November 12, 2024 • 30 mins
Newsom traveling to DC amid push to protect policies from Trump. Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs housed in low-security jail dorm alongside Sam Bankman-Fried — where inmates can spy on female convicts. Are one child families bad?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Would you like a nice story?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Do you have one? I feel like.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
It's not a trap.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I've followed for that one before. Go on.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Well, there is an unlikely friendship that has developed. In England.
There was an emu named Shrub. Shrub, Can I have
some nice story music?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Shrub music?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
The emu named Shrub was rejected by its parents, Forrest
and Matilda, who also, to be honest, had a difficult
start in life. The keepers at bird World discovered that
Matilda had mom had successfully hatched an egg, but their
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parent was willing to take on the role of caregiver.
The lifeless one pound body of an emu chick covered
in mud flies being pulled from the nest by crows
turned out to be Shrub in the wild. That would
certainly be the end of the story, end.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Certain death, bug and mud infested lunch, But they were.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
In captivity, so the job of raising Shrub was given
to Nugget. Who is Nugget?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
You ask another emu? No?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
A small hen a chicken A chicken who lived there
at bird World as well. Nugget the chicken taught Shrub
the emu skills such as eating and.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Walking, eating and walking, eating and walking.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
She's become shrubs mother, hen turned teacher. That's sweet, isn't
that beautiful?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Tell me when it's over, Okay, a cool adoscopy. A
judge is going to postpone a key ruling in President
electra Tell me what it's over President elect Trump's hush
money case. This postponed himent comes as prosecutors are trying
to figure out the next steps after his election win.
(02:22):
His lawyers are arguing just to dismiss it outright so
that he can run the country without this thing hanging
over his head. The judge in New York, One Mershawn,
has had been set to rule today on whether to
throw out the conviction for a different reason because of
the Supreme Court, of course, Instead, he told Trump's lawyers
that he would delay the ruling until November nineteenth so
that prosecutors can suggest a way forward.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Oh man, I was telling you when I got in
this morning, with everything that went on yesterday, it was
very hard to focus in terms of, you know, reading
a book or focusing on anything yesterday and turn on
the football game, and that was a game lacking complete
focus as the Dolphins feat twenty three to fifteen. I mean,
that was insane. That was just what are we doing here?
Here's offensive lines, and what's happening? And why is Tua
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using his head to tackle.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
The prime time debacle? It was a debacle. We're late
enough in the season that I know that we'll get
into the flex scheduling so they can determine, you know,
which games make those primetime slots and everything.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
But man, the Chargers may have four primetime games in
a row.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Really, yeah, wow, flex schedule all right.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Gavin Newsom heading to Washington to keep California safe, keep
California programs and funding that could be threatened by Trump's
second administration. He's going to meet with members of California's
congressional delegation, key officials, and the Biden Harris administration.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
All of that.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Make no mistake. This is not about California. It's not
about the EPA, it's not about medicaid, it's not about wildfires.
It's about Gavin Newsom testing the waters, and not just
testing the water, it's forcing himself into the right now.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, he does, whether you like it or not. He
does not care about you. No trust me. One of
the things that he wants to do is he says
he wants to get the EPA to okay some waivers
so that the state's more stringent vehicle emission standards can
take effect. He wants the Biden administration's okay to use
the Medicaid funding to test new or expanded programs for
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those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and
have significant behavioral needs. And he advocates for disaster relief
related funding, of course, including wildfire.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
All he wants to do is put his flaccid genitals
on the table and say, I am here to win
this town in four years, and I need funding, and
I need people to start taking me seriously, and so
I'm going to say things like Medicaid, EPA and wildfire
to do.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
So. Are you suggesting that his hair is harder than yes?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
What did I say?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
What did I say? Flacid genitals on this table? Do
you hear you? Are those? Are those headphones on? Because
I can hear you. I'm sorry about that, Trump wrote
on truth Social He Gavin Newsom is using the term
Trump proof as a way of stopping all of the
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great things that can be done to make California great again.
But I just overwhelmingly won the election. He said. People
are being forced to leave due to his and others
insane policy decisions. All caps. Even California Assembly Republican leader
James Gallagher said that that special session that was called
by the governor is a shameless political stunt and is
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accusing Newsom of simply trying to bolster his own national
political profile.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Was that a sneeze or cough?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
That was a cough? All right?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
So I will not bless you.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
You can if you like.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
But you guys are adorable because I can hear like
I hear Shannon go off mic and then cough or
sneeze and then I Gary for a mess.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Well, if this was the Handle Show, we would just
leave the microphone on probably and not give it.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Rats about morning, Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Shannon. Don't ever discount Gary as a good friend ever again.
He literally paused the show that I'm sure he's been
waiting for for like months, didn't know what was going
to happen, totally fully engulfed in it, and stopped for you.
That's a good friend. And wants of love from everybody
out there. We all feel for you guys and push
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the best for.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Know. Yeah, thank you, yes, thank you for that. And
I never discounted Gary as a good friend for several reasons.
One on one is I will pause Yellowstones. Yeah, thats
good season.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
That's a pretty big deal. That is a big deal,
And I'm trying to remember. I think it was pretty close.
We had just started it. It wasn't that deep. I mean,
if it was deeper into it, I probably would have
left it. Yeah, to go to voicemail.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Right, Well, it's like, what is she going to tell
me that she can't tell me tomorrow too?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Well, that's why I answered the phone.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I know.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Sorry this so now I'm like the boy who cried wolf.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
No, No, it was fine, It was good. I was
just shocked by to be there for each other in
times of stress and turmoil.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Diddy is being housed in a low security jail dorm
where they say that inmates have access to the female inmates.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
What we'll talk about it when we come back. Gary
and Shannon will continue also a chance at one thousand
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Speaker 4 (07:28):
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Speaker 1 (07:35):
It seems like single child families are becoming more and
more popular, more and more common. Over the past half century.
