November 25, 2024 • 29 mins
Gary and Shannon begin the show on with news of the father of Hannah Kobayashi being found dead. Gary and Shannon also have the latest on Matt Gaetz, puberty blockers in South Carlina and much more!
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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. Tonight, the two brothers face
off again Monday night football under the lights. Here it's
so fine. It's very cold, it feels damp, very empty,
feels like it's ready for a storm.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
No.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Actually, there's a bunch of kids out here. Looks like
they're going to play a flag football game.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Didn't they do that in Arizona when you were in
Arizona too?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Well, we were in Arizona. Member it was that motivational speaker.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Oh that's what it was. Yeah, the.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Trouble bus, the what was the bus? Some sort of
bus you're supposed to get on and you're going to
have to ask the life bus.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
You have to ask DJ. Wasn't he a fan of that?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
JJ was a fan of that guy? Like DJ and
Matt got there inside the booth and Rich and I
were like, listen to what we've had to hear for hours,
and DJ's like, oh yeah, I love that guy.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
So So Sunday was what for you? Houch time?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Oh my gosh, I watched so much football I just
gorged all day this weekend was what Gary doesn't answer
my texts weekend?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
So the only reason I didn't it was funny.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I didn't answer anybody's text this weekend, but the I
went to I went to the second oldest bar in
the state of California with my sisters and couple nephews
and a cousin and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
You end up in a gutter or something.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
No, because when you texted me on Saturday afternoon, I
was also in the process of buying new security cameras
and locks for a house that had been broken into.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So oh it was broken into?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Was it by the tenant the former tenant?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Unclear?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Unclear? Not likely.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I mean why would he break back in to get
something a full access to before?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I don't know, because of meth.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Yeah, but still I don't think that was I mean,
it didn't take anything that was a value. So yeah,
So anyway, that's.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
All, Well, that's unpleasant.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
How was the bar really really funny? Just a great
old timey eighteen fifty three The floors were, you know,
eighteen fifty three cool, and just the old local clientele.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
It was just a funny place to be.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
My brother in law and I went back on Saturday
afternoon and we bought like hats for Christmas presents for
some of our kids because it was ironically funny and
it was the same people there. Eighteen hours later, sidled
up to the bar watching some nondescript college football game
on a TV that you couldn't even really see.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
One of my favorite places to go in New Orleans
is Lafitte's Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar. It is the oldest
structure used as a bar in the United States. It
was built between seventeen twenty two and seventeen thirty two,
and it smells like it. You get in there and
the wood is eaten away, and like you said, the
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floors are barely there. And it's just very cool to
think about all the people that have come through there
and the stories that were told, and the mistakes that
were made and the fights and just everything playing out well.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
And then I'll send this to you because I'm I
can't even describe how weird this was. There's a bench
that's out there on that main street of that tiny
little town and it's got my uncle's name on it,
and it was.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Just gonna say that I have a memory of you
having like a family bench out there somewhere.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Yeah, I didn't know that, you guys.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I think you're right, because didn't you guys stop by
that market for some reason something happened. But there's a
bench there that's got my uncle's name, loving memory of
Uncle Fred.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
And I was like that, how do we not know this.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Or how did I forget the fact that there's this
bench in the middle of this tiny little town with
Uncle Fred's name on it.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I had a vague memory or that maybe that's just
us being related somewhere down the line. And that's funny
because we were just talking about Frederick last week.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yeah, yeah, so weird. All right, there's a lot going
on today. We will get into of course, the Menendez
hearing that's coming up. We have some fun stories too.
Do you know what fubbing is? Fubbing with a pH
sounds dirty?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
It no, but it.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Can be very anger inducing. It's when you're having a
conversation with somebody and they're not paying attention because they're
looking at their phone.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Ooh yeah, that makes me want to break people's faces.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah, so we'll talk about that. Also, I was talking
to my daughter. She has one of those rings that
calculates all of your own yes. And she said she
slept for ten and a half hours from Saturday night
into Sunday. And I thought that's a lot. But I mean,
she's fine, she's busy. She doesn't get a lot of
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rest when she's at school, so it was nice. But
this this constant measuring of your sleep and trying to
how to sleep max, Uh, it might be worse for
you than you think. Trying to sleep more is actually
making you an insomniac.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I think it's kind of funny. My husband wears one
of those rings and he said something over the weekend like, oh,
I slept a lot last night and I slept too much.
I'm like, what's what? What is the what is too much?
Eight hours he slept something like that. But I'm like,
what what value do you get out of knowing how
much you slept or house you didn't sleep? Like what
does that do for your day?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
And That's that's kind of the issue, is.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Is having sep anxiety.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Yeah, having that much information might might be a little counterintuitive.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I would like to say that I am a terrible female.
We have terrible female. We knew that.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, what specifically is it is causing this feeling today.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Well, first of all, I felt like a terrible female
all day yesterday. I was just dude it out, you know,
because it just football, and you know, it was just.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
You walked around punching your husband in the arm.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Didn't feel like a female, bro. And then today I
just told you, it looks like these kids are ready
to play a football game. And I just realized. I mean,
I'm up in the booth, so I'm about a mile
away from the field, but I just realized they're all female.
I had assumed it was boys boys teams sparing off.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I don't understand why you hate women.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I don't either. I mean, who am I to think.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Seem nice.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
One of the local stories that has made headlines that
we've had this really weird feeling about is the disappearance
of Hanna Kobayashi. She's a woman who was flying originally
from Maui towards New York, made it as far as
Lax and then kind of fell off the radar. Sent
some confusing or curious texts to family members and said
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maybe she was unsafe and that she wasn't alone. Family
comes in to try to find her exactly where she is.
