Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: A M. Six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
Speaker 1: demand on the iHeartRadio app. Well, Gavin Newsom is not
Speaker 1: going to be pleased with all of the press. Somebody
Speaker 1: is getting for a potential run for twenty twenty eight
Speaker 1: on the Democratic ticket.
Speaker 2: Is where we kick off the swamp watch.
Speaker 3: I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar,
Speaker 3: and when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 4: Here we got the real problem is that our leaders
Speaker 4: are done.
Speaker 2: The other side never quits.
Speaker 5: So what I'm not going anywhere?
Speaker 4: So now you train the.
Speaker 2: Squad, I can imagine what can be and be unburdened
Speaker 2: by what has been.
Speaker 5: You know, Murvans have always been going at president, but
Speaker 5: they're not stupid.
Speaker 6: A political plunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 3: Have the people voted for you? When not?
Speaker 2: Swamp's so serious, it's a fix this face a lot.
Speaker 6: Alright, he's thinking about Gary and Shannon. Who is this
Speaker 6: are you talking about? Josh Shapiro? No, who are you
Speaker 6: talking about?
Speaker 1: I'll give you some hints. Okay, He's privately meeting with donors.
Speaker 3: Jbie Pritzker.
Speaker 2: No, he's recording a podcast.
Speaker 3: Kevin Newsom, you already said it's not him.
Speaker 2: He's a former Well, let's just say he.
Speaker 1: Has a proven ability to win in Trump country. He
Speaker 1: was a two term governor of Kentucky.
Speaker 3: His name not as Andy Basher. Oh he is. That's
Speaker 3: what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Okay, people are saying that this guy was. He is
Speaker 1: a two term governor even recognizable. Yeah, last year. Now
Speaker 1: he is being talked about. Charlie Kirk has said that
Speaker 1: he is going to be one of the toughest Democrats
Speaker 1: to beat. He's speaking at the Future Forward Donor summit
Speaker 1: this weekend in California. One of the feathers in his
Speaker 1: cap as he continues to court donors, which you have
Speaker 1: to do at this point. He's been relatively under the
Speaker 1: national radar as an unapologetic Democrat, and he's got to
Speaker 1: overcome that obscurity, the lack of name recognition. But they
Speaker 1: say the challenge is translating what he calls his reasonable
Speaker 1: and common sense Kentucky story into a national Democratic primary campaign.
Speaker 1: They say he's got a low key personality. Will that
Speaker 1: be enough to move the needle on the excitement scale
Speaker 1: when it comes to Democrats, specifically Democratic donors and primary
Speaker 1: voters as well, But he's.
Speaker 2: Doing all the work.
Speaker 1: Pete gen Greco is a veteran of several Democratic presidential campaigns.
Speaker 1: He says he's the kind of guy that's either going
Speaker 1: to bump along at two percent never catch fire, or
Speaker 1: he'll catch fire and you'll say, where did this guy
Speaker 1: come from?
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: I think one thing about Andy Basher that has.
Speaker 6: That has put him on the national in the national
Speaker 6: spotlight for bad reasons is Kentucky's been ruined by natural
Speaker 6: disasters in the last couple of years and he has
Speaker 6: come out and been as you would expect a governor
Speaker 6: to be the point man on the recovery efforts. So
Speaker 6: that I mean, but outside of that, I don't know
Speaker 6: of anything that has, you know, elevated him to a
Speaker 6: national scale.
Speaker 2: He's a former attorney general.
Speaker 1: He talks about all God's children and he's believable when
Speaker 1: he does. So they say he's the exact opposite of
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. So he's an intriguing dark horse for a reason.
Speaker 1: Work for Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. But he's one
Speaker 1: of those rural state Democrats that you give a better
Speaker 1: I give a better chance to Andy Basher than Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom may be popular on the coasts, but in
Speaker 1: the middle, no, not liked, not at all.
Speaker 3: He doesn't I don't think he realizes that I.
Speaker 1: Have a hard time liking that guy. Politics aside, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to yoga today. Imagine the guy tending you know,
Speaker 1: the back forty or whatever you say when you're tending land,
Speaker 1: and how Gavin Newsom comes across as someone who's not
Speaker 1: a Californian.
Speaker 6: Right, who's never had to do that right life exactly,
Speaker 6: all right. So we know that trade negotiations are going
Speaker 6: to take place between China and the United States.
Speaker 3: They'll take place in Switzerland.
