WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.879 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf 2 00:00:02.879 --> 00:00:05.360 I AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on 3 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:07.280 demand on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:07.480 --> 00:00:08.880 What the hell is going on? 5 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:10.720 It's time for swamp watch right now. 6 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:14.480 I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar, 7 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:17.719 and when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops. 8 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:19.000 Here we got the. 9 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:21.440 Real problem is that our leaders are done. 10 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:22.719 The other side never quits. 11 00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:26.600 So what I'm not going anywhere? 12 00:00:26.679 --> 00:00:28.679 So now you train the. 13 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:31.280 Squat, I can imagine what can be and be unburdened 14 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:32.000 by what has been. 15 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:35.399 You know, Americans have always been going a president, but 16 00:00:35.439 --> 00:00:36.280 they're not stupid. 17 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:39.200 A political flunder is what a politician actually tells the truth. 18 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:42.320 Whether people voted for you with not swampa wash, they're 19 00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:44.679 all canonoed. Glad you got that all out of your 20 00:00:44.679 --> 00:00:49.359 system too. Okay, the President, let's go down some of 21 00:00:49.399 --> 00:00:53.039 these sound bites from earlier today. President President Trump from 22 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:57.039 the White House was talking about multiple things. I think 23 00:00:57.079 --> 00:01:02.679 the most timely was his announce that an American hostage 24 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:04.680 held by Hamas was released today. 25 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:06.560 I thought he was dead just a short while ago. 26 00:01:06.599 --> 00:01:09.359 His parents are so happy. They're so happy. 27 00:01:10.519 --> 00:01:11.799 So he sounds so. 28 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:16.159 The only American citizen captured. 29 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:17.280 I think he has a cold. 30 00:01:17.480 --> 00:01:20.159 And he doesn't like captured. 31 00:01:20.239 --> 00:01:25.040 Remember Comas since October seventh, twenty twenty three, and he's 32 00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:25.719 coming home to. 33 00:01:27.319 --> 00:01:28.959 Why didn't you break free from Hamas? 34 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:32.599 Aiden Alexander was turned over to the Red Cross by 35 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:35.439 Hamas and then picked up by an Israeli Defense Forces 36 00:01:35.519 --> 00:01:39.719 special unit. They're doing medical, psych evaluations, et cetera before 37 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:44.200 he before he gets to be reunited with his family. 38 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:50.640 In terms of the ceasefire that appears to have solidified 39 00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:55.799 between Pakistan and India, President Trump said he just held 40 00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:59.000 the carrot of Okay, you don't want anything from the 41 00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:01.000 United States that apparently. 42 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:02.280 We're going to do a lot of trade with you guys. 43 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:06.400 Let's stop it. Let's stop it. If you stop it, 44 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:08.240 we'll do a trade. If you don't stop it, we're 45 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:11.159 not going to do any trade. People have never really 46 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:13.319 used trade the way I used it. That I can 47 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:13.800 tell you. 48 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:16.680 But the whole reason that he was even there today 49 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:19.960 at the White House, at least the announced reason, was 50 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:23.360 he was going to sign an executive order to reduce 51 00:02:23.639 --> 00:02:27.360 the cost of prescription drugs in the United States, saying 52 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:30.719 we have been taken advantage of for decades. 