This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to k if I am six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. It's time for swamp. Watching the swamp is horrible. The government doesn't work. Good man, gonna make this like a reality TV show? Was bad? Dos always a pleasure to be anywhere from Washington, d C. Hey, Joe. A town hall too clearly built on a swamp and in so many ways still a swamp. I have to watch the malarkey, he said, drained the
swamp. I said, oh, that's so, you know the thing. Well, we do expect to see an update from the press room and there at the White House. Corrine on Pierre is expected to take the podium pretty soon. I'm sure she can't wait. Yeah, if last week's was any indication, she's just going to be hounded by these questions coming up. So we saw, of course President Biden sit down for an interview with ABC's George
Stephanopolis on Friday. They played the whole thing they had to and was amazing because even in that coverage, even on Friday afternoon, I ended up I didn't watch it until Saturday morning, but I watched what ABC put out on YouTube, which was the full show. It was half an hour basically, the interview itself was twenty two minutes. So then afterwards they get Jonathan carl their main political guy, out there, and his first reaction was one of
the most negative reactions I think I've ever seen to a presidential interview. I mean, just in this context, where he said that did nothing, It didn't help anybody, you know. I guess what he did was he was watching it while it was playing, and he said he was texting back and forth with a couple of Democratic politicians who also said wow, yeah. That was the word that was. One of them just said wow yeah. So it didn't do much. That hasn't really allayed any of the fears that Democrats
might have, and so they continue this tour. Joe Biden was actually on MSNBC this morning and did a Fode interview with Joe Scarborough and Mika Bruga Kinski. The American Republic is not going to move away from me as an average voter. And again, I'm here for two reasons. Pal One to rebuild the economy for hard work and middle class people. Give everybody a shot.
It's a straight shot. Everybody gets a fair chance. Number one. Number two, remember all us talk about how I don't have the black support. Come on, give me a break, come with me? Why why? So that was this morning Brad Sherman, Congressman Brad Sherman from here in the Valley was on with CNN and talked about what's going to happen going forward. Ultimately, the delegates need to make the decision. And these are pro Biden
delegates. These are grassroots people pledged to Biden. They're not going to abandon him if it's even close. And I think that if the convention meeting today, we'd be nominating Joe Biden, and you would support that. I would, I would very much. I'm very glad that we have a month to get more information. Okay, hold on a lot of times, it's not a lot of time, and either you're all in or you're not all in. I mean, I don't That was a flimsy response. It just seemed
strange, but he did say again is Brad Sherman. He said, Joe Biden had one bad debate. My big concern as he had a bad debate. Okay, now contrast that with Trump. He's led a bad life. Okay, fine, but my big concern is he could have another bad debate and we will slip further in the polls. But I think that he'll rise to the occasion. He's given himself some additional tests. I'd like to see him take as tough a test as he can, so if the delegates can
make the right decision. Now he didn't was he was not able to define what that toughest test would be. We assume he meant cognitive. No. I actually think he meant like do a full week of campaigning, or like the physical or even it's something presidential, I mean if an event takes place but not after eight pm. So that's the other thing is when when the democratic when the governors went to see him, and whether he was trying to
be funny and said that, you know, he needed more sleep. He needed to make sure he gets more sleep and no events after eight pm or cut back on that. You're the leader of the free world. You need to be You're on call twenty four to seven, three sixty five. We're continual. Well, right now, let me see if I can dip in really quickly. Cringe. Jean Pierre, White House Press secretary is briefing members
of the media. She's actually going through right now, just a bunch of schedule stuff, rehashing what the president has been doing the last couple of days and talking about some of the positive coverage that he's gotten in terms of job numbers and things that. So if the conversation changes they get into questions about Biden, will we'll definitely bring that up. Here was another talk back that we get. What I hate is that the media is focusing on Biden when
Trump didn't say one true thing during the debate. He did nothing but lie. And people are up in arms over Biden having a bad night. What about Trump having a bad life and all the lives he affected? Kids in cages? Come on, kids in cages, proving that that has happened for a very long time and it wasn't just under Trump. But I will say this about that and the discussion about the fitness, the mental fitness of anyone
to be president. If we're having conversations about whether or not Joe Biden can run for president, it seems to me like there should also be a question of is he is he fit to be the president? And I don't know if there's a world where he resigned, he takes himself out of candidacy for the presidency, right, he does. He's not going to run anymore, but he will finish out his term. Is is there a world where that exists? Or is it if he's going to resign as the candidate step down
as the candidate? Is the next step for him to resign the presidency and hand it over to the vice president because of questions about his mental fitness? Right? I mean, it's well, if you're going to continue with your campaign and you're going to continue to do this and then George Stephanoppolive's last I just butchered his last name because I'm talking too quickly, George Stepanopolis. Of what happens if you don't win in January, Well, let's just say,
let's just say that the polls right now are wrong. And if you're looking at the polls that Biden's looking at, you know, whatever those are, that he pulls this off for more years, what does that look like for him? And that that's why I think the conversation is people are being unseerious when they talk about everything's fine, Okay, you may not you may not believe that it's as bad as it is, or you may not believe it's as bad as some people do. But you can't just say everything's fine.
