July 17, 2025 • 33 mins
#SWAMPWATCH – Manhattan Prosecutor Who Handled Epstein Cases Is Fired. Looming Epstein vote has Republicans eager to leave Washington. What Makes a Car Lovable? It's Not the Tech, It's the Cup Holders. One Man’s Quest to Break a Record for Birthday Freebies.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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How funny is that? It's just kind of odd. It's
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highest selling meteorite ever? Five point three million dollars? Will
tell you everything we know coming up at twelve thirty
when we talk strange science.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
In the meantime, we dive into Washington. I'm a politician,
which means I'm a cheap and a liar. And when
I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah, we got the real problem is that our leaders
are dumb.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
So what I'm not going anywhere?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
So you train the swat.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I can imagine what can be and be on burdened
by what has been. You know, Americans have always been
going at president. They're not scrupid.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Have the people voting for.
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we've been talking a lot about Pam Bondie. She seems
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to have a big target on her as the Magabase
continues to get frustrated with the Trump administration and its
denial or refusal to release all of the Epstein files.
Seems like this one's not going away for a while.
We talked about it earlier in the show. If you're interested,
you can check out the podcast. But that Pam Bondie
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in February went on Fox News among other outlets and
talk about how the files were on her desk and
that because of a directive from President Trump, she was
going to go through the client list and all of
the computers that the Epstein estate had to turn over
to the Justice Department and all of the things. And
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Trump ran on this as well, playing into the fact
that in these files were tales of the powerful political
elite in this country, i e. The Obama's, the Clinton's,
and we were going to we were going to uncover
all of the bad deeds and what went on, and
there were rumors of child trafficking and all of these awful,
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awful things. And then all of a sudden, No, she
came out last week, not even last week, earlier this week.
I was saying, no, there's no client list. We're done
nothing here. What well, Pam Bondi has been on kind
of thin ice. We talked about how Maureen Comy was
the first head to roll Department of Justice firing. Maureen
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Comy obviously the daughter of James Comy, former FBI director,
who is not friends with President Trump. So this was
not this was not a painful head to chop off
and let roll down the hill. This was somebody that
the President did not want working in his Justice Department,
did not want to Comby, As people with ties to
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the President will tell you, he said behind closed doors,
I don't want to Comy that's working for me. And
now she has been fired. She was a part of
the Epstein story. She was in a role in the
prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein and the prosecution and conviction of
his co conspirator, Gallaine Maxwell. So would Maureen Comy be
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enough blood to sate all the people who want to
hear what was in those files? I don't know if
that's going to be enough because Pam Bondi is still
out there flying around. And in fact, they sent Pam
Bondy to the one place where I don't think she'd
be recognized. Where do you think I think they sent
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her or I mean I know where they sent her,
But where do you think the place where she wouldn't
be recognized? You sent her to Florida, You send her
to Texas. People are gonna be like, what's going out
with the Epstein files?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Give us the files. It's gonna be a whole thing.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
But where wouldn't she face any Maga Bass supporters pissed
off about this?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yes, Pam Bondi probably flew into San Francisco and nobody
looked twice.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
She was there to visit Alcatraz.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
And with all the talk about Alligator Alcatraz, all the
talk about the real Alcatraz has kind of gone by
the wayside. Donald Trump mentioned earlier on that he planned
to reopen Alcatraz. This is the former federal prison on
the island in San Francisco Bay.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
If you've been, which.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I have, I'm from up there, you you know that
that is not a feasible plan. The Alcatraz was not
workable back before it was even shut down. It's just
logistically a nightmare. It's too expensive, it is not up
to code. It's a tear down. But today Attorney General
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Pambondie and Interior Secretary Doug Berghum were there. You can
find pictures of them on X walking through looking at
the cells. They were then on their way to San
Francisco's Presidio, former US Army Fort. It's now a National
Park beautiful area, and nobody will recognize them there as well.
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There will be house legislation. People are expecting to remove
Alcatraz's environmental and historic preservation requirements and transfer the prison
out of the National Park Service and Department of the
Interior control. This was a prison built in the nineteenth century,
a military prison. It opened to federal inmates in nineteen
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thirty four and closed in nineteen sixty three. If you
haven't read the books or seen the movies, it is
a storied a storied ground there and Trump back in
May announced his desire to be in housing prisoners at
Alcatraz on truth Social But it just isn't. I don't
know if if Trump's ever been there. But like I said,
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it's a tear down. It's not the size it would
need to be. It doesn't have the infrastructure it would
need to have. The reason it was shut down is
it was too expensive to fairy things constantly back and forth,
whether it's personnel or food or anything you need. So
but you know what, it's good for hiding Pam Bondi
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for a day or a couple days, maybe a long
weekend because like I said, no one's going to be
calling for her head in San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I'll tell you that.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
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Speaker 2 (07:03):
All right.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
So, there has been a reoccurring bruise on the back
of President Trump's right hand and reappeared this week and
with it a fresh wave of concern over the president's health.
A healthy dose of concealer was spotted on his hand
as he was boarding Marine One. Media of course jumping
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on top of this, blowing up the pictures of his
hand with a lot of makeup on it, and now
Caroline Levitt is coming out and saying that the president
has been diagnosed with chronic venous venus venous insufficiency. So
this is something that happens when we get older. I
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do believe. I looked it up. CVI a condition where
blood doesn't efficiently return from the legs to the heart
due to damaged valves in the veins. It can lead
to a range of symptoms swelling, pain, skin changes, some
old It's not life threatening, but you should treat it
because if you don't, deep vein thrombosis or a pulmonary
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elm embolism could happen.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
So this could happen.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You could have varicose veins, you could have, you know,
discolored situations like you see in his hand. All of
that skin discoloration is one of the main symptoms swelling,
leg pain, all of it.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Chronic venous insufficiency. I believe it is a common thing
that happens as you get older. So that is the
deal with the makeup on the hand, trying to cover
up those bruises, because Trump is a vain man and
he does not want to show any sort of flaws,
So that checks out all right elsewhere on Washington, on
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Capitol Hill, I should say as one as one lawmaker says,
it's all Epstein all the time. In fact, there is
a vote that is floating around there that has Republicans
eager to pick up and leave. This is a discharge
effort from Representatives Thomas Massey and Rocanna out of California
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that could put members of Congress on the spot on
this Epstein matter as soon as next week. So House
Republican leaders are under fierce pressure internally to send members
home for summer, and a lot of anxiety they're saying
on Capitol Hill over this possible vote on the Jeffrey
Epstein controversy. Many Republican lawmakers fear being cornered by this
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expected discharge petition. What it would do is it would
force a House vote on publicizing the Epstein related records.