53 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:34.120 So he is talking about what what does he have 54 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:39.120 power over. When you weighed your executive order into the 55 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:42.360 business world, it gets a little cloudy because, make no 56 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:46.800 mistake about it, pharmaceutical company is a business world. Is 57 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:51.280 it the fact that the drugs we're using to cut 58 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:53.719 our drugs or part of our drugs, a lot of 59 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:57.919 them coming from China, are too expensive? Is this in 60 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:01.280 coordination with the ninety day truth in the trade war? 61 00:03:02.680 --> 00:03:05.479 I don't know, But I don't know what an executive 62 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:07.759 order can do to reduce As much as I think 63 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:11.240 that's great, it sounds wonderful, what can it actually do. 64 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:15.120 Well, there's an interesting political Well there's the legal case, right, 65 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:18.759 which is your legal question. There's also a public relations 66 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:22.879 question here. So President Trump comes out and says he 67 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:26.560 wants to lower prescription drugs by doing by implementing what 68 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:29.000 he referred to as a favored nation's policy. 69 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:31.800 Basically, what we're doing is equalizing. There's a new word 70 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:33.599 that I came up with, which I think is probably 71 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:36.280 the best word. We're going to equalize where we're all 72 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:38.199 going to pay the same. We're going to pay what 73 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:40.000 Europe's going to pay. We're going to all pay. Now, 74 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:43.000 there may be some countries in dire need, and I 75 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:48.560 would be willing to sacrifice that and help them, but 76 00:03:48.599 --> 00:03:51.080 it's called most favored nation. We are going to pay 77 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:53.199 the lowest price there is in the world. 78 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:56.840 Okay, So that is the plan for this executive order. 79 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:00.439 That's the legal question is how far can go and 80 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:04.199 do the prescription drug companies have to follow it. The 81 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:07.680 second part of it is the pr aspect of this. 82 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:10.960 President Trump knows that by putting his cards out on 83 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:16.120 the table, calling out pharmaceutical companies and saying, you are 84 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:19.319 charging us the United States way too much money for 85 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:22.240 these drugs that you're selling for ten percent that price 86 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:23.759 somewhere else. Oh, that's the ease. 87 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:26.519 That's the government's fault, because they're the ones who tell 88 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:29.279 Medicare and Medicaid what they're going to pay for the 89 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:32.759 drugs that they're giving to people on those programs. I mean, 90 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:35.680 this for people of private insurance is probably going to 91 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:38.720 be nothing. But will it mean that those contracts to 92 00:04:38.839 --> 00:04:41.720 Medicare and Medicaid that Medicare and Medicaid give to the 93 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:46.519 pharmaceutical companies are smaller. That would be a great thing 94 00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:48.959 if he came out and said, too long, the government's 95 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:51.879 been in bed with the pharmaceutical companies. 96 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:53.120 In the form of us. 97 00:04:54.800 --> 00:04:58.240 Choking on the amount of money they're charging us via 98 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:01.680 Medicare and Medicaid. We're in bed with them, and that 99 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:04.319 relationship is now over, and we're going to pay just 100 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:06.839 as much. Medicare and Medicaid are going to pay just 101 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:11.680 as much as other companies pay for these pharmaceutical drugs. 102 00:05:11.720 --> 00:05:12.959 What have you like? 103 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:15.120 That's one thing I mean, because there's no doubt about 104 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:19.000 it that Medicare and Medicaid over pay for the drugs 105 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:21.199 that they're giving to the people on the federal dole 106 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:25.560 because the government's in bed with the pharmaceutical companies. 107 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:28.279 Well, and then the pr aspect of it is do 108 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:31.480 the pharmaceutical companies push back against this and how yeah, 109 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:34.519 and how how hard do they do it? How publicly? 