August 14, 2025 • 31 mins
#SWAMPWATCH - Trump Presser LIVE / T-Swift “infectiously joyful” album. #TECHTALK w/ Marc Saltzman – 2025 sales show GM is nipping at Telsa’s heels in the U.S. electric vehicle space / Back to school tech. Adults Are Going to Sleep-away Camp to Make Friends. It Seems to Actually Work.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
I A M six forty, The Gary and Shannon Show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Taylor Swift was back
on Jason Kelsey's podcast, talking with Travis about her new
album she has released. Well, I think I was driving
home when it when it uh? When it landed?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
The album cover, the track listing. She's calling this album
infectiously joyful. I know you're excited to talk about it,
so we'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Every track list seriously.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
The track list.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I can't wait to see what you think each track
will be about, because you're pretty good yesterday on predicting.
You were like an AI model predicting a future killer,
but it was you predicting what the track list was
going to be.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
I got the algorithm in me. H, Yes, I do.
Gavin Newsom has announced. Okay, let's talk avenue for secondfore
we get into swamp watch. Gavin Newsom's holding his big
news conference at the bottom of the hour where he's gonna,
I am assuming, based on the tweets that he's been
putting out and his press office has been putting out,
(01:11):
he's going to try to make fun of Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
This is what he's been doing on his Twitter account.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Calling it Liberation Day. He decided to pick jerry mandering,
which is the least sexy of all the topics. H
to have this this podium puffery about today.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
He also announced yesterday that California is sending assistance to
Puerto Rico ahead of the potential hurricane Erin, still only
a tropical storm. He tweeted last night, quote, I just
approved the deployment of California resources to Puerto Rico ahead
of tropical storm Erin. We're glad to help coordinate life.
So somebody caving response to Americans. Nobody cares.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Unfortunately for Gavin, because he won't be himself. He has
no idea of what real people care about.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Hey, how about cleaning up the h underpasses? Right right?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Trump right now is talking taking questions ahead of this
putin in anchorage, which is, by the way, all abuzz
with activity. He's in the goldly plated Oval office right
now at the White House. You want to dip in
and see what's going on?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Why not? Let's see I do.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
If he doesn't say anything right now, I do have
a little couple pieces that he's been talking about earlier, but.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
This is anything.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
You know, there were some very concerning reports about crime statistics.
Police are manipulating crime data to downplate crime and DC
will the administration release its own crime statistics account and
we'll those individuals who are intentionally that's representing crime data
and fudging the books, like you said, be penalized for
endangering the public.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
They are under investigation right now.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
She's reading that question on her phone, which is troubling to.
Speaker 8 (02:44):
Other stats in the financial world with their phony crime stats.
And Washington d C is at its worst point and
it will soon be at its best point. You're gonna
have a very safe You're going to have a crime
free city. I mean I say that virtually a crime
free city. And these are strong men, but the criminals
are strong men and women. But there's strong men. And
(03:08):
these are people that don't play games. We're not playing games.
These are criminals we're dealing with. And they treated people.
They took one of the people that worked for us.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
The other day.
Speaker 8 (03:17):
You saw the beating, the pounding ten ten against one,
and they pounded the hell on them. He's lucky to
be alive. He's barely almost killed. And we're not going
to have that happening.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Please.
Speaker 9 (03:28):
Colcy Gabbert declassified more documents last night related to the
Russia game.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Folks. She's doing a great job. By the way, that
was another fake story. I'm very happy with the job,
she said. That's right.
Speaker 8 (03:38):
They declassified some terrible documents talking about Democrats and what
they did radical left lunatics.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
It showed it.
Speaker 9 (03:45):
Then, D and I James Clapper sent out emails to
IC officials saying that it would be a team sport
to push than the debunked twenty seventeen ICA report, and
that it might need them to compromise on their normal modalities.
What's your reaction to the lead is declassification and in
your view, sir, what does real accountability look like for
the players.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
It's incredible what we're finding, absolute proof of guilt, and
we'll see what happens. But Clapper and Komi and that
old group of criminals, they're criminals, and they made it
very tough. You know, they did the fake Russia Russia
Russia witch hunt that lasted for two years, and I
(04:27):
get totally exonerated. There was no doubt of it. They
should have done it in one day. Not two years,
but there was a whole scheme to try and demean
Trump so that I couldn't win an election. And that
is a criminal group of people. They're sick people, and
they're criminals, and they should be taken care of.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Strong hair tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
Well, he came to our country, and I heard CNN,
fake news talking about that that was a big.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Win for him.
Speaker 8 (04:58):
Normally he would say the opposite, but they said, oh,
it's a big win that he came here.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Normally would say the opposite. Youdo came here.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
I think that President Putin would like to see a deal.
I think if I weren't president, he would take over
all of Ukraine.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
It's a war that should have never happened.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
I'd go back to one of the things he was
talking about earlier. He had received another question about Russia
and Ukraine in the summit that.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
You send the summit and the incentives for peace you
were putting on the table could end up rewarding Putin
for his invasion of Ukraine. And what kind of signal
do you think that could potentially send to other aggressors.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
No, I don't think it's a reward. I think that
what we have is a situation that should never have started.
Should have never started.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
It didn't start under me, and for four years it
wasn't even discussed, and I could see it was going
to happen.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
After I left, I could see what was happening.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
Everything that we did was wrong, Everything that was done
was wrong.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Everybody's to blame. Putin, They're all to blame. This is
a war that would have never happened.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
And then just a quick recap.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
The expectation tomorrow is that that summit is going to
take place at about twelve thirty hour time. The President
has said that if things go well, they'll do a
joint news conference after that sometime tomorrow afternoon, and then
if it doesn't go well, he would do a news
conference by himself.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
So we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
There are also questions about what's going on with crime reduction.
Of course, he has federalized a lot of the law
enforcement in DC, or put federal law enforcement agents in
DC to try to cut down on crime there, and
talked about how important it was that National Guard troops
came to Los Angeles at the beginning of June.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
You would have not had I don't think you would
have been able to have the Olympics.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
We have the Olympics.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
I have a lot at stake with that because I'm
the one that got the Olympics.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
I got it in my first term and I didn't.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
I was sad because I got it or what would
be my third term.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Okay, with shared that to the second term and the Olympics.
It's a great honor.
