December 30, 2025 • 31 mins
Gary and Shannon dive into the latest news and current events. They discuss the decline of Canadian tourism in the US, citing the recent bankruptcy of Ohio-based am Scott Distillery and the impact of Canadian tariffs on the bourbon industry. They also touch on the CIA's alleged strike on a Venezuelan dock, and the country's president, Nicolas Maduro, seemingly unfazed by the threat. Additionally, they explore the growing concern over AI and its potential effects on society, including the need for regulation and the benefits of innovation.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app to be young again. Don't
worry about that terrorist attack, would be just making sure
just have a good time, Darling.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I will, Darling.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I'm we mentioned the whole Canadians not coming to Vegas anymore. Yeah,
apparently Canadians aren't drinking bourbon anymore.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Yeah, it's a whole thing. They got very upset, and
that when you look at the traffic over the border,
like New York tourist stuff from Canadians, it is real.
It is a real number when it comes to the
loss of economy from the loss of Canadians coming over
the border.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Another American spirits maker has gone bust. Ohio based am
Scott Distillery filed for bankruptcy just last week.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Worsened.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Of course, all the downturn just in terms of the
amount of whiskey and bourbon that has been consumed, has
been worsened by the Canadian backlash against our tariffs. And
it was just a week before that that Jim Beam
announced it was going to halt production for at least
a year at its distillery in Clermont, Kentucky. So I
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guess am Scott Distillery makes more than just bourbon, but
that is one of their big products. And George Clooney
is now French citizen.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
That's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I don't know, Washington.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I don't know why it came up and why everybody
makes such a giant deal of it.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
But George Clooney is now a French citizen.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
He gets to keep his American citizenship because he was
born in Speaking of Kentucky, he was born in Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Bourbon, I don't know. We're in Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I've got more information about Stefan Diggs before we die
into the swamp that is Washington. Yes, it was Stefan
Diggs's former personal chef that claimed the Patriot Star slapped
her and tried to choke her out over a salary dispute.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Aha.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
These are the allegations laid out in a newly released
incident report just released this morning. The female employee first
went to the police December sixteenth and said she was
working as a private chef on December second, That was
the date after he played on Monday night Patriots beat
the Giant. So day after when he entered Stefan, Diggs
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entered her unlocked bedroom to discuss an ongoing text exchange
between the two over money she believed she was owed.
The woman claims during the conversation, Diggs became angry smacked
her across the face.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
She said.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
She then attempted to push him away, and he tried
to choke her using the crook of his elbow around
her neck. Sounds rather intimate for an employer employee relationship,
doesn't it. She claims. Diggs was behind her with his
arm wrapped around her. She felt like she had trouble breathing,
could have blacked out. When she tried to pry herself away,
he tightened his grip. Woman claims Digs threw her onto
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the bed said something along the lines of thought so
a woman told cops. She continued to explain to dig
she still hadn't been paid, but he said lies and
walked out of the room. She claims she had redness
on her upper chest area, but did not take pictures.
She says she was hesitant to come forward because of
who Stephan Diggs is. She says she started working for
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him in July. Was supposed to work for him throughout
the season and be paid weekly, but then it was
switched to monthly, and she had not received a month's
pay at the time of the incident. This would be
nice to have a personal chef that lives with you,
that you can just walk into her bedroom anytime. It's
a different world, y'all.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well it's time for swamp Watch. I'm a politician, which
means I'm a cheat and a liar, and when I'm
not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Yeah, we got The real problem is that our leaders
are dumb.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
So what I'm not going anywhere, So.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That now you train the swaw, I can imagine what
can be and be unburdened by what has been.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
You know, Americans have always been gone as they're not stupid.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the
truth we have.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
That people voted for you were not swamp watch. They're
all canon North. So we talked a little bit yesterday.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
It was just kind of trickling out this news that
the United States had apparently hit a land mark, if
you want to call it that, in Venezuela. In this case,
the CIA struck a remote dock on the coast of
Venezuela that American officials believe was used by the Venezuelan
trend or Agua gang to store drugs and prepare them
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to be shipped elsewhere via boats. President Trump was asked
about this yesterday at the White House.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Glad you're in.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Oh, that's that sounds different than Trump, I was Trump talking.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
It was a major explosion in the dock area where
they load the boats up with drugs. They load the
boats up with drugs, So we hit all the boats,
and now we hit the area. It's the implementation area.
That's where the implement and that is no longer around strike.
I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Comment to this, So that was kind of the beginning
of this. CNN was first to report that it was
the CIA that used drones to strike, that he had
didn't give a whole lot of information about it yesterday
when he was speaking to reporters. Nicholas Maduro, by the way,
the president of Venezuela is running out of time, but
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he seems to be laughing off all of this threat
that President Trump has been able to lodge against him.
Sixty three year old has been dancing on stage at rallies.
He's been walking through the trade expos he went to
Christmas Tree Lighting's hand in hand with his wife and
sings John Lennon's Imagine. He even said in an event
(05:58):
at the Capitol of Karaka Us wearing a sombrero and
flashing a peace sign, don't worry, b be happy.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
So who knows if he's said a great record being
threatened by any of that. We do not like AI.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Generally, A lot of people are very concerned about AI,
even though I had AI help us find out who
Phyllis Diller was.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Which party will benefit from AI as we get into
a governor's race in the new year, as we wade
into twenty twenty eight, which is going to happen before
you know it, AI, Who will it benefit? We'll talk
about it when we return.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Well, you want to kickstart that weight loss plan? Have
we got a story for you? Have you heard about
China's fat camps?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
China desp is A camp is a very fluffy word
for what it is. I shouldn't say fluffy. Camp is
a very nice word for what it is that they're doing.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Intense exercise, routines, mandatory weigh ins, rules. This may be
the way to get it done if you're serious about it.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I'm in.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
You're not in.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Gary and Shannon. Glad you're in today. A lot of
you know, it's kind of nobody's on the radio, it
seems a lot. But I'm glad you guys are in.
