Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 2: Well, this French fry miss continues.
Speaker 3: Hey, Gary Shannon, I just got through that SigAlert on
Speaker 3: the South Fountain five to be an hour and a
Speaker 3: half to get from the one thirty four to the
Speaker 3: two freeway.
Speaker 4: Wow, it's a real mess.
Speaker 5: Wow, that's awful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're talking about this. You heard it in traffic
Speaker 2: all morning long. Of course, the southbound lanes of I
Speaker 2: five right outside Dodger Stadium, right near the stadium way exit,
Speaker 2: and it's going to be closed for a long time.
Speaker 2: We stilled the CHP. The last update was that they're
Speaker 2: going to close it for one hour and then they're
Speaker 2: going to close it for another two hours. All this
Speaker 2: because of a crash several vehicles in a big rig.
Speaker 2: And the reason we're calling it the French Fry crash
Speaker 2: is because apparently boxes of frozen French fries were on
Speaker 2: the truck and now are all over the roadway.
Speaker 1: College football season officially here. Week one action gets going today.
Speaker 1: Several games on the docket, including four ranked teams kicking
Speaker 1: things off You've got NC state Western Carolina, Missouri hosting
Speaker 1: Murray State, Kansas hosting lynden Wood, and Utah hosting Southern Utah.
Speaker 2: Well, it's going to be a busy day. It's time
Speaker 2: for Swamp Watch.
Speaker 3: Swamp is horrible.
Speaker 1: The government man make it like a reality TV show.
Speaker 2: Was a bad boos, always a pleasure to be anywhere
Speaker 2: from Washington, d c Hey Joe, a.
Speaker 6: Town all too clearly built on a swamp and in
Speaker 6: so many ways still a swamp.
Speaker 5: I have to watching Milwaukee, he said, drain the swamp.
Speaker 2: I said, Oh, that's so he keep wash.
Speaker 3: You know the thing.
Speaker 1: So, Kamala Harris and Tim Walls are on a bus
Speaker 1: tour through Georgia, the all important state of Georgia, and
Speaker 1: that is where CNN is going to catch up with
Speaker 1: her and tape this interview. They're taping it right now
Speaker 1: as we speak. Don't really know how long it's going
Speaker 1: to be, how much of the program it's going to
Speaker 1: account for. This is going to air six pm our time.
Speaker 1: Are they going to focus on the bus tour? Are
Speaker 1: they going to focus on them meeting voters, their origin stories?
Speaker 5: We just don't know.
Speaker 1: CNN has told us nothing about whether or not this
Speaker 1: will be an hour long interview or twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: And as we mentioned yesterday, I think we were talking
Speaker 2: about how it would go if she were interrupted by
Speaker 2: Tim Walls at one point. I don't think. I don't
Speaker 2: think he would do that, but if he had to
Speaker 2: kind of jump in and maybe clear up something that
Speaker 2: she was saying, mister Vice President, I'm speaking.
Speaker 1: He is such a comfortable talker, she is such an
Speaker 1: uncomfortable talker that he is going to be the iron
Speaker 1: I believe in this talk she will answer a question,
Speaker 1: he will come in to iron it out, to put
Speaker 1: the dot on the eye, the crossing of the tee,
Speaker 1: and crystallize whatever point he thinks she's trying to make.
Speaker 2: There was an interview that I saw this morning with
Speaker 2: someone who had interviewed Kamala Harris back in twenty I
Speaker 2: want to say, sixteen or seventeen, and then in twenty
Speaker 2: nineteen when she was running for president, and this guy,
Speaker 2: I don't remember what publication it was that he was
Speaker 2: writing for, but he said in both of those interviews,
Speaker 2: she gave off a very cold feeling where she would
Speaker 2: stare at him, and he said it made him feel
Speaker 2: like he was being prosecuted, which I think is a
Speaker 2: funny way to put it, considering her job obviously as
Speaker 2: prosecutor and then attorney general before she became a senator
Speaker 2: and now vice president.
