September 4, 2025 • 21 mins
#SWAMPWATCH – Kennedy Rejects Criticism, Data and Decorum in Contentious Hearing. U.K. Should Clarify Free-Speech Laws After Comedian’s Arrest, Police Chief Says TECH TALK with Mark Saltzman – iPhone 17 last-minute rumors / Remove Your Personal Info from This Invasive Website ASAP. Chinese Cyber Attack Hit EVERYONE!!!!
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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. A reminder, by the way, not
just tomorrow night's Chargers game, Chargers taking on the Chiefs
down in Sal Paulo, Brazil, kick off just after five
o'clock here on KFI.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And the Chargers are actually hosting.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Chargers of the home team. The pregame is gonna start
at four o'clock here on KFI. But that also means
that this being Week one of the NFL season, we're
going to see Gas Fantasy four Play Comeback, where we
picked four games from the NFL schedule and you try
to pick and see who's going to be the winner
of those four games. Not as easy as it sounds,
but if you're able to pick all four, you're going
(00:42):
to pick up some Gas swag. The news and bruise
that we have next is coming up on Monday, September
twenty second. BJ's Restaurant and brew House in West Covina
on Eastland Center Drive. We'd love to see you out there,
even on a Monday. You don't have to stay the
whole time, but if you did What a great way
to start your week saying nothing better.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
And then Saturday coming up.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
This Saturday, I will be out with Tim Conway Junior
and Dean Sharp at the American Vision Windows twenty fifth
anniversary at their Seemi Valley Showroom Again Saturday.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
It's the six will be out there.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
The party itself is from eleven to three food Fund prizes.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Wow, so today's your Wednesday since you work Saturday.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Would you call that work at a place that's a food,
fun and prizes?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
That's right? Pleasure with Dean Sharp. The house whispers he's
gonna hug me.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
He's always a hugger. It's okay. I don't think Conway is,
but we'll test that theory.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
That theory. It's time for swamp watch. I'm a politician,
which means I'm a cheat and a liar and when
I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah, we got the real problem is that our leaders
are done.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So what I'm not going anywhere?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So that now you train the swat, I can imagine
it can be and be unburdened by what has been.
You know, Americans have always been coming at present. They're
not stupid.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Whether people voted for you were not swamp Watch, they're.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
All countera Well, I guess the biggest deal in DC
today has been the Robert F. Kennedy, Junior Secretary of
Health and Human Services and his appearance this morning ahead
of or before the Finance Committee in the Senate. And
it went about as well as you can expect. This
for example, Senator Elizabeth Warren with the Secretary of Health
(02:35):
and Human Services.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Now, Senator, I'm not taking them away from that secretary.
You want me to indicate a product for which there
is no clinical data.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Sat Secretary Kennedy, you said you wouldn't, and now you did.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
I'm not taking them away. Everybody can get access to them.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
No, they can't walk into a pharmacy the way they
could last month and get acces.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
It depends on the state, it depends on the stage.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Okay, how about this one, Senator Bernie Sanders versus Health
and Human Services Secretary rfkj.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
You were president, you got a billionaire behind it. You
received three hundred thousand dollars from people, not from the industry.
People in it as I did from individuals.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
You corrupt.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
President Trump got three million dollars, Every Republican got corporate
pack money for the pharmaceutical industry, Democrats as well.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Everybody is corrupt. But you is that what we're looking at?
I don't think so, and I think the yess you
haven't even know what you're talking about. This, this is
what we expected.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
This, This was Kennedy going after Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Senator, You've sent in that chair for how long? Twenty
twenty five years while the chronic disease and our children
went up to seventy six percent, and you said nothing.
You never asked the question why happened? Why is this
happening today? For the first time in twenty years, you're
gonna learn that infant mortality has increased in our country.
(04:09):
It is not because I came in here. It is
because of what happened during the Biden administration that we're
going to end.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I don't know where this goes. This guy is an
immovable object. Senator Sorry, Robert F. Kennedy Junior has not
compromised any of his positions, even in the position that
he's in in terms of he has not backed down
from what he advocated for when he was running for president,
and since he kind of latched on with President Trump
(04:39):
about a year ago and promoted this incredible need that
we have to be better about Aha.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Health mah, make America healthy again.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, And he says he's not anti vaccine. He says
he's pro science, right, that's the way that he spends it.
