This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf I AM six forty,
the Gary and Shannon Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. He pulled the
crime measure. Yeah, well, I think it was also the other you
know, one hundred Democrats in the Capitol who were like, it's probably not
a great idea, it's right, just look really stupid. It probably wasn't
us that he was listening to. It probably wasn't us that Joe Biden was
listening to when we said you got to get out now for anyone to get
any sort of momentum, Hey, this is a very weird day. Do
you realize that? Because okay, it's your birthday, so happy birthday,
thank you. But what's weird is I don't think we've ever worked on your
birthday. We have not because it's so close to the fourth. We usually
take the fourth off. We do. There's always a couple of days it's
on something Like my mother said to me, she goes, you never work
on your birthday. I said, you know, I've gotten to the age
where it's ridiculous to not work on my birthday. Yeah, and also it's
a Wednesday, which is yeah, what do we do on a wedda.
I don't know. We're gonna have lunch. Boss off the to buy lunch.
Yes, And you first said no, I said, and everybody around
you is like, what are you doing? Don't I know? And then
I looked at everybody I was like, no, absolutely, that sounds wonderful.
We're all sitting there with our empty souper bowls. Please, so happy
birthday. I put on Instagram the Hapey birth DAP message so that people can
send you some birthday messages on very social media. Very nice. Okay,
back to what you're saying. Yes. The New York Times a very short
time ago posted a story the White House absolutely hates, and this is it.
It says that Joe Biden has told an ally. We don't know who
it was because they have stayed anonymous. He has told an ally that he
is actually weighing whether to continue the race. The New York Times and CNN
are both reporting this that he has concerns he may not be able to convince
the public he's up for the job after that debate debacle. Both reports say
he will weigh whether to end his bid if public perception about his fitness for
office doesn't get any better. And to that, I say, Democrats,
it's time to shut the f up. If you have any chance in November
moving forward and down the ballot, you need to just let this thing play
out and not defend him and not try to bury your head in the sand.
It's time to move on. The White House says the Times report is
absolutely false, but has yet to comment on the CNN report. Okay,
so there's a couple things that are going on today, specifically about this issue,
that this report helps zero. This report only piles on to a series
of events that we know that are going on today that are bad for Joe
Biden's candidacy. Number one, Lloyd Doggett. We mentioned that yesterday the first
sitting congressman to come out and suggest that we need a new candidate at the
top of the ticket. That was joined by Jared Golden out of Maine,
Marie Glusen Camp of Washington Glusen Camp Perez of Washington State. And now the
Daily Mail suggests that there are twenty five House members they call them the frontliners
because they're sort of moderates in swing districts, that at least twenty five House
members will come out today, Tomorrow, Friday, and suggest together that Joe
Biden stepped down as the candidate. That's one thing, and we're on the
not that it's a it's symbolic that we are in the cusp of the fourth
of July. Yes, it's not. We are on everybody's mind. The
other thing that's going on. President Biden's scheduled to meet with several Democratic governors
in a closed door meeting at the White House today, including Gaviy Newsom.
Also, the campaign sent out an all staff memo today that talks about their
internal polling because somewhere in the shadows now again this report that he had told
an ally is in the New York Times. The New York Times also has
a poll that they're expecting to send out either I'm sorry, publish either today
or tomorrow or Friday that is going to show a large swing in the race.
This is a post debate poll, and the memo from the campaign says
we should keep in mind that just last week the New York Times acknowledged that
they are often a polling outlier, and they were talking about having an all
staff call not just for the campaign but also for the White House, and
I don't know what they're I don't know if they're going to say, we
have to batten down the hatches, we can't let you know, we can't
let this talk continue, or this is sort of the beginning of Okay,
what are we going to do next? I want to know if that New
York Times report where that came from? Who the ally is? Yes,
because everybody knows that Joe Biden is not fit for office. Everybody knows that.
We all saw with our own eyes, and I think it got It
has to come from somebody. I don't think Joe Biden said that, is
what I'm saying. I think that story was planted. I think it's a
lie. I don't think Joe Biden said that. I don't think he's in
the place to have the cognitive ability to know that. He doesn't have the
cognitive ability, which is more dangerous, Which is more dangerous. But where
did that come from? This is like a Korean drama where there's like a
coup to remove the head and who is going to step up, Who's going
to be crowned the next the next guy. So that's the other part about
this that is that adds to the drama of it because because Kamala Harris gets
all his campaign cash, all the money Joe Biden has raised to run for
president, she would be the one in charge of that. That's what the
laws say and what what promises are being made to her in order for her,
if she's not the nominee, to then unleash the money and give it
to you. Yeah, the problem is seen Ritchen Whitmer. Something great for
her to step aside and not be the heir apparent and then to she's got
who who's kissing her ring right now to try to get their hands in those
purse strings. It's it's just the weirdest situation. Listen, it really is
always We've been saying this for twenty years now. This is so weird it
can never I didn't think politics would ever get like this. I had a
memory pop up from me and my girlfriends from twenty sixteen. It was a
memory from yesterday, and I'm like, we look so much lighter. It
was before all the stuff started happening, Right, we just look like we
don't have a care in the world. Well, we'll talk more about this.