110 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:36.040 You want to talk about a trade war? 111 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:38.920 Well, that's what I mean. Big pharma is going to 112 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:41.920 have to come out and explain to us why the 113 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:45.399 ten dollars pill in France costs one hundred and ten 114 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:46.519 dollars here. 115 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:49.720 Because our politicians say that's okay because they're getting kickbacks 116 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:50.920 from those drug companies. 117 00:05:50.959 --> 00:05:54.399 And that's the That's what I think the genius of 118 00:05:54.439 --> 00:05:58.160 the move for Trump is, Okay, you guys want to 119 00:05:58.240 --> 00:05:59.959 you guys want to explain that, you guys want to 120 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:00.879 all this out and there. 121 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:02.279 Why is he doing that though? 122 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:05.480 Like that's what could you imagine a politician, the lead 123 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:08.519 politician in America coming out and saying, the politicians have 124 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:11.480 been in bed with the pharmaceutical companies for too long. 125 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:16.000 They're able to charge our programs, Medicare and Medicaid to 126 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:20.560 the tilt, the tilt, hilt, hilt to the hilt because 127 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:22.240 they know they can get away with it. 128 00:06:22.279 --> 00:06:23.800 Well, I'm saying no more. 129 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:26.720 Well and no, that would be huge. He did have 130 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:31.720 his you know, three of his big medical team up there, 131 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:33.759 I guess you could call it. He had RFK Junior, 132 00:06:33.839 --> 00:06:36.079 He had doctor Oz who's in charge of Medicare and 133 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:36.959 Medicaid services. 134 00:06:37.040 --> 00:06:41.720 This is the most powerful executive order on pharmacy, pricing, 135 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:44.040 and healthcare ever in the history of our nation. 136 00:06:44.279 --> 00:06:46.680 And then he also had Jay Botichari out there, so 137 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:54.439 he's got the the health care credentials behind him. Uh, 138 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:57.759 those three guys have zero problem pulling the curtain back 139 00:06:57.800 --> 00:06:58.399 on big pharma. 140 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:00.680 I mean, if this is the case, if Trump saying 141 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:04.839 no more gravy train from the government to pharmaceutical companies 142 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:09.639 in a form of bloated prices for Medicare and Medicaid patients. 143 00:07:09.959 --> 00:07:13.720 If you don't like him, you still. 144 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:15.800 Have to say, this is cool, this is good, This 145 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:21.240 is showing backbone, because guess what, most Americans are running 146 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:23.720 their stuff through Medicare and Medicaid and it's going to 147 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:29.279 benefit you. I mean, he's not selling it that way. 148 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:32.040 If that's the fact what it is, I agree. 149 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:35.120 I think there could be some tweaks to the messaging, yeah, 150 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:37.800 but in general it is it is a positive step, 151 00:07:37.839 --> 00:07:44.439 all right. Up next, unsolicited pizza deliveries. Why they are 152 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:46.920 so nefarious, at least in the eyes of some judges 153 00:07:46.920 --> 00:07:49.439 who've been getting these fake pizza. 154 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:51.959 If somebody sent to us a pizza, do you think 155 00:07:51.959 --> 00:07:52.800 we would, for one? 156 00:07:52.879 --> 00:07:54.959 What's wrong pizza? 157 00:07:55.199 --> 00:08:00.199 Seriously, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand, I'm 158 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:00.920 kfi A. 159 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:07.360 Six forty federal judges say that in February some of 160 00:08:07.399 --> 00:08:13.240 them started noticing unsolicited pizza deliveries. 