December 20, 2024 • 28 mins
Gary and Shannon #1 begin the second hour of the show with the story of an LA homelessness agency not disclosing gifts. Gary and Shannon #1 also talk about the Amazon driver and Starbucks barista strike, students reacting to a cell phone ban in school and #TerrorInTheSkies.
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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 talking about last minute gifts. If
you have any ideas for last minute gifts, definitely leave
us talkback message. Lawmakers still racing to prevent this government shutdown.
We'll talk more about it in swamp Watch. But Speaker
Mike Johnson says they have arrived at a plan C.
(00:23):
There is a third version of this thing. The first
two went down to defeat. Apparently, according to Politico, they're
going to try to pass this in three separate bills,
one of at least one of them going through committee first,
which would mean that it would only need a simple
majority once it gets to the floor of the House.
Series of storms making their way through northern California over
(00:44):
the weekend, so traveling could be did it difficult to
say the least if you're going up that way or
parts into the Northwest. The first of the storm systems
expected to move into the Bay Area tomorrow morning. College
football's first twelve team playoff in history begins today. Indiana
at Notre Dame is tonight, and then they do three
more games tomorrow afternoon. This is also the first weekend
(01:08):
of Saturday games for the NFL, so a couple of
pro games Houston at Kansas City and Pittsburgh at Baltimore
coming up tomorrow. Before we get into our into our
homeless as homelesses, what is it LA Homeless Services Authority story?
This is nick for Marine No Valley has anybody else thought,
(01:29):
said Shannon. Number one sounds a lot like Amy Kings.
There you go. I'll take that. Yeah, Amy, do you
think that my wife sounds like you?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Wait, I wanted Amy to answer that. A theater of.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Hey guys, this is Dell And Upstate, New York and
joined the show today. Always enjoying when you two are together,
and actually I highly enjoyed the uh this is a
wonderful oKFI life yesterday fantastic had me laughing, thank you,
and honestly I enjoyed the Shannon laughing in the background.
(02:09):
I know she was tried not to, but she was.
Excellent job.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Gary, Thank you, no, thank you. We are going to
replay that on Christmas Day. By the way, it's a
KF I wonderful life will be played back during our
show on Christmas Day.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Gary and Shannon don here. Hey Dom Shannon, what's your
take on your husband going to baseball fantasy camps?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I think it's great. I love baseball.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I would like to see maybe a Facebook page or
something with Gary playing.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I like to see that.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
But what's your take on that?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I like to know. Yeah, what is it like to him? Well?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Go have fun?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
You've been doing this for a while in some kind
of different forms.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Off and on.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Yeah, you do you worry about getting injured at this age?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I'm sorry?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
What at?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
What I mean? I'm sure you'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
You see me, I've been trying to work out.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Yeah, you take the dog in the park with your
little batting net. What do you call that?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
That's fine batting that? Sure?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Can you swing the thing around the bat?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
There is a story in LAist about the la Homeless
Services Authority and it goes to a significant issue that
we have when it comes to homelessness. I've heard the
term the homelessness industry. In the state of California. Generally,
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billions of dollars has been spent or have been spent
on trying to fix homeless trying to solve homelessness, trying
to ameliorate to homelessness, and it's failed miserable. One of
the reasons might be we don't hold these homeless authorities
(04:08):
to the same standards that we do other public officials
because it's sort of this quasi government agency. Local governments
do require a lot of their staff to file disclosures.
They're called Form seven hundred, and it would be a
disclosure of any financial interest. Think about gifts from potential donors,
(04:31):
or gifts from more importantly, potential contractors that you'll be
doing business with. And if those contractors then give you
a nice bottle of wine, or they give you tickets
to the Dodgers game or something, and then they come
back and you all of the sudden award them the
five hundred thousand dollars con they're two million dollar contract
Whatever it is, there's a conflict of interest there. At
(04:52):
the very least, it could be At very least a
conflict of interest could be described as bribery.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
It can also be contractors in that like you're working
at a radio station and I have to own a
company that sells microphones, and you don't tell anybody that
your wife is the salesperson for this microphone company and
then all of a sudden, I get a contract at KFI.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Uh yeah, yes, those kinds of things going on. Sure.
Right now, the only person who works for LASA again
LA Homeless Services Authority, the only person who has to
file that form is the CEO. In September of twenty two,
so two years ago, the Chief Executive notified county staff
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the agency was required to add more positions to its
list of mandated reporter and it had to do so
within ninety days. Were two years and ninety days later,
and they still have not added any other staff to
file to the requirement list of those who have to
file those forms to talk about it for example, also
(05:58):
not currently required to disclose these financial times financial ties
sorry loss is newly higher chief executive strategists who owns
a consulting business with the leader of one of the
largest contractors working with LASA. This is the kind of
very simple conflict that should be rooted out and stamped
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out very quickly, because this is the kind of stuff
that the state auditor should have some control over and
should be able to, you know, compile reports on to
get this out in the public.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
But clearly there's no there's no downside to that, like,
there's no repercussions for them. Not Finally, why would they
who's holding them to account.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
For exactly Yes. And meanwhile, we continue to give money
to these to these organizations. The state is spending money.
The state gives money to these organizations, and it just
gets funneled back into the same group of people. Somebody
makes a lot of money on these things. Homeless people
are not one of them. Homeless people do not benefit
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the way that they should from the amount of money
that exists in that system. They're not getting what they deserve.
Some of the stories that we're following today on this Friday,
December twenty, if the government shutdown is looming, they are
trying to get some sort of package together. We'll keep
an eye on that. Next hour, we're going to be
talking with Robert Sherman from News Nation about what's been
going on. The United States says we killed a bad guy.
(07:30):
Sentcom says we killed Islamic State leader Abu Yusef in Syria.
You might know him as Makhmud, but they carried out
an airstrike in an area controlled by the Syrian regime
and Russian forces before the fall of Bashar al Assad.