As I mentioned, Representatives Thomas Massey, Republican opponent, a critic
of Trump, and Rocana, Democrat out of California had begun
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this effort on Tuesday, making it available for signatures and
a possible floor vote as.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Soon as next week. So it's making the rounds as
we speak. Democrats have already forced Republicans to take tough
Epstein related procedural votes that have let's just say, flooded
the phone lines a barrage of constituent calls to GOP
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offices because, like I said, there's a lot of Trump
maga Republicans who are upset about this, but they have
not yet been able to force a clear up or
down vote on releasing the so called Epstein files. As
you know, this has exploded when the Justice Department announced
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there was no foul play involving the death and that
there's no client list. So Republicans want to leave town
now early for several reasons, but the biggest one is
the fact that they are saying the Epstein case is
becoming a much bigger problem for the party and they
want to put a little distance between this week's mess
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and themselves. One frustrated House Republican who spoke anonymously, said,
it is Epstein all day, and we can't ignore this,
they say. The hope, according to more than a dozen
Republican members and aides, has been that Speaker Mike Johnson
and Majority Leader Steve Scalise decide to cancel next week's
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scheduled House session and instead send members home for an
extended summer recess once voting concludes Thursday or Friday.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
They say.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
The thinking is that members won't have to face questions
at home about whether or not they would have signed
on to this, and that the issue will have died
down by the time members returned to Washington in September.
I'll tell you this, it's not dying down. You know
who doesn't want to be called stupid? You know who
doesn't want to be called Oh. A group of people
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that'll just forget about this, will get distracted, they'll jump
on TikTok. The very people who are calling for these
Epstein files.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
You got to know who you're dealing with.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
These are people who have been called stupid or have
been called the people, Oh, they're not paying attention people.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
These are the very.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
People who've been ignored by the powerful political elite in Washington.
Just read jd Vance's book and you'll understand more because
he puts it out quite clearly that this block of people,
the people that are pissed off about Jeffrey Epstein and
about all of the powerful hiding the powerful, this is
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the block that elected Trump this time. It's the block
that elected Trump the last time. The people that elected
Trump because they saw him as an outsider who, like them,
hated the political elite that thought that the political elite
on the left coasts, we're getting away with things for generations,
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the Obama's and the Clintons, and oh, here it comes
Trump to say, they're all crooks, they're liars.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Obama wasn't even born here. Elect me.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I will uncover all the fraud in government. Let's get
rid of these people, Let's drain the swamp. Well, you're
here now, and all those people who were deemed stupid
by the political elite and ignored by the rich politicians
from California and New York, they're the people who put
you there. They're the people who you said, you're not stupid.
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I believe in what your plight is, and I'm gonna
fight for you. Those people do not take kindly. If
there's a bunch of Republican Congress people who think, oh,
we'll just go home for the summer and they'll forget
about it, that's not who you're dealing with here. They
take it very seriously what they stand for, and they
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will make it very clear that this.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Is not a Kingdom.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
This is a country of the people, and we are
the people right now in power, and you've got to
answer to us. Got to release this Epstein crap. We
want to know about the rich people who were dealing
in possible child pornography or trafficking or whatever it is
they believe is in there. And if there's nothing there,
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if it's as boring as Trump says it is, if
it's a non factor, well then release them anyway. Let
us pour through all the boring details, just so we
can make sure, just so.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
They can make sure. Don't what's the harm in that?
I don't know, all right? Coming up next, what makes
your car lovable?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Here is a hint. It is not technology. It's something
that you can access while you're driving your vehicle.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
There's your hint. I'll tell you what it is. Come back.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
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Speaker 1 (15:08):
In the quadruple murder case at the University of Idaho.
This is Brian Coberger who accepted that plea deal, death
penalty off the table. He'll do life in prison, but
now the gag order is no more. So we'll talk
about what that means. Coming up in the next hour.
Also a couple of birthday related stories I saw on
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Instagram yesterday. Believe it was Heather Debrow's profile page. Heather
debro is one of the Orange County Housewives. I met
her here actually years ago. I think Conway had her
on Lovely Woman, Lovely Human, and I believe I.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Say, yes, it was hers.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
It was her, a picture of her and her family
and they were celebrating her daughter. Her daughter was celebrating
a third birthday for her baby. And I thought, God,
daughters newly in college. I want to say. I want
to say, she's like nineteen or twenty. Why do I
know so much about reality stars?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Well, they've been on my television for twenty years. But
I'm thinking she's got a kid. And then I look
at the picture and I look closer. I'm like, what
is she holding this on a baby? Is that a dog? No,
it was a cat. And it was this big production
birthday production with streamers and T shirts and party hats
and cakes.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
For a cat. And I thought, huh, is that what
we're doing now?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I mean, I'm seeing the people with the strollers and
the cats and the strollers and the You know, sometimes
the dog can't walk, maybe it's an elderly dog something
like that. You gotta put that dog in a stroller.
But I'm seeing dogs that can walk in strollers. I'm
seeing cats and strollers. And these strollers, by the way,
are not like a Walmart special stroller. They are like
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the expensive strollers wear like the the carriage flips around.
