WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.839 AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:07.280 on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:09.599 --> 00:00:11.000 It's a diet coke. 5 00:00:11.119 --> 00:00:16.719 It says no sugar, no calories, just cancer. Here's why 6 00:00:16.719 --> 00:00:19.239 I'm getting into a diet coke. At nine oh six. Okay, 7 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:20.280 let me get a sip here. 8 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:21.120 Let me get a little hit. 9 00:00:21.239 --> 00:00:23.320 Yeah, you gotta take a one rip off of that 10 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:24.879 thing before you all right. 11 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:27.839 So I ran out of time this morning at the 12 00:00:27.839 --> 00:00:30.600 house to make coffee or for an espresso machine to 13 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:33.799 make the coffee, right, And so I get. 14 00:00:33.719 --> 00:00:35.719 How little time do you have? I do? 15 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:39.079 I am a child. I never learn, I never get better. 16 00:00:40.159 --> 00:00:42.159 So anyway, I stop at the Whole Foods, which is 17 00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:44.719 the closest place next to the station. I've got some time. 18 00:00:44.759 --> 00:00:48.200 It's eight forty, okay. I get into the coffee line 19 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:51.560 at eight forty. There are three people ahead of me, 20 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:55.600 and there's one guy working the coffee slash smoothie slash 21 00:00:55.679 --> 00:00:59.359 elixir counter. Sure, because it's eight in the morning, right, 22 00:00:59.399 --> 00:01:01.920 which makes no sense you would have one person working 23 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:06.040 a counter that large. He's a twenty year old white 24 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:09.959 male and he seems like he's not awake yet because 25 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:12.359 he's a twenty year old male, Like why is a 26 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:14.680 twenty year old male working a coffee counter? 27 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:18.120 Like that just seems like a mismatch out the He 28 00:01:18.159 --> 00:01:19.959 should be sleeping, he should. 29 00:01:19.719 --> 00:01:23.560 Be growing, you know, I don't know growing. Yes, boys 30 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:27.599 grow til they're twenty five. So he's got there's three 31 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:30.319 people ahead of me, and he's got three cups in 32 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:32.040 front of him that are empty, which means he's got 33 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:33.680 three drinks to make before he even gets to the 34 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:36.280 three people ahead of me. I wanted to wait, just 35 00:01:36.359 --> 00:01:39.640 to just for the story effect, Like how long is 36 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:40.920 it going to take for me to get to the 37 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:44.719 head of this line? I left at like fifty two 38 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:46.400 and I still hadn't. 39 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:48.959 Ordered yet, So you didn't even get your coffee. 40 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:51.480 Twelve twelve minutes in that line, and I didn't even 41 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:54.159 get to the head of the line to order the coffee. Well, 42 00:01:54.439 --> 00:01:57.560 twelve minutes for coffee in the morning on a weekday 43 00:01:57.640 --> 00:01:59.879 out a whole foods. He was moving at a glacial 44 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:03.480 I don't blame him, I blame who ever put him there. 45 00:02:03.519 --> 00:02:04.879 I bet you there are a lot of people out 46 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:06.120 there who feel really bad for you. 47 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:08.520 He should be shining apples or something working produce. 48 00:02:10.039 --> 00:02:11.199 Shining apples. 49 00:02:11.400 --> 00:02:15.240 Actually, I know produce is a really tough job shining apples. 50 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:17.400 I don't I'm not asking you to feel bad for me. 51 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:19.800 I'm just pointing out that that's an absurd amount of time. 52 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:22.599 It is an absurd man for coffee, that's all. And 53 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:26.080 our coffee machine here doesn't work. Oh yeah, so I 54 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:27.759 couldn't even offer you bad coffee. 55 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:28.680 Yeah. 56 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:31.280 I still haven't had station coffee for about twenty years, 57 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:32.639 ever since the mold incident. 58 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:36.400 It's probably better for your stomach, your stomach lining the 59 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:39.039 Dike co this stuff. Well, I wouldn't say that the 60 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:40.719 Di coke is better. I was going to say just 61 00:02:40.759 --> 00:02:46.039 not having station coffee. Yeah. Well, there's a little bit 62 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:49.280 of I think Elon Musk may have stepped over the 63 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:51.400 line here, and he does. 64 00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:54.159 Donald Trump does not like to be upstaged. 