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.
Speaker 2: We asked you, what is that smell?
Speaker 1: LA Times did at least asking readers the sense that
Speaker 1: remind them of Los Angeles?
Speaker 2: And I thought, why.
Speaker 1: Would you open up such a Pandora's box of what
Speaker 1: is certain to be all nakeadive a lot of negative,
Speaker 1: but they stuck with the positive. The first example they
Speaker 1: gave was magnificent magnolias and wistful with steria.
Speaker 2: I mean, right, there are scents and aromas that remind
Speaker 2: me of spring.
Speaker 1: I've never walked through LA and been like, smell those flowers.
Speaker 2: The neighbors and the neighbors. Yeah, the neighbor's honeysuckle. Sure,
Speaker 2: But then once I leave my backyard, I don't smell that.
Speaker 1: You're also outside of LA as well, So you want
Speaker 1: smell honeysuckle at third in spring?
Speaker 2: I don't. Nature park right across the street. All you
Speaker 2: smell is nothing.
Speaker 1: You you go hard against the Burbank Nature Park?
Speaker 2: What is it with that nature park? What do you
Speaker 2: have against it? It's just such a fiasco. Who in
Speaker 2: the fiasco who in Burbank City Hall was like, you
Speaker 2: know what, we need nature in the middle of this
Speaker 2: little triangle patch of land. We should not develop it.
Speaker 2: We shouldn't put anything on there. We shouldn't put it parking.
Speaker 2: Not even parking. We're just gonna have wood chips over
Speaker 2: what amounts to about a city block. So people don't
Speaker 2: go there walk their dogs. That's the thing is people
Speaker 2: from that apartment take their dogs over there, and there's
Speaker 2: just probably seven acres of crap all over it. You
Speaker 2: could you could turn this into action.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you could go down to the Burbank City
Speaker 1: Council and say, hey, I'd like to be the steward of.
Speaker 2: The Burbank Nature Park. I want to be a docent,
Speaker 2: I want to lead tours.
Speaker 1: If you want to enact, if you want change, you
Speaker 1: should be a factor. You should be the change factor.
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's quarterback Josh Allen won the MVP last night.
Speaker 2: For him. Good for him. I saw the meme going
Speaker 2: around that you should get someone to look at you
Speaker 2: the way Hayley Steinfeld looks at Josh Allen and it's
Speaker 2: this beautiful, adoringce. She's they're they're engaged, looks at each
Speaker 2: other like that. They know. The cameras are on, the
Speaker 2: lights are on, they're all beautiful. But the response is
Speaker 2: everybody who's a Bills fan looks at Josh Allen. There's
Speaker 2: that too. It's Josh Allen exactly. Your wife looks at
Speaker 2: you that way. It's time for swamp watch. I'm a politician,
Speaker 2: which means I'm a cheat and a liar, and when
Speaker 2: I'm not kissing babies.
Speaker 3: Got the real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 2: The other side never quits. I'm not going anywhere, so
Speaker 2: the squad I can imagine what can be and be
Speaker 2: unburdened by what has been.
Speaker 3: You know, amans have always been gone at President, they're
Speaker 3: not scrupid.
Speaker 2: A political plunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 2: Have the people voted for you with not swamp watch.
Speaker 2: They're all count of knowing. This, I think is arguably
Speaker 2: the most important executive order that President Trump has talked
Speaker 2: about in the last two weeks. He wrote on truth
Speaker 2: Social Today that he's planning to sign an executive order
Speaker 2: to promote plastic straws after Joe Biden tried to phase
Speaker 2: out single use plastics from government operations. He wrote on
Speaker 2: Truth Social I will be signing an executive order next
Speaker 2: week ending the ridiculous Biden push for paper straws which
Speaker 2: don't work, and then in all caps, back to plastic.
Speaker 2: This is like, you know your your grandpa, right.
Speaker 1: He's like, and what's with these paper straws. One day
Speaker 1: I'm going to become president and I'm gonna make us
Speaker 1: have plastic. It is true.
Speaker 2: I do. I do miss the plastic straws.
