Columbia and all of the elite universities are
never going to be on your side or the elite,
the elites or that school of thought or the left
coast school of thought. Why not, like Trump mentioned yesterday,
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pour your love into trade schools. Pour your love into
the schools that you support and that support America. These
university are going to do whatever the hell they want
to do, and you can fight in the courts, it's
just going to be wasted time and wasted money, and
you're not going to change their ideology. Why not just
support what you find love for.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Because they believe that there is a potential violent aspect
of this use violent, not that they are going to
start something on campuses, but that you have a nefarious
is a better term, that they believe that there is
of the two hundred and what was the number, two
hundred and fifty thousand Chinese two hundred and seventy five
thousand Chinese students that exist within the United States.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Now, why now what they're going to mobilize on behalf
of the communist government of China and take the country down.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Well, listen, I don't know if that's a conspiracy theory
or if that's a very well thought out plan, but
China plays the long game.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
That's the way that they have done it.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I wouldn't put it past a nefarious government like China
to impose those, let's say, some strong ideals into some
of these students who do have ties to the Chinese
Communist Party, or do have ties to the Chinese military
or the spying apparatus that China has and says, hey, listen,
you go do your thing, learn your thing.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Have fun, go to all the UCLA games you want.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
But when we call upon you, you need to answer
or your family and answer.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
What does that even mean? I mean, I feel like
it's also putting down America. I feel like we're talking
about the red wave of like I said nineteen fifty three,
and America is so much stronger than that. And I
think that even if you come to this country with
communist ideals, you kind of get Americanized, right, But they're not.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
That's what I'm saying is they're beholden to the Chinese
government regardless of how much they love this country.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I don't know the idea that they're just Chinese bots
that can just be you can press a button on
them and they'll suddenly mobilize for the government of China
to do what. I don't know what more could do
to infiltrate this country that they haven't done already. What
more could they do? The thing is, they don't there's
no y are. They don't love it.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
They want all of it.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
They want all of the intellectual property, they want all
of the military secrets, they want all of the industrial seats.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I think they have access to all of that at
this point. So but then we just and we do too,
and we do as well. No, we don't.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
We don't have American students in China to the anywhere
near the numb but we.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Have intelligence on what China is doing in terms of
military and the like.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
But I want a bunch of everyone's.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
In everyone's business in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
I want to bund a bunch of boneheaded American college
kids to take their medieval puppetry classes at the University
of Beijing or University of Shanghai or University of Jesus.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
That's never going to happen, not because we have a
new dream job in America and it's stay at home Sun.
That's why that's and nobody wants to make babies with
those guys.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Hey, let's cut through this small talk Shally, or do
you want to do the Elon Musk thing?
Speaker 5 (24:00):
You want to save that to the.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Elon mussing the small talk thing. I wanted to talk
about when we could use the talkback feature. But since
we now are in Bangladesh doing the show and have
no access to technology or things at work, am I
putting down Bangladesh? Probably?
Speaker 5 (24:20):
I have not listened to Bangladeshi radio.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
It might be spectacular. They might have all the bells
and whistles, are just working studios.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
I don't know, but Elon Musk getting out.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, But I did want to talk about the cutting
through small talk with magical questions. But I want to
do that when we have access to the talkbacks. I
want to get people's I want to get their responses.
So so that's part of the show we can't.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Do all right, The Gary and Shannon Show from from
Cell Block G.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
When we come back.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Live today in Cell Block G. To crack up a
little bit, starting to feel funny? Huh Yeah, feels weird.
I just told Keana I was going to go to
the bathroom real quick, and she said pick a corner.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Did she really?
Speaker 7 (25:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Oh man, it's getting real in here.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
We're in this weird temporary little studio today.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
You know what, It's so cute the way you say temporary,
because remember when Okay, so, I was just listening to
Handle talk about being humiliated, and I thought, hasn't he
been humiliated for several years? Like what more humiliation could
he possibly feel after all this time? Like what question
could lead to more humiliation? And I was just hearkening
(25:37):
back to, you know, seeing Jodie Becker yesterday and how
we all started here twenty years ago, and when we
first when we first moved into this building and how
beautiful that studio was, you know, and I remember, you know,
filling in for you on the Handle Show and so cool.
