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.
Speaker 2: A little bit later, of course, are True Crime Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Michael Monks is going to join us. Thousands of people
Speaker 2: working for LA County are now striking. They are walking
Speaker 2: picket lines and a big demonstration going on downtown. So
Speaker 2: we'll talk with him about the latest. Fifty five thousand
Speaker 2: LA County workers currently on streting.
Speaker 1: Apparently, traffic this morning downtown is a nightmare with people
Speaker 1: walking off the job. There you're on TikTok. Have you
Speaker 1: gotten involved with the enema trend? Well, let me I'll
Speaker 1: just say this, it was an interesting morning. Really, I
Speaker 1: thought you looked extra special fresh this morning.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: But we start with the FBI. This was the headline
Speaker 1: that the FBI is using polygraphs, and I thought, okay,
Speaker 1: it's the FBI. Who else uses lie detector tests more
Speaker 1: than the f BI?
Speaker 3: This is not entirely unusual.
Speaker 2: Intelligent and intelligence agencies often use light detector polygraph tests
Speaker 2: in order to make sure that people are, you know,
Speaker 2: on the up and up and not spying for some
Speaker 2: other country.
Speaker 1: Well, they say that these in particular, these polygraph text
Speaker 1: tests in particular, are to find out who is leaking
Speaker 1: information to the press.
Speaker 4: So they're using it on their own.
Speaker 1: They say that in some cases they're using polygraph tests
Speaker 1: that current and former officials say are creating a climate
Speaker 1: of fear and intimidation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, this is not the movies. And a lie
Speaker 2: detector test is not a lie detector test in the
Speaker 2: traditional sense that you would think of. A polygraph measures
Speaker 2: your stress. And if the climate in the FBI or
Speaker 2: the Office of National Intelligence or the CI whatever wherever
Speaker 2: it is, if here they started doing polygraph tests on people,
Speaker 2: they get a lot of people who are stressed out.
Speaker 1: That's why polygraph tests are so unreliable and are thrown
Speaker 1: out a lot in court.
Speaker 3: Get it in court.
Speaker 1: No, but still it's ridiculous, right that you go to
Speaker 1: work and somebody hooks you up to a lie detector test.
Speaker 1: I mean when you think about the FBI using light
Speaker 1: detector tests. Of course they do when they're investigating people
Speaker 1: or what have you. But using it on your own
Speaker 1: is kind of different.
Speaker 4: Isn't it. You shouldn't have to you shouldn't.
Speaker 1: Have to take a lie detector test or a stress test,
Speaker 1: whatever the hell you want to call it. They're hooking
Speaker 1: you up to a machine and measuring your personal levels.
Speaker 1: And that's intrusive, and I would not sign off on
Speaker 1: going to work and getting a lie detector test.
Speaker 3: But also you have you would well to go back
Speaker 3: to the climate.
Speaker 2: This, they say, has, you know, added to this climate
Speaker 2: of everybody's looking over their shoulders. They're not quite sure
Speaker 2: what management's going to do if you don't toe the
Speaker 2: party line or in this case, the line that the
Speaker 2: president and the Secretary of Defense, for example, have in mind.
Speaker 2: Than you are on the outs and could leave or
Speaker 2: could be shown the door. A lot of people have
Speaker 2: decided to show themselves the door. They've taken the early buyouts,
Speaker 2: or they've taken the early retirement, or they simply quit
Speaker 2: their job with no benefit at all because they don't
Speaker 2: like what's going on.
Speaker 1: Apparently this happens. It happens every five years or so.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a common thing with intelligence agencies of
Speaker 1: just making sure that people can be trusted on the inside.
Speaker 3: They don't.
Speaker 2: But your point, they don't do it specifically to find leakers. Necessarily,
Speaker 2: that's not the purpose, right this, right now that's the
Speaker 2: purpose is to try to plug up the leaks that
Speaker 2: we've seen exactly.
Speaker 1: And there's a difference between putting your head down doing
Speaker 1: your job despite disagreeing with whatever the agenda is for
Speaker 1: your government agency. It's part of signing up for government work.
