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Speaker 2: Neil Savadra, Marla teez in today for Gary and Shannon
Speaker 2: this two hours down. Yeah, this isn't just a tiny
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Speaker 2: will leave here to go to Fox eleven on the
Speaker 2: West Side and she will work until midnight.
Speaker 4: So it's good for you. I'm bringing home the bacon. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I guess so. Yeah, mister Fork reporter, you like that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you liked that. It's an honor to be here.
Speaker 3: No, it's good fun and I'm thrilled.
Speaker 1: And I haven't worked with you in a long time. No,
Speaker 1: it was I think springtime maybe, Yeah, because we haven't
Speaker 1: really there. I worked with Shannon once. I've been just
Speaker 1: doing the morning show. I haven't done it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you and Handle, I listened to you all the time.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you, buddy.
Speaker 2: I know you're very nice to hit me up and
Speaker 2: you know, hey, I like that or you' I always
Speaker 2: feel like I'm going to hit you up in the
Speaker 2: middle of TV or something, and you're gonna like stop
Speaker 2: what you're doing and look at.
Speaker 4: Your phone, and I'm like, oh my gosh, I shouldn't
Speaker 4: have done that. It's an emergency. Do I have a
Speaker 4: special reading A little bit of a professional?
Speaker 3: I like to think, Do I have a special.
Speaker 4: Excuse me, Alex, I got a call. It's Neil.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he's not going to hear you say that
Speaker 2: for another ten seconds because of the height difference.
Speaker 3: Ah wow, all right.
Speaker 2: Trending, Yes, of course, the horrible stuff going in Rancho
Speaker 2: Palace Verdes with the landslide danger, but it's causing electrical problems.
Speaker 2: The photos and videos coming out of this area are heartbreaking.
Speaker 2: One hundred and forty homes there have the power cut off.
Speaker 2: We're told more. We talked to the mayor earlier today
Speaker 2: as well as our very own to break down as
Speaker 2: to what was going.
Speaker 4: On, and we have a blackout.
Speaker 1: Also trending today, ESPN, ABC and other Disney channels dropped
Speaker 1: from Direct TV in a contract dispute. Eleven million customers
Speaker 1: impacted by this, and this was really felt yesterday. I
Speaker 1: live in an USC household, and so it was the
Speaker 1: highly anticipated USC in Vegas against LSU.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it was like a preseason because the seventh
Speaker 2: this coming Saturday, is the actual first.
Speaker 4: Oh no, that's the home opener.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the home opener. So this is this was hard
Speaker 3: to find. It was not.
Speaker 2: We had a very upset household, both my in laws
Speaker 2: and you know we're a usc house.
Speaker 1: Well we don't have direct TV, so we weren't impacted,
Speaker 1: but eleven million people were.
Speaker 3: It was a mess.
Speaker 2: So all right, Gavin Newsom pushes California cities on homelessness.
Speaker 3: He's getting fed up.
Speaker 2: They God, somebody poked him with a stick or woke
Speaker 2: them up or told him, there you have.
Speaker 3: We have your vineyards, and we're not giving.
Speaker 2: Them back until you start doing something about homelessness. He's
Speaker 2: really saying, hey, you're not going to get money from us,
Speaker 2: state money. You're not going to get backing from us.
Speaker 2: We're going to withhold stuff if you don't start doing this.
Speaker 1: And then also we know that Governor Newsom was the
Speaker 1: mayor of San Francisco, well that city. This weekend, the
Speaker 1: big headline was the shooting of forty nine Ers rookie
Speaker 1: Ricky Parsol.
Speaker 3: What a crazy story. This is terrible shut in the chest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he spent his Saturday signing autographs at the Cow Palace.
Speaker 1: I'm from the Bay Area, I was born in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: so I know it well. And then he went to
Speaker 1: Union Square and apparently was just out there walking in
Speaker 1: Union Square and there was an attempted robbery for his watch,
Speaker 1: which is a Rolex, and he was shot in the chest.
Speaker 1: The suspect correct me if I'm wrong, A seventeen year old.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was. It was a young and understanding.
Speaker 1: And he was Pearsall was taken to the hospital. He
Speaker 1: was listening in stable condition, serious condition. But fortunately yesterday
Speaker 1: the Niners put out a statement and said that he
Speaker 1: is okay and he was released from the hospital. But
Speaker 1: this again is highlighting the crime in San Francisco, particularly
Speaker 1: Union Square where we've seen a lot of businesses shut down.
Speaker 1: And the DA Brooke Jenkins, she was out there and
Speaker 1: said this is definitely a setback for us.
Speaker 4: So hopefully they can they can wrangle that in because
Speaker 4: that is a problem. Swamp watch.
Speaker 5: Yes, it's horrible.
Speaker 4: The government doesn't work.
Speaker 3: Sounds like.
Speaker 4: Always a pleasure to be anywhere from Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: Hey Joe a town all too clearly built on a
Speaker 1: swamp and in so many ways still a swamp much
Speaker 1: of Milwaukee.
