(12/17) GAS Hour 3 - SwampWatch

#SwampWatch
Liquid Death Pit Diaper. Early Birds Club.

Episode Transcript

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. We are awaiting a briefing coming
from Madison, Wisconsin with regard to this fifteen year old
female shooter yesterday that killed two people, killed herself, six

(00:21):
injured to remain in critical condition.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
The Dow is down almost three hundred points right now,
and if it ends up this way, it's going to
be the ninth straight day of negative numbers on the
Dow Jones Industrial Average. If it does end negative today,
it would be the first nine day losing streak for
the Dow since the nineteen seventies. She had two hundred

(00:46):
and fifteen points early today, it's now down to two
hundred and eighty. The losing streak began the day after
it closed above forty five thousand for the first time ever,
just earlier this month. Even if it does go even
if it ends down three hundred points day, it's still
going to be up over forty three thousand, so still
in some pretty amazing territory.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
What do you want to do? Swamp point? Okay, swamp
is horrible. The government doesn't.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Work man going to make us like a reality TV
shooting wasn't bad.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Noos always a pleasure to be anywhere from Washington, d C.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Hey Joe, a.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
Town all too clearly built on a swamp and in
so many ways.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Still a swamp. A batch of my work.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
Nobody said, drained the swamp.

Speaker 6 (01:31):
I said, oh, that's so keeps you know that.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
They just a side note before we're get into d
C stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
They are expecting to do an update out of Madison,
Wisconsin on yesterday's school shooting. So if that, if they
bring us some information, we can probably get to that live.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
If we need to, well nothing, it sounds better. It
just sounds better. I'm just keeping it on the top
of my mind. I don't want anybody to feel like bad
or thinking something.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Here's a really deep cut in terms of the way
our electoral process works. At state capitals around the United
States today, presidential electors are casting their electoral votes. This
would officially give a formalized I should say President elect
Donald Trump the victory over Kamala Harris for the election,
largely ceremonial, obviously, it's the next step in our process

(02:24):
in the presidential election. I just remember that four years ago,
people started thinking.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Wait a minute, we do what when?

Speaker 2 (02:30):
And so mid December four years ago was a very
important time. Now it's sort of just kind of playing
off in the background, because when you vote on November fifth,
or whenever you vote an election day, you're actually voting
for a slate of electors that are committed to supporting
your choice for president or vice and vice president.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
So they're calling the confirmation hearings Brett Cavanaugh two point zero.
When it comes to Pete Haig, seth that the Defense
Department nominee Pete Haig says planned to release a woman
who accused him of sexual assault from a confidentiality agreement
has set the stage from media circus.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Do you he kind of had to do that, right,
I mean, he kind of had to release her from
a non disclosure agreement because if he continues it, it
appears that he's got even more to hide.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
I didn't even know there was an NDA that was
involved with this.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
He paid her off.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
I remember that, yeah, And I feel like when you
pay someone off, it's not good. If there has to
be an NDA in place, that's fire, if that's not
just smoke.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
And I may have mischaracterized it when I said he
paid her off. They reached a settler. Sure he paid
her off. John Cornyn, Senator out of Texas, that I
told him, hag Seth, it's going to be a miserable
experience like Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
I mean, Capitol police had to arrest dozens of people
in the Senate office buildings back then, They had to
escort senators as they walked through the halls. It was
a mess. They said, it's going to be Kavanaugh on steroids.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Cornyn is one of those guys who has become just
through the course of his career, a leader when it
comes to Republicans in the Senate. He says, they are
open to confirming Pete Hegseth, but they want to go
through the confirmation process. They're going to be looking for
new information that may shed light on his fitness to
lead the Pentagon.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
He says.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
They want the process to continue, and we'll respond to
any new information that they get.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Trump is meeting with the TikTok CEO shout Chew at
mar A Lago. He did say he has a warm
spot in his heart for TikTok Oh. He credited it.
He credited the app for helping him win over young
voters in the election.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
I think that's such an interesting and weird black and
white thing to say. I like TikTok because young people
voted for me. That was well, that's not the only
reason that people voted for you. They saw you on TikTok.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
But if you can get more attention being spread amongst
young people on TikTok, you get more FaceTime, you get
more recognition, your top of mind, they're going to vote
for you.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
I just is I don't though.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
TikTok voters are really worried about policy. I think they're
more about entertainments.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
Entertainment as well celebration, some of them voting for the
chaos that they'd like to see over the next few years.
Trump's also supposed to meet with Ted Sarandos of Netflix
today at mar A Lago. He's going to be meeting
with Jeff Bezos tomorrow. That meeting with Bezos comes after
a report that Amazon was going to donate a million
dollars to the inauguration fund. Congress continues to move toward