161 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:17.959 That These deliveries may number in the hundreds across at 162 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:22.560 least seven states. At least one Senate leader has called 163 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:26.639 for a Justice Department investigation. Now, many of the deliveries 164 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:29.839 have gone to judges proceeding over lawsuits challenging the Trump 165 00:08:29.879 --> 00:08:35.039 administration different policies. US Marshals has been tracking the deliveries 166 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:37.720 and judges have been sharing all the details in hopes 167 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:41.480 of finding out more about who's behind this. Some of 168 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:46.840 the deliveries have gone to judges relatives. Some in recent 169 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:49.919 weeks have been placed in the name of US District 170 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:54.039 Judge Esther Sallis's son, Member Daniel ondarl He was fatally 171 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:57.399 shot shot and killed at the family home in Jersey 172 00:08:57.440 --> 00:09:02.960 by an attorney who posed as a delivery person. US 173 00:09:03.039 --> 00:09:08.399 Sister Circuit Judge j Michelle Child serves in Washington's as 174 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:11.440 She's received seven anonymous pizza deliveries at her home in 175 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:15.080 the past few months, one shortly after she took part 176 00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:17.879 in a ruling against the administration in a lawsuit over 177 00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:22.720 the firing of an independent government watchdog. It's unsettling because 178 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:24.399 I'd like to go to work every day, even with 179 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:32.039 the hardest case. Just feeling like there's no sense of intimidation. Unfortunately, 180 00:09:32.120 --> 00:09:36.960 as we all learn, those judges addresses are pretty easy 181 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:37.440 to find. 182 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:41.879 Yeah, Judge Sallas, by the way, Esther Sallas, this is 183 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:44.919 the one whose son was killed. She said it went 184 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:50.960 from she's watched this over the last few months and 185 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:55.559 is concerned that something that visited her family would be 186 00:09:55.720 --> 00:09:58.159 visited upon some other judge. And she said it went 187 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:02.799 from judges getting pizzas, then judges children getting pizzas, then 188 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:05.679 to judges getting pizzas or their children getting pizzas that 189 00:10:05.720 --> 00:10:09.080 they didn't order, and they were done in Esther Sallis's 190 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:12.399 son's name. This is a terrifying move and the I 191 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:17.480 mean granted a full faith and confidence in the US 192 00:10:17.559 --> 00:10:19.679 Marshall Service that they'll be able to do this. Here's 193 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:22.440 what I don't understand about. Even if you did this 194 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:25.039 as a prank. If I ordered a surprise pizza for 195 00:10:25.120 --> 00:10:27.240 you that you didn't know was coming, and I said, 196 00:10:27.240 --> 00:10:29.240 my name is Shannon, and I would like a pizza 197 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:30.960 delivered to my house and they say, how are you 198 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:32.360 going to pay for it? And I say, I'm going 199 00:10:32.440 --> 00:10:34.480 to pay for it with a credit card, And then 200 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:36.320 I give them a credit card because I do it, 201 00:10:36.919 --> 00:10:38.879 because you have to have a fake credit card, right, 202 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:43.039 or you can say with PayPal or I don't know 203 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:43.799 how to do that. 204 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:46.679 Uber eats, you send a pizza. 205 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:49.639 But even then there's a record of who would have 206 00:10:49.799 --> 00:10:53.000 provided the funding for such an operation, is there if you. 207 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:55.279 Use like Apple cash or something like that. I don't know. 208 00:10:57.559 --> 00:10:59.080 I'm not planning on doing that. 209 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:03.279 Well, it's a huge waste of money. First of all, 210 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:07.600 pizzas are not cheap. Just to make a point, I mean, 211 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:10.360 like forty dollars joke is too much. 212 00:11:10.639 --> 00:11:11.639 Jokes should be cheaper. 213 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:14.600 No, I think you can. You could spend a lot 214 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:15.279 on a good joke. 215 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:19.679 Yeah, you could take the what joke are you planning? 216 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:21.320 I'm not going to tell you. 217 00:11:21.559 --> 00:11:23.480 Oh really, I love it. Oh my gosh. 218 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:25.480 Well I did almost hire that midget to come to 219 00:11:25.559 --> 00:11:28.360 your house and just kind of walk around the backyard. 220 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:30.759 I'm not mistaken. You did higher and then canceled. 221 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:33.559 Yeah, you like strongly. 