65 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:55.960 And Elon Trump's mad about it. 66 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:58.240 Well, Elon Musk has gotten a lot of publicity over 67 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:00.639 the last twenty four hours for having some hand, at 68 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:05.960 least in the plan to shoot down a compromise bill 69 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:07.680 that would have averted the government shutdown. 70 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:08.879 We'll talk about a little bit later. 71 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:11.199 Did you see that in the new spending bill that 72 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:14.120 it gives Congress their first pay raise since two thousand 73 00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:14.479 and nine. 74 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:15.360 Yeah, it would have. 75 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:18.240 It would have. But how come we didn't know about that? 76 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:21.400 Because we we're dumb people and we don't dig through things. 77 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:24.960 The pay increase for members of Congress would go from 78 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:28.199 one hundred and seventy four thousand to two hundred and 79 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:31.719 forty three thousand per year. That's a sixty nine thousand 80 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:34.960 dollars bump of living cost of living a raise. 81 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:36.360 I don't think it's that big. 82 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:38.680 I saw a report that said it was that high, 83 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:40.159 but I also saw that said it was about a 84 00:03:40.199 --> 00:03:41.879 six thousand dollars raise per year. 85 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:45.639 That is more. Now, don't get me wrong. 86 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:48.280 Congress absolutely capable will be an a hole, So it's 87 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:51.240 not like they couldn't do that. We'll talk about the 88 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:54.639 Georgia Appeals Court ruling that Fulton County DA fani Willis 89 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:57.599 has to be disqualified from the Trump case. There are 90 00:03:57.639 --> 00:03:59.879 thousands of Amazon workers who walked off the job. 91 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:02.520 It's not like they're busy right now or anything. 92 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:06.000 And a twenty year old guy in Carlsbad connecting to 93 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:09.800 that shooting in Madison Wisconsin. We did find out the 94 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:13.759 identities of the student and teacher who were killed in 95 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:17.000 that shooting in Madison, Wisconsin at Abundant Life Christian School. 96 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:20.439 Forty two year old Aaron West the teacher, obviously, and 97 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:24.319 then fourteen year old Ruby Vergara, the victim's names were 98 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:28.560 released just yesterday by the Dane County Medical Examiner. They 99 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:31.720 were both pronounced dead at the scene. There were six 100 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:34.800 other people injured in the shooting, two students hospitalized in 101 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:38.639 critical condition. At the time that this happened, they were 102 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:42.639 listed as those were life threatening injuries, but at this 103 00:04:42.759 --> 00:04:44.959 point they're saying that they are expected to pull through, 104 00:04:45.079 --> 00:04:46.759 still considered a critical condition. 105 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:49.519 Though candilight vigil was held this week. 106 00:04:50.439 --> 00:04:53.120 The suspected shooter, of course we know, died of the 107 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:56.800 self inflicted gunshot wound, at least according to the medical examiner, 108 00:04:57.240 --> 00:05:01.319 and they said the most recent news conference, the police 109 00:05:01.399 --> 00:05:05.480 chief said, this appears to be a combination. 