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November 11, 2024 32 mins
SwampWatch: Veterans Day Donations. Newsnation – Robert Sherman talks about transition efforts kick into higher gear – Trump names new ‘Border Czar’ and Un Ambassador. Wellness: Ball Mutation. Jake Paul Vs Tyson this weekend.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Gosh, I still don't want to talk about politics.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
I know.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
On Friday when we had our news and Bruce ps,
thank you for everyone who came out. That was great,
a great time. Luchador Brewing and Chino Hills. What a
fantastic family that runs it and the people that all.
I mean, it was so nice meeting new Gas family members.
Not that your new family member, but there were some
virgins there that had never been to a news.

Speaker 4 (00:32):
And Bruce.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Hatzi Tatsis Hatzi Taties. They were our listeners are very
good looking, very good looking people.

Speaker 5 (00:44):
Well then what do you want to do if you
want to talk politics?

Speaker 2 (00:46):
I don't know. I was thinking about finding a story
about a living.

Speaker 6 (00:49):
Dog's that's a good Let's take some more of these
tributes in on our Veterans.

Speaker 7 (00:54):
Day platform for veterans, I'd like to give a shout
out to my husband, Wayne Campbell, a Vietnam era marine
who now volunteers helping other veterans. Oh rah, And for
my son Kyle Campbell, a Quantico graduate, with dreams of
becoming a naval eighty eator had his life not been
cut short by a car accident on the Ventura Highway.

(01:17):
Thank you to all veterans for keeping our country safely.

Speaker 5 (01:20):
Thank you for your story.

Speaker 8 (01:22):
Hey, guys, just want to give a shout out to
my veteran husband, Bob. He's got a lot of stories
and pictures about the shullback initiation in the Navy when
they go across the equator, and for those guys in
the Navy, I'm not kidding you, that's some stuff right there.

Speaker 5 (01:46):
Anyway, Thanks Bob, love you. Have you ever heard about
the shellback ceremonies.

Speaker 9 (01:51):
No.

Speaker 5 (01:51):
I think we've talked about it a little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
It sounds vaguely familiar, but I don't have enough knowledge stems.

Speaker 6 (01:56):
I mean, it goes back hundreds of years, but the
idea that when you cross they they'll do some.

Speaker 5 (02:03):
Crazy, crazy thing.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yes, I do remember hearing about this.

Speaker 5 (02:06):
And I mean to the it started.

Speaker 6 (02:10):
Think of the worst college fraternity hazing stories that you've
heard of, and that's what used to happen on I
don't think they do it as aggressively as they do now.
They don't do it now as aggressively as they did
then by Garry Shannon.

Speaker 10 (02:23):
This is Jacob san CLEMENTI. I just want to give
a shout out to my father in law, John Bradley,
who's a Vietnam VET two Purple Hearts. He's a pretty
badass dude. And my grandfather World War two captain the
Submarines South Pacific Fleet. Thank you to both of them
and everybody else that's served this beautiful country.

Speaker 11 (02:45):
Thank you, guys.

Speaker 6 (02:46):
My father in law, also naval aviator, served in Vietnam
and then went on to become an admiral's aide for
a while. Even flew with some little group of blue
airplanes called the Blue Angels something like that.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
That's so cool.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
I don't know how you can live with yourself with
your father in law being a Blue Angel.

Speaker 6 (03:06):
Those are some big shoes to fill. Those are big shoes,
But I don't we wear different shoes.

Speaker 9 (03:13):
Jean the Inventor. I want to thank and remember my parents,
George and Lydia, for serving in the US Army during
World War Two. My dad served in the Mechanized Cavalry
in North Africa. My mom in the Intelligence Corps at
the Pentagon. My older brother served in the US Army
during the Vietnam era. I want to thank all veterans
who have served. Thank you. You know, I think there's.