222 00:11:34.360 --> 00:11:36.919 Discouraged me from going forward with the plan. Here's the deal. 223 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:42.000 Gary's wife likes little people, but she does an understatement 224 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:45.080 of the sense. I'm not trying to be weird about it, 225 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:48.840 but it is an understatement she likes little people. So 226 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:51.519 my idea was the first year they were going to 227 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:52.960 have a Super Bowl party. So this is now what 228 00:11:53.080 --> 00:11:57.039 ten years ago I was going to get. Here's the 229 00:11:57.039 --> 00:12:00.799 thing with her little people affection. She doesn't want to 230 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:04.879 like it ordered that little person ordered for her, like 231 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:07.600 to just be there, like at a party or whatever. 232 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:10.759 She likes to see them quoting here in the wild, 233 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:15.320 so might naturally occur, naturally occurring right, Like she's at 234 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:17.240 the grocery store and there happens to be a little 235 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:20.679 person there. It makes her freaking weak, right, So she 236 00:12:20.799 --> 00:12:22.440 just loves them. It's not a hate thing, it's a 237 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:26.399 love thing. So my idea was to get to hire 238 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:29.320 a little person, and they're perfectly hirable. There's several little 239 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:33.600 people that do this. And the little person wouldn't dress 240 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:36.200 as an elf or anything else. You'd want to dress 241 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:37.440 your little person as. 242 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:39.039 The super Bowl normal. 243 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:41.600 Whatever they were going to wear that day, they wear 244 00:12:41.639 --> 00:12:42.120 to your house. 245 00:12:42.320 --> 00:12:43.960 And I was gonna have the little person just walk 246 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:46.960 around in your backyard so that she could see the 247 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:51.080 little person from the kitchen in the wild in the 248 00:12:51.080 --> 00:12:53.759 backyard hanging out. And we all hang out back there too, 249 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:58.399 So it's just like you know, won't be alone, and 250 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:01.279 then you decided against it. 251 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:02.360 It wouldn't be alone. 252 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:03.840 I mean, I don't know if it would be a 253 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:05.960 man or a woman, they wouldn't be alone. 254 00:13:06.159 --> 00:13:08.600 Or a child, a child, little person. I don't know. 255 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:10.399 If there's a service. 256 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:13.559 For underage, probably not a great. Yeah, if there is. 257 00:13:14.120 --> 00:13:16.080 If there is, you don't want to go to that one. 258 00:13:16.279 --> 00:13:17.000 Probably not a good. 259 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:21.799 If my kid was a little person, I would totally 260 00:13:21.919 --> 00:13:23.279 put my kid in the circuit. 261 00:13:23.799 --> 00:13:25.759 Make some money at Christmas time, you know what I mean? 262 00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:29.639 Well for the ol Yeah, I know, I know what 263 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:34.240 it's for. The Newark Airport is an absolute mass transmittation problem. 264 00:13:34.279 --> 00:13:36.559 Am I going to get a mean scribe from Frank 265 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:39.399 Buckley or something about that. 266 00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:41.399 That you're anti or that your heighthest? 267 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:44.840 And not though I was celebrating, I was paying for them. 268 00:13:44.960 --> 00:13:48.679 The Newark Airport is an absolute mess. The Secretary Transportation, 269 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:50.879 Sean Duffy, has come out and talked about ways that 270 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:54.759 we can upgrade our systems. We'll talk about what's going 271 00:13:54.759 --> 00:13:55.639 on with their traveling. 272 00:13:55.759 --> 00:13:59.440 Also, Bill Belichick had quite the weekend. We'll tell you 273 00:13:59.519 --> 00:14:02.559 where he turned up as well. It wasn't the football field. 