You need to throw this question out there. How many
people are breaking up now after the holidays, because that's
the thing.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Throw it out there.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
I want to see who else is.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Oh, I see breaking in January does is a particularly
busy time for divorce attorneys. People want to get through
the holidays, they want to get through all of that,
and I get through seeing the family. Everything's fine here,
everything's fine, We're fine, We're fine, We're fine, and then
January it's like, okay, let's be done with this.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Something like January ninth, or the first second Monday or
something like that is always the highest rate of divorce, right.
I don't know if that's true, but that's sort of
been the trope for the last couple of years.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I'm a mess.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
What divorce? What would you rather do? Chop up? His
body and put it somewhere.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Well, that's the thing. We have a pact in the
home as if you want a divorce, if you want
to get rid of me, get rid of me, have
divorce me. Don't kill me, don't throw me off a cliff,
you know, go on, get a divorce. Well, that's what
I ask myself all the time when I'm watching these
you know, date lines.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Just get a divorce. You don't have to fake your.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Death in the kayak and go off and live in
Thailand for sixteen months. But you you don't have to
kill her and the kids.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
You don't get the sympathy to.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Be with the horror girl you found at the Arby's.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
You know, Just get a divorce.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Hey, I feel like I should stick up for employees
at Arby's.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I didn't say she was an employee. I said he
met her at the Arby's.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Right, okay, Hey, hey, hey, I feel like I should
stick up for customers at Arby's.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
You know, sometimes you get a play a good meat
in front of you and you lose your mind.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Good sloppy meat like that. Yeah you seven?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
What's the number seven?
Speaker 5 (09:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
Oh again, you were like, do I dare step up
this land like Jacob, you still love the number seven?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Mo Man?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Oh really, Oh my god, that's why that kid blew
out the bathroom all the time. I'm just kidding. That
didn't happen.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
About eighty percent of American adults think the government should
regulate AI, even if it means growing more slowly, growing
economically more slowly eighty percent.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Pew Research had a study that.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Said that only seventeen percent of Americans think that AI
is going to have a positive impact on the United
States over the next twenty years. Even congressional Democrats, at
a record low of eighteen percent, beat out AI as
having a positive impact on the United State dates going forward.
(10:02):
It's just a stunning and laughable number. This article from
Politico says that Gretchen Whitmer, for example, governor of Michigan, Michigan,
as they say, will post anything on social media. She
is immediately bombarded with messages to stop construction on data centers.
(10:26):
All I want for Christmas is legislation banning data centers
in Michigan.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Daycares love of Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Oh but I appreciate that, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I still get jokes.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
It's funny because you know, you've seen I think the
Trump administration have kind of a more liberal approach to AI,
haven't you. It doesn't seem like I mean, Trump knows
where the dollars are being printed. He's very astute when
it comes to where to make money, and AI clearly
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is going to be where you make money in the future.
I don't know how, but definitely it's where we're headed.
So how do you make money off of it? And
at least until this thus far, he has kind of
had a anything goes.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Approach to AI, welcomes all the investment.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Which is kind of maybe a like I said, a
liberal stance when it comes to AI. But what do
the liberals feel? What have they done?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Well, it's a great it is.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
We're not caught up with it yet, we being the
general public, is not caught up with AI. There are
people who use it regularly, there are people who use
it well, there are people who take advantage of it
for a nefarious.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Perpose to use it all the time. We just don't
know we're using it.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
There's also that I mean, That's what I and that's
what I mean, is that we're we're not fully aware
of how ubiquitous. It is in our lives just yet,
and therefore our social attitudes towards it, our cultural attitudes
towards it haven't quite matured.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Perhaps, so if you're.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Looking to politicians, by the way, to be the ones
who push this fing forward, that is not what's going
to happen, because they're going to try to do They're
going to try to play the both direct both sides
of this coin. They're going to try to say, yes,
we need the innovation that comes with that comes with AI,
but we don't want to lose jobs to it. And
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then if we lose jobs to it, we're going to
need a guaranteed basic income. You've got energy affordability issues
that come into this, and that's one of the reasons,
for example, in Michigan they fight so hard against data
centers is because the amount of electricity of those things
used is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yes, there's a headline in the La Times.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Today about a build a single building I think it's Vernon,
a single building in Vernon that is one of these
data centers that uses as much electricity as a small town. Yeah,
and the politicians are gonna have to get out in
front of it and figure out which how they can
squeeze the benefit out of AI, either opposing AI or
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using AI specifically in order to benefit all Americans and
not just you know, the ones who are going to
make the money.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Well, and who wants to corral AI and who wants
it to flourish? You know? Is it as simple as
the billionaires and then everybody else? Is it that simple?
Or are there people that are not looking just to
make money that are interested in.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Well, you can use it for things like research it.
I mean, there are positive things that we could all
use it for. But the more we go down that road,
the less we the less we rely on ourselves and
our own brains.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
And somebody, I.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Think that's awful. I think that that's a.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
More diet collapse.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
We're already there, like, we're already so lazy. Oh is it?
Is it burning down? Finally they're testing the firearms. Would
be nice if somebody sends it just a just a
quick email. It's just like a heads up, the fire's
not well. I mean, we weren't running out of here,
we weren't.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
You noticed that? That was our first reaction.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
You and I have kind of given up. What did
your wife say when she got one of.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Those alerts, you were like, what did that alert say?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
She said, I don't know. I didn't look at my phone.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Was it a an abduction alert or I think it was.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Evacuation I think it was like a sky is falling alert.
And she was like, you said that, she didn't even
bother to look at it. She's like, I'm giving up.
