Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 2: It's a diet coke.
Speaker 1: It says no sugar, no calories, just cancer. Here's why
Speaker 1: I'm getting into a diet coke. At nine oh six. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me get a sip here.
Speaker 2: Let me get a little hit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta take a one rip off of that
Speaker 3: thing before you all right.
Speaker 1: So I ran out of time this morning at the
Speaker 1: house to make coffee or for an espresso machine to
Speaker 1: make the coffee, right, And so I get.
Speaker 3: How little time do you have? I do?
Speaker 2: I am a child. I never learn, I never get better.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I stop at the Whole Foods, which is
Speaker 1: the closest place next to the station. I've got some time.
Speaker 1: It's eight forty, okay. I get into the coffee line
Speaker 1: at eight forty. There are three people ahead of me,
Speaker 1: and there's one guy working the coffee slash smoothie slash
Speaker 1: elixir counter. Sure, because it's eight in the morning, right,
Speaker 1: which makes no sense you would have one person working
Speaker 1: a counter that large. He's a twenty year old white
Speaker 1: male and he seems like he's not awake yet because
Speaker 1: he's a twenty year old male, Like why is a
Speaker 1: twenty year old male working a coffee counter?
Speaker 2: Like that just seems like a mismatch out the He
Speaker 2: should be sleeping, he should.
Speaker 1: Be growing, you know, I don't know growing. Yes, boys
Speaker 1: grow til they're twenty five. So he's got there's three
Speaker 1: people ahead of me, and he's got three cups in
Speaker 1: front of him that are empty, which means he's got
Speaker 1: three drinks to make before he even gets to the
Speaker 1: three people ahead of me. I wanted to wait, just
Speaker 1: to just for the story effect, Like how long is
Speaker 1: it going to take for me to get to the
Speaker 1: head of this line? I left at like fifty two
Speaker 1: and I still hadn't.
Speaker 3: Ordered yet, So you didn't even get your coffee.
Speaker 1: Twelve twelve minutes in that line, and I didn't even
Speaker 1: get to the head of the line to order the coffee. Well,
Speaker 1: twelve minutes for coffee in the morning on a weekday
Speaker 1: out a whole foods. He was moving at a glacial
Speaker 1: I don't blame him, I blame who ever put him there.
Speaker 3: I bet you there are a lot of people out
Speaker 3: there who feel really bad for you.
Speaker 2: He should be shining apples or something working produce.
Speaker 3: Shining apples.
Speaker 4: Actually, I know produce is a really tough job shining apples.
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not asking you to feel bad for me.
Speaker 1: I'm just pointing out that that's an absurd amount of time.
Speaker 1: It is an absurd man for coffee, that's all. And
Speaker 1: our coffee machine here doesn't work. Oh yeah, so I
Speaker 1: couldn't even offer you bad coffee.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I still haven't had station coffee for about twenty years,
Speaker 1: ever since the mold incident.
Speaker 4: It's probably better for your stomach, your stomach lining the
Speaker 4: Dike co this stuff. Well, I wouldn't say that the
Speaker 4: Di coke is better. I was going to say just
Speaker 4: not having station coffee. Yeah. Well, there's a little bit
Speaker 4: of I think Elon Musk may have stepped over the
Speaker 4: line here, and he does.
Speaker 3: Donald Trump does not like to be upstaged.
Speaker 2: And Elon Trump's mad about it.
Speaker 4: Well, Elon Musk has gotten a lot of publicity over
Speaker 4: the last twenty four hours for having some hand, at
Speaker 4: least in the plan to shoot down a compromise bill
Speaker 4: that would have averted the government shutdown.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about a little bit later.
Speaker 1: Did you see that in the new spending bill that
Speaker 1: it gives Congress their first pay raise since two thousand
Speaker 1: and nine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it would have.
Speaker 2: It would have. But how come we didn't know about that?
Speaker 1: Because we we're dumb people and we don't dig through things.
Speaker 1: The pay increase for members of Congress would go from
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy four thousand to two hundred and
Speaker 1: forty three thousand per year. That's a sixty nine thousand
Speaker 1: dollars bump of living cost of living a raise.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's that big.
Speaker 4: I saw a report that said it was that high,
Speaker 4: but I also saw that said it was about a
Speaker 4: six thousand dollars raise per year.
