“The Great Amazon Heist” Meets the Swamp

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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 governed. Act presidential. But they're not stupid. A political wonder is when a politician actually tells the truth. Whether people voted for you or not. Well, here's the huge commercial. The commercial that's been paid for by Canadian politicians to argue against American tariffs on Canadian products. When someone says, let's impose tariffs on foreign imports, it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while it works, but only for a short time. Okay, I'm not going to play the whole thing. I'll just say this. It came from a radio address in April of 1987 when President Reagan was talking specifically about the relationship between the United States and Japan over semiconductors. And he was talking about specific targeted tariffs. on the semiconductor industry because Japan was not playing fair. He did mention also Canada as part of that. Now, our relationship with Canada has our biggest trading partner. And it, for the most part, has been a, compared to other countries, compared to our trade deficits with other countries, our relationship with Canada is pretty good if you're just using the metrics of how much they sell us versus how much we sell them. It's pretty good. Not the greatest. Good. And President Trump has said that. All trade talks with Canada are terminated because of what he referred to as that fake commercial. He said Canada's long cheated on tariffs charging our farmers as much as 400%. Now they and other countries can't take advantage of the U.S. any longer. All caps. Canada cheated and got caught. They fraudulently took a big buy ad saying that Reagan did not like tariffs when actually he loved tariffs for our country and its national security. Okay. He's 100% right. This is a very heavily edited spot. It uses about 60 seconds of what was a five minute radio address. And the sentences, I think there's five, six sentences that are used in all 60 seconds. And they're completely out of order when you look at the transcript of what Reagan said back in 1987. But. This is where it gets a little sticky. Reagan was arguing for targeted and very specific tariffs, basically arguing that they were kind of a last resort when it came to how tariffs would be used to even the playing field. He also argued against Congress.

taking power away from the president to impose tariffs, which is something that he opposed. He wanted to have the ability to do so, and he said that there were people in the legislature that were trying to block his ability to do that. There are those in Congress. He referred to the Smoot-Josh Hawley Act and said, just as it were back in the 30s, who want to go for the quick political advantage, who would risk America's prosperity for the sake of a short-term appeal to some special interest group, who forget that more than 5 million American jobs directly tied to the foreign export business and additional millions tied to imports. Again, those are Reagan's words. He talked specifically about the targeted use of tariffs, not blanket tariffs. Now, Trump has been the guy who's argued for blanket tariffs saying that the trade imbalance today is completely different than it was 40 years ago, 45 years ago when Reagan was in office. And he's not wrong, but it is a different argument about how you use tariffs and why you use tariffs. Is it a complete reversal, perhaps, of what Ronald Reagan was saying? I don't know if I'd go that far, but Reagan did prioritize free trade. He did talk about free trade being important. He would often say it was essential for human progress. The other parts about this is, I mean, you're going to have people arguing back and forth. Would Reagan have approved tariffs that are imposed by President Trump, vice versa? He probably would say that they are, based on that radio address, the way that Trump is using tariffs would be a trade barrier that could hurt every American if the disputes aren't worked out quickly. He talked about the immediate. initial benefit for Americans when it comes to trade tariffs, but that if they're imposed and they stay in place too long, they could hurt all of us. So it's kind of one of those where it's right down the middle, unfortunately. Yeah, they completely butchered what Reagan said. They took everything out of order. But that doesn't necessarily mean they took it out of context. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense or Secretary of War, however you see his business card, he has announced that we struck yet another drug ferrying boat. And there are more American war platforms that are making their way towards Venezuela. We'll update that when we come back. Also, better news is that we have a chance for you to win $1,000 coming up. You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM 640. So in 2006, Elmer, how old were you? Let me do a quick math. I can't, I can't. What year were you born? 92. Okay, so you were 14. How'd you do that so fast?

It's just 14 years. It's not 177.6 or something. Well done. 14 years old. That's when you turned 14. Oh, yeah. That would be my freshman year of high school. That explains your 2006 music choices for today. Before we get to the Venezuelan drugboats that we continue to put holes in, we have a chance for you to win $1,000. 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 1-8009 million or Sweetjames.com. The keyword credit, once again, goes on the website, K-F-I-A-M-640.com slash... Cash, an hour from now, we give you another shot at a thousand bucks. So we, the United States, are sending an aircraft carrier group to the waters off South America. The USS Gerald Ford and its strike group to deploy to the U.S. Southern Command to, quote, bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of these United States. That came from a Pentagon spokesman. The Ford is currently. deployed to the Mediterranean along with three destroyers. It's going to take a few days for the ships to make the journey towards South America. Also announced today from the Pentagon was that the United States conducted its 10th strike now on a suspected drug running boat. Pete Hegseth said that this was a Trende Aragua gang that was operating the vessel. Six people were turned into fine pink mist in a social media post. He said the strike occurred overnight, marks the second time that the administration has tied one of its operations to Trenda Aragua. This is a gang that originated from a Venezuelan prison and has been the boogeyman in a lot of administration.