We kind of just did that, like we just treated
that like, eh, hey we have a we go down
in the fire, We go down in the fire.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Hey would make a headline. Maybe maybe not.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I feel like I had a point I was gonna
get to, Oh, we've already given up. Yeah, we've already
become so lazy where we're not using our creativity. When's
the last time you sat down and got creative in
your mind about your job or a specific problem or
something around the house or whatever, instead of picking up
your phone and being stimulated by something that has nothing
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to do with that, maybe on your way to figuring
out those things, you know. It's just it's so much
is lost, So much is wasted from just our basic
individual creative minds. And I don't even mean you don't
need to be creative. I'm not saying like you're a
craft princess, just your own creativity of how to parent,
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how to be a friend, yeah, how to you know,
do anything.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Yeah, that's a real uh, that's a real bright spot going.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Into It's a muscle that we may not have worked
out that we can always go back to working out.
You know, your brain is still there. You can go
back to it and use it anytime you want to.
You just have to want to too much. Oh sorry,
I do have a plan for you.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
By the way, if one of your New Year's resolutions
is to drop a couple of LB's.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
I know you totally put this in the show because
you want to ship me off to China.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I don't want to do any of that.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
You get out of Sharpie your circle, all the problem
are is, and then you can say, here, China, you
deal with it.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I'm gonna get a big red cardboard arrow it just start.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Okay, Okay, we get it.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
It wasn't pointing. I wasn't.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
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Speaker 1 (16:29):
It's not that bad.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Diapers someone else's.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I think you're gonna be pretty good for a long time.
The people around here where I could see them making
their way into the diaper stage of late life.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Well here's the thing. But you've been here long enough
that you know some of those people.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
But you, I think you're gonna be good. You're gonna
be like my grandpa. You remind me a little bit
of paw. It's a little early to be calling you that, but.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Little unless you know something I don't what?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
No, Yes, Garyan Shannon kf I am six forty Live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio. We were talking earlier about the
latest indicator of a drop in tourism in Vegas is
the ten percent of fewer passengers through Harry Reid International Airport.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
What's up, Gary Shannon, love your show.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
This is Rick Fling, simple man. He's just giving you
a call in.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
You know, I used to live in Las Vegas for
a bit and I have to tell you it's it's
the hotel extra fees.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
The valet alone.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Can cost you a couple hundred dollars. It's just insane. Yeah,
we started raising the prices of all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
True. Everyone I knew was like, no, not coming. It's
so true. When you've done that, we need to pay
to park at your hotel in Vegas, f and you, yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
What do you mean, You're not gonna do it?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Not Gonnada, you are too gonna do that, gonna they
are gonna do it all right. In China, they are
very concerned about the size of their population, not the billion,
the individual.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
China has a growing obesity problem, and so what they
did is they established a network of commercial or government
affiliated weight loss prisons. Essentially, they're camps, but the kind
of like prisons. China needs a fit population. They know
what you've been preaching for years that we need a
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fit military, a fit people. We need a fit people
to feed into the military to be a strong country.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
And their government doesn't mind hurting people's feelings to get that,
not one bit.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
So these military style camps have become an apt choice
for those who have given up on fad diets, new
Year's resolutions, things like that, weight loss management products. So
as well as following strict diet plans, which I'll get to,
participants are expected doing age and strenuous activities each day, treadmill, stuff,
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boxing routines, intense cardio. The facility keeps its steel gates
firmly shut. One woman from Australia is currently hold up
in a camp there in China. She has candidly shared
an inside look of her grueling daily routine. She's twenty
eight and she's been documenting her stay. It's four weeks long.
(19:24):
She paid little less than one thousand dollars for a
four week fat camp. Yeah, it's one thousand bucks, very affordable.
She revealed that she exercises for four hours every day
and attends nineteen classes a week, starting with a group
aerobics class each morning. That's followed by a group hit classes,
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high intensity interval training classes, and then a second aerobics
session in the afternoon, before finishing with an evening spin class.
Here in California, we charge about twenty thousand dollars a
month for this camp.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
The meals consumed between the workouts are carefully portioned out
on trays. One breakfast was a single piece of bread,
chopped tomato and cucumber, and four hard boiled egg.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Pretty good. It's a pretty good high protein. Again, if
you went to this prison in Ohi, for example, her
napper or whatever you would be, you would get the
same kind of food, maybe on a nicer tray. The
gates might look nicer that surround the property, right, but
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women pay a lot of Like if you want to
go to the one of those camps or one of
those weight lost places in Ohi or wherever, this is
a good alternative for under one thousand bucks or four weeks,
same kind of deal, workout classes all day. It's a
it's an economical option.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
This one. You gotta get to check.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
You gotta get to China. I don't know what the
flights to China are like, let's look.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
The woman says that she looked most looks forward to lunchtime.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
That's when the most food is served.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
A meal consists of usually braised duck, lotus roots, stir
fried vegetables, rock, harrots, and a banana. She said if
bunking with up to five roommates and exercising in groups
isn't suffocating enough, Participants are not allowed to leave the
premises without quote valid reasons, and you are expected to
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forfeit any banned food item at the beginning of the program,
such as instant ramen, noodles, dried picked and fried snacks.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Okay, this is a lot like I found a fitness resort.
I found a fitness resort up in northern California, same
kind of deal, about three thousand dollars a week. You
can get a NonStop to Shanghai and back for about
seven fifty fifty bucks. And with thousand dollars for I mean,
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you're saving money handover fist. If you want to do
this thing, go to China. Eh see what this show
gives me? Yeah, see what this show gives you, she said.
