December 29, 2025 • 38 mins
In this episode of Gary and Shannon, Gary and Shannon discuss the challenges of the new year, including setting intentions and navigating the complexities of modern life. They dive into the world of steakhouses, where rising costs and profit margins are causing restaurants to get creative with their menus. The conversation also touches on the importance of accountability in politics, with a focus on the US-China tensions and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Additionally, they discuss the impact of affordability on everyday life, including the rising cost of groceries and the struggles of small businesses.
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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on the iHeartRadio app. All Human, All Humans sounds creepy.
Guaranteed human, guaranteed human, all human, but also guaranteed humans.
Like the company slogan though, right, that's the iHeartRadio thing.
I feel like ours should be something a little bit different, something.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Slightly human now almost certainly human.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Now, or just how about this human also weird. We'll
workshop it, We'll get somebody into Did you hear.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
About going into the new year with an intention?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
This is something that I've been exposed to at yoga class, oh,
where they say set an intention for your practice in
the beginning. Could be strength, would be clarity, could be
you know, intention words and kind of lock it in,
lock it in, you know, lock it in right here? Okay,
(01:10):
And there is an intention word generator that's making the
rounds today.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Wait a minute that you don't know what your intention
word is, and it's coming up with one for you.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I mean, you could come up with your own intention.
But if you need help with it. You can use
the intention word generator. Okay, do you think that we
should have a word for the show, like a shared
intention for the show. Sure, you're just saying that you
don't need.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
To appease me. I don't care.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Sometimes I'm afraid to say no. Why I don't know
how you're going to react. Oh stop it. Oh now
you're just being silly. Oh no, I'm not just being silly.
Don't get fresh with me. But anyway, we'll get into it.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I want to know what your intentional word would be
for you.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I'll have to think about it.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
We were talking earlier about driving manual transmission, the old stick.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Oh yeah, good morning.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
So I drive stick shift for my work vehicles because
I'm a contractor and it's better. Anyways. It's all fun
and games until you get stuck on a hill, whether
a red light or a stop sign, and then you
have to try to move forward to without fun moving
backward and hitting the car behind me. If you're stuck
in stop and go traffic, that's not fun either, because
it's clutch gas gear, clutch gas gear break, clutch gas gear,
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clutch gas gear break.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, it keeps it keeps you busy atomatic. You know
what you're not doing. You're not checking your phone.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
That's the magic.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Go to San Francisco and learn to drive stick. How
about them apples.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Both of my kids, their high school was at the
top of a hill, and as they drove to school
there were at least two stop lights before they got there.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
And that's a.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Part of the fun. Is that cost benefit analysis.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Of the cost benefit.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Of the levers there, You know, give a little gas release,
a little clutch, so it's a balancing act to life's ill.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
And you're but that you also make a great point.
You can't look at your phone if you're driving a
stick now.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
And you know what, I quit smoking driving stick the
final time when it actually took the quitting smoking because
I had something to do in the car, and smoking
in the car was like is easy a fish to water?
A fish to water? But you got to drive stick.
You got to figure out what you're doing. You're busy
the whole time.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
It's time for swamp water bump politician, which means I'm
the strong one and a liar. And when I'm not
kissing babies, I'm stealing the lollipops.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
We got the real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
So what I'm not going anywhere so that you drain
the swat.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
What has been.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
You know, Americans have always been going president, but they're
not stupid.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
A political plunder is when a politician actually tells the
truth that people.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Voted for you were not swamp watching.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well, uh, things are going on around China.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
China has surrounded Taiwan with warships and fire jets, largest military.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Drills on record.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
As you can imagine, this follows that record US arms
sail to Taipei. The drills even have a title, Justice
Mission twenty twenty five Coordinated deployments of ground forces, naval vessels,
fighter jets, drones, all terror artillery across seven maritime zones
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encircling Taiwan.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Nothing to see here. I'm sure that's fine.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
These live fire exercises are scheduled to continue through tomorrow.
China is designating large danger zones, firing closer to Taiwan
than any previous round of drills. They say that this
is a response to separatism for an involvement, it is
(04:59):
a stir and warning against Taiwan independence, separatist forces and
external interference forces, and a legitimate and necessary action to
safeguard China's sovereignty and national unity. Unity. That's from the
senior colonel there, Senior Colonel Sheil.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Is there concern I don't quite understand that statement. Is
there concern that Taiwan is somehow going to take over China,
is going to declare its independence and then all of
a sudden declared war on China.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Two weeks ago we approved the US approved an eleven
point one billion dollar weapons package for Taiwan, largest sale ever.
Beijing hated this, says that at the time, and this
is coming to fruition, is turning Taiwan into a powder keg.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Japan's pretty close to that too, and they're going to
have to deal. They would have to mount some sort
of military response probably as well. Yeah, nothing to see here.
Speaking of active wars, President Trump hosted President Zelenski of
Ukraine yesterday at mar A Lago to talk about the
twenty point piece plan, and according to President Trump, they
(06:08):
have they're about ninety percent there was the number he used.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
We have made a lot of progress on ending that war,
which is really the certainly the most deadly war since
World War Two, probably the biggest war since World War Two.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
Our teams will continue working on all aspects. We also
had a joint productive call with European leaders, like President
Trump said already and a lot of leaders, including NATO,
endy you, and we agreed that our teams will meet
in upcoming weeks.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
President Zelenski left and Benjamin Nettan Yahho is at mar
A Lago today. He is sitting down for lunch with
the President right now. This morning when the two leaders
were answering questions, President Trump said he spoke with Vladimir
Putin today after the meeting with Zelensky and said, we
had a very good talk. It was very productive talk
(06:59):
with a few very thorny issues, he says, as you
can imagine. Also kind of underreported over the weekend was
the fact that President Trump says that the United States
has hit a facility in South America, a land facility.
(07:19):
He said it was a He called into John kassa
medi how do you say cats some matides during a
program on a radio station in New York, and was
talking about strikes on drug carrying boats in the Caribbean,
which have killed more than one hundred people as of
right now, and Trump said, I don't know if you
saw or read this, but we got them.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
They having a big plan, a big facility where they
send the where the ships come from.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Two nights ago we knocked that out.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
So we had very hard no other comments on that,
no other description of that.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Did we actually strike something on land?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
And if so, are we getting into a war without
a congressional declaration of war. It's the surprised that that
did not get as much play over the weekend as
I saw this morning.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Politico did a deep dive on twenty twenty eight. The
twenty twenty eight race has begun. Here's who's winning. We
should do an explainer of that tomorrow, or we could
wait till next week.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
There was also an opinion piece about why Gavin Newsom
would absolutely clean up in a head to head matchup
with JD.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Vance.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I'd love to hear that scenario. Is it because New
England doesn't have a pass rush?
Speaker 4 (08:36):
There's something like that. And Drake May's nickname is Drake May.
Come on, you, Gott, How cool is it when your
nickname is is your name?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah, he's like the Drake May of Drake.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
It's so good, so good.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Is that a candle, No, it's a soup.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I was on my way to the microwave and I
forgot that our breaks are a minute and thirty seconds, so.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I came right back.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
The Chinese military, like we've said, it is dispatched air,
navy and missile units around. It's live fire drills. The
island of Taiwan is currently surrounded. Nothing to see here.
A powerful winter storm is moving northeast. It's bringing snow
and ice and rain and strong winds. National Weather Service
says there will be blizzard conditions in many parts of
the Upper Midwest and Northeast in the next couple of days.