Speaker 6 (03:37):
That family makeup when both mom and dad are service members.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
That's that is a unique kind of household.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Is it is in terms of moving and order and
deployments and things like that. Sailors who have not yet
crossed the equator, known as pollywogs, put through a series
of initiation rights that can include gags, obstacles, physical hardships,
and other embarrassing tasks. Then they're inducted into the solemn

(04:07):
mysteries of the ancient order of the Deep.

Speaker 5 (04:14):
I'm not missing out on it.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
No you are not.

Speaker 5 (04:16):
I don't think I've ever crossed the equator.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
I have a story about bird watchers, and I have
a story about breast milk.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
It's a real dealer's choice.

Speaker 5 (04:26):
What a ding dong you have?

Speaker 2 (04:28):
So you get to.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Pick, but first your jeopardy question because it is military related.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
Oh that makes sense, Go on.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yes, it is one of your favorite categories. I do
believe women in the armed forces for two hundred dollars.

Speaker 5 (04:45):
Why did you say it like that?

Speaker 6 (04:47):
Elmer, give me this computer over here and I got
the music's going to play and it's going to be glorious.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
I don't hear it.

Speaker 5 (04:53):
It will Oh okay, I'll get to it.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Dud doo do doo.

Speaker 5 (05:04):
Nope, not yet. Go on.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Women in the Armed Forces for two hundred dollars in
two thousand and eight, and Dunwoodie became the first woman
promoted to the rank of full or four star of
this general.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Good job, ding ding ding.

Speaker 6 (05:24):
A quick note of swamp watchy stuff before we move
on to the next segment.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
To breast milk and bird watching.

Speaker 6 (05:30):
President Biden and President elect Donald Trump are going to
meet at the White House.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
That sounds like a fun time.

Speaker 6 (05:38):
They will meet in the Oval Office eleven o'clock on Wednesday.
Of course, Trump, projected to win the presidential election, defeated
Vice President Kambal Harri.

Speaker 5 (05:48):
I don't think she's going to be there. I don't know.
They haven't said.

Speaker 6 (05:52):
But at her concession speech, she told the supporters, I
spoke with the President elect and congratulated him on his victory.
Also told him that we will help him and his
team with their transition and that we will engage in
a peaceful.

Speaker 5 (06:05):
Transfer of power. Is what she said.

Speaker 6 (06:07):
So again, that looks like Wednesday is when that's going
to take place.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
So are you all right? Just fun hanging in there,
hanging in by a thread? So here we go.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
I've got a bird watching world record, item of news
to tell you about, or a record when it comes
to breast milk.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Pick your poison.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
You want bird watching records or breast milk record?

Speaker 6 (06:33):
Is this stemming from your dog nipple? In investigation?

Speaker 1 (06:37):
No, what does that have to do with birds bird watching?
They don't Birds don't have nipples, Gary, did you know that?
I never thought of it, but I guess it makes sense.

Speaker 12 (06:48):
We just want to wish if Victor Killingsworth a happy birthday,
big shout out to him. His birthday is actually today,
one hundred four years old. How about that. We had
a wonderful birthday for him yesterday. A couple of local
politicians came out to honor him, and we are looking
forward to his one hundred and fifth birthday next November eleven.

Speaker 5 (07:08):
Smoke old, Victor, Go Victor.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
We've got to change the batteries on that thing.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
We've talked about how birds don't have nipples, remember, because
they're not mammals.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
We've talked about this.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
We've sat here and talked about the fact that birds
don't have no all.

Speaker 6 (07:20):
Right, you don't have to be angry about the lack
of nipples on birds fevers.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Sometimes it's not about the milk.

Speaker 13 (07:28):
Apparently you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KFI AM six forty.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Well, the transition officially doesn't happen until January, but Team
Trump has their transition efforts into high gear. Robert Sherman
from News Nation joins us with the appointees as we
know them.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Robert, what do we know about these people?