Quitting the program might be difficult. Imagine spending three thousand
dollars a week.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Yeah, I mean I know that people do it.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yeah, I just prefer to come in here for free
and have you fat shame me for four hours?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Does work on everybody?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
It doesn't work on everybody.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
You're right, you're right. We all pick our paths.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
There's an outdoor washroom area, a high pressure shower, and
a squat toilet.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah, well that's that's what you get. You're going to
get in China. That's the kind of toilets they have. Yeah,
that's that's weird.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
That's not weird that it would be unusual if you're
if you're not used to that sort of thing. My god,
you never graced the top side of one of those
what do you mean you ever used one.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
A squat toilet? Yeah, I peed into a hole in
the ground in Japan. Oh, it's really not that big
of a deal. Okay, good, I mean it's not definitely
not a big deal for you. You pee standing up in
holes all the time most of the time, shrubberies or
what have you, rubberies wherever you guys pee out inside. Yeah,
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it's a it's it's it's a workout for the.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Quats because oh, because you got Yeah, you have to.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Squad because you don't want to just do it up here?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Why not you.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Want to you don't want to splash hit the thing.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
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Speaker 1 (23:47):
From Lobster for the Lobster Story.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
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on the iHeartRadio AP. She's easily entertained Oliver, and we
appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Well, I mean, it's just weird that he's paying attention
to the show. That is a very rare thing.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
He's doing that to every second.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I know, it's like it's always a surprise, and it's
I'm delighted. I try my best yes, you do, and
I appreciate it, it really do. Were you going to
say something Gary before we got to the lobster.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
About what, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
You were looking at your screen or were you watching
the Ala Mobile or whatever?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Oh, because you put money on Coastal Carolina Independence Bowl.
Yeah I think it is.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah Independence bawl.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Did you we just straight bet that game? There were
no points or anything that we negotiated. Well, you picked
Coastal Carolina. It means I get Louisiana Tech. How it works?
What's the score here? You know what we're betting for?
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Right?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
No pizza?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Oh look at that.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Oh you're up seven?
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Pair up seven, right, and.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
We'll get pizza right before we go to that fat
camp in China. So here is the story that kind
of raised my eyebrows this morning. A truckload of lobster
has been stolen from a Massachusetts facility. They did it
using a sophisticated fishing and impersonation scam. How much lobster
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was on this truck well to the tune of four
hundred thousand dollars worth of lobster. Now you see that
kind of total and you think, ah, someone jacked this
truck to get the lobsters and'll sell them in the
black market make all that money. Nay, I argue it
was our friend Christine, you think so. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I don't think she ever served any prison time.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
No, she did not. She got like probation or something.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Canadia anyway, that's right, it.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Was Nova Scotia. But that's a it's right across the way,
Massachusetts is right there.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
They said that this was a pretty pretty complex scheme.
First part of it involved a phishing scam pH fishing.
According to a detective, the culprit, ever so slightly altered
an email domain name of the real trucking company, and
the logistics firm hired what turned out to be the
fraudulent trucking company. And then the driver shows up on
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the twelfth of December to collect the lobster shipment at
this Massachusetts cold storage center run by a third party
where the rexing company logistics firm is a customer and
they store the lobster there.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Now, the guy who owns the company.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Says he believes the culprit impersonated a carrier by presenting
a fake commercial driver's license, and the tractor trailer had
in the real trucking company's name and the real trail
trailer number on the side, so that part of it
worked out, but it was a fake driver using a
real truck.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Would you buy lobster out of a trunk? No black
market lobster. My mom used to buy a baloni out
of a trunk, quite quite literally, a guy that she'd
meet at the Ralph's parking lot and the back there,
and she would buy the abaloney out of the trunk.
Illegally different, I think, I because I'm not a lobster
fan anyway, so I wouldn't go to great lengths to
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acquire it. I just find it to be a vehicle
for butter. And I don't need to spend that kind
of money for a vehicle for butter.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Just use the butter.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Just use the butter. You know, I'm at the point
where I don't need a vehicle for it, you know,
just take a spoon. But why did I talking about
a spoon? Come on, but uh, look, if you take
the paper off, I'm wondering though, Like you need to
keep the lobster in a tank and all that, Like,
there's up there's maintenance that go into keeping four hundred
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thousand dollars worth of lobster to the point where you
can resell them and them still be good.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah, I would imagine.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
After this lobster was picked up, it was originally destined
for Costco apparently in Minnesota and Illinois.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
It's clearly an inside job, isn't it. Well, it's somebody
knew where those lobsters were and knew how to pick
that off and all that.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Right, the thief or thieves turned off the GPS tracker
and the big rig and they haven't seen them since.
And again, that would have been December twelfth. So if
these things are still on ice, they gone bad. You
do not want to eat this kind of lobster. Dad,
lobster twelve No, twelve days now, no, nineteen days no.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
No. The other terrible animal story we have involved swans.
Twelve swans have died in the past week at our
land or why are you laughing? Are you laughing at
the picture of the dead swan? You're an awful person?
Are an awful persons? What's funny? I was just going
(29:06):
to say before I got into this story. You know
what my opening line was going to be to you,
you never seen a dead swan because It is an
odd picture. That is, it is like a car It's
a cartoon of a dead swan. Essentially, it's just two
flipped up side down.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Yeah, one is alive and you know, floating on the
top of the water, and the other one is dead.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I've never seen a swan's undercarriage like this upside down.
It's not it is not it's feet or flop lady
like wind. It's not ladylike. But here's a problem. They
say that these dead swans, twelve of them, twelve of
them have died in this Orlando park. They think it's
caused by the avian flu, and they think that this
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is going to be a massive public safety bird flu
pandemic situation that people are trying to keep on.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
The hush hush.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
But the dead swans are the proof.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
In the water that they're saying. At least, what's her name, Richie,
you're sick, Patty. She is the Orlando City commissioner.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Do you have fever?
Speaker 2 (30:14):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Fatigue, no cough, kinder muscle akes none, sore throat none,
shortness of breath, no runny nose, no eye redness, no headaches,
no pneumonia.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
God forbid, no Okay, you do not have the bird flu.
Thank god. I thought like the first five nose would
have been enough for you to say he didn't have pneumonia.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Well you're not a doctor, are you.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Are you don't?
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Year's plan bird flu can't be transmitted if those birds
come in close contact to humans, and they said that
infected birds shed flu viruses in their saliva, their mucus,
and their feces. Stay away from all the liquids. When
you're dealing with sick birds. Oh, sick bird. Oh, when
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we come back. You know what time it is.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
No, it's not. It's not noon.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I wouldn't I wouldn't lie.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Is it noon?
