Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to k
Speaker 1: if I am six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show
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Speaker 2: We are also asking you a magical question today, and
Speaker 2: today's magical question was what path didn't you take? Almost did?
Speaker 2: Would have led to a completely different life? What path
Speaker 2: didn't you take?
Speaker 3: Almost joined a gang in high school?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: It was linked with.
Speaker 2: Freaking Mexican mafia.
Speaker 3: Oh, but I would ditch school and smoke marijuana and rebel.
Speaker 3: And I am very glad I did not.
Speaker 4: Join that gang. Yeah, we are too. What was the
Speaker 4: path you almost too? Well?
Speaker 6: Believe it or not.
Speaker 4: My path that I did not take, And I kind
Speaker 4: of wish I had was radio.
Speaker 7: I have done voiceover, but didn't really get into the
Speaker 7: radio scheme, and I.
Speaker 4: Kind of regret it. It's kind of a scheme.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can leave us a talkback message when you're
Speaker 2: listening on the app. All you have to do is
Speaker 2: hit that little microphone button that appears, and you'll leave.
Speaker 4: Us a message that comes into the into the studio here.
Speaker 2: We've talked many times about homeless encampments throughout southern California.
Speaker 2: We could highlight one a day and still not cover
Speaker 2: the thousands of different places that people have made their
Speaker 2: temporary permanent homes throughout southern California, but I've never heard
Speaker 2: of ones on a roof. For the last three years,
Speaker 2: a group or groups of homeless people have been living
Speaker 2: on the rooftop of a medical practice in the city
Speaker 2: of Huntington Park. The doctor who owns this to Honei
Speaker 2: Solomon doctor to Honey Solomon, says that this group has
Speaker 2: started fires, has damaged the roof, has taken apart, air
Speaker 2: conditioning units for parts, and she's had to repair and
Speaker 2: replace all of it to the tune of about one
Speaker 2: hundred thousand.
Speaker 4: Dollars so far. So what did she do well?
Speaker 2: She tried to install an iron fence, she tried to
Speaker 2: top the iron fence with razor wire, and tried to
Speaker 2: put a metal cage around an outdoor faucet. She says
Speaker 2: she has complained to the city and to the police
Speaker 2: department at the very least about the vandalism that has
Speaker 2: taken place, but that they have not been able to
Speaker 2: address any of the problems. She says that police instructed
Speaker 2: her to install cameras, and she said, I already have
Speaker 2: cameras and they said put them on the roof, and
Speaker 2: she said, are you kidding. The City of Huntington Park
Speaker 2: says it is going to reach out to doctor Soliman
Speaker 2: to address any of the concerns, and Huntington Park PD
Speaker 2: said it is committed to addressing public safety concerns and
Speaker 2: that it's working with stakeholders to investigate not only the
Speaker 2: problems at her building, but broader issues that exist throughout
Speaker 2: the neighborhood. Her doctor's office, her medical practice is in
Speaker 2: one of three is one of three I should say
Speaker 2: businesses that's within this little commercial property that sits right
Speaker 2: next to a two story parking structure, and she says
Speaker 2: that vandals, homeless people, whatever word you want to use,
Speaker 2: use that top floor of the structure to get onto
Speaker 2: the roof of her building. She manages the whole building
Speaker 2: and on a recent day, one of the TV crew's
Speaker 2: local TV cruisers out there, you could see that the
Speaker 2: razor wire was cut hanging from the black metal fence
Speaker 2: down to a trash container that was sitting next to
Speaker 2: a caged water faucet. There was a purple sweater that
Speaker 2: was on the branch of one of the do you
Speaker 2: say Jacaranda trees. Yes, how you say at jack Aranda,
Speaker 2: And then two doors down from hercus is a lab
Speaker 2: past the double glass doors. An employee says, we haven't
Speaker 2: been able to turn the air conditioning on. The air
Speaker 2: conditioning unit regularly goes out because people go up there
Speaker 2: and steal pieces of it. They literally scrap the units
Speaker 2: for parts. She also said that they have had spends
Speaker 2: of thousands of dollars to replace air conditioning units to
Speaker 2: make necessary repairs to the rooftop, and that they are
Speaker 2: stealing electricity as well. Some of the AC units they've
Speaker 2: been able to tap into the electricity for whatever purpose
Speaker 2: they have. She said that the source, like I said,
Speaker 2: is that two story parking structure next door, but that
Speaker 2: human excrement. You've got burn areas on the floors and
Speaker 2: stairways of the parking lot. On the top floor, you've
Speaker 2: got motorcycle tire marks from the burnouts. Metal bars of
Speaker 2: the iron fence had been bent apart, and people are
Speaker 2: still accessing this and the city hasn't done anything with
Speaker 2: for it.