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah, so it's all starting to slot together rather quickly.
So I'll just give you the quick rundown. Susie Wilds
is going to be the White House Chief of Staff.
We've known that one for a few days. Alistefonic, congresswoman
from New York will be assuming the position of Ambassador
to the UN. Stephen Miller was in the last administration
as a senior advisor. He'll be Deputy chief of Policy.

(08:14):
And then you have Tom Holman, who was the acting
Ice Director during Trump's last go thru in the White House.
It'll be taking over this position. What is being called
the borders are being responsible for the southern border, northern
border immigration policy as a whole. And this is all
falling under the umbrella of his promises made, promises kept.

(08:35):
Slogan that the President elect has said is that there's
gonna be a big emphasis on tackling inflation, foreign affairs,
and of course immigration as well. So that's what we're
starting to see come together.

Speaker 6 (08:47):
I know it's not lost on people every time we
say Donald Trump did something I've never seen before. But
Saturday he posted on truth Social that Nikki Haley and
Mike Pompeo were not going to have a role in
the upcoming administration.

Speaker 5 (09:02):
Let's talk about what.

Speaker 6 (09:04):
Transgressions perhaps those two did against Trump to preclude them
from being involved in the next administration.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
You know, I mean for Nicki Haley, I would say
it's a bit more out in the open. Here is
that you did see Nicki Haley stepping forward as that
initial challenger to him in the primary process, and you
know there's been a war of words between those two.
She's come back around and threw your support behind him
ahead of the election, but he has said that he's

(09:33):
not going to go with her this go around. And
for Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo. He was a part
of the last administration, but they've decided to go a
bit of a different direction here. What we've heard from
both of them, though, is that they both have said
that they were very grateful for the opportunity to serve
from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty and are more focused
on putting America first. That's what they've put out publicly here.

(09:55):
What's going on behind the scenes, of course, that's anybody's guest.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
What do we know about the who has the Trump card?

Speaker 1 (10:06):
I guess you could say when it comes to the
fight between governors of sanctuary states and Tom Homan, who says,
you know what, if you're going to stand in my way,
get that, just get the hell out of the way,
I think is what he told Fox News over the weekend.
What can governors do, if anything, to stop any sort
of mass deportation efforts?

Speaker 3 (10:25):
You know, that's going to be a very interesting question
to see here, and I think that there's something to
read in between the lines here, So let's go around.
Tom Holman served as the acting ICE Director, which is
a position that needs to be confirmed by the United
States Senate, So there's a potential check and balance there.
This go around, it's a more informal created position and

(10:46):
borders are no Senate confirmation needed. You've heard what Tom
Holman has said over the last few months, I mean,
especially his speech given at the RNC where he said,
you know, if you're an illegal alien who's been here
for thirty four years, start packing your bags now. If
you're a Mexican cartel member, we're coming for you. I mean,

(11:06):
that has been the rhetoric that has been coming for
mister Homan, particularly so the fact that he has this position,
which is yes, it's in the administration, but it doesn't
require that confirmation. It'll be interesting to see what kind
of checks Democrats are able to offer here, because it
is a different strategy and tact being used to go around.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
Now in that vein, a lot of the people on
the left are saying, oh, there's going to be The
term they're using is concentration camps, that there is a
possibility for entire families to be deported, family detention, things
like that, because you have to have holding areas right
and so they're calling them concentration camps.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
It wasn't that.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Long ago that the people on the right, called Obama's
holding area kids in cages.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Right, right. Yeah, So, I mean, I mean that's the
level of rhetoric that surrounds this issue, right, And you're
going to hear a lot of that over the next
few months, because this is something that the Trump transition
team says is a top priority for them. You've heard
the President elect talking about the deportation efforts that are
going to be made in the early days of the
administration for those who applied for asylum and were denied

(12:18):
and legally we're supposed to leave the country basically on
an honor policy and have not up to this point.
Those are the people who they're going to be focusing on,
and those you know in that vein as well. So, yeah,
you're going to see a lot of heightened rhetoric about
this coming from both sides over the next over the

(12:39):
next few months.