And now her father has died, apparently from a suicide
down your la.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Jumped off a roof of some kind, and now I
know the Denise Huskins rule. I know that we were wrong,
but something about this to me said this there's something
going on with his family and she wants to get
away from them or something or other. She seems like
she's just out here living her life, going to Lebron
James events and things like that. And then the family
comes out and.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
They staged this big what was supposed to be this
big type of event outside the Lakers game pre game
before they tipped off last week to find her, some
sort of rally to find her.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
And then Dad turns up at LAX jumping off a roof.
I mean, there's something amiss with this family and I
just knew it.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
From go yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
And that the family continues to believe that Hannah is
in some sort of danger and said that each day
she's missing or begging to keep her name out there
so that they can find her and figure out what's
going on.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I mean, this was a guy who went on KTLA
just a few days ago and talked about trying to
find his daughter. I miss her, he said. I just
want her to know that. I just want her to
reach out. I mean it's clearly desperate, but like, for
what reason? What's going on? There's gonna be more answers.
I hope to this one.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Is your Christmas shopping done yet?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
What? No? I haven't even begun.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Oh my wife has been holding it over my head
for the last couple of days that she's almost done
with her Christmas shop.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Wow. Yeah, that's impressive.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I haven't even thought about that yet.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
You know, Christmas is coming right now.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I feel behind. Well, I kind of feel like I
get going December first, but that that can be dicey,
can't it. Well, this is why I'm a terrible gift giver.
I wait to the last minute and then I just
whatever's on sale, whatever I see. I need to do better.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Some of the stories that we are following.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
It is still popping off pretty significantly in between Israel
and Lebanon, but they have said that they are looking
at some sort of a ceasefire. Israel and hes Blah
continued exchanging rockets today. At least seven people in Lebanon
injured in northern Israel at least one sixty year old
man hurt in an attack from Lebanon, but it appears
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that they are closer to the first ceasefire since their
conflict began last year. Remember Hesbologists jumped on this train
because of Hamas's October seventh attack in Israel's response to it.
Hes Blot had been living relatively peacefully with Israel until
that all started.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
So there was a story this morning. I usually don't
get involved in this topic because I feel like it's
gotten way too much attention from both sides, and it
has really captured a spotlight for a very few people
that it affects. But this article made me angry. It
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was in USA today and the headline as transgender lawyer
makes history, takes case on puberty blockers and hormone therapy
to the Supreme Court.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
The case itself is out of Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
The state of Tennessee passed a law that bans that
kind of medical intervention for minors specifically.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
And let's just be clear on what puberty blockers are.
You do a very good job of explaining this.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Well, they destroy your sexuality.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
So if you feel a certain way at thirteen, yeah,
you are making decisions or the state or your parents
are making decisions that could affect you for the rest
of your life, despite it possibly being a phase that
you grow out of.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
And that's not yeah, and you have to be careful unfortunately,
because some people get react so negatively to saying something
like that, Well, you don't know if it's a phase.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Yeah, I don't know if it's a face.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
But I'm going to pump the brakes on and doing
something that's irreversible.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Right, I'd rather wait a couple of years and have
them make the decision when they're an adult that do
something to them that you cannot come back from.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Right. There's not a hell of a lot of difference
between thirteen and eighteen, and guess what everyone struggles in
those years. You know, if you turn eighteen and you
want to make that decision for yourself as an adult,
that's one thing. But the fact that the state could weigh.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
In on.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Somebody giving my kid hormone therapy at school or what
have you, because some school districts they don't even tell
the parents. There's no mandate to tell the parents. They're like,
it's almost like ice hiding illegal criminal aliens from Ice.
You know, it's like, no, we've got something in place.
There's several safety nets for kids, parents, school administrators, counselors,
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all that. Why doesn't everyone get to know what the
decision's going to be. But this article, this guy's like
make it about himself. He was like, he's he's upset
about the election. He's upset about Trump. It starts this way.
Chase Estrangio surrounded himself with close friends on election night,
knowing that Trump might be sent back to the White
House after a campaign that included extensive attacks on the
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transgender community. He's part of defending the community is his
life's work. He channeled his anxiety into finishing his written
arguments to the Supreme Court on why the justices should
strike down Tennessee's ban on puberty blockers for minors.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
For miners, yes, minor.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
The case itself goes December, first week of December, so
when you're gonna hear in the Supreme Court and farther
down in this it says that Strangio where he says
that he was born, I'm sorry he was assigned female
at birth.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
That's what he wrote. He was assigned female at birth.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
But I've never had a female body and says, I
am I would simply if it takes longer to convince
the world of that than it would to simply say
that I was born with a female body, but of
now male. I'm invested in that longer path because ultimately
we'll all be better off when we can challenge the
idea that our body parts define us, and then goes
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on to say something along the lines of he is
one of two transgender lawyers at the table at the
council table, and his presence that day shows that trans
people have actually always existed in places and even among
people who don't think that they have been proximate to
trans people.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
And it's important what.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
He points out there is that a lot of times
whatever you got going on in your pants matters not
at all to what a situation is that.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
You might find yourself in.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Right, if you're at work, if you're digging ditches, if
you're hosting a radio show, if you're correcting the books
in an accountant's office, something like that, ninety nine point
nine percent of the time, whatever you're working with downstairs
has zero bearing on what you should be doing at work.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I have no problem with decisions people make on what
they want to do with what's going on in their
pants at all. But keep your hands off the kids.
That's the part I don't just wait, just wait, We
are never fully who we want to be at fourteen
years old. Wait, just wait a couple years and then
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let people make their own decisions. But when you you
don't even let your kid decide what he is going
to eat for dinner most nights because he doesn't make
great decisions. You know, there's so many decisions that you
don't allow your minor children to make. For a good reason,
you're going to allow your minor children to decide they
want to be a different sex at that age. When
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you pull back like that and you think about how
much power kids have in the house or how much
they should have, and then you think about giving them
that power over their life, and it's irreversible. It's terrifying.
