Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 2: McDonald's saw a drop in sales in the fourth quarter
Speaker 2: of last year. Why they said sales and earnings fell.
Speaker 2: They're dealing with the fallout of an E Coli outbreak
Speaker 2: that hit domestic businesses last year. The company said the
Speaker 2: US same store sales declined one point four percent in
Speaker 2: the three months that ended December thirty. First part of it,
Speaker 2: they said, customers have been spending less money per visit.
Speaker 2: Another one is the slowdown in the pace sorry, the
Speaker 2: pace of price increases across some of the restaurants also contributed.
Speaker 2: There is a very dark mystery in France right now.
Speaker 2: An eleven year old schoolgirl was found murdered in woods
Speaker 2: south of Paris over the weekend.
Speaker 3: Found stabbed to death. Wow.
Speaker 2: They said she'd been missing since leaving school on Friday afternoon.
Speaker 2: There was a couple in their twenties that were Saturday
Speaker 2: as part of the investigation, but they have been released
Speaker 2: without any further proceedings, according to prosecutors. Weird, very weird,
Speaker 2: very unusual.
Speaker 4: More information on that all right, what else is going on?
Speaker 3: Time for what's happening?
Speaker 1: Wow? Well, the greened Land, the Greenland chronicles continue. They
Speaker 1: have hit back there Greenland and the Danish people. They've
Speaker 1: launched their own effort to purchase California from United States
Speaker 1: to hit back again. Trump's idea that he would acquire Greenland,
Speaker 1: the Denmarkification of California. It's garnered nearly two hundred thousand signatures.
Speaker 1: I would say that the people of California, or Lisa
Speaker 1: Liberals in California would love to be part of Denmark.
Speaker 3: I think that's funny. Good for them.
Speaker 1: They say that they would like more sunshine, dominance in
Speaker 1: the tech industry, limitless avocado toast, an easy access to Disneyland.
Speaker 2: What about tasty waves? There's nothing in there by tasty waves.
Speaker 2: Concerns are growing over the toxic waste sites that have
Speaker 2: been set up to deal with detritus from the Palisades fire.
Speaker 2: More rain, of course, is coming on coming in this week,
Speaker 2: so people who are living near will Rogers State Beach
Speaker 2: are worried that the rain is going to cause toxic runoff,
Speaker 2: that the runoff is going to end up in the ocean,
Speaker 2: and that we're all going to die. State officials exclaimed
Speaker 2: they chose the area because it's flat, it's open, it's
Speaker 2: near damaged homes, but not so near damaged homes. They
Speaker 2: can do basically as much accommodation, maybe planning for the
Speaker 2: potential runoff and then being able.
Speaker 3: To capture it before it does go off into the ocean.
Speaker 2: The district Attorney has made an effort to stop looting
Speaker 2: during disasters.
Speaker 4: Is it called enforcing the law?
Speaker 2: I had a friend, I still have a friend works
Speaker 2: for the DA's office who said, it's so nice because
Speaker 2: crime is illegal.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 4: It's crazy, right, so very weird.
Speaker 1: ICE is planning a large immigration rate in La This
Speaker 1: according to elitd memo. They say it's going to happen
Speaker 1: by the end of February. According to an internal document
Speaker 1: internal government document reviewed by The La Times, that they
Speaker 1: will focus on those without legal status in the US
Speaker 1: and those who have pending orders of removal. They describe
Speaker 1: the operation as requiring more bodies, which they say will
Speaker 1: lead to a multi agency partnership.
Speaker 2: Are they despite all of the concern have any of
Speaker 2: these finger quotes immigration raids taken place at schools or
Speaker 2: churches like they were? I know that Trump said, basically,
Speaker 2: those are not off limits like they were in the past,
Speaker 2: and everybody lost their minds because they said that they
Speaker 2: were going to start banging on doors of churches around
Speaker 2: and they haven't done any of that.
Speaker 1: I've heard about people that are here illegally that have
Speaker 1: killed people that have been taken away, or child predators,
Speaker 1: or people that have killed a couple of people in
Speaker 1: a duy crash as I've heard.