There are some other polls that have come out that suggested that there is
one candidate there at least one common name that has come out that would wipe
out Donald Trump in a national poll. And it is a well we had
a listener bring this up. Yeah, and it ain't Jamie Raskin. I'll
tell you Gary and Shannon will continue. You're listening to Gary and Shannon on
demand from KFI AM six forty Big Gary Shannon. It's the corse I can
currently on the five South in Lake Forest. I just wanted to wish the
lovely Shannon Farren a big happy birthday. And you still look like you're twenty
one. Yeah, here, have a good one. Happy Wednesday. Wow,
Shannon, happy birthday. That's amazing. Happy happy birthday. Bring some
coaching, please bring you guys have the best show ever. Bye bye birth
Shon. Hope that you get everything you want. You know, make sure
go off the rails. Do a few hot ones. Hey, Shannon,
this is Tracy from Yakbaran. I want to wish you a half happy birthday.
Yakama. I love it. And yeah, we live in Yakima and
we listen to you guys. It's the only guys we listened to because you're
the best and my husband is tired of me yelling out Google, Go Go
goog So there's that. That's very nice. Jamaica is bracing for Hurricane Beryl.
It's gonna hit pass by closer right to Jamaica later today. The storm
currently a category four. They're looking at winds of one hundred and forty five
miles per hour. It's already killed seven people after devastating Grenada, Saint Vincent
and the Grenadines. An update to Robert F. Kennedy eating a dog,
He tweeted yesterday in response to that Vanity Fair article, yeah, blasting them,
saying, listen, your vet that said that was a dog needs to
lose its license. It was a goat. I think, yeah, a
goat. Now that for some people that doesn't change the pay because it's a
pretty gruesome, you know, bones of a cooked goat on a spit.
But uh, well and doll and it wasn't taken in Korea either, according
to no but his friend was going to Korea and he sent him that picture
and said like eat well when you're over there or something like that, and
there was something about yeah. Anyway, he was very upset about it,
he said the DNS in his tweet. The DNC's media garbage. Pale journalism
may distract us from the cognitive deficits of the president, but it does little
to elevate the national debate or reduce the price of groceries. So one thing
that we didn't mention in the last segment is that Joe Biden had a campaign
fundraiser last night and he made fun of his poor debate performance. I guess
you have to address it some way. He said it was because of his
international travel that he took a couple trips around the world for D Day,
that he nearly fell asleep on stage. If you're admitting that, then you're
admitting that you're not up to the task of being president, because you know
what the president has to do. He has to take trips around the world
all the time. Well, and around the world might be a stretch.
He went from he went from France to New York back to Europe. That's
a five hour act. It's a quick flight. It's a quick flight.
It's on Air Force one. It's on Air Force. It's not Spirit Airlines.
It's not a middle seat in the back of a Spirit Air flight where
you can't even get away from the smell of the bathroom, speaking of which,
though so the reason he was in New York obviously was for Hunter Biden's
trial. Hunter is apparently deeply involved in these meetings with the President and his
top aides since he got back to the White House from Camp David. Is
that where the President gets his uppers. Well, here's the thing. The
campaign that the family loves Hunter, and Joe has said, I love Hunter.
He's one of the smartest guys. I know, I care for him.
You know, my heart would break for him, and if I get
it, I'm the father of a son, I know how that feels.
