WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:05.360 A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on 3 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:07.200 demand on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:09.480 We asked you, what is that smell? 5 00:00:09.880 --> 00:00:13.480 LA Times did at least asking readers the sense that 6 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:15.519 remind them of Los Angeles? 7 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:16.960 And I thought, why. 8 00:00:16.719 --> 00:00:19.280 Would you open up such a Pandora's box of what 9 00:00:19.839 --> 00:00:23.399 is certain to be all nakeadive a lot of negative, 10 00:00:24.239 --> 00:00:27.719 but they stuck with the positive. The first example they 11 00:00:27.719 --> 00:00:31.359 gave was magnificent magnolias and wistful with steria. 12 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:37.320 I mean, right, there are scents and aromas that remind 13 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:37.920 me of spring. 14 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:42.560 I've never walked through LA and been like, smell those flowers. 15 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:45.799 The neighbors and the neighbors. Yeah, the neighbor's honeysuckle. Sure, 16 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:48.600 But then once I leave my backyard, I don't smell that. 17 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:53.240 You're also outside of LA as well, So you want 18 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:55.880 smell honeysuckle at third in spring? 19 00:00:57.240 --> 00:01:01.359 I don't. Nature park right across the street. All you 20 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:02.280 smell is nothing. 21 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:07.359 You you go hard against the Burbank Nature Park? 22 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:09.519 What is it with that nature park? What do you 23 00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:12.040 have against it? It's just such a fiasco. Who in 24 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:15.000 the fiasco who in Burbank City Hall was like, you 25 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:17.280 know what, we need nature in the middle of this 26 00:01:17.319 --> 00:01:20.560 little triangle patch of land. We should not develop it. 27 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:23.680 We shouldn't put anything on there. We shouldn't put it parking. 28 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:30.159 Not even parking. We're just gonna have wood chips over 29 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:32.799 what amounts to about a city block. So people don't 30 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:35.760 go there walk their dogs. That's the thing is people 31 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:38.200 from that apartment take their dogs over there, and there's 32 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:43.840 just probably seven acres of crap all over it. You 33 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:46.560 could you could turn this into action. 34 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:49.079 I'm sure you could go down to the Burbank City 35 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:51.719 Council and say, hey, I'd like to be the steward of. 36 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:54.159 The Burbank Nature Park. I want to be a docent, 37 00:01:54.239 --> 00:01:55.519 I want to lead tours. 38 00:01:57.560 --> 00:01:59.560 If you want to enact, if you want change, you 39 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:01.840 should be a factor. You should be the change factor. 40 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:05.640 Buffalo Bill's quarterback Josh Allen won the MVP last night. 41 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:08.000 For him. Good for him. I saw the meme going 42 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:10.639 around that you should get someone to look at you 43 00:02:10.919 --> 00:02:14.080 the way Hayley Steinfeld looks at Josh Allen and it's 44 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:17.960 this beautiful, adoringce. She's they're they're engaged, looks at each 45 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:20.400 other like that. They know. The cameras are on, the 46 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:23.639 lights are on, they're all beautiful. But the response is 47 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:27.000 everybody who's a Bills fan looks at Josh Allen. There's 48 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:32.599 that too. It's Josh Allen exactly. Your wife looks at 49 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:39.000 you that way. It's time for swamp watch. I'm a politician, 50 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:41.319 which means I'm a cheat and a liar, and when 51 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:42.719 I'm not kissing babies. 52 00:02:44.319 --> 00:02:47.599 Got the real problem is that our leaders are done. 53 00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:53.039 The other side never quits. I'm not going anywhere, so 54 00:02:54.719 --> 00:02:57.000 the squad I can imagine what can be and be 55 00:02:57.080 --> 00:02:58.159 unburdened by what has been. 56 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:01.840 You know, amans have always been gone at President, they're 57 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:02.439 not scrupid. 