Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. We've got warnings up in La
Speaker 1: Malibu for the storm heading this way, Warnings about mudslides, debris.
Speaker 1: They are calling in it an atmospheric river fueled storm.
Speaker 2: Yes, I love that kind.
Speaker 1: Yes, where you are, you know, if you're in the
Speaker 1: Burnscar area, especially with the Palisades area this year in particular.
Speaker 1: They say that we will get the brunt of the
Speaker 1: rain tonight into the wee hours of the morning.
Speaker 3: Few places with some rain. It's kind of spotty right now.
Speaker 3: Down at San Diego, they had a band to go
Speaker 3: through Ventura. Up in Santa Barbara, they had some rain
Speaker 3: going through. So it hasn't come widespread, at least not yet.
Speaker 3: It's been off and on here in Burbank. But they
Speaker 3: said that late tonight into tomorrow morning, probably while we're sleeping,
Speaker 3: as we're going to see the majority of the rainfall
Speaker 3: coming in tonight.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a sequel to this is spinal tap.
Speaker 4: I thought I saw that the numbers. I'll go to eleven.
Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty four's music mockumentary getting a sequel. It's called
Speaker 1: Spinal Tap two. The End continues. It will release in
Speaker 1: theater September twelfth. The first teaser is available today. Christopher Guest,
Speaker 1: Michael McKeon, Harry Shearer all reprising their roles.
Speaker 4: From the first films.
Speaker 1: In the new movie, the band will reunite for one
Speaker 1: final concert after a fifteen year hiatus.
Speaker 4: That's cool, That'll be fun. That'll be a huge hit.
Speaker 2: That will be a big hit. It's time for Swampwatch.
Speaker 4: I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar.
Speaker 2: And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we got The real problem is that our leaders
Speaker 5: are done.
Speaker 4: The other side never quits, So what fuck what?
Speaker 6: I'm not going to anywhere. So that is how you
Speaker 6: train the squad.
Speaker 2: I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by.
Speaker 4: What has been.
Speaker 2: You know, Americans have always been gone act.
Speaker 6: They're not scrupid.
Speaker 3: A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 2: Who have the people voted for you? With no swamp watch?
Speaker 2: They're all counteroid.
Speaker 3: Well, uh, it's hard to keep up with everything that's
Speaker 3: going on when it comes to the tariffs over the
Speaker 3: last forty eight hours or so.
Speaker 2: So here's a here's how we'll try to explain this.
Speaker 3: The European Union and Canada have now both hit back
Speaker 3: at Donald Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs with their own tariffs.
Speaker 3: They've announced tariffs on billions of dollars worth of products bourbon, motorcycles, makeup,
Speaker 3: et cetera. And they have said that they will retaliate
Speaker 3: even further if necessary. The European Union says that they
Speaker 3: have a two stage response that they're going to target
Speaker 3: about twenty eight billion dollars of our products that we
Speaker 3: send to them. Canada has announced a twenty five five
Speaker 3: percent tariff on about twenty one billion dollars worth of
Speaker 3: American goods. Now, the steel and aluminum tariffs went into
Speaker 3: about twenty five percent on all steel and aluminum tariffs
Speaker 3: that went into effect at midnight last night, late whatever,
Speaker 3: eleven hours ago, and the European leaders have been saying
Speaker 3: that they would retaliate, but they've emphasized that a trade
Speaker 3: war is going to hurt everybody, and they've been trying
Speaker 3: to negotiate this some sort of an off ramp with
Speaker 3: the Trump administration, an off ramp that may simply look
Speaker 3: like a pause the way it has with Mexico and
Speaker 3: Canada over the last couple of months.
Speaker 1: Looks like April first is when all of this will
Speaker 1: get rolling or go into effect. Canada, by the way,
Speaker 1: the largest steel supplier to the United States, said Wednesday
Speaker 1: today it will place twenty five percent reciprocal tariffs on
Speaker 1: steel products and raised taxes on a bunch of stuff
Speaker 1: like tools, computers, surveys, display monitors, sports equipment, cast iron
Speaker 1: products as well.