Speaker 6: President Trump today suggested that the US levies on Chinese
Speaker 6: goods could be lowered down to eighty percent. He posted
Speaker 6: on truth Social today, eighty percent tariff on China seems
Speaker 6: right exclamation point, and then wrote up to Scott b
Speaker 6: referring to Scott Bessens, of course, the Secretary of the Treasury,
Speaker 6: who will be taking part in those in those discussions
Speaker 6: in Geneva. The interesting timing of this is that ships
Speaker 6: that are making their way into the Ports of La
Speaker 6: and Long Beach are now the first ones to be
Speaker 6: subject to that massive tariff. So in a few weeks
Speaker 6: we might start to see some of our regular staples
Speaker 6: that come in from China at exorbitant prices because of
Speaker 6: those tariffs. Gene Soroco, we talked about him, he's execut
Speaker 6: the director of the Port of La Earlier this week
Speaker 6: he said, we're down thirty five percent compared to the
Speaker 6: same time last year, and these cargo ships coming in
Speaker 6: are the first ones to be attached to the tariffs
Speaker 6: that were levied against China and other locations last month.
Speaker 6: So the Port of La did expect eighty ships this month,
Speaker 6: eighty ships in May. About twenty percent of those have canceled,
Speaker 6: and there have already been at least a dozen canceled
Speaker 6: sailings for the month of June. Not that they couldn't
Speaker 6: restart them, but it does take a few weeks to
Speaker 6: get across the Pacific full of that stuff. So the
Speaker 6: timing is significant because we are starting to see the
Speaker 6: first shipments of the very highly tariffed.
Speaker 3: Goods coming into the United States.
Speaker 1: A couple of local stories right now. Mark Geragis is
Speaker 1: on the microphone outside of the courthouse in Van Eyes
Speaker 1: talking about what's going on with the legal minutia and
Speaker 1: the wrangling between him and Nathan Hawkman.
Speaker 3: You want it, Oh, sure.
Speaker 5: We also have the habeas in front of a different judge.
Speaker 5: I did not want to without a fully developed record
Speaker 5: because I just got this information Brian will talk about.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Garigis wanted the DA's office to accuse itself
Speaker 1: from the case.
Speaker 2: He has pulled that motion again.
Speaker 1: It's all weedy legal stuff and now it's just it's
Speaker 1: it's devolved into a Mark Garrigus Nathan Hawkman dog and
Speaker 1: pony show outside of that courthouse. The news is nothing
Speaker 1: happened on the Menanda's Brothers front today.
Speaker 6: There you go, and I think they scheduled another hearing
Speaker 6: for next week exactly.
Speaker 1: The other big local story is the guy who they
Speaker 1: were looking for for two weeks, a manhunt that lasted
Speaker 1: two weeks long, has now been arrested. This is the
Speaker 1: guy that they like for the murder inside that upscale
Speaker 1: Valley Village apartment complex. He was taken into custody at
Speaker 1: a mental hospital. I believe so the victim fifty three
Speaker 1: old Manny was killed in that apartment complex in Valley Village.
Speaker 1: But they now have the guy that did it, so
Speaker 1: people can rest easy there.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 6: Something we have been preaching but haven't been seeing very
Speaker 6: much is people willing to look the other way when
Speaker 6: it comes to whatever political party you have behind your name,
Speaker 6: if you identify that way. And we'll talk about how
Speaker 6: Republicans and Democrats in DC can remain friends despite you know, well,
Speaker 6: there's that.
Speaker 2: I'm glad that microphone wasn't.
Speaker 3: On mine was.
Speaker 6: Gary and Shannon will continue a reminder tonight Dodgers taken
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Speaker 1: We have a big announcement coming up at noon. We're
Speaker 1: giving away some Mother's Day gifts still to come, a
Speaker 1: couple of them coming up on the show, So keep
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Speaker 4: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1: We've talked about people crossing the isle and being friends.
