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Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, March twelfth, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Tariff Tuesday has turned into Wild Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Ooh, I like the branding.
Speaker 2: The roller coaster tariff issues that we've been sealing. Saw
Speaker 2: the President threaten to double duties on Canadian steel and
Speaker 2: aluminum to fifty percent. Ontario said that they're going to
Speaker 2: place a surcharge on electricity.
Speaker 4: They took that off. Trump took twenty five percent off.
Speaker 2: But the European Union is now talking about leveling tariffs
Speaker 2: on billions of dollars worth of products like bourbon and
Speaker 2: motorcycles and stuff like that from the United States that
Speaker 2: goes to Europe.
Speaker 1: So I would say new day, new details, but it's
Speaker 1: like new hour, new details when it comes to the
Speaker 1: tariffs and everyone's reaction to it, whether it is Washington,
Speaker 1: Wall Street or other countries. So we'll stay on top
Speaker 1: of that Department of Education being gutted. It looks like
Speaker 1: they're going to cut about half of it. I was
Speaker 1: a little bit surprised at how small, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: the Department of Education is.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what I was going to say. It's only
Speaker 2: about four thousand or plus employees. Yeah, I thought it
Speaker 2: would have been into the ten thousand ish, but yeah,
Speaker 2: about four thou I think they said four thy one
Speaker 2: hundred positions existed in the Department of Education the day
Speaker 2: that Trump was inaugurated, and that about sixteen hundred if
Speaker 2: not more, of those would be cut along with the
Speaker 2: education employees who had already taken the advanced retirement or
Speaker 2: had been you know, let go for whatever reason.
Speaker 1: So more importantly, we have a local national nightmare to address.
Speaker 1: Do we have any local national nightmare music?
Speaker 2: How about an LA band talking about the national nightmare
Speaker 2: that exists?
Speaker 4: Okay, so would this be? Okay?
Speaker 3: Who is this?
Speaker 2: I am ashamed of you and I shall not make
Speaker 2: eye contact with you for the rest of the day.
Speaker 4: What do you mean? Who is this?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: Is this not? Is this not from my generation?
Speaker 2: You could argue that it's not from your generation. But
Speaker 2: if you don't know this song, I'm machined Writers on
Speaker 2: the Storm. It is Writers on the Storm by.
Speaker 1: The guy who is really high all the time?
Speaker 3: Right, But he was in a band dead now he's dead,
Speaker 3: dead dead.
Speaker 4: He was in a band with Raymond Zeric.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think he peed on a crowd at one point,
Speaker 1: keep going and may have electrocuted himself with the uriner separate,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Played by Val Kilmer, right in the.
Speaker 3: Movie Morrison, Jim Morrison, Jim.
Speaker 4: Morrison, and he's buried in France. And what do I
Speaker 4: know so much? The name of the band is.
Speaker 1: The Jim Morrison. Sorry, I'm having a brain fog. It's
Speaker 1: I have seasonal effective.
Speaker 3: Disorder, all right.
Speaker 1: Katla's Casey Montoya joins us. She is not just a meteorologist,
Speaker 1: not that it's just a meteorologist. That is a lot
Speaker 1: of education that you and I could not pomplished. Probably,
Speaker 1: not to be rude to you, I'm sure you could
Speaker 1: if you put your mind to it, but you haven't.
Speaker 1: But Casey is a reporter. She's a journalist. She's fantastic,
Speaker 1: she's award winning. And she joins us now because we
Speaker 1: love Kate's La and we love Casey, and she was
Speaker 1: kind enough to make some time for us.
Speaker 3: Casey, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 5: I'm great. I've been thoroughly entertained listening to you guys.
Speaker 2: Casey, do you know the name of the band The Okay,
Speaker 2: the Doors?
Speaker 5: You know it's because it's my boyfriend's favorite band. And
Speaker 5: if I don't know that, I would die, like he
Speaker 5: would probably kill me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, really love that.
Speaker 5: She did you tell Gary how we kind of met electronically?
Speaker 1: I did, and he was kind of creepy about it,
Speaker 1: to the point where I didn't know if I wanted
Speaker 1: to have you on the show because he was like
Speaker 1: she did, she she she listens to the show, and
Speaker 1: like she did. But you don't even need to calm
Speaker 1: it down before we get her on. I don't want
Speaker 1: you to embarrass me, is what I think.
Speaker 5: I said, Wait, Gary, what's wrong with that?