Doctor Oz obviously supports him. That's no real big surprise there,
but you know, it's one of those things where.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
He isn't going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
The irony though, of what's happening at the dismantling of
the CDC is that the director to the one who
Trump fired, he appointed by RFK Junior, right, And that
hasn't been really talked about. And then since then, of
course the other people have stepped down.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And that's what this is all about.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
It's like, what's going on with the CDC, who's in
charge of the health in this country?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
And you my wife says it in a way that
makes me laugh every time, but she says, we are
not a thriving species. You look around at what we
have done to ourselves, voluntarily and involuntarily, whether we choose
to drink too much, much vague smoke, whatever it is.
The thing unhealthy foods eat, unhealthy foods, don't exercise. We've
(06:06):
done a lot of that to ourselves. But there are
also things the people who do eat well, who do exercise,
who do take care of themselves, that are still coming
down with these chronic diseases. There's something going on, and
that's what has been motivated. That's what I hear from
from RFK Junior when he's in front of these committees,
which is what is like what he said to Ron Wyden. Listen,
(06:29):
you've been there for twenty five years and you've seen
an exponential increase in the number of diseases, or you
could also say an exponential decrease in the health of
Americans overall, but.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
You have there's a correlation.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Does your wife agree with the fact that the vast
majority of Americans are obese? Sure, and with obesity comes
a lot of health problems.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
But how did we get so opy? Is fifty years ago?
Speaker 6 (06:55):
We weren't.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
There weren't that many choices in the grocery store back then.
And in fact, I just interviewed the CEO of a
nonprofit called en Chronic Diseases and she is lobbying for
legislation in the California legislature which has made it out
of committee so they will vote on this. This is
too ban ultra process foods in school lunches in California
(07:19):
school lunches.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
And you know what's funny is people are going to
tell them that they shouldn't do that because you're taking
away choices from.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Kids, right, that is the other side of that argument.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
But this bill would specifically define because one of the
big debates and critics say, well, what is an ultra
process food?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Define it for me because this could hurt the farmer, etc.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
But in the end, it's hard to argue with we
shouldn't be feeding our kids crappy food.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Right period at all.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
We'll get to those Gavin Newsom stories in the twelve
o'clock hour about how democrats outside of California view him,
but also why his office is keeping his schedule so secret.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That's coming up.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
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Speaker 1 (08:21):
Fire cruise up in the Central Valley and the Southern
Sierra cut firelights around about fifteen percent of a series
of lightning caused fires. The TCU September Lightning Complex has
burned about fourteen thousand acres as of this morning. Another
fire also started Tuesday during that big lightning event, exploded
(08:43):
in size yesterday. The Salt fourteen to two fire is
in Fresno County. It's burned about thirteen and a half
thousand acres. That one's only about seven percent contained. It's
burning west of I five on the west side of
Fresno County, near Kalinga and Avena. Last night, the Trump
administration asked the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court
(09:04):
ruling that had invalidated most of the tariffs on goods
from dozens of different countries. Despite losing in the lower courts,
the president and his lawyers say they believe they could
win in the Supreme Court. Of course, six conservative justices
have already signaled that they are pretty in favor of
strong presidential powers, particularly in the area of foreign policy
(09:26):
national security, So the Trump Administration. In a three page
appeal that was filed last night, proposed that the court
decide by next Wednesday whether to grant review, and then
to hear oral arguments in early November.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
We shall see.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
There's a comedian, comedy writer, comedian, however you want to
put it. Graham lenihan Irish comedic writer, but he lives
in the States. Now lives in Phoenix. He's an answered
sorry anti transgender activist who has been vocal about his thoughts.
