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Speaker 2: Corrections and retractions.
Speaker 3: Not quite sure why I missed this one.
Speaker 4: I'm the one responsible for saying an incorrect fact today.
Speaker 2: Guys, Janet Reno was the first female attorney general.
Speaker 1: Duh. Gary doesn't remember what she did at Waco recognized
Speaker 1: look it up. Yeah, he doesn't like to recognize women.
Speaker 1: He also doesn't identify Janet Reno as a female.
Speaker 4: That's not true. None of that is true. None of
Speaker 4: what you just said is true.
Speaker 3: Now who it was that.
Speaker 4: Fourth concentric circle? Think that I'm a giant d Listen,
Speaker 4: she was not a looker.
Speaker 2: Let's be real.
Speaker 4: What does that have to do with anything? Again, that's
Speaker 4: not how we judge people here.
Speaker 2: I didn't say we, I said you.
Speaker 3: Oo oh. He stabbed me like forty or fifty times.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry left the night. You can take it, I
Speaker 1: do because you can take.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: The storm that rolled through the Pacific Northwest continues to
Speaker 4: cause problems. Utility crews around Seattle say that they have
Speaker 4: about two hundred thousand people without power at this point.
Speaker 4: And they expect to have many of those without power
Speaker 4: through the weekend. I had all kinds of power outages,
Speaker 4: I mean, probably three or four a year when you
Speaker 4: live in Seattle, simply because the trees, the rain, the snow,
Speaker 4: the eye, whatever it was. But never did they last
Speaker 4: more than about twenty four hours. I can't think of
Speaker 4: any that lasted that long. Also, PCH fully closed in
Speaker 4: Mendocino County because of flooding. Officials announced that the closure
Speaker 4: is north of Point Arena, near the Garcia River, and
Speaker 4: at this point they have not yet said when it's
Speaker 4: going to reopen. That same storm is also dumped about
Speaker 4: ten feet of snow floods avalanches, or it's forecast for
Speaker 4: a Mount Shasta, ten feet of snow on Mount Lassen.
Speaker 4: Hurricane force winds have been recorded along the coast, and
Speaker 4: there's a wide swath of rain, not nearly as heavy
Speaker 4: as it was yesterday, but a wide swath of rain.
Speaker 3: Still falling in northern California.
Speaker 1: And Janet Reno really did screw up in Waco yes
Speaker 1: authorizing that that tear gas attacks the fire killed a
Speaker 1: bunch of kids, And.
Speaker 4: I had to explain some of that to my daughter
Speaker 4: when she went when she moved to Waco a couple
Speaker 4: months ago, like there was a thing that happened here,
Speaker 4: and granted it was well outside of town, but Waco
Speaker 4: was the closest, so they made it sound like it
Speaker 4: was it was right there.
Speaker 3: Sugar is Sugar can be bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Sugar is very involved with an increased risk of
Speaker 1: autoimmune disorders like Crohn's disease, multiple school eurosis, higher blood pressure,
Speaker 1: increased a risk of more than a dozen cancers. Recreational
Speaker 1: sugar no boin O, dropping or limiting added sugars in
Speaker 1: the die it can help you avoid these outcomes and
Speaker 1: also improve your quality of life. Consuming less sugar reduces
Speaker 1: the production of a group of harmful molecules. They're known
Speaker 1: as ae IT excuse me ages associated with premature aging
Speaker 1: and Alzheimer's.
Speaker 4: Added sugars can also feed the bad bacteria in your gut,
Speaker 4: which can lead to chronic inflammation and an imbalance and
Speaker 4: healthy organisms. And the new literature about how important your
Speaker 4: gut is to the rest of your health. Oh, it's
Speaker 4: mental health. I mean, it's just it's incredible. They said
Speaker 4: that dropping or limiting added sugars in the diet can
Speaker 4: help you not only avoid outcomes but also improve your
Speaker 4: quality of life, in part because.
Speaker 2: Better than when you say it, because you're a man.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm just trying to man explain sweetness to you.
Speaker 4: I know, so you don't have any.
Speaker 2: Get to the part where I messed up agase.
Speaker 4: Harmful molecules known as ages, and then the part that
Speaker 4: I read after that as well, associated with premature time
Speaker 4: unter condition Alzheimer's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and hearing.