(09:31):
That could prompt some travel issues. But we should see
temperatures and places in the south, Atlanta, Dallas set to
drop significantly by Tuesday. My daughter's here for Christmas. But
it was eighty four degrees in Waco, not wild.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, well you were saying earlier, sixty degrees in Denver
this weekend.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Odd.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
We do have a couple of local stories we want
to bring to you, or we shall say Michael Monks
from KFI News will bring to you coming up after
Deborah's news at the bottom of the hour, there will
be charges filed in the case of the teenage tennis
star that was killed in a drunken hit and run.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Earlier this year in Manhattan Beach.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Also, Michael has some news on rent stabilization that is
going on in the city of.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
La You may have noticed. We talked about this with
my in laws when they were around. They live up
in Oregon, and we're just asking the question of you know,
have you noticed that restaurant prices have gone up? You know,
this is the discussion. The key, one of the keywords
for this year has got to be affordability. I haven't
seen the list yet, but I'm sure that that's one
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of those that's going to make a list. And affordability
is an issue that you notice whenever you go to
this grocery store, whenever you go to a restaurant, whatever
you buy seems to cost more than it did. Whether
you perceive it that way or someone's telling you it
is that it's an issue. Now, there was an article
in the Wall Street Journal about how steakhouses restaurants in general,
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but steakhouses specifically are having a hard time making a profit,
and they broke down a restaurant in Chicago steak dominates
the menu sixteen ounce prime New York strip, something they
call a Missus O'Leary.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Get it, that's funny.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
An eight ounce fil a served with a glass or
a red wine glaze, fresh shallots, et cetera. Dinner of
for four can easily reach that five hundred dollars mark,
But after accounting for the costs to the restaurant from
the meat itself to the rent, profits from the meal
would be about twenty five bucks. Wow, because you're going
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to spend one hundred and ninety dollars on the food
and alcohol just the ingredients going into the meal, one
hundred and seventy five for labor, one hundred and ten
on rent, insurance, other fixed costs overhead, and then the
restaurant basically turns about a twenty five dollars profit.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I love a good piece of meat when it's well,
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I book The Best Tease Some Meat in Dallas, Oh.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Wholesale costs for beef destined for steak fil ats have
ballooned about sixty seven percent since since COVID and that
steaks costs are up about forty percent this year alone
for that restaurant itself. That's a significant jump in just
the last couple of a couple of months. There's another one, Gibson's.
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Gibson's Restaurant Group has been buying steaks for about four decades,
but this year they've had to scramble. The tariffs this
year on imports lifted prices that were paid for the
grass fed beef from Australia and the Japanese Kobe steaks.
The bulk of Gibson's restaurant steaks come from producers there
(12:47):
in the Midwest, but that hasn't brought any Yes, they
do buy domestically and they buy I guess you could
argue locally because it's in the Midwest, but the supply
of beef everywhere is tight.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Demand is red hot.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Did you get any meat for a Christmas?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
I didn't get any meat, but I did go to
a steakhouse for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Eve. Oh that's nice, Eve. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Yeah, we took the family to a nice that's wonderful,
old timey steakhouse that's very cool. And they have those
baked potatoes that are as large as your thighs. Oh yeah,
twice baked, so they bake them in the morning.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
They scoop mouth. They've put all the fixens.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
And see now I want to go to north Woods
where they have baked potato this big. I mean it
was Forehead, it was called Backwoods. Yeah, Northwoods. They do
a nice salad. That's not a salad there. And the
garlic cheese bread.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Oh, that's a stop it. Punch people.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Stop punch people to get the garlic cheese.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I may be off cookies in the new year, but
I'm not going to be off garlic cheese bread.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Gibson's restaurants from my cold dead hands, they pay. They
pay about twenty five bucks for a thirteen ounce New
York's thirteen ounce New York strip they pay. That's the
restaurant's cost, twenty five bucks for a thirteen ounce New York.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
When you finish that, you can finish that right, thirteen ounces?
Yeah yeah, I couldn't finish that.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Charges customers about seventy bucks for it.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Now, a few years ago, pre COVID that same steak
would be under twenty bucks for them, and they would,
but they said that they would need to charge eighty
nine dollars for it today to try to keep the
pre pandemic profit margin that they were making. They that
they have been stuck so hard their costs, their food
(14:29):
costs have gone up, and they're trying not to stick
it to the consumer so that people keep coming back.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
That's the thing.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
You balance out the high stock, high cost steaks with
other lower cost items. And you may notice that in
the side dishes, those baked potatoes that are as big as
your thigh. They're expensive. I mean, that's why you don't
see them at Vaughan's and Ralphs. You go and you
buy your baked potatoes. They're you know, normal.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Potato sash, but they're not that big.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
They're not that big. Those were the ones of the restaurants.
They pay a premium to get them as large as
they do.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
What are they putting those potatoes and make them so big? Steroids?
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Water water with steroids. But they said now that they
can if they're selling steaks. Generally steakhouses will sell about
a hundred bucks. You can get it, you know, depending
on what kind, what cut, how big. A hundred bucks
is probably a higher end, but it's a good steak.
They're paying probably fifty or fifty five bucks for that
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cut of meat, and they've got to turn it around
and somehow make a profit on it. And that's why
it's up to one hundred bucks now.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
The sauces too, and the sauces all with the sauces.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Just you know what, throw a blue cheese crust online
and let it cook. Oh stop. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
My dad would put ketchup on any cut of beef,
anything from hamburger to lip.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
My god would every every piece of meat he ate,
whether it be poor steak, lamb, whatever it was. He
would have like a coffee cup and he would put
this is going to gross everybody out, and it should.
He would put a one sauce he put Worcester sauce
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together and about three tablespoons of butter and heat it
up and mix it around. And he would pour that
over every every meal, every dinner, every piece of meat.
He always had meat, he would put that concoction over it.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I don't think that sounds awful.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
No, but it's pretty decadent. It is this much butter. Well,
butter ain't going to kill you.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Eh, Well, it didn't kill him.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
I worried about the butter.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
But I still have some of my meat left over
from Christmas dinner.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
That sounds good. Did you bring any of that in?
Speaker 7 (16:56):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I need to is that.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Meat right now?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I know you would. That's why I didn't bring it in. Wow,
I gotta save it. I got to eat it, all right? Good? Okay,
it was too good.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Intention words? What is your intention word going into the
new year. We have to have it figured out before Thursday.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Michael Monks is going to come in and do some
hard news, but I want you to have an intention
word ready to go for the twelve o'clock hour.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Okay, Well, it gives me more time.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
You can use the intention word finder.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Do you generated?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah? Do you want that?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I don't know yet.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I want to see if I can come up with
something myself before okay, before I turn myself over to
the computers.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I like that idea.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
All right.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from kf
I am six forty.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Warning guys in the early Happy New Year. Hey, the
music today is really good.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
I'm assuming that Elmer's off, not that he doesn't play
good music, but this variety's a lot better than it
has been for quite some time.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Wow, good job Oliver, Oliver crushing it on the ones
in the to or you could call him.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Boone if you want, or Ollie.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
We did a whole thing earlier about names, because whenever
I say Oliver, I feel like I said, I have
to say Oliver, and which is stupid.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I know it's stupid. I don't have to. It's stupid
that I do that.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
So Boon though, Boone just makes me think of, you know, Disney,
for Disney football movies. Oliver.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Which part of Canada? Are you from? Buckinghamshire? Okay?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Oh, Buckingham Sure, it's right.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Nice to Una.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Yeah it's east. What what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I just wanted to see she's.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
I'm curious looking up buckingham Sure right now? Which part
of Canada.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Is it in?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
No, it's not from Canada.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I'm British.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
What F?