Speaker 1: Things are going to change from administration to administration. I
Speaker 1: understand that this one is different. But there's a difference
Speaker 1: between putting your head down disagreeing and putting your head
Speaker 1: out and just doing the work, or saying you know what,
Speaker 1: this isn't for me and leaving and then leaking information.
Speaker 4: To the media like that.
Speaker 1: That too, I think that should absolutely be ferreted out,
Speaker 1: like anybody who's going to roll on.
Speaker 2: Somebody, now listen, they can go too far. Pam Bondy
Speaker 2: has supposedly put out some new legal guidelines that would
Speaker 2: allow the Justice Department to subpoena a reporter's personal communications,
Speaker 2: broadened the scope of some criminal potential criminal prosecution to
Speaker 2: leaks of not just classified material, but other privileged, other
Speaker 2: sensitive material that is all going to be covered. I
Speaker 2: shouldn't say always, but that has a pretty tough road
Speaker 2: to hoe when it comes to, you know, eclipsing the
Speaker 2: First Amendment, which gives reporters a lot of freedom when
Speaker 2: it comes to there.
Speaker 4: You all right, I got a sneeze.
Speaker 2: Oh, I thought you're gonna cry. Gosh, we could talk
Speaker 2: about the First Amendment of him.
Speaker 4: I've had.
Speaker 1: Little tears welling because I'm trying to sneeze.
Speaker 4: Yeah, do you have any music?
Speaker 3: The first is the thing I live by every morning.
Speaker 4: Well, I gat that you.
Speaker 1: Mentioned it, Gary. I want to take off my jackets.
Speaker 1: I'm wearing a red shirt and blue pag so long,
Speaker 1: and I'm white. I am the epitome of the flag today, Red,
Speaker 1: white and.
Speaker 4: Blue come back.
Speaker 3: The shirt is red, the.
Speaker 1: Jeans are blue, and I am white, and you brought
Speaker 1: up the First Amendment, and you're damn right, Gary.
Speaker 4: I should be crying right now.
Speaker 1: I should be crying because I live under this great
Speaker 1: shield of the flag that we call the Stars and
Speaker 1: stripes here in America, not up north. Were our leaders
Speaker 1: who are newly elected are week streamed empty suit people.
Speaker 1: I am an American. I have the weight of a
Speaker 1: big ass. And sorry, I got carried.
Speaker 3: Right right.
Speaker 4: Did you hear that guy talk? By the way, the
Speaker 4: Canadian guy.
Speaker 5: The new Canadian guy, Carni O m a, is it
Speaker 5: super It is so weak stream like, it is the
Speaker 5: worst orator I've ever heard in the history of somebody
Speaker 5: who's spoke in a podium.
Speaker 1: But he has the right. I'm sure he's a wonderful person.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's super nice and he likes to go.
Speaker 4: Out and about.
Speaker 1: But my God, get that man a set of testicles,
Speaker 1: because I don't know if they're in there.
Speaker 4: I don't know anything about him.
Speaker 1: I heard like thirty seconds of his victory speech and
Speaker 1: was like, what on God's green earth?
Speaker 4: That is not the stars and the stripes. That is leaves.
Speaker 4: That is the big that.
Speaker 1: Exists up there, and it's and it also gives you shade,
Speaker 1: but there are no balls on that leaf.
Speaker 4: See what you did. You're having a nice little show.
Speaker 1: And then you were like, you're crying over the First Amendment,
Speaker 1: and I.
Speaker 3: Were, I said first Amendment and you.
Speaker 1: Would like that, So no, I was trying to sneeze,
Speaker 1: so it.
Speaker 6: Not all right.
Speaker 4: Well see, and now we're gonna get in trouble.
Speaker 2: Congressman shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion
Speaker 2: or for hiving the exercise thereof bridging the freedom is
Speaker 2: feature of the press or of the right of the
Speaker 2: people peaceably to assemble or to petition the government for
Speaker 2: the redress of grievance. It's beautiful, isn't it. I think
Speaker 2: that's gonna be my alarm from now on, somebody saying.
Speaker 4: I'll record that for you.
Speaker 3: Okay, No, that's drop an MF.
