WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.879 This is Gary and Shannon, and you're listening to kf 2 00:00:02.879 --> 00:00:05.360 I AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on 3 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:07.280 demand on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:11.119 Corrections and retractions. 5 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:13.439 Not quite sure why I missed this one. 6 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:17.839 I'm the one responsible for saying an incorrect fact today. 7 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:21.440 Guys, Janet Reno was the first female attorney general. 8 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:25.079 Duh. Gary doesn't remember what she did at Waco recognized 9 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:27.960 look it up. Yeah, he doesn't like to recognize women. 10 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:31.359 He also doesn't identify Janet Reno as a female. 11 00:00:31.559 --> 00:00:33.640 That's not true. None of that is true. None of 12 00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:35.880 what you just said is true. 13 00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:36.759 Now who it was that. 14 00:00:36.799 --> 00:00:40.240 Fourth concentric circle? Think that I'm a giant d Listen, 15 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:41.479 she was not a looker. 16 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:42.679 Let's be real. 17 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:44.759 What does that have to do with anything? Again, that's 18 00:00:44.759 --> 00:00:46.119 not how we judge people here. 19 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:47.640 I didn't say we, I said you. 20 00:00:47.799 --> 00:00:56.840 Oo oh. He stabbed me like forty or fifty times. 21 00:00:56.880 --> 00:00:59.719 I'm sorry left the night. You can take it, I 22 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:01.240 do because you can take. 23 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:03.280 Okay. 24 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:11.159 The storm that rolled through the Pacific Northwest continues to 25 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:14.400 cause problems. Utility crews around Seattle say that they have 26 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:17.439 about two hundred thousand people without power at this point. 27 00:01:17.519 --> 00:01:20.799 And they expect to have many of those without power 28 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:24.400 through the weekend. I had all kinds of power outages, 29 00:01:24.599 --> 00:01:28.200 I mean, probably three or four a year when you 30 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:33.280 live in Seattle, simply because the trees, the rain, the snow, 31 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:36.480 the eye, whatever it was. But never did they last 32 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:39.120 more than about twenty four hours. I can't think of 33 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:43.680 any that lasted that long. Also, PCH fully closed in 34 00:01:43.799 --> 00:01:47.760 Mendocino County because of flooding. Officials announced that the closure 35 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:51.760 is north of Point Arena, near the Garcia River, and 36 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:53.480 at this point they have not yet said when it's 37 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:56.200 going to reopen. That same storm is also dumped about 38 00:01:56.239 --> 00:02:00.840 ten feet of snow floods avalanches, or it's forecast for 39 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:03.319 a Mount Shasta, ten feet of snow on Mount Lassen. 40 00:02:03.799 --> 00:02:06.599 Hurricane force winds have been recorded along the coast, and 41 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:09.960 there's a wide swath of rain, not nearly as heavy 42 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:12.479 as it was yesterday, but a wide swath of rain. 43 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:14.400 Still falling in northern California. 44 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:17.479 And Janet Reno really did screw up in Waco yes 45 00:02:18.159 --> 00:02:22.080 authorizing that that tear gas attacks the fire killed a 46 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:23.319 bunch of kids, And. 47 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:25.120 I had to explain some of that to my daughter 48 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:27.439 when she went when she moved to Waco a couple 49 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:29.879 months ago, like there was a thing that happened here, 50 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:33.039 and granted it was well outside of town, but Waco 51 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:35.199 was the closest, so they made it sound like it 52 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:36.800 was it was right there. 