Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
Speaker 1: demand on the iHeartRadio app. Well, what does Gates is
Speaker 1: withdrawal mean for the ethics report? Question on the table
Speaker 1: in Washington. It's where we kick off swamp watch.
Speaker 2: The swamp is horrible.
Speaker 3: So government doesn't work? Man, make this like a reality
Speaker 3: TV show.
Speaker 4: Bad Noos.
Speaker 3: Always a pleasure to be anywhere from Washington, d C.
Speaker 5: Hey, Joe, A town hall too clearly built on a
Speaker 5: swamp and in so many ways.
Speaker 3: Spill a swamp.
Speaker 6: I have to watch a malwarkee.
Speaker 1: He said the swamp.
Speaker 3: I said, Oh, that's so hope.
Speaker 2: You know the thing.
Speaker 1: Well, House Democrats say they are going to move forward
Speaker 1: with their plan to force the release of this report
Speaker 1: into Matt Gates, despite the fact that he withdrew from
Speaker 1: consideration as Trump's nominee for attorney General, despite the fact
Speaker 1: he doesn't have a House seat anymore. Democrats introduced a
Speaker 1: measure yesterday that would pretty much force a House floor
Speaker 1: vote that would make the Ethics Panel release the report.
Speaker 1: We don't even know if that vote would be permitted
Speaker 1: under House rules, but they said that it may happen
Speaker 1: as the House returns from Thanksgiving break in early December,
Speaker 1: to which I say, this would be such old news
Speaker 1: by then.
Speaker 3: That's a good point. We will have forgotten all I've forgotten.
Speaker 5: There's a second layer to this that I think is
Speaker 5: important to point out. There were a lot of concerns
Speaker 5: that if Donald Trump wins the presidency, even with less
Speaker 5: than fifty percent of the popular vote, and he gets
Speaker 5: two houses of Congress, he gets both the House and
Speaker 5: the Senate, that he was going to run unencumbered. He
Speaker 5: was just going to plow through the American culture and
Speaker 5: do what he wanted with this, with this government and
Speaker 5: with this country. This is proof that this is the
Speaker 5: way it works. There was enough pushback, even in a
Speaker 5: Republican controlled Senate to something as crazy as Matt Gates
Speaker 5: as your Attorney General, that the process worked, In fact,
Speaker 5: probably worked quicker than a lot of people expected it to.
Speaker 5: I didn't expect Matt Gates to be the next Attorney
Speaker 5: General of the United States, but I didn't know how
Speaker 5: it was going to pan out. If they were going
Speaker 5: to take it all the way to a Senate confirmation
Speaker 5: hearing and then have him not confirmed by the Senate,
Speaker 5: or if there was going to be some other reason
Speaker 5: that he was out because he withdrew his name or
Speaker 5: Trump asked and withdrawal or something like that.
Speaker 3: But this is not.
Speaker 5: It's proof that Trump does not get to run roughshod
Speaker 5: over the country. That being said, he's still picking some
Speaker 5: crazy people for some of these cabinet posts that would
Speaker 5: otherwise not be even considered in any of the other,
Speaker 5: you know, administrations that we've seen over the last fifty
Speaker 5: or sixty years. The issue of what happens with this
Speaker 5: ethics report, I feel like we short circuits all of
Speaker 5: that by resigning from Congress and then taking his name
Speaker 5: out of consideration, even if he's named to the Senate
Speaker 5: to take over Marco Rubio Senate seat. I feel like
Speaker 5: there's not a lot that we can do to get
Speaker 5: that report.
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody wants anybody, meaning anybody in Washington
Speaker 1: wants that report to see the light of day, because
Speaker 1: they're hiding their own demons. I think that that's what
Speaker 1: Mike Johnson is talking about. When it comes to precedent,
Speaker 1: it's not about precedent of breaking some sort of arcane rule.
Speaker 1: It's president to you are not a private person anymore.
Speaker 1: In Washington, everything you do will see the light of day.
