WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:04.320 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kfi AM six forty The Gary 2 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:09.080 and Shannon Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Gary and Shannon kfi AM 3 00:00:09.160 --> 00:00:13.640 six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Who told you that President Biden 4 00:00:13.839 --> 00:00:19.839 tested positive for COVID So he is recovering, according to the White House self 5 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:27.760 isolated, alleged delaware recovering. He's recovering, experiencing mild symptoms, general malaise, 6 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:32.640 things like that Vice President Harris is going to be in North Carolina today 7 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:37.719 and a campaign stop amid all of these now calls for Joe Biden to step 8 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:42.960 down. It could be today, it could be before the president's speech tonight, 9 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:47.960 the former president soon to be president again speech tonight. He will be 10 00:00:48.119 --> 00:00:51.520 Trump, will be getting the red carpet treatment tonight, officially will accept the 11 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:57.079 nomination to run for president. He has said that he tore up his old 12 00:00:57.119 --> 00:01:00.200 speech and wrote a new one after the assassination attempt, and that he will 13 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:06.280 call for unity tonight in this speech. They had to do something to get 14 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:10.000 Biden off the campaign trail because it was just getting worse and worse with every 15 00:01:10.079 --> 00:01:14.079 interview. Why the interview he did with the b ET yesterday. Oh, 16 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:18.680 I have that too, where he refers to Lloyd Austin as a black that 17 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:23.480 black man he can't remember his name of the man he appointed Secretary of Defense. 18 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:27.359 My dad was a working class guy. We lived in a three bedroom 19 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:33.359 home, four kids, and Grandpa lived with us. We weren't poor, 20 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:36.640 but we there wasn't any money left at the end of the day. And 21 00:01:36.760 --> 00:01:42.599 so it's all about it's all about treating people with dignity, and it's about 22 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:45.920 making sure that we're coming. For example, look at the heat I'm getting 23 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:53.400 because I named a the sectarian defense, a black man I named Ketanji Brown. 24 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:57.040 I mean, because of the people I've named. It's about making it 25 00:01:57.079 --> 00:02:02.040 clear that American is Black history. Black history is American history. Is this 26 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:07.960 being built by it? It's just getting worse. But white COVID that's the 27 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:12.879 other thing I don't understand. It's it's convenience. It's easy. It's convenient, 28 00:02:13.039 --> 00:02:15.080 and you could get by with saying, well, you don't notice the 29 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:19.639 symptoms because they're mild. Well, if they were mild, why would he 30 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:25.680 be tested in the first place. Former President Barack Obama has expressed concerns to 31 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:30.800 Democrats about the candidacy. This might be the one. Well, the Pelosi 32 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:36.879 Obama won two punch, and it's tko. Obama, according to the Washington 33 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:42.000 Post, has spoken with Biden, but only once since the debate debacle, 34 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:46.319 and has been clear in his conversation with others that the future of the candidacy 35 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:51.000 is a decision for Biden to make alone, and that he emphasized that his 36 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:55.159 concern would be to protect Joe Biden and the Biden legacy and has pushed back 37 00:02:55.280 --> 00:03:00.599 that he pushed back on the idea that he has that he alone could influence 38 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:07.000 Biden's decision making process. Pelosi showed Biden polling that he can't defeat Trump. 39 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:14.159 According to people familiar with the matter who are anonymous, they're trying to show 40 00:03:14.199 --> 00:03:19.599 their math here. Well, if they wanted to protect Biden and protect his 41 00:03:19.719 --> 00:03:23.520 legacy, that ship sailed months ago. It feels sailed before the debate. 