November 10, 2025 • 28 mins
Mother of missing 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard is arrested. Authorities say it’s not related to her daughter’s disappearance. LAUSD Test scored up… Sports cheating from MLB Pitchers to Dart players, Gary and Shannon breakdown scandal.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. We will have all the latest
coming up on the government shut down in swamp Watch
in one hour from today. Chuck Schumer continues to get
the heat from his own party. There, Supreme Court has
(00:23):
denied the request to revisit the same sex marriage decision. Thankfully,
Aston answered there, Trump is part in Giuliani. Another bit
of Washington news that we'll get into as well.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Who's Juliani? Sidney Powell, John Eastman, A bunch of people.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Meadows, Mark Meadows.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Morning Gary, Good morning Shannon. You know what, Gary, your
performance was a hell of a lot better than the
forty nine ers. Wow, the Niners are done. Long live
the Rams.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
The Raiders fans are so mean when they're hurt, you know,
hurt people, hurt people, and I can feel the Raider
blood in his voice.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Thank Garry and Shannon. I'm listening from Green Bay, Wisconsin,
and having been born and raised in Soko, I'm a
little worried about my first Packer game tonight, so I'm
wondering if Shannon has any tips for staying warm on
these aluminum benches.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Tonight, go pack Go Eagles at the Packers tonight. This
is going to be a great game because like, who
are the green Bay Packers? Sometimes they look great. Sometimes
they're on the bubble there. And by the way, mild
conditions for green Bay is it? I haven't like twenty five.
He'll be fine nothing. Here's my tip, vodka and keep
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your head warm.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Don't pour vodka on the aluminum bens and hand warmers
and warmers.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
But I mean, I shed a tear when I went
to lambeau Field when it was it was the last
stadium I had to go to to a been to
all of the current NFL stadiums, and I walked out
and I looked around and I cried, like because of
the history and what it means to the sport and
just everything that's happened there.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
It's just have a great enjoy just soak it all in.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It's yeah, it's I'm very jealous. That's a legendary place.
I mean, it's a special and.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
It feels like it really feels like it.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It's also because it's it's just green Bay, Wisconsin place markets.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
So Amy King. If you're not busy, You're always busy. Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
So last week we're talking about Gary Theater production. This
this last weekend was opening weekend. There's one more weekend
that this runs for, so get your tickets. All the
information is on our social media at Gary and Shannon,
so good, it will not disappoint you. And uh, Heather
Brooker and Michael Monks came running down the hallway to
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talk about their theater chops as well.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Both have been in theater.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Apparently, Michael Monks started talking about his experience and Heather
kind of called him out on the carpet, like, you
didn't really do anything in theater.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
She's been on the office.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I think it was he has been in Cincinnati Adult Theater.
I think she made a knock that he hasn't been
in it since two thousand and eight.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Something of that nature. Very nice. They are ruthless, amy crazy, like.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I've never really dipped my toe into the Hollywood culture.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
That was my first dipping. Man. They are cutthroat. These
actors out knives out. God, I.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Was uncomfortable. So are they fighting for the spot in
the play? So yeah, so you're saying I'm out.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
No, no, no, no, no no, no, no, no.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
I better not be because I deserve though in your dang
Christmas all right.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Deborah Mark made that clear as well, because she was
here for.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
The whole brew haha.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
And I'm thinking, well, Deborah's gonna have to fight Amy,
but there should be space for everybody.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I don't need to be in it.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Because I would rather Amy and Deborah and certainly Heather
and Michael since they are actors.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Although, what is a Christmas play without you and your
shard and a I know, I know, I think you're
gonna have to be there.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Hmmm, what is.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
The Christmas play this year? We'll figure it, We'll figure
something out. Okay, we're not having a I write it though.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
When I get stuck in the airport over Thanksgiving, I'll
work on something.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You're flying I want to wake up.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I think it's going to be fine. By that, I'm optimistic.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I am hoping also, yes that it that it will
smooth out before So.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
You're doing Thanksgiving out your yes? Are you doing? Are
you going to do the whole thing? The whole meal?
Speaker 7 (05:03):
Make it clear? Yet?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
We were talking about because you know, we'll be at
an airbnb or something like that.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
You don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Whole Foods does a nice one. Well, at least they
did like fifteen years ago when I ordered in when
my parents came to visit.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It kind of depends on if there are if it's
just the three or four of us, right, like, that's
that's that's.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Exactly what it was when I did it.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
It was if she's got other people from school that
are going to be around, right, then you just.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Do the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
It's kind of a I mean, it's not easy, but
it's not like you've never done a Thanksgiving dinner for
you know, the drill.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah, we've done enough of it.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
If anything, it would just be are they going to
have the kitchen stuff to do it the right kitchen?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
And most of the places we've been have been fine,
but that is one of the hang ups.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
So you can't guarantee.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
But you haven't done a Thanksgiving meal, you know. Sometimes
you go to Airbnb and you're like, oh, they've got
all the kitchen stuff. We could make food here, but
do they have like a potato masher?
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Probably an electric knife. An electric knife I got I've
been working. You can't bring a ten inch knife on
the plane with you.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Their knives are not sharp. That's the one criticism of
airbnb kitchens. Yeah, people use them for awful things like.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
What I heard, no idea. But what do you use
in your Airbnb knives for? I don't know, but they're dull.
