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Speaker 2: An Kevin mckayhill with the LA Sorry, Las Vegas Metro
Speaker 2: PD Sheriff talking about the cyber truck explosion yesterday.
Speaker 3: Just a couple of quick things.
Speaker 2: The body they found in the truck they believe to
Speaker 2: be this Matthew Liveelsberger, but they have not confirmed it yet.
Speaker 2: He said there was a gunshot wound to the head, wow,
Speaker 2: but that the body itself was burned beyond recognition, so
Speaker 2: they have to do dental work before they can get
Speaker 2: this guy. They did find a military ID, credit cards
Speaker 2: and a passport that belonged to that guy, so circumstantially
Speaker 2: it looks like it is him, but they haven't gotten
Speaker 2: official ID yet. So this is Kevin mcmayhill, Las Vegas
Speaker 2: metroped shaft to.
Speaker 4: Las Vegas from Colorado and Carlos will put up the
Speaker 4: map there for you. And we know that he rented
Speaker 4: the cyber truck in Denver on December twenty eighth. We
Speaker 4: tracked his movements through the Tesla charging stations to Monument, Colorado.
Speaker 4: On December thirtieth. On the thirty first of December, the
Speaker 4: truck was charged in Trinidad, Colorado, Las Vegas, New Mexico,
Speaker 4: and Albertquerque and Gallop, New Mexico. On January first, the
Speaker 4: truck was charged in Holebrook, Flagstaff and Kingman, Arizona. We
Speaker 4: last tracked the truck in Kingman at zero five thirty
Speaker 4: three yesterday morning. The truck was first spotted in Las
Speaker 4: Vegas at seven twenty nine am yesterday and Carlos will
Speaker 4: pull up a picture of the truck pulling onto Fashion
Speaker 4: Show Drive here and that picture was observed at about
Speaker 4: seven thirty four am. We know that he pulled into
Speaker 4: the Trump Valet and I believe we have a video
Speaker 4: of that. You can see the cyber truck highlighted there.
Speaker 2: They're showing a video of the cyber truck, but based
Speaker 2: on surveillance cameras from outside the Trump condominiums.
Speaker 3: But he pulls through and doesn't stro extence the surveillance video.
Speaker 4: We were able to track him leaving there, and we
Speaker 4: know that he went to several different places along Las
Speaker 4: Vegas Boulevard and he spent some time in a parking
Speaker 4: lot of a business near Flamingo in Las Vegas Boulevard.
Speaker 4: We didn't have a video of the truck pulling back
Speaker 4: onto Las Vegas Boulevard from the Sands. See that there
Speaker 4: goes that's north on the boulevard from Sands at eight
Speaker 4: thirty nine, where he then immediately heads to the Trump Hotel,
Speaker 4: pulls into the valet area, and as of course you
Speaker 4: all know, the explosion occurs within seventeen seconds of his
Speaker 4: arrival at the valet. There are some additional investigative updates
Speaker 4: that are going to be provided to you by a
Speaker 4: couple of the other speakers here, the first of which
Speaker 4: will be our special Agent in charge of the FBI
Speaker 4: local Office, Spencer Evans.
Speaker 5: Spencer, good morning.
Speaker 6: My name is Spencer Evans.
Speaker 3: I'm the Special Agent in charge of.
