Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 2: What Nothing, No, No, Were you thinking dirty thoughts?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: I hope not, because this is a family showfusting. If
Speaker 1: you want to be dirty, you got to wait till
Speaker 1: the weekend podcast. Justin Wersham will be coming along. We'll
Speaker 1: be talking parenting like we do on Wednesdays. Research showing
Speaker 1: most considered their data top life mentor how could you
Speaker 1: not good?
Speaker 2: Or bad? How could you not? That's my question. You
Speaker 2: could ask my kids. I don't think they if they
Speaker 2: would say that I am. Of course you are. Yes,
Speaker 2: you can text them both right now and have a reply.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to have a.
Speaker 1: Weird text with your kids I haven't talked to in
Speaker 1: months and be like, do you think you're done?
Speaker 2: You have to say who are your top three life mentors?
Speaker 1: That's a weird text to get randomly out of the
Speaker 1: blue from me.
Speaker 4: I agree, But I'm just saying you could check. Usually
Speaker 4: we talk about other stuff. You could check if you
Speaker 4: wanted to. Anyway, that's coming up with Justin Warson at
Speaker 4: the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 5: Hey, guys. Dave from Santa Clarita, you talk about the
Speaker 5: internet listening to your talking and stuff, it also can
Speaker 5: hear what you're thinking. I'm a banjo player and the
Speaker 5: other day I was thinking to myself, I hadn't heard
Speaker 5: the song, but I was thinking, how if I could
Speaker 5: get the chords and the lyrics to the Eagles song
Speaker 5: Take It Easy, that I could easily figure it out
Speaker 5: of my banjo. Two seconds later, it popped up on
Speaker 5: my Facebook and the lyrics crazy.
Speaker 2: That's God, No, it's not Mark Zuckerberg.
Speaker 5: It's not.
Speaker 1: Sometimes the universe listens and they provide you with the Eagles.
Speaker 2: That's enough.
Speaker 1: Well, we do have Washington News to get to. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: it's time for swamp watch.
Speaker 2: I'm a cheat and alah and such a sour tasty
Speaker 2: here we got. I was trying to take it easy.
Speaker 2: Are done the other side never quit.
Speaker 6: So.
Speaker 2: I'm not going anywhere So that the swap I can
Speaker 2: imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been.
Speaker 5: You knows have always been gone at president, but they're
Speaker 5: not stupid.
Speaker 6: A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the.
Speaker 2: Truth whether people voted for you with mass swamp watch.
Speaker 2: They're all Canada.
Speaker 1: Hey, just a quick heads up locally about a mess
Speaker 1: that is going to be a mess.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: There is a multiple vehicle crash involving a big rig
Speaker 1: that is shut down southbound six oh five essentially just
Speaker 1: north of Washington and the Pico area.
Speaker 2: Uh. That is going to be a mess.
Speaker 4: Of the afternoon, Russian President Vladimir Putin told President Trump
Speaker 4: and a phone call that Russia is obligated to respond
Speaker 4: to the big drone attack on behalf of Ukraine against
Speaker 4: Russian bombers and airfields. There was a conversation, they said.
Speaker 4: It lasted about an hour and fifteen minutes between President
Speaker 4: Trump and President Putin. President Trump took to truth social
Speaker 4: and said that we discussed the attack.
Speaker 2: This is what he wrote.
Speaker 4: We discussed the attack on Russia's docked airplanes, docked airplane
Speaker 4: by Ukraine, and also various other attacks that have been
Speaker 4: taking place by both sides. He said it was a
Speaker 4: good conversation, but not a conversation that will lead to
Speaker 4: immediate peace. He didn't say anything about pressure on from
Speaker 4: the United States or allies against Russia in order to
Speaker 4: try to get them to agree to a cease fire.
Speaker 4: Or anything about what the next steps are. All he
Speaker 4: said was this is not a conversation that will lead
Speaker 4: to immediate peace.
Speaker 1: Well, the hiring freezes the mass layoffs when it comes
Speaker 1: to the federal workforce have obviously been in the headlines
Speaker 1: in the past months.