110 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:08.480 Of factors in terms of motive in this case. 111 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:12.639 Well, this story I had kind of seen here and there, 112 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:16.040 and I've ignored it because while it's going on in France, 113 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:20.639 were removed from France, and also because it involves rape 114 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:23.920 and I just never wanted to click this morning. I 115 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:27.560 clicked on this story about this man who has been 116 00:05:27.879 --> 00:05:32.439 now sentenced to twenty years for repeatedly drugging his wife 117 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:35.279 and recruiting dozens of other men to rape her while 118 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:38.959 she was unconscious. Get into the details of this and 119 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:43.920 just more questions pop up. A lot of questions about 120 00:05:44.079 --> 00:05:47.040 who the siko is. I mean, he was finally caught 121 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:50.879 when he was shooting underneath women's skirts with his camera 122 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:55.279 in a supermarket or something. But like, this guy's obviously 123 00:05:55.319 --> 00:05:58.759 a monster. How did the wife not know what was 124 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:01.240 going on? Or if she knew what was going on, 125 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:05.959 how is that handled mentally? And number three, the grossest 126 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:08.519 part of it to me is the sheer amount of 127 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:11.920 men that would be willing to do this right. 128 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:15.360 It's not just one monster, it's a web. 129 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:18.680 It's an awful I mean, it feels like this is 130 00:06:18.680 --> 00:06:20.480 one of those rare stories where you got to have 131 00:06:22.199 --> 00:06:25.720 just a warning it is. It's a worn, awful, awful story. 132 00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:30.079 But there will be justice if you There'll be some 133 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:31.120 amount of justice. 134 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:32.360 I don't know if it's enough. 135 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:34.839 Justice, but there's some other twenty years Come on. 136 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:37.279 Gary and Shannon will continue a reminder that in the 137 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:39.240 eleven o'clock hour today we're going to be doing It's 138 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:44.519 a KFI Wonderful Life with some special guest appearances from 139 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:48.639 some people. And then you can always listen on the podcast, 140 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:51.319 which is great. Go to KFI AM six forty dot com, 141 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:54.839 slash Gary and Shannon or find us on the iHeart 142 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:58.000 app or anywhere else you get your your podcasts. 143 00:06:59.399 --> 00:07:02.920 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 144 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:04.040 AM six forty. 145 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:08.959 As you heard Amy mention, Luigi Mangioni's now back on 146 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:10.199 the ground in New York. 147 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:14.240 They flew him from Pennsylvania today. He waived extradition. 148 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:18.480 The judge just kind of okayed that rubber stamped basically, 149 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:20.920 so he's going to be in New York. Speaking of 150 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:25.399 that area, the FAA finally finally issued a ban on 151 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:28.639 drone flights over a large swath of New Jersey. This 152 00:07:28.759 --> 00:07:32.800 ban continues through January seventeenth. It prohibits flights in airspace 153 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:36.040 near twenty two New Jersey cities, including three of the 154 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:40.600 state's largest Camden, Elizabeth and Jersey City. Only drone pilots 155 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:44.439 that are authorized to operate for national defense, law enforcement, 156 00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:49.399 or disaster response purposes are permitted to send drones into 157 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:49.920 the air. 158 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:52.399 Is this going to stop the drone sightings? 159 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:56.360 No, but at least you would know now that whoever's 160 00:07:56.399 --> 00:08:02.199 doing it is doing it illegally. Squirrels are deadly. We'll 161 00:08:02.199 --> 00:08:04.240 talk more about this when we get into strange science. 162 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:07.439 But you see, Davis has a study that shows squirrels 163 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:14.439 don't just eat nuts and things, they're hunting. They're hunting 164 00:08:14.639 --> 00:08:18.600 smaller rodents. Now, yeah, twelve year study the California ground 165 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:21.560 squirrels at the Brionis Regional Park in Contra Costa County. 166 00:08:21.879 --> 00:08:27.079 They said squirrels began to chase and eat little voles, 167 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:30.040 which are like a field mice, kind of a cousin 168 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:30.879 of the field mouse. 