Speaker 1: I didn't say that I did because I didn't listen now,
Speaker 1: But you said aeg which were still thinking about janet
Speaker 1: right now? Is what you were doing understandable.
Speaker 4: When excess sugar is present in the bloodstream, it combined
Speaker 4: with lipids or proteins like collagen and elastin and contribute
Speaker 4: to aging skin, wrinkles, loss of elasticity.
Speaker 2: Did you hear that it can contribute to aging skin,
Speaker 2: the loss of elasticity, collagen, collagen.
Speaker 3: I'll point again to a story.
Speaker 2: I didn't read that first.
Speaker 3: I know I at least know that much. I'll point again.
Speaker 4: My father was diagnosed pre diabetic four or five years ago,
Speaker 4: and he was overweight. It's always somewhat overweight, not crazy,
Speaker 4: but always had a twenty extra pounds or whatever it was.
Speaker 4: And when he was diagnosed pre diabetic, he was a
Speaker 4: rule following yeah, I mean, you give him a rule
Speaker 4: and he would follow it and that would make him happy.
Speaker 3: That was his It was out of mentality will power.
Speaker 4: And when when he was diagnosed pre diabetic, the doctor said, basically,
Speaker 4: you better change this or you're going to be diabetic
Speaker 4: and you're going to have to be put on insulin.
Speaker 4: So he did everything and within two three weeks, I
Speaker 4: mean within weeks that pre diabetic diagnosis was completely gone.
Speaker 4: His blood sugar was back to normal, everything was working correctly.
Speaker 4: Granted he was battling cancer at the time, but he
Speaker 4: was talking about the difference between feeling healthier, sleeping better,
Speaker 4: feeling more motivated, having more energy without the added sugars
Speaker 4: in the diet.
Speaker 3: And it was one thing to be able to not
Speaker 3: just make.
Speaker 4: Those changes, but to be able to identify where the
Speaker 4: added sugars are in your diet, everything everything. He loved
Speaker 4: his juice. He loved drinking juice. He loved it because
Speaker 4: it was sweet.
Speaker 3: And tasted good.
Speaker 4: It's so bad, it's so good, but it's so bad
Speaker 4: for you. It's incredible. My only piece of willpower is
Speaker 4: that I have had a Snickers bar on the on
Speaker 4: the shelf in my pantry since Halloween and I haven't.
Speaker 2: Eaten it yet, but you know you're going to at
Speaker 2: some point.
Speaker 1: At some point, I notice a big difference in like
Speaker 1: belly fat area, like if you eat. If I eat
Speaker 1: a lot of sugar, I get very fat in the stomach.
Speaker 1: If I cut it out, it takes a long time,
Speaker 1: but it does go away and then a little bit
Speaker 1: of juice and boom, five months pregnant.
Speaker 4: You Menendez story, wouldn't we okay?
Speaker 2: What I thought? We were sharing secrets here?
Speaker 3: The latest on the eric in Lyle story, trying.
Speaker 1: To work my way into that first concentric circle, telling
Speaker 1: you when I get fat.
Speaker 4: Well, that's it, but it would require that you've seen
Speaker 4: You're not even looking at it.
Speaker 3: I can't even look at it. I'm just gonna look
Speaker 3: over there.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get some juice.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, stories we're following for you today. Delta United
Speaker 1: Airlines become the most profitable US airlines by targeting premium
Speaker 1: customers while also winning a significant share of budget travelers.
Speaker 1: Interesting they are squeezing smaller low fare carriers like Spirit,
Speaker 1: which filed for bankruptcy protection this week.
Speaker 2: They say that experts say.
Speaker 1: Spirits troubles indicate less wealthy passengers will have fewer choices
Speaker 1: and higher prices.
Speaker 3: Here's a game I play.
Speaker 4: Sometimes I am close enough to a flight path that
Speaker 4: I see a lot of airplanes flying into Burbank and
Speaker 4: van eyes from my house, and I think, what's going
Speaker 4: on on that Southwest flight right now? Ninety nine point
Speaker 4: nine nine percent of the time it's nothing, just people
Speaker 4: flying from Sacramento or Salt Lake City or Vage whatever.
Speaker 4: I see a Spirit Airlines plane and I go, what's
Speaker 4: it like on that airplane?