The cost of raising a child has increased far faster
than the average salary. That may be one reason for that.
We'll get into it coming up next.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
That that was kind of the plan for us. Yeah, yeah,
we were okay with one child at first.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
And then one Friday night things get a little crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Well it's.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Get a little eggnoggy. When was your daughter born August?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
August? So yeah, got some.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Eggnog in there in there. Christmas season lights are pretty
everybody starts being a little sexy.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Whiskey's not hitting like it used to.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Missus Claus, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, nothing like making out after a long day or
toys r us. We're talking about Gavin Newsom going to DC.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
You guys are forgetting Javin's going strictly because Biden and
Trump are meeting tomorrow. He wants to be in that
party or a part of that party, or at least
in the backyard.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
He's not going to be.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
There, no, but he at least will be in the
same zip code.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yes, that the headlines today that Milania Trump will not
be meeting with doctor Jill Biden in that same time.
Why would they?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
What are they going to I mean, I know it's
history and pomp and circumstance, and that's the way things
have always been.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
What are those two going to say to each other?
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Speaker 1 (10:00):
John Diddy Combs may be behind bars, but sources who
have done time say it won't necessarily curb his alleged
pervy ways. He is in the for North unit of
the Metro Detention Center in Brooklyn. This is a dorm
facility which has about twenty inmates, looser rules than general pop,
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and diversions for prisoners, including.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Air hockey that sounds like fun.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
One unintended feature also provides a thrill for inmates. They
say interested in the ladies. There are apparently greats in
one of the rooms of for North. This is according
to Jean Burrello, a former mob enforcer who spent time there.
He said, they've got little holes and if you lay down,
you can look through the holes and talk to the
women one floor down and see them.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Okay, another like hot federal inmate ladies to make the
day go by. Hey, a lady is a lady? That
is completely untrue. Really, yes, what is a lady?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
A woman with?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Uh? See, it's not as easy as you think it is.
One of the former inmates is Jean Barrello, former mob enforcer.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
It sounds better when I say.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
It said, Uh, he could do one of these freak
offs if he wanted to.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Don't read the other quote from Jean BURRELLO.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
They'll show their that one. Yeah, they'll show their top
parts and play with their bottom parts, he pro proudly proclaimed.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Even when you water it down, it was still foul.
He said that the females of Forour North are wrungs
down from the models, professional strippers, and others who claim
to have been recruited by the original d D crew
for the alleged freak offs. He said of the third
floor women, they're grow most of them are drug addicts.
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Ah said, this high flutint former mob enforcer, he's probably
a handsome fella himself. Diddy's life, of course, once filled
with private chefs, private jets, bedrooms as big as football fields,
these days a lot less privacy for him. They say
it can be super boring. It's reserved for high profile
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criminals including Sam Bankman.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Freed and r Kelly oh Man. Don't get those two together.
Scrub that place down. Said. Basically, they're not cells, but
they live in a unit that is set up like
a dorm and designed for some of these high profile individuals.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
They said, with the right cop, you can spend all
night watching TV. That there are board games, a gym,
card games, ping, pong. They have access to tablets that
are not connected to the internet, so they can watch movies,
play video games. Listen to me, this sounds lovely. I
would like to go to Metro Detention Center in Brooklyn.
I would like to watch TV all night and play
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ping pong and card games in having not have to
pay rent. You see the drug addict girls showing your
their teas, I mean their top parts.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Chicken sandwiches, sundays lovely. I love a chicken sandwich, dogs,
hot dogs, murder burgers. What's that like a smash burger?
They said, that's made from a thin pad.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Do they have vegan options?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I'm sure if you had, yes, I'm sure that they
would have vegan options. This is not the prison of
the old Green Mile days, where you got what you
got and you didn't make a fuss. You can you
can be pretty consistently demanding about the things that you
get in jail these days.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
All right, coming up next, the coming rain of the
only child. It seems that the only child's time has come.
I have a one of my best friends. She was
an only child and made it a point to have
two kids so that they would not be interesting.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
She didn't like being the only child.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I think it's kind of a lonely thing, you know,
and you've got no partner in crime against your parents.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
You got to spend a lot of time with adults.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
You got to Yeah, you got to become adult more sooner, probably, Gross.
Can't just call people butt heads around the house all
day like I got to do.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
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Speaker 1 (14:38):
You're such a good friend because when I called you
last night, you paused the Yellowstone premiere and answered the phone.
You haven't mentioned my outfit today. I'm wearing jeans, white shirt,
T shirt.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Black leather jacket, very fondsy of you.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I did this to cheer you up. I dressed like
the phar to cheer you up, and you didn't notice.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I have boots on, but they're not they're not motorcycle boots.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I don't have motorcycle boots. I did with what I could.