According to Elizabeth Dickinson, International Crisis Group Senior Analyst for the Andes region said the U.S. military's presence in that area of the world, that area of the north end of South America, is less about drugs than it is sending a message to countries in the region to align with U.S. interests. She said, that the expression she's hearing a lot is drugs are the excuse and everyone knows that. I think the message is very clear in regional capitals to the messaging here is U.S. intent on pursuing specific objectives. You can't just be we want to kill bad guys who want to do bad things. That's the part I don't quite understand about the explanation. Now, the Wall Street Journal also reported that the United States flew nuclear-capable B-1 bombers near Venezuela yesterday. Two B-1 Lancers took off from Dias Air Force Base right in the middle of Texas and flew near Venezuela, though they didn't... go into Venezuelan airspace. They stayed at international airspace. That's according to a U.S. official. They said that they also looked at flight tracking information. The B1 can fly at supersonic speeds, carry 75,000 pounds of bombs, can conduct maritime surveillance. And the airplanes, again, they haven't been moved anywhere. They just took off from Texas, turned around, and went back because they're capable. I mean, the range is that high. President Trump, however, yesterday when asked about it, denied and said that the report in the Wall Street Journal was not true. He did say, though, that land is going to be next. in terms of whatever potential targeting we've done with narco traffickers on the water, that the land is going to be next. He was talking to reporters at the White House yesterday and said that Pete Hegseth has been asked to notify Congress of the upcoming plans. Didn't talk about targets specifically. It is repeatedly said. that he could order the military to escalate attacks by hitting infrastructure on land. Things like drug production facilities, drug trafficking facilities that are used, especially right along the waterfront there in terms of packaging and shipping when it comes to getting those boats into the water. So it is possible. And no one in Congress seems to have either the willingness or the ability to do anything about it to call him out on this because he's been given sort of carte Todd Blanche when it comes to narco trafficking. All right. Up next, how I made a million pounds in 90 days. Explain what that guy is and how rich you can get very quickly. You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM 640.

Friday, October 24th. Wait. Shannon suspended today on a Friday? Nobody said she was suspended. She needs to understand that her people depend on her at KFI with her BFF Gary to get us through traffic and all the other horrible things that happened to us every morning. She can do it. Talk nice. Be good. Come back. Thank you. She'll be back on Monday. What you learned this week on the Gary and Shannon Show comes up at 1230. We'll also be doing the nine news nuggets you need to know coming up. But we're going to talk here with Uba Butler. He may know his name. If you're in the UK, I guarantee you know his name, filmmaker, author, journalist. He's got a new project out called How I Made a Million Pounds in 90 Days. Not yet available here in the United States, but he's done some other stuff. In fact, the great Amazon heist, you can check out on Vice right now. He somehow fnagled Amazon into paying for the filling of potholes, which could be a massive PR win for them if they did so here in Los Angeles. Uba is joining us now to talk about this new 90 days trying to BS his way to a million pounds. Thanks for joining us, man. Tyler Reddick here from 2311 Racing. The rush of racing, nothing beats it. But Chumba Casino comes close. Chumba's got fast spins, fun games, daily bonuses, and all the action you can handle. Now that's a ride. Ready to hit the throttle? Get in the driver's seat and head to chumbacasino.com. Let's Chumba. Sponsored by Chumba Casino. No purchase necessary. VGW Group, voidware prohibited by law, 21 plus, terms and conditions apply. Your whole neighborhood goes black in seconds. Except your house. The Patriot Power Generator 2,200X from Four Patriots keeps your lights on when the grid goes down. It's the most powerful generator Four Patriots has ever built. Only Four Patriots gives you backup power without gas, fumes, or a loud engine. Just lights, a cold fridge, and peace of mind when the power fails. Right now, save $500 and get two solar panels free. That means you can recharge twice as fast, but only while supplies last. Keep your lights on, your food cold, and your family calm when the grid goes down. Don't wait for the next blackout. Visit 4Patriates.com today. That's the number 4, P-A-T-R-I-O-T-S dot com. And see why families trust four Patriots to stay ready. Thank you very much for having me. I love the... sort of beginning discussion, I saw a write-up, you talked about the process of trying to make a million pounds in 90 days and the difference between old money and new money. Talk about that first. Yeah, I suppose it's just, you know, I've only just moved here from London to New York and I've got cockroaches, which is awesome. But just the kind of, I suppose there's a reverence for old money in Britain where, you know, it is the old world, you know. We, the heads of most industries, people in like politicians, most people were a lot of these people disproportionately went to a small group of schools. You know, they're kind of all sort of part of the old aristocracy, really.

