Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
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Speaker 2: You know, we love your show, but you guys are rude. Well,
Speaker 2: one of you is off. You should announce that they're
Speaker 2: off and what they're doing not their life story, just
Speaker 2: what they're doing. So we don't all sit here and
Speaker 2: they're thumb you nowhere.
Speaker 3: Ah hmm.
Speaker 1: I wonder if it's rude for me to say what, No,
Speaker 1: I think I'll sit in that. I think maybe I
Speaker 1: need to learn a lesson about that. Shannon's not here today. There,
Speaker 1: that's not her life story. I'll just leave it at that.
Speaker 1: What else is going on?
Speaker 3: Time for what's happening?
Speaker 1: Well, you heard Deva mention it one of the Eaglitz
Speaker 1: has flown Jackie in shadow of course, proud parents of
Speaker 1: Sonny and Gizmo and Deborah, Am I right, it's Sonny
Speaker 1: that took off.
Speaker 3: That that's what we're going with. Okay.
Speaker 1: They have said that this is likely going to come
Speaker 1: back and forth, that the the young eagle Lets are
Speaker 1: not ready to venture out on their own completely just yet.
Speaker 1: But because we have limited coverage of the cameras. We
Speaker 1: don't know where Sonny went, so they will eagerly anticipate, eagerly, eagerly,
Speaker 1: eagerly you.
Speaker 3: Can get it.
Speaker 1: Anticipate the return of said eagle to the nest to
Speaker 1: see how things go. There was a terrorist attack in Boulder,
Speaker 1: Colorado yesterday. FBI says the guy charged in the attack
Speaker 1: that left eight people injured told police that he planned
Speaker 1: it for an entire year and specifically targeted what he
Speaker 1: described as a Zionist group. An FBI fi David that's
Speaker 1: being used as part of the court case against him
Speaker 1: said that he confessed to the attack after being taken
Speaker 1: into custody yesterday and told the police that he would
Speaker 1: do it all again. The affidavit came out in support
Speaker 1: of the federal hate crime charges filed by the Justice Department.
Speaker 1: The group that was targeted had been gathering in a
Speaker 1: popular pedestrian park there in Boulder to draw attention to
Speaker 1: the Israeli hostages who remain in Gaza. The firebombing suspect
Speaker 1: is due in court and is expected at some point
Speaker 1: in the next probably within the hour, to make his
Speaker 1: first court appearance. Representatives of Russia and Ukraine met for
Speaker 1: their second round of direct peace talks in just over
Speaker 1: two for the first time in just two weeks, aside
Speaker 1: from agreeing to swap thousands of dead and seriously wounded troops,
Speaker 1: no other progress towards ending the war. The talks also
Speaker 1: came just a day after a bunch of long range
Speaker 1: attacks by both sides, where missiles and drones were used
Speaker 1: from Russia against Ukraine, but then a more devastating attack
Speaker 1: is the Ukrainian drones were used on several air bases
Speaker 1: in Russia to take out some of their long range
Speaker 1: bombers also internationally and dramatic video, tourists on an expedition
Speaker 1: near Mount Etna filmed running for their safety after a
Speaker 1: huge ash plume erupted from the volcano.
Speaker 3: Today.
Speaker 1: Dramatic video showed them scrambling away from the summit as
Speaker 1: this dark ashes billowed into the sky over the eastern
Speaker 1: coast of Sicily.
Speaker 3: They said that.
Speaker 1: A fountain of lava had also begun to flow from
Speaker 1: the volcano's southeast crater, though it hadn't breached the Valley
Speaker 1: of the Leo, which is kind of a basin natural
Speaker 1: basin there that kind of keeps the lava in the
Speaker 1: Volcanic Ash Advisory Center of Toulouse said activity was also
Speaker 1: already decreasing, no reported injuries, but pretty terrifying if you
Speaker 1: were up on the if you're up.
Speaker 3: On that mountain anywhere near.