Speaker 6 (12:40):
So can you describe what kind of influenced Trump would
have when it comes to congressional leadership.

Speaker 5 (12:46):
We know that at least Dephonic is a member of the.

Speaker 6 (12:50):
Republican leadership in the House, and then the arguments as
to who should be the next majority leader in the
Senate coming in in January how much influence would Trump
have on those decisions.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
I think that it would be a mistake to think
that Donald Trump is not the face of the Republican
Party in any capacity right now. He's certainly the big
shot caller. And the fact that he won the popular vote,
the fact that you saw swings to the right in
all of these states here, really indicates the kind of
authority and political power that he'll be entering this White

(13:26):
House Oval office with that. But it stands to reason
that that is going to continue. Now that being said,
there is going to be a challenge here for this
new incoming administration. Our decision DEESK HQ numbers say that
it's a eighty percent chance or so that Republicans take
the House. They're going to have a very very slim majority.
When it comes to the Senate, they'll have a little

(13:47):
bit more wiggle room here. But it is clear that
in order for a lot of these processes to move
through the legislative branch and up to the executive branch,
there will likely be a lot of politics around all
of this and have to work with the middle of
the road congressmen and women just because of how tight
these majorities are. So he has a reason. He will

(14:09):
play a big role in determining who the shock callers are.
But they are working with very very slim majorities more
than likely in all levels of government.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
Robert, great stuff, Thanks so much, appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (14:24):
Robert Sherman there with the News Nation. He points out
something I mentioned this last week too. There's a lot
of people that are concerned that Trump, with a Republican
Congress and a Republican Senate, is just going to be
able to do whatever he wants, which is not the
way that it's going to work. He had Republican House
and Senate when he was in office the first time
and didn't get everything through that he wanted to. There

(14:47):
will develop, like Robert was saying, that sort of moderate
middle of the road more I don't even say more
liberal Republicans, or at least very more or moderate Republicans
who do not want to see all of the things
that the Donald Trump has been talking about.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
All right, coming up next, testical mutations. You heard that right,
men could become extinct due to testical mutations. You heard that, right,
Gary and Shannon will continue with testicle talk.

Speaker 13 (15:25):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
God, that's what I was just waiting to cut back
on the air because I teased it and I didn't
want to just tell you off the air you're being
all selfish or with your breast milk news, and you're like,
tell me, well, it's a breast milk story. Cool your jets,
all right, hold your horses, Hold your horses.

Speaker 5 (15:47):
I say, that's one of my lines in the show.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
There is a woman, an extraordinary woman, I would say,
from Texas, that has claimed a Guinness World Record thanks
to her generous heart and generous nipples.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
It's the whole breast, really, it's involved, right.

Speaker 5 (16:06):
Oh, I know what story.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
Okay, you've you know this already. I'm not breaking breast
milk news with you.

Speaker 5 (16:13):
Well, I saw the headline. You saw the headline caught
my eye.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
Alice Ogletree has set the world record for the most
amount of breast milk donated by a single person. Do
you want to know how much breast milk she has donated?

Speaker 6 (16:32):
Yes, I saw the number, but I don't remember what
the unit of measurement was.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
Seven hundred gallons. Yeah, why do you know such particulars?
About this story again, No, it's in the headline.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
It was not a headline. There's no you have to
look for this kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
Do you think I just stumble across breast milk stories
to share with you. I seek them out, which means
you seek them out. D Wait, you just said you
seek them out. This was a record she had previously broken.
In twenty fourteen, following the birth of her son, Kyle,
she was told that she could donate the extra amount
of milk she was producing to women who wanted to

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breastfeed their infants but were struggling. The suggestion was made
when the nurses observed how much excess breast milk Elise
was producing. I mean she was just pumping all of
that out, pump pump, pump.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
Spuce bucepew.

