Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. We are going to talk about
Speaker 1: what's going on with the race to prevent this government
Speaker 1: shutdown here in just a few minutes. It could hit
Speaker 1: in a couple of hours. Of course, we've seen some
Speaker 1: scrambling around the capitol. Speaker Mike Johnson has said that
Speaker 1: they have now a plan C that they will try
Speaker 1: to get in place before the government shutdown. I think
Speaker 1: we're just under twelve hours before the government would effectively
Speaker 1: finger quotes shut down. But he did enter the Capitol
Speaker 1: today and say, yes, we have a plan. There's a
Speaker 1: big dealing, big doings, I should say back East, Middle East,
Speaker 1: that far back east. The US says it has killed
Speaker 1: an ISIS leader in Syria Abu Yusuf. US scent Com
Speaker 1: says it carried out an air strike targeting Yusuf. Also
Speaker 1: goes by mak Mood in an area controlled by the
Speaker 1: Syrian regime and the Russian forces. Before bashar Asad all
Speaker 1: went down, stock market is watching what's going on.
Speaker 2: When it comes to Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: It'll close out a tough week saw the Dow Jones
Speaker 1: Industrial Average drop eleven hundred points in a single day,
Speaker 1: complete its worst losing streak since the nineteen seventies, when
Speaker 1: it fell ten days in a row. As of right now,
Speaker 1: it's a pretty positive bounce back. The Dow is up
Speaker 1: more than seven hundred points, almost eight hundred points as
Speaker 1: they're trying to reverse. Like I said, one of the
Speaker 1: worst weeks that we've seen in a long time. Well, today,
Speaker 1: Shannon's out. She's traveling for the holidays already. So rather
Speaker 1: than change the name of the show, I figured we
Speaker 1: would bring in.
Speaker 2: Shannon number one. Thank you for coming in.
Speaker 3: You're so welcome. And this is a terrible idea.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, we'll see talk to me in four hours
Speaker 1: and we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 3: We're still talking.
Speaker 1: If that's the case, then yes, we can discuss it.
Speaker 1: John Decker is joining us. He is live in Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. Who has been covering all of the story
Speaker 1: keeping an eye on what's going on with the potential
Speaker 1: for a government shutdown. John, where do we stand with
Speaker 1: this new Plan C and doesn't have a shot at
Speaker 1: actually passing?
Speaker 4: Well, it is planed C because plans A and B
Speaker 4: have failed largely because of House Republicans, and now they
Speaker 4: are putting together a plan that they're calling Plans C
Speaker 4: to avoid a government shutdown, which would happen at midnight tonight.
Speaker 4: You have to keep in mind of both the House
Speaker 4: and the Senate. Both parties have very narrow majorities, and
Speaker 4: for that reason do you need compromise. You need to
Speaker 4: have both parties working together to come up with a
Speaker 4: compromise that can pass both the House and the Senate.
Speaker 4: Do that today and get it to President Biden's death
Speaker 4: for his signature.
Speaker 1: What do they change about this one compared to the
Speaker 1: two previous iterations.
Speaker 4: Well, as you may have seen, about thirty eight, House
Speaker 4: Republicans essentially thumb their nose at President Electdonald Trump. And
Speaker 4: the reason they did on that bill Plan B is
Speaker 4: because of one item that was contained in that spending
Speaker 4: proposal that would have extended the debt ceiling for another
Speaker 4: few years to twenty twenty seven, and that was a
Speaker 4: no go for deficit hawks in the House of Representatives
Speaker 4: who are Republicans. So what Plan C does. It gets
Speaker 4: rid of that particular proposal. And they believe by getting
Speaker 4: rid of that they can get their team on board
Speaker 4: in Unison to support Plan C.
Speaker 1: All right, well, that work is gonna take place over
Speaker 1: the next couple of hours and we'll keep an eye
Speaker 1: on that. Throw a curveball here. We know that Vice
Speaker 1: President Harris stayed in Washington. She was supposed to come
Speaker 1: out here to California. And I saw some reports, and
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're true or not, that President
Speaker 1: Biden returned to d C from his planned vacation.