Speaker 1: Disney has launched a perks program for Disney Plus and
Speaker 1: Hulu subscribers. For example, you can unlock a variety of offers,
Speaker 1: a chance to win tickets to the The Freaky Friday
Speaker 1: World premiere ahead of the release in August, sweepstakes to
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Speaker 1: its own set of perks, tickets to Lollapalooza, you could
Speaker 1: go see Jimmy Kimmel Live, sweepstakes tied to the Hulu
Speaker 1: originals like a handmaid's tail, a complete unknown only murders
Speaker 1: in a building in the building, I should say, and
Speaker 1: then more perks expected to be released on a regular basis,
Speaker 1: at least according to the company. Locally, it looks like
Speaker 1: recovery dive teams are expected to search for a paddle
Speaker 1: boarder who went missing in the lower Lagoon of Castaic.
Speaker 1: Over the weekend, strong winds knocked over a couple of
Speaker 1: paddle boarders.
Speaker 3: Two people went into the water.
Speaker 1: Just about twelve thirty yesterday afternoon, a woman who was
Speaker 1: wearing a life jacket was pulled from the water, but
Speaker 1: the man who was with her is still unaccounted for.
Speaker 1: He's been identified a sixty one year old a Spirridion Camez.
Speaker 1: Divers did search for him for several hours yesterday but
Speaker 1: suspended the search when it got dark. They will continue
Speaker 1: their search today and then. You may not have noticed.
Speaker 1: This a very high profile weekend at Dodger Stadium. The
Speaker 1: games against the Yankees were broadcast by Apple TV on
Speaker 1: Friday night, Fox yes Fox on Saturday, and then ESPN yesterday.
Speaker 1: On Friday night, a chunk of concrete fell from Dodger
Speaker 1: Stadium and hit a guy. Roughly the size of a
Speaker 1: softball fell into a Yankees fan, a guy named Richard Akino.
Speaker 1: He was struck in a back during the third inning
Speaker 1: of that Dodgers win on Friday night. Through a translator,
Speaker 1: He's from Mexico City. Through a translator, he said he
Speaker 1: was in some pain that the concrete didn't cause any bleeding.
Speaker 1: Obviously he's going to stay and watch the game because
Speaker 1: it's two of the most impressive teams right now. The
Speaker 1: Dodgers did install a small section of protective netting under
Speaker 1: the top deck in the Section ten reserve area, located
Speaker 1: between home plate and first base. The team said in
Speaker 1: a statement they have had professionals and experts at Dodger
Speaker 1: Stadium to examine the facility make sure it is safety
Speaker 1: and they're undertaking a longer term review. Let Us not forget,
Speaker 1: as visually stunning as that weekend was, all three of
Speaker 1: those games and the coverage that they got nationally, Dodger
Speaker 1: Stadium is one of the oldest stadiums in all of
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball right now.
Speaker 3: Think about that.
Speaker 1: I think it's third behind Fenway Park in Boston and
Speaker 1: Wrigley Field in Chicago and then Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3: That's how old this place is.
Speaker 1: Not that everything that is in it is that old,
Speaker 1: but just giving an idea of the infrastructure that they're
Speaker 1: dealing with. We were talking earlier about changes to youth
Speaker 1: sports and how an ex Major League Baseball player guy
Speaker 1: named Travis Snyder, is trying to change youth sports, trying
Speaker 1: to get into the heads of parents and coaches and say, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: calm down, you're hurting your kids. We'll talk a little
Speaker 1: bit more about that and hear from some of your
Speaker 1: experiences when it comes to youth sports.