Speaker 2: It was great, It was very positive. It was just
Speaker 2: a nice surprise that people listen to the show I do.
Speaker 5: The crazy thing is so I lived in West Hollywood,
Speaker 5: like so close to work for years, and I moved
Speaker 5: to the South Bay last summer, so now I had
Speaker 5: a commute and I've been listening to you guys for
Speaker 5: like since August, and I never because I'm driving, I
Speaker 5: never take the time to think like, oh, I should
Speaker 5: look up and see you know, what they look like,
Speaker 5: and then just randomly, you guys pop up in my
Speaker 5: feet and I was like, oh my god, Shannon's hot,
Speaker 5: and so I started messaging her and I was like,
Speaker 5: it just makes sense why she knows about football now,
Speaker 5: and like our world's colliding, and so you probably think
Speaker 5: I'm weird, but that's how it happened.
Speaker 1: Not at all weird, And all the weirdness is on
Speaker 1: our side of the table. Okay, So who is Henry?
Speaker 1: I don't even know who Henry is anymore? Henry who
Speaker 1: I don't even know?
Speaker 4: Placco right.
Speaker 5: The best? So, Casey, what's.
Speaker 3: Going on with this storm? How long are we going
Speaker 3: to be living in this long local nightmare?
Speaker 5: So what's really concerning is tonight. And you know what's
Speaker 5: so frustrating is that people watch the news and it's
Speaker 5: almost like they put mute when I'm on because I
Speaker 5: get asked every day, like a dozen times, when's the
Speaker 5: rain coming. I'm like, did you watch the news?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I saw you, but no one pays attention. So tonight, well,
Speaker 5: I can't say no one. A lot of people starting tonight,
Speaker 5: like La County is going to start getting really heavy
Speaker 5: rains first, like maybe around midnight, possibly Ventura County a
Speaker 5: little sooner. We're getting like a direct hit from an
Speaker 5: atmospheric river, you know, the buzzword of the century, and
Speaker 5: it's going to bring a lot of moisture overnight into
Speaker 5: early Thursday morning. And what's so concerning is that this
Speaker 5: is going to be so heavy. If we get rainfall
Speaker 5: rates of three quarters of an echine hour, that's likely
Speaker 5: to produce flooding, not just for burnscar areas, but for
Speaker 5: you know, urban areas. So we think that that's likely
Speaker 5: going to happen in several spots. And look, the good
Speaker 5: news about this happening overnight is that we're not on
Speaker 5: the roads driving around like we would be at five pm.
Speaker 5: But it's it's probably going to cost them. The winds
Speaker 5: associated with it are likely going to cause some downtrees,
Speaker 5: maybe down power lines, and then things will start to
Speaker 5: lighten up by nine o'clock tomorrow morning. But then there's
Speaker 5: still a chance of seeing possibly heavy showers Thursday throughout
Speaker 5: the day, but nothing like what we're going to get overnight.
Speaker 2: We when we hit into the beginning of January, we
Speaker 2: started the year obviously the fires in Palisades in Altadena,
Speaker 2: there was a concern that we had what four tenths
Speaker 2: of an inch of rain throughout the entire season. We've
Speaker 2: made some good inroads on that, but where do we
Speaker 2: stand in terms of average rainfall so far?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was just looking that up, like it's different
Speaker 5: for certain areas, but we're still several inches below where
Speaker 5: we should be. And you know, normally like northern California
Speaker 5: would be getting a lot of these storms. They're not
Speaker 5: getting any of this storm. So we like them to
Speaker 5: get rain because then we get snow on the mountains,
Speaker 5: which helps as well. But even though it feels like
Speaker 5: it's been raining so much lately, we're still several inches
Speaker 5: below where we should be for this time of year.
Speaker 5: And even with this series of storms right now, we're
Speaker 5: probably not going to cat.
Speaker 1: Kacey Montoya kt LA catch her every midday.
Speaker 3: I feel like the people in Majesica.
Speaker 1: Canyon, they're in Orange County, they just have to have
Speaker 1: like a constant evacuation bag at the front door. I
Speaker 1: feel like every time it rains, we're talking about them
Speaker 1: possibly being evacuated. And that's going back like five hundred years.
Speaker 1: It seems like they always get the reins. Maybe some
Speaker 1: of the burn areas, but that they're always under this
Speaker 1: evacuation warning.