And that was before Handle was humiliated to the point
of where he is at now. And then we moved
(26:00):
into the temporary studio which is down the hall, which
is where we are, and they said it's just temporary.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Six months, I think was the and we've been.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
In there for years. Yeah, and now you're calling our
closet temporary, which is cute to me because I think
maybe this is the plan that like we just keep
getting scaled down and scaled down and scaled down, and
now we're here in this so what's.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
The next Wait, what's the next thing?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Then I think it's all over. I think it ends,
and then you and I it ends. We use the
skills that we have that are not radio to go
find gainful employment. What are you going to do.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
I'm gonna go make announcements at my local Low's home
improvement store.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
I don't think they do those announcements anymore.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
I don't know. I'll find something. Maybe I'll just scare
the birds out from the warehouse store.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
How quickly do you think you'll have a job? Like
if we get an email.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
If I didn't have a job, would be I would
go nuts and I would cause my wife to go.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Nuts, right Like I would have a job tomorrow, Like
if we got the email tonight. It depends on how
what what's your definition of job?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Because I could get something by tonight, I get I
could get here's something that I could get work right tonight?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yeah, no, exactly, No, I'm not gonna have a career
are you kidding? I don't have any skills, but I
will have a job. I will have a job tomorrow
by clothes of business. Because of what you said, I
would go crazy.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Yeah, it's safer for everyone for you to be employed,
for you to have things to do.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
And the good thing about radio is it something that's
always in my head, like because this could just people
get fired from this job all the time and you
have no notice. It just happens. So it's been something
I've thought about for many, many, all of the years
I've been in radio.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
You think this is the process of them slow funning.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yes, I just I'm laying it all out for you.
Bro the white smoke, it's happening. The story we told
you about yesterday was that Elon Musk seemed to be
really pissed off about Trump's big beautiful bill. I didn't
see his exit happening this soon. Well it was. It's
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always been this, right, It's always been a short term situation.
But it seems like this was the straw that broke
the camel's back. Well, I think that's a matter of
doing sorry, disappoint me play that.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Well, this is him in this CBS interview that he did,
saying he was disappointed about the President's big bill that
is still trying to make its way through coming.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Was disappointed to see the massive spending Volle frankly, which
increases the budge deeps if not doesn't decrease it, and
that reminds the work that PDCH team is doing.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
So I mean being a special government employee, that's what
he was designated. That means that he can only work
a federal job for one hundred and thirty days each
year that comes up. I mean we're already at the
twenty ninth of May. We knew that this was coming
if you start on January twentieth, which is what he did.
It's the timing of his vocal disappointment with that bill,
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combined with the expiration date that we already knew was coming,
that I think has begun. That is added to this
story of Elon Musk is pissed off at the President,
and I don't know if that's entirely true. They can
have disagreements like that. Ted Cruz came out and just
laid it out with Elon Musk and said he did
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a great job at what he came to do there, right.
Speaker 8 (29:29):
He came and spent four months working for the American
people free of charge, didn't collect a salary, made nothing.
He rooted out massive waste, fraud, and abuse, and he
did so at enormous cost to himself. You look at
his stockholdings as stockholdings dropped tens of billions of dollars.
It was a personal sacrifice, and the death threats that
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were directed against him were massive.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
And he's going to go back and work. He's got
plenty of stuff to keep him busy. He's upset probably
that he didn't that some of these cuts that he
wanted to enact through the Department of Government Efficiency are
being completely rewritten by this big, beautiful bill that's supposed
to be making its way through the Senate.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
It guts clean energy tax credits, and he says, abruptly
ending the energy tax credits with threatened America's energy independence
and the reliability of our grid. It would terminate those
credits for electric vehicles at the end of the year,
just qualifying Tesla's from a seventy five hundred dollars and
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incentive at a time when the company is already in trouble.
This comes around the same time that a new poll
shows that Democrats have fallen out of love on electric
vehicles because of Elon Musk. So stupid, hah. I mean
we didn't need this poll. We've been talking about. This
has been my bugaboo with the Democrats in the hypocrisy
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of it all for many years, that you will hit
us over the head with needing electric vehicles in California
getting us into electric vehicles. Tesla came around and was
not the leaf and was beautiful and we all want one,
and people got them, and then all of a sudden, no,
they're bad because of Elon Musk. Well, what is it?
(31:14):
You want to save the environment or you want to
pick a pissing match with this guy over his friendship
with Donald Trump. I mean, aren't we Aren't we working
towards saving the planet. Isn't that what you want to do? Democrats?
I never understood that it was the most ladies. It
was the most blatant show of hypocrisy I've seen politically
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in a long time. And I know both sides are
guilty of it. Republicans can be just as hypocritical, but
on this issue, it is so transparent and so gross,
and you need to get over it. Because the Tesla
is a beautiful car. You miss any part of this
fail although sometimes of people that drive those things, I
just want to plow in them with my truck. Well,
it's ridiculous. They think they're better than everybody. They really do.