Speaker 8: How many almost people you think you could fit on your.
Speaker 4: Roof on my roots kind of steep.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it doesn't seem comfortable.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of where I would I would
Speaker 1: think that there would human there would be human excrement.
Speaker 2: It would probably roll off, wouldn't it. I mean it
Speaker 2: kind of depends on the quality.
Speaker 1: Is that I have a flat roof, so I get
Speaker 1: a lot of raccoons leaving raccoon excrement up there. I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is about pooping on a roof
Speaker 1: that's so dominance. Yeah, people and animals. I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess we're all animals, aren't we. But I've never thought
Speaker 1: about crapping on a roof of you ever occurred to you?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 8: Ever see a nice roof and think yeah, and I
Speaker 8: feel one? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I don't think I have no.
Speaker 1: That just reminded me of that Bad Thoughts show. That
Speaker 1: episode is crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the whole what do you mean that episode? They're
Speaker 4: all every.
Speaker 8: One of those toil one really sticks with you.
Speaker 2: Gary and Shannon will continue, Tom, we'll talk about the
Speaker 2: path that you didn't take when we come back.
Speaker 4: Right. Oh, we got Michael Monks coming up.
Speaker 8: You're damn right, we do.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: My favorite thing about having Michael Monks on is when
Speaker 1: I ask him, can you stay another segment and he
Speaker 1: never wants to, But after the question is asked, you're
Speaker 1: kind of stuck.
Speaker 2: You can't say no unless he's literally gotten no. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I can't. I have a ten.
Speaker 1: The funny thing is is when Conway does this to
Speaker 1: every single person he has on his show, I don't
Speaker 1: see that kind of I don't see that kind of resistance.
Speaker 1: People are eager to stay, they are eager with us.
Speaker 1: Michael Monks couldn't get out of here quick enough.
Speaker 4: Gary Shannon will continue.
Speaker 8: I say we keep them the whole hour.
Speaker 9: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 9: AM six forty.
Speaker 5: I don't think that's true. I'm here to bring joy, excitement.
Speaker 5: You have our happiness love.
Speaker 2: Yeah, your shirt from the Youth Pastor collection, I have
Speaker 2: many of those.
Speaker 4: I'm here to spread the word of the Lord.
Speaker 8: Apparently I do feel a little bit. Have you seen
Speaker 8: the eaglists today speaking of the Lord?
Speaker 5: Look, I don't want to yuck anyone's yum, but I'm
Speaker 5: probably the least interested in this ongoing saga up in
Speaker 5: Big Beer. I like the symbolism of America.
Speaker 4: Are you less?
Speaker 5: Are you not as interested? Like I appreciate it. It's exciting.
Speaker 5: And I saw the flapping yesterday. I thought that that's
Speaker 5: really sweet.
Speaker 4: And telt again with your hands. Wow that was homophobic, Gary, No,
Speaker 4: it was I was were a little loose there as
Speaker 4: I flapped.
Speaker 1: It was eagle phobic that we're eagleist and homoist.
Speaker 5: I think, so, what are they going to fly today?
Speaker 5: Are we going to break into programming?
Speaker 8: Ah, well, we haven't really started programming.
Speaker 5: Maybe we'll get an interview with one of the eagles,
Speaker 5: the eagle parents.
Speaker 1: Yeah, potentially, Well, Sandy's always around.
Speaker 5: I don't think I don't think that these I think
Speaker 5: that the eagle itself is a majestic looking animal. It's
Speaker 5: an attractive birds aren't cute animals. Yes, they're growing into it.
Speaker 8: They were first born.
Speaker 4: Come on, they were pink and gross.
Speaker 8: They were by they were very sweet.
Speaker 4: They weren't though they killed their siblings.
Speaker 8: Well, your men, so you are not wired to nurture.
Speaker 4: I'm a loving man. I'm a family guy. I have
Speaker 4: a cat.
Speaker 8: Okay, see exactly, you like hateful.
Speaker 5: Enemy of birds? You have a cat. Oh, I see
Speaker 5: where this is going. You might be on the side.
Speaker 8: So you and your family you kill birds?
Speaker 4: No, what you do.
Speaker 5: I tend to be afraid of most wildlife in general,
Speaker 5: and birds. They can see you from a vantage point
Speaker 5: that the rest of us don't have. A very weird
Speaker 5: I don't trust them.
Speaker 8: Why do you think you're afraid of wildlife.
Speaker 5: I'm from the city, and the wildlife in the city
Speaker 5: are particularly untrustworthy.
