Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 1: that I'm not even gonna.
Speaker 2: Hour on the air. Yes, you know how radio works, right,
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Speaker 1: Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Don't worry, it's not like he
Speaker 1: sells advertising. Oh we got our calendar, our bird calendar
Speaker 1: from autumn. I love our bird calendar.
Speaker 2: That is a very well put together oka.
Speaker 1: At the western meadow lark as January's bird. It's a
Speaker 1: member of the blackbird family, flashes a vibrant yellow breast
Speaker 1: crossed by a distinctive black V shaped band. Or a
Speaker 1: fun fact about the western meadow lark, because there's one
Speaker 1: right here. They stick their closed bills into the ground
Speaker 1: and then open them while they're.
Speaker 2: Stuck in the dirt like a like a your posthold digger.
Speaker 1: Sure. This is to reach insects that other birds can't
Speaker 1: get to. This is called gaping. Do you want to
Speaker 1: know what a group of meadow larks is called?
Speaker 2: A lemon? A podka? A couple stories that we are following.
Speaker 2: The FBI now says that that pickup truck driver that
Speaker 2: drove through New Orleans Bourbon Street acted alone. Officials said
Speaker 2: yesterday that they were looking for some additional suspects in
Speaker 2: an attack that's being investigated as an attack of an
Speaker 2: active terrorism but the Deputy Assistant Director of the counter
Speaker 2: Terrorism Division said evidence now shows that this guy acted alone.
Speaker 2: There weren't other people who planted explosive devices that apparently
Speaker 2: he did it by himself, went changed clothes and then
Speaker 2: got into the truck and plowed through the crowd. Law
Speaker 2: enforcement also said that the person who died in the
Speaker 2: explosion of that Tesla cyber truck packed with explosives and
Speaker 2: fireworks outside of Las Vegas hotel was an active duty
Speaker 2: Army soldier. Officials told the AP that they had identified
Speaker 2: him as Matthew Levelsberger. The official spoke to the AP
Speaker 2: on the condition of anonymity. Apparently they have been searching
Speaker 2: his residence and other properties, apparently in Colorado.
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes was not selected to the Pro Bowl. This
Speaker 1: is for the first time since becoming the quarterback starting
Speaker 1: quarterback in Kansas City in a second season. He is
Speaker 1: a three time Super Bowl MVP, six time Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: pick was not among the five chiefs chosen. Travis Kelcey
Speaker 1: made it for the tenth time. However, are people just
Speaker 1: mad at at Patrick Mahomes or do they realize his
Speaker 1: quarterback play has not been stellar.
Speaker 2: This year despite their records.
Speaker 1: He's had moments. But it's just kind of interesting, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Well. Tradition has states that on January first, you get
Speaker 2: up and you watch the Rose Parade.
Speaker 1: Right, I hate watch that thing, and I feel bad
Speaker 1: about it because they're fellow broadcasters, but they're just awful.
Speaker 1: They're so phony. They hate each other. It's obvious. I mean,
Speaker 1: like I was just saying off the air, one of
Speaker 1: the opening moments was Mark right, I can never get done.
Speaker 1: I could not pick him out of a lineup. Is
Speaker 1: he an actor?
Speaker 2: Always a TV guy? Oh? Where? I think he's on
Speaker 2: like one of the entertainment shows, Entertainment and I.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that makes sense.
Speaker 2: That's why they would pair him with Lisa Gibbons.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. One of the things that he said is, oh,
Speaker 1: you're just the best partner ever to work with ever ever,
Speaker 1: And she's like, well, you know, she's maybe that's too much.
Speaker 1: And he's like, well, I just wanted to check that box.
Speaker 1: And I mean that set the tone for how much
Speaker 1: fakery exists in that booth.
Speaker 2: Well it's and it's so it's a weird thing because
Speaker 2: they they'll do obviously the national broadcast, there's you know
Speaker 2: CBS at NBC and ABC, they they'll do their broadcast.
Speaker 2: But then you've got the local channels that will do
Speaker 2: a broadcast, and and the one on KTLA's that's kind
Speaker 2: of the traditional one that you go to. That was
Speaker 2: the one that was always Bob and Stephanie.
Speaker 1: And Chris Shauble looks like he actually loves doing the parade,
Speaker 1: like he wants to be there. He loves it. He's
Speaker 1: got excitement for it. He's great. The other two that
Speaker 1: you know, they could be doing their taxes. They don't care.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if it's just axitement of proximity.
