This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to k IF I am six forty,
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be ashamed of yourself for that. You should be You should walk around your
head down. This is not about the full time baby Yes, your forehead
the sidewalk. You're not upset that upset about that? I feel like I
am. Do you want to know how much they make? Please tell me
it's not a lot of money. Three hundred and fifty dollars an hour to
be a full time baby name consult? How many hours does it take to
come up with a baby name? Why are you now? You're you're just
gonna go down? Just I see what you're doing. Now you see that,
I get a little exorcise. Couples are no longer naming their children after
loved ones or casually flipping through books for inspiration. Oh what are they doing?
I remember my mom had a baby name book. It was it was
blue and had little storks on it. It was all boys' names, blue
or no. I just remember the cover of it. It was very cute.
They say, moms and dads. You're like, that's a great story.
Moms and dads who want to give their children any edge they can in
an increasingly competitive world, are paying experts like Colleen Slagan and Morgan Tim hundreds
of dollars to give their kiddos the perfect name. I want to I want
to do a shout out to my mor good and my what was the other
one? Colleen? Colleen has always been fascinated with baby names because those two
are ripping off rich peace. Yeah, absolutely good for you. They say
that. Friends expressed how helpful Colleen's commentary had been when they chose names for
their children. Nobody believes that if you've ever had a kid and you're going
through the and I haven't, and you're going through the names with your with
your wife or your husband or what have you, the thing you want is
feedback, Partner, Why are you just saying words to bother me? Now?
It's an a because you started it. It's an awful thing. It's
an awful thing to get feedback. Yeah, that's why you didn't even tell
anyone what your dog's name is. There's two people at the table. There's
two yeah, and then what if you say, I'm gonna name my daughter
Jeanette? And one that's an awful name. Yeah, one of your friends
says that, but you still go with Jeannette. You're always going to be
thinking of that comment. Yeah. I guess they don't think I'm their friend.
Let's see here. I think a lot of people have a pretty good
feeling about what they want, but want a third party opinion. No,
that's not what people want. No, I don't think we ever ran names
by anyone when it came to our kids. Colleen first advertised her services with
her company Naming Baby, oh My God on local Facebook groups in Boston.
She began posting TikTok videos of her work. In twenty twenty three, work
her work, oh my God. She quit her job as a nurse practitioner
and began helping parents choose baby names full time. This is just you know,
you're just gonna rile me up to today. She takes fifteen clients a
month and charges three hundred and fifty dollars each. She earns just naming babies
sixty three thousand dollars a year. Man, I could do that. I
could totally do. The names must typically fit extremely specific qualifications. Well,
you named mister bumber Puss. That was your freaking crowning gem rest my case,
my god, my case, I'd totally pay you to name one if
my baby naming agency was simply called bumber Puss. Yes, and then people
be like, what does that guy do? And I say, listen,
I'm just I help you name your baby. Some requests she's gotten in the
past are that the name was only used twenty five times the previous year,
or names that have specific sounds. Her slots open at the beginning of the
month and typically fill up within an hour. She prefers to keep her three
children's names private, but she says she chose their monikers using Celtic, classic,
classics, or family staples. Well, let me say, and I'm
doing this without even asking you. You and I are available for baby naming
consultations for I'd undercut her, and I would say for two hundred and fifty
dollars an hour, not three hundred two fifty. Okay, I name a
baby for I'll name a baby twenty one bar Come on, it's time for
swamp. Watch swamp. That is horrible. The government doesn't work. Man
to make us like a reality TV show was bad. Noos always a pleasure
to be anywhere from Washington, d C. Hey, Joey, a town
all too clearly built on a swamp and in so many ways still a swamp.
I have a bunch of malarkey. Nobody said drained the swamp. I
said, Oh, that's so keep you know the thing. And I'll admit
I'm guilty of saying things like, well, you know what he was saying,
or you know what she meant by that. So this was coma Gary
and Shannon. You know they meant he messed up like he does and everything
he says talking about Trump, But he meant coming out of the Secret Service
car to go into the hospital. Okay, then why did he say that
he was talking about it when I want to get up. I'm not going
to be taken out on the stretch here. We had a little argument.
