WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.839 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 --> 00:00:07.799 demand on the iHeartRadio app. All right, it's time for 4 00:00:07.839 --> 00:00:08.439 swamp watch. 5 00:00:08.919 --> 00:00:10.400 Swamp is horrible. 6 00:00:10.519 --> 00:00:16.280 The government make us like a reality TV show, A 7 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:17.039 bad noose. 8 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:20.559 Always a pleasure to be anywhere from Washington, d C. Hey, Joe, 9 00:00:21.879 --> 00:00:24.760 a town all too clearly built on a swamp and 10 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:26.160 in so many ways. 11 00:00:25.839 --> 00:00:27.800 Still a swamp. A bunch of malarkey. 12 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:29.000 Boy said, drained the swamp. 13 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:30.199 I said, Oh, that's so Helle. 14 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:33.920 You know the thing. 15 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:38.920 Well, it seems like the Democratic Party was coalescing following 16 00:00:39.679 --> 00:00:44.679 following the overthrow of Joe Biden, with Kamala Harris picking 17 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:48.560 out her running mate. If she was choosing between a 18 00:00:48.679 --> 00:00:51.320 series of people, Joshapiro was said to be the front runner, 19 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:55.600 but then maybe the anti Palestinian group got a little 20 00:00:55.600 --> 00:01:01.719 bit louder and she chose Tim Walls, and then Josh 21 00:01:01.719 --> 00:01:04.319 Shapiro turns up at their first event, so it looked 22 00:01:04.359 --> 00:01:08.239 like the party was unified. Now they're saying that is 23 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:11.959 not the case. That Joe Biden is dealing with some 24 00:01:12.040 --> 00:01:17.000 simmering resentment over that coup. Orchestrated by Pelosi that ended 25 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:17.920 his reelection. 26 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:20.719 In my mind, I can see this as a TV series. 27 00:01:20.879 --> 00:01:22.799 Yes, it sounds like a show that I would you 28 00:01:22.920 --> 00:01:27.120 would watch on NBC or something. According to Political Biden 29 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:30.799 is frustrated with and angry with three key party leaders, 30 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:34.599 former President Obama, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and then 31 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:36.040 Senamajeorian leader Chuck Schumer. 32 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:40.719 And Pelosi really is the one who's uh, the one 33 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:44.239 responsible for pulling the strings, for being the puppeteer, the 34 00:01:44.239 --> 00:01:48.959 puppeteer in what happened there. So he is supposed to 35 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:52.519 speak on Monday at the convention. 36 00:01:55.319 --> 00:01:58.439 Now, initially he was supposed to be the primetime closing speaker, 37 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:01.280 right and now they're saying he has been demoted to 38 00:02:01.319 --> 00:02:03.920 a curtain raiser speech on the opening night when he 39 00:02:03.959 --> 00:02:05.640 is likely to make a call for unity and a 40 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:08.919 party that has effectively closed ranks to move forward without him. 41 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:11.360 So curtain raising means what he's gonna be the first 42 00:02:11.360 --> 00:02:15.400 speaker of the convention act. Hillary Clinton will be probably 43 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:17.800 the closer on Monday. She's going to speak on Monday 44 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:22.280 as well. Barack Obama will be there on Tuesday. On Wednesday, 45 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:25.479 Bill Clinton and Tim Walls, and then Harris closes the 46 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:29.639 convention on Thursday night. My question for you is, is 47 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:34.080 this Joe Biden being resentful about the place that they're 48 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:36.759 giving him and the convention and not wanting to sit 49 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:39.280 through the other speeches, or is this just a man 50 00:02:39.319 --> 00:02:42.919 who's up there in age and doesn't have the longevity 51 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:48.680 or the want or the need to sit through four 52 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:50.759 nights of late night speeches. 53 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:52.840 Well, does he have to sit through fourth four nights 54 00:02:52.919 --> 00:02:54.439 or just show up on the last night and give 55 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:56.000 the closing in its dress? 56 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:58.000 He could just show up the last night, right. 57 00:02:57.840 --> 00:02:59.840 But that's not the spot they're giving him. 58 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:02.560 So is it true there is some resentment or is 59 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:04.840 he just like I'm over it? 60 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:08.039 Or the Democrats saying nothing to see here, folks, so 61 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:11.759 that they can keep him in that share until January. 62 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:14.479 You know, he is sorry, guys. He is speaking right 63 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:19.000 now in Maryland. He is with Kamala Harris and one 64 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:21.400 of her campaign events. I don't know if you are 65 00:03:21.400 --> 00:03:23.840 interested in dipping in, but he is there with her 66 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:25.280 and he is talking. 