(10:04):
He was detained at Heathrow Airport this week after flying
in from Arizona. He was the creator of a comedy
series called Father Ted I don't think I've ever heard
of it, wrote and directed the It Crowd, and was
picked up after landing at Heathrow and He wrote on
his blog that he was taken into custody and searched
and interviewed in relation to a few posts that he
(10:27):
made on Twitter back in April and April. One of
them said, if a transidentified male is in a female
only space, he is committing a violent abusive act. Make
a scene, call the cops, and if all else fails,
punch him in the balls. He was arrested on suspicion
of inciting violence against transgender people.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
For that comment.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Is pretty pretty light considering what I've seen on Twitter
in terms of different case of inciting violence.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Well, now Britain's most senior police officer is calling for
the government to change or clarify the law regarding free
speech amid this intense public debate over his arrest. He
says that this put police in a quote impossible position
in which laws were drawing them into quote toxic culture
(11:22):
wars debates.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
What drew them to.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
These posts and everybody got but heard about it and
decided that that was the thing that Now the other
thing is that means that this guy was on their
radar because they had to be able to track his
travels to know that he was coming into London in
the first place.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And he's set to go on trial Thursday today.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, he showed up in court to showed up outside
the court today with a sandwich board. One of them
said little girls cannot be little boys. It's something along
that those lines, and the other one was that men
do not belong in women's spaces.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Now, today's trial, though, is on separate charges of harassing
an eighteen year old campaigner for transgender rights. He denies this,
of course, but the difference between free speech here and
there is significant.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Nigel Farage, longtime member of Parliament, was actually a member
of the European Parliament before Brexit.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
We are literally becoming like an authoritarian state where if
you express an opinion that is not light. And bear
in mind mister Nanan, who lives in Phoenix, Arizona these days,
to be met by five armed officers as if he
were some sort of international terrorist for literally putting jokey
(12:54):
comments out about transactivists who played his life for years.
Shows you what the problem is.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And that's a guy from Britain who has lived under
these rules, very strict rules about what is what would
be protected speech and what wouldn't be.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Yeah, granted you know this.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
This comedian has been living in the United States so
probably feels a little bit more comfortable and is not
necessarily concerned about the possibility that he would be arrested
for for you know, again what Nigel Farage referred to
as silly jokey comments on Twitter. But again this has
(13:33):
to be a reminder to people that we enjoy an
incredible amount of freedom when it comes to what we say,
how we say it, where we say it, and who
we say it about in this country. That does not
exist in other places around the world.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Yeah, and the Prime Minister Kiir Starmer, he did not
comment directly on the case, saying it was a matter
for the police. Meanwhile, here to that point, Gary if
he advance accused Britain and other European countries of constraining
free speech.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
That issue of men sorry in women's spaces is something
that well in Britain. Specifically JK. Rowling, the author of
all of the Harry Potter books and several other books,
she has been boy, I'm going to get it, the
trans exclusive radical feminist. That's a term that's been used.
(14:28):
I don't know if she embraces it or not, but
that's one of the she's been described as a trans
exclusionary radical feminist. I learned that from Dave Chappelle and
she has been absolutely very outspoken about defending her position
and claiming very clearly, I'm not telling people that they
(14:52):
can't be transgender. I'm not telling you that you're sick
even I'm just saying you should not be in a
place where girls and women are because you're not technically.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
A girl nor a woman.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
You were born with this part, with those parts, and
that's where you should be. Her whole goal has always
been to protect girls and women.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yeah, I mean, and places like bathrooms, then of course
fields and locker rooms. We get into the issue of sports,
and we know that that's a big topic here in California.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
All Right, tech talk when we come back some of
the latest iPhone seventeen rumors.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Mark Saltzman's going to join us and talk about that.
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
There was no jackpot winner last night, so the top
prize in Powerball is one point seven billion. At least
that will go up based on the number of tickets probably,
but that would be the third largest jackpot in the
history power Ball.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
So that on Saturday, the forty one consecutive drawings without
a winner.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Hence why it's one point seven billion. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
We mentioned this earlier as well this weekend and then
again two weeks from now. So Paulvita pass portion of
the four h five is going to be partially closed down.
They do it. I mean, it's going to be most
of the weekend. It starts Saturday. Sorry, it starts tomorrow
at ten pm Tomorrow night and supposedly goes through five
(16:29):
in the morning Monday.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
When they've done.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
These before, they usually reopen a couple of hours before
their deadline. But their deadline is definitely five am on Monday.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
And this is a repaving project that's expected to last
through twenty eight yayy they stopped it all down for
Labor Day weekend at least all Oh, thanks, very.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Nice of them. There's a bunch of on and off
ramps also closed. Santa Monica, Wilshire, Sunset and so Pulvita Moraga.
