Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
Speaker 1: I A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Gary and Shannon. And no, I don't want Shannon,
Speaker 2: calm down, I water. I wander what a bottle whiskey
Speaker 2: in one hand, sticker it in another, and two guns
Speaker 2: in her holster Shandon, two guns boom.
Speaker 3: Oh, that was a good time in life.
Speaker 4: Whiskey, barettes and loaded guns double holstered everywhere you went.
Speaker 3: Oh man, that would be that would be something dangerous.
Speaker 5: Hey, Gary and Shannon, Happy Thanksgiving. I think now that
Speaker 5: we know the dryer turkey story, we all know where
Speaker 5: Gary got his. I believe it's gut like Ati Iuana
Speaker 5: street dog from Yes, I'm so thankful for both of you.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
Speaker 5: I really do appreciate all the laughs. Happy Thanksgiving, Love
Speaker 5: you guys.
Speaker 6: Thank you. I'm very sweet.
Speaker 4: The term I used was the gut biome of a
Speaker 4: Haitian street dog.
Speaker 6: Ah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I've seen street dogs in both places. The
Speaker 4: ones in Haiti have have a lot more to deal with.
Speaker 4: Theres a lot more going on there, especially right now.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the gang leader named Barbecue, Who's said, Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: just they got a lot more to run from.
Speaker 3: Listen to this one.
Speaker 1: A police officer in Australia was found guilty today of
Speaker 1: manslaughter for deploying a taser on a ninety five year old.
Speaker 3: Woman with dementia.
Speaker 1: It's not funny, It's pretty funny, he responded to reports
Speaker 1: at her nursing home that she was armed with a knife.
Speaker 1: Thirty four year old Christian White with the New South
Speaker 1: Wales Police used his taser on Claire after finding her
Speaker 1: alone in a treatment room with a serrated edge steak knife.
Speaker 3: Claire, by the way, is five.
Speaker 1: Foot was five foot two and ninety five pounds. You
Speaker 1: mean was she died? That's why just found guilty of manslaughter.
Speaker 1: Manslaughter Okay, five to ninety five pounds and she used
Speaker 1: a walker.
Speaker 7: He tases her, she falls. Yeah, Wait a minute, I said,
Speaker 7: this is not funny.
Speaker 1: I'm having a play out in my mind and it's
Speaker 1: kind of funny, is it, because you're you're envisioning the
Speaker 1: ninety seven year old cheerleader, Yes, being tasered and falling over. Yes,
Speaker 1: because we had eyes on her.
Speaker 3: Anyway, poor Claire died from her injuries.
Speaker 1: A week later, video footage played in the court showed
Speaker 1: that the encounter at the nursing home lasted about two
Speaker 1: to three minutes before the officer said nah, bugger it and.
Speaker 3: Used his taser boy, which is basically fit. Yeah wow,
Speaker 3: goes Claire. Well, I do it dead.
Speaker 6: I have better news than that.
Speaker 4: Okay, Fewer people contracted HIV last year than it any
Speaker 4: point since the rise of the disease in the late
Speaker 4: nineteen eighties.
Speaker 3: We beat AIDS.
Speaker 4: Well, I wouldn't say we beat it, but about one
Speaker 4: point three million people still contracted the disease last year,
Speaker 4: according to the UN AIDS Agency, still more than three
Speaker 4: times higher than needed to get the goal of ending
Speaker 4: AIDS as a public health threat by the year twenty thirty.
Speaker 4: Sports News big lineup tomorrow, of course, football wise, Chicago
Speaker 4: Detroit is the first game, New York Giants against the
Speaker 4: Dallas Cowboys the second game, and then in the evening
Speaker 4: Dolphins Packers, and don't forget on Friday there's a game
Speaker 4: as well, the Raiders. The woeful Raiders play the Chiefs,
Speaker 4: and that I think is an Amazon game. We will
Speaker 4: be doing Gas Fantasy four play today. We're not going
Speaker 4: to be doing it on Friday because a couple of
Speaker 4: those games we're going to be picking on, So we
Speaker 4: will do Gas Fantasy four play today, and a reminder
Speaker 4: that your picks for Gas Fantasy four play have to
Speaker 4: be in before kickoff of the first game that we choose.