I mean, these are the expensive baby strollers for the pets. Now,
I'm not judging. I'm not a pet owner. I don't
know if pet owner is the wrong term. I'm not
a pet parent. Is that better? But there's a whole
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thing going on with the strollers and now these parties. Well,
we've got a cat's tenth birthday party that's making news.
We'll tell you about that coming up in the next hour,
and then coming up next Don't you know this guy
a guy who takes advantage of all free things. There's
a number of businesses that will cater to your birthday.
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Right in your email, you'll see different things you subscribe to, say,
you know, for your birthday, come in and get fifteen
percent off or what have you. Well, one guy set
out on a quest to break a record for birthday freebies.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
We'll tell you his story. But why do you.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Love your car? What is it about your car that
you love? Is it the speed? Is it the music system?
I love the speakers in my truck. I love the
bows system. I really do. I miss it when I'm
not in it is I love everything about my truck.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I could go on.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I could do a whole list, but there are certain
things that we're like, Man, I just love this, and
when you're not in your car, it's obvious, so.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
You don't have it.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Nearly one hundred thousand car buyers last year were asked
what they thought of their new rides. I want to
know who the worst performer wasn't want to know this
tea Audi Audi and embarrassing two hundred and sixty nine
problems reported per one hundred vehicles. Ooh, you know, I
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liked Anaudi. I liked the Audi's I really do. I
still do. But I went to an Audi dealership to
buy an Audi. I mean I had it picked out,
I knew which one I wanted, and I didn't see
myself being this person. But I met the guy at
the dealership.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
The dealership was super dead.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
There's nobody really in there, there's like this one guy
and he's kind of like a schlubby guy. Not to
be mean, that's mean, but anyway, he looked like he
wanted to be anywhere but there. And he's like, okay,
you want to drive it around. I'm like, yeah, sure,
so so get in the vehicle and I'm driving it
around and he says, all right, now you can can
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really open it up, you know, take this turn, you know,
really really step on it in this turn. And so
I do and I'm like, oh, wow, that handles really well.
He's like, yeah, women really like it when I tell
them that they can do that.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
And I thought, uh oops, just lost the sale.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Like I gotta say, I never thought that I would
be that person, but it turned me off so much
from the car. I mean, I just didn't want to
buy it from him, really, you know, and I left,
and you know what the intention of maybe I'll just
go to a different outy dealership that I didn't, and
then I didn't. I bought a different car. But man,
I was like, you can't say that in twenty whatever
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year was twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen, Oh my goodness. But anyway,
I know it says a lot about me that I
would have that reaction, but I did anyway. One of
the most interesting discoveries in this study concerned not annoyance
that people had with like the lack of physical buttons,
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or the intrusive sounds that your car makes when you
reach a certain speed, or you know, you get too
close to the other lane and it starts chirping at you,
or you're backing up it starts chirping at you a
little bit too soon in some cases. And now that
wasn't the annoyance that people continually wrote down. It was
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an increase in cup holder frustration. That's what was most notable.
And the report says it seem like car manufacturers had
cup holders figured out, but no. Car manufacturers are obviously
struggling to keep up with being able to accommodate all
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the different shapes and sizes of drink receptacles that are
increasingly available. And it's true when you think about like
your Yetti's, you know, your big ass water jugs that
we all have. I don't have one, but most people do.
It doesn't fit, They don't fit in the cup holder.
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My husband has one of these big yetty water canister.
It doesn't fit in the cup holder, and it's heavy,
and so he sets it in you know, the leg
area and the passenger seat where I live. And if
that thing runs into your ankle, it hurts.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
It is a source of my frustration. And it takes
up footspace.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
It takes up foot space, and if you put in
the back seat, it rolls around in pink into things,
and that's annoying too. So I didn't think that I
wouldn't think that would be like a frustration that I
would pin on the car for not having a big
enough cup holder. But apparently that is the way it is,
and you think about it, it's true those those cup
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holders are pretty small when you think about the way
things have evolved, you know, water bottles have evolved.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
But there you have it.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
They say, it seems, despite the auto industry's obsession with
software defined vehicles, many people would forego all those digital
do hickeyes as long as there's enough room for multiple
big gulps. I agree, Yeah, you have one of those.
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What are those called against Stanley Stanley's, Yeah, the Stanley's.
Everyone has a Stanley, So it doesn't fit in yours?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Oh no, it does.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
I just need multiple multiple cup holders and what like. Okay,
So I drive up north all the time and I
always stop at the McDonald's right after the grapevine.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah, that's a button Willow mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Or no, not that one, not up the five. It's
your to hone outlets.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah, right there, okay.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
And so I will get my like diet coke, large
Dike coke and French fries, and I have my Stanley
cup or a coffee, and I need three cup holders,
one for my fries to hold my fries, one for
my soda, and one for my water coffee. And then
also my husband needs cup holders, so then he's out
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a cup holder if I have my French fries in
one of them.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
So I just I need multiple. It's understandable. It's understandable.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
And you bring up the McDonald's is kind of a
sore spot in my life because I will pass that
McDonald's thinking that I'll go to the one and Button Willow,
and I never remember how far Button Willow is and
it's really far. And by the time I get to
Button Willow, m kid trick, I am very hungry. And
I should have stopped at the home pass one. And
that is where My source of frustration comes from that story.
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But you have the frustrating cup holder that is in
the door, like the side of your door towards like
where you're you're you know.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Yeah, yeah, I do that, and it doesn't work. It
doesn't work for anything.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
And furthermore, like you say, you put your soda down
there and you're trying to get it out, it spills
like it's there's no way to get there's no good
way to get anything out of that alleged cup holder. One.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
And I'll put my Stanley there instead of my soda,
because my soda is like what's fueling me down the road.
But like I'll put my Stanley there and it does
not fit, like it's angle it in a way that
it'll just stay there and then the water doesn't spill
all over me.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Right, it's awful, guys.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I don't know how we're doing it, but we're gonna
have to get through this cup holder dark time together. Okay,
coming up next, what was I going to talk about?