We'll all be shut down while the rest of the
road is shut down. It's time for our tech Talk segment.
The machines are getting smarter.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
This is tech Talk, brought to you by sky Net
and our.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Friend Mark Saltzman joins us to talk all things tech.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Mark. How you been, Yeah, I'm good, Gary, And Hey Marla. Yeah,
it's been a couple of weeks since we've touched base. Hey,
I've been traveling like an idiot. Two weeks ago I
was in Germany when we would normally do our segment.
Last week Vegas, My youngest turned twenty one, so we
got to write a passage here in our family. When
(17:38):
the kids turn twenty one, we take them to Sin City.
And now I'm in Vancouver at an electric vehicle event
that starts tomorrow. But I didn't want to have a
third week without chatting.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
So well, I hope you're getting all your travel miles
I am.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Indeed, it's become a September habit for us to talk
about the new iPhone that comes out, and iPhone seventeen
is about to be debuted.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
What can we expect next week?
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Yeah, well it's newsworthy because it's the number one phone
in the country. So this is where people are waiting
to see if they should upgrade or not, whether it's
through their carrier or they just buy it on their own.
So on Tuesday, Apple is hosting it's what they're calling
inspiring event at Apple Park in Cooper, Tino, and so
(18:23):
yours truly, along with many other tech journalists, are anticipating
kind of what we're The buzz has been out there
for a while, so four new models, iPhone seventeen, the
iPhone seventeen Pro with you know, b fer Spex, the
iPhone seventeen Pro Max, which is larger and a better battery.
And then what's new this year is allegedly the iPhone
(18:44):
seventeen Air, so a much thinner device that seems to
be a trend. Pixel and Samsung and other phonemakers like Honor,
they're doing the same thing. Only five and a half
millimeters stick by comparison to the iPhone sixteen is almost eight millimeters.
If those who you know want that, I don't know
why you need your phone to be that thin. As
(19:04):
long as it's durable, I guess it's fine. But more importantly,
perhaps for all four models, the rumor is a much
better display. It's a one hundred and twenty Hurtz refresh
rate instead of sixty which is on the iPhone sixty,
and that just makes scrolling that much smoother and gains
that much smoother. It's really noticeable when you're looking at
the device and touching it. Writer displays up to two
(19:27):
thousand knits, so it's twice as bright for outdoor viewing
like in the sunlight. A larger battery, so maybe not
the sexiest of features, but certainly a good practical one.
So up to a five thousand million battery in the
iPhone seventeen promac so you won't have to charge it
up as often, maybe squeeze in two days, which would
be a significant upgrade over previous iPhones, and then you
(19:51):
know the regular the better cameras. What is new is
maybe what's called reverse charging on the Pro model, So
that's where on the back of the device, not only
can you wirelessly charge your iPhone by placing it on
a Chi Max to charge up without cables, but you
can put other devices on it like AirPods, and that
will charge up using your phone. It'll brain your iPhone's
(20:11):
battery a bit, so that's kind of neat. Some other
companies have done that. So that's what we're expecting on
the iPhone seventeen front, unless there are some major surprises
on the accessory side. Apple Watch Series eleven, Apple Watch
Ultra three, which is their more rugged outdoor model, rumored
to have satellite connectivity this time. So if you're in
an area where you're off the grid, you're stuck, I
(20:33):
don't know, camping somewhere in the desert, you can send
an emergency text through your watch, which you previously weren't
able to do with Apple AirPods Pro three, so new airbuds.
Apple TV four K a new model that's the little
box that you connect to your TV. Rumored to have
a camera so you can do FaceTime in your family room.