Speaker 4: Thousands of counterfeit Gibson Electric guitars have been seized in
Speaker 4: a multi agency investigation at the La Long Beach Port
Speaker 4: three thousand fake guitars. If they were real guitars, the
Speaker 4: street valued be at about eighteen million dollars. US Customs
Speaker 4: Water Protection, along with Homeland Security investigations and the Sheriff's Department,
Speaker 4: announced the seizure at a news conference yesterday. According to
Speaker 4: Africa Bell, the port director at La Longbeach, said, these
Speaker 4: guitars may look real to you, but trust and believe
Speaker 4: they are not. They are fraudulent and they are part
Speaker 4: of a massive attempt to calm the American consumer. The
Speaker 4: thing is, this is such a specific product and it's
Speaker 4: not you know, for even though there are three thousand
Speaker 4: of these guitars that came in, think about the number
Speaker 4: of pairs of shoes that come in, or pants or
Speaker 4: handbags or something like that. It seems like those those
Speaker 4: would be much easier to counterfeit than a Gibson guitar.
Speaker 4: Andrea Bates, represents the guitar company, said they're able to
Speaker 4: facilitate and identify and seese eighteen million dollars worth of
Speaker 4: counterfeit guitar, something that's incredibly significant. The chief marketing officer
Speaker 4: for Gibson said the fakes would have been easily recognized
Speaker 4: by any expert and would be spotted by any professional
Speaker 4: guitar player who is familiar with the actual Gibson product.
Speaker 4: She said, we could tell when we picked it up immediately,
Speaker 4: But for the untrained and for the untrained eye, there
Speaker 4: are a couple of tips. For example, the logo looks
Speaker 4: different or is in a different location than in a
Speaker 4: genuine Gibson product, and the logo might actually bleed. The
Speaker 4: ink on the logo might bleed a little bit, so
Speaker 4: keep your eyes eyes out for that. Did I play
Speaker 4: this one yet?
Speaker 6: Did I play Hey.
Speaker 5: Gary and Shannon Happy Thanksgiving?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 4: Because she said my haitian gut by him just making
Speaker 4: sure we are taking your talkbacks on what you're thankful
Speaker 4: for and what you're not thankful for this year. Well,
Speaker 4: I thought we were going to be positive or are
Speaker 4: we going to be guns blazing nice or raw whiskey
Speaker 4: cigarette or double guns blazing, or cupcakes and juice or
Speaker 4: that Christmas tree.
Speaker 3: Oh, I hate this tree so much. It's awful.
Speaker 1: It is the most sugary, pink, pathetic excuse for a
Speaker 1: Christmas tree I've ever seen. If this was a Keith signia,
Speaker 1: that would be a fine tree to put up.
Speaker 6: But do you put up a tree for a King Signira?
Speaker 3: No? But if you did, this would be the tree
Speaker 3: that is probably very cool.
Speaker 1: Or if you put up a tree for a baby
Speaker 1: girl born although this day and age it would be
Speaker 1: inappropriate the Christmas tree in the delivery room for a
Speaker 1: baby girl, this would be it.
Speaker 6: The Christmas tree gender revealed.
Speaker 1: But anybody over fifteen thinks this tree sucks? Wow, Well
Speaker 1: you ask for the whiskey and the cigarettes.
Speaker 6: It's starting to smell funny in here.
Speaker 4: If the current leads hold, the final taally for the
Speaker 4: House of Representatives next year would be two twenty to
Speaker 4: two fifteen in favor of Republicans. That gives a net
Speaker 4: gain of two seats to the Democrats, but Republicans immediately
Speaker 4: lose some of those seats at the start of one
Speaker 4: hundred and nineteenth Congress.
Speaker 6: Obviously, Matt Gates is out.
