Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
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Speaker 2: Topic of conversation for the dinner table tonight perhaps is
Speaker 2: where were you and the earthquake hit? There was about
Speaker 2: a five point two quake just about an hour ago,
Speaker 2: a little more than an hour ago that hit down
Speaker 2: in eastern San Diego County out near Julian up in
Speaker 2: the mountains. Five point two quake several aftershocks of two
Speaker 2: point zero or greater, which for the most part people
Speaker 2: aren't going to be able to feel. But there's a
Speaker 2: couple ors a three and a three point five mixed
Speaker 2: out there.
Speaker 3: So I was on the phone with my friend in
Speaker 3: Incinitas when the earthquake hit, and it was so loud
Speaker 3: that I could hear her windows rattling while I was
Speaker 3: listening through my phone, and she's screaming, Oh my God.
Speaker 3: And then after that we got the I got the
Speaker 3: notification here which I never ever get, and then felt
Speaker 3: the little rumble for a minute while I was still
Speaker 3: dying to her on the phone.
Speaker 4: A bit wild.
Speaker 2: The timing of it all, so the alert, we get
Speaker 2: sound of speed of light because the electronics that are involved,
Speaker 2: and then the speed of sound is where it is
Speaker 2: the speed with which earthquake waves are supposed to travel.
Speaker 2: So that would explain the about forty second discrepancy between
Speaker 2: what we got as the alert and then the feeling
Speaker 2: here in Burbank.
Speaker 5: Hey, Gary, Hey Shannon, this is Greg and Vista. You
Speaker 5: had another caller from Vista. I'm so bummed. I was
Speaker 5: doing my daily bicycle ride and didn't feel a darn thing.
Speaker 5: My phone started being like crazy. I thought it might
Speaker 5: be an amber alert. Then I kept peddling. Then my
Speaker 5: phone started ringing. It was my wife. She wanted to
Speaker 5: make sure I wasn't swallowed up in a hole. So
Speaker 5: at least I'm number one on our list. Thanks.
Speaker 6: I want to hear that quing.
Speaker 4: I want to hear that conversation though. She calls.
Speaker 1: She's like, are you trapped under something heavy? He's like no,
Speaker 1: I'm cool. She's like, all right, bye, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like, that's the relationship, right, They've been married
Speaker 1: long enough exactly. I just want to make sure you're alive,
Speaker 1: all right, goodbye, Charlie wrote.
Speaker 4: He said, I'm in Vista helping my grandma. Garden.
Speaker 1: I was sitting on the ground, barely felt it. Grandma
Speaker 1: was standing, didn't fill it. My mom and brother were
Speaker 1: hiking about ten miles from the epicenter, and my mom
Speaker 1: said they more heard it like a low rumbling freight
Speaker 1: train than they felt it.
Speaker 7: Really interesting. If I've ever heard an earthquake, I heard
Speaker 7: this one.
Speaker 6: We'll see.
Speaker 2: There are a couple of videos that have shown up
Speaker 2: on social media of a liquor store where you can
Speaker 2: see a half a dozen bottles maybe that have fallen
Speaker 2: off and caused a mess.
Speaker 6: But for the most part, that's it. That's the kind
Speaker 6: of damage we're looking at.
Speaker 1: I a should work at a liquor store in the area.
Speaker 1: I am making out with some serious liquor today, and
Speaker 1: then see, I don't know exactly, I'm taking a couple
Speaker 1: of maybe seven or eight nice bottles of liquor, and
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna throw a couple of them on the
Speaker 1: ground like the footage you see on the news right now.
Speaker 4: And I'm going to say, we.
Speaker 1: Lost about twelve bottles of liquor, sir, and I'm throwing
Speaker 1: a party with some good liquor. Sure, whenever we have
Speaker 1: something like this that happens. I'm reminded of one of
Speaker 1: my favorite stories about my parents, and it was when
Speaker 1: we were young and we're sitting around the dinner table
Speaker 1: and my parents both worked in the city but had
Speaker 1: different schedules, so they drove separately about twenty five miles
Speaker 1: away from San Francisco's where we lived, and my mom
Speaker 1: starts talking about the sunrise this morning.