Speaker 1: I look no further than Ruth Bader Ginsburg right on
Speaker 1: the on the Supreme Court with antonin Scalia. You look
Speaker 1: at James Carvill and his wife. You know, you look
Speaker 1: at Joe Biden several times when he still had it
Speaker 1: together and spent forty years reaching across the isle and
Speaker 1: made front. But the difference is now we are playing
Speaker 1: so much dirtier, it seems, or at least all the
Speaker 1: dirtors is out in the open flying around.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: There was an interesting Wall Street Journal article that talks
Speaker 6: about Republicans and Democrats doing or pulling off the unthinkable,
Speaker 6: and that is staying friends even in a political environment
Speaker 6: that is so divided like we've seen in the last
Speaker 6: fifteen twenty years. Whatever it is, and they refer specifically,
Speaker 6: there is a bipartisan group of lawmakers that meets every
Speaker 6: morning in the House gym six thirty in the morning
Speaker 6: and they do an hour of cardio and waits. They
Speaker 6: do not talk about politics. It's forbidden. In fact, they say,
Speaker 6: the biggest point of contention in that hour long gym
Speaker 6: session first thing in the morning is Congressman Darren Lehood's
Speaker 6: Pandora subscription because this Republican out of Illinois refuses to upgrade,
Speaker 6: so he's got the basic level. And there's a bunch
Speaker 6: of ads that promote funny businesses in Peoria, Illinois that
Speaker 6: regularly interrupt your gym vibe.
Speaker 3: Whatever it is. That's the way it kind of should be.
Speaker 6: Right now, what I think is surprising to a lot
Speaker 6: of people.
Speaker 3: I believe this is a guess.
Speaker 6: I believe a lot more people are paying attention to
Speaker 6: politics now than they did ten years ago. And it's
Speaker 6: more common for people to follow politics now than they
Speaker 6: did ten years ago, for no other reason than for
Speaker 6: social media.
Speaker 3: Right, But if you look at the.
Speaker 6: The sniping, angry tone that you hear in some of
Speaker 6: the committee hearings, for example, that every politician knows is
Speaker 6: going to be televised and they want to get their
Speaker 6: viral moment out there. Just think of Marjorie Taylor Green
Speaker 6: and Jasmine Crockett going after each other's looks.
Speaker 3: That type of thing is on display in DC.
Speaker 6: But that a lot of people would be surprised at
Speaker 6: how friendly and cordial and respectful the lawmakers are when
Speaker 6: there is no camera around, when there is no microphone
Speaker 6: in front of their faces. Obviously, antagonism has grown between
Speaker 6: Republicans and Democrats, and one of the reasons that this
Speaker 6: article points out is jerrymandering, you know, the sort of
Speaker 6: artificial reconfiguring the borders of congressional districts, because it has
Speaker 6: shrunk the number of those competitive elections. And if you
Speaker 6: reward or if you cater to your party's base, there's
Speaker 6: a like more stronger, more stronger, a stronger likely or
Speaker 6: that you're going to be elected. I mean, Marjorie Taylor
Speaker 6: Green is one of the examples of a very very conservative,
Speaker 6: right wing person out of Georgia who in days past
Speaker 6: might not have gotten elected simply because she wouldn't have
Speaker 6: been moderate enough she would have to appeal to some
Speaker 6: of the Democrats. So they also said that fundraising tactics
Speaker 6: have diminished the power of the party leaders, so that
Speaker 6: those loudest lawmakers think AOC are the ones that are
Speaker 6: going to raise the most money. And I mean, anything
Speaker 6: that's happened in the last ten years politically has only
Speaker 6: ratcheted up those tensions. And the guy like they use
Speaker 6: the example of John Fetterman out of Pennsylvania. Have you
Speaker 6: noticed the number of articles about John Fetterman and that
Speaker 6: are questioning his mental capacity to do work now as
Speaker 6: a senator. There's a dozen of them out there within
Speaker 6: the last week, and he has fought back against those
Speaker 6: and just said, hey, listen, it's like goodfellas. Everybody's got
Speaker 6: to take a whacken now and then. And he's an
Speaker 6: outspoken guy who has said that he fully understands and
Speaker 6: supports some Trump policies. Not that he's ever going to
Speaker 6: change his party affiliation to Republican, but he's a guy
Speaker 6: who otherwise probably wouldn't be re elected in the state
Speaker 6: of Pennsylvania just based on the way it leans. So
Speaker 6: at the orientation for new senators a few years ago,
Speaker 6: Alabama Republican Katie Britt made friends with a couple of Democrats.
