December 13, 2025 • 13 mins
Gary & Shannon dive into a wild Weekend Fix that starts with one innocent act of holiday giving… and ends with Shannon getting in hot water for buying a sheep for an Afghani family through a Giving Machine. She explains how a charity founded by Mormon donors, a livestock donation, and a Middle Eastern destination all collided into the most chaotic good deed imaginable.
From there, the conversation opens up: PastaThon officially kicked off the season of generosity, the “women’s Viagra” article somehow landed in the show ideas pile, and Shannon shares the story of meeting her biological sister at 39 (perhaps more to come on this story).
Then the duo breaks down why December triggers big emotions, the rise of “money dysmorphia,” and how you can always tell when someone grew up poor… because no matter how much they earn now, they never stop saving.
A chaotic, heartfelt, deeply human Weekend Fix.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to k
if I am six forty the Gary and Shannon Show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
This hang on it is hey, Welcome once again to
our Gary and Shannon Show Weekend Fixed.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Matt, what is this viagra story you threw in here? Jesus,
Mary and Joseph. I just wanted to do things I
don't want to talk about it work viagra for women,
good Lord, but for men, well that's old hat, right, yes,
that's old hand.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Oh it's back.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Is this the beginning of the end.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
It's the beginning of the end. All of it's coming
on that age, falling fall apart.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
We just a couple of weeks ago got through Pastathon
and thanks to the generosity of all the KFI listeners
and all the corporate partners, et cetera, raised about one
point three billion dollars for did I say billion? One
point three million dollars for Katerina's Club of course, Chef
Bruno's charity. And we've talked about it before. The ninety
(01:08):
two or ninety four thousand pounds of pasta and sauce
this year just ridiculous. And you pointed out a couple
of times before and during pastathon that this was really
for us. I mean, last several years, this has been
kind of the kickoff to the holiday season because it
is such a great way to especially when it takes
place on Giving Tuesday, remind everybody that this is a
(01:30):
great way to give back and to start the holiday
season in that sort of giving mood.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I got a last shit for buying that sheep.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I gotta say for buying what the sheep? Why the sheep?
Why about somebody?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
They had a giving machine? And you'll see these around
southern California. It's it's a vending machine, but for charity, Yes,
like a kiosk, And there's different charities that you give to.
And I was at dinner with my with my my
biological half sister, biological mother.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Just say, I know, it's just weird, that's all right.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
When you meet your sister when you're thirty nine years old, when.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Are we going to do that? When are we going
to do that story? When are we going to get
her in? And just we have a lot.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Of questions, know what we could do that?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Because my biological mother is here until January.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I don't think she's not a bit.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I don't think that she would be comfortable with that, yeah,
because it's her life.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Well, like, well it's your life too, it's not.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, but it's I mean the whole story.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
We're talking about charity and giving. She gave you away.
That's right in a way.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, is that charity or you probably wire you have
a pretty good life.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I have a wonderful life anyway, so go back to you.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
But anyway, they were giving me so much shit about
that sheep.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
That's such a weird thing to give.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It started with this is fine, this is a podcast, right,
I can be a reverend totally okay. So it started with, oh,
I saw the video of you buying the sheep on
Gary and Shannon social media. What are you doing buying
a sheep? And I said, it's to feed a family,
And then they started to whole dinner parties are doing
a deep dive on my sheep, and it's apparently a
sheep for the Middle East. So then I got shit
(03:10):
about like giving a sheep to the Middle East, Like,
isn't there an American family.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
That could use a sheep?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I got a little trouble for that, and then the
apparently that it's it's a Mormon organization that does the giving,
the giving vending machines.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Just picture a dinner party. Okay, you're in the wrong
frame of mind. You're in Burbank at eight am on
a weekday. Have the conversation. After a couple pops, you've
seen me buy a sheep out of a vending machine, okay,
and then you find out that the vending machine is
for Mormon people and that my sheep is going to
the Middle East. So then there was this whole conversation
of is it a Mormon sheep and all of that,
(03:46):
and is the sheep really going to Utah? It was
a whole thing about why don't you just give to
the charity you were there for, Shannon, Why are you
buying a sheep for an Afghanistan family? And they and
then they maintained that like the whoever the family was,
it was going to get the sheep, was going to
kill the.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Sheep right away.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
It works, That's what I said, that's how it works.
They go, what the hell do you know? And I say,
and you know. And so it got into this whole
conversation about like who to give to, what kind of charity?