Speaker 5 (17:27):
She says.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
I have a big heart, but at the end of
the day, I'm not made of money, and I can't
give away money to good causes over over and over
because I have a family support.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
But she can donate her breast milk after Kyle was born.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
By the time Kyle was finished nursing, she had donated
four hundred and fourteen gallons, and some of that a
lot of that came after Kyle was done nursing, so
like the kid was done, she kept the milk just
kept on going. Well, I mean, if she's still expressing it. No,

(18:08):
that's not the right word. She is still expressing milk, okay?
Or is that like a wound.

Speaker 5 (18:14):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
I don't know. The milk banks.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
Director said that they were shocked and astonished by this
amount of breast milk.

Speaker 6 (18:22):
I was gonna say, if you're still pumping, which still
sounds very factory like, but it's a if you're still pumping,
it'll it'll keep coming.

Speaker 5 (18:32):
Okay, that's enough.

Speaker 11 (18:33):
Hello, This shut out goes up to my buddy Felix
Enrique Kasas the third who sacrificed over twenty years in
the Army, and he also happens to be out in
the East side of the United States assisting hurricane victims.
Thank you for all that you do, buddy, Love you, Felix, Trina,

(18:53):
it's very nice.

Speaker 14 (18:54):
Hey, Gary and Channon. I hope you guys start feeling better.
It's a beautiful day and you need to feel better.
I want to thank my dad. He was in the
Army Air Corps. He was a pilot he trained other
pilots and had some experiences with train and some frightening experiences,

(19:19):
but he didn't have to go to war.

Speaker 15 (19:21):
He was lucky.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Okay, I told you about the breast milk. You tell
me about the testical mutations.

Speaker 6 (19:29):
So scientists are suggesting that the male species could become
extinct because Y chromosomes are beginning to fail. They have
been looking at humans and mammals. Obviously that our gender
is determined by the X and Y chromosomes, unless you

(19:49):
go by the genderbread person, which is a different thing.
Men have X and Y chromosomes. Women have two Y chromosomes,
and they only make up about four percent of our DNA,
but that obviously can.

Speaker 5 (20:02):
Be some of the biggest differences in your life.

Speaker 6 (20:06):
And now they're suggesting that the Y chromosome is decreasing.

Speaker 5 (20:12):
Y chromosome is tiny.

Speaker 6 (20:14):
There's only forty five genes on the Y chromosome and
only one gene that actually makes it a male.

Speaker 5 (20:19):
That's not always the case.

Speaker 6 (20:20):
Is the Y used to be very similar to the X,
and it had about nine hundred genes, but the numbers
continue to dwindle. Sex chromosomes originally evolved from identical chromosomes
that had nothing to do with sex, and result whatever
is left is useless. An Australian geneticist says, the Y
chromosome is in the testicle and is never in an ovary,

(20:43):
but testicles are not a safe place to live. To
keep that in mind, kids, when you're thinking about moving
out after a college, testicles are not a safe place
to live. Usually, damage suffered on a chromosome can be fixed,
as they can swap DNA with opposite chromosome. Unfortunately, for
why though it's all alone, there is no pair, and

(21:05):
not only that, it has lost ninety seven percent of
those ancestral genes. An X chromosome still pretty much the
same as it always been, meaning it's more likely to
survive this drastic shortage, but the exact time the why
disappears forever is yet to be determined. Fruitflies, as an
example to sopholmelan gaster, fruitflies have testicles. Huh, they've already

(21:29):
lost all of their Y chromosomes.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
So fruitflies are all female?

Speaker 5 (21:35):
That's clinically impossible, right.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Do fruit flies.

Speaker 5 (21:45):
Testicles? There is a.

Speaker 6 (21:50):
Interesting this Australian geneticis Jenny Graves No says we need
to worry.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
Their testicles are so large they make up eleven percent
of the body mass.

Speaker 5 (22:03):
Of a fruit fly.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Yeah, imagine if one tenth of you was your testicles.

Speaker 5 (22:13):
That's seventeen pounds of.

Speaker 6 (22:17):
This geneticis says, we still probably have another six or
seven million years until the Y chromosome is completely gone.

