WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.839 AM six forty, The Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:11.800 on the iHeartRadio app. Breaking news out of the Ukraine 4 00:00:11.880 --> 00:00:13.400 talks in Saudia Arabia. 5 00:00:14.119 --> 00:00:18.000 Saudia Arabia. Sure, Saudi Arabia, I wasn't going to correct you. 6 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:23.160 US has agreed to immediately lift the pause on military 7 00:00:23.239 --> 00:00:25.719 aid and intelligence sharing to Ukraine. 8 00:00:26.519 --> 00:00:28.559 These This was a pause put into. 9 00:00:28.399 --> 00:00:35.000 Place after the Oval Office melee, and now that has been. 10 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:36.719 Agreed to upon. 11 00:00:37.399 --> 00:00:41.039 That has been agreed upon in Saudi Arabia again, we've 12 00:00:41.079 --> 00:00:44.200 got Marco Rubio over there meeting with the people under 13 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:48.759 Zelenski about some sort of agreement to try to course 14 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:51.679 correct after the mess in the Oval Office between Trump 15 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:52.640 and Zelenski. 16 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:55.840 We told you obviously, it's raining in parts of southern 17 00:00:55.840 --> 00:00:59.560 California today. The bigger storm is coming in late tomorrow 18 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:04.120 into Thursday. Temperatures in Texas, though, are expected to be 19 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:10.760 so high. They've never seen March temperatures in Texas this high. 20 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:14.519 How high, It's pretty common for it to be hot 21 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:19.400 during the summer, but the current record is one hundred 22 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:22.920 and eight degrees in some location in Southwest Texas for 23 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:24.760 the month of March one hundred and eight degrees, and 24 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:27.920 that came late in March many years ago. They're saying 25 00:01:27.959 --> 00:01:31.719 that they could see well over triple digits in many 26 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:34.200 places in Texas in the next week or so. 27 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:39.439 All eyes on Wall Street is impossible to separate what's 28 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:42.519 going on with what's going on in Washington. 29 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:44.200 It's where we kick off swamp Watch. 30 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:47.359 I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar. 31 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:50.599 And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops. 32 00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:53.760 Yeah, we got The real problem is that our leaders 33 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:54.319 are done. 34 00:01:54.359 --> 00:01:55.680 The other side never quits. 35 00:01:55.719 --> 00:01:59.480 So what I'm not going anywhere? 36 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:01.599 Now you train the. 37 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:04.439 Squat, I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by. 38 00:02:04.359 --> 00:02:04.879 What has been. 39 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:08.560 You know, Americans have always been gone at present. They're 40 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:09.159 not stupid. 41 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:12.080 A political plunder is when a politician actually tells the truth. 42 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:14.800 Have the people voted for you with na swap watch, 43 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:15.800 they're all Canada. 44 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:20.400 Well, it goes back and forth. We've talked about Wall Street. 45 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:23.599 Right now that Dow has recovered a bit, it's still 46 00:02:23.719 --> 00:02:27.840 down almost five hundred points. This is after yesterday's big 47 00:02:27.879 --> 00:02:29.960 loss as well, the S and P five hundred and 48 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:34.520 the Nasdaq, both in negative territory. These head spinning moves, 49 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:37.360 as it's being described in this latest escalation in the 50 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:44.840 trade war with Canada, they're pretty routine now, unfortunately, which 51 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:48.479 is weird to say, but the only thing that makes 52 00:02:48.759 --> 00:02:51.560 Canada sorry, the only thing that makes sense is for 53 00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:54.759 Canada to become our cherished fifty first state. That's the 54 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:59.800 level we're at right now with Trump. These tariffs can 55 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:03.639 obviously hurt our economy by raising prices for US consumers 56 00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:06.560 and coming up global trade. And even if they end 57 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:10.800 up being less than what was advertised originally, all these 58 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:13.840 moves could create enough uncertainty that you're going to