Speaker 2: I mean, Chris is right there. I think he called
Speaker 2: a TV corner. He's on that corner where they got
Speaker 2: to make that sharp turn. And sometimes they will do
Speaker 2: a performance on one side of the of that intersection
Speaker 2: and then they'll come around where all the TV boots
Speaker 2: are and then they'll do another presentation in this section.
Speaker 2: He's right there, so he gets to see all of this.
Speaker 2: He was interviewing the president from the University of Oregon.
Speaker 2: Obviously they were in the Rose Bowl yesterday. Then it's
Speaker 2: enormously wonderful achievement. It brings us off. Microphone doesn't work.
Speaker 1: It is so frustrating a first season covering the Chargers
Speaker 1: on the sideline, I had a microphone that consistently did
Speaker 1: not work. They would to me, I would start talking.
Speaker 1: I could tell I was not on the air. It
Speaker 1: is so frustrating as a reporter for that to happen,
Speaker 1: because a you want to do your job, and this
Speaker 1: is an exciting job. It's the kt LA Rose Parade,
Speaker 1: and he's killing it and the microphone cuts out. So
Speaker 1: he did a couple hits. I think that was the
Speaker 1: third hit with that president. He also to interviewed the
Speaker 1: Ohio state president as well. Cut out there, and then
Speaker 1: they just didn't go to him because he didn't have
Speaker 1: a working micro How does that happen? How do you
Speaker 1: how do you have a broadcast at large and not
Speaker 1: have a working microphone with no interference down there where
Speaker 1: you know he's going to be broadcasting. It's not like
Speaker 1: he's going.
Speaker 2: Rogue run a cable, run run a cable cable. I
Speaker 2: know that what one hundred feet run one hundred foot table?
Speaker 1: I started, I started losing my monusor texting rich Ramos,
Speaker 1: our engineer here. I was like, what the hell is
Speaker 1: this happened. I'm like, I'm so thankful for you and
Speaker 1: always having a microphone for me that works, because.
Speaker 2: It is so frustrating. Here he is with the president
Speaker 2: of the Ohio State University. You're pretty joining us.
Speaker 1: Before we get into please.
Speaker 2: Explain to the audience your military background, because it is,
Speaker 2: if just depressive.
Speaker 3: I was in the Navy for thirty eight years, retired
Speaker 3: as a pike Piple animal flew up in nineteen different
Speaker 3: aircraft carriers, over two thousand carrier landings.
Speaker 2: It's American record.
Speaker 3: Very privileged to serve for that long. My last five years,
Speaker 3: baby was leading the US Table Academy.
Speaker 1: Also top guy the overmodulation.
Speaker 2: Well that's the other part about it. Listen, Chris is
Speaker 2: a loud guy, and I had the okay, so I
Speaker 2: was doing my daughter's volleyball games for a while. I
Speaker 2: remember that whole chapter in my life. Chris's kids went
Speaker 2: to the same school, so Chris and I got to
Speaker 2: know each other through that, and I would there were
Speaker 2: times when I couldn't do it, and he would. And
Speaker 2: people were saying, could we turn his microphone down? Not
Speaker 2: because he was not because they didn't like his enthusiasm.
Speaker 2: It's that no, but he was there to turn it
Speaker 2: down to the right level so you could still get
Speaker 2: the enthusiasm without having the overmodulation.
Speaker 1: Are you did you infiltrate Chris Jobble's microphone yesterday because
Speaker 1: you were jealous that he outshown you at the volleyball games?
Speaker 2: I did not. I did not. I love Chris. He's
Speaker 2: such a great guy.
Speaker 1: He really seems like it. I don't know him, but.
Speaker 2: That personality, he is that nice and that excited about everything,
Speaker 2: that happy. He's that happy.
Speaker 1: And him doing the intro for Jackson State was awesome
Speaker 1: and it made the two in the booth sound even dumber. Sorry, God,
Speaker 1: New Year's Same b Good Lord, I'm.
Speaker 2: Awful it didn't go anywhere. That's really good. In a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks, I actually have my baseball camp coming
Speaker 2: up and they had a question for me, which was,
Speaker 2: what do you want your walk up song to? Be,
Speaker 2: and I don't know the full context. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: when they're going to use it, or if they wait
Speaker 2: until the last day, or if they're going to use
Speaker 2: it every time that I go up to bat. So
Speaker 2: if you have a suggestion about what it should be,
Speaker 2: let me know. We've got a couple of suggestions.