Speaker 3: Right now? You know your your ten.
Speaker 2: Attorneys sweaty, not a lot of ventilation.
Speaker 3: They came in game.
Speaker 4: They came in from Tucson, and it still smells like
Speaker 4: Tucson in there. Questions have been swirling about whether Florida
Speaker 4: Governor Ron de Santis is going to nominate Matt Gates
Speaker 4: as his state's next senior senator. Of course, sent DeSantis
Speaker 4: gets to a point a replacement for Senator Marco Rubio,
Speaker 4: who has been tapped as Secretary of State in the
Speaker 4: next administration. On Monday, Desanta's he hasn't been asked specifically
Speaker 4: about Matt Gates, because obviously Matt Gates hadn't dropped out
Speaker 4: of his nomination or hadn't withdrawn his name for consideration
Speaker 4: for attorney General. But on Monday, Desanta said that he
Speaker 4: was gathering names and conducting preliminary vetting after receiving strong
Speaker 4: interest from several potential picks.
Speaker 3: He no, I'm just gonna so the Pam Bondi thing.
Speaker 4: So Pam Bondi, the former Attorney General for the state
Speaker 4: of Florida, has been nominated in Matt Gates's place as
Speaker 4: Attorney General. I made the mistake of saying she would
Speaker 4: be the first female attorney general.
Speaker 3: That was it. Reno, played by Will Ferrell on Saturday
Speaker 3: Night Line. You got her there.
Speaker 5: You're gonna get the straight dope from the horse's mouth.
Speaker 5: It's real time, Okay, who wants a piece of renal?
Speaker 4: Let's see ann us, miss Reno, as an appointee of
Speaker 4: an administration that's plagued with pending indictments. Hasn't the time
Speaker 4: come for you to remove yourself from the investigation.
Speaker 5: If you ask one more question like that, you're gonna
Speaker 5: have to rule my foot from your ass. What kind
Speaker 5: of name is Wolf.
Speaker 2: Anyways, he said on a podcast.
Speaker 1: A couple months ago that he did regret dressing up
Speaker 1: as a woman to crack a joke. He said, that's
Speaker 1: something I wouldn't choose to do. Now, he admitted that
Speaker 1: a fair amount of the older skits on SNL are
Speaker 1: ones where you'd lament the choice.
Speaker 4: So he's saying that they're problematic without using the word problematic.
Speaker 4: What do you mean, I just mean that that's a
Speaker 4: loaded word now, like it was funny at the time. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 4: So why why is.
Speaker 2: It not funny now? I don't know. Well, there is
Speaker 2: her are we offending?
Speaker 4: There is a movie that he did with the guy
Speaker 4: that is a buddy of his who has transitioned into
Speaker 4: Have you seen.
Speaker 2: This at all? I've heard about it. I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: watch it.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 3: I think he's sensitive to that issue specifically.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he wasn't saying that. But Tanna Reno wasn't transgender.
Speaker 1: She was just a woman who looked like Will Ferrell.
Speaker 1: All right, A public lottery will decide who gets access
Speaker 1: to this courtroom hearing on Monday. This is the hearing
Speaker 1: for Eric and Lyle Menendez, of course, convicted of murdering
Speaker 1: their parents in nineteen eighty nine. It was the guy
Speaker 1: squatting in the DA's office, George Gascon, who threw up
Speaker 1: the hail Mary, much like Russell Wilson did last night
Speaker 1: to try to save his seat and and it also
Speaker 1: was unsuccessful. There will be sixteen seats inside the courtroom
Speaker 1: that will be made available to the public via lottery
Speaker 1: that will take place outside of the Vanauy's courthouse on
Speaker 1: Monday morning. The people will receive non transferable badges for
Speaker 1: the day. Two stand by tickets will be issued for
Speaker 1: possible openings as well. They have been in prison for
Speaker 1: thirty five years for killing their parents because they wanted
Speaker 1: to ride high on the hog and have all the
Speaker 1: money that their parents worked for, but they didn't want
Speaker 1: to do the work of their own.
Speaker 2: There was tons of evidence to show that.