Speaker 4: At the end of it, you wake up to me
Speaker 4: reading the First Amendment.
Speaker 2: All right, power outage in Spain and Portugal and parts
Speaker 2: of France.
Speaker 4: Is it weird? We still have no reason why?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's there should be something.
Speaker 2: Simply saying oscillation is not gonna is not going to.
Speaker 3: Quell people's fears about what happens. It is a great word.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 6: A M six forty.
Speaker 3: Hey, did you know it.
Speaker 1: Was National Fetanyl Day today?
Speaker 3: How do you? How do you? How do mar today?
Speaker 3: How do you well celebration the goal? I didn't get
Speaker 3: you any fentanyl.
Speaker 4: You didn't know?
Speaker 1: How dare you call yourself a friend?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 4: It's very serious.
Speaker 1: The goal is to remind people of the many deaths
Speaker 1: each year caused by fentanyl and spread the word about neclozone.
Speaker 3: Close looxo lox.
Speaker 1: That's how much I don't know about fento whyloxo, not fentanyl.
Speaker 3: You don't know. You don't know people. You also need
Speaker 3: to get an automatic external defibrillator.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 1: I have two fire extinguishers at my home. Not every
Speaker 1: help anybody destroyer. Every time I see them, I think, why,
Speaker 1: what do you mean? We have a perfectly good fire
Speaker 1: department here. You started a fire and house the other
Speaker 1: day I did, and did I need a fire extinguishure?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: You know why because I'm an American and I put
Speaker 1: that fire out myself, but in my eyes, because you
Speaker 1: know what this is in Canada, I.
Speaker 3: Don't know America.
Speaker 2: A day after Spain and Portugal were hit by extensive blackouts,
Speaker 2: they have been able to turn the electricity back on
Speaker 2: in most areas in both of those countries.
Speaker 3: A lot of people are relieved.
Speaker 2: Of course, we've seen power outages cripple countries like Puerto
Speaker 2: Rico recently. The Dominican also suffered some selectrical problems recently,
Speaker 2: but sharply critical now about what exactly caused this widespread
Speaker 2: power failure. The Prime Minister of Spain said his country
Speaker 2: has recovered more than ninety five percent of the total
Speaker 2: supply as of today in Portugal. They said that power
Speaker 2: has been restored to all of the substations and that
Speaker 2: everything they say is one hundred percent operational. There's just
Speaker 2: a couple of pockets. Again, this is the problem. The
Speaker 2: cause of the blackout is still unknown. That's a problem.
Speaker 2: No definitive conclusions according to Spain. As to the reasons
Speaker 2: for the outage, they.
Speaker 1: Say that there had been no cyber security attack, but
Speaker 1: they also ruled out human error.
Speaker 4: And meteorological causes.
Speaker 1: Now, how are you able to rule things out if
Speaker 1: you are in a state of we don't know what
Speaker 1: caused it, How are you able to rule out things
Speaker 1: like human error?
Speaker 2: It's and listen, I know this is a stupid way
Speaker 2: to put it. Maybe it's a translation error. Maybe they're
Speaker 2: saying instead of there was no cybersecurity attack, Maybe they're
Speaker 2: saying we have no evidence of that.
Speaker 4: Maybe but it's Spanish, it's not like it's Mandarin.
Speaker 2: I know, but I'm saying the language is. It doesn't
Speaker 2: take much to change that little station.
Speaker 3: Just be a.
Speaker 1: Cultural thing though too, maybe not even a language thing.
Speaker 1: Maybe just like, eh, we don't know, and that could
Speaker 1: mean that we haven't ruled anything. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: they are naming specific things that they have ruled out.
Speaker 1: I just find that interesting. But I'm also not a
Speaker 1: electricity investigator, so I have no idea. They said they
Speaker 1: expect answers within the next hours or days, but that
Speaker 1: it could take weeks or months to complete the technical
Speaker 1: analysis required. Apparently it was that high voltage connection between
Speaker 1: France and Spain that was interrupted. They said that while
Speaker 1: that interruption would have been disruptive, it would not normally
Speaker 1: lead to a system.