Speaker 3: So, I mean, at this point, Wall Street has been
Speaker 3: sort of mixed today, at least not anywhere near as
Speaker 3: negative as it was over the course of the last
Speaker 3: few days.
Speaker 2: The volatility is not helping much.
Speaker 3: But one thing that did help was the inflation numbers
Speaker 3: were actually lower in the month of January than I'm
Speaker 3: sorry that in the month of February than they were
Speaker 3: in the month of January, So the consumer price index
Speaker 3: had a two point eight percent rise, and overall prices
Speaker 3: in the economy when that number came out, that prompted
Speaker 3: a jump in all three major indices this morning, but
Speaker 3: it has kind of settled back down. The Dow is
Speaker 3: down only about fifteen points, the S and P five
Speaker 3: hundred is up about twenty nine, and the Nasdaq has
Speaker 3: gained a full percentage point.
Speaker 2: It's up one hundred and eighty four.
Speaker 1: New report is finding inflation starting to cool. Consumer Price
Speaker 1: Index by point point zero point two percent last month,
Speaker 1: right up to two point eight. No, I was just
Speaker 1: going to say the expectation was three percent, which you
Speaker 1: left out.
Speaker 2: I did leave that part out.
Speaker 1: You did, And then the Education Department was the other
Speaker 1: slashing that we were going to get to. You and
Speaker 1: I both thought that it was bigger. It was bigger
Speaker 1: than it is. When I saw four thousand and change
Speaker 1: employees that they were going to slash to two thousand
Speaker 1: and change, I thought, when you think the Education Department,
Speaker 1: you think of this like beast, right, does bureaucratic beast well?
Speaker 3: Because the number of U what is it, two point
Speaker 3: something million federal employees broken up amongst all these different agencies. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I had assumed that the Department of Education was a bigger
Speaker 3: just in sheer numbers of workers, and it's not. A
Speaker 3: government lawyer has asked a federal judge to move the
Speaker 3: legal fight over the detention of a Columbia University grad
Speaker 3: stated to New Jersey or Louisiana, since that's where he
Speaker 3: had been held. This is a guy who was on
Speaker 3: campus at Columbia and was at the very least a
Speaker 3: spokesperson for the pro Palestinian protesters, although there's still some
Speaker 3: discussion as to whether or not he was involved with them,
Speaker 3: how much he organized them, if any, and what sort
Speaker 3: of things he was suggesting these protesters say or Carrie
Speaker 3: Sin's saying, and what contact he has with anybody in Hamas.
Speaker 2: The guy's name is mak Mud Khalil.
Speaker 4: He's thirty.
Speaker 2: By the way, he's thirty.
Speaker 3: And during a brief hearing, an attorney argued on behalf
Speaker 3: of the Justice Department that the venue for the deportation
Speaker 3: fight had to be moved to Louisiana or New Jersey.
Speaker 3: The argument, according to Marco Rubio, is any non resident.
Speaker 3: In this case, he is legal permanent resident, but not
Speaker 3: a citizen. He is allowed to reside in the United
Speaker 3: States as a Green card holder, but Marco Rubio says,
Speaker 3: if he's doing things that would have prevented him from
Speaker 3: getting the green card in the first place, we should
Speaker 3: be able to kick him out. The Immigration and Naturalization
Speaker 3: Act says that any alien whose presence or activities in
Speaker 3: the United States that the Secretary of State has reasonable
Speaker 3: grounds to believe would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy
Speaker 3: consequences for the United States, that person is rendered deportable.
Speaker 3: And it's not a student visa that this guy was on.
Speaker 3: This guy is a Green card holder. He is a
Speaker 3: legal permanent resident, which is the highest category that you
Speaker 3: can be without being an actual citizen of the United States,
Speaker 3: and can he can be deported if they established that
Speaker 3: he belonged to this group that either endorses or espouses
Speaker 3: terrorist activity, or that he is engaged in terrorist activity.
