Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon, and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. Turns out, Josh Shapiro was an
Speaker 1: early fan of Barack Obama when every other Democrat pretty
Speaker 1: much was in camp Hillary. It was two thousand and seven.
Speaker 1: He was a state representative there in Pennsylvania, and he
Speaker 1: broke with much of the Democratic establishment to back this
Speaker 1: first term senator from Illinois. He lost Pennsylvania's primary and
Speaker 1: O eight to Hillary, and he won the presidency and
Speaker 1: never forgot the support from Josh Shapiro. They've become very close.
Speaker 1: They say they've developed a connection that's closer than is
Speaker 1: commonly understood, according to interviews with people who knew them both.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I would want that description of
Speaker 2: me and someone else. That seems a little too intimit intimate. Well,
Speaker 2: you don't know why, but I just mean that that's
Speaker 2: an odd way to describe a relationship between two people.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that you don't have friends. Okay, we should
Speaker 1: work on that.
Speaker 3: I'll take it. I'll take it.
Speaker 2: Big Lots is going to be closing up to three
Speaker 2: hundred and fifteen stores across multiple states. Because of growing
Speaker 2: financial woes, The discount homeware chain has identified some locations
Speaker 2: in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, Vermont which are due
Speaker 2: to close. They haven't officially put out an entire list,
Speaker 2: but stores that are going out of business the Big
Speaker 2: Lots stores will be displaying a closing this location banner
Speaker 2: on their website along with the twenty percent off promotion.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever been to a Big Lots.
Speaker 2: I have a huge Speaking of Big Lots, I have
Speaker 2: a huge Yes.
Speaker 3: Burning Man update.
Speaker 1: Oh I can't wait. Your face is saying that's not true.
Speaker 3: Your face is making it sound like you can wait.
Speaker 1: So I'm an adult person. I don't like going to
Speaker 1: entertain myself in dirt or those showers.
Speaker 2: Are implementing an unprecedented move to sell tickets less than
Speaker 2: three weeks before the start of Burning Man.
Speaker 3: They call you a burner.
Speaker 2: You could still buy tickets on demand through the OMG
Speaker 2: ticket Sale, even if the EU didn't pre register. Traditionally,
Speaker 2: tickets wouldn't be available this close to the event, which
Speaker 2: begins August twenty fifth, But it just put a ballpark
Speaker 2: on what you think a.
Speaker 3: Ticket to Burning Man would.
Speaker 2: Cost one hundred and twenty five and seventy five dollars stop.
Speaker 3: It is where they set.
Speaker 1: So it's rich people that go out there and play
Speaker 1: in the dirt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and last year, remember how it rained and it
Speaker 2: was muddy and it was awful. I can't imagine.
Speaker 1: My cousin Danny would go because he's an artist and
Speaker 1: he would put up the installations. And that's why he
Speaker 1: would go, is because he loves that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: But other than that, and he's in his fifties probably no,
Speaker 1: he's not. He's a younger. He's probably close to fifty
Speaker 1: this year.
Speaker 2: But I remember thinking, there's just no allure to that
Speaker 2: for me, right, nothing about that is alluring.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I was calling you at a time like this.
Speaker 2: It could be anybody, probably my wife or my dog
Speaker 2: or my daughter.
Speaker 1: Well you have a leak in your home, my son,
Speaker 1: or you don't have color I d well, I'm not going.
Speaker 3: To tell you who it is.
Speaker 2: Why, because because you don't have everything, you don't share why.
Speaker 1: That's why this is case in point.
Speaker 3: Last night's earthquake. Oh, I was going to show this
Speaker 3: to you. I know that you puppooed the earthquake.
Speaker 2: But look at this map of the area where the
Speaker 2: earthquake hit. Well, yeah, I mean dozens of earthquakes and
Speaker 2: after shocks that hit after that big five point two
Speaker 2: from last year.
Speaker 1: They said it was connected to the time of day.
Speaker 3: Which which is why why it was so white.
Speaker 1: Was able to just cover the basin with some sort
Speaker 1: of movement.