Speaker 1: Yes, And I think the booty song is a strong entry,
Speaker 1: except for it might creep out some of the guys
Speaker 1: that you'll be playing with right, like like you want
Speaker 1: it's almost like you want them to look.
Speaker 2: At your booty, right And that's not what I'm going for.
Speaker 1: It's not what are you going for?
Speaker 2: I don't know. That's why I'm That's why I'm I'm
Speaker 2: open to suggestion because I had a list that I
Speaker 2: put together when I saw this, and I thought, well,
Speaker 2: some of these, some of these would be funny. Some
Speaker 2: of them are traditional, like walk up songs where it's
Speaker 2: like a heavy guitar riff or something like that for
Speaker 2: the first ten or fifteen seconds, because it's not long.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm not playing the whole song, so it's
Speaker 2: got to hit hard right away.
Speaker 1: You could play the old KFI news What was that warrant?
Speaker 1: Rat Rat round and round that might be fun as
Speaker 1: kind of like a but again might get you fired
Speaker 1: up to do a newscast.
Speaker 2: I don't know if somebody is going to be then
Speaker 2: I get it, you get it. I'm the only one
Speaker 2: that's kind of.
Speaker 1: What your walk up song is for. It's to amp
Speaker 1: yourself up, That's what it is. That's why guys get
Speaker 1: to pick their own walk up songs, like what amps
Speaker 1: you up? Like what makes you want to hit it
Speaker 1: out of the park. One of the things you'll have
Speaker 1: to keep in mind is you'll probably be going with
Speaker 1: other guys that are in your age range, and we'll
Speaker 1: be picking out similar songs.
Speaker 2: Yes, right, so you got to be a little esoteric.
Speaker 2: You got a little esoteric, which is kind of why
Speaker 2: I chose the ones that I think. I have five.
Speaker 2: I have five that I chose that could be possibilities. Okay,
Speaker 2: but I'm open to others. Are you going to share
Speaker 2: those with us? Yes? I will share them with you
Speaker 2: a little bit later. New organ go you first.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say. New Orleans is preparing to
Speaker 1: reopen Bourbon Street to the public after that deadly truck
Speaker 1: attack on New Year's Day. The governor there says there
Speaker 1: would be an unprecedented law enforcement presence prior to the
Speaker 1: Sugar Bowl that will be this afternoon. The he would
Speaker 1: reopen Bourbon Street, he says, to the public at three
Speaker 1: thirty pm, which is twelve thirty hour time, a half
Speaker 1: an hour before Georgia and Notre Dame are scheduled to
Speaker 1: play that All state Sugar Bowl, which was postponed twenty
Speaker 1: four hours because of that deadly truck attack that killed
Speaker 1: at least fourteen people injured dozens more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what. I don't know the exact
Speaker 2: conversations that took place about deciding to postpone it. I
Speaker 2: wasn't surprised that they did. I was surprised that they
Speaker 2: only did it twenty four hours and the Attorney general
Speaker 2: in the state Louisiana said, Hey, my idea was you
Speaker 2: got to go at least Friday or Saturday. We need time,
Speaker 2: And I don't know if it was the we need
Speaker 2: time to heal or we need time to prepare. Security wise,
Speaker 2: it's already a humongous event, may not be the Super
Speaker 2: Bowl in terms of the level of security that would
Speaker 2: be required or would be given, especially help from federal agencies.
Speaker 2: And things like that. But it's already a massive, massive event,
Speaker 2: I mean New Orleans. On New Year's Eve they said
Speaker 2: it was one hundred percent staffing already because of the
Speaker 2: you know what happened they previous to what happened with
Speaker 2: the attack.
Speaker 1: Right, They've called in resources too. The National Guard is
Speaker 1: coming in. Correctional officers and members of other state law
Speaker 1: enforcement divisions have been deployed to help the city with
Speaker 1: security for the Sugar Bowl as well. So all hands
Speaker 1: on deck and then some.
Speaker 2: Ohio state did crush Oregon forty one to twenty one
Speaker 2: in the Rose Bowl yesterday. They move on to the
Speaker 2: CFP semi finals, of course, and then Texas took overtime,
Speaker 2: two overtimes to beat the Sun Devils in what turned
Speaker 2: out to be it was fun, a very fun gamer watch.
Speaker 1: And to end on a pick like.
Speaker 2: That, well, a few hours before the ball dropped, the
Speaker 2: computer dispatch system for the La County Sheriff's Department crashed
Speaker 2: and we had to go back through the old fashioned
Speaker 2: way of calling out one atom twelve, one atom twelve.