But I came in costume to work for you.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Thank you, Gary, and chatted. I feel for you. I
stayed homesick today. I was just whatever this is. There's
no sore throat or anything. It's just this never dying
congested like allergy, so congestion.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I's got my vix vapor.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Rub By Vic said, I'm listening to you, and I
feel so bad for you. I feel like said to you,
chicken soup, all right, stay strong by Fred's love you, thank.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
You, love you.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I was gonna make soup tonight.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I had a butternut squash soup.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
It sounds great.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
It was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
But cream in that I don't know you would know?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
You know what do you mean? I know you know
there's cream in your soup. I don't know if cream
went into that soup. I didn't make it. Was it
rich and it was fantastic. Yeah, And we put chicken
nuggets in it really well, it was protein on the side. No,
And I just poured them right inside that soup. You
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just put the whole nugget in there. You didn't even
dip it. You just no dipping.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
So did it get soggy your nugget?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
How long was it in there?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
For it felt like milk and cereal.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I just but did your nugget lose the crisp of
its skin?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Oh? Interesting? No?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Where did you get the nuggets from the freezer. But
they're not dino nuggets. No, why would you get nuggets
that aren't dino nuggets?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Because these are less.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
They're healthier nuggets.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Yes, yeah, they're less artificially pressed into dinosaur shape. If
it's a dinosaur shape, it's just by chance. Yeah in
this case.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Well, and if it was a dino nugget, you wouldn't
just throw it in your soup. You'd want to play
with it.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Right, everyday, you convinced me more that you are truly
my people. I'm telling you, it's just all about the mindset.
If you're in jail, you just gotta forget about everything
else side and just have fun, play car games, watch TV,
talk smag, sleep, exercise. Come on, I know it's a
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good old time. Hell yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
The only thing when I'm in jail I miss, obviously
family and women.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
But when you go to Metro what was that cell plush.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
For North North?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
There's greats and you get to see the drug addict
naked women than the floor below. What makes you think
they're naked because he said that the mob enforcer that
spent time there said that they play with their top
parts and their bottom parts. Right, you're not gonna do
that clothed, right, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Next time we were jail, keep me updated on that
with you. I'll take that car that call as well.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
So would you write you being the good friend that
you are, would you write to me if I was
in jail?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Sure, depending on what I did?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Probably right, Like, you're not gonna write to me if I,
you know, did something horrible.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
H we'll see. Really make a good book. Probably, that's
very nice. I do it for financial purposes yet nn and.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
You are on it today?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
What is in your coffee?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Anyways?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
One child was it?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Until it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I adopted my second and I'm happy I did.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Oh, there was a that's cool. There was a paper
in nineteen seventy eight, the National Council on Family Relations
put out a paper called the one child family a
new lifestyle, as if.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
It was something crazy and counter culture. Right about that
Around that time, there was only eleven percent of American
families that had one kid. By twenty fifteen, that's doubled
to twenty two percent. Big families. No one's doing it anymore.
They say that in reality, families with one child maybe
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the least desired outcome. When you envision your dream life.
But it's the fastest growing family configuration in the country.
Why well, they say, over the past half century, the
cost of raising a child has increased far faster than
the average salary. Women are having kids later in life,
so there's less time to bear multiple children.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
They're also, I mean, we're getting away from the as
utilitarian as it may sound, we're getting away from the
we need five kids to help tend to the live
stock every morning.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
We don't have that anymore. I mean, there are people
I know a family that has ten children, two pair
of ten children, not a Brady Bunch scenario. These are
all naturally born the old fashioned way children. That's a
lot of people. Yeah, I mean, that's not just a
lot of mouths to feed when they're small. That's a
lot of people.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Well, and it's not even about like them. You say,
you have the money to have ten kids or whatever.
How much attention are those kids getting from you? But
does it matter when there's so many siblings and you know,
everyone's getting attention from somebody in the family.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yeah, it is. It does preclude a different relationship with
your parents.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, it's harder to foresee, they say, what the rise
of the only child means for our future. Will more
solo kids lead to a world run by spoiled brats,
devoid of empathy, and unschooled in the art of collaboration.
That's a really rough way to categorize only children, right,
that they're all spoiled, that they're devoid of empathy, that
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they don't collaborate with others. I don't find that to
be true. Maybe I some in some cases, yes, but
not in all.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Cases well, And I think it also depends on that
kid's ability, they're innate ability to see that they are
the their household is different. You know, if that only
child becomes friends with someone who has two or three siblings,
then they automatically get exposed to a different lifestyle, different
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household dynamic that they probably don't experience. And if they
do that early enough in life, they recognize that it's different.
I mean, we all, we're all shaped by relationships within
our home, right. We think of, at least at first,
every relationship with a father is the way my relationship
is with my father, or vice versa. And that, you know,
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you you snap out of that pretty quickly when you
get into say high school or college or something like that,
and you meet people who came from very very different
households than yours.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
They've gotten a bad rap. Over the years of Victorian
doctor Spock Grant, it was the nickname for Granville Stanley Hall,
America's og psychologist, the first man to earn a doctorate
in the field from Harvard, and he said that only
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children were inherently flawed, sickly unable to get along with others,
a deluded tendency to create imaginary companions. He declared in
nineteen oh seven that being an only child is a
disease in itself. Expert after expert followed that kind of
line of thinking until in the nineteen eighties, a social
psychologist named Tony Falbow, she was an only child, decided
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to test this idea. So what she did was she
reviewed one hundred and forty one studies of personality development
and only children, and she found out that the only
children scored significantly better than other groups an achievement, motivation,
and personal adjustment. And that's been a finding that's been
repeated many times since.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
She said, only children are not any more shy, they're
not any more entitled, they're not any more lonely than
peers that have brothers or sisters.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
In fact, they grew up learning to entertain themselves. They
solve their own problems, they don't mind eating alone. Their
adept at forging close friendships that feel like family.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Yeah, we were fine with one child. We had a
we had our son, and we first of all were
amazed that they let us leave the hospital with this thing.