Speaker 6: The FBI's Las Vegas Division. So the sheriff mentioned, we've
Speaker 6: been working through the night with our partners, the Las
Speaker 6: Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and other agencies to gather all
Speaker 6: the facts and determine a motive to what was initially
Speaker 6: reported to the FBI as a bombing incident, to which
Speaker 6: our special agent, bomb techs and others responded. Obviously, we're
Speaker 6: always concerned in these sorts of events, to ascertain what
Speaker 6: the motive is. We understand that's everybody's at the forefront
Speaker 6: of everyone's thoughts, and so looking into exactly what the
Speaker 6: motivation is remains our number one priority. This is why
Speaker 6: the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force has been brought into play,
Speaker 6: the Joint Tearism Task Force. Most important part of that
Speaker 6: acronym is joint. It is done in concert with our partners,
Speaker 6: which are comprised of more than a dozen investigative agencies
Speaker 6: here throughout the state of Nevada. We've been working hand
Speaker 6: in glove, side by side, tirelessly to determine is there
Speaker 6: any ongoing threat to the public, to identify the subject,
Speaker 6: to determine any potential connection to other events going on
Speaker 6: in the world, most notably in New Orleans, and then
Speaker 6: obviously to determine if there's anything else that we need
Speaker 6: to be tracking down at this time. Is the Sheriff's
Speaker 6: pointed out, we feel that the subject has been identified,
Speaker 6: although not conclusively, waiting for DNA evidence on that front. However,
Speaker 6: we do feel like we have the subject identified and
Speaker 6: at this time there is no information about additional subjects
Speaker 6: that the FBI is tracking on. We are resources as
Speaker 6: I mentioned that have been deployed in support of this
Speaker 6: event include Special Agent bomb techs, our Evidence Response Team,
Speaker 6: which is processing crime scenes side by side with the
Speaker 6: forensics folks from Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Our investigators
Speaker 6: are intelligence analysts, and then outside of the FBI Las
Speaker 6: Vegas Field Office, we have investigative leads that are being
Speaker 6: conducted by FBI field offices both internationally and domestically as
Speaker 6: well as Always, when the FBI is involved with any
Speaker 6: sort of case like this, we ask for help for
Speaker 6: the public. Anyone with information related to this incident, we
Speaker 6: encourage you to please call one eight hundred call FBI,
Speaker 6: or you can submit a tip online at tips dot
Speaker 6: FBI dot gov. We've already received thousands of tips related
Speaker 6: to this incident. The challenge that we face moving forward
Speaker 6: is to separate those that are pertinent and relevant and
Speaker 6: those that can be verified for those from those that
Speaker 6: have not. For example, one of the tips that we
Speaker 6: receive just today relates to information alluding to this subject's
Speaker 6: personal experiences related to his time and activity in the military. Again,
Speaker 6: that's unverified and uncorroborated, but one of many tips and
Speaker 6: leads that we will be following up in the days
Speaker 6: that come. If you have any additional information, again, encourage
Speaker 6: everyone one eight hundred call FBI or submitted online tips
Speaker 6: dot FBI dot gov. We will tirelessly work to exhaust
Speaker 6: all investigative leads and conclusively determine what the nature of
Speaker 6: this particular incident was, what the motivation was, and to
Speaker 6: the extent possible, share all that information as we obtain it.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 6: Now turn some time over to the Assistant Special Agent
Speaker 6: Charge from the ATF, Kenny Cooper.
Speaker 2: We're getting an update out of the Vegas law enforcement
Speaker 2: community about the bombing.
Speaker 5: My name's Kenny Cooper.
Speaker 3: I'm this cyber truck explosion outside the Trump.
Speaker 5: Ats San Francisco Field Division. ATF is bringing our expertise
Speaker 5: in post blasts investigations and our crime gun intelligence to
Speaker 5: specifically assist in this investigation. I will tell you that
Speaker 5: our special agent bomb techs are working with FBI and
Speaker 5: with Las Vegas Metro and sifting through that post blast
Speaker 5: debris to find components and investigative leads will derive from
Speaker 5: that evidence process. We're too early into that investigation process
Speaker 5: to give any determination as far as how this device
Speaker 5: was initiated. I will say that we do know that
Speaker 5: the components primarily consist of fireworks, mortars, aerio shells, and
Speaker 5: are all consumer fireworks. Nothing commercial grade has been discovered
Speaker 5: at this point, and we've identified some fuel enhancers like
Speaker 5: the Coman fuel and VP Racing fuel, and some explosive
Speaker 5: targets that can be purchased at any sporting goods store.
Speaker 5: We've also, as you as a sheriff mentioned, we've identified
Speaker 5: two semi automatic handguns recovered from the Tesla. We have
Speaker 5: successfully traced those firearms and I can tell you that
Speaker 5: Matthew Leyvesburg lawfully purchased both of these firearms on December thirtieth,
Speaker 5: twenty twenty four. We have agents following up those investigative leads.
Speaker 5: We know exactly where those firearms were purchased, and we
Speaker 5: will share any developments from those leads as they come in.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 4: We also have the Clark County Fire Chief here, John Steinbeck,
Speaker 4: and he didn't have any additional updates, but if there's
Speaker 4: any questions in regards to what the fire fire fire
Speaker 4: Department did during this he's here to answer those questions
Speaker 4: as well. With that, things that are going around on
Speaker 4: social media. We're going to continue to do that, but
Speaker 4: I'm also confident to tell the Las Vegas community and
Speaker 4: this great nation that we don't believe there's any further
Speaker 4: threat from this subject or anybody associated to him here
Speaker 4: in Las Vegas. With that, Denise, I saw you had
Speaker 4: your hand up if you could just identify yourself please.
Speaker 3: Question is whether or not this suspect say the question
Speaker 3: was that he.
Speaker 4: Had to subject have any ties to Las Vegas or
Speaker 4: had he ever been here before. I do believe we
Speaker 4: had had one instance a number of years ago where
Speaker 4: he stayed at a local hotel, but we're still trying
Speaker 4: to verify that information as well.