Speaker 4: It was beautiful going over the Golden gate Bridge. It
Speaker 4: was just incredible.
Speaker 1: And my dad says, yes, some horses ass called up
Speaker 1: the radio told and talked about that this.
Speaker 4: Morning, and my mom goes, that was me.
Speaker 1: She had called in her favorite radio the radio show
Speaker 1: they both listened to to talk about it, and the
Speaker 1: whole Stephen said to my mom like, you're right, you
Speaker 1: know what, that's really nice that you took a moment
Speaker 1: to reckon it is a beautiful sunrise this morning, like
Speaker 1: he was totally happy that she called. And my dad said, yeah,
Speaker 1: some horses ass called in the radio today. But you know,
Speaker 1: every couple laughs, were had everything was.
Speaker 2: Fine and the sun came up the next day. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think unless it was foggy, I don't know, but.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine calling your wife a horse's ass at
Speaker 1: the dinner unintentionally.
Speaker 2: Yes, I feel like that's very well within my power
Speaker 2: to Yeah, I can make that mistake. I'll bet you
Speaker 2: I could. I bet you I could. It's time for
Speaker 2: swamp Watch.
Speaker 6: When I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing the lollipops we got.
Speaker 8: The real problem is that our leaders are dumb.
Speaker 4: The other side never quit.
Speaker 5: So what what?
Speaker 8: I'm not going anywhere so that now you.
Speaker 6: Train the I can imagine what can be and be
Speaker 6: unburdened by what has been you.
Speaker 9: Know, always been. Gun They're not stupid.
Speaker 2: A political flunder is what a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 6: Why have the people voted for you with not swamp watch?
Speaker 6: They're all canoning.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 2: El Salvador's president is visiting the White House today and
Speaker 2: his name, Naib Buke, says he will not be returning
Speaker 2: Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States. Attorney General Pam
Speaker 2: Bondi said, it's up to El Salvador whether Kilmar Abrego
Speaker 2: Garcia gets brought back to the United States. Remember, this
Speaker 2: is a guy who was mistakenly deported to that El
Speaker 2: Salvador in prison. He asked the president of El Salvador,
Speaker 2: how can I return him to the United States?
Speaker 4: Apposo I suggested that a smuggle with terroristy today the
Speaker 4: United States.
Speaker 8: Right, how kind of return him today?
Speaker 3: And that is just like I smuggle him into the
Speaker 3: United States or whether or do Of course, I'm not going.
Speaker 9: To do it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't quite understand why this is so
Speaker 2: difficult for them to do this. It's not up to us.
Speaker 2: According to Pam Bondi, she said when it came to
Speaker 2: a weekend ruling, the Supreme Court ruled president that if
Speaker 2: El Salvador wants to return him, we would facilitate it,
Speaker 2: meaning providing a plane. But the Supreme Court offered no
Speaker 2: qualifier as to whether or not El Salvador wants to
Speaker 2: return Abrego Garcia. They're all standing at each other, pointing
Speaker 2: at the others, we said. The United States government said, well,
Speaker 2: we can't do anything. He's not even in our control anymore.
Speaker 2: And El Salvador said, well, what's the mechanism to send
Speaker 2: him back to the United States. We don't even know
Speaker 2: how to do that. Someone's got to get in trouble here.
Speaker 2: This thing is going to be cleared up. The Supreme
Speaker 2: Court did make a decision about one of the lower
Speaker 2: court's decisions about facilitating the return of this guy, but
Speaker 2: then didn't say specifically how it is supposed to happen.
Speaker 1: So, just briefly, I wanted to get in the results
Speaker 1: for Trump's annual physical exam. He is, according to the
Speaker 1: ZAN exam, fully fit to execute the duties of the presidency.
Speaker 1: There is high cholesterol present. He has been treated, according
Speaker 1: to the report, and it describes it as well controlled.