Speaker 1: All patrol car computers were nearly useless, and like you said,
Speaker 1: the decks handled all the calls by radio. They first
Speaker 1: learned about the problem around eight pm when deputies at
Speaker 1: several stations were having trouble logging onto their patrol car
Speaker 1: computers for something.
Speaker 2: For some reason, they said, it was not allowing personnel
Speaker 2: to log on with the new year, which made it inoperable.
Speaker 2: It's not cleared out how long they said that it
Speaker 2: was going to take to fix the problem. But deputies
Speaker 2: and dispatchers are doing everything old school radio's patrol car computers.
Speaker 2: One deputy said early yesterday, it's our own little Y
Speaker 2: two K.
Speaker 1: I wonder if there I read a couple of things
Speaker 1: on Twitter over the weekend about different computer systems malfunctioning
Speaker 1: to roll over to twenty twenty five, and I thought, wow,
Speaker 1: this is very y two K. But y two K
Speaker 1: nothing happened. Everyone expected something to happen. It did not happen.
Speaker 1: Very minor things that happened. There was a what was it?
Speaker 2: There was a Chinese hack of the Treasury Department that
Speaker 2: took place while we were out, and it was one
Speaker 2: of those things where this is minor. You know, this
Speaker 2: is a potential minor thing compared to what happens when
Speaker 2: the Department of Treasury has its computers infiltrated by a
Speaker 2: Chinese sponsored government group. They said that there was some
Speaker 2: concern of course dealing with the Rose Bowl football game,
Speaker 2: rose parade, etc. And of course the law enforcement and
Speaker 2: specifically the Sheriff's participation in security around those things. And
Speaker 2: they said that they're definitely behind on some technology. It's
Speaker 2: an antiquated system, and we have recognized that for some time.
Speaker 2: This was an issue not just under Sheriff Luna who
Speaker 2: was in the Rose Parade, but it was also under
Speaker 2: former Sheriff Vinueva as well. He posted a letter to
Speaker 2: the Board of supervisors in twenty twenty two. He said
Speaker 2: that he wanted funding for a new computer aided dispatch system,
Speaker 2: saying the existing system was so old that it couldn't
Speaker 2: comply with the data collection requirements. They said that we
Speaker 2: have now officially officially issued a request for proposals to
Speaker 2: acquire a new modernized centralized CAD system that will greatly
Speaker 2: enhance the capabilities the union. Of course, this said, this
Speaker 2: is a proof that we need more money from the
Speaker 2: county specifically and from other agencies to make sure that
Speaker 2: we stay up to date on that kind of a
Speaker 2: kind of information.
Speaker 1: So what are some of your ideas.
Speaker 2: Okay, so my ideas, well, let me see if i'll
Speaker 2: play them so that you have an idea about them,
Speaker 2: because I've got some. I've got some ideas, and I
Speaker 2: think I think they're good ones. But again, I'm not
Speaker 2: so in love with them that I'm not willing to
Speaker 2: listen to other options. Okay, Now again, this is a
Speaker 2: walk up song, which ones.
Speaker 1: This is for adult fantasy camp.
Speaker 2: That that one, that one, that one.
Speaker 1: I should say, adult fantasy baseball camp.
Speaker 2: I was trying to explain this to Richie today and
Speaker 2: I said, f see camp and his eyes lit up,
Speaker 2: and I had to clarify exactly what I meant by that.
Speaker 2: So I mean because it's a g it's literally g right,
Speaker 2: a little out of character for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if you can pull that one off.
Speaker 1: Do you want me to be honest? Yes, Okay, I'll
Speaker 1: sugarcoat things all right.
Speaker 2: So that's it's good.
Speaker 1: I like it. I like a hook, right, I just
Speaker 1: think it's.
Speaker 2: Just on a little higher energy.
Speaker 1: Okay, a little macklemore. I like that for you.
Speaker 2: I don't like him politically, but he's a Seahawks fan too. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's that.
Speaker 1: That's a problem that I don't get over that. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to beta that one.
Speaker 2: Okay, you get into a little bit more. Uh, I
Speaker 2: guess you'd say, well, this goes back a few years. Hell,
Speaker 2: I wish I was.
Speaker 1: I like that fun good. I like that.
Speaker 2: That's Gilo money and and good good, stronger guitar lick
Speaker 2: at the beginning.
Speaker 1: No, I like this song, but not for a walk
Speaker 1: up song. It doesn't make me want to hit the
Speaker 1: ball out of the park. It makes me want to
Speaker 1: step into a pitch a little bit.