Speaker 2: Where what are we doing here? What's going on with that?
Speaker 4: No, well, you're incorrect about President Biden. He's planning to
Speaker 4: take vacation next week. He's heading out of town early
Speaker 4: next week and heading to Saint Croix. That's a destination
Speaker 4: that is an annual tradition in the Biden family. So
Speaker 4: he came back from being in Wilmington for two days
Speaker 4: earlier this week. He is here today. No comment though
Speaker 4: by President Biden as it relates to the possibility of
Speaker 4: a government shutdown. All that we have seen is a
Speaker 4: statement put out in his name by the White House
Speaker 4: Press Secretary. I'm in the White House Press Briefing room
Speaker 4: right now, and we're waiting for the White House Press
Speaker 4: briefing to start in approximately ten minutes or so, and
Speaker 4: we'll hear the latest in terms of the administration's position
Speaker 4: concerning plan See. But as for the Vice President, you
Speaker 4: met her right at the top. She is here maybe
Speaker 4: simply because it's a very narrow majority the Democrats have
Speaker 4: in the US Senate, and of course, because of that
Speaker 4: narrow majority, the vice president often breaks tie. So that
Speaker 4: could be the reason why she remained in Washington, d City.
Speaker 2: So it appears it's just a procedural thing.
Speaker 1: She's just getting ready for the possibility, not to mention it,
Speaker 1: and it would not look great if both the president
Speaker 1: and vice president were out of DC, if we ended
Speaker 1: up being a shutdown.
Speaker 4: Oh absolutely, I think that is one hundred percent right.
Speaker 4: And you see the spin coming from both political parties
Speaker 4: right now. If there is a government shutdown, Democrats will
Speaker 4: lay the blame at the feat of Republicans. And you know, look,
Speaker 4: there was a deal that was agreed to by the
Speaker 4: leadership of both parties and the House and the Senate,
Speaker 4: including the House Speaker Mike Johnson. But that agreement essentially
Speaker 4: blew up because of what Donald Trump, the President elect,
Speaker 4: put out on social media telling Republicans do not support
Speaker 4: this compromise.
Speaker 2: All right, John, thanks for your stuff. We appreciate it absolutely.
Speaker 4: I'll talk to you real soon.
Speaker 1: You got John Decker there live from Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: With the latest on this and again the clock is ticking.
Speaker 1: It's under twelve hours before the potential for a government shutdown.
Speaker 1: As he mentioned, we're on Plans C and we'll talk
Speaker 1: about how it is that Mike Johnson thinks he's going
Speaker 1: to push this thing through today versus the other two
Speaker 1: iterations that we saw earlier. We already got your first message,
Speaker 1: so buckle up.
Speaker 5: Buttercup Hoffman's voice.
Speaker 2: I am a long let me start from the beginning.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Jerry and Shannon Hoffman. So excited to hear
Speaker 5: Shannon Hoffman's voice. I am a longtime listener at least
Speaker 5: for COVID, but I don't know if you've ever been
Speaker 5: on the air before, Missus Hoffman, and so I'm excited
Speaker 5: to get to know you through your voice a little more,
Speaker 5: even though I feel like we know you as OKAFI listeners.
Speaker 5: Very exciting.
Speaker 6: You're the best.
Speaker 7: You guys, have a good day.
Speaker 3: Well, Christmas came early for Hern't that's a lot of
Speaker 3: pressure and for you. She already loves you. That's true.
Speaker 3: Friendly crowd from the crowd.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is an easier crowd. I hope it's also Friday.
Speaker 2: People are going to be a little more relaxed. But
Speaker 2: we're going to come back.
Speaker 3: And I can tell by your sweatshirt and ball cap
Speaker 3: that you're wear into the workplace.
Speaker 2: Oh, because so many people at work saw me.