Speaker 4: Why, he said, d the swamp. I said, oh, that's
Speaker 4: so I'll keep you.
Speaker 5: Know the thing.
Speaker 2: I wanted to get to that darned Colorado town being
Speaker 2: overrun by Venezuelan gangs.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: All right, So I went to not this past weekend,
Speaker 2: the weekend before I went to visit my sister in
Speaker 2: law and you know, Max's cousins and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: So as a family, we went to Arizona and as
Speaker 2: you cross the Colorado River, basically he drove. Yeah, we
Speaker 2: drove out of California into Arizona. You watch the gas
Speaker 2: prices drop by two dollars.
Speaker 3: Immediately, the boom.
Speaker 2: Yeah, drive over and now you've got lawmakers seeking, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, a little more time to look over all
Speaker 2: these different proposals backed by New sum they're aimed to
Speaker 2: reduce gas prices spikes. And it's like, well, stop taxing
Speaker 2: the crap out of everything. Stop telling us you're going
Speaker 2: to fix our roads and we need to pay for it,
Speaker 2: and then do nothing with it.
Speaker 3: How about that for a proposal.
Speaker 1: So he called a special session because he wants this,
Speaker 1: but he's getting pushed back, which is interesting because this is,
Speaker 1: as we know, it's a democratic controlled legislature. So the
Speaker 1: Democrats are pushing back on the governor, which is unusual
Speaker 1: and essentially says that you trying to reduce gas price
Speaker 1: spikes at the pump is going to produce gas price
Speaker 1: spikes at the pump, of course.
Speaker 2: Because that's the logic that comes out of Washington or
Speaker 2: any statehouse. I do love the fact that this port bastard,
Speaker 2: now Newsome is finding he has very little pull, very
Speaker 2: little push, and it's like, you weren't picked. They didn't
Speaker 2: come to you. You're not here to save anybody. They
Speaker 2: didn't even put you.
Speaker 4: Are you talking about the national stage?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: And so now he's got to actually do stuff here.
Speaker 4: Right, as she.
Speaker 1: Said, he has to govern the great state of California,
Speaker 1: the Golden State.
Speaker 3: So the debate is coming up.
Speaker 4: Is it eight days from today? Okay, September the tenth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So the twenty twenty four race massive that stretch
Speaker 2: that we kept saying, you know, oh, we've got over
Speaker 2: seventy days, and then it keeps ticking down.
Speaker 4: I think it's down to sixty four now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So we just.
Speaker 2: Keep ticking away, Right, this is down to a very
Speaker 2: critical stretch. You keep seeing all the polls going back
Speaker 2: and forth, or neck and neck or things like that.
Speaker 2: But the first ballots are set to go out very soon,
Speaker 2: and this is where the rubber will meet that proverbial road.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll see if in fact the debate actually happens.
Speaker 1: There were some back and forth over the weekend online
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris took to x and basically called out Trump
Speaker 1: for not wanting the mics to be unmuted. She wants
Speaker 1: that as part of the deal. There was an agreement already, right,
Speaker 1: so they were going to.
Speaker 3: Do the same rules as this in the previous one.
Speaker 1: Right back in June, the demise of Biden June twenty seventh,
Speaker 1: that was Biden.
Speaker 3: That's a good way to say it. It really was.
Speaker 1: It was a historic night and it changed the course
Speaker 1: of everything. And now we have I mean, the last
Speaker 1: time I filled in here, President Biden was the nominee.
Speaker 4: Yeah, was the presumpt of nominee. And now we have
Speaker 4: Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: She's made up a lot of ground in the polls,
Speaker 1: but we know how poles work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's always going to be a bumping excitement. It's
Speaker 2: a big party put on.
Speaker 1: But this time four years ago the polls Biden was
Speaker 1: up double digits, and now, I mean it's a virtual
Speaker 1: dead heat in the battleground states. And we know that
Speaker 1: that's what counts national polling. Sure, that's there, but the
Speaker 1: battleground states is where where it matters the most. So
Speaker 1: she pushed back a little bit over the weekend. So
Speaker 1: I assume that at ABC News debate will happen September
Speaker 1: the tenth, eight days from today.
Speaker 4: But you know, I mean she's starting to.
Speaker 2: If I was Trump, I'd want to be muted personally,
Speaker 2: and I know a lot of people disagree with that,
Speaker 2: but I think his mic being muted made Biden look worse.
Speaker 2: If he would have stepped in there, he would have
Speaker 2: given more time. It's like a ropodope in a fight
Speaker 2: or something like that. If you have any time to breathe,
Speaker 2: you get your wherewithal back and you get back in
Speaker 2: the ring. And if someone lets you fall to the
Speaker 2: ground and the count starts, that's a different thing. And
Speaker 2: I think she the more time she has, the worse
Speaker 2: of a speaker she is. And I think that if
Speaker 2: he is quiet then she kind of does herself in.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, But I also think to that point that's why
Speaker 1: she wants the mic unmuted, because he can't control himself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so they're all trying out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, he wants she wants him to say
Speaker 2: something horribly racist or right.