Speaker 3: When we come back.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 4: AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Former I should say, personal assistant to Sean Diddy Combs
Speaker 1: who says he raped her, has defended the text messages,
Speaker 1: the loving text messages she sent him for years after
Speaker 1: her job ended. She said she was brainwashed. This former
Speaker 1: personal assistant is going under a pseudonym. She's testifying under
Speaker 1: the name Nia. The testimony said or she testified. Sorry
Speaker 1: that this woman is now her third day on the
Speaker 1: witness stand. It's fourth week of witness testimony. He has
Speaker 1: pleaded not guilty to charge us. He's remained jailed without
Speaker 1: bail since he was arrested last September. Told you earlier
Speaker 1: about Travis Snyder, this former Major League baseball player with
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays, Pie Orioles. He was great when he
Speaker 1: was in little league up in Washington State, played for
Speaker 1: Mill Creek Little League, was on state championship teams. He
Speaker 1: was a nationally ranked high school player, drafted fourteenth overall
Speaker 1: by the Blue Jays and the MLB Draft, and when
Speaker 1: his career was over, he had made his way through
Speaker 1: the majors spent a couple of years back in the
Speaker 1: minors before he decided to finally retire. He was diagnosed
Speaker 1: with complex post traumatic stress disorder that he blamed on
Speaker 1: the pressure, not just pressure he put on himself, but
Speaker 1: pressure that was put on him by coaches, parents, other players, etc.
Speaker 1: And he wanted to put an end to that that
Speaker 1: youth sports was kind of getting out of hand, so
Speaker 1: he got together with a friend, a life coach named
Speaker 1: Seth Taylor, and created a company called three A Athletics,
Speaker 1: and the three a's stand for awareness, activation and achievement.
Speaker 1: Awareness of the issues that are facing youth sports, an
Speaker 1: activation of an athlete's potential through supportive coaching and parenting practices,
Speaker 1: followed by achievement in their chosen field.
Speaker 3: And listen, we all know not all sports are for
Speaker 3: all kids.
Speaker 1: And when I went through getting my kids involved in
Speaker 1: sports when they were young, it wasn't because I wanted
Speaker 1: them to be a Major League baseball player or find
Speaker 1: some sort of Olympic path that they were going to
Speaker 1: excel at. It's that I wanted them to be involved.
Speaker 1: You want them involved in teams, you want them involved
Speaker 1: in situations where other people are relying on them and
Speaker 1: they are relying on O their people. Great way to
Speaker 1: make friends, great way for you as a parent to
Speaker 1: meet other parents, all of that stuff. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: all kinds of different reasons why you want your kid
Speaker 1: involved in sports, and too many times it becomes a
Speaker 1: it becomes a test of your relationship with your kid
Speaker 1: because you don't think they're trying hard enough, or you
Speaker 1: don't think they're putting their effort into it, or you
Speaker 1: think that they're okay with losing or whatever whatever the
Speaker 1: term is. And I'm not a guy, by the way,
Speaker 1: I'm not a guy who's like everybody needs a trophy.
Speaker 3: That's not what it is.
Speaker 1: But the idea of sports, especially at that age, being
Speaker 1: life and death.
Speaker 3: That takes it a little bit too far.
Speaker 5: It's up.
Speaker 3: Gary Joni Fromscandido Love the Show.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I got so stressed out from playing youth soccer
Speaker 6: in high school soccer, I started drinking and smoking cigarettes
Speaker 6: of the age of fourteen.
Speaker 3: Wow, that'll get you out of shape.
Speaker 7: Pretty quick, hey Jerry, and say whatever your names are. No, really,
Speaker 7: I'm a youth soccer referee and I've done ayso which
Speaker 7: is youthed in developmental years and years and years and
Speaker 7: new club and do high school and some of the
Speaker 7: way some of them, I would say about fifteen to
Speaker 7: twenty percent of the coaches and all of the parents
Speaker 7: constantly put way too much pressure. And I'm talking even
Speaker 7: most recently six to you, these are five year olds
Speaker 7: and there's intensity. We must win, we must get it,
Speaker 7: and it's changed.