Speaker 2 (31:16):
There are clocks all over this noon.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
I'll be damned.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
forty nine am to one pm every Monday through Friday,
and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app to be young again. Don't
worry about that terrorist attack, would be just making sure
just have a good time, Darling.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I will, Darling.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I'm we mentioned the whole Canadians not coming to Vegas anymore. Yeah,
apparently Canadians aren't drinking bourbon anymore.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Yeah, it's a whole thing. They got very upset, and
that when you look at the traffic over the border,
like New York tourist stuff from Canadians, it is real.
It is a real number when it comes to the
loss of economy from the loss of Canadians coming over
the border.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Another American spirits maker has gone bust. Ohio based am
Scott Distillery filed for bankruptcy just last week.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Worsened.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Of course, all the downturn just in terms of the
amount of whiskey and bourbon that has been consumed, has
been worsened by the Canadian backlash against our tariffs. And
it was just a week before that that Jim Beam
announced it was going to halt production for at least
a year at its distillery in Clermont, Kentucky. So I
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guess am Scott Distillery makes more than just bourbon, but
that is one of their big products. And George Clooney
is now French citizen.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
That's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I don't know, Washington.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I don't know why it came up and why everybody
makes such a giant deal of it.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
But George Clooney is now a French citizen.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
He gets to keep his American citizenship because he was
born in Speaking of Kentucky, he was born in Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Bourbon, I don't know. We're in Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I've got more information about Stefan Diggs before we die
into the swamp that is Washington. Yes, it was Stefan
Diggs's former personal chef that claimed the Patriot Star slapped
her and tried to choke her out over a salary dispute.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Aha.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
These are the allegations laid out in a newly released
incident report just released this morning. The female employee first
went to the police December sixteenth and said she was
working as a private chef on December second, That was
the date after he played on Monday night Patriots beat
the Giant. So day after when he entered Stefan, Diggs
(02:29):
entered her unlocked bedroom to discuss an ongoing text exchange
between the two over money she believed she was owed.
The woman claims during the conversation, Diggs became angry smacked
her across the face.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
She said.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
She then attempted to push him away, and he tried
to choke her using the crook of his elbow around
her neck. Sounds rather intimate for an employer employee relationship,
doesn't it. She claims. Diggs was behind her with his
arm wrapped around her. She felt like she had trouble breathing,
could have blacked out. When she tried to pry herself away,
he tightened his grip. Woman claims Digs threw her onto
(03:05):
the bed said something along the lines of thought so
a woman told cops. She continued to explain to dig
she still hadn't been paid, but he said lies and
walked out of the room. She claims she had redness
on her upper chest area, but did not take pictures.
She says she was hesitant to come forward because of
who Stephan Diggs is. She says she started working for
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him in July. Was supposed to work for him throughout
the season and be paid weekly, but then it was
switched to monthly, and she had not received a month's
pay at the time of the incident. This would be
nice to have a personal chef that lives with you,
that you can just walk into her bedroom anytime. It's
a different world, y'all.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well it's time for swamp Watch. I'm a politician, which
means I'm a cheat and a liar, and when I'm
not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Yeah, we got The real problem is that our leaders
are dumb.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
So what I'm not going anywhere, So.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That now you train the swaw, I can imagine what
can be and be unburdened by what has been.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
You know, Americans have always been gone as they're not stupid.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the
truth we have.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
That people voted for you were not swamp watch. They're
all canon North. So we talked a little bit yesterday.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
It was just kind of trickling out this news that
the United States had apparently hit a land mark, if
you want to call it that, in Venezuela. In this case,
the CIA struck a remote dock on the coast of
Venezuela that American officials believe was used by the Venezuelan
trend or Agua gang to store drugs and prepare them
(04:42):
to be shipped elsewhere via boats. President Trump was asked
about this yesterday at the White House.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Glad you're in.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Oh, that's that sounds different than Trump, I was Trump talking.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
It was a major explosion in the dock area where
they load the boats up with drugs. They load the
boats up with drugs, So we hit all the boats,
and now we hit the area. It's the implementation area.
That's where the implement and that is no longer around strike.
I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Comment to this, So that was kind of the beginning
of this. CNN was first to report that it was
the CIA that used drones to strike, that he had
didn't give a whole lot of information about it yesterday
when he was speaking to reporters. Nicholas Maduro, by the way,
the president of Venezuela is running out of time, but
(05:37):
he seems to be laughing off all of this threat
that President Trump has been able to lodge against him.
Sixty three year old has been dancing on stage at rallies.
He's been walking through the trade expos he went to
Christmas Tree Lighting's hand in hand with his wife and
sings John Lennon's Imagine. He even said in an event
(05:58):
at the Capitol of Karaka Us wearing a sombrero and
flashing a peace sign, don't worry, b be happy.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
So who knows if he's said a great record being
threatened by any of that. We do not like AI.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Generally, A lot of people are very concerned about AI,
even though I had AI help us find out who
Phyllis Diller was.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Which party will benefit from AI as we get into
a governor's race in the new year, as we wade
into twenty twenty eight, which is going to happen before
you know it, AI, Who will it benefit? We'll talk
about it when we return.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Well, you want to kickstart that weight loss plan? Have
we got a story for you? Have you heard about
China's fat camps?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
China desp is A camp is a very fluffy word
for what it is. I shouldn't say fluffy. Camp is
a very nice word for what it is that they're doing.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Intense exercise, routines, mandatory weigh ins, rules. This may be
the way to get it done if you're serious about it.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I'm in.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
You're not in.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Gary and Shannon. Glad you're in today. A lot of
you know, it's kind of nobody's on the radio, it
seems a lot. But I'm glad you guys are in.