Speaker 8: I'm just saying, you're very judge on what people wear
Speaker 8: to work, and here you are, slumpy.
Speaker 2: You are much more dressed up than I ever would
Speaker 2: be on a front.
Speaker 3: I'm a professional.
Speaker 1: Gary and Shannon Number one. The stock market is watching
Speaker 1: what's going on in DC, and actually, right now it's
Speaker 1: doing pretty well. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up
Speaker 1: over eight hundred points this coming on what could have
Speaker 1: been the tough week. There was an eleven hundred point
Speaker 1: drop in a single day. We saw ten straight days
Speaker 1: of losing on the Dow, and that was the longest
Speaker 1: losing streak for the DAO since the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 2: We'll talk more about it next hour.
Speaker 1: But workers with the Teamsters union striking again at Amazon
Speaker 1: facilities around the country, including here in LA. Members of
Speaker 1: the Starbucks Workers United group have also staged to walk
Speaker 1: out the first time in thirteen months, and they're doing
Speaker 1: so here in LA as well as Chicago and Seattle.
Speaker 1: If your plan and on going to northern California, this
Speaker 1: could be a rough weekend.
Speaker 2: They're saying.
Speaker 1: The first of the storm systems that's going to be
Speaker 1: coming in is expected to move into.
Speaker 2: The Bay Area tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1: That should be about a quarter of an inch of
Speaker 1: rain somewhere San Francisco and Oakland, according to the National
Speaker 1: Weather Service, the valleys up in the North Bay half
Speaker 1: inch to three quarters of an inchro I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just a normal storm. But if you're driving or flying
Speaker 1: in I saw some delays already in and out of
Speaker 1: Sacramento International because of it's funny to call it Sacramento International,
Speaker 1: but Sacramento International because they had some fog apparently in
Speaker 1: that area. And then an event to celebrate the top
Speaker 1: restaurants in La sickened several dozen people neuro virus due
Speaker 1: to an outbreak link to raw oysters, and neurovirus will
Speaker 1: empty you out quickly.
Speaker 3: That's a hard way to lose five pounds.
Speaker 1: LA County's Department of Public Health said the outbreak stemmed
Speaker 1: from an event at the Hollywood Palladium celebrating the La
Speaker 1: Times list of the one hundred and one best restaurants
Speaker 1: back on the third of December. So before we get
Speaker 1: back into our government shutdown.
Speaker 9: Talk, Hey Gary and Shannon, Good morning Gary and fake
Speaker 9: Shannon or other Shon Shon.
Speaker 2: Number one is a terrible idea.
Speaker 1: You're right, you nailed it.
Speaker 9: I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2: I have a wonderful holiday.
Speaker 1: Thank your by. To be clear, everybody calls you Shannon
Speaker 1: number one. Yes, even Shannon number two's husband calls you
Speaker 1: Shannon number one.
Speaker 3: Absolutely yes, all right, as it should be.
Speaker 1: So Mike Johnson says we will have a Plan CE
Speaker 1: or he's working on a Plan C, because the first
Speaker 1: two got shut down. This would try to avoid a
Speaker 1: government shutdown coming up by at nine o'clock.
Speaker 2: To night our time.
Speaker 1: And he says they're going to try to pass three
Speaker 1: separate bills.
Speaker 2: As opposed to all of them together.
Speaker 1: So you got a short term funding bill, you got
Speaker 1: money for natural disasters, and then a one year farm
Speaker 1: bill extension with some aid for farmers. A shutdown deadline,
Speaker 1: like I said, under twelve hours if they do this,
Speaker 1: and here's another weird thing. If they do this through
Speaker 1: the Rules committee first, then it only needs a simple
Speaker 1: majority in the House. If they just try to do
Speaker 1: this on the House without going to committee first, it
Speaker 1: needs two thirds, which is why they've had such a
Speaker 1: problem getting to I mean, they weren't even close to
Speaker 1: a simple majority on the other bills, but that's why
Speaker 1: they would do it that way this time.