42 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:29.280 It's one of those This is probably the work, not the worst example, 43 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:37.240 but the highest profile example of the insular lives that many politicians live. And 44 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:43.319 that's what's frustrating about politicians and people who are career politicians is they claim to 45 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:49.039 live, and they claim to live to serve, to live to serve their 46 00:03:50.759 --> 00:03:54.800 constituents. But one of the things that we see over and over and over 47 00:03:54.840 --> 00:04:00.479 again and many many of these politicians is that they are just out of touch 48 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:03.840 with everybody else. Yeah, and you know, a guy who's been in 49 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:10.280 it this long, it's understandable that he doesn't hear what the people are saying, 50 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:15.039 the people being the just general electorate, the polls that show, you 51 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:17.839 don't know how with it he is either well and who listen, you know 52 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:21.439 what I mean? He's not getting up and rolling over and grabbing his phone 53 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:25.959 and scrolling through Twitter every morning. We know that that's not who he is. 54 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:30.439 And we know that the shows he admittedly watches MSNBC is one of them. 55 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:34.120 He loves Joe Scarborough and watches that show. Those people are not going 56 00:04:34.199 --> 00:04:41.800 to tell him. They're not going to show him the specifics of the public 57 00:04:42.199 --> 00:04:46.800 sentiment which is now turned against him, I think, not even against him, 58 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:51.720 against his age and his condition. We've we all probably know of somebody 59 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:57.360 who got to be a certain age and you have to have that uncomfortable conversation 60 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:01.199 or just float the idea of the I'm not driving anymore. And it's one 61 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:06.639 of the hardest things to talk to somebody about because these are people who in 62 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:12.439 a lot of the pushback is I raised you did I changed your diapers. 63 00:05:12.439 --> 00:05:15.480 You're not going to tell me that I can't use my car, You're not 64 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:17.639 going to tell me where I can go. And it's part of this personal 65 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:24.120 frustration of realizing that you're too old to fill in the blank here, that 66 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:28.439 you can't do that anymore, that something that you've spent your whole life doing 67 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:32.600 and owning and doing well, you can't do it anymore. And it's really 68 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:35.519 hard to come to that with your own self. It's hard to hear it 69 00:05:35.519 --> 00:05:39.920 from somebody else. And that may be where Joe Biden is right now. 70 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:45.839 Maybe people are trying to gracefully gently tell him, hey, let's protect your 71 00:05:45.879 --> 00:05:49.360 legacy. You can't do it anymore. And it's really hard, especially when 72 00:05:49.439 --> 00:05:53.800 I don't know you're leader of the free world. It's not your driver license. 73 00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:58.240 This is not the best connection to make. But last night, Kai 74 00:05:58.279 --> 00:06:01.279 Trump one of don jus your kids. I think it's the oldest. It's 75 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:06.279 Donald Trump's oldest granddaughter, oldest grandkid. She spoke at the convention last night 76 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:12.240 and did what Laura Trump did the night before, which was humanized Donald Trump 77 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:15.839 and tried to tried to show people he's just a He's just a jolly grandpa 78 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:20.360 to us. That's who we think of him as. If the grandkids, 79 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:26.120 if his own kids came to him and said, Dad, Grandpa, we 80 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:31.720 want you for ourselves, for whatever time you have left. We want you 81 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:34.759 for ourselves. And we don't want to share you with the world. We 82 00:06:34.759 --> 00:06:38.560 don't want to share you with Washington, d C. We don't want to 83 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:42.720 share you with you. That's the best version of backing out I've heard that 84 00:06:42.759 --> 00:06:45.959 would be the best version. I mean, it's a it's a it's an 85 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:51.800 oak, it's a believable, it's a humanizing way. It's it's the turbo 86 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:57.360 storing the legacy way to get out of us. Yeah, it's the turbocharged 87 00:06:57.439 --> 00:07:00.319 version of I need to spend time with my fan. There's no one who 88 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:05.600 would question that. No, No, that's a beautiful ending you've written. 89 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:12.720 Nobody asked me that's the problem. Nobody asked me if they only got on 90 00:07:12.759 --> 00:07:18.240 the horn and did a Hong Kong. There are a bunch of people who 91 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:25.920 have decided that they think it's funny to post things about Oh I wish they 92 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:30.920 hadn't missed. Yeah, and those people are losing their jobs in all sectors. 