(31:57):
It's annoying.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
If you miss any part of this great show, the
jail House edition, you can go back and check out
the podcast.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Also, I kind of keep my distance from them on
the road because I feel like they're flammable. They're more flammable.
They're more flammable. I don't know, like if I run
outside of.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
The eighteen gallon tank of extremely flammable gasoline you carry
your Undercarria.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Aren't the trunk trucks heavier than the average vehicle the
cyber truck?
Speaker 6 (32:28):
Right?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Probably very The regular Teslas are also heavier than other
sized vehicles, I mean vehicles of the same size because
of the battery.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
I don't need.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
That makes it safe for somebody to be in a Tesla? Yeah,
you don't need a heavy vehicle.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Have you seen that thing? You got to carry that
thing around? It's a baby truck. That's not what I
was talking about.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
You miss any part of this great Jailhouse podcast is not.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Going to end with both of us alive. Anywhere you
podcast is good jail house story, Someone's gonna die today, the.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Good thing that's got an oversized bed in a Holy Cow,
You're not making it any better. Tailgate Gary and Shannon
will continue right after this. You've been listening to The
Gary and Shannon Show. You can always hear us live
on KFI AM six forty nine am to one pm
every Monday through Friday, and anytime on demand on the
(33:26):
iHeartRadio ap
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Yeah, we're we're we're in
a closet location today. We got this vague email in
the middle of the night that our studio was broken.
There was no timetable, there was no details. It was
(00:22):
just you're going to be in a closet today. Good luck.
There's nobody here. Uh, it's just us Elmer Keana, and
we're in a closet. We have no clock in here, Peter.
There's no clock. There's no television that functions, and there's
no clock. There's no windows. There is a door barely.
(00:44):
But you guys, we have we have literally a stopwatch
that we can use to tell time. Yeah, which we
have to remember what hour it is. But I mean
when I got started in radio in market one ninety
eight in Chico, California, which was great, I mean that
was like the Fox Business Studios. Compared to where we're
(01:05):
at right now, right in this closet, Like the walls
aren't even really padded. It sounds probably a little echo. Wee. No,
it sounds like you're in a closet. Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah it sounds awful. No, it doesn't sound awful. It
just sounds like you're in a little teeny tiny room.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Like I feel.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
There's also blood spot KANU show the blood splatter, of
the blood pattern there, of the there was there was
a murder in this room at some point.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Well, there's gonna be a lot more murders that happen
if they don't get this all figured out. This is insane.
And I'm not talking about the engineers. They're great. Yeah,
they're the ones who are running around, running around, they're sweating,
they're doing stuff. But like how it works out where
in Los Angeles the main studio for KFI is broken
and then like nobody is just like it's just broken.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Okay, cool, So we're in a closet, like what you
guys should have been here when it broke. Tell me more, Well,
it broke it about five five.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Oh so it was Amy, it was Conway.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
No, I'm blaming it on Kno.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, it was about five oh five and all of
a sudden, everything just start stopped working. Everything was fine,
we started wake up call, we did you know, Here's
what's going on, Here's who we're talking to when we
went to go to our first interview and we could
hear him, but he couldn't hear us. And then Cono said, well,
everything's broken, the boards down, the computers are down.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Just keep talking, is it China? Might be? Might be? Yeah,
I mean I was my.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
First valiation that for for you know, kicking out the
Chinese visa holder, say one more.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
S talking item go on. Of all the redundancy around
this place, we don't have redundancy for the main board
in the studio, like for all the TPS reports that
are asked about on this floor repeated late, we don't
have a backup thing for the for the studio.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
The good news is we have a backup hand sanitizer.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
There's there's seen different hand sanitizers. I don't know what's
scene of the same email about something completely irrelevant, right,
But we don't have a working studio in Los Angeles.
Well this technically we do work still in Los Angeles?
Are we Dick and Sandy? Are we in Milwaukee? No?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
No, Milwaukee has wake up. Milwaukee got their studios redone
last summer.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
They did. You're right, you're right, they did. We actually
know that for a fact.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, so so, because we were going to do our
show from their studio. Its beautiful, and we were supposed
to go to the Republican Convention last year.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
The taxes, aren't they It is so cold in here
as well Milwaukee.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
In here, there is no there's no common air conditioning
system in this entire Each room is its own.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It's a BAC system. Yeah, it's thirty two degrees here.
