This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kfi AM six forty The Gary
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six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Who told you that President Biden
tested positive for COVID So he is recovering, according to the White House self
isolated, alleged delaware recovering. He's recovering, experiencing mild symptoms, general malaise,
things like that Vice President Harris is going to be in North Carolina today
and a campaign stop amid all of these now calls for Joe Biden to step
down. It could be today, it could be before the president's speech tonight,
the former president soon to be president again speech tonight. He will be
Trump, will be getting the red carpet treatment tonight, officially will accept the
nomination to run for president. He has said that he tore up his old
speech and wrote a new one after the assassination attempt, and that he will
call for unity tonight in this speech. They had to do something to get
Biden off the campaign trail because it was just getting worse and worse with every
interview. Why the interview he did with the b ET yesterday. Oh,
I have that too, where he refers to Lloyd Austin as a black that
black man he can't remember his name of the man he appointed Secretary of Defense.
My dad was a working class guy. We lived in a three bedroom
home, four kids, and Grandpa lived with us. We weren't poor,
but we there wasn't any money left at the end of the day. And
so it's all about it's all about treating people with dignity, and it's about
making sure that we're coming. For example, look at the heat I'm getting
because I named a the sectarian defense, a black man I named Ketanji Brown.
I mean, because of the people I've named. It's about making it
clear that American is Black history. Black history is American history. Is this
being built by it? It's just getting worse. But white COVID that's the
other thing I don't understand. It's it's convenience. It's easy. It's convenient,
and you could get by with saying, well, you don't notice the
symptoms because they're mild. Well, if they were mild, why would he
be tested in the first place. Former President Barack Obama has expressed concerns to
Democrats about the candidacy. This might be the one. Well, the Pelosi
Obama won two punch, and it's tko. Obama, according to the Washington
Post, has spoken with Biden, but only once since the debate debacle,
and has been clear in his conversation with others that the future of the candidacy
is a decision for Biden to make alone, and that he emphasized that his
concern would be to protect Joe Biden and the Biden legacy and has pushed back
that he pushed back on the idea that he has that he alone could influence
Biden's decision making process. Pelosi showed Biden polling that he can't defeat Trump.
According to people familiar with the matter who are anonymous, they're trying to show
their math here. Well, if they wanted to protect Biden and protect his
legacy, that ship sailed months ago. It feels sailed before the debate.
It's one of those This is probably the work, not the worst example,
but the highest profile example of the insular lives that many politicians live. And
that's what's frustrating about politicians and people who are career politicians is they claim to
live, and they claim to live to serve, to live to serve their
constituents. But one of the things that we see over and over and over
again and many many of these politicians is that they are just out of touch
with everybody else. Yeah, and you know, a guy who's been in
it this long, it's understandable that he doesn't hear what the people are saying,
the people being the just general electorate, the polls that show, you
don't know how with it he is either well and who listen, you know
what I mean? He's not getting up and rolling over and grabbing his phone
and scrolling through Twitter every morning. We know that that's not who he is.
And we know that the shows he admittedly watches MSNBC is one of them.
He loves Joe Scarborough and watches that show. Those people are not going
to tell him. They're not going to show him the specifics of the public
sentiment which is now turned against him, I think, not even against him,
against his age and his condition. We've we all probably know of somebody
who got to be a certain age and you have to have that uncomfortable conversation
or just float the idea of the I'm not driving anymore. And it's one
of the hardest things to talk to somebody about because these are people who in
a lot of the pushback is I raised you did I changed your diapers.
You're not going to tell me that I can't use my car, You're not
going to tell me where I can go. And it's part of this personal
frustration of realizing that you're too old to fill in the blank here, that
you can't do that anymore, that something that you've spent your whole life doing
and owning and doing well, you can't do it anymore. And it's really
hard to come to that with your own self. It's hard to hear it
from somebody else. And that may be where Joe Biden is right now.
Maybe people are trying to gracefully gently tell him, hey, let's protect your
legacy. You can't do it anymore. And it's really hard, especially when
I don't know you're leader of the free world. It's not your driver license.
