This is Gary and Shannon, and you're listening to KFI AM six forty,
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I really enjoy warm weather. That's all. That's the end of my
story. That's a great story. All of this heat wave stuff. We
have to talk about it because I know people. You know, it's not
like they can't tell that it's hot themselves. But I love the heat.
I love it. I love walking around in it. Of course, I
love coming in to the air conditioning after I've been in the heat for a
long time. But I don't mind walking around. I don't mind working out
in it and playing it's good. I would walk my dog in it,
but he doesn't walk apparently I got a broken one and his legs are too
short. He doesn't like to go on walks, well, not yet.
And you're not supposed to walk on the midle of the day because its sidewalks
get super short. How do you feel about the cold? What kind of
cold? I don't like to wear shorts in the cold. If that's what
you're asking, I mean, I would rather This is the kind of Gary
and Shannon. This is Gary from Corona Gary Joe Biden should wait to announce
his withdrawal until ten minutes after Trump announces his vice president during the Republican Convention.
Totally take the wind out of Trump's sales. Yeah, I'm listening.
I'm I'm telling you. There is something to be said of owning the headlines.
And that's one way to own the headlines is to make an announcement during
the Republican Act. Trump would hate it. Oh, he would hate it.
Gary should do cocaine. I'm not looking again, I'm not necessarily looking
for the bump that I just I would like to have a soda of something
that's busy waters, bubbles or something. I don't know why. That's a
bubble. That's a brand that Jacob puts those things down pretty regularly. Oh
really, I'm on that's the best brand. Puller a polar, pretty good
color, tastes like a soda. I have spend drift right now. That's
in my fridge. That's one of those I have, like a grapefruit.
Be a million different types of these things. There used to there used to
be only New York seltzer. Do you remember I loved New York Seltzer cherry.
Yeah, that was a great Gary. I just I wanted to say,
like just man up man, drink a rain or a monster or a
bang thres a caffeine man man hook Damn, it's just started getting heart palpitation,
say I felt my my my diabetes kickback in. I'm sorry, but
this entire section of your show today is radio gold, absolute radio gold.
Was that the penis stuff? Probably? What else is going on? Time
for what's happening? It's a good thing. We did it after eleven?
Is that the safe harbor? The boss and she tell you not to say
it? What was the word you can? Yeah, not before eleven?
Something like that, something like that. It is anatomy, you know,
it is a part of the body. Yeah, you're not using a strange
euphemism. That's what your doctor would call it. That's what my doctor would
call it. A warning from a woman in yellow Stone came in just after
midnight July fourth. She had been held at gunpoint by a guy who said
he planned to carry out a mass shooting on July fourth. This was a
guy from Florida ended up dying at a scene when he got into a shootout
with rangers outside of a dining area with about two hundred people inside. He
shot a bunch of bullets of the rifle at the service entrance. Rangers were
able to shoot him. Samson Lucas Beriah Fussner. That is the name of
a of a serial killer. Yes, apparently after that woman called it in,
the rangers spent the next several hours trying to find the shooter until he
showed up outside that dining area. Yikes. Those three guys who were charged
with the robbery attempt that ended up killing the woman from New Zealand at Fashion
Island made their first court appearance yesterday. Finally, well huh, look at
this. They all have priors in La County, where we don't treat criminals
that way. We just lets you run amongst the other unicorns and unicorn land
with sparkles raining down upon you. Part of the bonus show that people got
yesterday was I did the first segment of the John coblt Show and Corbyn Carson
came on, and not only were police very upset with the fact that at
least the twenty six year old of these three guys had had not gone to
prison, basically accused the La County DA of lying about why that guy had
not gone to prison, used a gun and commit of a crime stealing a
role excess to somebody, so circumstance that they don't charge anymore. Well,
because guns are what good or bad? They don't know. They can't make
up their mind. Well, we've got some gruesome details about a violent and
bloody double homicide that included the death of a dog and the suspect being shot.
This happened at an Orange County mobile home park earlier in the week.
San Juan Capistrano Wow, Orange County Sheriff said deputies responded to this horrific scene.