But I also think that other people in the circle, specifically the campaign,
would say Hunter, we appreciate you, we like you, we're proud of
you, but do not show up at these meetings. And it's not just
campaign stuff. Now they're saying that he's been involved in these meetings in the
White House with senior White House staff, not campaign staff, and that when
they walk into the room with the President, they're like, uh, oh,
I didn't realize what the crackhead in the corner. I didn't realize that
Chompy mcchew is gums is going to be here. I mean hasn't he been
a headache enough? And I'm not saying you shouldn't love your son and despite
the mess he has created, but yeah, he shouldn't be in those another
sign, another sign if the president's listening to Hunter. And then another follow
up, George Stephanopoulos's plan. Right, we talked yesterday, did the announcement
came down that the campaign knows they have to get a long form interview out
there so that Joe Biden and can try to come back from the debate performance
from Thursday night. And they picked George Stephanopolis, And we were asking the
questions, is it going to be live? Is it going to be long
form? Is it going to be George Stephanopolis actually holding him to these questions
and asking difficult questions. It turns out that ABC says this will be an
extended interview on Friday that will not air until in its full capacity, or
at least the long version of it until Sunday. A little bit will air
with David muirror on Friday night, and a little bit will air on Saturday,
and a little bit on Sunday. Then the whole thing won't happen until
Monday. Right, Well, they said maybe they said they would air it
on this week on Sunday and Good Morning America on Monday, but that they
would show portions Friday night and Saturday Morning shame on ABC. Honestly, we
are a country who doesn't know if the leader is fit to be the president.
Right, show us the entire interview as quickly as possible, and I
mean to use the White House's own words against them, you know, kringe
On. Pierre came out with the discussion about the cheap fakes and how certain
videos appeared to be edited. You know, So show us the raw footage
that's the king and the fact that they're trying to milk this for ratings.
They're trying to milk a president, sitting president of the United States, who
is an obvious cognitive decline for ratings. That's so gross. Yeah, look
at our train wreck. Look at our national train wreck. Oh and show
uh and we'll show you a little bit more tomorrow and well and stay tuned
for Sunday. Yeah, a little bit more of the train wreck. It's
the weirdest. After these messages, when we come back, we'll talk about
why Kamala Harris is the most likely replacement if Joe Biden were to step down
from the top of the ticket. But she doesn't come anywhere close to somebody
else who pulled very very well against Donald Trump. Here is the quote that
I can't get over. It's from Keith Williams, who's chairman of the Michigan
Democratic Party Black Caucus, and he says, this lady is ready to be
president. She really earned her stripes, Keith. She did not. She
has been a leap frog over over people her entire career to get jobs.
There's no reason she should not be leapfrogged. She is, and she is
the example of the Peter principle. I don't like you invoking the name of
my dog. Well, he was nice enough to sign on to the birthday
card. I appreciate that. But she is the walking Peter principal, aside
from the puppy, Peter, the puppy continue. In just a moment,
you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM six forty. So
now we can't even go to Fashion Island. Fashion Island is not free from
violent crime. Man. The only silver lining in that that's not the right
way to put it. The only positive thing that comes out of that is
that it was Orange County. Todd Spitzer's not going to mess around with those
guys. Gavin Newsom we mentioned is in DC. He's going to be meeting
with the president, one of several Democratic governors who are going to be talking
with President Biden today at the White House. But he also did this thing
where he pulled that competing crime measure off of the ballot, or gave up
the plan to put it on the ballot. Enough Democrats, I think got
into his ear and said, this is a really stupid idea. Also,
if he wants to throw his hat in the presidential ring, that doesn't play
out. That doesn't make you seem like you're a moderate Democrat. No,
it goes too crazy the other way. Right, there's a big fire in
Oraville. It's probably all meth, although I don't know that is the case
there still, but it was twenty years ago, right, Yeah, Yeah,
a lot of meth. This is about seventy miles north of Sacramento.
Thousands of people have had to evacuate. It's about thirty minutes from Paradise.
I would say, yeah. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago there was
a fire that broke out, and nationally it became a story because it was
close to the where the fire took out Paradise, and it was still forty
miles away, but nationally that's as short little distance. Oraville is closer to
Paradise, definitely. It's burned about twenty one hundred acres that has burned through
some homes. We will talk about heat next hour, because there was a
suggestion from the National Weather Service that Death Valley could set the world record for
the hottest temperature recorded on Earth in the coming days. Really, they said
the expectation is that it will be well above one hundred and twenty. I
think Monday and Tuesday is when they expected to be the hottest hour. It
is the record one hundred and thirty where and when in Death Valley? Actually
so year, a couple of years ago. Okay, yeah, not that
long ago, So be careful. Okay, back to your point about Gavin
Newsom and somebody being leapfrogged potentially. The Wall Street Journal has an article about
why Kamala Harris would be the likeliest replacement for Joe Biden, among other things.
It's kind of spelled out that way in the way the parties come up
with rules for replacing a candidate in the event that it's necessary. It's also
one of those things that she's got the name recognition. The Biden Harris ticket
is a thing that is easy to roll off the tongue for a lot of
people. And the assumption has been for a long time that the vice president
after someone's term or after two terms, would be the logical candidate to take
over, because they're the closest to the actual job, and she has the
money already raised by Biden's campaign committee, she would get all of the money.