Speaker 8: Like in Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: Have you ever been mugged by a possum?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: But okay, once you have been, you will understand where
Speaker 4: I'm coming from.
Speaker 8: They look like they're ready to do a mugging exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had a possum living in my grill your mouth?
Speaker 4: Oh you mean the original I don't know.
Speaker 8: I'm trying to get my porch that I cook on
Speaker 8: or that.
Speaker 2: Is Porsche by the way, you have a grill on
Speaker 2: the porch? Oh, an actual porch?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Oh that you meant like grill on your car? No?
Speaker 1: No, why do you guys go to the sub definitions
Speaker 1: of grill. A grill is a meat heating instrument.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but what are you doing grilling on your porch?
Speaker 4: What neighborhood do you live in?
Speaker 5: What do you have like a wife beater on and
Speaker 5: a Virginia slim hanging out of your mouth and a
Speaker 5: baby on your hip while you're scraping around some chicken
Speaker 5: wing hair.
Speaker 1: Not far off, not far off for the baby, everything else.
Speaker 1: Somebody gave me a baby.
Speaker 2: We have talked before about the the hike of the
Speaker 2: minimum wage for hotels.
Speaker 4: Porch. It's not white. I think grill on the porch
Speaker 4: suggested there.
Speaker 8: A grill in your house inside.
Speaker 4: Behind the house, oh backyard, back porch made? Was it
Speaker 4: the deck? Are you you go a deck? Right?
Speaker 8: Tell me about whatever the hell you're here to talk about.
Speaker 2: The city the mayor just signed into law this minimum
Speaker 2: Olympics they're calling it the Olympics minimum wage right where
Speaker 2: we've got hotel workers and airport workers that will be
Speaker 2: making up to thirty bucks minimum by the year twenty
Speaker 2: twenty eight.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 2: And now what appears to be the first truly organized
Speaker 2: attempt to put the kibosh on this, capitalism fights back
Speaker 2: against this minimum wage organical common sense.
Speaker 8: Really, I mean, thirty dollars.
Speaker 4: It's a lot.
Speaker 5: And now let's keep in mind that thirty dollars is
Speaker 5: not going to effect until twenty twenty eight, so there
Speaker 5: is some buffer time. But in the years between, they
Speaker 5: are increasing this wage incrementally, so it will be as
Speaker 5: of July about twenty two to fifty, So that's a bump,
Speaker 5: and then every year we'll go up another two fifty
Speaker 5: until it hits twenty eight, hits thirty dollars.
Speaker 1: I have a question, what is let's go back to
Speaker 1: square one. What is the thought process that because the
Speaker 1: Olympics are here, you get paid more to do your
Speaker 1: service job.
Speaker 5: Why? The argument from the supporters are we are the
Speaker 5: first faces these mini visitors are going to see when
Speaker 5: they arrive from all corners of the globe in twenty
Speaker 5: twenty eighty.
Speaker 8: Doing your job and getting your paycheck is not enough.
Speaker 5: They say that the cost of living in Los Angeles
Speaker 5: is high enough. You want us to be good workers.
Speaker 1: Live in Los Angeles and I didn't when I was
Speaker 1: working in the service industry.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, you wanted to find the neighborhood where you
Speaker 5: could cut up charcoal on the front porch and not
Speaker 5: commit a code violation?
Speaker 8: Do you cut up charcoal?
Speaker 4: I don't know, I'm the briquettes. They just say, the
Speaker 4: protating guying, right, Yeah, they just what.
Speaker 8: Are you talking about? Cut up chart? You don't even
Speaker 8: know what you're talking.
Speaker 4: About okay, I'm sorry, it's okay.
Speaker 5: This is why I don't stay for a second segment,
Speaker 5: because it starts on a high note and it always
Speaker 5: phases out quick.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 5: Anyway, there's a pretty massive campaign to stop this because
Speaker 5: we already heard from hotels, We already heard from airport
Speaker 5: businesses that basically said, this will kill us, This will
Speaker 5: kill a lot of us.
Speaker 4: You heard from hotels, big.
Speaker 1: Hotels, twenty dollars an hour is kill. We've seen what
Speaker 1: that has been doing to small businesses. Thirty dollars an hour.
Speaker 1: Then those jobs aren't going to exist. And then where
Speaker 1: are you? If you're the first face people see, then
Speaker 1: you're without a job with that first fase.
Speaker 5: That's one of the arguments too, one of the arguments
Speaker 5: that came from the three council members that voted against this.
Speaker 5: There were three of those, the same ones who voted against
Speaker 5: the budget, which, by the way, we voted for today.
Speaker 5: The reason I want to incorporate the budget discussion into
Speaker 5: this is because and I don't like to editorialize as
Speaker 5: a reporter, so maybe i'll I'll lean on you guys.
