June 26, 2025 • 27 mins
Dive into the world of #SWAMPWATCH! Explore how psychedelics can transform the lives of veterans. Join the conversation in #TECHTALK with Marc—it's going to be eye-opening. The F-word is boring.
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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. So by the end of well,
by the end of business tomorrow, the jury in the
Sean Combs trial might have the might have begun. Deliberations
closing arguments started today. Prosecutors had said they expect to
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do about four hours of closing arguments. Of course it's
broken up by brakes in the court. Defense would also present,
they said, about four hours worth of their closing arguments,
and the prosecution gets a quick rebuttal before jury instructions,
and the jury gets this thing. They're in Lower Manhattan,
So funeral services, by the way, are underway right now
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for that Baldwin Park Police officer Samuel Riveros was killed
in the line of duty while responding to a call
last month. Those services taking place in Ontario. It's a
time for swamp watch.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a
liar and when I'm not kissing, I'm stealing that lollipops
here we got The real problem is that our leaders
are done.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
So what I'm not going anywhere, so that now you
train the squad, I can imagine what can be and
be unburdened by.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
What has been.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
You know, Americans have always been gone at president, but
they're not stupid.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Haven people voted for you were not swamp watch. They're
all count ofolled.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Well.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Very early this morning, chances are, before you got up,
the Pentagon's top two officials were revealing some new details
about the bombing of the nuclear facilities in Iran. This
was a Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff Jan Dan Caine. He told
reporters that the raid was the culmination of a secret
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project that goes back a decade and a half basically
where there was a small team within the Pentagon that
spent years how the Iranians were building an underground bunker
or bunkers in this case, to enrich uranium, and how
if the military was ever called on to do it,
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how they would do it. And this is exactly what
they came up with, this GBU fifty seven bunker buster
bomb that they ended up using. Let's say fourteen of
late Saturday early Sunday morning to try to destroy those facilities. Now,
when it comes to the battle damage assessment, what kind
of damage did our strike actually cause on nuclear facilities?
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We know President Trump had said it was obliterated. There
was a Defense Intelligence Agency report that came out that
said it could have been severe damage, but they had
low confidence in the report because it was so early
after the attack itself. And Dan Kine, again Chairman of
the Joint Chief says, listen, we don't do He didn't
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answer questions about the battle damage assessment because that's not
what he does. He was air force guy. So they're
the ones that dropped the bombs and then go home.
They let other people figure out what's going on.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
By design. We don't grade our own homework. The intelligence
community does. But here's what we know following the attacks
and the strikes on four dah. First, that the weapons
were built, tested, and loaded properly.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Now he's talking specifically about our weapons that we used
against them. When there was a reporter that asked the
question this morning, Okay, you know the president wants to
say that it was obliterated. Did you change your language
to fit what the president wants no.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
No, I have not, and no I would not. My
job as a chairman is to offer a range of
options to the President and the National Command Authority, to
deliver the risks associated with each of those, and then
take the orders of the National Command Authority and go
execute them again.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
This morning they detailed more specifically what happened in the event,
I mean, where the bombs went, et cetera. But in
terms of the assessment is to exactly the condition of
what is Iran's nuclear pro or what's left of it,
they just don't know. It is too early to tell,
and it will take days, if not weeks, to get
a better picture of it. But he did say, for example,
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the first bomb that was dropped, forcibly removed a concrete
cap that officials had emplaced in an attempt to try
to shield the four to zero complex from an attack.
And then the next eleven I mean, it's fascinating. Think
it's not one, it's twelve bunker buster bombs. They fell
precisely down those mountaintop vents inside to maximize destruction.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
So based on the precision with.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Which the operation was pulled off, we can hope that
it was it was wildly successful. The other big deal
that's going on in DC today is this ongoing fight
over the major domestic policy megabill.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
I think Politico has been calling this megabill.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
In the Senate chamber, the parliamentarian for the Senate told
senators that there are several provisions in the big beautiful
bill that won't be able to pass along party lines,
including major pieces of medicaid policy. There was a plan
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to hold down Medicaid costs by cracking down on a
state provider tax. This provision that's expected to have nine
figure impact on the bill hundreds of millions of dollars.
Republicans now have to try to rewrite major sections of
that thing or just leave it out altogether. This memo
came in from Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee that
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talked about this and some other provisions now at risk
include things like excluding undocumented immigrants from Medicaid, including by
withholding federal funds from states that make them eligible for benefits.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
This is a thing now.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
John Thune, the Senate majority leader, has said that he's
not going to move to overrule the parliamentarian after she
advised that in some of those provisions would expose this
bill to a Democratic filibuster, which means that it wouldn't pass.
All of this is going on, we're also seeing members
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of the House threatening revolt over all of this. House
Republicans say the bill now doesn't look anything like the
one that they passed, and they do not want to
sign off on this thing once it would go back
to the House. So President Trump and Caroline leve At,
the White House Press Secretary, have said they still expect
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this thing to be on the President's desk by July fourth,
but they just it seems like every day that goes by,
there's new things that come up that look almost like there.
