Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon, and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
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Speaker 1: Lord loves us is so evident, it's so obvious. We
Speaker 1: can feel it in our bones, can't we yes? And
Speaker 1: the proof today is the RFK Junior bear story. It
Speaker 1: has everything. It has a Kennedy drunk at Central Park
Speaker 1: with a carcass of a dead bear, with at one
Speaker 1: point his hand in the bear's mouth, and the fact
Speaker 1: that the New Yorker made that phone called a fact
Speaker 1: check that story. How ridiculous would you feel if you're
Speaker 1: at the desk of the New Yorker and it comes
Speaker 1: across your desk, the story about a drunken Kennedy in
Speaker 1: Central Park with a dead bear, and you're like.
Speaker 2: Of course, I'm not gonna make that call. This is ridiculous.
Speaker 2: This didn't happen. How could this have happened?
Speaker 3: Then?
Speaker 1: And then you make the call and he's like absolutely yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's like, let me add to a little bit
Speaker 1: more background to it.
Speaker 3: There was also a bike in my car, and I
Speaker 3: was going to pretend that the bear was hit by
Speaker 3: a bicycle.
Speaker 1: Who has a bike in their car? And how can
Speaker 1: I get an invite to one of those dinner parties
Speaker 1: where you're just wasted and you're talking about what am
Speaker 1: I going to do with this dead bear? And y'all
Speaker 1: come up with the plan to stage a fake bike accident.
Speaker 3: That sounds like a fun time, right, Yeah?
Speaker 2: I feel like I only go to boring dinners now.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's nothing else going on today.
Speaker 2: There's a global financial crisis.
Speaker 3: Ah Iran is about to completely, you know, open up
Speaker 3: the skies and rain down fury upon Israel.
Speaker 1: One of the one of the worst headlines I read
Speaker 1: this morning is President Biden is meeting with his national
Speaker 1: security team as there's growing a fears of an attack
Speaker 1: by Iron on Israel.
Speaker 2: Could you have less confidence in the head of the country.
Speaker 3: That meeting is supposed to be two hours from now,
Speaker 3: two hours or so, eleven fifteen, I think our time.
Speaker 2: What does that even look like?
Speaker 3: Security team in the situation room, A lot of PowerPoint,
Speaker 3: a lot of grainy video. I suppose all of that. Oh, Bangladesh,
Speaker 3: Bangladesh is melting down. I know that you're's pretty high
Speaker 3: on your chart of things to watch for. Oh, and
Speaker 3: tropical storm Debbie, just downgraded to a tropical storm from
Speaker 3: a hurricane, is about to bring thirty inches of rain
Speaker 3: to places in Georgia and South Carolina.
Speaker 1: A twelve year old boy was just killed by Debbie
Speaker 1: when a tree fell on him.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's you know, good news, bad news.
Speaker 1: A massive space rock is going to go hurtling past Earth,
Speaker 1: zooming by just us, zooming by ten times faster than
Speaker 1: a bullet. This is the first time an asteroid of
Speaker 1: its size is coming this close that people in Western
Speaker 1: Europe and Africa will see it without a telescope, no
Speaker 1: binoculars needed. With the naked eye, you'll see this asteroid
Speaker 1: whizzing past. Unfortunately, a bad news. It's not going to
Speaker 1: hit us. Also, we have to wait five years for it.
Speaker 1: Oh it's nine anticipation, April thirteenth. Oh, it's a Friday
Speaker 1: the thirteenth. By the way, twenty twenty nine. They said
Speaker 1: that it's not going to hit Earth this time, but
Speaker 1: it's going to come close enough that we can get
Speaker 1: enough information to find out how close it's going to
Speaker 1: come the next time. Because that's a little bit more problematic.
Speaker 1: We'll all be dead, your kids will be dead.
