July 7, 2026 • 26 mins
HOUR 1 (07/07): Team USA's World Cup dream comes to a crashing end, leaving Shannon searching for a new team to root for.
Plus, Southern California braces for triple-digit temperatures and miserable humidity. Then, pressure mounts on Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner as more party leaders abandon his campaign and even Bernie Sanders joins the calls for him to step aside.
And, why experts say this could be a particularly active summer for shark encounters.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
It's as if it's too bad if we hosted the
poker game and then went out at.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
At like nine pm, and now we're just stuck and
you're just stuck these a holes in our house till
about two.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I guess I'll be all time dealer.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
That's part of the that's why I don't host, you know,
because you lose it. I want to leave when I'm done.
I want to go, and here we are stuck.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
You can always leave your house, come back, go to
bed or something like that and just let people.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I've done that a couple of times, having people over
and just said enjoy your night. I'm going to bed.
Good night everybody. But that was that was that was fun.
It was just kind of an s kicking to end it,
which never feels good.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Which is too bad. I mean it was. It almost
felt like a waste of an absolute chamber of commerce.
Dave the city of Seattle. It was beautiful weather, It's
eighty degrees. It just looked so it looked so great.
But the crowd was deflated immediately immediately because they were
clearly the American team was clearly on its heels, and
(01:15):
there was no I mean, even those first I don't know,
five ten minutes, it just looked like they couldn't clear
the ball. They couldn't get the ball out of there.
And then when they did try to clear it, they'd
look around like do you got it? I don't got it.
I don't know where it's gonna Just it was. It
was flat, it was awful. It was hard to watch, and.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
It's never good to watch a team make it to
the playoffs and then just fail. I mean, I'm trying
to put this in a reference. I can understand. It's
kind of like watching you know, Josh Allen in the playoffs.
You know, you got this great regular season, You've got
all the tools. You know you're out matched. But maybe
this could happen for us this year. No, it cannot,
(01:58):
it cannot happen.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, and it's not been arguable that they just had
a bad day. Now the Belgian team was that good.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, And it just makes you wonder, how are the
Patriots gonna come out when they take on the Seahawks
in Week one? You know, is it going to be
another s kicking like we saw on the Super Bowl, or.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Or someone not kick the ground instead of the ball
like are like the New York Giants, like the New
York Giants. Sorry, I'll stop making comparison. No, I think
it's great. I think it's funny. Yeah, well again, Mexico's out,
Canada's out, United States is out. Now it's just visitors.
We're waiting or waiting for them to leave. At this point.
(02:42):
The next couple of games, of course, will be today.
One of them has already started, Argentina with Messi taking
on Egypt there in Atlanta, and then Switzerland Columbia in
Vancouver at one o'clock today. These are the final two
games in that round of sixteen.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So who do we root for? Now? Do you have
a new country? Mexico's out, Mexico in the United States out, Canada.
I wouldn't root for, not because I don't like Canada,
just because I don't feel any passion when I say Canada.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
What do you feel?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Nothing? Maybe Argentina. Have you been to any of the
countries that are playing? I'm rooting for teams that I've visited.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Okay, okay, So do we have France and Morocco.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I've been both of those places, Spain and Belgium. I've
been to Spain but not Belgium, and I want root
for Belgium after they beat our asses.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Norway and England. Have you been to both of those?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Are just yes?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Okay? And then the winners from today Argentina, Egypt and Switzerland. Columbia.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Oh, Colombia. I kind of like Columbia. They got a
lot of drugs there have we got a lot of
gang members. They'd have my back. There's a lot of loyalty.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
This is also the last day where they will be
two games in the day. No, I take that back.
There will be won on the eleventh. I think that's Saturday.
They'll play two games, but there's a game France Morocco
is going to be on Thursday night, Spain, Belgium on Friday,
Norway England on Saturday, and then the winners of these
two games today will take the pitch on Saturday as well,
(04:19):
So maybe England. I don't know. I don't know who
to root for.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I'm gonna go with Columbia. I feel like Argentina is
the easy winner here. Part of it is because of
MESSI right, and he's already got easy to root for Argentina.