Speaker 3: Sir the David Charles Klis TV, there was.
Speaker 7: You have a gentleman in a cyber Trump Trump hotel.
Speaker 7: There's information that the NBI was in Colorado Springs last night,
Speaker 7: possibly at this gentleman's home. Any information about.
Speaker 4: Why, I think I'll let Spencer answer that question.
Speaker 6: So, as I mentioned, the motivation at this point is unknown.
Speaker 6: We are, as I mentioned earlier, following investigative leads both
Speaker 6: domestically and internationally as well, and so that includes search
Speaker 6: warrants and witness interviews, collecting forensic information and basically trying to.
Speaker 3: Compile the facts.
Speaker 6: And so there's investigative activity taking place literally around the
Speaker 6: globe trying to determine what the potential nexus is. But
Speaker 6: at this time, at this particular moment in time, as
Speaker 6: the sheriff aptly said, we have to focus on what
Speaker 6: we know and what we don't know. We know we
Speaker 6: have a bombing, absolutely, and it's a bombing that certainly
Speaker 6: has factors that raise concerned. It's not lost on us
Speaker 6: that it's in front of, you know, of the Trump Building,
Speaker 6: that it's a TESTLA vehicle, But we don't have information
Speaker 6: at this point that definitively tells us or suggests it
Speaker 6: was because of this particular ideology or that you know,
Speaker 6: any of the reasoning behind it. That's the purpose of
Speaker 6: the investigation that we're conducting is to get to the
Speaker 6: bottom of exactly what happened, why and how, Sir.
Speaker 8: Typically to a PBCY of Los Angeles, you mentioned a
Speaker 8: number of similarities between this case and New Orleans. How
Speaker 8: far are the investigating cross if you guys go to
Speaker 8: try to rule out that they are connect knowing that
Speaker 8: you already.
Speaker 9: Have a couple of things that seem to connect them together.
Speaker 4: So the question is is how are we working to
Speaker 4: rule in or rule out any connections to the New
Speaker 4: Orleans event. And the answer to that is, every tip
Speaker 4: and lead that comes in, every piece of evidence that
Speaker 4: comes in, we don't discount it. We work it through.
Speaker 4: You know, it's an interesting thing during these kinds of
Speaker 4: investigations that if these turn out to be simplely similarities,
Speaker 4: very strange similarities to have, and so we're not prepared
Speaker 4: to rule in or rule out anything at this point.
Speaker 4: There's lots more for us to do in this investigation.
Speaker 4: We haven't even gotten into the phones or the computers,
Speaker 4: which are usually very very instructive and informative to us
Speaker 4: as we investigate. And we've got a lot more work
Speaker 4: to do to trace him, to see the stores that
Speaker 4: he went to, to rule out anybody else, lots of
Speaker 4: lots of investigative work to do, and we're just trying
Speaker 4: to give you an update on what we know now
Speaker 4: that is factual.
Speaker 5: We believe.
Speaker 4: The question is was the gunshot self inflicted and we
Speaker 4: do believe it was, since he was the only person
Speaker 4: in the vehicle and it occurred immediately prior to the
Speaker 4: vehicle blown up. Back there, sir, with the evidence you've seen.
Speaker 9: So far, are you comfortable without calling this a suicide vision?
Speaker 4: The question is, off, I comfortable calling it a suicide mission.
Speaker 4: I'm comfortable calling it a suicide with the bombing that
Speaker 4: occurred immediately thereafter, I'm.
Speaker 3: Not giving it any other labels.
Speaker 9: And with the family who's spoken so far that they
Speaker 9: shared getting prior red flags.
Speaker 4: The question is, did we have any of the family
Speaker 4: members share any particular red flags? Again, I'll go back
Speaker 4: to what I know is circulating on social media, but
Speaker 4: none of that has been verified at this point.
Speaker 9: All the found inside a cyber truck where they all
Speaker 9: purchase in Colorado.
Speaker 4: The question is did we were all the components found
Speaker 4: inside of the cyber truck purchased in Colorado?
Speaker 10: And I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 4: That's part of why we're doing the extensive part of
Speaker 4: the investigation.
Speaker 8: Associated press, Can you talk a little bit about the
Speaker 8: security measures you have in place at the hotel now?
