Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. Justin Timberlake suffers mortifying wardrobe malfunction
Speaker 1: at Nashville concert.
Speaker 2: He was wearing a rigging to get hoisted up into
Speaker 2: the air, which can cause accentuation of areas that don't
Speaker 2: need to be accentuated.
Speaker 3: It's like a dance belt.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's exactly.
Speaker 2: The doll Jones industrial average back into positive territory today
Speaker 2: after nine straight days of negative finishes, which means that's
Speaker 2: the first time in forty six years that they went
Speaker 2: nine days and went negative every days. It's dropped significantly
Speaker 2: in the last few minutes because the Feds did cut
Speaker 2: rates by a quarter point. So as of right now,
Speaker 2: it's barely hanging on to positive territory. It's only up
Speaker 2: twenty nine points right now.
Speaker 1: News this morning at the House excuse me, House Ethics Committees,
Speaker 1: he gretly voted to release Matt Gates's ethics report. John
Speaker 1: Decker joins us now from the White House Press Corps
Speaker 1: about all of the latest and so they voted on this,
Speaker 1: John long time ago.
Speaker 3: We're just hearing about it now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right. This was a secret vote. It was
Speaker 5: taken a few weeks ago. We're now just hearing about
Speaker 5: the fact that before this Congress breaks for their recess,
Speaker 5: before they break for the Christmas holiday, they will release
Speaker 5: this report about Matt Gates. This ethics report is based
Speaker 5: upon over a year's investigation into Mat Gates. Various allegations
Speaker 5: regarding illicit drug use, regarding sexual abuse, regarding campaign finance violations,
Speaker 5: all of that will come out. We don't know specifically
Speaker 5: what's contained in this ethics report, but Matt Gates obviously
Speaker 5: fears for what's contained in it because he put out
Speaker 5: a pretty nasty message on social media within the past
Speaker 5: few hours.
Speaker 2: The Justice Department did its own investigation into these allegations,
Speaker 2: and they came back without any federal charges. What's the
Speaker 2: difference between what the Justice Department is capable of doing
Speaker 2: and what congressional investigators are capable of doing.
Speaker 5: Well, keep in mind that a member of Congress has
Speaker 5: to abide by House rules. If they're a member of
Speaker 5: the Senate, they need to abide by Senate rules. On
Speaker 5: Matt Gates may have violated House rules if he indeed
Speaker 5: was accused of any of these violations by various witnesses
Speaker 5: who testified behind closed doors before the House Ethics Committee.
Speaker 5: This is a bipartisan committee, and in fact, the reason
Speaker 5: that this report is being made public is because two
Speaker 5: House Republicans essentially reverse course, decided, you know what, we
Speaker 5: want to release this House Ethics report regarding Matt Gates.
Speaker 5: And they reversed the position that they held just a
Speaker 5: few weeks ago when there was a vote along party
Speaker 5: lines not to release this ethics report.
Speaker 1: It seemed like people did not want this getting out
Speaker 1: because it is not a Congress full of people who
Speaker 1: live who walk the line. Shall we say that everyone's
Speaker 1: got their own issues in the closet and that if
Speaker 1: all of the dirty laundry is aired about Matt Gates,
Speaker 1: well who's to say it won't be aired about the
Speaker 1: next guy.
Speaker 5: Well, that's what the Ethics Committee is for. So if
Speaker 5: there's an ethical violation on the part of a member
Speaker 5: of Congress and ethics investigation could potentially be started and
Speaker 5: commenced against that individual. You're right, people in glasshouses shouldn't
Speaker 5: throw stones. That's something that we all try to live
Speaker 5: our lives by. The House is a different story entirely,
Speaker 5: and Matt Gates did not make many friends in the
Speaker 5: House of Representatives. He of course brought down a former
Speaker 5: Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, and there's still bad
Speaker 5: blood that exists in the House of Representatives for that
Speaker 5: action that he took over one year ago.
Speaker 6: What's the future for Matt Gates outside of the TV
Speaker 6: show that I think he's going to be doing.
Speaker 3: Does he sit on some sort of cardboard?
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I don't think of board. I think that
Speaker 5: he has signed up to join a very prominent lobbying
Speaker 5: firm here in Washington, d C. So not only will
Speaker 5: be he hosting a program on the One American News network,
Speaker 5: he will also be pulling in a revenue stream associated
Speaker 5: with that lobbying firm. And you know, look, he still
Speaker 5: has very good connections in the House of Representative and
Speaker 5: that's something that he can take advantage of. But as
Speaker 5: far as a political career is concerned, I think it's
Speaker 5: very unlikely. Certainly in the near term, anybody can repair
Speaker 5: their reputation, and everybody in America generally gets a second chance,
Speaker 5: and certainly Matt Gates may get that second chance. But
Speaker 5: right now, a political future is not in the offing
Speaker 5: for Matt Gates.
Speaker 2: And then quickly, I know that you had a chance
Speaker 2: to ask President Biden about the drone situation in the Northeast.
Speaker 7: What was his response, Well, it was the first response
Speaker 7: that President Biden has given regarding these drone sightings in
Speaker 7: New Jersey, other states in the Northeast.