Speaker 2: It was also because your basin is most likely either
Speaker 2: sitting or lying down at nine oh nine pm. That's
Speaker 2: why that's true. That's why we felt it. At my house,
Speaker 2: My daughter and I were both sitting there watching TV.
Speaker 2: My wife was in doing a puzzle because she's smarter
Speaker 2: than all of us, and we all felt it and
Speaker 2: it was I mean, it was a good one. It
Speaker 2: was all it lasted, and we're like, it still feels
Speaker 2: like it's still going. And my phone went off at
Speaker 2: the exact moment that I felt the earthquake. My phone
Speaker 2: had gone off with an alert. A lot of people
Speaker 2: got those alerts. I did not get an alert. Yeah,
Speaker 2: if you're you make a good point. We all felt
Speaker 2: it because we're all probably winding down for the day.
Speaker 2: My mom didn't feel the Loma Prieta earthquake because she
Speaker 2: was driving in eighty nine. Yeah, she did not feel that.
Speaker 2: I know a couple of people.
Speaker 1: She came home and I said, there was an earthquake,
Speaker 1: and I'm terrified and I'm home alone, and she says,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about. I'm going upstairs, see you later.
Speaker 1: And the carpool lady came busting through the front door, saying,
Speaker 1: are you okay? Oh, I guess there was an earthquake
Speaker 1: last night.
Speaker 2: There were actually some boulders that fell where I five
Speaker 2: goes down the grapevine. There were some boulders that crossed
Speaker 2: the road and they had to shut down some of
Speaker 2: the lanes.
Speaker 3: Last night. And then that's pretty strong.
Speaker 2: Boulders come down that far right, I mean they're three
Speaker 2: or four feet across. A Qt's plant in Bakersfield was
Speaker 2: also evacuated last night after the earthquake.
Speaker 1: We've all driven by that QTS plant, haven't we.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the massive SI huge.
Speaker 1: And it says QUTIES on the whole side of the building.
Speaker 2: They said that immediately after the earth well, immediately about
Speaker 2: five minutes after the earthquake, they had a strong smell
Speaker 2: of ammonia in the plant, so they evacuated the plant
Speaker 2: as a precaution. They at least as the story that
Speaker 2: I saw. They hadn't figured out if in fact there
Speaker 2: was a leak, but they did it as a precaution.
Speaker 2: And then I have a nephew who lives in Bakersfield,
Speaker 2: and he said his entire apartment was making noises. Oh wow,
Speaker 2: that's the weirdest. When you hear your home creaking. That's
Speaker 2: always rather unsettling. Not that you know, earthquakes themselves are
Speaker 2: not unsettling, it's by definition.
Speaker 1: Well from One of the biggest falls I think from
Speaker 1: Grace that I've ever seen was the fall of Tom Girardi,
Speaker 1: a legal titan that was connected to all of California.
Speaker 1: To get on the bench, you had to have his blessing.
Speaker 1: Pretty much. He is the Aaron Brockovich attorney that that
Speaker 1: movie was based off. And now he is eighty five,
Speaker 1: wearing secondhand clothes and in a court room that he
Speaker 1: once ruled, being prosecuted for stealing from clients, clients who
Speaker 1: people in plane crashes or had injuries where they will
Speaker 1: never walk again. He stole from those people. Why to
Speaker 1: fund his Hollywood wife's entertainment career in her forties. Story
Speaker 1: has everything.
Speaker 3: I will come back and do that just a quick update. Gary,
Speaker 3: I'm not sure you realize what you said.
Speaker 2: You referred to it as.
Speaker 1: A little speed bump.
Speaker 3: I thought that was funny.
Speaker 1: Have a good day, guys. Miss Patricia caught that too.
Speaker 1: I did not you refer to yourself and your underwear
Speaker 1: and then then yeah, a little speed bump. Hey, we
Speaker 1: don't have to know everything, Garyan, Listen, you don't need
Speaker 1: to explain it. I'm not I'm not. I'm not going.
Speaker 2: To knock the bar off in the Olympics vault competition.
Speaker 4: Gary.