Speaker 1: But then there has been recent talk of alleged sexual
Speaker 1: abuse that did not pass muster back then, and why
Speaker 1: it does now I do not know. But prosecutors submitted
Speaker 1: at the behest of Gascon a recommendation for resentencing with
Speaker 1: Gascone calling for a judge to impose a new sentence
Speaker 1: of fifty years to life if approved by the judge
Speaker 1: the brothers could be immediately eligible for parole.
Speaker 3: Mentioned last a couple days ago.
Speaker 4: I guess when Susan Smith was up for her parole
Speaker 4: hearing that she had not been a model prisoner. Apparently
Speaker 4: there's a wrinkle in Lyleman and az this love life
Speaker 4: that could potentially cause some friction when it comes to
Speaker 4: his release potential release.
Speaker 2: Why would his love life have any role in that decision?
Speaker 4: Just because, at least because it was a contraband cell
Speaker 4: phone that he was using to communicate with this twenty
Speaker 4: one year old college student, despite the fact that he
Speaker 4: is on his second marriage already or is still in
Speaker 4: his second marriage. Lyle has begun a romance with the
Speaker 4: University of Manchester student, a woman named Milly Bucksy twenty one.
Speaker 3: Does that get any more British?
Speaker 4: Millie Bucksy, It's pretty British told her that he wants
Speaker 4: to divorce his wife of more than twenty years, a
Speaker 4: woman named Rebecca Sneed, to be with this twenty one
Speaker 4: year old. She refers to him as her boyfriend, even
Speaker 4: though obviously Lyle is still married. Sneed later said she
Speaker 4: had separated from Lyle, but Menendez found Bucksy on a
Speaker 4: Facebook group dedicated to his release run by Sneed earlier
Speaker 4: this year. Again, why are we allowing so much? Why
Speaker 4: are we allowing any internet access to these guys that
Speaker 4: are in prison in the state of Cali for murder,
Speaker 4: for murder, murder, murder murder?
Speaker 3: Can we just can we go back to the old
Speaker 3: days of it?
Speaker 4: If you can't get it on an AOL dial up,
Speaker 4: you don't get to look at it in a state prison.
Speaker 1: I saw the book Fair, big rig I saw that
Speaker 1: picture that was rolling down the two ten with Clifford
Speaker 1: on it. Something big is coming. I love the book
Speaker 1: Fair as a kid. That was just like the coolest
Speaker 1: thing and U And now kids can't read, well, we're
Speaker 1: having a literacy crisis.
Speaker 3: It's that they can read, but it's like one sentence
Speaker 3: at a.
Speaker 2: Time because they have no tension spasktok version of reading it.
Speaker 1: If you spend all the time on your phone, you
Speaker 1: have no tension span for sitting down with a book
Speaker 1: and listen. I've been guilty of that as well. I
Speaker 1: don't read nearly as much as I used to read.
Speaker 1: It shows Oh, we're gonna be hurtful. It's hurtful.
Speaker 4: Friday, Fine, you turned from the first to second concentric
Speaker 4: circle out towards the fourth concentric circle and told people
Speaker 4: that I was a D in.
Speaker 3: The first place.
Speaker 1: Well, I actually got some feedback about your circles. Let's
Speaker 1: see here, Jen says, Gary's consent. Yeah, which circle is
Speaker 1: Jen in?
Speaker 2: I don't know if she's in one of your circles,
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: According to the Cook Political Report, president elect Trump brought
Speaker 4: in seventy six point eight million votes in this election.
Speaker 3: Kami A.
Speaker 4: Harris seventy four point two million. But Trump's share of
Speaker 4: the ballots is not even half of the popular vote.
Speaker 4: It's only forty nine nine point eighty nine percent. I mean,
Speaker 4: obviously you want to round up, but it is below
Speaker 4: the fifty percent of the popular vote. The current margin
Speaker 4: of about two point four million votes, if it holds,
Speaker 4: would be the closest margin of victory since Gore Bush
Speaker 4: in the year two thousand.
Speaker 3: I don't even think it was that close.
Speaker 1: Well, there may be a literacy crisis, or is it
Speaker 1: just a tention span crisis? When it comes to kids
Speaker 1: and reading.