Speaker 5: First time he's responded to a question. I asked him
Speaker 5: a question last evening as he was leaving the White
Speaker 5: House to board Marine one and bottom line headline here
Speaker 5: he says, nothing the farious here, there's nothing that should
Speaker 5: concern Americans in regards to national security or anything of
Speaker 5: that sort. And you know, he's sort of repeating the
Speaker 5: line that's been given by a lot of other US
Speaker 5: government officials over the course of the past week, since
Speaker 5: those dr own sightings really increased in late November.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it certainly feels like hysteria at this point, but
Speaker 1: I guess we'll just wait and see.
Speaker 3: John, Thank you so much for joining us. Appreciate your time.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, thank you, Bye bye.
Speaker 4: iHeart reporter there in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: The Federal Reserve is lowering rates for a third time
Speaker 1: this year. It is cutting interest rates by a quarter
Speaker 1: of a percentage point. This brings the FEDS benchmarks short
Speaker 1: term rate to a range of four and a quarter
Speaker 1: percent to four and a half percent. They say they
Speaker 1: anticipate this not being the case next year, that we
Speaker 1: will not see that there will be fewer reductions next year.
Speaker 2: The all important speech by Jerome Palace. What comes next
Speaker 2: when he gets into details about the meeting? Ooh sexy, woof,
Speaker 2: it's almost my god, Janet Yellen style.
Speaker 4: Just put a fan on me and.
Speaker 3: U fan on.
Speaker 4: Congressional leaders.
Speaker 2: Also, yesterday I talked about this bipartisan deal to punt
Speaker 2: the government shutdown deadline into March. Because we go from
Speaker 2: hot Jerome Powell talk to hot Continuing Resolution talk.
Speaker 4: Republicans still fighting about all of this.
Speaker 2: But this bill, called the Continuing Resolution, extends federal funding
Speaker 2: until March fourteenth, includes one hundred and ten plus billion
Speaker 2: for disaster relief as a couple of local priorities. Clears
Speaker 2: the way for the DC the District of Columbia to
Speaker 2: take over some land so it can negotiate with the
Speaker 2: Washington commanders for a possible NFL stadium. Also commit to
Speaker 2: the federal government to pay the full cost to rebuild
Speaker 2: the Francis Scott key Bridge there in Baltimore. After that,
Speaker 2: after the cargo ship ran into it and just destroyed
Speaker 2: that thing.
Speaker 1: Would you like your Jeopardy question bodies of water for
Speaker 1: a thousand? The Ganja and the Ganges and the brouh
Speaker 1: map brah Maputra b Maputra flow into this large bay.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: Sorry here read it there. We'll just think about where
Speaker 1: the Ganjisromtra.
Speaker 3: Sure? Does that help it all?
Speaker 4: The Indian Ocean? I don't know they have Bengal?
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, Wow, technically that is impressive.
Speaker 4: I love it when you're faced with that.
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Speaker 4: What did I do with that story?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 2: Cody Bellinger to the Yankees, right, somebody no one's ever
Speaker 2: heard of in some cash considerations. So I mean they
Speaker 2: lost one Soto, so they do need a good outfielder
Speaker 2: and he can do that. You can play first base
Speaker 2: if he needs to as well, So good good for
Speaker 2: the Yankees. Why would I say something?
Speaker 4: I don't know?
Speaker 3: It's it's it's the Jesus season and you're being charitable.
Speaker 4: I am being charitable.
Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, about Jesus we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about Jesus models being needed.
Speaker 4: You Tom, you mentioned your brother.
Speaker 3: I mentioned my.
Speaker 1: Brother was Jesus in the Christmas play Spit and Image
Speaker 1: because he was a teenager and he'd gone through the
Speaker 1: gross spurt and he was really thin and he could
Speaker 1: see his ribs and everything. It's perfect. Jesus on the
Speaker 1: cross guy. And my mom texted me and said that
Speaker 1: was Easter Service where Andy was carrying the cross.
Speaker 3: Jesus was a baby at Christmas.
Speaker 5: L O L. Yeah.
Speaker 3: She makes a very good point.
Speaker 4: Why would Jesus be.
Speaker 3: On the cross at Christmas?
Speaker 4: Right? That would be confusing the holidays.
Speaker 2: But I mean I could see the I could see
Speaker 2: the usefulness of an adult Jesus at Christmas sure to help,
Speaker 2: you know, describe the story.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean where he started in the manger,
Speaker 1: where he ended up.
Speaker 4: Up where he is now?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Right, So yeah, but that's kind of not what Christmas
Speaker 1: is about. It's celebrating the birth of Christ. You don't
Speaker 1: want to deal with the cross and the whole bit
Speaker 1: on Christmas.
Speaker 9: Not that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't end well, I mean it ends well eventually, yes,
Speaker 2: it ends well. It's a hard good Friday was not great, No,
Speaker 2: we'll say that. And why is it called that because
Speaker 2: it ports that's right, that's.
Speaker 3: Right, because he died for our sins on Good Friday.