Oh right, right right? The guy's quest to break a
record for birthday freebies.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
That's a fun one. We all know that guy.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
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Speaker 2 (25:17):
Never heard about Earth's blue zones?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Well, there are five of them, and these are five
places on Earth where the healthiest people live. Who are
the people, why are they so healthy?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
And where are they? We'll get into all of it.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Every time you have a birthday, your email box is
probably lit up with all sorts of what seemed to
be yeah it's your birthday emails from businesses, and a
lot of them are yeah it's your birthday, Come spend
money with us and we'll give you a discount type
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sort of messages.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Right, Well, one man is not just man.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
As the Wall Street Journal points out, there is a
proud breed of competitive birthday freeloaders out there, people who
are happy to go through all of these emails and
take advantage of all of the birthday free bees that
they can find. And this one man, though, wants to
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set a record. He wanted to break a record for
birthday free bees. On the night before his birthday, his
name is Clint, Clint's Fados. Clint was up late worrying
about whether everything would go to plan. Could you imagine
the night before your birthday staying up late because you're
filled with worry of will you get all the free stuff.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
On your birthday?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Tomorrow, Clint's schedule was packed with stops all over Los
Angeles starting at six am. He anticipated eating a lot
of sweets, receiving a bunch of gifts, and returning home
just exhausted. He was getting ready to embark on his
annual quest to snag as many free or discounted gifts
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as possible. A little bit about Phil I mean, excuse me, Clint.
Clint is at thirty eight years old, He's an aquatics manager.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
What isn't aquatics manager?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
He is.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Trying to get one over on big retail.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
They say that this is a sprint, one that requires
hours of meticulous planning, careful strategizing, and aus stamina for
sugar crashes, because a lot of these are, like I said, sweets.
This year, Clint was trying to break his record of
thirty five freebies, which he set last year. He says,
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I was stressed about it. How am I going to
get it done?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
He said?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
But once I started this, I started with Starbucks and
got my quad shot coffee. It was adrenaline for the
first half of the day. This happened to me recently
I was at Starbucks and I ordered a drink that
I have gotten before. It was like a shaken espresso
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iced coffee, and I said, can you add another shot?
Because I was operating under the false idea that there
was one shot in this drink. And then I get
the drink and the drive through and it says quad shot,
and I'm like, what the F I'm about to have
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four shots of espresso. Oh my goodness, I didn't even
know that was a thing. Apparently it's very popular. That's
what Clint got on his birthday, he says. The real
work starts months before his big day. He estimates he
spent about fifteen hours sifting through emails, reinstalling loyalty apps,
racking his brain for logins and passwords, and reading through
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the dreaded terms and conditions of rewards to ensure he's
made any necessary purchases to qualify. That is my private hell,
all of that leg work. I mean, that is why
I probably overspend for everything, because doing that, the loyalty apps,
the terms, the conditions, the all of that stuff. They oh,
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hell no, it is nails on a chuckboard to me.
Then Clint builds a spreadsheet with notes to map out
his route, He prioritizes rewards with the highest monetary value
and tries to include shopping centers jackpots with multiple opportunities
for awards in one spot. He looks for the true freebies,
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avoids the buy one, get one free deals or anything
that requires him to spend more than ten dollars. Do
you want to know what Clint got on his thirty
eighth birthday? Who's ready for this? I've got it in
alphabetical order. Now, i want you to imagine eating all
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of this uh in one day? Ready alphabetically Arby's. He
got a free shake Anti Ann's, A pretzel already, I'm out.
A shake from Arby's is a meal and a half.
A pretzel from Anti Ann's is just like I'm sweating now.
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He went to Baja Fresh, got ten dollars off, got
a free scoop at Baskin Robbin's, got a free scoop
at Ben and Jerry's, got six wings at Buffalo Wild Wings,
a whopper at Burger King, a piece of cheesecake at
the Cheesecake Factory, dessert at Chick Fileg, guacamole at Chipotle,
sixteen ounce cold brew at cinnabon Sunday at cold Stone,
dessert at Corner Bakery, cookie at Crumble, he got a
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medium sub at Firehouse Subs, a charburger at Habit Funnel
cake sticks, a hot dog on a stick, two tacos
at Jack in the Box, a smoothie at Jamba Juice,
a sub at Jersey Mike's, a drink at McKenna, coffee
fry at McDonald's, a mini bunt cake at Nothing Bunt Cakes,
small entree at Panda Express.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Oh my god, where is the insulin?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
A pastry at Panera, he got a drink at PiZZ
and apple pie at Popeyes, chocolate cake slice at Portillo's,
a burger at Red Robin, a popcorn at Regal Cinema.
Holy how where's the defibrillator? It goes on I just
got to the urs, but it goes through to y guys.
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And there is another pretzel at Wetzel's Pretzels there towards
the end.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
There's no way he ate all that.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
There's no f and way you could have a party. Yes,
now that is an idea. You bring along your friends
and you're just in the car and everyone gets fed.
He did bring his four children for parts of the day.
The teenager, of course, thinks it's a little embarrassing, but
they did help him devour all the sweet treats so
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he can stave off the sugar crash. He said, it's
hard to do all of this on a full stomach
if there's a sephora or an altar around. He grabs
beauty freebees to give to his wife, who usually prefers to.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Remain at home. Yeah. No, s She's like, you do.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
You love that for you crazy ass, But he says,
and this is what people that think this way feel.
We feel like we're out smarting a system, even if
it's just driving from Freebee to Freebee. It is sticking
it to the man. Denny's, by the way, says it
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has had a twenty eight percent increase in redemptions of
its birthday freebee in twenty twenty four compared with the
previous year. So people go in there and they get
that free Grand Slam breakfast. I think that might be
like the best one. I've known about that one for
quite some time. I think Ihop does a similar thing
with pancakes. Got some good breakfast options on your birthday.
