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: Swamp Watch comes at the top of the hour. And
Speaker 2: there's a development coming out of the White House. They
Speaker 2: have said that they are not going to do a
Speaker 2: news conference today with Prime Minister net Yahoo and President
Speaker 2: Trump net Yah, who's at the White House today for
Speaker 2: a visit.
Speaker 3: But the traditional.
Speaker 2: Dual news conference apparently will not be happening, and they
Speaker 2: haven't explained why, but the President Trump is expected to
Speaker 2: take some questions regarding tariffs.
Speaker 1: We were asking for your earliest memory. We got one
Speaker 1: from our buddy Dave Over at ABC seven. He is
Speaker 1: their automotive expert, and so his first memory is funny.
Speaker 1: When I was three, we lived in New Jersey, he says,
Speaker 1: for a short time, I remember the man across the
Speaker 1: street had a Pontiac and he backed it into the driveway.
Speaker 4: I just thought that was so cool and remember it
Speaker 4: to this day.
Speaker 5: Fun Hey, Gary Channon, this is Christine in Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 5: My earliest memory is when I was three years old.
Speaker 5: I was in a bad car accident with my mom
Speaker 5: and I vividly remember it, and I was told like
Speaker 5: my whole life that there's no way I could remember
Speaker 5: something so young until I actually met the man that
Speaker 5: pulled me out of the car at fifteen. He was
Speaker 5: a tanner at the Tanning salon I worked at.
Speaker 3: Interesting.
Speaker 4: He was a what at the Tanning salon?
Speaker 3: Hanner at the Tanning salon?
Speaker 4: Interesting. I don't think I remember a dude that went
Speaker 4: to the tanning.
Speaker 2: I remember a car accident as well that was like
Speaker 2: as a child, Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I remember the car.
Speaker 2: I remember the intersection, and it apparently was a lot
Speaker 2: worse than We didn't get hurt, but the car itself
Speaker 2: was pretty well destroyed. Because I remember asking whatever happened
Speaker 2: to that blue Chrysler that we used to have, and
Speaker 2: they said, well, it was in the accident.
Speaker 3: It was totaled. After that, oh.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, and then it was was did it
Speaker 2: was the accident like just at Water Street, right below
Speaker 2: the bridge, Yeah, right there were the Yes, that's exactly
Speaker 2: where it was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And they t boned us from the right side.
Speaker 2: And Mom was like, how do you even how could
Speaker 2: you possibly remember that old two or three something?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 2: Because I remember being here, you remember the car, and
Speaker 2: I would not have been in a car seat. Just
Speaker 2: to be clear, this would have been no. I mean,
Speaker 2: but I also had two football field size acres of
Speaker 2: land back there, right if you.
Speaker 1: Were in the back on the sofa drinking lead, not
Speaker 1: in a car seat, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So cow vintage motels are back getting life breathed back
Speaker 2: into them.
Speaker 1: Love this idea because it's so cool to see those
Speaker 1: old neon signs, the shape of them, and I love
Speaker 1: the idea of an old motel. I love the idea
Speaker 1: of staying in one. And then I think of in theory,
Speaker 1: it sounds school. It's kind of like Greg getting one
Speaker 1: of those sprinter vans and taking it across the country.
Speaker 1: Sounds great in theory, but when you think about the
Speaker 1: smells and what would go on, it's less romantic, isn't it.
Speaker 1: The idea of staying in one of these is so
Speaker 1: cool and at the same time oh so dirty and
Speaker 1: old and no but apparently there get It's like a renaissance,
Speaker 1: a rebirth, as it is they talk about in the
Speaker 1: La Times, the farmhouse motel. This was a fifties property,
Speaker 1: riverside property, and they have rebirthed it. It has been
Speaker 1: given new life as a mini mall, food hall, and music.
Speaker 4: Venue, and it's doing very well.
Speaker 1: This is a renovation project that we're seeing at other
Speaker 1: mid century motels. Some have been moving upscale, becoming boutique hotels.
Speaker 1: Some have been leveled acquired by the governments as trendsditional housing.
Speaker 1: But there are a rare few in southern California that
Speaker 1: have taken on new commercial afterlives. The Farmhouse, Roy's Motel
Speaker 1: and Amboy Pink Motel in Sun Valley.
Speaker 3: That one I've driven by a couple of times.