It's like foxless. So there's no crop, there's no TV,
there's no windows. Uh, this is like Guantanamo Bay.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Right, Maybe they're maybe they're trying to get us to
confess to something.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Holy crap, is that for real? This may be? There
is this our YouTube video.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
This is their attempt at breaking us.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
You know what, well, we're already broken.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
We're not gonna let them win. Not in this case,
We're not gonna let them win.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Good luck.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Oh so we have more hand sanitizer and bleach wipes
in it. We have like what do they think happens
in these places?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Can they just give a shout out to Elmer who's
running our board and doing it. Well, it's like it's
like a lake of glass, Like there's no ripples, there's
no stress. He does drama. I appreciate that. I like
mess if I was Elmer, and it's not Elmer's fault
at all. If anything goes wrong, it's still not Elmer's fault,
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but his his surree nature.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I would say, even though this thing started, as Amy
said soon after five o'clock, I would blame everybody who's
not here exactly that there's gotta be.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Something around with their heads on fire if our studio
is cold. Put I made it.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
There was a comment one time when when we were
in the original studios, this would have been five years ago,
whatever it was, somebody had spilled coke or diet coke,
and I'm not going to send it onto the on
off button on the primary microphone in that studio. And
this is back when there was another talk show host
(05:32):
that that was on right before us, and he made
a comment to me about, hey, just so you know,
the the button is sticky, the on off button is
sticky for the microphone, and I said, well, why haven't
we gotten it fixed.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
It is literally the most important button.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Not just in this room but in this building because
this radio station and what it means and the responsibilit
that we have as an emergency alert system and all that.
I mean all of that stuff that goes on the
law the one the one most important button in the
entire building, and we allow people to get it gooey
(06:13):
with spilled drinks and it's not fixed immediately. I blew
my mind. That was years ago. That is never that
has not been a problem in a long time. But
it was one of those things where it was like, Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Well, if we run a little late today, it's because again,
we have no clock in the closet.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I would like to say we're running on a sun dial,
but then we realize we have no access to the
sun because there's no windows in here.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
So what do you say?
Speaker 5 (06:39):
How long you think it's been since we started?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I don't. I have no idea, but I would like
to say this guys. Elm Gary, you guys are good
prison cellmates. Well, like I feel like a good vibe
in here despite the hell surround hell is surroundings.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Smash cut to smash, cut to about nine four five.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I don't care. You're right we are in early start
selling us for cigarettes. That sounds so good right now.
You're an awful cell mate. I could go south really quick.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Well, I think Elmer has the first turn in the yard.
He's got a full hour out there for for R
and R.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I'm gonna get I have to rims can drive me insane.
He's just gonna go walk around the hallway fluorescent lighting.
My skin is yellow. You have John.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I think I am John because it is liver failure.
My liver and kidneys are just shot.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
As a reservs. Very doesn't do well with lighting, not
the sun, not fluorescent. But it's a very sensitive pigment
that we're dealing with here.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
I mean, we could turn some of the lights off,
can't we.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I mean, it doesn't It doesn't have to look like
we're in a slaughterhouse in here.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
It's pretty awful. Yeah, that's nice. That's nice, that kind
of mood light.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Do we have some candles somewhere we could go?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Don't we have some candles we can burn the effing
building down with when we come back.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Some actual stuff that's going on today, A couple of
court that well, there's like three or four different court
things that the Trump administration is involved with today.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Does it even matter?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
I feel like, I mean, for other people who are
not in the closet.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Feel like there's a good experiment to be had with
with all of this today, Like you know, the argument
when you put people in prison, like what do you
expect them to do? You expect them to flourish? You
expect them to just thrive. Do you expect them to
talk about tariffs in the court system?