It's not death by a thousand cuts, because it's more
significant than that. It's like a Monty python Night getting
his leg taken off and then complaining that it's only
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a flesh wound. Ron Wyden, Senate Finance Committee ranking member
out of Oregon Democrats said Democrats fought and one they
struck healthcare cuts from this bill that would hurt Americans
walking on an economic tightrope. So Democrats are going to
try to spin this as something that they won, even
though was the parliamentarian who suggested that this is not
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going to be something that would pass party lines. So
we'll see where that goes and see if it keeps
any sort of momentum going forward. There's a topic that
I've talked about many times in the last couple of
months that every time it comes up, every time I
see a headline about it, every time I see a
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story about it, I'm fascinated by the use of psychedelic
therapy to treat PTSD in American veterans because of the
epidemic of suicides when it comes to military veterans, that
this may be a way to cut down on that incredible,
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unfortunate average of almost eighteen veterans a day who die
by suicide each day, at least eighteen.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
We'll talk about that when we come back.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
These stories, boy, you can't say that they tug at
your heart, but there is something that goes on when
it comes to the number of suicides amongst our veteran community.
There was a statistic that suggested that more veterans are
dying by suicide in America today than died each day
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during the Vietnam War or the Gulf War that as
of right now, we're somewhere around twenty veterans kill themselves
every single day, and PTSD, anxiety debilitating mental health issues
are often cited as the cause. And we've done better
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at trying to get these men and women the help
that they need once their service ends, or even before
their service ends. But one of the burgeoning areas where
study needs to be done aggressively is the use of
psychedelic therapy. And we've talked about this before, and like
I said, every time this comes up, I get excited
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about it because I'm fascinated by this prospect. Now that's
not to say that psychedelics are free of potential harm.
Obviously there are. When you're talking about iba gain or ayahuasca,
or psilocybin or MDMA or LSD, all of these things
come with a certain amount of risk. But the breakthroughs
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that have been made recently with controlling dosage's medical I
mean under the direction of a medical doctor, all of
these things have made psychedelics a true game changer when
it comes to treating people with PTSD. PTSD doesn't have
to necessarily just be veterans either, people with traumatic head
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injuries have seen incredible results after treatment with psychedelics. The
LA Times interviewed a guy, former Army Special Forces VET
guy named Joe Hudak, who lost multiple team members during
a deployment with the Green Berets, and he explained to
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the LA Times what put him in the position where
once he got out of the service, he was racked
with guilt, anxiety, frustration. Anger said he couldn't be happy,
voices in his head that just continued to get louder.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
My last deployment was really violent. We lost a couple
guys and a couple of dogs, and my guys kind
of in their search for why our teammates died, they
ended up just saying it was my fault. I took
on that shame and I started to just come apart.
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I did all of the medications, the chit chat therapy,
all the experiential stuff. I was still kind of depressed
a lot and really kind of angry for no reason.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
I love that he called it chit chat therapy.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
A few weeks after all of this, a buddy of
his from the counter terrorism unit calls him and asks him,
would you be interested in trying psychedelics, And just a
short time After that, Joe Hudak went from San Diego
down to Mexico to take part in a Stanford observational
study that was using ibigain, one of the psychedelics to
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treat post traumatic stress disorder, and he had to go
to Mexico because it's not allowed here in the United States.
He said, after one dose one he experienced what he
had been searching for, which was silence. He said, the
voice in my head was gone. A month after treatment,
those people who took part in that Stanford study experienced
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an average of eighty eight percent reduction in the PTSD symptoms,
eighty seven percent reduction in depression symptoms, eighty one percent
reduction in anxiety symptoms. A neuropsychiatrist who led the study,
doctor Ian Crater, said the before and after difference was striking.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Now, we can't do this here.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
In twenty twenty three, Governor knew some veto to bill
that would have decriminalized the possession of psychedelics. That's not
what I'm at asking for. The Governor actually asked lawmakers
focus on establishing regulations for using psychedelics therapeutically, not recreationally,
therapeutically under a doctor's orders. And Senator Scott Weener out
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of San Francisco, who is a legitimate crazy person, I
mean legitimate insane, actually proposed a bill that would have
legalized psychedelic assistant therapy.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
It didn't go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
So AB eleven h three is now being advocated for
by this organization called Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions. They've already
helped about a thousand veterans get access to the psychedelic
therapy in other parts of the world. And Stanford's practice,
Stanford's study that they did and oversaw in Mexico is
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one of the programs that they're holding up and saying, look,
this is the future of treatment when it comes to PTSD.