Speaker 8: So the first one was fifteen hundred pages, the second
Speaker 8: one was one hundred and sixteen pages, right, and now
Speaker 8: that's split.
Speaker 3: What have we got to down.
Speaker 1: To thirty pages apiece? Thirty five pages apiece something like that.
Speaker 1: I mean that basically. But the concern was for a
Speaker 1: lot of Republicans that even that second version, even though
Speaker 1: it was that much smaller, increased the debt. Chip Roy,
Speaker 1: congressman out of Texas, yelled at his own party members yesterday.
Speaker 10: To take this bill yesterday and congratulate yourself because it's
Speaker 10: shorter in pages but increases the debt by five trillion dollars.
Speaker 10: Is asinine. This side of the aisle is profoundly unserious
Speaker 10: about actually reducing deficits.
Speaker 1: One of his compatriots from Florida, a congressman named Carlo Samenez,
Speaker 1: also Republican. He said an interesting thing in an interview
Speaker 1: this morning. He said, yes, we want to reduce the debt,
Speaker 1: just not yet.
Speaker 2: Were in the Republican Party. Want to reduce our debt.
Speaker 7: But we can't do it overnight, and so we know
Speaker 7: we have to increase the debt living and so that's
Speaker 7: why that was in the resolution. The other parts of it, right,
Speaker 7: you don't want to keep the government open, that's a
Speaker 7: cr You don't want to help those living ravaged by
Speaker 7: natural disasters, you don't want to help our farmers. Really,
Speaker 7: that's what you voted against. No, I'm sorry, that's why
Speaker 7: I voted for it.
Speaker 2: So he was one of those that did vote for it.
Speaker 1: Now, it's never as simple as that, because it's stupid
Speaker 1: politics and they always try to shoehorn stuff into there,
Speaker 1: and they will continue to do so today. Keep an
Speaker 1: eye on it. Government shutdown talk is never sexy, but.
Speaker 3: It happens all the time, and it happens all the time.
Speaker 3: Why is anyone surprised by this? And I feel like
Speaker 3: this crunch is manufactured.
Speaker 1: Well, I think it's weird that they're doing it in
Speaker 1: this lame duck time because Joe Biden doesn't have to
Speaker 1: do anything, and there's no pressure on him to do
Speaker 1: anything because it's not his A lot of people think
Speaker 1: it's not his. Trump put out on a truth social
Speaker 1: I'd much rather have a government shutdown while Biden is
Speaker 1: president than after January twentieth when he becomes president, just
Speaker 1: because of the He doesn't want the stink on him.
Speaker 1: The question is who gets the stink on this thing.
Speaker 1: The Republicans are right now in control of the House.
Speaker 3: They all get the stink. Everybody's smelly. This is horrible.
Speaker 3: It reminds me of what my dad said. He's like,
Speaker 3: lack of planning on your part does not constitute an
Speaker 3: emergency on my part. So they're like, everybody feel the pain,
Speaker 3: and we're not going to give money to X y Z.
Speaker 3: That's on you guys.
Speaker 2: But then they've all and yes, they know it.
Speaker 1: They know when they passed the last Continuing Resolution that
Speaker 1: midnight January twentieth into the twenty first was going to
Speaker 1: be the deadline. Well why do we get this close
Speaker 1: to it before we have some sort of a deal.
Speaker 1: And pressure is you know, the only thing that motivates
Speaker 1: people in DC.
Speaker 2: It sounds like good.
Speaker 6: Morning, Gary and Shannon. Number one I'm so excited to
Speaker 6: hear you guys together today. I remember when Shannon number
Speaker 6: one was on with you years ago before COVID, because
Speaker 6: that's how we measure time now. And you guys are
Speaker 6: doing a segment on Game of Thrones and she and
Speaker 6: and you were so good. You were intelligent and articulate
Speaker 6: and I loved it. And you did a great job then,
Speaker 6: and you'll do a great job today. Have a great show, guys,
Speaker 6: and Gary, thank you, No Lutie, if you know what's
Speaker 6: good for you to.