67 00:03:25.639 --> 00:03:27.840 Yeah, sure, let's dip in and see can we bring 68 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:29.240 that up. Yeah, we're just. 69 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:33.159 Getting started on the law I signed MEDA character negotiate 70 00:03:33.199 --> 00:03:36.719 lower prices for another fifteen drugs next year, fifteen the following, 71 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:38.960 and twenty after that, till every drug is covered. 72 00:03:40.199 --> 00:03:43.719 He's got some fresh botox right, he looks tanned. 73 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:48.840 Just another really big deal and n Americans can save 74 00:03:48.919 --> 00:03:51.439 more money and from life saving medications they need to 75 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:55.800 deserve and bring peace of mind. It's hard to explain. 76 00:03:56.759 --> 00:03:59.039 Kamala ay are going to keep fighting and lower the 77 00:03:59.039 --> 00:04:01.800 producers no cost everyone. 78 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:04.120 We have to Well, this is the story that came 79 00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:07.719 out today too, with with them negotiating for lower prices 80 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:11.080 on ten drugs commonly used by Americans on Medicare, and 81 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:15.159 half of them half of them are diabetes drugs. 82 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:17.680 I didn't recognize any of those. I guess that's a 83 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:19.040 good thing personally. 84 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:21.399 Yeah, I don't know them by these names, but when 85 00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:23.360 I was looking earlier next to it, it's like for 86 00:04:23.399 --> 00:04:24.399 diabetes or for whatever. 87 00:04:24.439 --> 00:04:26.680 So it seems like about half of them are for diabetes. 88 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:29.800 But I didn't want to try to pronounce them. 89 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:32.759 Some of them look like names from classmates I've had 90 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:38.040 back in the day, Eloquistsience Jenkins. 91 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:45.560 No, these are drugs, you know. I'm just I'm sorry. 92 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:49.000 I feel like I've heard. 93 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:51.480 Of that one, that one, I've seen a commercial. 94 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:55.519 One sounds really pretty and brovka, uh, I've seen a 95 00:04:55.519 --> 00:04:59.399 commercial on that that sounds familiar and presto. Yeah, maybe 96 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:01.680 some of these sound like commercials we sing, but maybe 97 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:04.519 they're they're all sounding the same. But yes, that's what 98 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:07.680 he's talking about, sort of saving money on these. 99 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:11.439 It's also going to be weird if Joe Biden did 100 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:14.680 sit through all those other speeches, just sitting there watching 101 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:19.879 the Democrats that have more life for lack of a 102 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:22.600 better word, I don't know he could. I don't know. 103 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:25.399 I'm not making a senior joke out of this, but 104 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:27.000 just staying awake through all those speeches. 105 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:28.680 It's a lot. And we saw even at the RNC 106 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:30.000 with Trump kind of dozing off. 107 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:32.000 It just struggles, I mean a lot. He went to 108 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:34.800 the conventions eight years ago and I said, this time around, 109 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:36.920 when we're going to be in Chicago next week, I'm 110 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:39.079 not staying and sitting in there for all these late 111 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:42.240 night speeches when I could watch them in bed. 112 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:42.560 In your hotel. 113 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:45.879 Run right, its exhaust Chicago pizza. 114 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:48.959 You know you said it didn't. I haven't had any 115 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:50.000 ideas about pizza. 116 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:52.279 I can't eat pizza right now. It's not on my 117 00:05:52.319 --> 00:05:55.199 list of approved foods. But please do indulge in Gior'donald's 118 00:05:55.199 --> 00:05:57.680 when you get there. The deep dish pizza too. I 119 00:05:57.720 --> 00:05:59.920 mean you can only have one one slice? Yes, yeah, 120 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:01.160 and you're stuff. 121 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:03.480 You're done. You're just sitting there now, You're there for 122 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:04.519 about four hours. 123 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:05.560 All right. 124 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:09.240 Coming up next, we will get into more swamp watch. 125 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:12.360 It looks like the Republicans are not agreeing on how 126 00:06:12.360 --> 00:06:15.519 to beat Kamala Harris or divided on what the strategy 127 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:19.839 should be. Also, RFK Junior is super thirsty. He needs 128 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:21.959 in that cabinet. He doesn't care who the president is. 129 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:24.480 We'll get into that as well. President Biden says his 130 00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:27.720 vice president will not distance herself from his policies as 131 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:30.480 she runs for president. He spoke to reporters outside the 132 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:34.199 White House before he went to hold this rally in 133 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:37.120 Maryland with her. He was asked about reports Kamala Harris 134 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:40.759 will break from some of his policies for political reasons. 