Speaker 1: The President's physician is doctor Sean Barbara Bella. Barbara Bella,
Speaker 1: what a great name. Navy captain says, Trump remains an
Speaker 1: excellent health exhibits excellent cognitive and physical health.
Speaker 4: It refers to the report.
Speaker 1: Does mister Trump's frequent victories and golf events god as
Speaker 1: an example.
Speaker 4: Of his active lifestyle?
Speaker 6: How about just participation in those golf events. It doesn't
Speaker 6: matter that he wins them or not.
Speaker 1: Let's see he got thirty out of thirty for the
Speaker 1: Montreal cognitive assessment. Does it count if it's a Canadian
Speaker 1: cognitive assessment?
Speaker 6: Have you taken one of those?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 4: Have we taken one of those?
Speaker 1: I remember a cognitive test was big in the news
Speaker 1: of Biden.
Speaker 4: I thought that we we.
Speaker 2: Discussed it years ago. I think it was during the
Speaker 2: first Trump term. Actually, are are we get to take
Speaker 2: that test? It's hard to find it, is it?
Speaker 6: Yeah? A version of it, but we can. We can
Speaker 6: find one if you want.
Speaker 4: Coming up next.
Speaker 1: I wanted to get into this because of earthquake Mania,
Speaker 1: we were unable to do so. But the Menendez brothers
Speaker 1: the hearing that happened late Friday after the show, a
Speaker 1: judge has decided that he probably these guys probably will
Speaker 1: be a re sentenced to what that means. That means
Speaker 1: it's probably going to be kicked back to the parole
Speaker 1: board and it could mean freedom pretty quickly eventually.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
Speaker 8: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: The Ohio State football team is visiting the White House today.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, how jealous are the Bosa brothers. My goodness,
Speaker 1: if only they could have gone and visited and met
Speaker 1: Trump at the White House for winning the Trump congratulating
Speaker 1: the Buckeyes for winning the championship.
Speaker 4: Back in January.
Speaker 1: OSU, of course, deviated Notre Dame to take home a
Speaker 1: title following the first ever twelve team college football playoff.
Speaker 4: That was fun.
Speaker 1: Ohio state President Ted Carter had said he planned to
Speaker 1: join the coach and the team for the trip to Washington.
Speaker 2: Five point two magnitude quake hit out in the east
Speaker 2: San Diego County just a little over an hour ago.
Speaker 2: That's what everybody was asking about. Why did you feel it?
Speaker 2: So if you want to tell people you felt it,
Speaker 2: then feel free. They did say that they had tens
Speaker 2: of thousands of felt reports that came into the USGS website,
Speaker 2: some of them as far north as very far northern
Speaker 2: La County, like OHI areas like that.
Speaker 1: Would you like your jeopardy question? Sure, it's pretty easy.
Speaker 1: I probably shouldn't do it because it's so easy. I
Speaker 1: should probably find a.
Speaker 8: Bit better one.
Speaker 6: Now you're setting it up too much, and I'm afraid
Speaker 6: I'm not going to get it.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, let's just see good guys for two hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Actors who played this caped crusader include Adam West, Michael Keaton,
Speaker 1: and Robert Pattinson.
Speaker 6: Good.
Speaker 4: You're right, that was a particularly easy one man.
Speaker 1: All right, So an effort to resentence the Menendez brothers
Speaker 1: can proceed. A judge cleared the way late Friday afternoon
Speaker 1: for additional hearings next week. What the signal here is
Speaker 1: is that these guys will be resentenced. This goes back
Speaker 1: to George Gascone wanting.
Speaker 4: To save his seat.
Speaker 1: By capitalizing off the success of a Netflix show that
Speaker 1: showed a softer, gentler side to the Menendez brothers who
Speaker 1: shot and killed and planned shooting and killing their parents.
Speaker 1: Because Gascon brought it up legally, so to speak, it
Speaker 1: made its way to a judge, and this judge. If
Speaker 1: it was sent to another judge, maybe it would have
Speaker 1: been different. But this judge has agreed to go forward
Speaker 1: with the legal proceedings, which signifies that he will probably
Speaker 1: resentence them. They are currently sentenced life without parole. He'll
Speaker 1: probably sentence, resentence them fifty to life.