And the fact that the school system would get to
make that call for the kid or the parents or
left out of it is just insanity. I mean, that
is like not American at all.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
And doesn't it put way too much emphasis on sex
and sexuality at a time when it's already i mean
top of mind for a fourteen fifteen, sixteen year We.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Know what a penis was when I was fourteen.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
I don't know how to respond to that.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Well, you had one, so you knew what it was like.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
I did.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I knew what it was like.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I didn't know what was going on in boys pants.
I certainly didn't know if I certainly didn't cross my
mind that i'd want one of those things right Well me,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I think I think I do.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Up next?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
What's going on in the pants of the cabinet.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Yes, it looks like most of the cabinet has been
chosen for the next administration, assuming that all of them
are confirmed by the set, at least those that need
to be confirmed. So we'll talk about some of the
late names that came in over the weekend for the transition.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Wonderful.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Yes, a couple stories.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
We're following a top NATO military officials urging businesses in
those NATO countries to be prepared for a wartime scenario
and urged them to adjust their production and distribution lines. Accordingly,
Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer, is the chair of NATO's Military Committee,
said quote, if we can make sure that all crucial
services and goods can be delivered no matter what. Then
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that is a key part of our deterrence. There was
a mysterious plane crash also, some people are pointing to Russia,
although it hasn't been confirmed. A DHL cargo plane crashed
in a residential area in near Vilnius Airport in Lithuania,
killing one person on board. Three others apparently on board
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the plane survived the crash and we're taking a hospital.
But this Boeing seven point thirty seven had taken off
out of Germany and crashed very early in the morning.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
You're Vilnius.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Have you seen the story about that daughter sister that
has demanded that her family sign a code of conduct
for Thanksgiving? Yes, complete with a dress code.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Yeah, I wow.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Where I don't even know how I would approach a
sister who did that to me.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I kind of get it. Wait a minute, I I
think I've talked about this before. But my husband's family
is very politically involved, and I don't know if it
involved vocal vocal. They like to have discourse, they like
to have intelligent conversation, but it does surround politics a
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lot of the time. Yeah, and I find myself dreading this.
I mean, I would never say no politics, like it's
not my family. You know, it's not my home, it's
not It would never even say that to to you know,
my brother or whatever. Like, I just would not be
the person who says, Okay, no politics and we're not
going to talk about this. We're not going to talk
about that. But it is something I'm not looking forward to,
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just like every you know, buddy's opinion about X, Y
and Z, and it's just like, oh man, it was
park my ass in front of the television and watch
the games. So I kind of get it. I just
don't think putting an edict out there is the right
way to go about it. You know, maybe if there's
a way to cleverly turn the discussion into the Detroit
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Lions and them being the favorite to win the Super
Bowl away from the election, I don't know if there's
a good pivot point to do that.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
But also that's I mean, as uncomfortable as it can
be at times, that's what makes those I mean, we
have memories of dinner table conversations, specifically Thanksgiving conversations that
my wife and I will bring up all the time,
and they were not comfortable. They were not good, but
they were memories and they were made with family. And
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it's not that anybody you know, got a black eye
over it or you know, stormed out of the room
or anything like that. But you know, that's that messiness,
that uncomfortability is sometimes what adds to the memory.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
It's true. I mean, that's part of it, right, That's
part of Thanksgiving is you know, there's a great story
about how my grandma was overserved and threw a turkey
down on a flight of stairs. You know, like those
stories probably in the moment are not great, but it
adds to the family more, right.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
And with time, of course, anything can be funny.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Maybe not anything, but a lot of things can be
funny if all you do is just add a little
bit of time to them.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
And even better was my grandpa's response of oh, and
why'd you have to throw the turkey down the stairs?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Could you just put it on the dryer like normal people.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
So I'm fascinated by the presidential order of succession set
by the Presidential Succession Act of nineteen forty seven, only
because and we've never had to use it, I think
was it the key for Sutherland Fox TV show a
designated survivor was really the only I shouldn't say the only,
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but one of the more current references to whatever happens
if the president, vice president, something gets killed and we
have to go down the line of succession, who would
take over the country as acting president. And the way
it stands now, obviously is if something happens to the president,
it goes vice president, Speaker of the House, President pro
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temp with the Senate, and then cabinet wise Secretary of State,
Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Defense, and then Attorney
General and then all of the I don't want to
say lesser cabinet members, but interior, egg, Commerce, labor, that
sort of thing. As of right now, obviously Mike Johnson
is the only Republican in that line of succession because
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Kamala Harris is the Vice president, Patty Murray is the
President pro temp of the and then the cabinet. Of course,
when you look at what happens with Donald Trump's proposed cabinet,
all of the picks are finally in by the way,
it would be Vice President jd Vance, Speaker of the House.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
We assume it would continue to be Mike Johnson.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Nope, not really sure who would be President pro Tampa,
the Senate and maybe John Cornet out of Texas or
something like that. And then you've got Secretary of State
Marco Rubio and the Secretary of the Treasury, the guy
that that was just announced, best best end where does
his name go? Scott Gottssent and then Secretary of Defense
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depending on how his confirmation goes in Pete.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Hegseth, Well, I.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Love the secession and it makes for good television at
least for a couple of seasons. We never really need.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
It, no, no, and if we do, I mean, that's
the last thing we're going to do is keep scor
as to who is who.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
But right if we need it, something big has gone
down in Washington. Something his bunch of people, and we're
got we've got bigger fish to fry than Department of Interior.
You're up.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
That's a clancy level event, I think how I would
describe it. So he rounded out his cabinet selections like
you said. Scott Pissent, who was at law one time
a George Soros financial advisor, but in the last several
years has become much more conservative and most of his
donations politically have gone to Republicans. Also would be the
first openly gay secretary of the treachery.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Oh, I did not know he was gay. See how
much it matters? Not at all? What do you do
with your pants parts?