But anyway, oh man, that made me full. Okay, we'll
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How funny is that? It's just kind of odd. It's
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tell you everything we know coming up at twelve thirty
when we talk strange science.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
In the meantime, we dive into Washington. I'm a politician,
which means I'm a cheap and a liar. And when
I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah, we got the real problem is that our leaders
are dumb.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
So what I'm not going anywhere?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
So you train the swat.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I can imagine what can be and be on burdened
by what has been. You know, Americans have always been
going at president. They're not scrupid.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
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we've been talking a lot about Pam Bondie. She seems
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to have a big target on her as the Magabase
continues to get frustrated with the Trump administration and its
denial or refusal to release all of the Epstein files.
Seems like this one's not going away for a while.
We talked about it earlier in the show. If you're interested,
you can check out the podcast. But that Pam Bondie
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in February went on Fox News among other outlets and
talk about how the files were on her desk and
that because of a directive from President Trump, she was
going to go through the client list and all of
the computers that the Epstein estate had to turn over
to the Justice Department and all of the things. And
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Trump ran on this as well, playing into the fact
that in these files were tales of the powerful political
elite in this country, i e. The Obama's, the Clinton's,
and we were going to we were going to uncover
all of the bad deeds and what went on, and
there were rumors of child trafficking and all of these awful,
(02:40):
awful things. And then all of a sudden, No, she
came out last week, not even last week, earlier this week.
I was saying, no, there's no client list. We're done
nothing here. What well, Pam Bondi has been on kind
of thin ice. We talked about how Maureen Comy was
the first head to roll Department of Justice firing. Maureen
(03:03):
Comy obviously the daughter of James Comy, former FBI director,
who is not friends with President Trump. So this was
not this was not a painful head to chop off
and let roll down the hill. This was somebody that
the President did not want working in his Justice Department,
did not want to Comby, As people with ties to
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the President will tell you, he said behind closed doors,
I don't want to Comy that's working for me. And
now she has been fired. She was a part of
the Epstein story. She was in a role in the
prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein and the prosecution and conviction of
his co conspirator, Gallaine Maxwell. So would Maureen Comy be
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enough blood to sate all the people who want to
hear what was in those files? I don't know if
that's going to be enough because Pam Bondi is still
out there flying around. And in fact, they sent Pam
Bondy to the one place where I don't think she'd
be recognized. Where do you think I think they sent
(04:08):
her or I mean I know where they sent her,
But where do you think the place where she wouldn't
be recognized? You sent her to Florida, You send her
to Texas. People are gonna be like, what's going out
with the Epstein files?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Give us the files. It's gonna be a whole thing.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
But where wouldn't she face any Maga Bass supporters pissed
off about this?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yes, Pam Bondi probably flew into San Francisco and nobody
looked twice.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
She was there to visit Alcatraz.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
And with all the talk about Alligator Alcatraz, all the
talk about the real Alcatraz has kind of gone by
the wayside. Donald Trump mentioned earlier on that he planned
to reopen Alcatraz. This is the former federal prison on
the island in San Francisco Bay.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
If you've been, which.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I have, I'm from up there, you you know that
that is not a feasible plan. The Alcatraz was not
workable back before it was even shut down. It's just
logistically a nightmare. It's too expensive, it is not up
to code. It's a tear down. But today Attorney General
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Pambondie and Interior Secretary Doug Berghum were there. You can
find pictures of them on X walking through looking at
the cells. They were then on their way to San
Francisco's Presidio, former US Army Fort. It's now a National
Park beautiful area, and nobody will recognize them there as well.
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There will be house legislation. People are expecting to remove
Alcatraz's environmental and historic preservation requirements and transfer the prison
out of the National Park Service and Department of the
Interior control. This was a prison built in the nineteenth century,
a military prison. It opened to federal inmates in nineteen
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thirty four and closed in nineteen sixty three. If you
haven't read the books or seen the movies, it is
a storied a storied ground there and Trump back in
May announced his desire to be in housing prisoners at
Alcatraz on truth Social But it just isn't. I don't
know if if Trump's ever been there. But like I said,
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it's a tear down. It's not the size it would
need to be. It doesn't have the infrastructure it would
need to have. The reason it was shut down is
it was too expensive to fairy things constantly back and forth,
whether it's personnel or food or anything you need. So
but you know what, it's good for hiding Pam Bondi
(06:47):
for a day or a couple days, maybe a long
weekend because like I said, no one's going to be
calling for her head in San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I'll tell you that.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
A six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
All right.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
So, there has been a reoccurring bruise on the back
of President Trump's right hand and reappeared this week and
with it a fresh wave of concern over the president's health.
A healthy dose of concealer was spotted on his hand
as he was boarding Marine One. Media of course jumping
(07:25):
on top of this, blowing up the pictures of his
hand with a lot of makeup on it, and now
Caroline Levitt is coming out and saying that the president
has been diagnosed with chronic venous venus venous insufficiency. So
this is something that happens when we get older. I
(07:46):
do believe. I looked it up. CVI a condition where
blood doesn't efficiently return from the legs to the heart
due to damaged valves in the veins. It can lead
to a range of symptoms swelling, pain, skin changes, some
old It's not life threatening, but you should treat it
because if you don't, deep vein thrombosis or a pulmonary
(08:07):
elm embolism could happen.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
So this could happen.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You could have varicose veins, you could have, you know,
discolored situations like you see in his hand. All of
that skin discoloration is one of the main symptoms swelling,
leg pain, all of it.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Chronic venous insufficiency. I believe it is a common thing
that happens as you get older. So that is the
deal with the makeup on the hand, trying to cover
up those bruises, because Trump is a vain man and
he does not want to show any sort of flaws,
So that checks out all right elsewhere on Washington, on
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Capitol Hill, I should say as one as one lawmaker says,
it's all Epstein all the time. In fact, there is
a vote that is floating around there that has Republicans
eager to pick up and leave. This is a discharge
effort from Representatives Thomas Massey and Rocanna out of California
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that could put members of Congress on the spot on
this Epstein matter as soon as next week. So House
Republican leaders are under fierce pressure internally to send members
home for summer, and a lot of anxiety they're saying
on Capitol Hill over this possible vote on the Jeffrey
Epstein controversy. Many Republican lawmakers fear being cornered by this
(09:39):
expected discharge petition. What it would do is it would
force a House vote on publicizing the Epstein related records.