Speaker 2: What that means is it comes with the possibility parole
Speaker 2: right right.
Speaker 1: Which means they are immediately eligible for parole.
Speaker 4: It goes before the.
Speaker 1: Parole board, who's really only considerations are have they been
Speaker 1: rehabilitated and are they a concern to offend?
Speaker 4: Again?
Speaker 1: Probably no to both of those if you look at
Speaker 1: their body of work inside.
Speaker 4: So there you have it.
Speaker 1: I mean, George Gascon sent this ball in motion and
Speaker 1: that's probably going to be what happens, what the timetable
Speaker 1: is in terms of this judge resentencing them, it going.
Speaker 4: Before the parole board.
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom does have a say in this as well,
Speaker 1: but that's what we're looking at here.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so it is kind of weird.
Speaker 2: I mean, you explained it that the purpose of that
Speaker 2: hearing on Friday was to deal with Nathan Hawkman's motion
Speaker 2: because Hawkman did not want to have the resentencing motion
Speaker 2: that was filed by George Gascon. So this was a
Speaker 2: hearing to withdraw that resentencing motion. But the judge said
Speaker 2: that they can move forward with all of this and
Speaker 2: they could see some more hearings even this.
Speaker 6: Week, I believe is as early as what they're looking for.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of getting your cake and eating it
Speaker 1: too that goes on here between the DA and the
Speaker 1: judge in terms of nobody looks at like the bad guy,
Speaker 1: because fact of the matter is there is a huge
Speaker 1: sentiment that exists that these guys should be set free
Speaker 1: for whatever reason. Either you believe the abuse happened, which
Speaker 1: was not validated at trial in fact thrown out repeatedly,
Speaker 1: but anyway you agree the abuse happened, and then you
Speaker 1: also kind of got to fall back on the question,
Speaker 1: but then why kill the mother? But anyway, either the
Speaker 1: abuse happened, or you don't believe in the incarceration system
Speaker 1: at all, or you believe that they've served enough time
Speaker 1: for this and they were very young and there were
Speaker 1: other things. Whatever it is, there's a huge wave of
Speaker 1: sentiment that these two should be let out, and it
Speaker 1: was absolutely put in motion by the Netflix Ryan Murphy series.
Speaker 1: But you also, George Gasco wanted to capitalize on that sentiment, right,
Speaker 1: which is why he opened this up. Legally, Hawkman doesn't
Speaker 1: want to be the guy to upset all of those
Speaker 1: people in West la who think that these guys, all
Speaker 1: the liberals who think that these guys should be set free.
Speaker 4: He doesn't want to upset that.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to be the one guy who stands
Speaker 1: up and puts keeps them in prison. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that play into this. They
Speaker 1: are they a danger to the public. No, they were
Speaker 1: money hungry young men, is what they were, to the
Speaker 1: point of murder.
Speaker 6: About their mid fifties.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But the idea this morning the news was that
Speaker 1: their aunt or what have you, eighty five years old
Speaker 1: was sent to the hospital with heart problems and is
Speaker 1: now in critical condition because the DA who put on
Speaker 1: the demonstration of what they did in nineteen eighty nine
Speaker 1: is ridiculous. If you were so upset with the crime
Speaker 1: scene photos of what happened five hundred years ago, then
Speaker 1: you should be so upset that it was those boys,
Speaker 1: those men who.
Speaker 4: Carried that out.
Speaker 6: They made the crime.
Speaker 4: It wasn't the DA. He just showed a flashlight to
Speaker 4: what they did.
Speaker 6: It is an interesting thing to point out.
Speaker 2: Journalistically speaking, we often see the La Times very carefully
Speaker 2: describe Eric and Lyle Menendez as the ones who killed
Speaker 2: their parents.
Speaker 6: The New York Times wrote it up.