135 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:45.319 He simply answered, she's not going to Donald Trump wants 136 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:48.240 to delay sentencing in his hush money case until after 137 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:51.920 the presidential election. His legal team asks the judge overseeing 138 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:55.480 that criminal case in Manhattan to postpone sentence and currently 139 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:59.279 scheduled for September eighteenth. They argue what delay is necessary 140 00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:02.759 to resolve on going legal challenges to his conviction. 141 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:04.399 Well. 142 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:07.519 Republicans are now said to be divided on how to 143 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:13.279 win the twenty twenty four election. Former President Trump has 144 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:19.040 been recently focused on crowd sizes, bashing Vice President Harris 145 00:07:19.079 --> 00:07:22.079 for not doing interviews. Nicki Haley was one of the 146 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:25.199 people who came out yesterday and said the Republicans need 147 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:28.360 to quit whining that this is not going over well. 148 00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:30.959 Voters don't care about crowd size, She says, they don't 149 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:34.279 care about her sitting to do an interview, that they 150 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:39.399 care about inflation, immigration, crime, and that that's what the 151 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:40.120 focus should be. 152 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:43.839 And initially the whole plan was to just remind people 153 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:48.439 Biden's old. He can't put together a sentence. His thoughts 154 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:50.560 are all over the place. Even the first debate, and 155 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:54.079 Trump wasn't his usual debate self where he's loud and yelling. 156 00:07:54.120 --> 00:07:55.560 He was just really calm, like, Hey, this guy is 157 00:07:55.560 --> 00:07:56.240 no know what he's talking about. 158 00:07:56.240 --> 00:07:57.600 Listen to him. I don't think he knows what he's 159 00:07:57.600 --> 00:07:58.040 talking about. 160 00:07:58.120 --> 00:08:00.600 That was a very effective, I think strategy that Biden's 161 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:02.959 just he's not all there to run for president again. 162 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:06.079 But now you've got to change the whole plan because 163 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:07.319 age is not the thing. 164 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:08.040 With Kamala. 165 00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:11.079 There was such good will towards him, or more so 166 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:16.680 that I believe than ever after that assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, 167 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:18.680 and I feel like it was squandered, and it was 168 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:23.240 squandered pretty quick, pretty quickly. I heard a take today 169 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:26.600 on what won him the election the first time, how 170 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:30.439 it was that Access Hollywood tape, which sounds ridiculous on 171 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:34.279 its face, right, but once that tape hit, Before it hit, 172 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:36.000 I should say, he was all over the place. He 173 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:39.919 was name calling, he was unhinged, He wasn't a serious candidate. 174 00:08:40.519 --> 00:08:45.480 The Access Hollywood tape, yes, And suddenly he realized he 175 00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:47.720 had to be focused, he had to be dialed in, 176 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:50.519 and that that is when he started to surge. If 177 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:53.600 he just stuck to the inflation and the economy and 178 00:08:53.639 --> 00:08:56.559 the border, how much better he would do as opposed 179 00:08:56.600 --> 00:09:02.000 to all this name calling and off the cuff stream consciousness. Yeah, yeah, 180 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:04.240 I'm with independent voters. 181 00:09:04.279 --> 00:09:06.120 I mean, his base will go nowhere exactly. I think 182 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:08.639 for both sides, the basis it's probably not changing. They're 183 00:09:08.639 --> 00:09:09.759 trying to reach the independent. 184 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:11.679 There's a lot of people, I think out there who 185 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:13.919 just say, if he could just button it down and 186 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:16.120 shut up, I might vote for him. 187 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:17.240 That's not a style though. 188 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:19.600 It's not off the cuff has always been his thing 189 00:09:19.720 --> 00:09:21.799 for him, right, not saying that's what is you know, 190 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:25.399 strategists and it's you know, folks, are you know giving 191 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:27.120 him advice when the campaign want him to do But 192 00:09:27.159 --> 00:09:28.360 that's always been his thing. 