Speaker 5: And those those are terrifying to be under. But look
Speaker 5: what we've learned. You know a lot of people have
Speaker 5: told me personally, you know, I never used to evacuate
Speaker 5: when I got a warning, and now they're evacuating before
Speaker 5: the warnings, like ahead of the storm. I know several
Speaker 5: people who went to go stay in a hotel. So
Speaker 5: people are starting to listen. We wish more people would
Speaker 5: have listened before the fires, if I'm being honest, But
Speaker 5: you know, we we're here to do a service to
Speaker 5: tell people what's what's coming. So you know how to prepare,
Speaker 5: because I always say, even on TV, just prepare for
Speaker 5: the worst and expect the best.
Speaker 4: Excellent stuff. Casey, thanks for taking time for us.
Speaker 5: Today, big fan. So I'll hee you guys on the
Speaker 5: radio as I get in the car here in a
Speaker 5: few minutes.
Speaker 2: We'll talk again. If especially if this storm gets any
Speaker 2: we should have her over here.
Speaker 1: We should have her here and hang out with us
Speaker 1: for like an hour or something that.
Speaker 4: We'll have a lot of clean up and stuff.
Speaker 3: To make it presentable.
Speaker 4: Not me, I'm just saying the room.
Speaker 1: I know, No, I know the whole thing, right, It
Speaker 1: starts with you. It starts with you, Casey, thank you.
Speaker 4: Thank you bye for your patience.
Speaker 5: Hey, it's not from my generation either, but it's Jim
Speaker 5: and the Morris.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 4: Oh, somebody's at the door.
Speaker 3: I gotta go Frank some cokeson please?
Speaker 2: All right, Crazy tariff Tuesday turns into wacky Wednesday, and
Speaker 2: we have no idea what Wall Street's gonna do.
Speaker 3: Gary and Shannon will continue.
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Speaker 3: Is there anybody of any interest?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I mean there's there's people around,
Speaker 2: but I don't know if there's a if it has
Speaker 2: tickled any of the you know, bring parts, I don't know.
Speaker 2: First of two storms to SoCal is gone. The next
Speaker 2: one rolls in tonight, as we saw with our friend Casey,
Speaker 2: a new friend, Casey Montoya from KTLA, just talking about
Speaker 2: about one to two inches of rain along the coast,
Speaker 2: maybe ups as much as four inches in the valleys.
Speaker 2: And if it does get that, if we're on that
Speaker 2: end of it, it's going to cause some localized flooding problems.
Speaker 2: There is a court date today for Mahmud Khalil. He
Speaker 2: is the Columbia University grad student or graduate who was
Speaker 2: picked up over the weekend. His green card was revoked.
Speaker 2: Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, even as a green
Speaker 2: card holder, you should not be able to engage in
Speaker 2: activities that would form a legal basis to exclude you
Speaker 2: from entering the kind of in the first place. And
Speaker 2: he was accused of fomenting and leading some of those
Speaker 2: pro Palestinian protests there at Columbia University. He's actually got
Speaker 2: a court hearing today, so we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, we have some reaction to the tariffs. The
Speaker 1: European Union today announcing retaliatory trade action with new duties
Speaker 1: on US industrial and farm products.
Speaker 3: This is a response, are you going to laugh every
Speaker 3: time I say duty?
Speaker 4: Probably?
Speaker 1: Do you laugh every time you're in the airport and
Speaker 1: you walk by the duty free store? Do you say,
Speaker 1: as you're walking by, it ain't duty free? Right now,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm about to go make a duty myself. Do
Speaker 1: you do that tax?
Speaker 3: Get it all out of your system?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 1: Anyway, This is a response within hours to the Trump's
Speaker 1: increase in tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to twenty
Speaker 1: five percent. We are talking about goods from the US
Speaker 1: worth around twenty six billion euros. Not just steel and aluminum,
Speaker 1: but textiles, home impliances, ad goods, motorcycles, bourbon, peanut, butter,
Speaker 1: and jeans will also be hit.
Speaker 2: The French are very concerned about the cosmetics industry. They
Speaker 2: said that France imports about two hundred million euros a
Speaker 2: little more than two hundred million dollars worth of American
Speaker 2: makeup every year, but ex sports about ten times that
Speaker 2: amount in the other direction. The head of the cosmetics
Speaker 2: industry association in France says, we are entering a trade
Speaker 2: war that we do not want to be a part of.
Speaker 2: I think you're going to see that kind of sentiment
Speaker 2: in a lot of different industries. France and Spain and
Speaker 2: Italy have all requested that European Commission exclude wine and
Speaker 2: spirits from the.