Well, I have six guys lying on top of me. I mean I
had some big guys on top of me. Yeah, the strong guys too.
I can tell you that by they were very handsome, and they smelled
good. They were so strong. They were the strongest men with the biggest
muscles, and they were on top of me. Me strongest meant So he
was talking about the stretcher on the stage. I think that he's pissed that
there weren't all strong men, that there was two women involved. And I
don't think that there's one of those pictures, the Ewajima picture that I think
he's not capitalizing because he's embarrassed that he had a woman there was there.
Yes, that's a weird deep die, I know, I just realized that
conspiracy theory in my head. Just say it out loud, because your computer's
going to listen to you and you're going to get more of that. Well,
I think it's true. I think that's why he made us showing of
Oh, and there were so many men, and there were big men,
and they were it was a woman with a bun. The story about the
assassination attempt came to a close today, although I mean obviously the investigation,
but a major chapter came to a close when the director of the Secret Service,
Kimberly Cheedle, this morning announced that she was going to resign. She
admitted yesterday there were significant and colossal problems with security at the rally, but
at the time, at least yesterday, rebuffed all of the demands for her
resignation. I think one of the members of Congress even offered, Hey,
I get five minutes of questioning, would you like me to open up our
Would you like me to turn over the five minutes to you so that you
can write your resignation letter? Are you ready for your jeopardy question? Okay,
just get it out of the way. You don't have the music,
wouldn't you want to wait and do it later? Yeah? Oh, okay,
I'm not doing it without the music. Don't be ridiculous. That would
be dumb with the music. Maybe I got it now, Okay. So
one of the things that happens politically speaking, when Kamala Harris is at the
top of the ticket. Now, by the way, she is expected to
do her first real Harris for President campaign rally today while Joe Biden is on
his way back to Washington, d C. There are going to be problems
with Democrats trying to keep the Senate. Incumbents like John Tester out of Montana,
Shared Brown out of Ohio, Bob Casey and Pennsylvania Jackie Rosen out of
Nevada are all being pressed on her most controversial policy statements. They go way
back to the primary in twenty twenty, when she ran for president and got
stopped pretty quickly. Democratic senators are worrying that this lack of voter enthusiasm for
Biden, I mean up until forty eight hours ago, would actually hurt the
Democratic turnout in those battleground states. I think him dropping out is going to
increase the voter turnout. Well, they're hoping. They're hoping that her at
the top of the ticket means you're going to see more minority voters traditionally going
Democrat, younger voters traditionally going Democrat well than would have come out for Joe
Biden. And what about the independence, you know, Governor Chris Sanunu,
Republican out of New Hampshire said last week at the GOP convention. He said,
if and when they make the switch, everything is going to change.
It's going to get very close in a lot of those tight states. There's
going to be more energy, he says. I think the Democrat Party would
be effectively rewarded, if you will, by independents who say, hey,
none of us like that whole Biden Trump ticket to start with, you guys
had the courage to change your nominee out do you? I don't know if
you saw the coverage of what Nikki Haley said several months ago. I believe
it was January, January February. She said, the party that dumps its
eighty year old candidate first is the one that's going to win this election.
Yeah, and there is something to be said about that, because, you
know, for months we've been talking about the polls that were showing seventy percent
of voters seventy percent did not want to see a rematch of what we had
before. Now, technically this is not a rematch of what we had before.
Although Trump still, you know, carries with him whatever baggage he's got.