274 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:07.720 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM. 275 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:11.080 Six forty US and Chinese officials have reached that deal 276 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:14.679 that now we've sets up. There's an interesting test that's 277 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:18.159 gonna happen though, when it comes to the tariffs. There 278 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:22.600 is a little known court in Manhattan that is hearing 279 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:25.360 a case on the tariffs. Three judge panel at the 280 00:14:25.399 --> 00:14:28.519 Court of International Trade is going to hear arguments tomorrow 281 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:32.320 on whether or not it's even legal. They're hearing a 282 00:14:32.360 --> 00:14:35.639 lawsuit brought by a New York based wine importer and 283 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:38.639 four other small businesses. They say that President Trump doesn't 284 00:14:38.679 --> 00:14:42.679 have the authority to impose tariffs. Other challenges have been 285 00:14:42.759 --> 00:14:45.159 filed in the court and in federal district courts around 286 00:14:45.159 --> 00:14:47.679 the country, but in this case, it is this is 287 00:14:47.679 --> 00:14:49.399 the one that's going to be front and center, So 288 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:51.480 we'll keep an eye on that. Orioles beat the Angels 289 00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:53.639 yesterday seventy three, so the Angels will move down to 290 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:56.919 San Diego to take on the Padres starting tonight. Dodgers 291 00:14:56.919 --> 00:14:59.360 crushed the Diamondbacks eight to one. They actually have the 292 00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:02.480 day off today. They will come home and host the 293 00:15:02.519 --> 00:15:03.399 A's tomorrow. 294 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:04.960 What the hell is going on. 295 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:09.639 Yet another problem at Newark Airport in New Jersey. 296 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:13.600 We talked about this last week about how I believe 297 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:18.240 it said three fourths of the air traffic control operating 298 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:22.120 centers are obsolete. At this point, they are dealing with 299 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:26.919 humongous shortages of staff and people that are working. They 300 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:29.919 used to have a must retire age of fifty six. 301 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:33.480 Now they're trying to lure people to stay longer because 302 00:15:33.480 --> 00:15:37.159 there's nobody It's a lucrative job as well, but it 303 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:40.200 is a stressful job, and it's become even more stressful 304 00:15:40.240 --> 00:15:44.320 with the longer hours because of the staffing shortages across 305 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:44.840 the country. 306 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:47.320 Newark, for some reason has become ground zero for this. 307 00:15:47.399 --> 00:15:50.360 They've had construction issues on their runways, they've had weather 308 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:52.240 issues in the last couple of weeks, and now for 309 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:57.600 a third time, early yesterday radar went out Newark Liberty 310 00:15:57.600 --> 00:16:01.000 International Airport actually had to do a ground stop yesterday. 311 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:04.639 They are back up to two runways today, but they're 312 00:16:04.679 --> 00:16:09.720 still seeing cancelations and delays. Sean Duffy is the Secretary 313 00:16:09.799 --> 00:16:14.799 of Transportation and he's been making the rounds lately. This 314 00:16:14.840 --> 00:16:19.559 is a very high profile task for him and he said, 315 00:16:19.600 --> 00:16:21.960 among other things, this week he's going to be meeting 316 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:24.799 with airline officials to try to convince them to lower 317 00:16:24.840 --> 00:16:28.519 the amount of traffic into an out of Newark Liberty 318 00:16:28.519 --> 00:16:30.679 International following the number of flights. 319 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:33.360 We can ensure the ones that are kept, they do 320 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:36.639 actually take off and they do actually land. This authority 321 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:39.399 hasn't been used in over twenty years. 322 00:16:39.639 --> 00:16:43.440 At this news conference today at the airport, he said 323 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:48.000 there was a fantastic opportunity within the last few years 324 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:52.720 to take advantage of the lull in travel during COVID 325 00:16:53.279 --> 00:16:56.720 and use that time when there was less stress on 326 00:16:56.799 --> 00:16:59.879 the transportation system, on air transportation, that would have been 327 00:16:59.879 --> 00:17:04.519 a great time to reconfigure and redo all of the 328 00:17:04.559 --> 00:17:07.079 technology when it comes to air traffic contract We've. 329 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:10.799 All been reporting and seeing what's happening at Newark Airport, 330 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:15.720 and I think it is clear that the blame belongs 331 00:17:16.119 --> 00:17:20.480 with the last administration. People to judge and Joe Biden 332 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:23.720 did nothing to fix the system that they knew was broken. 