June 20, 2025 • 30 mins
#SWAMPWATCH – The Trump administration has imposed new restrictions on Congress's visits to immigration centers. Insiders reveal the details behind a Bezos-sized 'super-wedding.' Why do elderly individuals have a distinct smell? In a fire, a cherished Mike Trout autograph was lost, prompting Trout to get involved.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
We have some breaking swamp Watch news. We'll start with that.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar,
and when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing the lollipops.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Here we got.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
The real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
So what.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm not going anywhere? So that is how you train
the swap. I can imagine what can be and be
unburdened by what has been. You know, Americans have always
been gone at president, but they're not stupid. A political
plunder is when a politician actually tells the truth. Whether
people voted for you were not swamp Watch, They're all Canona.
A federal judge has ordered the release of Mahmud Khalil.
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He is a Green card holder. He's a former pro
Palestinian activist at Columbia Universities, been held by authorities for
more than three months now.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
The only high profile pro Palestinian demonstrator who remains in confinement.
They're calling it a major victory and relief for him.
His wife and infant son are US citizens. He has
not been charged with a crime. The Trump administration justified
holding him by invoking a rarely cited law that allows
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for the deportation of people who oppose the nation's foreign
policy objectives. Marco Rubio was the one who kind of
slammed the gavel and said that this guy was spreading
anti Semitism for protesting in support of the Palestinians.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
The judge in this case said Khalil's not a flight risk,
not a danger to the community, and giving those findings,
he said, it's highly unusual that the government is still
seeking his detention. And together they suggest that there is
at least something to the underlying claim that there's an
effort to use the immigration charge here to punish the petitioner,
and of course that would be unconsortable.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Were they just making an example out of him. I
remember that they said he was connected to Hamas at
one point, but there was no math shown on that.
I don't remember any evidence that proved that one way
or another.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah, I mean, you'd figure over the course of three
months they'd be able to come up with something a
little more solid than that and if they had it,
that would be introduced as part of their response to
this petition in the first place.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Elsewhere, the big news is this two week conversation we
heard yesterday from the White House press room that the
President was not thinking of doing anything. Right, Well, I shouldn't.
I shouldn't add words to the statement. It was that
we're gonna look at this and maybe something will happen
within the next two weeks. Kind of backing off the
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gas pedal here when it comes to striking Iron's nuclear bunker.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
And we've seen over and over again more and more
indications if all you do is look at moving American
military sets around the globe, more and more indications that
we're getting ready for something. What exactly we don't know.
Is it just setting the table in case we have
to go and do something, or is it more advanced
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than that. Congress obviously has the power to declare war,
not the president. But it's been eighty plus years since
the Congress has declared wars, not since World War Two,
and obviously we've been involved in whether we call them
wars or conflicts, they're still the same thing many times
since then. The War Powers resolution back in nineteen seventy
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three tries to limit the president's ability to deploy the
military to three types of situations under a declaration of war,
a specific statutory authorization, or a national emergency created by
attack upon the United States possessions, ar enforces territories, that
sort of thing. So it does require or the president
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to issue a report to Congress within forty eight hours
of using military force, and then obviously tries to limit
the time he has to use that force before he
asks Congress for more time. But he does not have
to go to Congress to get permission to drop eight
bunker buster bombs on four to Doho Aho. We could.
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And then the Supreme Court is coming out. They've got
a bunch of decisions still to come out, ten of them,
I believe, including birthright citizenship. Of course, the question about
whether somebody who is born here in the United States
to parents without any sort of legal standing here in
terms of citizenship, does somebody born here simply become an
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American citizen with all the rights granted there too. That's
one of those issues that has to come out. So
next year is sorry, next year, next week is going
to be a significant week for all of those Supreme
Court decisions. Swampwatch come to LA.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
JD.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Vance will be in Los Angeles today, of course, a
hot bed of headlines in the past week or so
when it comes to the Trump administration's immigration agenda. While
Vance is here, he's expected to deliver some remarks, tour
federal facilities, including a mobile command center, meet with Marines. Again,
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there will be a victory lap over the ninth US
Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that it is likely that
the President had the right granted to him to deploy
the California National Guard troops without getting the OKA or
the request from Gavin Newsom, as you mentioned yesterday, excuse me.
On Wednesday, the US North Command said it was activating
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two thousand additional National troops in LA. There has been,
by the way, nothing going on downtown or otherwise in
terms of protesting for a while.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
We now speaking of lawmakers who want to go check
out immigration and customs enforcement facilities are being asked now
to provide seventy two hours notice before they show up.
There's been a couple of instances where they have shown
up in demanded entry into these federal facilities, and in
some cases they've been allowed in. In other cases they haven't.
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I guess there was one in New Jersey who ended
up in handcuffs. But lawmakers are allowed to enter under
the Appropriations Act. You can enter any DHS facility that's
used to detain or otherwise house aliens to inspect them.
That's part of the oversight responsibility of Congress anyway, and
that Act outlines that they are not required to provide
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prior notice of the intent to enter a facility. This
memo from Department of Homeland Security wants to differentiate a
field office for ICE from a detention facility and explain
the field office is not a detention facil and therefore
doesn't fall under that Appropriation Appropriations Act provision, which allow
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them to go anytime they want. So DHS is just
asking members of Congress to give us a quick heads up.
We can light some candles, maybe, you know, shove some
stuff in the pantry so it doesn't look like we're slobs.
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Speaker 2 (07:50):
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Speaker 1 (08:01):
When they start hiring security for the drapery, that's when
you have to get concerned.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
The giant elephant party that will be the Bezos Sanchez wedding.