Speaker 4: List of US goods that are targeted with tariffs.
Speaker 2: So they're trying to carve out sort of things that
Speaker 2: would be safer for them these individual individual I don't
Speaker 2: know portions of industry. Now this is not being received well.
Speaker 2: Wall Street. We've seen over the last couple of days
Speaker 2: in negative territory. This morning that now actually started in
Speaker 2: positive territory because we got actually we got some good
Speaker 2: news that inflation had slowed.
Speaker 4: In February.
Speaker 2: The Consumer Price Index measures price increases around the most
Speaker 2: commonly purchased goods, showed about a two point eight percent
Speaker 2: rise in overall prices in the economy, slowing down compared
Speaker 2: to what we saw in January.
Speaker 4: So that's good. That caused things to go positive.
Speaker 2: But then you turn the corner and you realize that
Speaker 2: we don't know how the day is going to end
Speaker 2: when it comes to these tariff things. C NBC Steve
Speaker 2: Leisman said, this is insanity.
Speaker 1: Everyone's trying to add this up to say the math
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense here to have all of these things
Speaker 1: happening at the same time.
Speaker 7: I'm going to say this at risk of my job, Kelly,
Speaker 7: but what President Trump is doing is insane. It is
Speaker 7: absolutely insane. It is about the eighth reason we've had
Speaker 7: for the tariffs. And now he's saying he's putting fifty
Speaker 7: percent tariffs on Canada unless they agree to become the
Speaker 7: fifty first state.
Speaker 2: Now again, that fifty percent was brought back to twenty
Speaker 2: five percent.
Speaker 1: It seems like the president has an endgame where he
Speaker 1: does want the best for America in the long run,
Speaker 1: in terms of why aren't we making this stuff here?
Speaker 3: Why aren't we looking out for us? Number One?
Speaker 1: He told CEOs in that business roundtable yesterday that we
Speaker 1: talked about that the tariffs are causing companies to invest
Speaker 1: in US factories. The problem that some are arguing with
Speaker 1: that is that it costs more, obviously to make things
Speaker 1: here as opposed to importing it from other countries. The
Speaker 1: eight percent drop and the S and P five hundred
Speaker 1: stock index over the past month on fears of deteriorating
Speaker 1: growth that did not dissuade him at all. He argued
Speaker 1: yesterday that higher tariff rates would be more effective at
Speaker 1: bringing back factories to the US. Here's the quote from
Speaker 1: the Trump himself. He said, the higher it goes, the
Speaker 1: more likely it is they're going to build. The biggest
Speaker 1: win is if they move into our country and produce jobs.
Speaker 1: He says, that's a bigger win than the tariffs themselves.
Speaker 1: But the tariffs are going to be throwing off a
Speaker 1: lot of money to this country, I mean, and that's
Speaker 1: a long endgame. That's an endgame when he has left office.
Speaker 1: That's an endgame, when the damage has been done, the
Speaker 1: detritus is on the floor, and everyone hates Trump for
Speaker 1: a number of years till you And that's assuming that
Speaker 1: other administrations will follow suits exactly.
Speaker 2: And there's no guarantee, I mean, just based on our
Speaker 2: political system, there's no guarantee that even a Republican president
Speaker 2: that would be elected in twenty twenty eight would continue
Speaker 2: the same policy.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 1: And it's interesting to me because Trump hates to be unpopular.
Speaker 1: I mean, you saw it when he addressed Congress. You
Speaker 1: can tell it bothers him that half of those chambers
Speaker 1: did not stand for him, did not clap for him,
Speaker 1: did not do anything, did not even give him the
Speaker 1: time of day.
Speaker 3: You could tell it.
Speaker 1: It sticks in his craw that people don't like him,
Speaker 1: even if they are Democrats, even if they are the
Speaker 1: people that think he is the monster. So the fact
Speaker 1: that he would be doing something that is going to
Speaker 1: be widely unpopular once the dust settles is odd to me.
Speaker 2: There is something We've mentioned this multiple times in the
Speaker 2: last couple of days. The Wall Street thrives on known outcomes.
Speaker 2: It thrives on consistency, and when it's volatile like this,
Speaker 2: that's when it's most dangerous for people who are in
Speaker 2: the stock market. They call this the Cebo Volatility Index,
Speaker 2: known as the VICS, is what they refer to as
Speaker 2: the fear game, and they said it has surged over
Speaker 2: sixty percent so far this year to trade above twenty
Speaker 2: seven point three earlier this week. They said it's a
Speaker 2: statistically unusual level. And if we continue at this pace,
Speaker 2: if we continue with all of this volatility, it erodes
Speaker 2: the confidence that people have in stocks, and that's not.