Speaker 1: Kind of a mean mugging is what it is. And
Speaker 1: it was apparent when she sat down with Lester Holt
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. This was the last big interview
Speaker 1: that she did, and he pressed her on the border.
Speaker 2: Do you have any plans to visit the border. I'm
Speaker 2: here in Guada Malla today.
Speaker 4: At some point, you know.
Speaker 1: We are going to the border.
Speaker 3: We've been to the border.
Speaker 5: So this whole, this whole, this whole thing about the border.
Speaker 2: We've been to the border.
Speaker 7: You haven't been to the border, and.
Speaker 2: I haven't been to Europe.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't understand the point that you make it.
Speaker 1: Well, you're the borders are and you haven't been to
Speaker 1: the border, and Europe is irrelevant that I and you know,
Speaker 1: not everybody is.
Speaker 2: A good.
Speaker 5: Bs R.
Speaker 2: And and she's not.
Speaker 5: And I understand that. You know, well, I think.
Speaker 2: That's got to be really that's that's one of the
Speaker 2: questions that has to come up, whether whether the term
Speaker 2: borders are was ever officially put upon her or or
Speaker 2: she was technically named as the head of the effort
Speaker 2: to stem the tide of people crossing the border. She's
Speaker 2: been in office for three and a half years when
Speaker 2: we've seen some of the absolute worst conditions along the
Speaker 2: southern border. What were you doing?
Speaker 1: They put her in a bad spot naming her the
Speaker 1: borders are. It's like when Obama named Biden the cancers are.
Speaker 1: That interview could have been, well, you haven't Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: you haven't cured cancer yet. What are you doing?
Speaker 5: You haven't cured the border crisis yet? What are you doing?
Speaker 1: And you have to just focus on we're making efforts
Speaker 1: to fix help fix the problem. Is that the problem
Speaker 1: going to go away? No, it's not going to go away.
Speaker 1: And furthermore, why isn't she just say what does me
Speaker 1: going to the border for a photo op? What does
Speaker 1: that do for the crisis that we're seeing at the border?
Speaker 1: Me working on the issue in Washington means a lot
Speaker 1: more than me flying out to the border taking pictures,
Speaker 1: having cameras there to greet me.
Speaker 5: What does that really do? Lester? I mean, how hard
Speaker 5: is it to answer that question in that way?
Speaker 2: Yes, but it's one of those things that it's an
Speaker 2: easy fix, it's an easy box to check so that
Speaker 2: you stop the criticism. Same thing with this interview. I
Speaker 2: mean you mentioned it was August eighth or whatever where
Speaker 2: she made the comment we're going to schedule something before
Speaker 2: the end of the month. Hello, you don't get much
Speaker 2: closer to the cutoff than the twenty ninth of August. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, And they could have done it at any time.
Speaker 1: Your dog is going to boot camp. She's been in
Speaker 1: interview boot camp. I guarantee it.
Speaker 2: Interview, boot camp, debate boot camp. She's they got to
Speaker 2: tighten her up a little bit. There was also a
Speaker 2: quick thing I want to mention out. I mentioned this
Speaker 2: Trump visit to Arlington National Cemetery and how the Trump
Speaker 2: campaign did release a TikTok video of the visit, but
Speaker 2: it was the produced version of it that just showed
Speaker 2: him with the families and paying his respects at Arlington,
Speaker 2: nothing about the specific physical and verbal altercation that one
Speaker 2: of the Arlington staff members said took place. All right.
Speaker 1: Also, a new poll from The Hill shows this presidential
Speaker 1: race tightening.
Speaker 5: We will get an update on that when we come back.
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Speaker 1: the story about the CHP One in six CHP positions
Speaker 1: are vacant.
Speaker 2: That seems like a lot rate much.
Speaker 1: Higher than in twenty nineteen, despite massive raises in the
Speaker 1: last two years.