Speaker 4: Congresswoman Elise Stephanic and Congressman Michael Waltz New York and Florida, respectively,
Speaker 4: are going to step down later in January because of
Speaker 4: their cabinet appointments. A couple of Florida special elections now
Speaker 4: scheduled for April first, So as of right now, they
Speaker 4: are basically just facing a two months it looks like
Speaker 4: with a two seventeen to two fifteen split.
Speaker 6: They're in the House in Representatives.
Speaker 1: Representative Katie Porter is filing a restraining order against her
Speaker 1: ex boyfriend for allegedly bombarding her with a bunch of
Speaker 1: abusive and threatening messages in a bid to cause significant
Speaker 1: harm to her public image, including one falsely claiming in
Speaker 1: her words that she had genital herpes. Had is kind
Speaker 1: of don't don't general. Isn't that something you have forever?
Speaker 1: Genital herpes?
Speaker 6: Like samsonite?
Speaker 3: Right, yep, samsonite.
Speaker 6: Log to get it.
Speaker 3: You're going to always have my goodness.
Speaker 1: I think my parents or my last parent still has
Speaker 1: U still has some Samsonite luggage in the hall closet.
Speaker 6: There. Well, I will not go on.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: They say that this guy has sent her, her family
Speaker 1: and staff more than one thousand text messages and emails
Speaker 1: over three months.
Speaker 6: I have a question about the situation like this.
Speaker 4: Now, I don't question Katie Porter in any way because
Speaker 4: I don't know what the situation is. But let me
Speaker 4: just ask a general relationship question. If this, if somebody
Speaker 4: does this to you, you know, ends up after you
Speaker 4: break up. They're stalking you, they're threatening you, they're sending
Speaker 4: these types of just harassing messages. Did you see it beforehand?
Speaker 4: Were there inclinations that maybe this person was capable of
Speaker 4: doing that thing for men and women?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Sometimes you make sometimes, you know, listen the pool, the
Speaker 1: dating pool, especially.
Speaker 3: How old is she She's fifty, she's fifty.
Speaker 1: The dating pool is very shallow. There's not a lot
Speaker 1: of fish in that sea. So sometimes when you catch
Speaker 1: a fish, you look the other way, when the gills
Speaker 1: are a little bit raggedy, you look the other way
Speaker 1: when the fish, you know, slaps you in the face.
Speaker 1: It was not meant to be a domestic violent situation. No,
Speaker 1: I just meant like a fish to the face. Well,
Speaker 1: and I don't want it to sound like I'm blaming
Speaker 1: a vict him here. That's I'm just I'm curious about.
Speaker 3: This is a very hard thing.
Speaker 4: That's also an aspect of it that I think is
Speaker 4: that I don't take into account one email that was
Speaker 4: allegedly sent to Katie Porter's son and her ex husband.
Speaker 4: This guy threatened to bring the hammer down on Katie
Speaker 4: that was the quote, and smash her and her life
Speaker 4: into a million pieces. And he wrote, if you don't
Speaker 4: fully comprehend what is transpiring right now, let me spell
Speaker 4: it out for you. The noose is tightening around Katie's neck.
Speaker 6: Good lord. Now.
Speaker 4: She says he's on drugs. She says he's on drugs.
Speaker 4: She says he's contacted at least three reporters to disseminate
Speaker 4: false and damaging information about me and my children. Claims
Speaker 4: that he had substance abuse and mental health issues and
Speaker 4: had been involuntarily hospitalized for a psych evaluation at least
Speaker 4: twice in the last two years. She said, I have
Speaker 4: a deserved him misusing prescription pain killers, snorting riddlin, and
Speaker 4: abusing cannabis and nicotine patches.
Speaker 3: Abusing nicotine patches.
Speaker 4: And he also previously disclosed to me his use of
Speaker 4: cocaine and whippets take.
Speaker 1: Guys into whippets that it just get.
Speaker 6: Rid of them.
Speaker 1: There's no loneliness in the world that will result in
Speaker 1: you being happy that you're with somebody who does whippets.
Speaker 4: Whippets are a hardline for me. This is a particularly
Speaker 4: bad one.
Speaker 3: It's just so it's like a juvenile thing.