Speaker 4: There is a couple of different measures for how much
Speaker 4: kids are reading and how well they read. One of
Speaker 4: them is the reading scores in the National Assessment of
Speaker 4: Educational Progress, one of the most widely used nationwide measures
Speaker 4: of student achievement. And while in the scores themselves haven't
Speaker 4: really changed that much since they were introduced back in
Speaker 4: nineteen sixty nine, they haven't plummeted. They haven't plummeted during COVID,
Speaker 4: but they did go down a little bit.
Speaker 3: They said.
Speaker 4: What has plummeted is how much kids read. They're reading, okay,
Speaker 4: like they're understanding what they read, but in terms of
Speaker 4: how much they read, it's gone way down, especially for
Speaker 4: just recreational reading.
Speaker 1: And I really don't think any research is needed. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's obviously because of the phones. And I mean you'll
Speaker 1: even know it in your life. If you read a
Speaker 1: lot or read a lot, it's probably gone down a bit,
Speaker 1: not just because you're staring at your phone more than
Speaker 1: you stared at anything before, but because our tension spans
Speaker 1: have dwindled. We get sidetracked very easily. I've noticed it
Speaker 1: with me. I'll sit down to read my book and
Speaker 1: then I'll be reading something and there'll be a word
Speaker 1: that piques my interest or something, and I'll want to
Speaker 1: look at it. What does that word exactly mean, I'll
Speaker 1: grab my phone, I'll look up the word, and then
Speaker 1: I'll get sidetracked with something else on the phone, and
Speaker 1: then it's a wild.
Speaker 2: Before I go back to the books. Awful. It's just
Speaker 2: I hate that I do that.
Speaker 1: But it's almost like my curiosity is like a beast
Speaker 1: of itself. Like it's just I cannot have any willpower
Speaker 1: over my curiosity and the fact that I can sate
Speaker 1: that curiosity immediately.
Speaker 4: In terms of numbers, in nineteen eighty four, the first
Speaker 4: year for which they did this question, thirty five percent
Speaker 4: of thirteen year olds said they read for fun almost
Speaker 4: every single day.
Speaker 3: I did thirty five percent. Yeah.
Speaker 4: By twenty twenty not when you were three years old,
Speaker 4: when I was thirteen, but twenty twenty three, they said
Speaker 4: the figure was down to fourteen percent of thirteen year
Speaker 4: olds said that they read almost every single day, and
Speaker 4: about a third said they never read for fun at all.
Speaker 1: Think about what that means, not to read for fun
Speaker 1: at all. You know, when you read for fun, it's
Speaker 1: a common thing. It is good to build your your
Speaker 1: patients and your attention span, and it just turns off
Speaker 1: a lot of the brain of the overstimulated parts of
Speaker 1: the brain.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's really good for overall well being.
Speaker 1: It's not just you're taking in information, it just it
Speaker 1: feels good to read. And if if you're not doing that,
Speaker 1: in fact, you're just over you're continue throwing the overstimulation spiral.
Speaker 1: What does that do for your mental health and well being?
Speaker 4: I find so many of these these types of circumstances
Speaker 4: or the way our brain works is very similar to
Speaker 4: the way our body works. And earlier we were talking
Speaker 4: earlier this week, we were talking about bliss point and
Speaker 4: audio engineering. When it comes to foods and ultra processed
Speaker 4: foods and how food companies make them more appealing to us,
Speaker 4: and that reminds me of the crunchy foods. If you
Speaker 4: have to the carrot for the example right that we used,
Speaker 4: If you have to eat a carrot, it takes it
Speaker 4: takes you a long time to chew through that crunchy
Speaker 4: carrot to get it down to a point where you
Speaker 4: feel comfortable swallowing it. And I mean your body knows
Speaker 4: that you're working on something that's crunchy carrot in this case,
Speaker 4: so that by the time you swallow it and you
Speaker 4: eat it, just a handful of carrots, You feel to
Speaker 4: your point satiated. You feel like, oh, that was enough
Speaker 4: for me, Now for a snack. Whereas if you eat
Speaker 4: some sort of a soft food I'm looking at you,
Speaker 4: banana nut muffin, you don't feel satiated, you don't feel full.
Speaker 3: And that's similar to this.