(20:54):
And then finally an Apple Home Pod with a display,
so like a smart speaker but with the screen, which
Google and Alexa have done already. Apple's playing a bit
of catch up in that department. But considering that our
smart home is becoming a lot more integrated, people may
want to touch enabled home pod. So that's the skinny
pun intended for what we're expecting with the iPhone Air
(21:15):
and other devices on Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I'd be afraid that I would put the Apple iPhone
Air into my pocket and then sit down and it
would snap because.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
It was too thin. Yeah yeah, hey.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
Hetty joked online. But look, so we'll see.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
And Mark, I was going to say, I have the
iPhone twelve Pro, you think I should go for an
upgrade
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. A reminder, by the way, not
just tomorrow night's Chargers game, Chargers taking on the Chiefs
down in Sal Paulo, Brazil, kick off just after five
o'clock here on KFI.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And the Chargers are actually hosting.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Chargers of the home team. The pregame is gonna start
at four o'clock here on KFI. But that also means
that this being Week one of the NFL season, we're
going to see Gas Fantasy four Play Comeback, where we
picked four games from the NFL schedule and you try
to pick and see who's going to be the winner
of those four games. Not as easy as it sounds,
but if you're able to pick all four, you're going
(00:42):
to pick up some Gas swag. The news and bruise
that we have next is coming up on Monday, September
twenty second. BJ's Restaurant and brew House in West Covina
on Eastland Center Drive. We'd love to see you out there,
even on a Monday. You don't have to stay the
whole time, but if you did What a great way
to start your week saying nothing better.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
And then Saturday coming up.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
This Saturday, I will be out with Tim Conway Junior
and Dean Sharp at the American Vision Windows twenty fifth
anniversary at their Seemi Valley Showroom Again Saturday.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
It's the six will be out there.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
The party itself is from eleven to three food Fund prizes.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Wow, so today's your Wednesday since you work Saturday.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Would you call that work at a place that's a food,
fun and prizes?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
That's right? Pleasure with Dean Sharp. The house whispers he's
gonna hug me.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
He's always a hugger. It's okay. I don't think Conway is,
but we'll test that theory.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
That theory. It's time for swamp watch. I'm a politician,
which means I'm a cheat and a liar and when
I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah, we got the real problem is that our leaders
are done.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So what I'm not going anywhere?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So that now you train the swat, I can imagine
it can be and be unburdened by what has been.
You know, Americans have always been coming at present. They're
not stupid.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Whether people voted for you were not swamp Watch, they're.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
All countera Well, I guess the biggest deal in DC
today has been the Robert F. Kennedy, Junior Secretary of
Health and Human Services and his appearance this morning ahead
of or before the Finance Committee in the Senate. And
it went about as well as you can expect. This
for example, Senator Elizabeth Warren with the Secretary of Health
(02:35):
and Human Services.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Now, Senator, I'm not taking them away from that secretary.
You want me to indicate a product for which there
is no clinical data.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Sat Secretary Kennedy, you said you wouldn't, and now you did.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
I'm not taking them away. Everybody can get access to them.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
No, they can't walk into a pharmacy the way they
could last month and get acces.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
It depends on the state, it depends on the stage.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Okay, how about this one, Senator Bernie Sanders versus Health
and Human Services Secretary rfkj.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
You were president, you got a billionaire behind it. You
received three hundred thousand dollars from people, not from the industry.
People in it as I did from individuals.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
You corrupt.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
President Trump got three million dollars, Every Republican got corporate
pack money for the pharmaceutical industry, Democrats as well.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Everybody is corrupt. But you is that what we're looking at?
I don't think so, and I think the yess you
haven't even know what you're talking about. This, this is
what we expected.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
This, This was Kennedy going after Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Senator, You've sent in that chair for how long? Twenty
twenty five years while the chronic disease and our children
went up to seventy six percent, and you said nothing.
You never asked the question why happened? Why is this
happening today? For the first time in twenty years, you're
gonna learn that infant mortality has increased in our country.
(04:09):
It is not because I came in here. It is
because of what happened during the Biden administration that we're
going to end.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I don't know where this goes. This guy is an
immovable object. Senator Sorry, Robert F. Kennedy Junior has not
compromised any of his positions, even in the position that
he's in in terms of he has not backed down
from what he advocated for when he was running for president,
and since he kind of latched on with President Trump
(04:39):
about a year ago and promoted this incredible need that
we have to be better about Aha.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Health mah, make America healthy again.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, And he says he's not anti vaccine. He says
he's pro science, right, that's the way that he spends it.