(05:49):
the stupid thing that we see every seems like three
months now. The government funding cliff, leading lawmakers have zeroed
in on a bipartisan funding compromise, but they can not
reach this deal if they don't have a new plan.
The government agencies are going to shut down just after
midnight Friday into Saturday. So House Speaker Mike Johnson supposed

(06:10):
to introduce a continuing resolution over the weekend to punt
that deadline to three more months into mid March, but
instead they've been fighting over money for farmers, funding for
the Francis Scott key Bridge, the one that collapsed. Those
projects could turn what was supposed to be a routine
federal funding extension into a they said Christmas Tree decorated

(06:31):
with lawmakers pet projects because everybody wants a piece of something.
Before they agreed to get into passing this continuing resolution.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
Trump is suing a polster in Iowa, a retired polster,
over a survey that showed Kamala Harris ahead.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Well, so this is the one that showed Kamala Harris
was ahead in Iowa by six points, I think is
what it was, and it ended up being wrong by
nineteen points because Trump won by thirteen in Iowa on
November fifth, And his argument was it's.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
Such a flawed, flawed poll.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
They should have never published it, but that they published
it in an attempt to alter the election. And if
that's the case, they it seems like they angered the poll,
the ballot people, ballid people, the voters. It angered them, voters,

(07:32):
you know, ballot people. It angered the voters in Iowa
enough to the point that they came out and voted
overwhelmingly for Trump because they were pushing back against that poll.

Speaker 4 (07:43):
What.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
I don't know. She's retired.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
This is one of those things that I don't This
is a frivolous thing that doesn't go anywhere. The thing
that he you know, it got the fifteen million dollars
settlement with ABC seemed to be a little bit had
a little bit more meat on it.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
On Capitol Hill right now, the House Intelligence Committee is
getting a classified briefing about the drones.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
We'll tell you what we know about that when we
come back.

Speaker 6 (08:10):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am six forty.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Let's go live to Madison, Wisconsin.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
The police chief is Sean Barnes giving an update on
yesterday's school shoot.

Speaker 7 (08:22):
Responded to the scene and or took calls for service
within the City of Madison to allow us to focus
on this tragic incident. Student reunification with their loved ones
could not have happened as swiftly as it did without
the assistance of SSM Health Dean Medical Clinic as well

(08:46):
as the quick trip. Additionally, many people work well into
the night and supported local restaurants community who came together
and provided food and other logistical support for our team.

Speaker 5 (09:02):
Yesterday.

Speaker 7 (09:02):
We came together as one team, as one Madison, as
one country, and we should feel incredibly proud about our response.

Speaker 5 (09:14):
I'll be providing some updates.

Speaker 7 (09:16):
At this time, but before I do that, I like
to provide an important clarification. Yesterday, after looking at the
computer aided dispatch system, it seems as if a call
came from a second grader, it actually read the call
came from a second grade teacher.

Speaker 5 (09:36):
That was a mistake.

Speaker 7 (09:37):
That's my responsibility, and I apologize and I clarify that
today it did not come from a second grader. It
read second grade teacher. I will also be providing several
investigative updates from the eight PM briefing from last night.
The Madison Police Department is committed to transparency and will

(10:01):
continue to release information that can be used to.