Speaker 6 (08:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
No, they sit here and they do not flourish, and
they don't want to talk about anything important because they're
pissed off.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
No, I know why that guy tried to swim away
from any where.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
It's a morbid story, but it's one that needs to
be told and talked about. You've had kids, correct, You've
had miners in your home under your roof where you
make the rules. They were my kids. Yeah, but your friend,
I know, would you say, would.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
I have miners in my home? It sounds like it's something.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
That your kids have had friends over. Okay, yes, and
under your roof, your rules. Something were to happen to
one of those kids where you kind of make the rules, you're.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
On the hook for that, right.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yeah. Yeah, that's kind of what's going on with the
City of La when it likes to rule based on feelings,
and it's not nice to force homeless people into treatment
or off the street. You're setting the rules for your house,
and the rules are anything goes in our house. So
when a woman dies in your house under your rules
(09:50):
and her family finds her body being eaten by dogs,
it's on you, La, And that's exactly what's happening. And
not a lot of people are paying attention to this
because this is a family that doesn't look like Lacy Peterson,
so not a lot of people are paying attention to
what's going on. But this family is saying, wait a
minute here, you didn't clean up that encampment, and we
(10:11):
found our mother dead and being eaten by docs. Right,
what the hell? What's going on? And the city should
be held accountable. We'll talk about it coming up in
the next hour.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
A couple of rulings that have come down that have
been pretty swift kicks to the Trump administration. One of
them just came down as we were starting the show
in the Closet today, a federal judge extended in order
to block the Trump administration's attempt to bar Harvard from
enrolling foreign students. So in this case, the district judge
granted the Harvard's request for this preliminary injunction. This blocks
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the government's action until they can decide the case. It
had already been paused since last week, when that same
judge issued a temporary restraining order.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Speaking of judges, I'm sure you've heard the news by
now that a federal judge says that those global tariff
policies are blowney Well, Trump's head of the National Economic
Council has gone on Fox Business this morning and called
the decision just a heacup in the whole tariff plan.
Love the way you say that heacup.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Yes, I know it sounds like you're saying a thing like, oh,
he's only a he coup and from Peru.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Say he always said he cup that was caused by
activist judges. He said, in a month or two, you're
going to look ahead and see that countries have opened
their markets to American products, they've lowered their non tariff barriers,
they've lowered their tariffs, and blah blah blah. Basically, you're
going to see as time plays out, that the tariff
Plan is working and that this judge is not in
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possession of the jurisdiction to make this all go away.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
This, by the way, this Court of International Trade. Very
few people knew about the Court of International Trade until
they took that case last week.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
So that was one.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I mean, that's one issue of all of this. The
second is, you know, the White House's assertion that this
is activist judges making foreign policy or trade policy. This
is judges paying attention to the Constitution of the United
States and the laws as they exist.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
And they're trying to.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Parse out the specifics of what responsibilities, sorry, what capability
the president has under that International Emergency Economic Powers Act
of nineteen seventy seven to impose tariffs on other nations.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
So that is exactly what is in question, and that
is exactly what the judge in this case was looking at.
Trump based his decision on that nineteen seventy seven International
Economic Emergency Powers Act. The grounds were that the large
and persistent trade deficit represented a national emergency. So you
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have to believe that we're in a national emergency to
say that the tariffs that were put in place are okay,
what constitutes a national emergency. The Court of International Trade
ruled that Trump overstepped his authority in imposing the tariffs.
One of them, now, the guy who went on Fox Business. Sorry,
(13:18):
just to put a bow on it. The guy that
went on Fox Business and said in a month or
two this is all going to play out activist judges
blah blah blah. He said, no, no, no, bentanyl Ventanyl's a
national crisis. And that's why we heard that so often, right,
what fentanyl the border of Canada and were like, Canada,
there's been like four cases of fentanyl in the past
eighteen months or something that acrossed the border. But that's
(13:39):
exactly the that's what they're hanging their hat on, is
a fentanyl crisis.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
It's got to be something like that because you can't
you can't point to our trade deficit, for example, and
say that that's become an emergency because we've run trade
deficits for four plus decades that that part of it
is not would not stand up to scrutiny under this case.
The idea of it being fentanel being the main issue,
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that's going to be a harder issue for the INN.
I mean this again, this is international Trade Court that
we're talking about, So how are they going to be
able to decide on that. This is one of those
issues as well that goes back to very basic constitutional
separation of powers, because the Constitution gives Congress most of
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the power when it comes to imposing tariffs for foreign trade,
but over the course of one hundred years or so,
the Congress has given the executive branch more and more
power when it comes to imposing terriffs, which is why
they're using that International Emergency Economic Powers Act of nineteen
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seventy seven as the filter through which they're looking at
this case.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
It's not over.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
It seems to me, based on the way that they
ruled this panel of federal judges, that the Supreme Court
would agree with them based on the text that they used.
I mean, I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know
the entire ruling, but this seems to be one of
those things where if the president wants to impose tariffs
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individually for individual reasons on individual countries, that's one thing,
But this mostly affects those blanket tariffs that he was
imposing over the course of the last couple of months.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
We talked about it yesterday and now it has happened.
Elon Musk is pulling out of the administration, and not
just fracturing his relationship with Trump or severing it at
least this phase of the friendship, but now going after
Republicans as a whole. Very interesting. Be careful who you
make bedfellows with bedfellows. I don't know if I've ever
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used that word.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Yes, you have, have I sure it seems like something
you'd say all the time.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
It really doesn't. Where did I pick that up from? Enemy?