It was one bad night. It was the reasons that even Joe Biden has given for the bad night, jet lag when his last trip was two weeks prior to that, a cold, the sleepy whatever, whatever reasons he's given, those are not excuses. And the only response I would have to her in terms of, you know why people aren't saying anything about Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is not the president. I mean, I know he's trying to be, and I know why people want to vote against him or vote in favor of somebody else, But Donald Trump is not the guy right now doing the job. He wants the job again, I'm worried about the guy who's doing the job right now that already has it. And to her point, I have seen that, as I was telling you in the break, I have seen that. Why aren't the networks everybody in the media asking the convicted
felon to step out of the race, right? Yeah? And that's I mean, that's fine. It just seems like we've asked that before multiple times. It's not just that, Yeah, but the other guy. That kind of conversation doesn't really get anywhere in terms of getting us closer ending whatever division we have, or at least reducing the division that we have. And I mentioned this earlier. Michael Moore, longtime filmmaker, huge Democratic donor, had
said that what he saw at the debate was really, really bad. The problem here is that I think there's a form of elder abuse going on here where the Democratic Party and the people, the people that are part of the apparatus pushing him, pushing and pushing him to stay. And then he comes out he says I'm staying, and the family says I'm staying. And I don't know about you, Aim. But in spite of my criticisms of al Kaza with Biden, watching the debate a week ago was heartbreaking. The heartbreaking
was the word that he used. I also think it's telling that Congressman Adam Schiff, who was a massive proponent of Biden, didn't come out and say that outright, that you know, you should stay in it to win it sort of a thing. He's been very selective in how he's handled this, very careful, very careful, thank you, you know, He notes that the performance on the debate stage was not great at all, and he is
basically saying, Joe Biden is running against a criminal. It should not even be close, and there is only one reason why it is close, and that's the president's age. I don't know how they do it. I mean, we talked earlier about those that the four senior Democrats that have come forward and asked him to stand down from reelection, which include Jerry Nadler, Adam Smith out of Washington, Mark to Connell from here in California, and Joe
Morrell out of New York. That includes on top of that, Jim Heims a Connecticut, Zoe Lofgren, John byer Rick Larson. This is not those are tiny numbers compared to but their loud voices, it's a growing chorus. I just I'm Saturday politics. Yes, makes me sad. All right, stories that we're following, we'll talk more about tropical storm Burrels making her way through Texas, knocked out power to almost three million homes of businesses, and
flooding streets. With these fast rising waters. At least two people have been killed, and according to Aloraities, both of them killed when trees fell on their homes, so first responders have been spending the day trying to rescue stranded people. There's a lot of images of people being stuck in flooded roads. They're stuck in their cars. Police in the suburb of the Houston suburb of Rosenberg have been telling people to stay off the roads. One of their high
water vehicles was hit by a falling tree while returning from a rescue. One thousand flights. More than a thousand flights have been canceled at the two airports there in Houston, and they're expecting as much as eight to ten inches of rain just in the Houston area. We'll be talking with ABC's Jim Ryan, who is in Dallas for a situation report for what's going on in Dallas.