Speaker 3: That's a far cry from just talking about your support
Speaker 3: for Hamas or Palace.
Speaker 1: It's different than free speech. That takes it a step further,
Speaker 1: and that's where the court is going to have to determine.
Speaker 1: Is this that it doesn't matter what the speech is,
Speaker 1: if it's in syndiari or has terroristic ties, or it
Speaker 1: moves beyond free speech, then that portion of the.
Speaker 4: Law kicks in.
Speaker 1: This has been the topic of several protests in places
Speaker 1: like New York and La other cities. Susan Sarandon has
Speaker 1: been on the scene there at the courthouse totally.
Speaker 2: You just got to know what she's doing.
Speaker 1: Told reporters that no matter where you stand on genocide,
Speaker 1: freedom of speech is a right we all have, saying
Speaker 1: wait a.
Speaker 2: Minute, no matter where you stand on genocide.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, And then she said, this is a
Speaker 1: turning point in history and the freedom of this country,
Speaker 1: no matter where you stand on genocide. Gary Hn Shannon
Speaker 1: will continue. That's like Mark Gary is going on the
Speaker 1: Today Show today and talking about victims justice and calling
Speaker 1: Nathan Hawkman a showboater.
Speaker 2: How rich?
Speaker 4: How rich is that?
Speaker 1: Okay, we have exciting things coming up this hour. First
Speaker 1: of all, is the tech in your car becoming too much?
Speaker 1: I think it's too much, and the majority of cars
Speaker 1: it's too much. I miss the old you know, you
Speaker 1: gotta crank, roll up and down the window you're talking about,
Speaker 1: I know. And how sad when you could like fix
Speaker 1: your car. You know, if you have like a bug
Speaker 1: or an old Chevy truck, you could fix that thing.
Speaker 2: You can have the door panel off and you realign
Speaker 2: the window with the little holder that's there in the
Speaker 2: crank exactly.
Speaker 4: And now these stupid ass computers come in.
Speaker 2: We'll be back after Grandma goes to bingo.
Speaker 5: Jeez, you're listening to Irian Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 5: AM six forty.
Speaker 3: One of the stories that we told you about yesterday
Speaker 3: was that takeover of the train in Pakistan, an operation
Speaker 3: to rescue four hundred and fifty hostages, has actually continued
Speaker 3: now into its second day. Dozens of people have been killed,
Speaker 3: but Pakistan security services say they've rescued about one hundred
Speaker 3: and ninety people being held hostage on a train after
Speaker 3: militants blew up a rail line and launched the attack
Speaker 3: on the Ja'afar Express. Officials said that about thirty of
Speaker 3: the militants have been killed and that about one hundred
Speaker 3: and thirty hostages are still being held on that train
Speaker 3: in I believe it was actually in a tunnel. They're
Speaker 3: in a mountainous pass that they were on, So continues.
Speaker 3: Tech in your car can be incredible.
Speaker 4: It's gone nuts, really, you know.
Speaker 1: I think of like Tesla's with the full screen, bigger
Speaker 1: than iPads or what have you, And how can not
Speaker 1: not be distracting? How can people who are not who
Speaker 1: have not grown up with technology and phones in their
Speaker 1: hands and everything is online and classes and work and
Speaker 1: all of the things. Those people are absolutely ready to
Speaker 1: deal with that it's user friendly for them. But for
Speaker 1: people like I don't know, fifty years old or what happens.
Speaker 1: You see, there's a learning curve there. We didn't have
Speaker 1: TVs in our cars growing up, right, I don't know
Speaker 1: how people who are seventy are jumping into a new
Speaker 1: I mean handle woul didn't he say it was just
Speaker 1: too crazy, it was too complicated. I mean people who are, say,
Speaker 1: who have not grown up with this jumping into one
Speaker 1: of these things, it would be very overwhelming.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: Some of the stuff that I think that has come
Speaker 3: into just about every car now is good. Like I
Speaker 3: love the navigation software. It's available everywhere, whether it's on
Speaker 3: your phone or in the car, it's available everywhere.