Donna Brazil says there would be an uproar if there was an effort to
bypass Harris. So that echo that was echoed by Arriva Martin, who's a
longtime civil rights attorney political commentator. She was actually on with Stephen A.
Smith and said this, talk of Gretchen Whitmer, b J. Pritzker,
Gavin Newsom, Josh Shapiro, anybody other than Kamala Harris being a nominee taking
over for Biden would absolutely destroy the party. You got to build consensus,
and there is not consensus right now. If you pick a white man Oba,
Kamala Harris. Black women, I can tell you this, We're gonna
walk away. We're gonna blow the party up. If you pick the black
woman. You don't walk away to a riva. Where are you gonna walk
away to? You'll walk away. You're gonna walk away to Trump got the
oba Kamala Harris. So where are we getting agreement from on who this ideal
Democratic candidate should be? So I'm not asking for a white man. In
fact, it looks like people are asking for another black woman. Michelle Obama
is the only Democrat to beat former President Trump. In a new poll release
by Reuters IPSOS, they found Michelle Obama was the only Democrat with a lead
on Trump in this matchup, garnering fifty percent support to his thirty nine percent.
Only four percent of respondents said they would not vote at all. Who
knows if Michelle Obama wants a job. I don't think she does, but
she really would I think beat Trump. Harris apparently only trails Trump by two
percentage points in a CNN poll release yesterday. That's a better showing than Biden.
Kamala Harris has better numbers against Trump than Joe Biden. And when you
think about it, Her approval ratings are down near where his are, near
where President Biden's are. Her likability rating is down near where his are.
I mean, it's not a it's not a great replacement unless she has some
way of coming out and you know, just like Joe Biden has it.
According to the New York Times, he's been telling an ally that he's only
got a couple of days to fix the public image that was destroyed on Thursday
night. Kamala Harris would have an uphill climb to get out of that likability
hole that she's in. And I don't know how she does that because we've
seen her for years. We saw her here in California where the times that
she spoke did not she did not engender a lot of likability. So don't
I don't get it. I mean, Michelle Obama probably has more of a
likability factor to her, clearly, I mean, in that poll it shows
that she does. But people are just willing to throw out any expectation of
experience or I think, like I think, people are ready to get rid
of Joe Biden. And that's why her numbers have risen because of his bad
performances, because of his cognitive decline anybody but Joe Biden, I think for
some people, which is weird. I mean, you and I could probably
come up. So the only way Democrats will be able to live with themselves,
yeah, if they leave his corner is to go into hers. I
feel like there are multiple names. I mean, I don't think Michelle Obama
should be in the top ten in terms of Democrats that could or should lead
the party because I wouldn't want to vote for somebody as president. But look
at Donald Trump again, I don't want to vote for him. I don't
want to vote for the guy who has I mean, now, he clearly
has experience as president, but I don't know if it's the right experience as
president, and I don't know if we need to continue going down that path
of division. Like that's the part I don't like about it. I wonder
if the presidency is going the way of governors, where governors, I think,
by and large are like cheerleaders are like like Arnold Twarzenegger was perfect.
I don't really think he did the work. I don't really think Donald Trump
did the work. I don't I think that now it's just kind of like
the cheerleader of the party and Michelle Obama, I think despite her lack of
experience, I think she has a lot of experience in being an intelligent person
who would surround herself with the people that Democrats would be comfortable with running the
country. Yeah, and that's I mean, you said that the other day
when we talked about Michelle Obama. The opportunity for someone to put together a
team of people, and that's why some of the you know, some of
the candidates will talk about who they would put in their cabinet, you know,
and they want to show you the voter that they are smart enough to
put the smart people in the cabinet, whether they agree with them or not.
I think it's you know, you got to have people in the cabinet
that'd be willing to tell you no. And I don't know if she is.
I would hope that she would. I mean again, I think we're
miles away from Michelle Obama becoming a candidate because she, along with the Reva
Martin, would never want a sidestep Kamala Harris. Yes, that's true,
that is very true. So Gavin Newsom could care less. He doesn't care.
He he wants it for him. He will rapes over her body.
Daily Mail had another not a scathing article because it's all information that we've seen
before, but it was a breakdown of who Gavin Newsome is, talking about
addiction, talking about his companies, talking about Kimberly Gilfoyle, talking about the
nineteen year old that he was giving wine to at an event that he started
dating, the best friend's wife that he started banging around with in Morin.