That's not safe. All right.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
When we come back, we will get into the mysterious
case of this missing girl from Lompoc. Is it Lompoc?
I think it's Lompoc. Her mother's now been arrested in
this case, but not related to the to the girl missing.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Bizarre. We'll dive into it.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
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Court did announce today that it's going to grant to
review to challenges that challenges I say. The Republican National
Committee and the Mississippi Libertarian Party filed against the state's
law that allows mail in ballots postmarked by election day
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to be counted if they arrived within five business.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Days after the election.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
The Circuit Court of Appeals there, the Fifth Circuit, I believe,
struck down that law last year, saying that it's at
odds with a bunch of federal laws that establish what
should be uniform nationwide day for voting in federal elections,
whether or not you're going to be able to count
those mail in ballots that come in late.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
We also mentioned.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
President Trump did pardon his former personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. Basically,
it's a look ahead pardon for all of the efforts
to overturn the twenty twenty election. Former Chief of Staff
Mark Meadows has involved Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
All these names take.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Us back five years pretty considerably before we get into
this weird story out of Santa Barbara County.
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Speaker 1 (08:43):
Anytime a nine year old girl goes missing, it is
bizarre and baffling, and that is the case with Melody Buzzard,
a girl from Lompok there in Santa Barbara County. Her
disappearance hit the news in late October. There was a
press release really by the county sheriff's office. In it
it said she'd last been seen a year before, but
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wasn't reported missing until this October fourteenth, when a school
official noticed that Melody had not checked in for her
independent study program. So they start investigating, and detectives learned
that Melody was seen in August when she and her
mother appeared at school to enroll in said independence study.
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And then the investigation continues and things just get weirder.
Now we've got the mother, Ashley, in custody. She was
arrested on Friday. On suspicion of false imprisonment. She remained
in jail as of yesterday morning, still locked up.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
This is bizarre because somehow she was preventing this is
mom again, was preventing a victim. They didn't say who
it was from leaving a location against their will. Not
clear who the alleged Victiman's official said the charges are
not directly related to the ongoing case in Melody's disappearance,
so it's not it's not clear how or if well.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
They got al Capone on taxes, you know what I mean.
Sure they hook up somebody just to make sure they
get them in custody and then more details can come
out for what they're really looking for. Al Capone was
a polar example of that. I know, it's very odd
that I went that way, but it's Monday, okay. So
she wasn't reported missing until October fourteenth. That's when the
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school said, where's this girl that said she was going
to do independent studies? She hasn't checked in. So then
they start looking at surveillance footage and they find that
Melody and her mother, Ashley, went on a cross country
road trip that began the week before she was reported missing.
So like October seventh, and through this footage, detectives have
(10:53):
mapped the route that Mom took from California from lom
Poke through Uta, Northwest Arizona and Nevada. The rented white
Chevrolet Malibu traveled to Nebraska and back that weekend, and
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that Melody, Melody, it was reported, was not seen with
Ashley on her return to home.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Friday, October tenth, So the last sighting so Mom got
home on the tenth. The last sighting they say they
have of Melody was in surveillance video October ninth, somewhere
in the area right on the Colorado Utah border.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Here's the other odd thing. In the footage.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
At various places, Ashley and Melody can be seen wearing wigs,
not one wig, various wigs on both.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Of them, which is funny.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Not funny, that's interesting because Melody, at least I don't
know about Ashley, but Melody the nine.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Year has this beautiful, long, curly hair.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Very it's what describes it's what would point her out.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Absolutely yeah, most uh So.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
This is one of those strange stories that the longer
it goes, the less likely it is that we're going
to have a happy ending.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
But there's got to be.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Something that is This is odd a mother and her
nine year old daughter, mother takes her. I guess we
just have to dig into more about the mother what
we know about her. Apparently she separated from the father
shortly after Melody was born, and that side of the
family hasn't really seen the girl.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
And dad died also, yeah, so yeah, that family, that
the dad's side of the family says that they haven't
seen Melody. And remember, she's been picked up on this
suspicion of false imprisonment. She also apparently is in the
midst of several civil proceedings over unpaid debts. She's got
a lot going on.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
So anyway, unpaid debts and making your daughter disappear Apple
and Oranges, What the hell's going on with this woman?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
When we come back, Hey, good news.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Ready, test scores at LA Unified are going Oh no,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
That's hard.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
That's not good news. It's because they're cheating their way
to hire test scores.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Oh well, but test scores are up, that is true.
Gary Channon will continue.
Speaker 7 (13:25):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
We'll get into this crazy gambling story. They're going to
have to do something about these prop bets. I think
I think we may be seeing the end days of
prop bets because it's just too easy for players to
manipulate those and cash in.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
The Senate took the first step to end the government
shut down yesterday. A group of moderate Democrats agreed to
proceed without a guaranteed extension of healthcare subsidies that made
some Democrats mad. This test vote last night first really
in a series of required procedural maneuvers. The Senate did
vote sixty to forty to move toward passing some compromise legislation. Again,
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it would have to be passed officially by the Senate,
probably sometime today, and then move on to the House
before it then goes to the President's desk for signature
before we can actually declare this government shutdown.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Over a few months ago, a high school English teacher
at LA Unified noticed something different about a student's tests.