Speaker 3: That is more. Now, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 4: Congress absolutely capable will be an a hole, So it's
Speaker 4: not like they couldn't do that. We'll talk about the
Speaker 4: Georgia Appeals Court ruling that Fulton County DA fani Willis
Speaker 4: has to be disqualified from the Trump case. There are
Speaker 4: thousands of Amazon workers who walked off the job.
Speaker 3: It's not like they're busy right now or anything.
Speaker 4: And a twenty year old guy in Carlsbad connecting to
Speaker 4: that shooting in Madison Wisconsin. We did find out the
Speaker 4: identities of the student and teacher who were killed in
Speaker 4: that shooting in Madison, Wisconsin at Abundant Life Christian School.
Speaker 4: Forty two year old Aaron West the teacher, obviously, and
Speaker 4: then fourteen year old Ruby Vergara, the victim's names were
Speaker 4: released just yesterday by the Dane County Medical Examiner. They
Speaker 4: were both pronounced dead at the scene. There were six
Speaker 4: other people injured in the shooting, two students hospitalized in
Speaker 4: critical condition. At the time that this happened, they were
Speaker 4: listed as those were life threatening injuries, but at this
Speaker 4: point they're saying that they are expected to pull through,
Speaker 4: still considered a critical condition.
Speaker 3: Though candilight vigil was held this week.
Speaker 4: The suspected shooter, of course we know, died of the
Speaker 4: self inflicted gunshot wound, at least according to the medical examiner,
Speaker 4: and they said the most recent news conference, the police
Speaker 4: chief said, this appears to be a combination.
Speaker 3: Of factors in terms of motive in this case.
Speaker 1: Well, this story I had kind of seen here and there,
Speaker 1: and I've ignored it because while it's going on in France,
Speaker 1: were removed from France, and also because it involves rape
Speaker 1: and I just never wanted to click this morning. I
Speaker 1: clicked on this story about this man who has been
Speaker 1: now sentenced to twenty years for repeatedly drugging his wife
Speaker 1: and recruiting dozens of other men to rape her while
Speaker 1: she was unconscious. Get into the details of this and
Speaker 1: just more questions pop up. A lot of questions about
Speaker 1: who the siko is. I mean, he was finally caught
Speaker 1: when he was shooting underneath women's skirts with his camera
Speaker 1: in a supermarket or something. But like, this guy's obviously
Speaker 1: a monster. How did the wife not know what was
Speaker 1: going on? Or if she knew what was going on,
Speaker 1: how is that handled mentally? And number three, the grossest
Speaker 1: part of it to me is the sheer amount of
Speaker 1: men that would be willing to do this right.
Speaker 2: It's not just one monster, it's a web.
Speaker 4: It's an awful I mean, it feels like this is
Speaker 4: one of those rare stories where you got to have
Speaker 4: just a warning it is. It's a worn, awful, awful story.
Speaker 4: But there will be justice if you There'll be some
Speaker 4: amount of justice.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's enough.
Speaker 2: Justice, but there's some other twenty years Come on.
Speaker 4: Gary and Shannon will continue a reminder that in the
Speaker 4: eleven o'clock hour today we're going to be doing It's
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Speaker 4: As you heard Amy mention, Luigi Mangioni's now back on
Speaker 4: the ground in New York.
Speaker 3: They flew him from Pennsylvania today. He waived extradition.
Speaker 4: The judge just kind of okayed that rubber stamped basically,
Speaker 4: so he's going to be in New York. Speaking of
Speaker 4: that area, the FAA finally finally issued a ban on
Speaker 4: drone flights over a large swath of New Jersey. This
Speaker 4: ban continues through January seventeenth. It prohibits flights in airspace
Speaker 4: near twenty two New Jersey cities, including three of the
Speaker 4: state's largest Camden, Elizabeth and Jersey City. Only drone pilots
Speaker 4: that are authorized to operate for national defense, law enforcement,
Speaker 4: or disaster response purposes are permitted to send drones into
Speaker 4: the air.
Speaker 3: Is this going to stop the drone sightings?
Speaker 4: No, but at least you would know now that whoever's
Speaker 4: doing it is doing it illegally. Squirrels are deadly. We'll
Speaker 4: talk more about this when we get into strange science.