Speaker 2: And this was probably the most esoteric choice on the list,
Speaker 2: Ban and Connecting.
Speaker 1: And there was single one in my brain is Electra
Speaker 1: like that?
Speaker 2: Just like the rest Jack White singing Elizaretto.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just that one again doesn't get the blood pump in.
Speaker 2: Okay. Sometimes, So out of those you have said.
Speaker 1: Maclamore, potentially, No, you said not one Snoop, I love,
Speaker 1: I wish, but that one's my front runner. But like you,
Speaker 1: I'm not in love with it to the point where
Speaker 1: I'm old on it. It's just an option.
Speaker 2: I was thinking, like Spice Up your Life by the
Speaker 2: Spice Girl, Ooh.
Speaker 1: I love that? Or what or what about shout out
Speaker 1: to Matt Maybe Senaia Twain Let's go.
Speaker 2: Girls saw her on New Year's Eve. Looked like she
Speaker 2: could care less about what she was doing, couldn't care
Speaker 2: less about what she was doing, really so from her
Speaker 2: residency in Vegas. They did part of I don't remember
Speaker 2: which channel I was on, but.
Speaker 1: Careful say something like that around here.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying. And she still got it, but it
Speaker 2: did not look like she was in it. Blake Lively
Speaker 2: and Justin Baldoni. This is not about these two high
Speaker 2: profile people. It's about the dirty ass nature of pr
Speaker 2: firms in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Also, it's a warning to not talk about a woman's
Speaker 1: weight ever, they will destroy you. They will destroy you.
Speaker 1: I think that's what this is.
Speaker 2: The explosive devices and to areas. But Christopher Riah, Deputy
Speaker 2: Assistant director of FBI's counter Terrorism Division, said that now
Speaker 2: the evidence shows that this guy was solely responsible for
Speaker 2: the attack. He had professed his allegiance to Isis, although
Speaker 2: they're not saying exactly when they believe or how he
Speaker 2: was radicalized to take on this act of terror.
Speaker 1: What do you think is the most on time airline
Speaker 1: in the world.
Speaker 2: In the world something from Greenland, something from Greenland. I
Speaker 2: don't know. Aero Mexico okay.
Speaker 1: Most on time airline in the world, the US airline
Speaker 1: that fared the best Delta, but Aero Mexico slightly ahead
Speaker 1: of the Saudi Arabian airlines Saudia and Atlanta based Delta.
Speaker 2: You know, airlines build in certain delays of you know,
Speaker 2: they'll say the flight.
Speaker 1: For the Sacramento Southwest is classic for this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they'll they'll tell you it'll take you an hour
Speaker 2: and twenty minutes minutes from sacram out of a Burbank.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: My sister flew Sacramento to Burbank early satter day morning.
Speaker 1: Flight time forty three minutes.
Speaker 2: First of all, they took off seven minutes early. Wow.
Speaker 2: And the flight time was early. They landed thirty two
Speaker 2: minutes early. Wow. Now I'm watched. I'm sitting at home.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna come pick her up. And here in Burbank,
Speaker 2: I'm sitting at home. I can time it out, right,
Speaker 2: it's about twenty five minutes to get to the airport.
Speaker 2: If I time it out so that I leave five minutes,
Speaker 2: or if I leave twenty minutes before they land, it's perfect.
Speaker 2: She's just going to walk off the airplane, get right
Speaker 2: in the car, and off we go. Well, she lands,
Speaker 2: and it was early, so I had back timed and
Speaker 2: I had to get everything right. I'm doing the math
Speaker 2: in my head, and she says, but don't rush because
Speaker 2: our gate's not ready yet. They sat on the tarmac
Speaker 2: in Burbank for twenty five minutes.
Speaker 1: That's what happened to wait for the gate. That happened
Speaker 1: to me flying back from Sacramento when whenever that was
Speaker 1: right a few days before Christmas?
Speaker 2: Did you take the early flight? Is it because the
Speaker 2: early flight later early flight?
Speaker 1: But it wasn't that, or it wasn't like the first
Speaker 1: flight out or anything like that. But I sat on
Speaker 1: the tarmac for forty five minutes waiting for the gate.
Speaker 1: And that's infuriating when you have to pee right, And
Speaker 1: so I get up because I'm like.
Speaker 2: I got a pee, Like, I go ahead, try and
Speaker 2: stop me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And one of the flight attendts like she's like, ma'am,
Speaker 1: we can't take off if you're in the lavatory. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, we're not taking off. We landed here, Well.