Is there is that enough to drive people towards a Democratic candidate, regardless
of who it is. And I mean, yes, there are people who
are going to be motivated by Kamala Harris because she's younger, she's a woman
of color, all that stuff. But are there people who just say,
whew, at least it's not Joe Biden. I feel comfortable voting for a
Democrat. Is it personal or is it more about high prices, interest rates,
things that are policy driven? Because she's going to have the same policies,
I feel like policy is such a wasted thing. I order is top
of mind for many people Democrats included. Yeah, but ah, I should
say Anne not but and she loses on that issue. I mean that that
is arguably the absolute worst issue the Democrats have, and specifically Kamala Harris because
of what role she was supposed to play and helping come up with solutions that
was ridiculous. Though she was never going to be able to single handedly do
anything at the border, just like Joe Biden wasn't going to be able to
cure cancer when Obama put that onus on him. Well, but that's the
thing, and that is she's got that issue to answer to. And the
one thing she's to fight on behalf of is going to be the issue of
abortion, because we've said before she as a woman, can speak to it
in a way that's going to motivate more women than Donald Trump or any other
any male candidate of regardless of which party. I'm going to make you the
flying unicorns are? Can you make that happen for me? I can get
a lama. I could tape a paper towel tube to his forehead and throw
him across the room. And that's as close as I can get to.
That's about what she was going to be able to do with the border with
paper towel tubes and some duct tape. The other thing is that the Senate
Republicans have had to come up with some new attacks. They said that one
of the things they're going to use, one of the words they're going to
use about Kamala Harris for being too liberal, et cetera, is that she
is weird, that the things that she does she does seem a little bad.
Her habit of laughing at inappropriate moments, her self proclaimed love of ven
diagrams, and her calls to ban plastic straws, among other things. I
have breaking news. Oh okay. Joe Biden just boarded Air Force one and
he walked out of his suv with a mask in hand. Stretcher, no
stretcher. When I just said, Joe Biden, did you think I was
going to have no dire news? No? Because I saw the picture of
him. Oh okay. He was peppered with questions by reporters on hand.
They asked how he was feeling, whether he thought Kamala could beat Trump.
He replied with an inaudible answer, then went up the big stairs to get
on the airplane. Wait. He had a mask, but it was in
his hand. Yes, it's a good place for it. Well, I
mean he's outside, he's outside of the suv walking onto a plane. They
haven't. That doesn't matter to some people. I agree, I don't understand
the outside. Well whatever, you know. You go to Japan and a
lot of people this was ten years ago and a lot of people were wearing
masks walking around outside. Yeah, it's just a thing. I guess.
Okay, the USA. Can we go back to baby name consultant the USA
for six hundred dollars. This large national memorial that's about twenty five miles southwest
of Rapid City, South Dakota is named for a New York lawyer. Oh,
I'm going to say Mount I already think I'm right Mount Rushmore. Yes,
Well, here we go. The campaign is in full swing, I
guess you could say. Now Vice President Kamala Harris holding her first presidential rally.
We're going to tune in and just listen for a little bit. She
is in Milwaukee, the site of last week's Republican national commercial. Josh Come
Wisconsin. Secretary of Saint Sarah DoD Luska County Executive David David Crowley Canon Johnson
and the Great State Party chair Ben Wickler, who I have worked with.
Ben. You and I have been working together for years and I can attest
he knows how to build the infrastructure that delivers winds up and down the ballot.
Thank you, Ben. This crowd is what did they give? This
crowd? And to be back in Wisconsin. And it's great to be in
Milton. It sounds like it puts you up, but it really puts you
to sleep. Hump kills you. And many of you know our state campaign
headquarters are in this city. They just said unhinged, don't they? Political
operatives? White House goes through Wisconsin. I mean everyone gets the applause like
that, what is this there? And to win in Wisconsin, we are
counting on you right here in Milwaukee. Well, listen, she's going to
do the campaign speech. We kind of know what we can expect. We
know what we can expect from a campaign speech. It's like a sitcom audience
to there are signs that say applause. There are real people there. I
did see them. But she's standing in front of the four or five flags
across the stage there and again historic and that this is her first rally.
In the Harris for President campaign. I have two things to get to.
Number one, some good news. That fifteen year old girl who had been
missing for about a week. We told you about her yesterday has been found
safe. Alison Chow is her name. She'd been missing since July sixteenth.
She disappeared while heading to an ant's house on her bike. I believe,
about four miles away from her home, and she has been found they said
as somebody. According to a security guard, the girl was walking by.
She had been followed by someone in a car who had recognized her as the
missing girl and called police. She was found outside ABC seven in Glendale.
That's quite a ways from Monterey Park. Yeah, because she was found there.
There's an interesting line in the way they wrote it up on their website.