Speaker 1: It's like something that you'd get your hands on at
Speaker 1: fifteen that you couldn't get your hands on. If you're
Speaker 1: an adult man and you're doing whippets, you got to
Speaker 1: move on from that guy. The cocaine, the nicotine, the
Speaker 1: riddlin Uh listen to you, but whippets.
Speaker 4: He has filed a similar restraining order. He wants his
Speaker 4: own protective order against her because he says that she
Speaker 4: was violent towards him and her children and said she's
Speaker 4: a monster, and as part of the temporary order, a
Speaker 4: judge has ordered the boyfriend to make no contact with
Speaker 4: and stay away from her and her kids until the
Speaker 4: next hearing, slated for the middle of next month. He's
Speaker 4: also been ordered not to contact any current or former
Speaker 4: staffers or coworkers about her. It's just again, if she
Speaker 4: feels like it was a miss sounds like she feels
Speaker 4: it was a mistake that she got involved with this
Speaker 4: guy in the first place. It's pretty it's pretty embarrassing.
Speaker 4: It's pretty sad that it has to play out in public.
Speaker 4: And if this is all true, that he's been doing
Speaker 4: all this sort of stuff, what a loser?
Speaker 3: What a loser? Have you?
Speaker 1: Have you noticed this tree and how beautiful it is,
Speaker 1: all the pink and the sparkles, The pink and the.
Speaker 6: Sparkles, it is nice to a little bit of spirit
Speaker 6: in this room.
Speaker 1: It's so beautiful and sparkly and pink. I would totally
Speaker 1: put it in my birthing room if I was about
Speaker 1: to deliver a baby girl or an ice cream cone.
Speaker 8: Hi, Gary and Shannon, this is Karen out in North Carolina.
Speaker 8: I am grateful for my son Michael, who is nineteen
Speaker 8: and welcomed me back into his life after three years.
Speaker 8: It's been the most difficult three years of my entire life.
Speaker 8: But I'm grateful that we are now back on track
Speaker 8: and back together and couldn't be happier.
Speaker 3: So I'm grateful for that.
Speaker 8: Have an amazing Thanksgiving to you both.
Speaker 3: Love you, I love that. That's wonderful.
Speaker 6: It'd be quite as strong.
Speaker 3: That makes me cry a little bit?
Speaker 6: Is that what that is?
Speaker 3: See, that's what happens.
Speaker 1: When you start complimenting the pink tree, you get soft instantly.
Speaker 9: Hey, Gary Shannon, here's what I'm thankful for. I'm thankful
Speaker 9: for our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave us salvation. I'm
Speaker 9: thankful to him for having given us this sure that
Speaker 9: we live in. And thank for listening to the best
Speaker 9: duo on the radio, Gary and Shannon after Thanksgiving. Everybody,
Speaker 9: enjoy your time.
Speaker 1: You know what he deserves Some trumpets of Jesus. That's
Speaker 1: what he deserves. He earned it, He earned it.
Speaker 6: I listened to the tumbet of Jesus. Here's a different
Speaker 6: in sound.
Speaker 1: Of God.
Speaker 6: All money.
Speaker 1: Around because nothing says Thanksgiving. Hey, this is for all year.
Speaker 1: Not to be dark. But I do think about it
Speaker 1: every time we play the trumpets of Jesus. And I
Speaker 1: remember the when it came into our lives, And it
Speaker 1: was when your mom was really sick and you were
Speaker 1: driving home.
Speaker 3: You're driving up and back all.
Speaker 1: The time, and you were driving home and this came
Speaker 1: come on, and it's one of those moments that's very cathartic.
Speaker 1: When you're like going through something and something like this
Speaker 1: loves on.
Speaker 4: It was also such a weird thing because when you
Speaker 4: think about something that not a lot of people do anymore,
Speaker 4: depending on where you are. If you if you live
Speaker 4: here and you don't travel much, you know what radio
Speaker 4: stations are available. But if you drive and you're you know,
Speaker 4: you're in I don't know, northern Nevada or something like that,
Speaker 4: and you do that old scan thing where you're looking
Speaker 4: through the radio dial of find something to listen to.
