Democrats Switch Up Their Playbook

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Right? You're following. What are you doing on your phone? You're not listening. Oh, I was just looking at stuff. In a land known as Galactoria, a battle is brewing. And then what you do is like the shot is like almost like you're in a tunnel and it's all dark, but the lights are going by like this. So it's like you're going at the speed of sound or light or whatever it is. The lights are racing by you. It's kind of like Space Mountain. Yep. And so like you feel as the viewer that you're going to galacturia to the battle that's about to be brewing. What do you think? Pretty generic. That's generic. High speed space where lights zoom past you. Right. That's pretty generic. Well, it takes a long way to get to wherever you're going in space. No, no, I know that. That's why you're traveling. It's not going, it's not like going to Pico. It's got to be a different way to show that somehow. You think so? It's been done in every science fiction movie ever. Oh. I mean, that's why you see it. I mean, I, it makes sense to me. But we're trying to do something new and different. Oh, okay. All right. But I like the, I like the starting point. Yeah. Do you like, do you think Galactaria is going to stick? No. I do. You do. Yeah. Do you think people will see Galactaria and think the nipple thing? Yeah. Okay. I hope so. It's time for Swamp Watch. I hope so. I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar. And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops. Here we go. The real problem is that our leaders are dumb. The other side never quits. What are you doing in my swamp? I'm not going anywhere. So dumb. That is how you drain the swamp. I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been. You know? Americans have always been going. Act presidential. But they're not stupid. A political blunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.

So we talked about the anger at these eight Democratic senators who voted with Republicans to end the shutdown. And that anger shows from people in the know on Capitol Hill that there is a dramatic shift going on, a dramatic shift in the Democratic Party. And there is a need amongst this group. they believe, to adopt more ruthless tactics to counter Trump, that the old Democrats way of doing things is not going to work? I think there is an aspect of this that has been completely adopted by Gavin Newsom. In that... Gavin Newsom is a guy who I don't think has a real great, strong record in the state of California to run on when he runs for president. You can't look at a place like this that has high taxes, high gas taxes, awful roads, crumbling infrastructure, a massive homelessness problem, and then say something along the lines of. I can't wait to bring my policies to the rest of the United States of America. He just can't run on that record. But what he can run on is... I'm a fighter. I'm going to take it to Donald Trump and whatever Republican is the nominee. I'm going to have the quirky, funny social media accounts that fight back at bullies. I'm going to come up with fun plans to unite people in different ways. But I'm not going to run on my record. And this ruthlessly pragmatic term. may be something that he's trying to do along with other Democrats. The being the bigger person in the room may not be the playbook that they use going forward, in other words, right? Rather than try to uphold norms as Trump shatters them, these Democrats have decided to fight Trump with tactics that they previously... disdained, excoriating those who have stood in their way, whether it's on redistricting or standing by candidates with problematic pasts. They've shifted course on redrawing congressional maps, as we've seen in California. This was a group that liked the independent commissions. Not anymore. You want to... You want to F around Texas? Well, we will F around here in California has been the shift. It's no longer we'll be the bigger person in the room and fight for the, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's okay, we'll fight dirty too. And the Democrats who don't want to fight dirty who want to capitulate in Washington, they're taking a lot of heat for it.

You shouldn't be. I shouldn't be worried about pasta. Oh, wow. I saw what you looked at when you did that. Okay. All right. Listen, I'm sitting funny. Is that what you're, I'm just sitting. It just looks funny. I know what you meant. I thought it was pretty good. Hope you're proud of yourself. I thought it was pretty dry. You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM 640. Here we go. Now, your chance to win $1,000. Just enter this nationwide keyword on our website. Credit, that's credit, C-R-E-D-I-T. Enter it now at K-F-I-A-M-640.com slash cash. Powered by Sweet James Accident Attorneys. If you're hurting an accident, winning is everything. Call the winning attorneys at Sweet James. 1-8-9 million. That's 1-800-9 million or Sweetjames.com. Again, the keyword credit goes on the website. Email is how we let you know that you want $1,000. And during the 12 o'clock hour, we give you another chance to win a thousand bucks. We've been taking your talkbacks today about Veterans Day. Aloha, Gary and Shannon. On Veterans Day, I would like to say thank you to my deceased mom and dad, both were U.S. Marines World War II, to my uncles that served in Europe, the theater in World War II. My dad also served in Korea. He was a night fighter pilot in the Marine Corps, as well as Jeff Narditez, who continues to assist and help veterans to this day. He served in Vietnam and to Steve Garnan, who was a Navy medic to our Marines in Vietnam. Quite a history that a lot of people have. It's pretty amazing. I want to give a shout out to my son, Bryce William, a retired Army Ranger vet who served in Kabul, Afghanistan. He has now just finished his degree as a nurse and is going to be working with the VA hospital to help other vets. Wow. Continuing to get back. Hi, Gary and Shannon. I want to remember my mom and dad who both served in the U.S. Army during World War II, several aunts and uncles who served in... the U.S. Army and the Navy during World War II and Korea. My older brother who served during the U.S. Army during the Vietnam era. nephew who served in the Air Force in the modern era and another nephew who served in the Army during modern era. Again, just amazing amount of people whose entire families have some connection to the military. Yeah, military blood runs deep, right? It's pretty, I don't want to say common. But when you hear about a couple people in one family in the military, it's usually a lot bigger than that.