Now no one's in control of that area. So the
stock market has been watching what's going on in Washington
(07:51):
as well. And although the Dow Jones Industrial Average had
an awful week, it's made up quite a bit of
ground today. It's back up about six hundred points, up
higher than that. About an hour ago is up eight hundred.
So it's up six hundred right now. There was an
eleven hundred point drop. There was a ten day losing streak.
Looks like they're going to try to turn this around
before in the last waning days of the of the year.
(08:14):
We were talking also about some last minute Christmas gifts
that might still be available to you, hy.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Gary and Shannon one. This is Lynn out in Thousand
Oaks area.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
I you know, I don't remember what I.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Gave my son last year, so I guess I wouldn't
be upset if he doesn't remember what I gave him. Anyway,
this year, he got a gameing monitor and I said,
that's it, that's for Christmas present. But then I went
out and back out and bought him the Meta Ray
Bang classes And hopefully he's not listening to me anyway.
Merry Christmas, you guys.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Well, thank you, Merry Christmas. That's a lot. Those glasses
are Have you seen those yet? Have you seen anybody
wearing them yet?
Speaker 4 (08:53):
I was wearing them in real life.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Yeah, I've Shannon and I went to lunch with somebody
wearing them once. What do you do with them? You
just well, I mean you could record things. I guess
that's not creepy. It was creepy.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
That's such an inferences, like going to the gym and
then people are making videos and you think you're in
the background.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
I don't want to be.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
You are in the background. By the way, just say hi,
Gary and Shannon. You know what the best last minute
Christmas gift is for your kids, spending time with them.
And that's why I'm giving mine this year. We're playing games,
we're cooking, and we're just hanging out. They are, trust me,
they will definitely remember this for next year. I hope. So,
(09:35):
I sure hope.
Speaker 8 (09:36):
So Hey Gary, Hey, so we've heard about your past
with all your girlfriends and fiances and all the breakups.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
But what about Shannon and Brown. I'd think they know
a little bit about her past and her Uh let
me go down the list. Maybe some time in high school.
Stuff like that, came college?
Speaker 9 (09:56):
All right, thank you?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Having right Christmas? Did we date?
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Is that?
Speaker 9 (10:01):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I check? Oh there's a Henry? Is somebody named Henry?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
You hate hearing about my ex boyfriends?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
You who enjoy? Who would enjoy hearing about it?
Speaker 7 (10:13):
But you won?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
What does that mean?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I'm with you?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Well I was the last one stand.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
That's what you say when I say, oh, I was
your second choice for a wife.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Well it's stuck, didn't it. Teamsters are a cross country
strike against Amazon. It's now in its second day. The
union says that the momentum continues to mount as workers
are trying to get fear treatment from their online retailer.
The Amazon teamster's movement grows bigger and stronger, according to
the teamsters. The teamster's statement that was posted on social
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media the strike here's the important part. Not expected to
affect operations. Amazon says the strikes are being attended by
outside organizers and not the actual workers who they enjoy
working at Amazon. Apparently, but they said they have not
seen any impact on deliveries as of yet. Amazon hasn't.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Well, I'm still glad I got my shopping done early.
But does this mean that Amazon workers are paying a
new union, that union goes hires outside people to strike
for them.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Well, I wouldn't say, well, it does sound like that. Yeah,
at least that's the way Amazon describes it. Almost like
you're bringing in outside agitators to hold the picket signs,
but they're not actually the people that work in the
factory or in the warehouse that they're picketing outside of
the Other one is that Starbucks Briests eleven thousand Starbucks
(11:38):
Briests have begun a five day strike in a fight
over pay and working conditions. The walkouts began today at
stores in La Chicago and of course the hometown of Seattle.
The union wants the coffee shop to raise wages, to
raise staffing, implement better schedules for its workers, and one
of their big highlighted shoes is the unfair pay disparity
(12:03):
between the bosses and the chief executive. Brian Nickel, the
chief executive of a multi multi million dollar company, makes
one point six million dollars a year. That's his base salary,
that's not exorbitant. He gets performance related bonus could go
(12:23):
as high as seven million and depending on how he
does as much as twenty three million dollars a year
in Starbucks shares. That's a lot, but all of that
is dependent on his performance and the company's performance. They're
not just writing him a check for thirty two million
(12:44):
dollars a year. They're writing him a check for one
point six and depending on how he runs the company,
he could get the thirty million. But that's the top
end of it. That's like there's a performance bonus for
a baseball player. You know, you get a base salary.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
It's like the little tip button when you order your
drink that you're forced to make that decision every time
you order a drink.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
I just these people are not performing open heart surgery.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
So the expectation quip because people take their their coffee
very seriously. The problem is you tip prior to getting
your drink, so there's no force on them to improve
the outcomes.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
There's no what is the hour they don't have skin
in the game.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Well and the hourly. I'm not going to quibble on
the working conditions because who knows what they have to
deal with. It's like working in a hospital. Dare I
say where you're working with the breadth of humanity and
they can be a lot, but hey, they're getting you
geting eighteen ish dollars an hour if I had to.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Guess, and then tips minimum twenty, So minimum twenty.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
So that's that's not bad for pulling coffee.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Right, Uh, that was never designed for you to buy
a house making twenty dollars an hour. I mean in
the old days dollars and that was a big deal.
But you know what I mean. We have talked many
times on the show about banning phones from schools, ban
them on, ban on phones in schools. The Washington Post
(14:14):
talked to high school students in Virginia where the school
did just that, and we'll hear from the students themselves
about what they feel about this thing. Gary and Shannon
will continue. Reminder, today is Friday, So it's the what
you learned this week on the Gary and Shannon soow
you can always leave us messages on the talkback feature
on the iHeart app.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Gary, Mary, Christmas, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 9 (14:35):
D your wife sounds hot?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Thank you? Good for you? All right? Do I say
thank you for that?