Speaker 4: So, as you all know, we had just successfully completed
Speaker 4: a New Year's Eve event where hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 4: people come to Las Vegas. I've extended our posture just
Speaker 4: like it is for a New Year's Eve event where
Speaker 4: I have thousands of police officers that are working day
Speaker 4: in and day out. Obviously dozens and dozens of people
Speaker 4: that are working on this investigation as well. We'll continue
Speaker 4: to look at what that security posture looks like, but
Speaker 4: I'm confident in the safety of our community as we
Speaker 4: move forward, go ahead. In the middle.
Speaker 8: There criminal record.
Speaker 4: Also, you know, the question was is there any criminal record?
Speaker 4: None that I'm aware of that has not been brought
Speaker 4: to my attention that he had a criminal record, And
Speaker 4: I said that the cyber truck was rented on December
Speaker 4: twenty eighth in Denver, Colorado?
Speaker 7: Are here?
Speaker 3: Hi?
Speaker 4: That the question is that we know if he checked
Speaker 4: into the Resorts World the day before this, I'm not
Speaker 4: aware of that information certain.
Speaker 3: There and how long you The question is.
Speaker 4: Generally about the security posture, and that's that's entirely our
Speaker 4: entire community, not only uh Fremont Street and the Strip,
Speaker 4: but surrounding neighborhoods as well, just to make sure that
Speaker 4: we have the community fill in that level of safety
Speaker 4: that they need to fill after an event such as this.
Speaker 2: All right, you've been listening to share Kevin mcmayhill from
Speaker 2: Metro Las Vegas Police Department about the cyber truck explosion
Speaker 2: yesterday outside the Trump Condominiums. The most significant in terms
Speaker 2: of the information is that they have found Matthew Livelsberger's
Speaker 2: military ID, credit cards, and passport inside the cyber truck,
Speaker 2: but at this point are not confirming that, in fact,
Speaker 2: that was him. They said they're going to await DNA
Speaker 2: because of the condition of the body. You can understand
Speaker 2: that he died apparently now died before the explosion, but
Speaker 2: was burned beyond recognition because they said that he had
Speaker 2: a gunshot wound to his head.
Speaker 1: They've got a lot of footage of this truck, but
Speaker 1: I didn't see any footage of anything indicating a gunshot
Speaker 1: wound to the head coming from inside the vehicle. And
Speaker 1: he said that there's no reason to believe that somebody
Speaker 1: else shot him because it happened right before the explosion
Speaker 1: and there was nobody else in the vehicle. I don't
Speaker 1: know how you could rule that out unless there was
Speaker 1: footage of that moment, and there might be. There might be,
Speaker 1: and they may not show it.
Speaker 2: I could from the image that most everybody sees the
Speaker 2: moment it explodes, it's from up at an angle behind
Speaker 2: the truck. So if there was a flash inside the truck,
Speaker 2: the actual gunshot that this guy took his own life
Speaker 2: right before the truck detonated, it would be hard to
Speaker 2: see at least from that angle. But that is they
Speaker 2: said they found a couple of guns, at least two
Speaker 2: semi automatic guns with ammunition, along with all kinds of fireworks.
Speaker 2: They have all, I mean the image that they have
Speaker 2: posted Vegas PD has posted of the investigation of the
Speaker 2: truck itself. It's in some warehouse somewhere and they've been
Speaker 2: able to basically cut the top off of this thing
Speaker 2: and go through, just centimeter by centimeter all of the
Speaker 2: stuff that was found in the bed of the truck,
Speaker 2: the fireworks, the different camp fuels. There was one can
Speaker 2: of racing fuel that was even involved.
Speaker 1: This was a guy who served in the Green Berets,
Speaker 1: of course, highly trained special forces worked a counter terrorism
Speaker 1: abroad train partners. He had served in the Army since
Speaker 1: two thousand and six, rising through the ranks long career
Speaker 1: of overseas assignments, deploying twice to Afghanistans, serving in Ukraine, Georgia, Congo.
Speaker 1: He was awarded two Bronze Store Stars, including one with
Speaker 1: a Valor device for Courage under Fire Combat Infantry Badge
Speaker 1: Army Commendation Medal with Valor. He was on approved leave
Speaker 1: when this happened.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he grew up at Ohio. He was on leave
Speaker 2: from his duty in Germany. His wife had said she
Speaker 2: hadn't heard from him for several days. He and his
Speaker 2: wife apparently bought a home in Colorado Springs together several
Speaker 2: years ago twenty fifteen, but that they said that they
Speaker 2: have several addresses that are linked to him throughout the
Speaker 2: city of Colorado, including townhouses that were rated overnight.
Speaker 1: There have been some online sleuths that have dug up
Speaker 1: her Facebook account her clear hatred for Donald Trump. That
Speaker 1: has not that that has been verified. Yeah, that one
Speaker 1: has anything to do with this.