Speaker 3: Trust mellu Ti.
Speaker 2: I don't remember that Game of thing.
Speaker 3: I had forgotten. I was trying to think of the
Speaker 3: drive in today. When was the last time. We've never
Speaker 3: done this? But you did interview me in twenty ten
Speaker 3: after the Haiti earthquake, right, you did not allow it
Speaker 3: to be live. We appreciaped it.
Speaker 9: We did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we sat in a little booth and you asked
Speaker 3: me questions.
Speaker 1: Well, that's because I was also doing the Sunday Show
Speaker 1: at the time. That's probably why I played it. I
Speaker 1: played it then. I didn't allow you to be live.
Speaker 3: We know it could be dangerous. Where is it?
Speaker 1: I said, it's the one that says dump okay down
Speaker 1: at the bottom there.
Speaker 2: I have one too, Jacob Scott one, you have trained to.
Speaker 3: Do some tourettes or something and start swearing on air.
Speaker 2: You're not gonna it's gonna be Oh Gary, Hello, Shannon
Speaker 2: number one.
Speaker 4: This is Gary and Santa Creta. Got a question for Shannon.
Speaker 9: Do you ever listen to Gary during the day and
Speaker 9: just turn it off and be like, I get enough
Speaker 9: with this guy at home.
Speaker 4: I don't need to listen to this now too.
Speaker 3: I do listen to all the thank you I do listen.
Speaker 3: The only time I turn it off is probably if
Speaker 3: you guys are a little long in the tooth on football, right.
Speaker 1: And then, speaking of which, gas Fantasy for play coming
Speaker 1: up with twelve o'clock out.
Speaker 3: Got my picks when you tell stories wrong, like if
Speaker 3: if you're talking about something about our kids or me
Speaker 3: or you and I'm like, oh my gosh, I screwed
Speaker 3: it up. It's so maddening. But that's what you remember,
Speaker 3: do you? Those are the key points? Yeah, those are
Speaker 3: your takeaways.
Speaker 1: That's the feedback I get when I get home. I
Speaker 1: get notes if I tell the story text. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: couple of stories that we're following Luigi Mangioni, of course,
Speaker 1: was back in New York. Now he was hit with
Speaker 1: new federal murder and stalking charges because of the execution
Speaker 1: of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson that the federal charges
Speaker 1: now mean that he could be eligible for the death
Speaker 1: penalty federally, because even with a first degree murder in
Speaker 1: New York there is no death penalty. So if they
Speaker 1: were able to prove the first degree or remember we
Speaker 1: talked about it this earlier this week, the first degree
Speaker 1: murder requirements in New York are very specific that it
Speaker 1: has to be somebody. You have to have killed a
Speaker 1: law enforcement officer or a judge or something like that,
Speaker 1: and there were a couple other conditions. It doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like this would ness. Oh, terrorism was the other thing,
Speaker 1: and that's how they were going to go after him,
Speaker 1: was that this was an act of terrorism. So we'll
Speaker 1: see the federal complaint charges murder through the use of
Speaker 1: a firearm, a couple counts of stalking, in one count
Speaker 1: of possession of a firearm all federal offenses.
Speaker 3: Do they allow tweezers in federal prison.
Speaker 1: I don't know how he got that cleaned up? Would
Speaker 1: he looked cleaned up when they when he got off
Speaker 1: the helicopter. Yes, I mean clearly he had shaved, but
Speaker 1: I think there was.
Speaker 3: That's that's a Tweezer man issue. You got to get
Speaker 3: you get it in there with the eyebrow there maybe
Speaker 3: some scotch table do it.
Speaker 2: Plug your ears for a second.
Speaker 1: College football's twelve team playoff begins today in Indiana at
Speaker 1: Notre Dame tonight and then tomorrow three more games SMU
Speaker 1: at Penn State, Clemson at Texas, Tennessee at Ohio State,
Speaker 1: and of course, the Chargers beat up on the Broncos
Speaker 1: thirty four to twenty seven last night, so.