Speaker 6: Fetterman was one of them, Peter Welch of Vermont was
Speaker 6: the other one, And Welch then invited the two again
Speaker 6: fresh co freshman senators over for dinner one night, and
Speaker 6: he served salmon with arugula giant blueberries, and Katie Britt said,
Speaker 6: wait a minute, that's next level. Why are you treating
Speaker 6: me so nicely that this Republican out of Alabama is
Speaker 6: surprised that this democrat out of Vermont is finding common
Speaker 6: ground in Hey, we're in this together. We're both freshmen
Speaker 6: and the Senate. We got to kind of watch each
Speaker 6: other's backs and help each other out, even though we
Speaker 6: may be going down the statee different paths when it
Speaker 6: comes to politically speaking. But they've kept up this tradition
Speaker 6: of dinner that they regularly get together and have enjoyed
Speaker 6: each other's company and the spouses and all of that
Speaker 6: sort of stuff.
Speaker 3: I don't know if Fetterman's wife is around. She seems
Speaker 3: to be a.
Speaker 1: A group of guys built a secret apartment in a mall,
Speaker 1: and now this secret apartment is making headlines and it
Speaker 1: is getting its own television treatment and will tell you
Speaker 1: a story when we come back. Also coming up in
Speaker 1: the show, we have a big announcement to make at noon.
Speaker 1: We're giving away a couple of Mother's Day gifts. If
Speaker 1: you've been slow to the uptake on what to get mom,
Speaker 1: we can help you out in that department. Or if
Speaker 1: you are a mom, now for you out to get
Speaker 1: it for yourself.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Happy Friday, guys, I hope you can hear me.
Speaker 7: I'm outside getting my house painted today, and I wanted
Speaker 7: to check on the painters and shot out here, I'm
Speaker 7: having the house painted kind of pale yellow, and hey,
Speaker 7: that's white.
Speaker 6: Bro.
Speaker 3: See what he did?
Speaker 2: I see what he is? That's white.
Speaker 1: Bro. Well, I wanted to make it clear that that
Speaker 1: was white smoke and that we indeed had a pope.
Speaker 1: And listen, we all have regrets in life.
Speaker 6: You don't regret that regret that you said it twice
Speaker 6: because you said it differently.
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 3: That's white. Yeah, that's white, bro.
Speaker 2: Bro, that's white. Oh my god, that's white.
Speaker 4: Bro. You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
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Speaker 6: I wouldn't say it's always been a dream of mine,
Speaker 6: but I've always had this weird image of what happens
Speaker 6: in stores after they close. When I was a kid,
Speaker 6: I've told the story before. We used to go to
Speaker 6: Mervin's to do our back to school shopping. Not to brag,
Speaker 6: but we lived pretty high on the hog at the
Speaker 6: Murmur and I would remember open. I remember climbing into
Speaker 6: those clothes racks, you know, the big circular rack got
Speaker 6: five hundred shirts on it, and you climb into the
Speaker 6: middle of it, and it was quiet in there, and
Speaker 6: no one could see you in there.
Speaker 3: And I bet you if I stayed in there.
Speaker 6: For hours forgotten you, it would close the store and
Speaker 6: I would have the run of the place by myself.
Speaker 1: Everybody had that sort of fantasy. In the eighties, there
Speaker 1: were a number of films about people hanging out in
Speaker 1: malls after they were closed. Mannequin Mannequin maybe the most popular,
Speaker 1: and Manniquin two Electric Boogaloo. Sure well. There was a
Speaker 1: group of artists using air quotes here who in two
Speaker 1: thousand and three were kind of priced out of their
Speaker 1: community in Providence, Rhode Island. They were living in an
Speaker 1: artist commune that had been gentrified, and so they had
Speaker 1: nowhere to go. They didn't have a lot of money,
Speaker 1: and they found this like space, this crawl space, essentially
Speaker 1: inside the nearby Providence placemall.
Speaker 2: I have been to this mall anyway.
Speaker 1: It was a seven hundred and fifty square foot space
Speaker 1: hidden inside. They would sneak in through a parking garage stairwell.
Speaker 1: There's also a way to get it in through a
Speaker 1: bunch of emergency exits. Anyway, they managed to bring in furniture,
Speaker 1: a TV gaming console. Again, this is two thousand and three,
Speaker 1: they tap into the mall's electricity. They construct their own
Speaker 1: cinder block walls with a lockable door.
Speaker 6: This whole thing, we had eight different people, artists specifically,
Speaker 6: so make your own judgment with that word. Eight artists
Speaker 6: live there for weeks at a time until the year
Speaker 6: two thousand and seven when Michael Townsend was caught by
Speaker 6: a trio of security guards.
