December 30, 2025 • 33 mins
Gary and Shannon discuss the impending storm that's hitting the West Coast, with rain and wind expected to intensify on New Year's Eve and into the night. They also touch on the latest news, including a shocking charge against New England Patriots star Stefon Diggs and a massive fraud scandal in Minnesota involving Somali-run daycare centers. Plus, they're breaking down the 2028 presidential race, with a humorous look at the current players and their chances.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon, and you're listening to KFI
A M six forty, The Gary and Shannon Show on
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
We're at work today.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
It is weird. I'm driving in this morning. It's uh,
it's cold out, it's gray out. Not a lot of
people out there, a lot of low energy vibes going
on because not a lot of people go into work.
I'm wearing my homeless clothes because I feel like.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Those are not homeless clothes.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well, I'm wearing a hoodie and some jeans and tennis shoes.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
We're in a sweatshirt.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
You look presentable. No, you're wearing a real shirt.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
My shirt has buttons on it. Your shirt has buttons?
Is then what makes it really? Exactly? You put up
a fight to get into that shirt. I did not.
Tomorrow is going to be a mess.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I can guarantee that I got to take my daughter
to the airport early.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
So oh okay, so it's going to be hot day
for you. Oh yeah, hoodie and.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Hat for Christmas?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Maybe that excited off? Yeah, what does it look like?
Don't tell me, act, don't tell me.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I want to be surprised, be super surprised.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
But we do have rain headed this way. It is
going to change some plans. Already, my neighbors who always
have a New Year's Day celebration on their little deck
there have called it off because of the rain and
the wind. The wind is going to be the thing too.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
They're not going to allow you in their house.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
It's a tiny house. The deck is kind of the
biggest part. It's where you would they would entertain and
they usually have like twelve to fourteen people.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
They are not going to fit in the house.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Okay, are you judging my neighbors not having a small house.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
No, no, no, no, no, that's what.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
It sounds like. I just thought it was funny. They're like,
I'm sorry, it's gonna be rain.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Wouldn't want anybody to well, they do the New Year.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It's kind of a thing where we sit out on
the deck and they make gumbo and it's like an
outdoor thing, so it's not an indoor party.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Whatever they tell you, it's fine.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I mean, we were still invited over. Now you're making
to make it weird. For the pajama party that they
have every year to watch the Rose Parade, there's a
pajama party, so I see.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Why you choose the deck party.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, okay, okay, See, so now you've made it weird.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I didn't make it weird.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Well, you were trying to insinuate I was not invited
to the party that they had just not invited me,
And then I had to bring out the pajama party invitation.
And now we're all awkward. I don't know where to look,
and I do. The neighbor in question, he does wear
every year for the pajama party a Santa suit and
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it's a Santa onesie. Oh yeah, So this is a
road you paved, my dear, you paved this road, and
here we are. Anyway, the rain is going to happen
today tonight. I guess I should say we're gonna have
some wind today and then chance of rain tonight.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
It's going to intensify the day and into the night,
and then the height of the storm is going to
be New Year's Eve through New Year's Night, and then
Friday it's kinda kind of taper off ten to twelve
percent chance of rain.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, our wind has died down significantly, but there are
still some wind advisories that are posted through I believe
it's three o'clock tonight or three o'clock this afternoon. So
after that there was a handful of places that did
get some rainfall.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
This morning, there's a big.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Bunch of rain that's actually just off of the coast
and it appears to be moving in so we could
see some rain earlier than this evening. But again, the
biggest amount of rain is going to be coming tomorrow
night into all day Thursdays.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
What it looks like.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Fuller has announced that it is canceled New Year's Eve
as well. Fuller Tin says that the event planned for
downtown First Night has been canceled. They say, we know
this is disappointing, but we got to think about safety.
This was an event scheduled to feature live bands, DJ's,
children's entertainment, fireworks, the whole bit. But because of the
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storm and the one and a half inches of rain,
they say that this is going to raise public safety
and operational concerns.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I was at a park yesterday in my neighborhood and
there were at least a half a dozen trees that
had been knocked down really just yesterday.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
A couple of them had been marked off with yellow
tape already, like the park crew had gone through, but
others hadn't, which meant I assumed that they'd fallen over.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
In the afternoon, the Rose Parade ps the show will
go on despite it going to be wet. They also
say no umbrellas.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, well, just to block. They don't want to block
in the view of somebody else behind you. But that
means that there will be a lot of wet dogs. Flickers,
the slickers. Yeah, you got to get those plastic slickers
off the Amazon.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
We're your rubbers and that too.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
You don't want to get anyone. I mean, that was stupid.
I guess, I guess I mishandle.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
They said there were four floats. The last time it
rained was two thousand and six. We mentioned that yesterday.
There were four floats that broke down in two thousand
and six because of the weather.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yeah, those floats, for the most part, temperamental.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
The float itself, depending on how heavy the rain is.
The float itself is fine because it's flowers. I mean,
it's not like it's going to rust or anything like that,
but that there are those those foa touchy enough.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
It's the Yeah, well you.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Remember, I mean, did you have homecoming floats at your
high school.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Was that a thing they did in the seventies.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
They did easy, they did. We did it in the
backs of people's trucks. Yeah, like that was what the
float was.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
But we had flatbed We had like local flatbeds.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
We had a couple of those.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah, because some guy had a had a hay delivery business,
so we could have a big, long flatbed trailer.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
But it would just be like the local band would
set up on the trailer and go around the football track.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
That was.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
It's so cool, nothing exciting. There were a bunch of
trees that fell down. The one to eighteen was shut
down last night at Tierra Rahata because of a tree
that went into power lines in Moor Park in Silmar.
A pine tree went into a home in Anaheim. A
palm tree fell onto a car and injured a woman
inside rooftop canopy became tangled in some power lines in
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Buente Park. So hopefully the wind has gone now. There
are also massive, massive weather problems back east, to the
point where the Governor of New York, Kathy Hokel, had
put out on Twitter that anybody in the state of
New York who doesn't have to travel today should not
travel today, but they're talking about severe weather in places
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like New York, Boston, Philly, Pittsburgh, all the way down
as far as New Orleans, Washington, d C, Detroit. Detroit
in fact, saw a fifty car pile up on I
seventy five, shut down that road for hours yesterday.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Well, the Smali child daycars story has made its way
into football memes, so I started paying attention. This was
a story I missed out on because I did not
read any news while we were gone for the Christmas break.
