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We'll win it one way or the other. There were several technology CEOs that are headed there, including Tim Cook from Apple, Chuck Robbins from Cisco, Dina McCormick from Meta, Elon Musk, obviously from Tesla and SpaceX. Jensen Wong apparently got on Air Force One as they stopped in Anchorage overnight to refuel. So a lot of very high-end business interests are headed over there as well. We mentioned inflation numbers. No, boy, no. Debt reaching a record high of $18.8 trillion in the first three months of this year. U.S. household debt, mortgages, credit cards, auto loans, student loans reached this all-time high, $18.8 trillion. They say this was driven by higher balances on mortgage and auto loans. People are just not paying down. South Carolina Supreme Court has overturned Alex Murdoch's double murder convictions and life sentence. So they have ordered a new trial for Alex Murdoch. This latest twist and this whole thing was all because the court ruled Murdoch was denied his right to a fair trial when a county clerk Rebecca Hills improperly. influenced the jury. According to the court in this unanimous decision, Hill placed her fingers on the scales of justice. They said it was shocking interference by an officer of the court suggesting to jurors that they could not trust Murdoch's testimony. Apparently, she was also putting together a book on the case while she was working it. She has pleaded guilty to a couple of... basically misdemeanors in terms of the things that she did and is only serving probation. But he's not getting out of jail, but they are going to retry this guy on the murder and the financial crimes cases. Fresh polls coming out of the governor's race show what we have predicted that Xavier Becerra is the frontrunner. Steve Hilton follows. Looks like it's going to come down to these two when it comes to the November election. This is kind of what we thought, you know, after Eric Swalwell's exit, that all the democratic money, the machine money would go behind the safe bed of Xavier Becerra. Steve Hilton was seen as the leader in some polls, but I think that was after the Eric Swalwell thing was kind of the, everything was kind of settling post his departure. Now you've got Xavier Becerra at Topps Hilton and then a distant third is Tom Steyer. Yeah, there was also, there were other polls as well. Emerson is one of them as probably the most well known, but there are a few others that suggested that Steve Hilton maintains his first place with Xavier Becerra a close second. And then two polls, actually both of them affiliated with Matt Mayn's campaign, have Hilton and Xavier Becerra tied in both of those polls at the very, very top. Karen Bass, there's another poll when it comes out to the local mayor's race, which is kind of hard. It's also an Emerson College poll, but local polling like this can be very hard to put a lot of faith behind, but she is leading the field 30% support followed by Spencer Pratt at 22 and Nithya Raman back at 19.
Another person sentenced today in the Matthew Perry death case, a Hawthorne man, Eric Fleming, supposedly was the link between the high-end drug dealer and his personal assistant. They considered him the drug counselor who was delivering ketamine vials to Matthew Perry. Conan O'Brien will return to the Oscars for a third year in a row. Is that rare to have a three-peat like that? 99th Oscars will air on ABC and Hulu in March of next year. I think it, I don't know. I'm no Oscar historian other than knowing that Billy Crystal did it, you know, at least three years as I was growing up late 80s, early 90s. Did Bob Hope do it for a long time? I don't know. I didn't pay attention until, probably until Billy Crystal. Is it a job that not a lot of people want? Well, think of the jokes that they just did at the Kevin Hart. You can't do those. You can't do those. Well, I mean, not those jokes, but there comes with it, at least when Kevin Hart was up to do the Academy Awards to host them, there was a. What we referred to at the time as a lot of archaeological outrage where people were digging up stuff from the distant past and holding you to account for things that you said either in jest or out of context. If you had that job, would you do songs and dances like Billy Crystal did? No. You wouldn't? Because I don't sing or dance. Oh, I think that you do both of those things in my head. Well, I'm flattered. I think you could. That's not my, that's not my strong suit. What do you mean I could do it? I think you could be a fun musical. I think you could, I think you could flex that muscle. I think you could be funny and sing and dance, just like Billy Crystal was. I think you could do that. And I don't think you've tried. And that's really... You're exactly right. I have not tried. Really the tragedy of the whole thing. Is it that true? I think the tragedy is you look like Girl Scout leader today. And you haven't shared that picture with anybody. That's pretty awful. The tragedy is how you look today, Shannon, is what you just said. Girls are got an outfit, you know? Right. We'll do so much. Wait a minute. You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM 640. My fellow America, this July, we're celebrating America's birthday at Modo Casino by giving away 1,776,000 in prize. And one lucky winner is going to take home 1 million SC. Happy 250th birthday, America. You're welcome. Download Moto Casino today. Download the Moto Casino app today. Moto Casino's the social casino board. We're prohibited. No purchase necessary. Visit motto.us for more details.