Doctor Oz obviously supports him. That's no real big surprise there,
but you know, it's one of those things where.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
He isn't going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
The irony though, of what's happening at the dismantling of
the CDC is that the director to the one who
Trump fired, he appointed by RFK Junior, right, And that
hasn't been really talked about. And then since then, of
course the other people have stepped down.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And that's what this is all about.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
It's like, what's going on with the CDC, who's in
charge of the health in this country?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
And you my wife says it in a way that
makes me laugh every time, but she says, we are
not a thriving species. You look around at what we
have done to ourselves, voluntarily and involuntarily, whether we choose
to drink too much, much vague smoke, whatever it is.
The thing unhealthy foods eat, unhealthy foods, don't exercise. We've
(06:06):
done a lot of that to ourselves. But there are
also things the people who do eat well, who do exercise,
who do take care of themselves, that are still coming
down with these chronic diseases. There's something going on, and
that's what has been motivated. That's what I hear from
from RFK Junior when he's in front of these committees,
which is what is like what he said to Ron Wyden. Listen,
(06:29):
you've been there for twenty five years and you've seen
an exponential increase in the number of diseases, or you
could also say an exponential decrease in the health of
Americans overall, but.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
You have there's a correlation.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Does your wife agree with the fact that the vast
majority of Americans are obese? Sure, and with obesity comes
a lot of health problems.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
But how did we get so opy? Is fifty years ago?
Speaker 6 (06:55):
We weren't.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
There weren't that many choices in the grocery store back then.
And in fact, I just interviewed the CEO of a
nonprofit called en Chronic Diseases and she is lobbying for
legislation in the California legislature which has made it out
of committee so they will vote on this. This is
too ban ultra process foods in school lunches in California
(07:19):
school lunches.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
And you know what's funny is people are going to
tell them that they shouldn't do that because you're taking
away choices from.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Kids, right, that is the other side of that argument.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
But this bill would specifically define because one of the
big debates and critics say, well, what is an ultra
process food?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Define it for me because this could hurt the farmer, etc.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
But in the end, it's hard to argue with we
shouldn't be feeding our kids crappy food.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Right period at all.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
We'll get to those Gavin Newsom stories in the twelve
o'clock hour about how democrats outside of California view him,
but also why his office is keeping his schedule so secret.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That's coming up.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
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Speaker 1 (08:21):
Fire cruise up in the Central Valley and the Southern
Sierra cut firelights around about fifteen percent of a series
of lightning caused fires. The TCU September Lightning Complex has
burned about fourteen thousand acres as of this morning. Another
fire also started Tuesday during that big lightning event, exploded
(08:43):
in size yesterday. The Salt fourteen to two fire is
in Fresno County. It's burned about thirteen and a half
thousand acres. That one's only about seven percent contained. It's
burning west of I five on the west side of
Fresno County, near Kalinga and Avena. Last night, the Trump
administration asked the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court
(09:04):
ruling that had invalidated most of the tariffs on goods
from dozens of different countries. Despite losing in the lower courts,
the president and his lawyers say they believe they could
win in the Supreme Court. Of course, six conservative justices
have already signaled that they are pretty in favor of
strong presidential powers, particularly in the area of foreign policy
(09:26):
national security, So the Trump Administration. In a three page
appeal that was filed last night, proposed that the court
decide by next Wednesday whether to grant review, and then
to hear oral arguments in early November.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
We shall see.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
There's a comedian, comedy writer, comedian, however you want to
put it. Graham lenihan Irish comedic writer, but he lives
in the States. Now lives in Phoenix. He's an answered
sorry anti transgender activist who has been vocal about his thoughts.