Speaker 2: You know what had happened, didn't We tell cops that
Speaker 2: we hate them? Is that what happens? Yes, and that
Speaker 2: it's a bad way of a bad way to spend
Speaker 2: your life as enforcing laws.
Speaker 5: We told them that their job is criminal in.
Speaker 2: Nature, but please protect me.
Speaker 1: Rookie CHP officers today can expect to earn up to
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventeen thousand in the first year on duty.
Speaker 2: Wow, and a car and a car, I mean, you
Speaker 2: don't get your right. Not everybody got to keep the car,
Speaker 2: but you do get a car. Maybe I should be
Speaker 2: a CHP officer. That's an awful idea. Why the gun?
Speaker 2: Oh right, you guys have each other for a wingman,
Speaker 2: IWMNA should be able to have one.
Speaker 5: Too, you think, yeah, I made that argument yesterday, but.
Speaker 2: Neither one of us also has access to the nuclear football.
Speaker 5: Excellent point.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, I mean I could make one, and
Speaker 1: I do think that I could google it with the
Speaker 1: nuclear football how to make a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 8: Oh hi, guys, I think I'm missing something. I do
Speaker 8: not understand why Esther cracks up so hard in the
Speaker 8: swamp watch thing when she says hi to Joe and
Speaker 8: he says hi, Esther and she just loses a think
Speaker 8: and it's the funniest thing ever.
Speaker 5: Well, let us know.
Speaker 8: I'm sure I'm not the only one that thinks that.
Speaker 2: That's the magic of non continuous editing. That's all it is.
Speaker 2: They weren't even in the same place at the same time.
Speaker 2: Those were sound bites taken from very different places. All Right,
Speaker 2: New poles come out. New Pole from the Hill specifically
Speaker 2: shows that this race is tightening as the campaign continues.
Speaker 2: Joining us now from News Nation, Joe Khalil, the Washington correspondent.
Speaker 2: We spoke last week while we were in Chicago. Joe.
Speaker 2: Great to have you back.
Speaker 6: Hey, great to be with you guys again. Thank you.
Speaker 1: So who are we talking about in this poll? Is
Speaker 1: a specific voting group or what do you have?
Speaker 6: So this is a brand new pole from the Hill,
Speaker 6: and it shows battleground state to battleground state. What it
Speaker 6: shows is that this race is virtually a dead heat tie,
Speaker 6: almost literally as close as you can possibly get. So
Speaker 6: the way we're approaching this is, you've got seven states
Speaker 6: that are now considered to be up in the air
Speaker 6: battleground states. Three of them leaned forward Harris, three of
Speaker 6: them leaned forward Trump, and their margins, by the way,
Speaker 6: are between one and three percent tops. So it's a
Speaker 6: virtual tie in all six of those. And then the
Speaker 6: seventh state is Pennsylvania, which is actually forty eight to
Speaker 6: forty eight, a real tie right now. So national polls
Speaker 6: show Kamala Harris has a three four point lead, but frankly,
Speaker 6: national polls don't mean a whole hell of a lot
Speaker 6: at this point. What you want to look at are
Speaker 6: the battleground states individually, and what they show is that
Speaker 6: it's a coin flip right now.
Speaker 1: She has succeeded in doing what Biden could not do
Speaker 1: this year, which is lead Trump in these numbers. They
Speaker 1: said that Hispanic Black voters, young people are she's seeing
Speaker 1: increase in numbers from what Biden had in all of
Speaker 1: those groups, and also the group of people who make
Speaker 1: less than twenty thousand dollars a year. She's got a
Speaker 1: three point edge over Trump. No, no, no, she Okay, so
Speaker 1: Trump had a three point edge over Biden in that
Speaker 1: group in June. Yeah, and now she has a twenty
Speaker 1: three point advantage over Trump. So that's quite the swing
Speaker 1: from Biden to Harris.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that is if you apply that state by state,
Speaker 6: it is incredibly significant. And actually you can even look
Speaker 6: at states like California for people answering those questions and
Speaker 6: you think, okay, California is a foregone conclusion, right, so
Speaker 6: we know kind of where that's gonna go. It's gonna
Speaker 6: go to Kamala Harris. But just the fact that people
Speaker 6: are answering that way, it shows you that there is
Speaker 6: sort of an enthusiasm shift that it may not have
Speaker 6: to do anything with Donald Trump. It may just have
Speaker 6: had to do with people not being so excited about
Speaker 6: Joe Biden Democrats who now are excited by Donala Harris.