Speaker 9: It was good for us.
Speaker 4: It was good for us.
Speaker 3: It was good for us.
Speaker 4: An excellent point. Probably uncomfortable for him.
Speaker 1: Also, I mentioned maybe you becoming an elk, and you
Speaker 1: said that it's it's not done at this point in
Speaker 1: your life.
Speaker 3: Petros is an elk.
Speaker 4: That makes yes. Now that makes also perfect sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does, doesn't it. He's probably like the Lord
Speaker 1: of the elks, the Lord. I could see him being
Speaker 1: like the guy.
Speaker 2: There are a couple of college football games today.
Speaker 4: The bowl games continue.
Speaker 2: The last night was the Scooter's Caffie Frisco Bowl. Tonight
Speaker 2: is the book of ratone Bowl between Rostern Kentucky and
Speaker 2: James Madison and then the Art of Sport LA Bowl
Speaker 2: at so far between cal and UNLV.
Speaker 3: Why is UNLV involved with our bowl? Our California Bowl?
Speaker 4: I don't know who they choose for those bowls.
Speaker 2: Obviously they take up they pick a team from California.
Speaker 2: But speaking of sports and politics, former NFL running back
Speaker 2: herschel Walker has been selected by President elect Trump to
Speaker 2: serve as the ambassador.
Speaker 4: To the Bahamas. Tough job.
Speaker 2: Sixty two year old Herschel Walker, former US Senate candidate
Speaker 2: from Georgia, if you remember, he lost to Rafael Warnock
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago, despite Trump's endorsement there.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is all up in Canada all over again.
Speaker 1: Early today, he suggested turning Canada into part of the
Speaker 1: US called a great idea, he said on his Truth
Speaker 1: social platform. No one can answer why we subsidize Canada
Speaker 1: to the tune of over one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: A year one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Use me a million, one hundred million dollars a year,
Speaker 1: he wrote, makes no sense. Many Canadians want Canada to
Speaker 1: become the fifty first state. They would save massively on
Speaker 1: taxes and military protection. I think it's a great idea,
Speaker 1: fifty first state. Exclamation, exclamation, exclamation.
Speaker 4: Is this one of those things where he's trying to
Speaker 4: be funny.
Speaker 1: He's been talking about Canada all week. On Monday he
Speaker 1: talked about the finance minister resigning.
Speaker 2: Well, and Justin Trudeau is very likely seeing the waning
Speaker 2: days of his premiership.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons is because Trump has been threatening
Speaker 1: to impose that twenty five percent tariff on Canadian goods.
Speaker 2: And he and the Financial Minister completely disagreed on what
Speaker 2: to do about it. Right, she wanted to, She wants to,
Speaker 2: you know, double double finger it down right there at
Speaker 2: the double finger it. Yeah, I mean double flipoff, double burns.
Speaker 8: Hey.
Speaker 4: The Supreme Court is in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2: And today they've agreed to hear arguments that a law
Speaker 2: that would effectively ban TikTok if its parent company doesn't
Speaker 2: sell the social media app would violate the free speech
Speaker 2: protections in the Constitution. So the Supreme Court has scheduled
Speaker 2: oral arguments in this case for January tenth, that is,
Speaker 2: just nine days before the law is supposed to take effect.
Speaker 2: Congress passed the Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act the FACA
Speaker 2: due to concerns that TikTok's Chinese ownership was presenting a
Speaker 2: national security risk.
Speaker 4: So the Court of.
Speaker 2: Appeals for DC upheld the law on December sixth. That
Speaker 2: said the DOJ had offered persuasive evidence demonstrating the divestment
Speaker 2: is narrowly tailored to protect national security, and the Supreme
Speaker 2: Court said today it's going to hear challenges to the
Speaker 2: law filed jointly by TikTok and by byte Dance, as
Speaker 2: well as.
Speaker 4: A group of users of TikTok.
Speaker 2: Now, when this came down, remember we talked to a
Speaker 2: business owner who said that if it wasn't for TikTok,
Speaker 2: she would not have a business right because of the
Speaker 2: incredible advertising platform.
Speaker 3: You've got a pivot, don't you. You've got a pivot?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean you pivoted to get on to TikTok.
Speaker 4: Right, you're creative enough to do that.
Speaker 2: You could probably sure hopefully, I mean option right.
Speaker 1: New polling shows Republicans hold an overwhelmingly positive view of
Speaker 1: RFK Junior, most approve of Trump's decision to put Kennedy
Speaker 1: in the incoming administration. Recent pulling from the AP also
Speaker 1: shows that Americans overall are less positive about Kennedy. There
Speaker 1: is not broad support for some of his stands, which
Speaker 1: include closer scrutiny of vaccine recommendations, additives and foods and
Speaker 1: pharmaceutical drugs.
Speaker 2: Where what's the source for that? Because I found something
Speaker 2: interesting that you just said.
Speaker 1: The AP Nork Center for Public Affairs Research and AP
Speaker 1: vote casts.
Speaker 2: Okay, Because usually when he's written up. He's written up
Speaker 2: as an anti vaccine crusider or an anti vaccine conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 1: He's also a Trump pick, so that comes with its
Speaker 1: own bias.