Their words, two elderly victims, a seventy nine year old woman and
her husband seventy seven, both had been decapitated, along with their dog.
My Goodness, forty one year old son had lived in this community with his
parents. Any sign of mental illness, I would say that is a sign
of mental illness. The Alec Baldwin trial continues down in Santa Fe, New
Mexico, and the armorer, who has already been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter
for the death of the cinematographer on that set, is expected to testify.
She will be called to the stand we believe tomorrow she is already serving that
eighteen month sentence for her role in the shooting death. She has been transferred
to Santa Fe where she is going to be held where the trial, i
should say, is being held. Baldwin held the gun that fired the bullet,
could face eighteen months if he is convicted as well. Now she was
the one, as the armorer who was responsible for all of the weapons on
the set. She said during a pre trial interview a couple of months ago
she would be unwilling to cooperate, that she did not want to testify in
this case. Costco is raising the membership fees going up for the first time
since twenty seventeen. The fees are going up about five bucks to about ten
bucks. The executive membership the fe Nancy one is going up to one hundred
and thirty dollars a year. Well, Jason Nathanson has the whole rundown about
Kevin Costner's disaster at the box office. Two things first, I'm honored Gary
you named the dog after my father, so thank you for that. Come
and Shannon, welcome back from suspension. Thank you, thank you. Let
me know when you figure out what I did wrong. Yes, I went,
Yes, Kevin Costner, I mean we saw this coming. After the
opening weekend for Horizon and American Saga earned just eleven million dollars for a film
that costs a reported one hundred million to make, of which Kevin Costner put
in from what we're in what we understand, about forty million of his own
money to make just that first film. He sold property, leverage things.
This was his his magnum opus. I guess because it was going it was
supposed to be four parts of this movie, and the second part was already
dated to come out in August, but after that the first opening weekend,
and I think to date it's made twenty five million dollars, which for one
hundred million dollar movie, you have to make somewhere at least around two hundred
million to even start to try to make your money back. So that's not
gonna happen. So New Line, in coordination with Warner Brothers, who is
the company that distributed it, said that August date, yeah, not gonna
happen. For Chapter two, we're gonna put it on DVD or paid video
on demand rental starting July sixteen, can put it on VHS exactly. Well,
that might be the only way to get some of the older audience that
they're looking for to see it. But they're gonna put it on paid video
on demand rental, where they think it has a better shot of actually making
some money in order to let audiences get a chance to discover it, they
say, and then hopefully that'll then drive fervor. That sounds like a bunch
of bologney. Yeah, I mean it's it's it's their way of From a
business sense, it does kind of make sense because look, the biggest sector
of the movie going public that did not come back after the pandemic was older
audiences, right, and this is an older audience movie. I think it
skewed well over forty five years old for the average audience who actually did go
to see it, and those who were, you know, going to see
it were ones that liked westerns and like, you know, Yellowstone, although
Yellowstone is one of the most watched shows on television, so that has a
kind of a broader audience. But this is always going to skew older and
old. Older audiences just have not gone back to theaters in the same numbers
as everybody else does, and that doesn't mean people aren't going back to theaters.
They are in big numbers, as we've seen recently with Inside Out two
you know now is the highest grossing Pixar film and other films as well.
People will go to the theater, but the older audiences the stairway, they
don't go opening weekend. They take their sweet time, and a lot of
them are just happy to see it at home. Also, when your moviees
three hours hours in one minute long, that's going to keep people out of
theaters as well, especially the older audience. You said that you were going
to hold off in your review until the second movie came out because you wanted
to experience the entirety of yes you do listen, that's so nice and what
happens to the right now. But now we're just left dangling in the wind.
Well, we'll see chapter two at some point, whether we see chapters
three and four, that's the big up in the air question. Chapter two
is done. It's going to come out, whether it gets dumped somewhere on
paid video on demand, whether it gets dumped on Max whatever. But you're
going to watch it. Oh yeah, okay, so we're still have to
wait. I've invested three hours already in chapter one. Darn touton, I'm
going to watch the rest of it. He's pot committed at this bat,
I will Does it end on the cliffhanger kind of? No? Not really,
so it's just weak stream huh, yeah, it's you know. And
again, as I mentioned the first time, this probably would have been better
conceptualized as a series. That is not the case here. I will say,
though, because I know you are dying for that number on the review,
I need to know how many nats it gets. It was in the
fives. I would say, as it stands right now, five point.