Speaker 5 (22:24):
But at that point, party up, ladies.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
We're all set for what we learned this week on
the Gary and Shannon Show, aren't we.

Speaker 5 (22:31):
We're getting a lot.

Speaker 16 (22:31):
My money to engage. Honoring my husband who is a
Navy preserved that my son who just recently finished his
military first and Air Force then accepted into Space Force.
My gratitude and appreciation to all happy Veterans's.

Speaker 5 (22:53):
All of our gratitude appreciation.

Speaker 17 (22:55):
I like to wish happier Veterans Day to all veterans
out there, and to my father who was a Marine
co talker, and to my uncle James Ashke who was
a Vietnam veteran, Thank you very much for your service.

Speaker 5 (23:10):
Co talkers. We talked about those.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yeah, there's one remaining.

Speaker 5 (23:14):
Yeah, hey, guys on this veteran's dad.

Speaker 4 (23:16):
I'd like to remember my dad, who was a sergeant
in the Army in Germany in the mid sixties.

Speaker 8 (23:24):
And my.

Speaker 4 (23:27):
Fraternal grandfather who was a lieutenant in the army cargo
security officer made six crossings of the Atlantic, and my
maternal grandfather who was a Chief petty officer in the CBS.

Speaker 15 (23:42):
On Sidepan and Hi, Gary and Shannon, my father in
law I want to honor is now ninety nine years old,
still living in his own home, and is a World
War Two veteran. I really want to let all of

(24:02):
my family members that have served in this in the
military a wonderful Veterans Day.

Speaker 5 (24:09):
Thanks, no, thank you.

Speaker 6 (24:10):
Don't be sad about a ninety nine year old World
War Two vet living home and alone. I mean, if
he's capable of doing it and living out in his
own home.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
That's not one.

Speaker 5 (24:18):
That's amazing. That's an amazing life.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
It really is. All right. Coming up next, do you.

Speaker 6 (24:26):
Want to do the push up story? We haven't done
the push ups yet. We're not doing push ups today.
Blanket rule. We don't do push ups on Mondays.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
But the.

Speaker 5 (24:36):
Do you know how many push ups you could do?

Speaker 9 (24:38):
No?

Speaker 2 (24:39):
I was thinking about that when I was reading through.

Speaker 6 (24:41):
Okay, well we'll talk about that and then this Jake Paul,
Mike Tyson.

Speaker 5 (24:44):
Fight is this weekend. Yeah, you don't seem excited.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
I'm not. I'm not a big fight person.

Speaker 5 (24:50):
I'm jacked up for this.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
I mean I would love to see Mike Pyson and
Mike Pyson, yes him too, that's how tuned in.

Speaker 5 (24:57):
I am the budget, Mike Tyson, Mike.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
The generic. I would love to see Mike Tyson level
this kid.

Speaker 5 (25:05):
It would be great.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
Yeah, there's a lot of comment and I don't like.
I don't like having that feeling. You know, it's not cool,
But that's what fights.

Speaker 6 (25:12):
Are for, right, Gary and Shannon will continue.

Speaker 13 (25:15):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
A M six forty.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
I have a really hard time doing the show when
things are going on and not talking about things. It's
very difficult, and frankly, it's just it's a very sad
day here, very sad day.

Speaker 5 (25:39):
Well, it's it's made headlines.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
It's made headlines.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
iHeartMedia is slashing people left and right, and the entire
news department essentially is being fired right now as we speak,
and has been since this show started. And uh, it's

(26:05):
it's very hard to talk about it because of what
it's meant to our lives and.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Everyone else listening.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
And I mean, these are people that you have connections
with that you have for for years, and that the
place where you turn to get news and local news
and KFI has always been the place, and the company
has decided that.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
That we don't need that anymore.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Essentially, it's it's part of the new world of us
getting news alerts on our phones, using you know, apps
for news and traffic and everything else. But we're losing
so much of the personal aspect of news gaps gathering
and holding people accountable and being out there and connected

(27:05):
to the community and feeling like the news media is
connected to you. And it's just, yes, it makes sense financially,
I guess if you're going to be the person who
has to to make those cuts. But god, you're losing
so much, and the station's losing so much, and everyone
listening is losing so much.