Speaker 2: I think that's good.
Speaker 3: The stuff that I don't quite get and I've never
Speaker 3: gotten used to, is the lane departure warning.
Speaker 2: You know you're if you have it turned on. You
Speaker 2: can turn them off a lot of them.
Speaker 3: But if you're in your car and the thing just
Speaker 3: starts beeping at you and you don't know why is
Speaker 3: it beeping at you? And it's because there's a car
Speaker 3: in your blind spot, or something like that that to
Speaker 3: me is more jarring than a car in my blind
Speaker 3: spot that's gonna surprise. So some of that stuff I
Speaker 3: think is it drives me nuts. But other stuff is
Speaker 3: really really great. The automatic braking sometimes automatic condition avoidance
Speaker 3: is great.
Speaker 4: Many drivers say it's too much.
Speaker 1: Right now, the share who had positive feelings about the
Speaker 1: intuitiveness of their car's controls fell from seventy nine percent
Speaker 1: ten years ago to fifty six percent now because ten
Speaker 1: years ago twenty fifteen.
Speaker 4: The new stuff was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: It wasn't as advanced as it is now, and now
Speaker 1: it may have gotten too advanced.
Speaker 4: When it comes to.
Speaker 1: The dashboard display's screen interface is the layout of the
Speaker 1: instrument panel that you can switch to seventeen different views.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that the interaction is probably the most
Speaker 3: important part of it, because now you're talking about you
Speaker 3: can interact with your phone just with your fingertips right
Speaker 3: in many cars, many vehicles now you have a touch
Speaker 3: screen surface that you can do with just your hands.
Speaker 3: But then you are not paying attention to the road.
Speaker 3: You're paying attention to the touch screen if you're doing
Speaker 3: something while you're driving, And I think that's probably the
Speaker 3: biggest concern.
Speaker 1: I mean a couple things. The door handles. There was
Speaker 1: an anecdote about a guy who was trying to start
Speaker 1: as twenty twenty four Volkswagen ID four electric car using
Speaker 1: his phone app and the car doors wouldn't open because
Speaker 1: sensor equipped handles were on the fritz in the cold,
Speaker 1: it was fifteen degrees, so he ended up having to
Speaker 1: shimmy into his car through the trunk.
Speaker 4: He said, just give me a normal door handle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the door handles that you have to play with
Speaker 1: to press for them to open. Just get what's the
Speaker 1: purpose of that. Just put on a freaking door handle.
Speaker 1: The other my nephew, he just lost his car keys.
Speaker 1: He's twenty three years old. He's up in Chico, was
Speaker 1: going to drive back home over the weekend.
Speaker 4: Lost his car keys. Whatever.
Speaker 1: And it's like a fob. It's a whole thing. Like you,
Speaker 1: It's not just a it's not a key anymore for
Speaker 1: most of us. Right, there's just certain things where it
Speaker 1: used to be not a big deal, and it's suddenly
Speaker 1: a big deal. I mean, the computer system in your
Speaker 1: car could something could happen, It could short and suddenly
Speaker 1: you can't drive the car.
Speaker 6: What.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there's there's obviously that that kind of
Speaker 3: a concern, and repairing a computer price problem in.
Speaker 4: Your car expensive.
Speaker 2: You can't do that massive.
Speaker 3: I mean when I my dad had a sixty five
Speaker 3: Chevy pickup truck, and when you it's just it's just
Speaker 3: a gorgeous, gorgeous thing to lift the hood on that
Speaker 3: and there's a lot of room in that compartment. I mean,
Speaker 3: there's just a lot of stuff in there that or
Speaker 3: there's I shouldn't say there's not a lot of stuff
Speaker 3: in there that's extraneous.
Speaker 2: You don't need any of it right, and you.
Speaker 1: Can it's like going into auto shop where you open
Speaker 1: up that hood, you can tell what everything is right,
Speaker 1: and they're accessible to your point. Last year, a quarter
Speaker 1: of car repairs involved a sensor recalibration, an additional cost
Speaker 1: of six hundred dollars. So that's six hundred on top
Speaker 1: of whatever your issue was with the car, just because
Speaker 1: it's computerized.