I read no news Christmas Eve through yesterday, or I
guess up until yesterday morning when we came into work.
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But now I'm paying attention because it's made its way
into the football memes and there is a lot of
fraud going on with these alleged Smali daycare centers in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Did you pay attention to this? Well, I've been.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I saw a part of the video that really started
all this by Nick what's his name.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
The twenty three year old MAGA guy. I don't know,
I don't remember his name.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
But is it surely make surely? Thank you? So I've
seen some of this.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
It also has kind of pulled the curtain back on
Tim Walls a little bit, the governor because he's he
just comes across he I always felt that he came
across as kind of this bumbling goofy.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Now that's an act.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Well he's leaning into it now, unfortunately, and a lot
of people are already calling for him to resign.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Really this okay, So we'll talk about that.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
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Speaker 1 (08:48):
Breaking NFL news. Shocker this morning, but not really a shocker,
but a shocker. New England Patriot star stuff On Diggs
charged with felony strangulation or suffocation and misdemeanor assaultant battery charges.
This comes from an incident that happened on December second,
after the Patriots beat the Giant some Monday night football.
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As it stands, the arraignment is set to be two
days after the AFC Championship game is scheduled. If you
haven't been paying attention to the Patriots are in the
thick of it.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
They're very good.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Could go the distance and Stefan Diggs, although the judge
has seemed this morning to be inclined to set that
over to March. But but we'll see. Apparently, his attorney
said to the judge this morning that Stefan Diggs made
a financial offer to resolve the dispute with the alleged
victim in the case, and as we speak, the attorney
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says they're working to come to an agreement on that.
The judge said she'd take the request under advisement and
would issue a ruling shortly.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
But it doesn't say who the victim is.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Doesn't say the victim, if it's male or female. I
don't know. He just had a baby with Cardi b
in November. Not that that's neither here nor there, but
I guess I'm wondering, what the hell does the financial
offer to resolve the dispute have to deal with being
charged with a criminal act? And that's just out of
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my pay grade. I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
There are a handful of bowl games. Are three college
bowl games. City Independence Bowl between the Coastal Carolina Chanticleer's
Louisiana Tech Bulldogs. That's this morning, Music City Bowl Tennessee
against Illinois at two point thirty in Nashville. And then
the Alamobile your USC Trojans take on the TCU Horned
Frost down in sanch.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Your obsession with Bowl games cracks me up, and I
appreciate it. I guess the only thing would be is
you need a victim, and if the victim's been paid off,
you don't have a victim to support the argist.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
So I'm just trying to Yeah, but couldn't.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
They could still bring charges even if the victim doesn't
want to testify.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
If there were somebody else there. I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
The federal government has intensified its operations when it comes
to figuring out what in the world is going on
in the state of Minnesota. There are investigators from Homeland Security,
the FBI, Department of Commerce that are have they're on
the ground, they should say, in Minneapolis and other places
in Minnesota because they're trying to figure out what happened
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to billions of dollars of state and federal moneies that
we're supposed to go to childcare facilities.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Now.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Nick Shirley is a young independent journalist guy with a
video camera, and he had teamed up with another older
guy who was doing a lot of the legwork of
the investigation to figure out what's been going on. This
was part of the original forty forty five minute video
that they put out on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
One point two six million. What was that? Any kids
answer the question? Are their children? There's no children inside
the building.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Potentially the largest fraud scandal in US history is taking
place in Minnesota, as literally billions of dollars have been
funneled through Somali Ran fraudulent businesses, so much fraud it
could actually almost replace the entire GDP of Somalia. These
fraudsters have worked hand in hand with the Minnesota government
as they enabled billions of dollars to be given to
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fraudulent businesses underneath welfare purposes.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
So where are these smally kids? Where are they?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Do they exist?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Well, it's hard to figure out. I mean the latest
videos show will appear to show kids being dropped off
at certain daycare facilities and then everybody leaving that same
facility minutes later. Ah so, and then the video there's
a video. Part of that big video is him standing
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out in front of what they has now of course
been referred to as the Leering center because they misspelled
the sign. The learning center sign didn't have an extra
N in it, and that learning center there was a
representative who was standing outside and has been talking to
the media and saying, well, when they came by, we
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were closed, and the doors, the sign on the door
said we were closed.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
He came, I think it was eleven am.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Obviously there's no cars in the park lit if you
look around, there's cars now. Yeah, because our employees are here,
our children are here, our clients are here, but don't
come at ten am to hey, there does not all bit.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Obviously that's sign on the door.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Thursday.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
There seems to be outsized anger at this particular fraud. Well,
wherever there is government assistance, there's going to be fraud.
The Somali community, for example, in Seattle, has reported experiencing
a lot of backlash sure to what's going on in Minnesota.
People are afraid. People are scared, they say. Smallly run
businesses across the board, from restaurants to daycare centers are
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feeling the heat, even as far away in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
This all started.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
There's a group called Feeding Our Future nonprofit that was
accused of during COVID. It was founded before COVID, years before,
but during COVID it was supposedly distributing meals to school kids.
They did an investigation, they stole millions and millions of
dollars and either provided few or no meals to kids.
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Indeed asn't matter kids. In fact, so the Biden administration
investigated this Merrick Garland. The AG said it was the
world's sorry, the country's largest pandemic relief fraud scheme because
they stole about two hundred and fifty million dollars that
one group. As part of that investigation, the fraud was
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identified and investigated a number of other state run social services.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
That's where we are today is that when they found
Brett Favre day of night, yet found Pert far but
they're still looking for him.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
That's a gen emergency housing, autism therapy, home health assistance, medicaid,
et cetera. In fact, the state drew attention because of
these fraud scandals and at one point the number that's
been thrown around is about nine billion dollars that has
been stolen from the state because they're guessing there was
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The US attorney said this was a national poster child
for public corruption. That half of the eighteen billion dollars
in federal sorry I in relevant funding was stolen. So
that's where they get the nine billion from. And as
the guy referenced, the GDP of Somalia's eight thirteen billion
or twelve billion, so it almost covers that entire thing.