58 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:05.400 A political plunder is when a politician actually tells the truth. 59 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:08.120 Have the people voted for you with not swamp watch. 60 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:11.199 They're all count of knowing. This, I think is arguably 61 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:15.560 the most important executive order that President Trump has talked 62 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:19.199 about in the last two weeks. He wrote on truth 63 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:22.120 Social Today that he's planning to sign an executive order 64 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:26.719 to promote plastic straws after Joe Biden tried to phase 65 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:31.039 out single use plastics from government operations. He wrote on 66 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:34.479 Truth Social I will be signing an executive order next 67 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:38.439 week ending the ridiculous Biden push for paper straws which 68 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:42.520 don't work, and then in all caps, back to plastic. 69 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:45.919 This is like, you know your your grandpa, right. 70 00:03:45.879 --> 00:03:48.719 He's like, and what's with these paper straws. One day 71 00:03:48.759 --> 00:03:51.360 I'm going to become president and I'm gonna make us 72 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:52.840 have plastic. It is true. 73 00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:54.599 I do. I do miss the plastic straws. 74 00:03:54.599 --> 00:03:57.360 When I do have a paper straw, I don't like 75 00:03:57.400 --> 00:03:59.759 that it disintegrates. I don't like that I feel like 76 00:03:59.879 --> 00:04:02.680 I've got to be careful using it. 77 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:06.919 It forces me to drink my bad, my bad drink faster. 78 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:11.240 You're bad drink. I mean, I'm trying to think of 79 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:14.479 the times that I have a juice or something. I 80 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:16.079 don't have it in juice. I have a drink when 81 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:19.800 I'm going through a drive through, let's say a drive shake. 82 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:23.120 You sure, And I got known to put down a milkshake, 83 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:26.160 and I got a pound of milkshake that much faster 84 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:29.680 before my paper straw tocintegratees and you got. 85 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:31.600 To get to a toilet because that's a lot of 86 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:32.600 dairy I have. 87 00:04:33.800 --> 00:04:35.759 I have a problem with dairy the old shoes. Do 88 00:04:35.759 --> 00:04:38.120 you have a problem with dairy? No, you know you 89 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:40.920 can age out a dairy. That was one of the 90 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:42.959 things that one of our callers said earlier this week 91 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:44.680 is there comes a time in a boy's life when 92 00:04:45.480 --> 00:04:47.600 dairy doesn't agree with you anymore interesting. I think you 93 00:04:47.639 --> 00:04:50.680 just get out of the habit of I don't drink milk, so, 94 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:52.800 I mean, I'm a big cheese fan, but I'm not 95 00:04:52.839 --> 00:04:56.120 a milk person, So I guess there. I don't know 96 00:04:56.360 --> 00:04:58.759 what if I had a big, nice glass of milk. 97 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:00.600 Do you need me to bring up a block of 98 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:02.920 cheese on Sunday? Oh? I got plenty of cheese. You do, 99 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:06.600 You got sharp cheddar? You got sharp cheddar. My wife 100 00:05:06.600 --> 00:05:09.720 had a hard time finding the cocktail wieners for the pie. 101 00:05:10.759 --> 00:05:14.279 She did find some, O, thank god. O. Sorry. I 102 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:18.560 didn't realize how many dips have cream cheese in it. 103 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:19.560 Is that a problem? 104 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:20.160 It's not. 105 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:23.399 But I'm going through like I'm gonna make a dip 106 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:27.439 for your party, and too many recipes have cream cheese, 107 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:30.560 and I think that's a blasphemy. I don't think that's right. 