Is there any chance that I know you said that the second part is coming
out, there's no chance that this ends up like Bad Girl, completely made
and never released. I wouldn't say there's no chance that happens. I mean
there always is a chance. I think again, they're shifting their strategy here,
and if that shift doesn't work, say they put this on premium VOD
and people don't you know, in big numbers go and pay to see it,
and then the next after that would probably be putting it on Max,
where I think it probably has a better chances. We've seen stuff go to
streaming, it does have a better chance of people watching it. It's just
all about how they want to try to make their money back. So will
it be in theaters, No guarantee of that. Will it act be released
in some form, whether that's street, the theaters are streaming. I think
there's a strong chance of that. Is there some weird like bat Girl,
Uh, you know underworld black market where it can find? It exists?
Not that I know of, no, because this it never saw the light
of day in any formd Somebody's got to have it, not necessarily there I
had. It's on a server somewhere, so it's got to be on a
Warner Brothers server somewhere and those are all locked down, and for somebody to
have gotten hold of that, I don't know. Like there's remember right before
the Luis c k scandal happened, there was a movie of his that was
supposed to come out and it never came out. This was back in twenty
eighteen. I got they they had just sent out the DVD screeners of that
for Award season. So I have that, so that exists. Did you
see the sorry not Sorry story about the reporting on I'm going to try to
watch that tonight because I'm very it looks right up your alley and seeing and
seeing that, because that was one of the more conflicted of of all the
me two things for me in terms of just I loved Louis c K.
And then when all the stuff came out, you know, it was very
hard to watch and stuff and listen to his stuff. We know he loved
you too. He just did it from across the room. He was more
into self love, wasn't he. He wanted me to watch him love himself,
That's what he was. I don't think he will that from you,
No, No, I think he wanted somebody to watch him, right,
but not you? But not me? Okay, I don't know how to
take that well because it was primarily female comics that he would expose himself to.
Okay, well down low, all right, If it makes you feel
better, sure, Louis c K wanted you to watch. Thank you.
That does make me feel better for some reason. Weird strange science. Thank
you. Jason Nathanson, entertainment reporter. It's such a weird little family,
aren't we. I can't wait we get our reunion together, our reunion.
Who you want to reunite? With well, I mean we don't get to
see Jason very off. That's true. I see what you mean. So,
uh, pickleball, you're gonna see him in shorts. We're gonna wait
till it's one hundred and six and then we're gonna play pickle That's great,
great idea. Well, would you be able to get on board with AI
if it could tell you what your dog's bark means? Yes, that this
would be the This would be the real AI. I don't need it,
you know, start in World War three or anything. It's where we kick
off strange science. Strange. It's like weird science, but strange. Researchers
at the University of Michigan studying how AI can be used to understand it dogs
communicate. Listen, we're trying to figure out whether the dog is being playful
or if they're being aggressive. They want to gather more information about vocalizations like
the age, the breed, the sex the dog, et cetera. And
they said, by using speech processing models trained on human speech, they may
be able to leverage what we built so far in speech processing to start understanding
the nuances of dog barks right now. They studied vocalizations from seventy four dogs
in very different contexts. There's so much we don't know about the animals that
share the world with us. They said. Their findings indicate the sounds and
patterns that originate from human speech can form the basis for examining and comprehending the
acoustic patterns of other sounds, which include animal vocalization. Don't you kind of
know, though, what your dog is barking about? Or what you kind
of get to know your dog? Right? It's like your baby crying?
Okay, yeah, I think so, you're I mean, using your own
AI. You do? You use your own AI? You use the context
of where are they? What are they looking at? Are they I mean,
are they barking? Oh, he's looking at that bird out there?
Are they looking at the spirits? Is he barking because he wants to go
out the back door? Is he barking because he heard a sound in the
front yard? All of that stuff seems some of that is kind of intuitive.