Four volunteers spent more than a year living in a small three bedroom home in the valley, not really seventeen hundred square foot home that was three D printed by NASA. Have you ever seen this? You ever seen these? It's
a They put this building in a massive warehouse in NASA. It's called the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog. It's a series of missions that they say would simulate a year long stay on the surface of Mars, surface of Mars, and that the four crew members who volunteered lived in what they call Mars Dune Alpha, about seventeen hundred square foot habitat. They did simulated spacewalks, provided information on a bunch of different factors that physical, behavioral, health and
performance and everything. They grew their own vegetables, they maintained equipment, they participated in so called Mars walks. Uh. One of the stressors that they also faced was each other. Seriously, three you said more than a year? Three hundred and seventy eight days. Yeah, my goodness, twenty two minute communication delays with Earth. Okay. So I saw this great documentary called The Martian and start a guy named Matte Damon when he was on Mars.
That was the craziest and most frustrating aspect of that entire movie for me was we are so used to immediate communication, and he had to figure out the patients to send a message to the people who he didn't even know if they were watching what he was doing, and he had to try to send them a message, not to spoil the movie or anything. This is the voice, so release This is the voice of the crew chief who welcomed everybody back
to the real world. The crew for putting your previous careers on pause for a year and committing yourself to research that is going to enable our future exploration of space. The path to Mars is beset with challenges, and the crew and their families have committed a year of their lives and service to Nasatha, to the country, and to humanities exploration of space. Okay, they can create a building that's supposed to be like Mars, but they can't get a
microphone that works. Oh yeah, I'm going it kind of is that the twenty two minutes delay. We're just talking about the three D printed habitat, like I said, was put up in this giant warehouse. And if you imagine a robot that squirts out frosting, that frosting then hardens and becomes the walls. So you know, it's a large version of what you could find in a home three D printer, and it's just that the materials they use
are going to be that much bigger. So they put together again a seventeen hundred square foot habitat that included quarters, private small rooms, a kitchen, dedicated areas, for medical recreation, fitness work and crop growth activities, as well as technical work and two bathrooms. The first mission began June twenty fifth of last year. The second one will start sometime next year, and then a third analog mission IREE, would start in twenty twenty six. And these
are all with different volunteers. The next mission, of course, what do we know about there? So they just were released and now they're back into the wild. Yeah, as in real life their mental health now they're all crazy. Well, there were five when they went in, and there's four when they come out here. And I'm so proud, an honor to be part of this crew and project and to be a part of a small, incremental part of the work work being done here on Earth that will one day
enable humans to explore and live on Mars again. They can't find a microphone that works, even though they spend a year in space. Very grateful to have had this incredible opportunity to live for a year within the spirit of planetary
adventure towards an exciting future. There's boy, you've got to find people who are willing to stop what they're doing for a year, and even if you know, even if you're going to like that guy said, do it in the spirit of advancing humans knowledge of space by you know, sort of laying the groundwork and the foundational stuff that needs to be done before we actually go
to Mars. That's a lot. It's a lot to ask anybody. You're leaving your family, you're leaving your career, everything put on hold for a year for this. I mean, I applaud them. They're very is patriotic the right word, but yes, I could, Yeah, I could use that. Yeah, they're great patriots to do this. They're better than I am. Do they get paid? They must get paid. It says they were volunteers. Now I don't know if that means that they were unpaid volunteers
or they were given some sort of a stipend or whatever. I don't know that for sure. Wow. So if you're interested twenty two twenty two minute communication cap between you sending a text message, oh goss, and your loved one returning that text message you thought you were left on read before a couple stories that were following. Obviously, President Biden has been punching back. He sent a letter to congressional Democrats saying that he will not drop his candidacy.
Despite the dismal debate performance, he wrote a two page letter today. The quote says, the question of how to move forward has been well aired for over a week now, and it's time for it to end, and he stresses that the party has one job, which is to defeat Trump. Biden's letter was sent from his campaign to Democratic lawmakers as they come back to DC following the July fourth recess. The Republican National Committees Platform Committee, by the
Way, is adopting a policy document that reflects Trump's position on abortion. It would oppose a federal abortion ban, a federal abortion ban, and would actually seed limits to the states. That's the first time that a national abortion ban has been taken out of the Republican's official platform. Is this the same as Project twenty twenty five, You know what. I'm trying to wrap my head around what that is. I feel like that's more of a retribution arm.