Speaker 5: Is it hypocritical for a city to demand that this
Speaker 5: industry raise its workers paid to thirty dollars an hour
Speaker 5: when they themselves laid off. Not only laid off, but
Speaker 5: just this week voted to eliminate the promised raises to
Speaker 5: their own staff and their city council offices.
Speaker 1: The hypocrisy is what I always go back to that
Speaker 1: drives me crazy with politicians. And look no further than
Speaker 1: our backyard in La City Hall, the hipocra This alone
Speaker 1: is just case in point. Yeah, and it's not like
Speaker 1: the layoffs came four years ago or two years ago
Speaker 1: or last year. It's an active topic at city Hall
Speaker 1: is getting rid of a bunch of and at the
Speaker 1: same time they're doing this to businesses.
Speaker 8: It's it's ridiculous.
Speaker 5: Well, they're going to have a pretty formidable foe in
Speaker 5: this campaign to stop this wage increase because the group
Speaker 5: of airport businesses and hotels, they've got some big name
Speaker 5: PR firms and some big businesses like Airlines, Delta United.
Speaker 5: These folks are funding a campaign to get this on
Speaker 5: the ballast. So but to do that, ninety three thousand
Speaker 5: signatures are needed within thirty days of filing their petition. Okay, now,
Speaker 5: but to that end, I mean your point is well,
Speaker 5: taken that there's some big money behind ending this before
Speaker 5: it becomes reality. The unions that represent these workers that
Speaker 5: will be getting the thirty dollars rais ostensibly they also
Speaker 5: have pantloads of money that they can throw at this,
Speaker 5: and they look to have more based on how much
Speaker 5: their employees are making. So it's good for the unions
Speaker 5: to make more money. So we could see if this
Speaker 5: manages to collect the signatures and get on the ballot.
Speaker 5: And what's just been generically referred to in the reporting
Speaker 5: from the Times as an upcoming election. I don't think
Speaker 5: there are any elections this year. Next year there are elections,
Speaker 5: so it might happen. Then does that mean a judge
Speaker 5: might pause things until this happens.
Speaker 4: I don't know how that works. We've got to find
Speaker 4: this stuff out.
Speaker 5: But if this becomes a campaign issue, what a campaign
Speaker 5: that will be powerful unions, influential unions, and a very
Speaker 5: significant business lobby that's not messing.
Speaker 8: Around what happened with the possum.
Speaker 5: I just I don't think I want to revisit that
Speaker 5: it was the nineties. It was the nineties, Kentucky Urban Tuffington.
Speaker 8: Did he attack you?
Speaker 5: It his stap me far. It was close. It was close.
Speaker 5: Now not on any you know, interest from me. I
Speaker 5: don't want to touch a possum. I don't want to
Speaker 5: touch a person. But you know, you get hissed at
Speaker 5: by a possum, and that's not something you forget. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and it changes your approach to urban wildlife in general.
Speaker 8: Did you see its little teeth?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: They did.
Speaker 4: You're having a hard time with this. It sounds like
Speaker 4: not good. I've also been chased by a bear. Listen
Speaker 4: who hasn't.
Speaker 8: Seriously?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Saturday night in silver Lake?
Speaker 8: Ah, you were married.
Speaker 4: I am, And I've never been to Silver Lake.
Speaker 8: You've never been to Silver Lake.
Speaker 4: I drive through it every day on my way here
Speaker 4: from downtown.
Speaker 8: Okay.
Speaker 1: I was watching that Anne Hathaway where she hooks up
Speaker 1: with the young rock Star movie and they show this
Speaker 1: who what they showed this romanticized overhead shot of silver
Speaker 1: Lake like it's freaking Lake Tahoe.
Speaker 5: This is what I tell a lot of people, even
Speaker 5: though we like to, you know, talk about how disgusting
Speaker 5: Los Angeles is at street level, Man, if you keep
Speaker 5: your eyes up, it's kind of beautiful. The building's even downtown,
Speaker 5: It's a beautiful environment. It's it's but you have to
Speaker 5: watch where you're walking so that you don't slip in
Speaker 5: human feces.
Speaker 4: Your elevation has to be above ten. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, if you had some sort of shoe
Speaker 5: that lifted you up from the second story up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a gorgeous city, you know.
Speaker 5: If you're in Pershing Square with a builtmore hotel behind it,
Speaker 5: and you know the trees and the skyscrapers like that
Speaker 5: is a great shot.
Speaker 1: I was thinking of you last night. I had ice
Speaker 1: cream for dinner.