Speaker 2: That there is a researcher from Microsoft who suggests that
Speaker 2: artificial intelligence is going to put our cranking. It's already happened,
Speaker 2: our critical thinking skills at risk. Do you know your
Speaker 2: husband's phone number?
Speaker 4: Yes, I'll say it off the air, right.
Speaker 3: No, you don't have to, and I trust you. I'm
Speaker 3: not going to test you on it.
Speaker 2: They said that with artificial intelligence intelligence growing in capability
Speaker 2: and popularity, humans are outsourcing more of their brain power
Speaker 2: to computers, and that in this case, it's critical thinking
Speaker 2: skills that are suffering.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you you my mother's cell phone number.
Speaker 1: Like I know my home number that they no longer
Speaker 1: have landline, but I can't tell you her cell phone number.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know my kid's phone numbers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I know my home number, it's the
Speaker 2: home number that we've had for twenty years. But I
Speaker 2: don't know my kid's cell phone numbers.
Speaker 1: No, wild a rare bloom with a pungent odor like
Speaker 1: decaying flesh.
Speaker 3: Oh not this again. Yes, the corpse flower.
Speaker 1: You're damn right. It has opened in the Australian capital.
Speaker 1: It is the nation's third such extraordinary flowering in as
Speaker 1: many months. The corpse flower is bloom for the first
Speaker 1: time in fifteen years at Cannaberra's Australian National Botanic Gardens
Speaker 1: on Saturday. Was closing on Monday. Corpse flower plants bloom
Speaker 1: several years apart. Three in Australia are in different climate conditions,
Speaker 1: so they're blooming close together with surprising You ever covered
Speaker 1: that at the University Washington at Washington. That's when I
Speaker 1: say somewhere somewhere, all over the place.
Speaker 3: It's awful. It is just awful. It is not.
Speaker 1: Why did you want to smell decaying flesh? Why would
Speaker 1: people flock to that?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 3: I don't because it's weird.
Speaker 4: I'm about go to the dentist and get a root
Speaker 4: canal about that.
Speaker 3: Smell your own dcay, all right.
Speaker 2: Somebody did ask us, by the way, and the answer is, no,
Speaker 2: we did not feel the earthquakes in San Bernardino. No,
Speaker 2: they said a pair of earthquakes three three point five
Speaker 2: was followed by a three point zero. It would have
Speaker 2: been in the first hour of the show today, And no,
Speaker 2: we did not feel those. Somebody would have lost their mind.
Speaker 2: And I'm not looking at me here and Debra's not here.
Speaker 3: So there's that. You say, no, you did this for you,
Speaker 3: like you're gonna say no.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Hey Gary, how come every time you mentioned
Speaker 5: an ad from the Super Bowl yesterday, Shannon didn't. It
Speaker 5: wasn't she at your house? How come she didn't watch
Speaker 5: the commercials RON and Calcity Bye Bye.
Speaker 1: Well, it was loud. It was loud RON, and there
Speaker 1: was about twenty people there, so it was hard. And
Speaker 1: I also was in the middle of conversations with people
Speaker 1: and didn't want to be rude and then avert my
Speaker 1: eyes and look at the television screen.
Speaker 4: There were a couple times I wanted.
Speaker 3: To do that, but I didn't.
Speaker 2: My wife said, after everybody left last night, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: have to go back and watch the commercials. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: there already are plenty of videos that exist of people
Speaker 2: had super cut all of the commercials together.
Speaker 1: I find it very hard to pay attention to the
Speaker 1: That's why a game is so easy to watch with
Speaker 1: a bunch of people, because you can just kind of
Speaker 1: half watch it. You get the gist commercials. To watch
Speaker 1: them with a room full of people is very difficult.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I was.
Speaker 2: I had the volume and control and I kept turn
Speaker 2: I turned it up at halftime, and I was trying
Speaker 2: trying to ride the levels just so that I mean,
Speaker 2: people still wanted to talk, right, but a lot of
Speaker 2: people wanted to watch.
Speaker 3: And that's why there was a TV in the other room. Also,
Speaker 3: I don't know if you touch that.
Speaker 4: I did.