Where am I learning these things? I don't know the
official term? Awful one are my eighty nine bedfellows? What's next?
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Various creams and lotions that you put on your skin.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I'm already doing that. Oh, you need to get back
into the beef on your face? Are you right? Do
you have the jail cough?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I've got Legionaire's disease from being in this place too long.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
The metal toilet sink combo in the corner hasn't been
pulled away from the wall yet. Yeah, that's how we're
getting out of here. We don't even have a toilet. Hey, guys,
that's how we're getting out of here.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
We don't even have a toilet. Well, PS, guess what,
it's not just us. It's broken our Yeah, there is.
There is a garbage can, or as they say, a toilet.
It's for everything, it's for everything. It's a catch all.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
We're in a temporary studio today. We hope it's temporary.
We hope it's temporary. Also, we don't know how long
this is going to be, but they told us before
that temporary studios only last a certain amount of time.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Pump up the volume. The major motion picture starring Christian
Slater had more advanced technology than what we're dealing with
in our closet. Yeah all ps. The talkback feature also
not working. I don't know why. So that's not working.
A completely different system.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
The lights, the lights in that room over there. Everything
we're flickering on lights like I was having a seizure yea,
and I wasn't check.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Well anyway, this could be the end, And the best
part about it is nobody cares. Nobody cares. Nobody cares.
But that's okay. We've got work to do. If anyone's
still listening, if this is still on, we will do
the show.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Chinese visas guys, Marco Rubio has basic decided that we
are going to revoke the visas of Chinese students, and
it's in his purview to do so, we believe, and
the Chinese students are now very anxious and angry after
he is vowed to do this. Rubio said that the
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State Department was revising visa criteria to enhance scrutiny of
all future applications from China, including Hong Kong. The statement
that made the announcement yesterday didn't define actually what critical
fields of study were, but anybody who might have ties
to the Chinese Communist Party or who studies in those
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critical fields would be would have their visas revoked.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
This has been a major.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Issue that feels like has never been addressed by any
president over the course of the last twenty five thirty
forty years.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Well, how do you determine which students have ties to
the Communist Party? I mean, I don't want to go
back to Japanese war camps, but this is right.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Just saying they're from China doesn't necessarily mean that they
have ties to the Chinese Communist.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Party, especially in twenty twenty five. I don't know how
you determine that.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
But if you think about we get a lot.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Of talent from China, obviously to international students pay full
tuition as well.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Now to mention that the long cultural history that Chinese
Americans have embedded in part, especially along the West coast,
in parts and cities along the West coast, but there
has to be an acknowledgment that China is emerging as
our number one potential enemy.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
I mean, the way they like to describe it now.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Is that they're it's sailed, China is entrenched. The whole
we go back to the balloon that was flying around
for China. China's already feels like twenty years ago. In
our phones and our computers and our homes. We need China.
We're relying on China. That ship has sailed. This seems
very nineteen fifty three to me. And I understand why
(20:13):
the Trump administration has picked this fight with universities. I
understand the fight between protecting our information protecting our country,
and I get that. And I also understand just the
distaste for the elite community that looks down upon Trump
(20:34):
and all the people who voted for them. I know
that that exists. But instead of picking this fight with
Harvard and Columbia and all of the elite universities are
never going to be on your side or the elite,
the elites or that school of thought or the left
coast school of thought. Why not, like Trump mentioned yesterday,
(20:55):
pour your love into trade schools. Pour your love into
the schools that you support and that support America. These
university are going to do whatever the hell they want
to do, and you can fight in the courts, it's
just going to be wasted time and wasted money, and
you're not going to change their ideology. Why not just
support what you find love for.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Because they believe that there is a potential violent aspect
of this use violent, not that they are going to
start something on campuses, but that you have a nefarious
is a better term, that they believe that there is
of the two hundred and what was the number, two
hundred and fifty thousand Chinese two hundred and seventy five
thousand Chinese students that exist within the United States.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Now, why now what they're going to mobilize on behalf
of the communist government of China and take the country down.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Well, listen, I don't know if that's a conspiracy theory
or if that's a very well thought out plan, but
China plays the long game.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
That's the way that they have done it.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I wouldn't put it past a nefarious government like China
to impose those, let's say, some strong ideals into some
of these students who do have ties to the Chinese
Communist Party, or do have ties to the Chinese military
or the spying apparatus that China has and says, hey, listen,
you go do your thing, learn your thing.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Have fun, go to all the UCLA games you want.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
But when we call upon you, you need to answer
or your family and answer.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
What does that even mean? I mean, I feel like
it's also putting down America. I feel like we're talking
about the red wave of like I said nineteen fifty three,
and America is so much stronger than that. And I
think that even if you come to this country with
communist ideals, you kind of get Americanized, right, But they're not.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
That's what I'm saying is they're beholden to the Chinese
government regardless of how much they love this country.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I don't know the idea that they're just Chinese bots
that can just be you can press a button on
them and they'll suddenly mobilize for the government of China
to do what. I don't know what more could do
to infiltrate this country that they haven't done already. What
more could they do? The thing is, they don't there's
no y are. They don't love it.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
They want all of it.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
They want all of the intellectual property, they want all
of the military secrets, they want all of the industrial seats.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I think they have access to all of that at
this point. So but then we just and we do too,
and we do as well. No, we don't.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
We don't have American students in China to the anywhere
near the numb but we.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Have intelligence on what China is doing in terms of
military and the like.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
But I want a bunch of everyone's.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
In everyone's business in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
I want to bund a bunch of boneheaded American college
kids to take their medieval puppetry classes at the University
of Beijing or University of Shanghai or University of Jesus.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
That's never going to happen, not because we have a
new dream job in America and it's stay at home Sun.