Speaker 3: I love the show, Shannon.
Speaker 4: I want to apologize for you yesterday, telling you you
Speaker 4: were from a little, small puntry town and didn't understand things.
Speaker 4: I don't think you guys understand how intertwined you guys
Speaker 4: are in my life.
Speaker 3: I listen to you every day. Love the show.
Speaker 4: Have a great day, Shannon. We all have our days.
Speaker 2: I apologize, heyday. Once in a while, friends have to
Speaker 2: have harsh words. Yes, I love an apology and I
Speaker 2: but I understood your sentiment yesterday, and I do love
Speaker 2: the apology. We're all good, and I'd like to talk
Speaker 2: to you about your attitude. My attitude.
Speaker 3: Oh never mind, Hey.
Speaker 4: Guys, great show, as usual, Shannon Farren.
Speaker 2: I know you don't have an allure to go to
Speaker 2: Bernie Man, but imagine all the cocaine you can.
Speaker 1: You could probably move that seventy pounds.
Speaker 4: In a couple of days there. So be a little
Speaker 4: bit more open minded and check it out.
Speaker 3: Have a good day, guys. Yeah you too, a little
Speaker 3: open mind? Yeah, maybe a money making guys.
Speaker 1: I ever thought of myself as closed minded.
Speaker 2: Just get a basic ticket, the five seventy five. You
Speaker 2: could easily make that back with seventy pounds. Don't have
Speaker 2: the coke. That was a hypothetical situation.
Speaker 3: Oh that's right, I forgot. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Don't do drugs, kids, You can't do drugs anymore.
Speaker 2: Tom Girardi. Tom Girardi one of the most powerful lawyers
Speaker 2: in a southern California definitely all of California, likely for
Speaker 2: a certain amount of time the.
Speaker 1: Way the La Times writes it, And maybe Girardi's checks
Speaker 1: are still clearing over at the La Times. He was
Speaker 1: really one to pepper his money across the country. But
Speaker 1: the headline reads Tom Girardi's fraud trial begins a liar
Speaker 1: who stole millions or the victim of a thieving CFO.
Speaker 1: It's like, come on, La times. You know this guy's
Speaker 1: guilty as the day is long. But the way the
Speaker 1: article begins is this Tom Girardi was on a first
Speaker 1: name basis with senators from CA California to North Carolina
Speaker 1: governor on speed dry speed dial. He would have local
Speaker 1: officials lined up for his boozy parties in Beverly Hills,
Speaker 1: Vegas and elsewhere. Probably the most connected person that I've
Speaker 1: ever met. I never met him, but I did interview
Speaker 1: him a couple times on the Sunday Show. I don't
Speaker 1: remember what they were with regard to but he's so affable.
Speaker 2: He's just kind of an aw shuckskuy, but has such gravitas.
Speaker 1: And there was something that rubbed me the wrong way.
Speaker 1: But most people who are.
Speaker 2: Rich do because you don't get to be that powerful
Speaker 2: and rich without having some compromises that you have made
Speaker 2: without having some bodies in the closet, right, skeletons in
Speaker 2: the closet. So yesterday he showed up in a federal
Speaker 2: courthouse downtown Los Angeles. The jury was seated and his
Speaker 2: criminal trial began.
Speaker 1: Dan's accused of four counts of wire fraud for allegedly
Speaker 1: looting fifteen million from clients over a decade. Clients that
Speaker 1: had turned to him in moments of tragedy, a burn victim,
Speaker 1: a widow whose husband died in a boating accident, a
Speaker 1: woman injured from a medical device, a woman injured in
Speaker 1: an auto accident, people that lost the ability to walk
Speaker 1: ever again, he won them settlements and then stole their money.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and this is.
Speaker 2: From the highest heights in terms of that notoriety and
Speaker 2: the power that he had to the lowest of lows
Speaker 2: in these last couple of years.
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 2: And the thing is, had he not been married to
Speaker 2: Erica Jane and that very public divorce that played out
Speaker 2: in was it Season eleven of The Real Housewives of
Speaker 2: Beverly Hills, I don't think this gets the same noteariety
Speaker 2: because it now has even more people who know who
Speaker 2: this guy is.