Speaker 3: Good for in the long term.
Speaker 4: You shouldn't say.
Speaker 2: It's not good for everybody, because not everybody's in the
Speaker 2: stock market, But if you've got a four oh one K,
Speaker 2: you're in it. If you have these other investments, you're
Speaker 2: in it.
Speaker 3: So bless your heart.
Speaker 1: Potentially bad and bless your heart if you and I
Speaker 1: don't mean to be condescending, I mean truly bless your
Speaker 1: heart if you're one of the people that checks your
Speaker 1: four oh one K all the time, because that.
Speaker 3: Thing, you can't live or die with a day to
Speaker 3: day on the four oh one k.
Speaker 2: It's too much. It's like it's It's like gambling. You
Speaker 2: got to know you're not going to win that big
Speaker 2: first hand right away. You got to play for a
Speaker 2: long time and somebody had a problem.
Speaker 1: Why, Like, somebody's got a little bit of an addiction
Speaker 1: they're working through.
Speaker 2: Even then, the numbers are always in the house's favor.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 4: The longer you play, the less likely you are.
Speaker 3: To have one chance that I checked that for one case, there's.
Speaker 4: Just one chance that I hit that number. Thirty two
Speaker 4: on roulette.
Speaker 3: That's what I always bet on. How did you know that.
Speaker 4: I've been there with you? Oh, I didn't know. That's
Speaker 4: a wild guest.
Speaker 1: I mean, really that's my number, Like, that's my number,
Speaker 1: and I don't just bet one. I bet like five
Speaker 1: thirty two. Why thirty two? There's so many reasons, so
Speaker 1: many okay, so little time.
Speaker 4: Uh, would you survive the apocalypse? Would I.
Speaker 7: Ow?
Speaker 3: I like, how long after the.
Speaker 4: World would you survive the apocalypse? Did you give it
Speaker 4: a day?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 1: I find it interesting that there's so many shows, and
Speaker 1: it's not just a recent thing a trend. How many
Speaker 1: shows throughout the generations are centered around the apocalypse. Were
Speaker 1: obviously extremely interested in the end of the world and
Speaker 1: what it means and how we'll react. So there is
Speaker 1: a new guide on how to survive the apocalypse at
Speaker 1: least for ten days.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about it when we come back.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 6: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: It is Wednesday, so late in the show, we'll be
Speaker 2: doing what you're watching Wednesday. Let us know what it
Speaker 2: is that you have been following up on. We have
Speaker 2: some great trailers that are coming up. We're going to
Speaker 2: post those up as well. Hacks season four, in fact,
Speaker 2: is coming up next month already, so we'll talk about
Speaker 2: stuff that's on television. Let you know what we've been
Speaker 2: watching as well the stories that we're following. An American
Speaker 2: wrestler has been named a person of interest in the
Speaker 2: disappearance of that pit student at the Dominican Republic. A
Speaker 2: twenty four year old guy named Joshua Ribby being investigated
Speaker 2: by a sheriff's office in Virginia after twenty year old
Speaker 2: Sudiska Konaki vanished at the beginning of the month during
Speaker 2: a break in Punta Kana. Now, he is reportedly being
Speaker 2: cooperative with authorities. According to the Dominican authorities. He's not
Speaker 2: considered a suspect, just one of the guys that was
Speaker 2: last seen with Sudiksha before she disappeared. Dominican authorities apparently
Speaker 2: have taken his passport. However, according to a couple of
Speaker 2: different sources, that doesn't mean that he's not free to leave.
Speaker 4: He can pick it up any time he wants, I guess.
Speaker 2: Also space news is that this afternoon a launch expected
Speaker 2: from Cape Canaveral, where the Boeing Boeing spacecraft that crapped
Speaker 2: out a new one is supposed to be headed up
Speaker 2: to the International Space Station to go pick up Sonny
Speaker 2: Williams and Butcher Wilmore.
Speaker 1: I of suddenly am just overwhelmed with a smell. How's
Speaker 1: the shower going, Well, it's just that they've had the
Speaker 1: same underwear.
Speaker 2: Oh, you're having a sensory, you're having a sympathetic one.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about what it smells inside that capsule on
Speaker 1: the way home again.
Speaker 2: I think you're overestimating the amount of underpant that they have.