Yes, why are you concerned about your dog talking to the dead?
I believe that dogs see things that we don't. Really, Yeah, I
never knew this. Concerned, Well, I mean, I'm not concerned.
I feel like great. If they have that power, good for them.
Do you think that your dog is seeing your your your dog that has departed
us. It's possible. Trust me. We thought about that. Like,
he'll he'll walk past that certain part in the living room. Yeah, you
can sense it. Yeah, and he'll get like creeped out and he'll do
that weird look, like what was that? Did you guys feel that?
Oh? Really, it's weird. That's fascinating. Yes, no, I'm
fine, I'm okay. If I can't wait to come over and watch your
new dog talk to your dead dog, lucky you. Speaking of animals,
one new rare animal has been introduced. Reintroduced, I should say, to
meadow in Yosemite for the first time. More than one hundred toads flew over
California last week on their way to a remote meadow in Yosemite. The beautiful
toads, aren't they? I suppose I think they're beautiful. They're multicolored.
They're black and brown and orange and green. It's the first time anyone ever
raised that species in captivity and then released them to the wild. According to
Rochelle Styles, a conservation manager at the San Francisco Zoo, They actually put
tracking devices on these toads that were released, so they're very cute. The
Yosemite toad YEP is one of the only that can live in elevations over eleven
thousand feet several locations throughout Yosemite, but they were eradicated from the meadow in
twenty thirteen after the rim fire rolled through there. So there are new Speaking
of rolling over the cooked remains of your ancestors, there are new kittens at
the Columbus Zoo in Ohio, a new litter of near threatened cat species.
The two new palace cats were born July third to Tina and Moose, and
it's their second litter. Yeah. What do these things look like when they're
grown? I don't know. That's a funny because that's a night vision picture
that they have thereof Okay, long thick gray coat, flathead, short ear.
Oh it's very cute. I think I knew her. Look at this.
That's a nice looking cat. Yeah it is. And I don't even
like cats. When they were first discovered, some mistook them for wild ancestors
of domestic persians because they look so much alike. But the kittens and the
mom, Tina spending their time bonding behind the scenes. They will not be
viewable for guests. Two guests for about six weeks. They said the kittens
can emerge from their den. They should have their full adult coat according to
the zoo, and they say this is a joyous occasion for people who love
cats. Those astronauts still stuck up there. It's funny you should ask.
The answer is yes, uh oh, yeah, we'll talk about that.
And those the NASA, you wouldn't call them. They were marstronauts, the
ones who are gonna head to Mars. But they actually sat in a room
for a year with each other at each other, smelled each other, just
look smelled each other soup Gary and Shannon. I don't need AI to tell
me what my dog's bark means. A few weeks ago, I put my
dogs and their dog run and my my pit bull lab mix made a bark
that made me stop in my tracks. It wasn't a normal squirrel, raccoon
whatever bark. So I went to investigate and found both my dogs staring at
the corner of their run where there was a rattlesnake. That's terrifying, but
that's a good point. I didn't think about it until you said it.
But yes, you can tell the difference. There's there. You know,
if you you heard your husband exclaim, I don't know. I've never heard
him say RG or O or ah. Yeah, but if he did,
I mean you would know. You're familiar enough with his mannerisms that if something
was way out of the ordinary like that, yeah, you would. You'd
be able to tell. Not that your husband is treated like a dog.
He does not exclaim either, He's not an exclaimer, But you tell,
you could tell something, and his demeanor would have changed, probably body language.
You mentioned the Boeing Starliner capsule that finally took off after delays and then
got stuck at the International Space Station. Well, they decided yesterday they don't
really know and they're going to come home. The helium leaks, the thrust
or problems. Engineers are still looking into what caused them, which means that
they have not yet been cleared for departure. But in an interview that the
two astronauts did from the International Space Station, they did say yesterday that they
are both confident that if there was there's an emergency on the ISS, they
could crawl right back into that capsule and then that's it, like they would
have to wait at that point and then figure out how to get home.