Speaker 3: CNN is reporting that Kamala Harris has not yet chosen
Speaker 3: who her running it is going to be. This is
Speaker 3: the weird story of the day, and compared to everything
Speaker 3: else that's going on, this will get the most attention
Speaker 3: and then we'll fade into the nothingness quicker than any
Speaker 3: of the other stories.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the case, because if she
Speaker 1: does pick Josh Shapiro, there's growing concern that the far
Speaker 1: left will freaking riot at the DNC because he's Jewish
Speaker 1: or pro Israel.
Speaker 3: I did see I saw write up. I think it
Speaker 3: was this morning or late last night. It was about
Speaker 3: describing Jos Shapiro as why he was number one on
Speaker 3: the list, but that there are some potential negatives and
Speaker 3: like he's not progressive enough when it comes to Israel
Speaker 3: and Gaza right now, and in fact had written that
Speaker 3: paper when he was twenty years old that suggested that
Speaker 3: there would never be a two state solution because the
Speaker 3: Palestinians can't control their violence, all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 3: Somebody described Jos Shapiro as having an allure similar to
Speaker 3: what Barack Obama had, but because he's a practicing Jew,
Speaker 3: they referred to him as baruk Obama, which I thought
Speaker 3: was really funny, but it also plays into the very
Speaker 3: far left. They don't want a Jewish guy now because
Speaker 3: they think that we're already way to behold into Israel and.
Speaker 2: They're fighting for Hamas.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think right now what's happening is the decision
Speaker 1: was made, but they're trying to gauge the fervor when
Speaker 1: it comes to how pissed are people about that particular
Speaker 1: issue and will it ruin the chances. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: a swing like this forever. Three weeks ago, was it
Speaker 1: three weeks ago? We sat here and said this is
Speaker 1: a lock for Trump. After the assassination attempt, there was
Speaker 1: no way in the world that I.
Speaker 2: Could see anybody beating him.
Speaker 1: And now I feel like the pendulum has swung into
Speaker 1: this Kamala momentum cycle.
Speaker 3: Well, there's been a couple of polls that suggested that
Speaker 3: there was a seven or eight point swing over the
Speaker 3: last couple of months, sorry, last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: I can feel it. Yeah, it's odd.
Speaker 3: Mark Kelly was one of the other candidates potentially for
Speaker 3: vice president. He posted something last night on Twitter and
Speaker 3: then immediately deleted it. It was it said quote, I
Speaker 3: spent my life in the Navy and at NASA, where
Speaker 3: the mission always comes first. Now my mission is serving
Speaker 3: Eraz hmm. I wonder if that means he knows he
Speaker 3: didn't get the job. Yes, he and Josh Shapiro and
Speaker 3: Minnesota Governor Tim Walls sort of a late entrant. Those
Speaker 3: three guys all met with the Vice President at the
Speaker 3: Naval Observatory, the official residence of the Vice President in
Speaker 3: Washington yesterday, and then there were some other names that
Speaker 3: were thrown around, like Pete Boodhagi and supposedly these meetings
Speaker 3: were to see if the Vice president jives with the
Speaker 3: guys that could be her vice president. So the expectation
Speaker 3: is that they'll have an answer or they'll have an
Speaker 3: announcement sometime soon, because they're going on a five day
Speaker 3: tour right away Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that is, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona,
Speaker 3: and Nevada all over the course of the next five days.
Speaker 1: Christy is on CNN right now saying that she needs
Speaker 1: to pick a VP more moderate than her and that
Speaker 1: may be that may be the move here because she
Speaker 1: is so far in line, or she appeared the optics
Speaker 1: are that she's more in line with a far far left,
Speaker 1: so they'll be happy with her at the top of
Speaker 1: the ticket.
Speaker 3: Would he say that Josh Shapiro is that more moderate person? Interesting?
Speaker 1: Can we stop asking Jimmy Carter? Can we stop making
Speaker 1: that phone call knocking on that door about what he
Speaker 1: thinks about the current political climate?
Speaker 3: Let him live peace.
Speaker 2: He's ninety five years old. Let the man rest.