Speaker 2: But the hiring freeze is scheduled.
Speaker 1: To end on July fifteenth, so the government has begun
Speaker 1: to consider how it will recruit workers moving forward. There
Speaker 1: was a memo from the Office of Personnel Management that
Speaker 1: one of the things that people are going to have
Speaker 1: to do if they want a job in the federal
Speaker 1: government is to write an essay in support of Trump's
Speaker 1: executive orders. It's very North Korea. According to the memo,
Speaker 1: and it is titled the Merit Hiring Plan. It will
Speaker 1: require certain applicants to write four two hundred word essays
Speaker 1: about their work ethics, skills, expertise, commitment to the Constitution,
Speaker 1: and plans to advance the President's executive orders and policy priorities.
Speaker 2: Wow, I have the essay questions.
Speaker 1: If you're curious, fire way number one, how is your
Speaker 1: commitment to the Constitution and the founding principles of the
Speaker 1: United States inspired you to pursue this role.
Speaker 2: Within the federal government. That's fine.
Speaker 1: Number Two, in this role, how would you use your
Speaker 1: skills and experience to improve government efficiency and effectiveness?
Speaker 2: Good? I like that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Number three, how would you help advance the President's executive
Speaker 1: orders and policy priorities in this role? Identify one or
Speaker 1: two relevant executive orders or policy initiatives that are significant
Speaker 1: to you, and how would you implement them if hired?
Speaker 7: Okay?
Speaker 4: But then the fourth one is how has a strong
Speaker 4: workthodic work ethic contributed to professional, academic, or personal achievements.
Speaker 4: Three out of those four questions are perfectly acceptable.
Speaker 1: I don't like the idea that you have to do
Speaker 1: weird hand stuff to get a job in the federal
Speaker 1: government based on whatever administration is in powered. Right, But
Speaker 1: we've all bsked our way through several, if not all,
Speaker 1: essay questions to be okay to do that.
Speaker 2: I suppose the president is the best communicator that we
Speaker 2: have in the White House.
Speaker 5: Ah?
Speaker 2: Who is that?
Speaker 4: Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre. She served
Speaker 4: under two Democratic presidents, both Biden and Obama, and according
Speaker 4: to a new book that she has coming out in
Speaker 4: the fall, she has given up on the Democratic Party her.
Speaker 2: Over every day.
Speaker 1: Every day they trotted her out to pretend what was
Speaker 1: happening wasn't happening, and to put her name and her
Speaker 1: likeness behind it. We said it in real time as
Speaker 1: it was happening. This poor woman.
Speaker 2: Who's just trotted out with lies every day.
Speaker 1: I mean, they all are, to an extent Democrat or
Speaker 1: Republican in the White House. But even more so when
Speaker 1: she was constantly asked about Biden's mental acuity and she
Speaker 1: had to lie and lie like I believe she was
Speaker 1: kept out of the circle of trust.
Speaker 2: I really do. I think there was definite plausible deniability.
Speaker 4: There, because the messaging is better if she doesn't know the.
Speaker 2: Yes, she knew, I mean we all knew.
Speaker 4: The book is called The Independent of Look Inside a
Speaker 4: Broken White House Outside the party lines, and according to
Speaker 4: the publisher, it's going to take readers through the betrayal
Speaker 4: by the Democratic Party that prompted Joe Biden's decision to
Speaker 4: get out of art.
Speaker 2: She should make money off that.
Speaker 4: She is expected to urge all of us to embrace
Speaker 4: life as independence. She says, this is a broken two
Speaker 4: party system. In a hard hitting yet hopeful critique, Karine
Speaker 4: Jean Pierre defines what it means to be part of
Speaker 4: the growing percentage of our fractured electorate that is independent. Now,
Speaker 4: who is she most angry at? Why did she write
Speaker 4: this book outside of the fact that, I mean she
Speaker 4: was in the position and has probably some inside Who
Speaker 4: is she most angry at those leaders in the Democratic
Speaker 4: Party who weren't honest with her or others in the
Speaker 4: party about what was really going on? Or is she
Speaker 4: mad at Joe Biden or she mad at Jill Biden.
