Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
Speaker 1: I A M. Six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show
Speaker 1: on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: All right, here we go with this, uh this weekends
Speaker 2: edition of the Weekend Fix you Gary Show already we
Speaker 2: just started, just I know, and we just walked down
Speaker 2: the hallway and producer Keana just said, yeah, it's the
Speaker 2: Weekend Fix.
Speaker 3: Usually do your hair like that on the weekend? Well, fluffy,
Speaker 3: it is flufy.
Speaker 2: You know what I did is I was I was
Speaker 2: doing good mornings, you know, like a like a dead
Speaker 2: lift without weight. But I was blowing my hair while
Speaker 2: blow drawing my hair while I was doing my good morning.
Speaker 3: Is that right?
Speaker 2: That's why it's a little extra eye today, if you
Speaker 2: must know.
Speaker 3: All right, and then we've got show choir at three.
Speaker 4: Show choirs at two, oh got it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, regular choir at three, and then Drama Club at
Speaker 2: three thirty A lot.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you theater.
Speaker 3: You must be exhausted when you get home.
Speaker 4: So one of the questions.
Speaker 2: One of the things that is I think unique about
Speaker 2: our show that's different from other people's shows is that
Speaker 2: we have either known each other for a long time,
Speaker 2: or been geographically adjacent to each other almost wealth your
Speaker 2: entire life, which is it's a weird thing to have
Speaker 2: not actually physically met you until you came to Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: But the previous thirty years we were within a couple
Speaker 2: of miles of each other almost the entire time, you know.
Speaker 3: And when you think about this, it's not that rare.
Speaker 1: I mean John and Ken grew up kind of in
Speaker 1: the same area, right, I guess that's true. I mean
Speaker 1: they started in New Jersey when they were what twenty
Speaker 1: something like that, right, I mean he was from a
Speaker 1: Long Island. John was from New Jersey, I think. But
Speaker 1: I mean it's still on the same coast. But we
Speaker 1: know other people that work in radio where they are
Speaker 1: from the same area.
Speaker 2: It's a small it is a small fraternity, I guess,
Speaker 2: I mean the industry itself.
Speaker 1: But it is fascinating. I think we're special in that
Speaker 1: we never met. We went to So here's how it
Speaker 1: all began. Once upon a time in a land far
Speaker 1: far away, like northern California. There lived you for many,
Speaker 1: many many years before I was even born.
Speaker 4: I was born in very long time ago. Easy.
Speaker 2: I was born in nineteen seventy three in Pedaluma, small town,
Speaker 2: Sonoma County, maybe thirty minutes north of San Francis.
Speaker 3: Were you born in Petaluma?
Speaker 4: In Petaluma Crest Hospital?
Speaker 1: I was going to say, did they have a hospital,
Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to be cute.
Speaker 4: Oh, it wasn't a big I mean they have multiple
Speaker 4: high I give two or.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 2: They had a baby ward, they had a whole baby
Speaker 2: mattornity ward and everything with dad out in the front
Speaker 2: smoking a cigarette.
Speaker 1: Now you know, they don't have a maternity ward in
Speaker 1: Nevado in my hometown anymore because everyone's old.
Speaker 3: No one's making babies.
Speaker 1: Oh really Yeah, if you're going to spit out a baby,
Speaker 1: you gotta go to the city here christ.
Speaker 3: Bridge, they're into morenn.
Speaker 2: The irony about the being born in Hillcrest Hospital is
Speaker 2: it turned into a rest home later in its life.
Speaker 4: Everything.
Speaker 3: It's a rest home up there now.
Speaker 4: And that's where my grandmother was, That's where my dad's
Speaker 4: mother was.
Speaker 1: Is that the grandmother she passed away, whose laundry used
Speaker 1: to pick up every week?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: That was really nice.
Speaker 2: The weird irony or full circle nature of me having
Speaker 2: been born at that hospital and then going and picking
Speaker 2: up her laundry when she was there as a resident
Speaker 2: in this restaurant.
Speaker 1: And then it's going to be even weirder and more
Speaker 1: full circle when he ended up there next fall nice.
Speaker 2: So I'm born in nineteen seventy three, and I go
Speaker 2: to I'm seven years old, and then in nineteen eighty
Speaker 2: another star was born.
Speaker 3: Oh that's so sweet.
Speaker 4: Star fell from the sky.
Speaker 3: Doesn't one of us die in the end of this movie?
Speaker 4: I don't hope not. I hope not. That's don't I
Speaker 4: end it all.
Speaker 3: L accurate? But yes.
Speaker 1: So I grew grew up probably seven eight miles away
Speaker 1: from you, about eight years difference in age, and then
Speaker 1: we lived our lives, and then we both went and
Speaker 1: never met my brother and you. My brothers a year
Speaker 1: or two younger than you, and you both worked at
Speaker 1: the same movie theater around the same time in the
Speaker 1: early nineties.