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But it's important to point out that's if that is true,
if that nine billion dollar figure is true for fraud
in this program in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Nine billion, nine billions for daycare.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Well among other things, but that's one that's getting the
highlights right now. In California, we lost at least thirty
billion dollars because of unemployment fraud during COVID. And granted
our budget is obviously, but thirty times what Minnesota thirty billion,
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thirty billion, thirty billion dollars and it gets nothing compared to.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
This, right right right now.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Well, part of the reason that you have the outside
outrage is because this is coming from a Maga kid
with the camera, and I think that the president has
focused on Somemali people being in the country. Right So
it's a convergence of those two things that are adding
to the wildfire of this new spreading.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Pat Fallon is a congressman out of Texas, but he's
on the Oversight Committee in Congress and suggests there's only
two things when it comes to Tim Walls.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
There's only two things at play here.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
There's only one or two things that either Tim Walls
is epically a historically incompetent or he was in on
the cover up and look the other way and he's
really criminally negligent.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
It's one of the others.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
I mean, that's you could have filled in any politician's
name for any fraud scheme, et cetera that that would
have been commented on. But there are people within the
state legislature now in Minnesota who are saying that Tim
Walls needs to step down because of this.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Do you want to make a bet with me on
the Independence Bowl? Yeah, because it'll be during our show
Coastal Carolina, Louisiana Tech.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I'll take the Shanta Clears every time. Which one is that?
Coastal Carolina?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
What is the Louisiana Tech Bulldog?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
That's kind of boring.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
What's a Shanta Cleer?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I think is that a Reindeers No sporting rooster is
sometimes what a great mascot? A Shanta Clear is.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
A music on some Oh no, that's a band called
Chanta Clear, Grammy winning.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Oh in that case, what is a Shanta Clear? Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
A rooster?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Ah Famously from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, sad I didn't know
my goodness meaning clear singer representing pride and wit. It
can also refer to pear trees. A chanta cleer can
refer to a group of pear trees.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
That's also something I've never heard before.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Wow, goes back to the Canterbury Tales.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
We'll look at that.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Well, what you know it's pronounced chanticleer, Shanon.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Don't shame me on my chanton cler. It's chanticleer. Don't
shame me on me chant clair chanticleer. Gary and Shannon
will continue. Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (18:51):
That's what it says, Gary and Shannon show KFI.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Really Yes, and that does it look like it's written
by a crazy person?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
We could it possibly? Oh? Is this her Kathy? Is
this Kathy? That's not Kathy? Wow?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
What a great picture. I think that's Kathy. No, what
a great picture. Dear Diary, Sweet baby Jesus twenty twenty
five was a wild ride. Strap in tight for twenty
twenty six xoxo Kathy. And this is Kathy as a youth.
I think what a great picture. Goals, that's gar that's
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Carol Channing. No, that's uh, that is not Kathy.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Well anyway, I enjoy it, goals. What are you talking?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Look at the pictures on the back, like that bottom
picture is totally my grandmother.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
In the in the stole. Oh yeah, right.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
So my wife ran across a series of pictures like
this that it was very glamorous in the sixties seventies
to get dressed up, have a little cocktail and a
fancy coupe glass, take a picture in front of your
overly tinseled tree.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
It's coming back.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I've seen a lot of people with that got dressed
up this Christmas, like families that got dressed up in
gowns and stuff, and it looked very cool. Good good
for them. I love that for them.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I'm not a huge fan of dressing up, but I
understand the celebra the it's cool, neat for celebration, yeah,
or just you know, looking nice for a holiday instead
of wearing you.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Know, I'm trying to figure out who this is. It
could be that's not Chlorus Leachman. That would be too easy. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Uh, there was a story that we saw yesterday. We
were talking about it. Bill Scher, a writer for political magazine.
He he put together a piece for Politico specifically about
the twenty twenty eight race. Now, listen, we're gonna be
bombarded with it. It's gonna take forever. It's gonna the campaign.
You know, we start getting into debates probably by August
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of this year, if not before then we're going to
get sick and tired of the twenty twenty eight presidential race.
But he put together a funny, I think funny list
of the current players for twenty twenty eight and who
in fact would be in the lead. Muss you Democrats,
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and he hands out these kind of tongue in cheek
awards to each of them. Gavin Newsom gets the attack
Dog Medal of Honor because of the way that he's
taken on President Trump both publicly and on social media.
Goes after Kamala Harris and says that she was the
intra party instigator of the year, that really she didn't
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do much other than put out a book and kind
of go after a couple of guys that she could
have had as could have had as running mates, including
Josh Shapiro and Pete Botage. Jedge, the Pete Boothaedge Jedge
one is the one that I found most interesting. He
gets the running in Place award to these semer Transportation Secretary.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
That he maintained a campaign light schedule. In twenty twenty five,
he went to a town hall in Iowa, went on
some podcasts, wrote a sub stack post that was popular.
He was Transportation secretary for four years, and then after
that he and his family left Washington for Michigan. Passed
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on running for open seats for governor or senator, which
is a sign that he may be interested in a
bigger prize like the presidency.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
But here's the problem, and this is the part that
stuck out to me. There was a poll in August
looking at Democratic potential candidates in twenty eight and Pete
botagigt did get second place. He had sixteen percent in
that poll back in August, but the number of African
American respondents who said they would support Bootajige with zero,
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not the percentage not round down to zero. There were
literally zero Black voters who said they would support Pete
Botajig And for Latino voters it was only one, literally
one person who responded to that poll.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Is this a gay thing. I think the questions on
the table.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Sure it could be, but I thought all Democrats were
though open minded about that sort of thing. I mean,
remember one of the reasons, one of the reasons that
Kamala Harris said, at least in her book that she
didn't pick Pete Botajig was she said, America is not
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ready for a black woman and a gay man in leadership. Agreed,
and Pete bootajigj was like, well, why can't I just
be a good administrator? Why can't I Why you got it?
Why do even you have to label me in that way?