53 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:39.599 Sugar is Sugar can be bad. 54 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:46.159 Yeah, Sugar is very involved with an increased risk of 55 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:51.599 autoimmune disorders like Crohn's disease, multiple school eurosis, higher blood pressure, 56 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:56.159 increased a risk of more than a dozen cancers. Recreational 57 00:02:56.199 --> 00:02:59.639 sugar no boin O, dropping or limiting added sugars in 58 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:02.400 the die it can help you avoid these outcomes and 59 00:03:02.639 --> 00:03:06.479 also improve your quality of life. Consuming less sugar reduces 60 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:08.840 the production of a group of harmful molecules. They're known 61 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:14.280 as ae IT excuse me ages associated with premature aging 62 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:15.479 and Alzheimer's. 63 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:20.280 Added sugars can also feed the bad bacteria in your gut, 64 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:23.039 which can lead to chronic inflammation and an imbalance and 65 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:28.080 healthy organisms. And the new literature about how important your 66 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:31.080 gut is to the rest of your health. Oh, it's 67 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:35.039 mental health. I mean, it's just it's incredible. They said 68 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:38.000 that dropping or limiting added sugars in the diet can 69 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:40.759 help you not only avoid outcomes but also improve your 70 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:42.840 quality of life, in part because. 71 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:45.159 Better than when you say it, because you're a man. 72 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:48.159 Well, I'm just trying to man explain sweetness to you. 73 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:49.639 I know, so you don't have any. 74 00:03:49.479 --> 00:03:52.719 Get to the part where I messed up agase. 75 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:56.400 Harmful molecules known as ages, and then the part that 76 00:03:56.439 --> 00:03:59.360 I read after that as well, associated with premature time 77 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:00.800 unter condition Alzheimer's. 78 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:02.479 Yeah, and hearing. 79 00:04:03.039 --> 00:04:06.080 I didn't say that I did because I didn't listen now, 80 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:08.879 But you said aeg which were still thinking about janet 81 00:04:08.919 --> 00:04:11.919 right now? Is what you were doing understandable. 82 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:14.479 When excess sugar is present in the bloodstream, it combined 83 00:04:14.520 --> 00:04:18.720 with lipids or proteins like collagen and elastin and contribute 84 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:21.920 to aging skin, wrinkles, loss of elasticity. 85 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:24.680 Did you hear that it can contribute to aging skin, 86 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:28.480 the loss of elasticity, collagen, collagen. 87 00:04:29.879 --> 00:04:31.360 I'll point again to a story. 88 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:32.199 I didn't read that first. 89 00:04:32.439 --> 00:04:36.040 I know I at least know that much. I'll point again. 90 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:39.759 My father was diagnosed pre diabetic four or five years ago, 91 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:45.720 and he was overweight. It's always somewhat overweight, not crazy, 92 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:48.560 but always had a twenty extra pounds or whatever it was. 93 00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:52.160 And when he was diagnosed pre diabetic, he was a 94 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:57.120 rule following yeah, I mean, you give him a rule 95 00:04:57.160 --> 00:04:59.319 and he would follow it and that would make him happy. 96 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:01.600 That was his It was out of mentality will power. 97 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:06.600 And when when he was diagnosed pre diabetic, the doctor said, basically, 98 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:08.920 you better change this or you're going to be diabetic 99 00:05:08.959 --> 00:05:10.480 and you're going to have to be put on insulin. 100 00:05:10.759 --> 00:05:14.399 So he did everything and within two three weeks, I 101 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:19.079 mean within weeks that pre diabetic diagnosis was completely gone. 102 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:22.279 His blood sugar was back to normal, everything was working correctly. 103 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:25.560 Granted he was battling cancer at the time, but he 104 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:30.600 was talking about the difference between feeling healthier, sleeping better, 105 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:35.240 feeling more motivated, having more energy without the added sugars 106 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:35.800 in the diet. 107 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:39.439 And it was one thing to be able to not 108 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:40.639 just make. 109 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:43.319 Those changes, but to be able to identify where the 110 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:48.560 added sugars are in your diet, everything everything. He loved 111 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:51.399 his juice. He loved drinking juice. He loved it because 112 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:52.279 it was sweet. 