Speaker 4: I mean, so she'll she'll make a bestseller list with
Speaker 4: that book just simply because of who she was.
Speaker 2: Gary and Shannon will continue, Do you pee?
Speaker 1: Just in case I got to go right now? I mean,
Speaker 1: you see a bathroom? Why pass it up? I'll tell
Speaker 1: you why that might not be good for you when
Speaker 1: we come back. Hey, it affects us. All stop laughing, like,
Speaker 1: are they really going to Yes, we're really going to
Speaker 1: talk about this. Part of that was for me. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: I didn't hear anything.
Speaker 2: Oh you didn't know.
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Speaker 2: That doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: Well, there is an article in the New York Times
Speaker 1: about going to the bathroom just.
Speaker 2: In case pro voiding. Yes.
Speaker 1: Arianna Smith is a professor of urology at the University
Speaker 1: of Pennsylvania Pearlman School of Medicine. I think of Ariana
Speaker 1: as like a young person's name, like a very young
Speaker 1: person's name.
Speaker 2: We have good friends who named their daughter Ariana, Yes,
Speaker 2: after the Princess Disney princess. Isn't one of the Disney
Speaker 2: princesses named Ariana?
Speaker 4: Isn't snow White Ariana Ariana Aril.
Speaker 2: Yes, he was also a little Mermaid. But I think
Speaker 2: Coriana is the name of it anyway. Uh, She says.
Speaker 1: An occasional just in case bathroom break won't do much harm,
Speaker 1: but doing it several times a day can increase the
Speaker 1: likelihood of bladder issues. You're disrupting the natural feedback loop
Speaker 1: between your bladder and your brain. So if your brain
Speaker 1: doesn't tell you you got a pee and you go pee,
Speaker 1: it's screwing up the relationship between your bladder and your brain.
Speaker 1: Early this morning, I was dreaming, and I was dreaming
Speaker 1: that I was peeing in the dream.
Speaker 2: That's never a good idea and I woke up and
Speaker 2: this is probably like two in the morning.
Speaker 1: I woke up and I was like, whoa, I was
Speaker 1: just dreaming I was peeing. And I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: dumb ass, it's probably a sign you got a pee
Speaker 1: on't you go pee?
Speaker 2: So I did? You got up though? Yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: well this is good, this is real.
Speaker 1: I feel like this, but like I was seriously worried
Speaker 1: for a moment there after I woke up.
Speaker 2: I peed the bed.
Speaker 1: After I was My problem is I was and I'm
Speaker 1: not drinking, you know what I mean. Like I was like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: have I approached the time in life where I've peed
Speaker 1: the bed completely sober? Because I dreamt I was peeing,
Speaker 1: Like that was a real.
Speaker 4: Concern mine are always if I do have what would
Speaker 4: they call it urgency whatever. If I feel like I
Speaker 4: got to pee in the middle of the night and
Speaker 4: I'm in that deep one of those deeper sleep cycles, yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't immediately get up.
Speaker 2: I have the dream that I can find the bathroom. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you can't. But it's awful, right.
Speaker 4: Like it's there's like six inches worth of liquid on
Speaker 4: the floor, or it's dirty, or it's.
Speaker 1: Like there's somebody wild to me because you can pee anywhere,
Speaker 1: you don't need a toilet. No, I mean none of
Speaker 1: us really need a toilet. You need a toilet, but
Speaker 1: you really can just whip it out and go anywhere.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming, right.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but a gosh, there's such a fear there
Speaker 1: that exists, just why you know, right before I go
Speaker 1: to bed, always be you don't want to wake up
Speaker 1: with that.
Speaker 4: Dream of It's pretty common though, is it the idea
Speaker 4: of like, hey, just before I go to bed.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get whatever's left in there, get it out
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 1: But a lot of people they pass the bathroom, especially traveling.