Speaker 3: Well, windshield replacement, how many how many windshields now don't
Speaker 3: just have the rearview mirror in it. It's that rear
Speaker 3: view mirror on the opposite side, on the outside, has
Speaker 3: a whole bunch of sensors and everything that are looking
Speaker 3: at either traffic in front of you or the weather
Speaker 3: conditions or if there's rain on the wind shoe on
Speaker 3: the tesla.
Speaker 1: This is a question, is it does it cost more
Speaker 1: for things like like you ran into something ran into you,
Speaker 1: a fender bender or whatever, something on the road you're
Speaker 1: on a road trip or whatever.
Speaker 4: Is it more to fit parents? Yeah, because there's so
Speaker 4: many sensors.
Speaker 2: Not necessarily.
Speaker 3: Okay, The problem with the repairing a tesla for a
Speaker 3: lot of the people that I know that have them
Speaker 3: is getting the parts. They don't make a whole lot
Speaker 3: of extra parts for those things. So if you've got
Speaker 3: to buy a bumper assembly or a door or something,
Speaker 3: it's going to take a couple of weeks to get there,
Speaker 3: Whereas if you're in a more common if you're in
Speaker 3: a Honda Accord, they have them waiting in a warehouse.
Speaker 4: Honda Accord bumpers in my garage.
Speaker 3: Right, and they'll just put it on within three or
Speaker 3: four days as opposed to two or three weeks.
Speaker 1: So okay, Coming up next, we've got parenting. We will
Speaker 1: tell you just how much it costs to raise a baby. Also,
Speaker 1: being a parent keeps your brain young, that's why you should.
Speaker 4: Make another baby.
Speaker 2: Ain't gonna happen. Come on, Gary Shannon will continue.
Speaker 5: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 5: AM six.
Speaker 1: Forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4: As we've been reporting to you.
Speaker 1: Europe and Canada hitting back after Trump's tariffs on steel
Speaker 1: and aluminum. The tariffs are twenty five percent on metals
Speaker 1: that come into the US from any country in the world,
Speaker 1: including our allies. They say that these will raise the
Speaker 1: cost for US automakers and other industries. The move is
Speaker 1: supported by many American steel and aluminum manufacturers. We should
Speaker 1: say the EU has announced it will impose counter tariffs
Speaker 1: on US goods worth twenty eight billion dollars and everything
Speaker 1: goes into effect at least at this point April one.
Speaker 3: Ukrainian and Polish officials say arms deliveries to Ukraine have resumed.
Speaker 3: The deliveries came today, a day after the administration lifted
Speaker 3: at the suspension of military aid for Kiev, and Kremlin
Speaker 3: spokesperson said that Moscow is waiting more information about the
Speaker 3: proposal from the United States. Of course, they have signaled.
Speaker 3: Ukrainians have signaled that they're open to a thirty day ceasefire.
Speaker 1: Again, the heaviest rain's going to hit tonight, late tonight
Speaker 1: and tomorrow morning. Flood watch is in effect for twenty
Speaker 1: four hours starting at six pm tonight, So there is
Speaker 1: your storm watch alert. Justin worship as host of the
Speaker 1: Dad podcast.
Speaker 6: Hello, do you think you know how we have cold wars?
Speaker 6: Is this going to be like a tariff war? Is
Speaker 6: that going to be a.
Speaker 2: Faly call them trade wars?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yes, So I was saying this yesterday.
Speaker 3: In my lifetime, I can't remember there being this much
Speaker 3: kerfuffle around a trade war. I'm sure they existed, but
Speaker 3: we weren't paying attention. And now I just feel like
Speaker 3: we have to pay attention of.
Speaker 2: Speaking of the high cost to take medicine, a.
Speaker 3: Center from a study from baby Center shows that raising
Speaker 3: a baby can be pretty expensive. That in the first
Speaker 3: year alone, you're talking about twenty grand.