I think I'm gonna ride with Columbia. But Colombia, but
that Norway.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
That guy Ingilbert Holland or whatever his name is, that big,
humongous thor looking game.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
He's a Disney character, and the Viking row. I mean,
how does it get better than that? That's a good chat,
That's pretty good. I'm sorry, Amy, what country are you
rooting for? Well, I'm I'm rooting for several. I'm hedging
my bets because I've been to France, Morocco. A friend
to all is a friend to none, Amy, Egypt.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
If everyone's special, than no one.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I haven't got to pick one, Amy, you got to
pick one. I can't yet.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Well, I know what you're doing, Amy, I know what
you're doing. You're waiting until today's results because then you'll
have two more of the final eight, and then by
tomorrow you'll be able to choose.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Well, by tomorrow, I'm down to one, two, three or
five countries that I've been to. No, we're not doing that, Amy,
You've got to pick one. I don't have to. Usa
is out, so I can I can she can root
for whoever I want to.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
She can yawn her way through the World Cup like
the rest of us will.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
No, I'm kind of cheering for France though. France there,
I knew we'd get one. Gary, You're you're going to
root for England? I think so, okay, Elma, But Morocco's
pretty fun. Yeah, Morocco's great, Elmer, you got a pony
in this, Rice.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
No, I have no idea who's playing.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Okay, which means he wasn't listening to you Gary for
the last five minutes. No, well, what else that's not
We're supposed to listen to him?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Graham Plattner, the guy running for senate in Maine, just
got swalloweld. We'll tell you about that what this means
when we come back. You're making it sound like he's
a victim in this. No, No, that is not my intention.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
It's not.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
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Speaker 1 (06:26):
I kind of like it. It's fun. It's a different
side of you.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Matt was just saying, I don't grow in a full beard.
That's the thing.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
No, But it's it's stubble. It's a little stubble. It's
a different look. It's fun, but you are.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Also read in some places. Yeah, so you're like a
from my dad.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Oh interesting, I didn't know your dad how to red hair.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, in his beard. Definitely.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Are you going through something that we should know about?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, I'm going through I didn't shave this morning.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Okay, it's just Usually you're kind of of a creature
of habit usually, are you not.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, but what do you mean by that?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Well, the fact that you've chosen not to shave for
three days makes me think that maybe you're going through something.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
No, it's just this. It's the do I want to
just forget it? I'll do it later. That's what it was.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Oh, you've given up. I know what that is. I
know what that is. All you had to do is
say I've given up. Now you're speaking my language, all
right this speaking of giving up, there is a building
in Midtown that is doing just.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
That Midtown Manhattan.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Several floors of this Midtown Manhattan office building but does
have condos in it right, it is under construction and
they are these floors are caving in. There's been other
buildings in the area there in Midtown East Street closures
that have been at evacuated. This is at the corner
of East forty second and second and it's the former
(08:05):
headquarters of Pfiser and it's under conversion to residential use.
So about eight am local time, they're obviously construction workers
notice cracks in the building. FDNY said the workers spotted
structural support beams beginning to buckle on the twenty first
and twenty second floors and that they self evacuated.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I bet yeah, No Kidd officials said that that caused
the twenty first to twenty sixth floors of the thirty
eight story building to start caving under the stress. So
they are concerned that this thing is going to come
down again midtown Manhattan. So heat advisory up through southern
California because let me check the calendar, it's July, okay.
(08:51):
So Graham Platner, very controversial senate candidate out of the
great state of Maine, is going to go up against well,
as of right now, is scheduled to go up against
Susan Collins in November. He has now been officially accused
of raping a woman a few years ago. Her name
(09:13):
is Jenny. I think it's Rasiko, forty one years old.
She detailed the incident in an interview with Politico, but
also in an interview with Jake Tapper from last night
on CNN.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
He had kind of like jumped on top of me
and indicated that he had intentions that were sexual in nature.
And I remember just at first being like, hey, I'm
not into this. I remember it being an instant where
I had recognized that he wasn't listening to me. It
wasn't just that he wasn't hearing me or whatnot. And
(09:50):
then I recognized his level of intoxication, and I knew
in that moment I wasn't safe.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
She said she had had an on and off again
relationship with him for more than two years before he
entered her home in Maine uninvited one late one night
late twenty twenty one, deeply intoxicated. As she talks about there,
forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop,
(10:17):
she said, I remember I'm grabbing my pelvis, being really
forceful of me. I remember the specific moment where I
thought to myself, like, this is no longer my choice.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
When Politico came forward with this story late last night,
they also talked about having basically corroborated her story through
contemporaneous things, which just means that at the time that
she said this happened, she also talked to a friend
of hers about it and said, explain what happened. She
(10:46):
had also apparently exchanged emails with her therapist about it,
so it wouldn't be a Those are all used to
corroborate her version of the story. In the timeline of
the story, the.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
New York Times came out with article where we first
learned that this guy was we learn more about his characters,
shall we say? And she had described this behavior as
reckless and unsettling to The New York Times, but didn't
go public with the specific assault the way we heard
(11:18):
her now because she didn't want to be known as
a rape victim, and that is common. Nobody wants that label.
You want to move on with your life. You don't
want to sit in it. She says she was compelled
to go public because the reaction to that New York
Times story was dominated by the controversy about another woman,
(11:39):
a woman by the names of Lindsay Feifeld, who alleged
that he mistreated her and faced attacks because of her
ties to the Republican Party. She said, part of my
story in the La Times was just a read over.