Speaker 4: But the other thing is is Trump's.
Speaker 1: M O has been to get in front of as
Speaker 1: many cameras and to hold as many news conferences, press conferences.
Speaker 4: He takes questions.
Speaker 1: He is on television all the time, so and he
Speaker 1: says he can say egregious things at any given moment,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't become headline news necessarily because there's so much.
Speaker 1: There's so much to sift through. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris stays
Speaker 1: away from the camera. She doesn't step in front of it.
Speaker 1: She just did her first sit down, as you know,
Speaker 1: the last week, but she did so with her running
Speaker 1: mate next to her, and then of course got criticized
Speaker 1: for that. So she steps into the limelights so rarely
Speaker 1: that when she does open her mouth, then the stakes
Speaker 1: are that much higher.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh, and she's putting herself in that situation as well.
Speaker 2: All right, more of Swamp Watch when we return, including.
Speaker 3: Some fun things.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump said, are they going to work? Are they
Speaker 2: going to stick?
Speaker 3: Are they not? We'll be back with more of that,
Speaker 3: Neil Savedra marlateas.
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Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, Neil Savedra and mar La teas in for
Speaker 2: Gary and Shannon today and all week as they are
Speaker 2: out doing.
Speaker 3: I don't know, a vacation, have we guess or something.
Speaker 4: They're living their lives, living the dream.
Speaker 2: Yes, living that morning talk radio dream, morning, early afternoon
Speaker 2: talk radio dream. And we are in the middle of
Speaker 2: swamp Watch, which of course cannot be done without the
Speaker 2: Orange Man himself. Trump calls Harris a Marxist, a communist,
Speaker 2: even a fascist. But there is a story in the
Speaker 2: La Times Surprise. Surprise is saying why they don't believe
Speaker 2: these punches Land.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's some public opinion polls. The show Harris has
Speaker 1: risen steadily and voters' eyes and holds a narrow lead
Speaker 1: and the national popular vote right now. A Wall Street
Speaker 1: Journal poll released last week found that Harris is viewed
Speaker 1: positively by forty nine percent of voters, again of fourteen
Speaker 1: percent since July.
Speaker 2: I think there was an initial rush. And again I
Speaker 2: know this just comes across his cynicism, but it seemed
Speaker 2: like there was this initial rush that people that were
Speaker 2: going to hold their nose and vote for Biden were like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, I get to vote for somebody who's alive.
Speaker 1: Kind of like, okay, it's just it's somebody who's not Biden.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will, I will feel less icky about this.
Speaker 2: And you know, as we saw that turning that way.
Speaker 2: But the fact is, I guess I get that he's
Speaker 2: taking breath and he's not dead yet. But the man
Speaker 2: needs to enjoy thank you for your service. You need
Speaker 2: to enjoy the rest of your life sitting somewhere out right.
Speaker 2: So's kind of that x ale. And now we are
Speaker 2: seeing that, well, that may balance out a little bit.
Speaker 2: I don't know if those did you see those numbers
Speaker 2: that went around, you know, showing Kamala Harris like just
Speaker 2: wasting Trump in some pole and it was said that
Speaker 2: it was probably faked. I never take down, but the
Speaker 2: ones that I'm seeing now seems to have him in
Speaker 2: some key states tiny bit up or even with, which
Speaker 2: is kind of how you tend to see it. Now
Speaker 2: that they both got away from the RNC and the.
Speaker 1: DNC, right, I mean, after the RNC, there's so much
Speaker 1: elation and it seemed it was a done deal that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump was going to be the clear winner. Again
Speaker 1: that was but when Biden was in it, and now
Speaker 1: with Harris after the DNC, the same elation. There's so
Speaker 1: much rallying behind that and the polls. As I would
Speaker 1: saying earlier, she's definitely made up ground. It's just neck
Speaker 1: and neck. I mean I go to real clear politics
Speaker 1: a lot and I check every day, and nationally she's
Speaker 1: up one point eight.
Speaker 4: Again, this is all within the margin of error. It's
Speaker 4: just a dead heat.
Speaker 1: And then the top battlegrounds She's at forty seven point eight.
Speaker 1: Trump's at forty seven point five, I mean dead heat.
Speaker 4: And it was.
Speaker 2: Different with when you're going up against Hillary Clinton, who
Speaker 2: is a very I'm gonna be as kind as I can,
Speaker 2: a very difficult person to like.
Speaker 3: For whatever reason.
Speaker 1: Well, and her campaign a lot of that was on
Speaker 1: identity politics, where it wash and Kamala Harris has not
Speaker 1: done that smartly.
Speaker 4: I think that's an action because.
Speaker 1: No one's going to vote for you to be the
Speaker 1: first woman to be the first Asian American African American.