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Or do you I say I thank him for that?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Hey, Gary and Shannon, I don't know if it's necessarily
a weird Christmas tradition, but when my children were little,
all four of them, we would go to Toys r
User Target. I'd have them pick out the toy they
want the most, yes, and then we get in the car,
burn it and drive to the fire station and drop
it off for toys for time.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
Go of it.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
But they knew that some of their child love it.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Just bry it from their cold point there at the end.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
If they wanted it that much, there's another kid who
wants that same toy just as much, and they would
be just as happy.
Speaker 8 (15:22):
Hey, it's the close I can currently in Long Beach.
As far as weird Christmas, I'll do it quick. Don't
how much family left, and some of the family we
can't stand. So a group of us every year go
to the same sports bar and I have dinner and
call it a day for Christmas. That's it.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
That's enough. Have a good weekend, guys, Well, thank you,
and good luck Christmas.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
I thought something else weird that you and I used
to do as our tradition. We have since stopped. But
do you remember our anniversary is December sixth, right?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Oh yeah, we would go out.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
To dinner on our aniversary. You can get a little
schnockerd Yeah, dip into those cosmos a little hard and
then go to Toys r US and do Christmas shopping tanked.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, that was fun. We'll buzz. Yeah. Now we don't
have to do that.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
That's what we're praying for grandchildren down.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
We have many times discussed cell phone bands in schools.
At Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia, they did that
this year. They banned phones and kids are supposed to
put their phones in those little cases, those little magnetic cases,
so that they can't take them out until school days over.
(16:38):
Then can they have access to their phone. And the
Washington Post interviewed, I think it's eight kids, different walks
of life, different kinds of kids, and ask them about
their cell phone use. These kids also agreed to have
the Washington Post look at their actual screen usage data.
You know, at the end of the week you get
your little screen time notification. Some of these kids were
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on their phone as much as twelve hours a day.
Now that it doesn't necessarily mean that they're looking at
their phone the whole time. That's when an app is
open usually, so it could be them listening to music
that's considered screen time, at least according to this the
way that this log is put together. But one of
the juniors for exab example, her name is Gabby. She
(17:19):
said she'd been trying to lessen the amount of time
that she spends on social media because the apps feel draining.
I cannot imagine as a teenager having the self awareness
to know that that thing is draining your life energy
out of you.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I think it's become part of the conversation among young kids,
though now teenagers, I think they're starting to become aware
of it. Whether that's they're putting self imposed curbs and
limits on their usage, I don't know. She said she
was using six and a half hours a day and
that was a decrease from the time she used to
spend on her phone. Yeah, and she said, what could
(18:02):
I be doing if I took those hours? What could
be productive with those hours? I think about that all
the time. I'll get a notification you spent two hours
on your phone today.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I was like, you throw it across the room.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
If I what could I have done if I did
two hours every day of something I wouldn't know? Spanish
buy now.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
The post used available reports from a Monday before and
a Monday after the school's cell phone ban was in
place as a snapshot of how the ban affected the usage,
and what they said was it's not a perfect reflection
of how much person someone how much time a person
is actively engaged with their phone. But for example, Gabrielle,
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as a senior, she sets time limits for certain social
media apps and strives to lower her overall screen time.
She said that these pouches have helped with that. In
a week in October, she spent a total one week
forty six hours on her phone. That's an average time
jobs six and a half hours a day. Yeah, she
spent twelve hours on Tick.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Twelve.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Hours on TikTok, and five hours on Instagram. She watched
more than eight hours of Disney plus spent two hours
learning a new language on Duo Lingo. Flip that flip
that if she had done twelve and a half hours
on Duo Lingo and two hours on TikTok. But she
did say that there was a decrease from the time
she used to spend on her phone. Sometimes it feels
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like there's a rift between students and the faculty. The
faculty don't understand how integrated the devices are into their lives.
I don't know if that's real or if that is
to your point, was the that's the perception that they
have now, and it's part of the conversation where that's
a fallback argument. You don't understand how integrated it is
into my life.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
And the adults will probably say, I do understand how
integrated into it is into your life.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
That is the problem, yeah, and say that integration is
not healthy.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Right, You need to learn the base coping skills, interaction skills,
eye contact, social skills, being untethered from technology well, and.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
In terms of the information. It's how she says again,
this is the high school seniors. She wants the adults
who set policies. Remember, students have been raised on phones.
It's how they make and maintain friends that's disgusting. It's
also how they track locations and constantly text to confirm
plants to hang out or whatever. It's the low level
communication device between them. It used to be just a
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cell phone where you could call somebody and do that,
and before that it was just the landline phone that
you after school go and call your friends again and
makes plans. I will agree.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
That is how you know friendships are made. When Calvin
was arguing for a phone in junior high, for.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Those who are not following the scoreesheet, that's.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Our sun, that is the oldest one. He was feeling
left out. He's the only son, but you know of
so he was in a new school. He was trying
to make friends. And his point was, everyone has a
cell phone and they're texting each other. I'm outside of
the group chats. I'm not included any It's harder. And
so I made the mistake of saying, we'll give them
(21:09):
my number. You can use my phone a text. Do
you know how many texts twelve year old boys and
and what they talk about? I know more about Minecraft?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
And that was twelve years ago, I think, I mean
how exponentially it has changed. Now it's Friday, so of course,
make sure you leave us the messages what you learned
this week on The Gary and Shannon Show. Because my
wife is in, I've played the wrong one. I didn't
mean to.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Show me the booty, give me the booty.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I didn't mean to play that one. I meant to
play this one.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
My wife never gets old, never does.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Hey, Gary, and Shannon number one, Mike from south Gate here,
love your show. One crazy thing that we do for
Thanksgiving with the leftovers. We get the turkey, meet the gravy,
the stuff in cranberry, and we make the Mally's out
of that. Oh they like them apples.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yeah, that sounds great. You still do that for Christmas.