Speaker 8 (07:08):
But I felt badly because I said I won't be
president when the Olympics came well through circumstance.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
I am president.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
I want to make sure the Olympics is great, the
World Cup is great, and the two fifty maybe the
most important of all is the two hundred and fifty
year celebrations great.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Okay, So anyway, the president's still taking questions, a handful
of questions from reporters in the Oval Office. They just
wrapped it up. They're pushing people out now again. Gavin
Newsom is expected to hold his news conference sometime after
the bottom of the hour, talking about redistricting and what
his plan is to fight back against the plans going
on in Texas.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
Right now, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Some people love you Shannon, You are a mess.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
I love you.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
You're so funny.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I love this show.
Speaker 8 (07:57):
I just I'm like, what's Shannon gonna say today?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Thank you you?
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Hey, Gary Shannon, this is Jannon's out of work Listen.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I just want to give you guys the props today.
Speaker 11 (08:09):
I want you to know that you enticed me, you
read to me, you abuse the hell.
Speaker 10 (08:16):
Out of me, and I appreciate you so much and
I hope he is a great day.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
Blessing.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Wow, nice abuse and abuse sounds like an S and
M situation? Is that what it's called? Sn M? Yeah?
Like a like a dungeon sex thing?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Is that what it's called?
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Sometimes I got my acronyms mixed up.
Speaker 11 (08:39):
Hi, Gary Shannon, my name is Christy and I super
love your show. My husband was a founding member of
Metro Station and a writer on Shake.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
It No Way.
Speaker 11 (08:49):
I can't wait to tell him that you love the
song no Way, and I'll acknowledge it's not the Shake
Shake It of the nineties.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
But but it's glad you're still Oh my gosh, that
is I didn't listen to anything but Shake Shake It
in two thousand and seven. If I see a twinkie,
I'm gonna eat the twinkie.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Taylor Swift revealed her new album Life of a Show Girl.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
You're so excited about this.
Speaker 12 (09:15):
I exited through a door, an orange door to be specific.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
She's talking about the easter eggs that were at the
end of her Eras tour.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
And.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
That actually was an Easter egg.
Speaker 12 (09:28):
I kind of wanted to give a little subliminal hint
to the fans that I may be leaving the Eras
tour era, but I was also entering a new era.
The heart of the Easter egg is that there's there's
dues and don'ts write like, I'm never going to plant
an Easter egg that ties back to my personal life.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
It's always going to be towards music.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Okay, do these guys just.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I've told you this. I told you everyone's exhaustedtually. The
Kelsey family, they've been through enough. They've won super Bowls.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
It's one thing for Travis to be like, hey, can
I have my girlfriend on? And Jason's like, where we
going to talk about any Jason's pumped.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Jason's like, you don't. This is what retirement does to you.
You guys just letting you know. You retire and suddenly
you're you're doing a zoom podcast and you're excited about
girls music, and it's a whole thing. Used to be
an offensive lineman, used to be like grizzled and and
have hair imparts of your body unknown, and you used
(10:35):
to just push, push your way into the end zone.
Used to put.
Speaker 13 (10:41):
Jalen Hurts on your back like it was nothing for
the city of Philadelphia, a grit, the men and women
who built this country.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
And now.
Speaker 12 (10:54):
That actually was an easter egg that kind of wanted
to give a little subliminal hint to the.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Fans that I may be leaving the aristour era.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Get me back in.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I'll do four Days.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
The track list for the Life of a Showgirl, The
Fate of Ophelia.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Elizabeth Taylor Now listen. I'm not hitting on Taylor Swift.
I will listen to this album all day long.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Father.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I will sing like I'm a man in a gay
bathhouse on the way home today listening to Karma like
I celebrate this. I'm just tired of being hit over
the head every day with the news of whatever day
that is, whether a Kelsey get is involved or what
or Blake Lively, like I'm just hit over the head
(11:45):
when I don't need to be like I want to
enjoy the music actually romantic? What do you think that's about?
Like this, it's about this relationship that, like other relationships,
pretended to be romance, and they pretended to be perfect,
and they pretended to be like that British guy she
dated for a minute who is like a man and
(12:06):
like a grown up man, and like they were going to,
you know, be a real couple. But this is actually romantic,
and it's going to be about them eating like corn
nuts in the Midwest, like on a Saturday before a game,
and they're just gross and they're both sweaty from the
gym and they're like, well, kind of ice cream do
you want today?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
And that's actually romantic as opposed to like getting on
that guy from Britain's jet and having caviat and stuff
like that. I think it's going to be like real people,
romantic stuff. That's what that song is going to be about.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Someone who seems burned out on Taylor Swift, I told
you I like the music. A wish list where the
s's are dollar signs would canceled. Exclamation Point Honey and
the Life of a Showgirl is the number twelve track
featuring Sabrina Carpenter and the Imagery. By the way, the
(12:57):
deluxe album covers on here, she's very mature in her imagery.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
She's thirty six, Gary, I know she's not a little
girl anymore.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Negative. That's also the that's the mystery track.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Hidden track is so I saw yesterday something about her
going after Kanye on this album? Is that going to
be a thing? Has anyone else heard that?
Speaker 10 (13:20):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I have? And what did you hear? Any more details?
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Now?
Speaker 12 (13:23):
Just like a bunch of signs and Easter eggs that
people have found.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
They think that it's karma basically against I feel like
that's been done though, Like I feel like she's gotten
her her car or he's gotten his karma, right, I
don't know. I mean, he's a crazy person. Now, it's
not that kind of like beating up a you know,
a not able bodied person like Kanye clearly has a
(13:51):
mental illness. Like you can't go after that guy, can you.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
This is all the Swifties doings.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I just read the stuff. I mean, what if she
wades into the whole you know, Drake Kendrick Lamar situation.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I don't think she's gonna get into that. No, I
don't think so.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I don't know what if she gets into the whole
Blake Lively justin Baldoni fight, which could be what the
friends one is about. The Easter eggs. Yeah, some of
the Easter eggs of that, like you try to use
our friendship to shield yourself.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Not cool? Mm mmm.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I think we had an era about that.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
We did swamp Watch.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
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Speaker 10 (14:57):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 5 (15:04):
President Trump held his news conference a short time ago
from the White House, talking mostly about Social Security, but
I was taking questions about tomorrow's summit. About the federal
troops that are now federal agents, I should say that
have been helping out a Metro DC Police department overnight.
Now we are going to be talking about Gavin Newsom
(15:25):
and his redistricting plan. He has talked about that and
is expected to hold a news conference here in a
few minutes in LA with some pretty high profile Democrats
alongside him. So talk about that a little bit later.