see 59 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:18.199 American companies and consumers in this sort of paralysis about 60 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:21.080 where we are putting our money. And that's one of 61 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:26.560 the things Wall Street hates is uncertainty. And that's where 62 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:28.120 we find ourselves right now. 63 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:32.479 Economists marking down their estimates for growth this year. The 64 00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:37.960 economy right now appears to be stable, but just over 65 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:41.360 a month ago it was so much different, rights a 66 00:03:41.439 --> 00:03:45.120 huge difference from where we were. Stock indexes at a 67 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:48.080 record high, consumer sentiment rapidly improving. 68 00:03:48.199 --> 00:03:49.879 Remember Trump ran on this. 69 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:52.599 He said essentially, if I don't win, it's going to 70 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:56.240 be like the Great Depression around here. I don't remember 71 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:59.560 exactly the quote, but it involved nineteen twenty nine. And 72 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:02.520 so he has said that these are blips what you're 73 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:04.599 seeing on Wall Street, these are just blips. You will 74 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:08.280 find investors to agree with him at this point that yes, 75 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:08.759 they are. 76 00:04:08.919 --> 00:04:11.000 It should correct itself. 77 00:04:11.159 --> 00:04:14.240 But for it to correct itself, there's got to be 78 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:17.240 some sort of certainty or at least not this much 79 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:21.600 uncertainty and volatility. So we'll see what happens today and 80 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:24.199 how the dust settles at the end of the week. 81 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:27.120 Pretty much. When it comes to the tariff talk. 82 00:04:27.240 --> 00:04:31.160 Yeah, I mean, it's almost it's hard to keep track 83 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:34.000 of where we are with the tariffs. Trump says he's 84 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:40.000 going to respond in kind because Canada put on a 85 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:44.639 surcharge for the export of electricity to the United States. 86 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:46.920 So Trump said he's going to respond with a twenty 87 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:51.959 five percent surcharge on electricity to Canadian electricity that would 88 00:04:52.040 --> 00:04:55.800 increase costs even more for US, particularly in the Northern States. 89 00:04:56.120 --> 00:04:59.720 Ontario's surcharge is probably going to be about one hundred 90 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:05.879 dollars hit on everybody's bills in those states of New York, Minnesota, Michigan. 91 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:08.759 In addition, Trump said that he's going to levy even 92 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:12.120 larger tariffs on the steel and aluminum that we get 93 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:16.959 from Canada, placing twenty five percent tariffs an additional twenty 94 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:20.600 five percent tariff up to fifty percent now on steel 95 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:23.480 and aluminum. Is there an end to this or are 96 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:27.720 they just continued measuring belts against each other. 97 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:33.279 Also on Wall Street, Tesla is seeing well sales are 98 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:38.560 bad for Tesla number one and now plunging stock prices. This, 99 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:42.040 of course is connected to Musk downsizing the federal government 100 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:46.319 at the behest of Trump. He continues to run Tesla 101 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:52.319 as well as SpaceX and X, but Trump's reaction has 102 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:55.360 been to buy a new Tesla at full market price. 103 00:05:55.399 --> 00:05:57.720 It could be at the White House this afternoon. 104 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:03.160 They don't show support, do they deliver them that fact? 105 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:05.279 I guess if you're that guy, they probably deliver it 106 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:05.839 pretty quickly. 107 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:07.800 Sure, pretty sure he's got. 108 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:09.160 An end, because usually he got a wait a week 109 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:11.560 or two, maybe three or four, depending on which one 110 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:16.319 you get. The House is working on a plan to 111 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:19.959 put together a spending bill to prevent a government shutdown. 