To give to you because this time of year there
are a lot of people who are not the.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Sheep people and not the Mormons.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Come on, but like, there are a lot of bad
actors out there trying to capitalize on the holidays, and
you wanting to do something good to make yourself feel good.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Well, uh, there's a lot of people who'd look at
December as the time to give, not just because the
holidays also happens to be the end of the year
and they want a tax rite off or they want
to you know, hedge their bets against whatever taxation they're
going to get into, so they start writing checks for
these organizations. And the bad players, like you're saying, they
know that they take advantage of that. Hey you know
(04:50):
it's tax deductible. Here's our tax ID number, which is
a made up BS thing that they don't whatever I mean.
So there is that. But this idea of.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
A body no, I'm sorry, I keep saying body, body dysmorphia.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Money.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
We know this is money dysmorphia on tips for doing good.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
You know, it's funny because.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
The idea is that people can feel financially insecure even
when they are stable. You have family, grew up in
the depression, right, Yeah, you can tell when somebody.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Grew up poor.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Absolutely, Even when they make an s ton of money
or they're completely stable or they've been stable for a
number of years, they still save everything.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Well, my parents, I think would be the example. My
grandparents grew up in the Depression, and my mother was
born nineteen forty three, so they're fresh out of the Depression,
but still struggled financially for decades. Grandma and Grandpa did.
And the life that she had growing up was dirt poor.
(05:53):
And I don't mean like she didn't have a lot
of stuff. She didn't have anything right in terms of
like legitgit. They lived off the generosity of sometimes strangers,
many times family members, but they just did not have
anything for a very long time. So Grandma knew that
(06:14):
instilled that in her kids, so that when my parents
grew and got married, et cetera, and started making money.
Mom was a teacher, Dad worked as a chemist for
the Navy. They had perfectly fine middle class incomes. But
we did not live like that. I mean, we had
a house, and we were never want for clothes or
(06:35):
toys or anything like that, but we did never overspent ever,
and they were adamant about saving for retirement. And then
even when they got to retirement age, both my parents
continued to work. I mean, they had retired from what
were their regular careers, but they continued to work and
never spent the money that they saved. I shouldn't say never,
(06:58):
but never spent a lot of the money that they
had saved for retirement because they just wanted to be careful.
They never know what's going to happen, they never know
what's around the corner. And that safety I mean was
instilled in my sisters and I in that we we
all have talked openly about planning for retirement, saving for retirement,
making sure that our kids are taken care of, all
of that. But you can tell that kind of mentality
(07:22):
of there, you're never guaranteed tomorrow, the pension goes away,
the job goes away, whatever. So you can absolutely tell
when people are like that. But they were also some
of the most my parents some of the most generous people.
We found out some of this stuff long after they passed.
The amount of gifts that they would give and the
(07:43):
charitable organizations that they helped support was far beyond what
we knew at the time.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I had few serious conversations with my dad. Most of
it was just a good time. He was just a
very good time.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
We watched games and have fun and like. But there's
one serie he was serious about. Is one thing my
entire life, as far as back as I can remember,
from when I was, you know, six years old, and
he was opening up a savings account for me, it
was about saving money. He's always very serious about it.
I got my first job, I could barely like pay rent,
and he was like, you're saving money. I'm like, what
(08:17):
am I going to save? Shannon always you know, it's
like it was always a thing to save, save, savee
be ready for retirement at twenty one kind of thing,
like just start thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
But then then the then comes the issue of giving
as well. Because you're saving money obviously for yourself. What
do you do when it comes to giving money And
it doesn't even have to be money. I mean, I
think about the generosity of people that I know that
I think are the most generous money that.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I mean, I donate routine.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I'd say several times a year, I'll go out to
Yamava and I'll donate to the Native American people.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
That's an interesting way to put it.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I donate probably a couple hundred dollars every month.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Made it through the table games I do.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I do, But I go with the intent to donate
for entertainment.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
And you get a little bit of entertainment out. It's awful.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Isn't that awful?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
It is awful, Not really one, because it's true.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
It is going to the Native American people.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yes, absolutely, Eventually you're so generous, you're so nice, such
a heart on god.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
No, but you don't have to do like huge quantities
of money and you only think about like your parents
donating to charities and stuff. Like just starting small is
enough to make you feel good and to go a
long way. You know, we talked about the Pasathon. When
it comes to charity, a little does go a long way.
Five dollars, Bruno told us. Five dollars will feed a
family of five for that night.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah, it's only five bucks.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
You think about all the five dollars you throw away
on your coffee desserts that you buy, Like, that's one
day without your you know, frappuccino or what have you
that feeds a family of five.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
That five bucks and it seems cliche to say things
like that, but the more you the more you do it.