108 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:33.839 I like a good onion dip, just a sour cream, 109 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:36.240 an onion and good night Irene. 110 00:05:37.959 --> 00:05:42.079 See hello plumbing. I was my sister in law got some. 111 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:44.279 She said I had a craving for onion dip and 112 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:47.720 we were watching football games over on the holidays. I 113 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:50.959 hadn't had onion dip in a very long time. 114 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:53.879 I think onion dips and cheeseballs are kind of things 115 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:55.879 of the past that should never have been things of 116 00:05:55.920 --> 00:05:57.439 the past. They should never have gone away. 117 00:05:57.720 --> 00:06:00.560 I attacked that it did not know what is coming. 118 00:06:01.800 --> 00:06:06.240 President. President Trump is meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shagero Ishiba. 119 00:06:07.480 --> 00:06:09.920 They will be actually holding a joint news conference here 120 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:12.160 in a few minutes at the White House. The podiums 121 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:15.240 are all set up, reporters are in the room. Japan's 122 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:18.600 Prime minister, they say, is looking to get personal connection 123 00:06:18.680 --> 00:06:21.839 with Trump and to get some reassurance that Japan won't 124 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:24.399 be hit with the tariffs that we've seen other countries 125 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:27.519 hit with or abandon the security guarantees that we have. 126 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:32.319 He the prime minister faces the challenge of navigating these 127 00:06:32.439 --> 00:06:36.000 views that allies take advantage of the United States while 128 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:39.720 they don't actually pay enough for the cost of American 129 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:42.480 Military Assistance. Oh my god, look at there's Tim Kates. 130 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:44.800 He's in the hallway. What's he doing there? He is there, 131 00:06:44.839 --> 00:06:47.360 he is everybody, it's Tim Kates. Well what's he doing? 132 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:48.279 What do you mean what is he doing? 133 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:51.959 He's getting ready for Dodger baseball. He's getting ready for 134 00:06:52.040 --> 00:06:55.319 the next season of writer football, I mean. 135 00:06:56.120 --> 00:07:00.879 Sho hey and catchers. He counts. Report that new guy, 136 00:07:01.759 --> 00:07:02.600 the other new guy. 137 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:05.399 The other new guy. You know, got a lot going on, 138 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:06.399 write Tim Kates. 139 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:13.519 And then the other big, the other big headline out 140 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:18.480 of DC is almost all of the US Agency for 141 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:21.319 International Development employees are going to be off the job. 142 00:07:22.040 --> 00:07:25.480 Employee associations, the unions trying to go to federal courts 143 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:30.439 to roll back this swift dismantling of us AID and 144 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:34.639 much of a bunch of its programs worldwide. All right, 145 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:37.279 how about we adopt a family? Coming up, We're going 146 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:41.480 to adopt a family on Facebook. Okay, we'll explain. Wait, 147 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:43.920 we're going to like, we're not going to Oh, I 148 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:46.600 just mean, we got me real excited. We should not 149 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:50.720 do that. No, nope, let's not shut the door on that. Well, 150 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:52.839 we'll discuss it. Maybe we get a family. 151 00:07:53.800 --> 00:07:57.279 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 152 00:07:57.480 --> 00:07:59.720 AM six forty as. 153 00:08:04.199 --> 00:08:07.920 Yeah, yes, somebody's talking about your Valentine's Day, right. 