112 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:22.480 Mike Johnson, the Speaker, held a news conference this morning. 113 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:24.560 I hope some of them will have a moment of 114 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:27.000 clarity themselves and do the right thing. But it looks 115 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:28.639 like they're going to try to shut down the government. 116 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:32.439 It's a striking new posture for Democrats who have always 117 00:06:32.439 --> 00:06:36.240 said they spent apoplectic about the prospect of government shutdowns. 118 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:39.319 I mean, he did read quotes from many Democratic House 119 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:43.000 members that talked about how egregious it would be and 120 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:46.959 irresponsible for the House to ever allow the government. 121 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:48.800 To shut downs when there was a different person in 122 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:49.279 the White House. 123 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:50.160 That's very true. 124 00:06:50.519 --> 00:06:54.240 Democratic leaders, though, are telling their members to oppose this plan. 125 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:57.319 They said it provides too much discretion to the Trump 126 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:01.519 administration and to doze to drest reduced federal spending. They 127 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:03.959 also claim they can't support it because it does not 128 00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:09.199 outwardly protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, although those programs 129 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:13.920 aren't actually funded through the appropriations process. There is one 130 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:17.240 member that has said that he would not vote for it, 131 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:22.000 Thomas Massey out of Kentucky. I said that he would 132 00:07:22.040 --> 00:07:26.360 not vote for it. But they will take a procedural 133 00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:29.920 vote on it at one o'clock this afternoon before it 134 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:31.720 goes over to the Senate. 135 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:35.639 More breaking news out of Saudi Why do I keep 136 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:39.800 saying that Saudi Arabia Ukraine now says in a joint 137 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:42.199 statement with the United States that it is open to 138 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:45.879 a thirty day cease fire. Again, Russia is not represented 139 00:07:45.959 --> 00:07:50.120 at these talks and has not said how it feels 140 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:53.720 one way or the other, aside from the fact that 141 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:56.800 there are concessions Russia wants in order to come to 142 00:07:56.839 --> 00:08:01.000 the table to talk about the C word this hour 143 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:03.560 in a joint statement with the United States that it 144 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:06.360 is opened to a thirty day ceasefire in the war 145 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:09.279 with Russia. As these talks continue throughout the day in 146 00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:12.480 Saudi Arabia, Marco Rubio there, the head. 147 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:13.279 Of our delegation. 148 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:16.040 Remember President Trump wanted to turn on the spigot and 149 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:19.079 bring all that big, cold, beautiful water for the Pacific 150 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:20.079 Northwest water. 151 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:21.040 Well, there was. 152 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:23.680 A spigot, but it was water that didn't come from 153 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:26.920 the Pacific Northwest and it didn't come to southern California. 154 00:08:27.399 --> 00:08:30.800 Where is the spigot, secret spigot up there? 155 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:35.000 Oh and anyway, there's a memo that proves that even 156 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:37.399 the Army Corps of Engineers was like, are you sure 157 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:38.279 you want us to do this? 158 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:39.799 Because it ain't going to do what you think it's 159 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:40.159 gonna do. 160 00:08:40.360 --> 00:08:41.879 Gary and Shannon will continue. 161 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:46.559 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 162 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:47.679 AM six forty. 