So this bill AB eleven oh three, more narrow in scope,
changes the way the Research Advisory Panel of California would
look at this because the state level regulatory burden doesn't
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exist outside of California because of some laws that have
been around since the sixties. But needless to say, this
is doable. It's just a matter of making sure that
it is got the support that it needs to make
its way through. And I can't imagine anybody fighting against
this because yes, psychedelics bring with them a certain amount
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of risk, but you're also talking about the potential that
eighty eight percent reduction in PTSD symptoms for those who
took part in that Stanford study. That's a pretty amazing statistic,
especially when you put it up against the twenty or
so American veterans who commit suicide every single day. All Right,
Mark Salzman's joining us back. Ten ways to prevent your
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car from getting stolen. We'll talk about that when we
come back.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Out of New York.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
The sitting mayor in New York City, Eric Adams, has
officially kicked off his re election campaign, pitting himself as
the blue collar candidate he wants to save the city,
he said. From Zoran Mamdani, who won the Democratic primary
earlier this week, he said, he called him a silver
spoon socialist. Adams argued that his record shows that he
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deserves four more years as New York City's mayor. I
haven't seen any of the early polls, but there is
an expected other entrance.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Curtis Sliwa, one of the founders the Guardian Angels, is
going to be running as a Republican, but Andrew Cuomo
could get back in the race and run as an
independent as well.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Thursdays, it's time for tech Talk.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
The Machines Are Getting Smarter.
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Is tech Talk brought to you by Skynet.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
And Mark Salzman.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
It joins us on Thursday as we talk about the
world of technology. First of all, Mark, I want to
congratulate you on your four hundredth episode of the Tech
It Out radio show and podcast.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Congratulations.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Yeah, I appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
I started in July twenty seventeen, so yeah, fifty a
year checks. So yeah, we're going to give away a
laptop courtesy of a SEUs to a lucky listener this week.
So yeah, the new podcast episode will drop tomorrow on
iHeart and yeah, it's simply called tech it Out. If
you want to know how to be eligible to win,
it's all at the front of the show. But essentially,
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if you're on social media, just use the hashtag tack
it out and tag me and we're going to be
having a random draw on the third of July. And yeah,
it's going to be sent by a SUS to you directly.
You just have to be in the Continental US in
eighteen or older. So yeah, thanks for that, Gary, appreciate it.
You've been so nice to you and and plug it
every week and certainly that helps. The radio show version
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is also on your sister station on the Patriot.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Have you ever had your car stolen?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
I have not.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
There have been an attempt on my wife's truck, and yeah,
we had a really loud alarm, which is a good deterrent,
and the lights flashed and they took off and we
watched it on the ring camera after the fact. But no,
A lot of my friends have had their vehicles lifted
over the last couple of years.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
It's become a bit of an epidemic.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Yeah, many years ago.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
But I had two different cars stolen within about three
or four years of each other.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
It's the worst, so violated, right, whether your car is
broken into or outright stolen, it's still you feel just
so violated and it's aggravating. And then even if your
car hasn't been stolen, you're paying through your insurance for
all the other car thefts in your neighborhood. Believe you me,
your rates are going up, your premiums are going up.
Even if you take these safeguards, which I'm happy to
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share because I wrote this piece on how to use
tech and some other non techy sort of common sense
ways to reduce the odds of your car being stolen.
But you're still a victim even when you're not. That's
the really frustrating part here. Yeah, I noticed some of
them are very low tech, which is one of them.
Miss park in your garage, right, if you're fortunate to
have a garage parking it, Yeah, and try not to
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have any windows on your garage or at least have
them tinted or you know where you can't see what's inside,
so out of sight, out of mine is the easy
sort of solution. And if you do have to park
on your driveway, then at least have the you know,
bright lights and security cameras that can both act as
a detern and prove as video evidence should you need it.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
But yeah, a lot of people have those floodlights.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
That when you pull onto your driveway, they detect motion
and they automatically turn on.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
So that's good. Thieves do not like that, so that's
a good idea.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
Or if you park it in your garage and you're
lucky enough to have a second less expensive car. A
low tech tip is to just park that cheap car
behind your price heer one some other suggestions by an
inexpensive Faraday pouch or box which prevents the electronic signal
from being hacked wirelessly. You know, just put it as
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low as ten bucks on Amazon and keep your fob
away from the front door if you can, put it
more in the center of your home in that Faraday pouch.
Consider an anti theft steering wheel lock or the actual
wheel locks for those who want it. There's also that
OBD port onboard diagnostic support which is usually below into
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the left of your steering wheel. Some people lock that
as well, so that can't be tampered with easily. I mean,
anything is possible when there's a will. There's a way
you want to add as much time as possible because
the thieves do not have that time, or at least
install an aftermarket car a mobilizer, so if you don't
use a key or a pin code to officially start
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your car, it will stop running or not start at all.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
So there's lots of different things.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
If your car is stolen and you have a GPS
tracker in there, like a lowjack or even an air
tag which is just twenty bucks.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Not a bad idea. But never try to retrieve your
car on your own.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
Don't don't anymore? Yes, right, bring it to the authorities.
Hopefully they'll help you. Yeah, I've heard mixed stories about that.
But never try to go into a sketchy neighborhood and
look for your car on your own with a baseball bat.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Not a good idea. It's not gonna end well. And yeah,
that's it. I guess.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
One more is that if you have a dash cam,
which a lot of people like a dashboard camera, the
newer ones have what's called a parking mode, and so
when you hop into the mall or you're having dinner
at a restaurant and you valley your vehicle, the camera
lies sort of idle until it senses motion or sound.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Directly around the car and then starts recording.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
And that way you can even get a pushed notification
to your phone and even have two way talk, like
you could say the guys, the cops are coming, get out,
and that may help as well. But a park mode
is a nice feature to look forward at dash cam.
