WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:04.000 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI AM six forty, the 2 00:00:04.040 --> 00:00:07.919 Gary and Shannon Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. You see all the 3 00:00:08.560 --> 00:00:14.880 momentum that that Harris has been able at this point to take advantage of having 4 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:21.079 the best forty eight hours in presidential campaign history, raising one hundred million dollars 5 00:00:21.079 --> 00:00:27.359 since Sunday. And it's like before Biden dropped out, I thought there's no 6 00:00:27.519 --> 00:00:32.200 way Trump loses in November, right, And now the temperature seems to be 7 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:38.799 different during this timeframe. And you mentioned this earlier about the numbers of people. 8 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:43.479 More than eight hundred and eighty eight thousand people donated up to two hundred 9 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:47.759 dollars a piece according to Act Blue, which is this donation platform that they 10 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:52.359 put together, and again, sixty four percent of those people first time donators. 11 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:58.520 I mean, if that's not energizing the base and creating voter enthusiasm on 12 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:03.920 the left, I don't know what is. A group of black women leaders 13 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:07.480 called Win with Black Women, held a zoom call more than forty four thousand 14 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:11.480 people on Sunday night to throw their support behind the vice president and they said 15 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:15.480 that they raised a million and a half dollars in just three hours for the 16 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:21.280 campaign. Some of that was just the fact that the money was put on 17 00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:27.719 pause. It was frozen as Biden's waning days kept coming, the donors all 18 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:30.319 backed out. They said we're not going to spend any money here, so 19 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:34.000 they were just it was all frozen. And then when she announced and the 20 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:38.959 floodgates got opened. So there's still some issue. I think that you're going 21 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:45.680 to see within the Democratic Party that there will be some whiplash of was this 22 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:49.760 the right choice. I know that the coalescing behind the vice president as the 23 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:53.599 nominee is important and they had to do it. But I wonder if there's 24 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:57.599 going to be any voice that grows that says, wait, we should They 25 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:00.319 can't now, but pump the brakes on this thing. And I point that 26 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:06.560 out because even Read Hastings, one of the co founders of Netflix, humongous 27 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:10.879 Democratic donor, he said that this is a few days ago he said that 28 00:02:10.919 --> 00:02:15.520 Biden should step down as the nominee. But he wrote on X after the 29 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:21.080 announcement yesterday or Sunday, Yeah, days are crazy. On Dave Banana, 30 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:25.680 he wrote, DEM delegates need to pick a swing state winner. I don't 31 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:30.159 know if Kamala Harris is I mean, I don't know if according to read 32 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:32.400 Hastings, if she would be the one that fits that description. Obviously she 33 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:36.560 can choose a vice presidential running madagas. I think that's what they mean. 34 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:38.919 I think that's what it means. You've got to look at you know. 35 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:42.199 I know there's been a lot of talk about Mark Kelly. He is a 36 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:47.960 Democrat in Arizona, important state there. He has been vocal about his criticism 37 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:53.479 of Democrats and Republicans when it comes to the border, that Democrats don't do 38 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:58.080 enough, and that when they do try to do anything, the Republicans try 39 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:04.120 to stop it just for the sake of polytical welfare. He's also a big 40 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:08.120 guns guy. He owns a lot of guns. He is very much into 41 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:15.919 the Second Amendment, and that would be advantageous to pull in independence maybe, 42 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:20.680 but you need more electoral votes. You need the Pennsylvania, you need the 43 00:03:20.719 --> 00:03:24.400 Michigan. You don't need Arizona. And you know it takes away a Democrat 44 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:30.719 from Senate. Of course, the Democratic governor would just appoint someone until a 45 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:34.840 special election in twenty twenty six, but that would that would be an issue. 