Students who had struggled all semester were suddenly getting a's.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
He suspected they were cheating, but he couldn't figure out how.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Now, let's just pull the car over. He couldn't figure
out how these teaching our youth, And he couldn't figure
out how they were cheating.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
A student showed him then the latest version of Google Lens.
Google Lens, they say, now have made it impossible to
enforce academic integrity in the classroom. I'm reading from you,
by the way, the AI summary of this article. Google
had recently made Google Lens, it's a visual search tool,
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easier to use on their Chrome browser. So when users
click on an icon hidden in the toolbar, a movable
bubble pops up. Wherever the bubble is placed, a sidebar
appears with an artificial intelligence answer, description, explanation, or interpretation
of whatever is inside the bubble. So for students, it
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provides an easy way to cheat on digital tests without
typing in a prompt or even leaving the page.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
All they have to do is scroll and click. It's
like the Benden snap.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Dust is exactly like it, right, Dustin Stevenson, the teacher, says,
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
It's hard enough to teach at this age.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Of AI in terms of like go home, write three
hundred words or three thousand words or whatever, But now
we've got to navigate this this real time cheating. I'm
watching you and I still can't tell that you're cheating.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
There was a shift ten years ago maybe where a
lot of classrooms, a lot of students were given chromebooks
by their schools, and that, for a lot of teachers
was the watershed moment for this to have changed completely,
because not only did you now have kids using the
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laptops to play games, they're watching TV. They're doing everything
other than what the real reason was, and that was
to make work more efficient. It was going to make
turning in homework easier, grading easier, all of that stuff
was supposed to be made easier with these chromebooks. All
it did was introduce another way for kids to not
do school.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
William Hewlisser echoes you. He's a high school ethnic studies
teacher here in La.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
He says, yes, that was the first red flag.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
He said, after COVID, it was clear that chromebooks were
a terrible idea. In my classroom, they were using laptops
to play games during class, watch soccer matches, otherwise focus
on anything but the lesson plan then came ai. He
this teacher has decided to ditch technology altogether in his classroom.
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What does he use, oh, you know, pencil and paper. Tests,
homework in class assignments all are on paper. This is
a school that already bans cell phones. Thankfully, it's more work,
but he says it's worth it.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
And he's not alone.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
The Center for Democracy and Technology showed in a recent
survey more than seventy percent of teachers say that because
of AI they have concerns about whether students work is
actually their own. About seventy five percent of teachers say
they worry students aren't learning important skills like writing, research, reading, comprehension,
and was my wife was having a conversation with a
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friend of ours who was a teacher, And this is
absolutely front and center top of the list in terms
of concerns for teachers, especially if you're looking at somebody
like an English teacher, writing teacher, creative writing, anything like that,
because the expectation is that you're doing it, that the
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students are writing these things themselves. The teachers then have
to be able to trust some sort of other AI technology,
usually to determine if the papers that are being turned
in are generated by AI from.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
The obvious desk.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
By way of MIT, they did a study your brain
on chat GPT, and they found that students who use
AI for help writing essays showed significantly less cognitive activity
than those who didn't. If you're not stimulating your mind,
it is a muscle.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Use it or lose it. They said.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
The essays that were AI written were poor quality, limited ideas,
sentence structure, vocabulary compared to the essays who didn't rely
on AI.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
There's also a patchwork rule system right. The California Department
of Education does offer guidance on how teachers can use
AI in the classroom, but there are no strict requirements.
It's kind of like everything else. The legislation hasn't caught
up with the popularity of something like electric bikes, right.
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AI in schools is the same kind of deal. It
came along quicker than the rules came with it.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
That's always been the cutting edge of the technology, though,
is which you can't not have it, right, You can't.
Kids are going to have to learn to live with it.
It's not going anywhere, So how do you then teach
them when is the right time to use it, when's
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the wrong time.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I think it'll work itself out, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I think that kids are our showing that They want
the pendulum to shift the other way. They want more realism,
they want fewer screens. They're going back to polaroids and camquarders.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
They don't like the youth, don't like things to be
advertised to them, you know. And if everybody's doing something,
the pendulum will start swinging the other way. If all
the kids are using AI, it'll be the uncool thing
to do. You know, when drones first came on, we
thought by now that we look out the window and
there'd just be drones everywhere. Everyone would have a drone,
and you know what I mean, And that didn't happen.
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It kind of all works itself out. The market has
a way of correcting itself. Something comes out and we're
all hot on it. But yeah, you're right, though AI
is ubiquitous. It's gonna it already. Is it already?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Is? I mean you can't.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
There's no web browser, there's no computer program now that
doesn't also offer some sort of AI assistant to help
your weak brain synthesize whatever is being yelled at it.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
I don't mean you're weak, NA take it that way.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I mean if I did have a weak brain, that'd
be a pretty ruthless thing.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
That you said.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I don't thank you, but since you're the pillowcase in
the room, right, we're fine.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I'll accept that. Gary Channing will continue.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
You know, you have the actor, good looks. I have
the brains, and we're fine with that.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
We're not at all time an accurate breakdown.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I'm happy with qualities, the the the substance. The substance.