Speaker 3: Australia again, nothing to see here, has raised its terror
Speaker 3: threat level from probable to possible, citing an increase in
Speaker 3: extremist views in Australia. The Prime Minister Anthony Albany said
Speaker 3: that he had raised the country's threat level following advice
Speaker 3: from security services. All in the background, Iran expected to
Speaker 3: attack Israel in the next say, twenty four to forty
Speaker 3: eight hours. Fine Axios says that Secretary of State Anthony
Speaker 3: Blinken told the G seven yesterday that an attack in
Speaker 3: response was imminent. This would be the second time that
Speaker 3: Iran has directly attacked Israel. Remember back in April they
Speaker 3: sent what was it, three hundred or so missiles and
Speaker 3: drones overnight, But unlike that one in April, the US
Speaker 3: admitted in private call with the G seven members. It
Speaker 3: doesn't know what the expected retaliatory strike would look like.
Speaker 3: And we have a metric s ton of naval resources
Speaker 3: currently stationed throughout the Middle East.
Speaker 2: Oh, and there's a hurricane.
Speaker 3: There is a hur Well, it was a hurricane. Good
Speaker 3: news is that Debbie's been downgraded to a tropical storm.
Speaker 2: But she's still killing children.
Speaker 3: Well, there's that. I mean, we'll get two and then
Speaker 3: and then Wall Street.
Speaker 1: Wall Street now currently down seven sixty. It was down
Speaker 1: by as much as eleven hundred and change earlier in
Speaker 1: the trading day. Experts say the fear is coming from
Speaker 1: those weak jobs numbers that we saw on Thursday that
Speaker 1: indicate recession, the fact that the FED may have stayed
Speaker 1: too high for too long, early unemployment benefits being applied for,
Speaker 1: which is an indicator of massive layoffs. Experts say that
Speaker 1: this could be an overreaction to a few of those
Speaker 1: weak economic data points, maybe a course correction because we
Speaker 1: still remain high on all three markets. But that I
Speaker 1: believe the phrase was we're normalizing. But this right now
Speaker 1: feels like too much shock and awe.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Barry Banister is the chief equity strategist at stifle,
Speaker 3: and he suggested the one thing that could come from
Speaker 3: this is that the FED cuts it cuts interest rates.
Speaker 3: Whether they do it by a quarter point, half a point, fifty.
Speaker 4: Basis points is not expected. Plus it would be a
Speaker 4: very bad signal. I think Chairman Powell doesn't want the
Speaker 4: market to believe that there's an outright Fed put you know,
Speaker 4: I was thinking over the weekend when we had the
Speaker 4: soft Thursday Friday that it reminded me of nineteen eighty seven,
Speaker 4: before the crash on Monday October nineteenth. Back then it
Speaker 4: was the deutsch Mark. Now it's the Japanese yend, but
Speaker 4: the circumstances were similar. Greenspan responded by cutting rates, and
Speaker 4: ever since then, the market believes they have a safety
Speaker 4: net with the FED. To have fifty basis points would
Speaker 4: be a huge mistake, but they probably will watch the
Speaker 4: data and by the September meeting, if not, maybe before,
Speaker 4: depending on financial conditions, do a quarter point it.
Speaker 1: They'll leak it if they're going to do that, just
Speaker 1: to calm things down, you know, in post nineteen eighty seven,
Speaker 1: they also put in a safety net in terms of
Speaker 1: stopping trading.
Speaker 2: Does everyone just pump the brakes.
Speaker 3: So the other thing is a lot of people four
Speaker 3: to oh one k, for example, is trending on Twitter
Speaker 3: today because people are making jokes about, oh, don't look
Speaker 3: at your four okay if you don't like it. This
Speaker 3: is one of those situations where if you're a day trader,
Speaker 3: if you're doing this thing by the hour, you're losing
Speaker 3: your pants right now. And guys like Jeff Bezos lose
Speaker 3: five billion dollars today, but they're fine. They'll be just fine.
Speaker 3: Greg McBride CFA bank Rate. He says, if you're a
Speaker 3: normal investor, just relax.