46 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:39.319 Yeah, to make that seat vulnerable, maybe as as palatable as a 47 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:45.280 guy like Andy Basheer might be governor of Kentucky because he is a blue governor 48 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:51.199 in an overwhelmingly read state. You don't Kentucky's not the place that you're going 49 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:53.199 to get. No, you're not gonna get any help in Kentucky. So 50 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:59.560 they're all signs, at least right now, all signs point to Josh Shapiro 51 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:05.360 out of Pennsylvania. Yeah, there have been vetting materials that supposedly have been 52 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:12.520 sent out that have been sent out to the vice presidential potential people. Ken 53 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:16.319 Thomas with The Wall Street Journal said several VP picks have been contacted for vetting 54 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:21.279 materials. We mentioned Senator Kelly out of Arizona, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, 55 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:26.319 Shapiro out of Pennsylvania, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Illinois Governor JB. 56 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:30.360 Pritzker, Minnesota Governor Tim Walls. That was a name that was thrown in 57 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:34.079 overnight that I hadn't seen before. Pritzker apparently told people he hadn't received any 58 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:38.920 materials yet, but he didn't say that he wasn't contacted by the campaign. 59 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:45.720 Kentucky gets eight votes, Arizona gets eleven votes, Pennsylvania gets nineteen. Yeah, 60 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:48.759 yeah, and not math as. What was the other person from South 61 00:04:48.759 --> 00:04:55.319 Carolina or North Carolina? Roy Cooper? I think it's thirteen, am I 62 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:59.240 clothes, let me find it. Okay, there's a lot, you know, 63 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:00.879 there's a lot of states. I don't know if you know this, 64 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:04.399 but the ear bleeds more. There are sixteen votes North Carolina. Oh, 65 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:08.240 I'm surprised by that. That's an option. Yeah, that's an option. 66 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:15.279 The coconut thing is also coming back. Yeah. Can we break that down 67 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:21.120 so well, I've got what she said. You said something about May tenth 68 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:27.560 of last year. She was making remarks swearing in the President's Economic Advisory Commission 69 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:31.160 on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence and Economic Opportunities for Hispanics. This is a 70 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:36.759 very very specific group of people, and she said, everything is in context. 71 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:41.639 My mother used to she would give us a hard time sometimes and she 72 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:44.639 would say to us, I don't know what's wrong with you, young people. 73 00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:50.000 You think you just fell out of a coconut tree. You exist in 74 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:57.360 the context of all in which you live and what came before you. What, 75 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:02.000 Well, it's just you're not the first person to have this experience, 76 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:06.199 or you're not the first person, You're not the only person that there's a 77 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:15.199 there's a lot of things that went into your existence. I'm translating now these 78 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:18.040 people need translators. Okay, Trump needs a translator. Couldn't you just say 79 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:26.319 it that way? Because she speaks in poetry, Gary, uh So, 80 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:34.160 now that we are unburdened by glass called bason, pierces, figs and stuff 81 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:38.120 like that, we don't play that enough. We need more of that. 82 00:06:40.079 --> 00:06:43.720 Uh So, this is this is a uh it's gonna be a fun thing. 83 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:46.680 Uh These next few days, as we said earlier, are going to 84 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:50.360 be very important at least to get her out there and introduce her to people 85 00:06:50.399 --> 00:06:56.079 who haven't seen her before. Looks like right now in Washington, d C. 86 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:03.240 Let's see House Minority lead Hakeem Jeffries is throwing his endorsement to Kamala Harris 87 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:09.000 as is majority leader in the Senate Chuck Schumer. These again not surprises, 88 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:15.480 but the higher levels of the Democratic Party not everybody has at least signed on 89 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:17.000 to it yet, so they're just kind of checking boxes at this point. 