December 20, 2024 • 28 mins
Shannon #2 is out BUT Shannon #1 fills in! Gary and Shannon #1 talk with KFI’s John Decker about a possible government shutdown. Gary and Shannon #1 also talk about the Pentagon saying the U.S. has 2,000 troops in Syria and last-minute gifts for Christmas.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. We are going to talk about
what's going on with the race to prevent this government
shutdown here in just a few minutes. It could hit
in a couple of hours. Of course, we've seen some
scrambling around the capitol. Speaker Mike Johnson has said that
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they have now a plan C that they will try
to get in place before the government shutdown. I think
we're just under twelve hours before the government would effectively
finger quotes shut down. But he did enter the Capitol
today and say, yes, we have a plan. There's a
big dealing, big doings, I should say back East, Middle East,
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that far back east. The US says it has killed
an ISIS leader in Syria Abu Yusuf. US scent Com
says it carried out an air strike targeting Yusuf. Also
goes by mak Mood in an area controlled by the
Syrian regime and the Russian forces. Before bashar Asad all
went down, stock market is watching what's going on.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
When it comes to Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
It'll close out a tough week saw the Dow Jones
Industrial Average drop eleven hundred points in a single day,
complete its worst losing streak since the nineteen seventies, when
it fell ten days in a row. As of right now,
it's a pretty positive bounce back. The Dow is up
more than seven hundred points, almost eight hundred points as
they're trying to reverse. Like I said, one of the
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worst weeks that we've seen in a long time. Well, today,
Shannon's out. She's traveling for the holidays already. So rather
than change the name of the show, I figured we
would bring in.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Shannon number one. Thank you for coming in.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
You're so welcome. And this is a terrible idea.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Okay, well, we'll see talk to me in four hours
and we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
We're still talking.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
If that's the case, then yes, we can discuss it.
John Decker is joining us. He is live in Washington,
d C. Who has been covering all of the story
keeping an eye on what's going on with the potential
for a government shutdown. John, where do we stand with
this new Plan C and doesn't have a shot at
actually passing?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Well, it is planed C because plans A and B
have failed largely because of House Republicans, and now they
are putting together a plan that they're calling Plans C
to avoid a government shutdown, which would happen at midnight tonight.
You have to keep in mind of both the House
and the Senate. Both parties have very narrow majorities, and
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for that reason do you need compromise. You need to
have both parties working together to come up with a
compromise that can pass both the House and the Senate.
Do that today and get it to President Biden's death
for his signature.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
What do they change about this one compared to the
two previous iterations.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Well, as you may have seen, about thirty eight, House
Republicans essentially thumb their nose at President Electdonald Trump. And
the reason they did on that bill Plan B is
because of one item that was contained in that spending
proposal that would have extended the debt ceiling for another
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few years to twenty twenty seven, and that was a
no go for deficit hawks in the House of Representatives
who are Republicans. So what Plan C does. It gets
rid of that particular proposal. And they believe by getting
rid of that they can get their team on board
in Unison to support Plan C.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
All right, well, that work is gonna take place over
the next couple of hours and we'll keep an eye
on that. Throw a curveball here. We know that Vice
President Harris stayed in Washington. She was supposed to come
out here to California. And I saw some reports, and
I don't know if they're true or not, that President
Biden returned to d C from his planned vacation.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Where what are we doing here? What's going on with that?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
No, well, you're incorrect about President Biden. He's planning to
take vacation next week. He's heading out of town early
next week and heading to Saint Croix. That's a destination
that is an annual tradition in the Biden family. So
he came back from being in Wilmington for two days
earlier this week. He is here today. No comment though
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by President Biden as it relates to the possibility of
a government shutdown. All that we have seen is a
statement put out in his name by the White House
Press Secretary. I'm in the White House Press Briefing room
right now, and we're waiting for the White House Press
briefing to start in approximately ten minutes or so, and
we'll hear the latest in terms of the administration's position
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concerning plan See. But as for the Vice President, you
met her right at the top. She is here maybe
simply because it's a very narrow majority the Democrats have
in the US Senate, and of course, because of that
narrow majority, the vice president often breaks tie. So that
could be the reason why she remained in Washington, d City.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
So it appears it's just a procedural thing.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
She's just getting ready for the possibility, not to mention it,
and it would not look great if both the president
and vice president were out of DC, if we ended
up being a shutdown.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Oh absolutely, I think that is one hundred percent right.
And you see the spin coming from both political parties
right now. If there is a government shutdown, Democrats will
lay the blame at the feat of Republicans. And you know, look,
there was a deal that was agreed to by the
leadership of both parties and the House and the Senate,
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including the House Speaker Mike Johnson. But that agreement essentially
blew up because of what Donald Trump, the President elect,
put out on social media telling Republicans do not support
this compromise.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
All right, John, thanks for your stuff. We appreciate it absolutely.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I'll talk to you real soon.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
You got John Decker there live from Washington, d C.
With the latest on this and again the clock is ticking.
It's under twelve hours before the potential for a government shutdown.
As he mentioned, we're on Plans C and we'll talk
about how it is that Mike Johnson thinks he's going
to push this thing through today versus the other two
iterations that we saw earlier. We already got your first message,
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so buckle up.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Buttercup Hoffman's voice.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I am a long let me start from the beginning.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Good morning, Jerry and Shannon Hoffman. So excited to hear
Shannon Hoffman's voice. I am a longtime listener at least
for COVID, but I don't know if you've ever been
on the air before, Missus Hoffman, and so I'm excited
to get to know you through your voice a little more,
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even though I feel like we know you as OKAFI listeners.
Very exciting.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
You're the best.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
You guys, have a good day.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Well, Christmas came early for Hern't that's a lot of
pressure and for you. She already loves you. That's true.
Friendly crowd from the crowd.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, this is an easier crowd. I hope it's also Friday.
People are going to be a little more relaxed. But
we're going to come back.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
And I can tell by your sweatshirt and ball cap
that you're wear into the workplace.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Oh, because so many people at work saw me.