Speaker 2: But one of the questions to the FBI was, here's
Speaker 2: an Elon Musk product in the cyber truck in front
Speaker 2: of a Trump product in the condominiums. Yeah, was there
Speaker 2: a connection? And they basically say it's way too early.
Speaker 2: They don't have any evidence one way or the other.
Speaker 1: But it seems like quite the coincidence, doesn't it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, and the other coincidences that people are talking about
Speaker 2: is the coincidences that occur. It's the same day of
Speaker 2: this attack in New Orleans a few hours later. The
Speaker 2: guy had the every opportunity to hear about it, you know,
Speaker 2: to hear about the other attack. That he rented an
Speaker 2: electric truck through the same app, you know, through this
Speaker 2: Touro app couple of days before the attack itself, and
Speaker 2: then made his way from Colorado through to to Las
Speaker 2: Vegas for the attack on early yesterday morning.
Speaker 3: So anyway, that's the latest.
Speaker 2: Again, they have not confirmed the identity, but they said
Speaker 2: they've got all these pieces of evidence that point to
Speaker 2: this Matthew Libbelsberger as the perpetrator in this attack. So
Speaker 2: if there's anything new, obviously we will we'll bring it
Speaker 2: to you. In the meantime, let's do a very now.
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Speaker 3: Swamp is horrible. It's a government work man. We're gonna
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Speaker 3: Always a pleasure to be anywhere from Washington, d C.
Speaker 6: Hey Joe, a town all too clearly built on a
Speaker 6: swamp and in so many ways still a swamp.
Speaker 3: I have a watch of Malwarkee, he said, the swamp.
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Speaker 2: d C. Tomorrow they're going to swear in a new Congress. Yay,
Speaker 2: everybody loves that. But that gives them the opportunity to
Speaker 2: vote in a new Speaker of the House.
Speaker 3: Yay, everybody loves that as well.
Speaker 2: In this case, the current Speaker, Mike Johnson, is not
Speaker 2: going to have an easy time. And I don't know
Speaker 2: if this is just the future of Speakers of the
Speaker 2: House going forward after we saw what happened with Kevin McCarthy.
Speaker 2: But Johnson has been endorsed by the President elect to
Speaker 2: keep that post. He's still racing to win over a
Speaker 2: bunch of holdouts from the Republican Party, and they said
Speaker 2: that this could be another day's long floor fight to
Speaker 2: figure out who is or remains the Speaker of the House.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has restated his backing of Mike Johnson. How
Speaker 1: much will that play a role in this trending towards
Speaker 1: Mike Johnson.
Speaker 2: It definitely gives him a hand up, But guys like
Speaker 2: Thomas The only known Republican defector in this vote is
Speaker 2: Thomas Massey. He has stated publicly he will not vote
Speaker 2: for Mike Johnson for speaker because of the numbers going
Speaker 2: into the new Congress. If everyone shows up, and it's
Speaker 2: the first day of school, so I assume everybody would.
Speaker 2: If everyone shows up, he can only lose two votes
Speaker 2: and retain his speakership. And he's got one already publicly
Speaker 2: saying that he wouldn't vote for him. So pins and
Speaker 2: needles tomorrow, everybody, Pins and needles.
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Speaker 1: Happy New Year too.
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Speaker 1: Okay. So do you make New Year's resolutions?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 11: I mean for this year, I think I just want
Speaker 11: to sleep a little more. I think that's my New
Speaker 11: Year's nothing too exciting. I think just if I can
Speaker 11: get into if I can slip into bed about an
Speaker 11: hour earlier, that I would probably feel like one hundred
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Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 11: No, I feel like you know. That's that's it for me.
Speaker 11: Other than that you could drop a few lbs. That's
Speaker 11: a that's one that I say every year and I
Speaker 11: don't do it.
Speaker 10: But yeah, so I wrote a piece.
Speaker 11: I know where you're going with this, and I know
Speaker 11: I Shannon thinks Gary's New Year's resolution should be to
Speaker 11: stop second guessing himself.
Speaker 10: If that's it, If that's it, that's that's it.
Speaker 11: That's what you were saying in your last segment, Then
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Speaker 10: They can always hit me up on social media afterwards.
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Speaker 2: A lot of these, and I know you're talking about
Speaker 2: Matt My Fitness is one of those. I've actually used
Speaker 2: that one before to keep track of runs and progress
Speaker 2: and that sort of thing, and they come a lot
Speaker 2: of them have different levels. So the free version is
Speaker 2: nowhere near as robust as the paid version.
Speaker 10: Yeah, as you can imagine. That's yeah.