And then a friend of ours who had a son
at exactly I mean a week before hours, we met
her in the birthing class through the hospital. That couple
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got pregnant again relatively quickly, I mean we were friends
with them for a couple of years, and then she
surprised us and said that she was pregnant and they
were going to have a daughter. And that started the
mental exercise of well what would that look like? What
would have? What would have? First of all, what would
a girl look like? Because our son had red hair,
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what would a girl with red hair look like? And
then what would the dynamic be of this cherubic, beautiful
child being tormented by a little sister what would that
look like? And then, like you said, the romance of
the holidays took over. Yeah. Yeah, when a man loves
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a woman.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
You put on a big white beard and a big
red suit and a black belt and you say, sit
on my lap.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
But the belts weren't holding up any pants. Hey, I
didn't take your pants off in that scenario. You did.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I kept it clean and very buttoned up, and there
was decorum in my hypothetical of how you conceived your
second child.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
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this year, we have a suggestion.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yes, I said to my husband this morning, I would
like to go here this Christmas season because they do
a nice job there, all right, But you know who
else does a nice job is Riverside.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Well we'll tell you where. If you can't make it
to Riverside, where else you might want to go.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
You know we're so old that we made Kana uncomfortable
with our sex talk. In the last segment, she says,
oh my gosh, it was like listening to my parents.
Today's the day that we got so old that we
can't talk about sex with the kids that work here
because we're like their parents.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Well, let me say something to Keiana. Yeah, be careful
what you wish for, because if you actually did hear
your parents say something like that, it's it's life changing.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Have you heard Did you hear that from your parents?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
No? But I have a friend, uh huh, I have
a friend not me. Yeah, I have a friend who
has a very descriptive story about interrupting parents.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I remember one time coming home from something and hearing
furniture sucks that I didn't even know about, right.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
It is not I know about it. I mean I
even have a story of my own son interrupting. Right,
Which were.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
You guys totally naked or were you at least like
under cover?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Like?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
What was the scene? Not that we need to know this,
but I am curious.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
How descriptive do you want to not?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I don't need to position.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
I'll just say this was it? G What does that mean?
If they would at least just the just the definition
of it makes it PG?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Did he see you guys naked?
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I don't think so. Okay, that's good. I mean the
Batman outs outfit kind of covered up most of it.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Right, So that was a Batman night, yes, as opposed
to the French Maid night.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
There was no French maid.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
You've never dressed as a French maid, have you? No,
you're the one who.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Likes to be dress. No, I don't think there was,
but there was a there was clearly like And to
this day, I don't even know if I had asked him.
I've never asked him.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
No, don't bring it up, because here's the thing. He's
never forgotten it.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I don't know if he has or not. He seemed
to be too too flustered by it.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
No, uh, yeah, you see your parent. It's having sexy time.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
But again, I don't even know if he knew that
was what was going on.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Oh how old was he at the time?
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Eleven eleven?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Maybe you're good, but now he knows what he says.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Well, the lights were off, that's good. I mean the
fog machine was going, right.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Did you have the the the light up ball that
you guys just go ball? Yeah, No, that you hadn't
gotten masked and got.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
A couple of years later. Yeah, that came later in there,
I would add.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
You know, I'll text him, I'm gonna ask me.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Idea, especially from an outside person. You're right, that would
be weird.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Well, he's like twenty five now, Yeah, I feel like
the Statute of Limitations.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
A week from today he turns twenty five. Okay, I'll
wait till his twenty fifth birthday. Not a great birthday present,
that is an awful idea anyway. Christmas soul Vang is
considered California's best Christmas twent You believe that. No, they're
gearing up for their annual yule Fest month long celebration
(28:06):
of the winter holidays. It begins the twenty ninth runs
through January fifth. By the way, this is not an
ad for solving Well.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
I'm wondering. Is it an ad for solving I'm wondering
if solving pay news organizations to pick this up. This
looks like a press release from This is what happens
when you don't have a news department, folks. Somebody from
the Solvang Visitor Center sent out a freaking press release,
and the lazy people that run these places now decided
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to just roll with it. Everyone knows that the mission
in in Riverside is where you go for Christmas cheer
and joy. They've got those little delicious cinnamon donuts. You
can get a old bucket of them and feel not
bad about eating that whole bucket, all the lights and
the beautiful mission in and then you walk through the
lobbied and sell decorated and you pay way too much
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for a Christmas cocktail. That's what Christmas is about, is
the spirit of Christmas overpaying for water down drips.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Everyone's armed with cinnamon. Festivities in Solving begin Friday the
twenty ninth. The annual light music show takes place right
in the center of town at the Solvang Park.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
You're reading the press release, You're doing what they want
you to do.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Every hour on the hour, from five to night.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
This is this is not even American. This is not
even American.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
This is like Dutch people? Denmark? Is that where the
Dutch come from?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
This is moon? Who is that? Somebody?
Speaker 1 (29:34):
There's wooden shoes, able skivers? What's an able skiver?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
It's a food, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
It's a non American food. Okay, you don't want to
be American this Christmas.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I want them to serve Hamburger, Solvan Good Lord.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Solving.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Solving has lodging options that range between cheap overnight motels
or luxurious.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
You're not auditioning for a new job.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Yet, but it's only about two and a half hours
away from Los Angeles by car. Mini can also work
as a day trip.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Gary and Shannon for.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
More about solving and it's annual You'll Fest celebration. Click here.
I'm just reading that.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I'm not even listening to you anymore.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
We'll do swamp Watch when we come.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Somebody just sent me something about Levenworth, Washington being a
Christmas town. Yes, that's another un American place. Boy, they
do Schnitzel.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Gary and Shannon will continue right afterwards. You've been listening
to the Gary and Shannon Show. You can always hear
us live on KFI AM six forty nine am to
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Do you have one? I feel like.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
It's not a trap.