Speaker 4: If you're reading, imagine if that's sort of the crunchy,
Speaker 4: cruciferous vegetable that you're going through. You feel more accomplished,
Speaker 4: You feel like you've done something. You feel like even
Speaker 4: though you've sat down for ninety minutes or forty minutes
Speaker 4: or whatever it was, and read through a couple of chapters,
Speaker 4: you feel like there's a sense of accomplishment. You sit
Speaker 4: down and you play Fortnite for forty minutes, you get
Speaker 4: up and walk away.
Speaker 3: You don't feel like you did anything.
Speaker 4: It's that hollow analogy, the hollow mental feeling as opposed
Speaker 4: to the hollow physical feeling of being full or something
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 2: Right, it's very true. Look at you with your truth bombs.
Speaker 2: You're basically a philosopher.
Speaker 3: But then if I had a pizza, all of that
Speaker 3: thought would just.
Speaker 1: See I'd forgotten about the pizza, And then you just
Speaker 1: brought it back up.
Speaker 4: Sorry, what you learned this week on the Gary and
Speaker 4: Shannon Show. Let us know you can always send us
Speaker 4: a talk back on the iHeart app. Just hit that
Speaker 4: little microphone button and let us know what you have
Speaker 4: you've gleaned from all of the random stuff that we've
Speaker 4: talked about this week.
Speaker 2: I'm trying an exercise with myself to.
Speaker 3: See if I saying no pizza.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no pizza, But then you actually have to say
Speaker 4: the word pizza, and that's probably what your brain is
Speaker 4: concentrating on.
Speaker 3: Would you like an Ammond?
Speaker 1: Noah also asked somebody what I should I ask for counsel? Okay,
Speaker 1: but I asked somebody who I knew would sign off
Speaker 1: on my bad decision?
Speaker 3: Is it Oscar?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Why did I know that was coming? A couple stories
Speaker 4: that we are following today. Judge Juan Marshan has adjourned
Speaker 4: President elect Trump's November twenty sixth sentencing day that was
Speaker 4: supposed to be Tuesday. This judge issued a brief today
Speaker 4: that allows the Trump defense attorneys to file a motion
Speaker 4: to outright dismiss the case. He laid out a briefing schedule.
Speaker 4: The defense motion is going to be due December second.
Speaker 4: This order also puts off any decision about whether the
Speaker 4: Supreme Court's immunity decision would apply to Trump's criminal hush
Speaker 4: money case.
Speaker 3: More on that coming up in Swamp Watch.
Speaker 4: The Kremlin has said that a strike on Ukraine using
Speaker 4: a newly developed hypersonic ballistic missile was a message to
Speaker 4: the West. They said that Moscow will respond harshly to
Speaker 4: any reckless Western actions in support of Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman
Speaker 4: Dmitri Peskov, speaking a day after President Putin said Moscow
Speaker 4: had fired this new missile, named the Hazel Tree, at
Speaker 4: a Ukrainian military facility, in response to Kiev hitting Russia
Speaker 4: with US and British made missiles earlier this week. Whooping
Speaker 4: cough has surged in California this year. Across California, last
Speaker 4: year fewer than three hundred cases.
Speaker 2: I did it wrong?
Speaker 4: This year seventeen hundred reported cases by the end of September.
Speaker 3: Would you do? Did you send it somewhere else?
Speaker 1: I went too fast and I didn't say delivery, It
Speaker 1: said pick up.
Speaker 2: So I have to call them.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: The Rams host the Eagles on Sunday Night Football next
Speaker 4: a couple of days and then Chargers play Monday night.
Speaker 4: They will host the Ravens in the Hardball Bowl usc
Speaker 4: UCLA tomorrow night at the at the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 6: Hey Gary, just first question between me and you. Yeah,
Speaker 6: you know, to me, Shannon's always seemed like the perfect woman.
Speaker 6: You know, smart, funny, beautiful, love sports, used to be
Speaker 6: a cheerleader or all that, And I just wonder is
Speaker 6: that all an illusion?
Speaker 5: It all?
Speaker 3: What an illusion?
Speaker 2: This goes back to the Star Wars thing, doesn't it.
Speaker 2: Probably people tell me about your cheerleading days.
Speaker 1: What do you want to know about them? How long
Speaker 1: were you a cheerleader high school?
Speaker 2: Before?
Speaker 1: It was very hot Nevado on a Saturday Sunday. They're
Speaker 1: too awful, like you would just you feel like you're
Speaker 1: going to pass out, just covered in sweat. I'm going
Speaker 1: to call the pizza place right now.