Speaker 4: But you see, Davis has a study that shows squirrels
Speaker 4: don't just eat nuts and things, they're hunting. They're hunting
Speaker 4: smaller rodents. Now, yeah, twelve year study the California ground
Speaker 4: squirrels at the Brionis Regional Park in Contra Costa County.
Speaker 4: They said squirrels began to chase and eat little voles,
Speaker 4: which are like a field mice, kind of a cousin
Speaker 4: of the field mouse.
Speaker 1: So get ready for a heinous story involving the mass rape.
Speaker 2: Essentially.
Speaker 1: A French court today sentenced a Dominique Pellicot to twenty
Speaker 1: years imprisonment for repeatedly drugging his ex wife and recruiting
Speaker 1: dozens of other men to rape her while she was unconscious.
Speaker 1: As you could imagine, this is a case that stunned
Speaker 1: France and the world for a number of seasons. This guy,
Speaker 1: the ex husband, was convicted of aggravated rape and other
Speaker 1: charges along with forty nine other men. It's the largest
Speaker 1: rape trial in French history. The ex wife in the case, Giselle,
Speaker 1: has been at the forefront of this case, very vocal,
Speaker 1: very visible.
Speaker 2: She's seventy two.
Speaker 1: She waived her right to anonymity because she wanted to
Speaker 1: face her abusers in court.
Speaker 3: I don't even know where to begin.
Speaker 1: She's a grandmother. Her name is Giselle. She believes she
Speaker 1: was in a loving marriage lasted nearly a decade. Her
Speaker 1: husband was sedating her with sleeping pills and filmed the
Speaker 1: men abusing her. The trial happened in Avignon, which used
Speaker 1: to be the home of popes. For seven popes were
Speaker 1: taking up residence in Avignon anyway. One of the reasons
Speaker 1: why this shocked France is because the other guy, the
Speaker 1: forty nine other guys that walked into court and testified
Speaker 1: and were brought up on charges, represented not garbage people,
Speaker 1: but a wide section of society, highlighting just how gross
Speaker 1: and bad that species is.
Speaker 3: We're all the same species.
Speaker 4: During the trial, this ex husband admitted to what he did,
Speaker 4: testified that he used tranquilizers hit in their food, and
Speaker 4: drink to put her into a deep enough sleep that
Speaker 4: she wouldn't awaken. Many of those who are accused, I
Speaker 4: think it was fifty one, including the husband, were accused.
Speaker 4: Many of them did not confess despite the fact that
Speaker 4: they had video and photographic evidence.
Speaker 2: Because of these guys doing is what he liked. He
Speaker 2: liked to take video of this. The guy's young, old.
Speaker 1: All colors came from all walks of life, firefighters, soldiers,
Speaker 1: a baker, a nurse, list, a DJ, a sports coach.
Speaker 3: Here's here's a thing.
Speaker 4: Now, this woman has gone through unimaginable assault, pain, or
Speaker 4: whatever term you want to put on it. It's unimaginable.
Speaker 4: She was one who said I want those videos and
Speaker 4: photos shown in court. She wanted these people to suffer
Speaker 4: for what they had done, and they will.
Speaker 1: She thought she had like Alzheimer's or something. She thought
Speaker 1: she had like a brain issue because of all the
Speaker 1: memory gaps, because she didn't realize when she was unconscious
Speaker 1: that she was unconscious. I guess the men ranged in
Speaker 1: age from twenty six to seventy four. Like, who responds
Speaker 1: to that? I mean he found I guess he found
Speaker 1: these men online. And what did he tell them? This
Speaker 1: is me and my wife's kink. She likes to pretend
Speaker 1: she's unconscious and this is what we like to do.
Speaker 1: And I don't know how you and who responds to that.
Speaker 1: All these guys responded to that. You know, you could
Speaker 1: see maybe one or two monsters were.
Speaker 4: But not fifty well and did they know each other?
Speaker 4: I mean, was this a group that was informed that
Speaker 4: there were other people doing this?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Many in France now say that this has changed the
Speaker 4: face of sexual assault in France because of how courageous
Speaker 4: she was, because of her courage and her composure and
Speaker 4: her decision to keep this thing private. I don't know
Speaker 4: how much say she would have in that system in
Speaker 4: France versus what sexual assault victim might have here in
Speaker 4: the United States. But obviously there have been protests, supporters, demonstrators,
Speaker 4: there has been new scrutiny when it comes to rape
Speaker 4: laws that exist in France and other sexual assault accusers
Speaker 4: to come forward.