Speaker 1: Them being again artists with finger air quotes here. They
Speaker 1: were approached by several people who found out about this
Speaker 1: are authors, filmmakers, TV creators. People wanted to adapt this
Speaker 1: into a story, and because they're artists, they said, nobody
Speaker 1: seemed like the right person for the job. Could you
Speaker 1: imagine that you're like a broke artist living in a
Speaker 1: room in a mall and people are approaching you to
Speaker 1: tell your story and how you guys were able to
Speaker 1: do this for four years, and you're like, h, you
Speaker 1: don't seem like the right guy to put our story
Speaker 1: on the television.
Speaker 6: That's something an artist, of course, it is a finger quotes, Yes, artists.
Speaker 6: So they did find a guy who is also a
Speaker 6: documentary filmmaker who wanted to do this, and he convinced
Speaker 6: them to go with him because he wanted to highlight
Speaker 6: the act of resistance. He referred to it that underlied
Speaker 6: the whole stunt in the first place, which was to
Speaker 6: build and maintain Actually this secret apartment inside this mall.
Speaker 6: The filmmaker, they said, was somebody who seems to be
Speaker 6: fascinated by eccentric or obsessive people and uses his films
Speaker 6: to make them accessible.
Speaker 3: So the.
Speaker 6: Documentary Secret Mall Apartment relies on old footage and a
Speaker 6: bunch of new interviews to talk about the Okay, now
Speaker 6: buckle in, because this is where it starts to lose
Speaker 6: touch with reality. It relies on old footage and new
Speaker 6: interviews to probe the impact of rampant capitalism.
Speaker 3: On individual people.
Speaker 2: Nobody's asking you for that message.
Speaker 1: Well, all we want to hear about is a few
Speaker 1: dudes living in a crawl space.
Speaker 6: The filmmaker a guy named Jeremy Workman. He says, documentaries
Speaker 6: are good at capturing the strata of time. We went
Speaker 6: through this cycle where malls were really important for our communities,
Speaker 6: and now we're in this dead mall period. Like, wait,
Speaker 6: is it better that malls don't exist now that that
Speaker 6: in and of itself, yes, that might be something that's
Speaker 6: worth a discussion. We all know places that we either
Speaker 6: grew up around, you know, malls that were brand new
Speaker 6: when we were kids, that have now just completely been mothballed,
Speaker 6: some that have been torn down, some that do not
Speaker 6: look anything like they did even ten years ago. And
Speaker 6: that is a legitimate discussion, That is a legitimate question
Speaker 6: of where are we on this on the timeline of
Speaker 6: what a mall is and can be for a community.
Speaker 6: But a lot of this, you know, these people talk
Speaker 6: about the passion and for malls, has waned in recent years.
Speaker 6: A lot of people, including some of some of Townsend's friends,
Speaker 6: distanced themselves from the whole thing. They didn't want to
Speaker 6: be the guy known as the guy who lived in
Speaker 6: the mall. So a bunch of Michael Townsend's friends just said, hey,
Speaker 6: you're on your own finger quotes. Artists, do your own
Speaker 6: finger quotes art on your own time. We don't want
Speaker 6: to have anything to do with it. All eight of
Speaker 6: the people that did live in that secret mall apartment
Speaker 6: appear in the documentary. Some of them are a little
Speaker 6: bit more prominent than others. They appear in hours of
Speaker 6: footage that were captured, not just during their mall days
Speaker 6: on the old Pentax cameras. It's funny because the way
Speaker 6: that it's the way Michael Townsend says, all of that
Speaker 6: old footage, the old stuff was never really meant to
Speaker 6: be seen by anyone. They never had an intention of
Speaker 6: putting this together as a documentary. And he said, there
Speaker 6: was some very pure about what we were doing at
Speaker 6: the time. It could be dumb, it could be profound,
Speaker 6: whatever you think of it, but it's pure because they
Speaker 6: were just doing it for the sake of doing it,
Speaker 6: to live in this secret apartment even.
Speaker 3: Though they didn't have to.
Speaker 6: So again, this secret mall apartment is this new documentary
Speaker 6: that's out there for these people who lived in a fake,
Speaker 6: made up corner of a mall for the.
Speaker 3: Course of about four years before they got caught.
Speaker 1: There is a new lawn in Virginia actually that restricts
Speaker 1: social media usage for kids.