Speaker 4: Candidate, Jamaican American, Jamaican American.
Speaker 2: I know, right, if we're gonna start parsing, if we're
Speaker 2: gonna pars everything, yes, yeah, so get down to all that.
Speaker 1: Her father's from Jamaica, her mother's from India.
Speaker 3: So it ends up becoming.
Speaker 2: You know, now it's the dust is settling, and now
Speaker 2: it's kind of like the race starts.
Speaker 1: And that's typically well, it's interesting, yeah that after Labor
Speaker 1: Day it's usually sort of the downhill to the election.
Speaker 1: But now it's just given those circumstances, which is historic,
Speaker 1: it's just sort of like ramping up now, and the
Speaker 1: ballots go out at North Carolina is the first state
Speaker 1: to send out those early ballots. Those go out this Friday,
Speaker 1: I believe, and we're just over two months away from
Speaker 1: November the fifth.
Speaker 2: There's also a lot of European shifts towards conservative movements
Speaker 2: due to a lot of the chaos and crime going
Speaker 2: on there. Who knows how that will play a part.
Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot of crime going on here.
Speaker 2: This story is kind of bizarre. Israelis erupt in protest
Speaker 2: demand a ceasefire after six more hostages die, in Gaza.
Speaker 2: You know, you'd think the you think the initial response
Speaker 2: would be this is horrible.
Speaker 3: That one. You can't take hostages like this in war.
Speaker 2: In the same way, in the same sense, Moss is
Speaker 2: not playing by you know.
Speaker 4: The humanitarian yeah, Geneva conventions.
Speaker 2: So you think it's like, well, they are taking hostages
Speaker 2: and killing them. You'd think that would anger people against Hamas.
Speaker 2: But again it focuses on.
Speaker 4: Prime Minister Benjamin Yah, who, yeah.
Speaker 3: Who's not a very likable guy.
Speaker 1: And well, this will only incite him to continue on.
Speaker 1: I mean, he makes that if you go to his
Speaker 1: latest social media posts, he says, the abductors who killed
Speaker 1: our abductees are not interested in a deal, and we
Speaker 1: will carry on just as we have. So he's not
Speaker 1: going to slow anything down. Meanwhile, they are protests erupting
Speaker 1: and Tel Aviv, there's strikes that are underway, and all
Speaker 1: of that anger is being centered toward net and Yahoo
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 4: And one of the.
Speaker 1: Young men who was killed, he's in his early twenties,
Speaker 1: Hirsch Goldberg, Poland.
Speaker 4: He was born in Oakland.
Speaker 1: He was there for the music festival, like many of
Speaker 1: them were, just to be there for that, and his
Speaker 1: parents were the ones.
Speaker 4: If you saw who took to the stage in the DNC.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this is not Yeah, mom and dad there
Speaker 1: pleading and saying, this is not a political issue. This
Speaker 1: is not politics. This is a humanitarian issue. And now
Speaker 1: they just got worried that their son is among those
Speaker 1: six who were killed and found dead.
Speaker 2: I couldn't imagine my wildest imagination, could not imagine what
Speaker 2: they're going through. And the remaining people that still have
Speaker 2: a question mark by their names as to whether they're
Speaker 2: alive or not, that are being their corpses are being
Speaker 2: held essentially is insane to me. All Right, more to come.
Speaker 2: You've got Neil Savedra Marlotez in for Gary and Shannon today.
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Speaker 4: Monday.
Speaker 2: To you, it is labor day today. We are laboring,
Speaker 2: so you don't have to.
Speaker 4: Yes, we are. Marlote is here.
Speaker 3: We didn't really keep them from laboring today.
Speaker 2: They weren't going to come in and fill No, we
Speaker 2: kept Gary and Shannon from laboring.
Speaker 4: Good point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and everybody else they're screwed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let us know. You're just how come we haven't
Speaker 4: solicited on the talk back.
Speaker 3: Oh, I didn't even think about that.
Speaker 4: Let us know if you're laboring, hit us up on
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Speaker 2: On that iHeartRadio app, you'll see a little iconic with
Speaker 2: a microphone impressed on that gives you thirty seconds and
Speaker 2: you can. You know how to do it. You listen
Speaker 2: to Gary and Shannon. They have people do it. I
Speaker 2: thought you were going to say, let us know, you
Speaker 2: know if you're working today, and we'll come help you.
Speaker 2: Like what, You've got a job after this job, sister.
Speaker 4: Hey, I'm lucky I got in here today.
Speaker 1: The gates are closed because it's a holiday, and my my,
Speaker 1: your car, my car didn't work to get me in
Speaker 1: and here I am. We'll see, Like I said, my
Speaker 1: car might be Towed's hope.
Speaker 3: If it is es that'll be hilarious.
Speaker 4: That would be funny.