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
No, and it's unfair, but it is the way you
have to think about things.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Still, it's probably reality, and it is unfair. AOC gets
the excellence in socialism and bridge building, Rocanna gets the
I got a bill signed into law, blue ribbon.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Maybe Pete boot Edge Edge sees a heated rivalry bump,
heated rivalry the gay love story sweeping the nation on HBO, Max,
I think.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
You're gonna say heated rivalry between he and Kamala Harris,
And I was like, there's not a lot of heat there,
but there's probably more heat in the Hockey show there
is on the Republican side. Jd Vance gets the Thomas
Marshall Prize for Vice Presidential Excellence. Now, Thomas Marshall was
Woodrow Wilson's vice president who once famously said there were
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two once there were two brothers. One ran away to
see the other was elected vice president and nothing was
ever heard of either of them. Again, that's funny, and
the guy just the writer explains Jade Vance hasn't garnered
any excitement, No, and he does not.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
He but how can you with Trump as president and
sucks all the oxygen out.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Of the room.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
That's the point that he's making is to have the
make America Great Again movement and the Trump movement, you've
got to have that engine at the middle of it,
which is Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Honestly, like as somebody who doesn't pay attention that much
to me, jd Vance's little blips onto the national stage
of people talking about him have not been for great things.
You know he went after and now I'm gonna forget
all the particulars, but he has seemed a little bit
like a spoiled child in that role.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Who did he go after?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
That caught a lot of attention and he had to
apologize for Zelenski like in the Oval office. You know,
it's just he doesn't have the gravitas. He doesn't have
the gravitas certainly that Trump has, but he hasn't earned
any sort of gravitas in that role as of yet.
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How does it matter as president? But does it matter?
You're right, especially to this president. But does it matter?
Probably not to the Trump world. The Maga world is
going to vote for whoever Trump blesses to be his
second and or whoever is his second coming. And you
know whether that's JD Vance or Donald Trump Junior, Marco Markobio.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
And we know he's gonna use competition, yeah, to figure
out who that is.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
He's doing it right now, he's been doing it.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
There was another article why Gavin Newsom would crush JD
Vance in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
We'll talk about that when we come back. Oh who
wrote that.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
The Reiner autopsies have been blocked by a judge. We're
not going to see those anytime soon.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Those autopsies, well, we'll get into it coming up. But
sometimes they include notes from detectives, things that the coroner's
investigators have been told by detectives who investigated the scene
and they don't want that getting out.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Also, next hour, we're going to get into yet another
sign of this downturn that we've seen in Vegas. It
continues and there are very few arrows that are pointing up.
We'll talk about what's going on in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
There was an article in The Hill and the headline reads,
why Gavin Newsome would crush jd Vance in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Yeah, this is an.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Opinion piece from John mcg John mcglion, and it kind
of follows what we were talking about that Politico magazine
article regarding JD Vance and twenty twenty eight and the
shadow that he's under. Right now, it's pretty likely that
the current vice president in a lame duck presidency, the
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current vice president would be the nominee for the party. Now,
it's there have been times that hasn't gone that way.
I think dan Quayle was the last one. But but
it's likely the JD. Vans get gets the nomination.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
However, everything that's likely. This particular president likes to throw
out the window and do things differently. Chel I would
be surprised if he held like some sort of event
the next President of the United States, hosted by Donald Trump,
and he'd be like the ringleader. And have you know
Donald Trump Junior and JD and Mark Rubio doing you know,
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different different events. You know, they have a debate and
then they have a physical test, and then they have
a then they have a stand up set where they
have to beat each other. Like, I am not completely
uncertain that that kind of charade will not go on.
This is not a status quo kind of administration.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Well, he says later in this article. In this in
this column, he says, voters are tired. They're not asking
for vision, They're not even asking for inspiration. They're asking
for calm. Because how after years of absolute mayhem, many
Americans would settle for someone who is appears mentally competent,
speaks clearly, and doesn't turn every week into a national
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blood pressure test.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
The bar has.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Sunk to the floor, and basic decency now passes for leadership.
He goes on to say that Gavin Newsom brings all
of that, says he clears it without breaking stride because
of his Hollywood grade instincts, He's made to perform that
he understands the camera, and he understands speaking and posture
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and pacing, and he knows when to fane outrage, when
to smirk, when to lean forward and lower his voice. Okay,
so outside of the love letter that this is to
Gavin Newsom, there's another thing that he talks about, which,
granted it's meant as a slight, but get past that
and look at what he's saying. The Republican Party now
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wears Trump the way a carpet wears an oil spill.
And again, I know he's I know he's being mean,
but but think about it, because he says, you can scrub,
you can deodorize, you can rearrange the furniture, but the
stain remains, and any successor must answer not only for
Trump's achievements, but also for the exhaustion that he leaves behind.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Regardless of who the nominee is Jade.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Vance, Marco Rubio, Don Junior, some other you know player
in there, they're going to have to run with Donald Trump. Yeah,
they're going to have to run with two terms of
him being president and everything that's gone on in those
eight years.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
There's not enough money to replace all the carpet.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
And there's not.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
There's just not You've got to you've got to live
with that carpet for a while, because that carpet, you know,
you bought that carpet with the house, and you've got
to keep it for a while for people forget that
that was the carpet that you bought.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
So so, what I mean, how does jd Vance navigate that,
assuming he's the nominee, how does he navigate that, especially
when it comes to you know, a politician capital p
et cetera politician that is Gavin Newsom. Now, granted we
talked many times, there's all kinds of ammunition that any
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Republican is going to have against Gavin news and when
it comes to running for president, because there are plenty
of failures in the state of California that he can
point to. But again it's the point that John mccloyin
is making there is we're not asking for vision. We're
asking for something that's just calmer, something that doesn't, you know,
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fray our nerves every single time we watch or listen
to the news. So I thought that was soon interesting.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Would you like your Jeopardy question? Oh? Bottled up for
six hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
The makers of Nikewell bottled up sleep Aid without Cold
and Relief to make this similarly named.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Purple colored brand.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
The makers of Nikewell bottled up sleep Aid without Cold
and Flue Relief to make this similarly named purple colored brand.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
It's like sleeping pills, but over the counter. I have
no idea. I don't go down that aisle.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Zzz quill z quill. It's like Nike will, but it
doesn't have the decongestent and all that stuff I'm missing out.
You don't take sleeping pills. I don't hear something. You
don't take anything, not right now. I suppose there will
be a time. Not If you don't go to the doctor,
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you'll never have to take anything. You'll just die one day. Awesome,
all right, coming up next, My gentle nudges are becoming
less gentle.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Becoming very very sledgehammer. I don't care die.