90 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:20.639 Who hasn't they were the last ones? Well, Obama now you're talking about 91 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:24.759 people who aren't in office. You're talking about Obama's right. At this point, 92 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:27.480 that's it. That's the only one. And like like we talked about 93 00:07:27.560 --> 00:07:30.680 yesterday, they usually hold off on endorsing till the last moment until someone gets 94 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:34.639 the delegates and it appears that she's got him. I think she names the 95 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:39.639 running mate before the convention, but that the big splash at the convention is 96 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:44.720 Barack Obama. That's just my fan fiction. That he speaks I would have. 97 00:07:44.759 --> 00:07:46.720 I would expect him to anyway. I don't know if that's going to 98 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:49.920 be a like people are gonna go, oh, Micah. Now if Donald 99 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:54.759 Trump spoke, that would be a surprise. Yeah, I don't know. 100 00:07:56.800 --> 00:07:59.920 More security, that's what we're looking for in Chicago, is more secure. 101 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:05.240 He didn't speak for Hillary Clinton, did he? I would have to go 102 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:09.720 back and remember, I don't I don't think he spoke for Biden during the 103 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:13.639 the COVID twenty twenty. Yeah, I don't know. We'll check it out. 104 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:20.759 This was a quick compilation of what she talked about yesterday in what was 105 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:24.800 touted as sort of the first campaign style where I was elected as United States 106 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:28.000 Senator. I was the elected attorney general, as I've mentioned a California and 107 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:31.840 before that, I was a courtroom prosecutor. In those roles, I took 108 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:37.200 on perpetrators of all kinds. So hear me when I say I know Donald 109 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:43.720 Trump's type, and in this campaign, I will proudly, I will proudly 110 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:48.200 put my record against his. Isn't is that a take off his she's not 111 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:54.200 my type? Rape claims or harassment claims. That would be a deep cut. 112 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:56.799 That would be a deep cut. But that's the first thing I thought 113 00:08:56.840 --> 00:09:00.360 of. It was when he said, well, she's not even my type 114 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:03.320 talking about the I forget what her name was, Jane Carroll. Yes, 115 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:07.879 the head of the Secret Service has stepped down. Kimberly Chetle made it official 116 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:13.879 today after that disastrous congressional hearing from me yesterday. A bipartisan House task force 117 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:18.080 is also going to investigate the assassination attempt. How Speaker Mike Johnson got together 118 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:24.240 with Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries today and announced this task force of thirteen people, 119 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:28.240 seven Republicans, six Democrats. They will have subpoena power and so that they 120 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:31.919 will move quickly to find the facts, ensure accountability, and make certain such 121 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:37.360 failures never happen again. You Know, what I've been thinking about in the 122 00:09:37.399 --> 00:09:46.120 past forty eight hours is how different it is with Kamala Harris. How did 123 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:50.120 you I mean, we know that she's what fifty nine years old, He's 124 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:56.919 got twenty years plus years on her Biden does. But just the juxtaposition of 125 00:09:56.960 --> 00:10:00.279 those two and the youth, and she's it's gonna feel like she's every where 126 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:03.360 because she's got the energy and she can handle the travel schedule. He just 127 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:07.759 hasn't been anywhere. It's been very weak stream. The bar has been so 128 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:13.639 low in terms of energy on that side of things that it sounds it seems 129 00:10:13.639 --> 00:10:18.480 like she's set in the world on fire. It is going to bring well. 130 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:20.799 But we talked about it yesterday. Would she peak