Speaker 2: That's a really cool because if nothing else, listen, even
Speaker 2: if you're not using it as a motel hotel, whatever,
Speaker 2: the fact that it's kept up the exteriors of it
Speaker 2: so that you can use I mean, the Pink Motel
Speaker 2: specifically is used for a bunch of different TV and
Speaker 2: movie shots because it looks so great on the outside
Speaker 2: and it doesn't you don't need anything on the inside
Speaker 2: at that point.
Speaker 1: They write, the most dramatic nonprofit example of motel rebirth
Speaker 1: maybe the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the site of MLK
Speaker 1: Junior's assassination, reopened in ninety one as the National Civil
Speaker 1: Rights Museum. Recent commercial examples Ferguson's downtown in Las Vegas.
Speaker 4: Is that the old is that the old?
Speaker 1: D I don't remember anyway, nineteen forties motel reborn as
Speaker 1: a food in retail center in twenty nineteen. You've got
Speaker 1: the La Hacienda motel in Albuquerque, dude open this year.
Speaker 1: But that would be a fun project to, isn't it
Speaker 1: like grat buying one of these old hotels for you
Speaker 1: would assume dirt cheap and turning it into something well.
Speaker 2: Like I said, the place I stayed in over the
Speaker 2: weekend was a house that was built in nineteen oh eight.
Speaker 3: That's so cool, middle of Texas.
Speaker 2: And then just within the last year they reopened it
Speaker 2: as an airbnb, but they had redone. They redid the
Speaker 2: floors obviously because they were just destroyed, but most of
Speaker 2: the interior siding stayed the same. They just painted it.
Speaker 2: And then the roof or not the roof. The ceiling
Speaker 2: in each room was slightly different from reclaimed wood that
Speaker 2: was either taken from that same property or from other
Speaker 2: pieces around Waco that were then put in there. So
Speaker 2: it was it was really cool. And then all of
Speaker 2: the modern, you know, a great brand new everything in
Speaker 2: the kitchen was brand new, so you had whatever comfort
Speaker 2: you had of just having you know, good.
Speaker 4: What did it looked like from the outside.
Speaker 3: You have pictures, I can show you a picture. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it looks like an old house. I mean, and it was.
Speaker 2: It was just very well taken care of the family
Speaker 2: that owns it. Apparently they don't live there. We had
Speaker 2: to ask them a couple of questions. They don't live there,
Speaker 2: but they this was their investment property. And in the
Speaker 2: entryway to the house, they have some picked eight or
Speaker 2: ten pictures of the process of reh.
Speaker 3: Wow, which is kind of neat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm sure there's a lot of stories that
Speaker 2: go into it, but it was there's something about we
Speaker 2: don't see it here in California as much. A house
Speaker 2: it's one hundred years old here is very rare. I mean,
Speaker 2: Neil talks about he has a house that's that old.
Speaker 2: But you know, the house I live in was built
Speaker 2: in two nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's no there's no history to it.
Speaker 2: It's not but there are other places around this country
Speaker 2: where one hundred year old house is not uncommon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, which is cool.
Speaker 1: I like where I lived, we've got one hundred old houses.
Speaker 1: Do they look like it, Yeah, I do. I mean
Speaker 1: they look like they've been you know, repainted, and but yeah,
Speaker 1: they've seen a lot.
Speaker 6: All Right, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand
Speaker 6: from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: It is Monday, April seventh. We'll get into the tariff
Speaker 2: talk here in just a moment. We get into swamp
Speaker 2: watch some other stuff that's going on though. Rivers, rows,
Speaker 2: flooding is getting worse in the South and the Midwest.
Speaker 2: Several communities that are already water logged got even more
Speaker 2: heavy rain and storms yesterday. At least eighteen people have
Speaker 2: died from Texas to Ohio. Utilities who have been scrambling
Speaker 2: to shut off power and gas cities have been deploying
Speaker 2: sandbags to try to protect homes and businesses. Forecasters have
Speaker 2: worn that flooding could persist for days, especially in the
Speaker 2: areas around Kentucky Tennessee, Alabama. Some rivers that inundated towns
Speaker 2: rose to near record levels and expected to crest sometime today,
Speaker 2: but that the rain is not necessarily over for the week,
Speaker 2: so it could get even worse.
Speaker 1: Uncontroversial celebration in Washington, d C. Today Dodgers went to
Speaker 1: be honored for winning the championship before we kick off
Speaker 1: swamp Watch.
Speaker 3: I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar.
Speaker 3: And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing that lollipops.
Speaker 6: Here we got the real problem is that our leaders
Speaker 6: are done.
Speaker 3: The other side never quits.