Why is it an elephant oversized?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Yeah, ostentatious display of insecurity and disgusting wealth.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
There's that.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
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Speaker 1 (08:30):
We are going to tackle the question here that well,
here's the headline. Why old people smell happens. And there's
one thing that you can eat that can ward off
old people smell.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Number three will amaze you.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
No, it's just one thing. It's one it's a biggie.
It's a biggie for you, and we'll talk about it.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
There are people now who are not just wedding planners,
they are wedding producers. They are wedding imagineers. Oh that's good.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
As one of these imagineers says, I love this quote.
It used to be about fireworks, then it was about drones.
Now it's shooting fireworks from drones. Everyone keeps raising the bar.
When I say everyone, I mean people with F and
U money, people with loads of cash to burn. They
keep raising the bar, pushing the envelope when it comes
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to how to level up their wedding compared to the
last big name wedding.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
What I think is most worrisome. I don't know the
statistics of people over a certain net worth and how
long they're wedding, how long their marriages survive. I'm just
I'm guessing. And then this is probably an uneducated guess
that there's a lot of pressure, or I should say
there's less pressure to stay together for financial reasons if
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you're married and you got a s ton of money.
So the that would lend me to believe that higher
value marriages would break up more often I don't know.
I don't know if that's the case. I don't my
assumption dare.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
To know how these people think to sit down and
to go over the details of all this is such
a luxury to make these decisions.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, you have nothing else on your mind, and this
is our This is day's worth of planning, if not
more than that years. I mean, this is insanity. Floral
installations that go Florida, ceiling performances by Rihanna or Good
Charlotte or Beyonce.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Nobody says, hey, Bob, say Bob and Bob and Sharon
are getting married. Not one of Bob's friends say, Bob,
you look like a giant a hole. You deserve to
have a great wedding. You're the richest man on the planet.
There's nothing about him that doesn't look like an a hole. Though.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
That's the problem. That's not going to convince him to
pare down a little bit, to go from an eleven
million dollar wedding to maybe one and a half. Oh
my gosh, you're right, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
If we were talking about a one million dollar wedding,
we would be disgusted by it.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
This is an eleven million dollar party for two and
there are, like we said, there are companies that do this. Now,
these party architects, these these wedding producers. One of the
groups is called Banana Split, an events luxury planning firm
called Banana Split that planned the wedding of Sofia Ritchie
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and Elliott Grange. Elliott Grange is a chief executive for
Atlantic Records, Multiple Days and Tibby's France. I'm assuming that's
how you say it was. The was the venue, the
chanelle gowns, multiple the after party that was headlined by
a popular rock band like that kind of stuff. That
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kind of stuff is a frustrating amount of large s
when it comes to showing off what you have. When
you get.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Into the details, I mean, details about the Bezos Sanchez
wedding are largely under wraps. They have hired a wedding
planner out of London, a discrete London based group Lonza
and Buccina.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
They plan Clooney's wedding.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
The Bezos wedding is reportedly on a Venetian island. Now,
there is a team of about five hundred people working
this event. They say, we've got eighty thousand row stems
here can you imagine how many people it takes to
condition those flowers. A twenty person team to assist with
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small details like steaming bridesmaid dresses and making sure the
grandparents always have a drink at all times. Now at
my wedding, that's up to your friends, right, like to
make sure the dresses or tuxes or whatever that's all
ironed and ready to go. Oh, and make sure my
grandparents are comfortable. That would be like my best friend
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that would go and make sure that my grandfather, Grandpa's
got like an old fashion or whatever if he wants, right,
that's what your friends are for. But when your friends
are Jennifer Lopez, your friends don't do that kind of stuff,
take after, take care of people around you, like in
a normal family. I would imagine that's why you have
these teams of people.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
That's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Wouldn't your grandfather, even if you're Jeff Bezos's grandfather, wouldn't
he still want want of Jeff's friends to come hand
him a drink, as opposed to Genie from Team six
of the wedding planning boutique in London, who he doesn't know.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
It just seems very impersonal everything that a wedding should be.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
It seems like the opposite of that. The more money
you add to it, the less personal it is, the
more sanitized. Maybe yeah, there to be. You have to
understand there will be stuff that goes wrong, and I
don't know if you plan for it to go wrong,
but you always expect that something's gonna happen. You're gonna
get rain your the dress isn't gonna fit the way
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you thought, the button pops, the tech, the tuck.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I had a couple homeless people wander into my wedding
in San Francisco. Chris Little had to kick them out
after they got a drink.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Of course, I just don't understand.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I mean, that's the stuff that you remember, like, that's
the good stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
But I just feel like.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yes, you can fight all the time, or you can
have the conversation about expensive weddings. This is not just
an expensive wedding. It's gross, especially when you purport to
care about I don't know people in society and the world.
You're going to spend this kind of money on a
party for.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
You, and that's just your price tag. The amount of
money that people are spending to get there and like
we said earlier, you know, the people in Vienna are
in and around Vienna where the Bezos Santez wedding Venice sorry,
where it's taking place. They have they've said, you know,
this isn't going to be a big deal. They're far
enough out of town that it's not going to impact
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services for Venice and Venetians. But the entire airspace around
that place is going to be crawling with G five's
and G six's and other you know, of these jets
that are coming in. How do you not look at
that and think to yourself, maybe maybe it's too much.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
They say, it's a population wedding guests included, where no
one says no to them.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yeah, but like you said, I mean, you would expect
your friends to go around and help out instance. Do
they have friends like that?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
No, That's what I'm saying. They don't. I don't think.
One of the tails from one of these wedding planner
people says he recalled sending a courier on a private
jet from London to the Maldives to deliver cell result
because the couple thought the bloody Mary's needed it. Shoot
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me in the face directly, could you imagine ever being
that person. Good lord, gross, Hey, why do old people smell? Well,
we have a way. It's because we all get older.