Speaker 2: I found that out after the fact. Much smaller TV,
Speaker 2: you know, lower profile. I figured there were people who
Speaker 2: admitted they weren't there for the game, they were just
Speaker 2: there to socialize, and I could tell them to go
Speaker 2: into the other room.
Speaker 4: Deborah Mark was like a hostage at some point.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think we're going to do assigned seating next year.
Speaker 4: Just assigned seating. I am not going to that one.
Speaker 3: Your husband had the absolute best seat in the house. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's right center of the couch. He knew exactly what
Speaker 3: he was doing well, and he.
Speaker 1: Was sitting next to the most unoffensive person there and
Speaker 1: Julie Little that's true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's easy. And then the dog came over and
Speaker 2: really liked her.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the dog was very social.
Speaker 2: That's very it was. It was his biggest party to date.
Speaker 2: He had a great time his entire life. That was
Speaker 2: the biggest party he's been.
Speaker 3: Hy Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 6: I'd like to weigh in on what cartoon character Shannon is.
Speaker 6: I got he thought for a long time that Shannon
Speaker 6: was reminiscent of Beth from Rick and Morty. It's Rick's
Speaker 6: daughter in the show, Morty's mother, And yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 6: I just I'm not sure if you guys get the
Speaker 6: reference there. But Shannon definitely talks and acts very similar to.
Speaker 2: Beth in my opinion, Rick and Morty. That's what I've
Speaker 2: never seen in my life, nor have I.
Speaker 7: Roy Rogers was Coke and Grinadine, right, and Shirley Temper
Speaker 7: was supposed to just be seven up in.
Speaker 5: Grenadine back in the day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I never heard of this gingerrel crop.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was ginger el or seven up. But yeah,
Speaker 1: seven up seven up was probably the most common.
Speaker 4: What are we doing, guys, we're hating on Tom Brady's
Speaker 4: watch now, No, everybody knows he's worth three four hundred million,
Speaker 4: whatever it is.
Speaker 8: It's not like it's a surprise that that guy has
Speaker 8: a seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars watch. No, he's
Speaker 8: not allowed to wear it, nonsense.
Speaker 4: I just don't think that.
Speaker 1: You're sure, but I would just think it's a little
Speaker 1: toned up to be in front of the entire country
Speaker 1: wearing something that costs that much.
Speaker 4: I mean, you can wear a nice watch.
Speaker 2: But maybe go for the two hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 2: dollars watch and not the one that's three quarters of
Speaker 2: a million.
Speaker 4: And the thing is, he probably thinks nothing of it.
Speaker 1: He doesn't think like this, this watch is seven hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars. He probably just like goes to
Speaker 1: his watch drawer and picks out the watch that he's
Speaker 1: into wearing that day and just puts it on and
Speaker 1: thinks nothing of it.
Speaker 3: Listen, I'm not a fashion guy, but that was an
Speaker 3: awful watch. I like the watch.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a good looking watch, But I
Speaker 1: like watches. You're not a watch guy. We've established this.
Speaker 3: It was yellow.
Speaker 4: I thought thought it was a beautiful watch. Oh my god, Shannon,
Speaker 4: I love the egg and the TP meme.
Speaker 3: Have you seen the one.
Speaker 6: That's got a picture of hard boiled eggs and baggies
Speaker 6: and then cash and then guns And it says I didn't.
Speaker 3: Choose this life. This life chose me.
Speaker 4: That's funny, funny.
Speaker 3: I love you gay like I mean.
Speaker 7: And Shannon just heard that you're gonna have a segment
Speaker 7: on egg hording. Just so you know, I'm coming back
Speaker 7: with one hundred and twenty eggs from Las Vegas, Nevada,
Speaker 7: and I got him for a really good deal. I
Speaker 7: also got six pounds of bacon for a really good deal.
Speaker 7: So yeah, it's this whole weird thing. And it's worse
Speaker 7: than La than it is anywhere else.
Speaker 3: Well, if that's true, our egg price is higher here
Speaker 3: than another place.
Speaker 4: I have no idea.