Speaker 4: Okay, are you calling me a fatty? Whoa?
Speaker 1: No, it's listen, it's I think we opened a box
Speaker 1: with the possum and let's just go ahead and.
Speaker 8: Shut that thing back up. No.
Speaker 1: I was having ice cream at a new ice cream place,
Speaker 1: well new to me, and I was thinking, this is
Speaker 1: good ice cream, but it is nowhere near compared to
Speaker 1: how good Michael Monks's ice cream.
Speaker 4: Oh that's so sweet, you know.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 5: My mama was in town this week, right, and you
Speaker 5: know we've been telling her we've been.
Speaker 4: Making ice cream.
Speaker 5: We think we might, you know, for sue this at
Speaker 5: some point, and she got the taste it just a
Speaker 5: couple of nights ago, and they were really blown away
Speaker 5: by what the spouse has come concocted.
Speaker 8: Really good, really good. I'm glad appreciate that.
Speaker 4: I'll bring some out to whatever ghetto you live in.
Speaker 4: I guess while you're grilling.
Speaker 1: Do I live in a ghetto or white truck like?
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to figure it out.
Speaker 4: Yeah I don't know. Okay, Yeah, well them over and
Speaker 4: let him determine for.
Speaker 8: I love to have.
Speaker 4: We're gonna hang.
Speaker 5: We already have a date schedule in the fall when
Speaker 5: the doun Nabby movie comes out. Yeah, I'm gonna have
Speaker 5: you and Deborah over to my place. We're gonna tea
Speaker 5: sandwiches and tea.
Speaker 4: I don't know how to make either of those things.
Speaker 8: Make cucumber sandwiches, Oh, it's gonna be great. What are
Speaker 8: you gonna have vegan cucumber sandwiches? Oh? Okay, but just
Speaker 8: don't put any manonnaise on there, please, I will not.
Speaker 4: It's too soon for the orders, Deborah.
Speaker 1: We could do like a guard bond. So yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the cucumber.
Speaker 4: Couch down on a strong Ham sandwich. Yeah, I'm waiting
Speaker 4: for some.
Speaker 5: Michael Monks keeps promising me that he's going to try
Speaker 5: doing v and ice cream.
Speaker 4: But that's two years, so that's a lot of R
Speaker 4: and D.
Speaker 8: What does R and D mean? Research something in diarrhea.
Speaker 4: Regurgitation and diarrhea. It's really not difficult. You just there's
Speaker 4: so many milk alternatives.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know how one milk's an almond, but
Speaker 5: I guess I could try to find its heats.
Speaker 4: You bring up a good question, Gary and Shannon will.
Speaker 8: Come Where does the milk come for?
Speaker 4: Not a good question.
Speaker 9: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 9: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: The Supreme Court has again cleared the way for the
Speaker 2: Trump administration to take away some temporary legal protections from
Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands of immigrants for now. This will push
Speaker 2: the total number of people who could be newly exposed
Speaker 2: to deportation up to a million. The justices today lifted
Speaker 2: a lower court order that kept the humanitarian parole protections
Speaker 2: in place for more than a half a million migrants
Speaker 2: from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. The Court has also
Speaker 2: allowed the administration to revoke temporary legal status from about
Speaker 2: thirty one hundred and fifty thousand Venezuelan migrants. In just
Speaker 2: another case, a President Trump and Elon Musk are expected
Speaker 2: to hold a news conference from the White House very soon.
Speaker 2: We know that Elon Musk's time as that special government
Speaker 2: employee has ended, and President Trump referred to this as
Speaker 2: sort of a goodbye send off, even though he's not
Speaker 2: going anywhere, I think is the way he put it.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens when they start that news
Speaker 2: conference a little bit later, and we'll talk about it
Speaker 2: when we get into swamp Watch later as well. This
Speaker 2: morning we were asking this magical question. We talked yesterday
Speaker 2: a little bit about what magical questions are. This woman
Speaker 2: who is a conflict resolution facilitator, somebody who steps in
Speaker 2: I guess when there's an argument, I don't know, And
Speaker 2: she talked about the importance of cutting through small talk
Speaker 2: when you're dealing with whatever social situation you might find
Speaker 2: yourself a work party, strangers.
Speaker 1: I'm curious about this conflict resolution I forget what you
Speaker 1: just said, facilitator. Conflict facilitator, because this is a job
Speaker 1: that's highlighted. Excuse me, I'm eating nuts because we got
Speaker 1: out almonds so that Michael could kill one of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then I just got into them. But this is
Speaker 1: a job that's showcased in hacks. Oh oh, you're right,
Speaker 1: you mention right. There's a conflict, ongoing conflict between Deborah Vance,
Speaker 1: the character in the show who's a professional comedian, and
Speaker 1: her head writer, and they get into it because they
Speaker 1: have personal relationship and they just they bicker a lot,
Speaker 1: and so it gets to a point where it's too much.