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Half of its, is it half of its oil from the Middle East? Yeah, I think that's the number. So the biggest customer, you could argue, of the Middle East. So it's a tough leverage point to secure for China to be like, you know what? We will start buying natural gas and oil from you. I just, I don't think that that is going to be something that is ironed out here. The best, unfortunately, the best I think we could hope for is some sort of a trade deal. That was in fact what President Trump had said before we got involved with what was going on in Iran when this was originally going to take place, I believe at the end of or the middle of March. that was what was going to be on the table. And he was touting how great a deal he was going to get with China when it came to this, when it came to trade. But if this is the, obviously the dominant topic is going to be the war in Iran. Like I played for you before, the president says that probably he doesn't need President Xi Jinping's help in negotiating some sort of an end. So we'll see exactly what happens. He, Trump. Had a typical day, they say, on Monday, took questions in the Oval Office, met with members of Indiana's football team, Indiana University, dinner with law enforcement officers in the Rose Garden. And then as the Wall Street Journal writes it up, after the sun went down, another familiar ritual, late night social media posting. The president's truth social account posted 55 messages between 10.14 p.m. and 1.12 a.m. 55. Most of them were just reposts from other accounts, claiming the 2020 election was stolen, that Democrats had not been indicted by the Justice Department, called for the arrest of Barack Obama. There is an article in the Wall Street Journal that points to a specific woman and describes her as the engine behind these posts. Her name is Natalie Harp, executive assistant to the president. said that she brings the president stacks of printed out. social media posts for his approval, drafts of social media posts for his approval. And then they often, as you've seen, if you've seen any of his social posts, he just reposts things from other people many times. So then she, after he puts a gold star on the printed out memes or posts or whatever, she'll go back and post batches of the Trump-approved messages. And again, these are people in the White House that have been talking to the Washington Post. They said the president does personally sign off on all of the content that goes up on his account. And while she does often, this Natalie Harp, often does post content on his behalf, the president also said some of those messages clearly come from him alone, his own thumbs. She posted the video supposedly of,
The cartoon that was Barack and Michelle Obama and the Lion Sleeps Tonight song where they're shown at the end looking like apes. They also, she was the one who posted that image of Trump as the doctor Jesus or Jesus doctor. I can see him flipping through these, you know, late at night being like, oh, this is funny. Love it. Love it. Sign that. Sign that. DT. D.T. D.T. Star, star, star. But whatever. The Kash Patel hearing yesterday was entertaining. With him being grilled about his drinking and him firing back shots, like, you were the one at that junket down in those margaritas and running up that $7,000 bar tab. It was so, what's the word, that's all very, very... popular now, unsurious. Unserious. You know, the only person that ran up a $7,000 bar tab in Washington, D.C. at the lobby department was you. This suggests to me in this room. Allegations are true. This is all in response to an article that appeared different stories, but an article specifically that Chris Van Hollen, the senator was referring to, was in the Atlantic that said that Kash Patel had. had unannounced absences at work. And as the director of the FBI, not only is that not a good thing. I mean, in any place of work, it would be not a good thing. When you're the director of the FBI, you could potentially be someone's hostage. And if you don't show up for work someday, there's got to be an explanation for it. He didn't look good. Kash Patel. You mean physically or just the general? He looked disheveled. You know what's funny? They have, he had this thing about him when I was watching the video yesterday. I didn't catch it yesterday. I saw it this morning when I saw the replay. He's leaning forward on the desk like this. So his shoulders are kind of hunched up. So his jacket doesn't fit right. But he's also unbuttoned the top button on his shirt and loosened his tie. Yeah, which makes it look like disheveled. And then the guy asking him questions has got that like Irish white guy thing my whole family has with like the white hair and the big red nose clearly likes his drinks. It was just it was so unsurious. One quick note, Dr. Marty Makary, no longer commissioner of the FDA, according to resignation post that came out. He wrote a text to the president to say that he was a resigning effective yesterday, did not give a reason for it. The president was asked about this before this was announced. And all he said was Marty Makary's a great guy. Coming up next, Justin Wersham, host of the dad podcast will join us. We'll be talking parenting, including... Teachers sharing the concerning reasons parents have tried to get them fired. I've never done that. You've never done that. But everyone just got real uncomfortable. Gary and Shannon. Because you thought about it. Yeah. Yeah. You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM 640.