too soon? I 131 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:26.039 mean, she has the benefit of having the later convention. You know, 132 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:31.440 they don't start their convention until August nineteenth in Chicago. That might be the 133 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:35.240 time when you know, she starts to really pick up speed. I wonder 134 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:41.440 what Donald Trump has planned to steal back the attention. Nothing. He's going 135 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:43.799 to rely on his own personality. He's going to rely on what he thinks 136 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:48.919 are going to be the funniest one line nicknames for her and whoever her choice 137 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:52.840 of vice president is going to be. But he's such as showman. He 138 00:10:52.120 --> 00:11:00.399 likes to plan events and things that will give him that attention back. I 139 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:03.399 wonder, well, I wonder how much he's going to believe that the whole 140 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:09.559 assassination attempt will bring him political Like we said earlier, there is value in 141 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:13.799 it. As horrific as it was, there is some value in it for 142 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:16.440 him. I don't know if he thinks that that's enough. I mean, 143 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:20.320 they spent the convention going after the wrong person. He can tie Harris to 144 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:24.519 Biden because she doesn't have a lot that she's done on her own. She's 145 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:31.799 been connected to him, but still he's got a lot to go after here, 146 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:35.360 or he's got a lot of going after her. Making up to do. 147 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:39.919 That is we're talking about the money that's come in and Hollywood Democrats have 148 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:43.480 opened the floodgates. We pointed to the importance of that. George Clooney op 149 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:48.559 ed where he said Biden should step down and that George Clooney himself may not 150 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:52.279 be the largest donor in Hollywood, but he is one of the loudest voices 151 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:58.440 in Hollywood that can impact other people's money. The according to Jake Tapper, 152 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:03.320 I said in a statement to Jake Tapper, George Clooney did President Biden has 153 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:07.759 shown what true leadership is. He's saving democracy once again. He We're also 154 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:11.639 excited to do whatever we can to support Vice President Harrison her historic quest. 155 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:15.480 I don't know if I would say he's saving democracy. What he's doing is 156 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:20.399 he's understanding that the pressure was building around him. Damon Lindeloff was a producer 157 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:26.159 on the TV show Lost. He had called for a dem bargo and he 158 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:30.919 has called for it to be lifted since Biden decided to step down. He 159 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:33.759 said that he felt profound relief, gratitude, and then for the first time, 160 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:39.000 genuine excitement for the election ahead. That relief word keeps coming back up, 161 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:41.519 and you talked about it yesterday, just the idea that there's a certain 162 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:48.480 amount of consternation, frustration, maybe even anger and disappointment that people had in 163 00:12:48.519 --> 00:12:54.200 the Democratic Party. But now that that's gone, because you don't have to 164 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:58.080 try to fake it anymore. With Joe Biden, you have somebody who's going 165 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:01.279 to have the energy, et cetera. But is there then disappointment. Wait 166 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:03.399 a minute, Wait a minute, Wait a minute. We didn't even get 167 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:07.559 it. We didn't even get to say in what the candidate was going to 168 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:11.240 be at the top of the ticket. Because how many millions of people voted 169 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:15.799 in the primaries for a Biden Harris ticket. I don't know, Like we've 170 00:13:15.799 --> 00:13:18.639 said multiple times, I don't know how many people were super excited about Joe 171 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:22.200 Biden the candidate as opposed to he's not that guy. But that's the same 172 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:24.759 reason a lot of people voted for Donald Trump. At least he's not that 173 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:30.919 guy. The important thing is that I got to pet a penguin today. 