Speaker 4: I think they're just they're done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. Wow, do you think they ever wear
Speaker 1: underwear again?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 1: I mean they would did without for so long? Why
Speaker 1: even go through the rigamarole of underwear anymore for the
Speaker 1: rest of your days.
Speaker 2: Well, for him, he's still got stuff that hangs, and
Speaker 2: you don't want the gravitational pull once you get back
Speaker 2: to Earth.
Speaker 3: Could probably be I wonder how that works.
Speaker 1: So like you just don't feel your genitals, Like, he
Speaker 1: doesn't need underwear in space, right because they just kind
Speaker 1: of like.
Speaker 4: What are you doing with your hands?
Speaker 3: Well, they just float up here right like.
Speaker 4: I suppose I've never been.
Speaker 1: That's going to be quite a a re entry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you haven't felt your genitals like that, that's why
Speaker 1: he's got a sill.
Speaker 3: Weight of your genitals. You haven't felt them for months.
Speaker 2: They both have to sit down for a week basically.
Speaker 2: But when they get home home to Earth because the
Speaker 2: gravitational poll is going to be such a is that true, Absolutely,
Speaker 2: they are not going to be moving very much for
Speaker 2: the next Well, so tonight is when there's the thing launches.
Speaker 2: Tonight it meets up with the space station, I believe
Speaker 2: tomorrow at some point, I don't know what the exact
Speaker 2: timeline is to get them in that return capsule and
Speaker 2: back down to Earth.
Speaker 1: I would like someone to make a movie about this
Speaker 1: about the people that go up to space. They expect
Speaker 1: to be there for eight days or there for eight months.
Speaker 1: They run out of underwear, they don't feel their genitals.
Speaker 1: They come back maybe gravity, yeah, but did they come back?
Speaker 1: And then they sit down for a long time and
Speaker 1: then they refeel their genitals and it's a whole thing.
Speaker 1: And where do they go with the underwear moving forward?
Speaker 1: These are the things that I want to be dealt
Speaker 1: with in a major emotion picture.
Speaker 2: A writer for the New York Times lived through Hurricane Sandy.
Speaker 2: Let other people think about that nobody does about thirteen
Speaker 2: years ago, and he said that his awakening to prepping,
Speaker 2: like doomsday prepping, came after that massive storm hit New York.
Speaker 3: I didn't know they have these, but they have these.
Speaker 1: He went to a ten day survival intensive This happened
Speaker 1: to be in Mexico. Consists of a series of skill
Speaker 1: learning workshops all about how to survive the apocalypse. Here
Speaker 1: is one of the tips. Remember the ABC's of survival.
Speaker 1: What are the ABC's.
Speaker 4: Always be crafting, always be, always be closing.
Speaker 7: A b C A always b b C closing, always
Speaker 7: be closing, always be closing.
Speaker 3: Is that from like the Wolf of Wall Street or something.
Speaker 4: Something like that. What is it that's Glengarry Glenn?
Speaker 3: Okay, so similar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that is not right in this case. When
Speaker 1: it comes to survival, it's always be crafting. You forget
Speaker 1: a thing like a spoon, which he did, you learn
Speaker 1: how to make one. Always be crafting. It's like Maguiver,
Speaker 1: you want to fix that transmission. Here's a ballpoint pen.
Speaker 1: Make it happen. There's certain people that are good with
Speaker 1: this kind of thing. There's people that are good with
Speaker 1: just thinking out of the box.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like my brother.
Speaker 1: Like if I had to survive the apocalypse, I would
Speaker 1: use my brother. He would be the person that I
Speaker 1: would bring with me on my apocalyptic journey because he
Speaker 1: thinks differently and he could live off the land. I
Speaker 1: think he could skin a raccoon and figure out a
Speaker 1: way to eat it. Yeah, you I think have that
Speaker 1: in you.
Speaker 4: I could do that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean I don't know how I'd kill the raccoon
Speaker 2: in the first place, because they're wily little creatures. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're nasty. There are certain people if I hit it
Speaker 2: with a car or somebody else hit it with a
Speaker 2: car and softened up that meat a little bit, before
Speaker 2: I got.
Speaker 1: It, tendardized it with a car tire tenderdized.
Speaker 3: Tenderized, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about what this guy went through in this
Speaker 2: ten day survival course down in Mexico, and what the
Speaker 2: strange thing is the very first step has nothing to
Speaker 2: do with survival.