Speaker 1: So can I I want to start with some good
Speaker 1: news right now, some great news. So the Paralympics are
Speaker 1: underway in Paris right now. And as refract. He's LA's
Speaker 1: as refract born here with congenital limbed differences.
Speaker 4: I think a lot of the listeners here are familiar
Speaker 4: with his own.
Speaker 2: He's been on Gary and Shannon he's been on many
Speaker 2: of the shows here.
Speaker 1: So he's nineteen years old. Lovely family, an amazing family.
Speaker 1: Well there Clayton and Bahar, they are there watching him.
Speaker 1: And today was the finals for the one hundred meters
Speaker 1: and he placed first.
Speaker 4: He won gold.
Speaker 3: It was insane.
Speaker 2: We watched it together on Marla's phone and he came
Speaker 2: from behind.
Speaker 4: He did. I mean, he wasn't last, but he certainly.
Speaker 1: I mean, but it's a nice victory. It's a beautiful victory.
Speaker 1: He dropped the hammer. I mean, he just got stronger
Speaker 1: and stronger, stronger.
Speaker 2: Going into your sports boom goes, yes, yeah, but that
Speaker 2: way it was. I mean, a win is a win
Speaker 2: is a win, but it was a sweet win the
Speaker 2: way he pushed through.
Speaker 1: And yesterday were the prelambs and he placed third and
Speaker 1: so he qualified for today, and so going in today
Speaker 1: it was oh, you place third, okay, and it was
Speaker 1: a personal record for him yesterday.
Speaker 4: But he is that kid, is so focused.
Speaker 1: And it's also nine hours ahead, so it's later obviously
Speaker 1: it's nighttime, well into the their what Monday, and you know,
Speaker 1: God bless him. He went out there and he gave
Speaker 1: it his all and this is not even his thing.
Speaker 1: His thing is tomorrow Tuesday. It's the high jump, which
Speaker 1: he is the world record holder for that, so he
Speaker 1: has a gold medal already.
Speaker 4: It's amazing.
Speaker 1: If you don't already follow him and you're on social,
Speaker 1: please give him a follow because if you want to
Speaker 1: be inspired, he'll do.
Speaker 4: It for you.
Speaker 2: It's strange because we've watched him grow grow up, and
Speaker 2: I think she hadn't stand on the air one time
Speaker 2: because he would. They would come in the studio and
Speaker 2: since he was a little kid, She's like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: he's a man and he's very good looking. She's like,
Speaker 2: I've watched him since he was tiny.
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: I met him when he was I think he was
Speaker 1: six years old, and so I have a picture with
Speaker 1: him then versus now, and he towers. Oh yeah, and
Speaker 1: he is speaking of how good looking he is, he's
Speaker 1: a model for Hugo Boss now. Yeah, he's on billboards.
Speaker 1: I mean, this kid is just he's something else.
Speaker 3: Good for him.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 4: I'm so happy.
Speaker 2: Congratulations, yes, especially proud, and the parents are proud, which
Speaker 2: leads us into parenting. Now needs some sort of warning.
Speaker 2: Needs parenting may cause stress, No crap, it's a hazard
Speaker 2: to your health, so says this new advisory warning coming
Speaker 2: from the US Surgeon General, doctor Vivic Murphy, and who
Speaker 2: is a father of two. But he issued this advisory
Speaker 2: warning on Wednesday, saying that there's a lot of pressure
Speaker 2: that parents are under, that it's now or he sees
Speaker 2: it as having already become a public health problem. So
Speaker 2: one percent of parents report they can't function most days
Speaker 2: because of stress. Forty eight said percent said they're completely
Speaker 2: overwhelmed by stress.
Speaker 4: This here's the thing we know.
Speaker 1: And again take my comments with a grain assault. Everybody,
Speaker 1: don't come at me. I'm not a parent.
Speaker 3: You're allowed to have a point of view.
Speaker 1: Just my point of view is I was raised by
Speaker 1: a single mom under hard times, and she did everything
Speaker 1: that she could in her power to raise me and
Speaker 1: my older brother. And that woman is a superhero. I
Speaker 1: cannot stress that enough. And she is my guiding star
Speaker 1: and I love that woman and she Parenting is stressful
Speaker 1: and has been forever, and not just for single parents,
Speaker 1: for both parents at home.
Speaker 4: It's a stressful job. You kind of know that when
Speaker 4: you get into it.
Speaker 1: I think the difference now though again not a parent,
Speaker 1: but I notice in this particular article, they talk about
Speaker 1: the parents worry of now school shootings, which I could
Speaker 1: see social media, social media, social media.
Speaker 4: Do you navigate that?
Speaker 2: I mean my boys seven, he'll be eight in November.
Speaker 2: It hasn't entered his focus as of yet, and it
Speaker 2: will be different as he gets older. I realized by
Speaker 2: stress will change. But I would say any relationship causes stress.