174 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:35.320 That was pretty fun. That's you looked genuinely happy, not as happy, 175 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:39.519 not as happy as when you saw my dog, but that was a funny 176 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:41.320 looking dog that you petted. You didn't even want to get near the penguin 177 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:45.919 because you didn't want to go home with penguins smell on you. And then 178 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:48.399 we get a little penguin lipstick on my collar because then your dog would know 179 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:54.000 that you were playing with other pets. And how what was going on that 180 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:58.960 the women always got lipstick on their on their paramour's collar, so that when 181 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:03.000 the dude would come home, his wife would know that he was cheating on 182 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:05.159 her because she had lips. Ye, why is the lipstick on the collar? 183 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:09.559 What was she doing? Were you supposed to put it in the face? 184 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:15.919 Yes, that's exactly wed. How about something completely not politically and I 185 00:14:15.960 --> 00:14:18.799 was supposed to make out with a guy's shirt. I don't know what's going 186 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:20.360 on. That's why, you know what, I'm going to do a deep 187 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:26.200 dive on that love has changed in the many decades. Because there's not enough 188 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:31.240 going on in Washington, d C. Benjamin ett Yiahu is there, and 189 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:35.240 Vice President Harris will not be presiding over the Senate Chamber when he speaks to 190 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:39.039 a joint session of Congress tomorrow afternoon. He is expected to meet with her 191 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:45.120 at a different point during the visit. He's also expected to meet with President 192 00:14:45.159 --> 00:14:50.000 Biden on Wednesday. Harris is already planning to be in Indianapolis for a previously 193 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:54.399 scheduled event her absence. According to an aid, her absence should not be 194 00:14:54.559 --> 00:15:03.000 interpreted as a change in her position when it comes to supporting Israel. And 195 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:07.720 then one more, yeah, where to go? Oh you? Olympics thirty 196 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:13.200 two lapd Reserve officers are going to be in Paris, Lucky. They're traveling 197 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:16.759 part of the Olympic delegation to work at the event sites around the country. 198 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:20.679 And there was an interesting thing. France is actually going to cover their airfare 199 00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:24.559 and lodging but not meals. That's fine. They will not be wearing body 200 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:30.000 cameras, but they will be in full uniform with their service weapons. So 201 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:35.320 that itself was a weird thing because apparently French law does not allow I don't 202 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:41.200 know if this is common. French law does not allow foreign law enforcement officers 203 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:46.679 on French soil to hold weapons. And they had to get special permission from 204 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:50.480 the federal from the French government to get it, Yeah, to carry their 205 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:52.639 guns. Well, you know, there's the whole war thing. Yeah, 206 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:58.720 long history of people from other countries with weapons France. I guess there's still 207 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:02.480 a little sour about yeah, I think. So, Okay, three days 208 00:16:02.519 --> 00:16:06.200 ago, this crowd strike four days ago, now, this crowd strike computer 209 00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:11.159 update caused some five thousand flight cancelations around the world in a single day. 210 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:17.639 Almost everything is back to normal, except except your friends at Delta Airlines. 