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
We're at work today.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
It is weird. I'm driving in this morning. It's uh,
it's cold out, it's gray out. Not a lot of
people out there, a lot of low energy vibes going
on because not a lot of people go into work.
I'm wearing my homeless clothes because I feel like.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Those are not homeless clothes.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well, I'm wearing a hoodie and some jeans and tennis shoes.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
We're in a sweatshirt.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
You look presentable. No, you're wearing a real shirt.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
My shirt has buttons on it. Your shirt has buttons?
Is then what makes it really? Exactly? You put up
a fight to get into that shirt. I did not.
Tomorrow is going to be a mess.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I can guarantee that I got to take my daughter
to the airport early.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
So oh okay, so it's going to be hot day
for you. Oh yeah, hoodie and.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Hat for Christmas?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Maybe that excited off? Yeah, what does it look like?
Don't tell me, act, don't tell me.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I want to be surprised, be super surprised.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
But we do have rain headed this way. It is
going to change some plans. Already, my neighbors who always
have a New Year's Day celebration on their little deck
there have called it off because of the rain and
the wind. The wind is going to be the thing too.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
They're not going to allow you in their house.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
It's a tiny house. The deck is kind of the
biggest part. It's where you would they would entertain and
they usually have like twelve to fourteen people.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
They are not going to fit in the house.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Okay, are you judging my neighbors not having a small house.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
No, no, no, no, no, that's what.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
It sounds like. I just thought it was funny. They're like,
I'm sorry, it's gonna be rain.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Wouldn't want anybody to well, they do the New Year.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It's kind of a thing where we sit out on
the deck and they make gumbo and it's like an
outdoor thing, so it's not an indoor party.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Whatever they tell you, it's fine.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I mean, we were still invited over. Now you're making
to make it weird. For the pajama party that they
have every year to watch the Rose Parade, there's a
pajama party, so I see.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Why you choose the deck party.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, okay, okay, See, so now you've made it weird.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I didn't make it weird.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Well, you were trying to insinuate I was not invited
to the party that they had just not invited me,
And then I had to bring out the pajama party invitation.
And now we're all awkward. I don't know where to look,
and I do. The neighbor in question, he does wear
every year for the pajama party a Santa suit and
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it's a Santa onesie. Oh yeah, So this is a
road you paved, my dear, you paved this road, and
here we are. Anyway, the rain is going to happen
today tonight. I guess I should say we're gonna have
some wind today and then chance of rain tonight.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
It's going to intensify the day and into the night,
and then the height of the storm is going to
be New Year's Eve through New Year's Night, and then
Friday it's kinda kind of taper off ten to twelve
percent chance of rain.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, our wind has died down significantly, but there are
still some wind advisories that are posted through I believe
it's three o'clock tonight or three o'clock this afternoon. So
after that there was a handful of places that did
get some rainfall.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
This morning, there's a big.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Bunch of rain that's actually just off of the coast
and it appears to be moving in so we could
see some rain earlier than this evening. But again, the
biggest amount of rain is going to be coming tomorrow
night into all day Thursdays.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
What it looks like.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Fuller has announced that it is canceled New Year's Eve
as well. Fuller Tin says that the event planned for
downtown First Night has been canceled. They say, we know
this is disappointing, but we got to think about safety.
This was an event scheduled to feature live bands, DJ's,
children's entertainment, fireworks, the whole bit. But because of the
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storm and the one and a half inches of rain,
they say that this is going to raise public safety
and operational concerns.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I was at a park yesterday in my neighborhood and
there were at least a half a dozen trees that
had been knocked down really just yesterday.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
A couple of them had been marked off with yellow
tape already, like the park crew had gone through, but
others hadn't, which meant I assumed that they'd fallen over.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
In the afternoon, the Rose Parade ps the show will
go on despite it going to be wet. They also
say no umbrellas.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, well, just to block. They don't want to block
in the view of somebody else behind you. But that
means that there will be a lot of wet dogs. Flickers,
the slickers. Yeah, you got to get those plastic slickers
off the Amazon.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
We're your rubbers and that too.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
You don't want to get anyone. I mean, that was stupid.
I guess, I guess I mishandle.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
They said there were four floats. The last time it
rained was two thousand and six. We mentioned that yesterday.
There were four floats that broke down in two thousand
and six because of the weather.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yeah, those floats, for the most part, temperamental.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
The float itself, depending on how heavy the rain is.
The float itself is fine because it's flowers. I mean,
it's not like it's going to rust or anything like that,
but that there are those those foa touchy enough.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
It's the Yeah, well you.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Remember, I mean, did you have homecoming floats at your
high school.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Was that a thing they did in the seventies.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
They did easy, they did. We did it in the
backs of people's trucks. Yeah, like that was what the
float was.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
But we had flatbed We had like local flatbeds.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
We had a couple of those.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah, because some guy had a had a hay delivery business,
so we could have a big, long flatbed trailer.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
But it would just be like the local band would
set up on the trailer and go around the football track.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
That was.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
It's so cool, nothing exciting. There were a bunch of
trees that fell down. The one to eighteen was shut
down last night at Tierra Rahata because of a tree
that went into power lines in Moor Park in Silmar.
A pine tree went into a home in Anaheim. A
palm tree fell onto a car and injured a woman
inside rooftop canopy became tangled in some power lines in
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Buente Park. So hopefully the wind has gone now. There
are also massive, massive weather problems back east, to the
point where the Governor of New York, Kathy Hokel, had
put out on Twitter that anybody in the state of
New York who doesn't have to travel today should not
travel today, but they're talking about severe weather in places
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like New York, Boston, Philly, Pittsburgh, all the way down
as far as New Orleans, Washington, d C, Detroit. Detroit
in fact, saw a fifty car pile up on I
seventy five, shut down that road for hours yesterday.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Well, the Smali child daycars story has made its way
into football memes, so I started paying attention. This was
a story I missed out on because I did not
read any news while we were gone for the Christmas break.
I read no news Christmas Eve through yesterday, or I
guess up until yesterday morning when we came into work.