The story was Lindsay and the accusations of her being
a Republican and therefore politically motivated.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Jake Tapper asked her specifically about that. We'll play that
when we come back.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
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Speaker 1 (12:09):
I've never had a boss that was a football fan, never,
never until now. And it's not good.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
What do you mean it's not good?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Well, because I get a little bit colorful when I'm
talking about and he's a Chiefs fan, which is probably
the worst thing scenario. But she was talking like a sailor.
I could hear it all the way over here. It's
just it's and I have to check myself. And I
did pull back, like there were some things I was
going to say that was pulling back.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Well, it started amy. What you didn't hear was it
started very calm, which was our boss came in and
was talking about, Hey, you know, aren't we excited? We
can stop faking that we like soccer and get ready
for football season, which Shannon announced yesterday is less than
a month away, and Shannon said, hey, we'll get through
(13:02):
this this time between now and the beginning of the
NFLC we can get through this together. And she said
it just like that, and then it was something about you.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Oh, he you know, he it's fine. I just it's
very challenging for me to talk football and be respectful,
calm and calm and not say things that I would
traditionally say in any other conversation about football with a
Chiefs fan.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
This would even be this would even be a conversation
that in a bar people would be like, hey, would
you tell that lady to quiet down please.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah, it's just the first time I just thought about that.
I'm like, I've never had a boss, like somebody who
I should definitely just be cool and chill and polite
and all the things with uh. And that's a new
challenge good at this late in the winter of my life.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
At the top of the hour, we're going to talk
about the La Times newest Jennifer Seebel Newsome article.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
So I thought, I read that this morning, the whole article,
and I thought, whoa, the La Times is coming for her.
I thought it was a bit of a hit piece.
Not entirely, it's not exposing all the warts and bruises,
but it's calling her out on the carpet. It's calling
her out saying you can't on one side of your
(14:26):
of the of your mouth, take donations from lobbyists to
fund your nonprofit and on the other sides say that
you are being unfairly maligned and scrutinized.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
You don't get to do both of them. I thought
the La Times did a really good job with this article.
We'll talk about it at the top of the hour.
The other big scandal I suppose for the Democratic Party
is Graham Platner. This is a guy who won the
primary and as a Democrat, is supposed to go up
against Susan Collins for her seat. And Graham Plattner has
(15:03):
been criticized left and right for different things, whether it's
a Nazi related tattoo that he once had, his comments
about veterans, about first responders, and now this allegation that
he raped a woman six years five years ago. Bernie Sanders,
by the way, just pulled his endorsement a few moments
(15:25):
ago and suggested that Graham Platner get out of the race.
This was Jenny Rassico. This is her name. In a
interview with Jake Tapper last night on CNN, did grand
Platter review by definition?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Yes, absolutely, and so I felt like complying for my safety.
He was the least worst option.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Now we talked about this. She was mentioned in an
article in The New York Times a few months ago,
but didn't use the word rape when she talked about
what happened to her that night back in twenty twenty one.
That New York Times article was dominated by another woman
who alleged the grand Platner had mistreated her and that
(16:12):
but that she faced attacks because she had some connections
to the Republican Party. Jenny Rassikoe says, I enjoy Graham
Platner's politics. He's a guy I would vote for, but
that this is more important than that. I know that
you have been very reluctant to tell this story, very reluctant. Yeah,
(16:33):
I'm actually surprised you're.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Here turn up three times today?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Yeah? Why did you ultimately decide to do it? Why?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Why come forward?
Speaker 4 (16:45):
A few reasons. One of the biggest ones is that
I think that there are a lot of men in
this world relying on the silence of women.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
She goes on to say that she would support somebody
like grand Platin.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
You know, I see his political videos. They get me
fired up as well. I understand why people want someone
like him in office, you know. And I felt like
me coming forward would essentially potentially take that away, and
I felt really uncomfortable with the responsibility of and the
weight of my story and what that might do.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
He did put out a video and he said he
denies everything.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Of course, I wanted to directly address the troubling, serious
and false allegations against me. Any accusation of non consensual
behavior is categorically false. We are taking the time to
reflect on the best path forward for the state that
I love.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
There's a time element here that's important that within the
next six days, I believe it is five or six days.
If he drops out, Democrats can basically part.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Somebody can put somebody in, right, but he's got to
drop out in the next six days. Why hasn't he
already all the money has evaporated, All the Democrats that
were standing by him have left, All the groups that
were funneling money into the campaign have abandoned him. Yeah, again,
so it's only a matter of time. We saw as
much does he care about the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
We saw this with Eric Swalwell. We saw this with
allegations that were made against him in the race for
governor here in California, in that there's a time when
something like this bubbles up and the candidate believes they
can outrun it. They believe that they're going to be
able to defeat this, and then when it reaches this
(18:41):
maximum capacity, this point of no return, they still hold
on longer than they should. And it seems like he's
in that position right now, especially with somebody like Bernie
Sanders coming out and saying he should drop out of
the race.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
So these guys they like to think maybe they're teflon
because they've seen it work. It works with Donald Trump Teflon,
everything falls off of him. Sometimes when you've got an
ego that's healthy, maybe healthier than it should be, you
think maybe this is just going to go away. Maybe
this goes away, and maybe it does. Maybe people do
(19:17):
forget about it. But if the money's not there, you're screwed, right,
And I think Democrats were betting that this would go away.