for many reasons. But yeah, so some Italian pasta exporters are facing combined import and then anti-dumping duties. Hmm. Say that part again. No. Don't be weird. I've already said nipples like 75 times today. But you won't say anti-dumping duties. I have to have a line. You're right. I have to have a line somewhere. Everyone's got a line. Um. Business, let's just say it this way. Business is too costly and Italian pasta is going to be withdrawing from the market in the United States. The U.S. Commerce Department announced a 92% duty on 13 Italian pasta companies. That's in addition to the 15% tariff on EU imports. So it's just not worth it. It's too costly. And so you're not going to see the Italian pasta on the shelves. The Commerce Department did this after this investigation into pricing practices for pasta that goes and everything from spaghetti bolognese to mac and cheese. And the severity of the decision supposedly, in their words, stunned one of Italy's most iconic industries, obviously pasta. And has escalated into this fight between Washington, D.C. and Rome says they'll be fighting this tariff. Lamo salina, no, Molisana, and other companies were asking Commerce Department to revise its assessment and the final ruling and said one pasta maker, it would be a real shame to have the market snatched from us for no real reason. Listen, do you ever buy the Italian pot? You don't grocery shop. When I grocery shop and I see the pasta, I'm in the pasta aisle. I bought pasta last night and made lasagna. And I buy the generic pasta now because the stuff is like $5.99 for the generic. Like pasta used to be $0.99 maybe. And now with the inflated costs of everything in the grocery store, the Italian pasta is probably like $10 or something crazy. Like I used to once in a while get like the Italian pasta or whatever, just like, you know, something nice. Mix it up a little. I'll get something nice. I won't just get the brillo or whatever, burrilla. But that stuff was already expensive before everything started getting inflated. And my husband doesn't know the difference. I could feed him freaking. You know, chickpea pasta. The cardboard box that it comes. It all tastes like crap if I'm making it. But it's just not worth it. It's like why, who's buying that, I guess is my question. Who's buying the Italian pasta in the grocery stores now anyway? Yeah. American pasta makers have.

regularly filed anti-dumping complaints against the Italian pasta makers. And the Commerce Department often found that one or more of those companies was guilty of underpricing their pasta, but the penalties were usually pretty small. The Italian pasta makers would just see it as part of the cost of doing business in what they consider one of, if not the largest market for their product, which is the United States. All pasta makers, big and small, know that to export pasta to the U.S., you're going to have to pay a tariff, but they're saying that this, the anti-dumping duty and the 15% tariff on imports from the EU gets up to 107%. You see these Apple. Apple is unveiled iPhone pockets to put like over your shoulder. Oh, it's like a strappy thing. Yeah. Yeah, I saw the headline. That would really. be interesting to see. Like if I saw a dude with an iPhone across the body purse, an iPhone purse. Interesting choice of words. Interesting. I know. I've become my mom where I say interesting to just. To say to hide the mean things that you want to say. Maybe. Yeah. Or just I can't come up with the right word. But it's not hot. It's not a sexy thing to do to wear across the body purse-like contraption for your iPhone. Put it in your pocket, dude. You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM 640. Storm is going to be rolling in. Moderate to strong storm. We talked with KTLA's Henry De Carlo at the top of the show. The Southern California rain will probably be coming in late tomorrow. San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara counties will be the first to get the rain. And then Ventura and L.A. counties on Thursday, expected to peak late Thursday into... Late Thursday morning, I should say, into Thursday night. Most of the rain is expected to come down then. You have a story to tell us. Well, first of all, this is the one that peaked our interest this morning. Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, troops and families who live there have been told to take down their Christmas decorations. There was an email sent out by the landlord for all privatized housing on the base. And the message read this. While driving the neighborhoods yesterday, it was noticed that Christmas decorations have already begun to appear within the community. All holiday decorations should be reflective in their respective months and not any sooner than 30 days before the given holiday. If you currently have Yule Tide Decor present on the outside of your home, please remove it and reinstall it in accordance with your community guidelines listed below. Debbie Downer. Wow. If there's something to complain about, this ain't it.