A lot of people replicate their Thanksgiving dinner on Christmas
with the turkey and stuff like that.
Speaker 9 (22:17):
Again, Hygari and Hi Shanon.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Number one, we're doing tacos on to my favorite.
Speaker 9 (22:21):
Last minute gift to give our experiences like a concert
in the future or in the future, tickets to Disneyland.
Stuff like that easy to get at a last minute
gift and so there you go.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Yeah, those are the and they make it easier to
get now. Gift cards like that and things like that
are easy to get. Yeah, so good.
Speaker 8 (22:44):
Morning, great show.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
I just want to find.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
Out I'm hearing their.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Grammer Hill that part of this build.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Is they're trying to pass They're trying to give themselves Congress.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
A forty percent raise.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Oh can you verify that?
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Yeah, I was going to say that till later, but yes,
seventy thousand dollars a year increase, right, it was I think.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
It was the six thousand dollars a year increase, but
it goes up every year. And because they haven't had
a raise in a long time member of Congress makes
I think it's one hundred and seventy four thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Usually you get a raise when you're doing your job
really well.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Well, they must be doing their job well because the
approval rating for Congress is down in the nineteen percent
area that was in the first version of the bill
that failed. There's no chance it's going to be in
this next version in the plan C. But that was
in the first version of the bill. But it is
no longer a thing. So one more garry. My husband
(23:36):
wants to know why you end the show with stay
dry guest.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Thing.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
It has to do with your days back in Seattle.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
We love it good.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
No, it isn't back in Seattle. It was it was here.
Do you even know the story?
Speaker 4 (23:49):
If I had to guess, you were mocking things like
storm watch?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Close, Okay, after mocking things like storm Watch, we actually
had a big rainstorm come through here and one day
Shannon and I are talking to Eric Leonard, longtime reporter
for KFI. He was now working over at Channel four
and he was doing a story somewhere on the freeway
here in bird Bank. The rain had accumulated so fast
(24:15):
that they had to shut down the freeway because it
was gathering in the underpass and it was like six
or seven feet deep or something like that. And he
was out there and it was pouring rain, and I
remember this whole thing, and I said to him, stay dry.
I said it unironically. I said it like I meant it, like,
hey man, I'm concerned for you. I hope you stay
dry out there. And Shannon looked at me like I said,
(24:37):
the dumbest thing in the world. And then I did
that thing where I heard myself saying it kind of
played it back, and I went, that was the dumbest
thing I need.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Just got to lean into it now.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
So yeah, that's why we say it every day, not Seattle.
It's time for terror in the skies like.
Speaker 9 (24:54):
His zero nin or you or a glare of the
day off Roger, get off my plane, Roderick Rodgers.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
Let's talk back to Victor.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I have handed with these mucky pinte snakes on this money.
It's Gary and Shannon's Terror in the Skies on kfive. Well,
the first one is probably the worst one. Boeing seven
thirty seven shot off the end of the runway in
mold on the northern shore of the rams Dahl Peninsula
(25:25):
in Norway. The way they make their airports out there
is you get a long, tiny strip of land that's
your landing strip, and it's surrounded usually by water. And
in Norway it's cold. This plane landed in took took
off from Oslo forty five minute flight, skids off the
(25:45):
runway in adverse weather conditions, and this seven thirty seven
stopped forty nine feet short of the sea. It was
going to plunge into that thing. And then so they
made it. They made it. You're in Norway. You gotta
get down the ramp in Norway. How, I don't know
what the Norwegians. I'm sure they're used to the colt
(26:06):
there probably are. Everybody has seen these people, these stupid
line cutters who fake injuries. Yes, I need the wheelchair idea.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
It's a lot of disabilities.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
No, we don't say that guy flying for a United
flight from Pittsburgh to Chicago and he sees somebody demand
pre boarding, and he says no wheelchair, but says he
needs special assistance because he just had knee surgery. So
the guy gets on the plane, gets comfortable in that
exit row seat. The problem is because he thinks he's
going to stretch out. The thing is one of the
(26:40):
things they ask you if you're going to send that
exit row is they lean down and they say, we
just want to make sure that everybody here is physically
capable of getting So he completely lied about his knee injury,
thinking he was going to get on first pick an
exit row. But they said, wait a minute, aren't you
the guy who said you just had knee surgery and
couldn't complete walking down by yourself and had to preboard.
You can't sit in the exit row a flow tee
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that is lowing.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Wait a second, you United Airlines do they do the
like seat yourself type thing like Southwest? Doesn't he already
have a seat?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I don't know that's benefit. I don't know. I don't know.
But he lied about it either way. And then this
new one, this new panic that's been unlocked is an
American Airlines flight from Dallas to Minneapolis earlier this month
started flooding.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
From where.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Well, apparently it was a bathroom. One of the passengers
goes to the bathroom and realizes that either the floor
is too wet, because it's always a little wet, the
floor is too wet, or she actually sees a leak
and told a flight attendant, But the cabin crew member
could not stop the leak, and one of the people
on the plane said it was utter disbelief and a
(27:50):
little panic realizing they couldn't shut off the water. Well,
if you fly even in a place, even from Dallas
to Minneapolis, she got something with your feet, right, you
got your little bag down there. Everybody had to pick
up their bags, and you know, and then your feet
are getting all wet with questionable liquids, because even if
you know it's just water, you know it's just coming
(28:11):
from the bathroom, you're going to assume it's not just water.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Water with a little hint of you know, the dysentery.
Did you put that story in there because I spilled
the water bottle over your car this morning.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I'm just saying that we need to be a little
more careful with our liquids in the cars.