Speaker 7: Three and eighty four dollars on average, Which is what
Speaker 7: did they say? They said it's fifteen percent of mom's
Speaker 7: baby let expenses eat up half of what they bring in,
Speaker 7: half of your income for your baby's first year. And
Speaker 7: they're talking like we've been hearing about this decline and
Speaker 7: birth rate, and this is the first kind of I
Speaker 7: don't even think that they're well, they do make the
Speaker 7: connection here, but this is the first time I'm seeing
Speaker 7: this connection. Is that I thought it was just like generationally,
Speaker 7: that people like millennials were less interested in having families.
Speaker 7: They were more career oriented and they wanted to live
Speaker 7: a more nomadic lifestyle and have freedom.
Speaker 6: So therefore kids weren't a part of it.
Speaker 7: But now what we're trying to what we're starting to
Speaker 7: see is that it's possible that there's more economic influence
Speaker 7: because the birth rate in the US is declining, stem
Speaker 7: like people are having less kids. There's more dual income
Speaker 7: no kid type families than there were in the past.
Speaker 7: I don't think they out like rake like or outnumber
Speaker 7: the parents yet, but it's still it's rising and I
Speaker 7: think a lot of it has to do with the
Speaker 7: costs well.
Speaker 3: And I know that they make one point in here
Speaker 3: that there's no national paid leave, there's no federal law
Speaker 3: that requires paid leave for parents. But I've never worked
Speaker 3: in a place where it wasn't offered. Yeah where I mean,
Speaker 3: And that's just a matter of whether it's local law
Speaker 3: or just a company policy.
Speaker 7: And when you look at like, we always love to
Speaker 7: make fun of the Netherlands, right because there it's where
Speaker 7: everybody is happy and they have the largest, the longest
Speaker 7: paid national leave.
Speaker 1: I think, who makes fun of people from the Netherlands.
Speaker 1: I do you do like we would make fun of Canadians.
Speaker 1: You make fun of the people from the Netherlands.
Speaker 6: A different.
Speaker 4: Wooden shoes.
Speaker 6: She listens. I told you, she listens. What it's called
Speaker 6: the gigs out my stud.
Speaker 4: You broadcast from solving.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm spending defective American? Who I'm to take fun
Speaker 6: of me?
Speaker 4: Always?
Speaker 7: Well, maybe maybe I'm talking to me in the Royal
Speaker 7: Wee because I think it's just so funny that they
Speaker 7: are always so happy and nobody seems to understand why.
Speaker 7: And then the minute I bring up and say like
Speaker 7: things even amongst friends, not just here, but when I
Speaker 7: say amongst my friends, it's like, oh, well, they have
Speaker 7: more paid apparently if I think they're like I thought
Speaker 7: it was closer than nine oh maybe, and they have that.
Speaker 7: I think it's nine months for a mom and six
Speaker 7: months for a dad is what they get in the Netherlands.
Speaker 6: I'll look that up before when we go in the
Speaker 6: next break or whatever.
Speaker 7: But that the happier nations seem to have longer paid leave.
Speaker 7: That is a federal thing, Like I don't know in
Speaker 7: what instances it's actually paid by the federal government. I'm
Speaker 7: sure that it has to be subsidized in some way,
Speaker 7: shape or form. It's like a disabil for lack of
Speaker 7: a better way opening.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's also a great tax coat in in Amsterdam.
Speaker 6: What do you mean by that?
Speaker 1: Thirty percent of your gross salary can be paid out
Speaker 1: tax free as non taxable allowance.
Speaker 7: Wow, but you still got to be in the like
Speaker 7: fifty percent of taxes. There's no way that they're You're
Speaker 7: also just getting a third of their.
Speaker 4: Beautiful there too nice waterways.
Speaker 7: Shannon's planning a move and offended by me saying making
Speaker 7: fun you're reading from.
Speaker 3: The work for the commerce or something.
Speaker 6: He's doing another trip.