You give ten bucks here, twenty bucks there, maybe you
drop one hundred bucks into somebody's bucket that you didn't know,
whatever it was. Then you get to realize, you know what,
I didn't miss that twenty bucks. I didn't miss it,
and it made a difference to whoever it is that
(10:21):
you gave it to.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Not to be cynical and keep bringing this up, but
it does suck that there are charities that are not charities, Yeah,
because once you get burned by one of those, like
once you feel like you were taken advantage of by
a charity, it's really hard to get back into the
spirit of I want to give my money away and
I trust that it's going to good use.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Well, And that's my wife works in the nonprofit world
for a long time and ran into some of that.
I mean, in terms of fundraising, which can be just
a slog. Sometimes there are people out there who have
negative views of charity, especially when it comes to like
an international charity. How do I know that that she
is going to the family that's not going to kill
(11:02):
it right away or whatever?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I mean they can do whatever they want to kill
the sheep, and they want to eat the sheep.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
That's fine, that's why.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
And you're the one that fonded that old operation.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
But is that lamb?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Sure? That's a baby's going to be?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Is it still lamb? If it's a grown sheep?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
It, I'll tell you that is it?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Does it taste better for the baby sheep?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Like feel?
Speaker 3 (11:22):
That's a cow?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I know?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
But right? Mentality interesting?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
So is it like steak versus veal with a baby
sheep and a baby sheep?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Wow, I've never eaten you've never had lamb.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I've had lamb.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Lamb's delicious, but I don't eat it because of the sheep.
I like sheep, especially baby sheep, but I won't eat veal.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I love your delineations, but I sure New York strip.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I'm more of a flaming on because you can get
the you know, the smaller out, you know, six ounce
type of a thing. Because I'm not going to sit
down and eat. You know, John Candy played to meat.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I don't think you've ever eaten that.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
No, I'm a splitter.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I like to split my meat, which is hard because
my my husband doesn't eat meat. So I got to
save my meats for when I go out with strangers,
because I got to split my meat. So like, if
you and I went out to a steakhouse, you'd probably
eat some of my meat for me.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Probably not no, no, not a big sharer.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
But if you saw half of my fleet mignon on,
the will you take it home? Take it home?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Okay you can't reheat that.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Well you could, but you're not supposed to supposed to
eat it the way it's served. Yeah, I agree, but
just sometimes it's too much meat.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I'll chop it up and give it to the dog.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Or you're going to give your dog flat mignon.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
What are you gonna do? You're gonna send it back
to the kitchen. Oh, thanks, I'm done.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Somebody else at the table will eat the meat.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I'll take the meat, He'll take the meat.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Yeah, somebody always takes the meat.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Elmer's of course invited. Come on, Darry, sorry, just because
we don't have the black elf.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
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Speaker 3 (13:20):
What is the other topic?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I don't know, but we'll find out next week, won't we.
You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show, you
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
This hang on it is hey, Welcome once again to
our Gary and Shannon Show Weekend Fixed.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Matt, what is this viagra story you threw in here? Jesus,
Mary and Joseph. I just wanted to do things I
don't want to talk about it work viagra for women,
good Lord, but for men, well that's old hat, right, yes,
that's old hand.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Oh it's back.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Is this the beginning of the end.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
It's the beginning of the end. All of it's coming
on that age, falling fall apart.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
We just a couple of weeks ago got through Pastathon
and thanks to the generosity of all the KFI listeners
and all the corporate partners, et cetera, raised about one
point three billion dollars for did I say billion? One
point three million dollars for Katerina's Club of course, Chef
Bruno's charity. And we've talked about it before. The ninety
(01:08):
two or ninety four thousand pounds of pasta and sauce
this year just ridiculous. And you pointed out a couple
of times before and during pastathon that this was really
for us. I mean, last several years, this has been
kind of the kickoff to the holiday season because it
is such a great way to especially when it takes
place on Giving Tuesday, remind everybody that this is a
(01:30):
great way to give back and to start the holiday
season in that sort of giving mood.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I got a last shit for buying that sheep.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I gotta say for buying what the sheep? Why the sheep?
Why about somebody?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
They had a giving machine? And you'll see these around
southern California. It's it's a vending machine, but for charity, Yes,
like a kiosk, And there's different charities that you give to.
And I was at dinner with my with my my
biological half sister, biological mother.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Just say, I know, it's just weird, that's all right.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
When you meet your sister when you're thirty nine years old, when.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Are we going to do that? When are we going
to do that story? When are we going to get
her in? And just we have a lot.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Of questions, know what we could do that?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Because my biological mother is here until January.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I don't think she's not a bit.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I don't think that she would be comfortable with that, yeah,
because it's her life.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Well, like, well it's your life too, it's not.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, but it's I mean the whole story.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
We're talking about charity and giving. She gave you away.