Speaker 2: Bless their hearts. How do you put the.
Speaker 1: Toothpaste back into the tube? How would you enforce this?
Speaker 1: How would you have parents enforce this? It seems kind
Speaker 1: of silly, doesn't it.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about it when we come back.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI
Speaker 4: AM six forty.
Speaker 1: That's like me being pissed that so Viet spacecraft isn't
Speaker 1: crashing into us.
Speaker 3: Stupid Africa. They get everything.
Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, we will next hour, of course, get
Speaker 6: into what's going on, what's happening. We have a big
Speaker 6: announcement that's coming up. We have some things we're going
Speaker 6: to be giving away, including a couple of Burke Williams
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Speaker 3: If you're a mom, or you want to pretend you're
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Speaker 1: I love the Ralps. Everyone's so friendly at the Ralves,
Speaker 1: aren't they my Ralphs, Great Ralphs.
Speaker 6: It's funny if you live in a place where you
Speaker 6: have a choice between the Ralphs and a Vaughan's. It's
Speaker 6: like Ford and Chevy.
Speaker 2: I go through phases. Do you really like a nail slon?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Oh, I know, yeah, right? But uh yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: but I love I.
Speaker 1: If I don't want to have any polite conversation with anyone,
Speaker 1: will go to the Vaughns because the Vonds people aren't
Speaker 1: as chatty there. Really, Ralph's everyone's real polite and chatty
Speaker 1: and friendly.
Speaker 6: Mine is completely opposite, really opposite.
Speaker 1: Wow, maybe the people at my Ralphs get off work
Speaker 1: at my Ralphs and they go work at your Vaughn's.
Speaker 3: Surely, I'm sure they do.
Speaker 6: Parents in Virginia are going to have a backstop when
Speaker 6: it comes to limiting their kids social media usage. A
Speaker 6: new law signed in by Governor Glenn Youngkin in Virginia
Speaker 6: will restrict kids under sixteen to one hour of social
Speaker 6: media per day. This article out of WSLS in Virginia
Speaker 6: talks to one parent, Ashley Mullins two young kids already
Speaker 6: trying to figure out how to manage screen time, and
Speaker 6: she says, it makes sense. I think these kids are
Speaker 6: on their phones way too much. They like to be
Speaker 6: on their tablets and watch TV. I notice a difference
Speaker 6: when I limit that, right.
Speaker 2: When you limit that as the parent.
Speaker 1: I don't like the government telling me what to do
Speaker 1: with my children.
Speaker 2: I really don't.
Speaker 1: I don't like them stepping in and saying I parent
Speaker 1: better than you do parent. I know your kids better
Speaker 1: than you do.
Speaker 2: I hate that.
Speaker 1: I hate that for parents when other parents tell parents
Speaker 1: how to parent. That drives me crazy too. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't have kids. I can't imagine how i'd feel
Speaker 1: if I did. But do you feel that way of like, hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: I get what you're saying, but I'm the parent.
Speaker 2: I call the shots in my house.
Speaker 6: Well, it's it doesn't impose the law on the parents.
Speaker 6: In this case, this law would impose restrictions on the
Speaker 6: social media company.
Speaker 3: What it does is.
Speaker 6: It requires a social media platform to implement what they
Speaker 6: say are commercially commercially reasonable methods to verify.
Speaker 1: What if you you have a kid who is a
Speaker 1: different kid and is only learning or interacting with people
Speaker 1: through screens or whatever. You know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 1: there's just different You could get to make the rules
Speaker 1: under your own roof, is what I'm saying, And that's
Speaker 1: the way it should be.
Speaker 6: Well, if you are somebody like Ashley Mullens who has
Speaker 6: thought about how am I going to help?
Speaker 3: How am I going to limit my.
Speaker 6: Kid's access to social media? This makes it where they
Speaker 6: register for a social media account and then that social
Speaker 6: media company has to make sure that that kid can
Speaker 6: only be on that account for one hour a day. Listen,
Speaker 6: I don't know how they're going to do that. That's
Speaker 6: what people write code for and they make a whole
Speaker 6: lot more money than we do. But they would say
Speaker 6: that if you have one of those specialized situations, there's
Speaker 6: a work around.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 6: It feels like it's almost the Hey, we know that
Speaker 6: not everybody's going to be down with this, and we're
Speaker 6: making it easy enough for you to get around the
Speaker 6: law if you want to do it that way. But
Speaker 6: if you're a parent who has struggled with this and
Speaker 6: you don't know how to do it, this is one
Speaker 6: of the things that you can use in your tool
Speaker 6: bag to try to restrict your kid's use of social
Speaker 6: media and phones in general, phones, tablets, whatever it is.