154 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:12.279 Shannon's monologue about Valentine's Day does not make her sound 155 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:15.560 like a terrible person at all. She is a breath 156 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:19.839 of fresh air. However, she had to go on and 157 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:23.759 on because she is a woman. Everybody expects a woman 158 00:08:23.800 --> 00:08:26.879 who says, don't get me anything to be setting a trap. 159 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:27.639 No, it's not. 160 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:29.920 She had to go on a little bit about it, 161 00:08:30.199 --> 00:08:31.279 so we didn't think that. 162 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:35.600 Yeah, no, no, no, I really really don't. I it is 163 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:38.159 not a trap. I'm too old for traps. Traps are 164 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:39.480 what I would have done twenty years ago. 165 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:42.960 That's a mind thing, right, eight out of that? Come on, 166 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:47.840 what so you don't have anything planned for Valentine's Day? 167 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:51.799 Like there's you know the card. Yeah, I'll get a card. 168 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:54.600 You should say Happy Valentine's Day. I'll write something nice 169 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:59.519 in there. 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There, 193 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:13.759 you're right. 194 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:20.360 Alliteration on the map on the map. Excuse me for 195 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:23.960 a nap for twelve hundred dollars, with dense traffic and 196 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:27.480 no lights, an intersection at Mescal Square can be a 197 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:32.200 mess in this capital of Ethiopia. 198 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:43.120 Oh oh, what is addis Ababa? Holyes, are you serious 199 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:46.679 right now? You heard me? You heard me? How do 200 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:50.360 you know that? Because it's the capital of Ethiopia and 201 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:53.919 it's alliteration. So I got to think of two words 202 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:58.200 that start with the same letter color me impressed my theory. 203 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:00.639 He looks at them before? How am I look at it? 204 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:03.200 You are the ones who have control of them? You 205 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:05.519 you know the chain of customers to see here before 206 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:08.080 I do. Yeah, but Keana, he's such a rule follower. 207 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:11.000 He would never do that. I will. I know enough 208 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:12.679 to know that he would not do it. Give you 209 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:18.919 this Addis Ababa was just in the Agency, that TV 210 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:21.279 show with Michael Fassbender about the CIA. 211 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:24.639 Okay, so, but that's not something that would come up 212 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:28.720 in a show that you would have ready to go 213 00:11:29.399 --> 00:11:32.279 in your brain. You must have had prior exposure to 214 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:36.000 oh something, you must know something. At some point, You 215 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:37.159 learned something. 216 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:41.200 At some point there was learning. You knew that before 217 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:43.840 you heard it in the agency. I don't know if 218 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:46.720 I I did know it before I heard it in 219 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:51.759 the agency, but because it was more recent, it it 220 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:52.399 it was moved. 221 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:54.559 Don't don't make it move to the front of your 222 00:11:55.080 --> 00:11:58.720 don't don't denigrate your intelligence. That's a very impressive thing 223 00:11:58.759 --> 00:11:59.960 to know, and I am impressed. 224 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:01.759 So good for you. Yeah, but you guys still don't 225 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:04.600 I believe that you knew that. And I'm a half 226 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:08.799 week and a cheater. Well you'll have to deal with 227 00:12:08.799 --> 00:12:13.480 that in another day. How do I How do I 228 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:15.200 adopt a family on Facebook? 229 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:15.480 Oh? 230 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:19.960 Right, it's just I just pick people and say you're adopted. Now, 231 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:27.360 let's see here to do? This is quite the lengthy article. 232 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:29.399 How do I get to where I adopt a family? 233 00:12:29.639 --> 00:12:32.080 Did you know twenty seven percent of American adults have 234 00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:33.960 cut off contact with a family member. 