Speaker 2: They get a little bit closer to the playoffs as
Speaker 2: a result.
Speaker 1: The only response from Shannon last night was that was fun,
Speaker 1: capital fun, Like she enjoyed watching that game from the
Speaker 1: sidelines because it was pretty exciting.
Speaker 3: Same Sea's, It's not same Ze's.
Speaker 1: So the Pentagon announced that two thousand American troops are
Speaker 1: in Syria. Here's why that's important. That is significantly more
Speaker 1: than they said were in Syria.
Speaker 11: We have been briefing you regularly that there are approximately
Speaker 11: nine hundred US troops deployed to Syria. In light of
Speaker 11: the situation in Syria and the significant interest, we recently
Speaker 11: learned that those numbers were higher, and so asked to
Speaker 11: look into it. I learned today that, in fact, there
Speaker 11: are approximately two thousand US troops in Syria.
Speaker 2: Okay, you learned it.
Speaker 1: Major General pat Ryder is the Pentagon's press secretary. He's
Speaker 1: supposed to know those things, and he says he just learned,
Speaker 1: and he said we So I don't know if he
Speaker 1: means the communications office in the Pentagon or the Pentagon
Speaker 1: itself just learned this.
Speaker 3: Well, listen, I watched an episode of The Diplomat last night,
Speaker 3: so I feel like I can chime in on this.
Speaker 3: Maybe they withheld that information from him on purpose so
Speaker 3: he could have plausible to toil deniability. Oh, I just
Speaker 3: learned it.
Speaker 2: It's possible. It is possible.
Speaker 1: But this was an exchange he had with Jennifer Griffin,
Speaker 1: one of the Pentagon reporters.
Speaker 3: And double the number of troops that we've been told
Speaker 3: for quite some time.
Speaker 7: So are we talking about this has been going on
Speaker 7: for months, for years?
Speaker 3: Is it something that just happened this summer? I mean,
Speaker 3: we need a timeframe I think is fair.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think it would probably be fair to say
Speaker 11: at a minimum months. I'll go back and look. But
Speaker 11: it's the Yeah, it's been going on for a while.
Speaker 8: It was the President aware that there were two thousand
Speaker 8: US troops in Syria.
Speaker 11: I won't speak for the White House.
Speaker 2: He doesn't know. That seems to be clear.
Speaker 1: Now there is something positive about this, the fact that
Speaker 1: the time is right for us to have that many
Speaker 1: people in Syria right now. Dan Hoffman is a former
Speaker 1: CIA Chief of Station.
Speaker 12: We have an opportunity right now to achieve some strategic
Speaker 12: victories to deny Iran that land bridge to Lebanon so
Speaker 12: that they can provide his Bula with military equipment that's
Speaker 12: no longer possible right now.
Speaker 2: We can ensure that Russia no.
Speaker 12: Longer operates bases in Syria, a naval base and an
Speaker 12: air base that would limit Russia's ability to project power.
Speaker 12: And we've got to deal with the terrorist threat, the
Speaker 12: rising threat of drug sales from the Asade regime Captagon,
Speaker 12: and of course the chemical weapon stock pose.
Speaker 1: So maybe it's great that we have two thousand troops there.
Speaker 1: I mean, Israel has troops in Syria now because they're
Speaker 1: trying to prevent whatever power vacuum exists in Damascus from
Speaker 1: from bleeding over or from you know, bad guys getting
Speaker 1: the chemical weapon stocks or large weapon stocks that existed
Speaker 1: there in Syria under a sod uh. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we're going to take some ideas for last minute gifts.
Speaker 3: So you're telling me you haven't gotten shopping yet.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that, I'm just saying I'm open to
Speaker 1: I'm open to suggestions.
Speaker 9: Gary Shannon, who no, hopefully this is a clean show.