93 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:34.000 Hey, can I have some America music for our hero story? Because 94 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:41.720 in America, heroes should be celebrated for their acts of heroism. Heroes not 95 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:46.639 always known. Some of them fade into the great good night and we never 96 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:48.519 know their names, but we thank them, yes and right, Yes, 97 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:53.600 but not here, not on this show where we celebrate heroes. And today 98 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:58.560 we have a local hero. It is our friend Henry. Of course, 99 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:01.959 I mean Harry Decarla. Only Henry's other Henry's. Now there's Nile. There's 100 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:09.680 no other Henry's Henry DeCarlo, the KTLA five Morning News meteorologists who helped rescue 101 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:16.120 an owl this morning alongside the roadway. Henry, take us through your owl 102 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:22.000 rescue. Oh Gary, So you guys are too nice. You're making me 103 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:24.879 out to be too good. But yeah, I was driving into work. 104 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:28.279 I live in an area where where I do see owl from time to time. 105 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:31.399 I love it. They're beautiful. And I was just driving on a 106 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:35.720 road over at bridge over the Santaana riverbence with a long stretch of road and 107 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:37.919 I found an owl kind of peering at me, beautiful bite face. I'm 108 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:41.679 like, oh, beautiful owl. And as I drove bike, it looked 109 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:43.879 like he kind of took a little hop of the skip and I'm thinking something 110 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:48.000 didn't seem right about that owl. But I kept driving. I was getting 111 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:50.080 ready to get on the on wrap. I'm like, oh, I don't 112 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:52.399 think I should leave that owl behind. I knew I was gonna be late 113 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:56.279 for work, but I turned around. I went back and went up to 114 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:00.480 the owl on the road, and I could just tell that he was not 115 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:03.720 able to fly. He was just kind of hopping around, so I knew 116 00:09:03.720 --> 00:09:05.919 he wasn't gonna make it off that bridge alive. Was he a boweing owl 117 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:09.919 or was it a what kind of owl? Do you know? You know 118 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:11.440 it wasn't an I don't think it was at barn owl, but I'm not 119 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:16.840 sure exactly what kind of owl it was, and had a beautiful white face 120 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:20.720 to it. I would say he was probably an adolescent. He wasn't a 121 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:22.440 baby, but he didn't look like one of those big, full grown, 122 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:28.919 big owls. But you know, I knew that animal Control wouldn't be up, 123 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:31.919 so I called a non emergency line with the Sheriff's Department and said, 124 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:35.320 hey, I'm on the side of the road here and I'm not going to 125 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:37.519 leave until we get somebody out here for the owl. And they were really 126 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:43.960 responsive, and a deputy came out and the weed She had some sort of 127 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:48.679 kind of tupower bench for lack of a better word, and we were able 128 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:52.399 to get the owl in there, and then you know, we kind of 129 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:54.440 talked about it and shared about it, and then our station got a little 130 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:56.720 involved in and said, well, we got to find out what happened to 131 00:09:56.759 --> 00:10:00.600 the owl. And turns out the isle into Orange, CA, the animal 132 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:03.960 care he his wing was heard, there was an open wound so he couldn't 133 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:09.679 fly, and they took it off to Serrano Bird Sanctuary, I believe. 134 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:13.000 But now the owl is going to get proper care and we're gonna, you 135 00:10:13.039 --> 00:10:16.360 know, our hope obviously it makes a full recovery, goes back in back 136 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:20.240 into the wild where the owl belongs. But yeah, I'd like to think 137 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:24.879 it's what most people would do. You see poor animal on the side of 138 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:28.879 the road, and you know, I just I felt I couldn't leave the 139 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:31.679 poor guy there. So he's in good hands. Now, you know, 140 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:35.960 I should have thought, when we have been stuck in this news cycle of 141 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:43.879 reporting horrific things and terrible things and health conditions and all these questions that linger 142 00:10:43.960 --> 00:10:46.879 when it comes to the leadership of this country, I should have known that 143 