That's why they had not pulled out. They had stuck
with him. After that New York Times article. They had
stuck with him, knowing this woman's story, and they were
hoping it would go away, that people wouldn't pay attention.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Are we in a position where these absolutely flawed candidates
just that's just what we have now?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Well, I think part of it is that candidates were
always flawed. We just know about it. In the Year
of Our Lord twenty twenty six, you can't hide any
of the warts and bruises. Everyone's going to come forward. Everyone.
It's got a track record on social media videos, what
have you, pictures, Everything gets reserviced. You think JFK was
(20:09):
not flawed? Bill Clinton, George w I mean, sure you
heard anecdotal stories about them, but nobody was talking about
it mainstream.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
It never did not appear in the New York Times. No, No,
they ran cover for those guys Eldino or al Chapo,
l Sharco. Oh when we come back, el Sharko. I
don't think that's a word. Watch me.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Almost say, do you say shark en Espanol? Anyone?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Elmer?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Oh, yeah, it's good. Yes.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Like the Hyundai.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Sonata. No, I think that there's a lot of Hyundais.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I know, but I think don't they have a model
who has a model.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
That is the Tiberon. Is that it? Yeah, that's Hunday,
isn't it? Tiburon T Buron.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Like T T I T you I think.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
On it's actually with a B T go on L
T Baron? Are you Amy explaining Espeniol?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Guys, we could have done this all during the commercial.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Right, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
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Speaker 1 (21:30):
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Speaker 2 (21:42):
T T barn t Born. I'm sorry everyone, That's all right, right,
you came closest to closer to anybody else?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Did Amy King? Was the wood On? T Baron idiots.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Beach season has kicked off, but the sharks are back.
Sightings of sharks from the Atlantic to the Pacific are
up warming oceans, they suggest might have pushed the sharks
migration rates closer to our shores.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Another T Baron news T Baron our buddy over at
ABC seven, who knows all things cars, Dave Kuhn says,
Hyundai used to have a model called the wood On,
a sporty coop discontinued years ago, and yes, they use
that name to imply the traits of a fierce sea creature.
I don't think when you didn't you watch Jaws that
(22:47):
that thing made definitely made noise. Really, really, what does
sharks sound like? You guys, let's find that on the internet.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Are Forrest Galante is one of the hosts of Shark Week.
He said, as we fix the prey base, we're not
killing seals and sea lions for fur and oil anymore.
So there are more seals and sea lions out there,
which obviously gives the sharks more to eat. You have
more sea life, you have more sharks. They said that
(23:17):
obviously the seals and sea lions bask on or near
the shore. He says, that's like a giant meat sausage
snack for a shark.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Yum, giant meat sausage.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
It also brings them closer to the sharks. That brings
them closer to shallow waters last year, So what.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Kind of sausage meat sausage sounds really dead?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
That's a good point. That is a good point. You're
not gonna have a veggie song.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I have a plant based sausage. Get out of Why
do that? I don't know why I even let that?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Like seasoned cardboard, Yeah, last year a record setting sixty
five unprovoked shark attacks around the world. America had the
largest number with twe They also said there were twelve
unprovoked shark related deaths last year that tripled the count
from the year before. The US has recorded one shark
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related fatality in each of those years. More likely that
you're going to die from a shark attack somewhere else,
but again potentially because of warming ocean temperatures and Great
white sharks obviously get the most attention from the public,
in part because of Amy's growling shark from Jaws. I
(24:32):
have an update on that they are statistically responsible for
the most attacks among a species of sharks. It's the
bull shark that a lot of people are more concerned
about because they're more common.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Sharks cannot growl, roar, or bark. They lack the vocal
cords and lungs. These fish communities vocalize their intent, curiosity,
or aggression through highly specific body language like dropping their
pectoral fins or arching their as the vast majority of
sharks are virtually silent, somebody should tell Hollywood that there
(25:05):
have been a few exceptions. There's been some jaw clicking
scientists did capture recordings of juvenile rig sharks. That's a
type of house shark producing clicking sounds, snapping their teeth together.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
But you know what, something that's the right choice for
them to make for the movie Jaws, to make it
even more menacing, give it a quality that it doesn't
it doesn't actually have in nature. Mm hmm, yeah, okay, lips.
Maybe all right, when.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
We we're gonna have to pull it together, can we
pull it together?