Speaker 6: The executive director for Partnership for Community Wellness talks about
Speaker 6: the need for proactive parenting. Nancy says, you wouldn't hand
Speaker 6: the keys to the car at age six and say
Speaker 6: go off and do what you want. This is a
Speaker 6: digital highway without any seat belts, and we have to
Speaker 6: be intentional. Other people have said that this reduces their
Speaker 6: exposure to potential predators and other dangers.
Speaker 3: That we see online.
Speaker 6: So it's fine, it's fine to me in that this
Speaker 6: is not You're not going to get parents in trouble
Speaker 6: for doing something.
Speaker 3: This is. This puts the onus on social media to.
Speaker 6: Rein in the amount of hours a day that a
Speaker 6: kid could use. But it's really easy to get around.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but what is the state of Virginia.
Speaker 1: What is their jurisdiction over social media companies?
Speaker 6: We'll see, I mean maybe this is maybe this gets
Speaker 6: challenged in court and it goes by the way.
Speaker 1: Still to me has an air of I'm going to
Speaker 1: tell you how to parent, and I'm going to tell
Speaker 1: you what your kids should be doing. You know better
Speaker 1: about what your kids should be doing as their parent
Speaker 1: than anybody else, certainly in the state house.
Speaker 3: What do you support taking phones out of schools?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because that's not under my roof. That's where they
Speaker 1: should be learning.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's a good I like the difference. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean it makes sense.
Speaker 6: Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 5: This is Jim from BLI.
Speaker 6: Hey, Gary, I think you got the Mannequin two mixed
Speaker 6: up with break In two Electric Google is.
Speaker 5: I just want to give your heads up on that.
Speaker 1: Have a great thanks to make sure you get that
Speaker 1: worked out there and that noggin.
Speaker 2: Eric's out there. It's Eric's birthday, birthday music. I'm not
Speaker 2: a singer, you're the singer. I can't say Musico will
Speaker 2: run into a wall.
Speaker 3: Yeah, happy birthday.
Speaker 2: Now get out of here.
Speaker 3: We don't get out of it.
Speaker 2: Come back, Come back, Eric, come back. How old are you?
Speaker 2: That's right?
Speaker 1: I keep wanting to say you're twenty nine because I
Speaker 1: just can't bring myself to realize that you turned thirty
Speaker 1: last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: How does that feel?
Speaker 3: My back hurts? Yeah? No, hell, my knees hurt yep.
Speaker 2: Men in their thirties, man, that's a rough patch.
Speaker 3: Should just give up now.
Speaker 2: But the good news is when you're forty five bingo.
Speaker 3: Oh really, that's what I got to look forward to.
Speaker 2: I'm going to hate your men age pretty darn well.
Speaker 2: I think Harry.
Speaker 6: Look at him, he looks like the same that he
Speaker 6: did when he was twenty one.
Speaker 3: I don't know about that, not twenty He didn't have
Speaker 3: a beard when you were twenty one. I know I did,
Speaker 3: Did you really? I did?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, I think you look a solid twenty seven.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, thank you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what I have?
Speaker 3: I don't have a birthday.
Speaker 2: Are you going to get married and make some kids?
Speaker 3: Well, like I said, find me a nice Jewish girl
Speaker 3: and we can get to get started on that.
Speaker 2: Have you sing your mom this weekend?
Speaker 1: I am she can have the same conversation with you. No, no, okay,
Speaker 1: she's cool. Then she's unlike me.
Speaker 3: Well, no, you're cool.
Speaker 2: I just want to get a baby around here.
Speaker 3: It would just be a little more of it. I
Speaker 3: don't think you want a baby from me around here.
Speaker 3: I do know it's wrong. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Don't sell yourself short. You're gonna make great babies.
Speaker 3: Weird ones out there. You have to misshaped heads on
Speaker 3: those look.
Speaker 2: Okay, we don't need to know everything.
Speaker 6: I just want to know why he feels inadequate when
Speaker 6: it comes to we come back.
Speaker 3: You're doing I think you're doing great, Eric, Thank you.
Speaker 2: The thing.
Speaker 3: You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
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