Speaker 1: The money belonged to those defendants and in one case,
Speaker 1: playing crash victims and their family members. But what he
Speaker 1: would do is he would keep it after it was awarded.
Speaker 1: It should have been promptly paid to the victims, but
Speaker 1: he would keep the money and use it for funding
Speaker 1: his wife's entertainment singing career. Lip singing career. In her forties,
Speaker 1: he had two private jets we're talking jewelry, country club
Speaker 1: fees and mansion in Pasadena, a home in Palm Springs.
Speaker 1: Twenty million from the firm's bank account went into the
Speaker 1: entertainment career of Erica Girardi. All the while, these people
Speaker 1: are waiting for their money to get medical care, to
Speaker 1: get wheelchairs, to bury their loved ones. All of this.
Speaker 2: The downfall of Tom Girardi started when he started working
Speaker 2: with Edelson PC, a Chicago law firm in Illinois, and
Speaker 2: Jay Edelson, one of the other plaintiffs. Lawyers had previously
Speaker 2: developed a reputation as going after Silicon Valley class action
Speaker 2: lawsuits against big tech companies because of privacy, but Edison
Speaker 2: said they became aware of unusual delays in dispersing the
Speaker 2: sums that Boeing. Remember he was representing plane crash the
Speaker 2: families of plane crash victims, the delays in the payments
Speaker 2: that Boeing was making to Girardi and keys the law firm.
Speaker 2: Over the next several days, Debbie projected to linger along
Speaker 2: the southeast US coast and will produce significant flooding, gusty winds,
Speaker 2: prolonged coastal inundation. Some meteorologists that ACU Weathers say there's
Speaker 2: a growing threat of relentless rainfall and flooding impacts as
Speaker 2: this storm slowly tracks from northern Florida to parallel with
Speaker 2: the Georgia and Carolina coastlines.
Speaker 1: The Harris and Trump campaigns both holding events in key
Speaker 1: swing states this week.
Speaker 3: JD.
Speaker 1: Vance met with law enforcement officials in Shelby Township, Michigan, today,
Speaker 1: slamming Kamala Harris's record on crime and immigration. Vance will
Speaker 1: then stop in Wisconsin later in the day. Harris and
Speaker 1: Walls are said to hold events in Wisconsin this afternoon
Speaker 1: and another in Detroit in the evening. What a stark
Speaker 1: contrast to what Biden was doing.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, could.
Speaker 1: You imagine keeping this schedule and this enthusiasm. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was just so flat lined. It was a flatline campaign.
Speaker 2: And that's that was showing in the polls. That was
Speaker 2: showing in the concern that Democrats had about that.
Speaker 1: And where is he? Where where is he? And what's
Speaker 1: that going to look like when he speaks at the convention.
Speaker 2: I know they announced that. I'm you think he does
Speaker 2: a video message? That's the Kosi. I think that's what
Speaker 2: they have to do. That's kind of the They might
Speaker 2: do the old two hologram thing with Biden on Monday
Speaker 2: night at the case.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, all right, So we are talking about the
Speaker 1: Tom Girardi fraud trial, and he is accused of lying
Speaker 1: and stealing millions upon millions of settlement dollars from clients.
Speaker 2: Officially four counts of wire fraud for allegedly looting the
Speaker 2: fifteen million dollars from different clients over the course of
Speaker 2: a decade.
Speaker 1: His defense team has dismissed the prosecutor's account as a
Speaker 1: fictional Hollywood plot line in accurately casting his client as
Speaker 1: the villain. Samuel Cross is the deputy federal public defender.
Speaker 1: The fact that Tom Girardi has a public defender is
Speaker 1: rich too. He said he to the jury, this is
Speaker 1: my client. He is a once mighty lawyer, now his
Speaker 1: later years marred by progression, progressive dementia, disorganized organization in
Speaker 1: his law firm Gariti Keyse and large scale theft by
Speaker 1: the CFO Christopher Cayman. They said it was him Girardi
Speaker 1: who is the victim in all of this. He was
Speaker 1: the one who was defrauded, that his CFO pocketed more
Speaker 1: than fifty million from his boss or a variety of schemes,
Speaker 1: trans transactions, checks to sham companies, things like that.