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And I am not worried about my son and his emotional sensitivity. But I told this principle, I'm like, this is not going to go well with you for other parents that I know. Most of my friends, if their teacher laughed in their kids face, like this is somebody in their 40s who's looking at somebody who's upset. Did she think he was? Making it up? No. Or joking. She was smugly like judging his. He had made some poor choices. Don't get me wrong. But it was also in the middle of those hybrid times where they were mostly in Zoom, but then sometimes not. Right. In the second semester. And I had told him because he was struggling in the class because he didn't get along with her. And I said, all these Friday office hours that they keep. I said, you have to go every Friday just to make sure that you're understanding the material. And he didn't do that. And then he was almost failing the class. And so part of his moral issue was is that she hid personal notes or, uh, hints about her personal life within the test, like and within the study guides. So if you read the study guide and memorized things like, what's my favorite animal? What's my favorite color? And you got that right. That was extra credit. And he, being my son, and I believe right, in my personal opinion, said, this has nothing to do with the subject matter. You are technically testing us about you. And that is not okay. And he also Googled it, but he threw it off that it was illegal because he was 12. He said, it's illegal. You can't. That's great. So all the smartness, right? All the smartness, all the ambition you want, still in a 12-year-old boy. But that's the only time I've ever, there's in here that people, my favorite one that I read was somebody said that I got a complaint because I did not let their kid participate in something when they provided a doctor's note that said they could not participate in class.
Yep. You're responding. And this goes to the snowplow parenting or the, you know, it goes beyond the helicopter parents. Everybody wants their kid to have the academic experience that they think they should have. There's another story in here that they got upset because they went to an Applebee's while the teacher was celebrating her birthday and her kids saw their teacher drinking. They also added that it was 45 minutes outside of where the school was. Like they were way out of town. And that the parents sat down at the bar themselves. Yes. They could go drink with their kids, but you can't let a teacher drink. That is just weird. Like that's why, like I could get like, oh, that sucks because now they see the teacher being a person, I guess. But. Oh, man. I grew up. My mom was a teacher and an administrator. She was a principal at the elementary school that I had gone to after. After you were gone. But I, we constantly had teachers in our house. Our. I think if our house was the closest house geographically to the school. And other people lived in different parts of town or other towns even when they would come in. So it was easy for us to be the host of Christmas parties or a, you know, end of school year party or whatever. We constantly had teachers in our house all the time. I got to see who smoked. I got to see who drank too much wine. I never thought of it as unusual. until I was probably in high school and my second grade teacher was still coming around. I mean, she was nice and she was always, you know, she had both my sisters and myself. So she was a friend of the family and she was, you know, concerned about where we were going to college and all that sort of stuff. But I never thought it was weird. I just thought that's what everybody did. Everybody had their teachers over to their house. But don't you think, I think all of our parents, if they got a call from the school saying, you know, Justin's in trouble, my dad's default was, what did you do? Like he didn't go, the teacher is wrong. He would start with what did you do? But there were three examples in my entire academic career that it was not on me and it was on the teacher. And to my dad's credit, like when we did meet, he was like, no, like this isn't a thing. We teach him to challenge authority and you should be okay with that. We did have a situation like that when my son was his fresh sophomore in high school, I guess it was. And they basically wanted to kick him out of school for what was a... just simply a misunderstanding on many people's parts, including teacher, including administrator. And for the most part, we thought you're a dummy for not making yourself clear. Yeah. I'm us, my wife and I saying that to our son, but then realizing that.