Speaker 5 (10:05):
Improve public safety.

Speaker 7 (10:07):
This must be balanced against our commitment to the victims
of this horrific crime and the need to do a
thorough and complete investigation. As a result, I recognize many
of you may have questions that I cannot answer at
this time. I asked for you to keep the victims

(10:28):
in your mind and respect their right to a thorough investigation.
I also will not be taking questions at the conclusion
of this press conference, but your pre submitted questions serve
as the basis for updates that we're providing for you
this afternoon. If your question is not answered, it is

(10:50):
due to an ongoing investigation. Okay, we know a document
has been widely shared on social media. At this time,
we cannot verify its authenticity. We have detectives working today
to determine where this document originated and who actually shared
it online. At this time, we cannot verify the document.

(11:13):
We asked that you not share the document or spread
any information that may be false. Our department will provide
an update on this document when we can.

Speaker 5 (11:26):
There are always signs of a school shooting before it occurred.

Speaker 7 (11:30):
Some of you have reached out about Rupnow's social media
activity prior to yesterday's shooting. We're looking into her online activity.
We're asking anyone who knew her or who may have
insights into her feelings leading up to yesterday to please
contact the Madison Area of Crime Stoppers. Again, anyone who

(11:53):
may have known her or knew what she was feeling
or going through at that time, please direct those those
inquiries to Madison Area Crime Stoppers. That number is six
oh eight two six six six zero one four or
at P three.

Speaker 5 (12:12):
Tips, P three Tips.

Speaker 7 (12:14):
We will not be releasing specifics about these social media
accounts at this time. Identifying a motive is our top priority,
but at this time it appears that the motive was
a combination of factors. Again, we cannot share that information

(12:36):
at this time because we do not want to jeopardize
the investigation and those who are currently cooperating with us.
All patient status remain unchanged. The nine one one calls
or the record of the nine one one Communications Center
and their standing operating procedure is not to release documents

(12:59):
in open and active investigations. Again, we are working to
authenticate the documents that you see online that some are
referring to as a manifesto, and as soon as we
do that, we will let you know. Now the process
for doing that is looking at original documents that may

(13:20):
have been taken from the suspect's home, looking at information
that may be on laptops or on computer to determine
if this document originated from our suspect. Any disciplinary records
would be under the purview of the school. Some of
you have asked whether or not she was troubled, or

(13:41):
whether or not she was troubled at school.

Speaker 5 (13:43):
We do not have those records. We are not the
proprietor of those.

Speaker 7 (13:48):
On the question of bullying, we're talking to students to
understand whether bullying was one of those multiple factors that
I mentioned earlier. Some have asked if people were specifically targeted.
Everyone was targeted in this incident, and everyone was put

(14:08):
in equal danger. Today, numerous MMSD schools were targeted by
false threats, often known as swatting. We're working closely with
the Madison Metropolitan School District to determine where these originated
and to investigate this call. We do not believe that

(14:29):
there are any current threats to any Madison area schools
and will continue to investigate these calls and any threats
of violence as they come in. Let me be clear
on this point. Making false threats is a crime, and
we are working with the district attorneys to prosecute these
crimes as information as gathered, and if we have to

(14:52):
do that, we certainly will. I encourage all parents, all
family members to talk to your loved one about this.
We will determine where they originated. We'll use federal partners
if we have to, and levy those charges as well.
As we continue to investigate what happened yesterday. We're keeping

(15:12):
the victims and their families in the front of our minds.
We want to thank the countless people and organizations who've
reached out to support them, as well as the Dane
County Victim Witness Unit and the Dane County Emergency Management
who provided direct support to the families to the Abundant

(15:36):
Life Christian Academy. This is a hurting and haunting situation
and the many survivors will need our continued support and
we pledge to give them that in the days, months,
and even years ahead. As a community, we must not
allow violence or any act of violence to define us.