Speaker 2: Well, that's also possible, but isn't it can't both things happen?
Speaker 2: That Tom Girardi was taking money and this guy was
Speaker 2: taking advantage of the guy who was taking money.
Speaker 1: He says, he will prove that Girardi had to pour
Speaker 1: eighty million of his own money into the firm that
Speaker 1: he tried to keep the firm afloat. Why is the
Speaker 1: firm sinking because the CFO, Chris Cayman, is stealing the money.
Speaker 3: So I mentioned Jay Edison.
Speaker 2: Edison was another lawyer that came out of Chicago, and
Speaker 2: when he was working with Tom Girardi on a different case,
Speaker 2: he got a little suspicious because there were some weird things,
Speaker 2: weird delays when it came to one of the one
Speaker 2: of the defendants, Boeing in this case, paying money to
Speaker 2: the families of victims of Boeing playing crashes, and Jay
Speaker 2: Addilson said, I noticed that there was something weird that
Speaker 2: was antiquated about the way these payments were being dispersed.
Speaker 2: And he says So this is a guy who made
Speaker 2: hundreds of millions of dollars in his career, so the
Speaker 2: idea that he would steal a few million million dollars
Speaker 2: from widows and orphans didn't add up. And he said
Speaker 2: when he met Tom Girardi for the first time, he
Speaker 2: recalled Girardi handing out signed pictures of Erica Jane and
Speaker 2: talking about his Morton's steakhouse expenditures, and he said, the
Speaker 2: big aha moment was when I read in whatever stupid
Speaker 2: gossip mag I came across that Erica Jane had filed
Speaker 2: for divorce. And he said, at that point, I said
Speaker 2: the money might actually be gone. He was stealing too
Speaker 2: make up for the money that was lost.
Speaker 1: Apparently the prosecutor is stipulating that the CFO did steal
Speaker 1: money from the firm, but that it's a fraction of
Speaker 1: what Girardi stole, right, So everyone has their hands in
Speaker 1: the pot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I wonder if that guy is going to
Speaker 2: end up testifying against Tom Girardi the CFO. I don't
Speaker 2: know where he is, or they say, actually, this is
Speaker 2: not going to take along a long time, to eight
Speaker 2: days or something like that, that's not a very long
Speaker 2: considering it's weird.
Speaker 1: To all this stuff they have to lay out in
Speaker 1: terms of the financial statements and things like that, and
Speaker 1: you would think the victims would testify and all of that.
Speaker 2: You're could get some some forensic economists in there.
Speaker 3: I would sure to talk about that. But if it's
Speaker 3: just wire fraud and.
Speaker 2: It's it's a criminal case as opposed to a civil case,
Speaker 2: that's truckle. Aren't you know they're not suing him for
Speaker 2: the money. I guess they could, but they're not at
Speaker 2: this point. One of the questionnaires, by the way, for
Speaker 2: the perspective juror did ask whether prospective jurors watched The
Speaker 2: Real Housewives of Beverly Hills or any other Bravo shows.
Speaker 2: His defense attorneys were concerned that if jurors did see
Speaker 2: him on those shows that it would color their perceptions
Speaker 2: of him because he was just this I she made
Speaker 2: it sound like she was a victim in these shows.
Speaker 1: By the way, he's got a case in Chicago that's pending,
Speaker 1: and that's where the CFO is going to go to
Speaker 1: trial for what he did in terms of thievery. A
Speaker 1: federal judge has set March third, twenty twenty five trial
Speaker 1: date for Christopher Cayman. Another one of his attorneys will
Speaker 1: also go to trial, David Lera and then Girardi. Once
Speaker 1: this resolves, he'll have to go face trial in Chicago
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 2: Well, we have advocated for something like this, and I
Speaker 2: had not heard about this program before the America Exchange Project.