Speaker 8 (07:26):
I'm just saying, you're very judge on what people wear
to work, and here you are, slumpy.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
You are much more dressed up than I ever would
be on a front.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I'm a professional.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Gary and Shannon Number one. The stock market is watching
what's going on in DC, and actually, right now it's
doing pretty well. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up
over eight hundred points this coming on what could have
been the tough week. There was an eleven hundred point
drop in a single day. We saw ten straight days
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of losing on the Dow, and that was the longest
losing streak for the DAO since the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
We'll talk more about it next hour.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
But workers with the Teamsters union striking again at Amazon
facilities around the country, including here in LA. Members of
the Starbucks Workers United group have also staged to walk
out the first time in thirteen months, and they're doing
so here in LA as well as Chicago and Seattle.
If your plan and on going to northern California, this
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could be a rough weekend.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
They're saying.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
The first of the storm systems that's going to be
coming in is expected to move into.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
The Bay Area tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
That should be about a quarter of an inch of
rain somewhere San Francisco and Oakland, according to the National
Weather Service, the valleys up in the North Bay half
inch to three quarters of an inchro I mean, it's
just a normal storm. But if you're driving or flying
in I saw some delays already in and out of
Sacramento International because of it's funny to call it Sacramento International,
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but Sacramento International because they had some fog apparently in
that area. And then an event to celebrate the top
restaurants in La sickened several dozen people neuro virus due
to an outbreak link to raw oysters, and neurovirus will
empty you out quickly.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
That's a hard way to lose five pounds.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
LA County's Department of Public Health said the outbreak stemmed
from an event at the Hollywood Palladium celebrating the La
Times list of the one hundred and one best restaurants
back on the third of December. So before we get
back into our government shutdown.
Speaker 9 (09:30):
Talk, Hey Gary and Shannon, Good morning Gary and fake
Shannon or other Shon Shon.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Number one is a terrible idea.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
You're right, you nailed it.
Speaker 9 (09:40):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I have a wonderful holiday.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Thank your by. To be clear, everybody calls you Shannon
number one. Yes, even Shannon number two's husband calls you
Shannon number one.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Absolutely yes, all right, as it should be.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
So Mike Johnson says we will have a Plan CE
or he's working on a Plan C, because the first
two got shut down. This would try to avoid a
government shutdown coming up by at nine o'clock.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
To night our time.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
And he says they're going to try to pass three
separate bills.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
As opposed to all of them together.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
So you got a short term funding bill, you got
money for natural disasters, and then a one year farm
bill extension with some aid for farmers. A shutdown deadline,
like I said, under twelve hours if they do this,
and here's another weird thing. If they do this through
the Rules committee first, then it only needs a simple
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majority in the House. If they just try to do
this on the House without going to committee first, it
needs two thirds, which is why they've had such a
problem getting to I mean, they weren't even close to
a simple majority on the other bills, but that's why
they would do it that way this time.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
So the first one was fifteen hundred pages, the second
one was one hundred and sixteen pages, right, and now
that's split.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
What have we got to down.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
To thirty pages apiece? Thirty five pages apiece something like that.
I mean that basically. But the concern was for a
lot of Republicans that even that second version, even though
it was that much smaller, increased the debt. Chip Roy,
congressman out of Texas, yelled at his own party members yesterday.
Speaker 10 (11:18):
To take this bill yesterday and congratulate yourself because it's
shorter in pages but increases the debt by five trillion dollars.
Is asinine. This side of the aisle is profoundly unserious
about actually reducing deficits.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
One of his compatriots from Florida, a congressman named Carlo Samenez,
also Republican. He said an interesting thing in an interview
this morning. He said, yes, we want to reduce the debt,
just not yet.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Were in the Republican Party. Want to reduce our debt.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
But we can't do it overnight, and so we know
we have to increase the debt living and so that's
why that was in the resolution. The other parts of it, right,
you don't want to keep the government open, that's a
cr You don't want to help those living ravaged by
natural disasters, you don't want to help our farmers. Really,
that's what you voted against. No, I'm sorry, that's why
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I voted for it.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
So he was one of those that did vote for it.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Now, it's never as simple as that, because it's stupid
politics and they always try to shoehorn stuff into there,
and they will continue to do so today. Keep an
eye on it. Government shutdown talk is never sexy, but.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
It happens all the time, and it happens all the time.
Why is anyone surprised by this? And I feel like
this crunch is manufactured.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Well, I think it's weird that they're doing it in
this lame duck time because Joe Biden doesn't have to
do anything, and there's no pressure on him to do
anything because it's not his A lot of people think
it's not his. Trump put out on a truth social
I'd much rather have a government shutdown while Biden is
president than after January twentieth when he becomes president, just
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because of the He doesn't want the stink on him.
The question is who gets the stink on this thing.
The Republicans are right now in control of the House.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
They all get the stink. Everybody's smelly. This is horrible.
It reminds me of what my dad said. He's like,
lack of planning on your part does not constitute an
emergency on my part. So they're like, everybody feel the pain,
and we're not going to give money to X y Z.
That's on you guys.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
But then they've all and yes, they know it.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
They know when they passed the last Continuing Resolution that
midnight January twentieth into the twenty first was going to
be the deadline. Well why do we get this close
to it before we have some sort of a deal.
And pressure is you know, the only thing that motivates
people in DC.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
It sounds like good.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
Morning, Gary and Shannon. Number one I'm so excited to
hear you guys together today. I remember when Shannon number
one was on with you years ago before COVID, because
that's how we measure time now. And you guys are
doing a segment on Game of Thrones and she and
and you were so good. You were intelligent and articulate
and I loved it. And you did a great job then,
and you'll do a great job today. Have a great show, guys,
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and Gary, thank you, No Lutie, if you know what's
good for you to.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Trust mellu Ti.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I don't remember that Game of thing.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I had forgotten. I was trying to think of the
drive in today. When was the last time. We've never
done this? But you did interview me in twenty ten
after the Haiti earthquake, right, you did not allow it
to be live. We appreciaped it.