113 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:52.759 And tasted good. 114 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:55.720 It's so bad, it's so good, but it's so bad 115 00:05:55.800 --> 00:05:59.519 for you. It's incredible. My only piece of willpower is 116 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:03.399 that I have had a Snickers bar on the on 117 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:08.120 the shelf in my pantry since Halloween and I haven't. 118 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:10.360 Eaten it yet, but you know you're going to at 119 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:10.800 some point. 120 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:14.959 At some point, I notice a big difference in like 121 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:17.879 belly fat area, like if you eat. If I eat 122 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:22.720 a lot of sugar, I get very fat in the stomach. 123 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:28.199 If I cut it out, it takes a long time, 124 00:06:28.279 --> 00:06:32.079 but it does go away and then a little bit 125 00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:37.600 of juice and boom, five months pregnant. 126 00:06:41.319 --> 00:06:44.759 You Menendez story, wouldn't we okay? 127 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:47.800 What I thought? We were sharing secrets here? 128 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:50.240 The latest on the eric in Lyle story, trying. 129 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:53.560 To work my way into that first concentric circle, telling 130 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:54.879 you when I get fat. 131 00:06:55.759 --> 00:06:58.000 Well, that's it, but it would require that you've seen 132 00:06:58.040 --> 00:06:59.040 You're not even looking at it. 133 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:01.519 I can't even look at it. I'm just gonna look 134 00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:01.920 over there. 135 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:03.120 I'm gonna get some juice. 136 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:08.040 Oh boy, stories we're following for you today. Delta United 137 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:11.839 Airlines become the most profitable US airlines by targeting premium 138 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:16.480 customers while also winning a significant share of budget travelers. 139 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:20.360 Interesting they are squeezing smaller low fare carriers like Spirit, 140 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:23.279 which filed for bankruptcy protection this week. 141 00:07:24.439 --> 00:07:26.600 They say that experts say. 142 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:30.720 Spirits troubles indicate less wealthy passengers will have fewer choices 143 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:31.839 and higher prices. 144 00:07:31.959 --> 00:07:32.959 Here's a game I play. 145 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:35.720 Sometimes I am close enough to a flight path that 146 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:37.959 I see a lot of airplanes flying into Burbank and 147 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:41.839 van eyes from my house, and I think, what's going 148 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:45.279 on on that Southwest flight right now? Ninety nine point 149 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:48.319 nine nine percent of the time it's nothing, just people 150 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:51.920 flying from Sacramento or Salt Lake City or Vage whatever. 151 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:56.160 I see a Spirit Airlines plane and I go, what's 152 00:07:56.199 --> 00:07:57.240 it like on that airplane? 153 00:07:57.399 --> 00:07:59.959 Right now? You know your your ten. 154 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:02.360 Attorneys sweaty, not a lot of ventilation. 155 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:03.959 They came in game. 156 00:08:05.399 --> 00:08:08.639 They came in from Tucson, and it still smells like 157 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:12.759 Tucson in there. Questions have been swirling about whether Florida 158 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:15.360 Governor Ron de Santis is going to nominate Matt Gates 159 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:19.279 as his state's next senior senator. Of course, sent DeSantis 160 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:21.879 gets to a point a replacement for Senator Marco Rubio, 161 00:08:21.959 --> 00:08:24.600 who has been tapped as Secretary of State in the 162 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:30.240 next administration. On Monday, Desanta's he hasn't been asked specifically 163 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:33.720 about Matt Gates, because obviously Matt Gates hadn't dropped out 164 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:38.639 of his nomination or hadn't withdrawn his name for consideration 165 00:08:38.679 --> 00:08:41.240 for attorney General. But on Monday, Desanta said that he 166 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:45.159 was gathering names and conducting preliminary vetting after receiving strong 167 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:47.440 interest from several potential picks. 168 00:08:47.720 --> 00:08:50.759 He no, I'm just gonna so the Pam Bondi thing. 