But it's time for tech Talk. Or if Elmer was Elmer,
there you.
Speaker 12 (15:44):
Are seenes are getting smarter.
Speaker 10 (15:46):
This is tech Talk, brought to you by Skynett.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
And the giggle you heard was from Mark Saltzman, who
knew that he knew the music was supposed to play.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I'll take Elmer over AI any day.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Mark Saltzman is the host of the tech it Out podcast,
a writer of some incredible tech related columns over the
course of the years.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
And it seems we've done this.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
I feel like we've done it almost every August since
we've known you, and and they get cooler every time.
But the new cool tech gadgets that you can send
to your send to school with your kids.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Yeah, this falls all under the why didn't we have
this when we were student category?
Speaker 11 (16:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Well so, yeah, So I've been writing articles and going
on TV and such to chat about great gadgets to
you know, for students heading back into the classroom, whether
they're in middle school, high school, or going to college.
There's a lot to choose from this year, it would
be remiss not to start with AI. And even though
I'll still take Elmer, but yeah, AI can really help
(16:48):
a student out right. So you can find it in phones,
you can find it on laptops like baked into the hardware,
or there are you know, websites of course, like the
Chat Schipets and Google Gemini. But these are really cool
tools like for example, built into the Pixel nine, which
is a Google Android phone, is six months for free
(17:09):
of Google two point five pro or Gemini rather two
point five pro. That's the most advanced Google engine that
can do things like imagine like recording your professor or
teacher talking. Then you press stop and not only will
it transcribe that entire lesson into text, but give you
the top level highlights and even create quizzes for you
(17:31):
to help you get ready for a test. Like it's
beyond just transcribing. It's pretty wild. Laptops have Copilot plus
built in if they're of the Windows variety. Similarly, they
can help you, you know, with your writing for book
reports and essays. They can help you create content like
videos for your presentation to your classmates if you're working
(17:53):
on a PowerPoint or anything like that. So really AI
is awesome. Also aggregating research sources and citing for you.
I mean, this is like you know, I know, Gary,
in the past, we've equated this like a calculator for
our generation. This is above and beyond. So yeah, there's
a lots of great tools. So phones that have it
or laptops with it built in, I would definitely recommend
(18:15):
if you are shopping for a laptop make sure and
you are at college, make sure battery life is really good.
You don't want to bring that charger with you ever.
Wear that brick. So we're talking north of thirty hours
now for some of these ows.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
To cars we go. It looks like GM nipping at
Tesla's heels in the electric vehicle space. GM selling over
seventy eight thousand electric vehicles more than double what they
did in the same period of last year, and this
is just talking about the first half of twenty twenty five.
Chevy seems to be leading the pack there.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Yeah, So the Equinox EV, which is a Chevrolet suv,
a mid size suv, is the best selling GMV in
the country. But yeah, that's a thirty five thousand dollars
mid size suv with a range of about three hundred
fiftifteen miles at its peak. But yeah, this is they're
really doing well, one hundred and eleven percent increase over
(19:06):
the same time last year, while simultaneously Tesla has stumbled. Right,
they're down thirteen percent over last year, and their equivalent
I guess vehicle would be like a Model Y, which
is ten thousand more. So I think that's part of it,
is that in this economy, people are looking to save.
It's ten thousand more for comparable miles. I think the
(19:27):
Tesla still edges out the equinox in terms of miles
with an extra thirty or so miles, But it's momentum, right,
And also, I don't think a lot of people were
happy with Musk working with Trump's administration earlier in the year,
even though that's now done. I think the damage is
also done with his work with DOGE, and we all
(19:47):
saw that backlash against Tesla with the keying of cars
and all that kind of nonsense. But yeah, I think
for a few reasons GM is really doing well. Their
momentum is there two hundred and fifty five thousand cars
sold the first half of the year, which is really good,
way better than they've done in the past, and I
think it's only going to continue as they offer more
and more vehicles in their in their lineup that you
(20:11):
know for Mary Barr's goal of a full electric.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Fleet one day. So why is getting there?
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Why haven't electric trucks Whether it's the I think it's
the Chevy Silverado, they have a version of it, but
the Ford F one fifty Lightning those seem to have
kind of fizzled out. I remember there being a lot
of excitement about it and then they just fizzled out.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Why so a couple of things. The range is certainly there.
I mean, you look at a Silverado and it's it's
really wild. But I think that when it comes to towing,
there was a lot of negative press around the Ford
F one fifty. Once you start towing something which a
lot of people use to pick up truck for, it
really kills the range, and so I think that's part
of it. Price is another one. I mean we've seen
(20:55):
even the the the Cadillac Escalate IQ not cheap, even
though it's a beautiful beautiful vehicle, so I think there's
a few reasons. It's also you know, I think pickup
trucks there's a lot of patriotism there. And although they
will stick with the Detroit maybe based company like a Chevrolet,
(21:15):
I think there they a lot of the clients tell
that drive these pickup trucks, they want to stay true
to gas or ice based vehicles, internal combustion engines. So
I think there's a bit of a culture thing there,
and as well as price and just performance. When yeah,
the torque, you gotta love it in a in an EV.
I'm sure a lot of your listeners drive an EV.
(21:37):
It's not just about saving on gas. It's it's a
great ride. But I think with with pickup trucks, once
you start towing, it's a whole other story. So they
got there's still some work to do there. And then globally,
you know, pickup trucks do really well of course in
the country here, but globally it's less expensive. Electric cars
byd out of China is now giving Tesla a big
(21:59):
run for its money in markets where they don't want
to drive big cars, like in Europe or in Asia.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
How many phones do you have I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Did you hear that?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I heard two different?
Speaker 9 (22:10):
Well?
Speaker 10 (22:10):
One was my watch?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Come on occupational hazard? Okay, I'm just curious. Yes, No,
my parents are are are trying to reach me. They
forget well Dursday at this time, I'm on KFI. They know. No,
it's all good, It's all good. I'm a dual wheelder.
I carry an iPhone and an Android to answer your question,
but just two phones.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Do you have a flip phone that's secret nobody knows about.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
I do not. I have them in a box that
Safety sent me to write about.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
But no, I don't use them on the shelf.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
That's why I like reading with e readers, because there's
no other distractions, you know, opposed to a tablet where
I'm still getting all these dings with social media updates,
and you know, my phone is synced with my iPad,
so it's going to even tell me when someone texts me,
even though there's no.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Do you ever have a day where you just say
it all aside?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I do.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
I really like unwinding, even though I'm a techie and
I make my livelihood by reviewing electronics that I loved unwinding.