(07:44):
But now I'm paying attention because it's made its way
into the football memes and there is a lot of
fraud going on with these alleged Smali daycare centers in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Did you pay attention to this? Well, I've been.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I saw a part of the video that really started
all this by Nick what's his name.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
The twenty three year old MAGA guy. I don't know,
I don't remember his name.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
But is it surely make surely? Thank you? So I've
seen some of this.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
It also has kind of pulled the curtain back on
Tim Walls a little bit, the governor because he's he
just comes across he I always felt that he came
across as kind of this bumbling goofy.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Now that's an act.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Well he's leaning into it now, unfortunately, and a lot
of people are already calling for him to resign.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Really this okay, So we'll talk about that.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Breaking NFL news. Shocker this morning, but not really a shocker,
but a shocker. New England Patriot star stuff On Diggs
charged with felony strangulation or suffocation and misdemeanor assaultant battery charges.
This comes from an incident that happened on December second,
after the Patriots beat the Giant some Monday night football.
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As it stands, the arraignment is set to be two
days after the AFC Championship game is scheduled. If you
haven't been paying attention to the Patriots are in the
thick of it.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
They're very good.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Could go the distance and Stefan Diggs, although the judge
has seemed this morning to be inclined to set that
over to March. But but we'll see. Apparently, his attorney
said to the judge this morning that Stefan Diggs made
a financial offer to resolve the dispute with the alleged
victim in the case, and as we speak, the attorney
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says they're working to come to an agreement on that.
The judge said she'd take the request under advisement and
would issue a ruling shortly.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
But it doesn't say who the victim is.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Doesn't say the victim, if it's male or female. I
don't know. He just had a baby with Cardi b
in November. Not that that's neither here nor there, but
I guess I'm wondering, what the hell does the financial
offer to resolve the dispute have to deal with being
charged with a criminal act? And that's just out of
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my pay grade. I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
There are a handful of bowl games. Are three college
bowl games. City Independence Bowl between the Coastal Carolina Chanticleer's
Louisiana Tech Bulldogs. That's this morning, Music City Bowl Tennessee
against Illinois at two point thirty in Nashville. And then
the Alamobile your USC Trojans take on the TCU Horned
Frost down in sanch.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Your obsession with Bowl games cracks me up, and I
appreciate it. I guess the only thing would be is
you need a victim, and if the victim's been paid off,
you don't have a victim to support the argist.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
So I'm just trying to Yeah, but couldn't.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
They could still bring charges even if the victim doesn't
want to testify.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
If there were somebody else there. I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
The federal government has intensified its operations when it comes
to figuring out what in the world is going on
in the state of Minnesota. There are investigators from Homeland Security,
the FBI, Department of Commerce that are have they're on
the ground, they should say, in Minneapolis and other places
in Minnesota because they're trying to figure out what happened
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to billions of dollars of state and federal moneies that
we're supposed to go to childcare facilities.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Now.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Nick Shirley is a young independent journalist guy with a
video camera, and he had teamed up with another older
guy who was doing a lot of the legwork of
the investigation to figure out what's been going on. This
was part of the original forty forty five minute video
that they put out on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
One point two six million. What was that? Any kids
answer the question? Are their children? There's no children inside
the building.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Potentially the largest fraud scandal in US history is taking
place in Minnesota, as literally billions of dollars have been
funneled through Somali Ran fraudulent businesses, so much fraud it
could actually almost replace the entire GDP of Somalia. These
fraudsters have worked hand in hand with the Minnesota government
as they enabled billions of dollars to be given to
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fraudulent businesses underneath welfare purposes.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
So where are these smally kids? Where are they?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Do they exist?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Well, it's hard to figure out. I mean the latest
videos show will appear to show kids being dropped off
at certain daycare facilities and then everybody leaving that same
facility minutes later. Ah so, and then the video there's
a video. Part of that big video is him standing
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out in front of what they has now of course
been referred to as the Leering center because they misspelled
the sign. The learning center sign didn't have an extra
N in it, and that learning center there was a
representative who was standing outside and has been talking to
the media and saying, well, when they came by, we
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were closed, and the doors, the sign on the door
said we were closed.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
He came, I think it was eleven am.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Obviously there's no cars in the park lit if you
look around, there's cars now. Yeah, because our employees are here,
our children are here, our clients are here, but don't
come at ten am to hey, there does not all bit.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Obviously that's sign on the door.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Thursday.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
There seems to be outsized anger at this particular fraud. Well,
wherever there is government assistance, there's going to be fraud.
The Somali community, for example, in Seattle, has reported experiencing
a lot of backlash sure to what's going on in Minnesota.
People are afraid. People are scared, they say. Smallly run
businesses across the board, from restaurants to daycare centers are
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feeling the heat, even as far away in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
This all started.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
There's a group called Feeding Our Future nonprofit that was
accused of during COVID. It was founded before COVID, years before,
but during COVID it was supposedly distributing meals to school kids.
They did an investigation, they stole millions and millions of
dollars and either provided few or no meals to kids.
(14:30):
Indeed asn't matter kids. In fact, so the Biden administration
investigated this Merrick Garland. The AG said it was the
world's sorry, the country's largest pandemic relief fraud scheme because
they stole about two hundred and fifty million dollars that
one group. As part of that investigation, the fraud was
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identified and investigated a number of other state run social services.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
That's where we are today is that when they found
Brett Favre day of night, yet found Pert far but
they're still looking for him.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
That's a gen emergency housing, autism therapy, home health assistance, medicaid,
et cetera. In fact, the state drew attention because of
these fraud scandals and at one point the number that's
been thrown around is about nine billion dollars that has
been stolen from the state because they're guessing there was
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The US attorney said this was a national poster child
for public corruption. That half of the eighteen billion dollars
in federal sorry I in relevant funding was stolen. So
that's where they get the nine billion from. And as
the guy referenced, the GDP of Somalia's eight thirteen billion
or twelve billion, so it almost covers that entire thing.