Speaker 8: Fights had to every Friday night, and my dad was
Speaker 8: always in charge of the We didn't have a remote,
Speaker 8: but he was in charge of what channel we watched. Yep,
Speaker 8: but he used to come home at lunchtime and watch
Speaker 8: bugs bunny cartoons with me. This is when we lived
Speaker 8: in Fort Knox, Kentucky, and I was three years old.
Speaker 3: It's a good moment.
Speaker 4: That's nice.
Speaker 8: Some of my favorite memories. It's beautiful, Shannon, I'm much
Speaker 8: better person for having not watched cartoons. I hate let's
Speaker 8: not say, hey, I dislike cartoons except for like mister
Speaker 8: McGoo and what's the other one?
Speaker 3: Tweety bird and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: From old school. New cartoons are stupid.
Speaker 3: New cartoons. Yes, it can be awful, Carrie.
Speaker 8: I've just heard you say that you remember your home
Speaker 8: phone number.
Speaker 4: Do you really still have a landline?
Speaker 7: Question mark?
Speaker 4: Yes I do, Carrie, Oh yes, exclamation point.
Speaker 2: I don't know why I just have a landline, Okay,
Speaker 2: I mean I kept it for a long time. The
Speaker 2: only people that would ever call me on my landline
Speaker 2: were my parents, right, they haven't called in a while.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was introducing myself to your nephew and with your
Speaker 1: son and his wonderful girlfriend Maya, and I said, I
Speaker 1: don't I've introduced myself to your nephew. And I go,
Speaker 1: I don't know if we've met before. We may have
Speaker 1: met before. And then I think it was your son
Speaker 1: said maybe you met at a funeral. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I probably met you one of the funerals, and then
Speaker 1: there was a whole funeral. He's like, well, I didn't
Speaker 1: go to Grandma's and I was like, I probably met
Speaker 1: you grandpa's. It was this awful. We all started laughing
Speaker 1: and we were like, okay, well anyway, good to see you.
Speaker 4: But so, who calls your landline? Now?
Speaker 2: My son has if he if he calls my cell
Speaker 2: phone and I don't answer, he'll call the landline.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I got to say I was kind of upset when
Speaker 1: my mom got rid of the landline that they had
Speaker 1: for forty thousand years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm doing it so people don't get upset.
Speaker 1: I still my grandparents' landline, and the last of them
Speaker 1: died in twenty eleven, twenty twelve.
Speaker 3: That's a good memory right there, because.
Speaker 4: They had me memorize it, you know, as a child,
Speaker 4: as a youth.
Speaker 3: That's also smart.
Speaker 4: Yeah, seven three, one to eight. Success.
Speaker 3: You just gave away their phone number.
Speaker 2: Of course, Philadelphia was rock and last night fans took
Speaker 2: to the streets of Philly they celebrate after the Eagles
Speaker 2: dominated the Kansas City Chiefs forty to twenty two in
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, just after the team's victory two years
Speaker 2: after they lost to the Chiefs. In the same game,
Speaker 2: Eagles fans looted a linen truck because why not, it's Philly.
Speaker 2: Fans were seen crowding around a laundry truck and throwing
Speaker 2: folded linens from inside out into the crowd. That's the way,
Speaker 2: that's the way things go. Rain is coming into southern
Speaker 2: California this week. Big storm rolling in probably Wednesday. We'll
Speaker 2: continue all day Thursday, and then taper off before we
Speaker 2: get to Friday, Valentine's Day. And they said it threatens
Speaker 2: to drop somewhere two to four inches of rain or
Speaker 2: more along the coast and in the valleys, four to
Speaker 2: eight inches possible in the mountains in the foothills.
Speaker 1: We talked about Trump and Musk's Department of Government Efficiency
Speaker 1: Doze ever since its inception. These are going to be
Speaker 1: painful cuts, necessary cuts. In many cases, they want to
Speaker 1: cut more than one billion in federal spending. The stated
Speaker 1: goal has been cutting as much as two trillion from
Speaker 1: the annual budget. Did you mention, Did I catch you
Speaker 1: saying Rand Paul Ron Paul Ron, Paul Yeah. Rand Paul
Speaker 1: Son is one of the people who likes to tally up,
Speaker 1: and it may because of his father tally up ridiculous.