We talked the other day about satellite service and how
you can now get coverage everywhere. It's not necessarily a
good thing other than emergency reasons. I like unplugging. I
think it's fun to go fishing and to read and
to just chill.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Feels so good. Yeah, it does.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
It's good. It's important. Balance is important.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
I'm with you Mark as always.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I could never run plugged.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
He can't well, he can't stop his mind. You know,
he's got too many voices in there. It's always running around.
He's can't be with himself. Hates boredom, don't change guys.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Love your show. Thanks for hiring me on Mark Saltsman.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Make sure you make sure you follow Mark on x
M A r C Underscore Saltsman with his Did he
just say that to.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Get out of here?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Probably? Parents?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I mean, I get it.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
You ever been to sleep away camp? I have?
Speaker 10 (24:03):
Have you?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
As an adult?
Speaker 5 (24:06):
You did something that reminded me of this article, like
girls or this article reminded me of something that I do.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Girls Weekend different.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
It's girls that you know.
Speaker 10 (24:17):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
The King Fire.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
This one burning up near Gorman is at just about
five hundred acres only five percent contained. If you're headed
north on I five, there are a lot of fire
trucks and rescue vehicles there along the five near Pyramid Lake,
so you're going to see some some traffic delays, although
I think it's only down to one lane that is
closed right now.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
First day of school. Also for LAUNI No Secrets was.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Like a Nick Carter, Aaron Carter type genre boy, same
same era they would appear maybe open up for for
Aaron Carter or something like that.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Gavin Newsom's supposed to hold a news conference here regarding
his plan for redistricting, but we haven't seen anything as
of yet. They did post a video, highly produced video
on social media.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Nothing says sexy and eyeballs and everyone drop everything like
a redistricting press conference. I'm hoping that are they who
are they getting into this for?
Speaker 11 (25:24):
Like?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Are they?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Who is this for? The average voter in California?
Speaker 5 (25:30):
This is for people who don't know anything about what
the word jerry mandering means.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Why would they care?
Speaker 5 (25:35):
It's for people to to just fight back, That's all
it is. That's that's who Gavin Newsom is appealing to,
is people who want to fight back.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
It's one of these things.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Whatever.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
It's like, Hey truck, I'll handle the nitty gritty, you
just give me permission to do it. Completely overstepping the
idea that we voters want an into pendant commission in
charge of drawing congressional districts in the state of California,
because even a few short years ago we realized it's
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probably a smarter idea to keep it out of the
hands of the affink politicians who only stand to gain
or lose by getting involved with this. This is I
saw the Governor Schwarzenegger is one of the people who
is vehemently opposed to this. I'm hoping he gets a
little bit of gasoline on his fire and comes out
(26:31):
aggressively against this. He's a guy who I think people
would listen to or could listen to. I don't know,
sleep away camp. As an adult, you went on a
trip Zion maybe something like that. It was a bunch
of unknowns. You didn't know these people.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Yeah, you made friends.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
It was like an ARII adventure trip. I think there's
probably twelve or fourteen of us from all parts of
the land came together and went hiking and ate together
and slept at the camps together. Yeah, it was cool.
It was fun.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
You ever keep in contact with them people?
Speaker 1 (27:06):
No, one of the In fact, this is funny. Two
of the women I think they were from North Carolina.
I don't remember where they were from. Both named Amy,
Blonde Amy and other Amy is what we called them, well,
they called themselves that they were friends. And other Amy.
Blonde Amy was married or in a relationship with the
(27:29):
guy that she was with. She was divorced, but other
Amy was single. I think our husband had recently died,
if I'm not mistaken anyway, Other Amy ended up talking
to one of the guides a lot, that's right, and
invited the other guide like, hey, when you're done with
your you know, your seasonal stint, you should come visit us.
We'll take you to this concert, we'll do this, and
(27:51):
the guide and I saw it on Instagram, like there
were pictures of all of them together. Like the guide
ended up going and staying at other Amy's house. Now
I guess I my bet would be Other Amy was
maybe sixty five something like that, and the guide was
probably like, I don't know, thirty five forty, but like
they look like they had a great time, and I'm like,
(28:11):
get it. Other Amy like that's pretty cool. You know,
recently widowed, you go on this aria adventure trip.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
You pick up a guide. Liveschreiber is the founder of
Camp Social. I don't think it's that Liveschreiber said that
in a world where more people are connecting via social
media and work can be remote, there are grown ups
who need to have some connection. So this is a place,
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a three day overnight camp in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania.
And Live said, I built Camp Social for the adult
friendship gap. I created what I wished existed. We expected
to figure out friendships without a blueprints.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
You do this, You've done this three times. Fantasy Camp
for the giants. It's adult seep away camp with a
bunch of men, and you sleep with them, you play
with them. It's the same thing.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
I change some of the verbs and what you just said.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
But yeah, yeah, yeah, and there's a and there's a
common reason we're all there.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Right, And you find that it's fun to meet new
people and you bond with them quicker because you're at
sleep away camp.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
And some people come from We had a guy from Cleveland.
We had a guy from Boston. We had a guy
from Alaska.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
You go to the bathroom together, have shared like dorm
like bathrooms.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
No, I stayed in a hotel.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Oh, there's a clubhouse.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
It'd be kind of cooler if you stayed in like
a dorm type situation or like a barracks.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Eh.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
The whole thing is to replicate the experience of being of.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
A fashional baseball player.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I started watching Hard Knocks a little bit this year.
It's about the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
Oh, oh, I'm looking at the old one. The old
one was from the Lions, right.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
And you're looking at quarterback on Netflix probably ye, but
Hard Knocks and although they didn't do it, they didn't
do a Hard Knocks on them too. But you wouldn't
be watching an old one. It's the current quarterback that
he's featured in. But anyway, the Buffalo Bills, they're one
of the few teams. I believe there's twelve teams in
the NFL that still go to college dormitories for training
(30:18):
camp and they live in the dorms. And you're watching
these guys that make, you know, sign multi million dollar deals,
you know, sixty four million dollars for four years and
they're staying in a dorm you just moved your kid into,
you know, and they got to take two of the
beds and move them together so that they fit on
one of them. And it's just real, bear, it's a
(30:39):
dorm room, and it's just kind of funny how how
they choose to do that. It's just you know, it's
all it's all about camaraderie and shot all of it.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
Yeah, all right, we'll do our trending stories. We got
strange science coming up as well. Later on next hour.