169 00:08:32.759 --> 00:08:38.960 So get ready for a heinous story involving the mass rape. 170 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:39.559 Essentially. 171 00:08:40.799 --> 00:08:45.279 A French court today sentenced a Dominique Pellicot to twenty 172 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:49.919 years imprisonment for repeatedly drugging his ex wife and recruiting 173 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:53.320 dozens of other men to rape her while she was unconscious. 174 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:56.759 As you could imagine, this is a case that stunned 175 00:08:56.799 --> 00:09:02.799 France and the world for a number of seasons. This guy, 176 00:09:02.840 --> 00:09:05.519 the ex husband, was convicted of aggravated rape and other 177 00:09:05.639 --> 00:09:10.200 charges along with forty nine other men. It's the largest 178 00:09:10.279 --> 00:09:15.279 rape trial in French history. The ex wife in the case, Giselle, 179 00:09:15.320 --> 00:09:18.240 has been at the forefront of this case, very vocal, 180 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:19.039 very visible. 181 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:20.000 She's seventy two. 182 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:23.759 She waived her right to anonymity because she wanted to 183 00:09:23.799 --> 00:09:30.519 face her abusers in court. 184 00:09:29.879 --> 00:09:32.080 I don't even know where to begin. 185 00:09:32.279 --> 00:09:35.159 She's a grandmother. Her name is Giselle. She believes she 186 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:39.159 was in a loving marriage lasted nearly a decade. Her 187 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:43.519 husband was sedating her with sleeping pills and filmed the 188 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:47.399 men abusing her. The trial happened in Avignon, which used 189 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:51.759 to be the home of popes. For seven popes were 190 00:09:51.879 --> 00:09:57.919 taking up residence in Avignon anyway. One of the reasons 191 00:09:57.919 --> 00:10:00.799 why this shocked France is because the other guy, the 192 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:04.200 forty nine other guys that walked into court and testified 193 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:08.440 and were brought up on charges, represented not garbage people, 194 00:10:08.679 --> 00:10:16.840 but a wide section of society, highlighting just how gross 195 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:21.000 and bad that species is. 196 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:22.519 We're all the same species. 197 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:28.279 During the trial, this ex husband admitted to what he did, 198 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:31.440 testified that he used tranquilizers hit in their food, and 199 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:33.799 drink to put her into a deep enough sleep that 200 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:37.200 she wouldn't awaken. Many of those who are accused, I 201 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:41.720 think it was fifty one, including the husband, were accused. 202 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:45.600 Many of them did not confess despite the fact that 203 00:10:45.679 --> 00:10:48.679 they had video and photographic evidence. 204 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:50.720 Because of these guys doing is what he liked. He 205 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:53.679 liked to take video of this. The guy's young, old. 206 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:58.000 All colors came from all walks of life, firefighters, soldiers, 207 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:02.480 a baker, a nurse, list, a DJ, a sports coach. 208 00:11:02.679 --> 00:11:04.000 Here's here's a thing. 209 00:11:04.200 --> 00:11:11.120 Now, this woman has gone through unimaginable assault, pain, or 210 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:13.840 whatever term you want to put on it. It's unimaginable. 211 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:18.679 She was one who said I want those videos and 212 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:24.399 photos shown in court. She wanted these people to suffer 213 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:26.600 for what they had done, and they will. 214 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:31.399 She thought she had like Alzheimer's or something. She thought 215 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:34.159 she had like a brain issue because of all the 216 00:11:34.279 --> 00:11:39.240 memory gaps, because she didn't realize when she was unconscious 217 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:43.159 that she was unconscious. I guess the men ranged in 218 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:47.159 age from twenty six to seventy four. Like, who responds 219 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:49.039 to that? I mean he found I guess he found 220 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:54.000 these men online. And what did he tell them? This 221 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:56.679 is me and my wife's kink. She likes to pretend 222 00:11:56.720 --> 00:12:00.440 she's unconscious and this is what we like to do. 223 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:03.679 And I don't know how you and who responds to that. 224 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:06.320 All these guys responded to that. You know, you could 225 00:12:06.320 --> 00:12:09.600 see maybe one or two monsters were. 226 00:12:10.159 --> 00:12:14.080 But not fifty well and did they know each other? 