169 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:53.120 So Pam Bondi, the former Attorney General for the state 170 00:08:53.159 --> 00:08:55.679 of Florida, has been nominated in Matt Gates's place as 171 00:08:55.720 --> 00:08:58.039 Attorney General. I made the mistake of saying she would 172 00:08:58.039 --> 00:08:59.679 be the first female attorney general. 173 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:02.639 That was it. Reno, played by Will Ferrell on Saturday 174 00:09:02.679 --> 00:09:05.200 Night Line. You got her there. 175 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:07.360 You're gonna get the straight dope from the horse's mouth. 176 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:14.320 It's real time, Okay, who wants a piece of renal? 177 00:09:17.240 --> 00:09:19.879 Let's see ann us, miss Reno, as an appointee of 178 00:09:19.879 --> 00:09:23.519 an administration that's plagued with pending indictments. Hasn't the time 179 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:26.000 come for you to remove yourself from the investigation. 180 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:29.320 If you ask one more question like that, you're gonna 181 00:09:29.320 --> 00:09:33.240 have to rule my foot from your ass. What kind 182 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:33.879 of name is Wolf. 183 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:37.720 Anyways, he said on a podcast. 184 00:09:38.559 --> 00:09:42.440 A couple months ago that he did regret dressing up 185 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:44.840 as a woman to crack a joke. He said, that's 186 00:09:44.840 --> 00:09:48.480 something I wouldn't choose to do. Now, he admitted that 187 00:09:48.519 --> 00:09:50.679 a fair amount of the older skits on SNL are 188 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:53.080 ones where you'd lament the choice. 189 00:09:53.799 --> 00:09:58.919 So he's saying that they're problematic without using the word problematic. 190 00:09:59.480 --> 00:10:02.519 What do you mean, I just mean that that's a 191 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:08.879 loaded word now, like it was funny at the time. Yes, yeah, 192 00:10:08.919 --> 00:10:10.159 So why why is. 193 00:10:10.120 --> 00:10:14.320 It not funny now? I don't know. Well, there is 194 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:15.320 her are we offending? 195 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:17.240 There is a movie that he did with the guy 196 00:10:17.320 --> 00:10:19.799 that is a buddy of his who has transitioned into 197 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:20.600 Have you seen. 198 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:22.600 This at all? I've heard about it. I'm not gonna 199 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:22.919 watch it. 200 00:10:23.039 --> 00:10:23.559 I don't. 201 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:26.799 I think he's sensitive to that issue specifically. 202 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:30.759 Yeah, but he wasn't saying that. But Tanna Reno wasn't transgender. 203 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:36.080 She was just a woman who looked like Will Ferrell. 204 00:10:36.759 --> 00:10:41.759 All right, A public lottery will decide who gets access 205 00:10:41.879 --> 00:10:45.000 to this courtroom hearing on Monday. This is the hearing 206 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:48.320 for Eric and Lyle Menendez, of course, convicted of murdering 207 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:50.720 their parents in nineteen eighty nine. It was the guy 208 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:53.639 squatting in the DA's office, George Gascon, who threw up 209 00:10:53.679 --> 00:10:57.799 the hail Mary, much like Russell Wilson did last night 210 00:10:57.960 --> 00:11:00.720 to try to save his seat and and it also 211 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:06.080 was unsuccessful. There will be sixteen seats inside the courtroom 212 00:11:06.120 --> 00:11:08.799 that will be made available to the public via lottery 213 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:12.200 that will take place outside of the Vanauy's courthouse on 214 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:16.759 Monday morning. The people will receive non transferable badges for 215 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:19.720 the day. Two stand by tickets will be issued for 216 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:23.159 possible openings as well. They have been in prison for 217 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:25.759 thirty five years for killing their parents because they wanted 218 00:11:25.799 --> 00:11:29.159 to ride high on the hog and have all the 219 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:31.120 money that their parents worked for, but they didn't want 220 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:32.120 to do the work of their own. 221 00:11:32.879 --> 00:11:34.720 There was tons of evidence to show that. 222 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:38.000 But then there has been recent talk of alleged sexual 223 00:11:38.039 --> 00:11:41.519 abuse that did not pass muster back then, and why 224 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:46.440 it does now I do not know. But prosecutors submitted 225 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:50.960 at the behest of Gascon a recommendation for resentencing with 226 00:11:51.159 --> 00:11:53.919 Gascone calling for a judge to impose a new sentence 227 00:11:53.960 --> 00:11:56.840 of fifty years to life if approved by the judge 228 00:11:56.919 --> 00:12:00.039 the brothers could be immediately eligible for parole. 