Gary and Shannon will continue right after this.
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I A M six forty, The Gary and Shannon Show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Taylor Swift was back
on Jason Kelsey's podcast, talking with Travis about her new
album she has released. Well, I think I was driving
home when it when it uh? When it landed?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
The album cover, the track listing. She's calling this album
infectiously joyful. I know you're excited to talk about it,
so we'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Every track list seriously.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
The track list.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I can't wait to see what you think each track
will be about, because you're pretty good yesterday on predicting.
You were like an AI model predicting a future killer,
but it was you predicting what the track list was
going to be.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
I got the algorithm in me. H, Yes, I do.
Gavin Newsom has announced. Okay, let's talk avenue for secondfore
we get into swamp watch. Gavin Newsom's holding his big
news conference at the bottom of the hour where he's gonna,
I am assuming, based on the tweets that he's been
putting out and his press office has been putting out,
(01:11):
he's going to try to make fun of Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
This is what he's been doing on his Twitter account.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Calling it Liberation Day. He decided to pick jerry mandering,
which is the least sexy of all the topics. H
to have this this podium puffery about today.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
He also announced yesterday that California is sending assistance to
Puerto Rico ahead of the potential hurricane Erin, still only
a tropical storm. He tweeted last night, quote, I just
approved the deployment of California resources to Puerto Rico ahead
of tropical storm Erin. We're glad to help coordinate life.
So somebody caving response to Americans. Nobody cares.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Unfortunately for Gavin, because he won't be himself. He has
no idea of what real people care about.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Hey, how about cleaning up the h underpasses? Right right?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Trump right now is talking taking questions ahead of this
putin in anchorage, which is, by the way, all abuzz
with activity. He's in the goldly plated Oval office right
now at the White House. You want to dip in
and see what's going on?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Why not? Let's see I do.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
If he doesn't say anything right now, I do have
a little couple pieces that he's been talking about earlier, but.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
This is anything.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
You know, there were some very concerning reports about crime statistics.
Police are manipulating crime data to downplate crime and DC
will the administration release its own crime statistics account and
we'll those individuals who are intentionally that's representing crime data
and fudging the books, like you said, be penalized for
endangering the public.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
They are under investigation right now.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
She's reading that question on her phone, which is troubling to.
Speaker 8 (02:44):
Other stats in the financial world with their phony crime stats.
And Washington d C is at its worst point and
it will soon be at its best point. You're gonna
have a very safe You're going to have a crime
free city. I mean I say that virtually a crime
free city. And these are strong men, but the criminals
are strong men and women. But there's strong men. And
(03:08):
these are people that don't play games. We're not playing games.
These are criminals we're dealing with. And they treated people.
They took one of the people that worked for us.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
The other day.
Speaker 8 (03:17):
You saw the beating, the pounding ten ten against one,
and they pounded the hell on them. He's lucky to
be alive. He's barely almost killed. And we're not going
to have that happening.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Please.
Speaker 9 (03:28):
Colcy Gabbert declassified more documents last night related to the
Russia game.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Folks. She's doing a great job. By the way, that
was another fake story. I'm very happy with the job,
she said. That's right.
Speaker 8 (03:38):
They declassified some terrible documents talking about Democrats and what
they did radical left lunatics.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
It showed it.
Speaker 9 (03:45):
Then, D and I James Clapper sent out emails to
IC officials saying that it would be a team sport
to push than the debunked twenty seventeen ICA report, and
that it might need them to compromise on their normal modalities.
What's your reaction to the lead is declassification and in
your view, sir, what does real accountability look like for
the players.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
It's incredible what we're finding, absolute proof of guilt, and
we'll see what happens. But Clapper and Komi and that
old group of criminals, they're criminals, and they made it
very tough. You know, they did the fake Russia Russia
Russia witch hunt that lasted for two years, and I
(04:27):
get totally exonerated. There was no doubt of it. They
should have done it in one day. Not two years,
but there was a whole scheme to try and demean
Trump so that I couldn't win an election. And that
is a criminal group of people. They're sick people, and
they're criminals, and they should be taken care of.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Strong hair tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
Well, he came to our country, and I heard CNN,
fake news talking about that that was a big.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Win for him.
Speaker 8 (04:58):
Normally he would say the opposite, but they said, oh,
it's a big win that he came here.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Normally would say the opposite. Youdo came here.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
I think that President Putin would like to see a deal.
I think if I weren't president, he would take over
all of Ukraine.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
It's a war that should have never happened.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
I'd go back to one of the things he was
talking about earlier. He had received another question about Russia
and Ukraine in the summit that.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
You send the summit and the incentives for peace you
were putting on the table could end up rewarding Putin
for his invasion of Ukraine. And what kind of signal
do you think that could potentially send to other aggressors.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
No, I don't think it's a reward. I think that
what we have is a situation that should never have started.
Should have never started.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
It didn't start under me, and for four years it
wasn't even discussed, and I could see it was going
to happen.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
After I left, I could see what was happening.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
Everything that we did was wrong, Everything that was done
was wrong.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Everybody's to blame. Putin, They're all to blame. This is
a war that would have never happened.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
And then just a quick recap.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
The expectation tomorrow is that that summit is going to
take place at about twelve thirty hour time. The President
has said that if things go well, they'll do a
joint news conference after that sometime tomorrow afternoon, and then
if it doesn't go well, he would do a news
conference by himself.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
So we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
There are also questions about what's going on with crime reduction.
Of course, he has federalized a lot of the law
enforcement in DC, or put federal law enforcement agents in
DC to try to cut down on crime there, and
talked about how important it was that National Guard troops
came to Los Angeles at the beginning of June.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
You would have not had I don't think you would
have been able to have the Olympics.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
We have the Olympics.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
I have a lot at stake with that because I'm
the one that got the Olympics.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
I got it in my first term and I didn't.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
I was sad because I got it or what would
be my third term.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Okay, with shared that to the second term and the Olympics.
It's a great honor.