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I've followed for that one before. Go on.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Well, there is an unlikely friendship that has developed. In England.
There was an emu named Shrub. Shrub, Can I have
some nice story music?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Shrub music?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
The emu named Shrub was rejected by its parents, Forrest
and Matilda, who also, to be honest, had a difficult
start in life. The keepers at bird World discovered that
Matilda had mom had successfully hatched an egg, but their
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parent was willing to take on the role of caregiver.
The lifeless one pound body of an emu chick covered
in mud flies being pulled from the nest by crows
turned out to be Shrub in the wild. That would
certainly be the end of the story, end.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Certain death, bug and mud infested lunch, But they were.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
In captivity, so the job of raising Shrub was given
to Nugget. Who is Nugget?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
You ask another emu? No?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
A small hen a chicken A chicken who lived there
at bird World as well. Nugget the chicken taught Shrub
the emu skills such as eating and.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Walking, eating and walking, eating and walking.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
She's become shrubs mother, hen turned teacher. That's sweet, isn't
that beautiful?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Tell me when it's over, Okay, a cool adoscopy. A
judge is going to postpone a key ruling in President
electra Tell me what it's over President elect Trump's hush
money case. This postponed himent comes as prosecutors are trying
to figure out the next steps after his election win.
(02:22):
His lawyers are arguing just to dismiss it outright so
that he can run the country without this thing hanging
over his head. The judge in New York, One Mershawn,
has had been set to rule today on whether to
throw out the conviction for a different reason because of
the Supreme Court, of course, Instead, he told Trump's lawyers
that he would delay the ruling until November nineteenth so
that prosecutors can suggest a way forward.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Oh man, I was telling you when I got in
this morning, with everything that went on yesterday, it was
very hard to focus in terms of, you know, reading
a book or focusing on anything yesterday and turn on
the football game, and that was a game lacking complete
focus as the Dolphins feat twenty three to fifteen. I mean,
that was insane. That was just what are we doing here?
Here's offensive lines, and what's happening? And why is Tua
(03:07):
using his head to tackle.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
The prime time debacle? It was a debacle. We're late
enough in the season that I know that we'll get
into the flex scheduling so they can determine, you know,
which games make those primetime slots and everything.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
But man, the Chargers may have four primetime games in
a row.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Really, yeah, wow, flex schedule all right.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Gavin Newsom heading to Washington to keep California safe, keep
California programs and funding that could be threatened by Trump's
second administration. He's going to meet with members of California's
congressional delegation, key officials, and the Biden Harris administration.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
All of that.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Make no mistake. This is not about California. It's not
about the EPA, it's not about medicaid, it's not about wildfires.
It's about Gavin Newsom testing the waters, and not just
testing the water, it's forcing himself into the right now.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, he does, whether you like it or not. He
does not care about you. No trust me. One of
the things that he wants to do is he says
he wants to get the EPA to okay some waivers
so that the state's more stringent vehicle emission standards can
take effect. He wants the Biden administration's okay to use
the Medicaid funding to test new or expanded programs for
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those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and
have significant behavioral needs. And he advocates for disaster relief
related funding, of course, including wildfire.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
All he wants to do is put his flaccid genitals
on the table and say, I am here to win
this town in four years, and I need funding, and
I need people to start taking me seriously, and so
I'm going to say things like Medicaid, EPA and wildfire
to do.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
So. Are you suggesting that his hair is harder than yes?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
What did I say?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
What did I say? Flacid genitals on this table? Do
you hear you? Are those? Are those headphones on? Because
I can hear you. I'm sorry about that, Trump wrote
on truth Social He Gavin Newsom is using the term
Trump proof as a way of stopping all of the
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great things that can be done to make California great again.
But I just overwhelmingly won the election. He said. People
are being forced to leave due to his and others
insane policy decisions. All caps. Even California Assembly Republican leader
James Gallagher said that that special session that was called
by the governor is a shameless political stunt and is
(05:34):
accusing Newsom of simply trying to bolster his own national
political profile.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Was that a sneeze or cough?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
That was a cough? All right?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
So I will not bless you.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
You can if you like.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
But you guys are adorable because I can hear like
I hear Shannon go off mic and then cough or
sneeze and then I Gary for a mess.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Well, if this was the Handle Show, we would just
leave the microphone on probably and not give it.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Rats about morning, Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Shannon. Don't ever discount Gary as a good friend ever again.
He literally paused the show that I'm sure he's been
waiting for for like months, didn't know what was going
to happen, totally fully engulfed in it, and stopped for you.
That's a good friend. And wants of love from everybody
out there. We all feel for you guys and push
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the best for.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Know. Yeah, thank you, yes, thank you for that. And
I never discounted Gary as a good friend for several reasons.
One on one is I will pause Yellowstones. Yeah, thats
good season.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
That's a pretty big deal. That is a big deal,
And I'm trying to remember. I think it was pretty close.
We had just started it. It wasn't that deep. I mean,
if it was deeper into it, I probably would have
left it. Yeah, to go to voicemail.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Right, Well, it's like, what is she going to tell
me that she can't tell me tomorrow too?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Well, that's why I answered the phone.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I know.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Sorry this so now I'm like the boy who cried wolf.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
No, No, it was fine, It was good. I was
just shocked by to be there for each other in
times of stress and turmoil.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Diddy is being housed in a low security jail dorm
where they say that inmates have access to the female inmates.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
What we'll talk about it when we come back. Gary
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Speaker 1 (07:35):
It seems like single child families are becoming more and
more popular, more and more common. Over the past half century.