Speaker 6: And that's what I was doing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it just, I mean it just it screamed
Speaker 4: at me through the through the speakers because I picked
Speaker 4: it up right here.
Speaker 1: I listened to the Jesus it doesn't get better.
Speaker 6: And man, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Progressive lawmakers urging Biden to move on marijuana legislation before
Speaker 1: his term comes to an end. In January, group of
Speaker 1: Democrats wrote a letter calling on the White House to
Speaker 1: move marijuana from a Schedule one to a Scheduled two
Speaker 1: controlled substance. This would classify the drug in a less
Speaker 1: severe category, but it would not end federal criminal criminalization
Speaker 1: or resolve its harms.
Speaker 3: According to the letter, wherever the hell that means.
Speaker 4: President Elect Trump's Transitions says several of his cabinet picks
Speaker 4: and appointees have been targeted by threats and swatting attacks.
Speaker 4: Transition spokesperson Caroline Leavit, who's been nominated to take over
Speaker 4: a similar role in the White House, said in a
Speaker 4: statement that last night in this morning, several of President
Speaker 4: Trump's cabinet nominees and administration appointees were targeted in violent
Speaker 4: Unamerican threats to their lives and those who live with them.
Speaker 4: Among those targeted, New York Congresswoman at least a fanic
Speaker 4: Trump's pick to serve as the next ambassador to the
Speaker 4: United Nations.
Speaker 3: Clay says that tree looks like Jean Bonnet Ramsey.
Speaker 6: What a great pull.
Speaker 3: I mean, that is perfection. That is exactly right. It's beautiful.
Speaker 3: It is a beautiful little tree.
Speaker 4: Consumer price increases accelerated last month, the latest sign that
Speaker 4: inflation steady decline of the last year two years has stalled.
Speaker 4: According to the Federal Reserves Preferred inflation gauge, consumer prices
Speaker 4: went up two point three percent in October from a
Speaker 4: year ago. Commerce Department said that's up from just two
Speaker 4: point one percent in September. Though it's still only modestly
Speaker 4: above the target that they look for. This this story
Speaker 4: makes me sad as a baseball fan. But Ygerian shennon, Hey,
Speaker 4: I'm thankful for the Dodgers signing Blake Spel.
Speaker 1: I just mean this game over and another championship right.
Speaker 4: Well, it doesn't mean that because the lot they needed
Speaker 4: was pitching.
Speaker 7: All they needed was pitching. They won without the pitch exactly.
Speaker 7: But that doesn't imagine if they had a pitcher.
Speaker 4: Listen, how many many times in sports does the team,
Speaker 4: the perfect team come together and they don't win a lot?
Speaker 4: That's a that's a dangerous the time that does the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Last year, the Yankees for several years, the Red Sox.
Speaker 4: So the Dodgers apparently agreed to a five year, one
Speaker 4: hundred and eighty two million dollar contract, win.
Speaker 1: Two times series next season the Giants. I put money
Speaker 1: on you want to make a bet right now?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: Why not? I don't even think they make the betoffs.
Speaker 6: Why that's not a surprise.
Speaker 4: That wouldn't be a surprise if you wanted me to
Speaker 4: be a fan of the Yankees and you told me
Speaker 4: that the Yankees weren't.
Speaker 1: To saying that you are going through something right now,
Speaker 1: realizing that your team has been bad and it's going
Speaker 1: to continue to be bad. Yeah, I understand everybody has
Speaker 1: times like that. Everyone has times like that. That's fine,
Speaker 1: and it's an odd year. But the next year what
Speaker 1: I don't listen the whole last time they won it
Speaker 1: an even year.
Speaker 4: Twenty fourteen, the light the time, the smack talk of
Speaker 4: like giants are no good.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, that is.
Speaker 4: You're not going to get an argument for That's like
Speaker 4: saying the Jets are no good, right, the Jets really suck?
Speaker 1: Okay, debatable. I see what you're saying. There's a I
Speaker 1: just try to get under your skin.
Speaker 3: That's all.
Speaker 1: If I really wanted to do that, i'd say something
Speaker 1: like cranberry sauce sucks.