So if you want to learn about these ten tips,
I find out how Canadian it is for you to
warn the guys, just so you know.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yeah, and then we say sorry, sorry, sorry about you.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
Please go about your business, all right, I deserve that
Gary fair enough, fair enough in my Canadian accent.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Sorry guys, that's gree but.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
No, all kidding aside, if you want to try to
reduce the odds of your car being stolen or being
busted into to steal the contents like that you've got
and that's another tip, don't leave valuables along around to
tempt would be thieves. Just google my name, Mark Saltzman,
Mark with a C and car thefts and you'll you'll see.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
The article that I wrote. That's very a little bit
more detail than what we just shared. Yeah, very very nice.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
And again you said, people can just use the hashtag
tech it out for the option and the opportunity to
to win that Asis X fifteen Chromebook laptop.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yeah, thank you. Yeah, a week from today, the third
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It'll be randomly chosen, but they have to meet the
requirements of being in the continental US and eighteen or older.
And yeah, it'll be I'm going to use that random Okay,
remember the website, I'll look it up where it's a
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Speaker 3 (22:11):
Yeah, I appreciate the plug.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Gary, of course, Mark, thank you again, you too.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
How bet that what follow Mark on X of course,
m arc underscore Saltzman with a Z and you'll find
out more information about the potential opportunity for you to
win that chromebook when we come back. The President dropped
the F bomb earlier the week, fun article that the
F word is so boring now, like all the excitement
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was taken out of it.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
We'll talk about that when we come back.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
I wish Shannon was here for this. She's out on vacation.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
But she says the F word better than I do,
probably more common or more more she's she's more quick
to it than I am, if you will. But earlier
this week we heard President Trump drop a F bomb
in front of reporters as he was about to make
his way towards the NATO summit in a Netherlands that didn't.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Land, that was shut perhaps by mistake, that didn't land.
I'm not happy about that. What we have, we basically
have two countries that have been fighting so long and
so hard that they don't know what.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
The food they're doing.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Do you understand that?
Speaker 4 (23:22):
All right?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
There's a great story in the Hollywood Reporter, very creatively
written up, that suggests that people don't there were bored
with the F word. Nowadays, nobody minds anymore. Political leaders
have been saying this thing. Trump threw it out during
that live interview, like we said, but it was generated.
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I should say it did generate headlines around the world. NPR,
for some reason decides that it's better than everybody and
says breaking another presidential norm. The New York Post said
it's not unheard of. BuzzFeed said the Internet is losing
it over the president's use of the F word, and
the New York Times actually published the word. I mean
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to me, that's not a giant surprise these days that
the New York Times would publish the word, as opposed
to writing something like and then the President used a
vulgar expression, which then generates about fifty in your own
head about what he might have actually said. Unless you
hear the bleeped out version, you don't know what he said.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
That they don't know what the food they're doing, then.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
He's not the only politician that has said this. In fact,
Oregon Congresswoman Maxine Dexter I had never heard this before.
She's an she's an odd looking gal, as my dad
might say, she's an odd looking gal. She said that
they have to get in the way of Trump's agenda,
but she said it in an F wordy kind of way.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
We do have to.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
I don't swear in.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
What's funny is this article points out you could blame
the words proliferation on social media. There was one study
that found that the F word was the most commonly
tweeted curse word grown up content on streaming that drowns
out the PG rated broadcast networks. I mean, if you
stream a show, they don't have to worry about the
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words that they bleep out, and they don't.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Obviously.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
You can even point to studies that have shown that
swearing has health benefits. We've done that story many times,
where swearing can actually boost our pain tolerance by about
thirty three percent. Hollywood Reporter itself, and again that's where
this article came from, has published a bunch of celebrity
profiles over the years. Harrison Ford, I know who the
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F I am. John Wick's boss gets candid. My process
is ft. Alex Koop is blowing up. I'm an mfor
when it comes to the business. And those are just
the ones that this writer wrote. I mean, that is
it that worrisome? It's not appropriate. I mean, there's no
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I shouldn't say, there's no very few scenarios where it's appropriate.
It seems to be that go to for a lot
of people. But in all honesty, it kind of makes
you sound a little slow. And I've said this about
comedians who overuse it. It is a good punctuation sometimes
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like it can add a little bit of spice, but
just like a spice, ye had too much and it's
just overpowering. And nobody wants their Filet Mignon to be
drowned in salt. A little bit of salt makes it great.
Too much salt, it's just too much. We're too f saturated.
Maybe it's supposed to shock and titillate and to inflame,
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and the Hollywood reporters it's just workmanlike. Now it's boring.