That's why that's and nobody wants to make babies with
those guys.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Hey, let's cut through this small talk Shally, or do
you want to do the Elon Musk thing?
Speaker 5 (24:00):
You want to save that to the.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Elon mussing the small talk thing. I wanted to talk
about when we could use the talkback feature. But since
we now are in Bangladesh doing the show and have
no access to technology or things at work, am I
putting down Bangladesh? Probably?
Speaker 5 (24:20):
I have not listened to Bangladeshi radio.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
It might be spectacular. They might have all the bells
and whistles, are just working studios.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
I don't know, but Elon Musk getting out.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, But I did want to talk about the cutting
through small talk with magical questions. But I want to
do that when we have access to the talkbacks. I
want to get people's I want to get their responses.
So so that's part of the show we can't.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Do all right, The Gary and Shannon Show from from
Cell Block G.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
When we come back.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Live today in Cell Block G. To crack up a
little bit, starting to feel funny? Huh Yeah, feels weird.
I just told Keana I was going to go to
the bathroom real quick, and she said pick a corner.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Did she really?
Speaker 7 (25:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Oh man, it's getting real in here.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
We're in this weird temporary little studio today.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
You know what, It's so cute the way you say temporary,
because remember when Okay, so, I was just listening to
Handle talk about being humiliated, and I thought, hasn't he
been humiliated for several years? Like what more humiliation could
he possibly feel after all this time? Like what question
could lead to more humiliation? And I was just hearkening
(25:37):
back to, you know, seeing Jodie Becker yesterday and how
we all started here twenty years ago, and when we
first when we first moved into this building and how
beautiful that studio was, you know, and I remember, you know,
filling in for you on the Handle Show and so cool.
And that was before Handle was humiliated to the point
of where he is at now. And then we moved
(26:00):
into the temporary studio which is down the hall, which
is where we are, and they said it's just temporary.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Six months, I think was the and we've been.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
In there for years. Yeah, and now you're calling our
closet temporary, which is cute to me because I think
maybe this is the plan that like we just keep
getting scaled down and scaled down and scaled down, and
now we're here in this so what's.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
The next Wait, what's the next thing?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Then I think it's all over. I think it ends,
and then you and I it ends. We use the
skills that we have that are not radio to go
find gainful employment. What are you going to do.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
I'm gonna go make announcements at my local Low's home
improvement store.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
I don't think they do those announcements anymore.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
I don't know. I'll find something. Maybe I'll just scare
the birds out from the warehouse store.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
How quickly do you think you'll have a job? Like
if we get an email.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
If I didn't have a job, would be I would
go nuts and I would cause my wife to go.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Nuts, right Like I would have a job tomorrow, Like
if we got the email tonight. It depends on how
what what's your definition of job?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Because I could get something by tonight, I get I
could get here's something that I could get work right tonight?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yeah, no, exactly, No, I'm not gonna have a career
are you kidding? I don't have any skills, but I
will have a job. I will have a job tomorrow
by clothes of business. Because of what you said, I
would go crazy.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Yeah, it's safer for everyone for you to be employed,
for you to have things to do.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
And the good thing about radio is it something that's
always in my head, like because this could just people
get fired from this job all the time and you
have no notice. It just happens. So it's been something
I've thought about for many, many, all of the years
I've been in radio.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
You think this is the process of them slow funning.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yes, I just I'm laying it all out for you.