Speaker 5: Market corrections, which is a ten percent pull back from
Speaker 5: a high, tend to happen on average about once a
Speaker 5: year every twelve months or so. We're overdue, so you know,
Speaker 5: put it in that context. If you're saving for retirement,
Speaker 5: this is a game we play over decades. You can't
Speaker 5: be distracted by day to day volatility.
Speaker 3: That being said, this is a worldwide thing. The markets
Speaker 3: around the world are reacting to this because of the
Speaker 3: importance of our economy and their fear that our economy
Speaker 3: may be pointed towards recession.
Speaker 1: And that's what we learned in nineteen eighty seven of
Speaker 1: how interconnected we are globally with all of our markets.
Speaker 1: Did you say, did I hear you say Jeff Bezos
Speaker 1: was going to be just fine?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh, thank god, because it's what you're morning about.
Speaker 1: This whole morning I've just been I mean, what will
Speaker 1: happen to Jeff Bezos?
Speaker 3: They make a big point out of like Jeff Bezos
Speaker 3: elon musk eleven billion dollars over the course of three days.
Speaker 3: Care not okay, he loses eleven billion dollars in the laundry, right,
Speaker 3: is Everything's gonna be okay? All right? Tropical Storm Debbie
Speaker 3: was a hurricane back down to tropical storm gonna cause massive,
Speaker 3: massive problems along the South.
Speaker 2: Also, who's a bigger bitch, Debbie or the balance beam?
Speaker 3: Oh my god?
Speaker 2: Is that too much?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Sorry?
Speaker 1: Did you hear about the hot Paraguayan swimmer who was
Speaker 1: kicked out of the Olympic village because she's too hot
Speaker 1: in a distraction?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: She retired, didn't she? She did via social media post,
Speaker 1: I believe. But she was coming in like sixth and
Speaker 1: seventh in her heats, so it wasn't going well. But yeah,
Speaker 1: super hot swimmer and was told to leave. And then
Speaker 1: there's the French poll vaulter. Now, listen, did you see
Speaker 1: the video?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 3: How could you not? The thing that doesn't look natural
Speaker 3: to pull hit his knees first, that's why it was bouncing,
Speaker 3: and then it caught his joke his.
Speaker 2: Penis, scary penis, and the bar came down.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, there's a there's the video is
Speaker 1: insane like that is how tall is that person?
Speaker 2: It must be a tall person.
Speaker 3: Right, Why are you asking that?
Speaker 2: Have you seen the video?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Okay, but when you're.
Speaker 1: Not freaking shocked by that that hit it hit his
Speaker 1: that it was that that it looked like that significant.
Speaker 2: Significant is a good word.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know what. I don't know
Speaker 3: if that's a common pole vaulter thing. Maybe it's a
Speaker 3: characteristic that that's the wrong sport for those people. Because
Speaker 3: the other pole vault video, by the way, is the
Speaker 3: guy who went and puts the pole down on the
Speaker 3: little thing and gets up and then falls all the
Speaker 3: way back down, like he'd even make it up to
Speaker 3: the pole, to the to the bar. The legal fight
Speaker 3: between crowd Strike and Delta Airline is ratcheting up a notch,
Speaker 3: and this is good crowdstrikes lawyers delivered a letter to
Speaker 3: push back against claims that it was responsible for Delta.
Speaker 3: You remember Delta had to cancel thousands of flights. Delta
Speaker 3: is solely responsible according to CrowdStrike. Now the reason they
Speaker 3: even wrote the letter was because Delta hired David Boyce,
Speaker 3: the world renowned attorney to rush yeah, to represent Delta
Speaker 3: because they're seeking five hundred million dollars in damages from CrowdStrike.
Speaker 1: I like it when I get to say a lap
Speaker 1: Appalachia Cola. That's a fun that's that's a fun town
Speaker 1: to say. But unfortunately the news out of that part
Speaker 1: of the country is not great. A thirteen year old
Speaker 1: boy was killed this morning when a tree fell on
Speaker 1: his mobile home. This is cedar Key, Florida, if you
Speaker 1: know the area and Hillsborough County, Florida. Driver of a
Speaker 1: semi was killed when the truck went into a canal
Speaker 1: off Interstate two seventy five this morning. More than three
Speaker 1: hundred thousand people remain without power because of Debbie.