Speaker 4: We'll explain what that is when we come out.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 4: Oh one quick thing before he.
Speaker 8: Oh, hey, Gary and Shannon. I'm just taking my eighteen
Speaker 8: year old daughter to college and we listened to you
Speaker 8: guys in the car, and finally she was like, what
Speaker 8: do they look like. I looked up Shannon and was like, okay, okay,
Speaker 8: and I told her, you guys are Shennon's about the
Speaker 8: same age as I am, early forties. But then she
Speaker 8: looked up Gary. It was like, there's a cellist also
Speaker 8: named Gary Hoffman, and then she had to look up
Speaker 8: Gary KFI. I thought it was interesting.
Speaker 2: Do you remember said cellist? You remember Commander Bill up
Speaker 2: in Sacramento. This was a long time excuse me, a
Speaker 2: long time traffic traffic guy.
Speaker 3: He was the best.
Speaker 4: Commander.
Speaker 2: Bill was a legendary and Sacramento and flew a plane
Speaker 2: for forty years or something like that. He used to
Speaker 2: come into the radio station and would ask me, where's
Speaker 2: your cello?
Speaker 4: And for years I had no idea what he was
Speaker 4: talking about.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, And when I when the that was before internet,
Speaker 2: you know, before you would look up your own name
Speaker 2: on the internet. Right, And a few years later, I'm
Speaker 2: in Seattle and the internet comes out and Microsoft, whatever
Speaker 2: their browser was, I looked it up and I remember
Speaker 2: thinking just all falling into place, the dozens of times
Speaker 2: that he would come in and ask me where my
Speaker 2: cello was. And finally I was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: I need to call Commander Bill and find and say
Speaker 2: to him I finally get what you said to me
Speaker 2: all those years, you crazy old man.
Speaker 3: That's funny, though, You're right.
Speaker 1: I mean, can you imagine a time when you couldn't
Speaker 1: just google something?
Speaker 3: There was no internet.
Speaker 1: So somebody coming in and saying that to you, you know,
Speaker 1: there's got to be some sort of connection.
Speaker 2: I mean the only other thing you would do is
Speaker 2: go to the library and look through the card catalog
Speaker 2: for your name.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And even then, all right.
Speaker 1: I missed the card catalog. I like hunting for things
Speaker 1: using the card catalog. There was a show recently that
Speaker 1: involved a card catalog, and I thought I missed.
Speaker 2: That this ten day crash course on surviving the apocalypse.
Speaker 2: A rider for the New York Times did this ten
Speaker 2: day crash course that takes place down in Mexico.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Apparently a third of all Americans say they spend some
Speaker 1: part of their household budget on prepping for the end
Speaker 1: of the world. Late last year, a book called a
Speaker 1: Navy Seals bug In Guide was in heavy rotation on TikTok.
Speaker 1: It offers tips on explaining away your ownership of large
Speaker 1: quantities of canned goods. Here's one tip. You can just
Speaker 1: say my wife slash husband got into couponing.
Speaker 3: It is a situation.
Speaker 1: Twenty million Americans identify as preppers. They are working on
Speaker 1: self reliance. I was exposed to this recently when I
Speaker 1: watched that documentary about the YouTuber family Ruby Frankie and
Speaker 1: how towards the end of Crazy of the Trip on
Speaker 1: the Crazy Train, she and her friend, who was also
Speaker 1: a scammer, seemed to be very much into prepping for
Speaker 1: the end of the world.
Speaker 4: Well, the.
Speaker 2: Guy who's doing this again, the writer for The New
Speaker 2: York Times meets up with this guy who had grown
Speaker 2: up in El Salvador, I believe it was, and the
Speaker 2: crime ridden country eventually comes to the United States and
Speaker 2: gets an art degree of all things and is now
Speaker 2: leading these survival courses. And the very first thing he teaches,
Speaker 2: he said, the most important lesson of survival is understanding
Speaker 2: your physiological and psychological response to threats. What happens when
Speaker 2: your body is threatened, whether it's by a predator, by
Speaker 2: the way weather, by conditions that you simply don't quite understand.
Speaker 2: Your thoughts race, your heart pounds, your breathings r.
Speaker 1: So I would assume it's acknowledge all that and don't
Speaker 1: get freaked out by it.
Speaker 2: That's just your body reacting. Acknowledge it, Yeah, figure out
Speaker 2: why it's happening. What does your body know that you
Speaker 2: don't about what's about to happen to you, or what
Speaker 2: does it perceive is going to happen, and then basically
Speaker 2: control yourself, like slap yourself in the face, slap it down,
Speaker 2: snap out of it, excuse me, and then they he said.