Speaker 1: This week, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami said they will
Speaker 1: encourage Trump to make cuts. Remember these are the two
Speaker 1: that have been put at the helm of the government
Speaker 1: Efficiency Department to make cuts by refusing to spend money
Speaker 1: allocated by Congress. This is known as impounding. This goes
Speaker 1: against a nineteen seven four law intended to prevent future
Speaker 1: presidents from following in the footsteps of Richard Nixon, who
Speaker 1: held backfunding that he did not like. Musk and Ramaswami
Speaker 1: wrote an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal this
Speaker 1: week saying We're prepared for the onslaught from entrenched interests
Speaker 1: in Washington. We will prevail. Now's the time for decisive action.
Speaker 1: And a senior fellow in governance studies at Brookings Institution,
Speaker 1: William Galston, says.
Speaker 3: They might get away with it.
Speaker 1: This could become one of the most closely watched legal
Speaker 1: fights of Trump's second administration.
Speaker 3: But he might get away with it.
Speaker 1: That Congress's power of the purse will turn into an
Speaker 1: advisory opinion.
Speaker 3: That would be what a power shift.
Speaker 5: I found an interesting interesting piece in the Washington Post.
Speaker 5: It's an opinion piece, and I'm not going to read
Speaker 5: through the whole thing. I just wanted to point out
Speaker 5: that some of the cabinet positions that Donald Trump has
Speaker 5: filled with these nominees, some of which are outside of government.
Speaker 5: Think doctor Oz, RFK Junior, even Pete Hegseth, and.
Speaker 3: You know anybody else that comes to mind.
Speaker 5: There's an opinion piece in the Washington Post and the
Speaker 5: headline is RFK Junior aside, what should.
Speaker 3: We do to make America healthier?
Speaker 5: Okay, So, at the very least, regardless of whether you
Speaker 5: like RFK Junior, or you think he's crazy or an
Speaker 5: anti vaxer, or whatever opinions you have of him, the
Speaker 5: whole point of Trump appointing him to be head of
Speaker 5: Health and Human Services is he wants to have that
Speaker 5: question asked, have that conversation, and now it comes up
Speaker 5: as an opinion piece like, oh, and by the way,
Speaker 5: I mean, it says right off, one of the biggest
Speaker 5: issues that we could fix is to empower the Food
Speaker 5: Division of the FDA to better regulate the industry that
Speaker 5: it's supposed to be overseeing. Why is that if RFK
Speaker 5: had said that that would have been controversial, but if
Speaker 5: Bob Gebelhoff from The Washington Post says it, it's somehow enlightening, right.
Speaker 3: Right, right, right, Yeah, very good. That's exactly what.
Speaker 5: These are, exactly the conversations that he wants to push
Speaker 5: out into the open. Well, what can we do to
Speaker 5: make America healthier so we're not all suffering from chronic
Speaker 5: diseases by the time we're twenty eight years old.
Speaker 1: It's a hard conversation to have. People don't like addressing
Speaker 1: the addiction issue, whether it be food or drugs or
Speaker 1: what have you.
Speaker 3: Not nice.
Speaker 1: You know, you look the same at fifty one then
Speaker 1: you did at fifty. The whole well, I thought she
Speaker 1: was eighteen. That does not change you being attracted to
Speaker 1: young teenage girls.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Another wrinkle in this whole mad Gates thing again. Gates
Speaker 5: has withdrawn his name from a nomination to be Attorney General,
Speaker 5: of course, which puts a wrinkle into some of the
Speaker 5: cabinet plans that we had seen. The latest bombshell detail
Speaker 5: came from CNN. They reported that the Health House Ethics
Speaker 5: Committee was told of a second and alleged sexual encounter
Speaker 5: between Matt Gates and the then seventeen year old miner
Speaker 5: that's been at the center of this investigation. Gates has
Speaker 5: denied any wrongdoing and the investigation hasn't yielded any criminal charges.
Speaker 5: But CNN was reporting that Gates's withdrawal. His announcement on
Speaker 5: Twitter came about forty five minutes after CNN called to
Speaker 5: ask about the second sexual encounter. Could have been mere coincidence,
Speaker 5: also probably not. So that's what's going on in terms
Speaker 5: of international news. That definitely does have a route here
Speaker 5: in America is that Russia has fired a listing missile
Speaker 5: at de Nipro in Ukraine. Ukraine's Air Force initially identified
Speaker 5: it as an ICBM, but a US official says this
Speaker 5: was an experimental missile and Russia has only a limited
Speaker 5: stock of its.