Speaker 4: Now watch your mouth, Oh there are smacked the leather
Speaker 4: pants out of you.
Speaker 1: There's a couple in Burbank who was in court yesterday
Speaker 1: fighting to keep their beloved dog, Conan from getting euthanized.
Speaker 1: Animal rights activists are involved asking a judge to grant clemency.
Speaker 3: It's an eight year old pit bull.
Speaker 1: There was an order that the dog be euthanized for
Speaker 1: biting a neighborhood. Now the family a neighbors, not a neighborhood. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be a bigger problem. The family says that
Speaker 1: Conan has no history of biting, and that this neighbor
Speaker 1: had been and taunting Conan for months and approached him aggressively. I,
Speaker 1: as a fan of canines, have never quite understood the
Speaker 1: blanket policies of a dog bite results in euthanasia, right,
Speaker 1: because there are so many times when humans are the factor, Right,
Speaker 1: humans are the ones that cause this dog to react
Speaker 1: in such a way.
Speaker 4: I don't know enough about this one to make a
Speaker 4: decision one way or the other. But this is also
Speaker 4: I mean, if they're right and Conan doesn't have any
Speaker 4: history of biting, even if it is a pit bull.
Speaker 1: That's part of the story that I don't like, because
Speaker 1: pit bulls get such a bad rep for being dangerous
Speaker 1: and aggressive, and they're not if you raise them correctly.
Speaker 8: Yea.
Speaker 1: And so what I don't like about this story is
Speaker 1: they're saying, no, Conan's great, Conan's wonderful, Conan's fabulous, has
Speaker 1: never done this and then out of nowhere bite somebody.
Speaker 1: It's kind of bad for the reputation of pit bulls.
Speaker 4: The family actually has an interesting surrogate on their side,
Speaker 4: in former La County Sheriff Alex Vinueva. He spoke on
Speaker 4: their behalf and said, we're here to support Conan, who's
Speaker 4: slated to be executed. The dog was doing what dogs
Speaker 4: are trained to do and protect their owner. I don't
Speaker 4: know if this one was actually trained to do that
Speaker 4: or if it was just reacting. And for the neighbor
Speaker 4: who was instigating and harassing the dog, this never would
Speaker 4: have occurred. Vivian vien Aueva said, I'm here for Conan,
Speaker 4: and he doesn't have a voice, but he has ours,
Speaker 4: and if I could use this platform tweaking that tension, I'm.
Speaker 6: Going to do that.
Speaker 4: The woman who was bitten is arguing that all she
Speaker 4: did was lift her arm in front of Conan.
Speaker 6: Uh huh.
Speaker 4: I'm sure that's if the neighbors, if the dog's owners
Speaker 4: are telling people that you have a history of aggravating, instigating,
Speaker 4: molesting the dog and you just happened to lift your
Speaker 4: arm one time in front of the dog and it
Speaker 4: chomps down on you.
Speaker 3: Chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp chomp. You want to feel
Speaker 3: good story.
Speaker 6: I this is a fun story. This one. Yeah, this
Speaker 6: is a fun story.
Speaker 3: It's very sweet.
Speaker 1: And I mean the fact that she can still do
Speaker 1: that stunt, well, that's a hell of a fly.
Speaker 6: Everybody's holding her up.
Speaker 3: That's that's a stunt.
Speaker 6: What does that mean?
Speaker 3: People hold you up in a stunt like a pop
Speaker 3: up that you.
Speaker 6: Meant like she's going to do a backflip or something.
Speaker 1: No, the fact that she's able to be a flyer
Speaker 1: at her age is incredible.
Speaker 6: I'm using words that don't make sense.
Speaker 3: I know, I was just wondering. I'm listening to you, guys.
Speaker 10: I'm off for the week. It's wonderful, lucky. Any what
Speaker 10: are whippets all? I know our whippets are dogs, right, whippets?
Speaker 10: But I am getting older, so you know anyhow, happy
Speaker 10: thanksgiving you to love you guys.
Speaker 3: Tell me what kind of birds you have?