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:50.399 a hero story would present itself and it would be Henry to give it to 144 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:52.720 us. Like that's what we needed. We needed this story this week, 145 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:58.039 didn't we. I mean I did. Wow, I appreciate you thinking that 146 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:03.399 it Really I don't feel it was a big act, but I'm just you 147 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:07.320 know, my wife, we're all huge animal lovers, and there was just 148 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:09.039 you know, we are the type of people that when we see a dog 149 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:13.120 roaming in the neighborhood, we try to get the dog and find out it's 150 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:18.120 got a collar and then tag and all that stuff. So honestly, I 151 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:22.279 was I was thinking, Okay, I can leave leave this owl. I 152 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:26.639 could get to work and leave the owl and hear about it from my wife 153 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:30.320 the rest of my life, or I could just hear it from work for 154 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:33.039 one day. So my work was great. I told her, I like, 155 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:35.840 hey, I'm going to be late, and like traffic, I'm like, 156 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:39.519 no, I'm going to save an owl. I love that. Did 157 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:45.600 you name the owl or are you not assuming they are naming rights to this 158 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:48.440 owl. Well, that's a good question because we had a lot of viewers 159 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:52.559 that heard the story this morning, and we had a lot of clever names. 160 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:54.480 So I think, you know, I don't know whether it's a male 161 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:58.799 or female or maybe if we get more information, hopefully tomorrow, give an 162 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:01.279 update. Because it's funny. I say these things and it's like, you 163 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:03.240 don't really think much of it, and then people had come very vested in 164 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:07.399 it. Yes, and so yeah, people saying, oh, let's name 165 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:09.679 it this, and let's name it that. A lot of creative names, 166 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:13.480 so we may have a name, you know, depending on the with the 167 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:16.639 outcome I believe is going to be a great outcome for the owl. It 168 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:22.559 was it was not doing well. You've had a great career in LA as 169 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:26.600 a meteorologist. You've done a lot of big stories, weather events, things 170 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:31.759 like that. This is You're never going to not be associated with this owl. 171 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:35.320 I'll tell you that. That's how that's how much it means. These 172 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:39.039 stories honestly mean to people. You will always go down as the meteorologist who 173 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:43.679 saved save the owl and you're making me feel better too, because a couple 174 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:48.279 of years ago, I was out in Brego with my husband and I was 175 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:52.639 driving a car and I ran over I didn't know it, but a lizard. 176 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:58.519 Yeah, I know what I'm how foolish was I and a lizard darted 177 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:01.159 out onto this two lane road Henry and I didn't see it in time, 178 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:07.159 and I ran over that lizard and I was devastated. I'm still devastated. 179 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:11.919 I still think about that lizard all the time. And my husband likes to 180 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:15.080 say that the lizard got away, that he kept running, and I know 181 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:18.159 that that was not the end of the story. So this is actually making 182 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:22.759 me feel a little bit better about the lizard that I that I killed on 183 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:26.120 the road. Well, there's nothing that you can do about that, so 184 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:30.759 you can't make yourself feel bad. But I appreciate you saying stuff like that. 185 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:31.840 I don't I don't feel that way. I'm just, you know, 186 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:37.320 I'm just happy that you know. I'm just happy that we got the owl 187 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:41.879 off the road. Wouldn't have made it. I'm certain about that. And 188 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:43.720 from everything I hear, they expect the owl to make recovery. So the 189 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:48.320 hope is he'll be released, and I think it would be great. Hopefully 190 