Speaker 1: You gotta go. I stopped there on the way to Estoniacakes.
Speaker 7: That's like almost a ten year old fit now, A
Speaker 7: long time ago, Gary Shadow were filling it on the
Speaker 7: Morning show when I worked there and just mentioned about
Speaker 7: going to Europe, and Gary evidently gets very upset whenever
Speaker 7: she talks about her travels. Because he feels like his
Speaker 7: children are sandbags and weigh him down from being.
Speaker 2: Able to experience rooted in my deep jealous.
Speaker 7: And as a person who walks with children, I agree wholeheartedly.
Speaker 7: I think it is fair that it's the It shouldn't
Speaker 7: she should be burdened with at least a bag of
Speaker 7: flour or some eggs that she has to care for,
Speaker 7: like it's a junior.
Speaker 6: Year in high school again.
Speaker 3: And listen, you and I may both be older than Shannon,
Speaker 3: but because of the benefit of having squeezed out a
Speaker 3: couple of kids, we're smarter.
Speaker 2: We are smarter.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I can't wait.
Speaker 4: Science will prove it.
Speaker 2: Gary Channon will so much.
Speaker 6: Just belief in your eye.
Speaker 5: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 5: AM six forty.
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Speaker 1: Being a parent keeps the brain young, so says science.
Speaker 1: Justin Worsham, hosts of the Dad podcast, is with us.
Speaker 1: His hips don't live, They've been worked on, spelled those.
Speaker 6: To a physical therapist, did some blood.
Speaker 1: It's a whole thing strong hips. So what's what's the
Speaker 1: deal with this? Is it just because your brain has
Speaker 1: to stay active when you've got kids, especially multiple actually
Speaker 1: just the multitasker, the entire your whole life.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they did multiple brain studies in Britain and they
Speaker 7: showed that when they looked at the not only there
Speaker 7: was a direct correlation between people who didn't have kids
Speaker 7: and people who had kids, but also even more to
Speaker 7: support their evidence was the more kids you had, the
Speaker 7: longer your brain stayed active.
Speaker 6: And it was because of use.
Speaker 7: Like to me, there was my r pediatrician gave the
Speaker 7: kids this kind of speech when we went in there
Speaker 7: and saying, you gotta watch how much time you spend
Speaker 7: playing video games, and she said the reason is is
Speaker 7: because if you spend most of your time playing video games,
Speaker 7: then the neurons in your brain that are used for
Speaker 7: playing video games become very strong and very open and
Speaker 7: can fire fast.
Speaker 6: But you're neglecting the other parts of your brain, like
Speaker 6: your hips.
Speaker 7: Like your hips, you need to get out there and
Speaker 7: do some pilates, boys, and so you have to do
Speaker 7: these other things so that you're well rounded in that area.
Speaker 7: And so with parents, because so much of your life
Speaker 7: is about social connection with kids, and the more kids
Speaker 7: you have, so those parts of your brain.
Speaker 6: But the thing that blew my brain, my brain, was.
Speaker 7: That it's also your motor function is more like grip
Speaker 7: strength is something that they actually use to assess your
Speaker 7: motor ability because you're that part of the frontal cortex
Speaker 7: of your brain controls how hard you can squeeze your hand.
Speaker 3: Well, you've you've tried to hold kids down, haven't you. Yeah,
Speaker 3: of course that's but.
Speaker 7: I guess I guess what I'm saying not to be
Speaker 7: a wet blanket on your humor, but what I'm saying
Speaker 7: is that I never would have thought that you having
Speaker 7: a stronger frontal stronger frontal cortex.
Speaker 6: Not my verbal cortex obviously, but.
Speaker 7: For motor skills because of kids, would make my grip
Speaker 7: strength stronger later on in life Like that, that's fascinating
Speaker 7: to me.
Speaker 6: Am I done.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I think you're right, because there is there's
Speaker 3: no gen there's no great connection.
Speaker 6: You should not have children.
Speaker 7: I don't think you understand deal with frustration and anchor.