229 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:01.799 Mentioned last a couple days ago. 230 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:03.840 I guess when Susan Smith was up for her parole 231 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:07.279 hearing that she had not been a model prisoner. Apparently 232 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:10.320 there's a wrinkle in Lyleman and az this love life 233 00:12:10.399 --> 00:12:16.519 that could potentially cause some friction when it comes to 234 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:18.799 his release potential release. 235 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:22.080 Why would his love life have any role in that decision? 236 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:25.440 Just because, at least because it was a contraband cell 237 00:12:25.480 --> 00:12:27.879 phone that he was using to communicate with this twenty 238 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:30.519 one year old college student, despite the fact that he 239 00:12:30.679 --> 00:12:33.919 is on his second marriage already or is still in 240 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:38.159 his second marriage. Lyle has begun a romance with the 241 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:41.960 University of Manchester student, a woman named Milly Bucksy twenty one. 242 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:43.519 Does that get any more British? 243 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:46.960 Millie Bucksy, It's pretty British told her that he wants 244 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:49.039 to divorce his wife of more than twenty years, a 245 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:51.840 woman named Rebecca Sneed, to be with this twenty one 246 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:56.600 year old. She refers to him as her boyfriend, even 247 00:12:56.639 --> 00:13:00.320 though obviously Lyle is still married. Sneed later said she 248 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:05.360 had separated from Lyle, but Menendez found Bucksy on a 249 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:09.440 Facebook group dedicated to his release run by Sneed earlier 250 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:14.080 this year. Again, why are we allowing so much? Why 251 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:18.320 are we allowing any internet access to these guys that 252 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:20.320 are in prison in the state of Cali for murder, 253 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:25.000 for murder, murder, murder murder? 254 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:27.840 Can we just can we go back to the old 255 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:28.399 days of it? 256 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:31.519 If you can't get it on an AOL dial up, 257 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:34.240 you don't get to look at it in a state prison. 258 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:39.120 I saw the book Fair, big rig I saw that 259 00:13:39.159 --> 00:13:42.320 picture that was rolling down the two ten with Clifford 260 00:13:42.360 --> 00:13:45.440 on it. Something big is coming. I love the book 261 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:48.000 Fair as a kid. That was just like the coolest 262 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:54.039 thing and U And now kids can't read, well, we're 263 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:55.600 having a literacy crisis. 264 00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:58.159 It's that they can read, but it's like one sentence 265 00:13:58.200 --> 00:13:58.480 at a. 266 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:01.200 Time because they have no tension spasktok version of reading it. 267 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:03.200 If you spend all the time on your phone, you 268 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:05.600 have no tension span for sitting down with a book 269 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:10.159 and listen. I've been guilty of that as well. I 270 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:12.679 don't read nearly as much as I used to read. 271 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:16.639 It shows Oh, we're gonna be hurtful. It's hurtful. 272 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:23.200 Friday, Fine, you turned from the first to second concentric 273 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:27.399 circle out towards the fourth concentric circle and told people 274 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:28.639 that I was a D in. 275 00:14:28.600 --> 00:14:29.240 The first place. 276 00:14:29.480 --> 00:14:34.200 Well, I actually got some feedback about your circles. Let's 277 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:38.279 see here, Jen says, Gary's consent. Yeah, which circle is 278 00:14:38.360 --> 00:14:38.759 Jen in? 279 00:14:40.639 --> 00:14:42.320 I don't know if she's in one of your circles, 280 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:42.919 I don't know. 281 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:48.840 According to the Cook Political Report, president elect Trump brought 282 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:52.639 in seventy six point eight million votes in this election. 