As I mentioned, Representatives Thomas Massey, Republican opponent, a critic
of Trump, and Rocana, Democrat out of California had begun
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this effort on Tuesday, making it available for signatures and
a possible floor vote as.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Soon as next week. So it's making the rounds as
we speak. Democrats have already forced Republicans to take tough
Epstein related procedural votes that have let's just say, flooded
the phone lines a barrage of constituent calls to GOP
(10:25):
offices because, like I said, there's a lot of Trump
maga Republicans who are upset about this, but they have
not yet been able to force a clear up or
down vote on releasing the so called Epstein files. As
you know, this has exploded when the Justice Department announced
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there was no foul play involving the death and that
there's no client list. So Republicans want to leave town
now early for several reasons, but the biggest one is
the fact that they are saying the Epstein case is
becoming a much bigger problem for the party and they
want to put a little distance between this week's mess
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and themselves. One frustrated House Republican who spoke anonymously, said,
it is Epstein all day, and we can't ignore this,
they say. The hope, according to more than a dozen
Republican members and aides, has been that Speaker Mike Johnson
and Majority Leader Steve Scalise decide to cancel next week's
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scheduled House session and instead send members home for an
extended summer recess once voting concludes Thursday or Friday.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
They say.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
The thinking is that members won't have to face questions
at home about whether or not they would have signed
on to this, and that the issue will have died
down by the time members returned to Washington in September.
I'll tell you this, it's not dying down. You know
who doesn't want to be called stupid? You know who
doesn't want to be called Oh. A group of people
(12:01):
that'll just forget about this, will get distracted, they'll jump
on TikTok. The very people who are calling for these
Epstein files.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
You got to know who you're dealing with.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
These are people who have been called stupid or have
been called the people, Oh, they're not paying attention people.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
These are the very.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
People who've been ignored by the powerful political elite in Washington.
Just read jd Vance's book and you'll understand more because
he puts it out quite clearly that this block of people,
the people that are pissed off about Jeffrey Epstein and
about all of the powerful hiding the powerful, this is
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the block that elected Trump this time. It's the block
that elected Trump the last time. The people that elected
Trump because they saw him as an outsider who, like them,
hated the political elite that thought that the political elite
on the left coasts, we're getting away with things for generations,
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the Obama's and the Clintons, and oh, here it comes
Trump to say, they're all crooks, they're liars.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Obama wasn't even born here. Elect me.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I will uncover all the fraud in government. Let's get
rid of these people, Let's drain the swamp. Well, you're
here now, and all those people who were deemed stupid
by the political elite and ignored by the rich politicians
from California and New York, they're the people who put
you there. They're the people who you said, you're not stupid.
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I believe in what your plight is, and I'm gonna
fight for you. Those people do not take kindly. If
there's a bunch of Republican Congress people who think, oh,
we'll just go home for the summer and they'll forget
about it, that's not who you're dealing with here. They
take it very seriously what they stand for, and they
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will make it very clear that this.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Is not a Kingdom.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
This is a country of the people, and we are
the people right now in power, and you've got to
answer to us. Got to release this Epstein crap. We
want to know about the rich people who were dealing
in possible child pornography or trafficking or whatever it is
they believe is in there. And if there's nothing there,
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if it's as boring as Trump says it is, if
it's a non factor, well then release them anyway. Let
us pour through all the boring details, just so we
can make sure, just so.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
They can make sure. Don't what's the harm in that?
I don't know, all right? Coming up next, what makes
your car lovable?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Here is a hint. It is not technology. It's something
that you can access while you're driving your vehicle.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
There's your hint. I'll tell you what it is. Come back.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
In the quadruple murder case at the University of Idaho.
This is Brian Coberger who accepted that plea deal, death
penalty off the table. He'll do life in prison, but
now the gag order is no more. So we'll talk
about what that means. Coming up in the next hour.
Also a couple of birthday related stories I saw on
(15:30):
Instagram yesterday. Believe it was Heather Debrow's profile page. Heather
debro is one of the Orange County Housewives. I met
her here actually years ago. I think Conway had her
on Lovely Woman, Lovely Human, and I believe I.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Say, yes, it was hers.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
It was her, a picture of her and her family
and they were celebrating her daughter. Her daughter was celebrating
a third birthday for her baby. And I thought, God,
daughters newly in college. I want to say. I want
to say, she's like nineteen or twenty. Why do I
know so much about reality stars?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Well, they've been on my television for twenty years. But
I'm thinking she's got a kid. And then I look
at the picture and I look closer. I'm like, what
is she holding this on a baby? Is that a dog? No,
it was a cat. And it was this big production
birthday production with streamers and T shirts and party hats
and cakes.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
For a cat. And I thought, huh, is that what
we're doing now?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I mean, I'm seeing the people with the strollers and
the cats and the strollers and the You know, sometimes
the dog can't walk, maybe it's an elderly dog something
like that. You gotta put that dog in a stroller.
But I'm seeing dogs that can walk in strollers. I'm
seeing cats and strollers. And these strollers, by the way,
are not like a Walmart special stroller. They are like
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the expensive strollers wear like the the carriage flips around.
I mean, these are the expensive baby strollers for the pets. Now,
I'm not judging. I'm not a pet owner. I don't
know if pet owner is the wrong term. I'm not
a pet parent. Is that better? But there's a whole
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thing going on with the strollers and now these parties. Well,
we've got a cat's tenth birthday party that's making news.