Speaker 1: When I do have a paper straw, I don't like
Speaker 1: that it disintegrates. I don't like that I feel like
Speaker 1: I've got to be careful using it.
Speaker 2: It forces me to drink my bad, my bad drink faster.
Speaker 2: You're bad drink. I mean, I'm trying to think of
Speaker 2: the times that I have a juice or something. I
Speaker 2: don't have it in juice. I have a drink when
Speaker 2: I'm going through a drive through, let's say a drive shake.
Speaker 2: You sure, And I got known to put down a milkshake,
Speaker 2: and I got a pound of milkshake that much faster
Speaker 2: before my paper straw tocintegratees and you got.
Speaker 1: To get to a toilet because that's a lot of
Speaker 1: dairy I have.
Speaker 2: I have a problem with dairy the old shoes. Do
Speaker 2: you have a problem with dairy? No, you know you
Speaker 2: can age out a dairy. That was one of the
Speaker 2: things that one of our callers said earlier this week
Speaker 2: is there comes a time in a boy's life when
Speaker 2: dairy doesn't agree with you anymore interesting. I think you
Speaker 2: just get out of the habit of I don't drink milk, so,
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm a big cheese fan, but I'm not
Speaker 2: a milk person, So I guess there. I don't know
Speaker 2: what if I had a big, nice glass of milk.
Speaker 2: Do you need me to bring up a block of
Speaker 2: cheese on Sunday? Oh? I got plenty of cheese. You do,
Speaker 2: You got sharp cheddar? You got sharp cheddar. My wife
Speaker 2: had a hard time finding the cocktail wieners for the pie.
Speaker 2: She did find some, O, thank god. O. Sorry. I
Speaker 2: didn't realize how many dips have cream cheese in it.
Speaker 2: Is that a problem?
Speaker 3: It's not.
Speaker 2: But I'm going through like I'm gonna make a dip
Speaker 2: for your party, and too many recipes have cream cheese,
Speaker 2: and I think that's a blasphemy. I don't think that's right.
Speaker 1: I like a good onion dip, just a sour cream,
Speaker 1: an onion and good night Irene.
Speaker 2: See hello plumbing. I was my sister in law got some.
Speaker 1: She said I had a craving for onion dip and
Speaker 1: we were watching football games over on the holidays. I
Speaker 1: hadn't had onion dip in a very long time.
Speaker 2: I think onion dips and cheeseballs are kind of things
Speaker 2: of the past that should never have been things of
Speaker 2: the past. They should never have gone away.
Speaker 1: I attacked that it did not know what is coming.
Speaker 2: President. President Trump is meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shagero Ishiba.
Speaker 2: They will be actually holding a joint news conference here
Speaker 2: in a few minutes at the White House. The podiums
Speaker 2: are all set up, reporters are in the room. Japan's
Speaker 2: Prime minister, they say, is looking to get personal connection
Speaker 2: with Trump and to get some reassurance that Japan won't
Speaker 2: be hit with the tariffs that we've seen other countries
Speaker 2: hit with or abandon the security guarantees that we have.
Speaker 2: He the prime minister faces the challenge of navigating these
Speaker 2: views that allies take advantage of the United States while
Speaker 2: they don't actually pay enough for the cost of American
Speaker 2: Military Assistance. Oh my god, look at there's Tim Kates.
Speaker 2: He's in the hallway. What's he doing there? He is there,
Speaker 2: he is everybody, it's Tim Kates. Well what's he doing?
Speaker 2: What do you mean what is he doing?
Speaker 1: He's getting ready for Dodger baseball. He's getting ready for
Speaker 1: the next season of writer football, I mean.
Speaker 2: Sho hey and catchers. He counts. Report that new guy,
Speaker 2: the other new guy.
Speaker 1: The other new guy. You know, got a lot going on,
Speaker 1: write Tim Kates.
Speaker 2: And then the other big, the other big headline out
Speaker 2: of DC is almost all of the US Agency for
Speaker 2: International Development employees are going to be off the job.