Speaker 2: They were building a movie theater in my town, but
Speaker 2: to get ready for it, we trained at the theater
Speaker 2: in Nevado, Yeah, which is where he worked.
Speaker 1: And I'm pretty sure you guys were there at the
Speaker 1: same time.
Speaker 3: Had had to be, because.
Speaker 1: When I saw you in that movie theater outfit that
Speaker 1: you still own when you wore it for Halloween.
Speaker 4: One recognize I.
Speaker 3: Did recognize you.
Speaker 1: So anyway, because that was like a time when we
Speaker 1: went to the theater all the time. I would go
Speaker 1: with my parents all the time. Every weekend we'd go
Speaker 1: to see a movie. But anyway, because you got a
Speaker 1: discount too.
Speaker 4: I was just gonna say, because you got it right, my.
Speaker 1: Dad cheps, are you kidding? So he was getting senior
Speaker 1: discounts when he was like forty five. So then we
Speaker 1: go and we both end up going to Chico State,
Speaker 1: which is in northern California. Not crazy, not a crazy coincidence,
Speaker 1: kind of a feeder school for Northern California a lot.
Speaker 2: I had a lot of friends, probably ten twelve people
Speaker 2: from my graduating class, not just my high school, but
Speaker 2: my graduating class ended up going to Chico State.
Speaker 1: Yeah, close by, but far enough from your parents. Do
Speaker 1: you have a little freedom. It was reasonably priced, all
Speaker 1: of the good things and a good school. So we
Speaker 1: both went there, and then we both went to a
Speaker 1: station in Sacramento, which was the nearest big city. And
Speaker 1: I say big using air quotes, but it was a
Speaker 1: big city nearest the school where we both studied.
Speaker 2: Radio appropriate market for somebody who's you know, it's a
Speaker 2: first maybe second job in radio, it's a good place
Speaker 2: to go twenty seven something like that. I was only
Speaker 2: there for I was there from ninety six to ninety eight.
Speaker 2: My wife and I got married in the midst of
Speaker 2: all of that, and then a few months after we
Speaker 2: got married is when I moved to Seattle. So i'd
Speaker 2: only been in I'd only been in Sacramento for a
Speaker 2: couple of years, and then summer of ninety eight is
Speaker 2: when I moved to Seattle.
Speaker 1: So ninety eight is when I graduated high school, went
Speaker 1: to Chico, and I started at KFBK in two thousand
Speaker 1: and one, right and was there for two and a
Speaker 1: half years, and then went to Seattle.
Speaker 2: So I was in Seattle until two I never met
Speaker 2: still never met. But and at this point this is
Speaker 2: one of those things where because we have because we're
Speaker 2: both working on the West Coast, because we know a
Speaker 2: lot of the same people now, just because we've crossed
Speaker 2: paths with the same people in the industry and working
Speaker 2: at the same station at KFBK, I knew who you were.
Speaker 2: I mean, I knew I'd kept in touch with people
Speaker 2: in Sacramento obviously, and they had hired somebody new and
Speaker 2: she also came from Chico State.
Speaker 4: Oh that's weird. That's funny.
Speaker 2: So in two thousand and four is when I leave
Speaker 2: Seattle to come here to La Early in two thousand and.
Speaker 1: Two thousand and four is when I left KFBK and
Speaker 1: I went to Seattle.
Speaker 3: I stay there for a year.
Speaker 1: In two thousand and five, I moved down to KFI
Speaker 1: and you're here.
Speaker 4: So you'd only.
Speaker 1: Been here for a year by the time I got here. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you actually seemed like you had been here forever.
Speaker 4: Because I'm arrogant.
Speaker 1: That's the first time I've ever heard you say that
Speaker 1: that's true in forty five years.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing I've been on this.
Speaker 2: Land when I got here. I mean, some of the
Speaker 2: names that people may recognize.
Speaker 3: I agree, I should say that.
Speaker 4: You don't disagree.
Speaker 3: I said, I don't agree, you don't.
Speaker 4: I don't agree with my arrogance.
Speaker 3: I do not agree with your declaration.
Speaker 2: People like Jessica Rosenthal and Eric Leonard and Jay Lawrence.
Speaker 2: I mean, these names of people that used to work
Speaker 2: here were super great about welcoming me when I got hired,
Speaker 2: and I wanted to turn around to make sure that
Speaker 2: people assumed that I had that as much experience as
Speaker 2: they did when they got hired.
Speaker 3: You were not welcoming from what I remember, but I was.
Speaker 3: You were in the.
Speaker 1: Mornings and I was in the afternoon. I was reporting
Speaker 1: in the afternoon. But you've never been a big talker.