283 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:53.159 Kami A. 284 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:56.039 Harris seventy four point two million. But Trump's share of 285 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:59.120 the ballots is not even half of the popular vote. 286 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:02.039 It's only forty nine nine point eighty nine percent. I mean, 287 00:15:02.120 --> 00:15:04.720 obviously you want to round up, but it is below 288 00:15:04.759 --> 00:15:07.279 the fifty percent of the popular vote. The current margin 289 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:10.320 of about two point four million votes, if it holds, 290 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:14.759 would be the closest margin of victory since Gore Bush 291 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:16.240 in the year two thousand. 292 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:18.679 I don't even think it was that close. 293 00:15:19.559 --> 00:15:23.480 Well, there may be a literacy crisis, or is it 294 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:26.759 just a tention span crisis? When it comes to kids 295 00:15:27.320 --> 00:15:28.399 and reading. 296 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:36.000 There is a couple of different measures for how much 297 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:39.960 kids are reading and how well they read. One of 298 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:42.080 them is the reading scores in the National Assessment of 299 00:15:42.159 --> 00:15:45.919 Educational Progress, one of the most widely used nationwide measures 300 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:51.960 of student achievement. And while in the scores themselves haven't 301 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:54.840 really changed that much since they were introduced back in 302 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:59.919 nineteen sixty nine, they haven't plummeted. They haven't plummeted during COVID, 303 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:02.000 but they did go down a little bit. 304 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:02.639 They said. 305 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:08.279 What has plummeted is how much kids read. They're reading, okay, 306 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:10.960 like they're understanding what they read, but in terms of 307 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:14.440 how much they read, it's gone way down, especially for 308 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:16.960 just recreational reading. 309 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:19.600 And I really don't think any research is needed. I mean, 310 00:16:19.639 --> 00:16:23.720 it's obviously because of the phones. And I mean you'll 311 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:27.039 even know it in your life. If you read a 312 00:16:27.080 --> 00:16:30.000 lot or read a lot, it's probably gone down a bit, 313 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:33.360 not just because you're staring at your phone more than 314 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:37.320 you stared at anything before, but because our tension spans 315 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:41.559 have dwindled. We get sidetracked very easily. I've noticed it 316 00:16:41.559 --> 00:16:43.919 with me. I'll sit down to read my book and 317 00:16:44.159 --> 00:16:46.840 then I'll be reading something and there'll be a word 318 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:50.039 that piques my interest or something, and I'll want to 319 00:16:50.080 --> 00:16:52.559 look at it. What does that word exactly mean, I'll 320 00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:54.960 grab my phone, I'll look up the word, and then 321 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:57.399 I'll get sidetracked with something else on the phone, and 322 00:16:57.440 --> 00:16:58.799 then it's a wild. 323 00:16:58.480 --> 00:17:01.159 Before I go back to the books. Awful. It's just 324 00:17:01.600 --> 00:17:02.720 I hate that I do that. 325 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:06.039 But it's almost like my curiosity is like a beast 326 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:09.319 of itself. Like it's just I cannot have any willpower 327 00:17:09.359 --> 00:17:12.279 over my curiosity and the fact that I can sate 328 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:14.279 that curiosity immediately. 329 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:19.480 In terms of numbers, in nineteen eighty four, the first 330 00:17:19.559 --> 00:17:23.519 year for which they did this question, thirty five percent 331 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:26.599 of thirteen year olds said they read for fun almost 332 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:27.319 every single day. 333 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:29.119 I did thirty five percent. Yeah. 334 00:17:29.160 --> 00:17:30.960 By twenty twenty not when you were three years old, 335 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:33.759 when I was thirteen, but twenty twenty three, they said 336 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:37.400 the figure was down to fourteen percent of thirteen year 337 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:40.680 olds said that they read almost every single day, and 338 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:45.480 about a third said they never read for fun at all. 339 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:49.640 Think about what that means, not to read for fun 340 00:17:49.720 --> 00:17:53.000 at all. You know, when you read for fun, it's 341 00:17:53.119 --> 00:17:56.680 a common thing. It is good to build your your 342 00:17:56.720 --> 00:18:02.000 patients and your attention span, and it just turns off 343 00:18:02.200 --> 00:18:05.559 a lot of the brain of the overstimulated parts of 344 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:05.960 the brain. 