Gary Channing, you can be the facade.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from kf
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Tomorrow for Veterans Day, we'll be doing what we usually do,
which is taking people's honoring of their families members that
are veterans, saying thank you to.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Everybody who has has served. So we'll do that tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Well, we had just talked about that major gambling racket
involving poker games and some NBA players kind of playing
under their capabilities to get money, and now it has
infiltrated MLB. Two Major League Baseball pitchers have been charged
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in a federal gambling investigation, a separate one accusing them
of rigging specific pitches that helped betters win hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
It is that granular.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
You can bet anything at any time, on any game anywhere.
If you are not a degenerate, you may not know this,
but luckily you have me, and you have Dave Shtra
down the hallway, who bets on Korean women's basketball in
the middle of the night.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
The ESPN, The ESPN and The New York.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Times report that federal prosecutors say that the pitchers, em
Manuel class A, Class A and Luis Ortiz of the Guardians,
shared inside information and agreed to influence pitch outcomes so
betters could profit from online wagers.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
These are not bottom of the barrel pitchers. Class is
a three time All Star, two time Reliever of the Year,
but the ESPN says they began he began coordinating with
the better as early as May of twenty three, agreeing
to intentionally throw certain pitches for balls. Now, obviously, it's
going to be a lot easier for you to spike
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a ball sixty feet away from the pitcher's mound and
have it bounced before it even gets to the plate.
That way, it's going to be called a ball. You
don't even come close to the strike zone on the
off chance that the umpire might give you a little
bit of leeway and call it a strike, so you
bounce it to the plate. Basically, Prosecutors said that Luis
Ortiz joined this whole thing in June of this year,
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and together the two of them helped betters win at
least four hundred and fifty thousand dollars and did get
some kickbacks in return.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
The figure I read was twelve thousand dollars, which is peanuts.
You wonder was that twelve thousand per pitch? Or what
are we doing here?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Folks?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Are people just in over their own heads when it
comes to gambling holes that they've dug themselves because some
of these guys are big gamblers themselves.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Well, and we talked about this when it came to
the basketball player that was accused of underperforming, so that
he would you could bet the under on whatever points
he was going to score, whatever it was, and then
he would get a kickback on that as well. This
and we were asking, why would somebody who's making twenty
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million dollars a year need to place a bet where
the win is for five grand or ten grand, even
that there's not enough of a payoff. But this is
an addiction for a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
And sometimes it's just liquid money and money now and cash.
Each player faces up to twenty years in prison for
wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy, five years for conspiracy
to influence sports bets events by bribery. But this is
the biggest deal to land on Major League Baseball since
Pete Rose. When it comes to gambling, lifetime ban put
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in place in nineteen eighty nine, as you know, as
everyone should know.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
So that's the big one. And then there was an
article in the Washington.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Post about all of the the sports that you kind
of dig into in the dark days. I have bet
on overseas darts before I get invested, I get interested
in things, and I get the extra dopamine release when
I'm betting on things that I have no idea about,
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and I'm right because it's completely rare. It makes me
feel alive.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
You need to get out more or.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
Not or not.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
But sports books in the United States and around the
world have expanded their menus, right, So now we're talking
about small money sports that have become newly available on
gambling apps, like darts, like table tennis, lower division soccer.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
So now you've got.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
This bigger pool of players that are vulnerable to match fixers.
You've got the international element where they know how to
get away with things and fly under the radar. Surfing
even has become corrupt as well. It kind of speaks
to how big the uh, the love of gambling is.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Yeah, that you're willing to do so well that and
that technology has allowed us to eat track of it.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
And it's so easy, Like no longer are you looking
for that?
Speaker 4 (26:47):
You know?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Are you looking forward to that one trip to Vegas?
You know?
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Oh, I used to go for wild Card Weekend all
the time. Oh, I'm gonna make some bets. I'm gonna
do Oh I just can't wait. Now you pick up
your phone, what do you want to bet on?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
At any time?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
At any time you're scrolling in the morning, about to
get that dart match going on in Lithuania? What kind
of action can I get?
Speaker 3 (27:09):
And that there are people?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
I mean, that's That's what I think is most interesting
is that there was a in table tennis. There was
a guy who lost an opening round match at the
World Table Tennis Contender Tournament in Lagos, Nigeria. Okay, sure,
but that there was enough weird bets being placed on
that match that a sportsbook in New Jersey flagged those
(27:32):
bets as suspicious. Who knows enough about international table tennis?
They're like, wait a minute, right out of walle Acadamia
is never going to win this match?
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Are you kidding? Why Dave Shatara knows enough about the
w n b A.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
He knows about women's cycles and when they'll their shots
are fall or when they won't see It's like a
beautiful mind.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Over there at his house. A lot of red yarn,
lot of red yarn. All right, well that was no,
I mean, like, beautiful mind. Worry to you tie?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Yeah, post a little pit with a pushpit, and you
tie the red yarn to the other one and you
they're all connected.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Yeah connect?
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Would you think I was making some weird I don't,
lady jokes. I don't know what you're doing over there.
You know, sometimes you become a big star, you get
too big for your breeches.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
My breeches are fitting fine, are they? Yeah? Unlike? No,
I won't. I won't.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
These bridges fit fine. They're new, so they actually fit.