Speaker 2: And this may be a minor thing, but the way
Speaker 2: the New York Times wrote it quote the Menendez brothers
Speaker 2: brutally murdered their parents, there's.
Speaker 6: No equivocation there. The New York Times just lays it out.
Speaker 1: Now, if I was Chris Little, I would strike that
Speaker 1: because you don't get to say it was a brutal murder.
Speaker 4: First of all, it's redundant, I agree.
Speaker 1: Second of all, just layout the circumstances of the murder
Speaker 1: and let the reader jump to the conclusion that it
Speaker 1: was brutal.
Speaker 2: I think the factually correct way to say it is
Speaker 2: that they killed their parents and were convicted of murder.
Speaker 6: Would that be right? Or would you sure?
Speaker 1: But I mean you could lay out all the particulars
Speaker 1: and then you'll get the reader to understand it was
Speaker 1: a brutal murder, a brutal killing.
Speaker 4: But you don't get to really call it. You don't
Speaker 4: get to label it that. But yes, I.
Speaker 1: I there is a stark difference, isn't it, between the
Speaker 1: La Times and every other publication.
Speaker 6: I'm in the Long.
Speaker 3: Beach area and I had just exited a seven eleven,
Speaker 3: opened up my car door, turned around, put my big
Speaker 3: old butt in the seat, and the car just started
Speaker 3: shaking like crazy.
Speaker 9: And I thought to.
Speaker 3: Myself, Oh boy, do I ever need to go on
Speaker 3: a diet to shake the car that much?
Speaker 4: Then I realized it wasn't. My big old butt.
Speaker 7: Were fine, old but is fine. That's wonderful. Gary Shannon
Speaker 7: will continue I feel seen.
Speaker 8: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 8: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Of course, the big one locally is this five point
Speaker 2: two earthquake hit in the area of Julian Out in
Speaker 2: East San Diego. County and it hit just after ten o'clock.
Speaker 2: About ten oh eight was the official the official time.
Speaker 2: We actually got an alert here, one of the shake
Speaker 2: alerts before we felt it. Now we're granted we're one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five miles or so from the epicenter.
Speaker 2: So that's the way it's supposed to work. It's not perfect.
Speaker 2: There are plenty people who said they felt it and
Speaker 2: then they got the alert. Other people who felt it
Speaker 2: never got the alert, et cetera, et cetera. But at
Speaker 2: this point, very little damage, very little.
Speaker 6: Concern.
Speaker 2: I did hear during the traffic report they're going to
Speaker 2: inspect rail lines in the area to make sure that
Speaker 2: there's no damage to the railways, because obviously that would
Speaker 2: be a big deal. One of the first calls that
Speaker 2: we got actually about this.
Speaker 9: Kiddy in the background. I'm in the midst of an
Speaker 9: earthquake here in Menifee.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So the question was who is that cat?
Speaker 4: Who is the star of the earthquake?
Speaker 6: Mystery solved?
Speaker 9: Hey, Gary and Channon, this is Julie for Menifee. That
Speaker 9: was Neutron in the background.
Speaker 4: Tron.
Speaker 9: He's our sweetie pie or senior citizen. He will be
Speaker 9: nineteen next month, So that's kind of his mew and
Speaker 9: he didn't start really mewing until it's kind of the
Speaker 9: tale of the earthquake. He was very silent. Yeah, that's
Speaker 9: about it.
Speaker 6: Well, thank you for tron.
Speaker 1: Is the star of that, not a proton, not an electron,
Speaker 1: ney the gateway to nuclear fission.
Speaker 4: A neutron.
Speaker 6: Neutron is nineteen. Yeah, that's extra innings. Good for that guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's playing with the frosting.
Speaker 6: I don't understand that.
Speaker 1: Well, the muffin is great, right, but if you've got frosting,
Speaker 1: that's extra.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 4: That cat has lived the muffin of its life and
Speaker 4: now it's playing around the frosting.
Speaker 6: Just extra.
Speaker 4: It's just fun. It's a gravy. Never saw gravy at
Speaker 4: this point.