Speaker 2: But they said specifically there The line was that he
Speaker 2: wants closer scrutiny for vaccines. Yeah, not that he's an
Speaker 2: anti vaccine conspiracy theorist. He wants closer scrutiny for vaccine,
Speaker 2: which is which is a delineation that a lot of
Speaker 2: news agencies don't make about it.
Speaker 1: How much of the hate is about that and how
Speaker 1: much of it is don't touch my food and don't
Speaker 1: touch my pharmaceutical drugs.
Speaker 3: Well, he's those.
Speaker 1: Are very touchy subjects in this country.
Speaker 3: We are addicted to pills and bad food.
Speaker 2: One of the questions is when you talk about chronic
Speaker 2: disease in Americans specifically, would you rather talk about lowering
Speaker 2: the cost of drugs to deal with it or asking
Speaker 2: people to change their lifestyles to deal with it. There's
Speaker 2: a and I mean to your point, people don't want
Speaker 2: to change their lifestyles. People don't want to They don't
Speaker 2: want to be the weird person at the table who
Speaker 2: won't eat farm raised or you know, corporate farm raised
Speaker 2: foods or whatever however you want to put it, whatever term,
Speaker 2: but he sounds like he's the guy who wants to
Speaker 2: put a little bit of that, at least plant the
Speaker 2: seed in your head that you're going to take some
Speaker 2: responsibility for your own health.
Speaker 4: Speaking of healthy, Speaking of healthy.
Speaker 1: Justin Worsham, host of The Bad Dad, The Bad Part
Speaker 1: Dad Part Bad Dad Pod, Well, isn't the song you
Speaker 1: play for him called bad Daddy?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 3: Now, I think that's what was in my mind.
Speaker 1: It's a bad bad daddy, Justin Warsham, when we that's
Speaker 1: a dad that takes the kids to the bar and
Speaker 1: then except the woman's pregnant again at the end of the.
Speaker 4: At the end of the song, we never get there.
Speaker 3: We don't, we don't.
Speaker 4: I don't want to impose another kid on him if
Speaker 4: he doesn't want one.
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Speaker 6: Completely manufactured bord angry boredom. That's what I would qualify
Speaker 6: that as what happened? Did I interrupt everything? Sorry? Oh man,
Speaker 6: I'm focused on here cube.
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Speaker 3: Throw the squirrel. That is just in an be able
Speaker 3: to focus.
Speaker 4: That's a good point. Fed's cut the interest rates another
Speaker 4: quarter point.
Speaker 9: Do you live?
Speaker 2: Do you do you follow that? I mean, is that
Speaker 2: enough for you? I mean in the real estate side job, because.
Speaker 6: Like all the fluctuations that happens in the FED rate,
Speaker 6: the mortgage rates are supposedly pre baked in. They're projecting
Speaker 6: that interest rates over the next year for houses are
Speaker 6: going to be somewhere around the mid to low fives.
Speaker 6: Some people are hoping for sub five. I don't think
Speaker 6: we're going to see.
Speaker 2: That again, you're I mean, how do you get back
Speaker 2: to below three exactly?
Speaker 4: I mean, that's just that was fair again time.
Speaker 6: The thing that is still scaring me about real estate
Speaker 6: right now is it's what is it?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 9: I'm gonna blank on this.
Speaker 6: I think it's up at least sixty two percent of
Speaker 6: people in America that own their home have an interest
Speaker 6: rate that is below four percent.
Speaker 4: There's no there're no one's going to move.
Speaker 6: There's no one that's gonna they When I got into
Speaker 6: real estate after leaving the Bill, it's a funny.
Speaker 3: It's a little on him.
Speaker 4: They didn't keep you.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 9: That's a catch. No.
Speaker 6: Is that the average time people were spending their house
Speaker 6: was seven to twelve years, that's now twenty to thirty. Yeah,
Speaker 6: there's just no And there's a new term accidental landlord,
Speaker 6: where people like their mortgage payment in southern California is
Speaker 6: so cheap that they're like, I might as well rent
Speaker 6: out my house even though I'm moving to Texas or
Speaker 6: Tennessee or wherever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know people have done that exact same thing.
Speaker 2: Justin Warsham joins us. He is the host of the
Speaker 2: Dad podcast.
Speaker 6: We talk about dad stuff, Bad Dad Podcast Dad. I
Speaker 6: wonder if if it would have had a bigger following
Speaker 6: if it was just bad Yeah, yeah, right, you know what,
Speaker 6: Garry's right, we're bringing it back.
Speaker 9: It's bad.
Speaker 4: They might want to check it. There may there may
Speaker 4: already be already.
Speaker 5: Really.
Speaker 6: Bob Thornton has a podcast on I Heart right now.
Speaker 9: It's like, I'm not bad dad, I'm bad dad too.
Speaker 9: I'm doing it.
Speaker 1: All well, you have kids, Yes, there is a bad
Speaker 1: dad podcast. There's even a bad Dad's podcast.