It's I get into problems when I extend the life
of my jeans when I think they they're still gonna
fit when you sit down and I.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Go oh oh, they don't remember. Gary and Shannon will
continue right after this. You've been listening to The Gary
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denied the request to revisit the same sex marriage decision. Thankfully,
Aston answered there, Trump is part in Giuliani. Another bit
of Washington news that we'll get into as well.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Who's Juliani? Sidney Powell, John Eastman, A bunch of people.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Meadows, Mark Meadows.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Morning Gary, Good morning Shannon. You know what, Gary, your
performance was a hell of a lot better than the
forty nine ers. Wow, the Niners are done. Long live
the Rams.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
The Raiders fans are so mean when they're hurt, you know,
hurt people, hurt people, and I can feel the Raider
blood in his voice.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Thank Garry and Shannon. I'm listening from Green Bay, Wisconsin,
and having been born and raised in Soko, I'm a
little worried about my first Packer game tonight, so I'm
wondering if Shannon has any tips for staying warm on
these aluminum benches.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Tonight, go pack Go Eagles at the Packers tonight. This
is going to be a great game because like, who
are the green Bay Packers? Sometimes they look great. Sometimes
they're on the bubble there. And by the way, mild
conditions for green Bay is it? I haven't like twenty five.
He'll be fine nothing. Here's my tip, vodka and keep
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your head warm.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Don't pour vodka on the aluminum bens and hand warmers
and warmers.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
But I mean, I shed a tear when I went
to lambeau Field when it was it was the last
stadium I had to go to to a been to
all of the current NFL stadiums, and I walked out
and I looked around and I cried, like because of
the history and what it means to the sport and
just everything that's happened there.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
It's just have a great enjoy just soak it all in.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It's yeah, it's I'm very jealous. That's a legendary place.
I mean, it's a special and.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
It feels like it really feels like it.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It's also because it's it's just green Bay, Wisconsin place markets.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
So Amy King. If you're not busy, You're always busy. Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
So last week we're talking about Gary Theater production. This
this last weekend was opening weekend. There's one more weekend
that this runs for, so get your tickets. All the
information is on our social media at Gary and Shannon,
so good, it will not disappoint you. And uh, Heather
Brooker and Michael Monks came running down the hallway to
(03:01):
talk about their theater chops as well.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Both have been in theater.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Apparently, Michael Monks started talking about his experience and Heather
kind of called him out on the carpet, like, you
didn't really do anything in theater.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
She's been on the office.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I think it was he has been in Cincinnati Adult Theater.
I think she made a knock that he hasn't been
in it since two thousand and eight.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Something of that nature. Very nice. They are ruthless, amy crazy, like.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I've never really dipped my toe into the Hollywood culture.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
That was my first dipping. Man. They are cutthroat. These
actors out knives out. God, I.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Was uncomfortable. So are they fighting for the spot in
the play? So yeah, so you're saying I'm out.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
No, no, no, no, no no, no, no, no.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
I better not be because I deserve though in your dang
Christmas all right.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Deborah Mark made that clear as well, because she was
here for.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
The whole brew haha.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
And I'm thinking, well, Deborah's gonna have to fight Amy,
but there should be space for everybody.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I don't need to be in it.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Because I would rather Amy and Deborah and certainly Heather
and Michael since they are actors.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Although, what is a Christmas play without you and your
shard and a I know, I know, I think you're
gonna have to be there.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Hmmm, what is.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
The Christmas play this year? We'll figure it, We'll figure
something out. Okay, we're not having a I write it though.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
When I get stuck in the airport over Thanksgiving, I'll
work on something.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You're flying I want to wake up.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I think it's going to be fine. By that, I'm optimistic.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I am hoping also, yes that it that it will
smooth out before So.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
You're doing Thanksgiving out your yes? Are you doing? Are
you going to do the whole thing? The whole meal?
Speaker 7 (05:03):
Make it clear? Yet?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
We were talking about because you know, we'll be at
an airbnb or something like that.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
You don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Whole Foods does a nice one. Well, at least they
did like fifteen years ago when I ordered in when
my parents came to visit.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It kind of depends on if there are if it's
just the three or four of us, right, like, that's
that's that's.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Exactly what it was when I did it.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
It was if she's got other people from school that
are going to be around, right, then you just.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Do the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
It's kind of a I mean, it's not easy, but
it's not like you've never done a Thanksgiving dinner for
you know, the drill.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah, we've done enough of it.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
If anything, it would just be are they going to
have the kitchen stuff to do it the right kitchen?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
And most of the places we've been have been fine,
but that is one of the hang ups.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
So you can't guarantee.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
But you haven't done a Thanksgiving meal, you know. Sometimes
you go to Airbnb and you're like, oh, they've got
all the kitchen stuff. We could make food here, but
do they have like a potato masher?
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Probably an electric knife. An electric knife I got I've
been working. You can't bring a ten inch knife on
the plane with you.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Their knives are not sharp. That's the one criticism of
airbnb kitchens. Yeah, people use them for awful things like.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
What I heard, no idea. But what do you use
in your Airbnb knives for? I don't know, but they're dull.
That's not safe. All right.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
When we come back, we will get into the mysterious
case of this missing girl from Lompoc. Is it Lompoc?