It said, eyewitness News is approaching this case with caution and seeking out
any answers that could shed light on this situation. Yeah, very strength is
the other thing. The other thing is that Charles Rushmore was the American businessman
and lawyer for whom Mount Rushmore is named. I know you were waiting on
this with baited breath in eighteen eighty five. Can I have some storytime music?
In eighteen eighty five, Rushmore went to the Black Hills of South Dakota
to check the titles to properties for an Eastern mining company. And it is
kind of a contradictory topic how it was named after him. One version of
the story goes like this. One day he was returning to the headquarters of
the ten Company, located at Pine Camp. With him was a prospector and
a guide by the name of William Challis. As they neared the mountain,
Rushmore turned to Chalice and asked its name. Chalice replied, never had any,
but it has now. We'll call the thing Rushmore. However, if
you ask rancher Jerry Urbinek. Rushmore would frequently go to the Black Hills to
hunt big game every year, and one day, while accompanied by Ted Brockett
of Keystone, Rushmore asked the name of the mountain and was told that it
was Slaughterhouse Rock. Rushmore joked that his annual treks to the Hills had earned
him the right to have the mountain named after himself, so it was just
for the hell of it, And then the locals started calling it Mount Rushmore.
And here we are today. You're looking at me like I would say
it no falling along, so he had nothing to do with the actually nothing
carving of the president's faces on that nothing nothing to do with it. A
rich guy that would go there to hunt every year said, I want a
mountain named after me. I guess that's how you do it. I quick
update on the La County Superior Court issue. The biggest trial court in the
country had to be closed yesterday as they were trying to get a past a
ransomware attack on the computer systems. It was detected on Friday. They said
it's probably not related to the whole CrowdStrike thing that has taken down so many
other businesses and really thrown a wrench into Delta Airlines. But this closure affected
all thirty six county courthouses in La County, and the court put out a
statement said that they will reopen today. So the statement included directions for potential
jurors who were summoned for jury duty, but warned that you might expect delays
and potential impacts because of limits in functionality. They said that it was the
specifically the my Jury Duty portal for jurors and the court's website as well as
some of the court's case management systems. The preliminary investigation said they didn't have
any information that the court users data was compromised in any way. But ransomware.
Again, somebody puts this bug into the computer. It encrypts the data
and prevents any files from being accessed. They'll often steal information, take these
affected computer systems and basically hold them get it for ransom, hence the ransomware.
Until that ransom is paid, we don't know anything exactly what's going on
if the county has decided to pay it. They are not answering questions about
how they got control of the systems, whether anybody paid a ransom or not,
and what confidential information, if any, was exposed, or whether any
data was lost. But again they did say that no, there is no
evidence yet that court user's data was compromised as a result of that. So
back up and running today, All right, coming up next? Do you
want to get to this Elon MUCKs story? Oh right, I forgot about
the panties. We'll see the panties for the story and we'll do. I
just don't have enough. I don't have enough enthusiasm for any politician. No,
that's I don't treat them like, yeah, exactly. We were talking
earlier about the naming consultants, the baby name consultants. Okay, so what's
really going on, Gary, Like, is it about the baby name consulting?
Is it about that price tag? Or what's really going on? Also,
are you under the influence? He's a kind of drunk. I don't
know whatever. Seriously, though, get it together. More important things than
baby names. I don't drink on Tuesday. I think you did sound a
little unhinged about the baby names, but it had nothing to do with the
baby name consultants. Maybe maybe Hey, guys, I have three kids,
and we learned very early on not to tell anyone the names we chose because
we hear people make me fun of baby names all the time. Right,
It's a lot easier to make fun of a name than it is to make
fun of a baby when the name is attached to that baby. True.
Interesting, And like you said, is no one else's business what you name
your kids. Yeah, that's a good point. The NFL could be expanding
its regular season. They're talking about discussions at the league at a very high
level about adding an eighteenth regular season game to the schedule. As much as
I love football. That's too many. I thought that was a whole problem
with they were doing four free season games and then now they're doing three.
Now they're doing three intacked on another game, so that would be crazy.