Speaker 4: Is there a bad Daddy podcast?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Google, I get the window.
Speaker 3: I see that's the bridge too far.
Speaker 2: Really, if you had consulted, if you have the wherewithal
Speaker 2: and the personal conviction, the personal patience, you could set aside,
Speaker 2: I don't know, fifty bucks a month, yeah, one hundred
Speaker 2: bucks a month, yep, and make that your Christmas.
Speaker 4: Fund, and then it would not be enough when you
Speaker 4: go into Christmas.
Speaker 2: At least you have a leg up, you have a
Speaker 2: starting point, yes, but a lot of people blow it
Speaker 2: out of the park, or they rely.
Speaker 1: On their Christmas bonus, like Clark Griswold did there.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 1: You can't cut count your chickens before they're hatched, right,
Speaker 1: that's true.
Speaker 6: That's also true all I've learned. So I did some
Speaker 6: research into what people spend on Christmas on their kids, and.
Speaker 9: What I found out was kind of alarming.
Speaker 6: That there are thirty eight percent of parents of minor
Speaker 6: children so under the age of eighteen plan to buy
Speaker 6: this gifts year and say they will probably go into
Speaker 6: debt more than usual.
Speaker 3: That's a problematic.
Speaker 6: Thirteen percent are planning to dip into emergency savings to
Speaker 6: buy Christmas presents.
Speaker 9: And that's where I looked at it.
Speaker 6: I'm like, how much are people spending, and I couldn't
Speaker 6: find it for this data, and I couldn't find it
Speaker 6: specific to kids. But what I did find out, per
Speaker 6: capita in the US during the eighties, it was an
Speaker 6: average four to eight hundred dollars a year annual spend.
Speaker 6: So in nineteen eighty started around four hundred dollars and
Speaker 6: it eaked its way up to eighteen hundred. In twenty fifteen,
Speaker 6: per capita in the US, people spent one nine hundred
Speaker 6: and sixty five dollars on presence. Wow, and I'm my
Speaker 6: budget for my kids is work lower than that. Like
Speaker 6: in this year it got eaked up because they're both
Speaker 6: teenagers and well there's a concert ticket things that are
Speaker 6: thrown into their NetWorld.
Speaker 2: Now, we also not everybody is in this position, but
Speaker 2: we also live in a time when if you want something,
Speaker 2: you can go buy it, or even better, it can
Speaker 2: be delivered to your house in two hours.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's the kind of place that we live in.
Speaker 2: So when you get to a place where Christmas comes around,
Speaker 2: it's it's much less a.
Speaker 4: Well I really been.
Speaker 2: I really been hoping to get an extra pair of
Speaker 2: socks this year because I can't get them or whatever.
Speaker 2: You know, the necessities that become nice gifts like that.
Speaker 3: It's a good point.
Speaker 2: You don't you don't have to wait for Christmas to
Speaker 2: get those things. If you're a kid, obviously you're gonna
Speaker 2: you're not gonna go out and buy your own toys.
Speaker 1: Very often, I still feel like the kids the like, like,
Speaker 1: how many kids concerts did your parents take you to?
Speaker 3: Of your choice?
Speaker 9: Zero?
Speaker 3: Zero concerts?
Speaker 9: Zero choice.
Speaker 1: One of my girlfriends zero, she's got two kids, and
Speaker 1: she took her daughter to Taylor Swift and she's like,
Speaker 1: now I owe my son a concert.
Speaker 3: I'm like, you owe your son a concert? What are
Speaker 3: you talking to?
Speaker 6: I know people have taken multiple kids, but they take
Speaker 6: it's just different now on different vacations, like this one
Speaker 6: wants to go to this one wants to go to Miami,
Speaker 6: and this one wants to yes, yes, And it's one
Speaker 6: thing too, like I've I've never done that separately. We've
Speaker 6: gotten like day trips or something like that where it's
Speaker 6: the two of us, you know, me and my daughter,
Speaker 6: me and my son.
Speaker 4: But I've never done a like.
Speaker 2: A full week vacation now without the rest of the
Speaker 2: family of what the kid was, well, yeah, and then
Speaker 2: they get to decide where we go.
Speaker 3: That's insane.
Speaker 4: It's not insane. I wouldn't say that, but it is.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's insane.
Speaker 4: It's the bar so high.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's insane compared to what was the norm when
Speaker 1: we grew up, right, Yeah, it's completely different.
Speaker 9: Yes, it was like, fine, we'll take you to Disneyland.
Speaker 6: Like that was the extent of the input on you
Speaker 6: got to go to Disneyland when I was five one time.
Speaker 9: I do.
Speaker 2: I do remember that I went to Disneyland when I
Speaker 2: was four or five or something like that. We still
Speaker 2: have great old pictures. It's I mean, they're fun to
Speaker 2: look at. I didn't go back to Disneyland until after
Speaker 2: I had graduated high school and I live in California.
Speaker 2: I lived in I mean, I do live at the time.
Speaker 2: I was in California the entire time. It was just
Speaker 2: not something we did.
Speaker 6: I was.