Speaker 4: Do you remember the show, the show kid Nation on CBS.
Speaker 4: It was a reality show where they took thirty six kids,
Speaker 4: you know, from from preteen to to teen and basically
Speaker 4: sent them out into the desert near Santa Fe and
Speaker 4: had them live in their own society. The producer actually
Speaker 4: had picked. They called these kids pioneers.
Speaker 3: By the way, the.
Speaker 4: Kid The producers had picked four pioneers who said that
Speaker 4: they would represent the group in age and geography, and
Speaker 4: they would be the town council. Would these kids be
Speaker 4: able to form a functioning society, you know, with people
Speaker 4: in charge and with people pitching in to help cook
Speaker 4: food and gather food and clean the toilets, among other things,
Speaker 4: And to understand how a show like this could not
Speaker 4: only be produced but considered such a good idea. A
Speaker 4: lot of people were hoping that it was going to
Speaker 4: be the next Survivor, in that they were going to
Speaker 4: be able to repeat this over and over again. Remember
Speaker 4: this was this was a time two thousand and seven
Speaker 4: where just about every show felt like or was a
Speaker 4: reality show. George Bush was president w That is, Facebook
Speaker 4: had just started, and back in it was still called
Speaker 4: the Facebook.
Speaker 3: I was there, but not everybody had them.
Speaker 4: Helicopter parenting hadn't even been popular yet, and we were
Speaker 4: sort of on the last vestiges of I guess you
Speaker 4: could say wild children, wild only in that they weren't
Speaker 4: allowed to roam or they were still allowed to roam freely,
Speaker 4: and we weren't checking in on them all the time.
Speaker 4: One of the producers actually told Variety Magazine that he
Speaker 4: drew inspiration for the show from the Bush administration. He
Speaker 4: said that there were so many divisions in our nation.
Speaker 4: Does this sound familiar? So many divisions, political divisions, ideological divisions, religious,
Speaker 4: racial divisions. And he said, if you took extraordinary kids
Speaker 4: and gave them the chance to rethink government or religion
Speaker 4: or education issues that plague us then and today, what
Speaker 4: would they come up with? What would kids do if
Speaker 4: they had a shot at reshaping society? Granted on a
Speaker 4: small scale, but what exactly would it looked like? And
Speaker 4: that's exactly where they came from. The cast forty kids
Speaker 4: eight to fifteen, all walks of American life, all over
Speaker 4: the country. The casting director worked on Survivor and The
Speaker 4: Amazing Race, targeted the Rodeo circuit, targeted gate programs, Gifted
Speaker 4: and talented programs, beauty pageants, theater camps, and tried to
Speaker 4: figure out exactly who they could put together in this
Speaker 4: random assortment of children, if they could come up with
Speaker 4: an actual small but a society that worked.
Speaker 3: So did it work?
Speaker 4: It didn't work? They had a really the first of all,
Speaker 4: their parents. Well, first of all, the kids need their parents.
Speaker 4: Second of all, there were some labor issues with how
Speaker 4: the kids were actually being and it's a reality show.
Speaker 4: Finger quotes in that so much of the stuff that
Speaker 4: they faced was actually presented to them by the producers.
Speaker 4: So it's not as simple as saying just go roam
Speaker 4: free and make society. They had to come up with.
Speaker 4: I mean, there were contests, there were challenges.
Speaker 1: I just can't believe parents signed off on this. I
Speaker 1: guess it'd be nice to have some time away from the.
Speaker 3: Kid part of it. Again, different time, different time. We
Speaker 3: were naive in two thousand.
Speaker 2: This is embarrassing.
Speaker 1: So I call Roundtable Pizza because I had put pick
Speaker 1: up instead of delivery. I call Roundtable Pizza and they go, okay, Shannon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty much like what's the name on the order? I said, Shannon,
Speaker 1: and they go okay, yeah, you're at thirty four hundred
Speaker 1: wes Olive. I'm like, mm hmm. They knew my address
Speaker 1: right away. Yeah, that was embarrassing. That might be a sign.
Speaker 2: Oh, this is why you have us do wellness desks
Speaker 2: all the time, just in case that doesn't.
Speaker 3: Work, does it?
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