We just have no more fs to give about the
F word. That's the way they wrote it up. Next
all of our trending stories and some great strange sciences
coming along at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
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on the iHeartRadio app. So by the end of well,
by the end of business tomorrow, the jury in the
Sean Combs trial might have the might have begun. Deliberations
closing arguments started today. Prosecutors had said they expect to
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do about four hours of closing arguments. Of course it's
broken up by brakes in the court. Defense would also present,
they said, about four hours worth of their closing arguments,
and the prosecution gets a quick rebuttal before jury instructions,
and the jury gets this thing. They're in Lower Manhattan,
So funeral services, by the way, are underway right now
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for that Baldwin Park Police officer Samuel Riveros was killed
in the line of duty while responding to a call
last month. Those services taking place in Ontario. It's a
time for swamp watch.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a
liar and when I'm not kissing, I'm stealing that lollipops
here we got The real problem is that our leaders
are done.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
So what I'm not going anywhere, so that now you
train the squad, I can imagine what can be and
be unburdened by.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
What has been.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
You know, Americans have always been gone at president, but
they're not stupid.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Haven people voted for you were not swamp watch. They're
all count ofolled.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Well.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Very early this morning, chances are, before you got up,
the Pentagon's top two officials were revealing some new details
about the bombing of the nuclear facilities in Iran. This
was a Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff Jan Dan Caine. He told
reporters that the raid was the culmination of a secret
(01:48):
project that goes back a decade and a half basically
where there was a small team within the Pentagon that
spent years how the Iranians were building an underground bunker
or bunkers in this case, to enrich uranium, and how
if the military was ever called on to do it,
(02:10):
how they would do it. And this is exactly what
they came up with, this GBU fifty seven bunker buster
bomb that they ended up using. Let's say fourteen of
late Saturday early Sunday morning to try to destroy those facilities. Now,
when it comes to the battle damage assessment, what kind
of damage did our strike actually cause on nuclear facilities?
(02:33):
We know President Trump had said it was obliterated. There
was a Defense Intelligence Agency report that came out that
said it could have been severe damage, but they had
low confidence in the report because it was so early
after the attack itself. And Dan Kine, again Chairman of
the Joint Chief says, listen, we don't do He didn't
(02:55):
answer questions about the battle damage assessment because that's not
what he does. He was air force guy. So they're
the ones that dropped the bombs and then go home.
They let other people figure out what's going on.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
By design. We don't grade our own homework. The intelligence
community does. But here's what we know following the attacks
and the strikes on four dah. First, that the weapons
were built, tested, and loaded properly.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Now he's talking specifically about our weapons that we used
against them. When there was a reporter that asked the
question this morning, Okay, you know the president wants to
say that it was obliterated. Did you change your language
to fit what the president wants no.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
No, I have not, and no I would not. My
job as a chairman is to offer a range of
options to the President and the National Command Authority, to
deliver the risks associated with each of those, and then
take the orders of the National Command Authority and go
execute them again.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
This morning they detailed more specifically what happened in the event,
I mean, where the bombs went, et cetera. But in
terms of the assessment is to exactly the condition of
what is Iran's nuclear pro or what's left of it,
they just don't know. It is too early to tell,
and it will take days, if not weeks, to get
a better picture of it. But he did say, for example,
(04:17):
the first bomb that was dropped, forcibly removed a concrete
cap that officials had emplaced in an attempt to try
to shield the four to zero complex from an attack.
And then the next eleven I mean, it's fascinating. Think
it's not one, it's twelve bunker buster bombs. They fell
precisely down those mountaintop vents inside to maximize destruction.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
So based on the precision with.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Which the operation was pulled off, we can hope that
it was it was wildly successful. The other big deal
that's going on in DC today is this ongoing fight
over the major domestic policy megabill.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
I think Politico has been calling this megabill.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
In the Senate chamber, the parliamentarian for the Senate told
senators that there are several provisions in the big beautiful
bill that won't be able to pass along party lines,
including major pieces of medicaid policy. There was a plan
(05:21):
to hold down Medicaid costs by cracking down on a
state provider tax. This provision that's expected to have nine
figure impact on the bill hundreds of millions of dollars.
Republicans now have to try to rewrite major sections of
that thing or just leave it out altogether. This memo
came in from Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee that
(05:43):
talked about this and some other provisions now at risk
include things like excluding undocumented immigrants from Medicaid, including by
withholding federal funds from states that make them eligible for benefits.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
This is a thing now.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
John Thune, the Senate majority leader, has said that he's
not going to move to overrule the parliamentarian after she
advised that in some of those provisions would expose this
bill to a Democratic filibuster, which means that it wouldn't pass.
All of this is going on, we're also seeing members
(06:18):
of the House threatening revolt over all of this. House
Republicans say the bill now doesn't look anything like the
one that they passed, and they do not want to
sign off on this thing once it would go back
to the House. So President Trump and Caroline leve At,
the White House Press Secretary, have said they still expect
(06:39):
this thing to be on the President's desk by July fourth,
but they just it seems like every day that goes by,
there's new things that come up that look almost like there.