163 00:08:49.840 --> 00:08:51.799 We were talking about the weather. I wanted to play 164 00:08:51.799 --> 00:08:54.080 this for you before we get into our water story here. 165 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:59.960 Brooks Garner is a meteorologist with WOFL down in Florida, 166 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:05.960 and yesterday he was on the air live weather broadcast 167 00:09:06.200 --> 00:09:10.120 warning people that a tornado was coming. And the tornado 168 00:09:10.919 --> 00:09:14.440 hit the building that the TV station was in, and 169 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:18.600 he's on the air while it's happening. The studio apparently 170 00:09:18.679 --> 00:09:22.320 has cinder block walls and his tornado resistant. I don't 171 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:24.639 know if it's ever a tornado proof, but that's where 172 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:26.799 he was and you can hear him telling people in 173 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:29.879 the building. If you're in the Fox thirty five studios, 174 00:09:29.879 --> 00:09:31.360 it's time to go find shelter. 175 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:34.000 Still into breezone. Everybody, get in, every ready, get in 176 00:09:34.039 --> 00:09:38.320 the studio. Come on, hey guys, Okay, we got power 177 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:42.159 flickering out. That's a tornado. This is a this is 178 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:45.879 a confirmed tornado. National Weather Serves. If you're listening, this 179 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:51.799 is a confirm tornado. Yeah, this is heading into Lake 180 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:58.159 Marie and Sanford. Right now, get below below the ground level, sorry, 181 00:09:58.200 --> 00:09:58.480 get to. 182 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:02.600 The Gris design. You mean a Chris Shabel. 183 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:06.320 Get somebody in there whose breath remains measured. 184 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:10.799 He started by having the antenna cam or tower cam, 185 00:10:10.919 --> 00:10:12.919 whatever it was, on the top of their building a 186 00:10:12.919 --> 00:10:16.399 few hundred feet up. He was telling the control room 187 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:18.679 to turn the camera to look at this thing as 188 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:21.000 it was making its way towards the TV station. 189 00:10:21.240 --> 00:10:21.480 Huh. 190 00:10:21.480 --> 00:10:24.159 And you just see the sky get dark and gray, 191 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:26.320 and then all this debris starts flying around. 192 00:10:26.360 --> 00:10:27.679 That's why he talked about the debris. 193 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:30.840 And he could hear it hitting the roof of the studio, 194 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:33.559 all the stuff that was blown up by this tornade. 195 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:35.279 It's a great live report, isn't it. 196 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:37.600 Adrenaline? Then that guy must have had here. 197 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:42.080 We concern ourselves not with tornadoes, but with water, big water. 198 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:45.679 The President thought that we had big water that could 199 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:47.639 be come in our way if he would just turn 200 00:10:47.679 --> 00:10:48.919 on the spigot up north. 201 00:10:49.039 --> 00:10:49.279 Yeah. 202 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:51.120 People just do the simple. 203 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:52.799 Thing what I really want to have done. I was 204 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:58.080 talking about this with the guys back in the Joval Office. 205 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:02.000 Los Angeles has made massive amounts of water available to it. 206 00:11:02.039 --> 00:11:03.559 All they have to do is turn the valve. 207 00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:06.799 And that's the valve coming back from and down from 208 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:12.919 the Pacific Northwest, where millions of gallons of water a 209 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:18.919 week and a day, even in many cases pours into California, 210 00:11:19.320 --> 00:11:23.320 goes all through California down to Los Angeles, and they 211 00:11:23.360 --> 00:11:26.320 turned it off. It's off. Now the valve goes, it 212 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:29.000 turns toward the Pacific Ocean and all that water goes 213 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:32.600 pouring into the Pacific Ocean. If they did what I 214 00:11:32.759 --> 00:11:35.240 told them to do, they wouldn't do it because politically 215 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:38.399 they didn't think it was good. I think it's great. Politically, 216 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:41.000 I think they're dead politically. What they've done, they've destroyed 217 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:41.440 the city. 218 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:46.200 Okay, that was January twenty third. On January thirtieth, the 219 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:51.000 Army Corps of Engineers did actually turn on finger quotes 220 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:55.519 the spigot, and they did release some water from Lake 221 00:11:55.559 --> 00:12:01.279 Koweya and Success Lake, but the kernel. The commander of 222 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:04.279 the Army Corps Sacramento District, Colonel Chad Caldwell, wrote in 223 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:07.120 a memo that the water that came out of those lakes, 