And here you just don't have that in the same way. So, you know, you don't have this, it's all just a little more open. Like you don't have the same reverence around money. It's just like this is how it works. So I'm going to go and get it. So I suppose culturally that was a bit of a change for me to sort of, and it kind of made sense for me to do this. to do the project here you know during the project the 90 days i moved from london to new york and uh yeah it was fascinating fascinating um i i make my living obviously doing this which is weird but i'm more fascinated by people who can make money uh using social media as a platform and i know it's it's similar to radio and tv but but the the amount of money that's available that people will just throw at influencers, at social media personalities. Doesn't that surprise you? Well, I suppose, I mean, look, you know, I'm a sort of, as you said, I'm a filmmaker, journalist type thing. I didn't go to college or anything. I sort of started doing it in my own time. So, you know, I have to sort of, you know, thank the internet for having a career. I was working in a car factory before. So it's just better than that. I think the thing that I found doing this film was just where there is money being made at the moment is in quite interesting places. You know, the first thing I did. well, one of the first things I did was managed to get in the room with a billionaire and just ask them for a million. Because I just thought, well, they're reasonable. You know, it's not much to them. Why can't I have a million? Unfortunately, he said no. But, I mean, in terms of just social media people kind of utilising their platforms, you know, the thing that I found was mean coins were what a lot of them are doing, which is basically like a, you know, creating their own type of crypto and selling that. which is uh which was really interesting you know i kept on having it no matter where i turned it seemed to be someone trying to get me to help them flog a cryptocurrency or help them or i create my own one or whatever it was just like it seemed like in the world of get rich quick you know meme coins and crypto were the kind of other thing of the moment The other one I love is the idea of selling classes on how to make money. The idea of charging money and people will just fork over money left and right for that usually. Oh, this person must be successful because I'm paying the money to learn how to make money. Yeah, I mean, it's kind of... Yeah, the amount of people, like the amount of people who have courses now, you know, kind of like I'll teach you how to be a success. And look, a lot of people are struggling. So people, you know, feel like they need help and they need advice. They turn to these people. You know, in the film, I obviously try and make my own class called Million Dollar Ideas while I'm trying to make a million, which is kind of head sort of nailing it on the head. I put out a trailer for it. Two million people watch the trailer.

In the first 24 hours, one person bought it. So I think that basically what I realized making this was that the grift often with these kind of people who are trying to teach you how to you make money because they're successful, the way they are successful is by convincing you that they can make you successful, if that makes sense. It's sort of like that's where the grift takes place. It's convincing you that they can lead you to the promised land of financial security. And like, you know, when I was younger and I grew up in the 90s and my parents were kind of lost a lot of money in a pyramid scheme. There was a kind of similar, well, they didn't lose a lot of money, but they lost a lot of money to them. And it was a sort of similar type of thing where it was someone saying, you know, if you do this, then you'll make money. And then after all, they realized, oh God, I've just been paying the money to hear that. And I don't, they didn't actually make any money from what they were telling them to do. Did you end up making the million pounds? Or am I going to have to wait to see? Well, you have to watch the film. But, yeah, I mean, I managed to, one of the main people in the film is a guy called Ikram, who started Venmo, which a lot of you guys will know, I'm sure. And, you know, me and him start this company together, and then it goes down the pan. And then he basically says to me, you should sell off a piece of yourself for the rest of your life. And a crypto hedge fund manager in Miami makes me the offer for a million, and we sign the contract. And then something else happens. But that's, that's kind of, yeah. So yes, I do make the money, but there's more. Follow Uba Butler on on Instagram. Uba's O-O-O-B-A-H-S on Instagram. You can find out some more information, including the other stuff that he's been working on. Again, how I made a million pounds in 90 days on BBC Channel 4. And eventually, we hope, make it away over here to the United States or find a VPN. And I'm sure you could watch it somehow cheating the internet. That's the way to do it. Uba, thanks for your time today. Appreciate it. Yeah, thank you so much. I appreciate the support. Absolutely. Uba Butler. Again, follow him on social media. Ubaz, O-O-O-B-A-H-S. You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM 640. Shannon's out today, but she shall be back. She'll be back on Monday, as a matter of fact. No one needs to know why she's gone, but she's just taking a day off. Everybody gets very upset about why she takes time off. And we all do. And therefore, you can't hear me. You can't hear anything. Heather Brooker is here. Can you guys hear me? I can hear you. Yes. I can't hear anything. What? Hello? Hello? Did you push the right button? There's a little button on there. You got to push that too. There's a little one? Yeah.