Speaker 3: Collapse like they saw. Yeah, something more typically.
Speaker 2: Would typically need to happen, like there would be an
Speaker 2: outage at one of their power plans or some sudden
Speaker 2: happening on the demand side. Then you might have an
Speaker 2: incident like this was. This was an outsized reaction to
Speaker 2: what they know happened, which was that connection that was
Speaker 2: knocked out.
Speaker 1: All right, coming up next. It is a mess downtown.
Speaker 1: People are walking off the job. I listened to Michael
Speaker 1: Monks yesterday on our show. I listened to him on
Speaker 1: John's show, I listened to him on Conway's show, and
Speaker 1: I listened to him on most.
Speaker 3: Show The Guy Gets Around.
Speaker 4: You had a full day, full day.
Speaker 3: Well, we'll bring him back. You feel some of the stuff.
Speaker 1: Less important, knowing that he's passed around here like a
Speaker 1: tray of canapees.
Speaker 2: We'll check his canope when we come with that appropriate,
Speaker 2: we'll do it off there.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 6: AM six forty.
Speaker 3: Hey, Happy Tuesday, guys.
Speaker 2: Hey Shannon, can you send me some of whatever it
Speaker 2: is you're pumped up on today?
Speaker 3: Man? You are fired up and I like that attitude,
Speaker 3: so I could use some of that, So send it
Speaker 3: my way. Thanks. Cottage cheese, is that right in your
Speaker 3: in your eggs?
Speaker 4: I had some?
Speaker 1: I made some, Yeah, some egg egg for Tata. Things
Speaker 1: with cottage cheese make some fluffyer, the cottage chiefs does.
Speaker 1: But no, I had a lot of espresso. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: pretty fair amount.
Speaker 2: Fifty five thousand or so La County workers are on
Speaker 2: their forty eight hour strike. It started last night. We
Speaker 2: talked with kfi's Michael Monks about SEIU Local seven twenty
Speaker 2: one and their grievances yesterday when it was pre strike.
Speaker 2: Now we are neck deep in the strike and we're
Speaker 2: seeing a lot of well, at the very least some
Speaker 2: traffic issues downtown.
Speaker 1: You live downtown. That started at seven last night. What
Speaker 1: have you seen?
Speaker 3: Well, there is quite a rally going on. It just
Speaker 3: so happens. Hold on one second, there it goes, now
Speaker 3: try it. Well, it just so happens. There is a
Speaker 3: pretty large crowd outside the County building, naturally because this
Speaker 3: is the county workforce, but also there is a Board
Speaker 3: of Supervisors meeting today. These meetings are often eight nine.
Speaker 4: So much fun though, aren't they just eight?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: Nuts? I know you based on this, there's gonna be
Speaker 3: a lot of commentary for me to sift through today
Speaker 3: at this meeting gets going, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Back in the day we would all sit like I
Speaker 1: guess you say, Chris Cross apples sauce. Now in the
Speaker 1: little area where the molt box is all the report
Speaker 1: is that still a practice.
Speaker 3: Can be, but there aren't as many people plugging into
Speaker 3: that audio and it aren't yeah, and the same like
Speaker 3: the metro board meting. It's like a tiny little yeah,
Speaker 3: malt box that I'll plug into. You can get her
Speaker 3: online now and you can't never we never had that
Speaker 3: benefit exactly getting it online. Have you accessed the internet before? Shannon?
Speaker 3: Is you know what the.
Speaker 4: Internet is what is it? I just my legs get
Speaker 4: cramps when I think of.
Speaker 6: Me to.
Speaker 3: Thing that happened last week or a couple weeks ago.
Speaker 3: I had to say Chris Cross apple sauce, and it
Speaker 3: was I realized how old I am.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I did it when I was twenty five,
Speaker 4: but I don't.
Speaker 3: Think I know. Oh, and I had to slither out
Speaker 3: before everyone else did too, so I was, I know
Speaker 3: it's on video somewhere. Absolutely, it's not going to be good.
Speaker 4: It's so uncomfortable there good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, the other people having a our day to day,
Speaker 3: or these fifty five thousand plus workers whose union have
Speaker 3: decided that we're on strike only for a little while.