Speaker 5 (15:59):
We refuse to allow hate or destruction to win in
this city.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
All right, we are going to pull away there from
that press update in Madison about the fifteen year old
female shooter yesterday that shawan and killed two people, injured
six before killing herself. One of the big things about
this story is the things that they keep getting wrong.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Unfortunately, in the original press conference yesterday that they held,
they gave two different death tolls. One of them was significant,
was more than double what it ended up being.

Speaker 3 (16:36):
And then this more.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
It was actually late last night that a police chief,
Sean Barnes, said that the nine to one to one
call came from a second grader, and he reiterated that
point and said, I want you to think about that,
it came from a second grade.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Doubled down on it with nobody saying, actually, in the
paperwork here it's a second grade teacher that made the call.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Probably said this after that first screw up in the
first press conference. Nobody interrupts me for any reason, even
if I'm wrong. Okay, So then he gets it completely wrong,
and then they say to him afterwards, Uh, you got
that computer. They're completely wrong. Now here's the thing that
has to happen immediately. Yeah, that kind of information has

(17:20):
to happen immediately, and it may seem like a minor
a minor point, the difference between a second grader calling
nine to one one and a second grade teacher. It
to me that's a major point, see.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Even a bigger problem because he has led with emotion
this entire time about gun violence and kids having guns
and all of that. And that's a conversation to have,
sure in this country. But it now makes it sound
like you're trying to take a horrible situation and make
it more horrible.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, yeah, and that you you're gonna lose argument, good will,
You're gonna lose people who otherwise would listen to you
on that topic. Again, not a whole lot of new
information that came out of this news conference out of Madison, Wisconsin.
I will say that the chief said that they are
trying to track down this manifesto or what appears to

(18:13):
be a letter that may have been written by the
fifteen year old shooter where in which she praises other
mass shootings and the perpetrators thereof, but also talked about
her parents, described them as scum. So they said they
have not yet been able to trek or verify the
authenticity of that one. And then again the second major

(18:35):
point was that it was not a second grader they
called nine to one one. It was a second grade teacher.

Speaker 6 (18:42):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
Coming up in the next hour.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
It is true Crime Tuesday. There is a restaurant tour
from South Bay who is trying to earn paroles. So
he's admitting, yes, I did cook my wife's body. I
guess he feels like that's going to grease the skins honesty.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
Maybe massive earthquake hit the island of Vanawatu, causing widespread
destruction in the South Pacific.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
The injury to begin.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
Arriving at hospital, unconfirmed reports of casualties. I saw as
many as a half a dozen. A tsunami warning was
called off pretty quickly, but apparently the US embassy there
in Vanawatu suffered some significant damage from that earthquake.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Would you like your Jeopardy question?

Speaker 3 (19:28):
Sure quick? I don't have the We'll do it later,
all right, Okay.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
I just wanted to mention this. The White House wants
to pass, wants Congress to pass federal excuse me, pass
legislation that would give greater authority to federal, state, and
local governments to address drones that fly in US airspace.

(19:54):
And I mentioned this earlier. Why haven't the rules caught
up with the amount of drones that people are allowed
to operate in all hours of the night worldwide?

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Not just commercial drones, Yeah, not just the ones that
you find at costco, the kind that would otherwise be
intended to kill us.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeahs should have that in place right now.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
Today members of the House Intelligence Committee will receive that
closed door briefing on drones from the FBI, CIA and
the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. John Kirby
said today, we need to do better. We need to
better handle the growing ecosystem of drones in US airspace,