Speaker 1: Get back on that talk back, app I want to
Speaker 1: hear about those birds.
Speaker 3: Whippets is basically nitrous ox.
Speaker 1: It's like huffing, you know what I mean, Like you're
Speaker 1: inhaling the nitrous oxide from whatever you're using. Uh. I
Speaker 1: don't even know what you would use, some sort of
Speaker 1: airsol something I don't know.
Speaker 3: How it works.
Speaker 4: Couldn't you do it out of a I'm not gonna say, well,
Speaker 4: let's not do a how to, okay. I mean, since
Speaker 4: we are your recreational drug show of choice, we're going.
Speaker 3: To get such a how to from somebody.
Speaker 4: No, no, and I don't want that. We don't I
Speaker 4: know how to do it. It's just you don't.
Speaker 6: Just don't do it.
Speaker 1: It's like the laughing guess your doctor used to give
Speaker 1: you y, yeah, but more and more concentrated and illegal.
Speaker 6: You don't do it.
Speaker 3: Don't do it.
Speaker 4: It's stupid and like you said, it's juvenile. It's jude,
Speaker 4: you're over the age of seventeen and your crushing whip.
Speaker 4: It's a loser. A loser. Drugs are bad.
Speaker 6: Yeah, do you know that?
Speaker 3: I read this morning?
Speaker 1: I was article about the zebra trend where people have
Speaker 1: one alcoholic beverage and then have like water, and then
Speaker 1: have a beer and then have a water, which is
Speaker 1: to me is just common sense.
Speaker 6: That's a trend.
Speaker 3: That's a trend. It's called zebra drinking.
Speaker 1: And then I was reading about how right now it's
Speaker 1: just up ending the wine industry that there's this demand
Speaker 1: for zero percent alcohol wine sparkling Rose and the like,
Speaker 1: and how it's completely up ending the industry. And then
Speaker 1: I read this one in three pubs in Britain is
Speaker 1: there's no alcohol in the pubs one in three?
Speaker 3: What I know?
Speaker 1: I was shocked because a pub, a pint at a
Speaker 1: pub is a way of life over there.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Is it that they don't serve any alcohol or they
Speaker 4: serve like non alcohol, any alcohol, non alcoholic beers, non
Speaker 4: alcohol pub weird?
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, great story here.
Speaker 4: Islajeen Daring is someone's gram probably someone's great grandma.
Speaker 1: By now, Ila Jeen is ninety seven even years old,
Speaker 1: and she lives in an assisted living center. It's called
Speaker 1: Candlestone Assisted Living.
Speaker 11: And she says that they had trigger treating there and
Speaker 11: it was a girl who showed up in a young
Speaker 11: cheerleader outfit costume for tricker treating and Ila Jean sees
Speaker 11: this cheerleader on Halloween and there's just a flood of
Speaker 11: memories and all of a sudden, Elajeen cannot stop talking
Speaker 11: to her caregivers about cheerleading, about how she felt most
Speaker 11: alive when she was seventeen, and she was a maryl
Speaker 11: High School cheerleader.
Speaker 1: In Meryll Michigan. She said, I'm still flexible. I still
Speaker 1: got it.
Speaker 4: So the wellness director at this Candlestone assisted living facility,
Speaker 4: Ariel Raddick, starts thinking, makes a Facebook post does anybody
Speaker 4: have availability for a Meryl High School cheerleading uniform? And
Speaker 4: by the end of that day, the school superintendent had
Speaker 4: found out and alerted the high school's cheering coach and
Speaker 4: then said, I thought we had to act quickly. She's
Speaker 4: ninety seven, which yes. So she got together this varsity squad,
Speaker 4: twelve girls. They grabbed every uniform they could find. Said,
Speaker 4: we didn't know her size or what condition she was in.
Speaker 4: We didn't know what to expect.
Speaker 3: Now. Eila Jean.