Speaker 7: So what I'm not going anywhere?
Speaker 1: So now you train the squad, I can imagine what
Speaker 1: can be and be unburdened by.
Speaker 8: What has been.
Speaker 3: You know, amervants have always been going at present. They're
Speaker 3: not stupid.
Speaker 2: A political plunder is what a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 3: Have the people voted for you were not swamp Watch.
Speaker 3: They're all counternoed.
Speaker 1: Now, President Trump is somebody who's around it himself with
Speaker 1: beauty his whole life. So you would imagine that DC
Speaker 1: is a tough road to hoe for him, which is
Speaker 1: why he said when he took a look at the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: this is a very good looking group of people.
Speaker 3: Hollywood.
Speaker 2: You see some people, oftentimes like politicians, behind me, it's
Speaker 2: not so pretty.
Speaker 3: That is a very good looking group of people.
Speaker 4: And that's honest.
Speaker 1: That's one hundred and twenty percent honest for him.
Speaker 2: He took time specifically honoring members of last year's team,
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmond, of course, the NLCS MVP of the World Series,
Speaker 2: MVP Freddie Freeman, Mooki Betts, of course, he pointed out
Speaker 2: and acknowledged, Muki did not go. You may have heard
Speaker 2: deva mention he did not go when the Red Sox
Speaker 2: won the World Series and Trump was in office the
Speaker 2: first time. He also noted Shoheyo Tani's game against Miami
Speaker 2: back in September, some consider the greatest offensive performance ever
Speaker 2: six for six with the three home runs ten runs
Speaker 2: batted in after the Sarah that they did. I think
Speaker 2: in the East room maybe they gave him. He gave
Speaker 2: them a tour of the West wing, including a stop
Speaker 2: there in the Oval office.
Speaker 3: So very cool for them.
Speaker 1: Well, this stock market collapse has continued. It will continue.
Speaker 1: Somebody picked up the phone today, however, the stock market down.
Speaker 1: The Dow, I should say, was down about fifteen hundred
Speaker 1: at one point, it rebounded to being down about one hundred.
Speaker 1: And it's because in that timeframe Trump, people close to
Speaker 1: Trump insinuated that, well, we may put a pause on
Speaker 1: these tariffs, kind of the way you saw them backtrack
Speaker 1: with Canada and Mexico a month ago or whatever that was,
Speaker 1: so it kind of calmed down things things on Wall Street.
Speaker 4: Now we're back.
Speaker 1: The Dow's only down about one seventy two, so I
Speaker 1: guess we'll have to wait and see what goes on tomorrow.
Speaker 1: What the twenty four hour news cycle brings us when
Speaker 1: it comes to the thought process behind any sort of pause.
Speaker 3: Well, and we mentioned Benjaminett. Yahoo's at the White House today.
Speaker 2: The White House has canceled their dual news conference and
Speaker 2: apparently President Trump is going to handle this one by himself.
Speaker 2: This will be the topic of discussion, these tariffs. So
Speaker 2: if when that happens, we'll be paying attention to it.
Speaker 2: Undeterred by what we've seen over the last few days.
Speaker 2: When it comes to stock prices, President Trump threatened additional
Speaker 2: tariffs on China today. He delivered it on social media.
Speaker 2: I don't know how much teeth that has, but we
Speaker 2: know he's followed through with some of those things. China
Speaker 2: said it was going to retaliate against the US tariffs
Speaker 2: that were announced last week. So the way he wrote
Speaker 2: it up on truth social today, if China does not
Speaker 2: withdraw it's thirty four percent increase above they're already long
Speaker 2: term trading abuses.
Speaker 3: By tomorrow, April.
Speaker 2: Eighth, twenty twenty five, the United States will impose additional
Speaker 2: tariffs on China of fifty percent, effective April ninth. Additionally,
Speaker 2: all talks with China concerning their requested meanings with US
Speaker 2: will be terminated. So if if this goes through, if
Speaker 2: today's threatened tariffs go on, then US tariffs on imports
Speaker 2: from China would reach a combined one hundred and four percent.
Speaker 2: The new taxes would be on top of the twenty
Speaker 2: percent teriffs they renounced as punishment for the fentanyl trafficking
Speaker 2: another thirty four percent tariff announced last week. Not only
Speaker 2: is that potentially going to drive prices up for US,
Speaker 2: including obviously the stuff that we get from China, it
Speaker 2: gives China incentive to flood other countries with cheaper goods.