Speaker 9 (28:28):
Good morning, Shannon number one and Gary, nothing personal, but
I think I prefer Shannon number one over.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Gary number one. Okay, well I'll second thought.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Maybe it is it is a little person. It hurts
a little bit. You've been listening to the Gary and
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on the iHeartRadio app talking about last minute gifts. If
you have any ideas for last minute gifts, definitely leave
us talkback message. Lawmakers still racing to prevent this government shutdown.
We'll talk more about it in swamp Watch. But Speaker
Mike Johnson says they have arrived at a plan C.
(00:23):
There is a third version of this thing. The first
two went down to defeat. Apparently, according to Politico, they're
going to try to pass this in three separate bills,
one of at least one of them going through committee first,
which would mean that it would only need a simple
majority once it gets to the floor of the House.
Series of storms making their way through northern California over
(00:44):
the weekend, so traveling could be did it difficult to
say the least if you're going up that way or
parts into the Northwest. The first of the storm systems
expected to move into the Bay Area tomorrow morning. College
football's first twelve team playoff in history begins today. Indiana
at Notre Dame is tonight, and then they do three
more games tomorrow afternoon. This is also the first weekend
(01:08):
of Saturday games for the NFL, so a couple of
pro games Houston at Kansas City and Pittsburgh at Baltimore
coming up tomorrow. Before we get into our into our
homeless as homelesses, what is it LA Homeless Services Authority story?
This is nick for Marine No Valley has anybody else thought,
(01:29):
said Shannon. Number one sounds a lot like Amy Kings.
There you go. I'll take that. Yeah, Amy, do you
think that my wife sounds like you?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Wait, I wanted Amy to answer that. A theater of.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Hey guys, this is Dell And Upstate, New York and
joined the show today. Always enjoying when you two are together,
and actually I highly enjoyed the uh this is a
wonderful oKFI life yesterday fantastic had me laughing, thank you,
and honestly I enjoyed the Shannon laughing in the background.
(02:09):
I know she was tried not to, but she was.
Excellent job.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Gary, Thank you, no, thank you. We are going to
replay that on Christmas Day. By the way, it's a
KF I wonderful life will be played back during our
show on Christmas Day.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Gary and Shannon don here. Hey Dom Shannon, what's your
take on your husband going to baseball fantasy camps?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I think it's great. I love baseball.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I would like to see maybe a Facebook page or
something with Gary playing.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I like to see that.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
But what's your take on that?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I like to know. Yeah, what is it like to him? Well?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Go have fun?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
You've been doing this for a while in some kind
of different forms.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Off and on.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Yeah, you do you worry about getting injured at this age?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I'm sorry?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
What at?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
What I mean? I'm sure you'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
You see me, I've been trying to work out.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Yeah, you take the dog in the park with your
little batting net. What do you call that?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
That's fine batting that? Sure?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Can you swing the thing around the bat?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
There is a story in LAist about the la Homeless
Services Authority and it goes to a significant issue that
we have when it comes to homelessness. I've heard the
term the homelessness industry. In the state of California. Generally,
(03:45):
billions of dollars has been spent or have been spent
on trying to fix homeless trying to solve homelessness, trying
to ameliorate to homelessness, and it's failed miserable. One of
the reasons might be we don't hold these homeless authorities
(04:08):
to the same standards that we do other public officials
because it's sort of this quasi government agency. Local governments
do require a lot of their staff to file disclosures.
They're called Form seven hundred, and it would be a
disclosure of any financial interest. Think about gifts from potential donors,
(04:31):
or gifts from more importantly, potential contractors that you'll be
doing business with. And if those contractors then give you
a nice bottle of wine, or they give you tickets
to the Dodgers game or something, and then they come
back and you all of the sudden award them the
five hundred thousand dollars con they're two million dollar contract
Whatever it is, there's a conflict of interest there. At
(04:52):
the very least, it could be At very least a
conflict of interest could be described as bribery.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
It can also be contractors in that like you're working
at a radio station and I have to own a
company that sells microphones, and you don't tell anybody that
your wife is the salesperson for this microphone company and
then all of a sudden, I get a contract at KFI.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Uh yeah, yes, those kinds of things going on. Sure.
Right now, the only person who works for LASA again
LA Homeless Services Authority, the only person who has to
file that form is the CEO. In September of twenty two,
so two years ago, the Chief Executive notified county staff
(05:37):
the agency was required to add more positions to its
list of mandated reporter and it had to do so
within ninety days. Were two years and ninety days later,
and they still have not added any other staff to
file to the requirement list of those who have to
file those forms to talk about it for example, also
(05:58):
not currently required to disclose these financial times financial ties
sorry loss is newly higher chief executive strategists who owns
a consulting business with the leader of one of the
largest contractors working with LASA. This is the kind of
very simple conflict that should be rooted out and stamped
(06:21):
out very quickly, because this is the kind of stuff
that the state auditor should have some control over and
should be able to, you know, compile reports on to
get this out in the public.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
But clearly there's no there's no downside to that, like,
there's no repercussions for them. Not Finally, why would they
who's holding them to account.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
For exactly Yes. And meanwhile, we continue to give money
to these to these organizations. The state is spending money.
The state gives money to these organizations, and it just
gets funneled back into the same group of people. Somebody
makes a lot of money on these things. Homeless people
are not one of them. Homeless people do not benefit
(07:06):
the way that they should from the amount of money
that exists in that system. They're not getting what they deserve.
Some of the stories that we're following today on this Friday,
December twenty, if the government shutdown is looming, they are
trying to get some sort of package together. We'll keep
an eye on that. Next hour, we're going to be
talking with Robert Sherman from News Nation about what's been
going on. The United States says we killed a bad guy.
(07:30):
Sentcom says we killed Islamic State leader Abu Yusef in Syria.
You might know him as Makhmud, but they carried out
an airstrike in an area controlled by the Syrian regime
and Russian forces before the fall of Bashar al Assad.