Speaker 1: One of the things that I had a problem with
Speaker 1: was when it came to soccer. For example, I never
Speaker 1: I mean I played as a kid when I was
Speaker 1: in ten. That was probably my career ended when I
Speaker 1: was ten. But there are some really basic things that
Speaker 1: you're supposed to do in soccer that if you aren't
Speaker 1: a good coach, and I wasn't, you're not going to
Speaker 1: be able to communicate that to the kids. And I
Speaker 1: remember being so frustrated with I didn't have I didn't
Speaker 1: have the language to teach the kids what they needed
Speaker 1: to know. I could watch a soccer game and enjoy
Speaker 1: it and see some of the strategy in it, but
Speaker 1: I didn't know how to then translate that into coaching
Speaker 1: for the kids.
Speaker 3: So that was my shortfall.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Hi, this is Tony.
Speaker 3: Hey.
Speaker 8: When I was in my early twenties, I coached the
Speaker 8: little league team and we had a little guy on
Speaker 8: there that wasn't a strong hitter, and I found out
Speaker 8: that every time he struck out, his dad would spank
Speaker 8: ind So knowing that, I spent hours with the kid
Speaker 8: and taught him how to bunt, and he became the
Speaker 8: best bunner and consequently, you know, his dad left them all.
Speaker 3: Well, that's a good coach right there.
Speaker 6: Hey, Gary, you're doing great today.
Speaker 5: So I'm calling about the kids that get pushed too
Speaker 5: far in sport.
Speaker 9: I used to be a tutor, and a lot.
Speaker 5: Of kids that I tutored would go to college for
Speaker 5: their sport, get a scholarship, dedicated their whole life to
Speaker 5: their sport, and then when they got to college, they
Speaker 5: hated their coach so and then some of them had burnout.
Speaker 5: So I don't push my kid. He's twelve now, and
Speaker 5: I'm just like, go to practice when you feel like it.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know about that. I don't know about
Speaker 1: go to practice when you feel like it. And one
Speaker 1: of the things that I was talking about about why
Speaker 1: you would want your kids involved in sports in the
Speaker 1: first place, is they make a pledge to be relied upon.
Speaker 1: That your team can rely on you being there whenever
Speaker 1: you can. And even if you don't want to go
Speaker 1: to practice, that's what you told the team you would do,
Speaker 1: is you would go to practice. And I wonder if
Speaker 1: there is a thing Listen, sometimes there is a discussion
Speaker 1: about how many pitches any pitcher had in their arm. Right,
Speaker 1: if you overdo it when you're a kid, you're not
Speaker 1: going to have anything left when you're in your mid twenties.
Speaker 1: And I wonder if there's an aspect of that that exists. Also,
Speaker 1: if you play in four hundred travel baseball games by
Speaker 1: the time you're twenty, do you even love it anymore?
Speaker 1: Or are you just doing it because it's out of habit.
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of weird.
Speaker 9: Good morning, Gary and Shannon. Thank you for always being funny.
Speaker 3: I don't know about that.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 9: My husband was a softball coach for travel ball and
Speaker 9: the girls were amazing. I want to know something about
Speaker 9: youth sports. The parents most of the time, Yep, they suck.
Speaker 9: Have a great day.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: We'll continue this on the other side of the break
Speaker 1: because there is a few more of these talkbacks that
Speaker 1: we got specifically about what it is that is positive
Speaker 1: about youth sports, and you don't nothing has to be
Speaker 1: negative all the time, and there are some things that
Speaker 1: we can all problem rely on that are positive.
Speaker 3: When it comes to getting your kids into sports. That's
Speaker 3: coming up next.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 4: AM six.
Speaker 1: Forty Emmy winning composer whose music was featured on The
Speaker 1: Simpsons for twenty seven years, has died. Alf Clawson died
Speaker 1: late last week at his home here in LA after
Speaker 1: struggling with Parkinson's for a long time. At eighty four
Speaker 1: years old, Klawson scored other TV series like Moonlighting and Alf.