Speaker 2: There were plenty of There weren't plenty of aftershocks at
Speaker 2: this point. There have only been a couple of significant
Speaker 2: size anywhere over a three point zero, but a couple
Speaker 2: dozen other aftershocks below right around to two point five.
Speaker 2: So unless you're right on top of those, you're probably
Speaker 2: not going to feel those. Major US stock indices opened
Speaker 2: higher today. The tech heavy NASDAT composite was leading the way,
Speaker 2: partly because of the trade policy that was announced that
Speaker 2: is going to exempt some technology pieces from the Chinese tariffs.
Speaker 2: Apple Dell, chip stocks like Nvidia and Micron shot up
Speaker 2: pretty well today, so smartphones, computers, memory chips, and laptops
Speaker 2: things like that will be exempt from those sweeping tariffs
Speaker 2: imposed earlier this month. The amounts that amounts to a
Speaker 2: big reprieve for places like Apple and others that make
Speaker 2: their many of their items in China. And then also
Speaker 2: a guy scaled an iron security fence in the middle
Speaker 2: of the night, was able to run away from police
Speaker 2: and broke into the Pennsylvania governor's mansion, where he set
Speaker 2: a fire that left significant damage and forced to Governor
Speaker 2: Josh Shapiro and his family and some of their guests
Speaker 2: to evacuate the house. The guy was eventually captured. He
Speaker 2: is facing charges of attempted murder, terrorism, aggravated arson, and
Speaker 2: aggravated assault. Shapiro, in a news conference yesterday, also did
Speaker 2: say that the FBI is going to be investigating Cody
Speaker 2: Balmer was the guy's name. He told police that he
Speaker 2: had planned to beat the governor with a sledgehammer if
Speaker 2: he ran into him, but he didn't.
Speaker 1: I was at a Pacific city over the weekend. I
Speaker 1: just sent you a picture on your phone and I
Speaker 1: was walking by a restaurant and I heard some people
Speaker 1: at the restaurant go huts that whale really small, And
Speaker 1: I was like, what whale? And I looked to my
Speaker 1: right and there it was the dead whale that washed
Speaker 1: ashore in Huntington Beach. And my god, it was massive.
Speaker 6: That is humongous.
Speaker 1: Yes, isn't that crazy? Washed up near Tower seven on Friday.
Speaker 1: Don't know that the cause it was a female gray whale.
Speaker 1: My god, it was massive, twenty five feet, but the
Speaker 1: veterinarian doing the necropacy measured it at forty five feet.
Speaker 1: I mean it was in You know, whales are massive.
Speaker 1: You've seen you know, you've seen whale, you've seen them.
Speaker 1: But when you saw this thing laid out on the
Speaker 1: beach from a distance like that, it is.
Speaker 2: Pretty funny that the picture you have shows that no
Speaker 2: one is getting too close to it. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: from that far away, you're across the street, it looks
Speaker 2: like right and you could probably smell it to this
Speaker 2: warm on share on shore breeze.
Speaker 4: Incredible.
Speaker 6: That's so sad, they said, they didn't know what killed it.
Speaker 2: Don't no sign of foul play, like it didn't run
Speaker 2: into a propeller or anything like that.
Speaker 4: They said that the whale appeared to be in good health.
Speaker 1: It's unlikely that the death is related to that current
Speaker 1: toxic algae that we've been talking about that's been sickening
Speaker 1: and killing dolphins and sea lions and even birds.
Speaker 4: But they will be ruling it to rule it out.
Speaker 1: They usually don't eat during migration either, so that's kind
Speaker 1: of low on the list. So we'll see what is
Speaker 1: going to happen to it. Are we going to blow
Speaker 1: it up? Are we going to blow it up like
Speaker 1: we did an Oregon?
Speaker 2: Nope, usually says they just tole them back out to
Speaker 2: the Decisions on the burial of the carcass are made
Speaker 2: by the landowner where the carcass is found.
Speaker 1: According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, no required
Speaker 1: depth to bury the carcass.