Speaker 1: So the company that runs the late night comedy show
Speaker 1: that they do brings in this conflict person who has
Speaker 1: to be in the room whenever the two of them
Speaker 1: they cannot be alone together. This conflict resolution person has
Speaker 1: to be there. And I remember watching the show and
Speaker 1: thinking is that a real thing? And then you bring
Speaker 1: up this conflict person and I'm wondering, is this a
Speaker 1: thing that goes on where two people who work in
Speaker 1: the same place have such conflicts that there's a buffer
Speaker 1: brought a professional buffer that's brought in who has to
Speaker 1: facilitate some sort of resolution between the two. I mean,
Speaker 1: where did the whole just be an adult and squash
Speaker 1: your conflict or don't deal with that person.
Speaker 8: Or don't deal with that person. But I guess if
Speaker 8: you have to.
Speaker 2: Didn't deal with the but be an adult and get
Speaker 2: over whatever personal thing, have.
Speaker 8: It out or whatever, and then carry on.
Speaker 2: I don't know anyway, She talked about a series of
Speaker 2: different magical questions that you could use to try to
Speaker 2: cut through a lot of the bs that you would
Speaker 2: have normally with individuals. And one of the questions that
Speaker 2: you actually perked up on was what path didn't you choose?
Speaker 2: I loved Was there some other path that you may
Speaker 2: have had for your life? And there was a moment
Speaker 2: you referred to it as the sliding doors. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: just you took one what at the time might even
Speaker 2: have seemed like a small decision but vastly changed the
Speaker 2: trajectory of your life, right.
Speaker 8: Like in my own life.
Speaker 1: I think it was the time when I'm working in
Speaker 1: Seattle and I get the job offer from Chris Little
Speaker 1: to come to KFI, and I remember talking to my
Speaker 1: mom on the phone and saying, should I move to
Speaker 1: LA Should I get Like that's a that's a.
Speaker 8: Life changing thing. Twenty four years old.
Speaker 1: It's going to change the whole trajectory of your life
Speaker 1: when you make a move like that, And it did.
Speaker 1: What would have happened if I didn't you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? And I remember her saying to me, I
Speaker 1: can't make that decision for you.
Speaker 2: That's a very wise thing to have said, right, although
Speaker 2: it probably didn't make you feel any better.
Speaker 7: It did not.
Speaker 4: Awe inspiring.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 10: I'm twenty nine now, but when I was younger.
Speaker 4: I wanted to do dental hygiene.
Speaker 10: But I dropped it like it was hot because I
Speaker 10: didn't want to be a pigeon hole in one one
Speaker 10: spot for the rest of my life. So I dropped
Speaker 10: out of school, traveled Europe twice, got into a one
Speaker 10: and a half year relationship with so many Netherlands, broke
Speaker 10: that off, came back here, and then I went to
Speaker 10: school for business and I work at a major defense contractor.
Speaker 4: I don't know how it happened, but it did.
Speaker 1: Do you get into people's mouths like, are you in
Speaker 1: a meeting doing defense contracting and you're looking like that
Speaker 1: looks like it's a beginning of a cabinet I could
Speaker 1: get after I got to clean that tooth, I could
Speaker 1: get that iron hook in there and pull.
Speaker 4: Out Happy Friday, you too, you too? Paths, Wow, career paths.
Speaker 7: I was going to be an attorney, but I'm an engineer,
Speaker 7: not a problem there. But personal life paths are a
Speaker 7: much different thing. I married a sweetheart from high school,
Speaker 7: was married for three decades, and then I found.
Speaker 4: The rest of life.
Speaker 7: So I took a different path and got divorced, and
Speaker 7: I'm happy in a new relationship.
Speaker 4: There you go, There you go.
Speaker 1: There's a book I just finished, and it's called Names.
Speaker 8: You've probably heard of it.
Speaker 1: It's in all the book clubs, know, like the Rees
Speaker 1: and the Jenna, and I don't remember who else has
Speaker 1: the book? What book club? This is in Good Morning America,
Speaker 1: what have you? But it's very in right now. It's
Speaker 1: called The Names, and it is about a woman in
Speaker 1: an abusive relationship and she has one daughter and she
Speaker 1: gives birth to a son, and she is conflicted on
Speaker 1: what to name the son, if she should name him
Speaker 1: after the husband like the family dictates, or if she
Speaker 1: should name him something her daughter wants or something that
Speaker 1: she's interested in. And the book follows the kid's life
Speaker 1: if he was named each of the three things, and
Speaker 1: how he turns out, and the difference is in his
Speaker 1: life depending on the different name. And it's fast if
Speaker 1: you're into the sliding doors type of thought, fun processes.