Speaker 3: So it started last night at seven. They're supposed to
Speaker 3: stop it at seven o'clock tomorrow evening. Their grievances are
Speaker 3: a little bit unclear. I think they're in the midst
Speaker 3: of negotiating. They haven't said a whole lot about what
Speaker 3: they want. They certainly want at minimum a cost of
Speaker 3: living increase, and the offer from the county was apparently
Speaker 3: zero percent, and the County's like, look, we just produced
Speaker 3: our proposed budget for the next fiscal year. We're cutting
Speaker 3: all departments three percent across the board. We've got a
Speaker 3: four billion dollar sex abuse settlement to pay. We were
Speaker 3: looking at a possible two billion dollar expense from the wildfires,
Speaker 3: and we're screwed. So the worker said, well, can't help,
Speaker 3: but recall you just committed two hundred plus million dollars
Speaker 3: to buy a skyscraper to move the government to. So
Speaker 3: where did that money come from? And that's where we are.
Speaker 1: So we've got this city with its cuts and then
Speaker 1: the county with it cuts, all at the same time.
Speaker 3: And it's probably a situation where as you know, we're
Speaker 3: union people too, You're like, sometimes you have to read
Speaker 3: the room and save it for later. And this seems
Speaker 3: like a case where that is true for the county
Speaker 3: workers because the county budget does not propose any layoffs.
Speaker 3: But I got the sense when that budget was being
Speaker 3: presented that it was no layoffs at this point. So
Speaker 3: what happens next year? Because this sex abuse settlement, this
Speaker 3: four billion dollars sex abuse, they're not writing a check
Speaker 3: and saying, oh, it's going to hurt us this year.
Speaker 3: This is something that they predict into like twenty fifty
Speaker 3: will be impacting their budgets.
Speaker 4: We haven't spent enough time on that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the Catholic Church was like two
Speaker 1: point five billions. It was more just the counties was
Speaker 1: more right, Just to give you perspective on how big
Speaker 1: this settlement is, it's nearly twice with the Catholic Church
Speaker 1: settled with kid's abuse.
Speaker 3: Of course, dioceses across right the country had to do
Speaker 3: a lot of settlement.
Speaker 1: But here, yeah, I mean, what do you think of
Speaker 1: the Catholic Church across the country and here that we're
Speaker 1: talking about La County. I mean, it's retroactively, it's through
Speaker 1: the years, but still like that is insane. And that
Speaker 1: goes back to what we are talking about. In this
Speaker 1: culture of just settling everything, there's got to be there's
Speaker 1: got to be a conversation about that. This is not
Speaker 1: a tenable situation of just settling everything forever.
Speaker 3: And it also calls into question the oversight of these
Speaker 3: departments and how big this government is and how how
Speaker 3: well managed it is. Now they're talking about closing some
Speaker 3: of those juvenile halls where you know, some of this
Speaker 3: abuse took place, reforming them, and it's a big concern
Speaker 3: for the supervisors. But I talk to you guys about
Speaker 3: this a lot. I've never seen any sense of urgency
Speaker 3: from these governments. They're very good at pointing out what
Speaker 3: they think is a problem, but not quick on the
Speaker 3: solutions down on the street level outside of the ballroom
Speaker 3: or the negotiations maybe or may not be taking place
Speaker 3: at the street level. What kind of impact is this
Speaker 3: going to have that we might see and you know,
Speaker 3: LA County customers if you will, Yeah, all right, So
Speaker 3: if you are dealing with in any type of county
Speaker 3: services to day, yeah, there is a little bit of disruption.