211 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:22.480 Four hundred and sixty two canceled flights today four hundred and sixty two and almost 212 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:30.440 a quarter of their entire schedule is also delayed at Delta. So why thousand 213 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:37.000 flights were canceled yesterday alone Delta's mainline operations and Endeavor, which is a regional 214 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:42.159 airline that feeds into the Delta system under the Delta Connection brand. About half 215 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:48.159 of all flights canceled by airlines worldwide were of the Delta and about three quarters 216 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:52.559 of the flights within the United States. Other US airlines had two percent or 217 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:59.039 fewer of their flights canceled, and they said that especially in places like Atlanta 218 00:16:59.120 --> 00:17:03.240 Hartsfield, where the largest airport in the world or busiest airport in the world, 219 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:11.119 there were people who have been in the Atlanta airport going on five days 220 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:15.640 now as a result of these problems with Delta. This is not good for 221 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:22.759 Pete boot edge Edge Well, it doesn't reflect great on him. Well, 222 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:26.720 he can investigate and appear to show some muscle. Yes, it is true. 223 00:17:27.079 --> 00:17:30.759 In a note to customers a couple days ago, the Delta CEO Ed 224 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:37.319 Bastioni, apologized for all of these disruptions and he attributed the problem specifically to 225 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:41.920 a computer program affecting the crew tracking software. He said, one of our 226 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:48.920 crew tracking related tools was affected and unable to effectively process the unprecedented number of 227 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:52.400 changes that were triggered by the system shutdown. So our teams have been working 228 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:57.400 around the clock to recover and restore full functionality, similar to what we saw 229 00:17:57.440 --> 00:18:06.119 with Southwest in that Southwest was having problems and they had to basically fill out 230 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:11.079 cards hand right where they're staffing, where their crews were going to be from 231 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:17.400 airport to airport because their problems from several months ago. At this point, 232 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:22.039 they said, there have been problems with hotel rooms. Many people have been 233 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:25.559 forced to sleep in airports, wait for hours on hold trying to get through 234 00:18:25.559 --> 00:18:30.599 to Delta in this effort to find flights out of there. Hartsfield International on 235 00:18:30.720 --> 00:18:36.079 Monday, there were three friends, Nicole, Tiffany and Melissa. They've been 236 00:18:36.119 --> 00:18:40.799 traveling since Saturday. They just want to get to home to Tucson. That's 237 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:44.839 all they were in Athens. All they want to do is go to Tucson 238 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:48.960 and imagine how desperate you must be if you want to go to That's where 239 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:52.480 you all play out. They were told finding a flight for the last leg 240 00:18:52.519 --> 00:18:56.920 of their trip might not happen until tomorrow or Thursday, and they've been in 241 00:18:56.960 --> 00:19:03.200 the airport since Saturday. Where were we when we were so? Was that 242 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:07.680 Phoenix? Why do I think it was Phoenix? Because the flight out of 243 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:15.279 Cleveland was supposed to go back to Lax, right Cleveland to Lax was going 244 00:19:15.319 --> 00:19:18.079 to get us home from the convention. They didn't leave until about eleven o'clock 245 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:23.079 Cleveland time, and they were only going to get us as far as Phoenix 246 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:26.759 because we would take them the first flight Phoenix to Burbank. Yes, and 247 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:32.880 we were saying whatever, I was so excited to get to Phoenix. Get 248 00:19:32.920 --> 00:19:36.839 me in the eight one eight and that's fine. Do you remember how cold 249 00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:40.799 those sheets were? Yes, that was the best. They put us up 250 00:19:40.839 --> 00:19:44.160 in Southwest, put us up in the hotel room. We were so dirty. 251 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:48.119 By that time, we had been into airport for like four hours waiting 252 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:51.920 the flights were delayed or are we talking about? That was twelve hours. 253 00:19:51.960 --> 00:19:53.759 Our first flight was supposed to be out at one thirty or two in the 254 00:19:53.799 --> 00:19:57.880 afternoon, So we were there for we game member. We were so gamy. 255 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:03.240 It was awful. That Bet I've never felt well, maybe not. 256 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:07.160 I mean there have been times when I actually used to physically exert myself and 257 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:11.319 laying down felt good. But that was one of the times that like that 258 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:14.160 bed was just the best thing ever. And we on that moment. We're 259 00:20:14.200 --> 00:20:17.880 only in those hotel rooms a couple hours, three hour, four hours maybe, 260 00:20:17.880 --> 00:20:19.519 because then we had to get right back up, get right back into 261 00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:22.599 a