This is not the best connection to make. But last night, Kai
Trump one of don jus your kids. I think it's the oldest. It's
Donald Trump's oldest granddaughter, oldest grandkid. She spoke at the convention last night
and did what Laura Trump did the night before, which was humanized Donald Trump
and tried to tried to show people he's just a He's just a jolly grandpa
to us. That's who we think of him as. If the grandkids,
if his own kids came to him and said, Dad, Grandpa, we
want you for ourselves, for whatever time you have left. We want you
for ourselves. And we don't want to share you with the world. We
don't want to share you with Washington, d C. We don't want to
share you with you. That's the best version of backing out I've heard that
would be the best version. I mean, it's a it's a it's an
oak, it's a believable, it's a humanizing way. It's it's the turbo
storing the legacy way to get out of us. Yeah, it's the turbocharged
version of I need to spend time with my fan. There's no one who
would question that. No, No, that's a beautiful ending you've written.
Nobody asked me that's the problem. Nobody asked me if they only got on
the horn and did a Hong Kong. There are a bunch of people who
have decided that they think it's funny to post things about Oh I wish they
hadn't missed. Yeah, and those people are losing their jobs in all sectors.
Hey, can I have some America music for our hero story? Because
in America, heroes should be celebrated for their acts of heroism. Heroes not
always known. Some of them fade into the great good night and we never
know their names, but we thank them, yes and right, Yes,
but not here, not on this show where we celebrate heroes. And today
we have a local hero. It is our friend Henry. Of course,
I mean Harry Decarla. Only Henry's other Henry's. Now there's Nile. There's
no other Henry's Henry DeCarlo, the KTLA five Morning News meteorologists who helped rescue
an owl this morning alongside the roadway. Henry, take us through your owl
rescue. Oh Gary, So you guys are too nice. You're making me
out to be too good. But yeah, I was driving into work.
I live in an area where where I do see owl from time to time.
I love it. They're beautiful. And I was just driving on a
road over at bridge over the Santaana riverbence with a long stretch of road and
I found an owl kind of peering at me, beautiful bite face. I'm
like, oh, beautiful owl. And as I drove bike, it looked
like he kind of took a little hop of the skip and I'm thinking something
didn't seem right about that owl. But I kept driving. I was getting
ready to get on the on wrap. I'm like, oh, I don't
think I should leave that owl behind. I knew I was gonna be late
for work, but I turned around. I went back and went up to
the owl on the road, and I could just tell that he was not
able to fly. He was just kind of hopping around, so I knew
he wasn't gonna make it off that bridge alive. Was he a boweing owl
or was it a what kind of owl? Do you know? You know
it wasn't an I don't think it was at barn owl, but I'm not
sure exactly what kind of owl it was, and had a beautiful white face
to it. I would say he was probably an adolescent. He wasn't a
baby, but he didn't look like one of those big, full grown,
big owls. But you know, I knew that animal Control wouldn't be up,
so I called a non emergency line with the Sheriff's Department and said,
hey, I'm on the side of the road here and I'm not going to
leave until we get somebody out here for the owl. And they were really
responsive, and a deputy came out and the weed She had some sort of
kind of tupower bench for lack of a better word, and we were able
to get the owl in there, and then you know, we kind of
talked about it and shared about it, and then our station got a little
involved in and said, well, we got to find out what happened to
the owl. And turns out the isle into Orange, CA, the animal
care he his wing was heard, there was an open wound so he couldn't
fly, and they took it off to Serrano Bird Sanctuary, I believe.
But now the owl is going to get proper care and we're gonna, you
know, our hope obviously it makes a full recovery, goes back in back
into the wild where the owl belongs. But yeah, I'd like to think
it's what most people would do. You see poor animal on the side of
the road, and you know, I just I felt I couldn't leave the
poor guy there. So he's in good hands. Now, you know,
I should have thought, when we have been stuck in this news cycle of
reporting horrific things and terrible things and health conditions and all these questions that linger
when it comes to the leadership of this country, I should have known that
a hero story would present itself and it would be Henry to give it to
us. Like that's what we needed. We needed this story this week,
didn't we. I mean I did. Wow, I appreciate you thinking that
it Really I don't feel it was a big act, but I'm just you
know, my wife, we're all huge animal lovers, and there was just
you know, we are the type of people that when we see a dog
roaming in the neighborhood, we try to get the dog and find out it's
got a collar and then tag and all that stuff. So honestly, I
was I was thinking, Okay, I can leave leave this owl. I
could get to work and leave the owl and hear about it from my wife
the rest of my life, or I could just hear it from work for
one day. So my work was great. I told her, I like,
hey, I'm going to be late, and like traffic, I'm like,
no, I'm going to save an owl. I love that. Did
you name the owl or are you not assuming they are naming rights to this
owl. Well, that's a good question because we had a lot of viewers
that heard the story this morning, and we had a lot of clever names.