As much as we disagree with the stupid decision you made, this does not rise to the level of you being kicked out of a school. So we had to go on his behalf and fight, I mean, to the point where we're bringing in child psychologists and lawyers and sitting with principals and, I mean, just a super frustrating exercise. And we were right in the end. I mean, he still, he had to pay a punishment, which is totally fine with us. You weren't arguing that. The punishment just shouldn't be he couldn't go to school there anymore. Yeah. Right. So that was, but it's a frustrating thing, especially because. You have to go, I have to go in there and go, listen, I come from a line of teachers. My family's teachers, my wife's brother is a teacher. We get it. I totally understand. You're completely missing the point. Right. Completely overreaching in this, your idea of what punishment is. The overall concern is that this seems to be a growing trend, not only here in the U.S., but I've also seen a ton of articles about this in like the UK and other places. So this is like, this is a global societal shift that is happening where we feel that we need to protect our children. from the educators that I think also as a society, we keep dumping a lot of the responsibility. Like, you'll take care of feeding them breakfast. You're going to take care of feeding them lunch. And you're going to hang out with them, watch them after school. You're going to be nurturing their emotional health. Yeah. May not be the way we want to go. How much money do you pay for choir? You really want it out? You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM 640. Ten hours on my feet. Traffic, noise, everybody needs something for me. My head is spinning. I just need the world to stop for one second. But then I get home, shoes off, phone out, and I open Modo Casino. Hundreds of slots. Classic table games. It's my instant reset. The variety I want and the quiet I need. Moto Casinos, the social casino board were prohibited. No purchase necessary. Visit motto.us for more details. Download the Moto Casino app today. Must be 21 plus. American Social Casino. If you're someone who's tracking your sleep, your steps, and your macros, then you already know that what you eat is kind of everything. You should also know that Sprouts Farmer's Market can help make eating for longevity easier. Sprouts has all the high-quality, nutrient-dense, organic foods and cutting-edge supplements you need. So whether you're focused on protein, gut health, or optimizing how you feel day-to-day, it's all there. And here's what no other grocery store can offer, an in-store wellness expert to help you find exactly what you need. So whether you're after longevity or on any other health journey, it's easier at Sprout's Farmer's Market.
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What we're talking about is that in this suburb of New Jersey, they're adding a fee, like a required, if your kid is going to play any sport in middle school, they want you to pay $50. And if your kid is going to play a sport in high school, they want you to pay $100. And it's a very affluent area in New Jersey. And the parents are up in arms because they don't understand how you can charge a required fee. That sounds really reasonable. My kid was charged $300 for volleyball, her senior year. I think it was about $300. Okay. Well, every year that she played. Well, yes, but, and I think to use the term ask, I think that's technically what it was. Yes. You know, they do the parents meeting beforehand and they say $300 covers, you know, the bag, the sweatshirt, the uniforms, the this, the that, the snap. And if you can't pay it, we understand, was kind of the way it went. Now, again, from a, you know, nice neighborhood, that's probably not that difficult. But the idea that... I mean, when we played high school sports, the whole point of it was that you didn't have to pay for it. Yep. Yeah, you may have worn jersey. I mean, the jerseys that we wore when I played football. had been handed down for like 12 seasons. The amount of sweat, other people's sweat. I had different numbers, my home and away jerseys because they didn't have. I was 13 at home. I was 14 away. Yeah. We had a trailer with helmets that you'd walk in and they'd put a helmet on your head. And then whatever shook the least. Nothing was your own. Yeah. And it's not like they washed it. They just put it in there at the end of football season. Now everybody buys their own helmet. They buy their own shoulder pads. They buy their own like the pants. that you wear for football. Like I spent at least 400 bucks just when my kid played peewee football on the equipment, which again, I don't necessarily have a problem with, but it's just, it's interesting to me, kind of like what we talked about, like people wanting people's teachers to get fired. And then $100, $100 for the year for you just to say, I'm going to play the sport and you're up in arms about it. That's crazy. $2,500 I'm still stuck on. I'm not going to lie. You're even getting it to the 3750. That's the advance. I can't even hear that. Do you know any Estonian pancakes? Thank you. Thank you, Justin. Oh, great as always. Monks and Meryl show is coming up next. We'll see you tomorrow as they dry everybody. Blessing. This is KFI. You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show. You can always hear us live on KFI AM 649 a.m. to noon every Monday through Friday and any time on demand on the IHeart Radio app. Here's golf legend John Daly. Hell yeah, these wins are piling up faster than my divorces. I only spent on Moto, America's Social Casino. You know I've won a couple of majors. And on Moto, I've won majors, grands, and epic jackpots on their classic Vegas slots with huge, huge bonus rounds. Moto Casino adds new games and awards players, free coins every single day. Grip it and spend it on Moto Casino. Download the Moto Casino app today. Moto Casino is the Social Casino board. We're prohibited no purchase necessary.
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