Speaker 2: Employee associations, the unions trying to go to federal courts
Speaker 2: to roll back this swift dismantling of us AID and
Speaker 2: much of a bunch of its programs worldwide. All right,
Speaker 2: how about we adopt a family? Coming up, We're going
Speaker 2: to adopt a family on Facebook. Okay, we'll explain. Wait,
Speaker 2: we're going to like, we're not going to Oh, I
Speaker 2: just mean, we got me real excited. We should not
Speaker 2: do that. No, nope, let's not shut the door on that. Well,
Speaker 2: we'll discuss it. Maybe we get a family.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 3: AM six forty as.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, somebody's talking about your Valentine's Day, right.
Speaker 4: Shannon's monologue about Valentine's Day does not make her sound
Speaker 4: like a terrible person at all. She is a breath
Speaker 4: of fresh air. However, she had to go on and
Speaker 4: on because she is a woman. Everybody expects a woman
Speaker 4: who says, don't get me anything to be setting a trap.
Speaker 2: No, it's not.
Speaker 4: She had to go on a little bit about it,
Speaker 4: so we didn't think that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, no, I really really don't. I it is
Speaker 1: not a trap. I'm too old for traps. Traps are
Speaker 1: what I would have done twenty years ago.
Speaker 2: That's a mind thing, right, eight out of that? Come on,
Speaker 2: what so you don't have anything planned for Valentine's Day?
Speaker 2: Like there's you know the card. Yeah, I'll get a card.
Speaker 2: You should say Happy Valentine's Day. I'll write something nice
Speaker 2: in there. You get chatchypet to put something in there
Speaker 2: for you, something creative.
Speaker 1: No, I'm a very good writer. I can express my
Speaker 1: my feelings. That's fine, Okay, I wrote you a nice
Speaker 1: birthday card. Once I wrote you guys a nice wedding card.
Speaker 1: Oh really, yeah, where is that?
Speaker 2: Well? Maybe i'll give you this weekend. We have a
Speaker 2: chance for you to win one thousand dollars. Here's how
Speaker 2: you pick it up.
Speaker 3: Now your chance to win one thousand dollars. Just enter
Speaker 3: this nationwide keyword on our website. Credit that's credit C
Speaker 3: R E. D I T. Editor now at KFI AM
Speaker 3: six forty dot com. Slash cash Howard by Sweet James
Speaker 3: Accident Attorneys. If you're hurting an accident. Winning is everything,
Speaker 3: call the winning attorneys at Sweet James one eight hundred
Speaker 3: nine million. That's one eight hundred nine million or sweet
Speaker 3: James dot com.
Speaker 2: Keyword goes on the website. Will do it again an
Speaker 2: hour from now. Give you a chance to win a
Speaker 2: thousand bucks. Would you like your Jeopardy question? That's a
Speaker 2: great idea. Let me turn this thing on.
Speaker 1: You don't need to say everything's a great idea. I
Speaker 1: just took a motren. I'll be fine for four more hours.
Speaker 2: Okay, what's my pin? I like balls one two three? Ah? There,
Speaker 2: you're right.
Speaker 1: Alliteration on the map on the map. Excuse me for
Speaker 1: a nap for twelve hundred dollars, with dense traffic and
Speaker 1: no lights, an intersection at Mescal Square can be a
Speaker 1: mess in this capital of Ethiopia.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, what is addis Ababa? Holyes, are you serious
Speaker 2: right now? You heard me? You heard me? How do
Speaker 2: you know that? Because it's the capital of Ethiopia and
Speaker 2: it's alliteration. So I got to think of two words
Speaker 2: that start with the same letter color me impressed my theory.
Speaker 2: He looks at them before? How am I look at it?
Speaker 2: You are the ones who have control of them? You
Speaker 2: you know the chain of customers to see here before
Speaker 2: I do. Yeah, but Keana, he's such a rule follower.
Speaker 2: He would never do that. I will. I know enough
Speaker 2: to know that he would not do it. Give you
Speaker 2: this Addis Ababa was just in the Agency, that TV
Speaker 2: show with Michael Fassbender about the CIA.