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Oh? Now?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Not at nine? No, maybe at ten.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
The La Times did an article on Jennifer Seebel Newsome,
and I think I read it as a not a
hit piece, but as a honest, an honest story about
someone who wants deferential treatment despite taking money from lobbyists
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to the tune of millions of dollars, that she can't
have both. She can't be the first partner and wife
and get protection at the same time have her hand
out to all the dirty hoore lobbyists.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
It's as if it's too bad if we hosted the
poker game and then went out at.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
At like nine pm, and now we're just stuck and
you're just stuck these a holes in our house till
about two.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I guess I'll be all time dealer.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
That's part of the that's why I don't host, you know,
because you lose it. I want to leave when I'm done.
I want to go, and here we are stuck.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
You can always leave your house, come back, go to
bed or something like that and just let people.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I've done that a couple of times, having people over
and just said enjoy your night. I'm going to bed.
Good night everybody. But that was that was that was fun.
It was just kind of an s kicking to end it,
which never feels good.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Which is too bad. I mean it was. It almost
felt like a waste of an absolute chamber of commerce.
Dave the city of Seattle. It was beautiful weather, It's
eighty degrees. It just looked so it looked so great.
But the crowd was deflated immediately immediately because they were
clearly the American team was clearly on its heels, and
(01:15):
there was no I mean, even those first I don't know,
five ten minutes, it just looked like they couldn't clear
the ball. They couldn't get the ball out of there.
And then when they did try to clear it, they'd
look around like do you got it? I don't got it.
I don't know where it's gonna Just it was. It
was flat, it was awful. It was hard to watch, and.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
It's never good to watch a team make it to
the playoffs and then just fail. I mean, I'm trying
to put this in a reference. I can understand. It's
kind of like watching you know, Josh Allen in the playoffs.
You know, you got this great regular season, You've got
all the tools. You know you're out matched. But maybe
this could happen for us this year. No, it cannot,
(01:58):
it cannot happen.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, and it's not been arguable that they just had
a bad day. Now the Belgian team was that good.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, And it just makes you wonder, how are the
Patriots gonna come out when they take on the Seahawks
in Week one? You know, is it going to be
another s kicking like we saw on the Super Bowl, or.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Or someone not kick the ground instead of the ball
like are like the New York Giants, like the New
York Giants. Sorry, I'll stop making comparison. No, I think
it's great. I think it's funny. Yeah, well again, Mexico's out,
Canada's out, United States is out. Now it's just visitors.
We're waiting or waiting for them to leave. At this point.
(02:42):
The next couple of games, of course, will be today.
One of them has already started, Argentina with Messi taking
on Egypt there in Atlanta, and then Switzerland Columbia in
Vancouver at one o'clock today. These are the final two
games in that round of sixteen.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So who do we root for? Now? Do you have
a new country? Mexico's out, Mexico in the United States out, Canada.
I wouldn't root for, not because I don't like Canada,
just because I don't feel any passion when I say Canada.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
What do you feel?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Nothing? Maybe Argentina. Have you been to any of the
countries that are playing? I'm rooting for teams that I've visited.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Okay, okay, So do we have France and Morocco.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I've been both of those places, Spain and Belgium. I've
been to Spain but not Belgium, and I want root
for Belgium after they beat our asses.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Norway and England. Have you been to both of those?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Are just yes?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Okay? And then the winners from today Argentina, Egypt and Switzerland. Columbia.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Oh, Colombia. I kind of like Columbia. They got a
lot of drugs there have we got a lot of
gang members. They'd have my back. There's a lot of loyalty.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
This is also the last day where they will be
two games in the day. No, I take that back.
There will be won on the eleventh. I think that's Saturday.
They'll play two games, but there's a game France Morocco
is going to be on Thursday night, Spain, Belgium on Friday,
Norway England on Saturday, and then the winners of these
two games today will take the pitch on Saturday as well,
(04:19):
So maybe England. I don't know. I don't know who
to root for.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I'm gonna go with Columbia. I feel like Argentina is
the easy winner here. Part of it is because of
MESSI right, and he's already got easy to root for Argentina.
I think I'm gonna ride with Columbia. But Colombia, but
that Norway.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
That guy Ingilbert Holland or whatever his name is, that big,
humongous thor looking game.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
He's a Disney character, and the Viking row. I mean,
how does it get better than that? That's a good chat,
That's pretty good. I'm sorry, Amy, what country are you
rooting for? Well, I'm I'm rooting for several. I'm hedging
my bets because I've been to France, Morocco. A friend
to all is a friend to none, Amy, Egypt.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
If everyone's special, than no one.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I haven't got to pick one, Amy, you got to
pick one. I can't yet.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Well, I know what you're doing, Amy, I know what
you're doing. You're waiting until today's results because then you'll
have two more of the final eight, and then by
tomorrow you'll be able to choose.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Well, by tomorrow, I'm down to one, two, three or
five countries that I've been to. No, we're not doing that, Amy,
You've got to pick one. I don't have to. Usa
is out, so I can I can she can root
for whoever I want to.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
She can yawn her way through the World Cup like
the rest of us will.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
No, I'm kind of cheering for France though. France there,
I knew we'd get one. Gary, You're you're going to
root for England? I think so, okay, Elma, But Morocco's
pretty fun. Yeah, Morocco's great, Elmer, you got a pony
in this, Rice.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
No, I have no idea who's playing.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Okay, which means he wasn't listening to you Gary for
the last five minutes. No, well, what else that's not
We're supposed to listen to him?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Graham Plattner, the guy running for senate in Maine, just
got swalloweld. We'll tell you about that what this means
when we come back. You're making it sound like he's
a victim in this. No, No, that is not my intention.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
It's not.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
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Speaker 1 (06:26):
I kind of like it. It's fun. It's a different
side of you.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Matt was just saying, I don't grow in a full beard.