Speaker 9: You know, no boot knocked in or or booty booty
Speaker 9: booty suggestions or Jenotal talk with Shannon does. That's all
Speaker 9: she likes to talk about. She likes to get everybody
Speaker 9: riled up and then, uh, you know, play innocent, so
Speaker 9: he's not playing.
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Speaker 2: I want to describe your face. I can't. I just can't.
Speaker 1: My wife is in today, so it's it's still the
Speaker 1: Gary and Shannon Show. It's just just the Gary and
Speaker 1: Shannon show.
Speaker 4: Hey, good morning, Gary and Shannon number one. Well know
Speaker 4: how successful this gig is.
Speaker 9: If you guys drive home in the same car or not,
Speaker 9: that'll tell us how well it went.
Speaker 3: How much is an uber from burbank?
Speaker 2: Are about sixty bucks?
Speaker 3: Don't say it?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 13: Hey, Gary and Shannon number one, Shannon number one, can
Speaker 13: you tell us something about Gary that most people don't
Speaker 13: know about? Like does he walk around in his boxing
Speaker 13: shorts our day or does he does he like eat
Speaker 13: is food a certain way, like vegetables first and then
Speaker 13: protein and then starches.
Speaker 2: Thanks nice to have you on.
Speaker 9: Wow.
Speaker 3: They think you're a little weirdo, don't they? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: you are hyper normal. Hyper normal. That's kind of what
Speaker 3: I would say.
Speaker 1: I do think that white bread from top to bottom,
Speaker 1: pretty side out.
Speaker 3: But I like that.
Speaker 8: I will say, when people meet you and they don't
Speaker 8: know what you do for a living, yeah, it's hilarious
Speaker 8: to me because when I say, well, he works in radio,
Speaker 8: he's on a talk show, and they're like, your husband,
Speaker 8: he's kind of a mute.
Speaker 3: How does that work? You're very quiet socially.
Speaker 2: Well, yes, I don't.
Speaker 3: To the point where I have to tell you when
Speaker 3: we're going to a party. Okay, now, honey, you have
Speaker 3: to ask questions. Don't let me do all the work.
Speaker 1: Well, And we've had instances where I've I feel sometimes
Speaker 1: like I dominate. It's it's the nine on the enneagram
Speaker 1: where I feel like my voice is louder than it
Speaker 1: actually is.
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm yelling when I'm not.
Speaker 3: Could that be narcissism though, where you think it's all
Speaker 3: about you.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying it's all about me. I'm just saying
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm super conscious of being annoying, and I don't want
Speaker 1: to be annoying outside of this room.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Well, you also get all your words out.
Speaker 2: That is true. I do talk a lot at work,
Speaker 2: all right. So you're what four days, five days, four.
Speaker 1: Days technically from Christmas, and if you don't get something
Speaker 1: for the Christmas presents, you're, you know, in the doghouse.
Speaker 1: So there are a couple different versions of York Times
Speaker 1: actually had a great list of thirty three last minute
Speaker 1: Christmas gifts. Many of them I feel like some of
Speaker 1: these you could easily get at a ninety nine cent store.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you should, but I'm saying that this
Speaker 1: is Some of these things are things that you could
Speaker 1: get at a ninety nine cent story.
Speaker 8: I mean those that you don't shop much. What these
Speaker 8: are not I should get? I get a water the
Speaker 8: Lexardo cherries jar. Those cost fifteen bucks. Okay, do you
Speaker 8: think I don't know?
Speaker 3: It's not a fifteen dollars store?
Speaker 1: Well this is, Well, you're right, but I'm saying that
Speaker 1: this first one is a twenty four ounce water bottle.
Speaker 1: You could get a water bottles. See that's the problem.
Speaker 1: The bluetooth speakers are easy to get. Excellent pocket knife
Speaker 1: that's going to cost you about fifty bucks from the
Speaker 1: sat mark next to that one, Well, no, I just
Speaker 1: it's my little tick. I put a little pen mark
Speaker 1: there because I prefer that bourbon moth blade, the bourbon blade.