You need to throw this question out there. How many
people are breaking up now after the holidays, because that's
the thing.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Throw it out there.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
I want to see who else is.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Oh, I see breaking in January does is a particularly
busy time for divorce attorneys. People want to get through
the holidays, they want to get through all of that,
and I get through seeing the family. Everything's fine here,
everything's fine, We're fine, We're fine, We're fine, and then
January it's like, okay, let's be done with this.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Something like January ninth, or the first second Monday or
something like that is always the highest rate of divorce, right.
I don't know if that's true, but that's sort of
been the trope for the last couple of years.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I'm a mess.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
What divorce? What would you rather do? Chop up? His
body and put it somewhere.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Well, that's the thing. We have a pact in the
home as if you want a divorce, if you want
to get rid of me, get rid of me, have
divorce me. Don't kill me, don't throw me off a cliff,
you know, go on, get a divorce. Well, that's what
I ask myself all the time when I'm watching these
you know, date lines.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Just get a divorce. You don't have to fake your.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Death in the kayak and go off and live in
Thailand for sixteen months. But you you don't have to
kill her and the kids.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
You don't get the sympathy to.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Be with the horror girl you found at the Arby's.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
You know, Just get a divorce.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Hey, I feel like I should stick up for employees
at Arby's.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I didn't say she was an employee. I said he
met her at the Arby's.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Right, okay, Hey, hey, hey, I feel like I should
stick up for customers at Arby's.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
You know, sometimes you get a play a good meat
in front of you and you lose your mind.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Good sloppy meat like that. Yeah you seven?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
What's the number seven?
Speaker 5 (09:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
Oh again, you were like, do I dare step up
this land like Jacob, you still love the number seven?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Mo Man?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Oh really, Oh my god, that's why that kid blew
out the bathroom all the time. I'm just kidding. That
didn't happen.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
About eighty percent of American adults think the government should
regulate AI, even if it means growing more slowly, growing
economically more slowly eighty percent.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Pew Research had a study that.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Said that only seventeen percent of Americans think that AI
is going to have a positive impact on the United
States over the next twenty years. Even congressional Democrats, at
a record low of eighteen percent, beat out AI as
having a positive impact on the United State dates going forward.
(10:02):
It's just a stunning and laughable number. This article from
Politico says that Gretchen Whitmer, for example, governor of Michigan, Michigan,
as they say, will post anything on social media. She
is immediately bombarded with messages to stop construction on data centers.
(10:26):
All I want for Christmas is legislation banning data centers
in Michigan.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Daycares love of Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Oh but I appreciate that, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I still get jokes.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
It's funny because you know, you've seen I think the
Trump administration have kind of a more liberal approach to AI,
haven't you. It doesn't seem like I mean, Trump knows
where the dollars are being printed. He's very astute when
it comes to where to make money, and AI clearly
(11:01):
is going to be where you make money in the future.
I don't know how, but definitely it's where we're headed.
So how do you make money off of it? And
at least until this thus far, he has kind of
had a anything goes.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Approach to AI, welcomes all the investment.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Which is kind of maybe a like I said, a
liberal stance when it comes to AI. But what do
the liberals feel? What have they done?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Well, it's a great it is.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
We're not caught up with it yet, we being the
general public, is not caught up with AI. There are
people who use it regularly, there are people who use
it well, there are people who take advantage of it
for a nefarious.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Perpose to use it all the time. We just don't
know we're using it.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
There's also that I mean, That's what I and that's
what I mean, is that we're we're not fully aware
of how ubiquitous. It is in our lives just yet,
and therefore our social attitudes towards it, our cultural attitudes
towards it haven't quite matured.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Perhaps, so if you're.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Looking to politicians, by the way, to be the ones
who push this fing forward, that is not what's going
to happen, because they're going to try to do They're
going to try to play the both direct both sides
of this coin. They're going to try to say, yes,
we need the innovation that comes with that comes with AI,
but we don't want to lose jobs to it. And
(12:26):
then if we lose jobs to it, we're going to
need a guaranteed basic income. You've got energy affordability issues
that come into this, and that's one of the reasons,
for example, in Michigan they fight so hard against data
centers is because the amount of electricity of those things
used is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yes, there's a headline in the La Times.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Today about a build a single building I think it's Vernon,
a single building in Vernon that is one of these
data centers that uses as much electricity as a small town. Yeah,
and the politicians are gonna have to get out in
front of it and figure out which how they can
squeeze the benefit out of AI, either opposing AI or
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using AI specifically in order to benefit all Americans and
not just you know, the ones who are going to
make the money.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Well, and who wants to corral AI and who wants
it to flourish? You know? Is it as simple as
the billionaires and then everybody else? Is it that simple?
Or are there people that are not looking just to
make money that are interested in.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Well, you can use it for things like research it.
I mean, there are positive things that we could all
use it for. But the more we go down that road,
the less we the less we rely on ourselves and
our own brains.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
And somebody, I.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Think that's awful. I think that that's a.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
More diet collapse.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
We're already there, like, we're already so lazy. Oh is it?
Is it burning down? Finally they're testing the firearms. Would
be nice if somebody sends it just a just a
quick email. It's just like a heads up, the fire's
not well. I mean, we weren't running out of here,
we weren't.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
You noticed that? That was our first reaction.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
You and I have kind of given up. What did
your wife say when she got one of.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Those alerts, you were like, what did that alert say?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
She said, I don't know. I didn't look at my phone.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Was it a an abduction alert or I think it was.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Evacuation I think it was like a sky is falling alert.
And she was like, you said that, she didn't even
bother to look at it. She's like, I'm giving up.
We kind of just did that, like we just treated
that like, eh, hey we have a we go down
in the fire, We go down in the fire.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Hey would make a headline. Maybe maybe not.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I feel like I had a point I was gonna
get to, Oh, we've already given up. Yeah, we've already
become so lazy where we're not using our creativity. When's
the last time you sat down and got creative in
your mind about your job or a specific problem or
something around the house or whatever, instead of picking up
your phone and being stimulated by something that has nothing
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to do with that, maybe on your way to figuring
out those things, you know. It's just it's so much
is lost, So much is wasted from just our basic
individual creative minds. And I don't even mean you don't
need to be creative. I'm not saying like you're a
craft princess, just your own creativity of how to parent,
(15:33):
how to be a friend, yeah, how to you know,
do anything.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Yeah, that's a real uh, that's a real bright spot going.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Into It's a muscle that we may not have worked
out that we can always go back to working out.