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Brook Rollins also served in the White House during a
Trump first term. Spent a couple of decades promoting conservative
policies as the leader of influential think tanks.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
She would be Agriculture secretary.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Grew up in Texas, graduated Texas A and M worked
for Governor Rick Perry, and then joined a think tank
as the president and a chief executive. And she was
in the Texas Public Policy Foundation for several years. Again,
I don't know if any of these are as controversial.
I actually have seen two different places list the cabinet
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picks by level of likelihood. They are not confirmed as
of this point. It's Pete Hegseth that leads. Tulsi Gabbard
is in a strong second place. That again, those would
be least likely to be confirmed. But I don't Once
you get Matt Gates out of there, all these others
look relatively normal.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
You're looking at your phone.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Uh No, I was looking at what the numbers say.
When it comes to Baltimore's past defense and it's not good.
They're actually in the basement of the league. But I'm
going to focus now, I'm focusing. I am focusing.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Matt gives me.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
This is me focusing on Matt Gate. I think that's
why because you said Matt Gates and then I was like, eh,
but I mean we should talk about his his newfound fame. Yeah,
you get Should we get.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Him to record something absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Like I'm Matt Gates and I'm an awful human and
I should be put in a closet and never let out.
Do you think he'd record that for us?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
I doubt it.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
But if he knows where Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been
hanging out, maybe they can hang out in the closet together.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
You know what I'm troubled by, as the people that
are dying on the Matt Gates mountain.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
People love him.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
I don't either.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
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Speaker 3 (24:23):
Had you gone to church and not said at football yesterday?
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Hey, Shannon, my pastor yesterday had a suggestion for the holidays.
When someone approaches you politically, say Wow, that's an interesting perspective,
but today's not the day to discuss it.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Oh maybe that'll help. Yeah, yeah, you can try.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
That sounds like no one's going to listen to me.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I was going to say that.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
I don't think that would go as well as the
political discussion went in the first place.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
My dad used to call Candlestick Park church. I was
confused for a number of years growing up.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Because there was no confession at Candlestick Park.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I just didn't he said it. It's a matter of
factly that it was like, maybe this is a different
kind of church.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
It is very much so.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Fortunately, everyone in my family is all of the same
political ilk, so we do not argue about politics. We
just reserve the time for our family tradition, which is
to pick on each other until somebody runs from the
room in tears. That's our tradition.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
That sounds lovely well.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
After announcing that he's not going to return to Congress, MATD.
Gates is trying out a new career option cameo.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Creating personalized videos for his fans.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
For first of all, people who would call themselves fans.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Fans even if you love this guy's loyalty to Donald Trump.
You love his politics, you love his firebrand spirit, you
love his persona on TV. There's way too much smoke
in the hole. He likes girls young, conversation for there
not to be some fire at some point, and that's
just gross to me. If you're a grown person and
you look at a seventeen year old or an eighteen
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year old girl and you're into it, there's a problem there.
We can excuse that.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Yeah, And I mean even the stuff he has admitted
to doing, this is stuff that I wouldn't want in
a member of Congress, and I wouldn't want him to
represent me in Congress if you're in that district in Florida.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
He's charging five hundred and fifty dollars per video. They
average about a minute and a half in length. And
listen to the kind of videos he's shooting. Holiday wishes,
marriage congratulations, career pep talks. Bro, you just lost your
job for liking girls young, and you're giving career pep
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talks and marriage congratulations.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
How do you?
Speaker 3 (26:54):
How does he fix that in his head? How does
he be I.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Mean, maybe it's funny, maybe these are all tongue in
cheek like, of course he's doing marriage congratulations and career
PEP talks when he's kind of screwed up his personal
life in that regard and kind of screwed up his
job future job placements.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Well, and it's a good thing. It's not a different
time of year. He would have been doing high school
graduation announcements.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Like I can see in a world where that would
be funny. Like if I had a friend that was
getting married and I had Matt Gates do a congratulations, people,
would you in dark humor.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
You find Matt Gates.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I mean you cause it's gonna be like the worst person, right,
like the worst person to give a wedding congratulations. Right,
it'd be like Matt Gates or Anthony Wiener, right, like
somebody who should absolutely not. And I can see kind
of a little humor in that. But if people are
doing this without any irony, then they need to be
checked out.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
One of these videos, he was giving congratulations for someone
who made partner at their law firm, and he said, look,
I know your politics in mind may not align specifically,
but you know our career trajectories might not be either.
I mean, here you are making partner, and my legal
career took a little bit of a different turn this
last week. But you know what, work hard, get paid
a lot of money, do a lot of great things
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as a practitioner and counselor at law, and you you
never know you could be an Attorney General nominee as well.
Do you remember your cameo that you got for Christmas?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Yes? It was will Night Shannon.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
This is William Hung from American Idol. Merry Christmas and
congratulations on a Space Wars movie. Big fan of the
Gary and Shannon Show on k f I A M
six forty and the podcast on the iHeart app.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
You know war pop.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
That's awesome. You know, I just realized we're talking about
how I'm behind on my Christmas shopping. I now know
what I'm going to get you. Although five fifties a
little third Space Wars shirt. You know, I was gonna
have Matt Gates record you something.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
It's a waste of your money.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
That's a lot of money. Though I don't want to
spend that much money. Maybe I'll get something. What can
I get for like thirty five bucks? I get for that?
Speaker 7 (29:13):
All right?