We know exactly who he is. Who that rich guy, that entitled guy,
the guy who thinks he can do anyone he wants to do, and
do anything and do anything he wants. Yeah, and the great quote in
that article was he doesn't have any real friends. Of course he doesn't because
he's not a real person. There's nothing there to be friends with. Now,
all right, more information, more stories, No more Biden. Now
we'll get back to that and swamp watch later on. We'll cleanse our palates
with something. Gary and Shannon will continue. You're listening to Gary and Shannon
on demand from KFI AM six forty. I don't think either one of us
was endorsing Michelle Obama to be president. But people listen. People hear what
they want to hear. I don't think I've ever endorsed anybody for anything.
That's That's the other thing is you can't. I don't jump on the back
of any sort of politician. What an awful I really don't find them to
be people that I aspire to be. Unfortunately, we're at a place in
this country where only the most cutthroat, most shady people rise to the levels
of power in politics. Manipulative, manipulative, horrible people that have to do
horrible things in terms of achieving and cultivating their power. That's one of the
reasons why I never got into the world of television, I mean our business.
Everybody asked, well, why how come you don't do more TV or
something? And I just remember remember being in school hearing from TV people who
are working in the business about what they had to do to each other just
to get ahead. So cutthroat, So cut throat just wasn't my personality.
And all the makeup you'd have to wear and the outfits makeup doesn't find I'm
fine with that, Yeah, but your face is being fake and you have
to you have to put on the facade you have to be you have to
be happy and pretty, and you are very pretty and usually happy, but
sometimes I don't know if you're making a better thirsty You should take a drinks.
Happy birthday, Shannon. I discovered the Gary and Shannon Show during the
pandemic. You've brought me so much joy and laughter. Oh, thank you
so much, wonderful. Happy birthday, Shannon. You look great for sixty
three. Good morning, Shannon, you do have a brain. Not many
people nowadays know who doctor Lawrence Peter is. Thank you for the prince and
happy birthday. Oh do go Google. Do you know what the Peter principle
is? Probably? Okay, it's where people keep getting promoted to the point
where they have no skills in their current position, and then they don't get
promoted anymore. Did he work in radio? Oh my god, I remember
his show. Okay, So upflation is a new thing. You're not going
to get me in trouble on my birthday. Upflation is a new thing because
companies are trying to guard their revenue. They're trying to claw back sales,
and they're creating things that you don't need, like whole body deodorance. Ops,
I forgot to put deodoran on, so if I smell like hand soap,
it's because I use some of that from the kitchen when I got here.
Old honestly, no, no, no, no, we're not ignoring
that. We're not. You decided. Did you shower this morning? Yes?
Okay, so you already have hit the hot spots with sew hit the
hot spots. And but it's a warm day out there. Out there,
it is, it's sixty two degrees in here. Yeah. But when I
was driving in and then we're walking in from the garage, started to get
a little you know, in my age, you start to sweat more than
you did. So I went to the kitchen here and I got the uh,
you know, the hand soap, and I got in there, hit
that hot those hot spots again. Do you smell it? No? And
but I'm now I'm afraid that if I do smell anything close to it,
I'll be like, oh, I feel gross. Why it's better than than
not using it? I have there were never eight years, I've never smelled
that, right, and I want to keep it that way. Yes,
I'm assuming that you would, and I would appreciate that. But this hand
soap, well that it was either hands super dish. So I thought we
had emergency deodorant in the office. We do not. Oh you went through
that already. So anyway, companies are coming out with stuff that you don't
need, things like whole body deodorance for fourteen dollars a pop, or intimate
raisers specifically for tricky areas with a five dollars markup on a regular shaver.
You don't need this stuff, don't fall for it. So uh okay.
I have noticed a lot of especially for women, the all over body deal.
Yes, women, you don't need that. Take a shower every day,
You're fine. They're what they're doing is they're trying to capitalize on women's
insecurities, and it's ridiculous and wrong, and I think it's weird now this
day and age, especially since women are so I'm going to be what I'm
going to be, and I'm not going to conform to a man's idea of
what I'm going to be. Right, you know, women are grown out
there underarm hair, they're letting their their hair go gray. They're living their
lives and they're going to be whole. They're gonna they're going to listen to
an advertiser tell them that they need all over body deodorant. Or what have
you. You don't need that soap. It seems like this is just so
personal. Products are one version of it. But we see it in food
too. Probably you see it in insurance. You see it in all different
places. You know, they sell you a product that is that is trendy
but not entirely necessary, and then since it's trendy, that's when they can
put the added on costs. Right, how long have you been using your
all over body deodorant for four days? Amazing? I just thought and I
thought originally it was because I have a new puppy. I thought that's what
that smell was. That was not it, That was not it. So
all right, La County has spilled over into Orange County. The toniest mall
in Orange County was the Victim of Violence where guys ran over a sixty nine
year old there yesterday. We'll tell you how it went down when we come
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