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:50.200 we can we could share that if that's the case, and the you know, 191 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:52.679 in the in the day of the head. But I appreciate you thinking 192 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:58.320 of me that way. But I was just happy. It's funny though, 193 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:01.440 because I was on, I was into work, I was kind of tired, 194 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:03.080 you know, it's the end of the week, all that stuff, 195 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:07.759 and I did get an emotional charge out of it, and just it's you 196 00:14:07.799 --> 00:14:09.320 know, I think the Owl did more for me than I did for the 197 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:13.759 Owl quite oh of course. Yeah, Okay, Henry, don't say no 198 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:18.000 right away. But I just want to spitball something here with you. And 199 00:14:18.039 --> 00:14:24.240 I'm only asking for an associate producer credit. Uh a Los Angeles weatherman on 200 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:26.799 his way to work. Now, we're gonna have to fictionalize some problems at 201 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:31.919 home, maybe a little heavy with the bottle, something like that. And 202 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:35.840 you're you're about like you have decided that this is your last day. You 203 00:14:35.879 --> 00:14:39.639 don't want to do this job anymore. You're sick and tired of telling people 204 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:41.240 it's gonna be seventy two, and Sonny, it's gonna be seventy two, 205 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:43.600 and Sonny, it's gonna be seventy two, and Sonny, it's gonna be 206 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:50.879 seventy to it, Sonny, And then I've had it not And then you 207 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:54.200 see this little owl on the side of the road. Now the owl, 208 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:58.240 you turn him over like you did. I mean that part of the story 209 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:01.320 we can keep the same, where the sheriff's deputy comes along and helps you 210 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:05.360 out. The owl goes to a sanctuary, but the owl finds you, 211 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:09.840 and the owl like it. The owl comes to you on a regular basis. 212 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:15.000 And not only do do you form a bond with the owl, you 213 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:18.240 begin to understand what the owls trying to tell you, which tomorrow's not going 214 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:22.720 to be seventy two, there is rain coming or something that the owl has 215 00:15:22.759 --> 00:15:28.399 a meteorological aspect to it that you never expected. And people can't figure out 216 00:15:28.519 --> 00:15:31.000 how does Henry know all of what the weather's going to be. It's kind 217 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:35.120 of like Steve Martin in an LA story. Well, that sounds great, 218 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:37.919 that sounds great. Henry. Again, I don't need all the credit. 219 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:41.879 I'm just looking for associate producer credit, if that's okay with you. You 220 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:46.799 know what it could be like a little Hallmark Channel type thing. You could 221 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:50.399 turn it into a little love story or something like that. Maybe the owl 222 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:54.759 finds his or her mate. Sary, you're going at the sanctuary. The 223 00:15:54.799 --> 00:16:00.639 owl finds his mate, and the owl tells Henry about the rain storm that's 224 00:16:00.679 --> 00:16:04.320 coming on Christmas. It's a Christmas owl. Okay, there's an earthquake, 225 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:08.879 probably an earthquake. Earthquake. Everybody, Oh my god, that's amazing, 226 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:11.440 Henry. We will ask you, well, we'll call you back, we'll 227 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:15.320 stay in contact and see how the pitch meetings go. But but thank you 228 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:22.039 for giving us a little bit of light and happiness in an otherwise awfully terrifying 229 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:26.279 news cycle that we've been stuck in. Thank you. It's always a pleasure 230 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:27.639 to be with you. Gary and Shannon. I appreciate you guys, even 231 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:30.519 you know, thinking about me. And you guys, keep up the great 232 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:33.639 works that you're doing too, trying to keep some sanity in this world. 233 00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:41.639 A week he Henry de Carlo KTLA weatherman and ornithological here urologist. Excuse me, 234 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:45.399 weather man sounds that's like a that's a stewardess. Well, he wants 235 00:16:45.399 --> 00:16:48.399 to be called an enthal. Of course, our biggest story is that in 236 00:16:48.799 --> 00:16:53.759 President Biden has tested positive for COVID. He is back in Delaware, had 237 00:16:53.799 --> 00:16:57.679 to cancel some stops that he had, some speeches that he had in Vegas. 