Speaker 6: And one more thing that she was able to do,
Speaker 6: at least at this point is expand the map. So
Speaker 6: if you go back to twenty twenty, all of the
Speaker 6: swing states at that point they were considered only six.
Speaker 6: North Carolina was not really in play although it was
Speaker 6: closer than you'd expect, But Joe Biden won all six
Speaker 6: of the key swing states in twenty twenty. The game
Speaker 6: for Donald Trump now is he needed to flip three
Speaker 6: out of those six. At this point, it's even harder
Speaker 6: for him now to do that because Kamala Harris has
Speaker 6: expanded the map. Georgia, which was not at all even
Speaker 6: in play for Joe Biden, now leans Kamala Harris by
Speaker 6: one point. For this new the hill Pole. North Carolina
Speaker 6: was also not even in play for Joe Biden. Now
Speaker 6: our poll shows that Donald Trump has a one point
Speaker 6: lead in North Carolina, which is obviously competitive enough where
Speaker 6: Tim Walls is there today, and that is all of
Speaker 6: a sudden going to be a battleground state. So it
Speaker 6: does complicate the map for everybody. But again, virtual coin flip.
Speaker 2: At this point, you mentioned that national polling really doesn't
Speaker 2: mean much just the way our system works with the
Speaker 2: Electoral College, et cetera. If that's the case, why do
Speaker 2: we get sucked into following those numbers as much as
Speaker 2: we do? Why do the pollsters even bother with a
Speaker 2: nationwide poll when it's the swing states that are going
Speaker 2: to decide this.
Speaker 6: You know, I think it's because it just provides a
Speaker 6: little context. It shows that again nationally, Donald Trump was
Speaker 6: winning by two or three points to Joe Biden, and
Speaker 6: now Kamala Harris has in most polls the three to
Speaker 6: four point lead over Donald Trump nationally. Again, it just tells,
Speaker 6: it helps tell the story maybe of why we're seeing
Speaker 6: what we're seeing in the individual battleground states. And again,
Speaker 6: you know, you measure that in charisma, you measure that
Speaker 6: in enthusiasm, you measure that by you know, let's say,
Speaker 6: when we looked at Donald Trump, he got about a
Speaker 6: one point boost from his convention in Milwaukee. So now
Speaker 6: what we're seeing is maybe a one to two point
Speaker 6: boost for Kamala Harris after their convention in Chicago. That's why,
Speaker 6: you know, in some ways the national polls are kind
Speaker 6: of helpful to fill in the gaps and tell the story.
Speaker 6: But when you want to ask, you get to brass
Speaker 6: task and look and say, okay, who's going to win
Speaker 6: this election? You can't look at the national polls. You
Speaker 6: have to look at Pennsylvania and Michigan and Wisconsin and
Speaker 6: the like.
Speaker 5: All right, yeah, these these numbers are wild.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you'll voters eighteen to thirty four
Speaker 1: moved from supporting Trump by eleven points to supporting Harris
Speaker 1: by thirteen.
Speaker 5: And you've got to think about, like, the younger voters.
Speaker 1: Those are the people who don't make money, and so
Speaker 1: that whole redistribution of wealth things she's got going on
Speaker 1: is absolutely attractive to them.