235 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:36.320 Yet, you know what, we've actually talked about that bookre 236 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:40.919 we have, uh and it it at times worries me 237 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:45.240 for humanity and at other times at the I guess 238 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:47.600 at this on the flip side of that, I am very, 239 00:12:47.759 --> 00:12:49.759 very lucky to have the family that I have. 240 00:12:51.399 --> 00:12:54.799 Well, there is a Facebook group and it's called Surrogate 241 00:12:55.080 --> 00:12:58.720 Grandparents USA. It's a place where older and younger Americans 242 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:02.519 can connect over a mute need for family, they say. 243 00:13:02.559 --> 00:13:06.039 Many of the posts read like tiny, tragic personal ads. 244 00:13:06.399 --> 00:13:07.279 Here are a few. 245 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:11.240 We want grandparents who want to have pizza nights with us, 246 00:13:11.320 --> 00:13:14.480 attend baseball and basketball games, have ice cream dates, take 247 00:13:14.519 --> 00:13:17.360 bike rides, just generally have fun with us and our boys. 248 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:21.440 Here's another one. My children need more than just me 249 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:25.080 to love them. I can't be their mama, daddy, aunt, uncle, grandma, 250 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:27.919 and grandpa forever. We joke about it, but it's true, 251 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:31.200 and it sits as a pit in my stomach. Here's 252 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:34.240 another from the other side, one lonely grandma. Here I 253 00:13:34.279 --> 00:13:37.919 would love to share affection and attention with a nearby family. 254 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:43.039 Donna Scora is sixty eight. She's a retired paralegal from Florida. 255 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:46.960 She created Surrogate Grandparents USA in twenty fifteen. She says 256 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:49.559 everybody needs some kind of support system emotionally. 257 00:13:49.679 --> 00:13:49.840 Now. 258 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:52.039 Some members of the group of Lost loved Ones, some 259 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:54.840 have never had families of their own. But they say 260 00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:57.559 it's like a refuge for the estranged, and it's not 261 00:13:57.639 --> 00:14:02.919 just a growing problem in the US, but worldwide. The 262 00:14:04.720 --> 00:14:08.639 sounds like be careful sounds That's what I'm reading. As 263 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:10.639 much as I want to say, this is wonderful for 264 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:15.159 people who seek connection and a familial connection in that way. 265 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:18.960 Just be careful because for as many people that want 266 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:21.759 their kids to have more love in their lives, there 267 00:14:21.799 --> 00:14:25.480 are awful criminals like that woman's squatter that took advantage 268 00:14:25.519 --> 00:14:27.600 of the cancer patient and Malibu. 269 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:30.840 Just be careful. I would I think I would do this. 270 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:33.519 I would totally do it. I mean if I don't 271 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:37.320 know if anybody likes us, that's the but I think 272 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:40.440 my wife and I have plenty of goodness. You're also 273 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:44.480 going to have grandkids in like two years, three years, 274 00:14:44.879 --> 00:14:47.759 you know what? On second thought, you're not coming over 275 00:14:47.799 --> 00:14:50.840 on So your kids are in child bearing birthing ages. 276 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:55.320 Birth My son at twenty five is not in a 277 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:59.279 birthing age. I think your daughter's gonna wait for a while. Probably, Yes, 278 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:03.639 they've both they don't want kids. Yeah, oh interesting like ever, 279 00:15:04.440 --> 00:15:05.879 I don't know if they'll say ever. 280 00:15:06.039 --> 00:15:09.639 But you know, we should get at some goats. She's 281 00:15:09.639 --> 00:15:12.600 get a family of goats. Those are kids, right right? 282 00:15:13.480 --> 00:15:19.600 Smart? You have the backyard. Are you a fan of Shakespeare? Some? 283 00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:22.159 Some it's some of it's pretty dark. 284 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:23.759 Yeah, I like the dark. I was just gonna say 285 00:15:23.759 --> 00:15:25.320 I like the dark stuff Shakespeare. 286 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:28.000 Some of the dramatic stuff is very very dark. This 287 00:15:28.600 --> 00:15:32.360 story pains me. The University of West England has issued 288 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:34.679 trigger warnings for Shakespeare. We'll explain. 