It's not death by a thousand cuts, because it's more
significant than that. It's like a Monty python Night getting
his leg taken off and then complaining that it's only
(07:03):
a flesh wound. Ron Wyden, Senate Finance Committee ranking member
out of Oregon Democrats said Democrats fought and one they
struck healthcare cuts from this bill that would hurt Americans
walking on an economic tightrope. So Democrats are going to
try to spin this as something that they won, even
though was the parliamentarian who suggested that this is not
(07:27):
going to be something that would pass party lines. So
we'll see where that goes and see if it keeps
any sort of momentum going forward. There's a topic that
I've talked about many times in the last couple of
months that every time it comes up, every time I
see a headline about it, every time I see a
(07:47):
story about it, I'm fascinated by the use of psychedelic
therapy to treat PTSD in American veterans because of the
epidemic of suicides when it comes to military veterans, that
this may be a way to cut down on that incredible,
(08:12):
unfortunate average of almost eighteen veterans a day who die
by suicide each day, at least eighteen.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
We'll talk about that when we come back.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
These stories, boy, you can't say that they tug at
your heart, but there is something that goes on when
it comes to the number of suicides amongst our veteran community.
There was a statistic that suggested that more veterans are
dying by suicide in America today than died each day
(08:51):
during the Vietnam War or the Gulf War that as
of right now, we're somewhere around twenty veterans kill themselves
every single day, and PTSD, anxiety debilitating mental health issues
are often cited as the cause. And we've done better
(09:17):
at trying to get these men and women the help
that they need once their service ends, or even before
their service ends. But one of the burgeoning areas where
study needs to be done aggressively is the use of
psychedelic therapy. And we've talked about this before, and like
I said, every time this comes up, I get excited
(09:39):
about it because I'm fascinated by this prospect. Now that's
not to say that psychedelics are free of potential harm.
Obviously there are. When you're talking about iba gain or ayahuasca,
or psilocybin or MDMA or LSD, all of these things
come with a certain amount of risk. But the breakthroughs
(10:04):
that have been made recently with controlling dosage's medical I
mean under the direction of a medical doctor, all of
these things have made psychedelics a true game changer when
it comes to treating people with PTSD. PTSD doesn't have
to necessarily just be veterans either, people with traumatic head
(10:29):
injuries have seen incredible results after treatment with psychedelics. The
LA Times interviewed a guy, former Army Special Forces VET
guy named Joe Hudak, who lost multiple team members during
a deployment with the Green Berets, and he explained to
(10:52):
the LA Times what put him in the position where
once he got out of the service, he was racked
with guilt, anxiety, frustration. Anger said he couldn't be happy,
voices in his head that just continued to get louder.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
My last deployment was really violent. We lost a couple
guys and a couple of dogs, and my guys kind
of in their search for why our teammates died, they
ended up just saying it was my fault. I took
on that shame and I started to just come apart.
(11:30):
I did all of the medications, the chit chat therapy,
all the experiential stuff. I was still kind of depressed
a lot and really kind of angry for no reason.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
I love that he called it chit chat therapy.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
A few weeks after all of this, a buddy of
his from the counter terrorism unit calls him and asks him,
would you be interested in trying psychedelics, And just a
short time After that, Joe Hudak went from San Diego
down to Mexico to take part in a Stanford observational
study that was using ibigain, one of the psychedelics to
(12:05):
treat post traumatic stress disorder, and he had to go
to Mexico because it's not allowed here in the United States.
He said, after one dose one he experienced what he
had been searching for, which was silence. He said, the
voice in my head was gone. A month after treatment,
those people who took part in that Stanford study experienced
(12:30):
an average of eighty eight percent reduction in the PTSD symptoms,
eighty seven percent reduction in depression symptoms, eighty one percent
reduction in anxiety symptoms. A neuropsychiatrist who led the study,
doctor Ian Crater, said the before and after difference was striking.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Now, we can't do this here.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
In twenty twenty three, Governor knew some veto to bill
that would have decriminalized the possession of psychedelics. That's not
what I'm at asking for. The Governor actually asked lawmakers
focus on establishing regulations for using psychedelics therapeutically, not recreationally,
therapeutically under a doctor's orders. And Senator Scott Weener out
(13:15):
of San Francisco, who is a legitimate crazy person, I
mean legitimate insane, actually proposed a bill that would have
legalized psychedelic assistant therapy.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
It didn't go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
So AB eleven h three is now being advocated for
by this organization called Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions. They've already
helped about a thousand veterans get access to the psychedelic
therapy in other parts of the world. And Stanford's practice,
Stanford's study that they did and oversaw in Mexico is
(13:55):
one of the programs that they're holding up and saying, look,
this is the future of treatment when it comes to PTSD.