Speaker 5: I would, I guess from you know, from that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And speaking of younger voters, something that is actually
Speaker 6: not reflected in this poll, and I guess I'm going
Speaker 6: to do a little spoiler. I hope my competitors are
Speaker 6: not listening. But what's also interesting is how many new
Speaker 6: voter registrations there are in certain areas. That is a
Speaker 6: measure of enthusiasm, but that is going to actually matter.
Speaker 6: So if you look at places that are historically in
Speaker 6: the last five or six years more Republican versus areas
Speaker 6: that are historically more democrat. As Kamala Harris got into
Speaker 6: the race, you're seeing tens of thousands, if not hundreds
Speaker 6: of thousands more voter registrations just within the last couple
Speaker 6: of weeks since she got in the race. And what
Speaker 6: does that tell you? That tells you that those are
Speaker 6: likely going to be voters, right, I mean, why would
Speaker 6: you go through the trouble of registering to vote right
Speaker 6: now if you don't actually plan on using that power
Speaker 6: in voting. So that too, I think if you're the
Speaker 6: Trump campaign right now, when you look at those numbers
Speaker 6: and where that's happening, tend to be more blue areas,
Speaker 6: tend to be more college towns, younger people starting to
Speaker 6: register to vote just in the last three or four weeks.
Speaker 6: That would be a concerning sign if you're someone in
Speaker 6: the Trump campaign, and probably the most encouraging sign if
Speaker 6: you're in the Harris Walls headquarters to that.
Speaker 5: Absolutely sure, thank you, great stuff, Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 6: Guys.
Speaker 2: We'll talk with Joe, I'm sure many times in the
Speaker 2: next seventy days or so. Is Washington Correspondents Nation.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 3: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Of course, the big story today is going to be
Speaker 2: the first interview with teammates, I guess you could say
Speaker 2: ticket mates, Vice president Kamala Harris and her running mate,
Speaker 2: Minnesota Governor Tim Walls, sitting down for the first major
Speaker 2: television interview of their campaign. They've been traveling through southeast
Speaker 2: Georgia on a bus tour. Dana Bash from CNN is
Speaker 2: going to be asking the questions. They say they're going
Speaker 2: to air it at six o'clock tonight. We are our time,
Speaker 2: and we still don't know exactly what it's going to
Speaker 2: look like, if it's going to be long form, if
Speaker 2: it'll be edited, how it will be edited, et cetera.
Speaker 2: But that will be on at six o'clock tonight. Police
Speaker 2: temporarily had to lock down a pair of high schools
Speaker 2: yesterday in the Van Eyes Lake Balboa area in response
Speaker 2: to some phone calls containing a shooting threat. Threats directed
Speaker 2: at Birmingham Community Charter High School in Van Ey's and
Speaker 2: then High Tech LA Charter High School in Lake Balboa.
Speaker 2: But it only took a few hours. They we're back
Speaker 2: to normal operations by the afternoon.
Speaker 1: Bigger than a smartphone, but smaller than a laptop. Your
Speaker 1: tablet is the Goldilocks tech It's where we kick off
Speaker 1: tech talk.
Speaker 2: The machines are getting smarter.
Speaker 3: This is tech Talk my sky net.
Speaker 1: Mark Saltzman, Top of the afternoon to you, thank you
Speaker 1: for joining us. I love my tablet. I prefer actually
Speaker 1: to watch things on my tablet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're not alone, I mean, and it's you know,
Speaker 4: people say, well, if you've got a TV in your bedroom,
Speaker 4: for example, why watch something on your tablet in bed?