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Two dueling articles this morning about what immigrants feel about
Donald Trump, and it's this weird sort of backfilling of
Democrats trying to explain how they lost as many Latino
votes as they did.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
And how do you turn the tide when it's already
turned so far in the republicans favor.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
And they've had years to pay attention to this and
they didn't, and it looks bad. So we'll talk about
that when we come back. You've been listening to The
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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. Tonight, the two brothers face
off again Monday night football under the lights. Here it's
so fine. It's very cold, it feels damp, very empty,
feels like it's ready for a storm.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
No.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Actually, there's a bunch of kids out here. Looks like
they're going to play a flag football game.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Didn't they do that in Arizona when you were in
Arizona too?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Well, we were in Arizona. Member it was that motivational speaker.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Oh that's what it was. Yeah, the.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Trouble bus, the what was the bus? Some sort of
bus you're supposed to get on and you're going to
have to ask the life bus.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
You have to ask DJ. Wasn't he a fan of that?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
JJ was a fan of that guy? Like DJ and
Matt got there inside the booth and Rich and I
were like, listen to what we've had to hear for hours,
and DJ's like, oh yeah, I love that guy.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
So So Sunday was what for you? Houch time?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Oh my gosh, I watched so much football I just
gorged all day this weekend was what Gary doesn't answer
my texts weekend?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
So the only reason I didn't it was funny.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I didn't answer anybody's text this weekend, but the I
went to I went to the second oldest bar in
the state of California with my sisters and couple nephews
and a cousin and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
You end up in a gutter or something.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
No, because when you texted me on Saturday afternoon, I
was also in the process of buying new security cameras
and locks for a house that had been broken into.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So oh it was broken into?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Was it by the tenant the former tenant?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Unclear?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Unclear? Not likely.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I mean why would he break back in to get
something a full access to before?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I don't know, because of meth.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Yeah, but still I don't think that was I mean,
it didn't take anything that was a value. So yeah,
So anyway, that's.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
All, Well, that's unpleasant.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
How was the bar really really funny? Just a great
old timey eighteen fifty three The floors were, you know,
eighteen fifty three cool, and just the old local clientele.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
It was just a funny place to be.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
My brother in law and I went back on Saturday
afternoon and we bought like hats for Christmas presents for
some of our kids because it was ironically funny and
it was the same people there. Eighteen hours later, sidled
up to the bar watching some nondescript college football game
on a TV that you couldn't even really see.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
One of my favorite places to go in New Orleans
is Lafitte's Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar. It is the oldest
structure used as a bar in the United States. It
was built between seventeen twenty two and seventeen thirty two,
and it smells like it. You get in there and
the wood is eaten away, and like you said, the
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floors are barely there. And it's just very cool to
think about all the people that have come through there
and the stories that were told, and the mistakes that
were made and the fights and just everything playing out well.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
And then I'll send this to you because I'm I
can't even describe how weird this was. There's a bench
that's out there on that main street of that tiny
little town and it's got my uncle's name on it,
and it was.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Just gonna say that I have a memory of you
having like a family bench out there somewhere.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Yeah, I didn't know that, you guys.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I think you're right, because didn't you guys stop by
that market for some reason something happened. But there's a
bench there that's got my uncle's name, loving memory of
Uncle Fred.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
And I was like that, how do we not know this.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Or how did I forget the fact that there's this
bench in the middle of this tiny little town with
Uncle Fred's name on it.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I had a vague memory or that maybe that's just
us being related somewhere down the line. And that's funny
because we were just talking about Frederick last week.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yeah, yeah, so weird. All right, there's a lot going
on today. We will get into of course, the Menendez
hearing that's coming up. We have some fun stories too.
Do you know what fubbing is? Fubbing with a pH
sounds dirty?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
It no, but it.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Can be very anger inducing. It's when you're having a
conversation with somebody and they're not paying attention because they're
looking at their phone.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Ooh yeah, that makes me want to break people's faces.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah, so we'll talk about that. Also, I was talking
to my daughter. She has one of those rings that
calculates all of your own yes. And she said she
slept for ten and a half hours from Saturday night
into Sunday. And I thought that's a lot. But I mean,
she's fine, she's busy. She doesn't get a lot of
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rest when she's at school, so it was nice. But
this this constant measuring of your sleep and trying to
how to sleep max, Uh, it might be worse for
you than you think. Trying to sleep more is actually
making you an insomniac.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I think it's kind of funny. My husband wears one
of those rings and he said something over the weekend like, oh,
I slept a lot last night and I slept too much.
I'm like, what's what? What is the what is too much?
Eight hours he slept something like that. But I'm like,
what what value do you get out of knowing how
much you slept or house you didn't sleep? Like what
does that do for your day?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
And That's that's kind of the issue, is.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Is having sep anxiety.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Yeah, having that much information might might be a little counterintuitive.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I would like to say that I am a terrible female.
We have terrible female. We knew that.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, what specifically is it is causing this feeling today.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Well, first of all, I felt like a terrible female
all day yesterday. I was just dude it out, you know,
because it just football, and you know, it was just.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
You walked around punching your husband in the arm.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Didn't feel like a female, bro. And then today I
just told you, it looks like these kids are ready
to play a football game. And I just realized. I mean,
I'm up in the booth, so I'm about a mile
away from the field, but I just realized they're all female.
I had assumed it was boys boys teams sparing off.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I don't understand why you hate women.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I don't either. I mean, who am I to think.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Seem nice.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
One of the local stories that has made headlines that
we've had this really weird feeling about is the disappearance
of Hanna Kobayashi. She's a woman who was flying originally
from Maui towards New York, made it as far as
Lax and then kind of fell off the radar. Sent
some confusing or curious texts to family members and said
(06:48):
maybe she was unsafe and that she wasn't alone. Family
comes in to try to find her exactly where she is.
And now her father has died, apparently from a suicide
down your la.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Jumped off a roof of some kind, and now I
know the Denise Huskins rule. I know that we were wrong,
but something about this to me said this there's something
going on with his family and she wants to get
away from them or something or other. She seems like
she's just out here living her life, going to Lebron
James events and things like that. And then the family
comes out and.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
They staged this big what was supposed to be this
big type of event outside the Lakers game pre game
before they tipped off last week to find her, some
sort of rally to find her.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
And then Dad turns up at LAX jumping off a roof.