Speaker 7: They just also no more puppies for you, Okay.
Speaker 3: Caregiving is the highly sensory process involving coordinated movements. The
Speaker 3: holding the cradle and defeeding the children can engage multiple
Speaker 3: sensory systems, but obviously you're using muscles with that as well.
Speaker 2: Just uh, my wife used to have.
Speaker 3: This very specific way that she would hold one of
Speaker 3: the kids on her hip.
Speaker 2: Yes, and it.
Speaker 7: Looks like they're like making a half moon shape out
Speaker 7: of their back and I don't understand how that works.
Speaker 2: And she.
Speaker 3: Would talk about that, of course, I mean that made
Speaker 3: her that strengthened whatever that side. I mean she would
Speaker 3: switch from side to side, but she would talk about
Speaker 3: that being a very specific feeling of that was strengthened.
Speaker 3: Especially as the kids grow from you know, eight pounds
Speaker 3: up to.
Speaker 2: Eighty pounds. I don't know when to stop it crazy
Speaker 2: whatever they grow to. I don't know how big number
Speaker 2: one in number too, I know which one was.
Speaker 7: Impressed me too, that my wife could literally carry a
Speaker 7: child like a toddler around all day at like a
Speaker 7: theme park. Right, But when it comes to taking four
Speaker 7: or five bags of groceries, can you get these big guys.
Speaker 2: This is not a ruffles counseling.
Speaker 1: This is not why I'm not even gonna look at
Speaker 1: you for the rest of the overdone.
Speaker 2: I thought we had some time here.
Speaker 6: Can we unpack what I just said? Do I need?
Speaker 2: Not a great idea?
Speaker 3: She done enough, she unloaded two kids, and now you
Speaker 3: want her to unload four or five bags of groceries.
Speaker 7: So many times I defend you with her, and now
Speaker 7: you're gonna jump on the bandwagon.
Speaker 4: She wants to be safe too.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to protect you. See this, I'm helping you.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna go next door and start my apology tour
Speaker 7: the world, but especially my wife. I wasn't saying it
Speaker 7: was bad. I just was like, it was interesting to me.
Speaker 6: Why is that the kids?
Speaker 1: She carried the kids, and she carried the kids on
Speaker 1: her hip.
Speaker 4: She my grocery shop.
Speaker 2: I'm sure this doesn't argument.
Speaker 6: But I about to breastfeed.
Speaker 3: Okay, you've taught her to. I'm sure she would find
Speaker 3: that interesting. Also, let's get her on the horn.
Speaker 1: Let's care also an awful idea I never want to
Speaker 1: hear I taught my wife how to breastfeed.
Speaker 6: Again, well, I had a good run.
Speaker 4: You can see why that.
Speaker 3: I do think you have a good sitcom pitch. Justin Worsham,
Speaker 3: the world's first male lactation consultant.
Speaker 2: I could see.
Speaker 4: That coming up.
Speaker 7: No, WB, everybody's going to use that talkback feature right now,
Speaker 7: and you're gonna get blown up on how many people,
Speaker 7: how many guys know how.
Speaker 4: To teach ala? I have never done that.
Speaker 1: I know, I just did a child, But in my head,
Speaker 1: I can't think of anything that would be more infuriating
Speaker 1: than than my husband telling me how to make that
Speaker 1: s work.
Speaker 4: And I almost said the real word like.
Speaker 1: That to me sounds like the worst version of calm
Speaker 1: down I've.
Speaker 3: Ever heard you do it. That is actual weaponized mansplain.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the onion was to write an article about man splaining.
Speaker 7: They would use my life example.
Speaker 1: That'll land on a dateline with Keith Morrison talking about
Speaker 1: your life.
Speaker 7: This is why she is my soulmate because she found
Speaker 7: it amusing. That's like she doesn't look at this.
Speaker 4: It's like you'd have to.
Speaker 6: I'm never coming back here again.
Speaker 4: You know we love you.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 6: That's why it makes it so Inferiod.
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