Speaker 9 (14:25):
We did.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah, we sat in a little booth and you asked
me questions.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Well, that's because I was also doing the Sunday Show
at the time. That's probably why I played it. I
played it then. I didn't allow you to be live.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
We know it could be dangerous. Where is it?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I said, it's the one that says dump okay down
at the bottom there.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I have one too, Jacob Scott one, you have trained to.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Do some tourettes or something and start swearing on air.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
You're not gonna it's gonna be Oh Gary, Hello, Shannon
number one.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
This is Gary and Santa Creta. Got a question for Shannon.
Speaker 9 (14:57):
Do you ever listen to Gary during the day and
just turn it off and be like, I get enough
with this guy at home.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
I don't need to listen to this now too.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I do listen to all the thank you I do listen.
The only time I turn it off is probably if
you guys are a little long in the tooth on football, right.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And then, speaking of which, gas Fantasy for play coming
up with twelve o'clock out.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Got my picks when you tell stories wrong, like if
if you're talking about something about our kids or me
or you and I'm like, oh my gosh, I screwed
it up. It's so maddening. But that's what you remember,
do you? Those are the key points? Yeah, those are
your takeaways.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
That's the feedback I get when I get home. I
get notes if I tell the story text. Yeah, a
couple of stories that we're following Luigi Mangioni, of course,
was back in New York. Now he was hit with
new federal murder and stalking charges because of the execution
of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson that the federal charges
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now mean that he could be eligible for the death
penalty federally, because even with a first degree murder in
New York there is no death penalty. So if they
were able to prove the first degree or remember we
talked about it this earlier this week, the first degree
murder requirements in New York are very specific that it
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has to be somebody. You have to have killed a
law enforcement officer or a judge or something like that,
and there were a couple other conditions. It doesn't seem
like this would ness. Oh, terrorism was the other thing,
and that's how they were going to go after him,
was that this was an act of terrorism. So we'll
see the federal complaint charges murder through the use of
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a firearm, a couple counts of stalking, in one count
of possession of a firearm all federal offenses.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Do they allow tweezers in federal prison.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I don't know how he got that cleaned up? Would
he looked cleaned up when they when he got off
the helicopter. Yes, I mean clearly he had shaved, but
I think there was.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
That's that's a Tweezer man issue. You got to get
you get it in there with the eyebrow there maybe
some scotch table do it.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Plug your ears for a second.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
College football's twelve team playoff begins today in Indiana at
Notre Dame tonight and then tomorrow three more games SMU
at Penn State, Clemson at Texas, Tennessee at Ohio State,
and of course, the Chargers beat up on the Broncos
thirty four to twenty seven last night, so.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
They get a little bit closer to the playoffs as
a result.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
The only response from Shannon last night was that was fun,
capital fun, Like she enjoyed watching that game from the
sidelines because it was pretty exciting.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Same Sea's, It's not same Ze's.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
So the Pentagon announced that two thousand American troops are
in Syria. Here's why that's important. That is significantly more
than they said were in Syria.
Speaker 11 (17:47):
We have been briefing you regularly that there are approximately
nine hundred US troops deployed to Syria. In light of
the situation in Syria and the significant interest, we recently
learned that those numbers were higher, and so asked to
look into it. I learned today that, in fact, there
are approximately two thousand US troops in Syria.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Okay, you learned it.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Major General pat Ryder is the Pentagon's press secretary. He's
supposed to know those things, and he says he just learned,
and he said we So I don't know if he
means the communications office in the Pentagon or the Pentagon
itself just learned this.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Well, listen, I watched an episode of The Diplomat last night,
so I feel like I can chime in on this.
Maybe they withheld that information from him on purpose so
he could have plausible to toil deniability. Oh, I just
learned it.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
It's possible. It is possible.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
But this was an exchange he had with Jennifer Griffin,
one of the Pentagon reporters.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
And double the number of troops that we've been told
for quite some time.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
So are we talking about this has been going on
for months, for years?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Is it something that just happened this summer? I mean,
we need a timeframe I think is fair.
Speaker 11 (18:59):
Yeah, I think it would probably be fair to say
at a minimum months. I'll go back and look. But
it's the Yeah, it's been going on for a while.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
It was the President aware that there were two thousand
US troops in Syria.
Speaker 11 (19:13):
I won't speak for the White House.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
He doesn't know. That seems to be clear.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Now there is something positive about this, the fact that
the time is right for us to have that many
people in Syria right now. Dan Hoffman is a former
CIA Chief of Station.
Speaker 12 (19:31):
We have an opportunity right now to achieve some strategic
victories to deny Iran that land bridge to Lebanon so
that they can provide his Bula with military equipment that's
no longer possible right now.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
We can ensure that Russia no.
Speaker 12 (19:47):
Longer operates bases in Syria, a naval base and an
air base that would limit Russia's ability to project power.
And we've got to deal with the terrorist threat, the
rising threat of drug sales from the Asade regime Captagon,
and of course the chemical weapon stock pose.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
So maybe it's great that we have two thousand troops there.
I mean, Israel has troops in Syria now because they're
trying to prevent whatever power vacuum exists in Damascus from
from bleeding over or from you know, bad guys getting
the chemical weapon stocks or large weapon stocks that existed
there in Syria under a sod uh. When we come back,
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we're going to take some ideas for last minute gifts.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
So you're telling me you haven't gotten shopping yet.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I'm not saying that, I'm just saying I'm open to
I'm open to suggestions.
Speaker 9 (20:40):
Gary Shannon, who no, hopefully this is a clean show.
You know, no boot knocked in or or booty booty
booty suggestions or Jenotal talk with Shannon does. That's all
she likes to talk about. She likes to get everybody
riled up and then, uh, you know, play innocent, so
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he's not playing.