193 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:31.200 Yeah, I don't think he's advisable. I don't think you 194 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:32.720 can give him any advice. 195 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:33.840 R FK. 196 00:09:34.039 --> 00:09:34.960 Junior wants in. 197 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:35.960 No, he doesn't. 198 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:38.200 According to his Twitter right now, what are saying according 199 00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:41.320 to the X he's going off fake news really several 200 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:43.679 times fake news not true. 201 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:45.919 When it surfaced that he went to Trump and asked 202 00:09:45.919 --> 00:09:47.720 for a place in the cabinet, he said that was 203 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:50.080 fake too. And now the reporter is he went to 204 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:52.960 Harris requesting a meeting because he wanted a place in 205 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:54.240 the cabinet. Now he's saying that's it. 206 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:57.639 It's a long tweet, but he goes on to say 207 00:09:57.639 --> 00:10:00.679 that this party will be recognized, unrecognizable to his father 208 00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:03.759 and uncle, and he cannot reconcile it with his values. 209 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:08.480 Although no one asked him to, he said that he can. 210 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:10.000 At the very end, after he says all this stuff, 211 00:10:10.039 --> 00:10:12.399 I have no plans to endorse Kamala Harris for president. 212 00:10:12.440 --> 00:10:14.080 I do have a plan to defeat her. And this 213 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:15.240 is after the reports. 214 00:10:14.919 --> 00:10:17.879 That he it sounds like some of his aides might 215 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:20.240 have confirmed that he did ask for a role in 216 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:22.799 her cabinet should she become president, and now he's saying 217 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:25.440 they didn't happen. And so people are telling him, well, 218 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:27.000 the reports are this, and that he's like fake news, 219 00:10:27.039 --> 00:10:28.039 fake news. That's his new thing. 220 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:29.600 Fake news. Yeah, not true. 221 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:30.559 Uh. 222 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:32.559 Time for talk Tech Talk. 223 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:36.919 Their machines are getting smarter. This is tech Talk, brought 224 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:41.039 to you by sky Nata. 225 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:43.639 Mark Saltzman, Top of the afternoon. To you, how are 226 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:43.960 you doing. 227 00:10:44.080 --> 00:10:47.519 Hey, I'm well, Thanks, Shannon, and hey Leyla, get to chat. 228 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:49.399 With you too. I'm going to chat with you offline 229 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:50.159 about Canada. 230 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:53.639 Oh, all right, any time, Yes, anytime, as long as 231 00:10:53.679 --> 00:10:55.679 it's not about Trudeau, I'm good to No. 232 00:10:55.720 --> 00:10:58.559 It's very very positive about our country. Other than that. 233 00:10:59.399 --> 00:11:01.240 Possibly maybe we're gonna move there. 234 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:05.519 I'm oh, yeah, you never know. No, I'm serious, serious. 235 00:11:06.039 --> 00:11:11.159 Instead of KFI and like KFA. Eh. 236 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:14.360 So we were talking about Toronto being a maybe a 237 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:17.120 landing spot, and you wrote an article for the Toronto 238 00:11:17.240 --> 00:11:21.399 sun Mark about awesome hotel hacks when traveling for a 239 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:22.240 smoother trip. 240 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:23.080 Yeah. 241 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:25.399 So you know, I'm a freelance journalist and so I 242 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:28.759 travel quite a bit and over the years I've I've 243 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:31.679 collected a few I think some really good ways to 244 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:34.440 save money and just make it a smoother trip, whether 245 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:35.840 it's for work or pleasure. 246 00:11:36.360 --> 00:11:38.000 The first thing is of course saving money. 247 00:11:38.039 --> 00:11:41.159 So not only should you do your research when you're 248 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:43.440 booking a hotel room and use your favorite sites like 249 00:11:43.519 --> 00:11:46.840 you know, hotels dot com or Expedia or travago or 250 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:48.639 booking dot com. There's a lot of good ones that 251 00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:51.120 will try to find the best rates for you, but 252 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:56.080 use different web browsers because when because they can see 253 00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:58.840 if you use the same web browser your cookies in 254 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:01.440 your cash, which is like these little bits of information 255 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:02.200 that are left. 256 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:03.159 Over, they'll know. 257 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:06.840 The amount that you were just dished up by a 258 00:12:06.879 --> 00:12:07.960 competing site. 259 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:10.480 So use like if you have Safari on your computer. 