Speaker 2: Because as as these tariffs have been put in place,
Speaker 2: it's not just it's not just reshuffling our relationships with
Speaker 2: these individual countries, it's reshuffling the entire deck, the entire table.
Speaker 2: Because places like China that do have a lot of
Speaker 2: goods that they can can sell are going to renegotiate
Speaker 2: their plans with other countries and other portions of the world.
Speaker 2: So it's not just to say that the same kind
Speaker 2: of relationships that we have with ally Canada at the UK,
Speaker 2: we're not going to have that same kind of relationship
Speaker 2: a week from now that we did a week ago,
Speaker 2: because there is a certain amount of confidence that those
Speaker 2: other countries have in US that is at the very
Speaker 2: least wavering, and they knew what to expect when they
Speaker 2: would trade with the United States, and now they simply
Speaker 2: do not.
Speaker 3: I don't know how it goes.
Speaker 2: Maybe there is there is a possibility that the relationship
Speaker 2: is stronger going on in the future, but it's that
Speaker 2: uncertainty that drives as we've said many times, it's that
Speaker 2: uncertainty that drives stock prices down, and you know, has
Speaker 2: people looking at their four oh one k's and grasping
Speaker 2: their own throats or grasping their own chess.
Speaker 4: Can you choke your own self? I don't think you
Speaker 4: can can.
Speaker 3: Would you choke yourself?
Speaker 4: I don't think you can.
Speaker 3: Like would you stay?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: Could you passed?
Speaker 9: Out?
Speaker 4: Of course? Yeah? I don't know.
Speaker 3: Give it a shot.
Speaker 2: We'll see when the break and see what happens Garrie
Speaker 2: and Shannon will return, maybe, Deborah Mark, did you finish
Speaker 2: that show?
Speaker 1: Devra?
Speaker 8: I have a few more episodes, Shannon, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I thought we were going to catch some hell for
Speaker 1: talking about this.
Speaker 4: Okay, so to catch you up, I'll catch you up
Speaker 4: when we come back.
Speaker 10: Gary, Okay, great, I'm going to finish it because I'm.
Speaker 4: In we have to, you have to.
Speaker 3: I did rousing endorsement.
Speaker 8: Well, well I'm not loving it.
Speaker 1: Deborah and I went on the air and we're like,
Speaker 1: we're going to watch this show. And then I sat
Speaker 1: down to watch the show and it was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, we're going to catch so much heat off
Speaker 1: of recommending the show.
Speaker 4: Not that we recommended it, We just said we were.
Speaker 8: Going to watch it exactly because it has sex in
Speaker 8: the title.
Speaker 3: I could go wrong.
Speaker 10: Last God that I never want to hear that ever, ever, ever, ever,
Speaker 10: ever off. And there's a couple other things in there.
Speaker 10: I never want to hear things. See yeah again. Yeah,
Speaker 10: oh boy.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 6: AM six forty.
Speaker 1: That's funny because I thought he looked like somebody, but
Speaker 1: I couldn't place him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll have to remember the name, but it is
Speaker 2: pretty good. The White House does say that other countries
Speaker 2: are lining up to discuss tariffs and maybe negotiate down
Speaker 2: so that we don't have reciprocal tariffs anymore. At this point,
Speaker 2: the news conference between President Trump and Prime Minister net
Speaker 2: and Yahoo has been called off. The Israeli Prime Minister
Speaker 2: is at the White House for a meeting today.
Speaker 3: But the only problems that I'm sorry, the only.
Speaker 2: Information we're getting out of the White House is that
Speaker 2: their dual news conference has been called off and that
Speaker 2: President Trump will be speaking from the Oval Office relatively soon.
Speaker 2: We've told you about Wall Street's reaction. In the first
Speaker 2: few minutes of trading, the Dallas drowned down about sixteen
Speaker 2: hundred points. It briefly was in positive territory again and
Speaker 2: has now sort of made up most of its losses,
Speaker 2: is down just about seventy points as of right now.
Speaker 2: We're also asked earlier today, what was your earliest memory.
Speaker 7: Probably my earliest memory was when I was five or six.
Speaker 7: I remember going out on a day walk without telling
Speaker 7: my mother, who apparently called the cops, and I remember
Speaker 7: that the cops looked at me. I saw two adults
Speaker 7: and they were like, can you come here? And all
Speaker 7: I could think was, you know, the stranger danger. I
Speaker 7: took off running. They caught me, and they returned me
Speaker 7: to my mother, who was very glad to get me back.