Now, again, this isn't the Air Force that's doing it. It's the owners of the privatized housing that is on the Air Force base. In fact, an Air Force captain, public affairs chief there at Tyndall Air Force Base said that they were, that the Community Association was just enforcing community standards outlined in the legally binding lease agreement, all residents voluntarily sign. They added that Christmas decorations can be put up starting the week after Thanksgiving through the first week of the new year. And since said, since standards are set by a particular privatized housing community, the rules can vary from base to base. There are probably eight homes on my street that already have Christmas lights up. Okay. The light, just the lights. Just the lights. There's one house specifically that for the last, I would say 10 days, like as soon as they took their Halloween decorations down, they immediately replaced them with an extravagant, bright, flashing, loud, visually loud. Christmas display. And I couldn't care less. Good. It's, it's none of your business. If they need that kind of joy this early in the season, so be it. Plus, it's one of those things that unless it's, the lights are blinding me and I'm next door or something or across the street. It's not like that. It's, it's not like that. You know, we live in America. We have the freedom in this country. I'm sorry. To put a reindeer out on our front porch. Yeah, to celebrate the greatest American at all. In April, if we want to. This is Veterans Day. This is a day built on the backs of Americans to fight for freedom to do what we want to do, even if it's stupid ass. People went to war for our ability to be free, to live free, to do what we want to do, not to be forced by some government or some HOA to take Rudolph off my lawn in April. Like we... This is our thing. We own the rights to do this. And if you're going to come to me in November, mid-November and tell me to take my Christmas decorations down, effing you, sir. Why don't you go move to China? Okay, where you can tell me to take down Rudolph or not to have more babies or whatever else and no free speech and no apps and no TikTok. Go there, but not here. Not on our watch, sir. I'm putting Rudolph out there. And if it's April, well, so be it.

Because this isn't China, is it, Gary? No. It's America. Yes. And how dare you? How dare you tell people on an Air Force base that they can't put decorations up for their little children who have to go without mom or dad for several times a year, several years at a time? Maybe, maybe. This is the first Christmas where everyone... together in a long time. And if they want to start in November, let them celebrate, you a-holes. That made you hungry, apparently. That was beautiful. She finished the rant and then went straight for a pita chip loaded with hummus. Yeah. That was the... I also have similar rules in my HOA. They're very specific about when you can put up decorations like this. That's so silly. But I don't know what the penalty. I don't remember if they're outlined in the whole thing about you can't. Well, who writes that email with like a conscience? Oh, that's the part that. You know, who writes that and sends it. You're the letter writer for your HOA. It's one thing if you're the complainer, the guy who calls the HOA to complain. chances are you've got things going on in your life that have nothing to do with this. Your wife just left you, stole a minivan and drove to Mexico. Right. You're upset about something and I feel for you. But to the person that fields that call and then acts on that call, you're just a bad person. You're just a power hungry, bad person. Yes, and on Veterans Day of all days. Hey, Gary, Shannon. You know who I want to thank? I want to take Elmer. Didn't he serve, right? I want to thank Elmer for his service as a veteran. I also served myself. I did eight years, but that's neither here or there. But yeah, thanks, Elmer. We appreciate what you did. And you got a great job working with these two. That's awesome, bro. Yeah, don't forget that, Elmer. Wow. Thank you. What a guy. I appreciate you, sir. Sorry. It's not about you. No, no. It's about Elmer. Yeah, that Elmer needs to be thankful for the job that he does have. No, I'm very thankful. This is so much fun every day. You did not give Elmer his job? No. No. No, I'm just coaching him as a friend. The university did. Yeah, no. The universe did. I appreciate you, Gary. Next hour. Stand-up comedian Leanne Morgan is going to join us. We'll talk about her new special that just came out on Netflix that we both watched, both enjoyed. We'll talk about dating apps with dogs when we come back, though. I've got questions. I trust dogs. I do trust dogs and the decisions that they make about people. You think the dogs make the decision? Well, I'm saying that. Your dog could tell you bad news right there. Bad news just walked through the door. I don't think that's how the dating app works. No, but I want it to. Do you believe that your dogs choose you? No. Oh. But my mom always said that adopted kids choose their parents. So I was just wondering if it works the same in the kennel.