Speaker 3: And again it's only for a couple of days. So
Speaker 3: the libraries came out and said, you know, we might
Speaker 3: have some service disruption, might even have to close some
Speaker 3: animal control might have some restrictions on adoptions today. You
Speaker 3: might not be able to reclaim a pet if you've
Speaker 3: lost a pet, for example, renewing pet licenses. The Assessor's
Speaker 3: Office says the public may experience longer wait times if
Speaker 3: you're going down to the tax office. But the one
Speaker 3: stop shop on the first floor of the Hall of
Speaker 3: Administration is open if you need county services, but I
Speaker 3: would avoid going there today. It's busy traffic on Temple
Speaker 3: Street is probably backed up, and once traffic gets bad
Speaker 3: on Temple and around that area where the Civic Center is,
Speaker 3: it just bleeds out all over downtown and it's an
Speaker 3: absolute mess to get down there. So regional satellite offices
Speaker 3: they may experience some service delays as well. But again
Speaker 3: these are the union workers who clean restrooms.
Speaker 4: Who weeklyan your toilet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and in fact, the beach bathrooms might be impacted
Speaker 3: by this as well. If you're headed to.
Speaker 4: The beach today, I wouldn't use it. Best of times.
Speaker 3: In downtown you can just go on the sidewalk, so yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean you don't really need one, but who cares. Yeah.
Speaker 3: La County dot gov.
Speaker 2: Slash Closer Closures is also a site that they have
Speaker 2: up if there are service delays or anything that you
Speaker 2: need to check out.
Speaker 3: We'll see if the Board of Superfvisor says anything about
Speaker 3: this today. Their meeting is is to get under way.
Speaker 3: They are approving that sex abuse settlement. Normally, stretch your legs. Wow,
Speaker 3: you're watching the meeting. I mean I don't want to.
Speaker 3: I don't you don't want.
Speaker 4: Your like that was just general life advice.
Speaker 3: It's not bad life advice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, stretch, get tight and you can't untype. Got a
Speaker 2: great stretch for that if you need it, really Yeah,
Speaker 2: which one?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 3: You laying your back, you can a cross your legs
Speaker 3: and then the arms go through and you're pulling.
Speaker 4: Yeah, uh wait what yours?
Speaker 2: That's more from my that's mine too, Yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 2: the one.
Speaker 6: I got it.
Speaker 3: The doctor told me I gotta cut back on. Thank you.
Speaker 3: It's always a pleasure, guys. Hey.
Speaker 2: The DVDs, the CDs, all of these hardware for all
Speaker 2: of our music enjoyment and movies, etc.
Speaker 3: They're making a comeback. We'll talk about that when we return.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 6: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: We mentioned this multiple times the last couple of months.
Speaker 2: I mean, it kind of has reared its ugly head
Speaker 2: that there seems to be a pendulum swing away from
Speaker 2: digitization of everything and that people are moving towards flip phones.
Speaker 2: Younger people are realizing that having all of the information
Speaker 2: and the entire world at your fingertips can be a
Speaker 2: distraction and not good for your health. And one of
Speaker 2: the ways that we're seeing that play out is physical
Speaker 2: media sales are up. I think DVDs, CDs, cassettes, records
Speaker 2: of all things. I got for my birthday a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago. I got a record player and a
Speaker 2: couple of albums to go with it. It's so much
Speaker 2: fun to sit there and listen to final.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And the images that I think probably our kids have
Speaker 2: of people our age is that we sat around and
Speaker 2: did nothing. I mean that you'd put a record on
Speaker 2: and you would just look at the album cover, or
Speaker 2: you would read the liner notes, or you would read
Speaker 2: along with some of them had the lyrics sheets in
Speaker 2: there as part of the album sleeve itself. All of
Speaker 2: that was such a great way to learn about music
Speaker 2: because you, for one thing, you'd listen to the whole album.
Speaker 2: A lot of times you wouldn't just pick and choose,
Speaker 2: you know, single songs and go through. You could, but
Speaker 2: there was a that the artist wanted you to listen
Speaker 2: to the whole album.
Speaker 1: It was a different way of consuming music. It just
Speaker 1: was an album was meant to be listened to in
Speaker 1: the or that it was presented.
Speaker 3: A lot of thought went into that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and to put it put a number to this.
Speaker 2: The Recording Industry Association of America said, physical music purchases
Speaker 2: comprised only eleven percent of music revenue in twenty four
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, that's almost eighteen billion dollars, but only
Speaker 2: eleven percent of it was physical tapes, cassettes, records. But
Speaker 2: that was a five percent jump from the year before.