Speaker 1: They do have this lais fair attitude when it comes
Speaker 1: to sex. I mean, obviously rape goes way beyond that,
Speaker 1: but that's being talked about as well, like maybe sex
Speaker 1: is a big deal.
Speaker 4: And and your point, I mean, there was a question
Speaker 4: when I started seeing some of the headlines about this,
Speaker 4: the question of how does she not know that something
Speaker 4: is going on?
Speaker 3: How does she not know she's being true?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, there's there there are still questions, and listen,
Speaker 4: it's all there's no there's no way I'm going to
Speaker 4: go dig deeper into this story to find out the
Speaker 4: answers to some question.
Speaker 2: She's just going to say.
Speaker 1: When you were asking that question, I was saying, you know,
Speaker 1: I found out enough to know that it happened.
Speaker 2: It's awful. I'm not going to dig into it and
Speaker 2: find out all the particulars.
Speaker 4: If you're so, she's a grandmother, which means she's obviously
Speaker 4: had kids.
Speaker 3: This is not her first marriage this guy.
Speaker 4: They have three kids, So they have three kids, but
Speaker 4: not with this guy, right, because she's only been married
Speaker 4: to this guy for ten years. Okay, two things. Number One,
Speaker 4: he only gets twenty years, right, that's a life sentence.
Speaker 4: It's multiple life sentences for the egregious nature of that.
Speaker 4: But the second thing is, if you're her child and
Speaker 4: you found that someone was doing that to your mother,
Speaker 4: do you know what kind of murderous rage would you
Speaker 4: have to choke down?
Speaker 2: Well, and where were you? I don't know. It says
Speaker 2: a lot of questions.
Speaker 3: Okay, we'll never do that, So we'll never do that
Speaker 3: story again. Wall Street Journal has a.
Speaker 4: Terrifying look at what people around Joe Biden knew since
Speaker 4: day one when he took office. And you think he's
Speaker 4: quiet now, and you think that the disapproval ratings are high, now, man,
Speaker 4: this is gonna crater whatever legacy he has going into
Speaker 4: his waning days as president.
Speaker 1: Ooh, in an update on the wild monkeys. Remember the
Speaker 1: monkeys from South Carolina that escaped?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Why did we stop hearing about the wild monkeys because.
Speaker 3: They ended up on someone's dinner plate?
Speaker 2: No, you don't eat eat monkeys.
Speaker 3: I don't eat monkeys. No, but some people do.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, the monkey Brain? Yeah, that was the worst scene
Speaker 2: in the whole That was awful.
Speaker 1: I had a harder time with that than that movie
Speaker 1: with Hannibal Lecter when he opened that guy's brain at
Speaker 1: the dinner table.
Speaker 4: You're okay with human brain. It's the monkey brain soup
Speaker 4: that you had a problem with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, got it.
Speaker 5: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 4: Probably not going to get into swamp Watch today simply
Speaker 4: because we're going to be doing It's a KFI Wonderful
Speaker 4: Life coming up in the eleven o'clock hours.
Speaker 3: Still plenty going on in DC.
Speaker 4: Republicans have scrapped the latest bipartisan plan to avertic government shutdown,
Speaker 4: at least partially because of pressure from President elect Trump
Speaker 4: and the Elon Musk of all people. In fact, my
Speaker 4: point earlier was that he's maybe starting to skirt that
Speaker 4: line where he's gonna start over shattering the president elect.
Speaker 4: Mediaite named Elon Musk the most influential media personality of
Speaker 4: the year. They said that Musk is poised to become
Speaker 4: the most powerful civilian in American history if he's not
Speaker 4: already and augment his incredible fortune in the process.
Speaker 3: I don't know that's going to sit very well.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: People are already going nuts talking about the two headed
Speaker 1: monster that is Elon Musk and Trump and how this
Speaker 1: is moving us out of a democracy.
Speaker 4: And yeah, the Dow is back in positive territory. It's
Speaker 4: up one hundred and thirty five points right now. Yesterday
Speaker 4: it marked ten straight days of losses on the Dow
Speaker 4: Jones Industrial Average. Stocks and bonds sold off after that
Speaker 4: Fed Reserve announcement that ended its policy meeting yesterday with
Speaker 4: the new set of economic projections pointed to a potentially
Speaker 4: slower pace of interest rate cuts next year than had
Speaker 4: been previously forecast.