We'll tell you about that coming up in the next hour,
and then coming up next Don't you know this guy
a guy who takes advantage of all free things. There's
a number of businesses that will cater to your birthday.
(17:40):
Right in your email, you'll see different things you subscribe to, say,
you know, for your birthday, come in and get fifteen
percent off or what have you. Well, one guy set
out on a quest to break a record for birthday freebies.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
We'll tell you his story. But why do you.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Love your car? What is it about your car that
you love? Is it the speed? Is it the music system?
I love the speakers in my truck. I love the
bows system. I really do. I miss it when I'm
not in it is I love everything about my truck.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I could go on.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I could do a whole list, but there are certain
things that we're like, Man, I just love this, and
when you're not in your car, it's obvious, so.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
You don't have it.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Nearly one hundred thousand car buyers last year were asked
what they thought of their new rides. I want to
know who the worst performer wasn't want to know this
tea Audi Audi and embarrassing two hundred and sixty nine
problems reported per one hundred vehicles. Ooh, you know, I
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liked Anaudi. I liked the Audi's I really do. I
still do. But I went to an Audi dealership to
buy an Audi. I mean I had it picked out,
I knew which one I wanted, and I didn't see
myself being this person. But I met the guy at
the dealership.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
The dealership was super dead.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
There's nobody really in there, there's like this one guy
and he's kind of like a schlubby guy. Not to
be mean, that's mean, but anyway, he looked like he
wanted to be anywhere but there. And he's like, okay,
you want to drive it around. I'm like, yeah, sure,
so so get in the vehicle and I'm driving it
around and he says, all right, now you can can
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really open it up, you know, take this turn, you know,
really really step on it in this turn. And so
I do and I'm like, oh, wow, that handles really well.
He's like, yeah, women really like it when I tell
them that they can do that.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
And I thought, uh oops, just lost the sale.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Like I gotta say, I never thought that I would
be that person, but it turned me off so much
from the car. I mean, I just didn't want to
buy it from him, really, you know, and I left,
and you know what the intention of maybe I'll just
go to a different outy dealership that I didn't, and
then I didn't. I bought a different car. But man,
I was like, you can't say that in twenty whatever
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year was twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen, Oh my goodness. But anyway,
I know it says a lot about me that I
would have that reaction, but I did anyway. One of
the most interesting discoveries in this study concerned not annoyance
that people had with like the lack of physical buttons,
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or the intrusive sounds that your car makes when you
reach a certain speed, or you know, you get too
close to the other lane and it starts chirping at you,
or you're backing up it starts chirping at you a
little bit too soon in some cases. And now that
wasn't the annoyance that people continually wrote down. It was
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an increase in cup holder frustration. That's what was most notable.
And the report says it seem like car manufacturers had
cup holders figured out, but no. Car manufacturers are obviously
struggling to keep up with being able to accommodate all
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the different shapes and sizes of drink receptacles that are
increasingly available. And it's true when you think about like
your Yetti's, you know, your big ass water jugs that
we all have. I don't have one, but most people do.
It doesn't fit, They don't fit in the cup holder.
(21:33):
My husband has one of these big yetty water canister.
It doesn't fit in the cup holder, and it's heavy,
and so he sets it in you know, the leg
area and the passenger seat where I live. And if
that thing runs into your ankle, it hurts.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
It is a source of my frustration. And it takes
up footspace.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
It takes up foot space, and if you put in
the back seat, it rolls around in pink into things,
and that's annoying too. So I didn't think that I
wouldn't think that would be like a frustration that I
would pin on the car for not having a big
enough cup holder. But apparently that is the way it is,
and you think about it, it's true those those cup
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holders are pretty small when you think about the way
things have evolved, you know, water bottles have evolved.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
But there you have it.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
They say, it seems, despite the auto industry's obsession with
software defined vehicles, many people would forego all those digital
do hickeyes as long as there's enough room for multiple
big gulps. I agree, Yeah, you have one of those.
(22:48):
What are those called against Stanley Stanley's, Yeah, the Stanley's.
Everyone has a Stanley, So it doesn't fit in yours?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Oh no, it does.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
I just need multiple multiple cup holders and what like. Okay,
So I drive up north all the time and I
always stop at the McDonald's right after the grapevine.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah, that's a button Willow mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Or no, not that one, not up the five. It's
your to hone outlets.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah, right there, okay.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
And so I will get my like diet coke, large
Dike coke and French fries, and I have my Stanley
cup or a coffee, and I need three cup holders,
one for my fries to hold my fries, one for
my soda, and one for my water coffee. And then
also my husband needs cup holders, so then he's out
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a cup holder if I have my French fries in
one of them.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
So I just I need multiple. It's understandable. It's understandable.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
And you bring up the McDonald's is kind of a
sore spot in my life because I will pass that
McDonald's thinking that I'll go to the one and Button Willow,
and I never remember how far Button Willow is and
it's really far. And by the time I get to
Button Willow, m kid trick, I am very hungry. And
I should have stopped at the home pass one. And
that is where My source of frustration comes from that story.
(24:08):
But you have the frustrating cup holder that is in
the door, like the side of your door towards like
where you're you're you know.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Yeah, yeah, I do that, and it doesn't work. It
doesn't work for anything.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
And furthermore, like you say, you put your soda down
there and you're trying to get it out, it spills
like it's there's no way to get there's no good
way to get anything out of that alleged cup holder. One.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
And I'll put my Stanley there instead of my soda,
because my soda is like what's fueling me down the road.
But like I'll put my Stanley there and it does
not fit, like it's angle it in a way that
it'll just stay there and then the water doesn't spill
all over me.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Right, it's awful, guys.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I don't know how we're doing it, but we're gonna
have to get through this cup holder dark time together. Okay,
coming up next, what was I going to talk about?