Speaker 3: Specific medium range stick missile.
Speaker 5: US official told The Washington Post Russia may be seeking
Speaker 5: to use this capability to try to intimidate Ukraine and
Speaker 5: its supporters, but it would not be a game changer,
Speaker 5: of course. Russia's Defense Ministry said that its air defense
Speaker 5: is shot down a couple of UK made storm Shadow
Speaker 5: cruise missiles. Russian bloggers have reported that those missiles were
Speaker 5: fired at targets in the Kursk region of Russia. British
Speaker 5: media outlets confirmed the attacks. So that's what's going on.
Speaker 5: While this is going on, we're seeing very very little
Speaker 5: information out of the White House about what your president
Speaker 5: is doing. In fact, Nate Silver, the longtime polster, says
Speaker 5: that President Biden should resign and let Kamala Harris serve
Speaker 5: out the last two months of his post. His post
Speaker 5: today on Twitter featured a screenshot of a report from
Speaker 5: The Washington Post that centered on Biden's relationship with the
Speaker 5: press as he's getting ready to get out.
Speaker 3: Of the White House relationship.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that Biden taking question, didn't spend much of his
Speaker 5: time talking publicly during his event in South Did.
Speaker 3: Anybody even realize he was in South America? Very few
Speaker 3: people even know that he had left the continent.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but a question is about his age and mental fitness.
Speaker 5: Obviously led to him stepping down from the top of
Speaker 5: the Democratic ticket.
Speaker 1: I know why they're shuttling him all over the world
Speaker 1: as well. Gavin Newsome today is going to make first
Speaker 1: of three post election visits to California counties that Trump won.
Speaker 1: He wants to reach out to working class voters in
Speaker 1: the Central Valley who he has nothing in common with.
Speaker 3: What are you talking about?
Speaker 5: He just bought a nine million dollar house. What do
Speaker 5: you mean he doesn't have anything in common with them?
Speaker 3: Marin County. Yes, he will be in Fresno very different.
Speaker 1: It comes as interviews and polls have shown that economics
Speaker 1: and class divisions were key to Trump's return to power. Yes,
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom said a lot of people feel like they're
Speaker 1: losing their identity or losing their future.
Speaker 3: Message received.
Speaker 1: What the hell is Gavin Newsom gonna go and say
Speaker 1: to Trump heavy counties to get them into his camp?
Speaker 1: What could he possibly do?
Speaker 5: There is no home in Fresno that is selling for
Speaker 5: over five million dollars.
Speaker 1: There is no patience in Fresno for overpriced jackets that
Speaker 1: look like you have a real job, which he likes
Speaker 1: to wear when he goes to rural areas.
Speaker 5: He said that it's important to counter these claims that
Speaker 5: Democrats failed their working class residents. He said he sensed
Speaker 5: that his defense of President Biden's economic record wasn't landing.
Speaker 5: People are being left behind, their regions are being left behind.
Speaker 5: We as a party will be history if we don't
Speaker 5: heed the call to address the economy. Where was that
Speaker 5: kind of logical explanation four months ago? Where was that?
Speaker 3: Where was that mentality when Joe Biden steps out and
Speaker 3: they just automatically go to Kamala Harris without any sort
Speaker 3: of the party could do whatever they want to pick
Speaker 3: their nominee. Why wouldn't they.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's tone deaf, still.
Speaker 1: Tend us and that's that's crazy that they've lost two
Speaker 1: elections now with that same affliction. All right, Coming up next,
Speaker 1: we will dive into the world of tech with some
Speaker 1: apps to save money on Black Friday.
Speaker 3: Apple is watching you sleep.
Speaker 1: Again as well. Again, well, there was that time in college.
Speaker 1: Did Apple even exist when you were in college?
Speaker 5: Yes, dear back in the old days they did. It's
Speaker 5: time for tech talk.
Speaker 2: The machines are getting smarter. Is tech talk right to
Speaker 2: you by sky Net?