Speaker 1: I went when I was five with Grant, my aunt
Speaker 1: and my grandma and my brother, I believe, and then
Speaker 1: I didn't go back again until I was sixteen and
Speaker 1: I got arrested.
Speaker 6: And then after that you were four. He got time
Speaker 6: to cover that in the next break, Right, I want
Speaker 6: to hear that story more than anything. I don't think
Speaker 6: so that story, maybe you're gonna start telling it. I'm
Speaker 6: going to it's gonna ring a bell. I do want
Speaker 6: to say like this, So I spend probably two to
Speaker 6: three hundred dollars average per kid on Christmas, which means
Speaker 6: that I'm a neglectful, abusive parents.
Speaker 4: Based on the recent someone's going to report you.
Speaker 3: They should be taking.
Speaker 9: My children away.
Speaker 6: And I'm a gast because this year, one of my kids,
Speaker 6: which probably is the gift I'm the most proud of,
Speaker 6: one of my kids, asked for Tesla stock. He just
Speaker 6: wanted one share of Tesla stock. But it's four hundred
Speaker 6: and thirty bucks.
Speaker 9: That wasn't the time I checked.
Speaker 4: I'm like, tell them to buy it himself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, your job.
Speaker 6: Get a job, dude, and that's how you can make
Speaker 6: your money. But we did say, if you're listening and
Speaker 6: you know my kids, please don't spoil us. But we
Speaker 6: did get them Kendrick Lamar tickets as a as a
Speaker 6: surprise were up in the nosebleed section.
Speaker 9: I'm not that kind of guy, but.
Speaker 6: We're going to take them to go see it because
Speaker 6: it was something both of them wanted and we thought
Speaker 6: it would be a fun thing that all of us
Speaker 6: could do. Cool, go get contact high together. Right, this
Speaker 6: kid's is the smell of marijuana.
Speaker 3: They are more aware than were comfortable.
Speaker 2: Some of the greatest One of the tips on this list, though,
Speaker 2: in terms of kind of controlling what you do around
Speaker 2: Christmas time, one of the greatest things that we did,
Speaker 2: my wife did, I'll give her full credit for, was
Speaker 2: shopping secondhand. Some of the great stuff that we got
Speaker 2: for our kids we got at garage sales, and it
Speaker 2: was part of it was because we lived in a
Speaker 2: nice neighborhood. We were in the poorhouse in the nice neighborhood,
Speaker 2: but they were willing to throw away some great new
Speaker 2: bicycles or tricycles or toys or something like that. Lightly
Speaker 2: used expensive when they when they bought them, but very
Speaker 2: much reduced when we got them. Our kids in all
Speaker 2: the difference, and those were some of the greatest toys
Speaker 2: and vehicles that they now know.
Speaker 3: The difference.
Speaker 9: All of my kids clothes were hand me downs.
Speaker 6: But what I'll tell you is what I took from
Speaker 6: that point is I have seen there's a lot of
Speaker 6: data that shows kids today like.
Speaker 4: Thrift store shopping.
Speaker 6: It's a trending thing, so it's not the it used
Speaker 6: to be, like that's what you did when you were broke, right,
Speaker 6: But now that's the cool thing.
Speaker 1: When I was in high school too, thrift store shopping
Speaker 1: we went all the time.
Speaker 6: It's because you smoked cigarettes and stuff. I was just
Speaker 6: a theater nerd. We didn't do the thrift store shopping.
Speaker 2: You were actually shopping for the costume debates run exactly.
Speaker 3: Because you smoked cigarettes.
Speaker 9: Look at that. Sometimes I crush stuff too.
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Speaker 4: We were trying to hit the hay.
Speaker 9: Now, you guys could crush the show.
Speaker 1: We were talking about the arc of the Covenant. We were, well,
Speaker 1: we were, weren't we last week or the week before?
Speaker 4: Yeah, when we were. We were talking about Raiders of
Speaker 4: the Lost Dark and you've never seen it?
Speaker 3: Why are you mad?
Speaker 2: I still because you still have had two weeks to
Speaker 2: see it and you haven't seen it.
Speaker 4: You don't know that I know that he's seen it.
Speaker 1: The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments
Speaker 1: has been sold in an auction for more than five
Speaker 1: million dollars.
Speaker 4: You bought it for Gary South of Bee's said.
Speaker 1: The one hundred and fifty five pound marble slab was
Speaker 1: acquired by an anonymous buyer who plans to donate it
Speaker 1: to an Israeli institution.
Speaker 4: But it's not the Ten Commandments.
Speaker 1: It was supposed to go for about the amount about
Speaker 1: one point five that Freddie Freeman's Grand slam Ball was
Speaker 1: going for. They said there were ten minutes of intense
Speaker 1: bidding during the global competition. Tablet dates from three hundred
Speaker 1: to eight hundred a d. And is inscribed with the
Speaker 1: Commandments and Paleo Hebrew script. It was unearthed in southern
Speaker 1: Israel in nineteen thirteen.
Speaker 2: Is a marble tablet and slab, a marble slab slab.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 9: I think he's going to put in a countertop.
Speaker 4: That would be interesting, be a cool power move.