Now no one's in control of that area. So the
stock market has been watching what's going on in Washington
(07:51):
as well. And although the Dow Jones Industrial Average had
an awful week, it's made up quite a bit of
ground today. It's back up about six hundred points, up
higher than that. About an hour ago is up eight hundred.
So it's up six hundred right now. There was an
eleven hundred point drop. There was a ten day losing streak.
Looks like they're going to try to turn this around
before in the last waning days of the of the year.
(08:14):
We were talking also about some last minute Christmas gifts
that might still be available to you, hy.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Gary and Shannon one. This is Lynn out in Thousand
Oaks area.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
I you know, I don't remember what I.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Gave my son last year, so I guess I wouldn't
be upset if he doesn't remember what I gave him. Anyway,
this year, he got a gameing monitor and I said,
that's it, that's for Christmas present. But then I went
out and back out and bought him the Meta Ray
Bang classes And hopefully he's not listening to me anyway.
Merry Christmas, you guys.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Well, thank you, Merry Christmas. That's a lot. Those glasses
are Have you seen those yet? Have you seen anybody
wearing them yet?
Speaker 4 (08:53):
I was wearing them in real life.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Yeah, I've Shannon and I went to lunch with somebody
wearing them once. What do you do with them? You
just well, I mean you could record things. I guess
that's not creepy. It was creepy.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
That's such an inferences, like going to the gym and
then people are making videos and you think you're in
the background.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
I don't want to be.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
You are in the background. By the way, just say hi,
Gary and Shannon. You know what the best last minute
Christmas gift is for your kids, spending time with them.
And that's why I'm giving mine this year. We're playing games,
we're cooking, and we're just hanging out. They are, trust me,
they will definitely remember this for next year. I hope. So,
(09:35):
I sure hope.
Speaker 8 (09:36):
So Hey Gary, Hey, so we've heard about your past
with all your girlfriends and fiances and all the breakups.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
But what about Shannon and Brown. I'd think they know
a little bit about her past and her Uh let
me go down the list. Maybe some time in high school.
Stuff like that, came college?
Speaker 9 (09:56):
All right, thank you?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Having right Christmas? Did we date?
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Is that?
Speaker 9 (10:01):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I check? Oh there's a Henry? Is somebody named Henry?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
You hate hearing about my ex boyfriends?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
You who enjoy? Who would enjoy hearing about it?
Speaker 7 (10:13):
But you won?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
What does that mean?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I'm with you?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Well I was the last one stand.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
That's what you say when I say, oh, I was
your second choice for a wife.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Well it's stuck, didn't it. Teamsters are a cross country
strike against Amazon. It's now in its second day. The
union says that the momentum continues to mount as workers
are trying to get fear treatment from their online retailer.
The Amazon teamster's movement grows bigger and stronger, according to
the teamsters. The teamster's statement that was posted on social
(10:46):
media the strike here's the important part. Not expected to
affect operations. Amazon says the strikes are being attended by
outside organizers and not the actual workers who they enjoy
working at Amazon. Apparently, but they said they have not
seen any impact on deliveries as of yet. Amazon hasn't.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Well, I'm still glad I got my shopping done early.
But does this mean that Amazon workers are paying a
new union, that union goes hires outside people to strike
for them.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Well, I wouldn't say, well, it does sound like that. Yeah,
at least that's the way Amazon describes it. Almost like
you're bringing in outside agitators to hold the picket signs,
but they're not actually the people that work in the
factory or in the warehouse that they're picketing outside of
the Other one is that Starbucks Briests eleven thousand Starbucks
(11:38):
Briests have begun a five day strike in a fight
over pay and working conditions. The walkouts began today at
stores in La Chicago and of course the hometown of Seattle.
The union wants the coffee shop to raise wages, to
raise staffing, implement better schedules for its workers, and one
of their big highlighted shoes is the unfair pay disparity
(12:03):
between the bosses and the chief executive. Brian Nickel, the
chief executive of a multi multi million dollar company, makes
one point six million dollars a year. That's his base salary,
that's not exorbitant. He gets performance related bonus could go
(12:23):
as high as seven million and depending on how he
does as much as twenty three million dollars a year
in Starbucks shares. That's a lot, but all of that
is dependent on his performance and the company's performance. They're
not just writing him a check for thirty two million
(12:44):
dollars a year. They're writing him a check for one
point six and depending on how he runs the company,
he could get the thirty million. But that's the top
end of it. That's like there's a performance bonus for
a baseball player. You know, you get a base salary.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
It's like the little tip button when you order your
drink that you're forced to make that decision every time
you order a drink.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
I just these people are not performing open heart surgery.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
So the expectation quip because people take their their coffee
very seriously. The problem is you tip prior to getting
your drink, so there's no force on them to improve
the outcomes.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
There's no what is the hour they don't have skin
in the game.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Well and the hourly. I'm not going to quibble on
the working conditions because who knows what they have to
deal with. It's like working in a hospital. Dare I
say where you're working with the breadth of humanity and
they can be a lot, but hey, they're getting you
geting eighteen ish dollars an hour if I had to.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Guess, and then tips minimum twenty, So minimum twenty.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
So that's that's not bad for pulling coffee.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Right, Uh, that was never designed for you to buy
a house making twenty dollars an hour. I mean in
the old days dollars and that was a big deal.
But you know what I mean. We have talked many
times on the show about banning phones from schools, ban
them on, ban on phones in schools. The Washington Post
(14:14):
talked to high school students in Virginia where the school
did just that, and we'll hear from the students themselves
about what they feel about this thing. Gary and Shannon
will continue. Reminder, today is Friday, So it's the what
you learned this week on the Gary and Shannon soow
you can always leave us messages on the talkback feature
on the iHeart app.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Gary, Mary, Christmas, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 9 (14:35):
D your wife sounds hot?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Thank you? Good for you? All right? Do I say
thank you for that?