Oh right, right right? The guy's quest to break a
record for birthday freebies.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
That's a fun one. We all know that guy.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Never heard about Earth's blue zones?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Well, there are five of them, and these are five
places on Earth where the healthiest people live. Who are
the people, why are they so healthy?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
And where are they? We'll get into all of it.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Every time you have a birthday, your email box is
probably lit up with all sorts of what seemed to
be yeah it's your birthday emails from businesses, and a
lot of them are yeah it's your birthday, Come spend
money with us and we'll give you a discount type
(25:53):
sort of messages.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Right, Well, one man is not just man.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
As the Wall Street Journal points out, there is a
proud breed of competitive birthday freeloaders out there, people who
are happy to go through all of these emails and
take advantage of all of the birthday free bees that
they can find. And this one man, though, wants to
(26:20):
set a record. He wanted to break a record for
birthday free bees. On the night before his birthday, his
name is Clint, Clint's Fados. Clint was up late worrying
about whether everything would go to plan. Could you imagine
the night before your birthday staying up late because you're
filled with worry of will you get all the free stuff.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
On your birthday?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Tomorrow, Clint's schedule was packed with stops all over Los
Angeles starting at six am. He anticipated eating a lot
of sweets, receiving a bunch of gifts, and returning home
just exhausted. He was getting ready to embark on his
annual quest to snag as many free or discounted gifts
(27:03):
as possible. A little bit about Phil I mean, excuse me, Clint.
Clint is at thirty eight years old, He's an aquatics manager.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
What isn't aquatics manager?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
He is.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Trying to get one over on big retail.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
They say that this is a sprint, one that requires
hours of meticulous planning, careful strategizing, and aus stamina for
sugar crashes, because a lot of these are, like I said, sweets.
This year, Clint was trying to break his record of
thirty five freebies, which he set last year. He says,
(27:45):
I was stressed about it. How am I going to
get it done?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
He said?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
But once I started this, I started with Starbucks and
got my quad shot coffee. It was adrenaline for the
first half of the day. This happened to me recently
I was at Starbucks and I ordered a drink that
I have gotten before. It was like a shaken espresso
(28:09):
iced coffee, and I said, can you add another shot?
Because I was operating under the false idea that there
was one shot in this drink. And then I get
the drink and the drive through and it says quad shot,
and I'm like, what the F I'm about to have
(28:30):
four shots of espresso. Oh my goodness, I didn't even
know that was a thing. Apparently it's very popular. That's
what Clint got on his birthday, he says. The real
work starts months before his big day. He estimates he
spent about fifteen hours sifting through emails, reinstalling loyalty apps,
racking his brain for logins and passwords, and reading through
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the dreaded terms and conditions of rewards to ensure he's
made any necessary purchases to qualify. That is my private hell,
all of that leg work. I mean, that is why
I probably overspend for everything, because doing that, the loyalty apps,
the terms, the conditions, the all of that stuff. They oh,
(29:17):
hell no, it is nails on a chuckboard to me.
Then Clint builds a spreadsheet with notes to map out
his route, He prioritizes rewards with the highest monetary value
and tries to include shopping centers jackpots with multiple opportunities
for awards in one spot. He looks for the true freebies,
(29:40):
avoids the buy one, get one free deals or anything
that requires him to spend more than ten dollars. Do
you want to know what Clint got on his thirty
eighth birthday? Who's ready for this? I've got it in
alphabetical order. Now, i want you to imagine eating all
(30:01):
of this uh in one day? Ready alphabetically Arby's. He
got a free shake Anti Ann's, A pretzel already, I'm out.
A shake from Arby's is a meal and a half.
A pretzel from Anti Ann's is just like I'm sweating now.
(30:24):
He went to Baja Fresh, got ten dollars off, got
a free scoop at Baskin Robbin's, got a free scoop
at Ben and Jerry's, got six wings at Buffalo Wild Wings,
a whopper at Burger King, a piece of cheesecake at
the Cheesecake Factory, dessert at Chick Fileg, guacamole at Chipotle,
sixteen ounce cold brew at cinnabon Sunday at cold Stone,
dessert at Corner Bakery, cookie at Crumble, he got a
(30:45):
medium sub at Firehouse Subs, a charburger at Habit Funnel
cake sticks, a hot dog on a stick, two tacos
at Jack in the Box, a smoothie at Jamba Juice,
a sub at Jersey Mike's, a drink at McKenna, coffee
fry at McDonald's, a mini bunt cake at Nothing Bunt Cakes,
small entree at Panda Express.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Oh my god, where is the insulin?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
A pastry at Panera, he got a drink at PiZZ
and apple pie at Popeyes, chocolate cake slice at Portillo's,
a burger at Red Robin, a popcorn at Regal Cinema.
Holy how where's the defibrillator? It goes on I just
got to the urs, but it goes through to y guys.
(31:29):
And there is another pretzel at Wetzel's Pretzels there towards
the end.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
There's no way he ate all that.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
There's no f and way you could have a party. Yes,
now that is an idea. You bring along your friends
and you're just in the car and everyone gets fed.
He did bring his four children for parts of the day.
The teenager, of course, thinks it's a little embarrassing, but
they did help him devour all the sweet treats so
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he can stave off the sugar crash. He said, it's
hard to do all of this on a full stomach
if there's a sephora or an altar around. He grabs
beauty freebees to give to his wife, who usually prefers to.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Remain at home. Yeah. No, s She's like, you do.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
You love that for you crazy ass, But he says,
and this is what people that think this way feel.
We feel like we're out smarting a system, even if
it's just driving from Freebee to Freebee. It is sticking
it to the man. Denny's, by the way, says it
(32:34):
has had a twenty eight percent increase in redemptions of
its birthday freebee in twenty twenty four compared with the
previous year. So people go in there and they get
that free Grand Slam breakfast. I think that might be
like the best one. I've known about that one for
quite some time. I think Ihop does a similar thing
with pancakes. Got some good breakfast options on your birthday.
But anyway, oh man, that made me full. Okay, we'll
(33:00):
talk trending when we come back to Gary and Shannon.
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