Speaker 6: If you just made it part of your counter It's
Speaker 6: like I spent five million just to but.
Speaker 4: Could you put anything on top of it.
Speaker 3: I'd make it the backsplash.
Speaker 4: Oh better idea. But it's gonna be thick. That's gonna
Speaker 4: stick off the wall a couple of inches.
Speaker 3: It's the freaking Ten Commandments.
Speaker 4: Is that how they say it? That's how south of
Speaker 4: he's auctioned it.
Speaker 2: Oh, can I get my first bad for the freaking
Speaker 2: Ten Commandments.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it would be pretty cool to have
Speaker 1: it as your backsplash, despite its thickness. Doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be aesthetically pleasing when it's the freaking Ten Commandments.
Speaker 6: Right, because you get to say it was the Ten Commandments.
Speaker 6: That's what I was I would put in the middle
Speaker 6: of my island, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's kind of like, yeah, it's like here's.
Speaker 6: I'm sure, yeah, and I think that's the power move.
Speaker 6: You're like, I'm so indifferent onto what happens after my
Speaker 6: life ends that this is what I did with the
Speaker 6: Ten Commandments. I bought it for five million dollars, which
Speaker 6: could be sacrilegious in its own right.
Speaker 4: True, that's true, just to purchase it, Yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 4: a good point.
Speaker 2: But if you purchase it in the in the context
Speaker 2: of them he's donating, Yeah.
Speaker 3: And Moses and.
Speaker 9: And a name from the Bible?
Speaker 6: Is that how you decided to put a button on
Speaker 6: this like it's a Saturday night life scar.
Speaker 4: She's the one who a ten commandments told there.
Speaker 9: Was just a pause that she goes and moses, right.
Speaker 4: Old testament name that she knows. Yeah, exactly, it's it's better, she.
Speaker 6: Said, right, and gave me the woman eyebrow lift of like,
Speaker 6: I think we're done here so much you recognize it.
Speaker 9: That was and it shut me up.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 9: I was like, yeah, I guess we're done. I can't
Speaker 9: so I have no connection to her other than friendship.
Speaker 6: And she completely shut me up as a man by
Speaker 6: just raising an eyebrow and going and dropping her chin.
Speaker 9: We're done here.
Speaker 4: Moving on a day, sir. So, So do you do
Speaker 4: you think that this time is stressful? Do you think
Speaker 4: holidays are stressful for parents?
Speaker 6: I think for me, like, the only part that stresses
Speaker 6: my life out is all of these choir shows that
Speaker 6: my kids are a part of.
Speaker 3: How many are there?
Speaker 6: Well, my other my older son just did three shows
Speaker 6: after doing a week of rehearsals. And because I'm on
Speaker 6: the board for the boosters, like I was there for
Speaker 6: all of them, like helping out, facilitating, setting up for them,
Speaker 6: tearing down all of that stuff.
Speaker 4: You had notes for them after I not.
Speaker 6: It's like, you know, I give it your little pitchy
Speaker 6: dog and the other one did his on Tuesday. Like
Speaker 6: last night, I was at a choir show and I
Speaker 6: help out a little bit with that that was sold
Speaker 6: out and there was parents who were angry because we
Speaker 6: invited an elementary school.
Speaker 9: It got ugly.
Speaker 6: People got yelled at because there weren't enough seats for
Speaker 6: everybody because they didn't buy tickets. Had that leave them
Speaker 6: one more Like I'll be honest, I fantasize about a
Speaker 6: time where I get to just stay home with the
Speaker 6: four of us. But I think it's because I've spent
Speaker 6: my entire life and my child's entire life of traveling
Speaker 6: to my parents' place or my in law's place or
Speaker 6: something like that. Like I would like that, but it does.
Speaker 6: I would not say that the holidy are overly stressful
Speaker 6: for all the reasons that they describe.
Speaker 9: It's because I'm not trying to be that parent. I'm not.
Speaker 9: I don't. I don't think so, I don't. I mean, clearly,
Speaker 9: I'm not, Like I.
Speaker 6: Don't know that anybody is, and I don't like honestly,
Speaker 6: the only thing I look at this stuff and I go,
Speaker 6: is there something that I am missing out on? Like,
Speaker 6: but all it seems like is an unnecessary staying up
Speaker 6: until midnight making cookies and that kind of thing.
Speaker 9: It's just it's never been my thing.
Speaker 6: What about your wife? Does she feel stressed out by
Speaker 6: the holidays? I don't think the holidays stress her out,
Speaker 6: but she's also mostly you. Yes, that's definitely just general
Speaker 6: life with me, is what I think she would. Yeah,
Speaker 6: that's that's very intuitive. Do you like follow her on
Speaker 6: X or something?
Speaker 4: Because we talk, asked me to bring it up little
Speaker 4: by little.
Speaker 9: You're doing great because I'm it's completely flying over my head.
Speaker 9: I'm so smart. Yeah, so I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 9: Do you guys? Do you guys get stressed out about
Speaker 9: the holidays?