Speaker 5: Well would like to talk to Mark Saltzman, the tech guru,
Speaker 5: about what's going on in the world of tech. And
Speaker 5: obviously a big shopping day is coming up day or
Speaker 5: week from tomorrow with Black Friday, which already brings with
Speaker 5: it some discounts, but you have some suggestions on how
Speaker 5: to get even the best discounts.
Speaker 7: Of course I do unless Shannon wants to host tech
Speaker 7: Talk today since she's already taking over the weather.
Speaker 1: You know that I am going to be on the
Speaker 1: radio this afternoon in Regina, Saskatchewan. Come on, so I
Speaker 1: am kind of taking your job as well.
Speaker 3: Yes, how come talking Charger football with a sports station.
Speaker 2: Oh that's fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2: Regina, the city that rhymes with fun.
Speaker 3: Home of the Riders.
Speaker 7: Yes, wow, you're good, amazing, amazing. Did you know that
Speaker 7: we had two rough Riders Ottawa and and Saskatchewan, and
Speaker 7: so we had two teams with the same name, so
Speaker 7: they change Ottawa changed it. I think you think that
Speaker 7: the Red Blacks now. But I'm not up on my
Speaker 7: Canadian Football League my CFL, And that's not why I'm
Speaker 7: on KFI and iHeart Radio. I'm here to talk. I'm
Speaker 7: here to geek out with you. So, Shannon, if you
Speaker 7: do not want to host today's segment, you know I
Speaker 7: will keep my pocket protector on. And yes, to answer
Speaker 7: your question, Gary, there are some great apps that you
Speaker 7: can use all year round, but especially over Black Friday
Speaker 7: because they have special sections in these apps to get
Speaker 7: you an even better deal. One of them is flip,
Speaker 7: which is FLI doublep it aggregates all those circulars that
Speaker 7: you may get at home every week, but let's them.
Speaker 2: It'll highlight the best deals that you want. So if
Speaker 2: you type into.
Speaker 7: The app, I don't know air pods or even if
Speaker 7: it's grocery items like, type in chicken breast and it'll
Speaker 7: show you which retailers around you. It is more of
Speaker 7: a retail thing than an online thing, but it will
Speaker 7: show you who has the best deal, you know, so
Speaker 7: which retailer near you has the deal? So it uses
Speaker 7: your phone's GPS to identify where you are, or you
Speaker 7: can type in your zip code and it'll show you
Speaker 7: which retailer has the best deal. Or you can browse
Speaker 7: by circular you know, and it'll show you the best deals.
Speaker 7: You can clip it into your shopping cart, and you
Speaker 7: can also sign up for deal alerts.
Speaker 2: So if you have your.
Speaker 7: Eye on something, let's say seventy five inch Samsung four KTV,
Speaker 7: if you don't want to pay whatever fourteen ninety nine
Speaker 7: on it, if you say, hey, if it drops down
Speaker 7: to eleven hundred and ninety nine, I'm in.
Speaker 2: You can say.
Speaker 7: You can type that so to speak in the app
Speaker 7: and it'll push a notification in your phone when it
Speaker 7: finds what you want is at the price that you want.
Speaker 7: So that's flip FLI DOUBLEP. I'm sure a lot of
Speaker 7: your listeners already use that one. Slick Deals is one
Speaker 7: of my favorites. We've talked about that on this program before,
Speaker 7: on this segment, where again it's a community of about
Speaker 7: twelve million shoppers all trying to sniff out the best deals.
Speaker 2: They all vote on.
Speaker 7: It and they vet it to make sure that it's
Speaker 7: a really a good deal. Is it retail, is it online?
Speaker 2: Is it both? Is it in one state over another only?