Speaker 1: Well, the fall of Joe Biden may have started earlier
Speaker 1: than we thought it did.
Speaker 4: The Wall Street Journal is out with an article today
Speaker 4: about how the White House functioned with a diminished Biden
Speaker 4: in charge, and one of the things that it suggests
Speaker 4: is they knew about this even before he took the
Speaker 4: White House in June of twenty twenty, or, I should say,
Speaker 4: during the twenty twenty presidential primary. Jill Biden's press team,
Speaker 4: I mean, both the candidate and their spouse are going
Speaker 4: to have a press team simply because they're both important
Speaker 4: figures in today's campaigns. One of one of the things
Speaker 4: that kept being talked about about Jill Biden was she
Speaker 4: was campaigning for her husband so hard that she was
Speaker 4: in more counties than her husband had been. The Joe
Speaker 4: Biden campaign people to Jill Biden's people and said, hey,
Speaker 4: ixnay on the power a of whether or not he
Speaker 4: has the stamina to keep up with his own wife.
Speaker 1: The message was the more you talk her up, the
Speaker 1: more you make him look bad. This foreshadowed how Biden's
Speaker 1: closest aids and advisors would manage his limitations.
Speaker 4: Think about the most powerful cabinet positions, right the secretaries
Speaker 4: of blank which ones are the most powerful. You've got
Speaker 4: Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, probably Secretary of the Treasury.
Speaker 4: Those positions are the ones that should have the president's
Speaker 4: ear all day, every day if necessary. And this article
Speaker 4: points out how some cabinet members, including at least two
Speaker 4: of those I just mentioned, Lloyd Austin Defense and Janet
Speaker 4: Yellen Treasury, had either infrequent or rare meanings with the
Speaker 4: president at least one on one. Some legislative leaders had
Speaker 4: a hard time getting the president's ear at some of
Speaker 4: the key moments, especially when it came to our pullout
Speaker 4: from Afghanistan which ended in disaster.
Speaker 2: It wasn't just because he was so busy.
Speaker 1: It's because the people closest to him were trying to
Speaker 1: shield him from more people knowing just how bad it was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they described One of the great lines in
Speaker 4: this article was presidents have always had gatekeepers, but in
Speaker 4: Biden's case, the walls around him were higher and the
Speaker 4: controls greater. They talked with Wall Street Journal says they
Speaker 4: talked to more than four dozen people who work in
Speaker 4: this White House or worked closely with this White House.
Speaker 1: They say they bodied him to such a high degree.
Speaker 1: The handholding is unlike anything other than anything other recent
Speaker 1: presidents have had, unlike anything that this small group of
Speaker 1: aids stuck very close to him. I mean, we saw
Speaker 1: the doors being open for him, him being led away,
Speaker 1: Obama leading him off.
Speaker 2: The stage, holding us forearm.
Speaker 1: All of this was and that's why we said at
Speaker 1: the time, our eyes do not deceive us. The fact
Speaker 1: that they came out and were so condescending to the
Speaker 1: American people and saying, oh no, behind closed doors, he's crazy,
Speaker 1: he's doing cartwheels, was just disrespectful.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: One of the anecdotes comes from Congressman Adam Smith out
Speaker 4: of Washington. He said he was trying to talk to
Speaker 4: Biden about Afghanistan.
Speaker 3: This would have been twenty twenty one.
Speaker 4: He was the chair of the House Armed Services Committee,
Speaker 4: that is arguably one of the more powerful positions in
Speaker 4: the House. And he said he didn't like the fact
Speaker 4: that everybody in the administration was overly optimistic about how
Speaker 4: we were going to do this operation. And this guy
Speaker 4: who has the ear of probably thousands of service members
Speaker 4: or they have his ear. He said, I was begging them,
Speaker 4: set your expectations low, make sure we know, oh, how
Speaker 4: this is going to go, because it's not going to
Speaker 4: go well if you continue down this path. And he
Speaker 4: said he repeatedly asked to get the president and never could.
Speaker 4: Shortly after Shortly after the withdrawal, thirteen Americans were killed,
Speaker 4: one hundred and seventy Afghans dead. He put out a
Speaker 4: comment to The Washington Post, this is Adam Smith about
Speaker 4: the administration not having a clear eyed view of the
Speaker 4: durability of Afghanistan's government. Secretary of State gets on the phone, Hey,
Speaker 4: you can't do that about the president. You can't say
Speaker 4: that we didn't have a clear eyed view of it.