Speaker 5 (18:43):
No F?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I said?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
What is no F? Whoa?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Buckingham Sure? Sure? Sure? Sure beautiful.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I'm from a small town called Marler.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
How do I spell it?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
M A R l o W. The coolest thing about
is Mary Shelley lived like WHOA signed Mary Shelley?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Yeah, Mary Shelley, don't know. Maybe she was a football
this don't embarrass me, not in front of a bucking Sherman,
Buckingham shure Man West West.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Michael Monks has joined us.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Sorry Michael?
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Which part of.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Canada you from? I am not from Canada. I grew
up in Downton, Dalton Abbey.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Stop it downstairs, clearly downstairs staff.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Absolutely, and I'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Oliver is the technical director when I do my weekly
show on Saturday nights, always has good music ready to go.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Did you know that the marlow Rowing Club is one
of Britain's premiere rowing clubs? I that, Yeah, a lot
of Olympic oarsmen, including Sir Steve Redgrave.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Wait Redgrave? Was Marlowe at the restaurant? Noah?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
What did he eat?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I think steak? Yeah, okay, medium.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Rare, medium rare. That a temper, Sure, that's a good one.
What about cricket? There's two cricket clubs there?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Are you going to do it?
Speaker 7 (20:03):
No?
Speaker 3 (20:03):
I did? I hate cricket? Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
You hate it?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
My dad always told me it's the one sport that
you can bring in newspaper to Wow. Not necessarily true.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
It's funny that you said that, because I was about
to say, what does your dad think? Of cricket, because
it's always you know, sports and how we like them
always comes from Dad likes it. Okay, it brings bring
does he bring the bucks free press?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Oh wow, you're really doing a deep dive.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
You're damn right, I am.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Hey, Wikipedia is a rich and Michael wants to kill
me gs Oh.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
No, No, I I love.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Ever since I got into Doubt Nappy, I've been obsessed
with all these little various sures and whatever that exists.
So I know where all of the country houses are,
the manners, and I got to get over there.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
I gotta take some tours.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Oh I love that, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
I mean, I think it's ridiculous that those systems still exists.
I don't want to get started on like why there
are still royals and earls and Marcuses and all those kings. No,
I think it's a little dated. I think it's romantic.
You know, it's cool, but I don't think they need
to still be there. Like there's still country houses passed
down to the first male born to Earl what's his
f you know, And that's kind of weird to me.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
That's why we're fascinating. It sells a lot of American magazines,
the British state.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
It does.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
I'm finally finishing ken Burns's American Revolution documentary one.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Ken Burns documentary on Vietnam one too.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Yeah, I gotta see that one.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
But all I was saying is it just reiterates why
I think we really needed to break it off with
England when we did.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I think we made the right call.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
But you still love all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Yeah, Again, the romance of it is very interesting, but
the system itself under it, it would be unless I
lived above it, right, like if I were earl Earl
of Monks, if.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
You are one of the earl of F's or whatever,
the cottage, yeah, or you just.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Get to live in this massive house and like there's
just money that exists for you.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Do we have that system here in America?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
We do, and it would require some tax reform, but
it works for people.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
We do have a very.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Serious situation at hand that we should probably just get
to because we are coming up on the one year
anniversary of the Palisades and eaten fires, and in addition
to the tragedy itself in the Palisades, in this case
in particular of families that lost everything lost their beautiful
homes there in one of our most famous neighborhoods. One
(22:25):
family in particular has suffered an even greater tragedy. So first,
the Levee family is one of the many that lost
their home in Pacific Palisades in the week of January seventh.
They relocate to Manhattan Beach and they have this son,
eighteen year old bron Levy, tennis star in high school
loyal to high School, is set to graduate and go
(22:45):
off to the University of Virginia just weeks away from that.
Back in May, he was run over and killed, and
prosecutors say that the person behind the wheel of the
car that struck him as Jenia rashaw Belt, who was
allegedly driving drunk despite the fact that her license was
suspended for being arrested previously for drunk driving, and today
the La County DA's office formally announced the charges against her,
(23:09):
which do in fact include murder.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yes they do, because I believe it.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Well, I can't get down to the year, but at
some point in the last twenty years in California, once
you commit a drunk driving offense, you have to sign
a legal document that says if I drive drunk, I
know I can kill somebody and be charged with murder,
so that when it happens again, if it happens again,
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you will be charged with murder. You knew you had
the intent, you had all the things that get that
jury to a murder conviction in the courtroom because you
signed that piece of paper.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
And she's thirty three years old, so she's young too,
and are all right, but old enough to know better
than to do this again again. These are allegations, but
this is a very serious allegation. Could face life in prison,
yeah for this. And what we heard today was this
is someone who never should have been behind the wheel
in the first place. But it really it just moves
you to listen to this family talk when you know
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this is a family that lost their home and just
months later lose their son. Jennifer Levy, Braun Levy's mom,
was at this news conference with the DA today and
you could certainly feel the sadness that this family still carries.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
The pain we feel is indescribable. Our family has been shattered,
ripped apart, and left to pick up the pieces and
keep on living without Braun, who we all loved with
every cell in our body. We are no longer the
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people we once were. We are profoundly changed by the
depth of our grief. California's current DUI laws are broken
and weak and fail to protect families like ours, and
it's devastating. There have been previous bills and laws, but
they have been gutted and amended, and it's inexcusable. I
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will not stand for that status quo. We can stop
these tragedies. We have the solutions. My plea is to
Governor Gavin Newsom and California lawmakers. This is not a
political issue. This is a human issue. And I guarantee
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if any of you had to identify the body of
your child or loved one in the manner that my
husband and I did a few months ago, you would
not be silent. The feeling, the sight, the smell of
identifying our son's body will never leave my mind, body,
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or soul. So I will not be silent.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
That's just hard to imagine. You know, we're in the
news business.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
We have to relay information all time time about a
pedestrian hit and killed or drunk driving crash that resulted
in a fatality. But often those stories just go out
into the atmosphere and disappear, and we don't take the
time to consider the humanity involved, to consider that there
are family members that didn't have to go down and
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look at the aftermath of that, the person that they
knew and loved and cared for lying there on that
table in that condition.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
What does she want to do well?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
She and a state lawmaker were present at this press
conference today. A city council woman Tracy Park was there,
and of course La County DA Nathan Hoffman was there.
They want stricter gun laws, gun laws, excuse me, they
want stricter drunk driving related laws.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Did they get specifically what would be they did?
Speaker 4 (26:47):
There? Apparently are already laws on the table that was
suggested today are not enforced enough, which might include those
ignition breathalyzer things that are related to see more of that.
And the state representative of the state senator who was there,
Bob Archiletta, he is going to be proposing some various
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pieces of legislation that he I guess we'll learn more
about as it gets away.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Is the current law with those ignition things? Is it
more than one dui and you have to get it
and they probably want your first DUI.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
You have to have the ignition thing.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
And the judges have that information. And I think what
we heard from La County JA Nathan Hodgman was that
the judges aren't necessarily using their discretion to enforce that
enough that he'd like to see.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Them do so.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Interesting, I noticed there have been a couple of articles
in the last I want to say, three or four
days regarding technology that would exist in a car period
without previous DUI, but just built into the car itself
that would prevent you from starting at the event that
you were over the limit for whatever.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
I don't know how they do it.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
I don't know if it's a breathalyzer thing that they have,
but it's a privacy issue and that's why no one's
going to be putting it in the car, although it
could potentially save lives. So all right, when we come
back a little bit more about rent stabilization, this is
probably some of the fluffiest bs moose I've heard in
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a long time.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Why did you have to bring a moose into it?
Speaker 3 (28:15):
No different kind of moose, like the fluffy food moose?