You know, your brain is still there. You can go
back to it and use it anytime you want to.
You just have to want to too much. Oh sorry,
I do have a plan for you.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
By the way, if one of your New Year's resolutions
is to drop a couple of LB's.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
I know you totally put this in the show because
you want to ship me off to China.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I don't want to do any of that.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
You get out of Sharpie your circle, all the problem
are is, and then you can say, here, China, you
deal with it.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I'm gonna get a big red cardboard arrow it just start.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Okay, Okay, we get it.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
It wasn't pointing. I wasn't.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
It's not that bad.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Diapers someone else's.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I think you're gonna be pretty good for a long time.
The people around here where I could see them making
their way into the diaper stage of late life.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Well here's the thing. But you've been here long enough
that you know some of those people.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
But you, I think you're gonna be good. You're gonna
be like my grandpa. You remind me a little bit
of paw. It's a little early to be calling you that, but.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Little unless you know something I don't what?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
No, Yes, Garyan Shannon kf I am six forty Live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio. We were talking earlier about the
latest indicator of a drop in tourism in Vegas is
the ten percent of fewer passengers through Harry Reid International Airport.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
What's up, Gary Shannon, love your show.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
This is Rick Fling, simple man. He's just giving you
a call in.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
You know, I used to live in Las Vegas for
a bit and I have to tell you it's it's
the hotel extra fees.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
The valet alone.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Can cost you a couple hundred dollars. It's just insane. Yeah,
we started raising the prices of all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
True. Everyone I knew was like, no, not coming. It's
so true. When you've done that, we need to pay
to park at your hotel in Vegas, f and you, yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
What do you mean, You're not gonna do it?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Not Gonnada, you are too gonna do that, gonna they
are gonna do it all right. In China, they are
very concerned about the size of their population, not the billion,
the individual.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
China has a growing obesity problem, and so what they
did is they established a network of commercial or government
affiliated weight loss prisons. Essentially, they're camps, but the kind
of like prisons. China needs a fit population. They know
what you've been preaching for years that we need a
(18:30):
fit military, a fit people. We need a fit people
to feed into the military to be a strong country.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
And their government doesn't mind hurting people's feelings to get that,
not one bit.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
So these military style camps have become an apt choice
for those who have given up on fad diets, new
Year's resolutions, things like that, weight loss management products. So
as well as following strict diet plans, which I'll get to,
participants are expected doing age and strenuous activities each day, treadmill, stuff,
(19:03):
boxing routines, intense cardio. The facility keeps its steel gates
firmly shut. One woman from Australia is currently hold up
in a camp there in China. She has candidly shared
an inside look of her grueling daily routine. She's twenty
eight and she's been documenting her stay. It's four weeks long.
(19:24):
She paid little less than one thousand dollars for a
four week fat camp. Yeah, it's one thousand bucks, very affordable.
She revealed that she exercises for four hours every day
and attends nineteen classes a week, starting with a group
aerobics class each morning. That's followed by a group hit classes,
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high intensity interval training classes, and then a second aerobics
session in the afternoon, before finishing with an evening spin class.
Here in California, we charge about twenty thousand dollars a
month for this camp.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
The meals consumed between the workouts are carefully portioned out
on trays. One breakfast was a single piece of bread,
chopped tomato and cucumber, and four hard boiled egg.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Pretty good. It's a pretty good high protein. Again, if
you went to this prison in Ohi, for example, her
napper or whatever you would be, you would get the
same kind of food, maybe on a nicer tray. The
gates might look nicer that surround the property, right, but
(20:34):
women pay a lot of Like if you want to
go to the one of those camps or one of
those weight lost places in Ohi or wherever, this is
a good alternative for under one thousand bucks or four weeks,
same kind of deal, workout classes all day. It's a
it's an economical option.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
This one. You gotta get to check.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
You gotta get to China. I don't know what the
flights to China are like, let's look.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
The woman says that she looked most looks forward to lunchtime.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
That's when the most food is served.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
A meal consists of usually braised duck, lotus roots, stir
fried vegetables, rock, harrots, and a banana. She said if
bunking with up to five roommates and exercising in groups
isn't suffocating enough, Participants are not allowed to leave the
premises without quote valid reasons, and you are expected to
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forfeit any banned food item at the beginning of the program,
such as instant ramen, noodles, dried picked and fried snacks.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Okay, this is a lot like I found a fitness resort.
I found a fitness resort up in northern California, same
kind of deal, about three thousand dollars a week. You
can get a NonStop to Shanghai and back for about
seven fifty fifty bucks. And with thousand dollars for I mean,
(22:00):
you're saving money handover fist. If you want to do
this thing, go to China. Eh see what this show
gives me? Yeah, see what this show gives you, she said.
Quitting the program might be difficult. Imagine spending three thousand
dollars a week.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Yeah, I mean I know that people do it.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yeah, I just prefer to come in here for free
and have you fat shame me for four hours?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Does work on everybody?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
It doesn't work on everybody.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
You're right, you're right. We all pick our paths.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
There's an outdoor washroom area, a high pressure shower, and
a squat toilet.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah, well that's that's what you get. You're going to
get in China. That's the kind of toilets they have. Yeah,
that's that's weird.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
That's not weird that it would be unusual if you're
if you're not used to that sort of thing. My god,
you never graced the top side of one of those
what do you mean you ever used one.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
A squat toilet? Yeah, I peed into a hole in
the ground in Japan. Oh, it's really not that big
of a deal. Okay, good, I mean it's not definitely
not a big deal for you. You pee standing up in
holes all the time most of the time, shrubberies or
what have you, rubberies wherever you guys pee out inside. Yeah,
(23:26):
it's a it's it's it's a workout for the.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Quats because oh, because you got Yeah, you have to.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Squad because you don't want to just do it up here?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Why not you.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Want to you don't want to splash hit the thing.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (23:47):
From Lobster for the Lobster Story.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
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appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Well, I mean, it's just weird that he's paying attention
to the show. That is a very rare thing.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
He's doing that to every second.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I know, it's like it's always a surprise, and it's
I'm delighted. I try my best yes, you do, and
I appreciate it, it really do. Were you going to
say something Gary before we got to the lobster.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
About what, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
You were looking at your screen or were you watching
the Ala Mobile or whatever?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Oh, because you put money on Coastal Carolina Independence Bowl.