Speaker 1: If you're traveling, you never know where you're going to
Speaker 1: see another pisser, right, Can.
Speaker 2: I say that? I don't anyway?
Speaker 1: You use it if you see one in the airport
Speaker 1: or whatever, if there's one in the restaurant, even if
Speaker 1: you have to go or not go, use it because
Speaker 1: it's there.
Speaker 4: Is that what your mom always told you? I don't
Speaker 4: care if you have to go or not go. Maybe, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I've never said that. I don't think I've ever said that,
Speaker 4: And I know I'm not a big.
Speaker 2: True you're gonna end up pissing the bed. No, I'm
Speaker 2: in fact, it's funny.
Speaker 4: Conway has been playing this promo for Conway about going
Speaker 4: if you go to the bathroom on the airplane, there's
Speaker 4: an urgency there.
Speaker 2: There's got to be, because those places are disgusting. I
Speaker 2: do not got and I will.
Speaker 4: I will plan fluids days ahead so that I do
Speaker 4: not have to use an airport bathroom.
Speaker 2: And I'm not trying. I mean, I'm flying.
Speaker 4: What's the most the longest flight I had back in September,
Speaker 4: I went to Nashville.
Speaker 2: That's what three hours? I can I will, I will
Speaker 2: hold it.
Speaker 1: Man. One of the fun things about working with the
Speaker 1: with the Chargers is sharing an airplane bathroom with a
Speaker 1: football team. A really peak dehydration is what you're aiming for.
Speaker 2: Uh okay, you're cutting weight like you're a high school rush.
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Speaker 4: show any signs of that toxic demoic acid bloom, so
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Speaker 1: So Trump and Putin allegedly talked. Trump says that Putin
Speaker 1: told him very strongly in a phone call today that
Speaker 1: he will respond to Ukraine's weekend drone attack on Russian airfields.
Speaker 1: As this deadlock over the war drags on, Trump said
Speaker 1: in a social media post that his lengthy call with
Speaker 1: Putin was a good conversation, but not a conversation that
Speaker 1: will lead to immediate peace. This was following the whole
Speaker 1: two week proclamation that was made last week.
Speaker 2: If I'm not mistaken, yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 1: More importantly, Justin Worsham.
Speaker 6: Who cares about all this real politics and acid blooms.
Speaker 4: Get out of his side note Curveball. Oh, his father's
Speaker 4: theyre going to be weird for us. Do you consider
Speaker 4: father's they weird?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Oh, because there's all three of us lost our dads. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I for me, I've chosen. I could I could tell
Speaker 6: sublimately because until you said that, I have purposely not
Speaker 6: like you know how like Freud says, there are no mistakes, right.
Speaker 2: I think I've purposely chose not to think about.
Speaker 6: It dad, So that's yeah, but it's yeah, it's it
Speaker 6: is different. And to add to it, my dad at
Speaker 6: the cabin community he lived in, they he found out
Speaker 6: that like forty some odd years ago they used to
Speaker 6: do this fishing tournament on Father's Day weekend for kids,
Speaker 6: and he thought that was a cool idea, Like he
Speaker 6: found old photos of it from like forever ago, and
Speaker 6: so he was like, I want to bring this back.
Speaker 6: So he purposely got on the ho a board started
Speaker 6: the saying my family would run it every year and
Speaker 6: they're naming it after him.
Speaker 2: Oh wow? Are they doing it on Father's Day?
Speaker 6: On father It's on Father's Day every year, and so
Speaker 6: on this Father's Day, I will be hosting a raffle
Speaker 6: that I used to co host with my dad, wearing
Speaker 6: a T shirt that says the Jesse Warship.
Speaker 2: Fishing God, you are going to be I'm going to
Speaker 2: be a mask. Can you imagine? I have got it?
Speaker 2: Just ugly cry like the winner.
Speaker 7: This is the court hoole boards take at number two
Speaker 7: six zero one nine three.