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But it's important to point out that's if that is true,
if that nine billion dollar figure is true for fraud
in this program in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Nine billion, nine billions for daycare.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Well among other things, but that's one that's getting the
highlights right now. In California, we lost at least thirty
billion dollars because of unemployment fraud during COVID. And granted
our budget is obviously, but thirty times what Minnesota thirty billion,
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thirty billion, thirty billion dollars and it gets nothing compared to.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
This, right right right now.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Well, part of the reason that you have the outside
outrage is because this is coming from a Maga kid
with the camera, and I think that the president has
focused on Somemali people being in the country. Right So
it's a convergence of those two things that are adding
to the wildfire of this new spreading.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Pat Fallon is a congressman out of Texas, but he's
on the Oversight Committee in Congress and suggests there's only
two things when it comes to Tim Walls.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
There's only two things at play here.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
There's only one or two things that either Tim Walls
is epically a historically incompetent or he was in on
the cover up and look the other way and he's
really criminally negligent.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
It's one of the others.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
I mean, that's you could have filled in any politician's
name for any fraud scheme, et cetera that that would
have been commented on. But there are people within the
state legislature now in Minnesota who are saying that Tim
Walls needs to step down because of this.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Do you want to make a bet with me on
the Independence Bowl? Yeah, because it'll be during our show
Coastal Carolina, Louisiana Tech.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I'll take the Shanta Clears every time. Which one is that?
Coastal Carolina?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
What is the Louisiana Tech Bulldog?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
That's kind of boring.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
What's a Shanta Cleer?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I think is that a Reindeers No sporting rooster is
sometimes what a great mascot? A Shanta Clear is.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
A music on some Oh no, that's a band called
Chanta Clear, Grammy winning.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Oh in that case, what is a Shanta Clear? Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
A rooster?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Ah Famously from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, sad I didn't know
my goodness meaning clear singer representing pride and wit. It
can also refer to pear trees. A chanta cleer can
refer to a group of pear trees.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
That's also something I've never heard before.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Wow, goes back to the Canterbury Tales.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
We'll look at that.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Well, what you know it's pronounced chanticleer, Shanon.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Don't shame me on my chanton cler. It's chanticleer. Don't
shame me on me chant clair chanticleer. Gary and Shannon
will continue. Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
That's what it says, Gary and Shannon show KFI.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Really Yes, and that does it look like it's written
by a crazy person?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
We could it possibly? Oh? Is this her Kathy? Is
this Kathy? That's not Kathy? Wow?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
What a great picture. I think that's Kathy. No, what
a great picture. Dear Diary, Sweet baby Jesus twenty twenty
five was a wild ride. Strap in tight for twenty
twenty six xoxo Kathy. And this is Kathy as a youth.
I think what a great picture. Goals, that's gar that's
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Carol Channing. No, that's uh, that is not Kathy.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Well anyway, I enjoy it, goals. What are you talking?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Look at the pictures on the back, like that bottom
picture is totally my grandmother.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
In the in the stole. Oh yeah, right.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
So my wife ran across a series of pictures like
this that it was very glamorous in the sixties seventies
to get dressed up, have a little cocktail and a
fancy coupe glass, take a picture in front of your
overly tinseled tree.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
It's coming back.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I've seen a lot of people with that got dressed
up this Christmas, like families that got dressed up in
gowns and stuff, and it looked very cool. Good good
for them. I love that for them.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I'm not a huge fan of dressing up, but I
understand the celebra the it's cool, neat for celebration, yeah,
or just you know, looking nice for a holiday instead
of wearing you.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Know, I'm trying to figure out who this is. It
could be that's not Chlorus Leachman. That would be too easy. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Uh, there was a story that we saw yesterday. We
were talking about it. Bill Scher, a writer for political magazine.
He he put together a piece for Politico specifically about
the twenty twenty eight race. Now, listen, we're gonna be
bombarded with it. It's gonna take forever. It's gonna the campaign.
You know, we start getting into debates probably by August
(21:00):
of this year, if not before then we're going to
get sick and tired of the twenty twenty eight presidential race.
But he put together a funny, I think funny list
of the current players for twenty twenty eight and who
in fact would be in the lead. Muss you Democrats,
(21:20):
and he hands out these kind of tongue in cheek
awards to each of them. Gavin Newsom gets the attack
Dog Medal of Honor because of the way that he's
taken on President Trump both publicly and on social media.
Goes after Kamala Harris and says that she was the
intra party instigator of the year, that really she didn't
(21:42):
do much other than put out a book and kind
of go after a couple of guys that she could
have had as could have had as running mates, including
Josh Shapiro and Pete Botage. Jedge, the Pete Boothaedge Jedge
one is the one that I found most interesting. He
gets the running in Place award to these semer Transportation Secretary.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
That he maintained a campaign light schedule. In twenty twenty five,
he went to a town hall in Iowa, went on
some podcasts, wrote a sub stack post that was popular.
He was Transportation secretary for four years, and then after
that he and his family left Washington for Michigan. Passed
(22:27):
on running for open seats for governor or senator, which
is a sign that he may be interested in a
bigger prize like the presidency.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
But here's the problem, and this is the part that
stuck out to me. There was a poll in August
looking at Democratic potential candidates in twenty eight and Pete
botagigt did get second place. He had sixteen percent in
that poll back in August, but the number of African
American respondents who said they would support Bootajige with zero,
(22:57):
not the percentage not round down to zero. There were
literally zero Black voters who said they would support Pete
Botajig And for Latino voters it was only one, literally
one person who responded to that poll.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Is this a gay thing. I think the questions on
the table.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Sure it could be, but I thought all Democrats were
though open minded about that sort of thing. I mean,
remember one of the reasons, one of the reasons that
Kamala Harris said, at least in her book that she
didn't pick Pete Botajig was she said, America is not
(23:41):
ready for a black woman and a gay man in leadership. Agreed,
and Pete bootajigj was like, well, why can't I just
be a good administrator? Why can't I Why you got it?
Why do even you have to label me in that way?