Speaker 2 (28:19):
What is that? What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Like the jello kind of related.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Not the moose with the antler.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Chocolate moose like chocolate, A moose with a U. When
you say moose, I think of an animal, right right.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
And let me tell you to eat the moose and
then hopefully you don't think of the animal.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
No, I do not. I would never eat a moose.
I love moose.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
You didn't play the Organ trail.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
I did play the Oregon Trail. That's different THO, No,
it wasn't. Buffalo Oxen Gary Shadow will continue nineteen eighty four.
Do you know that Ricky Gervais has a place in
your hometown?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Oliver?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Oh, yeah, I've seen him?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Oh you have?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Is he funny in real life? In the wild he
wants to avoid old people at all. Most interesting I
can see. I see that.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
That is that why you constantly tail him.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
It's weird, Oliver, talk about my personal life.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I mean, I can't believe I'm this old and still
had those questions like so thank you.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
You know you were watching he did rivalry show about
two male hockey players who engage in a clandestine relationship,
and you had questions about some of the physical techniques.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
I did, I did, and.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
I got answers, and I appreciate that. I appreciate the education.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Well, have to put that on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Now we all know. No, I don't think so, but
now we all know more about Buckingham. Sure, and he
did Rivalry.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Separately and similarly. Hmm right.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Right, interesting.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Sorry, women are going crazy for this show, Gary, I mean,
this is what's happening.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
The things that you feel when you watch, like a romance,
a classic male female romance.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Like I Want to Go to Sleep, you feel.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
If you're into it, you feel all those things watching
Heated Rivalry, and it was surprising to me.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
I still have to get caught up on I've only
seen a few episodes, but I think it's really cool
that it is dominating the cultural conversation as far as
it's really outpacing even Stranger Things final season in terms
of cultural discourse and the NHL thing. It has a
little gay thing going on, it's less interesting it does
because it's it's common. It's a coming out story. We've
seen those. You've not seen this type of mainstream portrayal
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of this type, this level of let's call it intimacy.
It's typically not a mainstream show targeting a broad audience
where you see two guys in the positions, the physical positions.
You see these two guys. It's being sold. It's not
being sold as the big gay thing. Well it's Broke
(31:15):
Back Mountain one women. No, it's different. It's different. I
think Broke Back Mountain, uh was for gays and allies.
Really like you had to be comfortable at that time.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
This is straight. Guys are talking about this show very positively.
Women love.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
The NHL has embraced this story. Women are going to games,
hockey games. They're calling it the boy aquarium. Have you
heard this term?
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Well, because I I think a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
They want the players to kiss. They're completely confused about
what I am.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
I know, what are we doing?
Speaker 7 (31:48):
Well?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I I think that the athletes aren't sexualized for a
big portion of the and.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
For me, it's never been hockey players. Never hockey players.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
You know, like football players, basketball players, of course, but hockey.
When you think of a hockey player, you might think
of missing teeth. You know, they're like violent face, you know,
but they take their clothes up. Well, yeah, they're athletes too. Absolutely,
they're also athletes. And now they are being romanticized in
a way they never have been before, maybe for all
the wrong reasons, because these women do want these.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Players to kiss, and in that vein hockey players wear
really big paths you can't see. You cannot see their
bodies at all. They just like beasts out there. So
to see them in their natural state in this show
is like, oh, okay, well of course, I mean.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
It's a cardio game.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
It's a physical cardio mess of games.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Brought two things This show, Heated Rivals brought two things
into the broader public discourse. One, it is same sex,
male to male sexual relations and hockey, and.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
It's what it means for the sport, what it means
personally for guys who feel like they can't be themselves,
and what happens when they are able, and what it
means for everybody around them, and elevating the conversation.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
I mean, it really tackles all those If.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
You were the sideline reporter for the Kings instead of
the charges, do you think you would have a hard
time doing that job right now with what you now know?
Speaker 2 (33:15):
No, No, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
I don't see one hockey player who's gay, and think
everybody that plays hockey is gay?
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Okay, okay, come on lots, very briefly on.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Are there sideline reporters for a hockey?
Speaker 4 (33:33):
I'm sure there are the lord cider they call it rinkside,
and the boy aquarium.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Behind the bench. Behind the bench that's usually a reference
to the coach.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
I mean a lot of things.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
We've talked about rent control together before. I've covered it
because the city Council has made it stricter, and so
there are hundreds of thousands of rent stabilized or of
rent stabilized units in the city of Los Angeles, and
now people who own those properties can only raise the
rent in them between one and four percent based on
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the rate of inflation. Landlords developers very very upset about this,
especially in a housing market that apparently, some would say,
does not have enough housing to begin with. They say
that this type of ordinance discourages investment, will make people
want to get rid of their RSO units. Tenants, on
the other hand, say the rent is too high, and
this is the answer. So what happened on Friday was
Mayor Bass signed this legislation into law. The city Council
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had already approved it. I wanted to draw it to
your attention for a broader discussion, as they did on
Saturday night because Councilman Isabel Herrado, who is big on tenants.
That's her legal background and that's one of the issues
that she ran on. She made a post on X
shortly after Mayor Bass signed this and Gary, if you
wouldn't mind, could you read that for us?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Yeah, if I'm a with a little bit of music
in herlude.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Oh again, Isabel Hirado on Twitter. Evictions are a modern
vestige of imperialism and conquest. Mass display place functions like
conquest itself, erasing people, culture and community dispossession turns residents
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into tourists in their own hometown, never able to return today.
Updating rent control and capping the rent increase was a
huge win for Angel because housing stability is anti displacement policy.
So she got some pushback on that, which was very
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good reading, by the way, because what does that mean?
It was a lot of words from academia and activism.
I was just going to say, the last time I
was exposed to something like that was when I was
in Common exactly.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
This was starting to sort of get the ball rolling.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Well, that got the ball rolling on X because she
drew the ire of real estate advisors, developers, attorneys and
those types. And she doesn't really get that kind of attention.
She's Newark to city council, but she got it on
this and she lamented that, Hey, this got more heat
than I expected. She tried to cite some case law
that supports her position dition. But the last thing that
she said that was very strange. Okay, somebody called her
(36:04):
out like, well, if you support this, doesn't that mean
you support you know, isn't some of your policies causing displacement? Basically,
do you have that note that says what she said
to that happy holidays, you filthy animals? Well that was
the way she ended all the attention. She said, it's
a faint within a faint within a faint, but nuance
(36:25):
is lost.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
On the internet. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
And I had to look up what she meant in
the use of faint FEI n T, which is I
guess it's kind of a fake, right. I pretend to
throw a left hook, but I hit you with a
right jab kind of thing. I could see that, but
I don't know what it means. My kickbox, don't look
at me like that.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
That's what I know you're talking about. The Sorry Jake,
Paul Joshua. Now, I don't like to waste the time.
That's a boy aquarium.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
I have no interest in none.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
A mock blow or attack on or toward one part
in order to distract attention from the point one really
intends to attack.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
So not just the job, but you're.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Gonna you're gonna fake the jab to the face and
then hit him with the right body blow exactly. I
thought that could use some translation. I didn't understand what
any of it meant. It's a very serious issue. Whether
you are a tenant who thinks the rent is too
high and you don't make enough money, or you're the
owner of these units and you don't know how you're
gonna pay the mortgage because now you can't increase the
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rent and up. It's a very serious problem that just
doesn't seem like it's being treated very seriously by city leader.
I do think it's also important to point out that
if if she in fact is going to represent only
the interests of renters, she's not representing her constituency and
go a.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Faint within a feint within a faint. Is this like
the Part and the Princess Bride when they switched the
cups four times.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Ah, yes, how.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
You are obsessed with mail. Athleticis for today? Oh not
the athletic cups. Never trust to Sicilian when death is
on the line.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Yeah, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Oh I've offended you. I've offended you.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
Wait till I reveal the private conversation we had off
air just before coming back for this second.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
You can't reveal that I was looking for answers. I
was trying to fix my ignorant mind.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
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Like the company slogan though, right, that's the iHeartRadio thing.