Speaker 3: That that guy, that guy sells what too late?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's artist kits, there's watches. There's the everywhere chair
Speaker 1: that my parents used to have. They could go to
Speaker 1: a sporting event with bleachers and actually have a back
Speaker 1: instead of just sitting on that hard heart aluminum storage case.
Speaker 3: An umbrella candles?
Speaker 2: Is the candle enough for a for a gift? Okay?
Speaker 2: Feet I haven't gotten you slippers in a long time.
Speaker 3: I have already. I'm good.
Speaker 2: That's what I that's the problem.
Speaker 1: If you talked about this last week, that's the problem
Speaker 1: is so we talked to this when Justin was here
Speaker 1: this week, about what you get kids, you know, and
Speaker 1: tempering their expectations about what you can get for kids,
Speaker 1: and people go overboard. We spend way too much money,
Speaker 1: money on money, money on kids, and have for a
Speaker 1: long time. I mean we in general, not just you
Speaker 1: and I, but we're in a place where if you
Speaker 1: wanted something like leopard print slippers, you could get leopard
Speaker 1: print slippers like that and they'd be delivered to your house,
Speaker 1: which is also my house, in four hours if you
Speaker 1: could pick the right ones.
Speaker 3: Well, not now, because apparently Amazon's striking, so.
Speaker 2: They'll be fine.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 8: The interesting thing we did with our kids one year,
Speaker 8: I don't know if you remember this. Would they're making
Speaker 8: out their big Christmas list. They get the toys r
Speaker 8: US catalog in front of them. They're circling the target,
Speaker 8: they're circling everything. And I was getting frustrated and I said,
Speaker 8: what did you get for Christmas last year? And neither
Speaker 8: of those little fart knockers could name anything. And I'm like,
Speaker 8: all right, well, if you can't remember things, then why
Speaker 8: are we going to make this big list and get
Speaker 8: you more toys this year?
Speaker 2: And that just it really hit them, didn't it.
Speaker 3: They really sunk in change their character so much more grateful.
Speaker 2: They apologized and they thought, you know what.
Speaker 3: They said, let's go volunteer at a homeless shelter, right.
Speaker 1: And all these toys I'm circling, I'm going to give
Speaker 1: them away, That's what they said.
Speaker 3: Nope, still far.
Speaker 1: Let us know what you have in mind for a
Speaker 1: last minute Christmas gift. And I don't mean like good
Speaker 1: Jora mayonnaise. If there is really something that you can
Speaker 1: still get over the next couple of days, let us
Speaker 1: know what it is. Leave us a talk back, or
Speaker 1: the weird family traditions that you do. I don't think
Speaker 1: we really we don't have a weird tradition. We've been
Speaker 1: pretty adamant about the at least the four of us
Speaker 1: on Christmas Day, that.
Speaker 3: Morning protected Christmas Morning for the four of us.
Speaker 1: Yes, more people can come, but if we're going to
Speaker 1: do it, we're going to do Christmas the four of us.
Speaker 2: At some point, just the four of us, maybe five,
Speaker 2: Is that weird? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's weird. I know other people
Speaker 1: they'll do Christmas. They'll have two families. They got to
Speaker 1: hit on Christmas Eve, another one they'll hit Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't start until midnight. And then you get
Speaker 1: up first thing in the morning, you do the stockings
Speaker 1: on Christmas morning, breakfast, Christmas dinner, all of that.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The tradition your kids tried to push every year was
Speaker 3: we need to start a tradition of opening up a
Speaker 3: present on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because they had friends that did that right, and
Speaker 1: they thought that they were better and they're.
Speaker 3: Not said, that's not in the Christmas contract.
Speaker 2: That's not in the Bible. All right, we'll take some
Speaker 2: of those talkbacks.
Speaker 1: Let us know you're crazy Christmas traditions or last minute gifts.
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