227 00:12:14.519 --> 00:12:19.200 I mean, was this a group that was informed that 228 00:12:19.240 --> 00:12:20.639 there were other people doing this? 229 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:21.360 I don't know. 230 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:29.039 Many in France now say that this has changed the 231 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:34.120 face of sexual assault in France because of how courageous 232 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:37.799 she was, because of her courage and her composure and 233 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:40.240 her decision to keep this thing private. I don't know 234 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:43.360 how much say she would have in that system in 235 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:46.639 France versus what sexual assault victim might have here in 236 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:52.600 the United States. But obviously there have been protests, supporters, demonstrators, 237 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:55.279 there has been new scrutiny when it comes to rape 238 00:12:55.360 --> 00:12:58.960 laws that exist in France and other sexual assault accusers 239 00:12:58.960 --> 00:12:59.600 to come forward. 240 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:02.399 They do have this lais fair attitude when it comes 241 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:06.440 to sex. I mean, obviously rape goes way beyond that, 242 00:13:06.679 --> 00:13:10.879 but that's being talked about as well, like maybe sex 243 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:11.840 is a big deal. 244 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:14.240 And and your point, I mean, there was a question 245 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:17.480 when I started seeing some of the headlines about this, 246 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:20.960 the question of how does she not know that something 247 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:21.600 is going on? 248 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:23.480 How does she not know she's being true? 249 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:24.519 Right? 250 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:29.440 Yeah, yeah, there's there there are still questions, and listen, 251 00:13:29.519 --> 00:13:32.279 it's all there's no there's no way I'm going to 252 00:13:32.320 --> 00:13:35.200 go dig deeper into this story to find out the 253 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:36.399 answers to some question. 254 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:37.120 She's just going to say. 255 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:39.720 When you were asking that question, I was saying, you know, 256 00:13:39.799 --> 00:13:42.600 I found out enough to know that it happened. 257 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:45.480 It's awful. I'm not going to dig into it and 258 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:46.879 find out all the particulars. 259 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:50.120 If you're so, she's a grandmother, which means she's obviously 260 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:50.679 had kids. 261 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:52.360 This is not her first marriage this guy. 262 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:54.240 They have three kids, So they have three kids, but 263 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:56.120 not with this guy, right, because she's only been married 264 00:13:56.120 --> 00:14:01.840 to this guy for ten years. Okay, two things. Number One, 265 00:14:01.919 --> 00:14:05.200 he only gets twenty years, right, that's a life sentence. 266 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:09.039 It's multiple life sentences for the egregious nature of that. 267 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:15.120 But the second thing is, if you're her child and 268 00:14:15.159 --> 00:14:18.960 you found that someone was doing that to your mother, 269 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:22.840 do you know what kind of murderous rage would you 270 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:23.919 have to choke down? 271 00:14:24.039 --> 00:14:26.639 Well, and where were you? I don't know. It says 272 00:14:26.879 --> 00:14:27.840 a lot of questions. 273 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:31.559 Okay, we'll never do that, So we'll never do that 274 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:33.639 story again. Wall Street Journal has a. 275 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:42.440 Terrifying look at what people around Joe Biden knew since 276 00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:45.440 day one when he took office. And you think he's 277 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:51.639 quiet now, and you think that the disapproval ratings are high, now, man, 278 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:56.720 this is gonna crater whatever legacy he has going into 279 00:14:56.759 --> 00:14:58.440 his waning days as president. 280 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:00.879 Ooh, in an update on the wild monkeys. Remember the 281 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:02.960 monkeys from South Carolina that escaped? 282 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:03.799 Yeah? 283 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:08.000 Why did we stop hearing about the wild monkeys because. 