Speaker 1: You've never been like a glad handing BS guy. I
Speaker 1: can say, bullshit guy down the hallway. You've never been
Speaker 1: that guy. But sometimes it can come up, which is
Speaker 1: what plays into the reputation you had. This is not
Speaker 1: new to you. We've talked about this because you had
Speaker 1: the reputation that you were a d remember somebody upstairs
Speaker 1: with the.
Speaker 4: More recently, but that's just because you know it started
Speaker 4: that way.
Speaker 1: You come off like that to people who don't know you. You
Speaker 1: come off as just quiet, quiet, reserve guy, serious guy.
Speaker 1: You don't come across as like, hey, mister fun time guy.
Speaker 4: Am I mister fun turning into a therapy You're.
Speaker 1: You're so fun, so fun, You're so fun. But no, honestly,
Speaker 1: I laugh with you more than anyone. Okay, but but
Speaker 1: when you don't, yes, I laugh at you.
Speaker 3: You're very special.
Speaker 1: But when you don't know you come across as very
Speaker 1: straight leg cotten up like no nonsense, doesn't suffer fools,
Speaker 1: doesn't want to have fun guy.
Speaker 2: But that comes more out of uh again, this is
Speaker 2: a therapy sessue that comes more I think, out of
Speaker 2: being generally shy than anything.
Speaker 1: Right, But it's funny because you're not shy, well situationally
Speaker 1: face situationally shy.
Speaker 3: Okay, I can see that. I can see that interesting.
Speaker 2: But it comes across it and then I try to
Speaker 2: bump up my own self esteem and it comes across
Speaker 2: as arrogance.
Speaker 4: I don't know. See, now you've started it, do you want.
Speaker 3: Somebody else to give you a hug? So somebody else
Speaker 3: in the room give So.
Speaker 4: There were there were instances and it's funny.
Speaker 1: So so we's funny because my lack of self esteem
Speaker 1: comes out as me being an asshole.
Speaker 4: Right, So it's funny. It's a very similar flavor. I
Speaker 4: get it.
Speaker 2: But that that shared kind of parallel history that we've
Speaker 2: had over the course of well forty years basically just
Speaker 2: in terms of location is funny because it's played itself
Speaker 2: out in different instances and people that we know and
Speaker 2: people that we've known, and I don't mean just the
Speaker 2: people that have worked here. I mean that we've been
Speaker 2: friends with or have been acquaintances with that then kind
Speaker 2: of come back into our lives or Hey, do you
Speaker 2: remember this person or do you I mean you set
Speaker 2: a name, you set a name this week of somebody
Speaker 2: that used to work here, and I remember the name right,
Speaker 2: And I couldn't even.
Speaker 4: I couldn't even tell you what they did, what the
Speaker 4: context was. I just remembered the name.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And again that's part of it is because we worked
Speaker 2: opposite sides of the clock basically, So I mean I
Speaker 2: would rarely see you, maybe once twice a week. I'd
Speaker 2: see you when I either stayed later, you came in early,
Speaker 2: or something like that.
Speaker 3: My only interaction with you, and I would listen.
Speaker 1: For it is like if I filed a story in
Speaker 1: the afternoon that you would play in the morning. And
Speaker 1: I was trying and there I did a lot of
Speaker 1: feature stories, and I wanted to hear if you would
Speaker 1: have any sort of reaction, because I remember listening one
Speaker 1: day and I had filed something and you laughed at it,
Speaker 1: like you like the story ended, and you laughed and
Speaker 1: made some sort of comment. I was like, Oh, he's
Speaker 1: not an assle.
Speaker 4: And so I was like, yeah, got me.
Speaker 1: And then I was like, oh, he's a nice guy.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: There was a time so early in the show history
Speaker 2: and our show history, in twenty sixteen, the show had
Speaker 2: been on the air for seven eight months or whatever
Speaker 2: it was, we went to both the Republican and the
Speaker 2: Democratic conventions for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. And the
Speaker 2: the Republican was in Cleveland. The Democrat convention was in Philadelphia,
Speaker 2: and they were I mean right after one another.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was no break in between. We went from.
Speaker 2: Cleveland, turnaround, flew home, got up, turned around, and flew
Speaker 2: to Philly. Like probably not a great travel idea, but
Speaker 2: that's what we did. But there was a there were
Speaker 2: a couple of people that we knew in Philadelphia from
Speaker 2: our time in Sacramento, and it was funny because that
Speaker 2: just the different memories you and I had worked with
Speaker 2: these people at different times and different I can remember,
Speaker 2: I want different memories.
Speaker 3: Remembering the second one.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe I'm conflating them with others definitely one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And it was just funny because of our different memories
Speaker 2: of the.
Speaker 1: Growing up in the same house to siblings exactly. That's
Speaker 1: act different memories, like you remember this person is different
Speaker 1: than I remember this person because I was at a
Speaker 1: different time in my life when I encountered this person.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then and then it's also this this funny thing
Speaker 2: where once we're interacting with that person, we're I'm trying
Speaker 2: not to divert to what I was.