Speaker 11: So these are apps that we call freemium, so they're
Speaker 11: free to start, but if you want the premium experience,
Speaker 11: you do have to pay, Yeah, Matt. My Fitness is
Speaker 11: the same company as my Fitness Pal. It used to
Speaker 11: actually be owned by under Armor and they sold it
Speaker 11: last year.
Speaker 10: But that's a good one.
Speaker 11: What is free though, if you want to have some
Speaker 11: fun while you're exercising. Another app called Zombies Run is
Speaker 11: a lot of fun. As the name suggests, you're hearing
Speaker 11: this kind of scary story in your earbuds and it's
Speaker 11: tied to this, you know, post apocalyptic world where zombies
Speaker 11: are are chasing you and it motivates you to move.
Speaker 11: But it's a little bit more fun than that. You're
Speaker 11: collecting supplies and excuse me. So it's fun and that's
Speaker 11: called Zombies Run, and it.
Speaker 1: Is trail, but you're on a run.
Speaker 10: Yeah, right, part.
Speaker 11: Of that game that's good for quitting smoking. This one
Speaker 11: is free, not freemium. It's called Quit so that's kW
Speaker 11: it and it's based on decades of research. The company
Speaker 11: says they've created a dashboard where you can see your progress,
Speaker 11: both the money that you're saving as you're kicking the habit,
Speaker 11: as well as how many months or years you're adding
Speaker 11: onto your life by quitting smoking. So you're able to
Speaker 11: save money and gain some life back. You can see
Speaker 11: it all in this calendar. And it's gamified as well,
Speaker 11: similar to that Zombies Run game in the sense that
Speaker 11: you can earn XP or experience points that you can
Speaker 11: redeem within the app. There's a daily check in to
Speaker 11: see how you're feeling. You can tap what mood you're
Speaker 11: in in the Quit app, and if you're feeling really
Speaker 11: crusty you got some really bad cravings that day, it'll
Speaker 11: recommend some alternatives to smoking, you know, like gum or
Speaker 11: two minute breathing exercise, something to get your mind off
Speaker 11: of it. And yeah, it's really a great app called
Speaker 11: quit that is completely free. There's no paid element, and
Speaker 11: if we have time for one more. Money management I
Speaker 11: think is a big one as well, especially after the
Speaker 11: year we just had a lot of us get a
Speaker 11: little over our head, you know, with the higher cost
Speaker 11: of living and all that. So one of my favorite
Speaker 11: apps is called y nab, which is you need a
Speaker 11: budget and it's.
Speaker 3: Free to start.
Speaker 11: You can get thirty four days for free, and then
Speaker 11: after that it's one hundred and nine bucks a year.
Speaker 11: But the company says on average, y NAB users save
Speaker 11: six hundred dollars their first two months.
Speaker 10: So you're allowing it to.
Speaker 11: Securely link to your bank account and your credit cards,
Speaker 11: and it's bank level encryption two hundred fifty six bit
Speaker 11: you know encryption, so it's supposed to be bulletproof. And
Speaker 11: the idea is that it's helping you manage what's coming
Speaker 11: in like your salary and maybe investments, and what's going
Speaker 11: out your expenses and entertainment or whatever you're spending it on, and.
Speaker 3: Puts it into buckets.
Speaker 11: You can see, like these color coded charts and graphs
Speaker 11: what you're spending your money. You'll see like restaurants, and
Speaker 11: you'll be like, wow, I've spent that much on restaurants in.
Speaker 10: The year, you know.
Speaker 11: So it helps you make decisions. It'll help you make
Speaker 11: goal reach goals, like you could say, I want to
Speaker 11: raise three thousand dollars by May for a trip, so
Speaker 11: it'll tell you how much you should save per week.
Speaker 11: It'll even take that money out of the account if
Speaker 11: you want to segregate it. There's a loan calculator again,
Speaker 11: spending reports and charts, so it's either one O nine
Speaker 11: a year after that thirty four days for why and
Speaker 11: ab you need a budget or fifteen bucks a month
Speaker 11: if you don't want to commit to it.
Speaker 1: I love that they're trying to get you to save
Speaker 1: your money by charging right r right dollars.
Speaker 10: Well, you know, I hear it.
Speaker 11: But you know these these free apps you're paying in
Speaker 11: some way, like if you're not really paying money, you
Speaker 11: should question why is that app for free? Like that
Speaker 11: quit app? It sounds very altruistic. But you know there's
Speaker 11: ads and I'm sure you know you have to see
Speaker 11: what's happening with your data. You want to read what
Speaker 11: what are they doing with your data? And so nothing
Speaker 11: is truly free. But yeah, I hear you.