224 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:10.320 those little reservoirs in the Sierra Nevada could not be 225 00:12:10.440 --> 00:12:14.360 delivered to southern California directly. That to do so would 226 00:12:14.360 --> 00:12:17.879 have actually required several other steps of coordination, not just 227 00:12:18.039 --> 00:12:20.320 with the Army Corps of Engineers, but with the state 228 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:24.039 the other federal agencies to transport the water to this 229 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:27.679 connection point that they almost never use. And it became 230 00:12:27.799 --> 00:12:30.840 clear that it was impossible to coordinate all of that 231 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:34.679 in such little time. Because the President wanted it done immediately, 232 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:37.960 the White House also instructed the Army Corps of Engineers 233 00:12:38.600 --> 00:12:41.519 to make sure that they took pictures of the release 234 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:44.200 of the water going down the spillway or the dam, 235 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:47.000 or however they were releasing it, so that the White 236 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:50.240 House could show see all it takes is a firm 237 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:54.279 know or a firm command from the White House to 238 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:57.720 get this done, and that somehow state and local officials 239 00:12:57.759 --> 00:13:00.440 were the ones preventing all of the big beauty water 240 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:04.200 from the Pacific Northwest from coming to Los Angeles. Now, 241 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:09.919 this release of the water did not cause any major flooding, 242 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:12.679 It wasn't problematic in any way, and in fact, some 243 00:13:12.759 --> 00:13:16.279 of it did flow into the underground sites that store 244 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:22.080 groundwater for future use. But they said this farmers who 245 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:24.519 do rely on that water at least later on in 246 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:27.840 the growing season. And officials from both parties up and 247 00:13:27.879 --> 00:13:32.919 down the Central Valley walked into the White House, I 248 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:34.639 guess proverbially, and. 249 00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:36.879 Raised their hands and said, what the hell are you doing. 250 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:40.240 You don't know anything about how the water system in 251 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:44.600 the Western United States works. There is no giant pipeline 252 00:13:44.639 --> 00:13:50.039 from Seattle to la that somehow Democrats have commandeered and 253 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:52.039 won't allow anybody to turn the hose on. 254 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:55.080 You think they could get it together enough to come 255 00:13:55.120 --> 00:13:57.399 and deer a major water line. 256 00:13:57.480 --> 00:14:00.919 Nobody can, but certainly not people in government. 257 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:03.200 And then the Army corp of Engineers doesn't even have 258 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:06.480 enough time to inform all of the other agencies that 259 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:11.000 are involved when they do these releases, to tell everybody downstream, Hey, 260 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:13.600 just so you know, make sure that this doesn't cause flooding, 261 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:16.639 make sure the debris basins are open, make sure the 262 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:21.679 volume of water is capable, or that your whatever infrastructure 263 00:14:21.720 --> 00:14:24.039 downstream is capable of handling this. 264 00:14:23.960 --> 00:14:27.960 Influx of water that you're not expecting. And then they 265 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:30.320 just went and flushed. 266 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:33.519 You have a prompt. You had a prom date? You 267 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:34.519 remember your prom date? 268 00:14:35.879 --> 00:14:37.000 Yes? That was Becca? 269 00:14:38.039 --> 00:14:38.480 Oh? 270 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:38.919 Becca? 271 00:14:40.279 --> 00:14:40.519 Yeah? 272 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:43.080 Yeah? 273 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:45.080 I h Hey, guys, do you go to prom with. 274 00:14:47.519 --> 00:14:47.799 One? 275 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:48.559 Okay? 276 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:50.240 For that prom? 277 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:52.600 Oh? I said no. 278 00:14:53.039 --> 00:14:55.399 When I when I first went to high school, I 279 00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:58.519 went to a different high school than was the feeder 280 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:01.279 school for the Catholics, grammar school I went to. Everyone 281 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:03.559 went to marin Catholic. I went to the public high school. 