Speaker 1: He was nominated for thirty Emmy Awards. Twenty one of
Speaker 1: those nominations came for The Simpsons, and he won twice.
Speaker 1: In the odd sports where I shouldn't say odd. In
Speaker 1: the less spotlighted sports World, Magnus Carlson lost to Gukesh
Speaker 1: Domraju in chess. It's the first time that Magnus Carlson
Speaker 1: has lost in the classical format and in this case,
Speaker 1: Gukesh Domraju is nineteen years old, considered to be one
Speaker 1: of the brightest young stars in all of sports.
Speaker 3: If we're talking sports, we're talking.
Speaker 1: About this plan by Travis Snyder, a former Major League
Speaker 1: baseball player, and is pushed to kind of take some
Speaker 1: of the pressure.
Speaker 3: Out of youth sports the way it exists.
Speaker 1: And he's put together the three A Athletics. And I
Speaker 1: told you awareness, activation, achievement, and I wanted to. I
Speaker 1: was curious about what other people's experiences are when it
Speaker 1: came to youth sports.
Speaker 10: Hey, good morning, Gary. Got my son who's now twenty six,
Speaker 10: and you know, I was a little older when I
Speaker 10: had him, but I did coach soccer and managed his
Speaker 10: little league teams. But our parents at that time weren't
Speaker 10: that critical of the kids making an error or striking
Speaker 10: out or doing something weird. It just maybe we're just
Speaker 10: on the cusp. But we didn't have those problems where
Speaker 10: the kids were hanging their heads low and all that
Speaker 10: kind of stuff after losing or whatever. So hey, maybe
Speaker 10: we're just lucky.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 1: That's an interesting point that made me think. My dad
Speaker 1: didn't play baseball, but I did. My dad played football,
Speaker 1: and when I've tried to play football very poorly. Uh,
Speaker 1: that was when he was most critical. Not and then
Speaker 1: not even in a negative way. He just knew what
Speaker 1: he was talking. He knew how to be critical of football,
Speaker 1: but not necessarily of baseball. So I never and Dad
Speaker 1: was never overly critical anyway.
Speaker 4: Hey, Gary, Mike from him. Yeah, my nephew played ball
Speaker 4: since he was eight, travel ball, the whole thing, made
Speaker 4: it into college, ended up getting Tommy John surgery in college,
Speaker 4: but was able to come back and made it to
Speaker 4: single a baseball But the wear and tear on his
Speaker 4: body just took its toll. So it was tough on him.
Speaker 8: But he loved it. He loved it.
Speaker 3: That's a point. That's a great point. You can love.
Speaker 1: You can love a sport or an activity or hobby,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, if your body can't handle it. That's
Speaker 1: that's part of the process of refining who gets to
Speaker 1: play these games at a professional level is your body
Speaker 1: has to be able to get through it, not just
Speaker 1: your mental ability or your natural given ability. Your muscles,
Speaker 1: your bones, everything's got to work right.
Speaker 11: Well, Yeah, I'm a single father, and when my kids
Speaker 11: were growing up, my daughter played very high competitive club volleyball,
Speaker 11: and my son played very high competitive baseball. It takes
Speaker 11: a toll on you and financially and time wise, for sure.
Speaker 3: No kid. I think that's the one thing everybody can
Speaker 3: agree on.
Speaker 12: Hey, Gary, I could sit and talk to you about
Speaker 12: this for quite some time, because right now I'm dealing
Speaker 12: with all stars for softball. But the one thing I
Speaker 12: would say is encouragement. And that's not between your own
Speaker 12: league or even seeing another team, just having that and
Speaker 12: because you can see certain things just go on and
Speaker 12: it's kind of gets ruthless out there when it doesn't
Speaker 12: need to be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and back to Travis Knightder, this former Major League
Speaker 1: baseball player said basically, we want the experience to be
Speaker 1: the kids experience, not the parents, not the coach, not
Speaker 1: but the actual people on the field or on the
Speaker 1: court playing the sports. Because if you're going to have
Speaker 1: a chance to experience and find out what they like
Speaker 1: what they don't like, is this what I want to pursue.