Speaker 1: It is a great book, and it's a quick read
Speaker 1: for you as well.
Speaker 4: All Right, more of these when we come back.
Speaker 9: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from K
Speaker 9: six forty.
Speaker 2: We are awaiting a news conference from the White House.
Speaker 2: Elon Musk and President Trump shaking hands and wishing each
Speaker 2: other a good day. The Elon Musk special government employee
Speaker 2: contract has run out. It's not that he's decided to leave.
Speaker 2: It's that this was the plan all along. But they
Speaker 2: are going to talk about some stuff. It's interesting because
Speaker 2: of the context of this New York Times article that
Speaker 2: came out, this big, breathless piece about Elon Musk using
Speaker 2: drugs and potentially using drugs while on the campaign trail.
Speaker 2: At least that's the allegation of some of the sources
Speaker 2: in that story.
Speaker 1: Got an update from former President Biden about how he
Speaker 1: is feeling.
Speaker 8: Also, did you see the bid about Suge.
Speaker 1: Knight giving Ditty legal advice on how to appear in court?
Speaker 8: It's pretty rich.
Speaker 4: Was he the one? I think?
Speaker 2: Sug Knight said he believes that President Trump would pardon
Speaker 2: Ditty if he's convicted.
Speaker 8: You might.
Speaker 2: The the movie business is trying to hold on. We'll
Speaker 2: actually talk about entertainment coming up at twelve twenty with
Speaker 2: our Heather Brooker. But Broadways season has set records this year.
Speaker 2: Broadways twenty four to twenty five season grossed one point
Speaker 2: eight nine billion dollars across all their productions.
Speaker 1: Is that because they had a bunch of a list
Speaker 1: celebrities get involved like George Clooney and I think so
Speaker 1: among others.
Speaker 2: There were several that Glengary Glenn Ross U production had
Speaker 2: everybody in it. They said that the gross totals are
Speaker 2: up twenty three percent from last weekend I'm sorry, last season,
Speaker 2: and significantly well above the record from twenty eighteen and
Speaker 2: nineteen at one point eight three billion hour at almost
Speaker 2: one point nine billion.
Speaker 4: So good news.
Speaker 2: I guess if you're a big Broadway person, never seen
Speaker 2: a show on Broadway.
Speaker 1: Really, never been to New York too? You love adult theater?
Speaker 1: Never been to New York, Well you can go to
Speaker 1: You've been the Pantagious, Well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so I've seen it off. I've seen Broadway
Speaker 2: shows off.
Speaker 8: Broadway, sometimes even more. But sometimes my mom likes.
Speaker 1: To do this, or she'll catch the shows before they
Speaker 1: get to Broadway, you kind of they make the circuit
Speaker 1: up in San Francisco, and she'll see something and be like,
Speaker 1: I think this is going to be a bit like Wicked.
Speaker 1: She saw Wicked before it was on Broadway, and she's like,
Speaker 1: I think this is going to be a big deal.
Speaker 1: And she's usually very right when she watches these ones
Speaker 1: that go on to be great.
Speaker 2: Blocked for Busters, we were talking about magical questions and
Speaker 2: specifically about paths maybe that your life took that you
Speaker 2: didn't plan, or you thought you were going to go
Speaker 2: one way and you end up going completely the other.
Speaker 11: EGERI and Shannon path that I almost took but didn't.
Speaker 11: I could have definitely been the next Pablo Escobar and
Speaker 11: decided to have my daughter on my twenty first birthday,
Speaker 11: so took.
Speaker 9: A different path, trying to be a better dad.
Speaker 11: All right, guys, A good day.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: So I'm assuming he was selling recreational drugs pharmaceuticals if
Speaker 2: you will, and got out of that once once he
Speaker 2: had a kid.
Speaker 1: Kids will be a shock to the system, shock to
Speaker 1: the lifestyle.
Speaker 4: They will add weight to your keel. What is a
Speaker 4: keel the bottom part of your boat, just to keep you.
Speaker 8: Up right, don't say it. Say it?
Speaker 4: What about your keel?
Speaker 3: Hey, Gary Shannon. Yeah, I was in community college shows
Speaker 3: in this law enforcement program and we did a lot
Speaker 3: with the police department, and I remember a police officer
Speaker 3: pulled me aside and said, why do you want to
Speaker 3: do this? And I think it was his way of
Speaker 3: telling me, look, guy, I don't.