I think it's Lompoc. Her mother's now been arrested in
this case, but not related to the to the girl missing.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Bizarre. We'll dive into it.
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Speaker 3 (07:22):
Days after the election.
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The Circuit Court of Appeals there, the Fifth Circuit, I believe,
struck down that law last year, saying that it's at
odds with a bunch of federal laws that establish what
should be uniform nationwide day for voting in federal elections,
whether or not you're going to be able to count
those mail in ballots that come in late.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
We also mentioned.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
President Trump did pardon his former personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. Basically,
it's a look ahead pardon for all of the efforts
to overturn the twenty twenty election. Former Chief of Staff
Mark Meadows has involved Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark.
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Speaker 1 (08:43):
Anytime a nine year old girl goes missing, it is
bizarre and baffling, and that is the case with Melody Buzzard,
a girl from Lompok there in Santa Barbara County. Her
disappearance hit the news in late October. There was a
press release really by the county sheriff's office. In it
it said she'd last been seen a year before, but
(09:05):
wasn't reported missing until this October fourteenth, when a school
official noticed that Melody had not checked in for her
independent study program. So they start investigating, and detectives learned
that Melody was seen in August when she and her
mother appeared at school to enroll in said independence study.
(09:28):
And then the investigation continues and things just get weirder.
Now we've got the mother, Ashley, in custody. She was
arrested on Friday. On suspicion of false imprisonment. She remained
in jail as of yesterday morning, still locked up.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
This is bizarre because somehow she was preventing this is
mom again, was preventing a victim. They didn't say who
it was from leaving a location against their will. Not
clear who the alleged Victiman's official said the charges are
not directly related to the ongoing case in Melody's disappearance,
so it's not it's not clear how or if well.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
They got al Capone on taxes, you know what I mean.
Sure they hook up somebody just to make sure they
get them in custody and then more details can come
out for what they're really looking for. Al Capone was
a polar example of that. I know, it's very odd
that I went that way, but it's Monday, okay. So
she wasn't reported missing until October fourteenth. That's when the
(10:32):
school said, where's this girl that said she was going
to do independent studies? She hasn't checked in. So then
they start looking at surveillance footage and they find that
Melody and her mother, Ashley, went on a cross country
road trip that began the week before she was reported missing.
So like October seventh, and through this footage, detectives have
(10:53):
mapped the route that Mom took from California from lom
Poke through Uta, Northwest Arizona and Nevada. The rented white
Chevrolet Malibu traveled to Nebraska and back that weekend, and
(11:14):
that Melody, Melody, it was reported, was not seen with
Ashley on her return to home.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Friday, October tenth, So the last sighting so Mom got
home on the tenth. The last sighting they say they
have of Melody was in surveillance video October ninth, somewhere
in the area right on the Colorado Utah border.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Here's the other odd thing. In the footage.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
At various places, Ashley and Melody can be seen wearing wigs,
not one wig, various wigs on both.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Of them, which is funny.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Not funny, that's interesting because Melody, at least I don't
know about Ashley, but Melody the nine.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Year has this beautiful, long, curly hair.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Very it's what describes it's what would point her out.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Absolutely yeah, most uh So.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
This is one of those strange stories that the longer
it goes, the less likely it is that we're going
to have a happy ending.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
But there's got to be.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Something that is This is odd a mother and her
nine year old daughter, mother takes her. I guess we
just have to dig into more about the mother what
we know about her. Apparently she separated from the father
shortly after Melody was born, and that side of the
family hasn't really seen the girl.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
And dad died also, yeah, so yeah, that family, that
the dad's side of the family says that they haven't
seen Melody. And remember, she's been picked up on this
suspicion of false imprisonment. She also apparently is in the
midst of several civil proceedings over unpaid debts. She's got
a lot going on.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
So anyway, unpaid debts and making your daughter disappear Apple
and Oranges, What the hell's going on with this woman?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
When we come back, Hey, good news.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Ready, test scores at LA Unified are going Oh no,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
That's hard.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
That's not good news. It's because they're cheating their way
to hire test scores.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Oh well, but test scores are up, that is true.
Gary Channon will continue.
Speaker 7 (13:25):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (13:31):
We'll get into this crazy gambling story. They're going to
have to do something about these prop bets. I think
I think we may be seeing the end days of
prop bets because it's just too easy for players to
manipulate those and cash in.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
The Senate took the first step to end the government
shut down yesterday. A group of moderate Democrats agreed to
proceed without a guaranteed extension of healthcare subsidies that made
some Democrats mad. This test vote last night first really
in a series of required procedural maneuvers. The Senate did
vote sixty to forty to move toward passing some compromise legislation. Again,
(14:07):
it would have to be passed officially by the Senate,
probably sometime today, and then move on to the House
before it then goes to the President's desk for signature
before we can actually declare this government shutdown.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Over a few months ago, a high school English teacher
at LA Unified noticed something different about a student's tests.
Students who had struggled all semester were suddenly getting a's.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
He suspected they were cheating, but he couldn't figure out how.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Now, let's just pull the car over. He couldn't figure
out how these teaching our youth, And he couldn't figure
out how they were cheating.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
A student showed him then the latest version of Google Lens.