Speaker 2: You can't bury that. That is too massive. Are you kidding?
Speaker 1: They said they were going to bury the whale on Sunday?
Speaker 6: Oh no, was it buried right there? Have fun at
Speaker 6: that beach? Yikes?
Speaker 4: I'm confused about that.
Speaker 6: All right, up next.
Speaker 2: Some of the scariest commercials I remember as a kid
Speaker 2: were the anti smoking commercials where people would have stomas.
Speaker 2: They I mean, they would have to speak through their neck.
Speaker 2: I just remember being terrorized by those.
Speaker 1: Yes, but not enough to stop me from smoking. For
Speaker 1: a solid that.
Speaker 6: Stop me from smoking. I didn't smoke.
Speaker 2: That's but there are some new CDC cuts when it
Speaker 2: comes to some key smoking programs.
Speaker 6: We'll talk about why this is going on Elmer.
Speaker 4: When we come back.
Speaker 1: We play Neutron Dance by the Pointer Sisters circa nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty something something.
Speaker 6: Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 4: You're the cat.
Speaker 8: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 8: A six.
Speaker 4: We got mail. This is from Barbara.
Speaker 6: Let's there's an individual of those cards, a pack of cards.
Speaker 1: There is a card that she wrote.
Speaker 4: It says blah blah blah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that's our show.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean. That's funny. Dear Shannon and Gary.
Speaker 1: These cards are for you both hopeful to laugh at.
Speaker 4: Those are the cards she sent.
Speaker 1: I haven't taken hopefully to laugh at, not like all
Speaker 1: those sweet cards out there. I laughed so hard at
Speaker 1: your greeting card segment the other day, and I wholeheartedly agree.
Speaker 1: And I even worked for a greeting card company for
Speaker 1: several years. Oh gosh, if we wanted a runaway sale,
Speaker 1: all we had to do was put a Teddy Bear
Speaker 1: on it and it's sold through the roof.
Speaker 4: No need to promote it on the air. Oops. I
Speaker 4: don't sell them, just that you might want to chuckle.
Speaker 4: Are they funny?
Speaker 2: They're Christmas themed, So there's some pretty funny ones like
Speaker 2: I'll just as an example. One of them is this
Speaker 2: year Santa decided to surprise his workers with a Christmas bonus,
Speaker 2: and the elves are all holding up little packages of
Speaker 2: Venison steaks.
Speaker 4: Oh that's funny.
Speaker 1: I love a dark greeting is a very darkness. That's wonderful.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Barbara.
Speaker 2: We've talked before about government cuts that have taken place
Speaker 2: since Trump was sworn into office back on January twentieth.
Speaker 2: Then most of those come from the Department of Government
Speaker 2: Efficiency and the overarching attempt to try to streamline what
Speaker 2: is the federal government. The problem is that there have
Speaker 2: been cuts that are a lot deeper than people were expecting,
Speaker 2: and they're not being corrected anytime soon. As of April first,
Speaker 2: just a couple of days ago, almost two weeks ago,
Speaker 2: the Office on Smoking and Hell within the Centers for
Speaker 2: Disease Control and Prevention is effectively closed. About one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty full time employees were working at the Office
Speaker 2: on Smoking and Health along with all the contractors, and
Speaker 2: they all lost their jobs. No clear idea what the
Speaker 2: future is for whatever these initiatives are for CDC. But
Speaker 2: you know some of the commercials that exist, it's, as
Speaker 2: an example.
Speaker 4: We haven't seen in thirty five years.
Speaker 2: Well some of them are are. They're not as ubiquitous
Speaker 2: as they were. And it's also because they're not targeting
Speaker 2: fifty year olds, they're targeting kids and teenagers.
Speaker 1: So I'm torn on this story because part of me
Speaker 1: believes that the anti smoking or don't smoke department should
Speaker 1: be cut. I believe it should be filled with anti
Speaker 1: processed foods department and getting the word out about what
Speaker 1: those foods are doing to you. Just because they're sold
Speaker 1: to you doesn't mean that they're not. I don't want
Speaker 1: to be freaking dire and say they're trying to kill you.