Speaker 1: Okay, so, but that's not something that would come up
Speaker 1: in a show that you would have ready to go
Speaker 1: in your brain. You must have had prior exposure to
Speaker 1: oh something, you must know something. At some point, You
Speaker 1: learned something.
Speaker 2: At some point there was learning. You knew that before
Speaker 2: you heard it in the agency. I don't know if
Speaker 2: I I did know it before I heard it in
Speaker 2: the agency, but because it was more recent, it it
Speaker 2: it was moved.
Speaker 1: Don't don't make it move to the front of your
Speaker 1: don't don't denigrate your intelligence. That's a very impressive thing
Speaker 1: to know, and I am impressed.
Speaker 2: So good for you. Yeah, but you guys still don't
Speaker 2: I believe that you knew that. And I'm a half
Speaker 2: week and a cheater. Well you'll have to deal with
Speaker 2: that in another day. How do I How do I
Speaker 2: adopt a family on Facebook?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Right, it's just I just pick people and say you're adopted. Now,
Speaker 2: let's see here to do? This is quite the lengthy article.
Speaker 2: How do I get to where I adopt a family?
Speaker 1: Did you know twenty seven percent of American adults have
Speaker 1: cut off contact with a family member.
Speaker 2: Yet, you know what, we've actually talked about that bookre
Speaker 2: we have, uh and it it at times worries me
Speaker 2: for humanity and at other times at the I guess
Speaker 2: at this on the flip side of that, I am very,
Speaker 2: very lucky to have the family that I have.
Speaker 1: Well, there is a Facebook group and it's called Surrogate
Speaker 1: Grandparents USA. It's a place where older and younger Americans
Speaker 1: can connect over a mute need for family, they say.
Speaker 1: Many of the posts read like tiny, tragic personal ads.
Speaker 2: Here are a few.
Speaker 1: We want grandparents who want to have pizza nights with us,
Speaker 1: attend baseball and basketball games, have ice cream dates, take
Speaker 1: bike rides, just generally have fun with us and our boys.
Speaker 1: Here's another one. My children need more than just me
Speaker 1: to love them. I can't be their mama, daddy, aunt, uncle, grandma,
Speaker 1: and grandpa forever. We joke about it, but it's true,
Speaker 1: and it sits as a pit in my stomach. Here's
Speaker 1: another from the other side, one lonely grandma. Here I
Speaker 1: would love to share affection and attention with a nearby family.
Speaker 1: Donna Scora is sixty eight. She's a retired paralegal from Florida.
Speaker 1: She created Surrogate Grandparents USA in twenty fifteen. She says
Speaker 1: everybody needs some kind of support system emotionally.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Some members of the group of Lost loved Ones, some
Speaker 1: have never had families of their own. But they say
Speaker 1: it's like a refuge for the estranged, and it's not
Speaker 1: just a growing problem in the US, but worldwide. The
Speaker 1: sounds like be careful sounds That's what I'm reading. As
Speaker 1: much as I want to say, this is wonderful for
Speaker 1: people who seek connection and a familial connection in that way.
Speaker 1: Just be careful because for as many people that want
Speaker 1: their kids to have more love in their lives, there
Speaker 1: are awful criminals like that woman's squatter that took advantage
Speaker 1: of the cancer patient and Malibu.
Speaker 2: Just be careful. I would I think I would do this.
Speaker 2: I would totally do it. I mean if I don't
Speaker 2: know if anybody likes us, that's the but I think
Speaker 2: my wife and I have plenty of goodness. You're also
Speaker 2: going to have grandkids in like two years, three years,
Speaker 2: you know what? On second thought, you're not coming over
Speaker 2: on So your kids are in child bearing birthing ages.
Speaker 2: Birth My son at twenty five is not in a
Speaker 2: birthing age. I think your daughter's gonna wait for a while. Probably, Yes,
Speaker 2: they've both they don't want kids. Yeah, oh interesting like ever,
Speaker 2: I don't know if they'll say ever.
Speaker 1: But you know, we should get at some goats. She's
Speaker 1: get a family of goats. Those are kids, right right?