We're all dying.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Ever since we're born. We're all dying. But there is
a way out of it. Very nihilistic. Look at life.
It's the moment you start living, you're dying. Start dying.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, you're dying right now. Great, your body's in decay. Okay,
I thought were doing happy stuff today. It's science.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
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Speaker 1 (16:36):
Peyton Manning has been talking this week about his relationship.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
With Tom Brady.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Of course, at the height of their careers, they were
neck and neck when it came to the best quarterback
playing at the time.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
In fact, in the.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Two thousand and nine season, there was a game between
the Colts and the Patriots. It was Week ten and
the Colts came back. They were down. They came back
in one thirty five thirty four after a late I
believe it was a fourth quarter comeback by Peyton Manning.
What a lot of people didn't know at the time
is that Peyton Manning and Tom Brady had a secret
off season workout together that same year. Before the season,
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they realized they were the best at the time they trained,
they pushed each other. Peyton Manning saidhy, don't you come
and tell nobody about it? So Tom Brady dumped on
Robert Kraft's private jet flew to the Indianapolis area. The
two lifted together. They threw routes to high school kids.
They had all the high school kids give them their phones.
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They said, tell anybody, we will kill all of you.
If you tell anybody we worked out together. If you
tell anybody were friends, we will kill all of you.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Could you imagine how great is that?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Could you imagine running routes for Tom Brady and Peyton
Manning in two thousand and nine and then not being
able to tell anyone about.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
It, and those kids are now thirty thirty four years old.
That's like one of those stories you tell somebody at
a bar and they're like, okay, right, right, right, let
me get you another one. Yeah, okay? Do you want?
Old people smell funny? And old people kind of have
a distinct smell characterized I love this. Some top notes
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of mothballs and wet cardboard coupled with musty basement, expired
can goods, and dead leaves.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Well, part of the thing is that when you get older,
you don't clean out your house.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
All the stuff in your house has probably been there
about sixty years. That's just the way it is.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
You know, you don't you know, maybe you right now,
if you're middle aged, you kind of do some seasonal things.
You maybe you you know, you change up the throw
pillows or what have you. When you get to be
a certain age, you don't care about any of that.
You don't care to change anything. You like the way
things are, and so you keep things forever. And you
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know what, old things smell like. They smell like they've
been around a while. And people are the same freaking way, because,
like I said, we are dying from the moment we
are born. If you want the scientific term, it's lipid peroxidation.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
It's on the skin. Peroxidation is almost like rusting. That's
the way that one person writes it. Leslie Kenny is
founder of Oxford health Span. Lipid peroxidation is similar to
the body rusting. The smell comes from a compound called
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two noninal, which is basically sebum that has rusted. It's
a breakdown of the Omega seven fatty Assis's I was
getting to that. So this cannot be washed.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
It's not a sign of bad hygiene. It's just what happens.
It builds up as well, and it builds up specifically
when you don't have enough antioxidants. So what is the answer, Easy, mushrooms.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I'm in trouble because I'm not a fan. You're about
to be a fan.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
If we're gonna sit in this room for any much
longer together, I'm not gonna smell your what is it?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Lipid peroxidation each to the No, mushrooms are packed with
an amino acid ergothite aer gothionine, which is an antioxidan
with anti inflammatory properties that stops lipid peroxidation before the
old person odor can accumulate.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yeah, mushrooms. They can make you smell fresh and think straight.
Research shows it diets are rich in mushrooms can cut
the risk of cognitive impairment in half, folks in half.
I'm about to start loving mushrooms a lot. I'm also
not a mushroom person, but I can become one. I
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don't mind it if I sometimes because my husband loves mushrooms.
If I if I grind it up. Like if I
put it in a blender or food process or something
and put it in pasta something, it doesn't bother me.
I actually like it. Or I put them in lasagna
as well, doesn't bother me.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
That's because you have everything else in there to distract you.
But they're still in there.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
They're still doing their job for your lipid peroxidation or
whatever it's called. So you can you can be like
Jerry Seinfeld's wife and hide the mushrooms in your food.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
My wife does that. Yeah, then there you go. Okay,
then you're fine.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
You're gonna smell like a spring breeze as opposed to
a caved in root cellar.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Mushrooms are also an excellent source of spermidine, an organic
compound that activates autophagy. What does spermidine do? It's an
organic compound that activates autophagy, the regenerative process that removes
damage cell components and then recycles them to support cellular renewal. Autophage.
Get trying to get some mushrooms up in here, basically
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that it eats itself. I'm gonna start looking up secret
mushroom recipe, But would you just bring in a box
of mushrooms and eat them. No, that's why I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I'm looking up recipes where I can hide them in
them and still be eating them without knowing.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Does anybody eat them that way?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Yes? There are people that love mushrooms, just mushrooms sauteed
with garlic.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
No, no, no, no, no, I mean just mushroom, like
wash it, pop it in your mouth. I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I don't think so, but I mean they like them
in their normal the normal taste, just sauteed with a
little oil.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
People do that. You could sautee human fingernails with oil
and garlic, you would, so.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
You would eat mushroom sauteed with just all oil and garlic.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Probably because of the oil and garlic. Oh okay, A
mushroom risotto, Yeah, I do love that. I don't know,
but I always screw up. Every time I've tried to
make risotto, I don't do it correctly. I I just
get it at a restaurant.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll order it. I'll order that. But yeah,
every time I've tried a risotto, I make it too mushy. Yeah,
and then I just want to throw it out.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Yes, it's too hard. To make. It's very difficult. It's
like scallops scallops at home, very difficult.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
You gotta add the exact right temperature, exact right time,
and it's so quick.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Anyway, hot motion talk, we come back. I have a
good story. Oh, a good story about a good guy
doing a good thing for a good kid. Isn't that wonderful?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
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Speaker 2 (23:22):
Still waiting on a song of the summer, by the way,
don't have one yet? Don't have one? I mean I
kind of am partial to let's see it is. I
think it's in this list here, some of this, some
of it I don't even know. I don't think breakup songs.