(10:04):
He was detained at Heathrow Airport this week after flying
in from Arizona. He was the creator of a comedy
series called Father Ted I don't think I've ever heard
of it, wrote and directed the It Crowd, and was
picked up after landing at Heathrow and He wrote on
his blog that he was taken into custody and searched
and interviewed in relation to a few posts that he
(10:27):
made on Twitter back in April and April. One of
them said, if a transidentified male is in a female
only space, he is committing a violent abusive act. Make
a scene, call the cops, and if all else fails,
punch him in the balls. He was arrested on suspicion
of inciting violence against transgender people.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
For that comment.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Is pretty pretty light considering what I've seen on Twitter
in terms of different case of inciting violence.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Well, now Britain's most senior police officer is calling for
the government to change or clarify the law regarding free
speech amid this intense public debate over his arrest. He
says that this put police in a quote impossible position
in which laws were drawing them into quote toxic culture
(11:22):
wars debates.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
What drew them to.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
These posts and everybody got but heard about it and
decided that that was the thing that Now the other
thing is that means that this guy was on their
radar because they had to be able to track his
travels to know that he was coming into London in
the first place.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And he's set to go on trial Thursday today.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, he showed up in court to showed up outside
the court today with a sandwich board. One of them
said little girls cannot be little boys. It's something along
that those lines, and the other one was that men
do not belong in women's spaces.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Now, today's trial, though, is on separate charges of harassing
an eighteen year old campaigner for transgender rights. He denies this,
of course, but the difference between free speech here and
there is significant.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Nigel Farage, longtime member of Parliament, was actually a member
of the European Parliament before Brexit.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
We are literally becoming like an authoritarian state where if
you express an opinion that is not light. And bear
in mind mister Nanan, who lives in Phoenix, Arizona these days,
to be met by five armed officers as if he
were some sort of international terrorist for literally putting jokey
(12:54):
comments out about transactivists who played his life for years.
Shows you what the problem is.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And that's a guy from Britain who has lived under
these rules, very strict rules about what is what would
be protected speech and what wouldn't be.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Yeah, granted you know this.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
This comedian has been living in the United States so
probably feels a little bit more comfortable and is not
necessarily concerned about the possibility that he would be arrested
for for you know, again what Nigel Farage referred to
as silly jokey comments on Twitter. But again this has
(13:33):
to be a reminder to people that we enjoy an
incredible amount of freedom when it comes to what we say,
how we say it, where we say it, and who
we say it about in this country. That does not
exist in other places around the world.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Yeah, and the Prime Minister Kiir Starmer, he did not
comment directly on the case, saying it was a matter
for the police. Meanwhile, here to that point, Gary if
he advance accused Britain and other European countries of constraining
free speech.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
That issue of men sorry in women's spaces is something
that well in Britain. Specifically JK. Rowling, the author of
all of the Harry Potter books and several other books,
she has been boy, I'm going to get it, the
trans exclusive radical feminist. That's a term that's been used.
(14:28):
I don't know if she embraces it or not, but
that's one of the she's been described as a trans
exclusionary radical feminist. I learned that from Dave Chappelle and
she has been absolutely very outspoken about defending her position
and claiming very clearly, I'm not telling people that they
(14:52):
can't be transgender. I'm not telling you that you're sick
even I'm just saying you should not be in a
place where girls and women are because you're not technically.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
A girl nor a woman.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
You were born with this part, with those parts, and
that's where you should be. Her whole goal has always
been to protect girls and women.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yeah, I mean, and places like bathrooms, then of course
fields and locker rooms. We get into the issue of sports,
and we know that that's a big topic here in California.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
All Right, tech talk when we come back some of
the latest iPhone seventeen rumors.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Mark Saltzman's going to join us and talk about that.
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
There was no jackpot winner last night, so the top
prize in Powerball is one point seven billion. At least
that will go up based on the number of tickets probably,
but that would be the third largest jackpot in the
history power Ball.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
So that on Saturday, the forty one consecutive drawings without
a winner.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Hence why it's one point seven billion. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
We mentioned this earlier as well this weekend and then
again two weeks from now. So Paulvita pass portion of
the four h five is going to be partially closed down.
They do it. I mean, it's going to be most
of the weekend. It starts Saturday. Sorry, it starts tomorrow
at ten pm Tomorrow night and supposedly goes through five
(16:29):
in the morning Monday.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
When they've done.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
These before, they usually reopen a couple of hours before
their deadline. But their deadline is definitely five am on Monday.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
And this is a repaving project that's expected to last
through twenty eight yayy they stopped it all down for
Labor Day weekend at least all Oh, thanks, very.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Nice of them. There's a bunch of on and off
ramps also closed. Santa Monica, Wilshire, Sunset and so Pulvita Moraga.
We'll all be shut down while the rest of the
road is shut down. It's time for our tech Talk segment.