Speaker 4: Think you'd be a good cop.
Speaker 3: So didn't go that direction and still have a good career.
Speaker 2: Well that's great, And I actually think that's an important
Speaker 2: point is somebody who's done the job for a year whatever.
Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be police officer, law enforcement, but
Speaker 2: somebody who's done a job for a long time can
Speaker 2: size up people who want to do the job and
Speaker 2: just go, you're not going to be a great fit.
Speaker 4: And I'm not saying I think we've got but.
Speaker 8: You were told that you wouldn't be a great fit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I also had no respect for the person
Speaker 2: who told me that at the time.
Speaker 8: Will leave that to be true.
Speaker 1: It's one I think there's something to be said for
Speaker 1: somebody telling you no or you can't. That is a
Speaker 1: great motivator. I mean, I think it is maybe the
Speaker 1: strongest motivator you can get as.
Speaker 4: Fround outside of fear.
Speaker 8: Nope, not you.
Speaker 1: Fear is a better motivator. Really, Yeah, interesting, I think.
Speaker 2: It's some people I fear would be a better motivator.
Speaker 2: I mean fear of losing my job.
Speaker 8: Well yeah, well that's a different thing.
Speaker 12: Yeah, hy garion Shannon boy.
Speaker 8: Did I make the right decision?
Speaker 12: When I was sixteen? Back nineteen eighty one, I fell
Speaker 12: in love with a member of my church. He went
Speaker 12: off on his mission, but before that we became engaged.
Speaker 8: Yeah, sixteen.
Speaker 12: Anyway, while he was gone, I fell in love with
Speaker 12: someone else ended up being my husband, and for two
Speaker 12: years later we're still married.
Speaker 8: Did I make the right decision?
Speaker 4: Anyway?
Speaker 12: I love you guys, love your show.
Speaker 8: Thank you, love you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I uh, that is something, but yeah, how do
Speaker 1: you choose? And most people that choose their their their
Speaker 1: life partner, and you do what in your twenties thirty
Speaker 1: something like that, and it's wild. Did you make that
Speaker 1: choice that long ago or what have you? And then
Speaker 1: to be sixteen and make that choice.
Speaker 4: My sister married her the guy that she was going
Speaker 4: out with in high school.
Speaker 8: Yeah, which one Marjorie, Oh wow?
Speaker 2: And they it was the end of high school. And
Speaker 2: it's not like they were sophomores together. I mean they
Speaker 2: were all kind of in the same group of friends
Speaker 2: and stuff, but they didn't really start dating until the
Speaker 2: end of high school.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: In fact, I don't well it makes sense.
Speaker 2: I don't even know if they went to prom together
Speaker 2: their senior year, like it was that late in the
Speaker 2: year that they.
Speaker 1: It's just you know what, you know, you're from the
Speaker 1: same place. Yeah, yeah, it's easier.
Speaker 2: I mean I didn't meet my wife until I was
Speaker 2: twenty to twenty three. I mean we never met her before.
Speaker 2: I mean that was no, that's still very young, that
Speaker 2: is pretty young.
Speaker 6: Fifteen years ago, I was working for one of the
Speaker 6: biggest a holes you can ever meet in your life.
Speaker 6: And if he wasn't such an a hole, I wouldn't
Speaker 6: have been motivated to start my own business. And I've
Speaker 6: never looked back.
Speaker 8: I think that's I think that's what that's what I've
Speaker 8: been with you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I agree. But but he talks about he
Speaker 2: called him an a hole. I didn't call my boss
Speaker 2: an a hole, but he did never.
Speaker 4: Respect for him.
Speaker 1: I think you thought he was an a hole, but
Speaker 1: you had respect for him. He was good at what
Speaker 1: he did, maybe reluctantly. I might give you a little
Speaker 1: bit of that, but yeah, all right.
Speaker 4: Swamp watch.
Speaker 2: It looks like the President beginning the news conference by
Speaker 2: playing a video on a mac book.
Speaker 4: So this, if I'm.
Speaker 2: Mistake funny guys, this is a video that he already
Speaker 2: posted on truth social this morning. Somebody ONNBC this morning
Speaker 2: was saying that the economy, despite all of the headlines
Speaker 2: about the turmoil with the tariffs, that the economy and
Speaker 2: the underlying numbers are very very strong.
Speaker 1: You're doing well if you've got money on Wall Street.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So he's playing that video and basking in the adulation
Speaker 2: from taking a victory.
Speaker 1: Lap over the Fox News business reform.
Speaker 4: But this is like something I would do to my wife,
Speaker 4: where I go, oh, look at this video, look at this,
Speaker 4: look at this.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll talk about that when we come back.
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