333 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:27.319 You could also argue Trump didn't do anything in his 334 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:30.759 first round his first term, and. 335 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:34.640 It should have been something that was talked about thirty 336 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:35.319 years ago. 337 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:39.799 Yeah, when you know, just when it was twenty years old. 338 00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:43.799 It should have been discussed. Back on Thursday, Sean Duffy 339 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:46.160 and the rest of the Department of Transportation did announce 340 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:49.200 a plan to build a brand new air traffic control 341 00:17:49.240 --> 00:17:51.480 system by the year twenty twenty eight, that they would 342 00:17:51.559 --> 00:17:55.720 replace some of the core infrastructure, including radar, software, hardware, 343 00:17:55.799 --> 00:18:00.240 telecom networks, as well as that copper wiring. We have 344 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:04.400 moved beyond that kind of technology in just about every 345 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:08.200 other aspect of life outside of nuclear weapons and air 346 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:11.960 traffic control systems. So this is going to be Sean 347 00:18:12.039 --> 00:18:15.920 Duffy's Let's hope he's successful, because there are plenty of 348 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:21.279 places like Newark that we can't do without modern society. 349 00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:24.720 The way we're doing it now relies on air air 350 00:18:24.839 --> 00:18:29.559 travel so much. You've got to basically have you've got 351 00:18:29.599 --> 00:18:31.359 to have everything up and running, and you got to 352 00:18:31.400 --> 00:18:34.079 have a few thousand more air traffic controllers to reach 353 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:37.640 adequate levels. There are only about ten thousand right now 354 00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:40.400 around the country, and they say somewhere around thirteen fourteen 355 00:18:40.440 --> 00:18:43.240 thousand is a better number to have to be considered 356 00:18:43.319 --> 00:18:44.079 fully staffed. 357 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:47.200 Did you know that he's married to Rachel from the 358 00:18:47.240 --> 00:18:50.599 First World Real World from San Francisco with the aids 359 00:18:50.680 --> 00:18:55.480 and Puck. Remember Rachel with the big eyes. Oh, yes, 360 00:18:55.599 --> 00:18:57.880 he's married there and they have nine kids. 361 00:18:58.000 --> 00:19:00.400 Whoa, there's a lot trained in firtation. 362 00:19:01.319 --> 00:19:04.240 I don't remember him from the reality show World. I 363 00:19:04.279 --> 00:19:05.160 do remember her. 364 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:07.559 I've seen him on TV, but I don't remember him 365 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:08.680 doing as a reality. 366 00:19:08.359 --> 00:19:14.000 Show fascinating nine children. Rachel, Puck, Yeah, mess those guys. 367 00:19:14.160 --> 00:19:16.440 I know she got into it with Puck. They did 368 00:19:16.519 --> 00:19:19.079 not get along. I think Puck, No, not Puck, the 369 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:22.000 guy with the AIDS died. Puck didn't have AIDS. I 370 00:19:22.039 --> 00:19:24.119 think Puck and the guy with the AIDS did not 371 00:19:24.160 --> 00:19:26.200 get along. And Rachel was friends with the guy that 372 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:26.799 that had AIDS. 373 00:19:26.839 --> 00:19:27.680 But I think Puck died. 374 00:19:28.039 --> 00:19:29.720 No, he didn't die. Did he die? 375 00:19:30.119 --> 00:19:36.920 Well check when we come back. Early nineties talk, we'll continue. 376 00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:40.680 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KF 377 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:41.920 I am six forty. 378 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:43.319 That was the one I auditioned for. 379 00:19:43.880 --> 00:19:46.480 Did you really? Is that a true story? 380 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:48.160 A true story? 381 00:19:48.200 --> 00:19:49.079 I didn't even to do that. 382 00:19:50.039 --> 00:19:54.920 Yeah, that was the one I auditioned for. Wow, think 383 00:19:54.960 --> 00:19:57.720 how different my timeline would. 384 00:19:57.559 --> 00:19:58.920 Have been Gliding doors? 385 00:19:59.240 --> 00:19:59.599 Yeah? 386 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:02.599 Could I would have married Rachel. 387 00:20:02.839 --> 00:20:05.160 What made you want to audition for that? How did 388 00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:06.039 you hear about it? 389 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:07.920 Because the first one was fun? The first one was 390 00:20:07.960 --> 00:20:09.039 involve Oh, so. 391 00:20:09.039 --> 00:20:10.920 That was the second one. I was in San Francisco 392 00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:11.960 was the first one, it wasn't. 393 00:20:12.039 --> 00:20:14.960 Yeah, that was the first one that everybody remembered. Yeah, 394 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:17.880 but I remember the first season in that I watched 395 00:20:17.880 --> 00:20:19.480 it and thought this would be a lot of fun. 396 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:21.599 And so what did you do to audition? 397 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:26.480 You had to you had to call, if I remember, 398 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:28.119 you had to call like an eight hundred number, and 399 00:20:28.119 --> 00:20:31.039 they sent you an application and it was a long, 400 00:20:31.160 --> 00:20:33.839 like fifteen or twenty page application that you hand wrote 401 00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:38.400