Speaker 4: Wait did he say cops?
Speaker 1: Yeah, stranger danger does not apply to cops.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but if he didn't know who they were.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe I only thought that because my grandfather was
Speaker 1: a cop and he was pretty much my favorite person.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I if I grew up with
Speaker 1: bad feelings about cops, I'd probably run the hell away
Speaker 1: from him from Hey.
Speaker 9: Guys, my earliest memory is what all traumatic ones were.
Speaker 9: It was my mom crying, and I was three when
Speaker 9: you look back on it, and it was when President
Speaker 9: Kennedy was shot and killed. Oh God, was crying?
Speaker 3: That actually was pretty common.
Speaker 2: Buch was really parents reaction happening in nineteen sixty.
Speaker 1: Sixty sixty three, and then sixty eight was the next round.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, what is the show you guys are
Speaker 2: watching that you guys are Oh?
Speaker 4: Okay, So I have.
Speaker 1: Told Deborah Deborah, okay, Deborah and I have been in
Speaker 1: this draft of good shows to watch, and she said, well,
Speaker 1: I saw this trailer and zied sex and the title.
Speaker 4: I don't remember it.
Speaker 1: And then she texted me I think Thursday or Friday
Speaker 1: and said, oh, I remember it.
Speaker 4: It's coming out today.
Speaker 1: Here it is, and it's called Dying for Sex with
Speaker 1: Michelle Williams, who's a wonderful actress.
Speaker 4: And I was like, okay, I'm in.
Speaker 1: I started watching it in they're the twenty five minute episodes,
Speaker 1: so they're nice and easy to get. You know, it
Speaker 1: could have been a movie easily, and it's kind of
Speaker 1: movie length. It's probably about two hours once you finish it,
Speaker 1: which I did. And it starts off the premise is
Speaker 1: not giving away anything. It's a woman who has cancer.
Speaker 1: She had had cancer, it came back, it's stronger, it's
Speaker 1: uncurable this time. She's never had a U. I think
Speaker 1: you already said it. Yeah, the O situation with another person?
Speaker 1: The O situation, Well, what do you want me to say?
Speaker 1: You want me to be more graphic? Probably right, Okay,
Speaker 1: So it's about that. It's about I want this to
Speaker 1: happen before I die kind of a thing. And why
Speaker 1: hasn't she been able to do that? You kind of
Speaker 1: get into the reasons behind that. It's really well acted,
Speaker 1: it's funny. It's especially in the first couple episodes, very funny,
Speaker 1: and and they're very likable. The characters are very likable.
Speaker 1: It's just it's really the cheesecake Factory menu. As you
Speaker 1: get into the show, it's like, whoa, So this is
Speaker 1: going on in the world. Okay, I mean, very little
Speaker 1: surprises me anymore, but it still happens. And I was
Speaker 1: a little bit I won't say surprised, but huh, like, okay, right, Deborah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, I'm actually surprised that Michelle Williams because
Speaker 10: she is and she's fabulous in this. She's a great actress.
Speaker 10: I'm just surprised that she would want to do this.
Speaker 10: I get that it's it's it's unusual. It's definitely unlike
Speaker 10: anything you've probably seen. So maybe that's what attracted her.
Speaker 10: I don't know, it's it's a little too kinky for me.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I yeah, I was thinking that I'm watching this and
Speaker 1: I was like, Deborah is not going to make it through.
Speaker 8: This, No, but I'm committed.
Speaker 10: Well, once you're in it, you have to have to
Speaker 10: I need to see, uh, you know, and then no,
Speaker 10: I can't.
Speaker 8: I can't give it way, but it really got me.
Speaker 8: It got me thinking. And that's the other thing about
Speaker 8: what well, you know, uh, I see, I don't want
Speaker 8: to give it.
Speaker 10: I don't want to give it away, but just about
Speaker 10: life and death and who you want to be around
Speaker 10: when you're dying, you.
Speaker 3: Know, right ends her marriage.
Speaker 8: Oh well, I wasn't going to say that.
Speaker 2: Well that's pretty much that's what they I mean, that's
Speaker 2: what I know about the show.
Speaker 1: And I don't even know how to get into why,
Speaker 1: Like it makes the marriage made no sense? Yeah, all right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and everybody has you know, not everybody has that, and
Speaker 1: sometimes people get into things for the wrong reasons and
Speaker 1: and that's kind of part of it. It's kind of
Speaker 1: it's kind of part of life decisions, why you make
Speaker 1: them at the time, and what it all means in
Speaker 1: the end.