That's the thing.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
No, But it's it's stubble. It's a little stubble. It's
a different look. It's fun, but you are.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Also read in some places. Yeah, so you're like a
from my dad.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Oh interesting, I didn't know your dad how to red hair.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, in his beard. Definitely.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Are you going through something that we should know about?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, I'm going through I didn't shave this morning.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Okay, it's just Usually you're kind of of a creature
of habit usually, are you not.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, but what do you mean by that?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Well, the fact that you've chosen not to shave for
three days makes me think that maybe you're going through something.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
No, it's just this. It's the do I want to
just forget it? I'll do it later. That's what it was.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Oh, you've given up. I know what that is. I
know what that is. All you had to do is
say I've given up. Now you're speaking my language, all
right this speaking of giving up, there is a building
in Midtown that is doing just.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
That Midtown Manhattan.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Several floors of this Midtown Manhattan office building but does
have condos in it right, it is under construction and
they are these floors are caving in. There's been other
buildings in the area there in Midtown East Street closures
that have been at evacuated. This is at the corner
of East forty second and second and it's the former
(08:05):
headquarters of Pfiser and it's under conversion to residential use.
So about eight am local time, they're obviously construction workers
notice cracks in the building. FDNY said the workers spotted
structural support beams beginning to buckle on the twenty first
and twenty second floors and that they self evacuated.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I bet yeah, No Kidd officials said that that caused
the twenty first to twenty sixth floors of the thirty
eight story building to start caving under the stress. So
they are concerned that this thing is going to come
down again midtown Manhattan. So heat advisory up through southern
California because let me check the calendar, it's July, okay.
(08:51):
So Graham Platner, very controversial senate candidate out of the
great state of Maine, is going to go up against well,
as of right now, is scheduled to go up against
Susan Collins in November. He has now been officially accused
of raping a woman a few years ago. Her name
(09:13):
is Jenny. I think it's Rasiko, forty one years old.
She detailed the incident in an interview with Politico, but
also in an interview with Jake Tapper from last night
on CNN.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
He had kind of like jumped on top of me
and indicated that he had intentions that were sexual in nature.
And I remember just at first being like, hey, I'm
not into this. I remember it being an instant where
I had recognized that he wasn't listening to me. It
wasn't just that he wasn't hearing me or whatnot. And
(09:50):
then I recognized his level of intoxication, and I knew
in that moment I wasn't safe.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
She said she had had an on and off again
relationship with him for more than two years before he
entered her home in Maine uninvited one late one night
late twenty twenty one, deeply intoxicated. As she talks about there,
forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop,
(10:17):
she said, I remember I'm grabbing my pelvis, being really
forceful of me. I remember the specific moment where I
thought to myself, like, this is no longer my choice.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
When Politico came forward with this story late last night,
they also talked about having basically corroborated her story through
contemporaneous things, which just means that at the time that
she said this happened, she also talked to a friend
of hers about it and said, explain what happened. She
(10:46):
had also apparently exchanged emails with her therapist about it,
so it wouldn't be a Those are all used to
corroborate her version of the story. In the timeline of
the story, the.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
New York Times came out with article where we first
learned that this guy was we learn more about his characters,
shall we say? And she had described this behavior as
reckless and unsettling to The New York Times, but didn't
go public with the specific assault the way we heard
(11:18):
her now because she didn't want to be known as
a rape victim, and that is common. Nobody wants that label.
You want to move on with your life. You don't
want to sit in it. She says she was compelled
to go public because the reaction to that New York
Times story was dominated by the controversy about another woman,
(11:39):
a woman by the names of Lindsay Feifeld, who alleged
that he mistreated her and faced attacks because of her
ties to the Republican Party. She said, part of my
story in the La Times was just a read over.
The story was Lindsay and the accusations of her being
a Republican and therefore politically motivated.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Jake Tapper asked her specifically about that. We'll play that
when we come back.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I've never had a boss that was a football fan, never,
never until now. And it's not good.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
What do you mean it's not good?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Well, because I get a little bit colorful when I'm
talking about and he's a Chiefs fan, which is probably
the worst thing scenario. But she was talking like a sailor.