Google Lens, they say, now have made it impossible to
enforce academic integrity in the classroom. I'm reading from you,
by the way, the AI summary of this article. Google
had recently made Google Lens, it's a visual search tool,
(15:14):
easier to use on their Chrome browser. So when users
click on an icon hidden in the toolbar, a movable
bubble pops up. Wherever the bubble is placed, a sidebar
appears with an artificial intelligence answer, description, explanation, or interpretation
of whatever is inside the bubble. So for students, it
(15:34):
provides an easy way to cheat on digital tests without
typing in a prompt or even leaving the page.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
All they have to do is scroll and click. It's
like the Benden snap.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Dust is exactly like it, right, Dustin Stevenson, the teacher, says,
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
It's hard enough to teach at this age.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Of AI in terms of like go home, write three
hundred words or three thousand words or whatever, But now
we've got to navigate this this real time cheating. I'm
watching you and I still can't tell that you're cheating.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
There was a shift ten years ago maybe where a
lot of classrooms, a lot of students were given chromebooks
by their schools, and that, for a lot of teachers
was the watershed moment for this to have changed completely,
because not only did you now have kids using the
(16:28):
laptops to play games, they're watching TV. They're doing everything
other than what the real reason was, and that was
to make work more efficient. It was going to make
turning in homework easier, grading easier, all of that stuff
was supposed to be made easier with these chromebooks. All
it did was introduce another way for kids to not
do school.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
William Hewlisser echoes you. He's a high school ethnic studies
teacher here in La.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
He says, yes, that was the first red flag.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
He said, after COVID, it was clear that chromebooks were
a terrible idea. In my classroom, they were using laptops
to play games during class, watch soccer matches, otherwise focus
on anything but the lesson plan then came ai. He
this teacher has decided to ditch technology altogether in his classroom.
(17:18):
What does he use, oh, you know, pencil and paper. Tests,
homework in class assignments all are on paper. This is
a school that already bans cell phones. Thankfully, it's more work,
but he says it's worth it.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
And he's not alone.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
The Center for Democracy and Technology showed in a recent
survey more than seventy percent of teachers say that because
of AI they have concerns about whether students work is
actually their own. About seventy five percent of teachers say
they worry students aren't learning important skills like writing, research, reading, comprehension,
and was my wife was having a conversation with a
(17:54):
friend of ours who was a teacher, And this is
absolutely front and center top of the list in terms
of concerns for teachers, especially if you're looking at somebody
like an English teacher, writing teacher, creative writing, anything like that,
because the expectation is that you're doing it, that the
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students are writing these things themselves. The teachers then have
to be able to trust some sort of other AI technology,
usually to determine if the papers that are being turned
in are generated by AI from.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
The obvious desk.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
By way of MIT, they did a study your brain
on chat GPT, and they found that students who use
AI for help writing essays showed significantly less cognitive activity
than those who didn't. If you're not stimulating your mind,
it is a muscle.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Use it or lose it. They said.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
The essays that were AI written were poor quality, limited ideas,
sentence structure, vocabulary compared to the essays who didn't rely
on AI.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
There's also a patchwork rule system right. The California Department
of Education does offer guidance on how teachers can use
AI in the classroom, but there are no strict requirements.
It's kind of like everything else. The legislation hasn't caught
up with the popularity of something like electric bikes, right.
(19:28):
AI in schools is the same kind of deal. It
came along quicker than the rules came with it.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
That's always been the cutting edge of the technology, though,
is which you can't not have it, right, You can't.
Kids are going to have to learn to live with it.
It's not going anywhere, So how do you then teach
them when is the right time to use it, when's
(19:55):
the wrong time.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I think it'll work itself out, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I think that kids are our showing that They want
the pendulum to shift the other way. They want more realism,
they want fewer screens. They're going back to polaroids and camquarders.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
They don't like the youth, don't like things to be
advertised to them, you know. And if everybody's doing something,
the pendulum will start swinging the other way. If all
the kids are using AI, it'll be the uncool thing
to do. You know, when drones first came on, we
thought by now that we look out the window and
there'd just be drones everywhere. Everyone would have a drone,
and you know what I mean, And that didn't happen.
(20:32):
It kind of all works itself out. The market has
a way of correcting itself. Something comes out and we're
all hot on it. But yeah, you're right, though AI
is ubiquitous. It's gonna it already. Is it already?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Is? I mean you can't.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
There's no web browser, there's no computer program now that
doesn't also offer some sort of AI assistant to help
your weak brain synthesize whatever is being yelled at it.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
I don't mean you're weak, NA take it that way.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I mean if I did have a weak brain, that'd
be a pretty ruthless thing.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
That you said.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I don't thank you, but since you're the pillowcase in
the room, right, we're fine.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I'll accept that. Gary Channing will continue.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
You know, you have the actor, good looks. I have
the brains, and we're fine with that.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
We're not at all time an accurate breakdown.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I'm happy with qualities, the the the substance. The substance.