Speaker 2: It's not going backwards, it's going up. And the majority
Speaker 2: of those sales, they said, were in vinyl records, which
Speaker 2: for the last eighteen years has seen growth in record vinyls,
Speaker 2: followed up by CDs, which sold about five hundred and
Speaker 2: forty one million dollars.
Speaker 3: That's up a little bit from the year before.
Speaker 4: Should I get you a phonograph?
Speaker 3: I have one?
Speaker 4: Oh you do?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Okay, what's before the phonograph?
Speaker 3: Eight track player?
Speaker 4: Do you want that?
Speaker 2: I believe there is one at my parents' house. Think
Speaker 2: I'm covered if I if I stumble upon, like, oh boy,
Speaker 2: what was that great musical western they call the Wind Mariah?
Speaker 4: They call the Wind Mariah.
Speaker 3: That was a song and it was in Uh.
Speaker 2: My parents had Paint Your Wagon. My parents had the
Speaker 2: eight track soundtrack to Paint Your Wagon and we would
Speaker 2: listen to that all the time.
Speaker 1: I've never heard of Paint Your Wagon. It's what does
Speaker 1: that mean? Is that a euphemism?
Speaker 3: No, it's just that was the name of the set
Speaker 3: in the Gold Rush.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think paint your wagon, met your wagon, your wagon
Speaker 1: means something, but I.
Speaker 3: Wanted to ask, I mean, what is it that you
Speaker 3: still hang on top?
Speaker 1: Do you have Paint your wagon means to get things done?
Speaker 1: Take action, fix the problem. Paint your wagon? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you know you're you're trying to figure out how to
Speaker 1: get your taxes done. Paint your wagon?
Speaker 3: Do you have physical albums?
Speaker 2: You and your husband have any records now, sets, anything,
Speaker 2: old stack of old DVDs or anything.
Speaker 4: I've got a lot of DVDs, cdds that I've been
Speaker 4: I want to get rid of them.
Speaker 1: But then I remember how cool it was finding my
Speaker 1: parents' old records, like in their house, you know, and
Speaker 1: my husband's parents like finding their records and like just
Speaker 1: knowing what they listen.
Speaker 4: To is cool.
Speaker 2: We have a tower and it's only you know, three
Speaker 2: feet high or whatever, but we have a CD tower
Speaker 2: that we got probably from Peer one, and we thought
Speaker 2: it was a massive purchase when we were freshly married,
Speaker 2: and it holds one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 3: Or tower cdsful, aren't they? They should all be burned.
Speaker 3: But it's been with us the entire time. I don't
Speaker 3: think i've opened it in years. And we had some
Speaker 3: friends whose daughters wanted to come over and they wanted
Speaker 3: to look through it. I'm like, take whatever you want.
Speaker 2: Any of these can be played on you know, whatever
Speaker 2: music service I have. But I realized that some of
Speaker 2: those as I go back and if you look at them,
Speaker 2: each of the I remember buying that DVD or that CD,
Speaker 2: I remember getting it as a gift, or I remember
Speaker 2: listening to it in you know, the car.
Speaker 1: Nothing says nineteen ninety four like a freaking CD tower.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Also, paint your wagon could be I'm gonna beat you up,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna paint your wagon.
Speaker 4: You better watch it, or I'm gonna paint your wagon.
Speaker 4: Get it after it, paint your wagon. Tuesday.
Speaker 3: Let us know what records, DVD, CDs, whatever it is
Speaker 3: that you have held on to and how you when
Speaker 3: do you listen to them.
Speaker 1: I still have the the like I don't even know
Speaker 1: how to describe it. The CD holder that was like,
Speaker 1: you know, you would have four CDs per plastic page
Speaker 1: that you fet through.
Speaker 4: As you were driving.
Speaker 1: I still have that massive, like fabric binder of just
Speaker 1: awful music. I'm sure it would be kind of a trip.
Speaker 1: That's kind of why I haven't thrown them out, because
Speaker 1: it's kind of fun for me to go back and
Speaker 1: look at what were you listening to thirty years ago?
Speaker 4: What are you thinking?
Speaker 3: All right?
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