Speaker 13 (21:06):
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Speaker 3 (21:09):
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Speaker 2 (21:10):
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Speaker 3 (21:12):
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bo You're so twelve year old.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
I want to describe your face. I can't. I just can't.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
My wife is in today, so it's it's still the
Gary and Shannon Show. It's just just the Gary and
Shannon show.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Hey, good morning, Gary and Shannon number one. Well know
how successful this gig is.
Speaker 9 (21:34):
If you guys drive home in the same car or not,
that'll tell us how well it went.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
How much is an uber from burbank?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Are about sixty bucks?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Don't say it?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Yes?
Speaker 13 (21:45):
Hey, Gary and Shannon number one, Shannon number one, can
you tell us something about Gary that most people don't
know about? Like does he walk around in his boxing
shorts our day or does he does he like eat
is food a certain way, like vegetables first and then
protein and then starches.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Thanks nice to have you on.
Speaker 9 (22:08):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
They think you're a little weirdo, don't they? Yeah, yeah,
you are hyper normal. Hyper normal. That's kind of what
I would say.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I do think that white bread from top to bottom,
pretty side out.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
But I like that.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
I will say, when people meet you and they don't
know what you do for a living, yeah, it's hilarious
to me because when I say, well, he works in radio,
he's on a talk show, and they're like, your husband,
he's kind of a mute.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
How does that work? You're very quiet socially.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Well, yes, I don't.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
To the point where I have to tell you when
we're going to a party. Okay, now, honey, you have
to ask questions. Don't let me do all the work.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Well, And we've had instances where I've I feel sometimes
like I dominate. It's it's the nine on the enneagram
where I feel like my voice is louder than it
actually is.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I feel like I'm yelling when I'm not.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Could that be narcissism though, where you think it's all
about you.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I'm not saying it's all about me. I'm just saying
I don't.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I'm super conscious of being annoying, and I don't want
to be annoying outside of this room.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Well, you also get all your words out.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
That is true. I do talk a lot at work,
all right. So you're what four days, five days, four.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Days technically from Christmas, and if you don't get something
for the Christmas presents, you're, you know, in the doghouse.
So there are a couple different versions of York Times
actually had a great list of thirty three last minute
Christmas gifts. Many of them I feel like some of
these you could easily get at a ninety nine cent store.
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I'm not saying you should, but I'm saying that this
is Some of these things are things that you could
get at a ninety nine cent story.
Speaker 8 (23:59):
I mean those that you don't shop much. What these
are not I should get? I get a water the
Lexardo cherries jar. Those cost fifteen bucks. Okay, do you
think I don't know?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
It's not a fifteen dollars store?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Well this is, Well, you're right, but I'm saying that
this first one is a twenty four ounce water bottle.
You could get a water bottles. See that's the problem.
The bluetooth speakers are easy to get. Excellent pocket knife
that's going to cost you about fifty bucks from the
sat mark next to that one, Well, no, I just
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it's my little tick. I put a little pen mark
there because I prefer that bourbon moth blade, the bourbon blade.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
That that guy, that guy sells what too late?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Now?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, there's artist kits, there's watches. There's the everywhere chair
that my parents used to have. They could go to
a sporting event with bleachers and actually have a back
instead of just sitting on that hard heart aluminum storage case.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
An umbrella candles?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Is the candle enough for a for a gift? Okay?
Feet I haven't gotten you slippers in a long time.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
I have already. I'm good.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
That's what I that's the problem.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
If you talked about this last week, that's the problem
is so we talked to this when Justin was here
this week, about what you get kids, you know, and
tempering their expectations about what you can get for kids,
and people go overboard. We spend way too much money,
money on money, money on kids, and have for a
long time. I mean we in general, not just you
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and I, but we're in a place where if you
wanted something like leopard print slippers, you could get leopard
print slippers like that and they'd be delivered to your house,
which is also my house, in four hours if you
could pick the right ones.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Well, not now, because apparently Amazon's striking, so.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
They'll be fine.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
You know.
Speaker 8 (26:00):
The interesting thing we did with our kids one year,
I don't know if you remember this. Would they're making
out their big Christmas list. They get the toys r
US catalog in front of them. They're circling the target,
they're circling everything. And I was getting frustrated and I said,
what did you get for Christmas last year? And neither
of those little fart knockers could name anything. And I'm like,
(26:21):
all right, well, if you can't remember things, then why
are we going to make this big list and get
you more toys this year?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
And that just it really hit them, didn't it.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
They really sunk in change their character so much more grateful.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
They apologized and they thought, you know what.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
They said, let's go volunteer at a homeless shelter, right.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
And all these toys I'm circling, I'm going to give
them away, That's what they said.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Nope, still far.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Let us know what you have in mind for a
last minute Christmas gift. And I don't mean like good
Jora mayonnaise. If there is really something that you can
still get over the next couple of days, let us
know what it is. Leave us a talk back, or
the weird family traditions that you do. I don't think
we really we don't have a weird tradition. We've been
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pretty adamant about the at least the four of us
on Christmas Day, that.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Morning protected Christmas Morning for the four of us.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yes, more people can come, but if we're going to
do it, we're going to do Christmas the four of us.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
At some point, just the four of us, maybe five,
Is that weird? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I don't know if that's weird. I know other people
they'll do Christmas. They'll have two families. They got to
hit on Christmas Eve, another one they'll hit Christmas Eve.
But it doesn't start until midnight. And then you get
up first thing in the morning, you do the stockings
on Christmas morning, breakfast, Christmas dinner, all of that.
Speaker 11 (27:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
The tradition your kids tried to push every year was
we need to start a tradition of opening up a
present on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yeah, because they had friends that did that right, and
they thought that they were better and they're.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Not said, that's not in the Christmas contract.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
That's not in the Bible. All right, we'll take some
of those talkbacks.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Let us know you're crazy Christmas traditions or last minute gifts.