Speaker 2: I guess we're not taking off.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2: All right, so let's let's let's go through this whole
Speaker 2: story about Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. This is a
Speaker 2: story about the movie It Ends with Us, which came
Speaker 2: out over the summer. I never saw it. It's on
Speaker 2: Netflix now. I'm sure it's getting a renovated you know,
Speaker 2: look at at what it is.
Speaker 1: It was based off a very popular book by a
Speaker 1: very popular author, and what some of the early high
Speaker 1: that it got, or the publicity that it got, I
Speaker 1: should say, was that it was being kind of sold
Speaker 1: or publicized as this romantic comedy, when in fact it's
Speaker 1: a movie about domestic violence.
Speaker 2: The trailers definitely made it seem very lighthearted, and I
Speaker 2: remember when you saw it and you were like, that
Speaker 2: is not what I signed up for. At least that's
Speaker 2: not what the expectation was for a lot of people.
Speaker 2: So the story came out when it made it into
Speaker 2: movie theaters back in the summer. There were stories of
Speaker 2: kind of rumors, kind of hints about how Blake Lively
Speaker 2: wasn't easy to work with and she had these sort
Speaker 2: of diva behaviors, and she threatened not to show up
Speaker 2: to work some days, and she was throwing a wrench
Speaker 2: into the production schedule and all of the stuff that
Speaker 2: was going on, that she wasn't going to be involved
Speaker 2: with the pre release press tour that all movies now have.
Speaker 2: Well come to find out that she claims all of
Speaker 2: those stories were part of a PR campaign against her
Speaker 2: because she had threatened to sue Justin Baldoni, who not
Speaker 2: only was one of the stars of the show, he's
Speaker 2: also the director of it and a producer. That they
Speaker 2: thought she was going to come out and either sue
Speaker 2: him or at least bad mouth him, so they fired
Speaker 2: the peremptory shot and went after her with this low
Speaker 2: level but wildly successful campaign that Blake Lively is a bee.
Speaker 1: She has all of the text messages too, that went
Speaker 1: back and forth between Justin's team and the movie's publicity
Speaker 1: firm and the operatives that exist there. How she got
Speaker 1: those text messages is wild. Somebody had to roll.
Speaker 2: It was the head of the PR firm that was
Speaker 2: doing his bidding, But now the allegation, at least from
Speaker 2: the head of the PR firm is it wasn't our firm.
Speaker 2: The individuals that were working for us.
Speaker 1: Well, she drops this massive lawsuit claiming that her co
Speaker 1: star Justin Baldoni showed nude videos or images of women
Speaker 1: to Blake, that he discussed alleged pass porn addictions or
Speaker 1: sexual conquests, that this was kind of the way it
Speaker 1: was on the set, with him being wildly inappropriate.
Speaker 2: One of the things was that she had texted him
Speaker 2: a message something along the lines of I'm going to
Speaker 2: be in my trailer if you want to run lines
Speaker 2: because we got new dialogue, and that he would burst
Speaker 2: into her trailer while she was breastfeeding or while she
Speaker 2: was pumping breast milk or something like that, and that
Speaker 2: he would ogle her while she was doing that. Now,
Speaker 2: in the New York Times write up about this, it
Speaker 2: said that he was sexualizing this thing about her breastfeeding
Speaker 2: and making comments about it when his countersuit. By the way,
Speaker 2: he sued the New York Times on New Year's Eve
Speaker 2: and said that everything that article was only taken from
Speaker 2: her perspective and he was never allowed the response, which was,
Speaker 2: I was put in this position of those are the
Speaker 2: only times that she's available is when she's breastfeeding. I
Speaker 2: didn't This was not a sexual thing. It's just that's
Speaker 2: what was happening when we were running live.
Speaker 1: I've seen breastfeeding and breast pumping numerous times. I know
Speaker 1: I'm not a breast person. That's not my thing, but
Speaker 1: it's never been a sexual thing whatsoever. In fact, these
Speaker 1: not a dude. I'm not a dude. Now.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying all dudes, but I can understand why
Speaker 2: a dude would see that and.
Speaker 1: Be like, I think that's like the not the least. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: and I know it's beautiful and it's giving life and
Speaker 1: food and nourishment to your baby. I get it, but
Speaker 1: it's not sexy.