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Or do you I say I thank him for that?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Hey, Gary and Shannon, I don't know if it's necessarily
a weird Christmas tradition, but when my children were little,
all four of them, we would go to Toys r
User Target. I'd have them pick out the toy they
want the most, yes, and then we get in the car,
burn it and drive to the fire station and drop
it off for toys for time.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
Go of it.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
But they knew that some of their child love it.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Just bry it from their cold point there at the end.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
If they wanted it that much, there's another kid who
wants that same toy just as much, and they would
be just as happy.
Speaker 8 (15:22):
Hey, it's the close I can currently in Long Beach.
As far as weird Christmas, I'll do it quick. Don't
how much family left, and some of the family we
can't stand. So a group of us every year go
to the same sports bar and I have dinner and
call it a day for Christmas. That's it.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
That's enough. Have a good weekend, guys, Well, thank you,
and good luck Christmas.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
I thought something else weird that you and I used
to do as our tradition. We have since stopped. But
do you remember our anniversary is December sixth, right?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Oh yeah, we would go out.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
To dinner on our aniversary. You can get a little
schnockerd Yeah, dip into those cosmos a little hard and
then go to Toys r US and do Christmas shopping tanked.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, that was fun. We'll buzz. Yeah. Now we don't
have to do that.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
That's what we're praying for grandchildren down.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
We have many times discussed cell phone bands in schools.
At Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia, they did that
this year. They banned phones and kids are supposed to
put their phones in those little cases, those little magnetic cases,
so that they can't take them out until school days over.
(16:38):
Then can they have access to their phone. And the
Washington Post interviewed, I think it's eight kids, different walks
of life, different kinds of kids, and ask them about
their cell phone use. These kids also agreed to have
the Washington Post look at their actual screen usage data.
You know, at the end of the week you get
your little screen time notification. Some of these kids were
(16:59):
on their phone as much as twelve hours a day.
Now that it doesn't necessarily mean that they're looking at
their phone the whole time. That's when an app is
open usually, so it could be them listening to music
that's considered screen time, at least according to this the
way that this log is put together. But one of
the juniors for exab example, her name is Gabby. She
(17:19):
said she'd been trying to lessen the amount of time
that she spends on social media because the apps feel draining.
I cannot imagine as a teenager having the self awareness
to know that that thing is draining your life energy
out of you.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I think it's become part of the conversation among young kids,
though now teenagers, I think they're starting to become aware
of it. Whether that's they're putting self imposed curbs and
limits on their usage, I don't know. She said she
was using six and a half hours a day and
that was a decrease from the time she used to
spend on her phone. Yeah, and she said, what could
(18:02):
I be doing if I took those hours? What could
be productive with those hours? I think about that all
the time. I'll get a notification you spent two hours
on your phone today.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I was like, you throw it across the room.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
If I what could I have done if I did
two hours every day of something I wouldn't know? Spanish
buy now.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
The post used available reports from a Monday before and
a Monday after the school's cell phone ban was in
place as a snapshot of how the ban affected the usage,
and what they said was it's not a perfect reflection
of how much person someone how much time a person
is actively engaged with their phone. But for example, Gabrielle,
(18:46):
as a senior, she sets time limits for certain social
media apps and strives to lower her overall screen time.
She said that these pouches have helped with that. In
a week in October, she spent a total one week
forty six hours on her phone. That's an average time
jobs six and a half hours a day. Yeah, she
spent twelve hours on Tick.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Twelve.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Hours on TikTok, and five hours on Instagram. She watched
more than eight hours of Disney plus spent two hours
learning a new language on Duo Lingo. Flip that flip
that if she had done twelve and a half hours
on Duo Lingo and two hours on TikTok. But she
did say that there was a decrease from the time
she used to spend on her phone. Sometimes it feels
(19:32):
like there's a rift between students and the faculty. The
faculty don't understand how integrated the devices are into their lives.
I don't know if that's real or if that is
to your point, was the that's the perception that they
have now, and it's part of the conversation where that's
a fallback argument. You don't understand how integrated it is
into my life.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
And the adults will probably say, I do understand how
integrated into it is into your life.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
That is the problem, yeah, and say that integration is
not healthy.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Right, You need to learn the base coping skills, interaction skills,
eye contact, social skills, being untethered from technology well, and.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
In terms of the information. It's how she says again,
this is the high school seniors. She wants the adults
who set policies. Remember, students have been raised on phones.
It's how they make and maintain friends that's disgusting. It's
also how they track locations and constantly text to confirm
plants to hang out or whatever. It's the low level
communication device between them. It used to be just a
(20:30):
cell phone where you could call somebody and do that,
and before that it was just the landline phone that
you after school go and call your friends again and
makes plans. I will agree.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
That is how you know friendships are made. When Calvin
was arguing for a phone in junior high, for.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Those who are not following the scoreesheet, that's.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Our sun, that is the oldest one. He was feeling
left out. He's the only son, but you know of
so he was in a new school. He was trying
to make friends. And his point was, everyone has a
cell phone and they're texting each other. I'm outside of
the group chats. I'm not included any It's harder. And
so I made the mistake of saying, we'll give them
(21:09):
my number. You can use my phone a text. Do
you know how many texts twelve year old boys and
and what they talk about? I know more about Minecraft?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
And that was twelve years ago, I think, I mean
how exponentially it has changed. Now it's Friday, so of course,
make sure you leave us the messages what you learned
this week on The Gary and Shannon Show. Because my
wife is in, I've played the wrong one. I didn't
mean to.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Show me the booty, give me the booty.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I didn't mean to play that one. I meant to
play this one.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
My wife never gets old, never does.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Hey, Gary, and Shannon number one, Mike from south Gate here,
love your show. One crazy thing that we do for
Thanksgiving with the leftovers. We get the turkey, meet the gravy,
the stuff in cranberry, and we make the Mally's out
of that. Oh they like them apples.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yeah, that sounds great. You still do that for Christmas.