238 00:16:57.720 --> 00:17:06.279 But listen to this. Axios is reporting that several high level Democrats, 239 00:17:06.599 --> 00:17:11.279 Chuck Schumer, Jakim Jeffries, Nancy Pelosi have told the President, at least 240 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:17.759 in private, that there is no real path and the polls look pretty bad. 241 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:23.359 And now the latest nudge comes from former President Barack Obama saying privately that 242 00:17:23.400 --> 00:17:27.920 Biden needs to seriously consider the viability of his candidacy. That, according to 243 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:32.440 the Washington Post, all of this on the last night of the Republican National 244 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:36.400 Convention, which is all about Donald Trump. He will take his he will 245 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:41.279 take his stage for his big speech there, and this is the first big 246 00:17:41.319 --> 00:17:45.839 speech since somebody tried to take him out first speech. Yeah, joining us 247 00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:49.440 now to talk more about this, Robert Sherman once again, who is in 248 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:56.920 Milwaukee and Robert, this is one of those issues where we know a lot 249 00:17:56.960 --> 00:18:00.640 of what Donald Trump says in high per profile speeches. We've had many, 250 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:04.920 many years of listening to them. How do you think tonight is going to 251 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:11.160 be different? It seems as those that all signs are pointing to a different 252 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:15.240 kind of diald Trump speech tonight. We've gotten some guidance that he's going to 253 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:18.720 speak for about an hour. He's torn up his old RNC speech and this 254 00:18:18.839 --> 00:18:23.599 one is, according to his team, supposed to be softer, gentler from 255 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:29.240 the heart after what happened on Saturday, and focus much more on uniting the 256 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:33.640 country. It's interesting to say, you brought up what's going on with the 257 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:38.359 Democrats right now in President Biden. If I could give you the ideal blueprint 258 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:42.480 for how all of this goes for the Republicans. They got their first big 259 00:18:42.519 --> 00:18:48.119 headline of the week with JD. Vance. They want another headline tonight which 260 00:18:48.119 --> 00:18:51.720 people tune in hear the speech and hear a different kind of Donald Trump, 261 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:56.599 and that's it. And then they want to be silent and for all of 262 00:18:56.640 --> 00:19:00.720 the attention to go back to Delaware to President Biden and this campaign. That 263 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:07.240 would be the tailor made perfect blueprint if you're the Republicans here right now, 264 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:12.720 because their perspective isness that they believe that across the way they're watching a candidacy 265 00:19:12.839 --> 00:19:17.519 burn and right now they're playing with a lead in their mind, and that 266 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:19.480 the name of the game is to protect the lead, maybe try and peel 267 00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:22.920 a few other voters away from wherever they can. You heard the head of 268 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:26.880 the teamster speaking here this week. But that's the goal, protect the lead 269 00:19:27.400 --> 00:19:33.720 and let the president. Biden's woes continue to occupy the news cycle. And 270 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:37.440 every football fan will tell you when you have a lead like that, you 271 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:41.839 cannot take your foot off the gas. You've got to really bury them right. 272 00:19:42.039 --> 00:19:45.160 Otherwise you get a little complacent and all of a sudden, you know, 273 00:19:45.279 --> 00:19:49.920 Oprah is running or something like that, and you're behind the gay Now, 274 00:19:49.960 --> 00:19:55.160 what do you think about personally? About the timing here? The Axios 275 00:19:55.200 --> 00:20:00.000 reports is Biden could be out this weekend. I was thinking maybe tomorrow. 276 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:04.440 But the thing is is that's all but conceding the election at that point because 277 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:10.160 of Trump, the timing of Trump's speech tonight. If they wait till after 278 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:11.920 that speech, it's going to look like that was the final nail on the 279 00:20:11.960 --> 00:20:18.240 coffin. You know. I mean, that's a good point, and I 280 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:22.160 mean the Democrats do have a little bit of clock to work with before the 281 00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:26.119 DNC and the big scheme of things. They really don't have a lot of 282 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:29.799 time to work with heading into the November general election here, So I mean 283 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:33.319 in terms of what those conversations would look like, it definitely remains to be 284 00:20:33.400 --> 00:20:37.640 seen here. What I would say is that there's a poll that came out 285 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:44.319 today from Decision Desk HQ, and it shows the former president leading Biden in 286 