The machines are getting smarter.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
This is tech Talk, brought to you by sky Net
and our.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Friend Mark Saltzman joins us to talk all things tech.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Mark. How you been, Yeah, I'm good, Gary, And Hey Marla. Yeah,
it's been a couple of weeks since we've touched base. Hey,
I've been traveling like an idiot. Two weeks ago I
was in Germany when we would normally do our segment.
Last week Vegas, My youngest turned twenty one, so we
got to write a passage here in our family. When
(17:38):
the kids turn twenty one, we take them to Sin City.
And now I'm in Vancouver at an electric vehicle event
that starts tomorrow. But I didn't want to have a
third week without chatting.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
So well, I hope you're getting all your travel miles
I am.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Indeed, it's become a September habit for us to talk
about the new iPhone that comes out, and iPhone seventeen
is about to be debuted.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
What can we expect next week?
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Yeah, well it's newsworthy because it's the number one phone
in the country. So this is where people are waiting
to see if they should upgrade or not, whether it's
through their carrier or they just buy it on their own.
So on Tuesday, Apple is hosting it's what they're calling
inspiring event at Apple Park in Cooper, Tino, and so
(18:23):
yours truly, along with many other tech journalists, are anticipating
kind of what we're The buzz has been out there
for a while, so four new models, iPhone seventeen, the
iPhone seventeen Pro with you know, b fer Spex, the
iPhone seventeen Pro Max, which is larger and a better battery.
And then what's new this year is allegedly the iPhone
(18:44):
seventeen Air, so a much thinner device that seems to
be a trend. Pixel and Samsung and other phonemakers like Honor,
they're doing the same thing. Only five and a half
millimeters stick by comparison to the iPhone sixteen is almost eight millimeters.
If those who you know want that, I don't know
why you need your phone to be that thin. As
(19:04):
long as it's durable, I guess it's fine. But more importantly,
perhaps for all four models, the rumor is a much
better display. It's a one hundred and twenty Hurtz refresh
rate instead of sixty which is on the iPhone sixty,
and that just makes scrolling that much smoother and gains
that much smoother. It's really noticeable when you're looking at
the device and touching it. Writer displays up to two
(19:27):
thousand knits, so it's twice as bright for outdoor viewing
like in the sunlight. A larger battery, so maybe not
the sexiest of features, but certainly a good practical one.
So up to a five thousand million battery in the
iPhone seventeen promac so you won't have to charge it
up as often, maybe squeeze in two days, which would
be a significant upgrade over previous iPhones, and then you
(19:51):
know the regular the better cameras. What is new is
maybe what's called reverse charging on the Pro model, So
that's where on the back of the device, not only
can you wirelessly charge your iPhone by placing it on
a Chi Max to charge up without cables, but you
can put other devices on it like AirPods, and that
will charge up using your phone. It'll brain your iPhone's
(20:11):
battery a bit, so that's kind of neat. Some other
companies have done that. So that's what we're expecting on
the iPhone seventeen front, unless there are some major surprises
on the accessory side. Apple Watch Series eleven, Apple Watch
Ultra three, which is their more rugged outdoor model, rumored
to have satellite connectivity this time. So if you're in
an area where you're off the grid, you're stuck, I
(20:33):
don't know, camping somewhere in the desert, you can send
an emergency text through your watch, which you previously weren't
able to do with Apple AirPods Pro three, so new airbuds.
Apple TV four K a new model that's the little
box that you connect to your TV. Rumored to have
a camera so you can do FaceTime in your family room.
(20:54):
And then finally an Apple Home Pod with a display,
so like a smart speaker but with the screen, which
Google and Alexa have done already. Apple's playing a bit
of catch up in that department. But considering that our
smart home is becoming a lot more integrated, people may
want to touch enabled home pod. So that's the skinny
pun intended for what we're expecting with the iPhone Air
(21:15):
and other devices on Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I'd be afraid that I would put the Apple iPhone
Air into my pocket and then sit down and it
would snap because.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
It was too thin. Yeah yeah, hey.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
Hetty joked online. But look, so we'll see.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
And Mark, I was going to say, I have the
iPhone twelve Pro, you think I should go for an
upgrade
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