A lot of people replicate their Thanksgiving dinner on Christmas
with the turkey and stuff like that.
Speaker 9 (22:17):
Again, Hygari and Hi Shanon.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Number one, we're doing tacos on to my favorite.
Speaker 9 (22:21):
Last minute gift to give our experiences like a concert
in the future or in the future, tickets to Disneyland.
Stuff like that easy to get at a last minute
gift and so there you go.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Yeah, those are the and they make it easier to
get now. Gift cards like that and things like that
are easy to get. Yeah, so good.
Speaker 8 (22:44):
Morning, great show.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
I just want to find.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
Out I'm hearing their.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Grammer Hill that part of this build.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Is they're trying to pass They're trying to give themselves Congress.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
A forty percent raise.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Oh can you verify that?
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Yeah, I was going to say that till later, but yes,
seventy thousand dollars a year increase, right, it was I think.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
It was the six thousand dollars a year increase, but
it goes up every year. And because they haven't had
a raise in a long time member of Congress makes
I think it's one hundred and seventy four thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Usually you get a raise when you're doing your job
really well.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Well, they must be doing their job well because the
approval rating for Congress is down in the nineteen percent
area that was in the first version of the bill
that failed. There's no chance it's going to be in
this next version in the plan C. But that was
in the first version of the bill. But it is
no longer a thing. So one more garry. My husband
(23:36):
wants to know why you end the show with stay
dry guest.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Thing.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
It has to do with your days back in Seattle.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
We love it good.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
No, it isn't back in Seattle. It was it was here.
Do you even know the story?
Speaker 4 (23:49):
If I had to guess, you were mocking things like
storm watch?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Close, Okay, after mocking things like storm Watch, we actually
had a big rainstorm come through here and one day
Shannon and I are talking to Eric Leonard, longtime reporter
for KFI. He was now working over at Channel four
and he was doing a story somewhere on the freeway
here in bird Bank. The rain had accumulated so fast
(24:15):
that they had to shut down the freeway because it
was gathering in the underpass and it was like six
or seven feet deep or something like that. And he
was out there and it was pouring rain, and I
remember this whole thing, and I said to him, stay dry.
I said it unironically. I said it like I meant it, like,
hey man, I'm concerned for you. I hope you stay
dry out there. And Shannon looked at me like I said,
(24:37):
the dumbest thing in the world. And then I did
that thing where I heard myself saying it kind of
played it back, and I went, that was the dumbest
thing I need.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Just got to lean into it now.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
So yeah, that's why we say it every day, not Seattle.
It's time for terror in the skies like.
Speaker 9 (24:54):
His zero nin or you or a glare of the
day off Roger, get off my plane, Roderick Rodgers.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
Let's talk back to Victor.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I have handed with these mucky pinte snakes on this money.
It's Gary and Shannon's Terror in the Skies on kfive. Well,
the first one is probably the worst one. Boeing seven
thirty seven shot off the end of the runway in
mold on the northern shore of the rams Dahl Peninsula
(25:25):
in Norway. The way they make their airports out there
is you get a long, tiny strip of land that's
your landing strip, and it's surrounded usually by water. And
in Norway it's cold. This plane landed in took took
off from Oslo forty five minute flight, skids off the
(25:45):
runway in adverse weather conditions, and this seven thirty seven
stopped forty nine feet short of the sea. It was
going to plunge into that thing. And then so they
made it. They made it. You're in Norway. You gotta
get down the ramp in Norway. How, I don't know
what the Norwegians. I'm sure they're used to the colt
(26:06):
there probably are. Everybody has seen these people, these stupid
line cutters who fake injuries. Yes, I need the wheelchair idea.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
It's a lot of disabilities.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
No, we don't say that guy flying for a United
flight from Pittsburgh to Chicago and he sees somebody demand
pre boarding, and he says no wheelchair, but says he
needs special assistance because he just had knee surgery. So
the guy gets on the plane, gets comfortable in that
exit row seat. The problem is because he thinks he's
going to stretch out. The thing is one of the
(26:40):
things they ask you if you're going to send that
exit row is they lean down and they say, we
just want to make sure that everybody here is physically
capable of getting So he completely lied about his knee injury,
thinking he was going to get on first pick an
exit row. But they said, wait a minute, aren't you
the guy who said you just had knee surgery and
couldn't complete walking down by yourself and had to preboard.
You can't sit in the exit row a flow tee
(27:04):
that is lowing.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Wait a second, you United Airlines do they do the
like seat yourself type thing like Southwest? Doesn't he already
have a seat?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I don't know that's benefit. I don't know. I don't know.
But he lied about it either way. And then this
new one, this new panic that's been unlocked is an
American Airlines flight from Dallas to Minneapolis earlier this month
started flooding.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
From where.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Well, apparently it was a bathroom. One of the passengers
goes to the bathroom and realizes that either the floor
is too wet, because it's always a little wet, the
floor is too wet, or she actually sees a leak
and told a flight attendant, But the cabin crew member
could not stop the leak, and one of the people
on the plane said it was utter disbelief and a
(27:50):
little panic realizing they couldn't shut off the water. Well,
if you fly even in a place, even from Dallas
to Minneapolis, she got something with your feet, right, you
got your little bag down there. Everybody had to pick
up their bags, and you know, and then your feet
are getting all wet with questionable liquids, because even if
you know it's just water, you know it's just coming
(28:11):
from the bathroom, you're going to assume it's not just water.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Water with a little hint of you know, the dysentery.
Did you put that story in there because I spilled
the water bottle over your car this morning.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I'm just saying that we need to be a little
more careful with our liquids in the cars.
Speaker 9 (28:28):
Good morning, Shannon number one and Gary, nothing personal, but
I think I prefer Shannon number one over.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Gary number one. Okay, well I'll second thought.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Maybe it is it is a little person. It hurts
a little bit. You've been listening to the Gary and
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