The Homeless Agency in LA is not following the rules
when it comes to a publicly disclosing information.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
We'll talk about that when we come back to The
Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show. You
can always hear us live on KFI AM six forty
nine am to one pm every Monday through Friday, and
anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio ap
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. We are going to talk about
what's going on with the race to prevent this government
shutdown here in just a few minutes. It could hit
in a couple of hours. Of course, we've seen some
scrambling around the capitol. Speaker Mike Johnson has said that
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they have now a plan C that they will try
to get in place before the government shutdown. I think
we're just under twelve hours before the government would effectively
finger quotes shut down. But he did enter the Capitol
today and say, yes, we have a plan. There's a
big dealing, big doings, I should say back East, Middle East,
(00:42):
that far back east. The US says it has killed
an ISIS leader in Syria Abu Yusuf. US scent Com
says it carried out an air strike targeting Yusuf. Also
goes by mak Mood in an area controlled by the
Syrian regime and the Russian forces. Before bashar Asad all
went down, stock market is watching what's going on.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
When it comes to Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
It'll close out a tough week saw the Dow Jones
Industrial Average drop eleven hundred points in a single day,
complete its worst losing streak since the nineteen seventies, when
it fell ten days in a row. As of right now,
it's a pretty positive bounce back. The Dow is up
more than seven hundred points, almost eight hundred points as
they're trying to reverse. Like I said, one of the
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worst weeks that we've seen in a long time. Well, today,
Shannon's out. She's traveling for the holidays already. So rather
than change the name of the show, I figured we
would bring in.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Shannon number one. Thank you for coming in.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
You're so welcome. And this is a terrible idea.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Okay, well, we'll see talk to me in four hours
and we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
We're still talking.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
If that's the case, then yes, we can discuss it.
John Decker is joining us. He is live in Washington,
d C. Who has been covering all of the story
keeping an eye on what's going on with the potential
for a government shutdown. John, where do we stand with
this new Plan C and doesn't have a shot at
actually passing?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Well, it is planed C because plans A and B
have failed largely because of House Republicans, and now they
are putting together a plan that they're calling Plans C
to avoid a government shutdown, which would happen at midnight tonight.
You have to keep in mind of both the House
and the Senate. Both parties have very narrow majorities, and
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for that reason do you need compromise. You need to
have both parties working together to come up with a
compromise that can pass both the House and the Senate.
Do that today and get it to President Biden's death
for his signature.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
What do they change about this one compared to the
two previous iterations.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Well, as you may have seen, about thirty eight, House
Republicans essentially thumb their nose at President Electdonald Trump. And
the reason they did on that bill Plan B is
because of one item that was contained in that spending
proposal that would have extended the debt ceiling for another
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few years to twenty twenty seven, and that was a
no go for deficit hawks in the House of Representatives
who are Republicans. So what Plan C does. It gets
rid of that particular proposal. And they believe by getting
rid of that they can get their team on board
in Unison to support Plan C.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
All right, well, that work is gonna take place over
the next couple of hours and we'll keep an eye
on that. Throw a curveball here. We know that Vice
President Harris stayed in Washington. She was supposed to come
out here to California. And I saw some reports, and
I don't know if they're true or not, that President
Biden returned to d C from his planned vacation.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Where what are we doing here? What's going on with that?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
No, well, you're incorrect about President Biden. He's planning to
take vacation next week. He's heading out of town early
next week and heading to Saint Croix. That's a destination
that is an annual tradition in the Biden family. So
he came back from being in Wilmington for two days
earlier this week. He is here today. No comment though
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by President Biden as it relates to the possibility of
a government shutdown. All that we have seen is a
statement put out in his name by the White House
Press Secretary. I'm in the White House Press Briefing room
right now, and we're waiting for the White House Press
briefing to start in approximately ten minutes or so, and
we'll hear the latest in terms of the administration's position
(04:57):
concerning plan See. But as for the Vice President, you
met her right at the top. She is here maybe
simply because it's a very narrow majority the Democrats have
in the US Senate, and of course, because of that
narrow majority, the vice president often breaks tie. So that
could be the reason why she remained in Washington, d City.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
So it appears it's just a procedural thing.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
She's just getting ready for the possibility, not to mention it,
and it would not look great if both the president
and vice president were out of DC, if we ended
up being a shutdown.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Oh absolutely, I think that is one hundred percent right.
And you see the spin coming from both political parties
right now. If there is a government shutdown, Democrats will
lay the blame at the feat of Republicans. And you know, look,
there was a deal that was agreed to by the
leadership of both parties and the House and the Senate,
(05:52):
including the House Speaker Mike Johnson. But that agreement essentially
blew up because of what Donald Trump, the President elect,
put out on social media telling Republicans do not support
this compromise.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
All right, John, thanks for your stuff. We appreciate it absolutely.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I'll talk to you real soon.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
You got John Decker there live from Washington, d C.
With the latest on this and again the clock is ticking.
It's under twelve hours before the potential for a government shutdown.
As he mentioned, we're on Plans C and we'll talk
about how it is that Mike Johnson thinks he's going
to push this thing through today versus the other two
iterations that we saw earlier. We already got your first message,
(06:32):
so buckle up.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Buttercup Hoffman's voice.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I am a long let me start from the beginning.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Good morning, Jerry and Shannon Hoffman. So excited to hear
Shannon Hoffman's voice. I am a longtime listener at least
for COVID, but I don't know if you've ever been
on the air before, Missus Hoffman, and so I'm excited
to get to know you through your voice a little more,
(06:58):
even though I feel like we know you as OKAFI listeners.
Very exciting.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
You're the best.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
You guys, have a good day.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Well, Christmas came early for Hern't that's a lot of
pressure and for you. She already loves you. That's true.
Friendly crowd from the crowd.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, this is an easier crowd. I hope it's also Friday.
People are going to be a little more relaxed. But
we're going to come back.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
And I can tell by your sweatshirt and ball cap
that you're wear into the workplace.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Oh, because so many people at work saw me.