Speaker 4: Government spending every year.
Speaker 1: The Foundation for Economic Education will be one of the
Speaker 1: megaphones to highlight what they're able to dig up.
Speaker 4: The report for twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Three alone number one six hundred and fifty nine billion
Speaker 1: dollars for interest on the national debt six hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty nine billion billion, because they can't get their book
Speaker 1: keeping in order. Okay, but then let's get to the
Speaker 1: ridiculous six billion to boost Egyptian The federal government spent
Speaker 1: six million and twenty twenty three to boost tourism in Egypt.
Speaker 1: They've spent one hundred million on Egyptian tourism so far. Now,
Speaker 1: who do you think benefits from that? Well, the people
Speaker 1: in Washington who have ties to the people in Egypt.
Speaker 1: And if you can throw in a couple million here
Speaker 1: and there in whatever bills that nobody reads, certainly not
Speaker 1: the American public, and then promise this to your Egyptian
Speaker 1: counterpart in exchange for whatever they're going to do for you,
Speaker 1: where they can go and say, well, I got this
Speaker 1: much from America.
Speaker 4: Look at me. I'm a shining star in Egypt.
Speaker 1: And then they just kick back to whoever slid that
Speaker 1: in one of our bills. This happens every day in Washington.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't we want to know exactly what's going on.
Speaker 2: When I see that, or when I hear those stories
Speaker 2: or the descriptions of how much money we're spending on
Speaker 2: these weird programs Latvian tax policy or something like that. Well,
Speaker 2: what if it's just that's just a lot. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's a possibility show. It's just a lie. There's that
Speaker 2: they're adding work. So the oh, you know what we
Speaker 2: should we should do something obscure like lotviaan tax policy.
Speaker 2: No one's going to ask us about that, when in
Speaker 2: fact it's it's going to pay whatever some crook or
Speaker 2: criminal or other politician in another country.
Speaker 4: That's exactly right, that's what happens.
Speaker 1: And don't tell mom a babysitter stead She writes notes
Speaker 1: in the petty Cash that she used the cash for
Speaker 1: real for expenses, but in reality, she was using it
Speaker 1: to buy pizza for the kids at home. It's an
Speaker 1: awful idea. It's it's thievery, is what it is.
Speaker 3: Oh, I was talking about the pizza is what I was.
Speaker 1: Talking Here's something else on the list training Department of
Speaker 1: Homeland Security cyber security people to be their best selves,
Speaker 1: a five year diversion.
Speaker 4: Excuse me to version.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what it is, Diversity Inclusion, Accessibility strategic Plan.
Speaker 1: It's training to have you go to speeches and to
Speaker 1: become your authentic best self. There's the thirty eight million
Speaker 1: dollars we gave to dead people in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: We're not even scratching names off the dole here, right,
Speaker 1: We're just continuing, contenuing to There was eighty four hundred
Speaker 1: dollars that the Department of Defense paid for a lobster tank.
Speaker 1: Eighty four hundred dollars for a lobster tank. The graphic
Speaker 1: novels the government funded for combating disinformation because comics for adults, right,
Speaker 1: Who doesn't want that? When you're being told by the
Speaker 1: government how to fight the bad information that people are
Speaker 1: telling you about said government sounds very Nazi Germany, doesn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So Ron Paul tweeted a short time ago, and again
Speaker 2: this is doctor Ron Paul, the father a former congressman.
Speaker 2: He said, Doge is ripping through the federal government like
Speaker 2: a tornado. This morning, it has been reporting that Doge
Speaker 2: sent out firing notice is to ninety four hundred USAID employees,
Speaker 2: leaving only six hundred and eleven. Democratic politicians are furious,
Speaker 2: of course, but we hope that when it's all said
Speaker 2: and done, all politicians Democrat and Republican are furious with Doge,
Speaker 2: then we will know that it was a job well.
Speaker 3: Done for the American people. Yeah, that was pretty clever,
Speaker 3: Pretty clever. True. You've been listening to the Gary and
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