Speaker 6 (27:24):
I mean, listen, it's it's people that we know for decades, yeah,
in some cases.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Decades, and just the reason that we wanted to come
here decades ago was for that news department legendary. I mean, uh,
Steve Gregory just took home a national Murrow Award. It's
not like there's been a drop off. I mean, well
we when we left.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
No, I'm just kidding.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
But you know, it's not like they're there. It's not
like they're an underperforming news department. It's just that news
and they're finding this in TV news as well. Is
it's just not making money. And in this world, you've
got to do that.

Speaker 5 (28:11):
Yeah, So this is going to be a rough.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
It's going to be a rough day for It's going
to be a rough time. That's a better way to
put it. You know, there's been so few people that
have come back after the pandemic and everything, and now,
I mean.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
This is really.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
This is a in k if I will have a plan,
there will be a plan to still get news. It's
just you're just not going to get it from your
friends anymore. Yeah, I mean not all your friends anymore anyway.
But it is a hard thing to do. It's a
hard thing to realize that you did not see it coming,

(28:50):
that you get the phone call that you lost your job.
You know, you got kids in some situations, you got
you know, mortgages and apartment rent and everything, and then
you've got to just figure out where you thought that
your your career was solid, and I know that you know,
this is not the only place that's gone through this.
I mean, unfortunately, a lot of people in their lives

(29:11):
will have that realization at one point.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
Oh man, I got what's planned b right?

Speaker 6 (29:18):
Well, and it's I mean, we've been through, We've been
through in all the places that we've worked, We've been
through times like this where someone gets let go for whatever.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
And it's someone someone right, or it's a big person,
a big name, but it's one it's not it's not
a lot.

Speaker 5 (29:36):
And and this this is different because it is a lot.

Speaker 6 (29:39):
There are a lot of people, a lot of names,
and you know, some of which will it'll all come
out in the next few days and stuff. But still
it's not it's awful, highly unusual.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
I've never worked at a place where this much a
has gone on at once. No, I mean, and from
top to bottom, that's the thing. Not that anyone's on
the bottom, but like it's everybody.

Speaker 6 (30:09):
Like it's everybody, yeah, from the mailroom to the c suite.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
And I'm probably gonna get in trouble for this, but
I just can't do a show and not talk about
what's going on.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
That's just not who we are.

Speaker 6 (30:19):
That is the weird thing about it is that it's
I mean, we're in this room, we're here, but in
that hallway that's ten feet away from us, there are
people carrying boxes out.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
Right out there are people escorting them out at the building.

Speaker 6 (30:34):
And maybe it means it's an opportunity for us to
uh be thankful for the I mean for the next
forty five seconds of job that we have.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
I mean, I have no idea.

Speaker 6 (30:49):
That's the part about it that is the that is
the uh, the uncomfortable part of it, or the one
of the one of many uncomfortable parties.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
Well, and I mean, yeah we're okay today, Sure, that's
so anyway, So that's what's going on. That's why we
sound a little bit disjointed probably today. It's just it's
really hard to continue to talk about, you know, news

(31:19):
and cabinet appointments and everything when people's lives are being
upended as we speak.

Speaker 5 (31:26):
It's awful.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
And something that we held so dear is just crumbling
in the KFI news department. All right, Oh, hey, guess
what big twelve o'clock hours coming up? Maybe we'll get
into that bird watching story. That's probably a great idea.

Speaker 6 (31:44):
Okay, Gary and Shannon will continue right after this. You've
been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show. You can
always hear us live on KFI AM six forty nine
am to one pm every Monday through Friday, and anytime
on demand on the ihet Heart Radio app.

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