Speaker 8 (07:26):
I'm just saying, you're very judge on what people wear
to work, and here you are, slumpy.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
You are much more dressed up than I ever would
be on a front.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I'm a professional.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Gary and Shannon Number one. The stock market is watching
what's going on in DC, and actually, right now it's
doing pretty well. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up
over eight hundred points this coming on what could have
been the tough week. There was an eleven hundred point
drop in a single day. We saw ten straight days
(07:56):
of losing on the Dow, and that was the longest
losing streak for the DAO since the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
We'll talk more about it next hour.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
But workers with the Teamsters union striking again at Amazon
facilities around the country, including here in LA. Members of
the Starbucks Workers United group have also staged to walk
out the first time in thirteen months, and they're doing
so here in LA as well as Chicago and Seattle.
If your plan and on going to northern California, this
(08:25):
could be a rough weekend.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
They're saying.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
The first of the storm systems that's going to be
coming in is expected to move into.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
The Bay Area tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
That should be about a quarter of an inch of
rain somewhere San Francisco and Oakland, according to the National
Weather Service, the valleys up in the North Bay half
inch to three quarters of an inchro I mean, it's
just a normal storm. But if you're driving or flying
in I saw some delays already in and out of
Sacramento International because of it's funny to call it Sacramento International,
(08:53):
but Sacramento International because they had some fog apparently in
that area. And then an event to celebrate the top
restaurants in La sickened several dozen people neuro virus due
to an outbreak link to raw oysters, and neurovirus will
empty you out quickly.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
That's a hard way to lose five pounds.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
LA County's Department of Public Health said the outbreak stemmed
from an event at the Hollywood Palladium celebrating the La
Times list of the one hundred and one best restaurants
back on the third of December. So before we get
back into our government shutdown.
Speaker 9 (09:30):
Talk, Hey Gary and Shannon, Good morning Gary and fake
Shannon or other Shon Shon.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Number one is a terrible idea.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
You're right, you nailed it.
Speaker 9 (09:40):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I have a wonderful holiday.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Thank your by. To be clear, everybody calls you Shannon
number one. Yes, even Shannon number two's husband calls you
Shannon number one.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Absolutely yes, all right, as it should be.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
So Mike Johnson says we will have a Plan CE
or he's working on a Plan C, because the first
two got shut down. This would try to avoid a
government shutdown coming up by at nine o'clock.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
To night our time.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
And he says they're going to try to pass three
separate bills.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
As opposed to all of them together.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
So you got a short term funding bill, you got
money for natural disasters, and then a one year farm
bill extension with some aid for farmers. A shutdown deadline,
like I said, under twelve hours if they do this,
and here's another weird thing. If they do this through
the Rules committee first, then it only needs a simple
(10:34):
majority in the House. If they just try to do
this on the House without going to committee first, it
needs two thirds, which is why they've had such a
problem getting to I mean, they weren't even close to
a simple majority on the other bills, but that's why
they would do it that way this time.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
So the first one was fifteen hundred pages, the second
one was one hundred and sixteen pages, right, and now
that's split.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
What have we got to down.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
To thirty pages apiece? Thirty five pages apiece something like that.
I mean that basically. But the concern was for a
lot of Republicans that even that second version, even though
it was that much smaller, increased the debt. Chip Roy,
congressman out of Texas, yelled at his own party members yesterday.
Speaker 10 (11:18):
To take this bill yesterday and congratulate yourself because it's
shorter in pages but increases the debt by five trillion dollars.
Is asinine. This side of the aisle is profoundly unserious
about actually reducing deficits.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
One of his compatriots from Florida, a congressman named Carlo Samenez,
also Republican. He said an interesting thing in an interview
this morning. He said, yes, we want to reduce the debt,
just not yet.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Were in the Republican Party. Want to reduce our debt.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
But we can't do it overnight, and so we know
we have to increase the debt living and so that's
why that was in the resolution. The other parts of it, right,
you don't want to keep the government open, that's a
cr You don't want to help those living ravaged by
natural disasters, you don't want to help our farmers. Really,
that's what you voted against. No, I'm sorry, that's why
(12:14):
I voted for it.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
So he was one of those that did vote for it.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Now, it's never as simple as that, because it's stupid
politics and they always try to shoehorn stuff into there,
and they will continue to do so today. Keep an
eye on it. Government shutdown talk is never sexy, but.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
It happens all the time, and it happens all the time.
Why is anyone surprised by this? And I feel like
this crunch is manufactured.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Well, I think it's weird that they're doing it in
this lame duck time because Joe Biden doesn't have to
do anything, and there's no pressure on him to do
anything because it's not his A lot of people think
it's not his. Trump put out on a truth social
I'd much rather have a government shutdown while Biden is
president than after January twentieth when he becomes president, just
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because of the He doesn't want the stink on him.
The question is who gets the stink on this thing.
The Republicans are right now in control of the House.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
They all get the stink. Everybody's smelly. This is horrible.
It reminds me of what my dad said. He's like,
lack of planning on your part does not constitute an
emergency on my part. So they're like, everybody feel the pain,
and we're not going to give money to X y Z.
That's on you guys.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
But then they've all and yes, they know it.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
They know when they passed the last Continuing Resolution that
midnight January twentieth into the twenty first was going to
be the deadline. Well why do we get this close
to it before we have some sort of a deal.
And pressure is you know, the only thing that motivates
people in DC.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
It sounds like good.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
Morning, Gary and Shannon. Number one I'm so excited to
hear you guys together today. I remember when Shannon number
one was on with you years ago before COVID, because
that's how we measure time now. And you guys are
doing a segment on Game of Thrones and she and
and you were so good. You were intelligent and articulate
and I loved it. And you did a great job then,
and you'll do a great job today. Have a great show, guys,
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and Gary, thank you, No Lutie, if you know what's
good for you to.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Trust mellu Ti.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I don't remember that Game of thing.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I had forgotten. I was trying to think of the
drive in today. When was the last time. We've never
done this? But you did interview me in twenty ten
after the Haiti earthquake, right, you did not allow it
to be live. We appreciaped it.