Sometimes. Oh, my God. It's your kiss button. Oh, my. First of all, I just blew up. What is your damage, Heather? I am the father. Oh, Ryan Baseball! I'm the key in the world! This is Interten News. There she is the Heather Brooker. Hello. The world of entertainment with us. I just blew out my eardrums by pushing the little button. I was going to warn you about that, too. I was like, sweet Christmas. There's like line in, and I don't even know what the terms are, but one of them is very amplified and one is not. Yes. So, all right, what's going on this weekend in entertainment? So much. There's some really interesting movies at the box office this weekend, and one of them is Bugonia. This is getting a lot of critical acclaim. It stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons. I don't know if you've seen the trailers for it, but it's where she's got like a shaved head. It looks like she's painted white kind of. And it's an interesting, I almost want to say commentary on how do I want to phrase this? I don't want to watch it. Okay. Please do. You started with, it's like a commentary on the, no. It's a very artsy film. Okay, listen. It's, it's very, it's dark humor and it's really entertaining and it's very well acted. It's about this two paranoid extremists who kidnap a billionaire, heartless corporate CEO type who's played by Emma Stone. And. The places that it goes are very bizarre, very strange. The whole thing basically takes place like kind of in a basement and during this whole kidnapped, you know, scenario. And it doesn't quite follow the same kind of storyline in those types of movies that you think will, where a crazy extremist kidnap, a billionaire and they think they're going to make a change. you know, whatever. It's really interesting. It is very arty. It's also very dark, very violent, and a little bit graphic. This is also a Yorgos-Lanthamos thing. And he worked with Emma Stone for... Poor things. Thank you. Which she won the Oscar for. Right. Yeah. So they apparently are... You know, similar to when Jennifer Lawrence collaborated with, oh, I'm forgetting the big director's name that she did all those movies with the Silver Linings Playbook. Sure. Okay, that guy. That guy. This is a similar kind of collaboration where a star and a director are teaming up a lot and they are making great movies together and they like working together. David O. Russell. That's it. Thank you. Yeah. So it's a similar kind of situation for her. She's great in this movie. Jesse Plemons is getting a ton of attention. I love his stuff. He's fantastic. He's like wasting away. He's on the Zempi. Oh, is he? Yeah. And he's like wasting away. He's so tiny. But he's great. It's a brilliant actor. It's a very interesting movie. I think it's going to get a lot of awards buzz. It may even earn her another Oscar nomination. Interesting. Yeah. So we'll see how that goes. And next up, honestly, out of all the movies we're talking about today, this is the one.

that I really want everybody to see because I'm a musical theater nerd. This is, we're going to be talking about Blue Moon, stars Ethan Hawke and Andrew Scott, and it basically tells the story. You know Rogers and Hammerstein, very famous musical writers and, you know, lyricist. This tells the story of Lorenz Hart, who's played by Ethan Hawke, who was originally Richard Rogers' partner. during the 1930s and 40s, and they made all of these brilliant musicals together, Connecticut Yankee, Babes in Arms, those types of things. But they never quite reached this huge, like, critical acclaim. So they split up because Lorenz Hart had a drinking problem. He had a lot of other issues going on. And Richard Rogers partnered with Hammerstein, and they created Oklahoma, which fundamentally changed musical theater forever. And this tells the story. of sort of like the guy watching somebody live out his dreams and his hopes right in front of him. So this is to modernize it a little bit, it's probably like Brian Dunkelman. On American. I was co-hosting with Ryan Seacrest on American Idol. I think about that guy more often than I should. Is that terrible? Have you seen him do stand up? I haven't, no. But I just think he must just be punching the air on a regular basis. Yeah. You know? It wasn't going to be a big deal. Well, you never know. But, I mean, it's a different situation. But it's similar in that watching somebody who you were partners with for 20 years. And like once you guys break up, then they actually have the success. You're pointing to Shannon. I am. The ghost of. Yeah. So when she when she leaves you guys and you eventually break up and she gets on national television, you're going to be just like, she dumps this luggage. She'll be fine. Oh, my gosh. And I'll be drunk in it. I'll be drunk at Sardies. Oh, no. That's where this, that's where this whole movie takes place. Oh, really? One place. One place. And somehow they managed to make Ethan Hawke look very short in this movie. He's not a short guy, but they make him look really short in the whole film. It's beautifully told. It's funny. It's charming. And it's also just like one of those things that make you go, what if? What if I'm the one dragging you down? Don't go anywhere. I want to push our what's happening. I'm going to shrink a segment because I want to talk about this Bruce Springsteen movie too when we come back. All right. Heather Brooker has joined us talking about entertainment stuff. You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show. You can always hear us live on KFI AM 640, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Monday through Friday and anytime on demand on the IHeart Radio Lab.

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