Speaker 4: Joe Biden eventually calls Adam Smith and apologizes basically, but
Speaker 4: he said it was the only phone call he had
Speaker 4: received from President Biden the entire time he was there,
Speaker 4: and he's the chair of the House Armed Services Committee.
Speaker 2: That's incredible. They brought in a voice coach at one
Speaker 2: point to try.
Speaker 3: To help him with his voice. Yeah.
Speaker 4: The other anecdote was from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. Basic
Speaker 4: during the first half of the administration, he was there
Speaker 4: every single day for the President's Daily Briefing every single day.
Speaker 4: He and others would rotate, but he was there most
Speaker 4: of the time. And then after the Presidential Daily Briefing,
Speaker 4: they do a quick one on one just Joe, just
Speaker 4: Lloyd slapping hands, sharing some of those intimate secrets and
Speaker 4: details about what's going on in the world. And Lloyd
Speaker 4: Austin's people said those meetings diminished or almost completely disappeared
Speaker 4: in the second half of the Biden presidency. Well we
Speaker 4: still got it. We still got you know, thirty days
Speaker 4: or whatever how much time in this presidency. He's fading
Speaker 4: into the suite. He's like Ned Fland. No, he's it
Speaker 4: Ned or Homer that sinks back into the shrubbery.
Speaker 2: That's a teller, guy, isn't it.
Speaker 4: Isn't that like the neighbor ned Flanders. No, whichever it is,
Speaker 4: it is Homer. But it's now Joe Biden just kind
Speaker 4: of fading into the world, and I don't want him
Speaker 4: to do something crazy just to mark is the end
Speaker 4: of his presidency.
Speaker 3: But it's just a weird place to be.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: This transition is just as odd, perhaps as the transition
Speaker 4: from four years ago.
Speaker 1: Police are warning people in Florida about wild monkeys in
Speaker 1: the neighborhoods. Are these are escaped monkeys from South Carolina?
Speaker 1: Have they gone south into Florida? Are they living their
Speaker 1: lives like Hanna Kobayashi? I think so, just.
Speaker 3: Free, free from everything?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: Do I have this computer up? Elmer? This one?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: This is for you?
Speaker 2: Well, awesome for Geary because he was the one who
Speaker 2: was just talking about it.
Speaker 3: Are you were about the squirrels?
Speaker 4: You have stories going back about two years about squirrels,
Speaker 4: and you don't talk.
Speaker 3: About that anymore.
Speaker 4: I think I'd better grab a couple around here and
Speaker 4: bring them up and transplant right in front.
Speaker 3: You're a work door.
Speaker 1: Someone been hitting the sauce a little early on Thursday,
Speaker 1: I listen to Holidays, Gary and Shannon will be back.
Speaker 5: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 5: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Coming up at eleven o'clock.
Speaker 1: Gary has done it again, a bang up job writing
Speaker 1: our Christmas play of It's a wonderful life. We will
Speaker 1: take the hour to present that to you. It's very funny.
Speaker 1: You really have a gift for writing and for humor.
Speaker 4: Well, I told the idea. It's not an original story about.
Speaker 1: George, No, but it's it's personalized. Yes, it's like one
Speaker 1: of those books. Do you ever get one of those books?
Speaker 1: When you were little? I thought they were the coolest
Speaker 1: things that my name is it?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yes, God, that was the coolest thing.
Speaker 4: My cousin cousins had a couple of them, and I
Speaker 4: was like, they must be.
Speaker 2: Rich, right, right, totally they had somebody.
Speaker 3: Now, you could just do it a computer and no
Speaker 3: one cares.
Speaker 2: It was special in the eighties.
Speaker 4: Today, maybe the day that we get the Matt Gates report.
Speaker 4: The Ethics Committee voted secretly, we told you last or
Speaker 4: earlier this month to release this thing.
Speaker 3: Once they leave Congress or once they leave DC.