So I think, you know, I don't know whether it's a male
or female or maybe if we get more information, hopefully tomorrow, give an
update. Because it's funny. I say these things and it's like, you
don't really think much of it, and then people had come very vested in
it. Yes, and so yeah, people saying, oh, let's name
it this, and let's name it that. A lot of creative names,
so we may have a name, you know, depending on the with the
outcome I believe is going to be a great outcome for the owl. It
was it was not doing well. You've had a great career in LA as
a meteorologist. You've done a lot of big stories, weather events, things
like that. This is You're never going to not be associated with this owl.
I'll tell you that. That's how that's how much it means. These
stories honestly mean to people. You will always go down as the meteorologist who
saved save the owl and you're making me feel better too, because a couple
of years ago, I was out in Brego with my husband and I was
driving a car and I ran over I didn't know it, but a lizard.
Yeah, I know what I'm how foolish was I and a lizard darted
out onto this two lane road Henry and I didn't see it in time,
and I ran over that lizard and I was devastated. I'm still devastated.
I still think about that lizard all the time. And my husband likes to
say that the lizard got away, that he kept running, and I know
that that was not the end of the story. So this is actually making
me feel a little bit better about the lizard that I that I killed on
the road. Well, there's nothing that you can do about that, so
you can't make yourself feel bad. But I appreciate you saying stuff like that.
I don't I don't feel that way. I'm just, you know,
I'm just happy that you know. I'm just happy that we got the owl
off the road. Wouldn't have made it. I'm certain about that. And
from everything I hear, they expect the owl to make recovery. So the
hope is he'll be released, and I think it would be great. Hopefully
we can we could share that if that's the case, and the you know,
in the in the day of the head. But I appreciate you thinking
of me that way. But I was just happy. It's funny though,
because I was on, I was into work, I was kind of tired,
you know, it's the end of the week, all that stuff,
and I did get an emotional charge out of it, and just it's you
know, I think the Owl did more for me than I did for the
Owl quite oh of course. Yeah, Okay, Henry, don't say no
right away. But I just want to spitball something here with you. And
I'm only asking for an associate producer credit. Uh a Los Angeles weatherman on
his way to work. Now, we're gonna have to fictionalize some problems at
home, maybe a little heavy with the bottle, something like that. And
you're you're about like you have decided that this is your last day. You
don't want to do this job anymore. You're sick and tired of telling people
it's gonna be seventy two, and Sonny, it's gonna be seventy two,
and Sonny, it's gonna be seventy two, and Sonny, it's gonna be
seventy to it, Sonny, And then I've had it not And then you
see this little owl on the side of the road. Now the owl,
you turn him over like you did. I mean that part of the story
we can keep the same, where the sheriff's deputy comes along and helps you
out. The owl goes to a sanctuary, but the owl finds you,
and the owl like it. The owl comes to you on a regular basis.
And not only do do you form a bond with the owl, you
begin to understand what the owls trying to tell you, which tomorrow's not going
to be seventy two, there is rain coming or something that the owl has
a meteorological aspect to it that you never expected. And people can't figure out
how does Henry know all of what the weather's going to be. It's kind
of like Steve Martin in an LA story. Well, that sounds great,
that sounds great. Henry. Again, I don't need all the credit.
I'm just looking for associate producer credit, if that's okay with you. You
know what it could be like a little Hallmark Channel type thing. You could
turn it into a little love story or something like that. Maybe the owl
finds his or her mate. Sary, you're going at the sanctuary. The
owl finds his mate, and the owl tells Henry about the rain storm that's
coming on Christmas. It's a Christmas owl. Okay, there's an earthquake,
probably an earthquake. Earthquake. Everybody, Oh my god, that's amazing,
Henry. We will ask you, well, we'll call you back, we'll
stay in contact and see how the pitch meetings go. But but thank you
for giving us a little bit of light and happiness in an otherwise awfully terrifying
news cycle that we've been stuck in. Thank you. It's always a pleasure
to be with you. Gary and Shannon. I appreciate you guys, even
you know, thinking about me. And you guys, keep up the great
works that you're doing too, trying to keep some sanity in this world.