Speaker 8 (07:08):
But I felt badly because I said I won't be
president when the Olympics came well through circumstance.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
I am president.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
I want to make sure the Olympics is great, the
World Cup is great, and the two fifty maybe the
most important of all is the two hundred and fifty
year celebrations great.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Okay, So anyway, the president's still taking questions, a handful
of questions from reporters in the Oval Office. They just
wrapped it up. They're pushing people out now again. Gavin
Newsom is expected to hold his news conference sometime after
the bottom of the hour, talking about redistricting and what
his plan is to fight back against the plans going
on in Texas.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
Right now, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Some people love you Shannon, You are a mess.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
I love you.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
You're so funny.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I love this show.
Speaker 8 (07:57):
I just I'm like, what's Shannon gonna say today?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Thank you you?
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Hey, Gary Shannon, this is Jannon's out of work Listen.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I just want to give you guys the props today.
Speaker 11 (08:09):
I want you to know that you enticed me, you
read to me, you abuse the hell.
Speaker 10 (08:16):
Out of me, and I appreciate you so much and
I hope he is a great day.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
Blessing.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Wow, nice abuse and abuse sounds like an S and
M situation? Is that what it's called? Sn M? Yeah?
Like a like a dungeon sex thing?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Is that what it's called?
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Sometimes I got my acronyms mixed up.
Speaker 11 (08:39):
Hi, Gary Shannon, my name is Christy and I super
love your show. My husband was a founding member of
Metro Station and a writer on Shake.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
It No Way.
Speaker 11 (08:49):
I can't wait to tell him that you love the
song no Way, and I'll acknowledge it's not the Shake
Shake It of the nineties.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
But but it's glad you're still Oh my gosh, that
is I didn't listen to anything but Shake Shake It
in two thousand and seven. If I see a twinkie,
I'm gonna eat the twinkie.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Taylor Swift revealed her new album Life of a Show Girl.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
You're so excited about this.
Speaker 12 (09:15):
I exited through a door, an orange door to be specific.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
She's talking about the easter eggs that were at the
end of her Eras tour.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
And.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
That actually was an Easter egg.
Speaker 12 (09:28):
I kind of wanted to give a little subliminal hint
to the fans that I may be leaving the Eras
tour era, but I was also entering a new era.
The heart of the Easter egg is that there's there's
dues and don'ts write like, I'm never going to plant
an Easter egg that ties back to my personal life.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
It's always going to be towards music.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Okay, do these guys just.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I've told you this. I told you everyone's exhaustedtually. The
Kelsey family, they've been through enough. They've won super Bowls.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
It's one thing for Travis to be like, hey, can
I have my girlfriend on? And Jason's like, where we
going to talk about any Jason's pumped.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Jason's like, you don't. This is what retirement does to you.
You guys just letting you know. You retire and suddenly
you're you're doing a zoom podcast and you're excited about
girls music, and it's a whole thing. Used to be
an offensive lineman, used to be like grizzled and and
have hair imparts of your body unknown, and you used
(10:35):
to just push, push your way into the end zone.
Used to put.
Speaker 13 (10:41):
Jalen Hurts on your back like it was nothing for
the city of Philadelphia, a grit, the men and women
who built this country.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
And now.
Speaker 12 (10:54):
That actually was an easter egg that kind of wanted
to give a little subliminal hint to the.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Fans that I may be leaving the aristour era.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Get me back in.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I'll do four Days.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
The track list for the Life of a Showgirl, The
Fate of Ophelia.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Elizabeth Taylor Now listen. I'm not hitting on Taylor Swift.
I will listen to this album all day long.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Father.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I will sing like I'm a man in a gay
bathhouse on the way home today listening to Karma like
I celebrate this. I'm just tired of being hit over
the head every day with the news of whatever day
that is, whether a Kelsey get is involved or what
or Blake Lively, like I'm just hit over the head
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when I don't need to be like I want to
enjoy the music actually romantic? What do you think that's about?
Like this, it's about this relationship that, like other relationships,
pretended to be romance, and they pretended to be perfect,
and they pretended to be like that British guy she
dated for a minute who is like a man and
(12:06):
like a grown up man, and like they were going to,
you know, be a real couple. But this is actually romantic,
and it's going to be about them eating like corn
nuts in the Midwest, like on a Saturday before a game,
and they're just gross and they're both sweaty from the
gym and they're like, well, kind of ice cream do
you want today?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
And that's actually romantic as opposed to like getting on
that guy from Britain's jet and having caviat and stuff
like that. I think it's going to be like real people,
romantic stuff. That's what that song is going to be about.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Someone who seems burned out on Taylor Swift, I told
you I like the music. A wish list where the
s's are dollar signs would canceled. Exclamation Point Honey and
the Life of a Showgirl is the number twelve track
featuring Sabrina Carpenter and the Imagery. By the way, the
(12:57):
deluxe album covers on here, she's very mature in her imagery.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
She's thirty six, Gary, I know she's not a little
girl anymore.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Negative. That's also the that's the mystery track.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Hidden track is so I saw yesterday something about her
going after Kanye on this album? Is that going to
be a thing? Has anyone else heard that?
Speaker 10 (13:20):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I have? And what did you hear? Any more details?
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Now?
Speaker 12 (13:23):
Just like a bunch of signs and Easter eggs that
people have found.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
They think that it's karma basically against I feel like
that's been done though, Like I feel like she's gotten
her her car or he's gotten his karma, right, I
don't know. I mean, he's a crazy person. Now, it's
not that kind of like beating up a you know,
a not able bodied person like Kanye clearly has a
(13:51):
mental illness. Like you can't go after that guy, can you.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
This is all the Swifties doings.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I just read the stuff. I mean, what if she
wades into the whole you know, Drake Kendrick Lamar situation.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I don't think she's gonna get into that. No, I
don't think so.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I don't know what if she gets into the whole
Blake Lively justin Baldoni fight, which could be what the
friends one is about. The Easter eggs. Yeah, some of
the Easter eggs of that, like you try to use
our friendship to shield yourself.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Not cool? Mm mmm.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I think we had an era about that.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
We did swamp Watch.
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Speaker 5 (15:04):
President Trump held his news conference a short time ago
from the White House, talking mostly about Social Security, but
I was taking questions about tomorrow's summit. About the federal
troops that are now federal agents, I should say that
have been helping out a Metro DC Police department overnight.
Now we are going to be talking about Gavin Newsom
(15:25):
and his redistricting plan. He has talked about that and
is expected to hold a news conference here in a
few minutes in LA with some pretty high profile Democrats
alongside him. So talk about that a little bit later.
But it's time for tech Talk. Or if Elmer was Elmer,
there you.