car, head to the airport, although we were on the airport grounds, 262 00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:26.279 but had to get right to the terminal for a seven or eight o'clock 263 00:20:26.279 --> 00:20:30.400 flight or whatever it use was to go to Burbank. And then our luggage 264 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:33.839 never made it at least Oscar and what a mess. So the next day 265 00:20:33.880 --> 00:20:37.240 we had to turn around to go to Philly for the Democratic Convention, and 266 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:42.000 Oscar and I roll up to the Lax Airport hoping that Southwest there would have 267 00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:48.079 our bags. You got to carry on for a week. Yeah, you 268 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:55.160 didn't carry on for a week. It sure did many questions. Well, 269 00:20:55.240 --> 00:21:00.240 I was just wearing tenting. I didn't Those true didn't really take up out 270 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:03.960 of space. It was. It was a gamy week though both of those 271 00:21:03.960 --> 00:21:10.799 weeks were pretty so sticky. I'm giving sticky just thinking about it. A 272 00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:15.400 guess who's running for governor I'm Antonio Vira Gosa. I'm a problem solving Yeah. 273 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:18.359 With your support, that's exactly what I'll do, is your next governor. 274 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:22.559 My god, I hear his voice and I'm so nostalgic for John and 275 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:29.880 ken Like. They had so much fun with that guy. We all did 276 00:21:30.039 --> 00:21:33.759 as a reporter covering him. It was it was just a gift that kept 277 00:21:33.799 --> 00:21:37.799 on giving. This was a video that he put out earlier today on social 278 00:21:37.880 --> 00:21:41.440 media to announce that he was running for governor. I'm not gonna play the 279 00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:44.839 whole thing. It's a little bit. It rubbs you a little bit the 280 00:21:44.880 --> 00:21:48.480 wrong way. California is a state where anything is possible with hard work and 281 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:53.599 determination mostly, but our future depends on our willingness to face our biggest challenge 282 00:21:53.880 --> 00:21:59.279 old I'm Antonio Vira Gosa, and I believe we need a problem solverer to 283 00:21:59.359 --> 00:22:03.319 lead our state. That's why I'm running for governor. As leader of the 284 00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:07.160 California State Assembly, I worked with both parties to balance the state budget. 285 00:22:07.640 --> 00:22:11.839 We've billions of dollars in reserve to prevent cuts to schools, in public safety, 286 00:22:12.279 --> 00:22:17.079 and when I became mayor, LA was one of the most dangerous cities 287 00:22:17.079 --> 00:22:22.160 in America. So I hired nearly a thousand police officers, took illegal guns 288 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:29.559 off the streets, and violent crime dropped. I turned around our failing schools. 289 00:22:27.839 --> 00:22:33.720 Did you this is one of those What has he been doing for the 290 00:22:33.799 --> 00:22:37.599 last six or seven years? Getting boards, just being bored? Remember he 291 00:22:37.640 --> 00:22:41.839 went on like a listening tour. He worked at a think tank. That 292 00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:45.039 was one of the brilliant things that John and Ken could make fun of. 293 00:22:45.599 --> 00:22:48.799 Well, and like he's some sort of bright mind. There we are, 294 00:22:49.480 --> 00:22:53.440 fifth in San Pedro. Remember he's driving in his Prius. Yes, looking 295 00:22:53.480 --> 00:22:56.920 at the homelessness solidos. You know, we could do better than this. 296 00:22:57.680 --> 00:23:03.680 We really can't go away than in the richest nation in the world. So 297 00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:11.039 many people of Henry looking for shelter. Oh my gosh, tense everywhere. 298 00:23:11.319 --> 00:23:15.319 Yeah, I can't. Please do more for each other, Yes, please, 299 00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:18.000 let's get more of this. I've said I have a lot of service 300 00:23:18.079 --> 00:23:23.440 left in me, and you know, I think it's pretty clear the writing 301 00:23:23.519 --> 00:23:29.640 on the wall. So speaking of the conventions, he was speaker twenty six 302 00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:32.319 years ago. Just so you to speak of the House or Speaker of the 303 00:23:32.319 --> 00:23:37.480 Assembly, to remind you about the conventions. Also that day when we were 304 00:23:37.720 --> 00:23:42.599 you know, spent it felt like a day alone trying to get out of 305 00:23:42.640 --> 00:23:47.079 Cleveland. The next morning, we got up and came back to Lax to 306 00:23:47.119 --> 00:23:49.920 fly to Philadelphia. And as we're sitting there, there were a lot of 307 00:23:49.920 --> 00:23:55.559 people that were headed to the convention also from Lax on that flight with us, 308 00:23:55.559 --> 00:23:59.759 including the former mayor and Tonio Viirigoso. We actually took a picture with 309 00:23:59.839 --> 00:24:03.880 him because he was Antonio via Ragosa, and I think you introduced yourself. 