Speaker 7: And so long as it passes all these very talented
Speaker 7: folks who devote a lot of time to this, it
Speaker 7: can end up on the front page of the app
Speaker 7: or website. So again, it also has a similar deal
Speaker 7: alert thing where you type it in like I'm a
Speaker 7: big Twilight Zone fan and the Blu ray discs for
Speaker 7: the original series are about fifty or sixty bucks of
Speaker 7: hot per season, and so I signed up for a
Speaker 7: deal alert with Slick Deals, and just last week I
Speaker 7: was told that they're down to six dollars and ninety
Speaker 7: nine cents at sale, So yeah, grab the rest of
Speaker 7: my collection. Another great app Rakutin that used to be
Speaker 7: called ebates. This is a cash back app. So where
Speaker 7: you shop, you start at the website or the app,
Speaker 7: or you install the browser extension and it keeps an
Speaker 7: eye on where you're going. And if you shop at
Speaker 7: one of the participating retailers that is connected to rakutin,
Speaker 7: and there's about two thousand or so, then you will
Speaker 7: get a certain percentage of that purchase back to you
Speaker 7: as a pay pal deposit or via via check.
Speaker 3: Quick side note, how does rakuten make money off of that?
Speaker 7: If you because you know they're sharing basically that what's
Speaker 7: the expression, there's a term for it, where you it's
Speaker 7: like an affiliate program affiliate link.
Speaker 2: So yeah, if you so, if you.
Speaker 7: Sticking with that Samsung TV as an example, they get
Speaker 7: a kickback if you buy it through rakutins, which is
Speaker 7: essentially what you're doing.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 7: If you looked at the URL the website address, it'll
Speaker 7: have like a long alpha numeric string that basically tells
Speaker 7: the retailer, let's say best Buy, that it was brought
Speaker 7: over by Rakutin. They get a kickback from best Buy
Speaker 7: and then they, in turn Rakutin will share it with
Speaker 7: you up to thirty percent cash back.
Speaker 2: It does vary.
Speaker 7: It could be as low as three four percent, but hey,
Speaker 7: it's found money, right and you get to a sign
Speaker 7: up bonus as well, so those are all good as
Speaker 7: well as PayPal honey, same idea. It's a browser extension
Speaker 7: that will before you check out, let's say, at Amazon,
Speaker 7: it may say, hey, this is this product that you're
Speaker 7: looking for, is less money at I don't know, Walmart,
Speaker 7: so you know, don't buy it here, or it'll automatically
Speaker 7: apply a coupon upon checkout. So this article that I wrote,
Speaker 7: if you want to google my name, Mark Saltzman, Marc Saltsman,
Speaker 7: you'll be able to see and then type in Black
Speaker 7: Friday apps. You'll see all the ones we've chatted about.
Speaker 7: Don't try to jot it down, especially if you driving.
Speaker 5: The other one that the other article that we wanted
Speaker 5: to talk to you about was that the Apple Watch
Speaker 5: is now checking your sleep apnea.
Speaker 7: Yeah, FDA approved this, so it has provided a medical
Speaker 7: device license for Apple Watch if you have one of
Speaker 7: the newer models, so it's Apple Watch ten which is
Speaker 7: the newest one, or Ultra two, and then last year's
Speaker 7: Apple Watch Series nine. So when you're wearing this to bed,
Speaker 7: it'll i help identify signs of moderate to severe sleep apnea,
Speaker 7: which is of course a potentially serious yet often diagnosed
Speaker 7: condition where your breathing stops repeatedly during sleep. And you know,
Speaker 7: if that's left untreated, if you don't know that you've
Speaker 7: got apnea, that could have some important health consequences, like
Speaker 7: it increased risk of hypertension, type two diabetes, it's been
Speaker 7: linked to cardiac issues. So what it's doing under the
Speaker 7: hood of the Apple Watch is that it's got that
Speaker 7: built in accelerometer, that sensor that will monitor teeny movements
Speaker 7: that you make throughout the night that are associated with
Speaker 7: interruptions in normal respiratory patterns.
Speaker 2: And that's again why you need it.
Speaker 7: In the new or watches, it's got like an added
Speaker 7: sensor and software there, and then the next day Apple
Speaker 7: Watch users will be able to view their nightly breathing
Speaker 7: disturbances in the health app on their phone or an iPad,
Speaker 7: and then you know, after thirty days, it'll give you
Speaker 7: a diagnosis, which they of course they have to say
Speaker 7: this legally, is that you have to share that with
Speaker 7: your physician to make an official diagnosis. But yes, sleep
Speaker 7: apnea is very common and if untreated, it could be
Speaker 7: an issue. So Apple Watch, I love that. Over the years,
Speaker 7: they've been adding more and more health features to it.