Speaker 3: Debbie made landfall as a Category one hurricane and then
Speaker 3: within the last hour or so is downgraded back down
Speaker 3: to a tropical storm. Governor Ron de Santis. They're in Florida,
Speaker 3: says they are getting ready.
Speaker 6: We have three thousand service members from the Florida National
Speaker 6: Guard that are on standby, and that includes search and rescue,
Speaker 6: route clearance, distribution, and protection of critical infrastructure. They have
Speaker 6: ten rotary aircraft and over four hundred tactical vehicle stage
Speaker 6: to support.
Speaker 3: He actually had to remind people in Florida not to
Speaker 3: use generators indoors.
Speaker 2: That checks out.
Speaker 1: If you've got an American flight, keep your eye on it,
Speaker 1: even though we're far away. Because American airlines are seeing
Speaker 1: some big impacts that they have hubs in Miami and Charlotte,
Speaker 1: and so there's been fifteen hundred flights canceled already, So
Speaker 1: it may have a ripple of throughout the rest of
Speaker 1: the country.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina are the ones
Speaker 3: that are paying attention now. I mean, as this thing
Speaker 3: moves through, it's not going very fast, which is going
Speaker 3: to be a problem. The suggestion from the National Hurricane
Speaker 3: Center was that we could see twenty plus inches of rain.
Speaker 3: The director of the National Hurricane Center said it could
Speaker 3: go as high as thirty although I think he's kind
Speaker 3: of backed off a little bit on that, But you're
Speaker 3: talking about South Carolina and Georgia specifically. Just watching this
Speaker 3: thing churn right there along the coast, and if it
Speaker 3: slows down, that means a lot more rain and the
Speaker 3: potential for like I said, twenty plus inches of rain
Speaker 3: up to thirty inches in parts of Southeast Georgia and
Speaker 3: South Carolina.
Speaker 1: I feel like I've said the phrase historic flooding at
Speaker 1: least three times since the start of the year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, did you.
Speaker 1: Hear about this new technology AI being tested in the
Speaker 1: UK to identify those at risk of a heart attack?
Speaker 1: Game changer That AI can detect inflammation in the heart
Speaker 1: that cat scans and X rays can't see. How I'm
Speaker 1: not a scientist, Good lord, I can't tell you because
Speaker 1: I am a doctor. Be a paragraph or something that
Speaker 1: patient I don't read behind the first couple of sentences.
Speaker 1: I learned it from Conway. Patients with heart inflammation are
Speaker 1: twenty to thirty times more likely to die over the
Speaker 1: next ten years of a cardiac issue.
Speaker 2: Have you made your appointment?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Are you gonna make.
Speaker 1: Your appointment with a cardiologist? Or are we just gonna
Speaker 1: wait for you to die?
Speaker 2: In here?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: Maybe for ratings that would be something if you had
Speaker 1: a heart attack live on the air. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: I would run and I'd be able to get the
Speaker 1: defib machine.
Speaker 2: And the alarm would sound.
Speaker 3: I'd ask Jacob to do that.
Speaker 1: Oh well, you're it's too bad for you. You don't
Speaker 1: have that luxury. You're on the floor with the heart attack.
Speaker 3: As long as we break on time, that's fine, right.
Speaker 1: Wow, And know Jacob was in management. Now great, almost
Speaker 1: had a chance. He's wearing a sport code with leather
Speaker 1: patches on.
Speaker 2: The That's actually what Mike Schaeffer used to wear.
Speaker 3: All the time. Former President Trump ranted on truth Social
Speaker 3: over the weekend that he wasn't going to debate Vice
Speaker 3: President Harris on any other debate stage besides the one
Speaker 3: set to be hosted by Fox News in Pennsylvania September fourth.