Speaker 4: But if your tablet is just a couple of inches
Speaker 4: in front of your eyes, it's going to appear much
Speaker 4: bigger than your TV would, right if it's on a wall,
Speaker 4: good point, several feet away, even if it's fifty fifty
Speaker 4: inches or higher or bigger. So yeah, I love it
Speaker 4: as well, and I love loading it up with content,
Speaker 4: whether it's streaming stuff that I download. I fly because
Speaker 4: you can have an option to download Netflix and other
Speaker 4: stuff when you're offline, or you can what we call
Speaker 4: sideloaded with movies and TV shows that you already have
Speaker 4: files by using a program like VLC, which is free
Speaker 4: and it plays virtually every kind of video or audio
Speaker 4: format by just dragging and dropping it onto the iPad
Speaker 4: when it's connected to PC or Mac.
Speaker 2: Why would I want to split the keyboard on my tablet?
Speaker 4: Ah, good question, Gary, never thought you'd ask. Well, I
Speaker 4: think you're referring to a Costco connection article that I
Speaker 4: wrote where like little things you might not know you
Speaker 4: can do with your tablet, Shannon and I got a
Speaker 4: little carried away with the video viewing for a moment.
Speaker 4: But yeah, so why would you want to split the
Speaker 4: keyboard on your tablet?
Speaker 7: That is for people who like to type a lot.
Speaker 4: Whether it's notes, or you're writing an email, or you know,
Speaker 4: you're messaging somebody on social media, and you find it
Speaker 4: hard to hold a tablet with both hands and type
Speaker 4: because your thumbs can't quite reach the keys in the
Speaker 4: middle of that virtual keyboard. So it's big, it's not
Speaker 4: like a smartphone. So what you can do with an iPad,
Speaker 4: for example, is simply press your thumbs down on the keyboard,
Speaker 4: then pull them away from each other so towards the
Speaker 4: edges of the tablet and the keyboard will split into
Speaker 4: two smaller little keyboards that now your thumbs can reach
Speaker 4: all the keys comfortably. You don't have to do anything
Speaker 4: in the settings or options area. It's just a little
Speaker 4: trick that works with Android. It's similar, and there's a
Speaker 4: little button on the bottom left of the virtual keyboard
Speaker 4: that you top that also splits it.
Speaker 7: So again, the idea is that it makes.
Speaker 4: It easier to type and hold the tablet simultaneously, and
Speaker 4: so that's a good one. Again, I'm not talking about
Speaker 4: I'm not talking about the old home row key with
Speaker 4: the aspf JKL set me poland if anybody is old
Speaker 4: enough to take a type in class when they're younger,
Speaker 4: this is when you want to use your thumbs. So
Speaker 4: that's one little trick with your iPad or other tablet,
Speaker 4: it could be an Android tablet. Another one is free
Speaker 4: phone calls, So if you're on Wi Fi or some
Speaker 4: tablet have cellular support, the idea is that you can
Speaker 4: install a free app like text Now, which is an
Speaker 4: app that gives you a free phone number. You type
Speaker 4: in the city that you want to make it look
Speaker 4: like you're from.
Speaker 7: You could say Los.
Speaker 4: Angeles and whatever area codes are available, you'll get one
Speaker 4: for free, and then you can call or text with
Speaker 4: somebody on your iPad as a secondary line. So if
Speaker 4: you're you know, again with sticking with the example with chan,
Speaker 4: and you're in bed, you're watching something and you want
Speaker 4: to make a phone call, but your phone is charging
Speaker 4: up somewhere else in the home, you can actually make
Speaker 4: a call through the iPad speakers and microphone and it's free.
Speaker 7: Again. The app is called text Now.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: It does also work with a smartphone if you want
Speaker 4: to second line a burner number if you will, and
Speaker 4: that's the and it'll ring differently than your main phone
Speaker 4: number with your carrier. So that's a really good app
Speaker 4: to have called text.
Speaker 2: Now we've talked before a go ahead.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, no, my bad, go ahead.
Speaker 2: I was just going to say, we've also talked about
Speaker 2: using a tablet or an old phone as a security camera.
Speaker 2: I haven't done this yet, but I'm tempted to do
Speaker 2: it every time we mentioned it.