So this bill AB eleven oh three, more narrow in scope,
changes the way the Research Advisory Panel of California would
look at this because the state level regulatory burden doesn't
(14:18):
exist outside of California because of some laws that have
been around since the sixties. But needless to say, this
is doable. It's just a matter of making sure that
it is got the support that it needs to make
its way through. And I can't imagine anybody fighting against
this because yes, psychedelics bring with them a certain amount
(14:39):
of risk, but you're also talking about the potential that
eighty eight percent reduction in PTSD symptoms for those who
took part in that Stanford study. That's a pretty amazing statistic,
especially when you put it up against the twenty or
so American veterans who commit suicide every single day. All Right,
Mark Salzman's joining us back. Ten ways to prevent your
(15:01):
car from getting stolen. We'll talk about that when we
come back.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Out of New York.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
The sitting mayor in New York City, Eric Adams, has
officially kicked off his re election campaign, pitting himself as
the blue collar candidate he wants to save the city,
he said. From Zoran Mamdani, who won the Democratic primary
earlier this week, he said, he called him a silver
spoon socialist. Adams argued that his record shows that he
(15:37):
deserves four more years as New York City's mayor. I
haven't seen any of the early polls, but there is
an expected other entrance.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Curtis Sliwa, one of the founders the Guardian Angels, is
going to be running as a Republican, but Andrew Cuomo
could get back in the race and run as an
independent as well.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Thursdays, it's time for tech Talk.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
The Machines Are Getting Smarter.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Is tech Talk brought to you by Skynet.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
And Mark Salzman.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
It joins us on Thursday as we talk about the
world of technology. First of all, Mark, I want to
congratulate you on your four hundredth episode of the Tech
It Out radio show and podcast.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Congratulations.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Yeah, I appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
I started in July twenty seventeen, so yeah, fifty a
year checks. So yeah, we're going to give away a
laptop courtesy of a SEUs to a lucky listener this week.
So yeah, the new podcast episode will drop tomorrow on
iHeart and yeah, it's simply called tech it Out. If
you want to know how to be eligible to win,
it's all at the front of the show. But essentially,
(16:41):
if you're on social media, just use the hashtag tack
it out and tag me and we're going to be
having a random draw on the third of July. And yeah,
it's going to be sent by a SUS to you directly.
You just have to be in the Continental US in
eighteen or older. So yeah, thanks for that, Gary, appreciate it.
You've been so nice to you and and plug it
every week and certainly that helps. The radio show version
(17:03):
is also on your sister station on the Patriot.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Have you ever had your car stolen?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
I have not.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
There have been an attempt on my wife's truck, and yeah,
we had a really loud alarm, which is a good deterrent,
and the lights flashed and they took off and we
watched it on the ring camera after the fact. But no,
A lot of my friends have had their vehicles lifted
over the last couple of years.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
It's become a bit of an epidemic.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Yeah, many years ago.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
But I had two different cars stolen within about three
or four years of each other.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
It's the worst, so violated, right, whether your car is
broken into or outright stolen, it's still you feel just
so violated and it's aggravating. And then even if your
car hasn't been stolen, you're paying through your insurance for
all the other car thefts in your neighborhood. Believe you me,
your rates are going up, your premiums are going up.
Even if you take these safeguards, which I'm happy to
(17:59):
share because I wrote this piece on how to use
tech and some other non techy sort of common sense
ways to reduce the odds of your car being stolen.
But you're still a victim even when you're not. That's
the really frustrating part here. Yeah, I noticed some of
them are very low tech, which is one of them.
Miss park in your garage, right, if you're fortunate to
have a garage parking it, Yeah, and try not to
(18:21):
have any windows on your garage or at least have
them tinted or you know where you can't see what's inside,
so out of sight, out of mine is the easy
sort of solution. And if you do have to park
on your driveway, then at least have the you know,
bright lights and security cameras that can both act as
a detern and prove as video evidence should you need it.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
But yeah, a lot of people have those floodlights.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
That when you pull onto your driveway, they detect motion
and they automatically turn on.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
So that's good. Thieves do not like that, so that's
a good idea.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
Or if you park it in your garage and you're
lucky enough to have a second less expensive car. A
low tech tip is to just park that cheap car
behind your price heer one some other suggestions by an
inexpensive Faraday pouch or box which prevents the electronic signal
from being hacked wirelessly. You know, just put it as
(19:15):
low as ten bucks on Amazon and keep your fob
away from the front door if you can, put it
more in the center of your home in that Faraday pouch.
Consider an anti theft steering wheel lock or the actual
wheel locks for those who want it. There's also that
OBD port onboard diagnostic support which is usually below into
(19:35):
the left of your steering wheel. Some people lock that
as well, so that can't be tampered with easily. I mean,
anything is possible when there's a will. There's a way
you want to add as much time as possible because
the thieves do not have that time, or at least
install an aftermarket car a mobilizer, so if you don't
use a key or a pin code to officially start
(19:57):
your car, it will stop running or not start at all.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
So there's lots of different things.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
If your car is stolen and you have a GPS
tracker in there, like a lowjack or even an air
tag which is just twenty bucks.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Not a bad idea. But never try to retrieve your
car on your own.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
Don't don't anymore? Yes, right, bring it to the authorities.
Hopefully they'll help you. Yeah, I've heard mixed stories about that.
But never try to go into a sketchy neighborhood and
look for your car on your own with a baseball bat.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Not a good idea. It's not gonna end well. And yeah,
that's it. I guess.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
One more is that if you have a dash cam,
which a lot of people like a dashboard camera, the
newer ones have what's called a parking mode, and so
when you hop into the mall or you're having dinner
at a restaurant and you valley your vehicle, the camera
lies sort of idle until it senses motion or sound.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Directly around the car and then starts recording.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
And that way you can even get a pushed notification
to your phone and even have two way talk, like
you could say the guys, the cops are coming, get out,
and that may help as well. But a park mode
is a nice feature to look forward at dash cam.