Speaker 1: They're not trying to kill you. It's not tobacco, but
Speaker 1: it's gonna have similarly bad health implications down the road.
Speaker 4: A lot of those processed foods are. It's just the
Speaker 4: way it's.
Speaker 1: Going to be, and why we're not combating that at
Speaker 1: the CDC. That's more of a problem for kids these
Speaker 1: days than cigarettes in my book. And then the other
Speaker 1: the flip side of that is I don't think it
Speaker 1: should be shuttered completely because it's like Coca Cola continues
Speaker 1: to spend money on advertising despite how great its brand is,
Speaker 1: for this very reason.
Speaker 4: You got to you gotta.
Speaker 1: Keep reinforcing the message, just like you have to keep
Speaker 1: reinforcing the message that's smoking and cigarettes are awful, so
Speaker 1: that there's not a resurgence of that trend. But you know,
Speaker 1: it is kind of an antiquated department that don't smoke department.
Speaker 1: Who's who who wants a cigarette and is picking up
Speaker 1: that helpline that they were that is now shuttered, Like
Speaker 1: if I want a cigarette, I'm going to call one
Speaker 1: eight hundred don't smoke and call them be like, I
Speaker 1: really want a cigarette right now, talk me down. That's
Speaker 1: never that that doesn't happen.
Speaker 2: They do say that when the spots do air, I
Speaker 2: was gonna mention one. Terry Hall was a woman who
Speaker 2: died at the age of fifty three, and she recorded
Speaker 2: her last days on Earth. She was recorded in her
Speaker 2: hospital day remember that, barely speaking saying I wish I
Speaker 2: had never seen a cigarette in my life. When those
Speaker 2: spots air, they say the one eight hundred quit Now
Speaker 2: hotline is flashed on the screen, and the calls into
Speaker 2: those hotlines go up. CDC said in the first five
Speaker 2: years of her campaign alone, of Terry's campaign and estimated
Speaker 2: million Americans.
Speaker 1: Quit smokings were they determined what years were those?
Speaker 6: Twenty twelve was when they was when they won't launch
Speaker 6: that commercial.
Speaker 4: That was kind of the end of the That was
Speaker 4: the end of the smoking deck.
Speaker 2: Well, on your point, smoking has fallen for nearly a
Speaker 2: quarter since nineteen ninety nine, which was already on its
Speaker 2: way down a quarter of Americans to now ten point
Speaker 2: eight percent. Smoking among high school students fell from twenty
Speaker 2: eight percent in the year twenty twenty eight percent of
Speaker 2: high school kids smoked one point four percent last year.
Speaker 4: That's that's what I'm saying now.
Speaker 1: And granted, now, how many of those kids are eating
Speaker 1: the crap foods.
Speaker 2: All the regular and a lot of those kids have
Speaker 2: gone from cigarettes smoking to vaping. There's that which isn't
Speaker 2: that it's not a safe alternative, or the nicotine patches
Speaker 2: or the nicotine patches.
Speaker 6: That's the other thing I don't understand. So RFK Junior.
Speaker 2: During his confirmation, hearing was popping nicotine pouches into his
Speaker 2: old mau while he was telling people about the necessity
Speaker 2: of being healthy. That's the part I didn't quite understand
Speaker 2: he was saying, and he had said since then that
Speaker 2: he is all about personal choice. You have the right
Speaker 2: to choose to eat crappy, but you need to have
Speaker 2: all of the education. You need to know what in
Speaker 2: fact is going into your food and how it can
Speaker 2: affect you before you make a decision like that.
Speaker 4: Look at this card.
Speaker 1: It's got Santa with a baby in each hand, and
Speaker 1: inside it says, in a parallel universe, Santa skips the
Speaker 1: cookies and goes straight go straight to eating the.
Speaker 4: Children and a salt shaker on the baby. That's incredible.
Speaker 4: These are great.
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Speaker 4: Good Night.
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