Speaker 3: Is it just a hobby kind of thing.
Speaker 1: They're the ones that are going to have to be
Speaker 1: able to make that decision themselves without I mean, with
Speaker 1: input perhaps from parents and coaches, but without too much
Speaker 1: influence from them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you use sports. I sucked at you sports. That
Speaker 4: was the problem.
Speaker 10: I don't see what everybody's complaining about with men playing
Speaker 10: in women's sports.
Speaker 3: There was the only people I could beat.
Speaker 11: With the girls, you know.
Speaker 6: Okay, Besides, women always want to join everything men do.
Speaker 10: Say.
Speaker 12: It's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Speaker 8: There you go, There you go.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the confession that you sucked at youth sports.
Speaker 6: Hey, Gary, it's Troy. It sounds to me like you
Speaker 6: want to give everybody a trophy. Competition breeds excellent. If
Speaker 6: your kids are playing baseball, they need to go out
Speaker 6: and succeed. If they fail, you need to tell them,
Speaker 6: let's do better next time.
Speaker 3: Okay, the ptation of America. All right, that makes perfect sense.
Speaker 1: You can also smack them in the back of the
Speaker 1: head if they swing and miss.
Speaker 3: That would work well.
Speaker 1: Before we get to motivation Monday, I need to have
Speaker 1: a reason to have motivation. And if you have not
Speaker 1: yet heard the greatest talkback of the day, this is the.
Speaker 3: Time, ladies and gentlemen. This means I need motivation.
Speaker 13: Gary. It's that your ego and low soft team leads
Speaker 13: through on the show un lessons the quality of it.
Speaker 13: Ow you can tell that you were one of those
Speaker 13: kids in school that wasn't part of the cool crowd
Speaker 13: but always wanted to be. And that really shows. Wow,
Speaker 13: it's unbecoming.
Speaker 3: Oh, stop poking me, sir, that hurts.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's spend the motivational Monday wheel and see
Speaker 1: what we come up with.
Speaker 3: Oh there it is hockey.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess Stanley Cup finals begin on Wednesday, so
Speaker 1: hockey as timely. Remember when Coach Brooks put together the
Speaker 1: US Olympic hockey team in nineteen eighty bunch of college kids,
Speaker 1: they took on the powerhouses of Sweden and Canada and
Speaker 1: the Soviet Union. In the unlikely semi final game between
Speaker 1: the Americans and the Soviets, Coach Brooks, in this case,
Speaker 1: played by Kurt Russell, has to get the guys ready
Speaker 1: for the fight of their lives.
Speaker 10: Great moments are born from great opportunity, and that's what
Speaker 10: you have here tonight. Boys, That's what you've earned here
Speaker 10: tonight in one game. If we played them ten times,
Speaker 10: they might win nine.
Speaker 3: But not this game, not tonight.
Speaker 8: Tonight.
Speaker 11: We skate with them. Tonight, we stay with them, and we.
Speaker 8: Shut them down because we can tonight.
Speaker 4: We are the greatest hockey team in the world.
Speaker 10: You were born to be hockey players, everyone I am,
Speaker 10: and you were meant to be here tonight. This is
Speaker 10: your time. Their time is done. It's over. I'm sick
Speaker 10: and tired of hearing about what a great hockey team
Speaker 10: the Soviets have scroll them.
Speaker 1: This is your time.
Speaker 3: Now, go out there and take it. I'll bet you
Speaker 3: they play that. I'll bet you they play.
Speaker 1: That in the hockey room, hockey locker rooms, before the
Speaker 1: before the games. You've been listening to the Gary and
Speaker 1: Shannon Show. You can always hear us live on KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty nine am to one pm every Monday
Speaker 1: through Friday, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.