I feel like ours should be something a little bit different, something.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Slightly human now almost certainly human.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Now, or just how about this human also weird. We'll
workshop it, We'll get somebody into Did you hear.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
About going into the new year with an intention?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
This is something that I've been exposed to at yoga class, oh,
where they say set an intention for your practice in
the beginning. Could be strength, would be clarity, could be
you know, intention words and kind of lock it in,
lock it in, you know, lock it in right here? Okay,
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And there is an intention word generator that's making the
rounds today.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Wait a minute that you don't know what your intention
word is, and it's coming up with one for you.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I mean, you could come up with your own intention.
But if you need help with it. You can use
the intention word generator. Okay, do you think that we
should have a word for the show, like a shared
intention for the show. Sure, you're just saying that you
don't need.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
To appease me. I don't care.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Sometimes I'm afraid to say no. Why I don't know
how you're going to react. Oh stop it. Oh now
you're just being silly. Oh no, I'm not just being silly.
Don't get fresh with me. But anyway, we'll get into it.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I want to know what your intentional word would be
for you.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I'll have to think about it.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
We were talking earlier about driving manual transmission, the old stick.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Oh yeah, good morning.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
So I drive stick shift for my work vehicles because
I'm a contractor and it's better. Anyways. It's all fun
and games until you get stuck on a hill, whether
a red light or a stop sign, and then you
have to try to move forward to without fun moving
backward and hitting the car behind me. If you're stuck
in stop and go traffic, that's not fun either, because
it's clutch gas gear, clutch gas gear break, clutch gas gear,
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clutch gas gear break.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, it keeps it keeps you busy atomatic. You know
what you're not doing. You're not checking your phone.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
That's the magic.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Go to San Francisco and learn to drive stick. How
about them apples.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Both of my kids, their high school was at the
top of a hill, and as they drove to school
there were at least two stop lights before they got there.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
And that's a.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Part of the fun. Is that cost benefit analysis.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Of the cost benefit.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Of the levers there, You know, give a little gas release,
a little clutch, so it's a balancing act to life's ill.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
And you're but that you also make a great point.
You can't look at your phone if you're driving a
stick now.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
And you know what, I quit smoking driving stick the
final time when it actually took the quitting smoking because
I had something to do in the car, and smoking
in the car was like is easy a fish to water?
A fish to water? But you got to drive stick.
You got to figure out what you're doing. You're busy
the whole time.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
It's time for swamp water bump politician, which means I'm
the strong one and a liar. And when I'm not
kissing babies, I'm stealing the lollipops.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
We got the real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
So what I'm not going anywhere so that you drain
the swat.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
What has been.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
You know, Americans have always been going president, but they're
not stupid.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
A political plunder is when a politician actually tells the
truth that people.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Voted for you were not swamp watching.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well, uh, things are going on around China.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
China has surrounded Taiwan with warships and fire jets, largest military.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Drills on record.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
As you can imagine, this follows that record US arms
sail to Taipei. The drills even have a title, Justice
Mission twenty twenty five Coordinated deployments of ground forces, naval vessels,
fighter jets, drones, all terror artillery across seven maritime zones
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encircling Taiwan.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Nothing to see here. I'm sure that's fine.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
These live fire exercises are scheduled to continue through tomorrow.
China is designating large danger zones, firing closer to Taiwan
than any previous round of drills. They say that this
is a response to separatism for an involvement, it is
(04:59):
a stir and warning against Taiwan independence, separatist forces and
external interference forces, and a legitimate and necessary action to
safeguard China's sovereignty and national unity. Unity. That's from the
senior colonel there, Senior Colonel Sheil.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Is there concern I don't quite understand that statement. Is
there concern that Taiwan is somehow going to take over China,
is going to declare its independence and then all of
a sudden declared war on China.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Two weeks ago we approved the US approved an eleven
point one billion dollar weapons package for Taiwan, largest sale ever.
Beijing hated this, says that at the time, and this
is coming to fruition, is turning Taiwan into a powder keg.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Japan's pretty close to that too, and they're going to
have to deal. They would have to mount some sort
of military response probably as well. Yeah, nothing to see here.
Speaking of active wars, President Trump hosted President Zelenski of
Ukraine yesterday at mar A Lago to talk about the
twenty point piece plan, and according to President Trump, they
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have they're about ninety percent there was the number he used.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
We have made a lot of progress on ending that war,
which is really the certainly the most deadly war since
World War Two, probably the biggest war since World War Two.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
Our teams will continue working on all aspects. We also
had a joint productive call with European leaders, like President
Trump said already and a lot of leaders, including NATO,
endy you, and we agreed that our teams will meet
in upcoming weeks.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
President Zelenski left and Benjamin Nettan Yahho is at mar
A Lago today. He is sitting down for lunch with
the President right now. This morning when the two leaders
were answering questions, President Trump said he spoke with Vladimir
Putin today after the meeting with Zelensky and said, we
had a very good talk. It was very productive talk
(06:59):
with a few very thorny issues, he says, as you
can imagine. Also kind of underreported over the weekend was
the fact that President Trump says that the United States
has hit a facility in South America, a land facility.
(07:19):
He said it was a He called into John kassa
medi how do you say cats some matides during a
program on a radio station in New York, and was
talking about strikes on drug carrying boats in the Caribbean,
which have killed more than one hundred people as of
right now, and Trump said, I don't know if you
saw or read this, but we got them.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
They having a big plan, a big facility where they
send the where the ships come from.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Two nights ago we knocked that out.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
So we had very hard no other comments on that,
no other description of that.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Did we actually strike something on land?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
And if so, are we getting into a war without
a congressional declaration of war. It's the surprised that that
did not get as much play over the weekend as
I saw this morning.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Politico did a deep dive on twenty twenty eight. The
twenty twenty eight race has begun. Here's who's winning. We
should do an explainer of that tomorrow, or we could
wait till next week.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
There was also an opinion piece about why Gavin Newsom
would absolutely clean up in a head to head matchup
with JD.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Vance.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I'd love to hear that scenario. Is it because New
England doesn't have a pass rush?
Speaker 4 (08:36):
There's something like that. And Drake May's nickname is Drake May.
Come on, you, Gott, How cool is it when your
nickname is is your name?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah, he's like the Drake May of Drake.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
It's so good, so good.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 3 (08:55):
Is that a candle, No, it's a soup.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I was on my way to the microwave and I
forgot that our breaks are a minute and thirty seconds, so.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I came right back.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
The Chinese military, like we've said, it is dispatched air,
navy and missile units around. It's live fire drills. The
island of Taiwan is currently surrounded. Nothing to see here.
A powerful winter storm is moving northeast. It's bringing snow
and ice and rain and strong winds. National Weather Service
says there will be blizzard conditions in many parts of
the Upper Midwest and Northeast in the next couple of days.