The cost of raising a child has increased far faster
than the average salary. That may be one reason for that.
We'll get into it coming up next.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
That that was kind of the plan for us. Yeah, yeah,
we were okay with one child at first.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
And then one Friday night things get a little crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Well it's.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Get a little eggnoggy. When was your daughter born August?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
August? So yeah, got some.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Eggnog in there in there. Christmas season lights are pretty
everybody starts being a little sexy.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Whiskey's not hitting like it used to.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Missus Claus, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, nothing like making out after a long day or
toys r us. We're talking about Gavin Newsom going to DC.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
You guys are forgetting Javin's going strictly because Biden and
Trump are meeting tomorrow. He wants to be in that
party or a part of that party, or at least
in the backyard.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
He's not going to be.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
There, no, but he at least will be in the
same zip code.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yes, that the headlines today that Milania Trump will not
be meeting with doctor Jill Biden in that same time.
Why would they?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
What are they going to I mean, I know it's
history and pomp and circumstance, and that's the way things
have always been.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
What are those two going to say to each other?
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Speaker 1 (10:00):
John Diddy Combs may be behind bars, but sources who
have done time say it won't necessarily curb his alleged
pervy ways. He is in the for North unit of
the Metro Detention Center in Brooklyn. This is a dorm
facility which has about twenty inmates, looser rules than general pop,
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and diversions for prisoners, including.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Air hockey that sounds like fun.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
One unintended feature also provides a thrill for inmates. They
say interested in the ladies. There are apparently greats in
one of the rooms of for North. This is according
to Jean Burrello, a former mob enforcer who spent time there.
He said, they've got little holes and if you lay down,
you can look through the holes and talk to the
women one floor down and see them.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Okay, another like hot federal inmate ladies to make the
day go by. Hey, a lady is a lady? That
is completely untrue. Really, yes, what is a lady?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
A woman with?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Uh? See, it's not as easy as you think it is.
One of the former inmates is Jean Barrello, former mob enforcer.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
It sounds better when I say.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
It said, Uh, he could do one of these freak
offs if he wanted to.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Don't read the other quote from Jean BURRELLO.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
They'll show their that one. Yeah, they'll show their top
parts and play with their bottom parts, he pro proudly proclaimed.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Even when you water it down, it was still foul.
He said that the females of Forour North are wrungs
down from the models, professional strippers, and others who claim
to have been recruited by the original d D crew
for the alleged freak offs. He said of the third
floor women, they're grow most of them are drug addicts.
(12:02):
Ah said, this high flutint former mob enforcer, he's probably
a handsome fella himself. Diddy's life, of course, once filled
with private chefs, private jets, bedrooms as big as football fields,
these days a lot less privacy for him. They say
it can be super boring. It's reserved for high profile
(12:26):
criminals including Sam Bankman.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Freed and r Kelly oh Man. Don't get those two together.
Scrub that place down. Said. Basically, they're not cells, but
they live in a unit that is set up like
a dorm and designed for some of these high profile individuals.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
They said, with the right cop, you can spend all
night watching TV. That there are board games, a gym,
card games, ping, pong. They have access to tablets that
are not connected to the internet, so they can watch movies,
play video games. Listen to me, this sounds lovely. I
would like to go to Metro Detention Center in Brooklyn.
I would like to watch TV all night and play
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ping pong and card games in having not have to
pay rent. You see the drug addict girls showing your
their teas, I mean their top parts.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Chicken sandwiches, sundays lovely. I love a chicken sandwich, dogs,
hot dogs, murder burgers. What's that like a smash burger?
They said, that's made from a thin pad.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Do they have vegan options?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I'm sure if you had, yes, I'm sure that they
would have vegan options. This is not the prison of
the old Green Mile days, where you got what you
got and you didn't make a fuss. You can you
can be pretty consistently demanding about the things that you
get in jail these days.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
All right, coming up next, the coming rain of the
only child. It seems that the only child's time has come.
I have a one of my best friends. She was
an only child and made it a point to have
two kids so that they would not be interesting.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
She didn't like being the only child.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I think it's kind of a lonely thing, you know,
and you've got no partner in crime against your parents.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
You got to spend a lot of time with adults.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
You got to Yeah, you got to become adult more sooner, probably, Gross.
Can't just call people butt heads around the house all
day like I got to do.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
You're such a good friend because when I called you
last night, you paused the Yellowstone premiere and answered the phone.
You haven't mentioned my outfit today. I'm wearing jeans, white shirt,
T shirt.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Black leather jacket, very fondsy of you.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I did this to cheer you up. I dressed like
the phar to cheer you up, and you didn't notice.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I have boots on, but they're not they're not motorcycle boots.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I don't have motorcycle boots. I did with what I could.
But I came in costume to work for you.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Thank you, Gary, and chatted. I feel for you. I
stayed homesick today. I was just whatever this is. There's
no sore throat or anything. It's just this never dying
congested like allergy, so congestion.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I's got my vix vapor.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Rub By Vic said, I'm listening to you, and I
feel so bad for you. I feel like said to you,
chicken soup, all right, stay strong by Fred's love you, thank.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
You, love you.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I was gonna make soup tonight.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I had a butternut squash soup.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
It sounds great.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
It was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
But cream in that I don't know you would know?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
You know what do you mean? I know you know
there's cream in your soup. I don't know if cream
went into that soup. I didn't make it. Was it
rich and it was fantastic. Yeah, And we put chicken
nuggets in it really well, it was protein on the side. No,
And I just poured them right inside that soup. You
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just put the whole nugget in there. You didn't even
dip it. You just no dipping.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
So did it get soggy your nugget?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
How long was it in there?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
For it felt like milk and cereal.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I just but did your nugget lose the crisp of
its skin?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Oh? Interesting? No?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Where did you get the nuggets from the freezer. But
they're not dino nuggets. No, why would you get nuggets
that aren't dino nuggets?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Because these are less.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
They're healthier nuggets.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Yes, yeah, they're less artificially pressed into dinosaur shape. If
it's a dinosaur shape, it's just by chance. Yeah in
this case.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Well, and if it was a dino nugget, you wouldn't
just throw it in your soup. You'd want to play
with it.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Right, everyday, you convinced me more that you are truly
my people. I'm telling you, it's just all about the mindset.