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:48.200 Virginia, of all places, that's a state that President Biden carried by ten 287 00:20:48.279 --> 00:20:53.319 percent, but just four years ago. You have to know that that poll 288 00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:59.119 is making its way around the Democratic Caucus. It has certainly been seen by 289 00:20:59.160 --> 00:21:03.599 President Biden, that's certainly been seen by Republicans as well. So you talk 290 00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:07.160 about keeping your foot on the gas, this is the Republican's ideas of foot 291 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:12.200 on the gas. Target Virginia, Target, Minnesota, expand the map. 292 00:21:12.319 --> 00:21:18.519 Places that really weren't considered to be in play four years ago. Put them 293 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:22.079 in play. That's their idea of going on offense here, because again, 294 00:21:22.119 --> 00:21:27.480 they believe that they have such a strong position in Arizona and Georgia, and 295 00:21:27.559 --> 00:21:32.680 a bit of an advantage in Pennsylvania and some of these other places that they 296 00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:37.160 have the luxury to one pick a candidate such as jd Vance that VP slot, 297 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:40.920 but second go on offense in other places. And if you're talking about 298 00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:45.079 Virginia and possibly even Minnesota being in play in any capacity, that is bad 299 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:51.240 news for Democrats. Uh, we have been cautious about, you know, 300 00:21:51.279 --> 00:21:53.920 putting too much faith into the polls, especially even now. I mean we're 301 00:21:53.960 --> 00:22:00.599 still three plus months out from November fifth, and there's there's still plenty of 302 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:04.759 time for Republicans to completely screw this up. Whatever good will they get, 303 00:22:04.799 --> 00:22:10.720 whatever benefit they have. As weird as that sounds from an assassination attempt that 304 00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:15.440 thankfully wasn't successful, there's still plenty of time for Republicans to step on their 305 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:22.880 own shoelaces and trip and fall. Do you is how do they prevent that? 306 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:25.400 How do they I mean one of the things, like you're talking about 307 00:22:25.400 --> 00:22:27.079 this dream scenario where they do the convention, they wrap it up, and 308 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:30.039 then they just kind of sit back and wait. Is that the best move 309 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:36.359 for them? You think? You know? I mean you've seen since the 310 00:22:36.440 --> 00:22:38.880 debate that was the strategy there. And then look at the news cycle, 311 00:22:38.880 --> 00:22:42.519 look at where all the oxygen went, I mean, the focus. You 312 00:22:42.559 --> 00:22:48.319 know a lot of people in the media and the pundits all predicted its like 313 00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:52.240 that they would be talking about the former president and his debate performance and things 314 00:22:52.279 --> 00:22:56.799 like that. But instead, I mean, the question following that debate was 315 00:22:56.079 --> 00:23:00.720 does President Biden have it in him in order to lead? You saw the 316 00:23:00.759 --> 00:23:07.359 other side of the coin with the Trump campaign near total radio silence. That's 317 00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:11.480 the ideal scenario for Republicans is just to stay quiet here, do the groundwork 318 00:23:11.559 --> 00:23:15.880 in some of these other states, and possibly use surrogates. But I mean, 319 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:22.039 I've covered the Trump campaign for years now, and I have never seen 320 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:27.920 them, frankly, this discipline and hanging back and letting the news cycle focus 321 00:23:29.160 --> 00:23:33.079 solely on their opponent instead. So I'm in our conversations with the Trump campaign. 322 00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:37.880 That has been their strategy, and as long as President Biden's ability to 323 00:23:38.039 --> 00:23:44.039 lead it continues to be a question that people are asking in the national conversation, 324 00:23:44.640 --> 00:23:48.160 stands a reason they're going to continue with that strategy. All right, 325 00:23:48.319 --> 00:23:55.400 Thank you so much. Robert Sherman there from Milwaukee, national correspondent for News 326 00:23:55.519 --> 00:23:59.200 Nation. Awesome, Thank you, Robert, thank you so much. I 327 00:23:59.240 --> 00:24:03.799 think we'll spend some time on sort of the latest in terms of well you 328 00:24:03.880 --> 00:24:07.880 choose, I don't care. I mean, there's the two massive stories, 329 00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:12.400 the continued investigation into the assassination attempt. We're getting. The more details that 330 00:24:12.519 --> 00:24:18.200 come out, the weirder it gets in terms of an apparent breakdown in security. 