Speaker 3: The ABC News debate was originally scheduled between Trump and
Speaker 3: Biden before Biden dropped out of the race. Who knows,
Speaker 3: Who knows if this ever comes to be. The campaign
Speaker 3: to be the vice president's vice president is reaching its
Speaker 3: final hours. You've got Josh Shapiro out of Pennsylvania, Senator
Speaker 3: Mark Kelly of Arizona, Governor Tim Wallsom Minnesota. They all
Speaker 3: met with the Vice president yesterday. The campaign has protected
Speaker 3: all of these very final last minute stages and have
Speaker 3: not yet said when there will be an announcement, but
Speaker 3: we know the time is because the campaign is offering
Speaker 3: details on what they say will be the five day
Speaker 3: tour that the VP and the new VP choice would
Speaker 3: be making seven swing state cities Philadelphia, Euclaire, Wisconsin, Detroit, Durham,
Speaker 3: North Carolina, Savannah, Georgia, Phoenix, and Las Vegas, just over
Speaker 3: the next several days.
Speaker 1: Simone Biles adding a silver medal to her collection as
Speaker 1: she wraps up her time at the Paris Olympics. She
Speaker 1: finished behind Brazil's Rebecca Andreid andrad I don't know. I've
Speaker 1: never gotten clarification on that. Onrage Andraja, they were saying beautiful,
Speaker 1: what a beautiful name.
Speaker 3: She said.
Speaker 1: Over the weekend, some of Bile says, I don't want
Speaker 1: to compete against Andrage anymore.
Speaker 2: It's exhausting. She's too good, she keeps it too close.
Speaker 1: She won the gold today in women's floor exercise.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say this about this whole Simone Biles thing.
Speaker 3: She's clearly the greatest gymnast that we've seen ever in
Speaker 3: our lifetime for certain as likely, it's okay if she
Speaker 3: falls off the balance beable like this whole thing of
Speaker 3: She failed to win the gold medal for the first
Speaker 3: time at these Olympics, and they've been serving as this
Speaker 3: emphatic comeback from the disappointment three years ago in Tokyo.
Speaker 3: She doesn't lose, she doesn't lose any street creb Street
Speaker 3: cred in my mind. If she falls off the balance beam,
Speaker 3: I mean, she's been there for weeks, for a couple
Speaker 3: of weeks, right, She's she's been training for this. Yes,
Speaker 3: we see her at her peak and we see her
Speaker 3: pull out these amazing performances, but you can't do that
Speaker 3: all the time every time.
Speaker 1: She also said over the weekend, I need reporters to
Speaker 1: stop and I'm paraphrasing here, to stop asking gymnasts what's next. Like,
Speaker 1: let us soak in the fact that we just want
Speaker 1: a gold medal or a bronze medal, what have you.
Speaker 1: Let's just sit in it for a while. Let's soak
Speaker 1: in the countless times we left the house at three
Speaker 1: in the morning to go train all day for five
Speaker 1: hundred years.
Speaker 2: Let's just enjoy it.
Speaker 1: However, that said, she has not shut the door on
Speaker 1: competing at the twenty twenty eight LA Olympics. She's twenty seven,
Speaker 1: so she'd be in her thirties at this point. That
Speaker 1: would be a feat. I was watching do you remember
Speaker 1: what you did?
Speaker 3: At thirty one that I was watching Texas West Little
Speaker 3: League against Louisiana Little League at part Southwest Finals for
Speaker 3: the getting to the Little League World Series. Some of
Speaker 3: those kids are four foot eight, just like Simone Biles,
Speaker 3: and they are tiny people. I still cannot wrap my
Speaker 3: head around how short she is.
Speaker 1: Well, that's part of the aerodynamic feat. The fact that
Speaker 1: she's so strong in that kind of physique leads her
Speaker 1: to and I'm not saying that she has any I'm
Speaker 1: not saying she was born on third at all. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying it plays into how she's able to get
Speaker 1: that much speed and get that high up in the
Speaker 1: air because she's that athletic and tiny.
Speaker 2: You couldn't do that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: I couldn't climb a ladder to eleightin feet and she
Speaker 3: just does it on the floor routine on a regular basis,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: And but that said, yeah, the balance mean this very
Speaker 1: tough apparatus that said, I have worked in some training
Speaker 1: exercises for us today to get better on the beam.