Speaker 2: That's two six zero one. Can I give you a
Speaker 2: bceetn't ask for yes. I don't know what's ever stopped
Speaker 2: you before. This is true, but at least I'm asking.
Speaker 2: I don't think that counts, but go for it.
Speaker 6: I mean, consider the time that you've given on solicited
Speaker 6: advice in these segments to me, sometimes hurtful.
Speaker 2: I just don't think.
Speaker 6: No, no, she did it. She did it, did Gary,
Speaker 6: she did it. Now she's got me begging for it.
Speaker 6: Now she's good, she's got me begging for the.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say that to keep it together.
Speaker 2: Imagine your dad's there.
Speaker 4: I don't think my looking like the green ghost at
Speaker 4: the end of Return of the Jedi when you've got.
Speaker 2: But it's still living.
Speaker 1: He's still there. Like you wouldn't cry like that in
Speaker 1: front of your dad.
Speaker 6: Oh no, I would wrong. That's the advice and how
Speaker 6: it ends on the show. That's answer.
Speaker 4: There's a new survey that says a lot of kids
Speaker 4: believe that their dad is their top life mentor. Most
Speaker 4: for those who grew up with a dad, seventy percent
Speaker 4: said there was one of their greatest mentors in life.
Speaker 2: How could it not be?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 1: And I say the same thing for moms as well,
Speaker 1: how could your parents not be a top life mentor.
Speaker 1: You're raised in the house, you think this is the
Speaker 1: way some things are for some people have awful parents, Yes,
Speaker 1: but still mentor is not. I mean you're looking to
Speaker 1: your parents as an example of how to live good
Speaker 1: or bad.
Speaker 4: Well, there's I think maybe the difference would be top
Speaker 4: influence in your life versus mentor mentor I meet somebody
Speaker 4: that you'd want to Yeah.
Speaker 2: You're right.
Speaker 6: They also what I hear mentor is is also a
Speaker 6: person who gives you that life advice, like they guide you.
Speaker 6: And to me, this is I could only speak from
Speaker 6: my perspective, is that I believe my dad's secret power
Speaker 6: was this, Like he was the one of the This
Speaker 6: is going to sound so dumb and maybe I will
Speaker 6: cry and I'm sorry, But the most cliche, like the
Speaker 6: poetic thing he ever said to me was I was
Speaker 6: in Alabama and I was having a rough week doing
Speaker 6: stand up and I had called him to just kind
Speaker 6: of vent and he gave me this advice. He said, Listen,
Speaker 6: I've seen you do shows where if one little thing
Speaker 6: like isn't to your liking or doesn't go the way
Speaker 6: you think it will go. He said, you kind of
Speaker 6: just you lose it, like you kind of start to
Speaker 6: fall apart. He said, just go up there and have
Speaker 6: fun and that's all you need to do, and that's
Speaker 6: normal advice. And then he ended it was saying there
Speaker 6: is greatness in you don't get in its way.
Speaker 2: And I was like, Star Wars, right, he's got to
Speaker 2: be like Anakin Skywalker and I'm kind of like, yeah.
Speaker 5: But let me ask you.
Speaker 2: I mean, they very similar.
Speaker 4: They give some examples in this. In this survey cup On,
Speaker 4: one person said the most rogue thing my father has
Speaker 4: ever done for me was during Hurricane Harvey, trudged through
Speaker 4: the waters to come and get me. Another one said
Speaker 4: he stopped working. Never did any He stopped working and
Speaker 4: took care of me when I had a car act.
Speaker 2: Some of us are morning differently. My dad taught.
Speaker 1: Me about money and keeping it and being smart with
Speaker 1: it and if you don't know what you're doing, hire
Speaker 1: someone who knows what they're doing and save it and
Speaker 1: those and I think that that is one of the
Speaker 1: most valuable lessons because everybody needs it. I mean, I
Speaker 1: love the Star Wars stuff, and it's true, and everyone
Speaker 1: has greatness, not everyone. You have your own brand of greatness.
Speaker 1: I don't want to take away from your greatness. I
Speaker 1: think you look to dad's for that kind of like structure.