331 00:24:18.799 --> 00:24:26.160 But then also all of the mounting pressure on a now sick Joe Biden 332 00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:30.839 sick with COVID. They said that he's experiencing mild symptoms general malaise. You've 333 00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:37.880 got the heavy hitters now having an audience with Joe Biden. You've got former 334 00:24:37.880 --> 00:24:41.839 President Obama, You've got Nancy Pelosi, Haakim Jeffries, You've got the big 335 00:24:41.960 --> 00:24:47.720 names now saying that this will hurt Democrats, Pelosi telling him, showing him 336 00:24:47.759 --> 00:24:52.160 the math about how they'll lose the House. So we'll get to all of 337 00:24:52.160 --> 00:25:00.200 that. But in the meantime, school employees, a restaurant worker, a 338 00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:07.279 fire chief, a political aid all have lost their jobs or resigned over outrage 339 00:25:07.319 --> 00:25:17.960 from social media posts following the assassination attempt. For example, an instructor instructure 340 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:22.160 I should say Bellerman University in Louisville put on unpaid leave after what university officials 341 00:25:22.160 --> 00:25:26.559 said was an offensive and unacceptable social media post. John James was no longer 342 00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:30.720 employed at Bellerman, although they said it's not clear if he resigned or was 343 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:37.880 fired. The comments about the shooter missing were screenshoted and posted by the conservative 344 00:25:37.880 --> 00:25:42.000 social media account called Libs of TikTok Libs of TikTok. Well, and have 345 00:25:42.079 --> 00:25:45.880 you ever seen that account? Now? All they do is repost other people's 346 00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:52.759 stuff. Okay, but it's the most outrageous stuff. They were actually at 347 00:25:52.759 --> 00:25:59.440 one point taken off of Twitter. When Elon Musk took over, he reinstituted 348 00:25:59.480 --> 00:26:04.759 their So do they have libs of every social media science, but it is 349 00:26:04.799 --> 00:26:11.279 the one I've seen has been on Twitter. Another post highlighted comments made by 350 00:26:11.319 --> 00:26:15.680 a worker at the Tupelo Honey Southern Kitchen and Bar restaurant with locations in a 351 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:18.640 few states. The restaurant later said that the worker was no longer employed they 352 00:26:18.680 --> 00:26:23.279 had violated the social media policy. Others out of a job, middle school 353 00:26:23.359 --> 00:26:29.640 behavior facilitator in South Dakota, the a fire chief in the state of Pennsylvania, 354 00:26:30.799 --> 00:26:36.279 the Wayne Pennsylvania Business Association, said its secretary resigned after a post about 355 00:26:36.319 --> 00:26:41.079 the shooting. Okay, I'll actually entertain this question of should people lose their 356 00:26:41.880 --> 00:26:48.599 employment if they talk about something on social media but don't ever mention their employee 357 00:26:48.759 --> 00:26:53.519 er. Now, it might be different for people like us because we are 358 00:26:53.599 --> 00:27:00.759 associated with the employe er. But if you're working at I don't know if 359 00:27:00.759 --> 00:27:03.839 you're working across the street here at the Burbank Studios or something like that, 360 00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:07.400 but you on your social media page and account don't have any connection to the 361 00:27:07.559 --> 00:27:11.720 employer. Should you lose your job? Listen, I think you're an a 362 00:27:11.880 --> 00:27:15.480 hole. I think you're a complete degenerate if you would post something like that 363 00:27:15.559 --> 00:27:19.799 on social media for the purpose of getting likes and retweets and stuff like that. 364 00:27:21.799 --> 00:27:25.359 But I'm not sure it rises to the level that you should lose your 365 00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:27.680 job for it. Yeah, And like you said, it depends on what 366 00:27:27.759 --> 00:27:33.559 that job is. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's also Darwinism 367 00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:37.319 when it comes to stupidity. The situation with Tenacious D is that Jack Black 368 00:27:37.400 --> 00:27:42.079 had asked his partner in the band, Kyle Gass, what you wanted, 369 00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:45.400 wished him a happy birthday and said, what's your birthday wish? Or make 370 00:27:45.440 --> 00:27:49.200 a wish for your birthday? And Kyle Gass said something along the lines of 371 00:27:52.119 --> 00:27:57.839 I wish the shooter hadn't missed something like that. Now, Jack Black said 372 00:27:57.880 --> 00:28:03.799 he was completely Blocke inded by that did not expect that they stopped their tour, 373 00:28:03.079 --> 00:28:07.079 that he got very angry and had said that he wasn't going to work 374 00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:08.559 with Kyle Gas anymore. I don't know if that's true. I don't know 375 00:28:08.559 --> 00:28:14.039 how long that lasts. But even Kyle Gas said that that was a really 376 00:28:14.079 --> 00:28:18.039 stupid thing to do. That a really stupid way to respond to that question, 377 00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:22.960 especially considering we're talking about inches away from losing his life. Trump though, 378 00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:27.039 all right, coming up next it is going to be Trump's big night 379 00:28:27.079 --> 00:28:30.920 at the RNC. IS speech they say was written one hundred percent by Trump. 380 00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:37.880 There's a message about uniting the country allegedly also Obama. Now Nancy Pelosi 381 00:28:38.319 --> 00:28:44.079 pushing for Biden to reconsider the race, Axios reporting he could be out by 382 00:28:44.119 --> 00:28:48.240 this weekend. Oh in, Hulk Hogan, maybe at the RNC you've been 383 00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:52.599 listening to The Gary and Shannon Show. You can always hear us live on 384 00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:56.079 KFI AM six forty nine am to one pm every Monday through Friday, and 385 00:28:56.279 --> 00:28:59.799 anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.