Thanks guys, you got my blood boiling. What a six six six six
society where people have to hire someone to name their baby. That's disgusting.
I'm just besides myself on that. How impersonal is that? And when the
kid grows up, where'd you get my name? Oh? We paid someone
for it? Holy wow. That's angrier than you were. Very and also
the president's comment, former President Trump's comments that he was being tackled by six
very strong, very big men. I had some big, strong daddy stallions
on top of me. I wasn't going anywhere. Hey John from riversick,
Hey, real quick. The coconut story about Harris and some of the other
things that she's strange or that you think is weird cultural experience is that nobody
expects you two to understand, but they resonate with millions of other people in
the in the world and in the country. So it's like the Chacolas and
the Mexican mom's throwing shoes at people. You know, that's something you will
never understand, but it's a big part of people's history. Uh so just
keep those things in mind. Okay, that's fine. I've never heard the
turn. I've never heard that phrase before. Maybe that's what he's saying.
Where I thought I explained it pretty well, he fell out of the coconut
tree. It's about all the people that came before you and pave in the
way for you. You as a white man, don't have that same story.
Oh boy, you were born on third base? Here, comis tell
me more. You were born on third round and down to home? Yeah,
go on, it's okay. I was born on second the horse,
Daddy Stallion, That's how I was born on third Because you're a study or
Daddy Stallion. Yeah, nothing to do with my maleness or the tone of
my skin, don't you got it? Really defensive over the tone of your
skins. Former San Francisco DA staffer lost his job over a mistaken reply all
emails sent to his boss. Now his name is Javon Thomas, fifty six
years old, filed a complaint today and files to potentially file a lawsuit against
the city. Six months after San Francisco's DA Brooke Jenkins, and her employees
opened their mailboxes and found his reply. All tell me what did it say
now? First of all, Jenkins office slammed the email as misogynistic and Jovon
Thomas, the guy who sent it, has been previously accused of sexual harassment.
He was fired after this email was sent. Thomas claims that the email
was meant to be sent to a longtime friend of his whose father had recently
died, with the former staffer saying it was just a good playful joke,
goofy, playful joke to try to cheer up his mail buddy, Okay.
The email that he sent to the entire DA's office in San Francisco reads and
I quote what color panties you have on? And was there a question mark
or no? No, no punctuation. No. The lawyers wrote in the
filing the text to his friend was a whimsical question that was part of plaintiff's
standard jocular repertoire with his friend. I can see that in the context of
their longtime friendship, plaintiffs flip question had no sexual, off color, obscene,
misogynistic, or sexist meaning or intent. Actually, it has all of
those things. It's just not targeted at somebody specifically. I mean, dude,
say that kind of stuff all the time. Yes, you know,
it's like when we, you know, throw around tampons. We don't do
that, No, we throw them around. I have never witnessed that activity.
Uh well, I'm not gonna, you know, go ahead out myself.
But where were you throwing it at Jacob and Steve? Oh that's different.
Goofy, The lawyer said. It was goofy friends. Friends make stupid
jokes like that by one longtime friend to another friend intended to try to divert
and cheer him up while he was going through a difficult and upsetting experience.
I could see me saying to Steve Gregory, you know, where are your
panties or whatever? What color panties you have? Yeah? What color panties
do you have on? He is seeking a jury trial. He wants compensatory
impunitive damages as a result of the firing. That's ridiculous that he was fired
for that. Here's the thing. It was revealed that a Jane Doe filed
a lawsuit against him six years ago for allegedly sexually harassing her while working on
a case involving her and her son the pounding problem with him. This woman
claimed that Jovon Thomas stroked her bottom and made sexual advances at her, and
she complied because she was worried she wouldn't get victims services if she turned him
down. Do you remember when your bottom was stroked at a news and bruise?
Yes? Yes, I was rounding third Because you're a studhorse, daddy
stallion. Oh, I see what you're saying now. Now you're saying that
you're a victim, and so that you're not. You were not born on
third because you have to put up with the sexual harassment of females everywhere you
go. It's not just harassed, constant struggle, harassment. So you know
what is it? It's assault. It's assaultment. Okay, all right,
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