Speaker 1: You know, you can even throw in like a military
Speaker 1: vibe to it, of routine and structure that that is
Speaker 1: important for anybody to live their life.
Speaker 4: Expectation throw that word in there too. Yeah, I think
Speaker 4: not that moms don't have expectations, but that it might
Speaker 4: be received differently from the father.
Speaker 6: The thing, the thing that I'm most proud of so
Speaker 6: far in being a father is that both my kids
Speaker 6: both made this kind of comment about I made the
Speaker 6: joke about whenever they want something, they always go to
Speaker 6: their mother, and they both said, well, it's because you're
Speaker 6: more likely to say no. And then my older son said, well, yeah,
Speaker 6: like you talked to mom about stuff, but if you
Speaker 6: need like real life advice, you go to dad. And
Speaker 6: then my younger son was like yeah, yeah, yeah, And
Speaker 6: I almost cried right there. I was like, to me,
Speaker 6: that was like mission accomplished. That's I feel for me.
Speaker 6: I feel like I've always tried to be the father
Speaker 6: that my father was to me, and to be that
Speaker 6: mentor to be somebody that because my dad knew stuff.
Speaker 6: My dad had no performance background whatsoever, but gave me
Speaker 6: so much life advice. When I told him I wanted
Speaker 6: to be a performer. About money, he said, you're not
Speaker 6: going to know when your next paycheck is going to be,
Speaker 6: so your thing in life is going to be about
Speaker 6: minimizing your nut and keeping your expenses low so that
Speaker 6: you can be mobile and fluid. That's exactly what he
Speaker 6: told me when I was seventeen years old, and I said,
Speaker 6: I wanted to be an actor like that, and he
Speaker 6: was right to and a thing that he had no
Speaker 6: clue about what he was.
Speaker 1: Talking about, And what great advice other that he gave you,
Speaker 1: because it's much easier to say, get a real job.
Speaker 6: Exactly exactly, which was also, I think, kind of what
Speaker 6: I would have expected from him.
Speaker 2: But he was not. He was not like that. He
Speaker 2: also said this.
Speaker 6: I interviewed him on the podcast one time, and I
Speaker 6: was like more of a stay at home dad, and
Speaker 6: I often thought that he kind of thought that that
Speaker 6: was silly or looked down on it. And when I
Speaker 6: talked to him about it, he said, he goes no, Honestly,
Speaker 6: I envy it, he goes. I grew up in a
Speaker 6: time where as a husband, you were expected to just
Speaker 6: go or make money, like that was your job.
Speaker 2: He goes.
Speaker 6: You live at a time if you liked it or not,
Speaker 6: exactly that was what you did.
Speaker 2: He goes.
Speaker 6: You live in a time where you're as a couple
Speaker 6: you can decide what are your strengths, and as a couple,
Speaker 6: as a teen, you could decide who's going to be
Speaker 6: the best person to do this job. He goes, I
Speaker 6: would have loved to just been home with the kids,
Speaker 6: like with you and even my stepbrother and stepsister, Like,
Speaker 6: how was that a shock to you? It was very
Speaker 6: much a shock. It was.
Speaker 2: It was. It was a big time shock.
Speaker 6: And I'm sorry if I'm making this all about me,
Speaker 6: but I think it's in the same vein of what
Speaker 6: we're talking about in this survey is that even my grandfather,
Speaker 6: who did not graduate high school, barely finished middle school,
Speaker 6: was born in the Great Depression, and we were I
Speaker 6: did this Father's Day episode of the podcast where I
Speaker 6: was my grandfather, my dad, and me all talking about
Speaker 6: our experiences as Dad's and my grandfather, who was just
Speaker 6: this like stereotypical redneck character from Bonanza, like even went
Speaker 6: to high school.
Speaker 2: With ass from Bonanza.
Speaker 7: My grandfather Kelly, and so he you're so funny. So anyway,
Speaker 7: he said, he goes, I said, what do you think
Speaker 7: about parentsing today?