Speaker 2: So good stuff there.
Speaker 5: Do you have one of those sleep tracker Aura rings
Speaker 5: or what do you use your watch or anything like that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So as a journalist, I was sent a an
Speaker 7: Aura ring, but I after I reviewed it, I didn't
Speaker 7: wear it.
Speaker 3: I don't know why.
Speaker 7: It was a couple of years ago, and I know
Speaker 7: they've improved and Samsung now has a ring, but no,
Speaker 7: I don't wear a ring. And I actually put my watch.
Speaker 7: I charge it when I go to to sleep, which
Speaker 7: is uh if. But now that I you know, I
Speaker 7: do want to try.
Speaker 2: My wife is.
Speaker 7: Maybe because I snore a little bit, she is asking
Speaker 7: me to wear this to bed to see if I
Speaker 7: do have AVENA. She wants to program it so it
Speaker 7: shocks you exactly.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 1: Does she try to uh does she assault you when
Speaker 1: you snore in your sleep?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 7: Yeah, so the least she'll do is tell me to
Speaker 7: turn the f over because I'm on my back usually yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and then the worst case is she'll uh, you know,
Speaker 7: most of our kids are away at college. So she'll
Speaker 7: go and sleep in the other room and then, you know,
Speaker 7: give me he the next morning, or she'll let me know.
Speaker 7: If it's if I have a big gig the next day,
Speaker 7: like an important early TV interview, she'll let me sleep
Speaker 7: and she'll yeah, she'll go to the one. But I've
Speaker 7: never been kicked out to go to the other room.
Speaker 7: At least she does it. It's very sweet, but no,
Speaker 7: it's uh. If I'm on my back, it's trouble. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: I thought it was going to be.
Speaker 5: She tells me to turn over, and then if I
Speaker 5: don't turn over, turns over.
Speaker 3: It's my playbook. There you go, Mark, great stuff.
Speaker 5: Obviously, this news has been making its way around Capitol Hill.
Speaker 5: Somebody ran into Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman and asked him
Speaker 5: what he thought of Matt Gates withdrawing his name.
Speaker 3: Holy, I didn't see that coming. Oh, I mean, like, yes,
Speaker 3: he was the ultimate troll.
Speaker 1: How could you not see that coming? He was about
Speaker 1: to be completely torn down? Oh, I see, you get jokes.
Speaker 1: I do get jokes. I don't know why you didn't
Speaker 1: see the circle. I guess because it's not funny.
Speaker 5: Or sarcastic like he also has a brain communication injury.
Speaker 3: Communication injury. I think I'm the one who with a
Speaker 3: communication injury. Oh, I have many of them. I know
Speaker 3: Amy King.
Speaker 1: I was going to see Wicked today and I'm a
Speaker 1: little bit worried because I don't know if she saw
Speaker 1: this information that AMC theaters are going to be reminding
Speaker 1: you not to sing along. They want to keep the
Speaker 1: singing for the stars of Wicked this weekend.
Speaker 3: I would be so annoyed. I would be.
Speaker 1: People why, But it's really hard not. A playfully themed
Speaker 1: warning will be shown before screenings, with a voice over
Speaker 1: saying no talking, no texting, no singing, no wailing.
Speaker 3: No flirting, learning flirting.
Speaker 1: Some fans have taken to social media with stories of
Speaker 1: others in their theaters singing along at loud volumes.
Speaker 3: During the movie. I would just get up and walk out.
Speaker 3: That being said. That being said, I will watch it.
Speaker 5: I think what they should do have one showing a
Speaker 5: day or something like that that is specifically for people
Speaker 5: who want to sing.
Speaker 3: That's a good idea.
Speaker 5: That's a really good idea, because I'm trying to think
Speaker 5: of the other versions of song or the other movies
Speaker 5: where people would want to sing out with. I mean
Speaker 5: the old well, the Rocky Orror Picture Show was obviously
Speaker 5: one of them, but I mean, well, like.
Speaker 1: The Barbie movie people we were talking back to the screen.
Speaker 3: No, I don't like that, Like.