Speaker 2: One of the things to do is as you walk around,
Speaker 2: keep your bubble of awareness bigger than your bubble of disturbance.
Speaker 2: So you talked about he said, you needn't have a spoon,
Speaker 2: and he had to figure out how to get a spoon.
Speaker 2: That's what you should be looking for, is keeping an
Speaker 2: eye on everything that's around you and how you could
Speaker 2: potentially use that, whether it's a tree that you could
Speaker 2: climb up to escape something, whether it's a tree limb
Speaker 2: that's on the ground that you could use as a weapon,
Speaker 2: something like that.
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting you say that, keep a you know,
Speaker 1: focus on awareness, not disturbance within yourself. That's like a
Speaker 1: pretty common tactic when it comes to calming yourself down
Speaker 1: period in life. Stop worrying about all the voices in
Speaker 1: the head what's going on, and live in the moment.
Speaker 4: To deal with what's right now.
Speaker 3: What do you see? What do you smell? That whole thing?
Speaker 2: Al pacinos six inches in front of your face. That's
Speaker 2: what you're going for, is that one inch that's right there.
Speaker 2: He says, his philosophy is always to prioritize fire.
Speaker 4: Yes, fire is one of those things.
Speaker 2: That's why Tom Hanks screamed about he is a god
Speaker 2: when he did it, for when he was stranded on
Speaker 2: that island for the volleyball, yeah, Wilson right. The other
Speaker 2: one is they talked about making a compass from a leaf,
Speaker 2: a needle and a magnet. How to open a coconut
Speaker 2: without tools, handlining, which is fishing by hand without a pole,
Speaker 2: but to find a string, a loose line, and a hook.
Speaker 2: All of those things are what you would Here's the thing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: if you're lost in the jungle, yes, these things are
Speaker 2: going to happen. If you're lost on an island somewhere
Speaker 2: in the Caribbean where the weather is not necessarily an issue,
Speaker 2: you're okay. If you're in Alaska and you get separated
Speaker 2: from your fellow hunters or campers or whatever you're doing
Speaker 2: out there, the time limit is very shrunk.
Speaker 4: The idea that you have.
Speaker 2: Ten days to survive is not very realistic, and I
Speaker 2: think that's kind of funny. But the other aspect of
Speaker 2: this is the headline uses the word apocalypse. When you
Speaker 2: think apocalypse, I think something along the lines of a
Speaker 2: Morgan Freeman movie where an asteroid's about to hit the
Speaker 2: Earth or all full global nuclear war.
Speaker 1: Apocalypse is actually Greek. Do you want to know what
Speaker 1: it means?
Speaker 4: Please?
Speaker 1: It means revelation or hidden knowledge. The Greek word is apocalypsis,
Speaker 1: and it means revelation or hidden knowledge. Kind of makes
Speaker 1: you think about the apocalypse differently.
Speaker 4: We'll know then, right, will know then exactly what's going on?
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: Between hearing about duty underwear and genitals, I swear I'm
Speaker 2: listening to the Bill Handle show.
Speaker 4: Okay, I.
Speaker 1: Get it, You're right, I know. I put the genitals away.
Speaker 1: We also got a text from Clay. He said Gary's back,
Speaker 1: and so is Shannon's genital obsession.
Speaker 3: I'm putting it away.
Speaker 2: If you miss the first hour, you can always go
Speaker 2: back and check out the podcast.
Speaker 1: But I will say, in my defense, it has crossed
Speaker 1: your mind when it comes to the astronauts with the underwear,
Speaker 1: has it not.
Speaker 3: No, that's that's unique to me.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You don't assume that they have a supply of fresh
Speaker 2: underpaid months worth.
Speaker 4: Do you go eight months without washing your own?
Speaker 3: They don't have?
Speaker 4: Yes, they do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they only packed for eight.
Speaker 4: Days, so you have eight pairs.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: I see, Okay, I see what you're saying. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm over it. Okay, So you just had to reason
Speaker 1: with me? Man, Can I remind you of that at
Speaker 1: least twice a day.
Speaker 4: Oh, you had to do. It's reason with me and
Speaker 4: I'd come down off the cliff.
Speaker 2: My apocalyptic dirty underpron can have saved us all of this.
Speaker 4: Gary Shannon, We'll continue right after this. You've been listening
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