Speaker 4: Like it's really a good show.
Speaker 1: It's it does make you think, I'll give it that
Speaker 1: once you get past the you know.
Speaker 8: The the creepiness of some of the characters.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: And it's like it's like a marriage appreciation show, isn't it.
Speaker 4: God, I didn't know I was out there.
Speaker 10: I know, I know it's crazy and I guess this
Speaker 10: stuff well, I mean this is based on a true story.
Speaker 10: I don't know how much of this because there is
Speaker 10: a disclaimer saying that you know some of the characters
Speaker 10: are you know, made up, but you kind of think, wow,
Speaker 10: this is what's going on. I'm just I'm ignorant. Yeah,
Speaker 10: I really am.
Speaker 1: Well, And there was this one at one moment when
Speaker 1: the counselor in the show says to her and her
Speaker 1: friend who they're They're just they're so lovable.
Speaker 5: Her and her.
Speaker 10: Friend she was in that movie with like Lively, it
Speaker 10: ends with us.
Speaker 7: She was great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the therapist once that time says, oh you
Speaker 1: will you older millennials are so funny. You think sex
Speaker 1: is all about you know that the in and out men?
Speaker 1: Shall we say yes? And she's like she's basically like
Speaker 1: sex is like a vit Like it's like it's everywhere
Speaker 1: and you're like what.
Speaker 8: Like I started thinking about that.
Speaker 3: I'm like looking.
Speaker 4: Outside looking at that a tree of.
Speaker 8: Like is it there?
Speaker 11: Like what is she talking about?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 8: That was that was too deep for me.
Speaker 1: But it is a good jay Like I love shows
Speaker 1: that open up my mind, like it makes me happy.
Speaker 1: To know that there's like things that you know, I
Speaker 1: like my mind to be opened. I like to learn
Speaker 1: new things, learn ways that people live that I hadn't
Speaker 1: thought about before. Like, I do love that. So I
Speaker 1: think that that was definitely that show. Yeah the Neighbor,
Speaker 1: Oh where was?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 4: Oh, never mind, I'll talk to you when you're.
Speaker 10: Okay, okay, Yeah, I think I'm I think I'm on
Speaker 10: episode five. I think I just finished it, so I
Speaker 10: think there's eight, right, so I have three. But I
Speaker 10: do what I like. What I'm getting out of it
Speaker 10: is it makes me think and and it does make
Speaker 10: me think about and I and I think about this
Speaker 10: actually all the time, and I do have conversations with
Speaker 10: my husband about this all the time, that you know,
Speaker 10: life is short and that we really do need to
Speaker 10: live our best life because we have one shot. And
Speaker 10: you know, when you when you're you see a woman
Speaker 10: who's dying of cancer, and you know, she knows that
Speaker 10: her days are limited, so she wants to live her
Speaker 10: best life.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 10: Obviously, maybe what she wants out of her you know,
Speaker 10: a few months left to live, would be different than
Speaker 10: maybe what I would want her other people, but you know,
Speaker 10: kudos to her for going for it.
Speaker 1: You know, you hear this conversation being had. You know
Speaker 1: you think, like Tim McGraw Live Like You Were Dying.
Speaker 1: You know a yeac love that song, right, we all
Speaker 1: love that song. But it's like this, this show kind
Speaker 1: of takes that song a step further in terms of
Speaker 1: like what you really think about, Like, you know, there's
Speaker 1: a concept of Live Like you Were Dying, which is
Speaker 1: the song, yes, right, but then there's the like it's
Speaker 1: actually happening and how would that manifest?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 10: Yeah, and then it kind of put me in a funk.
Speaker 10: Then it made me sad, you know what I mean
Speaker 10: just thinking about that.
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Just well, the earthquakes right around the corner breast I start,
Speaker 1: I open up with a guy that dresses up like
Speaker 1: a dog.
Speaker 8: Well, no, that I'm not going to do.
Speaker 10: I think, uh, I'm going to continue traveling because that's
Speaker 10: my passion. But you know, being with a guy that
Speaker 10: dresses up like a dog and barks and no, no,
Speaker 10: that is it looks nice, Shannon.
Speaker 3: No, then what he like, you know, come to the bend.
Speaker 8: And she tells him what to do.
Speaker 10: That that's another thing, and tells everybody what to do
Speaker 10: I don't know that that.
Speaker 8: Stuff just.
Speaker 4: You know, let's not just.