If you're in jail, you just gotta forget about everything
else side and just have fun, play car games, watch TV,
talk smag, sleep, exercise. Come on, I know it's a
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good old time. Hell yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
The only thing when I'm in jail I miss, obviously
family and women.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
But when you go to Metro what was that cell plush.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
For North North?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
There's greats and you get to see the drug addict
naked women than the floor below. What makes you think
they're naked because he said that the mob enforcer that
spent time there said that they play with their top
parts and their bottom parts. Right, you're not gonna do
that clothed, right, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Next time we were jail, keep me updated on that
with you. I'll take that car that call as well.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
So would you write you being the good friend that
you are, would you write to me if I was
in jail?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Sure, depending on what I did?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Probably right, Like, you're not gonna write to me if I,
you know, did something horrible.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
H we'll see. Really make a good book. Probably, that's
very nice. I do it for financial purposes yet nn and.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
You are on it today?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
What is in your coffee?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Anyways?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
One child was it?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Until it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I adopted my second and I'm happy I did.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Oh, there was a that's cool. There was a paper
in nineteen seventy eight, the National Council on Family Relations
put out a paper called the one child family a
new lifestyle, as if.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
It was something crazy and counter culture. Right about that
Around that time, there was only eleven percent of American
families that had one kid. By twenty fifteen, that's doubled
to twenty two percent. Big families. No one's doing it anymore.
They say that in reality, families with one child maybe
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the least desired outcome. When you envision your dream life.
But it's the fastest growing family configuration in the country.
Why well, they say, over the past half century, the
cost of raising a child has increased far faster than
the average salary. Women are having kids later in life,
so there's less time to bear multiple children.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
They're also, I mean, we're getting away from the as
utilitarian as it may sound, we're getting away from the
we need five kids to help tend to the live
stock every morning.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
We don't have that anymore. I mean, there are people
I know a family that has ten children, two pair
of ten children, not a Brady Bunch scenario. These are
all naturally born the old fashioned way children. That's a
lot of people. Yeah, I mean, that's not just a
lot of mouths to feed when they're small. That's a
lot of people.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Well, and it's not even about like them. You say,
you have the money to have ten kids or whatever.
How much attention are those kids getting from you? But
does it matter when there's so many siblings and you know,
everyone's getting attention from somebody in the family.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yeah, it is. It does preclude a different relationship with
your parents.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, it's harder to foresee, they say, what the rise
of the only child means for our future. Will more
solo kids lead to a world run by spoiled brats,
devoid of empathy, and unschooled in the art of collaboration.
That's a really rough way to categorize only children, right,
that they're all spoiled, that they're devoid of empathy, that
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they don't collaborate with others. I don't find that to
be true. Maybe I some in some cases, yes, but
not in all.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Cases well, And I think it also depends on that
kid's ability, they're innate ability to see that they are
the their household is different. You know, if that only
child becomes friends with someone who has two or three siblings,
then they automatically get exposed to a different lifestyle, different
(21:08):
household dynamic that they probably don't experience. And if they
do that early enough in life, they recognize that it's different.
I mean, we all, we're all shaped by relationships within
our home, right. We think of, at least at first,
every relationship with a father is the way my relationship
is with my father, or vice versa. And that, you know,
(21:29):
you you snap out of that pretty quickly when you
get into say high school or college or something like that,
and you meet people who came from very very different
households than yours.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
They've gotten a bad rap. Over the years of Victorian
doctor Spock Grant, it was the nickname for Granville Stanley Hall,
America's og psychologist, the first man to earn a doctorate
in the field from Harvard, and he said that only
(21:59):
children were inherently flawed, sickly unable to get along with others,
a deluded tendency to create imaginary companions. He declared in
nineteen oh seven that being an only child is a
disease in itself. Expert after expert followed that kind of
line of thinking until in the nineteen eighties, a social
psychologist named Tony Falbow, she was an only child, decided
(22:22):
to test this idea. So what she did was she
reviewed one hundred and forty one studies of personality development
and only children, and she found out that the only
children scored significantly better than other groups an achievement, motivation,
and personal adjustment. And that's been a finding that's been
repeated many times since.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
She said, only children are not any more shy, they're
not any more entitled, they're not any more lonely than
peers that have brothers or sisters.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
In fact, they grew up learning to entertain themselves. They
solve their own problems, they don't mind eating alone. Their
adept at forging close friendships that feel like family.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Yeah, we were fine with one child. We had a
we had our son, and we first of all were
amazed that they let us leave the hospital with this thing.