Speaker 4: Yeah. One other thing you can do with any old
Speaker 4: tablet or smartphone that you don't need anymore is to
Speaker 4: repurpose it. So if you can't hand it down to
Speaker 4: a family member that can use it, or donate it
Speaker 4: to a church or a community center or what have you,
Speaker 4: you can turn that old tablet into a digital photo
Speaker 4: frame and load it up with photos and have it
Speaker 4: cycle through them.
Speaker 7: You can mount it to your wall or prop it
Speaker 7: up on it like an end table.
Speaker 4: You can turn it into an alarm clock, or you
Speaker 4: can turn it into a security camera.
Speaker 7: There are free apps.
Speaker 4: One of them that I like the best, called Alfred
Speaker 4: is just like the person's name. It's a free app
Speaker 4: that you first install on your old tablet or phone
Speaker 4: and then you drop it up somewhere like a baby's
Speaker 4: or I don't know, you're an in dorm room now
Speaker 4: that it's back to school season and you want to
Speaker 4: keep an eye on your stuff.
Speaker 7: Then on your phone you.
Speaker 4: Log into the same same Alfred account and now you
Speaker 4: can see whatever is happening on that old tablet or
Speaker 4: smartphone through its camera. The only caveat is that it
Speaker 4: has to be plugged in for power. And again you
Speaker 4: just point that camera on that old tablet or and
Speaker 4: even if as a cracked screen, it works great as
Speaker 4: a secondary digital excuse me, a security camera or a
Speaker 4: nantycam and then you just log in on your phone
Speaker 4: or you can set it up for it whenever it's
Speaker 4: a text, motion or sound to push a notification to
Speaker 4: your existing smartphone.
Speaker 7: So that's a that's a neat little way to.
Speaker 4: Take advantage of old tech that you have that you
Speaker 4: haven't gotten rid of yet.
Speaker 2: I do like the idea of using a cracked screen
Speaker 2: smartphone because no one will assume that that thing is
Speaker 2: actually spying.
Speaker 7: On you to go.
Speaker 4: Just be careful if you if it is a cracked screen,
Speaker 4: you don't want to get any class. I know you're oking,
Speaker 4: but yeah, I mean yeah, I mean I'm implaying when
Speaker 4: I say nanny cam by the way, I'm not saying
Speaker 4: you should secretly, you know, see what someone do without
Speaker 4: their consent. But I'm using that phrase very loosely.
Speaker 1: Mark Saltzman, thank you so much. Appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you too.
Speaker 7: We'll speak in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: I'm off to Europe, but we get enjoy, actually have
Speaker 2: a great time Mark Saltzman. There, of course, make sure
Speaker 2: you follow Mark on x m r C Underscore Saltsman.
Speaker 1: Coming up next, murder Ball. I've been invited to play
Speaker 1: murder ball. Yeah, oh cool. I don't take you for
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Speaker 1: of it. That's that's I don't think you have the
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Speaker 2: I do not, No, you do not. I probably have
Speaker 2: weak bones too.
Speaker 5: Well, I wouldn't go that far.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KF
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Speaker 2: goes along with it was just released and you don't
Speaker 2: see that as much as I mean. It's a really
Speaker 2: well done video. It's five minutes of your time. Check
Speaker 2: it out. A couple stories that we're following today. Of course,
Speaker 2: the big interview CNND tonight will be interviewing Kamala Harris
Speaker 2: and Tim Walls, the first real sit down for the
Speaker 2: duo as they make their way through southeast Georgia on
Speaker 2: a bus tour. Six pm our time is when they're
Speaker 2: going to air it. We talked earlier about a new
Speaker 2: poll that suggested that there is some ties in some
Speaker 2: of the big swing states. This Emerson College poll from
Speaker 2: The Hill and The Hill, also released today, shows that
Speaker 2: they're splitting the swing states even like ninety three Doctoral
Speaker 2: college votes up for grabs between Arizona, North Carolina, Wisconsin,
Speaker 2: which Trump leads in Georgia, Michigan, Nevada where Harris has
Speaker 2: slight leads, and then the tie in Pennsylvania. That's going
Speaker 2: to be a very long November fifth.