289 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:39.360 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 290 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:40.480 AM six forty. 291 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:41.159 Don't worry. 292 00:15:41.159 --> 00:15:43.240 It is Friday, which means we've got a what you 293 00:15:43.320 --> 00:15:45.360 learned this week on the Gary and Shannon Show coming 294 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:47.639 up in the mass of twelve o'clock hour, as well 295 00:15:47.679 --> 00:15:49.759 as the nine news nuggets you need to know. We 296 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:52.919 use need very lightly and with regard to the nuggets, 297 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:55.240 but stories that kind of fell through the cracks and 298 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:57.440 we were covering the news during the week, but we 299 00:15:57.519 --> 00:15:59.639 want to make sure you're loaded with them as you 300 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:00.799 move into your weekend. 301 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:06.159 Good morning, great show, But I'm calling BS on Gary's 302 00:16:06.200 --> 00:16:12.919 answer today, what is that Ethiopia? 303 00:16:13.000 --> 00:16:13.559 I'm sure. 304 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:20.799 How watching I was watching he came up with it. 305 00:16:20.799 --> 00:16:26.480 It was crazy, adis a D D I S And 306 00:16:26.519 --> 00:16:36.600 then I think it's just a B A A. I 307 00:16:36.679 --> 00:16:37.840 think you got it though. 308 00:16:37.879 --> 00:16:43.399 That's impressive, especially California public schools. 309 00:16:43.759 --> 00:16:46.840 Very rare. Was the last class I attended was a 310 00:16:46.919 --> 00:16:52.360 Chico State class yeah, yeah, hey, don't knock it. Why not? 311 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:55.120 This is our half hour of sissy talk. 312 00:16:55.960 --> 00:16:59.480 People that can't handle the messages Starbucks as printing on 313 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:03.279 their cups, people who are freaking out by a happy 314 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:05.920 face or something like that. But we start with our 315 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:12.359 sissy talk with this Shakespeare trigger warning. Beloney drama students 316 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:16.240 now being warned of the suicide between Romeo and Juliet. 317 00:17:16.680 --> 00:17:19.359 There is a University of the West of England that 318 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:21.839 has put more than two hundred trigger warnings on the 319 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:25.960 works of Shakespeare. Warnings for I thought this was kind 320 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:26.480 of funny. 321 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:27.319 As I was. 322 00:17:29.359 --> 00:17:32.480 I've noticed these things coming up more and more when 323 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:34.720 you watch a show that's streaming or you listen to 324 00:17:34.759 --> 00:17:37.599 a podcast or something like that, it's like, listen with care, 325 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:40.680 like there's some dark themes coming up. 326 00:17:40.759 --> 00:17:42.680 Listen with care, or. 327 00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:45.839 You know, just so you know, this is gonna have 328 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:48.720 scenes of violence and drug use and sex, to which 329 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:51.240 I'm like, I wouldn't be watching it if it didn't 330 00:17:51.279 --> 00:17:52.359 have those things. 331 00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:57.920 Now, the one I do understand is the like pulsating 332 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:00.799 lights and things of that pleasure a lot that is 333 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:03.839 a medical real thing. Those I've seen. I have seen 334 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:05.960 those in move I think I saw it in The 335 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:08.559 Avengers maybe something like that, which was the first time 336 00:18:08.599 --> 00:18:11.559 I had ever seen it in a big theater like that. 337 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:16.519 But and we haven't done these trigger warnings. It feels 338 00:18:16.559 --> 00:18:18.680 like there was there was a high time for them, 339 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:22.079 probably I don't know, six seven years ago. It feels 340 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:25.079 like everybody was trying to outdo each other with how 341 00:18:25.160 --> 00:18:28.920 obscure their warning would be. Hey, just so you know, 342 00:18:29.640 --> 00:18:32.759 there's a man, there's a male character in this play 343 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:37.039 whose name is Hamlet, and it could draw some feelings 344 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:40.160 about it. You're a vegan and you hear Hamlet. 