Speaker 2: Smart? You have the backyard. Are you a fan of Shakespeare? Some?
Speaker 2: Some it's some of it's pretty dark.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like the dark. I was just gonna say
Speaker 1: I like the dark stuff Shakespeare.
Speaker 2: Some of the dramatic stuff is very very dark. This
Speaker 2: story pains me. The University of West England has issued
Speaker 2: trigger warnings for Shakespeare. We'll explain.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 3: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Don't worry.
Speaker 1: It is Friday, which means we've got a what you
Speaker 1: learned this week on the Gary and Shannon Show coming
Speaker 1: up in the mass of twelve o'clock hour, as well
Speaker 1: as the nine news nuggets you need to know. We
Speaker 1: use need very lightly and with regard to the nuggets,
Speaker 1: but stories that kind of fell through the cracks and
Speaker 1: we were covering the news during the week, but we
Speaker 1: want to make sure you're loaded with them as you
Speaker 1: move into your weekend.
Speaker 2: Good morning, great show, But I'm calling BS on Gary's
Speaker 2: answer today, what is that Ethiopia?
Speaker 3: I'm sure.
Speaker 2: How watching I was watching he came up with it.
Speaker 2: It was crazy, adis a D D I S And
Speaker 2: then I think it's just a B A A. I
Speaker 2: think you got it though.
Speaker 1: That's impressive, especially California public schools.
Speaker 2: Very rare. Was the last class I attended was a
Speaker 2: Chico State class yeah, yeah, hey, don't knock it. Why not?
Speaker 2: This is our half hour of sissy talk.
Speaker 1: People that can't handle the messages Starbucks as printing on
Speaker 1: their cups, people who are freaking out by a happy
Speaker 1: face or something like that. But we start with our
Speaker 1: sissy talk with this Shakespeare trigger warning. Beloney drama students
Speaker 1: now being warned of the suicide between Romeo and Juliet.
Speaker 1: There is a University of the West of England that
Speaker 1: has put more than two hundred trigger warnings on the
Speaker 1: works of Shakespeare. Warnings for I thought this was kind
Speaker 1: of funny.
Speaker 2: As I was.
Speaker 1: I've noticed these things coming up more and more when
Speaker 1: you watch a show that's streaming or you listen to
Speaker 1: a podcast or something like that, it's like, listen with care,
Speaker 1: like there's some dark themes coming up.
Speaker 2: Listen with care, or.
Speaker 1: You know, just so you know, this is gonna have
Speaker 1: scenes of violence and drug use and sex, to which
Speaker 1: I'm like, I wouldn't be watching it if it didn't
Speaker 1: have those things.
Speaker 2: Now, the one I do understand is the like pulsating
Speaker 2: lights and things of that pleasure a lot that is
Speaker 2: a medical real thing. Those I've seen. I have seen
Speaker 2: those in move I think I saw it in The
Speaker 2: Avengers maybe something like that, which was the first time
Speaker 2: I had ever seen it in a big theater like that.
Speaker 2: But and we haven't done these trigger warnings. It feels
Speaker 2: like there was there was a high time for them,
Speaker 2: probably I don't know, six seven years ago. It feels
Speaker 2: like everybody was trying to outdo each other with how
Speaker 2: obscure their warning would be. Hey, just so you know,
Speaker 2: there's a man, there's a male character in this play
Speaker 2: whose name is Hamlet, and it could draw some feelings
Speaker 2: about it. You're a vegan and you hear Hamlet.
Speaker 1: We don't want you to freak out about that poor
Speaker 1: pig that lost its life or all the pigs that
Speaker 1: lose their lives when you think of ham We don't
Speaker 1: want you to hear this. We don't want you to
Speaker 1: think about the slaughter and the torture of animals.
Speaker 2: Remember this, Remember the microaggressive chimps. We got a lot
Speaker 2: of s for that too. It's fine. The University of
Speaker 2: West England has issued warnings for Blood psychological wild in Macbeth.
Speaker 2: Some people don't like blood. We all bleed, Gary all,
Speaker 2: we all Scott's blood. They for the for the play
Speaker 2: the tempest, They warned of storms and extreme weather. No, no,
Speaker 2: I will no, no, I would not. I would never.