You know, that the dogs choose. You are enough. You were raised by people who absolutely adore you. You're okay. You didn't come from a kennel. It was a funny analogy. You're not an unwanted person. Okay. Thank you. I want you to say that back to me. Gary and Shannon will continue. You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM 640. True crime Tuesday coming up in the next hour will bring you one of the oldest true crime stories in American history, the assassination of the 20th president of the United States. Garfield. Yeah, you got that. You got that in the break. It was impressive. You should go to a trivia night at a local bar. Not a good... Today I'd like to honor my uncle Frank Reagan, who served 42 years in the Navy. He was on the U.S. Sarasota, first ship to be hit during Pearl Harbor and survived, as well as my father-in-law, Charles Waldron, who out of med school was drafted to serve in Vietnam, served frontline as well as in mash camps. To this day, he will not talk. about his experiences. God bless them all. Thank you. Wow, yeah. I've got a lot of uncles to tell you about. My Aunt Marianne texted me. Uncle Andy, my great uncle, her uncle, was in World War II. Her uncle Lyndon, Uncle Charlie, survived Pearl Harbor. My uncle Jim and Uncle Al. Jim was in the Navy. I was in the Army. Al was in the Navy on the Constellation. And my uncle Al's uncle Alfonso was killed on the Intrepid by a kamikaze. Both grandparents, or sorry, both grandpas, I should say, served in the military. I had an uncle who was a clerk in Vietnam. I had another uncle who served in the Air Force Reserves during the First Gulf War. A couple of cousins that both signed up for the army. What a different time. My father-in-law was in the Navy for Vietnam and then served with the Blue Angels. They didn't talk about it a lot. You know, growing up, if you had a member of the, at least it didn't seem like. I mean, who knows? I'm a child, a little girl, but it just seems like it wasn't talked about a lot. I feel like if people went to war these days, they wouldn't stop talking about it. Well, and I, like I said before, you know, part of it was we all, it seemed like there was a time when everybody's grandpa. had been in the military for some length of time or for whatever conflict it was. But also it was because they had a lot more people involuntarily. I always say they were all drafted to go. And that's, you just, that was also an expectation of that's how you served your country. Now that kind of aspect of it that for a lot of people just goes by the wayside. There's still plenty of obviously brave people who sign up to do that. But.

It's not mandatory, obviously. So I think people have a different attitude towards it. P.S., Michelle says that it is the same for shelter dogs. They choose you. So it is the same. There is a new dating app for dogs, for people who love dogs. And it's for dog people. It's called Frawley, a mashup of Frollic and Jolly. This already makes me want to run my head into a wall. And I want there to be a slider somewhere on here that tells you how into dogs you are. It started with a woman named Cindy, and she was talking with her adult daughter, Amanda. Amanda had met somebody at a bar. I saw her a week or so later. I said, whatever happened to so-and-so. And Amanda said, well, he wasn't that into dogs, which was a deal breaker. And mom got the idea, well, why don't we? specialize this dating app for people who are into dogs. I don't listen, I love animals. I love them very much. I have a dog. I love it very much. But I also understand not everybody likes dogs and not everybody's cool with a dog. Like I have zero problem. My dog jumping on the couch because he's small. He's clean. He's not going to get anybody. But he can and he likes to be near you. But I understand that there are people who are like, I don't want a dog on me. You make a great point. You can be super into dogs in a completely different way than the person you're dating. Right. You could be the person who eats out of your dog's mouth and sleeps with your dog in the bed who's dating somebody who also loves his or her dog who is super hyper. clean with their dog. The dog does not get on the furniture. The dog certainly does not eat out of the owner's mouth. That would be unacceptable. Right. Yeah, that's what I mean. I want there to be like a rating system for how cool are you with dogs? And I totally get the idea. I would be the same way. If I was dating and I had a dog, I'd have to find somebody who was okay with the dog. Yeah. They don't have to necessarily match my score on how into dogs they are, but it can't be wildly different.

They can't be a five and I'm a two when it comes to how much I love my dog. Well, I mean, you're going to see your pictures and you're going to move that slider over. That dog doesn't sleep on my bed. How hot is she? Is she hot enough for the dog to sleep in the bed? Why would she want the dog to sleep in the bed? That's my problem. That would be my deal breaker. The pets in the bed. That doesn't seem, I mean, I enjoy the thought of it, but in practicality, that's not where they belong. Right. And I know the whole pack thing. Yeah, no, they think they're part of you. Now, if I'm alone, like when I was growing up and I had Sparky, Sparky slept in the bed with me, it was cool. But like when you get into a loving relationship, kids, between two adults, consenting adults. You love each other and you like to do stuff with each other together, consensual. There's no, there's not a time. There's no reason for the dog to sit there and watch you, you can't do that weirdos. Yeah, so me and Diane actually kicked. out both of our dogs this past weeks or like a week or two and they're just like crying outside yeah last night they finally shut up yeah like they got used to it yeah let them cry it out you'll do that with your babies too you know and that baby you'll be in the bassinet in the other room wailing and you'll be like oh my gosh we should get the baby and then it's like no i can't get the baby Got to get back into that action mode. You know what I mean? Action mode. Make a new baby. Gary and Shannon will continue right after this. You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show. You can always hear us live on KFI AM 6.49 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Monday through Friday. And any time on demand on the IHeart Radio app.

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