Speaker 3: It's a bit ironic.
Speaker 1: Good life lisson right there, Mark Saltzman, Is it ever
Speaker 1: really fair? There?
Speaker 9: You go?
Speaker 3: Always something well awesome to hear from you. Have a
Speaker 3: great new year.
Speaker 9: And to you.
Speaker 11: Hey, look, next week we're going to chat from the
Speaker 11: Consumer Electronic Show in Vegas. So well I'll give you
Speaker 11: a report on all the future tech.
Speaker 3: I'll be kicking the tires. Good. Thanks guys, looking forward
Speaker 3: to you.
Speaker 2: Make sure you follow Mark on x m ARC Underscore
Speaker 2: Saltsman Mark Saltzman you get more information about these apps
Speaker 2: and all the other great stuff that he writes about.
Speaker 1: So what do you think about Saquon Barkley. He is
Speaker 1: one hundred and one shy of Eric Dickerson's single season
Speaker 1: rushing record. They've got one game left, that means nothing.
Speaker 1: They initially came out post game after he got that
Speaker 1: close past the two thousand mark, which I believe only
Speaker 1: eight other backs in NFL history have done. So that's
Speaker 1: a feat in itself. But that Eric Dickerson record that
Speaker 1: has been around for five hundred years, that would have
Speaker 1: been really nice, although it would be an asterisk record
Speaker 1: because there were fewer games that Eric played than Saquon plays. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but still, Sirianni came out last week and said, well,
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk to him about it, and I'd
Speaker 1: love to see him get the record, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: see what he thinks. And so it was like kind
Speaker 1: of understood after that game that he would go for it,
Speaker 1: at least start to go for it in this pointless
Speaker 1: game of Week eighteen or what have you. And then
Speaker 1: it came out yesterday that he will not be playing.
Speaker 1: They're not going to play him. So I wonder if
Speaker 1: that came from above, Sirianni, you know, ownership or something,
Speaker 1: or the GM, because between Saquon and Siriani, it sounded
Speaker 1: like they were gonna go for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I wonder how much even if the GM
Speaker 2: does say that, don't you have a conversation with the player. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you'd have this a big deal, but we would really
Speaker 2: prefer you not.
Speaker 1: And there's not a nicer guy than Saquon Barklay who
Speaker 1: wants it for the team, like wants to be as
Speaker 1: successful as possible in the playoffs. But still that's hard
Speaker 1: to come that close to such an unattainable goal.
Speaker 2: And this is also the weekend because it's the last
Speaker 2: weekend of the regular season, and as we were talking about,
Speaker 2: a lot of these games mean nothing that there are
Speaker 2: playoff implications, but it's basically just seeding at this point,
Speaker 2: where they're going to end up and who they're going
Speaker 2: to play in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Some of these are.
Speaker 1: For the Lions and the freaking Vikings.
Speaker 2: Well, but some of them are as meaningless as some
Speaker 2: of those preseason games. That's why you're going to see
Speaker 2: Jimmy Garoppolo start for the Rams and things like that.
Speaker 2: You're going to see these players that second string players
Speaker 2: that would otherwise not get a lot of snaps, end
Speaker 2: up playing the whole game because the game itself doesn't matter. Okay,
Speaker 2: So we have been asking for suggestions for.
Speaker 3: Walk up songs.
Speaker 2: For me at Fantasy Baseball camp, and some of them
Speaker 2: are great. Some of them we kind of ran into
Speaker 2: a couple of issues. Number One, well, I'm about the
Speaker 2: same age as all the guys are going to be
Speaker 2: play so we're all growing up in the northern California,
Speaker 2: most of us San Francisco Bay area, so the music
Speaker 2: selection is limited, and I wanted to be out on
Speaker 2: the outer edges of that so that it's recognizable. It's
Speaker 2: not just an inside joke that I'm the only one
Speaker 2: who's going to get. But I don't want it to be,
Speaker 2: you know whatever. I don't want it to be Enter
Speaker 2: Sandman by Metallica because it feels like everybody is going
Speaker 2: to do Enter Sandman by Metallica. So we were taking
Speaker 2: suggestions about what should be a good walk up song.
Speaker 12: I gotta do the booty song while you're walking up
Speaker 12: Booty Booty booty.
Speaker 1: Hymn Booty booty booty booty booty booty booty booty booty
Speaker 1: booty booty.
Speaker 2: Booty booty Yeah y boo okay, which is funny, but
Speaker 2: I think sends kind of the wrong message.
Speaker 8: Gary.
Speaker 10: If you don't use booty booty Booty.
Speaker 6: Booty booty as your walk up song, you're a loser.