Speaker 2: I get frustrated by the holidays because I think there's
Speaker 2: a lot of high expectations. Yes, yes, I would have
Speaker 2: that part that I'm like, I feel like and every
Speaker 2: year afterwards you're like, I'm not. It's like when you
Speaker 2: drink too much, you have one more, you're like, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna change from beer to whiskey late in the evening
Speaker 2: or something like that, and you wake up and you're like,
Speaker 2: you know what, Probably I.
Speaker 4: Don't want to do that again.
Speaker 2: And then you know, you get you get late into
Speaker 2: the holidays or whatever, and you just go, we didn't
Speaker 2: need to do that, whatever it was, overschedule yourself, over
Speaker 2: by overeat, whatever it is, and.
Speaker 4: Then you get into January and you hate yourself.
Speaker 9: Wow.
Speaker 4: Well not sometimes sometimes I.
Speaker 9: Think you saved it. I think you really don't. Think
Speaker 9: you nail that. Everything's gonna be great for you. You
Speaker 9: have a great birthday, right.
Speaker 1: To say, your birthdays in January, that's when it starts
Speaker 1: to turn around.
Speaker 2: A few days in maybe it maybe it turns around.
Speaker 2: But my birthday this year, again for the last couple
Speaker 2: of years, has not fallen on wild Card weekend, which
Speaker 2: is really frustrating.
Speaker 3: To every year.
Speaker 1: And you like that.
Speaker 4: My wife would be like, what do you want to
Speaker 4: do on your birthday? Like nothing, I just want to sit.
Speaker 1: I spent every fourth and fifth of January at the
Speaker 1: video poker machine at the Golden Nugget in Vegas for years.
Speaker 3: Just all those TVs, all the games on. Oh that
Speaker 3: was the best. Now times have changed.
Speaker 9: Why is that?
Speaker 4: Because she's got to go to a football game.
Speaker 2: You gotta work, and it's just it's just the end
Speaker 2: of the regular season, which in some cases could be
Speaker 2: the absolute waste of a time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because while yes, some most of the games don't
Speaker 1: mean anything, wildcore weekend was so much fun. I think
Speaker 1: it's most fun weekend in in the playoffs because anything
Speaker 1: can happen, and it was just it was perfect that
Speaker 1: that like hangover weekend of after Christmas and New Year's
Speaker 1: it was just a perfect way to ease into the
Speaker 1: new year.
Speaker 6: I loved all the playoffs until having this conversation with
Speaker 6: the guys. You guys found a way to make the
Speaker 6: month of January.
Speaker 3: We'll do that to stick around.
Speaker 9: Where's the talkback feature for the NFL. Let's give them
Speaker 9: a piece of our mind.
Speaker 4: Do you do you want to you want to ruin
Speaker 4: puppies next?
Speaker 9: Yeah, stick it out around of ruins and puppies.
Speaker 1: Else the NFL ruined was a lot of Christmas presents
Speaker 1: for people when they flexed that Sunday game the Chargers
Speaker 1: Broncos to Thursday night. People plan months out for games
Speaker 1: around the holidays, whether it's bringing the whole family. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then then they planted on a they take a
Speaker 1: one o'clock game on a Sunday, and they planted on
Speaker 1: a Thursday night.
Speaker 6: And fl fun tidbit I'll leave you with before we
Speaker 6: go and talk about ruining puppies.
Speaker 9: I saw. I couldn't find enough data on it.
Speaker 6: There's a growing trend of parents who are traveling without
Speaker 6: their kids for the holidays. I don't I couldn't find
Speaker 6: what they're doing with their kids. Just multiple articles talking
Speaker 6: about this rising trend, mixing mills.
Speaker 4: I'm listening.
Speaker 9: Your kids are adults. Maybe I don't even think that
Speaker 9: was part of it.
Speaker 4: But I mean, they can take care of themselves, right exactly.
Speaker 3: That's fascinating. What do with the kids?
Speaker 9: Exactly? It's so weird, Like are you dumping them with grandparents?
Speaker 6: Where are you going? I have so many questions for
Speaker 6: these people. Find me if you're listening and you're this person.
Speaker 3: I want to see Cabo one year in between Christmas
Speaker 3: and New Year's. I think it was it was just weird.
Speaker 3: I just didn't like it.
Speaker 4: I feel like a great place to go between Christmas
Speaker 4: and New Year's Vegas.
Speaker 3: Really, I feel i'd feel depressed.
Speaker 4: We went one time on Christmas night, like late that evening.
Speaker 2: We left Christmas after all the presence, and we were
Speaker 2: there for a few days with some friends and it
Speaker 2: was great.
Speaker 4: No crowds, no crowds at all.
Speaker 2: Cold walking from you know, casino and casino was cold,
Speaker 2: but it was so much fun.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's really depressing. Well, I go to
Speaker 1: the ghetto downtown part of Vegas.
Speaker 4: You just bring depressing with you wherever you go.
Speaker 3: That is you, my friend, Turtleneck.
Speaker 4: You're like some sort of layers guys.
Speaker 9: Getting ugly in here. They're breaking eye contact with me
Speaker 9: and just yelling at each other.
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