Speaker 2: If you care about someone. When you care about somebody,
Speaker 2: you want them, you want them to be well. How
Speaker 2: is this any different than regular crime? There is more
Speaker 2: likelihood of my family, god forbid, being involved in regular,
Speaker 2: everyday crime than there is a school shooting. As far
Speaker 2: as the numbers, it just is that. I know it's
Speaker 2: not Yeah, it's not so to get the publicity. And
Speaker 2: you know what, do I want my kid shot at school?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Do I want him knife punched, thrown in front of
Speaker 2: a car, hit by a car, hit and run.
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: You know what I will tell you right now. I
Speaker 2: don't give a rat's ass about what weapons used. I
Speaker 2: care more that I don't want my kid hurt, sure
Speaker 2: and or where it's done. So, but I think caring
Speaker 2: for anybody causes stress because you actually care, really, I mean,
Speaker 2: you had a scare last year sometime where somebody followed.
Speaker 4: You when you cha cha run and I was running
Speaker 4: and it's that was on.
Speaker 3: You were just jogging.
Speaker 4: You were doing your run, right. I was in the
Speaker 4: middle of my run. It was a Sunday afternoon. It
Speaker 4: was on a busy street.
Speaker 1: Santa Monica Boulevard in Century City, and this I would
Speaker 1: put him at twenty years old, maybe definitely had crazy eyes.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if he, you know, was on drugs,
Speaker 1: mental health issues. He literally chased me down full sprint
Speaker 1: and I was on mile ten of a thirteen mile run,
Speaker 1: so much so that the past her buys.
Speaker 4: Witnessed this and they pulled over, didn't they?
Speaker 1: And yeah, I had some my guardian angels, who I
Speaker 1: call them, pull over and in a it's like a
Speaker 1: California stop where you're rolling, you know, and she's waving
Speaker 1: me into the vehicle and I hopped into a stranger's.
Speaker 3: They could see it in your eyes.
Speaker 1: And the person she saw more than I did, because
Speaker 1: she saw him see me and then target me and
Speaker 1: I'm running and I didn't I saw him.
Speaker 3: That's so scary.
Speaker 1: And so next thing you know, I'm sitting on top
Speaker 1: of a stranger's lap in the passenger seat, you know, hyperventilating,
Speaker 1: not knowing what in the world's going on.
Speaker 4: She starts crying. I mean, it was the it was
Speaker 4: the most I mean talking about stress, right, it was
Speaker 4: just it was such a bizarre moment.
Speaker 2: You come home and you tell your husband John that
Speaker 2: you don't think that stresses him out. You both want hers,
Speaker 2: you're both I mean, things.
Speaker 4: Like this happen all the time, every day.
Speaker 2: Yes, life is you can't nerve the world. It has
Speaker 2: sharp edges, and there are horrible things. And I know
Speaker 2: that I say this with a seven year old instead
Speaker 2: of a fourteen year old who now could be dealing
Speaker 2: with bullying on social media, bullying or any of those
Speaker 2: things being influenced. Yeah, it's going to be stressful. It's
Speaker 2: a little maybe less stressful for me because I'm an
Speaker 2: older parent.
Speaker 1: But then the other thing that you have to think
Speaker 1: about is what the parents stress, what that does to
Speaker 1: the kid because the kids can feel me that the
Speaker 1: kids can feel exactly what you're dealing with, and they
Speaker 1: mimic you. Right, So you're supposed to be that example.
Speaker 1: And so children were twice as likely to have behavioral,
Speaker 1: developmental or mental disorders, and four times likely to have
Speaker 1: poor mental health when their primary caregiver had poor mental health.
Speaker 4: That's according to a study, of course.
Speaker 2: But well, Max's mom and dad are crazy, so but
Speaker 2: we're fun crazy.
Speaker 4: You're absolutely fun. Hey, you're in charge of the Haunted House.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it is school.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 3: Chair look at me.
Speaker 4: That's awesome, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: My poor son in his playroom right now has a
Speaker 2: full size animatronic stormtrooper at six feet tall, no, seven
Speaker 2: foot and change, Darth Vader in there right now, and
Speaker 2: he's like, daddy, you move the well, dear mine, and
Speaker 2: he goes, could you move these?
Speaker 3: I have no space to play.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like I want.
Speaker 3: Killed for these?
Speaker 4: Can you get Darth out of here? Yeah?
Speaker 3: He's huge, Yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 4: Oh I love. He's going to be the.
Speaker 3: Good kind of Max.
Speaker 4: I want to invite to come over. I want to see.
Speaker 2: You'll have no oh my god. Oh all right, let's
Speaker 2: get some sanity in this mix.
Speaker 5: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 5: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Hey everybody, happy Monday, Yeah, Happy Monday, Happy labor.
Speaker 3: Are we allowed to stay? Happy? Monday is that like
Speaker 3: a thing. It's yeah, I don't know what you call me.
Speaker 2: I actually like Mondays just fine. Fridays just set me
Speaker 2: up for Saturday that I got to work.
Speaker 4: Well you did the sixth day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's like coming from the person who works
Speaker 2: twelve hour days.