Speaker 3: And sow's your dog? Oh happy to you?
Speaker 9: Guys?
Speaker 3: What does the dog have to do with it?
Speaker 1: It's the more I think about it, the more it's
Speaker 1: pretty funny. Yeah. I mean, initially I thought if you
Speaker 1: played the booty song, you'd be inviting strange men to
Speaker 1: look at your booty like you thought that your booty
Speaker 1: should be looked at, like it should get attention. Okay,
Speaker 1: But the more I think about it, the more that's
Speaker 1: absurd and it's just funny, Like, who's not gonna chuckle
Speaker 1: when they hear that? Every time? And then you could
Speaker 1: do this.
Speaker 3: Well, I could do I could shake it well, shaky shake.
Speaker 3: Do you think that's gonna earn me points with my teammates?
Speaker 1: Maybe depends on if they have a sense of humor
Speaker 1: or not. That's the other thing.
Speaker 5: Your walk up song has to be Centerfield by John Foger.
Speaker 1: Two on the Nose.
Speaker 2: It's two on the nose and they're going to be
Speaker 2: playing that in between an it sure, right, So that's
Speaker 2: not what.
Speaker 1: We're not doing stadium rock.
Speaker 3: No, we're not doing stadium rock.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 9: As a team building thing, Gary should use a warrant
Speaker 9: cherry Pie as his uh walk up.
Speaker 1: That is a little that's I don't if that would
Speaker 1: be funny, and like the booty song is obviously funny.
Speaker 1: That sounds like it is your walk up song to
Speaker 1: the stargarden.
Speaker 2: Right, which that's a different fantasy camp and we'll do
Speaker 2: that later in the year probably.
Speaker 6: Hey, Gary, I think you should use Crazy Train again.
Speaker 1: It's one of those that's two objects to you're gonna
Speaker 1: hear it probably, you know, it's like using that the
Speaker 1: song with the drums, the song with the you know,
Speaker 1: the drums that everyone knows how to play, every dude,
Speaker 1: I can feel it, right.
Speaker 3: That's definitely not gonna be every different.
Speaker 12: Don't have a walk up song, you know, like Babe
Speaker 12: Ruth and those guys didn't.
Speaker 3: They just went up and showed them who's boss.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're going to have to distract people from you
Speaker 1: not being Babe Ruth. You're gonna need your own walk
Speaker 1: up song. I mean, if you were a Babe Ruth show,
Speaker 1: screw the walk up song. But here's something that's not
Speaker 1: going to shock you what you're not Babe Ruth.
Speaker 10: Wow, I got your I got your walk up song.
Speaker 10: All right, Gary, it's gonna be certified freak seven days
Speaker 10: a week.
Speaker 3: We blank blank blank. That is funny.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 2: Although they say on the form that you're supposed to
Speaker 2: fill out, yeah, understand that this is potentially a family thing,
Speaker 2: which it's not. I mean there's not a lot of family.
Speaker 2: There's no one in the stands. But I don't know
Speaker 2: who else is.
Speaker 3: Going to be there and who would be offended by that.
Speaker 1: Can you have people show up for you?
Speaker 3: Well it depends on yes.
Speaker 2: Well yeah no, because my wife is gone, you may
Speaker 2: just show up into the stadium.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no the gates open, you don't have to
Speaker 3: pay my.
Speaker 1: Gosh field trip. But there was nobody else hearing it.
Speaker 2: But to that end, a couple of years ago, they
Speaker 2: actually had to shut down one of the games mid
Speaker 2: game because homeless Guy was being tackled by the Scottsfield
Speaker 2: Police Department out in right Field.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it's in Scottsdale. Yes, that's a quick drive drive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, five or six.
Speaker 1: I have those days off too, So maybe we all
Speaker 1: go as a group.
Speaker 12: That would be funny. More of these suggestions. We could
Speaker 12: make signs a little later in the show. We could
Speaker 12: chanting you. That'd be like the movie Major League.
Speaker 2: And by the way, somebody suggested wild Thing Now, which
Speaker 2: was Rob Loos. Not sorry, Martin Sheen. Not Martin Sheen, Sorry,
Speaker 2: Charlie Sheen. I'll get through it. I'll get through it,
Speaker 2: turning into my grandmother Charlie Sheen's entrance song. But he
Speaker 2: was a picture. It's different, It's very different.
Speaker 1: Jacob says, we have cognitive declient.
Speaker 3: We don't.
Speaker 2: It's we're just it's we're out of practice. We're rusty, Jacob,
Speaker 2: you haven't been able to do this. They locked us
Speaker 2: out for a week and a half. Gary and Shannon
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