Speaker 3: Okay, what is that gonna entail? Are we gonna tape
Speaker 3: off a little? How?
Speaker 2: Why is it that four in four inches? That's a
Speaker 2: really good idea.
Speaker 3: Tape off a little four inch thing? Not look at it,
Speaker 3: that means.
Speaker 2: A masking tape.
Speaker 3: There was there was a there was a sad. I
Speaker 3: don't know if sad's the right word. There was a
Speaker 3: moment yesterday when golf came to a close. Scottie Scheffler
Speaker 3: won the gold. I think it was Hideki Matsuyama that
Speaker 3: came in with bronze.
Speaker 2: That's one of those names you like to say, yes, yeah.
Speaker 3: It's showing off.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But Tom Kim for the Koreans not as much fun
Speaker 3: to say, not yeah, not enough syllables to make it fun.
Speaker 3: He came in eighth. Now, had he meddled the country
Speaker 3: of South Korea eliminates his mandatory military service?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 3: If he meddles. He didn't meddle. So he was crying,
Speaker 3: oh my, because he now has to Now, I'm sure
Speaker 3: he was, But he was crying because he.
Speaker 1: Well that's also part of the world where you really
Speaker 1: let your country down, like it is ingrained that you
Speaker 1: need to do well for your country in that regard.
Speaker 1: A couple things. Number One, it's three point nine three
Speaker 1: seven inches wide. The beam just shy of four inches.
Speaker 3: Okay, so well we'll make it four.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have to shave your feet down.
Speaker 3: What you don't cut off? My corn's hanging off the side.
Speaker 1: Also, I don't like this whole China leads us in
Speaker 1: gold medals? Does that make me a sixty seven year
Speaker 1: old man? And I'm like, China, No, it's fine. I
Speaker 1: mean I don't like it. I know that we lead,
Speaker 1: the United States leads in the medal count, but we're
Speaker 1: behind China the last time I checked.
Speaker 3: In golds in golds specifically, that's okay. That's not okay. Well,
Speaker 3: I mean it's okay.
Speaker 2: How do you accept that?
Speaker 3: That's good? Thing is we don't determine value based on
Speaker 3: or importance in the world based on the Olympic medal.
Speaker 1: I think that we should compete in all ways.
Speaker 2: In all ways, you.
Speaker 3: Just like the competition. There are crazy events. I was
Speaker 3: trying to watch dressage yesterday.
Speaker 2: What is that?
Speaker 3: That's the horses?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 3: It just looks like the horses are in a big
Speaker 3: rectangular dirt lot and they're just trotting around. I do
Speaker 3: not understand any of.
Speaker 2: The address them up. You put ribbons on your horses.
Speaker 3: Something about how you make they have certain moves that
Speaker 3: they have to do, Like they have to clop one
Speaker 3: way and trot another way and then clop sideways.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, here we go.
Speaker 1: A horse performing the discipline of dressage must have three free,
Speaker 1: elastic and regular gates, which are a four beat walk
Speaker 1: with no moment of suspension, a two beat trot with
Speaker 1: a moment of suspension between each diagonal beat, and a
Speaker 1: three beat canter with a moment of suspension following the
Speaker 1: three beats.
Speaker 2: This is why rich people do this.
Speaker 3: That's exact. And the horse is the one that's doing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Gary, it is the horse.
Speaker 3: No, I mean the horse.
Speaker 1: The horse doesn't get the gold medal. I'm sure they
Speaker 1: probably do. I think they get it. I think I
Speaker 1: think that's exactly what happens. I hope, so I'll look
Speaker 1: it up. But I was also watching kayak cross.
Speaker 3: Kyak cross, four kayakers go down the completely artificial shoot
Speaker 3: and they're basically banging into each other as they're trying
Speaker 3: to go around the gates. It was also very insane.
Speaker 1: Wow, you're right, the horses don't receive their own medals.
Speaker 2: What a stupid, freaking world we live in? How dare we?
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