260 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:15.600 Maybe also have Microsoft Edge or Firefox or Chrome. Just 261 00:12:15.679 --> 00:12:17.919 use a different browser and that way they don't know 262 00:12:17.960 --> 00:12:21.720 where you were previously. And then after you've booked your room. 263 00:12:21.720 --> 00:12:24.080 Here's one of my favorite apps. In fact, it's called 264 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:27.720 Provo pete As and Peter Ruvo, and the way it 265 00:12:27.759 --> 00:12:30.320 works is it tries to find you a better rate 266 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:33.519 on your room after you've booked it. So book your 267 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:37.480 room okay, and then you simply forward that email confirmation 268 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:40.279 that you get from whatever site you use or if 269 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:42.480 you buy if you buy the room directly through I 270 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:46.320 don't know Weston or Hilton or Marriott, just simply ford 271 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:49.519 that email to Provo. They keep an eye on that 272 00:12:49.639 --> 00:12:51.960 room for you, and about forty percent of the time 273 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:55.080 that rate for that room will drop before you check in. 274 00:12:55.600 --> 00:12:57.279 And if that's the case, you're going to get an 275 00:12:57.320 --> 00:12:59.480 email from Provo that says, hey, Mark, we found that 276 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:03.559 same hotel, the exact same room for you for I 277 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:06.559 don't know, twenty five bucks less or fifty two dollars less. 278 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:10.039 Do you want to book this at the new rate? 279 00:13:10.159 --> 00:13:12.320 And then they can't help you walk through the cancelation 280 00:13:12.440 --> 00:13:14.240 for the old rate. The only catch is that you 281 00:13:14.279 --> 00:13:17.600 have to have cancelation with your hotel, which is pretty 282 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:19.879 standard today. I think since COVID, a lot of hotels 283 00:13:19.879 --> 00:13:22.799 are just giving it to you pro bono. So as 284 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:25.240 long as you have the ability to cancel your reservation 285 00:13:25.919 --> 00:13:28.279 provo is awesome and it saves you a lot of 286 00:13:28.840 --> 00:13:31.519 money on your on your hotel stays. 287 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:33.600 I never heard of that, but I would try that. 288 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:34.799 That actually sounds very healthful. 289 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:36.519 Yeah, yeah, I think it's great. You have nothing to lose, 290 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:36.960 right you. 291 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:40.559 Just well unless the person cancels your confirmation because they're bored, 292 00:13:40.600 --> 00:13:42.600 and then you have no not that y. 293 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:43.840 Yeah, I know that doesn't happen. 294 00:13:44.360 --> 00:13:44.919 Very funny. 295 00:13:45.399 --> 00:13:47.679 Some other little tech related hacks is that if you 296 00:13:47.720 --> 00:13:49.759 miss your standing desk at work. 297 00:13:49.639 --> 00:13:51.600 The ironing board in the. 298 00:13:51.399 --> 00:13:55.120 Closet of your motel or hotel is about the same height, 299 00:13:55.360 --> 00:13:56.279 so just take it out. 300 00:13:56.399 --> 00:13:57.720 Like, look in the closet if there's. 301 00:13:57.559 --> 00:13:58.960 An ironing board, open it up, put it in the 302 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:01.799 middle of the room, put your laptop on it, and voila. 303 00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:04.799 So now you want me to exercise the hotel room? 304 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:07.360 Oh yeah, we know how you hate exercise. 305 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:09.840 No, it is a good hack, but my favorite ones 306 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:12.039 from you require no tech at all. 307 00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:13.919 Yeah. Right, so let's go through some of those. 308 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:14.240 Yeah. 309 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:17.480 I just remember being at a bachelorette weekend and in 310 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:20.320 Vegas and we had brought with us ramen, because what's 311 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:22.639 better at three o'clock in the morning than a nice 312 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:25.879 bowl of ramen? And we had to order hot water 313 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:28.879 from room service or whatever, and they charges like ten 314 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:32.000 bucks or something for hot water, and I it never 315 00:14:32.039 --> 00:14:34.279 occurred to me to just run the water through the 316 00:14:34.320 --> 00:14:35.120 coffee maker. 317 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:38.399 That's it, just no coffee, just run it through. We 318 00:14:38.440 --> 00:14:39.039 did the same thing. 319 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:41.720 Our youngest was super picky as a kid and he 320 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:44.480 would only eat like hot dogs basically for a small 321 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:47.919 period of his young life, and so we would, Yeah, 322 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:50.320 just run the hot water through the coffee maker, and 323 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:51.879 now you've got like boiling water. 