And then a friend of ours who had a son
at exactly I mean a week before hours, we met
her in the birthing class through the hospital. That couple
(23:21):
got pregnant again relatively quickly, I mean we were friends
with them for a couple of years, and then she
surprised us and said that she was pregnant and they
were going to have a daughter. And that started the
mental exercise of well what would that look like? What
would have? What would have? First of all, what would
a girl look like? Because our son had red hair,
(23:42):
what would a girl with red hair look like? And
then what would the dynamic be of this cherubic, beautiful
child being tormented by a little sister what would that
look like? And then, like you said, the romance of
the holidays took over. Yeah. Yeah, when a man loves
(24:02):
a woman.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
You put on a big white beard and a big
red suit and a black belt and you say, sit
on my lap.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
But the belts weren't holding up any pants. Hey, I
didn't take your pants off in that scenario. You did.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I kept it clean and very buttoned up, and there
was decorum in my hypothetical of how you conceived your
second child.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
If you're planning on road tripping your way to Christmas
this year, we have a suggestion.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yes, I said to my husband this morning, I would
like to go here this Christmas season because they do
a nice job there, all right, But you know who
else does a nice job is Riverside.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Well we'll tell you where. If you can't make it
to Riverside, where else you might want to go.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
You know we're so old that we made Kana uncomfortable
with our sex talk. In the last segment, she says,
oh my gosh, it was like listening to my parents.
Today's the day that we got so old that we
can't talk about sex with the kids that work here
because we're like their parents.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Well, let me say something to Keiana. Yeah, be careful
what you wish for, because if you actually did hear
your parents say something like that, it's it's life changing.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Have you heard Did you hear that from your parents?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
No? But I have a friend, uh huh, I have
a friend not me. Yeah, I have a friend who
has a very descriptive story about interrupting parents.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I remember one time coming home from something and hearing
furniture sucks that I didn't even know about, right.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
It is not I know about it. I mean I
even have a story of my own son interrupting. Right,
Which were.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
You guys totally naked or were you at least like
under cover?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Like?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
What was the scene? Not that we need to know this,
but I am curious.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
How descriptive do you want to not?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I don't need to position.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
I'll just say this was it? G What does that mean?
If they would at least just the just the definition
of it makes it PG?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Did he see you guys naked?
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I don't think so. Okay, that's good. I mean the
Batman outs outfit kind of covered up most of it.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Right, So that was a Batman night, yes, as opposed
to the French Maid night.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
There was no French maid.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
You've never dressed as a French maid, have you? No,
you're the one who.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Likes to be dress. No, I don't think there was,
but there was a there was clearly like And to
this day, I don't even know if I had asked him.
I've never asked him.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
No, don't bring it up, because here's the thing. He's
never forgotten it.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I don't know if he has or not. He seemed
to be too too flustered by it.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
No, uh, yeah, you see your parent. It's having sexy time.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
But again, I don't even know if he knew that
was what was going on.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Oh how old was he at the time?
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Eleven eleven?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Maybe you're good, but now he knows what he says.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Well, the lights were off, that's good. I mean the
fog machine was going, right.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Did you have the the the light up ball that
you guys just go ball? Yeah, No, that you hadn't
gotten masked and got.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
A couple of years later. Yeah, that came later in there,
I would add.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
You know, I'll text him, I'm gonna ask me.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Idea, especially from an outside person. You're right, that would
be weird.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Well, he's like twenty five now, Yeah, I feel like
the Statute of Limitations.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
A week from today he turns twenty five. Okay, I'll
wait till his twenty fifth birthday. Not a great birthday present,
that is an awful idea anyway. Christmas soul Vang is
considered California's best Christmas twent You believe that. No, they're
gearing up for their annual yule Fest month long celebration
(28:06):
of the winter holidays. It begins the twenty ninth runs
through January fifth. By the way, this is not an
ad for solving Well.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
I'm wondering. Is it an ad for solving I'm wondering
if solving pay news organizations to pick this up. This
looks like a press release from This is what happens
when you don't have a news department, folks. Somebody from
the Solvang Visitor Center sent out a freaking press release,
and the lazy people that run these places now decided
(28:35):
to just roll with it. Everyone knows that the mission
in in Riverside is where you go for Christmas cheer
and joy. They've got those little delicious cinnamon donuts. You
can get a old bucket of them and feel not
bad about eating that whole bucket, all the lights and
the beautiful mission in and then you walk through the
lobbied and sell decorated and you pay way too much
(28:56):
for a Christmas cocktail. That's what Christmas is about, is
the spirit of Christmas overpaying for water down drips.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Everyone's armed with cinnamon. Festivities in Solving begin Friday the
twenty ninth. The annual light music show takes place right
in the center of town at the Solvang Park.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
You're reading the press release, You're doing what they want
you to do.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Every hour on the hour, from five to night.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
This is this is not even American. This is not
even American.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
This is like Dutch people? Denmark? Is that where the
Dutch come from?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
This is moon? Who is that? Somebody?
Speaker 1 (29:34):
There's wooden shoes, able skivers? What's an able skiver?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
It's a food, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
It's a non American food. Okay, you don't want to
be American this Christmas.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I want them to serve Hamburger, Solvan Good Lord.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Solving.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Solving has lodging options that range between cheap overnight motels
or luxurious.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
You're not auditioning for a new job.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Yet, but it's only about two and a half hours
away from Los Angeles by car. Mini can also work
as a day trip.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Gary and Shannon for.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
More about solving and it's annual You'll Fest celebration. Click here.
I'm just reading that.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I'm not even listening to you anymore.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
We'll do swamp Watch when we come.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Somebody just sent me something about Levenworth, Washington being a
Christmas town. Yes, that's another un American place. Boy, they
do Schnitzel.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Gary and Shannon will continue right afterwards. You've been listening
to the Gary and Shannon Show. You can always hear
us live on KFI AM six forty nine am to
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