Speaker 2: Well, I saw one opinion piece about this today and
Speaker 2: kind of looking at how what's going on is more
Speaker 2: an indicator of this is like the last vestiges of
Speaker 2: the Me too movement, where we've gone beyond the actual
Speaker 2: allegations between a woman and what she says this man did,
Speaker 2: and now we're getting into the gross, swampy, nasty work
Speaker 2: of publicists. Uh yeah, that's uh so.
Speaker 1: Mike Johnson doesn't have the votes needed to remain in
Speaker 1: that role they're saying.
Speaker 2: It does as of right. As of right now, the
Speaker 2: only Republican who has come out and definitively said that
Speaker 2: he would not vote for Johnson. As speaker again is
Speaker 2: Thomas Massey out of Kentucky. Others have said that they
Speaker 2: doubt that they would, but they're not being specific because
Speaker 2: that's how you bargain in Washington, DC. You get what
Speaker 2: you want by you dangle your put your yes vote
Speaker 2: over someone's head, and in that case, that's going to
Speaker 2: But Trump has endorsed Mike Johnson. He doesn't want to
Speaker 2: change horses mid stream, and Mike Johnson's done for I guess,
Speaker 2: for the President the lex purposes. So he's done a
Speaker 2: fine job so far and has been a Trump acolyte
Speaker 2: for the for the most part. So we'll see. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm on pins and needles.
Speaker 1: Couple things. If you miss any part of the show,
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Speaker 1: the show on the iHeartRadio app. Also, we are asking
Speaker 1: for suggestions for Gary's Adult Fantasy Baseball camp walk up song.
Speaker 1: Every player has a song they walk up to the
Speaker 1: plate to get them all fired up. Some guys go
Speaker 1: with funny, some guys go with what amps them up.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it is a team inside joke, like I think
Speaker 1: it was a Miley Cyrus song the Dodgers had a
Speaker 1: handful of years ago, Won't Stop, We Won't Stop.
Speaker 2: Some of them are goofy, like Will Smith's walk up
Speaker 2: song was by Will Smith. It's a different other Will Smith.
Speaker 1: It can be funny or it can be serious.
Speaker 2: And I'm not looking for the one. You made a
Speaker 2: great point that some of those songs, like the World's
Speaker 2: great at one hundred greatest walk up songs, they're all
Speaker 2: gonna be taking, they're gonna be they're gonna be used,
Speaker 2: and that I don't need that.
Speaker 1: I don't need any four guys all using enter Sandman Metallica.
Speaker 2: That's what Which is one that I have? You know
Speaker 2: some people have already suggested, So I'm looking for something
Speaker 2: that's I don't know that I not even just me
Speaker 2: uh that that would have fun.
Speaker 1: I kind of like the whole Metallica. I see more
Speaker 1: of a ride the lightning situation, maybe fade to black.
Speaker 2: Let me also point out, because it's a San Francisco
Speaker 2: giants just gonna say that.
Speaker 1: So if we get a Bay Area band like Metallica,
Speaker 1: that'd be cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or what about starship Jeffers star No, that's too deep.
Speaker 1: We can build this this world together. What is it
Speaker 1: We've built this city. Wait, nothing's going to stop us now.
Speaker 1: Don't they sing that one as well? Yes, that's what
Speaker 1: I was thinking. That sounds awful. I love that idea.
Speaker 2: No, nothing, because again it's the same thing you're talking
Speaker 2: like forty fifty sixty year old guys.
Speaker 1: You know that right. I will not let you use
Speaker 1: you're going to do.
Speaker 2: I'm going to do Sarah the first slow down song
Speaker 2: that anyway, we'll take those suggestions. We're talking about this.
Speaker 2: This and this was the term Purduccan of lawsuits between
Speaker 2: Justin Baldoni and Blake Live, Too many, unnecessary, all of that,
Speaker 2: she started getting a bad rep in the summer when
Speaker 2: the movie was coming out. She alleges that that was
Speaker 2: because of a PR campaign put together by his people.
Speaker 2: He at least has some amount of separation from that
Speaker 2: because the allegations that he directed his PR people to
Speaker 2: do this, there's very little evidence. There are some messages
Speaker 2: that went back and forth between the PR people themselves,
Speaker 2: but not with Justin Baldoni specifically. They said the guy
Speaker 2: was an a hole, he's showing her naked pictures of women,
Speaker 2: talked about his past porn addiction. Here's one of the
Speaker 2: things that I saw the allegation as well. He invited
Speaker 2: people onto the set the day that they were doing
Speaker 2: her sex scenes, and he cast his buddy. Haven't seen
Speaker 2: the movie, so I don't know the context of it,
Speaker 2: but he cast his buddy as the obgyn during a
Speaker 2: birthing scene, which means in the production of it, he
Speaker 2: is all up in her business when they're shooting the scene. Now,
Speaker 2: she claims, among other things, that this guy was just
Speaker 2: an a hole and was mean and was vindictive. He
Speaker 2: in a countersuit to The New York Times, he said
Speaker 2: he would also sue her, but said that everything that
Speaker 2: they did in the New York Times article was completely wrong.