345 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:08.240 I mean, it's really good for overall well being. 346 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:11.839 It's not just you're taking in information, it just it 347 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:14.960 feels good to read. And if if you're not doing that, 348 00:18:15.119 --> 00:18:19.759 in fact, you're just over you're continue throwing the overstimulation spiral. 349 00:18:20.359 --> 00:18:22.599 What does that do for your mental health and well being? 350 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:28.599 I find so many of these these types of circumstances 351 00:18:28.680 --> 00:18:30.680 or the way our brain works is very similar to 352 00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:33.599 the way our body works. And earlier we were talking 353 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:37.599 earlier this week, we were talking about bliss point and 354 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:41.799 audio engineering. When it comes to foods and ultra processed 355 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:45.200 foods and how food companies make them more appealing to us, 356 00:18:45.559 --> 00:18:49.000 and that reminds me of the crunchy foods. If you 357 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:52.039 have to the carrot for the example right that we used, 358 00:18:52.279 --> 00:18:54.839 If you have to eat a carrot, it takes it 359 00:18:54.880 --> 00:18:56.960 takes you a long time to chew through that crunchy 360 00:18:57.000 --> 00:18:58.680 carrot to get it down to a point where you 361 00:18:58.680 --> 00:19:02.319 feel comfortable swallowing it. And I mean your body knows 362 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:05.519 that you're working on something that's crunchy carrot in this case, 363 00:19:05.880 --> 00:19:07.640 so that by the time you swallow it and you 364 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:10.400 eat it, just a handful of carrots, You feel to 365 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:13.880 your point satiated. You feel like, oh, that was enough 366 00:19:13.920 --> 00:19:16.599 for me, Now for a snack. Whereas if you eat 367 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:19.039 some sort of a soft food I'm looking at you, 368 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:24.920 banana nut muffin, you don't feel satiated, you don't feel full. 369 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:26.559 And that's similar to this. 370 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:29.480 If you're reading, imagine if that's sort of the crunchy, 371 00:19:29.480 --> 00:19:33.559 cruciferous vegetable that you're going through. You feel more accomplished, 372 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:36.440 You feel like you've done something. You feel like even 373 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:39.279 though you've sat down for ninety minutes or forty minutes 374 00:19:39.359 --> 00:19:42.000 or whatever it was, and read through a couple of chapters, 375 00:19:42.279 --> 00:19:44.640 you feel like there's a sense of accomplishment. You sit 376 00:19:44.680 --> 00:19:47.160 down and you play Fortnite for forty minutes, you get 377 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:47.920 up and walk away. 378 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:49.400 You don't feel like you did anything. 379 00:19:50.160 --> 00:19:54.240 It's that hollow analogy, the hollow mental feeling as opposed 380 00:19:54.279 --> 00:19:57.039 to the hollow physical feeling of being full or something 381 00:19:57.119 --> 00:19:57.240 like that. 382 00:19:57.319 --> 00:20:01.799 Right, it's very true. Look at you with your truth bombs. 383 00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:03.680 You're basically a philosopher. 384 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:05.839 But then if I had a pizza, all of that 385 00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:06.559 thought would just. 386 00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:08.559 See I'd forgotten about the pizza, And then you just 387 00:20:08.559 --> 00:20:09.359 brought it back up. 388 00:20:10.440 --> 00:20:14.079 Sorry, what you learned this week on the Gary and 389 00:20:14.119 --> 00:20:16.039 Shannon Show. Let us know you can always send us 390 00:20:16.079 --> 00:20:18.480 a talk back on the iHeart app. Just hit that 391 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:21.400 little microphone button and let us know what you have 392 00:20:21.839 --> 00:20:25.480 you've gleaned from all of the random stuff that we've 393 00:20:25.480 --> 00:20:26.319 talked about this week. 394 00:20:28.880 --> 00:20:30.799 I'm trying an exercise with myself to. 395 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:33.319 See if I saying no pizza. 396 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:36.759 Yeah, no pizza, But then you actually have to say 397 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:40.440 the word pizza, and that's probably what your brain is 398 00:20:40.440 --> 00:20:41.240 concentrating on. 399 00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:42.839 Would you like an Ammond? 400 00:20:43.720 --> 00:20:49.400 Noah also asked somebody what I should I ask for counsel? Okay, 401 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:53.480