Speaker 2: I would never say that my daughter is afraid of trees.
Speaker 2: But my daughter had an event early in her life,
Speaker 2: in her formative years, where it was windy outside and
Speaker 2: a tree fell over on her and her her brother
Speaker 2: had to pull her out of the tree.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: That's very rare, very rare.
Speaker 1: Okay for her, I can understand the warning. But for
Speaker 1: people to be have a trigger warning for weather, that's like, did.
Speaker 2: You see the sign of the freeway? Did you encounter
Speaker 2: any of these signs yesterday and today? Severe weather? Severe
Speaker 2: weather weather?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was sprinkling yesterday, fairly today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, they said. Two hundred and twenty trigger warnings
Speaker 2: were added to Shakespeare's works and adaptations on stage and screen,
Speaker 2: which included depictions on the BBC and ITV. For Macbeth,
Speaker 2: for example, where the Scottish general overthrows the king by
Speaker 2: murdering him, there are warnings four murder, suicide, violence, knives
Speaker 2: and family trauma. Listen to this one.
Speaker 1: The University of Nottingham placed warnings on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Speaker 1: over expressions of Christian faith ooh Jesus.
Speaker 2: The same university banned the term Anglo Saxon from its
Speaker 2: module titles. Professors had to rename a Master's course in
Speaker 2: Viking in Anglo Saxon Studies to Viking and Early Medieval
Speaker 2: English Studies. It's because they wanted to decolonize the curriculum.
Speaker 1: When is that meteor come saying that may or may
Speaker 1: not becoming super cool?
Speaker 2: I think it's until like twenty thirty two December. In
Speaker 2: the Pirates of Penzance show that went up on the
Speaker 2: English National Opera Stage, theater goers were warned of Pirates,
Speaker 2: alcohol misuse. Oh for the love duty Dame Judy Dench
Speaker 2: legend when it comes to British theater, said theater goers
Speaker 2: who require warnings before performances like that, I should stay
Speaker 2: at home. Yeah exactly, Judy, exactly.
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, don't go to the theater, you know,
Speaker 1: just sit in your you know, your fluffy unicorn land corner.
Speaker 2: And enjoy yourself.
Speaker 1: I just what I did, ask Amy King, you're stressed
Speaker 1: like a Disney princess for the super Bowl party.
Speaker 2: Because you need it. Well, she came to me and said,
Speaker 2: do you have a tiera? Why Shenon thought I should
Speaker 2: wear one, so I said, oh, I think Debora Mark
Speaker 2: should wear one too.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't see you as a Disney I'm not. I
Speaker 2: see you more like not. Was it dirty? Okay? What
Speaker 2: do you What are you getting at, Shannon?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: No, I just like we like I see Amy as
Speaker 1: this like like yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 2: But you you know she would be the like Halloween
Speaker 2: night there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you'd be like sexy Disney princess.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, all right, so if you want to come
Speaker 2: as sexy, nobody needs to wear a costume. No costume.
Speaker 2: I didn't know it was a costume super Bowl party?
Speaker 2: Costume super Bowl party? Wait? Am I going to get
Speaker 2: in trouble for saying that? Why is there some sort
Speaker 2: of HR department? It's okay, I thought we fired them. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to complain. One female co worker is
Speaker 2: sexier than the other female. I didn't say she was sexier.
Speaker 2: You wanted to see her dressed sexually? Why didn't take
Speaker 2: it that way at all? Somewhere wait till you hear what.
Speaker 2: I asked Gary to dress up as She wanted me
Speaker 2: to wear a cow outfit. So I walked with my
Speaker 2: utters hanging out. Are you still on meds? Yes? I
Speaker 2: saw her popping pills earlier. It was an antibiotics. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's what That's what my aunt used to say too.
Speaker 1: I haven't touched the hard drugs. I've only had the motrin.
Speaker 1: I haven't touched the hard drugs they sent me home with.