Speaker 4: It could happen today, But with them working on this
Speaker 4: continuing resolution trying to avert a government shutdown, maybe they
Speaker 4: wait until tomorrow. But he actually floated an idea that
Speaker 4: he shows up to Congress on January third to be
Speaker 4: sworn in, participate in the speaker election, take the oath
Speaker 4: of office, file a privileged motion to expose every me
Speaker 4: too settlement that was paid using public funds from members
Speaker 4: of Congress, and then turn around, resign and host his
Speaker 4: new TV show a few hours later. Wow, but he
Speaker 4: resigned from Congress. He can't show up and take the
Speaker 4: oath if he's not. He's resigned already from that Congress.
Speaker 1: Authorities in Florida are warning residents not to feed or
Speaker 1: approach the wild monkeys that have been spotted roaming around
Speaker 1: Orange City and to neighboring communities.
Speaker 2: This week.
Speaker 1: Police shared photos of the mysterious monkeys to social media, writing,
Speaker 1: the Orange City PD has received multiple reports of monkey.
Speaker 2: Sightings within the city.
Speaker 1: Now I would say that they are not mysterious monkeys,
Speaker 1: that we in fact know exactly who these monkeys are.
Speaker 4: Well, it's funny that you say that, because the Alpha
Speaker 4: Genesis Primate Research facility in you Maassy, South Carolina, where
Speaker 4: we know the monkeys escape from, or we know we
Speaker 4: should say we know some monkeys escape forty three Macox.
Speaker 4: They have stopped updating the search for the remaining missing monkeys.
Speaker 1: Because they've lost tabs on the monkeys, because the monkeys
Speaker 1: have made their way into Florida.
Speaker 3: It's very possible, but that seems like a lengthy trip
Speaker 3: on their behalf.
Speaker 2: Monkeys are very quick, very quick.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, but are they going to be just riding
Speaker 4: a Greyhound bus or is there a plan for them
Speaker 4: to go tree to tree to get into.
Speaker 1: The Monkeys can reach speeds of thirty four miles per hour.
Speaker 1: They're one of the fastest primates on Earth, significantly faster
Speaker 1: than the average human runner.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but is that suggested that they run thirty four
Speaker 3: miles an hour.
Speaker 2: Or it's like they're like Dean Carnassis.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to explain that one. He's the ultra
Speaker 1: marathon runner, remember that guy. No, he's from northern California.
Speaker 3: They run slow, they just run, but he.
Speaker 2: Runs distances like from South Carolina to.
Speaker 4: Florida through the state of So wait a minute, So
Speaker 4: nobody in Georgia saw these monkeys because there is, you know,
Speaker 4: a state of Georgia between South Carolina and Florida.
Speaker 1: I went to public school, So I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: if they just if they just stayed along the coast there.
Speaker 3: Again, how many monkeys.
Speaker 1: People in Georgia are busy coast a Rica they're not.
Speaker 3: They're not hanging out on the beach between Southea here.
Speaker 1: Let me let me find the distance from the Okay,
Speaker 1: so the mouth.
Speaker 3: Carolina Okay, Alpha Genesis.
Speaker 4: By the way, the company has not provided an update
Speaker 4: on the missing monkeys since November eighteenth.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that's two hundred and ninety four miles away.
Speaker 4: Okay, so two ninety four divided by thirty four it
Speaker 4: wouldn't take them is eight point six, So it's takes
Speaker 4: them less basically a work day, right nine to five
Speaker 4: for them to get They could.
Speaker 1: Have gotten through Georgia right quick with no one ever
Speaker 1: seeing them.
Speaker 4: Eight straight hours of traveling at thirty miles an hour.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that do you think that's wird?
Speaker 2: Free?
Speaker 1: Have you ever tasted freedom after being incarcerated in a
Speaker 1: lab and people doing weird things to your body?
Speaker 3: Tasted monkeys? I have no I have not never freedom.
Speaker 2: You have not no I have because that is a
Speaker 2: sweet taste.
Speaker 3: Okay, Hey, kids, this is Jeff.
Speaker 6: I read an article that those wild monkeys came here
Speaker 6: to southern California and got jobs in the fast food industry,
Speaker 6: which makes sense because employers are not obligated to pay
Speaker 6: them twenty dollars an hour. And also they are locals.
Speaker 6: They are born here in the United States, so there's
Speaker 6: no immigration conflict.
Speaker 4: Interesting, it's possible. I mean, if they made their way
Speaker 4: to Florida, why wouldn't they be able to make their
Speaker 4: way for?
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