324 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:54.240 So that was a good one. Another one I know 325 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:56.879 your listeners have tried before, which is the steam trick. 326 00:14:56.960 --> 00:14:57.919 It really does work. 327 00:14:57.960 --> 00:14:59.600 If you do not have an iron in your room 328 00:14:59.600 --> 00:15:02.000 where you can be bothered to iron your clothes because 329 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:05.240 you're on vacation, then yeah, if it's you know, to 330 00:15:05.320 --> 00:15:07.480 turn the hot water on in the shower, point the 331 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:10.639 shower head towards the wall, and then hang your clothes 332 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:12.720 up in there, shut the door for five to ten minutes, 333 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:15.240 and then come back and I'm telling you wrinkle free. 334 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:18.960 It works every time and like a charm. Another good 335 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:20.759 one is that if you have a shower cap in 336 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:22.720 your hotel room that you don't need, or even if 337 00:15:22.759 --> 00:15:25.639 you've used it, if you have dirty shoes that you 338 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:28.320 want to put back in your suitcase, the shower cap, 339 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:30.720 which usually has that elastic sort of rim. 340 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:33.360 You just put your shoes in there and then then 341 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:34.440 put it in your suitcase. 342 00:15:34.759 --> 00:15:35.039 Yes. 343 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:38.200 Another one is if the room is too dry, something 344 00:15:38.240 --> 00:15:41.919 my wife Kelly often complains about, you can wet a 345 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:43.639 towel and put it in front of the radiator and 346 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:46.720 that heat will help. You know, the water evaporate into 347 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:49.960 the room. It's like a little built in, you know, humidifier. 348 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:52.120 So there's a lot of little hacks in this article. 349 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:52.600 If you want to. 350 00:15:52.679 --> 00:15:55.519 Check it out, it's My name is Mark Saltsman, Mark 351 00:15:55.559 --> 00:15:59.000 with a C and Saltsman with a Z, and then 352 00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:02.039 just look for the with the phrase hotel hacks and 353 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:03.039 you'll see my article. 354 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:06.399 Mark Saltzman, thank you so much, always so helpful. 355 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:08.799 My pleasure. Thank you very much, and best wishes to 356 00:16:08.840 --> 00:16:09.600 Gary and his daughter. 357 00:16:09.799 --> 00:16:11.159 I will pass so is On. 358 00:16:11.279 --> 00:16:13.399 Have a good weekend you too, Thanks Shannon, Thanks to 359 00:16:13.480 --> 00:16:14.279 Leila Bye. 360 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:16.159 NASA's still trying to figure out what to do with 361 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:18.799 the two astronauts at the International Space Station. 362 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:21.200 They were supposed to go there for eight days in June, 363 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:23.240 and now they're saying it will be early next year, 364 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:24.679 maybe till they come back. 365 00:16:24.759 --> 00:16:26.360 You know what I think about? What was that movie 366 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:28.000 with Sandra Bullock? Oh? 367 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:30.080 Yeah, and she was whining the whole time and she 368 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:30.960 killed George Clooney. 369 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:31.799 That's my version of it. 370 00:16:31.919 --> 00:16:35.919 Yeah that I don't think I'm kill That was awful. 371 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:39.759 Yeah, but they are trapped and trying to get back 372 00:16:39.799 --> 00:16:43.120 to Earth and she was whining and then George Clooney died. Yeah, 373 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:45.559 because she wasn't, you know, doing her part. Well, I 374 00:16:46.360 --> 00:16:47.399 see my version of the story. 375 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:50.919 Yes, and I'm with you on that. I though, have 376 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:54.080 been jealous of these two. I also would like to 377 00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:57.759 go to space and just not be here. I'd like 378 00:16:57.799 --> 00:17:00.279 to be trapped up there as well. Really, oh for 379 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:02.480 how long through the election year? 380 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:03.360 Well? 381 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:05.079 Yeah, I agree on that. Yeah, I could. 382 00:17:05.079 --> 00:17:07.519 I could do without all the commercials in the name 383 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:09.920 calling now I'm looking for the name of that movie. 384 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:10.680 Okay, let you start. 385 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:14.759 I'm looking out I know a gravity yes, gravity man. 386 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:17.599 And who bought that she was an astronaut? 387 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:20.799 No one, you remember she was whining the whole time. 388 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:24.720 Astronauts don't whine anyway. Hopefully these folks find their way 389 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:25.119 back down. 390 00:17:25.160 --> 00:17:25.440 Okay. 391 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:29.119 Crime con is now in its eighth year. 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