Speaker 2: She then filed not only the civil rights the civil
Speaker 2: suit she has filed now a federal court in New
Speaker 2: York against him.
Speaker 1: This all started by the bye. One of the first
Speaker 1: things I heard about this fight between the two of
Speaker 1: them was the fact, allegedly that he asked her personal
Speaker 1: trainer how much she weighed. Asked Blake Lively's personal trainer
Speaker 1: how much she weighed because he didn't want to hurt
Speaker 1: his back in a scene where he's lifting her up.
Speaker 1: That was the first sign of trouble that anybody heard about.
Speaker 1: And then things just went to hell for him because
Speaker 1: how embarrassing is that. One of the things that sticks
Speaker 1: out about this film. If you were a Gossip Girl
Speaker 1: fan or whatever, and you saw Blake Lively as a
Speaker 1: teenager essentially, and now she's a woman. She looks like
Speaker 1: a woman. She looks like a normal weight woman, and
Speaker 1: it's very different from the girl you're used to seeing
Speaker 1: on Gossip Girl fifteen years ago. It's not that she's fat,
Speaker 1: she's just a woman. Now. She's a mom. She has
Speaker 1: a woman's body, and I think that a lot of
Speaker 1: people when they saw this were like, oh, that's she's
Speaker 1: put on weight. No, she doesn't put on weight. She's
Speaker 1: just a real woman now, as opposed to the girl
Speaker 1: that you saw mom of three kids. I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: something like that with them.
Speaker 2: One of her one of her family members, Bart Johnson,
Speaker 2: actually is a brother in law. I believe he said
Speaker 2: that of Justin Baldoni. He's a fraud. He puts on
Speaker 2: the costume of a hero man bun and all. He
Speaker 2: used all the trendy catchphrases and buzzwords, but none of
Speaker 2: it is genuine. Everyone fell for it for years. Rewatch
Speaker 2: his videos with more critical eye and watch him compliment
Speaker 2: and praise himself with faux humility and self deprecation water performance.
Speaker 1: He seemed he came across like an a hole when
Speaker 1: I watched that movie, which is sometimes you can kind
Speaker 1: of get who somebody really is despite them acting. I mean,
Speaker 1: and not just because he plays an abuser in the movie.
Speaker 2: And Jenny Slat played the sister I guess in the movie,
Speaker 2: played Baldoni's sister in the movie Opens the Shop or
Speaker 2: something like that. With her, Yeah, she said, I voiced
Speaker 2: my support. She takes action against those reported to have
Speaker 2: planned and carried out an attack on her reputation. Blake
Speaker 2: is a leader, a loyal friend, and a trusted source
Speaker 2: of emotional support for me and so many who know
Speaker 2: and love her. As I mentioned the text messages, those
Speaker 2: damning text messages that Blake Lively's lawyers got a hold
Speaker 2: of came from the head of the PR firm. The
Speaker 2: head of the PR firm is not named in the lawsuit.
Speaker 1: Someone calling you people, no, oh yeah, oh, it's a
Speaker 1: scam A scam.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh they hung up before I had a chance
Speaker 2: to out them on the air.
Speaker 1: Oh, that would have been fun.
Speaker 2: Would have been fun. We'll do a quick swamp what
Speaker 2: you know what, let's make a new Year's resolution, yes politics, Yes,
Speaker 2: less politics, and we can eat up one of the
Speaker 2: swamps Watch segments with some of our walk up song stories. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: we'll do that. We'll do one section of swamp Watch. Yes.
Speaker 2: By the way, for those who have been asking there
Speaker 2: is a new swamp Watch introduction, there is not yet.
Speaker 2: Oh I'm saying when the new president is inaugurated, that
Speaker 2: will be the day that we tell you and play
Speaker 2: for you the new introduction.
Speaker 1: So we're not just going to go back to the
Speaker 1: old swamp Watch when he was president the first time.
Speaker 2: That's interesting.
Speaker 1: No, oh okay, that would be my route less work.
Speaker 1: That's lazy, and.
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