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: It's a really great idea. Yes, we'll talk about that.
Speaker 3: What it is? Maybe how to get your kids signed
Speaker 3: up for that? When we come.
Speaker 1: Back, Gary and channor or your co host, Maybe I
Speaker 1: send you somewhere strange for a while and you come
Speaker 1: back with a fresh set of eyes.
Speaker 3: Where would you send me?
Speaker 2: I would send you many places, really anywhere. Okay, just kidding.
Speaker 2: That was that was just a joke, just to get
Speaker 2: me out of here. Yeah, I was just a little joke.
Speaker 2: Gary and channawall came by yourself. Now, I don't want
Speaker 2: to be by myself, don't go. Does the name Kai
Speaker 2: Sinnat mean anything to you?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 1: Kai Sinat is a popular twitch streamer. Oh yeah, and
Speaker 1: he has waded into the Harris campaign. Apparently, the Harris
Speaker 1: campaign is yet to respond as this popular twitch streamer,
Speaker 1: Kai Sinat claims he's getting calls about a possible collaboration
Speaker 1: with the Vice president. They call him an Internet sensation
Speaker 1: from New York City. He claims the Secret Service has
Speaker 1: reached out to him several times about getting the Vice
Speaker 1: President on his live stream. This is a guy who
Speaker 1: streams out of a U haul from an undisclosed location
Speaker 1: in Manhattan.
Speaker 2: Can I say that the Secret Service would never contact
Speaker 2: him to do that.
Speaker 1: He admitted to his nearly thirteen million followers that he
Speaker 1: knows nothing about politics and is not really interested in
Speaker 1: the matter. He gained notoriety last year after his giveaway
Speaker 1: at Union Square turned into a riot and he was
Speaker 1: paid thousands of dollars in restitution. That entire story that
Speaker 1: I just read makes me want to go get China
Speaker 1: and bring them here myself and just say, wipe us out,
Speaker 1: invite them over, come over, and just take it. Just
Speaker 1: take it. We are such a weird society. Not that
Speaker 1: it's probably much better in China. I think we're globally
Speaker 1: more stupid than we used to be.
Speaker 3: But what.
Speaker 2: Well, that's how we're going to get votes. Let's not
Speaker 2: talk about things that actually matter. I'm speaking of Harris
Speaker 2: and Minnesota Governor Tim Walls, her running mate, spending their
Speaker 2: first full day as running mates in Wisconsin and Michigan.
Speaker 2: They said yesterday, sorry, they said today the campaign that
Speaker 2: they'd raised thirty six million dollars in the first twenty
Speaker 2: four hours after the vice presidential announcement. And I'm starting
Speaker 2: to get to the point where the announcements of the
Speaker 2: money that you've raised are now just self aggrandizing, like
Speaker 2: totally self love, self love than self love. It's just
Speaker 2: we'll call it couch time because listen you oh we won't. No,
Speaker 2: it's because it's just, Okay, you made millions of dollars,
Speaker 2: so did the other team. The other team made millions
Speaker 2: of dollars as well. It's just fake money at this point.
Speaker 1: Okay. So there is a program I did not know about.
Speaker 1: It's called the American Exchange Prime and it is fascinating
Speaker 1: story in the La Times about it today. This summer,
Speaker 1: a group of high school students brought a whole new
Speaker 1: meaning to foreign exchange programs right here in this country
Speaker 1: of the United States. Wendy Rojas of Koreatown immersed herself
Speaker 1: in South Dakota, expecting to see Mount Rushmore. Instead, she
Speaker 1: had to set the record straight about her hometown of La.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: She explained to the people her neighborhood is not overrun
Speaker 1: with gangs and rife with gunfire like they'd seen in
Speaker 1: the movies Maggie and Kilgore, Texas. Had to convince her
Speaker 1: visitors from La that Texans don't get around on horseback.