I do like that song what was that? From Lord?
I think that's great, But a.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Breakup song shouldn't really be the song of the summer really,
unless it's peppy. I like Fame as a Gun by
Addison Ray. That's a good one. There's been a couple
ones that have come out. Nothing's really stuck though, nothing's
really risen above the others, which kind of started the
conversation this morning of what is a song that makes
you think of summer. Maybe it's not this year's song
of the summer, but what is a song that you
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turn to when you feel the summer vibe?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Like summer starting tonight? As you say, what will you
play at? Aaron Campbell's teammates used to call him Mike Trout.
He played center field, He wore Mike Trout cleats, singularly
obsessed with Mike Trout, which you can understand kids are,
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and Aaron and his dad, Mike used to travel a
different mic used to travel around to baseball games and
they would get autographs from their favorite players by the way,
the old fashioned way. They would literally hang over the
railing and yell for the player, whoever it is, and
ask them to sign a ball or jersey has to
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do that. They still do that, yeah, but I mean
as opposed to buying it off of eBay somewhere and
claiming you have a Mike Trout autographed ball or something
not that that. Yes, it, but I'm just saying there's
something valuable.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
In getting in yourself. Of course, the moment is the
story all of them. So about ten years, two years ago, sorry,
over the Fourth of July weekend, they come out here
to Angel Stadium. They're from Mississippi, fly out here to
Angel Stadium because Mike Trout is his favorite player and
he wants a chance to get Mike Trout's autograph.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
But no avail. Trout got within about ten yards of them,
signed a few items along the railing, and then left
Aaron empty handed. So they drive to San Diego. The
next day, the Angels were starting to series down against
the Padres. The pregame stadium tour took them onto the
field all for one more shot to get to Mike Trout.
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He's in the cage when they're on the field. Now
they're not standing around the cage, but they're on the field,
so they're close. And the tour guide knew the story
that Aaron really wanted the autograph, so it let them
kind of stay a few minutes longer than he probably
should have. And then so the guys it's and you're
ten minutes over. I'm supposed to get you guys off
the field. So, thinking this is his last opportunity, Aaron
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yells out, Hey, Mike Trout, they're kicking us off the field.
So Mike Trout walks over, puts down his bat, runs
over to the kid who's behind a rope and the
kid says, I was on cloud nine. I was so
happy got an autograph from Mike Trout on the field.
I love watching that. I love watching it. Every time
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it happens every Chargers game. I love it.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
There's always kids and they're always screaming in the pregame
warm ups or whatever. And a lot of the guys
have their headphones on when they're warming up, and you
know they don't see it, but I mean there's somebody
will just they just scream it.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
They just wear their little hearts out, you know, keta
it allan kit it allan ket it.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Allen, you know, and watching like these star players come over.
The way that a kid's face lights up, watching the
whole thing and just being in the presence of their idol.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
It's just sheer joy. And then the turnaround to see
did you guys see did you guys see?
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Turning around me.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, looking at strangers, going did you see what just
happened to me?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
So that's July of last year. Aaron gets Mike Trout's autograph.
If this kid dies in the end, I'm gonna be
pissed off at you. He doesn't May rolls around. He's
out screwing around with his buddies on Mother's Day. Afternoon,
drives his family's golf cart and in their little neighborhood
with his with his friends, and he comes comes in
parks the golf cart, sits down the couch, cracks open
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a soda or whatever, and realize the battery on the
golf cart was overheating, and the garage catches fire. The
entire house burns down and everything in it, including his
collection of baseball autographs that he and his dad traveled
around the country for and his most prized possession, of course,
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the Mike Trout autograph. Did he send them a fire extinguisher?
Mike Campbell dad emails Sam Bloom, a writer for The Athletic,
and says, hey, shot in the dark. Here, could you
help me out. Here's my son's name. This is me
I work. I'm an assistant coach at this high school.
(28:13):
Is there anything you could do or any hint you
might give us about how to get Mike Trout's autograph again,
because I'm just a dad trying to do a good
thing for my kid, Sam Bloom, The writer looks the
guy up, verifies that it's him, calls him on the
phone and is like, I don't know. I mean, I'll try,
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but you know, these are Major League Baseball players. They
get hundreds of requests like this every single every single day.
So the rental house that they're in now because their
house burned down, obviously there's a package that shows up
one day and opens it up, ups package. It's not
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just Mike Trout's autograph. It's Mike Trout's autograph on a
Mike Trout jersey that he sent with a note that
said to the kid, whatever I can do for you,
he said. When he was asked about sending the jersey,
he said, I'm up here in the major leagues done,
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I've made it, and anything I can do I can
make an impact is important for me. Says I haven't
been through any of that, losing their house to a fire,
and it's sad when stuff like that happens. And any
chance I can get to brighten a person's day, a
family's day, I will take that opportunity. So he didn't
buy them a house. He didn't buy them a house,
but he autographed the jersey and gave it to the kid. Well,
good is that without a house? Okay, never mind.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Sorry, it's a beautiful story and it's really sweet because
here's in that story is likely to happen save for
the handwritten note. Most athletes whould not write a handwritten
note to that kid and be vulnerable and talk about, hey,
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I've made it like I haven't been through what you've like.