Speaker 2: And you thoughtgger warning. I wonder how much I could
Speaker 2: get for selling those. We're going to sell them, all right, Okay, sorry,
Speaker 2: but Starbucks, Starbucks and the messages that they're putting on
Speaker 2: their cups. Now, this is what we talk about. These
Speaker 2: off like I was gonna throw a fastball. You're like, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: we need something's lower than that.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 3: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Recent plane crashes in close calls have people worried about
Speaker 2: the safety of flying. Of course, the mid air collision
Speaker 2: last week and near Washington, d C. Killed sixty seven people.
Speaker 2: That crash in Philadelphia. Now there's a missing plane in
Speaker 2: Alaska that they believe may have gone down. Also a
Speaker 2: plane that clipped a parked plane while it was taxiing
Speaker 2: at the Sea Tac Airport in Seattle, or near Seattle
Speaker 2: glowing review of Flight Risk.
Speaker 1: By the way, my PSA ongoing PSA, the Mark Wahlberg
Speaker 1: movie that Mill gets and directed.
Speaker 2: Do not believe it. It was an awful movie.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a joke the whole time, that
Speaker 1: somebody was going to jump out and say, gotcha, you
Speaker 1: really didn't pay to see this stinking pile of crap
Speaker 1: masquerading a cinema.
Speaker 2: Jeepers, jeepers. I don't think I've ever heard of jeepers before. Okay, okay.
Speaker 2: Under a new Starbucks policy, you customers are going to
Speaker 2: start seeing sharpy scrawled messages on the to go cups
Speaker 2: wishing them a great weekend. People are or simply saying
Speaker 2: something very skeptical. Enjoy these personalized notes, which they began
Speaker 2: rolling out in like January. I'm so it's amazing to
Speaker 2: me that this is a company wide policy. Hey, write
Speaker 2: something nice on the cup.
Speaker 1: They've instructed employees to use their sharpie to write a
Speaker 1: simple affirmation such as you're amazing or hello again.
Speaker 2: That's a little creepy. Is that creepy? Hey? Hot stuff?
Speaker 2: Is that what you want? I would like that?
Speaker 1: No, but I mean you get a coffee cup and
Speaker 1: it says you're amazing.
Speaker 2: I don't know. That's well, not everybody loves this idea.
Speaker 1: Well, if you're a serial killer and you get a
Speaker 1: cup that says you're amazing, doesn't that mean you want
Speaker 1: You're going to go out and kill some more.
Speaker 2: It's just I am amazing, affirming what you already believe
Speaker 2: about yourself, that humanity needs to be culled like a
Speaker 2: like a bird flu chicken population, right the jeepers. One
Speaker 2: other poster on TikTok said that the encouraging messages stopped
Speaker 2: feeling special once they realized everybody corporate policy.
Speaker 1: So people were feeling special by their creepy messages. You
Speaker 1: really thought that they were writing that just for you.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: The baristas have grown resentful towards these affirmations.
Speaker 2: It slowed down the pace.
Speaker 1: It comes off as a forced way to make connections
Speaker 1: with customers, to which I say, do you need a connection?
Speaker 2: Maybe you just come up with an icon that is
Speaker 2: your thing, your you, barista Bob. You want to write
Speaker 2: a happy face, a happy face, or a star, a
Speaker 2: star that a heart with a B in it or
Speaker 2: something like that. Does that mean what a be? Like?
Speaker 2: The letter b or a beat. Name is bob Oh,
Speaker 2: I said, And.
Speaker 1: That sounds like a Valentine to Bob Oh like love Bob,
Speaker 1: Love Like Hey, Shannon, here's your triple mocha. How about
Speaker 1: love Bob. Have a great day.
Speaker 2: I don't know, have a fun day, Have a fun day,
Speaker 2: hope it picks up. Have a zippity dooda day. I
Speaker 2: think looks great. I don't care what anybody says.
Speaker 1: If you're going to Starbucks for an affirmation, that's probably
Speaker 1: an issue.
Speaker 2: Right, I mean, there's nothing wrong with giving somebody a compliment, sure,
Speaker 2: but it should be organic.