282 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:05.759 I didn't really know anyone when I went into high 283 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:09.200 school and for the first dance that you know, homecoming 284 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:11.679 comes pretty quickly. It's in the fall, and I really 285 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:16.799 know a lot of people. And a junior boy asked 286 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:19.080 me as a freshman to go to homecoming, and I 287 00:15:19.080 --> 00:15:22.080 said yes because that's the polite thing to do, and 288 00:15:22.120 --> 00:15:25.080 then immediately started freaking out about it. Like whatever the 289 00:15:25.159 --> 00:15:28.879 kids call anxiety today, I had that. And because I 290 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:32.320 was fourteen years old and he was a fully grown 291 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:35.960 man pretty much as a junior to a freshman girl, right, 292 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:38.440 And I remember just freaking out about it, like I 293 00:15:38.440 --> 00:15:40.080 don't I don't want to go to a dance with him, Like. 294 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:42.600 The idea of it was just terrifying to me. 295 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:46.679 And I ended up telling him that I wasn't going 296 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:48.639 with him because I was just terrified. 297 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:50.720 I didn't tell him that because you were scared. 298 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:53.440 No, I don't know what I made up. I remember 299 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:57.480 calling him, I remember standing in the kitchen telling him 300 00:15:57.480 --> 00:16:00.200 I couldn't go. I don't know what I said, but 301 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:03.399 I remember just the fear and the awfulness that went 302 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:06.000 along with that phone call and that feeling the whole thing. 303 00:16:06.120 --> 00:16:08.840 And I ended up going with a group of girlfriends, 304 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:11.360 like you should do when you're fourteen years old, because 305 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:12.320 you're ready for that. 306 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:14.919 Anyway, Julie's dances with I'm. 307 00:16:14.840 --> 00:16:17.919 Still feeling awful about it, like five hundred years later, 308 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:22.840 thirty years later, Well, the similar thing happened to this woman. 309 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:26.399 She backed out of her prom date back in nineteen 310 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:29.600 eighty eight. But hell, she's made up for it. We'll 311 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:31.200 tell you how. 312 00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:35.559 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 313 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:37.000 AM six forty. 314 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:42.639 Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We talked about the 315 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:47.759 NTSB providing an update this afternoon about the crash between 316 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:51.759 the American Airlines flight and the black Hawk helicopter at 317 00:16:51.799 --> 00:16:53.360 the airport in DC. 318 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:56.440 The NTSB is speaking right. 319 00:16:56.320 --> 00:17:01.759 Now and says that there is an intolerable risk of collisions, 320 00:17:01.960 --> 00:17:08.079 that is their verbiage, intolerable risk of collisions at that airport, 321 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:13.000 and urges a ban on some helicopter flights. If you've 322 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:16.200 flown out or in there, you've seen the helicopter traffic 323 00:17:16.279 --> 00:17:19.279 and the jetliner traffic, and it's always kind of odd. 324 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:22.920 I've flown in there at night, and thankfully it was 325 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:24.359 at night, so I didn't get to see all of 326 00:17:24.440 --> 00:17:27.400 that stuff. It's an incredible view of DC as you 327 00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:29.480 come and you make your final approach on stuff that 328 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:32.119 is really very cool, but you're lucky it's at night, 329 00:17:32.319 --> 00:17:34.000 so you don't get to see how close you are 330 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:37.640 to those other airplanes and helicopters. A strange story out 331 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:44.240 of Pakistan. Armed militants have taken a train hostage. They're 332 00:17:44.240 --> 00:17:48.039 calling it a terrorist attack that is being perpetrated by 333 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:53.960 the Balloch Liberation Army has threatened to execute all four 334 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:59.039 hundred and fifty hostages on that plane. Sorry on that train, 335 00:18:01.759 --> 00:18:04.319 over four hundred and fifty passengers on board being held 336 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:08.000 by a gunman, according to a senior railway official. The 337 00:18:08.079 --> 00:18:11.519 capital of the province is Keta. This has been going 338 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:13.559 on for several hours now. But again they took over 339 00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:16.839 a train and so that they will execute four hundred 340 00:18:16.839 --> 00:18:19.559 and fifty passengers, if not more. Also a little bit 341 00:18:19.640 --> 00:18:22.519 later today, one o'clock is when the House is expected 342 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:25.480 to vote on a stopgap measure to keep the federal 343 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:27.200 government funded beyond Friday. 