That's right in a way.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, is that charity or you probably wire you have
a pretty good life.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I have a wonderful life anyway, so go back to you.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
But anyway, they were giving me so much shit about
that sheep.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
That's such a weird thing to give.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It started with this is fine, this is a podcast, right,
I can be a reverend totally okay. So it started with, oh,
I saw the video of you buying the sheep on
Gary and Shannon social media. What are you doing buying
a sheep? And I said, it's to feed a family,
And then they started to whole dinner parties are doing
a deep dive on my sheep, and it's apparently a
sheep for the Middle East. So then I got shit
(03:10):
about like giving a sheep to the Middle East, Like,
isn't there an American family.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
That could use a sheep?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I got a little trouble for that, and then the
apparently that it's it's a Mormon organization that does the giving,
the giving vending machines.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Just picture a dinner party. Okay, you're in the wrong
frame of mind. You're in Burbank at eight am on
a weekday. Have the conversation. After a couple pops, you've
seen me buy a sheep out of a vending machine, okay,
and then you find out that the vending machine is
for Mormon people and that my sheep is going to
the Middle East. So then there was this whole conversation
of is it a Mormon sheep and all of that,
(03:46):
and is the sheep really going to Utah? It was
a whole thing about why don't you just give to
the charity you were there for, Shannon, Why are you
buying a sheep for an Afghanistan family? And they and
then they maintained that like the whoever the family was,
it was going to get the sheep, was going to
kill the.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Sheep right away.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
It works, That's what I said, that's how it works.
They go, what the hell do you know? And I say,
and you know. And so it got into this whole
conversation about like who to give to, what kind of charity?
To give to you because this time of year there
are a lot of people who are not the.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Sheep people and not the Mormons.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Come on, but like, there are a lot of bad
actors out there trying to capitalize on the holidays, and
you wanting to do something good to make yourself feel good.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Well, uh, there's a lot of people who'd look at
December as the time to give, not just because the
holidays also happens to be the end of the year
and they want a tax rite off or they want
to you know, hedge their bets against whatever taxation they're
going to get into, so they start writing checks for
these organizations. And the bad players, like you're saying, they
know that they take advantage of that. Hey you know
(04:50):
it's tax deductible. Here's our tax ID number, which is
a made up BS thing that they don't whatever I mean.
So there is that. But this idea of.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
A body no, I'm sorry, I keep saying body, body dysmorphia.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Money.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
We know this is money dysmorphia on tips for doing good.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
You know, it's funny because.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
The idea is that people can feel financially insecure even
when they are stable. You have family, grew up in
the depression, right, Yeah, you can tell when somebody.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Grew up poor.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Absolutely, Even when they make an s ton of money
or they're completely stable or they've been stable for a
number of years, they still save everything.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Well, my parents, I think would be the example. My
grandparents grew up in the Depression, and my mother was
born nineteen forty three, so they're fresh out of the Depression,
but still struggled financially for decades. Grandma and Grandpa did.
And the life that she had growing up was dirt poor.
(05:53):
And I don't mean like she didn't have a lot
of stuff. She didn't have anything right in terms of
like legitgit. They lived off the generosity of sometimes strangers,
many times family members, but they just did not have
anything for a very long time. So Grandma knew that
(06:14):
instilled that in her kids, so that when my parents
grew and got married, et cetera, and started making money.
Mom was a teacher, Dad worked as a chemist for
the Navy. They had perfectly fine middle class incomes. But
we did not live like that. I mean, we had
a house, and we were never want for clothes or
(06:35):
toys or anything like that, but we did never overspent ever,
and they were adamant about saving for retirement. And then
even when they got to retirement age, both my parents
continued to work. I mean, they had retired from what
were their regular careers, but they continued to work and
never spent the money that they saved. I shouldn't say never,
(06:58):
but never spent a lot of the money that they
had saved for retirement because they just wanted to be careful.
They never know what's going to happen, they never know
what's around the corner. And that safety I mean was
instilled in my sisters and I in that we we
all have talked openly about planning for retirement, saving for retirement,
making sure that our kids are taken care of, all
of that. But you can tell that kind of mentality
(07:22):
of there, you're never guaranteed tomorrow, the pension goes away,
the job goes away, whatever. So you can absolutely tell
when people are like that. But they were also some
of the most my parents some of the most generous people.
We found out some of this stuff long after they passed.