Speaker 1: Not sure, it should be a corporate policy exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the idea of it being slowed down. Starbucks is
Speaker 2: going to give additional store hours where needed to account
Speaker 2: for the new task. Now that is also a question
Speaker 2: to me, is how long are you taking to come
Speaker 2: up with what you're going to write on a customer's
Speaker 2: come Well, it.
Speaker 1: Could be the same thing. I mean, I like the
Speaker 1: one that says you're doing amazing. That's a nice affirmation
Speaker 1: to get again, though if it gets in the wrong.
Speaker 2: Hand, listen to me. It's one of those things where
Speaker 2: you come in you have had an awful day. Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's say you are a canal.
Speaker 1: Say you were at the dentist for four hours and
Speaker 1: there was an excavation in your mouth and you smelled
Speaker 1: burning and.
Speaker 2: You can't get the smell out of your nose, and.
Speaker 1: Coltering and soldering and all the things, and it's hell.
Speaker 1: And they tell you you're doing amazing. You do they
Speaker 1: say that, they said that you're doing so great. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm literally just sitting here dying. I'm not doing anything.
Speaker 2: Smell like my own body. Deep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but anyway, that would be nice.
Speaker 2: You're doing amazing, right, But if you're not, that's the
Speaker 2: thing is, it's just going to remind you that you've
Speaker 2: had an awful day. For example, uh, traveling obgyn who
Speaker 2: is delivering triplets and has to like for good, has
Speaker 2: wallet at the hospital and needs to go and needs
Speaker 2: to borrow money at the gas station just to get
Speaker 2: home to data point. I can't believe you bought that.
Speaker 1: All of it's so implausible that in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: I guess was the time that there would be a
Speaker 1: traveler like this is a circus of gynecologists and he's
Speaker 1: traveling and there's triplet. Like if you had a high
Speaker 1: risk pregnancy, I e. Triplets and you lived in freaking
Speaker 1: Laguna Beach or Orange County whatever, that you would have
Speaker 1: some weird guy that can't even pay for gas and
Speaker 1: see me Valley, come deliver your babies like that. He
Speaker 1: would be the guy on call that far away when
Speaker 1: you're in the last trimester. A lot of risk that
Speaker 1: I missed. I didn't even make any babies. You're the
Speaker 1: one who made babies. You should know this.
Speaker 2: I made all kinds of babies all right. By the way,
Speaker 2: some of the Starbucks workers who, according to this, may
Speaker 2: have writers block find inspiration from their peers who were
Speaker 2: sharing examples of their work. For example, there's an S
Speaker 2: right that is on the Starbucks cup and they write
Speaker 2: every sip begins with S or S for Starbucks. That's
Speaker 2: what they're writing as their personal note. That's all.
Speaker 1: It takes too long too, I'm with you with the
Speaker 1: hieroglyphic write a heart or.
Speaker 2: A happy face or go get them or someone. But
Speaker 2: someone's gonna find a fence win the day, five pointed stars,
Speaker 2: the sign of the devil or something like that, and
Speaker 2: they're gonna be upset.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. Satan Satan's on my cup trigger warning.
Speaker 2: I mean it's not You could put a swastika and
Speaker 2: then have to argue it's like, well, it's actually an
Speaker 2: Indian symbol before the hitler's take it over it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, really is that why it's all over your home?
Speaker 2: It's not all over my home. It's just in the altar?
Speaker 2: What jeepers? What am I? Kanye? Now you get me
Speaker 2: in trouble? Well, oh, we have a quick male thing
Speaker 2: to get to when we first come back as well. Okay,
Speaker 2: you miss any part of the show, go back and
Speaker 2: check out the podcast. Go to KFI AM six forty
Speaker 2: dot com, slash Gary and Shannon, or anywhere you find
Speaker 2: your favorite podcast. Find it by typing in Gary and
Speaker 2: Shannon big back right after this. You've been listening to
Speaker 2: the Gary and Shannon Show. You can always hear us
Speaker 2: live on KFI A I'm six forty nine am to
Speaker 2: one pm every Monday through Friday, and anytime on demand
Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio ap