(09:31):
That could prompt some travel issues. But we should see
temperatures and places in the south, Atlanta, Dallas set to
drop significantly by Tuesday. My daughter's here for Christmas. But
it was eighty four degrees in Waco, not wild.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, well you were saying earlier, sixty degrees in Denver
this weekend.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Odd.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
We do have a couple of local stories we want
to bring to you, or we shall say Michael Monks
from KFI News will bring to you coming up after
Deborah's news at the bottom of the hour, there will
be charges filed in the case of the teenage tennis
star that was killed in a drunken hit and run.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Earlier this year in Manhattan Beach.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Also, Michael has some news on rent stabilization that is
going on in the city of.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
La You may have noticed. We talked about this with
my in laws when they were around. They live up
in Oregon, and we're just asking the question of you know,
have you noticed that restaurant prices have gone up? You know,
this is the discussion. The key, one of the keywords
for this year has got to be affordability. I haven't
seen the list yet, but I'm sure that that's one
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of those that's going to make a list. And affordability
is an issue that you notice whenever you go to
this grocery store, whenever you go to a restaurant, whatever
you buy seems to cost more than it did. Whether
you perceive it that way or someone's telling you it
is that it's an issue. Now, there was an article
in the Wall Street Journal about how steakhouses restaurants in general,
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but steakhouses specifically are having a hard time making a profit,
and they broke down a restaurant in Chicago steak dominates
the menu sixteen ounce prime New York strip, something they
call a Missus O'Leary.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Get it, that's funny.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
An eight ounce fil a served with a glass or
a red wine glaze, fresh shallots, et cetera. Dinner of
for four can easily reach that five hundred dollars mark,
But after accounting for the costs to the restaurant from
the meat itself to the rent, profits from the meal
would be about twenty five bucks. Wow, because you're going
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to spend one hundred and ninety dollars on the food
and alcohol just the ingredients going into the meal, one
hundred and seventy five for labor, one hundred and ten
on rent, insurance, other fixed costs overhead, and then the
restaurant basically turns about a twenty five dollars profit.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I love a good piece of meat when it's well,
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I book The Best Tease Some Meat in Dallas, Oh.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Wholesale costs for beef destined for steak fil ats have
ballooned about sixty seven percent since since COVID and that
steaks costs are up about forty percent this year alone
for that restaurant itself. That's a significant jump in just
the last couple of a couple of months. There's another one, Gibson's.
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Gibson's Restaurant Group has been buying steaks for about four decades,
but this year they've had to scramble. The tariffs this
year on imports lifted prices that were paid for the
grass fed beef from Australia and the Japanese Kobe steaks.
The bulk of Gibson's restaurant steaks come from producers there
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in the Midwest, but that hasn't brought any Yes, they
do buy domestically and they buy I guess you could
argue locally because it's in the Midwest, but the supply
of beef everywhere is tight.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Demand is red hot.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Did you get any meat for a Christmas?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
I didn't get any meat, but I did go to
a steakhouse for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Eve. Oh that's nice, Eve. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Yeah, we took the family to a nice that's wonderful,
old timey steakhouse that's very cool. And they have those
baked potatoes that are as large as your thighs. Oh yeah,
twice baked, so they bake them in the morning.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
They scoop mouth. They've put all the fixens.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
And see now I want to go to north Woods
where they have baked potato this big. I mean it
was Forehead, it was called Backwoods. Yeah, Northwoods. They do
a nice salad. That's not a salad there. And the
garlic cheese bread.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Oh, that's a stop it. Punch people.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Stop punch people to get the garlic cheese.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I may be off cookies in the new year, but
I'm not going to be off garlic cheese bread.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Gibson's restaurants from my cold dead hands, they pay. They
pay about twenty five bucks for a thirteen ounce New
York's thirteen ounce New York strip they pay. That's the
restaurant's cost, twenty five bucks for a thirteen ounce New York.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
When you finish that, you can finish that right, thirteen ounces?
Yeah yeah, I couldn't finish that.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Charges customers about seventy bucks for it.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Now, a few years ago, pre COVID that same steak
would be under twenty bucks for them, and they would,
but they said that they would need to charge eighty
nine dollars for it today to try to keep the
pre pandemic profit margin that they were making. They that
they have been stuck so hard their costs, their food
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costs have gone up, and they're trying not to stick
it to the consumer so that people keep coming back.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
That's the thing.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
You balance out the high stock, high cost steaks with
other lower cost items. And you may notice that in
the side dishes, those baked potatoes that are as big as
your thigh. They're expensive. I mean, that's why you don't
see them at Vaughan's and Ralphs. You go and you
buy your baked potatoes. They're you know, normal.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Potato sash, but they're not that big.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
They're not that big. Those were the ones of the restaurants.
They pay a premium to get them as large as
they do.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
What are they putting those potatoes and make them so big? Steroids?
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Water water with steroids. But they said now that they
can if they're selling steaks. Generally steakhouses will sell about
a hundred bucks. You can get it, you know, depending
on what kind, what cut, how big. A hundred bucks
is probably a higher end, but it's a good steak.
They're paying probably fifty or fifty five bucks for that
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cut of meat, and they've got to turn it around
and somehow make a profit on it. And that's why
it's up to one hundred bucks now.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
The sauces too, and the sauces all with the sauces.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Just you know what, throw a blue cheese crust online
and let it cook. Oh stop. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
My dad would put ketchup on any cut of beef,
anything from hamburger to lip.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
My god would every every piece of meat he ate,
whether it be poor steak, lamb, whatever it was. He
would have like a coffee cup and he would put
this is going to gross everybody out, and it should.
He would put a one sauce he put Worcester sauce
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together and about three tablespoons of butter and heat it
up and mix it around. And he would pour that
over every every meal, every dinner, every piece of meat.
He always had meat, he would put that concoction over it.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I don't think that sounds awful.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
No, but it's pretty decadent. It is this much butter. Well,
butter ain't going to kill you.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Eh, Well, it didn't kill him.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
I worried about the butter.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
But I still have some of my meat left over
from Christmas dinner.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
That sounds good. Did you bring any of that in?
Speaker 7 (16:56):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I need to is that.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Meat right now?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I know you would. That's why I didn't bring it in. Wow,
I gotta save it. I got to eat it, all right? Good? Okay,
it was too good.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Intention words? What is your intention word going into the
new year. We have to have it figured out before Thursday.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Michael Monks is going to come in and do some
hard news, but I want you to have an intention
word ready to go for the twelve o'clock hour.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Okay, Well, it gives me more time.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
You can use the intention word finder.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Do you generated?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah? Do you want that?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I don't know yet.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I want to see if I can come up with
something myself before okay, before I turn myself over to
the computers.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I like that idea.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
All right.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from kf
I am six forty.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Warning guys in the early Happy New Year. Hey, the
music today is really good.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
I'm assuming that Elmer's off, not that he doesn't play
good music, but this variety's a lot better than it
has been for quite some time.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Wow, good job Oliver, Oliver crushing it on the ones
in the to or you could call him.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Boone if you want, or Ollie.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
We did a whole thing earlier about names, because whenever
I say Oliver, I feel like I said, I have
to say Oliver, and which is stupid.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I know it's stupid. I don't have to. It's stupid
that I do that.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
So Boon though, Boone just makes me think of, you know, Disney,
for Disney football movies. Oliver.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Which part of Canada? Are you from? Buckinghamshire? Okay?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Oh, Buckingham Sure, it's right.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Nice to Una.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Yeah it's east. What what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I just wanted to see she's.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
I'm curious looking up buckingham Sure right now? Which part
of Canada.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Is it in?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
No, it's not from Canada.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I'm British.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
What F?
Speaker 5 (18:43):
No F?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I said?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
What is no F? Whoa?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Buckingham Sure? Sure? Sure? Sure beautiful.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I'm from a small town called Marler.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
How do I spell it?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
M A R l o W. The coolest thing about
is Mary Shelley lived like WHOA signed Mary Shelley?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Yeah, Mary Shelley, don't know. Maybe she was a football
this don't embarrass me, not in front of a bucking Sherman,
Buckingham shure Man West West.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Michael Monks has joined us.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Sorry Michael?