Speaker 9 (14:25):
We did.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah, we sat in a little booth and you asked
me questions.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Well, that's because I was also doing the Sunday Show
at the time. That's probably why I played it. I
played it then. I didn't allow you to be live.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
We know it could be dangerous. Where is it?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I said, it's the one that says dump okay down
at the bottom there.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I have one too, Jacob Scott one, you have trained to.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Do some tourettes or something and start swearing on air.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
You're not gonna it's gonna be Oh Gary, Hello, Shannon
number one.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
This is Gary and Santa Creta. Got a question for Shannon.
Speaker 9 (14:57):
Do you ever listen to Gary during the day and
just turn it off and be like, I get enough
with this guy at home.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
I don't need to listen to this now too.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I do listen to all the thank you I do listen.
The only time I turn it off is probably if
you guys are a little long in the tooth on football, right.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And then, speaking of which, gas Fantasy for play coming
up with twelve o'clock out.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Got my picks when you tell stories wrong, like if
if you're talking about something about our kids or me
or you and I'm like, oh my gosh, I screwed
it up. It's so maddening. But that's what you remember,
do you? Those are the key points? Yeah, those are
your takeaways.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
That's the feedback I get when I get home. I
get notes if I tell the story text. Yeah, a
couple of stories that we're following Luigi Mangioni, of course,
was back in New York. Now he was hit with
new federal murder and stalking charges because of the execution
of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson that the federal charges
(16:01):
now mean that he could be eligible for the death
penalty federally, because even with a first degree murder in
New York there is no death penalty. So if they
were able to prove the first degree or remember we
talked about it this earlier this week, the first degree
murder requirements in New York are very specific that it
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has to be somebody. You have to have killed a
law enforcement officer or a judge or something like that,
and there were a couple other conditions. It doesn't seem
like this would ness. Oh, terrorism was the other thing,
and that's how they were going to go after him,
was that this was an act of terrorism. So we'll
see the federal complaint charges murder through the use of
(16:41):
a firearm, a couple counts of stalking, in one count
of possession of a firearm all federal offenses.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Do they allow tweezers in federal prison.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I don't know how he got that cleaned up? Would
he looked cleaned up when they when he got off
the helicopter. Yes, I mean clearly he had shaved, but
I think there was.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
That's that's a Tweezer man issue. You got to get
you get it in there with the eyebrow there maybe
some scotch table do it.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Plug your ears for a second.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
College football's twelve team playoff begins today in Indiana at
Notre Dame tonight and then tomorrow three more games SMU
at Penn State, Clemson at Texas, Tennessee at Ohio State,
and of course, the Chargers beat up on the Broncos
thirty four to twenty seven last night, so.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
They get a little bit closer to the playoffs as
a result.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
The only response from Shannon last night was that was fun,
capital fun, Like she enjoyed watching that game from the
sidelines because it was pretty exciting.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Same Sea's, It's not same Ze's.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
So the Pentagon announced that two thousand American troops are
in Syria. Here's why that's important. That is significantly more
than they said were in Syria.
Speaker 11 (17:47):
We have been briefing you regularly that there are approximately
nine hundred US troops deployed to Syria. In light of
the situation in Syria and the significant interest, we recently
learned that those numbers were higher, and so asked to
look into it. I learned today that, in fact, there
are approximately two thousand US troops in Syria.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Okay, you learned it.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Major General pat Ryder is the Pentagon's press secretary. He's
supposed to know those things, and he says he just learned,
and he said we So I don't know if he
means the communications office in the Pentagon or the Pentagon
itself just learned this.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Well, listen, I watched an episode of The Diplomat last night,
so I feel like I can chime in on this.
Maybe they withheld that information from him on purpose so
he could have plausible to toil deniability. Oh, I just
learned it.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
It's possible. It is possible.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
But this was an exchange he had with Jennifer Griffin,
one of the Pentagon reporters.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
And double the number of troops that we've been told
for quite some time.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
So are we talking about this has been going on
for months, for years?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Is it something that just happened this summer? I mean,
we need a timeframe I think is fair.
Speaker 11 (18:59):
Yeah, I think it would probably be fair to say
at a minimum months. I'll go back and look. But
it's the Yeah, it's been going on for a while.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
It was the President aware that there were two thousand
US troops in Syria.
Speaker 11 (19:13):
I won't speak for the White House.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
He doesn't know. That seems to be clear.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Now there is something positive about this, the fact that
the time is right for us to have that many
people in Syria right now. Dan Hoffman is a former
CIA Chief of Station.
Speaker 12 (19:31):
We have an opportunity right now to achieve some strategic
victories to deny Iran that land bridge to Lebanon so
that they can provide his Bula with military equipment that's
no longer possible right now.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
We can ensure that Russia no.
Speaker 12 (19:47):
Longer operates bases in Syria, a naval base and an
air base that would limit Russia's ability to project power.
And we've got to deal with the terrorist threat, the
rising threat of drug sales from the Asade regime Captagon,
and of course the chemical weapon stock pose.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
So maybe it's great that we have two thousand troops there.
I mean, Israel has troops in Syria now because they're
trying to prevent whatever power vacuum exists in Damascus from
from bleeding over or from you know, bad guys getting
the chemical weapon stocks or large weapon stocks that existed
there in Syria under a sod uh. When we come back,
(20:27):
we're going to take some ideas for last minute gifts.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
So you're telling me you haven't gotten shopping yet.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I'm not saying that, I'm just saying I'm open to
I'm open to suggestions.
Speaker 9 (20:40):
Gary Shannon, who no, hopefully this is a clean show.
You know, no boot knocked in or or booty booty
booty suggestions or Jenotal talk with Shannon does. That's all
she likes to talk about. She likes to get everybody
riled up and then, uh, you know, play innocent, so
(21:03):
he's not playing.