A week he Henry de Carlo KTLA weatherman and ornithological here urologist. Excuse me,
weather man sounds that's like a that's a stewardess. Well, he wants
to be called an enthal. Of course, our biggest story is that in
President Biden has tested positive for COVID. He is back in Delaware, had
to cancel some stops that he had, some speeches that he had in Vegas.
But listen to this. Axios is reporting that several high level Democrats,
Chuck Schumer, Jakim Jeffries, Nancy Pelosi have told the President, at least
in private, that there is no real path and the polls look pretty bad.
And now the latest nudge comes from former President Barack Obama saying privately that
Biden needs to seriously consider the viability of his candidacy. That, according to
the Washington Post, all of this on the last night of the Republican National
Convention, which is all about Donald Trump. He will take his he will
take his stage for his big speech there, and this is the first big
speech since somebody tried to take him out first speech. Yeah, joining us
now to talk more about this, Robert Sherman once again, who is in
Milwaukee and Robert, this is one of those issues where we know a lot
of what Donald Trump says in high per profile speeches. We've had many,
many years of listening to them. How do you think tonight is going to
be different? It seems as those that all signs are pointing to a different
kind of diald Trump speech tonight. We've gotten some guidance that he's going to
speak for about an hour. He's torn up his old RNC speech and this
one is, according to his team, supposed to be softer, gentler from
the heart after what happened on Saturday, and focus much more on uniting the
country. It's interesting to say, you brought up what's going on with the
Democrats right now in President Biden. If I could give you the ideal blueprint
for how all of this goes for the Republicans. They got their first big
headline of the week with JD. Vance. They want another headline tonight which
people tune in hear the speech and hear a different kind of Donald Trump,
and that's it. And then they want to be silent and for all of
the attention to go back to Delaware to President Biden and this campaign. That
would be the tailor made perfect blueprint if you're the Republicans here right now,
because their perspective isness that they believe that across the way they're watching a candidacy
burn and right now they're playing with a lead in their mind, and that
the name of the game is to protect the lead, maybe try and peel
a few other voters away from wherever they can. You heard the head of
the teamster speaking here this week. But that's the goal, protect the lead
and let the president. Biden's woes continue to occupy the news cycle. And
every football fan will tell you when you have a lead like that, you
cannot take your foot off the gas. You've got to really bury them right.
Otherwise you get a little complacent and all of a sudden, you know,
Oprah is running or something like that, and you're behind the gay Now,
what do you think about personally? About the timing here? The Axios
reports is Biden could be out this weekend. I was thinking maybe tomorrow.
But the thing is is that's all but conceding the election at that point because
of Trump, the timing of Trump's speech tonight. If they wait till after
that speech, it's going to look like that was the final nail on the
coffin. You know. I mean, that's a good point, and I
mean the Democrats do have a little bit of clock to work with before the
DNC and the big scheme of things. They really don't have a lot of
time to work with heading into the November general election here, So I mean
in terms of what those conversations would look like, it definitely remains to be
seen here. What I would say is that there's a poll that came out
today from Decision Desk HQ, and it shows the former president leading Biden in
Virginia, of all places, that's a state that President Biden carried by ten
percent, but just four years ago. You have to know that that poll
is making its way around the Democratic Caucus. It has certainly been seen by
President Biden, that's certainly been seen by Republicans as well. So you talk
about keeping your foot on the gas, this is the Republican's ideas of foot
on the gas. Target Virginia, Target, Minnesota, expand the map.
Places that really weren't considered to be in play four years ago. Put them
in play. That's their idea of going on offense here, because again,
they believe that they have such a strong position in Arizona and Georgia, and
a bit of an advantage in Pennsylvania and some of these other places that they
have the luxury to one pick a candidate such as jd Vance that VP slot,
but second go on offense in other places. And if you're talking about
Virginia and possibly even Minnesota being in play in any capacity, that is bad
news for Democrats. Uh, we have been cautious about, you know,
putting too much faith into the polls, especially even now. I mean we're
still three plus months out from November fifth, and there's there's still plenty of
time for Republicans to completely screw this up. Whatever good will they get,
whatever benefit they have. As weird as that sounds from an assassination attempt that
thankfully wasn't successful, there's still plenty of time for Republicans to step on their
own shoelaces and trip and fall. Do you is how do they prevent that?