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Which part of.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Canada you from? I am not from Canada. I grew
up in Downton, Dalton Abbey.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Stop it downstairs, clearly downstairs staff.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Absolutely, and I'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Oliver is the technical director when I do my weekly
show on Saturday nights, always has good music ready to go.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Did you know that the marlow Rowing Club is one
of Britain's premiere rowing clubs? I that, Yeah, a lot
of Olympic oarsmen, including Sir Steve Redgrave.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Wait Redgrave? Was Marlowe at the restaurant? Noah?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
What did he eat?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I think steak? Yeah, okay, medium.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Rare, medium rare. That a temper, Sure, that's a good one.
What about cricket? There's two cricket clubs there?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Are you going to do it?
Speaker 7 (20:03):
No?
Speaker 3 (20:03):
I did? I hate cricket? Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
You hate it?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
My dad always told me it's the one sport that
you can bring in newspaper to Wow. Not necessarily true.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
It's funny that you said that, because I was about
to say, what does your dad think? Of cricket, because
it's always you know, sports and how we like them
always comes from Dad likes it. Okay, it brings bring
does he bring the bucks free press?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Oh wow, you're really doing a deep dive.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
You're damn right, I am.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Hey, Wikipedia is a rich and Michael wants to kill
me gs Oh.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
No, No, I I love.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Ever since I got into Doubt Nappy, I've been obsessed
with all these little various sures and whatever that exists.
So I know where all of the country houses are,
the manners, and I got to get over there.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
I gotta take some tours.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Oh I love that, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
I mean, I think it's ridiculous that those systems still exists.
I don't want to get started on like why there
are still royals and earls and Marcuses and all those kings. No,
I think it's a little dated. I think it's romantic.
You know, it's cool, but I don't think they need
to still be there. Like there's still country houses passed
down to the first male born to Earl what's his
f you know, And that's kind of weird to me.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
That's why we're fascinating. It sells a lot of American magazines,
the British state.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
It does.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
I'm finally finishing ken Burns's American Revolution documentary one.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Ken Burns documentary on Vietnam one too.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Yeah, I gotta see that one.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
But all I was saying is it just reiterates why
I think we really needed to break it off with
England when we did.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I think we made the right call.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
But you still love all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Yeah, Again, the romance of it is very interesting, but
the system itself under it, it would be unless I
lived above it, right, like if I were earl Earl
of Monks, if.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
You are one of the earl of F's or whatever,
the cottage, yeah, or you just.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Get to live in this massive house and like there's
just money that exists for you.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Do we have that system here in America?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
We do, and it would require some tax reform, but
it works for people.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
We do have a very.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Serious situation at hand that we should probably just get
to because we are coming up on the one year
anniversary of the Palisades and eaten fires, and in addition
to the tragedy itself in the Palisades, in this case
in particular of families that lost everything lost their beautiful
homes there in one of our most famous neighborhoods. One
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family in particular has suffered an even greater tragedy. So first,
the Levee family is one of the many that lost
their home in Pacific Palisades in the week of January seventh.
They relocate to Manhattan Beach and they have this son,
eighteen year old bron Levy, tennis star in high school
loyal to high School, is set to graduate and go
(22:45):
off to the University of Virginia just weeks away from that.
Back in May, he was run over and killed, and
prosecutors say that the person behind the wheel of the
car that struck him as Jenia rashaw Belt, who was
allegedly driving drunk despite the fact that her license was
suspended for being arrested previously for drunk driving, and today
the La County DA's office formally announced the charges against her,
(23:09):
which do in fact include murder.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yes they do, because I believe it.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Well, I can't get down to the year, but at
some point in the last twenty years in California, once
you commit a drunk driving offense, you have to sign
a legal document that says if I drive drunk, I
know I can kill somebody and be charged with murder,
so that when it happens again, if it happens again,
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you will be charged with murder. You knew you had
the intent, you had all the things that get that
jury to a murder conviction in the courtroom because you
signed that piece of paper.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
And she's thirty three years old, so she's young too,
and are all right, but old enough to know better
than to do this again again. These are allegations, but
this is a very serious allegation. Could face life in prison,
yeah for this. And what we heard today was this
is someone who never should have been behind the wheel
in the first place. But it really it just moves
you to listen to this family talk when you know
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this is a family that lost their home and just
months later lose their son. Jennifer Levy, Braun Levy's mom,
was at this news conference with the DA today and
you could certainly feel the sadness that this family still carries.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
The pain we feel is indescribable. Our family has been shattered,
ripped apart, and left to pick up the pieces and
keep on living without Braun, who we all loved with
every cell in our body. We are no longer the
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people we once were. We are profoundly changed by the
depth of our grief. California's current DUI laws are broken
and weak and fail to protect families like ours, and
it's devastating. There have been previous bills and laws, but
they have been gutted and amended, and it's inexcusable. I
(25:08):
will not stand for that status quo. We can stop
these tragedies. We have the solutions. My plea is to
Governor Gavin Newsom and California lawmakers. This is not a
political issue. This is a human issue. And I guarantee
(25:30):
if any of you had to identify the body of
your child or loved one in the manner that my
husband and I did a few months ago, you would
not be silent. The feeling, the sight, the smell of
identifying our son's body will never leave my mind, body,
(25:51):
or soul. So I will not be silent.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
That's just hard to imagine. You know, we're in the
news business.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
We have to relay information all time time about a
pedestrian hit and killed or drunk driving crash that resulted
in a fatality. But often those stories just go out
into the atmosphere and disappear, and we don't take the
time to consider the humanity involved, to consider that there
are family members that didn't have to go down and
(26:20):
look at the aftermath of that, the person that they
knew and loved and cared for lying there on that
table in that condition.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
What does she want to do well?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
She and a state lawmaker were present at this press
conference today. A city council woman Tracy Park was there,
and of course La County DA Nathan Hoffman was there.
They want stricter gun laws, gun laws, excuse me, they
want stricter drunk driving related laws.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Did they get specifically what would be they did?
Speaker 4 (26:47):
There? Apparently are already laws on the table that was
suggested today are not enforced enough, which might include those
ignition breathalyzer things that are related to see more of that.
And the state representative of the state senator who was there,
Bob Archiletta, he is going to be proposing some various
(27:08):
pieces of legislation that he I guess we'll learn more
about as it gets away.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Is the current law with those ignition things? Is it
more than one dui and you have to get it
and they probably want your first DUI.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
You have to have the ignition thing.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
And the judges have that information. And I think what
we heard from La County JA Nathan Hodgman was that
the judges aren't necessarily using their discretion to enforce that
enough that he'd like to see.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Them do so.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Interesting, I noticed there have been a couple of articles
in the last I want to say, three or four
days regarding technology that would exist in a car period
without previous DUI, but just built into the car itself
that would prevent you from starting at the event that
you were over the limit for whatever.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
I don't know how they do it.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
I don't know if it's a breathalyzer thing that they have,
but it's a privacy issue and that's why no one's
going to be putting it in the car, although it
could potentially save lives. So all right, when we come
back a little bit more about rent stabilization, this is
probably some of the fluffiest bs moose I've heard in
(28:13):
a long time.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Why did you have to bring a moose into it?
Speaker 3 (28:15):
No different kind of moose, like the fluffy food moose?
Speaker 2 (28:19):
What is that? What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Like the jello kind of related.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Not the moose with the antler.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Chocolate moose like chocolate, A moose with a U. When
you say moose, I think of an animal, right right.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
And let me tell you to eat the moose and
then hopefully you don't think of the animal.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
No, I do not. I would never eat a moose.
I love moose.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
You didn't play the Organ trail.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
I did play the Oregon Trail. That's different THO, No,
it wasn't. Buffalo Oxen Gary Shadow will continue nineteen eighty four.