Just the time that it took to sit and put
pen to paper like that speaks volumes as to who
Mike Trout is. That's really a stand up move. The note,
the jersey, the sign jersey, and that exactly. But the
note that is gold, the note with the jersey, yea
(30:19):
even better than priceless. As they say in the commercials.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
We have some breaking swamp Watch news. We'll start with that.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar,
and when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing the lollipops.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Here we got.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
The real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
So what.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm not going anywhere? So that is how you train
the swap. I can imagine what can be and be
unburdened by what has been. You know, Americans have always
been gone at president, but they're not stupid. A political
plunder is when a politician actually tells the truth. Whether
people voted for you were not swamp Watch, They're all Canona.
A federal judge has ordered the release of Mahmud Khalil.
(00:47):
He is a Green card holder. He's a former pro
Palestinian activist at Columbia Universities, been held by authorities for
more than three months now.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
The only high profile pro Palestinian demonstrator who remains in confinement.
They're calling it a major victory and relief for him.
His wife and infant son are US citizens. He has
not been charged with a crime. The Trump administration justified
holding him by invoking a rarely cited law that allows
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for the deportation of people who oppose the nation's foreign
policy objectives. Marco Rubio was the one who kind of
slammed the gavel and said that this guy was spreading
anti Semitism for protesting in support of the Palestinians.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
The judge in this case said Khalil's not a flight risk,
not a danger to the community, and giving those findings,
he said, it's highly unusual that the government is still
seeking his detention. And together they suggest that there is
at least something to the underlying claim that there's an
effort to use the immigration charge here to punish the petitioner,
and of course that would be unconsortable.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Were they just making an example out of him. I
remember that they said he was connected to Hamas at
one point, but there was no math shown on that.
I don't remember any evidence that proved that one way
or another.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah, I mean, you'd figure over the course of three
months they'd be able to come up with something a
little more solid than that and if they had it,
that would be introduced as part of their response to
this petition in the first place.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Elsewhere, the big news is this two week conversation we
heard yesterday from the White House press room that the
President was not thinking of doing anything. Right, Well, I shouldn't.
I shouldn't add words to the statement. It was that
we're gonna look at this and maybe something will happen
within the next two weeks. Kind of backing off the
(02:46):
gas pedal here when it comes to striking Iron's nuclear bunker.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
And we've seen over and over again more and more
indications if all you do is look at moving American
military sets around the globe, more and more indications that
we're getting ready for something. What exactly we don't know.
Is it just setting the table in case we have
to go and do something, or is it more advanced
(03:14):
than that. Congress obviously has the power to declare war,
not the president. But it's been eighty plus years since
the Congress has declared wars, not since World War Two,
and obviously we've been involved in whether we call them
wars or conflicts, they're still the same thing many times
since then. The War Powers resolution back in nineteen seventy
(03:38):
three tries to limit the president's ability to deploy the
military to three types of situations under a declaration of war,
a specific statutory authorization, or a national emergency created by
attack upon the United States possessions, ar enforces territories, that
sort of thing. So it does require or the president
(04:00):
to issue a report to Congress within forty eight hours
of using military force, and then obviously tries to limit
the time he has to use that force before he
asks Congress for more time. But he does not have
to go to Congress to get permission to drop eight
bunker buster bombs on four to Doho Aho. We could.
(04:23):
And then the Supreme Court is coming out. They've got
a bunch of decisions still to come out, ten of them,
I believe, including birthright citizenship. Of course, the question about
whether somebody who is born here in the United States
to parents without any sort of legal standing here in
terms of citizenship, does somebody born here simply become an
(04:47):
American citizen with all the rights granted there too. That's
one of those issues that has to come out. So
next year is sorry, next year, next week is going
to be a significant week for all of those Supreme
Court decisions. Swampwatch come to LA.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
JD.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Vance will be in Los Angeles today, of course, a
hot bed of headlines in the past week or so
when it comes to the Trump administration's immigration agenda. While
Vance is here, he's expected to deliver some remarks, tour
federal facilities, including a mobile command center, meet with Marines. Again,
(05:26):
there will be a victory lap over the ninth US
Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that it is likely that
the President had the right granted to him to deploy
the California National Guard troops without getting the OKA or
the request from Gavin Newsom, as you mentioned yesterday, excuse me.
On Wednesday, the US North Command said it was activating
(05:50):
two thousand additional National troops in LA. There has been,
by the way, nothing going on downtown or otherwise in
terms of protesting for a while.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
We now speaking of lawmakers who want to go check
out immigration and customs enforcement facilities are being asked now
to provide seventy two hours notice before they show up.
There's been a couple of instances where they have shown
up in demanded entry into these federal facilities, and in
some cases they've been allowed in. In other cases they haven't.
(06:22):
I guess there was one in New Jersey who ended
up in handcuffs. But lawmakers are allowed to enter under
the Appropriations Act. You can enter any DHS facility that's
used to detain or otherwise house aliens to inspect them.
That's part of the oversight responsibility of Congress anyway, and
that Act outlines that they are not required to provide
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prior notice of the intent to enter a facility. This
memo from Department of Homeland Security wants to differentiate a
field office for ICE from a detention facility and explain
the field office is not a detention facil and therefore
doesn't fall under that Appropriation Appropriations Act provision, which allow
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them to go anytime they want. So DHS is just
asking members of Congress to give us a quick heads up.
We can light some candles, maybe, you know, shove some
stuff in the pantry so it doesn't look like we're slobs.
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Speaker 2 (07:50):
They hired a security guard just for the silverware. Stop
it while the silver war is exposed.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
When they start hiring security for the drapery, that's when
you have to get concerned.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
The giant elephant party that will be the Bezos Sanchez wedding.
Why is it an elephant oversized?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Yeah, ostentatious display of insecurity and disgusting wealth.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
There's that.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
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Speaker 1 (08:30):
We are going to tackle the question here that well,
here's the headline. Why old people smell happens. And there's
one thing that you can eat that can ward off
old people smell.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Number three will amaze you.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
No, it's just one thing. It's one it's a biggie.