Have you ever heard of HD one eight nine seven three three B? Is
that a star? It is an exoplanet discovered in two thousand and five,
and you should be lucky. You should feel lucky that we are sixty four
light years away from it. Because it smells like rotten eggs go on and
it rains glass. Wow, it's a beautiful planet. It's blue, it
looks gorgeous. But they say, don't be deceived. Weather here is deadly.
The planet's cobalt blue color comes from a hazy, blow torched atmosphere containing
clouds laced with glass. Have you read your your journal Nature that came on
Monday? Yet no in it. They say that they have just discovered not
only does it rain glass, but the pungent smell. They found new data
from the James Web Space telescope that detected a trace of hydrogen sulfide. And
they say, yes, the stinky smell adds to its already infamous reputation.
This is not a planet we humans want to visit. They said, it's
basically a hot jupiter, that it's about ten percent larger than our Jupiter,
not that it's ours, but it's ours. But it's much hotter than Jupiter
because it's about thirteen times closer to its star than Mercury is to our Sun.
Yikes, and all of that just through the web telescope. They can
tell all of that, just through that. I was at Griffith Observatory for
the first time in my life the other way, what did you learn?
I learned that I hate a lot of people, but I really enjoyed.
I love those science museumy things where there's the little description of this is what,
this is how they figured out right on gas exists in the that stuff
I could I could go through and look at every one of those exhibits.
I liked, especially the live view of the Sun that comes through that one
section and all the different reflections of the sun come through. How much did
you like all the people taking their Instagram photos? I wanted to push every
single one of them off of that cliff, yeah, off the ledge down
and tumble their body to the point where it was just dust, and then
just talked to a right on it. Just it was awful. There are
certain places that turn us all into homicidal beasts and it wasn't. I mean,
it's a beautiful The building is. Think about that place has been around
for almost one hundred years now, Griffith Observatory and all of the different things
that have been discovered and talked about there, and the movies and TV shows
that have been set there, the Paula Abdul videos that have been set there.
It's it's a beautiful. It's a great view everything, and people taking
pictures of themselves. It's all about them. It's all about them. How
awful anyway, in the Mars Chappie Crew Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog is
back on Earth. I mean they never left, but so was it Rush
Rush Yeah, with Keanu Reeves actually using that video they are. They came
out of the Martian Habitat simulation at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston on July
sixth. They're designed to help scientists, engineers, and mission planners understand how
living in another world with three of the most annoying people with you could actually
pan out. They had. It was about a seventeen hundred square foot space
and all four of these people did nothing for more than a year. The
three D printed habitat. They said to support human health and performance research to
prepare for future missions. And they have two more, one next year and
then one in the year after that as well. What is Keanu Reeves doing
in this video? Was this for a movie of some kind? No,
it's just a video for the song. This is also back when you could
pour millions of dollars into a video and it meant something, right, This
was they became sort of the marketing tool for all of the music that we
saw, because back in my day there was something called MTV and it stood
for music Television. Ah. My wife and I were trying to explain that
to our daughter and her friend as we're pulling up to Griffith Observatory. Oh,
there was this video that they made here and it was a song and
the song the video goes with the song. It tells kind of the story
of the song. And they were just like, huh is this TikTok TikTok
ah? And then a stegosaurus remains I guess a skeleton is up for auction.
One hundred and sixty one one million year old stegosaurus that was discovered in
Colorado a couple of years ago is going to be auctioned by Sotheby's in New
York. The dinosaur, the dinosaur that they call Apex, stands eleven feet
tall twenty seven feet nose to tail. And here's an interesting part of it.
The actual stegosaurus remains show signs of arthritis. They said it was a
complete enough that they referred to it as a coloring book dinosaurs. Now,
I want dino nuggets. Experts believe that the stegosaurus is used the tail spikes
to fight. This one didn't have any sign of combat, but did have
arthritis. Apex was found with a tail curled up beneath the body, which
is a common death pose for animals. Oh god, So I don't know
if they did that like humane in home version where the vet has to come
and put down the stegosaurus for you on your living room floor and everybody's crying,
and I hope not, because that's sad. You've been listening to The
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