Do you know that Ricky Gervais has a place in
your hometown?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Oliver?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Oh, yeah, I've seen him?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Oh you have?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Is he funny in real life? In the wild he
wants to avoid old people at all. Most interesting I
can see. I see that.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
That is that why you constantly tail him.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
It's weird, Oliver, talk about my personal life.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I mean, I can't believe I'm this old and still
had those questions like so thank you.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
You know you were watching he did rivalry show about
two male hockey players who engage in a clandestine relationship,
and you had questions about some of the physical techniques.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
I did, I did, and.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
I got answers, and I appreciate that. I appreciate the education.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Well, have to put that on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Now we all know. No, I don't think so, but
now we all know more about Buckingham. Sure, and he
did Rivalry.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Separately and similarly. Hmm right.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Right, interesting.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Sorry, women are going crazy for this show, Gary, I mean,
this is what's happening.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
The things that you feel when you watch, like a romance,
a classic male female romance.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Like I Want to Go to Sleep, you feel.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
If you're into it, you feel all those things watching
Heated Rivalry, and it was surprising to me.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
I still have to get caught up on I've only
seen a few episodes, but I think it's really cool
that it is dominating the cultural conversation as far as
it's really outpacing even Stranger Things final season in terms
of cultural discourse and the NHL thing. It has a
little gay thing going on, it's less interesting it does
because it's it's common. It's a coming out story. We've
seen those. You've not seen this type of mainstream portrayal
(30:54):
of this type, this level of let's call it intimacy.
It's typically not a mainstream show targeting a broad audience
where you see two guys in the positions, the physical positions.
You see these two guys. It's being sold. It's not
being sold as the big gay thing. Well it's Broke
(31:15):
Back Mountain one women. No, it's different. It's different. I
think Broke Back Mountain, uh was for gays and allies.
Really like you had to be comfortable at that time.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
This is straight. Guys are talking about this show very positively.
Women love.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
The NHL has embraced this story. Women are going to games,
hockey games. They're calling it the boy aquarium. Have you
heard this term?
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Well, because I I think a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
They want the players to kiss. They're completely confused about
what I am.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
I know, what are we doing?
Speaker 7 (31:48):
Well?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I I think that the athletes aren't sexualized for a
big portion of the and.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
For me, it's never been hockey players. Never hockey players.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
You know, like football players, basketball players, of course, but hockey.
When you think of a hockey player, you might think
of missing teeth. You know, they're like violent face, you know,
but they take their clothes up. Well, yeah, they're athletes too. Absolutely,
they're also athletes. And now they are being romanticized in
a way they never have been before, maybe for all
the wrong reasons, because these women do want these.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Players to kiss, and in that vein hockey players wear
really big paths you can't see. You cannot see their
bodies at all. They just like beasts out there. So
to see them in their natural state in this show
is like, oh, okay, well of course, I mean.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
It's a cardio game.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
It's a physical cardio mess of games.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Brought two things This show, Heated Rivals brought two things
into the broader public discourse. One, it is same sex,
male to male sexual relations and hockey, and.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
It's what it means for the sport, what it means
personally for guys who feel like they can't be themselves,
and what happens when they are able, and what it
means for everybody around them, and elevating the conversation.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
I mean, it really tackles all those If.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
You were the sideline reporter for the Kings instead of
the charges, do you think you would have a hard
time doing that job right now with what you now know?
Speaker 2 (33:15):
No, No, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
I don't see one hockey player who's gay, and think
everybody that plays hockey is gay?
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Okay, okay, come on lots, very briefly on.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Are there sideline reporters for a hockey?
Speaker 4 (33:33):
I'm sure there are the lord cider they call it rinkside,
and the boy aquarium.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Behind the bench. Behind the bench that's usually a reference
to the coach.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
I mean a lot of things.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
We've talked about rent control together before. I've covered it
because the city Council has made it stricter, and so
there are hundreds of thousands of rent stabilized or of
rent stabilized units in the city of Los Angeles, and
now people who own those properties can only raise the
rent in them between one and four percent based on
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the rate of inflation. Landlords developers very very upset about this,
especially in a housing market that apparently, some would say,
does not have enough housing to begin with. They say
that this type of ordinance discourages investment, will make people
want to get rid of their RSO units. Tenants, on
the other hand, say the rent is too high, and
this is the answer. So what happened on Friday was
Mayor Bass signed this legislation into law. The city Council
(34:26):
had already approved it. I wanted to draw it to
your attention for a broader discussion, as they did on
Saturday night because Councilman Isabel Herrado, who is big on tenants.
That's her legal background and that's one of the issues
that she ran on. She made a post on X
shortly after Mayor Bass signed this and Gary, if you
wouldn't mind, could you read that for us?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Yeah, if I'm a with a little bit of music
in herlude.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Oh again, Isabel Hirado on Twitter. Evictions are a modern
vestige of imperialism and conquest. Mass display place functions like
conquest itself, erasing people, culture and community dispossession turns residents
(35:09):
into tourists in their own hometown, never able to return today.
Updating rent control and capping the rent increase was a
huge win for Angel because housing stability is anti displacement policy.
So she got some pushback on that, which was very
(35:29):
good reading, by the way, because what does that mean?
It was a lot of words from academia and activism.
I was just going to say, the last time I
was exposed to something like that was when I was
in Common exactly.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
This was starting to sort of get the ball rolling.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Well, that got the ball rolling on X because she
drew the ire of real estate advisors, developers, attorneys and
those types. And she doesn't really get that kind of attention.
She's Newark to city council, but she got it on
this and she lamented that, Hey, this got more heat
than I expected. She tried to cite some case law
that supports her position dition. But the last thing that
she said that was very strange. Okay, somebody called her
(36:04):
out like, well, if you support this, doesn't that mean
you support you know, isn't some of your policies causing displacement? Basically,
do you have that note that says what she said
to that happy holidays, you filthy animals? Well that was
the way she ended all the attention. She said, it's
a faint within a faint within a faint, but nuance
(36:25):
is lost.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
On the internet. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
And I had to look up what she meant in
the use of faint FEI n T, which is I
guess it's kind of a fake, right. I pretend to
throw a left hook, but I hit you with a
right jab kind of thing. I could see that, but
I don't know what it means. My kickbox, don't look
at me like that.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
That's what I know you're talking about. The Sorry Jake,
Paul Joshua. Now, I don't like to waste the time.
That's a boy aquarium.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
I have no interest in none.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
A mock blow or attack on or toward one part
in order to distract attention from the point one really
intends to attack.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
So not just the job, but you're.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Gonna you're gonna fake the jab to the face and
then hit him with the right body blow exactly. I
thought that could use some translation. I didn't understand what
any of it meant. It's a very serious issue. Whether
you are a tenant who thinks the rent is too
high and you don't make enough money, or you're the
owner of these units and you don't know how you're
gonna pay the mortgage because now you can't increase the
(37:25):
rent and up. It's a very serious problem that just
doesn't seem like it's being treated very seriously by city leader.
I do think it's also important to point out that
if if she in fact is going to represent only
the interests of renters, she's not representing her constituency and
go a.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Faint within a feint within a faint. Is this like
the Part and the Princess Bride when they switched the
cups four times.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Ah, yes, how.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
You are obsessed with mail. Athleticis for today? Oh not
the athletic cups. Never trust to Sicilian when death is
on the line.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Yeah, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Oh I've offended you. I've offended you.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
Wait till I reveal the private conversation we had off
air just before coming back for this second.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
You can't reveal that I was looking for answers. I
was trying to fix my ignorant mind.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
It's time for news. You've been listening to The Gary
and Shannon Show.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
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