It's a biggie for you, and we'll talk about it.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
There are people now who are not just wedding planners,
they are wedding producers. They are wedding imagineers. Oh that's good.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
As one of these imagineers says, I love this quote.
It used to be about fireworks, then it was about drones.
Now it's shooting fireworks from drones. Everyone keeps raising the bar.
When I say everyone, I mean people with F and
U money, people with loads of cash to burn. They
keep raising the bar, pushing the envelope when it comes
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to how to level up their wedding compared to the
last big name wedding.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
What I think is most worrisome. I don't know the
statistics of people over a certain net worth and how
long they're wedding, how long their marriages survive. I'm just
I'm guessing. And then this is probably an uneducated guess
that there's a lot of pressure, or I should say
there's less pressure to stay together for financial reasons if
(09:55):
you're married and you got a s ton of money.
So the that would lend me to believe that higher
value marriages would break up more often I don't know.
I don't know if that's the case. I don't my
assumption dare.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
To know how these people think to sit down and
to go over the details of all this is such
a luxury to make these decisions.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, you have nothing else on your mind, and this
is our This is day's worth of planning, if not
more than that years. I mean, this is insanity. Floral
installations that go Florida, ceiling performances by Rihanna or Good
Charlotte or Beyonce.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Nobody says, hey, Bob, say Bob and Bob and Sharon
are getting married. Not one of Bob's friends say, Bob,
you look like a giant a hole. You deserve to
have a great wedding. You're the richest man on the planet.
There's nothing about him that doesn't look like an a hole. Though.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
That's the problem. That's not going to convince him to
pare down a little bit, to go from an eleven
million dollar wedding to maybe one and a half. Oh
my gosh, you're right, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
If we were talking about a one million dollar wedding,
we would be disgusted by it.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
This is an eleven million dollar party for two and
there are, like we said, there are companies that do this. Now,
these party architects, these these wedding producers. One of the
groups is called Banana Split, an events luxury planning firm
called Banana Split that planned the wedding of Sofia Ritchie
(11:34):
and Elliott Grange. Elliott Grange is a chief executive for
Atlantic Records, Multiple Days and Tibby's France. I'm assuming that's
how you say it was. The was the venue, the
chanelle gowns, multiple the after party that was headlined by
a popular rock band like that kind of stuff. That
(11:57):
kind of stuff is a frustrating amount of large s
when it comes to showing off what you have. When
you get.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Into the details, I mean, details about the Bezos Sanchez
wedding are largely under wraps. They have hired a wedding
planner out of London, a discrete London based group Lonza
and Buccina.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
They plan Clooney's wedding.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
The Bezos wedding is reportedly on a Venetian island. Now,
there is a team of about five hundred people working
this event. They say, we've got eighty thousand row stems
here can you imagine how many people it takes to
condition those flowers. A twenty person team to assist with
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small details like steaming bridesmaid dresses and making sure the
grandparents always have a drink at all times. Now at
my wedding, that's up to your friends, right, like to
make sure the dresses or tuxes or whatever that's all
ironed and ready to go. Oh, and make sure my
grandparents are comfortable. That would be like my best friend
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that would go and make sure that my grandfather, Grandpa's
got like an old fashion or whatever if he wants, right,
that's what your friends are for. But when your friends
are Jennifer Lopez, your friends don't do that kind of stuff,
take after, take care of people around you, like in
a normal family. I would imagine that's why you have
these teams of people.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
That's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Wouldn't your grandfather, even if you're Jeff Bezos's grandfather, wouldn't
he still want want of Jeff's friends to come hand
him a drink, as opposed to Genie from Team six
of the wedding planning boutique in London, who he doesn't know.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
It just seems very impersonal everything that a wedding should be.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
It seems like the opposite of that. The more money
you add to it, the less personal it is, the
more sanitized. Maybe yeah, there to be. You have to
understand there will be stuff that goes wrong, and I
don't know if you plan for it to go wrong,
but you always expect that something's gonna happen. You're gonna
get rain your the dress isn't gonna fit the way
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you thought, the button pops, the tech, the tuck.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I had a couple homeless people wander into my wedding
in San Francisco. Chris Little had to kick them out
after they got a drink.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Of course, I just don't understand.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I mean, that's the stuff that you remember, like, that's
the good stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
But I just feel like.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yes, you can fight all the time, or you can
have the conversation about expensive weddings. This is not just
an expensive wedding. It's gross, especially when you purport to
care about I don't know people in society and the world.
You're going to spend this kind of money on a
party for.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
You, and that's just your price tag. The amount of
money that people are spending to get there and like
we said earlier, you know, the people in Vienna are
in and around Vienna where the Bezos Santez wedding Venice sorry,
where it's taking place. They have they've said, you know,
this isn't going to be a big deal. They're far
enough out of town that it's not going to impact
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services for Venice and Venetians. But the entire airspace around
that place is going to be crawling with G five's
and G six's and other you know, of these jets
that are coming in. How do you not look at
that and think to yourself, maybe maybe it's too much.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
They say, it's a population wedding guests included, where no
one says no to them.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yeah, but like you said, I mean, you would expect
your friends to go around and help out instance. Do
they have friends like that?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
No, That's what I'm saying. They don't. I don't think.
One of the tails from one of these wedding planner
people says he recalled sending a courier on a private
jet from London to the Maldives to deliver cell result
because the couple thought the bloody Mary's needed it. Shoot
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me in the face directly, could you imagine ever being
that person. Good lord, gross, Hey, why do old people smell? Well,
we have a way. It's because we all get older.
We're all dying.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Ever since we're born. We're all dying. But there is
a way out of it. Very nihilistic. Look at life.