Speaker 1: That was the last movie I went to. People are
Speaker 1: applauding talking back at the screen, which is it was
Speaker 1: Mayhem in there.
Speaker 3: It's like, treat it like you're going to see the
Speaker 3: Broadway music.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, but you know how dumb people are. That
Speaker 1: didn't sound right. No, it sounded perfect, but you know
Speaker 1: how dumb people are. And I will say that the
Speaker 1: Wicked music really does make you want to sing along.
Speaker 1: I mean, especially if you you know when you know it,
Speaker 1: and that I mean find gravity.
Speaker 3: That's popular.
Speaker 5: That's why I think that AMC or whatever theater chain
Speaker 5: would have a better better reception if they, in fact
Speaker 5: did allow people to Yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 3: You know, did you sing along to La La Land? No?
Speaker 3: I hate this? You don't remember? You remember my hatred
Speaker 3: of that? Remember you hated it? Jeez? What was the
Speaker 3: song we played when the giants were eliminated? Was it
Speaker 3: that one?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: It was shallow? Was it shallow? Yeah? I think it
Speaker 3: was because you were trying to make me.
Speaker 1: Or was it an Adele song? I think it was
Speaker 1: an Adele song. We've gone through a lot on this show,
Speaker 1: haven't we. We've had a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: music times.
Speaker 3: Let me play that.
Speaker 6: No, Oh, it's enough, It's just enough.
Speaker 4: O MG, Shannon, you reading the news part of the
Speaker 4: program literally took me back.
Speaker 2: I was like, did I just fall into a time warp?
Speaker 1: You too?
Speaker 3: Do you remember you used to do that before you
Speaker 3: had your show with Gary?
Speaker 5: Anyway, totally awesome to be time traveling with you.
Speaker 4: That was amazing.
Speaker 2: Have a great day you guys.
Speaker 3: It does.
Speaker 1: It feels like you're back in I feel like I
Speaker 1: was back in whatever year that was.
Speaker 3: But you didn't even use your name, used Debora's name.
Speaker 3: I did you you did? Yeah? Oh, probably sounded better. No.
Speaker 3: Why beans are the new health food obsession.
Speaker 5: They're high and iron, They're high in potassium, they're high
Speaker 5: in fol late a registered dietitian out of Grand Rapids,
Speaker 5: Amy Bragnanini, he says beans are a nutrient powerhouse.
Speaker 3: I love the garbonzo beans. Deborah and I both love those.
Speaker 3: I love them.
Speaker 1: I could, yeah, I could, really do you like hummus?
Speaker 1: I do like I like all the garbonzo bean vehicles.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: My mom used to make about a seven bean salad.
Speaker 5: I don't remember nobody, Yeah, we're in it.
Speaker 3: I loved My aunt does a three bean salad. Maybe
Speaker 3: that's how many beans were in it. Yeah, but they
Speaker 3: were with Italian dressing. Italian dressing.
Speaker 5: There's like a cucumber or two in there, and some
Speaker 5: just raw onions.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean like this, your face is making that
Speaker 3: tart savory space. Yeah, I like. I like a three beans.
Speaker 5: As a kid, I would just there's no way you're
Speaker 5: getting that anywhere near me.
Speaker 3: No, oh, you hate it? Idea of it?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 5: And then I was probably twenty four, maybe coming back
Speaker 5: to parents' house for Fourth of July or whatever, and
Speaker 5: I got into that three bean salad.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I never had it as a kid. I also was
Speaker 1: scared of it. We weren't really a bean forward house.
Speaker 1: And at all the holidays my aunt would make the
Speaker 1: three bean salad. And I think I started getting into
Speaker 1: it somewhere in the packing on the Palms stages of
Speaker 1: twenty two twenty three of just just put anything in
Speaker 1: front of me, and.
Speaker 5: Why were you doing that college were becoming adult, getting
Speaker 5: ready for winter.
Speaker 1: Not scared of any foods anymore? Give me all the
Speaker 1: foods there.
Speaker 5: On TikTok, there is an account devoted to dnse bean
Speaker 5: salads and it has two point seven million followers. Wow
Speaker 5: recipes that mix beans, bell peppers, tomatoes, and sliced chicken.