Speaker 3: Good for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, in heels and makeup.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I come in here a hard time for Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well you sound like I'm so high maintenance you are.
Speaker 1: I'm really not that himinenance.
Speaker 2: Your first date with your now husband, I think your
Speaker 2: hair was in a ponytail and you, oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's because i'd given up, given up.
Speaker 4: Well that's what it's like to do radio. You couldn't
Speaker 4: get TV.
Speaker 3: It's like we've given up. We show here and we
Speaker 3: show up.
Speaker 2: Here in pj's Like, either you like me or yeah,
Speaker 2: this is what you're getting me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, at first, the first the first date is always
Speaker 1: I never agreed to anything more than a drink or
Speaker 1: coffee whatever it was. It wasn't a meal, because this
Speaker 1: is a waste of time. And so because you know
Speaker 1: you're efficient, I like absolutely well. After it took some time. Again,
Speaker 1: I met my husband, I was forty, so that's a
Speaker 1: lot of years being single a lot of bad dates.
Speaker 4: So I learned my my rules. That was one of
Speaker 4: my rules. Never never a meal.
Speaker 1: So I agreed to meet him, and I pull up
Speaker 1: and I didn't spend any time getting ready because I'd
Speaker 1: done that.
Speaker 4: This is why I waste all that effort.
Speaker 1: And sure enough I see him outside and I thought, oh, no,
Speaker 1: he's a he's extreme handsome man. Yeah, he's something else,
Speaker 1: that's for sure.
Speaker 3: Got double ten's in that family?
Speaker 4: Well he No, he's a he's a one hundred. Anyway,
Speaker 4: I thought I did enough time.
Speaker 2: Should I go home?
Speaker 4: A out of time and it'll be late? Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: Oh well, and look how it worked.
Speaker 3: That's a better story though, don't you think seven years?
Speaker 1: And our seven year anniversary is next a week from today?
Speaker 4: Oh wow, yeah, next Monday. Okay, congratulations, Enough about me. No,
Speaker 4: I think people want to know about you.
Speaker 2: Their sister going to stop in the middle of heavy
Speaker 2: news on TV to break down your life.
Speaker 1: No, this is so different than you only it's so
Speaker 1: different than my nighttime job.
Speaker 3: But it's funny.
Speaker 2: You only do that when you become the news, like
Speaker 2: someone chasing you.
Speaker 4: Which you never want to become the news.
Speaker 3: Hey, yeah, put that on all right.
Speaker 2: Something that's been in the news quite a bit is
Speaker 2: AI artificial intelligence. As an artist myself and somebody grew
Speaker 2: up in an arts family, there is a lot of
Speaker 2: conversation going on when it comes to art, intellectual property,
Speaker 2: all these things that the mighty machine is going to
Speaker 2: suck up and regurgitate out. But I'm a believer that
Speaker 2: technology comes, you can't stop it, and you and you
Speaker 2: better learn.
Speaker 3: How to use it. Yeah, so you just have to.
Speaker 2: And this story is an interesting one out of the
Speaker 2: La Times talking about a cinematographer who's working on the
Speaker 2: second season of Star Trek Strange New Worlds, and his
Speaker 2: name is Benji.
Speaker 4: Bakshi, So Bakshi b A K S.
Speaker 3: But he this.
Speaker 2: Cool question and I love that these are the things
Speaker 2: you have to think about when you're working in the
Speaker 2: art world or working in film television, And like, how
Speaker 2: would natural light interact with the snowy landscape of a
Speaker 2: fictional planet under a magenta skuy So this is something
Speaker 2: where he had to go to artificial intelligence and use
Speaker 2: to see renderings by prompts. If you're not familiar when
Speaker 2: you're working with AI, it doesn't do anything on its own.
Speaker 2: You prompt it, and through prompting it, you're motivating it
Speaker 2: to give you back a response that it is calculating
Speaker 2: based on all the information that it has.
Speaker 1: And you can also, in that prompt give it a feeling. Yes,
Speaker 1: you like an emotion, yeah right, a stime of day's funny.
Speaker 4: I want it humorous, I want it sad. Yeah, everything right.
Speaker 2: So it has been said that AI won't talk take
Speaker 2: your job, but if you don't learn AI, your job
Speaker 2: may go away because it plays a part.
Speaker 3: I use it for things.
Speaker 2: I've used it to check notes, I've used it to
Speaker 2: create images, to set me I was an illustrator for
Speaker 2: years and a designer for years. I can do everything
Speaker 2: on my own, but I will tell you that I
Speaker 2: also used to set type by hand, and then you
Speaker 2: used to have to go out to a type setter.
Speaker 3: It was really crazy.