284 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:09.360 They ended up on someone's dinner plate? 285 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:12.919 No, you don't eat eat monkeys. 286 00:15:12.960 --> 00:15:15.600 I don't eat monkeys. No, but some people do. 287 00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:15.840 No. 288 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:19.480 Have you ever seen Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom? 289 00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:19.799 Oh? 290 00:15:19.840 --> 00:15:21.840 Yeah, the monkey Brain? Yeah, that was the worst scene 291 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:23.039 in the whole That was awful. 292 00:15:23.519 --> 00:15:25.639 I had a harder time with that than that movie 293 00:15:25.639 --> 00:15:27.919 with Hannibal Lecter when he opened that guy's brain at 294 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:28.759 the dinner table. 295 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:31.559 You're okay with human brain. It's the monkey brain soup 296 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:32.399 that you had a problem with. 297 00:15:32.519 --> 00:15:33.159 Yeah, got it. 298 00:15:34.919 --> 00:15:38.360 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 299 00:15:38.600 --> 00:15:39.480 AM six forty. 300 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:44.080 Probably not going to get into swamp Watch today simply 301 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:46.879 because we're going to be doing It's a KFI Wonderful 302 00:15:46.879 --> 00:15:48.440 Life coming up in the eleven o'clock hours. 303 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:49.960 Still plenty going on in DC. 304 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:54.840 Republicans have scrapped the latest bipartisan plan to avertic government shutdown, 305 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:59.799 at least partially because of pressure from President elect Trump 306 00:15:59.840 --> 00:16:02.960 and the Elon Musk of all people. In fact, my 307 00:16:03.080 --> 00:16:06.120 point earlier was that he's maybe starting to skirt that 308 00:16:06.240 --> 00:16:09.600 line where he's gonna start over shattering the president elect. 309 00:16:09.639 --> 00:16:14.200 Mediaite named Elon Musk the most influential media personality of 310 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:16.879 the year. They said that Musk is poised to become 311 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:22.039 the most powerful civilian in American history if he's not 312 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:26.879 already and augment his incredible fortune in the process. 313 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:30.039 I don't know that's going to sit very well. 314 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:30.440 Well. 315 00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:34.080 People are already going nuts talking about the two headed 316 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:36.960 monster that is Elon Musk and Trump and how this 317 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:39.919 is moving us out of a democracy. 318 00:16:40.120 --> 00:16:44.120 And yeah, the Dow is back in positive territory. It's 319 00:16:44.159 --> 00:16:48.120 up one hundred and thirty five points right now. Yesterday 320 00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:51.080 it marked ten straight days of losses on the Dow 321 00:16:51.159 --> 00:16:54.879 Jones Industrial Average. Stocks and bonds sold off after that 322 00:16:54.960 --> 00:16:58.080 Fed Reserve announcement that ended its policy meeting yesterday with 323 00:16:58.120 --> 00:17:00.960 the new set of economic projections pointed to a potentially 324 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:03.600 slower pace of interest rate cuts next year than had 325 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:05.279 been previously forecast. 326 00:17:06.279 --> 00:17:10.079 Well, the fall of Joe Biden may have started earlier 327 00:17:10.119 --> 00:17:11.079 than we thought it did. 328 00:17:12.119 --> 00:17:15.599 The Wall Street Journal is out with an article today 329 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:18.359 about how the White House functioned with a diminished Biden 330 00:17:18.440 --> 00:17:20.680 in charge, and one of the things that it suggests 331 00:17:20.920 --> 00:17:26.039 is they knew about this even before he took the 332 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:30.200 White House in June of twenty twenty, or, I should say, 333 00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:34.119 during the twenty twenty presidential primary. Jill Biden's press team, 334 00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:38.039 I mean, both the candidate and their spouse are going 335 00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:40.480 to have a press team simply because they're both important 336 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:46.400 figures in today's campaigns. One of one of the things 337 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:49.599 that kept being talked about about Jill Biden was she 338 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:53.039 was campaigning for her husband so hard that she was 339 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:57.880 in more counties than her husband had been. The Joe 340 00:17:57.880 --> 00:18:02.640 Biden campaign people to Jill Biden's people and said, hey, 341 00:18:03.359 --> 00:18:09.000 ixnay on the power a of whether or not he 342 00:18:09.079 --> 00:18:11.720 has the stamina to keep up with his own wife. 343 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:13.960 The message was the more you talk her up, the 344 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:19.200 more you make him look bad. This foreshadowed how Biden's 345 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:23.319 closest aids and advisors would manage his limitations. 