Gary Channing, you can be the facade.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
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Speaker 2 (21:42):
Tomorrow for Veterans Day, we'll be doing what we usually do,
which is taking people's honoring of their families members that
are veterans, saying thank you to.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Everybody who has has served. So we'll do that tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Well, we had just talked about that major gambling racket
involving poker games and some NBA players kind of playing
under their capabilities to get money, and now it has
infiltrated MLB. Two Major League Baseball pitchers have been charged
(22:19):
in a federal gambling investigation, a separate one accusing them
of rigging specific pitches that helped betters win hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
It is that granular.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
You can bet anything at any time, on any game anywhere.
If you are not a degenerate, you may not know this,
but luckily you have me, and you have Dave Shtra
down the hallway, who bets on Korean women's basketball in
the middle of the night.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
The ESPN, The ESPN and The New York.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Times report that federal prosecutors say that the pitchers, em
Manuel class A, Class A and Luis Ortiz of the Guardians,
shared inside information and agreed to influence pitch outcomes so
betters could profit from online wagers.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
These are not bottom of the barrel pitchers. Class is
a three time All Star, two time Reliever of the Year,
but the ESPN says they began he began coordinating with
the better as early as May of twenty three, agreeing
to intentionally throw certain pitches for balls. Now, obviously, it's
going to be a lot easier for you to spike
(23:31):
a ball sixty feet away from the pitcher's mound and
have it bounced before it even gets to the plate.
That way, it's going to be called a ball. You
don't even come close to the strike zone on the
off chance that the umpire might give you a little
bit of leeway and call it a strike, so you
bounce it to the plate. Basically, Prosecutors said that Luis
Ortiz joined this whole thing in June of this year,
(23:55):
and together the two of them helped betters win at
least four hundred and fifty thousand dollars and did get
some kickbacks in return.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
The figure I read was twelve thousand dollars, which is peanuts.
You wonder was that twelve thousand per pitch? Or what
are we doing here?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Folks?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Are people just in over their own heads when it
comes to gambling holes that they've dug themselves because some
of these guys are big gamblers themselves.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Well, and we talked about this when it came to
the basketball player that was accused of underperforming, so that
he would you could bet the under on whatever points
he was going to score, whatever it was, and then
he would get a kickback on that as well. This
and we were asking, why would somebody who's making twenty
(24:43):
million dollars a year need to place a bet where
the win is for five grand or ten grand, even
that there's not enough of a payoff. But this is
an addiction for a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
And sometimes it's just liquid money and money now and cash.
Each player faces up to twenty years in prison for
wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy, five years for conspiracy
to influence sports bets events by bribery. But this is
the biggest deal to land on Major League Baseball since
Pete Rose. When it comes to gambling, lifetime ban put
(25:19):
in place in nineteen eighty nine, as you know, as
everyone should know.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
So that's the big one. And then there was an
article in the Washington.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Post about all of the the sports that you kind
of dig into in the dark days. I have bet
on overseas darts before I get invested, I get interested
in things, and I get the extra dopamine release when
I'm betting on things that I have no idea about,
(25:46):
and I'm right because it's completely rare. It makes me
feel alive.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
You need to get out more or.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
Not or not.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
But sports books in the United States and around the
world have expanded their menus, right, So now we're talking
about small money sports that have become newly available on
gambling apps, like darts, like table tennis, lower division soccer.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
So now you've got.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
This bigger pool of players that are vulnerable to match fixers.
You've got the international element where they know how to
get away with things and fly under the radar. Surfing
even has become corrupt as well. It kind of speaks
to how big the uh, the love of gambling is.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Yeah, that you're willing to do so well that and
that technology has allowed us to eat track of it.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
And it's so easy, Like no longer are you looking
for that?
Speaker 4 (26:47):
You know?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Are you looking forward to that one trip to Vegas?
You know?
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Oh, I used to go for wild Card Weekend all
the time. Oh, I'm gonna make some bets. I'm gonna
do Oh I just can't wait. Now you pick up
your phone, what do you want to bet on?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
At any time?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
At any time you're scrolling in the morning, about to
get that dart match going on in Lithuania? What kind
of action can I get?
Speaker 3 (27:09):
And that there are people?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
I mean, that's That's what I think is most interesting
is that there was a in table tennis. There was
a guy who lost an opening round match at the
World Table Tennis Contender Tournament in Lagos, Nigeria. Okay, sure,
but that there was enough weird bets being placed on
that match that a sportsbook in New Jersey flagged those
(27:32):
bets as suspicious. Who knows enough about international table tennis?
They're like, wait a minute, right out of walle Acadamia
is never going to win this match?
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Are you kidding? Why Dave Shatara knows enough about the
w n b A.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
He knows about women's cycles and when they'll their shots
are fall or when they won't see It's like a
beautiful mind.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Over there at his house. A lot of red yarn,
lot of red yarn. All right, well that was no,
I mean, like, beautiful mind. Worry to you tie?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Yeah, post a little pit with a pushpit, and you
tie the red yarn to the other one and you
they're all connected.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Yeah connect?
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Would you think I was making some weird I don't,
lady jokes. I don't know what you're doing over there.
You know, sometimes you become a big star, you get
too big for your breeches.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
My breeches are fitting fine, are they? Yeah? Unlike? No,
I won't. I won't.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
These bridges fit fine. They're new, so they actually fit.
It's I get into problems when I extend the life
of my jeans when I think they they're still gonna
fit when you sit down and I.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Go oh oh, they don't remember. Gary and Shannon will
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