344 00:18:28.839 --> 00:18:33.160 Wait wait what one o'clock? That means John gets to 345 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:34.720 have all the government shut down? 346 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:39.240 Fun lucky, lucky, lucky pastaredp. 347 00:18:38.119 --> 00:18:44.880 Me Democratic votes. They hold the majority. Tell a story 348 00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:45.960 like it is, brother. 349 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:48.920 Yeah, sorry I was wrong. Oh wait, no I wasn't. 350 00:18:49.359 --> 00:18:51.880 Republicans hold the majority in both the Senate and the House. 351 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:56.160 We won the whole damn thing, y'all. So okay, So 352 00:18:56.400 --> 00:19:02.759 back to nineteen eighty eight we go. John Moyer has 353 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:06.960 prom upon him, and he asks a girl. 354 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:11.440 And she bails. 355 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:13.599 She bails on him, thanks a lot. 356 00:19:14.160 --> 00:19:16.720 I thought it was her that came forward and made 357 00:19:16.799 --> 00:19:17.440 good on it. 358 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:20.119 It was not. She sucks. She still has. 359 00:19:19.920 --> 00:19:21.279 Bailed good to us. 360 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:26.160 But it was the fill in prom date who has 361 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:30.240 really come through for Sean Moyer all these years later. 362 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:32.359 Yeah. Elena Hershey was her name. 363 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:35.680 She was a year younger than Sean and in Shawn's 364 00:19:35.759 --> 00:19:40.759 brother's class at Dallastown Area High School in Pennsylvania, and. 365 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:41.480 She says yes. 366 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:45.720 However, no idea that the fact that the first girl 367 00:19:45.799 --> 00:19:49.920 bailed on him, and then Elena said yes that she 368 00:19:50.240 --> 00:19:52.519 was going to eventually come back into his life thirty 369 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:53.319 seven years later. 370 00:19:53.960 --> 00:19:58.359 Yeah, Sean Moyer is a doctor now. He graduated that 371 00:19:58.480 --> 00:20:02.480 high school, Dallas Down Area High School there in Pennsylvania 372 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:05.640 in nineteen eighty eight, lost touch with the prom date, Elena, 373 00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:08.079 who later moved to Boulder became a teacher. 374 00:20:08.119 --> 00:20:09.759 Elena did now. 375 00:20:09.799 --> 00:20:12.799 It wasn't until December of twenty twenty three that the 376 00:20:12.839 --> 00:20:17.480 two reconnected. Why did they reconnect? No, it's nothing like that. 377 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:21.599 Get your mind out of the gutter. They reconnected because 378 00:20:21.640 --> 00:20:23.880 Elena hears from a mutual friend that went to the 379 00:20:23.880 --> 00:20:27.480 same high school that good old Sean. Remember Sean Moyer 380 00:20:27.559 --> 00:20:30.000 from Oh Yeah, I went to problem with him. Well, 381 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:34.279 he's on dialysis and needs a kidney, So Elena says, 382 00:20:34.759 --> 00:20:36.279 I contacted. 383 00:20:35.640 --> 00:20:38.799 Him and I offered him my kidney. It wasn't out 384 00:20:38.799 --> 00:20:39.359 of the blue. 385 00:20:39.480 --> 00:20:43.119 Elena became interested in kidney donation about two years ago, 386 00:20:43.319 --> 00:20:47.519 researched it extensively, went through the tests, realized it was 387 00:20:47.559 --> 00:20:49.400 no longer a question of if I was going to 388 00:20:49.440 --> 00:20:50.640 donate a kidney at some point. 389 00:20:50.640 --> 00:20:55.160 It was when yeah, And she said she'd been approved 390 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:57.519 as a kidney donor summer of twenty three, and she 391 00:20:57.640 --> 00:20:59.920 figured it this way. A couple of weeks of down 392 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:03.000 time and a little discomfort on my part, If that's 393 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:05.359 all I need to extend someone's life, it's an easy 394 00:21:05.400 --> 00:21:06.119 decision to make. 395 00:21:06.319 --> 00:21:09.000 Sean was stunned to hear from Elena. He said, I 396 00:21:09.039 --> 00:21:10.160 was flabbergasted. 397 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:14.279 And Sean has had kidney issues all his life. As 398 00:21:14.319 --> 00:21:18.480 a teenager, he had an infection that led his body 399 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:22.880 to reject his own kidneys. And I didn't realize that 400 00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:27.359 donated kidneys have an expiration on them. You get about 401 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:31.480