Speaker 6: And I just threw out just this lame question. And
Speaker 6: my grandfather again not educated anything. He goes, I don't
Speaker 6: know how people today can raise their kids. When I
Speaker 6: grew up, we were on a farm and I didn't
Speaker 6: know what my neighbors had or what they did, he goes.
Speaker 6: Every child is constantly hit with what somebody else has
Speaker 6: and constantly confronted with a life that they want that
Speaker 6: could be better than theirs. And he's like, I don't
Speaker 6: like he's breaking down media theory. Yeah, and he doesn't
Speaker 6: even have a high school diploma. Like, again, there's just
Speaker 6: this benefit that I think hopefully a lot of us
Speaker 6: And it seems like most of us get to have
Speaker 6: as these guys that are wise in our life beyond
Speaker 6: what you would expect them to be.
Speaker 2: And I don't know why that is. It's interesting part
Speaker 2: of its life experience. Sure you know.
Speaker 4: All right, why parents are asking kids to help plan trips.
Speaker 4: This is an awful idea.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from kfi
Speaker 3: Am six forty.
Speaker 4: Visit Anaheim commissioned to study, then asked about letting kids
Speaker 4: help plan vacation.
Speaker 6: I like it when I can predict you. Because I
Speaker 6: saw this and I was like, oh, this seems like fun.
Speaker 6: And then as soon as I thought that, in my head,
Speaker 6: I'm like, I bet Gary's.
Speaker 2: Gonna hate this. Gary's house.
Speaker 1: Kids are lucky they have air to breathe right before
Speaker 1: they are nineteen eighty day, And I love I would
Speaker 1: have been the same freaking way I would have treated
Speaker 1: my house like it was a prison.
Speaker 2: I think I am pretty much the same way too.
Speaker 6: But the I don't something about the vacation idea because
Speaker 6: and maybe it's because I'm I'm in the teenage quagmire
Speaker 6: where my kids aren't jerks when we go on vacation.
Speaker 6: But I just thought, I imagine this is born from
Speaker 6: the idea that when you take a teenager just.
Speaker 2: Like oh, I'm just sitting.
Speaker 6: There there on their phone, if you let them have
Speaker 6: a buy in or some kind of steak in it,
Speaker 6: then maybe see.
Speaker 1: Them like, this is your money, you're the one who
Speaker 1: works for it.
Speaker 4: They're lucky that they get to tell Well, I will
Speaker 4: say this in terms of in terms of planning of it.
Speaker 1: Even say, when you take us to the casino, I'm
Speaker 1: savvy enough.
Speaker 2: I'm savvy enough to know stay on the walkway.
Speaker 4: I'm going to plan where we go, right, but I'm
Speaker 4: going to do it in a way that i'm I'm
Speaker 4: I'm conscious of. There's got to be something for them
Speaker 4: to enjoy. For example, people who take kids to Vegas
Speaker 4: I think should be arrested and thrown in jail for
Speaker 4: multiple presidential terms.
Speaker 2: Like she just said, this is my.
Speaker 1: Parents would take us to Tahoe and my dad is
Speaker 1: again I would like to gamble, and my brother and
Speaker 1: I we would just go to the arcade, you know,
Speaker 1: but yes, stay on the walk.
Speaker 6: That's how that's how popular it was to take kids
Speaker 6: to casinos.
Speaker 2: It's like a gym.
Speaker 1: It didn't even occur to me as a child that
Speaker 1: I would ever have any say in any sort of
Speaker 1: vacation Like that's so ridiculous.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't take a kid also to Mexico, although I
Speaker 4: say that now, I took an eighteen month old on
Speaker 4: a cruise there, which is a huge city.
Speaker 2: Get a tattoo, No, but he got dysentery. Everyone. But
Speaker 2: if you go to a place.
Speaker 4: You got to have something for them to do, right,
Speaker 4: and even a cruise ship can be kind of a
Speaker 4: hit and miss thing because some of them have they
Speaker 4: all have it now, it's but.