I could hear it all the way over here. It's
just it's and I have to check myself. And I
did pull back, like there were some things I was
going to say that was pulling back.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Well, it started amy. What you didn't hear was it
started very calm, which was our boss came in and
was talking about, Hey, you know, aren't we excited? We
can stop faking that we like soccer and get ready
for football season, which Shannon announced yesterday is less than
a month away, and Shannon said, hey, we'll get through
(13:02):
this this time between now and the beginning of the
NFLC we can get through this together. And she said
it just like that, and then it was something about you.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Oh, he you know, he it's fine. I just it's
very challenging for me to talk football and be respectful,
calm and calm and not say things that I would
traditionally say in any other conversation about football with a
Chiefs fan.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
This would even be this would even be a conversation
that in a bar people would be like, hey, would
you tell that lady to quiet down please.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah, it's just the first time I just thought about that.
I'm like, I've never had a boss, like somebody who
I should definitely just be cool and chill and polite
and all the things with uh. And that's a new
challenge good at this late in the winter of my life.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
At the top of the hour, we're going to talk
about the La Times newest Jennifer Seebel Newsome article.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
So I thought, I read that this morning, the whole article,
and I thought, whoa, the La Times is coming for her.
I thought it was a bit of a hit piece.
Not entirely, it's not exposing all the warts and bruises,
but it's calling her out on the carpet. It's calling
her out saying you can't on one side of your
(14:26):
of the of your mouth, take donations from lobbyists to
fund your nonprofit and on the other sides say that
you are being unfairly maligned and scrutinized.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
You don't get to do both of them. I thought
the La Times did a really good job with this article.
We'll talk about it at the top of the hour.
The other big scandal I suppose for the Democratic Party
is Graham Platner. This is a guy who won the
primary and as a Democrat, is supposed to go up
against Susan Collins for her seat. And Graham Plattner has
(15:03):
been criticized left and right for different things, whether it's
a Nazi related tattoo that he once had, his comments
about veterans, about first responders, and now this allegation that
he raped a woman six years five years ago. Bernie Sanders,
by the way, just pulled his endorsement a few moments
(15:25):
ago and suggested that Graham Platner get out of the race.
This was Jenny Rassico. This is her name. In a
interview with Jake Tapper last night on CNN, did grand
Platter review by definition?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Yes, absolutely, and so I felt like complying for my safety.
He was the least worst option.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Now we talked about this. She was mentioned in an
article in The New York Times a few months ago,
but didn't use the word rape when she talked about
what happened to her that night back in twenty twenty one.
That New York Times article was dominated by another woman
who alleged the grand Platner had mistreated her and that
(16:12):
but that she faced attacks because she had some connections
to the Republican Party. Jenny Rassikoe says, I enjoy Graham
Platner's politics. He's a guy I would vote for, but
that this is more important than that. I know that
you have been very reluctant to tell this story, very reluctant. Yeah,
(16:33):
I'm actually surprised you're.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Here turn up three times today?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Yeah? Why did you ultimately decide to do it? Why?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Why come forward?
Speaker 4 (16:45):
A few reasons. One of the biggest ones is that
I think that there are a lot of men in
this world relying on the silence of women.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
She goes on to say that she would support somebody
like grand Platin.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
You know, I see his political videos. They get me
fired up as well. I understand why people want someone
like him in office, you know. And I felt like
me coming forward would essentially potentially take that away, and
I felt really uncomfortable with the responsibility of and the
weight of my story and what that might do.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
He did put out a video and he said he
denies everything.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Of course, I wanted to directly address the troubling, serious
and false allegations against me. Any accusation of non consensual
behavior is categorically false. We are taking the time to
reflect on the best path forward for the state that
I love.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
There's a time element here that's important that within the
next six days, I believe it is five or six days.
If he drops out, Democrats can basically part.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Somebody can put somebody in, right, but he's got to
drop out in the next six days. Why hasn't he
already all the money has evaporated, All the Democrats that
were standing by him have left, All the groups that
were funneling money into the campaign have abandoned him. Yeah, again,
so it's only a matter of time. We saw as
much does he care about the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
We saw this with Eric Swalwell. We saw this with
allegations that were made against him in the race for
governor here in California, in that there's a time when
something like this bubbles up and the candidate believes they
can outrun it. They believe that they're going to be
able to defeat this, and then when it reaches this
(18:41):
maximum capacity, this point of no return, they still hold
on longer than they should. And it seems like he's
in that position right now, especially with somebody like Bernie
Sanders coming out and saying he should drop out of
the race.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
So these guys they like to think maybe they're teflon
because they've seen it work. It works with Donald Trump Teflon,
everything falls off of him. Sometimes when you've got an
ego that's healthy, maybe healthier than it should be, you
think maybe this is just going to go away. Maybe
this goes away, and maybe it does. Maybe people do
(19:17):
forget about it. But if the money's not there, you're screwed, right,
And I think Democrats were betting that this would go away.