The amount of gifts that they would give and the
(07:43):
charitable organizations that they helped support was far beyond what
we knew at the time.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I had few serious conversations with my dad. Most of
it was just a good time. He was just a
very good time.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
We watched games and have fun and like. But there's
one serie he was serious about. Is one thing my
entire life, as far as back as I can remember,
from when I was, you know, six years old, and
he was opening up a savings account for me, it
was about saving money. He's always very serious about it.
I got my first job, I could barely like pay rent,
and he was like, you're saving money. I'm like, what
(08:17):
am I going to save? Shannon always you know, it's
like it was always a thing to save, save, savee
be ready for retirement at twenty one kind of thing,
like just start thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
But then then the then comes the issue of giving
as well. Because you're saving money obviously for yourself. What
do you do when it comes to giving money And
it doesn't even have to be money. I mean, I
think about the generosity of people that I know that
I think are the most generous money that.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I mean, I donate routine.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I'd say several times a year, I'll go out to
Yamava and I'll donate to the Native American people.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
That's an interesting way to put it.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I donate probably a couple hundred dollars every month.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Made it through the table games I do.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I do, But I go with the intent to donate
for entertainment.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
And you get a little bit of entertainment out. It's awful.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Isn't that awful?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
It is awful, Not really one, because it's true.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
It is going to the Native American people.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yes, absolutely, Eventually you're so generous, you're so nice, such
a heart on god.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
No, but you don't have to do like huge quantities
of money and you only think about like your parents
donating to charities and stuff. Like just starting small is
enough to make you feel good and to go a
long way. You know, we talked about the Pasathon. When
it comes to charity, a little does go a long way.
Five dollars, Bruno told us. Five dollars will feed a
family of five for that night.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah, it's only five bucks.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
You think about all the five dollars you throw away
on your coffee desserts that you buy, Like, that's one
day without your you know, frappuccino or what have you
that feeds a family of five.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
That five bucks and it seems cliche to say things
like that, but the more you the more you do it.
You give ten bucks here, twenty bucks there, maybe you
drop one hundred bucks into somebody's bucket that you didn't know,
whatever it was. Then you get to realize, you know what,
I didn't miss that twenty bucks. I didn't miss it,
and it made a difference to whoever it is that
(10:21):
you gave it to.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Not to be cynical and keep bringing this up, but
it does suck that there are charities that are not charities, Yeah,
because once you get burned by one of those, like
once you feel like you were taken advantage of by
a charity, it's really hard to get back into the
spirit of I want to give my money away and
I trust that it's going to good use.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Well, And that's my wife works in the nonprofit world
for a long time and ran into some of that.
I mean, in terms of fundraising, which can be just
a slog. Sometimes there are people out there who have
negative views of charity, especially when it comes to like
an international charity. How do I know that that she
is going to the family that's not going to kill
(11:02):
it right away or whatever?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I mean they can do whatever they want to kill
the sheep, and they want to eat the sheep.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
That's fine, that's why.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
And you're the one that fonded that old operation.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
But is that lamb?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Sure? That's a baby's going to be?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Is it still lamb? If it's a grown sheep?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
It, I'll tell you that is it?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Does it taste better for the baby sheep?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Like feel?
Speaker 3 (11:22):
That's a cow?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I know?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
But right? Mentality interesting?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
So is it like steak versus veal with a baby
sheep and a baby sheep?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Wow, I've never eaten you've never had lamb.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I've had lamb.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Lamb's delicious, but I don't eat it because of the sheep.
I like sheep, especially baby sheep, but I won't eat veal.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I love your delineations, but I sure New York strip.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I'm more of a flaming on because you can get
the you know, the smaller out, you know, six ounce
type of a thing. Because I'm not going to sit
down and eat. You know, John Candy played to meat.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I don't think you've ever eaten that.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
No, I'm a splitter.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I like to split my meat, which is hard because
my my husband doesn't eat meat. So I got to
save my meats for when I go out with strangers,
because I got to split my meat. So like, if
you and I went out to a steakhouse, you'd probably
eat some of my meat for me.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Probably not no, no, not a big sharer.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
But if you saw half of my fleet mignon on,
the will you take it home? Take it home?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Okay you can't reheat that.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Well you could, but you're not supposed to supposed to
eat it the way it's served. Yeah, I agree, but
just sometimes it's too much meat.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I'll chop it up and give it to the dog.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Or you're going to give your dog flat mignon.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
What are you gonna do? You're gonna send it back
to the kitchen. Oh, thanks, I'm done.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Somebody else at the table will eat the meat.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I'll take the meat, He'll take the meat.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Yeah, somebody always takes the meat.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Elmer's of course invited. Come on, Darry, sorry, just because
we don't have the black elf.
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Speaker 3 (13:20):
What is the other topic?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I don't know, but we'll find out next week, won't we.
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