Speaker 2: So I would have to lay something out and I'd
Speaker 2: go to the type setter and I'd say, I want
Speaker 2: this font, and I want this currenting, and I want
Speaker 2: this letting, and I'd give them direction. They would print
Speaker 2: it on what looks like a photo paper. I would
Speaker 2: then cut it. I would put wax on the back
Speaker 2: of it and then i'd put it on blue line,
Speaker 2: a blue grid paper, and I'd lay it out that way.
Speaker 4: That's quite the process.
Speaker 2: Now, I came to computers, Macintosh at the time. Came
Speaker 2: and trained me on computers when I was a young artist,
Speaker 2: and I came in kicking and screaming. You're talking about
Speaker 2: the late eighties or so, and I came kicking and
Speaker 2: scream going, this is ridiculous. It's a glorified typesetter. Basically,
Speaker 2: I'm setting my own type now, that's it. And then
Speaker 2: I learned everything. I mean, I was trained in dark
Speaker 2: rooms and learning how to do photo prints and plates
Speaker 2: for printing and all these things. And I'm going, wait
Speaker 2: a second, this is eventually going to be able to
Speaker 2: do this and this and color separations that I used
Speaker 2: to have to do optically.
Speaker 4: We started to see the possibilities.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I came kicking and screaming, and I never left.
Speaker 2: I still have all the original tools to be able
Speaker 2: to do layout completely old school, just because I like
Speaker 2: having them. So I get it. But everything is a tool.
Speaker 2: It can be misused, it could be used. And I
Speaker 2: even trained it on my voice one time to see
Speaker 2: how it would do my inflection.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, and I put it go.
Speaker 3: Scary.
Speaker 4: I did a commercial with it. I mean it never aired.
Speaker 2: I did, but I'm like, I wonder if it would
Speaker 2: give the inflections properly.
Speaker 4: I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised, because I mean, there's so many AI generated
Speaker 1: images and videos that we see online all the time,
Speaker 1: and I just don't think about that element. I don't
Speaker 1: think about this could be and likely is an AI
Speaker 1: generated voice, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: And it can translate.
Speaker 2: My goal was to take some of the old Jesus
Speaker 2: shows and have them translate into different languages, but using
Speaker 2: the voice of the host of the Jesus Show, and
Speaker 2: to see how that would work. But it's that this use,
Speaker 2: to me is the way creative people.
Speaker 3: Should use it.
Speaker 4: To embrace it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the fact that it's going to take away things, well,
Speaker 2: you know what, so did word and so did all
Speaker 2: these you know Canva. Canva is a great app but
Speaker 2: it is doing things in the blink of an eye
Speaker 2: and the push of a button that people used to
Speaker 2: pay me to do well.
Speaker 1: And to that point, the film industry is dealing with
Speaker 1: this too, where you.
Speaker 4: Can literally.
Speaker 1: Prompt AI to create a sitcom and it will give
Speaker 1: you a first draft that's not award winning but something.
Speaker 1: And so that could do away with a young writer,
Speaker 1: up and coming writer who's trying to get into the business,
Speaker 1: because why do we need that anymore?
Speaker 4: Sadly sad to say, but.
Speaker 2: Even with writing they have You know, Carrie Fisher, a
Speaker 2: lot of people don't know this about her. What an
Speaker 2: amazing of course she is, Princess Leah.
Speaker 4: Brilliantly it was many times for Halloween.
Speaker 3: Yeah, get you remind me of her, you've got her.
Speaker 3: Let your face works very much.
Speaker 2: Yes, but the Carrie Fisher is a brilliant writer and
Speaker 2: she was used a lot uncredited, I think, to punch
Speaker 2: up scripts.
Speaker 4: Oh I didn't know that.
Speaker 3: And there's people that get paid for that.
Speaker 2: They bring up more, they make them more funny, they
Speaker 2: make them darker, they do things, you know, and tools
Speaker 2: or tools are tools. Very rarely does one person pull
Speaker 2: off everything. That's why it takes an entire crew to
Speaker 2: make Tom Cruise look like he's some superman, you know,
Speaker 2: like he can jump from.
Speaker 3: Well I guess he can.
Speaker 2: He can't think he can, but you know, to make
Speaker 2: be able to do all those things right, And so
Speaker 2: I refuse to hate on Ai. I get why people
Speaker 2: are upset about it. But my first thing is I
Speaker 2: want to learn how to prompt and that's what I
Speaker 2: spend my time.
Speaker 1: Well, it's here to stay, whether you like it or not,
Speaker 1: and so to embrace it is what make your life
Speaker 1: a lot easier.
Speaker 3: No Dynamo.
Speaker 1: Yes, and and sixty two thousand entertainment jobs in this
Speaker 1: state will be disrupted by AI in the next three years.
Speaker 2: All of our jobs will. It is already in our
Speaker 2: jobs more than we think. It's been in the the
Speaker 2: world for longer. It just hasn't come to this. And
Speaker 2: I say it on the fork Port all the time.
Speaker 2: It is going to permeate the fast food industry first
Speaker 2: and then go on to others.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm just going to say this, and I
Speaker 1: know our listeners agree.
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