That's why they had not pulled out. They had stuck
with him. After that New York Times article. They had
stuck with him, knowing this woman's story, and they were
hoping it would go away, that people wouldn't pay attention.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Are we in a position where these absolutely flawed candidates
just that's just what we have now?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Well, I think part of it is that candidates were
always flawed. We just know about it. In the Year
of Our Lord twenty twenty six, you can't hide any
of the warts and bruises. Everyone's going to come forward. Everyone.
It's got a track record on social media videos, what
have you, pictures, Everything gets reserviced. You think JFK was
(20:09):
not flawed? Bill Clinton, George w I mean, sure you
heard anecdotal stories about them, but nobody was talking about
it mainstream.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
It never did not appear in the New York Times. No, No,
they ran cover for those guys Eldino or al Chapo,
l Sharco. Oh when we come back, el Sharko. I
don't think that's a word. Watch me.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Almost say, do you say shark en Espanol? Anyone?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Elmer?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Oh, yeah, it's good. Yes.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Like the Hyundai.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Sonata. No, I think that there's a lot of Hyundais.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I know, but I think don't they have a model
who has a model.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
That is the Tiberon. Is that it? Yeah, that's Hunday,
isn't it? Tiburon T Buron.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Like T T I T you I think.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
On it's actually with a B T go on L
T Baron? Are you Amy explaining Espeniol?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Guys, we could have done this all during the commercial.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Right, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
kf I A M six.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Forty instantly awful this match el Chapel.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
T T barn t Born. I'm sorry everyone, That's all right, right,
you came closest to closer to anybody else?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Did Amy King? Was the wood On? T Baron idiots.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Beach season has kicked off, but the sharks are back.
Sightings of sharks from the Atlantic to the Pacific are
up warming oceans, they suggest might have pushed the sharks
migration rates closer to our shores.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Another T Baron news T Baron our buddy over at
ABC seven, who knows all things cars, Dave Kuhn says,
Hyundai used to have a model called the wood On,
a sporty coop discontinued years ago, and yes, they use
that name to imply the traits of a fierce sea creature.
I don't think when you didn't you watch Jaws that
(22:47):
that thing made definitely made noise. Really, really, what does
sharks sound like? You guys, let's find that on the internet.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Are Forrest Galante is one of the hosts of Shark Week.
He said, as we fix the prey base, we're not
killing seals and sea lions for fur and oil anymore.
So there are more seals and sea lions out there,
which obviously gives the sharks more to eat. You have
more sea life, you have more sharks. They said that
(23:17):
obviously the seals and sea lions bask on or near
the shore. He says, that's like a giant meat sausage
snack for a shark.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Yum, giant meat sausage.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
It also brings them closer to the sharks. That brings
them closer to shallow waters last year, So what.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Kind of sausage meat sausage sounds really dead?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
That's a good point. That is a good point. You're
not gonna have a veggie song.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I have a plant based sausage. Get out of Why
do that? I don't know why I even let that?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Like seasoned cardboard, Yeah, last year a record setting sixty
five unprovoked shark attacks around the world. America had the
largest number with twe They also said there were twelve
unprovoked shark related deaths last year that tripled the count
from the year before. The US has recorded one shark
(24:11):
related fatality in each of those years. More likely that
you're going to die from a shark attack somewhere else,
but again potentially because of warming ocean temperatures and Great
white sharks obviously get the most attention from the public,
in part because of Amy's growling shark from Jaws. I
(24:32):
have an update on that they are statistically responsible for
the most attacks among a species of sharks. It's the
bull shark that a lot of people are more concerned
about because they're more common.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Sharks cannot growl, roar, or bark. They lack the vocal
cords and lungs. These fish communities vocalize their intent, curiosity,
or aggression through highly specific body language like dropping their
pectoral fins or arching their as the vast majority of
sharks are virtually silent, somebody should tell Hollywood that there
(25:05):
have been a few exceptions. There's been some jaw clicking
scientists did capture recordings of juvenile rig sharks. That's a
type of house shark producing clicking sounds, snapping their teeth together.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
But you know what, something that's the right choice for
them to make for the movie Jaws, to make it
even more menacing, give it a quality that it doesn't
it doesn't actually have in nature. Mm hmm, yeah, okay, lips.
Maybe all right, when.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
We we're gonna have to pull it together, can we
pull it together?
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Oh? Now?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Not at nine? No, maybe at ten.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
The La Times did an article on Jennifer Seebel Newsome,
and I think I read it as a not a
hit piece, but as a honest, an honest story about
someone who wants deferential treatment despite taking money from lobbyists
(26:11):
to the tune of millions of dollars, that she can't
have both. She can't be the first partner and wife
and get protection at the same time have her hand
out to all the dirty hoore lobbyists.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Gary and Shannon will continue right after this.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
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