It's the moment you start living, you're dying. Start dying.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, you're dying right now. Great, your body's in decay. Okay,
I thought were doing happy stuff today. It's science.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
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Speaker 1 (16:36):
Peyton Manning has been talking this week about his relationship.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
With Tom Brady.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Of course, at the height of their careers, they were
neck and neck when it came to the best quarterback
playing at the time.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
In fact, in the.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Two thousand and nine season, there was a game between
the Colts and the Patriots. It was Week ten and
the Colts came back. They were down. They came back
in one thirty five thirty four after a late I
believe it was a fourth quarter comeback by Peyton Manning.
What a lot of people didn't know at the time
is that Peyton Manning and Tom Brady had a secret
off season workout together that same year. Before the season,
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they realized they were the best at the time they trained,
they pushed each other. Peyton Manning saidhy, don't you come
and tell nobody about it? So Tom Brady dumped on
Robert Kraft's private jet flew to the Indianapolis area. The
two lifted together. They threw routes to high school kids.
They had all the high school kids give them their phones.
(17:33):
They said, tell anybody, we will kill all of you.
If you tell anybody we worked out together. If you
tell anybody were friends, we will kill all of you.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Could you imagine how great is that?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Could you imagine running routes for Tom Brady and Peyton
Manning in two thousand and nine and then not being
able to tell anyone about.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
It, and those kids are now thirty thirty four years old.
That's like one of those stories you tell somebody at
a bar and they're like, okay, right, right, right, let
me get you another one. Yeah, okay? Do you want?
Old people smell funny? And old people kind of have
a distinct smell characterized I love this. Some top notes
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of mothballs and wet cardboard coupled with musty basement, expired
can goods, and dead leaves.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Well, part of the thing is that when you get older,
you don't clean out your house.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
All the stuff in your house has probably been there
about sixty years. That's just the way it is.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
You know, you don't you know, maybe you right now,
if you're middle aged, you kind of do some seasonal things.
You maybe you you know, you change up the throw
pillows or what have you. When you get to be
a certain age, you don't care about any of that.
You don't care to change anything. You like the way
things are, and so you keep things forever. And you
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know what, old things smell like. They smell like they've
been around a while. And people are the same freaking way, because,
like I said, we are dying from the moment we
are born. If you want the scientific term, it's lipid peroxidation.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
It's on the skin. Peroxidation is almost like rusting. That's
the way that one person writes it. Leslie Kenny is
founder of Oxford health Span. Lipid peroxidation is similar to
the body rusting. The smell comes from a compound called
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two noninal, which is basically sebum that has rusted. It's
a breakdown of the Omega seven fatty Assis's I was
getting to that. So this cannot be washed.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
It's not a sign of bad hygiene. It's just what happens.
It builds up as well, and it builds up specifically
when you don't have enough antioxidants. So what is the answer, Easy, mushrooms.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I'm in trouble because I'm not a fan. You're about
to be a fan.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
If we're gonna sit in this room for any much
longer together, I'm not gonna smell your what is it?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Lipid peroxidation each to the No, mushrooms are packed with
an amino acid ergothite aer gothionine, which is an antioxidan
with anti inflammatory properties that stops lipid peroxidation before the
old person odor can accumulate.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yeah, mushrooms. They can make you smell fresh and think straight.
Research shows it diets are rich in mushrooms can cut
the risk of cognitive impairment in half, folks in half.
I'm about to start loving mushrooms a lot. I'm also
not a mushroom person, but I can become one. I
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don't mind it if I sometimes because my husband loves mushrooms.
If I if I grind it up. Like if I
put it in a blender or food process or something
and put it in pasta something, it doesn't bother me.
I actually like it. Or I put them in lasagna
as well, doesn't bother me.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
That's because you have everything else in there to distract you.
But they're still in there.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
They're still doing their job for your lipid peroxidation or
whatever it's called. So you can you can be like
Jerry Seinfeld's wife and hide the mushrooms in your food.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
My wife does that. Yeah, then there you go. Okay,
then you're fine.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
You're gonna smell like a spring breeze as opposed to
a caved in root cellar.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Mushrooms are also an excellent source of spermidine, an organic
compound that activates autophagy. What does spermidine do? It's an
organic compound that activates autophagy, the regenerative process that removes
damage cell components and then recycles them to support cellular renewal. Autophage.
Get trying to get some mushrooms up in here, basically
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that it eats itself. I'm gonna start looking up secret
mushroom recipe, But would you just bring in a box
of mushrooms and eat them. No, that's why I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I'm looking up recipes where I can hide them in
them and still be eating them without knowing.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Does anybody eat them that way?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Yes? There are people that love mushrooms, just mushrooms sauteed
with garlic.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
No, no, no, no, no, I mean just mushroom, like
wash it, pop it in your mouth. I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I don't think so, but I mean they like them
in their normal the normal taste, just sauteed with a
little oil.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
People do that. You could sautee human fingernails with oil
and garlic, you would, so.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
You would eat mushroom sauteed with just all oil and garlic.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Probably because of the oil and garlic. Oh okay, A
mushroom risotto, Yeah, I do love that. I don't know,
but I always screw up. Every time I've tried to
make risotto, I don't do it correctly. I I just
get it at a restaurant.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll order it. I'll order that. But yeah,
every time I've tried a risotto, I make it too mushy. Yeah,
and then I just want to throw it out.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Yes, it's too hard. To make. It's very difficult. It's
like scallops scallops at home, very difficult.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
You gotta add the exact right temperature, exact right time,
and it's so quick.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Anyway, hot motion talk, we come back. I have a
good story. Oh, a good story about a good guy
doing a good thing for a good kid. Isn't that wonderful?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 2 (23:22):
Still waiting on a song of the summer, by the way,
don't have one yet? Don't have one? I mean I
kind of am partial to let's see it is. I
think it's in this list here, some of this, some
of it I don't even know. I don't think breakup songs.