I mean, there's something amiss with this family and I
just knew it.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
From go yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
And that the family continues to believe that Hannah is
in some sort of danger and said that each day
she's missing or begging to keep her name out there
so that they can find her and figure out what's
going on.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I mean, this was a guy who went on KTLA
just a few days ago and talked about trying to
find his daughter. I miss her, he said. I just
want her to know that. I just want her to
reach out. I mean it's clearly desperate, but like, for
what reason? What's going on? There's gonna be more answers.
I hope to this one.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Is your Christmas shopping done yet?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
What? No? I haven't even begun.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Oh my wife has been holding it over my head
for the last couple of days that she's almost done
with her Christmas shop.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Wow. Yeah, that's impressive.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I haven't even thought about that yet.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
You know, Christmas is coming right now.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I feel behind. Well, I kind of feel like I
get going December first, but that that can be dicey,
can't it. Well, this is why I'm a terrible gift giver.
I wait to the last minute and then I just
whatever's on sale, whatever I see. I need to do better.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Some of the stories that we are following.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
It is still popping off pretty significantly in between Israel
and Lebanon, but they have said that they are looking
at some sort of a ceasefire. Israel and hes Blah
continued exchanging rockets today. At least seven people in Lebanon
injured in northern Israel at least one sixty year old
man hurt in an attack from Lebanon, but it appears
(09:13):
that they are closer to the first ceasefire since their
conflict began last year. Remember Hesbologists jumped on this train
because of Hamas's October seventh attack in Israel's response to it.
Hes Blot had been living relatively peacefully with Israel until
that all started.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
So there was a story this morning. I usually don't
get involved in this topic because I feel like it's
gotten way too much attention from both sides, and it
has really captured a spotlight for a very few people
that it affects. But this article made me angry. It
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was in USA today and the headline as transgender lawyer
makes history, takes case on puberty blockers and hormone therapy
to the Supreme Court.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
The case itself is out of Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
The state of Tennessee passed a law that bans that
kind of medical intervention for minors specifically.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
And let's just be clear on what puberty blockers are.
You do a very good job of explaining this.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Well, they destroy your sexuality.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
So if you feel a certain way at thirteen, yeah,
you are making decisions or the state or your parents
are making decisions that could affect you for the rest
of your life, despite it possibly being a phase that
you grow out of.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
And that's not yeah, and you have to be careful unfortunately,
because some people get react so negatively to saying something
like that, Well, you don't know if it's a phase.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Yeah, I don't know if it's a face.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
But I'm going to pump the brakes on and doing
something that's irreversible.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Right, I'd rather wait a couple of years and have
them make the decision when they're an adult that do
something to them that you cannot come back from.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Right. There's not a hell of a lot of difference
between thirteen and eighteen, and guess what everyone struggles in
those years. You know, if you turn eighteen and you
want to make that decision for yourself as an adult,
that's one thing. But the fact that the state could weigh.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
In on.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Somebody giving my kid hormone therapy at school or what
have you, because some school districts they don't even tell
the parents. There's no mandate to tell the parents. They're like,
it's almost like ice hiding illegal criminal aliens from Ice.
You know, it's like, no, we've got something in place.
There's several safety nets for kids, parents, school administrators, counselors,
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all that. Why doesn't everyone get to know what the
decision's going to be. But this article, this guy's like
make it about himself. He was like, he's he's upset
about the election. He's upset about Trump. It starts this way.
Chase Estrangio surrounded himself with close friends on election night,
knowing that Trump might be sent back to the White
House after a campaign that included extensive attacks on the
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transgender community. He's part of defending the community is his
life's work. He channeled his anxiety into finishing his written
arguments to the Supreme Court on why the justices should
strike down Tennessee's ban on puberty blockers for minors.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
For miners, yes, minor.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
The case itself goes December, first week of December, so
when you're gonna hear in the Supreme Court and farther
down in this it says that Strangio where he says
that he was born, I'm sorry he was assigned female
at birth.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
That's what he wrote. He was assigned female at birth.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
But I've never had a female body and says, I
am I would simply if it takes longer to convince
the world of that than it would to simply say
that I was born with a female body, but of
now male. I'm invested in that longer path because ultimately
we'll all be better off when we can challenge the
idea that our body parts define us, and then goes
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on to say something along the lines of he is
one of two transgender lawyers at the table at the
council table, and his presence that day shows that trans
people have actually always existed in places and even among
people who don't think that they have been proximate to
trans people.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
And it's important what.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
He points out there is that a lot of times
whatever you got going on in your pants matters not
at all to what a situation is that.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
You might find yourself in.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Right, if you're at work, if you're digging ditches, if
you're hosting a radio show, if you're correcting the books
in an accountant's office, something like that, ninety nine point
nine percent of the time, whatever you're working with downstairs
has zero bearing on what you should be doing at work.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I have no problem with decisions people make on what
they want to do with what's going on in their
pants at all. But keep your hands off the kids.
That's the part I don't just wait, just wait, We
are never fully who we want to be at fourteen
years old. Wait, just wait a couple years and then
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let people make their own decisions. But when you you
don't even let your kid decide what he is going
to eat for dinner most nights because he doesn't make
great decisions. You know, there's so many decisions that you
don't allow your minor children to make. For a good reason,
you're going to allow your minor children to decide they
want to be a different sex at that age. When
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you pull back like that and you think about how
much power kids have in the house or how much
they should have, and then you think about giving them
that power over their life, and it's irreversible. It's terrifying.