Speaker 8: Let's h I think I've already passed.
Speaker 1: All right, cars, last words, what was that show you
Speaker 1: girls were watching?
Speaker 3: And then I took a nap?
Speaker 8: And he's going to go watch it tonight, Shannon, and
Speaker 8: he's gonna come.
Speaker 10: No, he's going tomorrow and he's gonna say what in
Speaker 10: the world he last.
Speaker 2: Thirty seconds that shout dumb phones may save us from
Speaker 2: brain rot.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about that when we come back.
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Speaker 2: Again, no word from the White House on the specific
Speaker 2: timing of this, but President Trump is expected to make
Speaker 2: some comments today in the context of tariffs and the
Speaker 2: beginning of this trade war, to see if he's going
Speaker 2: to pull back from any of it, if he's going
Speaker 2: to put a pause on it, or if he's just
Speaker 2: going to push forward and put his foot on the
Speaker 2: gas when it comes to tariffs, exorbitantly high terriffs on
Speaker 2: some countries. Brian Chen is a writer for The New
Speaker 2: York Times. He's the lude, the lead falling after you Guys,
Speaker 2: the lead consumer technology writer, and it talks about the
Speaker 2: social implications of the way technology impacts us.
Speaker 1: Do you ever feel like when we talk about this
Speaker 1: turning off the phone, moving away from brain rot, moving
Speaker 1: away from scrolling, moving away from phone addiction, the same
Speaker 1: way when we talk about moving away.
Speaker 4: From process foods, that like people freaking hate that.
Speaker 1: They hate the idea of taking any sort of addiction
Speaker 1: or any sort of pleasure center being taken away from them,
Speaker 1: And like we're shouting into an empty well, because it's
Speaker 1: not like we don't fall prey to all of this stuff.
Speaker 4: Like I love process foods, I love.
Speaker 1: Scrolling and playing my stupid games and whatever looking at Instagram,
Speaker 1: but I just recognize it's awful for me. And so
Speaker 1: that's why we talk about this stuff so often. It's
Speaker 1: like part of it's like we're not holier than now.
Speaker 1: We're not like, yes, get rid of your phone, get
Speaker 1: a brick for a phone, and go back to the
Speaker 1: days of living off the land and eat only apples.
Speaker 1: It's not like that we do all this stuff. We're
Speaker 1: just trying to like mitigate that.
Speaker 2: It's funny that you mentioned it because the similarity between
Speaker 2: this type of activity figuring out how to slow your
Speaker 2: brain down a little bit and food, because to do
Speaker 2: the food thing takes a little bit of effort, takes
Speaker 2: a little bit of determination on your part to buy
Speaker 2: the stuff that you need to make a food right,
Speaker 2: not just buy a food, but to put the ingredients
Speaker 2: together to cook it, to do the research about what's
Speaker 2: good for you and what's not, and how you can
Speaker 2: find the best version of whichever product you've got. This
Speaker 2: is the same thing. This takes a certain amount of determination.
Speaker 2: You have to be able to say to yourself, I'm
Speaker 2: not going to take my phone with me if I whatever,
Speaker 2: if I go for a walk, I'm just gonna sit.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to have to listen to music. I'm
Speaker 3: not going to get myself so.
Speaker 2: Conditioned where it's for some people stress inducing if I
Speaker 2: don't have my phone with me, or if I don't
Speaker 2: have music playing while I'm running, or something like that.
Speaker 2: It takes that certain amount of determination will nobody has that.
Speaker 7: We don't.
Speaker 3: We're not good at it.
Speaker 2: We're just we haven't practiced it, we haven't tried it,
Speaker 2: we don't do it very often.
Speaker 3: So it's just like every other thing. You've got to
Speaker 3: build it up like.
Speaker 2: A muscle, and that that is not easy.
Speaker 3: Nobody in this case.
Speaker 2: When you talk about the amount of stuff that you
Speaker 2: do with your phone every day, we sit in here
Speaker 2: for four hours. We don't need our phones, but we
Speaker 2: still have them with us the entire time.
Speaker 1: But I'll say this, and I have done this. All
Speaker 1: I need is this phone. It's just not the way
Speaker 1: this job.
Speaker 4: Was usually done.
Speaker 3: True.
Speaker 1: I mean, I have forgotten my laptop before and not needed.