So if you want to learn about these ten tips,
I find out how Canadian it is for you to
warn the guys, just so you know.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yeah, and then we say sorry, sorry, sorry about you.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
Please go about your business, all right, I deserve that
Gary fair enough, fair enough in my Canadian accent.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Sorry guys, that's gree but.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
No, all kidding aside, if you want to try to
reduce the odds of your car being stolen or being
busted into to steal the contents like that you've got
and that's another tip, don't leave valuables along around to
tempt would be thieves. Just google my name, Mark Saltzman,
Mark with a C and car thefts and you'll you'll see.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
The article that I wrote. That's very a little bit
more detail than what we just shared. Yeah, very very nice.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
And again you said, people can just use the hashtag
tech it out for the option and the opportunity to
to win that Asis X fifteen Chromebook laptop.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yeah, thank you. Yeah, a week from today, the third
of July.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
It'll be randomly chosen, but they have to meet the
requirements of being in the continental US and eighteen or older.
And yeah, it'll be I'm going to use that random Okay,
remember the website, I'll look it up where it's a
full random drop, so good luck.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Yeah, I appreciate the plug.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Gary, of course, Mark, thank you again, you too.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
How bet that what follow Mark on X of course,
m arc underscore Saltzman with a Z and you'll find
out more information about the potential opportunity for you to
win that chromebook when we come back. The President dropped
the F bomb earlier the week, fun article that the
F word is so boring now, like all the excitement
(22:36):
was taken out of it.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
We'll talk about that when we come back.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
I wish Shannon was here for this. She's out on vacation.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
But she says the F word better than I do,
probably more common or more more she's she's more quick
to it than I am, if you will. But earlier
this week we heard President Trump drop a F bomb
in front of reporters as he was about to make
his way towards the NATO summit in a Netherlands that didn't.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Land, that was shut perhaps by mistake, that didn't land.
I'm not happy about that. What we have, we basically
have two countries that have been fighting so long and
so hard that they don't know what.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
The food they're doing.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Do you understand that?
Speaker 4 (23:22):
All right?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
There's a great story in the Hollywood Reporter, very creatively
written up, that suggests that people don't there were bored
with the F word. Nowadays, nobody minds anymore. Political leaders
have been saying this thing. Trump threw it out during
that live interview, like we said, but it was generated.
(23:49):
I should say it did generate headlines around the world. NPR,
for some reason decides that it's better than everybody and
says breaking another presidential norm. The New York Post said
it's not unheard of. BuzzFeed said the Internet is losing
it over the president's use of the F word, and
the New York Times actually published the word. I mean
(24:11):
to me, that's not a giant surprise these days that
the New York Times would publish the word, as opposed
to writing something like and then the President used a
vulgar expression, which then generates about fifty in your own
head about what he might have actually said. Unless you
hear the bleeped out version, you don't know what he said.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
That they don't know what the food they're doing, then.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
He's not the only politician that has said this. In fact,
Oregon Congresswoman Maxine Dexter I had never heard this before.
She's an she's an odd looking gal, as my dad
might say, she's an odd looking gal. She said that
they have to get in the way of Trump's agenda,
but she said it in an F wordy kind of way.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
We do have to.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
I don't swear in.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
What's funny is this article points out you could blame
the words proliferation on social media. There was one study
that found that the F word was the most commonly
tweeted curse word grown up content on streaming that drowns
out the PG rated broadcast networks. I mean, if you
stream a show, they don't have to worry about the
(25:30):
words that they bleep out, and they don't.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Obviously.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
You can even point to studies that have shown that
swearing has health benefits. We've done that story many times,
where swearing can actually boost our pain tolerance by about
thirty three percent. Hollywood Reporter itself, and again that's where
this article came from, has published a bunch of celebrity
profiles over the years. Harrison Ford, I know who the
(25:54):
F I am. John Wick's boss gets candid. My process
is ft. Alex Koop is blowing up. I'm an mfor
when it comes to the business. And those are just
the ones that this writer wrote. I mean, that is
it that worrisome? It's not appropriate. I mean, there's no
(26:16):
I shouldn't say, there's no very few scenarios where it's appropriate.
It seems to be that go to for a lot
of people. But in all honesty, it kind of makes
you sound a little slow. And I've said this about
comedians who overuse it. It is a good punctuation sometimes
(26:37):
like it can add a little bit of spice, but
just like a spice, ye had too much and it's
just overpowering. And nobody wants their Filet Mignon to be
drowned in salt. A little bit of salt makes it great.
Too much salt, it's just too much. We're too f saturated.
Maybe it's supposed to shock and titillate and to inflame,
(26:58):
and the Hollywood reporters it's just workmanlike. Now it's boring.
We just have no more fs to give about the
F word. That's the way they wrote it up. Next
all of our trending stories and some great strange sciences
coming along at the bottom of the hour.
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