Speaker 13 (21:06):
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Speaker 3 (21:09):
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Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah, whaty booty.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Boody booty booty booty booty boots body booty booty booty
bo You're so twelve year old.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
I want to describe your face. I can't. I just can't.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
My wife is in today, so it's it's still the
Gary and Shannon Show. It's just just the Gary and
Shannon show.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Hey, good morning, Gary and Shannon number one. Well know
how successful this gig is.
Speaker 9 (21:34):
If you guys drive home in the same car or not,
that'll tell us how well it went.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
How much is an uber from burbank?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Are about sixty bucks?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Don't say it?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Yes?
Speaker 13 (21:45):
Hey, Gary and Shannon number one, Shannon number one, can
you tell us something about Gary that most people don't
know about? Like does he walk around in his boxing
shorts our day or does he does he like eat
is food a certain way, like vegetables first and then
protein and then starches.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Thanks nice to have you on.
Speaker 9 (22:08):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
They think you're a little weirdo, don't they? Yeah, yeah,
you are hyper normal. Hyper normal. That's kind of what
I would say.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I do think that white bread from top to bottom,
pretty side out.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
But I like that.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
I will say, when people meet you and they don't
know what you do for a living, yeah, it's hilarious
to me because when I say, well, he works in radio,
he's on a talk show, and they're like, your husband,
he's kind of a mute.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
How does that work? You're very quiet socially.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Well, yes, I don't.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
To the point where I have to tell you when
we're going to a party. Okay, now, honey, you have
to ask questions. Don't let me do all the work.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Well, And we've had instances where I've I feel sometimes
like I dominate. It's it's the nine on the enneagram
where I feel like my voice is louder than it
actually is.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I feel like I'm yelling when I'm not.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Could that be narcissism though, where you think it's all
about you.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I'm not saying it's all about me. I'm just saying
I don't.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I'm super conscious of being annoying, and I don't want
to be annoying outside of this room.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Well, you also get all your words out.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
That is true. I do talk a lot at work,
all right. So you're what four days, five days, four.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Days technically from Christmas, and if you don't get something
for the Christmas presents, you're, you know, in the doghouse.
So there are a couple different versions of York Times
actually had a great list of thirty three last minute
Christmas gifts. Many of them I feel like some of
these you could easily get at a ninety nine cent store.
(23:52):
I'm not saying you should, but I'm saying that this
is Some of these things are things that you could
get at a ninety nine cent story.
Speaker 8 (23:59):
I mean those that you don't shop much. What these
are not I should get? I get a water the
Lexardo cherries jar. Those cost fifteen bucks. Okay, do you
think I don't know?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
It's not a fifteen dollars store?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Well this is, Well, you're right, but I'm saying that
this first one is a twenty four ounce water bottle.
You could get a water bottles. See that's the problem.
The bluetooth speakers are easy to get. Excellent pocket knife
that's going to cost you about fifty bucks from the
sat mark next to that one, Well, no, I just
(24:35):
it's my little tick. I put a little pen mark
there because I prefer that bourbon moth blade, the bourbon blade.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
That that guy, that guy sells what too late?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Now?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, there's artist kits, there's watches. There's the everywhere chair
that my parents used to have. They could go to
a sporting event with bleachers and actually have a back
instead of just sitting on that hard heart aluminum storage case.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
An umbrella candles?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Is the candle enough for a for a gift? Okay?
Feet I haven't gotten you slippers in a long time.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
I have already. I'm good.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
That's what I that's the problem.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
If you talked about this last week, that's the problem
is so we talked to this when Justin was here
this week, about what you get kids, you know, and
tempering their expectations about what you can get for kids,
and people go overboard. We spend way too much money,
money on money, money on kids, and have for a
long time. I mean we in general, not just you
(25:39):
and I, but we're in a place where if you
wanted something like leopard print slippers, you could get leopard
print slippers like that and they'd be delivered to your house,
which is also my house, in four hours if you
could pick the right ones.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Well, not now, because apparently Amazon's striking, so.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
They'll be fine.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
You know.
Speaker 8 (26:00):
The interesting thing we did with our kids one year,
I don't know if you remember this. Would they're making
out their big Christmas list. They get the toys r
US catalog in front of them. They're circling the target,
they're circling everything. And I was getting frustrated and I said,
what did you get for Christmas last year? And neither
of those little fart knockers could name anything. And I'm like,
(26:21):
all right, well, if you can't remember things, then why
are we going to make this big list and get
you more toys this year?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
And that just it really hit them, didn't it.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
They really sunk in change their character so much more grateful.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
They apologized and they thought, you know what.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
They said, let's go volunteer at a homeless shelter, right.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
And all these toys I'm circling, I'm going to give
them away, That's what they said.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Nope, still far.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Let us know what you have in mind for a
last minute Christmas gift. And I don't mean like good
Jora mayonnaise. If there is really something that you can
still get over the next couple of days, let us
know what it is. Leave us a talk back, or
the weird family traditions that you do. I don't think
we really we don't have a weird tradition. We've been
(27:08):
pretty adamant about the at least the four of us
on Christmas Day, that.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Morning protected Christmas Morning for the four of us.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yes, more people can come, but if we're going to
do it, we're going to do Christmas the four of us.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
At some point, just the four of us, maybe five,
Is that weird? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I don't know if that's weird. I know other people
they'll do Christmas. They'll have two families. They got to
hit on Christmas Eve, another one they'll hit Christmas Eve.
But it doesn't start until midnight. And then you get
up first thing in the morning, you do the stockings
on Christmas morning, breakfast, Christmas dinner, all of that.
Speaker 11 (27:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
The tradition your kids tried to push every year was
we need to start a tradition of opening up a
present on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yeah, because they had friends that did that right, and
they thought that they were better and they're.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Not said, that's not in the Christmas contract.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
That's not in the Bible. All right, we'll take some
of those talkbacks.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Let us know you're crazy Christmas traditions or last minute gifts.
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when it comes to a publicly disclosing information.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
We'll talk about that when we come back to The
Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
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