Speaker 2: This came This American Exchange Project came out of a
Speaker 2: trip from David McCullough third, the founder of the organization,
Speaker 2: from about eight years ago cross country trip. He was
Speaker 2: twenty two years old at the time, a Yale student
Speaker 2: working on a research project, talking to students and teachers
Speaker 2: in different poor areas of the country. And it was
Speaker 2: all during the breaking of politics in our country, the
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen race between Trump and Clinton, and said he
Speaker 2: expected to face some animosities, wary of the fact that
Speaker 2: some of the people from different parts of the country
Speaker 2: might not welcome him, especially if he says he's a
Speaker 2: Yale student or whatever, and.
Speaker 1: That wasn't the case. They accepted him warmly. And I
Speaker 1: love this idea of adults and kids alike getting out
Speaker 1: of their bubble, getting out of their echo chamber, getting
Speaker 1: out of their hometown and going and seeing how other
Speaker 1: people live that the more we do this, the better
Speaker 1: off we are altogether and make better community members and everything.
Speaker 2: If you're interested by it, it's Americanexchange Project dot org
Speaker 2: is the website and the way that you sign up.
Speaker 2: Any current senior at a partner high school to the
Speaker 2: American Exchange Project on track to graduate would be eligible
Speaker 2: to participate. They get you some basic information about your interests,
Speaker 2: the hometown, your plan for the future, what your availability
Speaker 2: is in terms of travel, and then the placement team
Speaker 2: there will use the information to pair you up with
Speaker 2: the town and the group that you'll be working with,
Speaker 2: and if students have to consult with the student's exchange
Speaker 2: manager before signing up and then picking your destination. In
Speaker 2: all of the partner schools, March first is AEP day,
Speaker 2: so in the springtime, all the students go to their
Speaker 2: exchange manager's classroom where they find an EA sorry AEP
Speaker 2: bag with their name on it. The bag will be
Speaker 2: a letter revealing which town in this faraway part of
Speaker 2: America that they'd be traveling to. The dates of the travel,
Speaker 2: the hosting experience would all be revealed, and that's the
Speaker 2: day that the whole thing becomes very real.
Speaker 3: This is a very I.
Speaker 2: Obviously everybody has exchange students in their high schools or
Speaker 2: you know somebody who was in exchange and you go whatever, Japan, Land, France,
Speaker 2: something like that, and those were always the very exotic,
Speaker 2: felt very I was jealous of them because they got
Speaker 2: to live in a different culture for a long time
Speaker 2: and learn the language.
Speaker 3: I never had the balls to do.
Speaker 1: You couldn't wrap your head around that. Yeah, it just
Speaker 1: seems so foreign. But then you go to this literally,
Speaker 1: then you go to these places and you meet people
Speaker 1: and it it's obvious how much alike we all are globally,
Speaker 1: and that we're not so different. And and you know what,
Speaker 1: you don't talk about You don't talk about politics. You
Speaker 1: just talk about each other. And I'm you know what
Speaker 1: we should do.
Speaker 3: We should talk to this.
Speaker 1: We should get an exchange student for the show.
Speaker 2: Oh, I think I said, we should interview David mccullo
Speaker 2: about his experience and why he started the program.
Speaker 1: That's probably a more realistic scenario.
Speaker 3: I'm getting an exchange student.
Speaker 1: Well, this is why you should have let me foster
Speaker 1: the duck, so that we don't we don't move into
Speaker 1: people into human traffick.
Speaker 3: Got it.
Speaker 2: McCullough said this, and I think it's a very important
Speaker 2: takeaway from it. He says, we're defining people by fractions
Speaker 2: of who they are. Yes, and we're pretending that because
Speaker 2: we know one of their views, we know all of
Speaker 2: their views.
Speaker 3: I love that attitude.
Speaker 2: I mean, just the idea, and that's quite a condemnation
Speaker 2: of all of us who, once we learn one specific
Speaker 2: thing about that person, we think.
Speaker 1: Oh, oh profile, profile, Yes, I know.
Speaker 3: Everything, all right.
Speaker 1: Coming up next, we've got some new polling, We've got
Speaker 1: a packed schedule, by the way till, by the way holes,
Speaker 1: and how the campaign is defining Tim Walls. We'll get
Speaker 1: into all of that coming up next.
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