310 00:24:04.279 --> 00:24:08.880 He didn't have any clue who I was, but he hall. I mean, 311 00:24:08.920 --> 00:24:14.000 I covered most of his whole term. And that's a that's a four 312 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:18.119 and a half hour, five hour flight from Lax to Philadelphia. I wanted 313 00:24:18.119 --> 00:24:21.640 to say hello, and then I didn't want any more interaction, right, 314 00:24:21.759 --> 00:24:26.839 so I pretended to sleep the entire flight. Well, he did this thing 315 00:24:26.839 --> 00:24:30.519 where he was seated up towards the front, not first class, mind you, 316 00:24:30.599 --> 00:24:33.039 but up towards the front, and he'd get up and he'd start talking 317 00:24:33.079 --> 00:24:37.720 to people, and he'd come down the aisle and was high five in people. 318 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:42.039 It was working the captive audience that was the plane because we couldn't leave. 319 00:24:42.119 --> 00:24:47.200 We were in a plane. That's when I think you were sitting directly 320 00:24:47.240 --> 00:24:51.720 in front of me or yeah, and you we were laughing about the fact 321 00:24:51.720 --> 00:24:55.319 that he's holding people hostage as he's talking to them, and you're like, 322 00:24:55.359 --> 00:24:57.079 oh no, he's getting closer, he's getting closer. And then I see 323 00:24:57.119 --> 00:25:00.599 your head go hunk and slump over and you pretended to sleep. I put 324 00:25:00.640 --> 00:25:04.920 my eyemask on and everything. The flight detendants eventually made him go sit down, 325 00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:08.960 because you know, you're not supposed to just walk around the airplane cabin 326 00:25:10.039 --> 00:25:14.440 these days. So it reminded me of getting a man on the street interviews 327 00:25:14.440 --> 00:25:18.799 at a gas station. It's captive audience. Those people aren't going anywhere. 328 00:25:18.839 --> 00:25:21.599 They're filling up their tank. Now, just imagine if you were to do 329 00:25:21.640 --> 00:25:23.799 it at like a Tesla charging station where they got to sit there for fifteen 330 00:25:23.880 --> 00:25:27.279 or twenty or thirty minutes. You can have a full on conversation with them. 331 00:25:27.559 --> 00:25:32.559 You know everything about those people. Anyway, So Vieira Gosa says he 332 00:25:32.640 --> 00:25:37.079 will be running for governor. Can you feel it? Six twenty twenty six 333 00:25:37.279 --> 00:25:41.559 is when the election is because Skeavin Newsom of course, is going to be 334 00:25:41.279 --> 00:25:45.359 turned out. We just got news as well, Thank you producer Keana for 335 00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:51.559 three throwing this in there. New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez will resign his office, 336 00:25:51.640 --> 00:25:56.559 but not until August twentieth. They said. The official resignation would be 337 00:25:56.559 --> 00:26:00.839 submitted to New Jersey's Governor Phil Murphy, who would then select an inter replacement. 338 00:26:00.599 --> 00:26:04.799 Of course, Menendez was the one who has found guilty on all charges 339 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:11.559 in that bribery fraud case in New York, a two month long trial. 340 00:26:11.599 --> 00:26:15.000 Federal prosecutor said that he accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in the 341 00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:19.400 form of cash, gold bars, mortgage payments, and more in exchange for 342 00:26:19.519 --> 00:26:23.920 his political clout. Did you know that yawning is a sign of being cold 343 00:26:25.799 --> 00:26:27.640 in humans? It is? Yeah, no, yeah, really, that's 344 00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:32.880 why we yawn in here sometimes in the middle of the day, sub zero. 345 00:26:32.960 --> 00:26:36.759 We're super excited to be here. I am Oh, aren't you? 346 00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:41.440 Wow? You don't have to be mad about it. Why didn't trying to 347 00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:44.640 poke a little levity at you? And then oh, I'm sorry, you're 348 00:26:44.680 --> 00:26:48.720 not having fun? Sorry is not fun? Sorry? Not fun enough? 349 00:26:51.039 --> 00:26:53.640 Snappy. We've got plenty to get to in swamp watch. We've got the 350 00:26:53.720 --> 00:26:59.279 secret Service Director resigning. We've got net and Yahoo to address Congress, what's 351 00:26:59.279 --> 00:27:03.279 going on with common La Harris and her swing through the Blue the Blue Wall, 352 00:27:04.599 --> 00:27:10.680 and then we've got the investigation of Delta. There was one thing that 353 00:27:10.720 --> 00:27:15.720 we got to get to, uh, this one right here. Come on, 354 00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:19.240 Gary and Shannon. You know they meant he messed up like he does 355 00:27:19.359 --> 00:27:26.000 in everything he says. Trump, but he meant coming out of the Secret 356 00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:32.960 Service car to go into the hospital a stretcher there. Of course they wouldn't 357 00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:37.440 pull a stretcher up there, but that's Trump. Tuck does not know how 358 00:27:37.480 --> 00:27:45.359 to say things. Why do we have to have translations for now? The 359 00:27:45.400 --> 00:27:48.519 two people who are at the top of the ticket, we do. What 360 00:27:48.599 --> 00:27:55.039 they really meant to say, is this, trust me? Come on, 361 00:27:55.279 --> 00:27:59.519 man, you've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show. You can always 362 00:27:59.559 --> 00:28:03.359 hear us a lot on KFI AM six forty nine am to one pm every 363 00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:07.480 Monday through Friday, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.