Speaker 5: Bean Landia is a new bean focused museum and community
Speaker 5: center in New Orleans. It serves as a headquarters for
Speaker 5: an annual bean themed parade with marchers in bean suits.
Speaker 3: Are you sure your mom gonna put celery in it?
Speaker 3: Turn that on?
Speaker 6: Hi?
Speaker 1: I think that was the longest sentence I've gotten out
Speaker 1: before I realized that microphone wasn't on. Are you sure
Speaker 1: your mom didn't put celery and not cucumber?
Speaker 3: I'm not certain.
Speaker 5: Yeah, probably whatever was crunchy and green at the time
Speaker 5: what was available. Rancho Gordo is a cellar of heirloom
Speaker 5: bean varieties like the Christmas Lima or the King City
Speaker 5: Pink as an approximately two hundred dollar a year subscription
Speaker 5: Bean Club Debra, Are you.
Speaker 3: Listening, I'm always listening.
Speaker 4: Gary.
Speaker 5: You can give yourself this two hundred dollar a year
Speaker 5: Bean Club subscription.
Speaker 3: I don't know I don't need. I don't need to
Speaker 3: be in a bean club.
Speaker 5: I mean, just if you if you want to branch
Speaker 5: out and try different beans.
Speaker 1: Can you just procure your own beans? How hard is
Speaker 1: it to do?
Speaker 3: Have white beans?
Speaker 4: I have black beans, I have refried beans. I have
Speaker 4: garbonzo beans.
Speaker 3: Do you have the Christmas lima and I've had lima beans?
Speaker 4: Not Christmas, but I have had lima bean.
Speaker 3: I have a serious quescific variety. Do you'd have to
Speaker 3: take like I know what you're gonna ask or whatever
Speaker 3: it is. Well, I used to.
Speaker 4: I used to take beano and it really didn't work,
Speaker 4: and so.
Speaker 3: She was just cracking them left.
Speaker 4: Oh god, I do take I do take this organic
Speaker 4: vegan pill when I remember that helps break down those gassy,
Speaker 4: nasty beans and vegetables.
Speaker 3: But you're used to eating them now, yes, my body?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: Oh no, I don't think your body really, at least mine.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 4: I need to take something or I would be blowing
Speaker 4: this place up.
Speaker 5: Dieticians do advise people who want to add beans to
Speaker 5: their diet to do so slowly. Start with a quarter
Speaker 5: of a cup, Drink plenty of water, move around, do
Speaker 5: the old after dinner fart walk if you have.
Speaker 3: To, Oh my god, what that's what you do about that?
Speaker 1: A couple of weeks ago I thought I had a vague,
Speaker 1: distant memory of you're talking about farting.
Speaker 3: You're on your walk, You're cracking it every time you
Speaker 3: go for you. I am not trust me, I am not.
Speaker 3: I have followed you. You have on the stairs.
Speaker 1: Okay, that that makes no sense. Don't tell lies. I
Speaker 1: haven't followed you down the stairs.
Speaker 3: You have, but you haven't heard anything. I don't eat
Speaker 3: beans at work. But what about veggies? I don't eat
Speaker 3: that as well?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Also, you know do you? I mean we suck in
Speaker 3: a lot of air right because we talked some normal
Speaker 3: It's perfectly normal. It's it's okay. I'm not saying that
Speaker 3: it was a bad thing or that I don't Oh awful.
Speaker 3: You're making it sound like I have a problem.
Speaker 1: That's not what I'm saying. It can't be a problem
Speaker 1: if it's normal. I have never done that, never in
Speaker 1: front of Gary. I don't think you probably have. It's
Speaker 1: just by sheer chance she holds it around. You can't
Speaker 1: sit here for four hours and not do it.
Speaker 3: I am no, you can.
Speaker 2: Are you doing it all? Day.
Speaker 3: Are you kidding? I don't know. Wait, are you farting
Speaker 3: over there and not telling me about it? Is it
Speaker 3: like when you were an adult theater and you kept
Speaker 3: it a secret? Is that what it is? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And I know we're doing secrets now, So you're farting
Speaker 1: and you're an adult theater.
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