346 00:18:24.119 --> 00:18:28.680 Think about the most powerful cabinet positions, right the secretaries 347 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:32.119 of blank which ones are the most powerful. You've got 348 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:37.279 Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, probably Secretary of the Treasury. 349 00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:42.039 Those positions are the ones that should have the president's 350 00:18:42.039 --> 00:18:47.200 ear all day, every day if necessary. And this article 351 00:18:47.240 --> 00:18:51.079 points out how some cabinet members, including at least two 352 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:54.440 of those I just mentioned, Lloyd Austin Defense and Janet 353 00:18:54.519 --> 00:19:00.920 Yellen Treasury, had either infrequent or rare meanings with the 354 00:19:00.920 --> 00:19:04.799 president at least one on one. Some legislative leaders had 355 00:19:04.799 --> 00:19:07.000 a hard time getting the president's ear at some of 356 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:12.160 the key moments, especially when it came to our pullout 357 00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:14.160 from Afghanistan which ended in disaster. 358 00:19:14.319 --> 00:19:16.799 It wasn't just because he was so busy. 359 00:19:16.920 --> 00:19:20.279 It's because the people closest to him were trying to 360 00:19:20.440 --> 00:19:24.079 shield him from more people knowing just how bad it was. 361 00:19:24.319 --> 00:19:26.599 Yeah, and they described One of the great lines in 362 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:29.920 this article was presidents have always had gatekeepers, but in 363 00:19:29.960 --> 00:19:33.279 Biden's case, the walls around him were higher and the 364 00:19:33.319 --> 00:19:36.920 controls greater. They talked with Wall Street Journal says they 365 00:19:36.920 --> 00:19:40.240 talked to more than four dozen people who work in 366 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:43.000 this White House or worked closely with this White House. 367 00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:46.519 They say they bodied him to such a high degree. 368 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:51.720 The handholding is unlike anything other than anything other recent 369 00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:55.880 presidents have had, unlike anything that this small group of 370 00:19:55.960 --> 00:19:59.119 aids stuck very close to him. I mean, we saw 371 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:01.960 the doors being open for him, him being led away, 372 00:20:02.599 --> 00:20:04.039 Obama leading him off. 373 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:05.519 The stage, holding us forearm. 374 00:20:05.640 --> 00:20:07.960 All of this was and that's why we said at 375 00:20:07.960 --> 00:20:11.000 the time, our eyes do not deceive us. The fact 376 00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:13.599 that they came out and were so condescending to the 377 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:16.119 American people and saying, oh no, behind closed doors, he's crazy, 378 00:20:16.160 --> 00:20:19.440 he's doing cartwheels, was just disrespectful. 379 00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:19.799 Yeah. 380 00:20:20.079 --> 00:20:23.319 One of the anecdotes comes from Congressman Adam Smith out 381 00:20:23.319 --> 00:20:27.440 of Washington. He said he was trying to talk to 382 00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:29.079 Biden about Afghanistan. 383 00:20:29.279 --> 00:20:30.680 This would have been twenty twenty one. 384 00:20:31.279 --> 00:20:34.039 He was the chair of the House Armed Services Committee, 385 00:20:34.079 --> 00:20:37.960 that is arguably one of the more powerful positions in 386 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:41.880 the House. And he said he didn't like the fact 387 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:46.000 that everybody in the administration was overly optimistic about how 388 00:20:46.039 --> 00:20:48.839 we were going to do this operation. And this guy 389 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:53.240 who has the ear of probably thousands of service members 390 00:20:53.640 --> 00:20:56.599 or they have his ear. He said, I was begging them, 391 00:20:56.880 --> 00:21:00.519 set your expectations low, make sure we know, oh, how 392 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:02.279 this is going to go, because it's not going to 393 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:04.839 go well if you continue down this path. And he 394 00:21:04.880 --> 00:21:09.039 said he repeatedly asked to get the president and never could. 395 00:21:09.480 --> 00:21:15.519 Shortly after Shortly after the withdrawal, thirteen Americans were killed, 396 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:18.920 one hundred and seventy Afghans dead. He put out a 397 00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:21.920 comment to The Washington Post, this is Adam Smith about 398 00:21:21.920 --> 00:21:25.759 the administration not having a clear eyed view of the 399 00:21:25.839 --> 00:21:30.279 durability of Afghanistan's government. Secretary of State gets on the phone, Hey, 400 00:21:30.359 --> 00:21:32.160 you can't do that about the president. You can't say 401 00:21:32.160 --> 00:21:33.759