Yeah I think it is.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah Independence bawl.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Did you we just straight bet that game? There were
no points or anything that we negotiated. Well, you picked
Coastal Carolina. It means I get Louisiana Tech. How it works?
What's the score here? You know what we're betting for?
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Right?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
No pizza?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Oh look at that.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Oh you're up seven?
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Pair up seven, right, and.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
We'll get pizza right before we go to that fat
camp in China. So here is the story that kind
of raised my eyebrows this morning. A truckload of lobster
has been stolen from a Massachusetts facility. They did it
using a sophisticated fishing and impersonation scam. How much lobster
(25:25):
was on this truck well to the tune of four
hundred thousand dollars worth of lobster. Now you see that
kind of total and you think, ah, someone jacked this
truck to get the lobsters and'll sell them in the
black market make all that money. Nay, I argue it
was our friend Christine, you think so. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I don't think she ever served any prison time.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
No, she did not. She got like probation or something.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Canadia anyway, that's right, it.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Was Nova Scotia. But that's a it's right across the way,
Massachusetts is right there.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
They said that this was a pretty pretty complex scheme.
First part of it involved a phishing scam pH fishing.
According to a detective, the culprit, ever so slightly altered
an email domain name of the real trucking company, and
the logistics firm hired what turned out to be the
fraudulent trucking company. And then the driver shows up on
(26:34):
the twelfth of December to collect the lobster shipment at
this Massachusetts cold storage center run by a third party
where the rexing company logistics firm is a customer and
they store the lobster there.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Now, the guy who owns the company.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Says he believes the culprit impersonated a carrier by presenting
a fake commercial driver's license, and the tractor trailer had
in the real trucking company's name and the real trail
trailer number on the side, so that part of it
worked out, but it was a fake driver using a
real truck.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Would you buy lobster out of a trunk? No black
market lobster. My mom used to buy a baloni out
of a trunk, quite quite literally, a guy that she'd
meet at the Ralph's parking lot and the back there,
and she would buy the abaloney out of the trunk.
Illegally different, I think, I because I'm not a lobster
fan anyway, so I wouldn't go to great lengths to
(27:31):
acquire it. I just find it to be a vehicle
for butter. And I don't need to spend that kind
of money for a vehicle for butter.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Just use the butter.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Just use the butter. You know, I'm at the point
where I don't need a vehicle for it, you know,
just take a spoon. But why did I talking about
a spoon? Come on, but uh, look, if you take
the paper off, I'm wondering though, Like you need to
keep the lobster in a tank and all that, Like,
there's up there's maintenance that go into keeping four hundred
(28:01):
thousand dollars worth of lobster to the point where you
can resell them and them still be good.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah, I would imagine.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
After this lobster was picked up, it was originally destined
for Costco apparently in Minnesota and Illinois.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
It's clearly an inside job, isn't it. Well, it's somebody
knew where those lobsters were and knew how to pick
that off and all that.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Right, the thief or thieves turned off the GPS tracker
and the big rig and they haven't seen them since.
And again, that would have been December twelfth. So if
these things are still on ice, they gone bad. You
do not want to eat this kind of lobster. Dad,
lobster twelve No, twelve days now, no, nineteen days no.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
No. The other terrible animal story we have involved swans.
Twelve swans have died in the past week at our
land or why are you laughing? Are you laughing at
the picture of the dead swan? You're an awful person?
Are an awful persons? What's funny? I was just going
(29:06):
to say before I got into this story. You know
what my opening line was going to be to you,
you never seen a dead swan because It is an
odd picture. That is, it is like a car It's
a cartoon of a dead swan. Essentially, it's just two
flipped up side down.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Yeah, one is alive and you know, floating on the
top of the water, and the other one is dead.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I've never seen a swan's undercarriage like this upside down.
It's not it is not it's feet or flop lady
like wind. It's not ladylike. But here's a problem. They
say that these dead swans, twelve of them, twelve of
them have died in this Orlando park. They think it's
caused by the avian flu, and they think that this
(29:48):
is going to be a massive public safety bird flu
pandemic situation that people are trying to keep on.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
The hush hush.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
But the dead swans are the proof.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
In the water that they're saying. At least, what's her name, Richie,
you're sick, Patty. She is the Orlando City commissioner.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Do you have fever?
Speaker 2 (30:14):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Fatigue, no cough, kinder muscle akes none, sore throat none,
shortness of breath, no runny nose, no eye redness, no headaches,
no pneumonia.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
God forbid, no Okay, you do not have the bird flu.
Thank god. I thought like the first five nose would
have been enough for you to say he didn't have pneumonia.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Well you're not a doctor, are you.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Are you don't?
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Year's plan bird flu can't be transmitted if those birds
come in close contact to humans, and they said that
infected birds shed flu viruses in their saliva, their mucus,
and their feces. Stay away from all the liquids. When
you're dealing with sick birds. Oh, sick bird. Oh, when
(31:08):
we come back. You know what time it is.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
No, it's not. It's not noon.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I wouldn't I wouldn't lie.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Is it noon?
Speaker 2 (31:16):
There are clocks all over this noon.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
I'll be damned.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
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