I don't know if Project twenty twenty five is specifically deals with abortion itself, but I don't know for certain sure. I've been trying to find out what Trump is distancing himself from that. He says, I don't have anything to do with it. And then French far right leader Marin Lepine appeared to be closer to power than ever last week after her National Rally party triumphed in the opening round of legislative elections there in France. All of that stuff is going
up, but most importantly socks. The socks back in our day were just socks. There was no such thing as no show socks or quarter socks, or they were just socks. My sisters had socks. You may have had these. It had that little ball. Oh yeah I did. Yeah, we're cute. But I don't know why you'd wear it with a little ball hanging off of it. Oh, it's just a thing. Yeah, it's just a thing, like a like an ankle bracelet. I think a little
little flare. And then my sister, well, one of my sisters was a cheerleader and she would wear she would wear cheer shoes without socks, or at least without visible socks. And I always thought that looked weird, that looked funny. So I played. I was a cheerleader. What did we I don't remember my socks, see, it's just it's non But I played my big thing with socks. And think of when I played softball, and
I always loved the stirrup, sure, the whole thing. I always had like the full length stirrup, But I didn't like how you didn't like the little baby. No, I don't like. I like the the full look, but on the opposite. So I when it comes to socks, I am a no show, low cut ankle sock girl, which means I'm old. It's apparently I didn't. I didn't realize this. Yeah, but it says if you're wearing low cut socks, it means you're thirty plus, said
a twenty six year old software developer and Cruise sock advocate. She told The Wall Street Journal that they said there's a constant push and pull between forging the unique identity or history repeating itself. So gen Z makes fun of our stuff, even if those very styles were all the rage way back, like we did it first. Trust me. When I saw guys start starting to peg their jeans again a few years back, definitely peg, I thought that you guys, we did that. We we've done that. It wasn't the great
It wasn't a great fashion then, it's not a great fashion now. But well, I always had to peg the pants Uh, here's the thing with this. First of all, if you haven't seen Gary socks they do, you do get the approval I would think from gen z Ers because you are wearing these are good socks. These are good what would you call that mid mid calf Okay, probably mid calf socks. They've got a little color on them too, which is nice little style. There. I'm wearing heels and
I have no socks on, but figures. Of course, here's the thing. I wear heels all the time if I'm not running because I'm not tall. So as that's why I said, I'm like your dog, Peter, I'll have the same sized legs as your dog. I didn't mean like, I just meant short, have short legs portionately. So if I have, if I were to wear, uh, you know these socks that are a little taller on me, then you wouldn't really have there wouldn't be a lot of leg to show for me. Well, it is funny. Christa Figueroa
is thirty two years old X ray technologist. She said, I'm five to two on a good day, and I have short legs, so if I wore cruise socks, there be no differential. A differentiation between my thoughts and my ank Krista and I'm five to one on a good day. So there you go. And then let me say this also, if you're going to work out, I don't. I don't want all that extra material on me. I don't if I run, Yes, I wear I wear Ballega Balega. Is that the brand? I think that's what it is. My absolute
favorites, and they are no show. I mean they're very how about this, they're not no show, they're very little show. Yeah, because you gotta get just up enough around the littor because you don't want to you would go underneath. Yeah, I'm a Bombas girl. Bombas reports that they sell forty two percent of their business. This is the weirdest statistic, but forty two percent of Bomba's business in April was visible socks or forty two percent uh.
In fact, they said there's a corresponding decline in no show sock fail sock sales, which fell nine percent this April compared to last year. That's funny. I didn't know that Bombas was a part of this because I genuinely I love those form my running They're so comfy and they provide just enough support, and yes, I will Bombas. I will keep the uh the No Show socks alive or the little one looking for a sponsorship from Bombas. That'd be good. Maybe'll look go on sale. I do realize that I will
ask. I'll run things by my daughter. Does this look stupid? That's my only question? And if I don't get an immediate answer, it does look stupid. I don't have a daughter to run by. She says, so it's fine, and I'm okay. But if she has to think about it at all, Harry, can I have Olivia's number? So that like to yes or no? Olivia Quick quiz? You've been listening to the Gary
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