And the fact that the school system would get to
make that call for the kid or the parents or
left out of it is just insanity. I mean, that
is like not American at all.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
And doesn't it put way too much emphasis on sex
and sexuality at a time when it's already i mean
top of mind for a fourteen fifteen, sixteen year We.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Know what a penis was when I was fourteen.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
I don't know how to respond to that.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Well, you had one, so you knew what it was like.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
I did.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I knew what it was like.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I didn't know what was going on in boys pants.
I certainly didn't know if I certainly didn't cross my
mind that i'd want one of those things right Well me,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I think I think I do.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Up next?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
What's going on in the pants of the cabinet.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Yes, it looks like most of the cabinet has been
chosen for the next administration, assuming that all of them
are confirmed by the set, at least those that need
to be confirmed. So we'll talk about some of the
late names that came in over the weekend for the transition.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Wonderful.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Yes, a couple stories.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
We're following a top NATO military officials urging businesses in
those NATO countries to be prepared for a wartime scenario
and urged them to adjust their production and distribution lines. Accordingly,
Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer, is the chair of NATO's Military Committee,
said quote, if we can make sure that all crucial
services and goods can be delivered no matter what. Then
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that is a key part of our deterrence. There was
a mysterious plane crash also, some people are pointing to Russia,
although it hasn't been confirmed. A DHL cargo plane crashed
in a residential area in near Vilnius Airport in Lithuania,
killing one person on board. Three others apparently on board
(16:52):
the plane survived the crash and we're taking a hospital.
But this Boeing seven point thirty seven had taken off
out of Germany and crashed very early in the morning.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
You're Vilnius.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Have you seen the story about that daughter sister that
has demanded that her family sign a code of conduct
for Thanksgiving? Yes, complete with a dress code.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Yeah, I wow.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Where I don't even know how I would approach a
sister who did that to me.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I kind of get it. Wait a minute, I I
think I've talked about this before. But my husband's family
is very politically involved, and I don't know if it
involved vocal vocal. They like to have discourse, they like
to have intelligent conversation, but it does surround politics a
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lot of the time. Yeah, and I find myself dreading this.
I mean, I would never say no politics, like it's
not my family. You know, it's not my home, it's
not It would never even say that to to you know,
my brother or whatever. Like, I just would not be
the person who says, Okay, no politics and we're not
going to talk about this. We're not going to talk
about that. But it is something I'm not looking forward to,
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just like every you know, buddy's opinion about X, Y
and Z, and it's just like, oh man, it was
park my ass in front of the television and watch
the games. So I kind of get it. I just
don't think putting an edict out there is the right
way to go about it. You know, maybe if there's
a way to cleverly turn the discussion into the Detroit
(18:31):
Lions and them being the favorite to win the Super
Bowl away from the election, I don't know if there's
a good pivot point to do that.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
But also that's I mean, as uncomfortable as it can
be at times, that's what makes those I mean, we
have memories of dinner table conversations, specifically Thanksgiving conversations that
my wife and I will bring up all the time,
and they were not comfortable. They were not good, but
they were memories and they were made with family. And
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it's not that anybody you know, got a black eye
over it or you know, stormed out of the room
or anything like that. But you know, that's that messiness,
that uncomfortability is sometimes what adds to the memory.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
It's true. I mean, that's part of it, right, That's
part of Thanksgiving is you know, there's a great story
about how my grandma was overserved and threw a turkey
down on a flight of stairs. You know, like those
stories probably in the moment are not great, but it
adds to the family more, right.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
And with time, of course, anything can be funny.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Maybe not anything, but a lot of things can be
funny if all you do is just add a little
bit of time to them.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
And even better was my grandpa's response of oh, and
why'd you have to throw the turkey down the stairs?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Could you just put it on the dryer like normal people.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
So I'm fascinated by the presidential order of succession set
by the Presidential Succession Act of nineteen forty seven, only
because and we've never had to use it, I think
was it the key for Sutherland Fox TV show a
designated survivor was really the only I shouldn't say the only,
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but one of the more current references to whatever happens
if the president, vice president, something gets killed and we
have to go down the line of succession, who would
take over the country as acting president. And the way
it stands now, obviously is if something happens to the president,
it goes vice president, Speaker of the House, President pro
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temp with the Senate, and then cabinet wise Secretary of State,
Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Defense, and then Attorney
General and then all of the I don't want to
say lesser cabinet members, but interior, egg, Commerce, labor, that
sort of thing. As of right now, obviously Mike Johnson
is the only Republican in that line of succession because
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Kamala Harris is the Vice president, Patty Murray is the
President pro temp of the and then the cabinet. Of course,
when you look at what happens with Donald Trump's proposed cabinet,
all of the picks are finally in by the way,
it would be Vice President jd Vance, Speaker of the House.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
We assume it would continue to be Mike Johnson.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Nope, not really sure who would be President pro Tampa,
the Senate and maybe John Cornet out of Texas or
something like that. And then you've got Secretary of State
Marco Rubio and the Secretary of the Treasury, the guy
that that was just announced, best best end where does
his name go? Scott Gottssent and then Secretary of Defense
(21:35):
depending on how his confirmation goes in Pete.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Hegseth, Well, I.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Love the secession and it makes for good television at
least for a couple of seasons. We never really need.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
It, no, no, and if we do, I mean, that's
the last thing we're going to do is keep scor
as to who is who.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
But right if we need it, something big has gone
down in Washington. Something his bunch of people, and we're
got we've got bigger fish to fry than Department of Interior.
You're up.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
That's a clancy level event, I think how I would
describe it. So he rounded out his cabinet selections like
you said. Scott Pissent, who was at law one time
a George Soros financial advisor, but in the last several
years has become much more conservative and most of his
donations politically have gone to Republicans. Also would be the
first openly gay secretary of the treachery.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Oh, I did not know he was gay. See how
much it matters? Not at all? What do you do
with your pants parts?