Speaker 1: Growing up, she was responsible for taking care of her
Speaker 1: nine siblings, and she in nineteen forty five formed the
Speaker 1: cheerleading squad at Merrill High She said it was something
Speaker 1: fun for her to do and something that she had
Speaker 1: for herself. You know, when you're taking care of nine siblings,
Speaker 1: it's nice to have a little something for yourself. Back then,
Speaker 1: by the way, the squad had a local seamstress make
Speaker 1: their uniforms, or the girls would sew them together themselves.
Speaker 6: Well about two weeks after Halloween.
Speaker 4: The staff there at the nursing home set up the
Speaker 4: stage for all of this. The van rolls into a
Speaker 4: dry and Isla Jean's eyes light up and when they says,
Speaker 4: team walks in, is this for me? The coach cheer
Speaker 4: coach said, We asked her if she remembered any cheers
Speaker 4: from when she was in school, which was over eighty
Speaker 4: years ago, and she said, yes.
Speaker 2: Come on, you come on, right, right right, come on,
Speaker 2: come on, tipe sid.
Speaker 1: Whoa I mean incredible. She rallied the squad with her
Speaker 1: pom poms. They gave her the uniform. She goes to
Speaker 1: the bathroom and suits up. She even did very impressive
Speaker 1: high kicks at ninety seven.
Speaker 3: They say.
Speaker 1: Then came the moment no one expected. One of the
Speaker 1: cheerleaders performed in aerial stunts. So it's like a pop
Speaker 1: up where you know, you've all seen the stunts right
Speaker 1: where there's one cheerleader on top and two or three
Speaker 1: on the bottom.
Speaker 3: And she wanted in and one.
Speaker 1: Of the girls says, you want to go up and
Speaker 1: Ela Jean says absolutely. So they looked to the staff
Speaker 1: of the assisted living place and they're like, is this okay?
Speaker 3: They get the Okay.
Speaker 1: Wow, she locked her legs, which is hard to do,
Speaker 1: and she went soaring in the air as a couple
Speaker 1: of cheerleaders held her up.
Speaker 6: Well, a couple.
Speaker 4: The picture I saw, it looks like everybody is there
Speaker 4: just in case something happened.
Speaker 1: No, that's it normal that there's two girls on the
Speaker 1: side and one on the back. That's a normal formation. Okay,
Speaker 1: right here, you don't know what you're talking about. I
Speaker 1: don't know what I'm talking about. This is like whippets
Speaker 1: and hot rails.
Speaker 4: Anyways, ninety seven year old cheerleaders is out of my
Speaker 4: you know, my daily practice.
Speaker 3: It was very sweet.
Speaker 1: Some residents even held up oversized cutouts of Eila Jean's
Speaker 1: face to give her more support. People were bursting out
Speaker 1: in tears when she went up in that stunt, biggest
Speaker 1: smile on her face. It was also a meaningful experience
Speaker 1: for the current square as well.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's very cool.
Speaker 1: Now, she said. She shared some wisdom as well, not
Speaker 1: just cheers. Enjoy your figures. She told the girls eat
Speaker 1: Hershey chocolates, throw in some tips about boys. They put
Speaker 1: a photo of Eila Jean in their locker room. The
Speaker 1: cheer squad did, and before each game, they performed one
Speaker 1: of the chants that she taught them as their pregame ritual,
Speaker 1: come on, come on.
Speaker 2: Right right, come on, come on type clive.
Speaker 1: The girls have gone back a couple times already to visit.
Speaker 6: Her very cool, good story. I'm thankful for that story.
Speaker 1: She's often spotted outside practicing her high kicks in the field.
Speaker 6: She says, seen, we're gonna need you to come back in.
Speaker 1: She says, if you don't get off your butt and
Speaker 1: do some exercise to keep yourself active, you're gonna lose it.
Speaker 1: She said, it's pretty obvious. I'm not acting my age,
Speaker 1: but I'm ninety seven. I can still be your cheerleader.
Speaker 1: Don't act your age.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you can do whatever the heck you want. At
Speaker 6: ninety seven, what.
Speaker 1: Age do you think would be appropriate if I knocked
Speaker 1: over this tree? Not?
Speaker 6: Not good? Not a good age. No, No, all.
Speaker 3: Right, we'll do swamp flats. Will we come back?
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