Speaker 12 (15:44):
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This is tech Talk, brought to you by Skynett.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
And the giggle you heard was from Mark Saltzman, who
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Speaker 4 (15:57):
I'll take Elmer over AI any day.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Mark Saltzman is the host of the tech it Out podcast,
a writer of some incredible tech related columns over the
course of the years.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
And it seems we've done this.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
I feel like we've done it almost every August since
we've known you, and and they get cooler every time.
But the new cool tech gadgets that you can send
to your send to school with your kids.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Yeah, this falls all under the why didn't we have
this when we were student category?
Speaker 11 (16:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Well so, yeah, So I've been writing articles and going
on TV and such to chat about great gadgets to
you know, for students heading back into the classroom, whether
they're in middle school, high school, or going to college.
There's a lot to choose from this year, it would
be remiss not to start with AI. And even though
I'll still take Elmer, but yeah, AI can really help
(16:48):
a student out right. So you can find it in phones,
you can find it on laptops like baked into the hardware,
or there are you know, websites of course, like the
Chat Schipets and Google Gemini. But these are really cool
tools like for example, built into the Pixel nine, which
is a Google Android phone, is six months for free
(17:09):
of Google two point five pro or Gemini rather two
point five pro. That's the most advanced Google engine that
can do things like imagine like recording your professor or
teacher talking. Then you press stop and not only will
it transcribe that entire lesson into text, but give you
the top level highlights and even create quizzes for you
(17:31):
to help you get ready for a test. Like it's
beyond just transcribing. It's pretty wild. Laptops have Copilot plus
built in if they're of the Windows variety. Similarly, they
can help you, you know, with your writing for book
reports and essays. They can help you create content like
videos for your presentation to your classmates if you're working
(17:53):
on a PowerPoint or anything like that. So really AI
is awesome. Also aggregating research sources and citing for you.
I mean, this is like you know, I know, Gary,
in the past, we've equated this like a calculator for
our generation. This is above and beyond. So yeah, there's
a lots of great tools. So phones that have it
or laptops with it built in, I would definitely recommend
(18:15):
if you are shopping for a laptop make sure and
you are at college, make sure battery life is really good.
You don't want to bring that charger with you ever.
Wear that brick. So we're talking north of thirty hours
now for some of these ows.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
To cars we go. It looks like GM nipping at
Tesla's heels in the electric vehicle space. GM selling over
seventy eight thousand electric vehicles more than double what they
did in the same period of last year, and this
is just talking about the first half of twenty twenty five.
Chevy seems to be leading the pack there.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Yeah, So the Equinox EV, which is a Chevrolet suv,
a mid size suv, is the best selling GMV in
the country. But yeah, that's a thirty five thousand dollars
mid size suv with a range of about three hundred
fiftifteen miles at its peak. But yeah, this is they're
really doing well, one hundred and eleven percent increase over
(19:06):
the same time last year, while simultaneously Tesla has stumbled. Right,
they're down thirteen percent over last year, and their equivalent
I guess vehicle would be like a Model Y, which
is ten thousand more. So I think that's part of it,
is that in this economy, people are looking to save.
It's ten thousand more for comparable miles. I think the
(19:27):
Tesla still edges out the equinox in terms of miles
with an extra thirty or so miles, But it's momentum, right,
And also, I don't think a lot of people were
happy with Musk working with Trump's administration earlier in the year,
even though that's now done. I think the damage is
also done with his work with DOGE, and we all
(19:47):
saw that backlash against Tesla with the keying of cars
and all that kind of nonsense. But yeah, I think
for a few reasons GM is really doing well. Their
momentum is there two hundred and fifty five thousand cars
sold the first half of the year, which is really good,
way better than they've done in the past, and I
think it's only going to continue as they offer more
and more vehicles in their in their lineup that you
(20:11):
know for Mary Barr's goal of a full electric.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Fleet one day. So why is getting there?
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Why haven't electric trucks Whether it's the I think it's
the Chevy Silverado, they have a version of it, but
the Ford F one fifty Lightning those seem to have
kind of fizzled out. I remember there being a lot
of excitement about it and then they just fizzled out.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Why so a couple of things. The range is certainly there.
I mean, you look at a Silverado and it's it's
really wild. But I think that when it comes to towing,
there was a lot of negative press around the Ford
F one fifty. Once you start towing something which a
lot of people use to pick up truck for, it
really kills the range, and so I think that's part
of it. Price is another one. I mean we've seen
(20:55):
even the the the Cadillac Escalate IQ not cheap, even
though it's a beautiful beautiful vehicle, so I think there's
a few reasons. It's also you know, I think pickup
trucks there's a lot of patriotism there. And although they
will stick with the Detroit maybe based company like a Chevrolet,
(21:15):
I think there they a lot of the clients tell
that drive these pickup trucks, they want to stay true
to gas or ice based vehicles, internal combustion engines. So
I think there's a bit of a culture thing there,
and as well as price and just performance. When yeah,
the torque, you gotta love it in a in an EV.
I'm sure a lot of your listeners drive an EV.
(21:37):
It's not just about saving on gas. It's it's a
great ride. But I think with with pickup trucks, once
you start towing, it's a whole other story. So they
got there's still some work to do there. And then globally,
you know, pickup trucks do really well of course in
the country here, but globally it's less expensive. Electric cars
byd out of China is now giving Tesla a big
(21:59):
run for its money in markets where they don't want
to drive big cars, like in Europe or in Asia.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
How many phones do you have I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Did you hear that?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I heard two different?
Speaker 9 (22:10):
Well?
Speaker 10 (22:10):
One was my watch?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Come on occupational hazard? Okay, I'm just curious. Yes, No,
my parents are are are trying to reach me. They
forget well Dursday at this time, I'm on KFI. They know. No,
it's all good, It's all good. I'm a dual wheelder.
I carry an iPhone and an Android to answer your question,
but just two phones.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Do you have a flip phone that's secret nobody knows about.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
I do not. I have them in a box that
Safety sent me to write about.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
But no, I don't use them on the shelf.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
That's why I like reading with e readers, because there's
no other distractions, you know, opposed to a tablet where
I'm still getting all these dings with social media updates,
and you know, my phone is synced with my iPad,
so it's going to even tell me when someone texts me,
even though there's no.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Do you ever have a day where you just say
it all aside?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I do.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
I really like unwinding, even though I'm a techie and
I make my livelihood by reviewing electronics that I loved unwinding.