Speaker 1: You know, in the olden days, it's like you would
Speaker 1: print all the stories out, or you'd have physical newspapers,
Speaker 1: and the old and olden days, we used to get
Speaker 1: every paper delivered to the radio stations I used to
Speaker 1: work at in the morning, and then in the afternoon
Speaker 1: you'd get another round of papers. And that's what the
Speaker 1: talk show hosts would use, physical papers.
Speaker 4: That's what we did.
Speaker 1: And then it became the Internet, and then you'd print
Speaker 1: all this stuff out or whatever. And now we're at
Speaker 1: the point of we don't really need all that, We
Speaker 1: really don't need anything. We just need the So it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of it's a it's it's a help, and
Speaker 1: it's a help for everything. And that's why we're so
Speaker 1: addicted to these things, because they're not without it's not
Speaker 1: just pure you know, playing, it's not just a video
Speaker 1: game we're playing with all day. It actually makes a
Speaker 1: lot of things in life that we have to do easier.
Speaker 1: But then there's also the constant time suck.
Speaker 2: But but again, and to go back to your your
Speaker 2: allegory of the process, it's the same thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we can do the processed foods make collecting, buying,
Speaker 3: eating the food that much easier.
Speaker 4: Yeah, uh right, But it.
Speaker 3: Doesn't mean it's better. I mean it can't be. And
Speaker 3: yeah you can be, you know, a time saver.
Speaker 1: So do you think that we will the pendulum will
Speaker 1: swing to whatever the next generation of kids is where
Speaker 1: they just think that they have to have a smartphone
Speaker 1: because that's the way all the old people do it.
Speaker 1: They all have smartphones, and we're going to be different.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna totally turn our backs on technology. I
Speaker 1: think that I can see that happening.
Speaker 2: We're just going to remember in our heads when our
Speaker 2: appointment is. I can see it happen. I'm looking forward
Speaker 2: to it. The thing is, because we're big, dumb animals,
Speaker 2: we need someone to.
Speaker 3: Do it first.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very few people are willing to go out there
Speaker 2: and be the weird ones on their own and say
Speaker 2: I'm going to eat a specific way, not to impress you,
Speaker 2: but to make sure that my body works right. Very
Speaker 2: few kids are going to be like, you know what,
Speaker 2: I realize that when my school took my phone away,
Speaker 2: I did better in school.
Speaker 3: I had better friendships.
Speaker 1: It's not that it's not that that's going to get
Speaker 1: them there, it's that everyone else is doing it.
Speaker 4: I want to be different.
Speaker 1: It's like when kids stopped having sex because all the
Speaker 1: previous generations had sex. We're not going to do drugs
Speaker 1: the straight lace generation. Everyone did drugs in eight I'm
Speaker 1: not going to do drugs in the nineties or whatever.
Speaker 1: It's like, it's going against the grain wherever the grain is.
Speaker 1: If the grain is going in the way of everyone
Speaker 1: as a smartphone and they're on it all the time,
Speaker 1: you better believe there's going to be a section of
Speaker 1: kids who completely turn their back on that.
Speaker 2: In this case, this writer again Brian Chen for The
Speaker 2: New York Times. He bought a something called a light
Speaker 2: Phone three from a company in Brooklyn. It's a stripped
Speaker 2: down phone that really doesn't do much of anything. It
Speaker 2: places calls, it can send text messages. It can take photos,
Speaker 2: it can show map directions and then play music or podcasts.
Speaker 3: But that's it.
Speaker 2: There's no web browser, there's no app store, so you
Speaker 2: can't use it for Uber or something like that. There's
Speaker 2: no slack, there's no social media. It doesn't even have email.
Speaker 2: So he used this thing to determine if, in fact
Speaker 2: it would make a difference in his life to take
Speaker 2: away again, not even all of it, just some of
Speaker 2: the functions of your smartphone. He said, I admire the goal.
Speaker 2: This is his conclusion, by the way, but he says,
Speaker 2: my experience demonstrates there's nothing we can realistically do or
Speaker 2: buy to bring us back to simpler times because so
Speaker 2: many aspects of our lives revolve around our highly capable smartphones.
Speaker 2: He said it might be better suited as a secondary
Speaker 2: leisure phone, similar to a weekend car, for people to
Speaker 2: unplug when they're off, but he said, even then, the
Speaker 2: camera quality.
Speaker 3: Would be a deal breaker for some of these people.
Speaker 3: So he tried, I had a given credit. He tried, how.
Speaker 11: Did it get to be the twelve o'clock hour? You
Speaker 11: and deb were, Oh, we were yapping for a while.
Speaker 11: Well here we are, aren't you happy?
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