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
No, and it's unfair, but it is the way you
have to think about things.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Still, it's probably reality, and it is unfair. AOC gets
the excellence in socialism and bridge building, Rocanna gets the
I got a bill signed into law, blue ribbon.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Maybe Pete boot Edge Edge sees a heated rivalry bump,
heated rivalry the gay love story sweeping the nation on HBO, Max,
I think.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
You're gonna say heated rivalry between he and Kamala Harris,
And I was like, there's not a lot of heat there,
but there's probably more heat in the Hockey show there
is on the Republican side. Jd Vance gets the Thomas
Marshall Prize for Vice Presidential Excellence. Now, Thomas Marshall was
Woodrow Wilson's vice president who once famously said there were
(24:43):
two once there were two brothers. One ran away to
see the other was elected vice president and nothing was
ever heard of either of them. Again, that's funny, and
the guy just the writer explains Jade Vance hasn't garnered
any excitement, No, and he does not.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
He but how can you with Trump as president and
sucks all the oxygen out.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Of the room.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
That's the point that he's making is to have the
make America Great Again movement and the Trump movement, you've
got to have that engine at the middle of it,
which is Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Honestly, like as somebody who doesn't pay attention that much
to me, jd Vance's little blips onto the national stage
of people talking about him have not been for great things.
You know he went after and now I'm gonna forget
all the particulars, but he has seemed a little bit
like a spoiled child in that role.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Who did he go after?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
That caught a lot of attention and he had to
apologize for Zelenski like in the Oval office. You know,
it's just he doesn't have the gravitas. He doesn't have
the gravitas certainly that Trump has, but he hasn't earned
any sort of gravitas in that role as of yet.
(26:03):
How does it matter as president? But does it matter?
You're right, especially to this president. But does it matter?
Probably not to the Trump world. The Maga world is
going to vote for whoever Trump blesses to be his
second and or whoever is his second coming. And you
know whether that's JD Vance or Donald Trump Junior, Marco Markobio.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
And we know he's gonna use competition, yeah, to figure
out who that is.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
He's doing it right now, he's been doing it.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
There was another article why Gavin Newsom would crush JD
Vance in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
We'll talk about that when we come back. Oh who
wrote that.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
The Reiner autopsies have been blocked by a judge. We're
not going to see those anytime soon.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Those autopsies, well, we'll get into it coming up. But
sometimes they include notes from detectives, things that the coroner's
investigators have been told by detectives who investigated the scene
and they don't want that getting out.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Also, next hour, we're going to get into yet another
sign of this downturn that we've seen in Vegas. It
continues and there are very few arrows that are pointing up.
We'll talk about what's going on in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
There was an article in The Hill and the headline reads,
why Gavin Newsome would crush jd Vance in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Yeah, this is an.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Opinion piece from John mcg John mcglion, and it kind
of follows what we were talking about that Politico magazine
article regarding JD Vance and twenty twenty eight and the
shadow that he's under. Right now, it's pretty likely that
the current vice president in a lame duck presidency, the
(27:52):
current vice president would be the nominee for the party. Now,
it's there have been times that hasn't gone that way.
I think dan Quayle was the last one. But but
it's likely the JD. Vans get gets the nomination.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
However, everything that's likely. This particular president likes to throw
out the window and do things differently. Chel I would
be surprised if he held like some sort of event
the next President of the United States, hosted by Donald Trump,
and he'd be like the ringleader. And have you know
Donald Trump Junior and JD and Mark Rubio doing you know,
(28:29):
different different events. You know, they have a debate and
then they have a physical test, and then they have
a then they have a stand up set where they
have to beat each other. Like, I am not completely
uncertain that that kind of charade will not go on.
This is not a status quo kind of administration.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Well, he says later in this article. In this in
this column, he says, voters are tired. They're not asking
for vision, They're not even asking for inspiration. They're asking
for calm. Because how after years of absolute mayhem, many
Americans would settle for someone who is appears mentally competent,
speaks clearly, and doesn't turn every week into a national
(29:10):
blood pressure test.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
The bar has.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Sunk to the floor, and basic decency now passes for leadership.
He goes on to say that Gavin Newsom brings all
of that, says he clears it without breaking stride because
of his Hollywood grade instincts, He's made to perform that
he understands the camera, and he understands speaking and posture
(29:35):
and pacing, and he knows when to fane outrage, when
to smirk, when to lean forward and lower his voice. Okay,
so outside of the love letter that this is to
Gavin Newsom, there's another thing that he talks about, which,
granted it's meant as a slight, but get past that
and look at what he's saying. The Republican Party now
(29:55):
wears Trump the way a carpet wears an oil spill.
And again, I know he's I know he's being mean,
but but think about it, because he says, you can scrub,
you can deodorize, you can rearrange the furniture, but the
stain remains, and any successor must answer not only for
Trump's achievements, but also for the exhaustion that he leaves behind.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Regardless of who the nominee is Jade.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Vance, Marco Rubio, Don Junior, some other you know player
in there, they're going to have to run with Donald Trump. Yeah,
they're going to have to run with two terms of
him being president and everything that's gone on in those
eight years.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
There's not enough money to replace all the carpet.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
And there's not.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
There's just not You've got to you've got to live
with that carpet for a while, because that carpet, you know,
you bought that carpet with the house, and you've got
to keep it for a while for people forget that
that was the carpet that you bought.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
So so, what I mean, how does jd Vance navigate that,
assuming he's the nominee, how does he navigate that, especially
when it comes to you know, a politician capital p
et cetera politician that is Gavin Newsom. Now, granted we
talked many times, there's all kinds of ammunition that any
(31:18):
Republican is going to have against Gavin news and when
it comes to running for president, because there are plenty
of failures in the state of California that he can
point to. But again it's the point that John mccloyin
is making there is we're not asking for vision. We're
asking for something that's just calmer, something that doesn't, you know,
(31:39):
fray our nerves every single time we watch or listen
to the news. So I thought that was soon interesting.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Would you like your Jeopardy question? Oh? Bottled up for
six hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
The makers of Nikewell bottled up sleep Aid without Cold
and Relief to make this similarly named.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Purple colored brand.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
The makers of Nikewell bottled up sleep Aid without Cold
and Flue Relief to make this similarly named purple colored brand.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
It's like sleeping pills, but over the counter. I have
no idea. I don't go down that aisle.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Zzz quill z quill. It's like Nike will, but it
doesn't have the decongestent and all that stuff I'm missing out.
You don't take sleeping pills. I don't hear something. You
don't take anything, not right now. I suppose there will
be a time. Not If you don't go to the doctor,
(32:46):
you'll never have to take anything. You'll just die one day. Awesome,
all right, coming up next, My gentle nudges are becoming
less gentle.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Becoming very very sledgehammer. I don't care die.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
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