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Brook Rollins also served in the White House during a
Trump first term. Spent a couple of decades promoting conservative
policies as the leader of influential think tanks.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
She would be Agriculture secretary.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Grew up in Texas, graduated Texas A and M worked
for Governor Rick Perry, and then joined a think tank
as the president and a chief executive. And she was
in the Texas Public Policy Foundation for several years. Again,
I don't know if any of these are as controversial.
I actually have seen two different places list the cabinet
(23:00):
picks by level of likelihood. They are not confirmed as
of this point. It's Pete Hegseth that leads. Tulsi Gabbard
is in a strong second place. That again, those would
be least likely to be confirmed. But I don't Once
you get Matt Gates out of there, all these others
look relatively normal.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
You're looking at your phone.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Uh No, I was looking at what the numbers say.
When it comes to Baltimore's past defense and it's not good.
They're actually in the basement of the league. But I'm
going to focus now, I'm focusing. I am focusing.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Matt gives me.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
This is me focusing on Matt Gate. I think that's
why because you said Matt Gates and then I was like, eh,
but I mean we should talk about his his newfound fame. Yeah,
you get Should we get.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Him to record something absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Like I'm Matt Gates and I'm an awful human and
I should be put in a closet and never let out.
Do you think he'd record that for us?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
I doubt it.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
But if he knows where Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been
hanging out, maybe they can hang out in the closet together.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
You know what I'm troubled by, as the people that
are dying on the Matt Gates mountain.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
People love him.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
I don't either.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
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the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Had you gone to church and not said at football yesterday?
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Hey, Shannon, my pastor yesterday had a suggestion for the holidays.
When someone approaches you politically, say Wow, that's an interesting perspective,
but today's not the day to discuss it.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Oh maybe that'll help. Yeah, yeah, you can try.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
That sounds like no one's going to listen to me.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I was going to say that.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
I don't think that would go as well as the
political discussion went in the first place.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
My dad used to call Candlestick Park church. I was
confused for a number of years growing up.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Because there was no confession at Candlestick Park.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I just didn't he said it. It's a matter of
factly that it was like, maybe this is a different
kind of church.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
It is very much so.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Fortunately, everyone in my family is all of the same
political ilk, so we do not argue about politics. We
just reserve the time for our family tradition, which is
to pick on each other until somebody runs from the
room in tears. That's our tradition.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
That sounds lovely well.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
After announcing that he's not going to return to Congress, MATD.
Gates is trying out a new career option cameo.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Creating personalized videos for his fans.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
For first of all, people who would call themselves fans.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Fans even if you love this guy's loyalty to Donald Trump.
You love his politics, you love his firebrand spirit, you
love his persona on TV. There's way too much smoke
in the hole. He likes girls young, conversation for there
not to be some fire at some point, and that's
just gross to me. If you're a grown person and
you look at a seventeen year old or an eighteen
(26:07):
year old girl and you're into it, there's a problem there.
We can excuse that.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Yeah, And I mean even the stuff he has admitted
to doing, this is stuff that I wouldn't want in
a member of Congress, and I wouldn't want him to
represent me in Congress if you're in that district in Florida.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
He's charging five hundred and fifty dollars per video. They
average about a minute and a half in length. And
listen to the kind of videos he's shooting. Holiday wishes,
marriage congratulations, career pep talks. Bro, you just lost your
job for liking girls young, and you're giving career pep
(26:49):
talks and marriage congratulations.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
How do you?
Speaker 3 (26:54):
How does he fix that in his head? How does
he be I.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Mean, maybe it's funny, maybe these are all tongue in
cheek like, of course he's doing marriage congratulations and career
PEP talks when he's kind of screwed up his personal
life in that regard and kind of screwed up his
job future job placements.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Well, and it's a good thing. It's not a different
time of year. He would have been doing high school
graduation announcements.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Like I can see in a world where that would
be funny. Like if I had a friend that was
getting married and I had Matt Gates do a congratulations, people,
would you in dark humor.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
You find Matt Gates.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I mean you cause it's gonna be like the worst person, right,
like the worst person to give a wedding congratulations. Right,
it'd be like Matt Gates or Anthony Wiener, right, like
somebody who should absolutely not. And I can see kind
of a little humor in that. But if people are
doing this without any irony, then they need to be
checked out.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
One of these videos, he was giving congratulations for someone
who made partner at their law firm, and he said, look,
I know your politics in mind may not align specifically,
but you know our career trajectories might not be either.
I mean, here you are making partner, and my legal
career took a little bit of a different turn this
last week. But you know what, work hard, get paid
a lot of money, do a lot of great things
(28:13):
as a practitioner and counselor at law, and you you
never know you could be an Attorney General nominee as well.
Do you remember your cameo that you got for Christmas?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Yes? It was will Night Shannon.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
This is William Hung from American Idol. Merry Christmas and
congratulations on a Space Wars movie. Big fan of the
Gary and Shannon Show on k f I A M
six forty and the podcast on the iHeart app.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
You know war pop.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
That's awesome. You know, I just realized we're talking about
how I'm behind on my Christmas shopping. I now know
what I'm going to get you. Although five fifties a
little third Space Wars shirt. You know, I was gonna
have Matt Gates record you something.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
It's a waste of your money.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
That's a lot of money. Though I don't want to
spend that much money. Maybe I'll get something. What can
I get for like thirty five bucks? I get for that?
Speaker 7 (29:13):
All right?
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Two dueling articles this morning about what immigrants feel about
Donald Trump, and it's this weird sort of backfilling of
Democrats trying to explain how they lost as many Latino
votes as they did.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
And how do you turn the tide when it's already
turned so far in the republicans favor.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
And they've had years to pay attention to this and
they didn't, and it looks bad. So we'll talk about
that when we come back. You've been listening to The
Gary and Shannon Show. You can always hear us live
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