Speaker 3: And really dress like when you go home and you're with.
Speaker 4: Your parents exactly. It was very funny.
Speaker 2: But I think so the full circle thing I think
Speaker 2: about this, the kind of the weirdness about the intertangled
Speaker 2: lives that we've had over the course of twenty plus years,
Speaker 2: forty years. Yeah, is that at your father's memorial?
Speaker 3: Oh Jesus, now we're bringing up dead parents.
Speaker 2: Well, well, there's that. I mean, that's also the full
Speaker 2: circle thing. Like both my parents have passed, and you
Speaker 2: went to both of their funerals. When your father passed
Speaker 2: and we went to his memorial, there was a moment
Speaker 2: where and you had said something we've kind of laughed about.
Speaker 2: You have girlfriends that would probably know some of the
Speaker 2: people that I went to high school with just because
Speaker 2: of the locations, right, and we were standing outside Larkspur.
Speaker 4: Is that where we were.
Speaker 2: We're standing outside Saslito on the patio of this beautiful restaurant,
Speaker 2: and you had introduced me to your friend, and her
Speaker 2: boyfriend is there. They weren't married, right, I don't think
Speaker 2: they're married. Well, Matt, Matt Workman.
Speaker 3: Oh, Candas's boy Yeah, so she.
Speaker 2: Introduced You introduced me to Candace because you're like, this
Speaker 2: is my friend.
Speaker 4: I talk about her all the time.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, it's great to put a name to
Speaker 2: a face or a face to a name. And she says,
Speaker 2: this is my boyfriend, Matt, And I'm looking at Matt
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, I know this guy from somewhere.
Speaker 4: I went to high school with that guy. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: went to high school. I went to high school with
Speaker 4: a guy that's dating one of your friends.
Speaker 1: Well, they've been together over ten years now. I'm basically
Speaker 1: common law married. But she listens to this show every day.
Speaker 1: She works at a pharmacy at CVS, and she makes
Speaker 1: the entire pharmacy listen.
Speaker 3: To this show.
Speaker 4: So sorry for her.
Speaker 3: I know, good thing it's the weekend and they're not listening.
Speaker 2: But we had said for years, oh, I'm sure there's
Speaker 2: some crossover there somewhere, and then and there's Matt, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, that's the this is the mind blowingest, craziest situation.
Speaker 3: So now we've been doing the show for what ten years?
Speaker 4: In October it will be ten years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so what year did this area under my eyes
Speaker 1: start looking like balls? So, like, legit, testicles is what
Speaker 1: I'm dealing with under my eyes, and I just want
Speaker 1: to know when it started and why you didn't say anything,
Speaker 1: because it wasn't overnight.
Speaker 2: But you look at my face, see you every days,
Speaker 2: I see you every day, and you know I'm never
Speaker 2: going to look like.
Speaker 3: You've got balls under your eyes. I'm never going to
Speaker 3: maybe working some freaking cream.
Speaker 4: Little preparation.
Speaker 1: I know you're not into going under the knife, but
Speaker 1: you got testicles under your eyes, Shannon, Like anything, anything
Speaker 1: would have been helpful, because now look the damage is done.
Speaker 3: The balls have started to even sag a little bit.
Speaker 3: They're not even high and tight.
Speaker 4: I told you saggy balls under.
Speaker 3: Your eye, right, that's not the same thing.
Speaker 4: Maybe I was just trying to send you a signal.
Speaker 1: You don't have this problem. You don't have testicles under
Speaker 1: your eyes.
Speaker 4: Well there's a difference between.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there is a difference, isn't there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, are you gonna You're gonna freak out about this,
Speaker 4: aren't you?
Speaker 3: I just don't know why you didn't say something earlier.
Speaker 4: Are you crying? It looks like you're crying, even though
Speaker 4: you're not actually crying. Now if you they're sweating, all right?
Speaker 4: The weekend fixed.
Speaker 2: Every weekend, we're going to be adding a little extra
Speaker 2: to the show that you don't get to hear in
Speaker 2: the other twenty great idea. This is a fantastic idea. Tomorrow,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, not tomorrow. Next week we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about physical ailments that we notice in the other person.
Speaker 3: Where else do you see testicles on your body?
Speaker 4: Always?
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Speaker 3: More, especially if the rating and the review is shiit.
Speaker 2: It does though, it does, it does because what it
Speaker 2: does is those times when we start to feel pretty arrogant,
Speaker 2: like I'm looking at myself. I just go and I
Speaker 2: read the negative reviews.
Speaker 3: But then the kind of idiots were problem.
Speaker 2: It's a it's an evil yo, yo that we live. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but it's better than having.
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