Bro the white smoke, it's happening. The story we told
you about yesterday was that Elon Musk seemed to be
really pissed off about Trump's big beautiful bill. I didn't
see his exit happening this soon. Well it was. It's
(28:10):
always been this, right, It's always been a short term situation.
But it seems like this was the straw that broke
the camel's back. Well, I think that's a matter of
doing sorry, disappoint me play that.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Well, this is him in this CBS interview that he did,
saying he was disappointed about the President's big bill that
is still trying to make its way through coming.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Was disappointed to see the massive spending Volle frankly, which
increases the budge deeps if not doesn't decrease it, and
that reminds the work that PDCH team is doing.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
So I mean being a special government employee, that's what
he was designated. That means that he can only work
a federal job for one hundred and thirty days each
year that comes up. I mean we're already at the
twenty ninth of May. We knew that this was coming
if you start on January twentieth, which is what he did.
It's the timing of his vocal disappointment with that bill,
(29:04):
combined with the expiration date that we already knew was coming,
that I think has begun. That is added to this
story of Elon Musk is pissed off at the President,
and I don't know if that's entirely true. They can
have disagreements like that. Ted Cruz came out and just
laid it out with Elon Musk and said he did
(29:25):
a great job at what he came to do there, right.
Speaker 8 (29:29):
He came and spent four months working for the American
people free of charge, didn't collect a salary, made nothing.
He rooted out massive waste, fraud, and abuse, and he
did so at enormous cost to himself. You look at
his stockholdings as stockholdings dropped tens of billions of dollars.
It was a personal sacrifice, and the death threats that
(29:49):
were directed against him were massive.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
And he's going to go back and work. He's got
plenty of stuff to keep him busy. He's upset probably
that he didn't that some of these cuts that he
wanted to enact through the Department of Government Efficiency are
being completely rewritten by this big, beautiful bill that's supposed
to be making its way through the Senate.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
It guts clean energy tax credits, and he says, abruptly
ending the energy tax credits with threatened America's energy independence
and the reliability of our grid. It would terminate those
credits for electric vehicles at the end of the year,
just qualifying Tesla's from a seventy five hundred dollars and
(30:31):
incentive at a time when the company is already in trouble.
This comes around the same time that a new poll
shows that Democrats have fallen out of love on electric
vehicles because of Elon Musk. So stupid, hah. I mean
we didn't need this poll. We've been talking about. This
has been my bugaboo with the Democrats in the hypocrisy
(30:53):
of it all for many years, that you will hit
us over the head with needing electric vehicles in California
getting us into electric vehicles. Tesla came around and was
not the leaf and was beautiful and we all want one,
and people got them, and then all of a sudden, no,
they're bad because of Elon Musk. Well, what is it?
(31:14):
You want to save the environment or you want to
pick a pissing match with this guy over his friendship
with Donald Trump. I mean, aren't we Aren't we working
towards saving the planet. Isn't that what you want to do? Democrats?
I never understood that it was the most ladies. It
was the most blatant show of hypocrisy I've seen politically
(31:34):
in a long time. And I know both sides are
guilty of it. Republicans can be just as hypocritical, but
on this issue, it is so transparent and so gross,
and you need to get over it. Because the Tesla
is a beautiful car. You miss any part of this
fail although sometimes of people that drive those things, I
just want to plow in them with my truck. Well,
it's ridiculous. They think they're better than everybody. They really do.
(31:57):
It's annoying.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
If you miss any part of this great show, the
jail House edition, you can go back and check out
the podcast.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Also, I kind of keep my distance from them on
the road because I feel like they're flammable. They're more flammable.
They're more flammable. I don't know, like if I run
outside of.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
The eighteen gallon tank of extremely flammable gasoline you carry
your Undercarria.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Aren't the trunk trucks heavier than the average vehicle the
cyber truck?
Speaker 6 (32:28):
Right?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Probably very The regular Teslas are also heavier than other
sized vehicles, I mean vehicles of the same size because
of the battery.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
I don't need.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
That makes it safe for somebody to be in a Tesla? Yeah,
you don't need a heavy vehicle.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Have you seen that thing? You got to carry that
thing around? It's a baby truck. That's not what I
was talking about.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
You miss any part of this great Jailhouse podcast is not.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Going to end with both of us alive. Anywhere you
podcast is good jail house story, Someone's gonna die today, the.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Good thing that's got an oversized bed in a Holy Cow,
You're not making it any better. Tailgate Gary and Shannon
will continue right after this. You've been listening to The
Gary and Shannon Show. You can always hear us live
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