I do like that song what was that? From Lord?
I think that's great, But a.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Breakup song shouldn't really be the song of the summer really,
unless it's peppy. I like Fame as a Gun by
Addison Ray. That's a good one. There's been a couple
ones that have come out. Nothing's really stuck though, nothing's
really risen above the others, which kind of started the
conversation this morning of what is a song that makes
you think of summer. Maybe it's not this year's song
of the summer, but what is a song that you
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turn to when you feel the summer vibe?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Like summer starting tonight? As you say, what will you
play at? Aaron Campbell's teammates used to call him Mike Trout.
He played center field, He wore Mike Trout cleats, singularly
obsessed with Mike Trout, which you can understand kids are,
(24:28):
and Aaron and his dad, Mike used to travel a
different mic used to travel around to baseball games and
they would get autographs from their favorite players by the way,
the old fashioned way. They would literally hang over the
railing and yell for the player, whoever it is, and
ask them to sign a ball or jersey has to
(24:48):
do that. They still do that, yeah, but I mean
as opposed to buying it off of eBay somewhere and
claiming you have a Mike Trout autographed ball or something
not that that. Yes, it, but I'm just saying there's
something valuable.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
In getting in yourself. Of course, the moment is the
story all of them. So about ten years, two years ago, sorry,
over the Fourth of July weekend, they come out here
to Angel Stadium. They're from Mississippi, fly out here to
Angel Stadium because Mike Trout is his favorite player and
he wants a chance to get Mike Trout's autograph.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
But no avail. Trout got within about ten yards of them,
signed a few items along the railing, and then left
Aaron empty handed. So they drive to San Diego. The
next day, the Angels were starting to series down against
the Padres. The pregame stadium tour took them onto the
field all for one more shot to get to Mike Trout.
(25:43):
He's in the cage when they're on the field. Now
they're not standing around the cage, but they're on the field,
so they're close. And the tour guide knew the story
that Aaron really wanted the autograph, so it let them
kind of stay a few minutes longer than he probably
should have. And then so the guys it's and you're
ten minutes over. I'm supposed to get you guys off
the field. So, thinking this is his last opportunity, Aaron
(26:08):
yells out, Hey, Mike Trout, they're kicking us off the field.
So Mike Trout walks over, puts down his bat, runs
over to the kid who's behind a rope and the
kid says, I was on cloud nine. I was so
happy got an autograph from Mike Trout on the field.
I love watching that. I love watching it. Every time
(26:31):
it happens every Chargers game. I love it.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
There's always kids and they're always screaming in the pregame
warm ups or whatever. And a lot of the guys
have their headphones on when they're warming up, and you
know they don't see it, but I mean there's somebody
will just they just scream it.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
They just wear their little hearts out, you know, keta
it allan kit it allan ket it.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Allen, you know, and watching like these star players come over.
The way that a kid's face lights up, watching the
whole thing and just being in the presence of their idol.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
It's just sheer joy. And then the turnaround to see
did you guys see did you guys see?
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Turning around me.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, looking at strangers, going did you see what just
happened to me?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
So that's July of last year. Aaron gets Mike Trout's autograph.
If this kid dies in the end, I'm gonna be
pissed off at you. He doesn't May rolls around. He's
out screwing around with his buddies on Mother's Day. Afternoon,
drives his family's golf cart and in their little neighborhood
with his with his friends, and he comes comes in
parks the golf cart, sits down the couch, cracks open
(27:31):
a soda or whatever, and realize the battery on the
golf cart was overheating, and the garage catches fire. The
entire house burns down and everything in it, including his
collection of baseball autographs that he and his dad traveled
around the country for and his most prized possession, of course,
(27:52):
the Mike Trout autograph. Did he send them a fire extinguisher?
Mike Campbell dad emails Sam Bloom, a writer for The Athletic,
and says, hey, shot in the dark. Here, could you
help me out. Here's my son's name. This is me
I work. I'm an assistant coach at this high school.
(28:13):
Is there anything you could do or any hint you
might give us about how to get Mike Trout's autograph again,
because I'm just a dad trying to do a good
thing for my kid, Sam Bloom, The writer looks the
guy up, verifies that it's him, calls him on the
phone and is like, I don't know. I mean, I'll try,
(28:34):
but you know, these are Major League Baseball players. They
get hundreds of requests like this every single every single day.
So the rental house that they're in now because their
house burned down, obviously there's a package that shows up
one day and opens it up, ups package. It's not
(28:54):
just Mike Trout's autograph. It's Mike Trout's autograph on a
Mike Trout jersey that he sent with a note that
said to the kid, whatever I can do for you,
he said. When he was asked about sending the jersey,
he said, I'm up here in the major leagues done,
(29:14):
I've made it, and anything I can do I can
make an impact is important for me. Says I haven't
been through any of that, losing their house to a fire,
and it's sad when stuff like that happens. And any
chance I can get to brighten a person's day, a
family's day, I will take that opportunity. So he didn't
buy them a house. He didn't buy them a house,
but he autographed the jersey and gave it to the kid. Well,
good is that without a house? Okay, never mind.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Sorry, it's a beautiful story and it's really sweet because
here's in that story is likely to happen save for
the handwritten note. Most athletes whould not write a handwritten
note to that kid and be vulnerable and talk about, hey,
(29:59):
I've made it like I haven't been through what you've like.
Just the time that it took to sit and put
pen to paper like that speaks volumes as to who
Mike Trout is. That's really a stand up move. The note,
the jersey, the sign jersey, and that exactly. But the
note that is gold, the note with the jersey, yea
(30:19):
even better than priceless. As they say in the commercials.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
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