345 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:42.400 We don't want you to freak out about that poor 346 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:45.000 pig that lost its life or all the pigs that 347 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:47.480 lose their lives when you think of ham We don't 348 00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:49.720 want you to hear this. We don't want you to 349 00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:52.039 think about the slaughter and the torture of animals. 350 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:57.079 Remember this, Remember the microaggressive chimps. We got a lot 351 00:18:57.079 --> 00:19:00.680 of s for that too. It's fine. The University of 352 00:19:00.680 --> 00:19:06.640 West England has issued warnings for Blood psychological wild in Macbeth. 353 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:10.079 Some people don't like blood. We all bleed, Gary all, 354 00:19:10.119 --> 00:19:14.359 we all Scott's blood. They for the for the play 355 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:20.319 the tempest, They warned of storms and extreme weather. No, no, 356 00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:23.759 I will no, no, I would not. I would never. 357 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:27.640 I would never say that my daughter is afraid of trees. 358 00:19:28.759 --> 00:19:31.480 But my daughter had an event early in her life, 359 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:33.880 in her formative years, where it was windy outside and 360 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:37.440 a tree fell over on her and her her brother 361 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:38.759 had to pull her out of the tree. 362 00:19:38.839 --> 00:19:39.000 Right. 363 00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:41.279 That's very rare, very rare. 364 00:19:41.519 --> 00:19:45.279 Okay for her, I can understand the warning. But for 365 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:49.079 people to be have a trigger warning for weather, that's like, did. 366 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:50.759 You see the sign of the freeway? Did you encounter 367 00:19:50.759 --> 00:19:54.039 any of these signs yesterday and today? Severe weather? Severe 368 00:19:54.559 --> 00:19:55.160 weather weather? 369 00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:58.960 Yeah, it was sprinkling yesterday, fairly today. 370 00:19:58.799 --> 00:20:03.640 Yeah, uh, they said. Two hundred and twenty trigger warnings 371 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:07.400 were added to Shakespeare's works and adaptations on stage and screen, 372 00:20:07.960 --> 00:20:12.200 which included depictions on the BBC and ITV. For Macbeth, 373 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:15.680 for example, where the Scottish general overthrows the king by 374 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:23.240 murdering him, there are warnings four murder, suicide, violence, knives 375 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:26.240 and family trauma. Listen to this one. 376 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:31.240 The University of Nottingham placed warnings on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 377 00:20:31.400 --> 00:20:40.799 over expressions of Christian faith ooh Jesus. 378 00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:45.839 The same university banned the term Anglo Saxon from its 379 00:20:45.880 --> 00:20:49.240 module titles. Professors had to rename a Master's course in 380 00:20:49.319 --> 00:20:53.960 Viking in Anglo Saxon Studies to Viking and Early Medieval 381 00:20:54.000 --> 00:20:58.240 English Studies. It's because they wanted to decolonize the curriculum. 382 00:20:58.279 --> 00:21:01.079 When is that meteor come saying that may or may 383 00:21:01.119 --> 00:21:02.279 not becoming super cool? 384 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:09.000 I think it's until like twenty thirty two December. In 385 00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:12.759 the Pirates of Penzance show that went up on the 386 00:21:12.799 --> 00:21:17.559 English National Opera Stage, theater goers were warned of Pirates, 387 00:21:17.720 --> 00:21:27.519 alcohol misuse. Oh for the love duty Dame Judy Dench 388 00:21:28.759 --> 00:21:33.640 legend when it comes to British theater, said theater goers 389 00:21:33.640 --> 00:21:37.400 who require warnings before performances like that, I should stay 390 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:41.160 at home. Yeah exactly, Judy, exactly. 391 00:21:43.079 --> 00:21:45.759 All right, Yeah, don't go to the theater, you know, 392 00:21:45.880 --> 00:21:50.039 just sit in your you know, your fluffy unicorn land corner. 393 00:21:49.799 --> 00:21:50.759 And enjoy yourself. 394 00:21:52.200 --> 00:21:54.359 I just what I did, ask Amy King, you're stressed 395 00:21:54.359 --> 00:21:56.599 like a Disney princess for the super Bowl party. 396 00:21:56.359 --> 00:21:58.720 Because you need it. Well, she came to me and said, 397 00:21:58.720 --> 00:22:02.519 do you have a tiera? Why Shenon thought I should 398 00:22:02.559 --> 00:22:04.039 wear one, so I said, oh, I think Debora Mark 399 00:22:04.039 --> 00:22:04.799 should wear one too. 400 00:22:05.880 --> 00:22:06.160 I don't. 401 00:22:06.200 --> 00:22:07.920