Speaker 6: To support your point, a lot of them said things
Speaker 6: that they would like to do on their vacation to
Speaker 6: be like meet a celebrity.
Speaker 2: Which I was like, that's not.
Speaker 6: Like most of the were like, and then higher percentages
Speaker 6: were like they wanted to go to an amusement park
Speaker 6: or the beach, you know what I mean. Like, it
Speaker 6: seems like very stereotype. If my kid was to like
Speaker 6: my older son, if he was to pick whatever we
Speaker 6: were going to do, he would want to just basically
Speaker 6: do a restaurant tour of whatever city we were in.
Speaker 6: He would want to try if they had a Michelin
Speaker 6: Star restaurant, he would want to try it.
Speaker 2: That's insane.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he should get a job, more jobs.
Speaker 2: Well, no, that's this one doesn't have a job. He's
Speaker 2: a junior. He's a junior going.
Speaker 4: Into so next year, two years from now, you're going
Speaker 4: to start talking about senior trip of some kind.
Speaker 2: Right, I don't know if you do that. I don't
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 6: I do not plan on providing a senior trip. Is
Speaker 6: this a failure to STDs.
Speaker 2: For your kids? Some people do that?
Speaker 4: No, No, not like get that at home in the
Speaker 4: South Padre Island. I mean like as a as a family,
Speaker 4: you guys would go to a place of his choosing. Oh,
Speaker 4: like we take a vacation because he graduated high school,
Speaker 4: which I mean is not a giant. It's not like
Speaker 4: he got a promotion to the C suite or anything.
Speaker 6: But to me, I feel like you did what you
Speaker 6: should have done like that. Yeah, I don't know, Maybe
Speaker 6: that makes me a jerk, but I remember.
Speaker 1: Extravagant college and my mom and dad, but I think
Speaker 1: was served by my mom paid for a trip for
Speaker 1: me to go to Hawaii with a girlfriend, and I
Speaker 1: remember being flabbergasted by that, like you're doing what like
Speaker 1: and that was graduating college, you know, twenty two years
Speaker 1: old if you were.
Speaker 6: Taking aback because it's like, wow, you're on.
Speaker 2: The trip, going, am I going to come home?
Speaker 6: And they're gonna go, great, here's all your stuff in
Speaker 6: the garage, there's a U haul.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean that happened too, but still, you know,
Speaker 1: it was really nice.
Speaker 2: As they drive As she drives, away there, just wife
Speaker 2: and there.
Speaker 1: I think it would be a fun exercise to ask
Speaker 1: your kids what they would do if they could plan
Speaker 1: their own vacation. That's a fun little dinner time exercise,
Speaker 1: but it's actually doing the thing that.
Speaker 2: They're not tethered to. Is reality worse?
Speaker 6: Yeah, like you gave him a ram of hope only
Speaker 6: so you could take it away from them.
Speaker 2: No children, before you go, why quick question?
Speaker 4: By the way, you said that your grandfather went to
Speaker 4: high school Dan Blocker, the guy who played Sanza Bonanza.
Speaker 4: Do you know how old he was when he died?
Speaker 4: Dan Blocker sixty two? Probably forty three? Who Dan Blocker
Speaker 4: was forty three when he died in the early seventies.
Speaker 4: I just in hit my mind that guy was in
Speaker 4: his sixties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I went on that show. When you said that,
Speaker 2: I thought, well, it had to be on the show.
Speaker 2: Hard forty three. Yeah, he lived a full life. He
Speaker 2: really did his thing good. We dedicate today's show to
Speaker 2: Dan Blocker. What did he eat? Everything? Clearly butter and steak.
Speaker 2: And he was a four pack of day smoker, probably
Speaker 2: because everybody was yeah the good old you lost.
Speaker 4: Weight, justin don't smoke? Oh all right, I did quit
Speaker 4: and you made it past forty three.
Speaker 6: Congrats to me. I'm gonna go on a trip and
Speaker 6: I'm gonna plan that sucker.
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