We talked the other day about satellite service and how
you can now get coverage everywhere. It's not necessarily a
good thing other than emergency reasons. I like unplugging. I
think it's fun to go fishing and to read and
to just chill.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Feels so good. Yeah, it does.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
It's good. It's important. Balance is important.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
I'm with you Mark as always.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I could never run plugged.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
He can't well, he can't stop his mind. You know,
he's got too many voices in there. It's always running around.
He's can't be with himself. Hates boredom, don't change guys.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Love your show. Thanks for hiring me on Mark Saltsman.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Make sure you make sure you follow Mark on x
M A r C Underscore Saltsman with his Did he
just say that to.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Get out of here?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Probably? Parents?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I mean, I get it.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
You ever been to sleep away camp? I have?
Speaker 10 (24:03):
Have you?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
As an adult?
Speaker 5 (24:06):
You did something that reminded me of this article, like
girls or this article reminded me of something that I do.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Girls Weekend different.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
It's girls that you know.
Speaker 10 (24:17):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
The King Fire.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
This one burning up near Gorman is at just about
five hundred acres only five percent contained. If you're headed
north on I five, there are a lot of fire
trucks and rescue vehicles there along the five near Pyramid Lake,
so you're going to see some some traffic delays, although
I think it's only down to one lane that is
closed right now.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
First day of school. Also for LAUNI No Secrets was.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Like a Nick Carter, Aaron Carter type genre boy, same
same era they would appear maybe open up for for
Aaron Carter or something like that.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Gavin Newsom's supposed to hold a news conference here regarding
his plan for redistricting, but we haven't seen anything as
of yet. They did post a video, highly produced video
on social media.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Nothing says sexy and eyeballs and everyone drop everything like
a redistricting press conference. I'm hoping that are they who
are they getting into this for?
Speaker 11 (25:24):
Like?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Are they?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Who is this for? The average voter in California?
Speaker 5 (25:30):
This is for people who don't know anything about what
the word jerry mandering means.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Why would they care?
Speaker 5 (25:35):
It's for people to to just fight back, That's all
it is. That's that's who Gavin Newsom is appealing to,
is people who want to fight back.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
It's one of these things.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Whatever.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
It's like, Hey truck, I'll handle the nitty gritty, you
just give me permission to do it. Completely overstepping the
idea that we voters want an into pendant commission in
charge of drawing congressional districts in the state of California,
because even a few short years ago we realized it's
(26:09):
probably a smarter idea to keep it out of the
hands of the affink politicians who only stand to gain
or lose by getting involved with this. This is I
saw the Governor Schwarzenegger is one of the people who
is vehemently opposed to this. I'm hoping he gets a
little bit of gasoline on his fire and comes out
(26:31):
aggressively against this. He's a guy who I think people
would listen to or could listen to. I don't know,
sleep away camp. As an adult, you went on a
trip Zion maybe something like that. It was a bunch
of unknowns. You didn't know these people.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Yeah, you made friends.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
It was like an ARII adventure trip. I think there's
probably twelve or fourteen of us from all parts of
the land came together and went hiking and ate together
and slept at the camps together. Yeah, it was cool.
It was fun.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
You ever keep in contact with them people?
Speaker 1 (27:06):
No, one of the In fact, this is funny. Two
of the women I think they were from North Carolina.
I don't remember where they were from. Both named Amy,
Blonde Amy and other Amy is what we called them, well,
they called themselves that they were friends. And other Amy.
Blonde Amy was married or in a relationship with the
(27:29):
guy that she was with. She was divorced, but other
Amy was single. I think our husband had recently died,
if I'm not mistaken anyway, Other Amy ended up talking
to one of the guides a lot, that's right, and
invited the other guide like, hey, when you're done with
your you know, your seasonal stint, you should come visit us.
We'll take you to this concert, we'll do this, and
(27:51):
the guide and I saw it on Instagram, like there
were pictures of all of them together. Like the guide
ended up going and staying at other Amy's house. Now
I guess I my bet would be Other Amy was
maybe sixty five something like that, and the guide was
probably like, I don't know, thirty five forty, but like
they look like they had a great time, and I'm like,
(28:11):
get it. Other Amy like that's pretty cool. You know,
recently widowed, you go on this aria adventure trip.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
You pick up a guide. Liveschreiber is the founder of
Camp Social. I don't think it's that Liveschreiber said that
in a world where more people are connecting via social
media and work can be remote, there are grown ups
who need to have some connection. So this is a place,
(28:39):
a three day overnight camp in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania.
And Live said, I built Camp Social for the adult
friendship gap. I created what I wished existed. We expected
to figure out friendships without a blueprints.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
You do this, You've done this three times. Fantasy Camp
for the giants. It's adult seep away camp with a
bunch of men, and you sleep with them, you play
with them. It's the same thing.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
I change some of the verbs and what you just said.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
But yeah, yeah, yeah, and there's a and there's a
common reason we're all there.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Right, And you find that it's fun to meet new
people and you bond with them quicker because you're at
sleep away camp.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
And some people come from We had a guy from Cleveland.
We had a guy from Boston. We had a guy
from Alaska.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
You go to the bathroom together, have shared like dorm
like bathrooms.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
No, I stayed in a hotel.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Oh, there's a clubhouse.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
It'd be kind of cooler if you stayed in like
a dorm type situation or like a barracks.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Eh.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
The whole thing is to replicate the experience of being of.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
A fashional baseball player.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I started watching Hard Knocks a little bit this year.
It's about the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
Oh, oh, I'm looking at the old one. The old
one was from the Lions, right.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
And you're looking at quarterback on Netflix probably ye, but
Hard Knocks and although they didn't do it, they didn't
do a Hard Knocks on them too. But you wouldn't
be watching an old one. It's the current quarterback that
he's featured in. But anyway, the Buffalo Bills, they're one
of the few teams. I believe there's twelve teams in
the NFL that still go to college dormitories for training
(30:18):
camp and they live in the dorms. And you're watching
these guys that make, you know, sign multi million dollar deals,
you know, sixty four million dollars for four years and
they're staying in a dorm you just moved your kid into,
you know, and they got to take two of the
beds and move them together so that they fit on
one of them. And it's just real, bear, it's a
(30:39):
dorm room, and it's just kind of funny how how
they choose to do that. It's just you know, it's
all it's all about camaraderie and shot all of it.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
Yeah, all right, we'll do our trending stories. We got
strange science coming up as well. Later on next hour.
Gary and Shannon will continue right after this.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
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