How do they I mean one of the things, like you're talking about
this dream scenario where they do the convention, they wrap it up, and
then they just kind of sit back and wait. Is that the best move
for them? You think? You know? I mean you've seen since the
debate that was the strategy there. And then look at the news cycle,
look at where all the oxygen went, I mean, the focus. You
know a lot of people in the media and the pundits all predicted its like
that they would be talking about the former president and his debate performance and things
like that. But instead, I mean, the question following that debate was
does President Biden have it in him in order to lead? You saw the
other side of the coin with the Trump campaign near total radio silence. That's
the ideal scenario for Republicans is just to stay quiet here, do the groundwork
in some of these other states, and possibly use surrogates. But I mean,
I've covered the Trump campaign for years now, and I have never seen
them, frankly, this discipline and hanging back and letting the news cycle focus
solely on their opponent instead. So I'm in our conversations with the Trump campaign.
That has been their strategy, and as long as President Biden's ability to
lead it continues to be a question that people are asking in the national conversation,
stands a reason they're going to continue with that strategy. All right,
Thank you so much. Robert Sherman there from Milwaukee, national correspondent for News
Nation. Awesome, Thank you, Robert, thank you so much. I
think we'll spend some time on sort of the latest in terms of well you
choose, I don't care. I mean, there's the two massive stories,
the continued investigation into the assassination attempt. We're getting. The more details that
come out, the weirder it gets in terms of an apparent breakdown in security.
But then also all of the mounting pressure on a now sick Joe Biden
sick with COVID. They said that he's experiencing mild symptoms general malaise. You've
got the heavy hitters now having an audience with Joe Biden. You've got former
President Obama, You've got Nancy Pelosi, Haakim Jeffries, You've got the big
names now saying that this will hurt Democrats, Pelosi telling him, showing him
the math about how they'll lose the House. So we'll get to all of
that. But in the meantime, school employees, a restaurant worker, a
fire chief, a political aid all have lost their jobs or resigned over outrage
from social media posts following the assassination attempt. For example, an instructor instructure
I should say Bellerman University in Louisville put on unpaid leave after what university officials
said was an offensive and unacceptable social media post. John James was no longer
employed at Bellerman, although they said it's not clear if he resigned or was
fired. The comments about the shooter missing were screenshoted and posted by the conservative
social media account called Libs of TikTok Libs of TikTok. Well, and have
you ever seen that account? Now? All they do is repost other people's
stuff. Okay, but it's the most outrageous stuff. They were actually at
one point taken off of Twitter. When Elon Musk took over, he reinstituted
their So do they have libs of every social media science, but it is
the one I've seen has been on Twitter. Another post highlighted comments made by
a worker at the Tupelo Honey Southern Kitchen and Bar restaurant with locations in a
few states. The restaurant later said that the worker was no longer employed they
had violated the social media policy. Others out of a job, middle school
behavior facilitator in South Dakota, the a fire chief in the state of Pennsylvania,
the Wayne Pennsylvania Business Association, said its secretary resigned after a post about
the shooting. Okay, I'll actually entertain this question of should people lose their
employment if they talk about something on social media but don't ever mention their employee
er. Now, it might be different for people like us because we are
associated with the employe er. But if you're working at I don't know if
you're working across the street here at the Burbank Studios or something like that,
but you on your social media page and account don't have any connection to the
employer. Should you lose your job? Listen, I think you're an a
hole. I think you're a complete degenerate if you would post something like that
on social media for the purpose of getting likes and retweets and stuff like that.
But I'm not sure it rises to the level that you should lose your
job for it. Yeah, And like you said, it depends on what
that job is. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's also Darwinism
when it comes to stupidity. The situation with Tenacious D is that Jack Black
had asked his partner in the band, Kyle Gass, what you wanted,
wished him a happy birthday and said, what's your birthday wish? Or make
a wish for your birthday? And Kyle Gass said something along the lines of
I wish the shooter hadn't missed something like that. Now, Jack Black said
he was completely Blocke inded by that did not expect that they stopped their tour,
that he got very angry and had said that he wasn't going to work
with Kyle Gas anymore. I don't know if that's true. I don't know
how long that lasts. But even Kyle Gas said that that was a really
stupid thing to do. That a really stupid way to respond to that question,
especially considering we're talking about inches away from losing his life. Trump though,
all right, coming up next it is going to be Trump's big night
at the RNC. IS speech they say was written one hundred percent by Trump.
There's a message about uniting the country allegedly also Obama. Now Nancy Pelosi
pushing for Biden to reconsider the race, Axios reporting he could be out by
this weekend. Oh in, Hulk Hogan, maybe at the RNC you've been
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