Speaker 1: It was the late nineteen seventies when quadriplegics saw wheelchair
Speaker 1: basketball and said, nay, we want this to be more physical,
Speaker 1: and wheelchair rugby was born.
Speaker 5: They call it murder ball.
Speaker 2: Is this is an absolute deal and it scares the
Speaker 2: living be Jesus out of it.
Speaker 1: The leading, mangled fingers, torns, shoulders, broken bones. The physicality
Speaker 1: one of their favorite parts of this sport.
Speaker 2: So one of the things that you can see maybe
Speaker 2: in this picture here, it's kind of an action shot,
Speaker 2: so it's a little harder to see, but the wheelchairs
Speaker 2: themselves are modified to try to protect people's body parts.
Speaker 2: Where the wheels are cambered, that what you call it,
Speaker 2: where the top half of the wheel is inside. They're
Speaker 2: at an angle so that they're at the inside so
Speaker 2: as you're pushing the wheelchair with your hand, you're not
Speaker 2: just smashing flat up against somebody else's wheelchair. The other
Speaker 2: thing is that guard that goes out in front to
Speaker 2: protect your feet, and then a couple of metal rails
Speaker 2: ideally to protect your legs, your knees and stuff, because
Speaker 2: they tend to jut out.
Speaker 1: The US, once dominated the sport, has not won a
Speaker 1: Paralympic gold medal in wheelchair rugby, though since two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight, matches begin today, so the team will be
Speaker 1: looking to reclaim the top spot there in Paris, but
Speaker 1: they're going to have to beat out seven other teams
Speaker 1: equally as tough.
Speaker 2: Now there's a question that I think a lot of
Speaker 2: people have about Paralympics is how do they determine who
Speaker 2: gets to be qualified as disabled to the point that
Speaker 2: they would qualify for the Paralympics. And in this sport specifically,
Speaker 2: players are assigned to point value based on the level
Speaker 2: of function of their bodies their legs towards range from
Speaker 2: a point five for less function up to a three
Speaker 2: point five for more function. Teams are four players at
Speaker 2: a time, and the combined point value of all four
Speaker 2: players cannot exceed those eight points. So of the four
Speaker 2: people on the floor, some of them are point five,
Speaker 2: so maybe three point five whatever it is for each
Speaker 2: female player on the court, the team's allowed point value
Speaker 2: can increase by that half a point. And you can
Speaker 2: roll the ball, you can hit the ball, you can
Speaker 2: throw it, bounce it, whatever it is to pass it,
Speaker 2: but you have to dribble or pass the ball at
Speaker 2: least once every ten seconds or it's a turnover. And
Speaker 2: then when the team has the ball. They have only
Speaker 2: forty seconds to score. I mean the low pointers can
Speaker 2: use wheelchairs with a metal extension called a picker that
Speaker 2: will jam the other player's wheels. Seems a little bit
Speaker 2: like what is that robot? The robot battle bots. The
Speaker 2: defensive chairs can either block an opposing player or create
Speaker 2: spaces for teammates to slip in and then to score.
Speaker 2: You take this ball, it's about the size of a
Speaker 2: volleyball to the opposing team's try line, end zone, whatever
Speaker 2: you want to call it. But it's rugby, so we
Speaker 2: call it the try line. The players can roll or
Speaker 2: bat or throw the ball past it, and they must
Speaker 2: dribble or pass, like I said, every ten seconds. Very
Speaker 2: very physical game. You can't, I mean, you can't hold
Speaker 2: onto the other person's wheelchairs. They're flying past you. But
Speaker 2: you can ram it. That's always fun. That's always a fun.
Speaker 2: Sumper cars. It is very much bumper cars.
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