(20:36):
and that's going to be Congress that passes something. I
don't know why this wasn't addressed. I mean, we started
talking about drones twenty years ago, right. I think I
got my nephew who's twenty five a drone when he
was like five, and he's really good at it now,
and now he's in New Jersey somewhere.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
We told multiple stories between the two of us in
opportune places where we've had to expend bodily waste.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
Well, when you're a news reporter, it's gonna happen to
you whether you like it or not. You're gonna have
to go to bathroom outside.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
You have to be resourceful. You have to find some
new spots.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Steve Gregor used to carry a big gulp cups in
his truck.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, multiple probably he still does, just in case, Just
in case. The people who brought you Liquid Death bottled water,
it's actually canned water. But the Liquid Death water company
has collaborated with the Depends brand of adult incontinence products

(21:41):
to bring you the seventy five dollars pit diaper to
allow you to go to a concert and stay in
the pit without having the need to leave.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
For your nation.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
This became a topic of conversation because in San Francisco
there was a Sabrina Carpenter concert and it was at
Chase Center, and this was last month where a woman
was filmed urinating in the middle of the crowd. It
went viral on TikTok. She has seen squatting on the
floor while the performance continues around her. Crowd reacted with

(22:18):
a mix of shock and disbelief. Some people posting photos
with signs that read I got peed on in the
pit to see Sabrina m.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
It sounds like fun.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
If I've got to wear a diaper, I'm just not
going to go because, you know what, it's not just
like it disappears you're sitting in it.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
You're sitting in it, and I don't care how absorbent
the pit diaper is. It promises to keep you dry
and comfortable with leakproof technology and odor neutralizing.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
Material sitting in your urine.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
It also comes with adjustable waste and hip sizes and
rock and roll inspired details like black pleather, metal stuff, uds,
and chains.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
And they are selling it and in fact selling out.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
In twenty four hours, they sold out of their first
release of pit diapers.

Speaker 3 (23:13):
We should try it, we should get one, No, and
we'll put you in it.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Why me?

Speaker 1 (23:18):
Because it it looks like it's for men, even though
it was a woman that peeded. It looks like a speedout. Okay,
so you don't wear brief cuts cut never mind, no,
but I mean I guess it would fit underneath. It
just looks pretty sturdy, like you'd wear it alone without
pants on top.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
Well, in that case, that guy is wearing it alone.
You mean the cut off black T shirt that doesn't
even cover his belly.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Yeah, he's wearing that all by itself. I don't know
if you'd be in a pit and you saw that
guy and you'd be like, I want to stand next
to him.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
I'd have to have pants that are much bigger if
I'm gonna wear a pit diaper underneath.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
And they don't get much bigger than those.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Did you ever see the Saturday Night I commercial for
the Oops I Crapped my pants brand? Now, two older people,
Grandma doesn't want to play tennis because you know, she's
still not fully in control of her of her bowels
at that point.

Speaker 5 (24:13):
Here we are.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
It's Oops, I craped my pants.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
Oops, I crapped my pants.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
I've heard of those?

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Do they work?

Speaker 5 (24:19):
Oops?

Speaker 3 (24:20):
I crapped my pants up performed every bladder and battle
control product from the market today. Here let me show you.
I imagine this picture of ice tea is really a
gallon of your pieces.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
Oh my god.

Speaker 7 (24:29):
You know, a super thick fluff counter allows for maximum
observincy without leaking.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
I'm impressed. Oops, I crap my pants can hold a
lot of duma.

Speaker 5 (24:40):
Oops I craped my pants. Are biodegradable. That's good for
the environment.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
How do you know so much about oops?

Speaker 1 (24:45):
I craped my pinions.

Speaker 5 (24:47):
I'm wearing them and they just did.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
It's one of the absolute classic Saturday Night Oh my god,
because I'm wearing them and I just did it.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
Did.

Speaker 3 (24:59):
That's great? All right, Gary Channon, We'll.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
Come more poop Humer.

Speaker 6 (25:04):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (25:11):
I smell chicken nuggets?

Speaker 3 (25:14):
Do you smell them?

Speaker 4 (25:16):
No?

Speaker 1 (25:17):
I feel like I can smell them.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
You have a very powerful sense of suggestion. Yes, I do.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
I was just reading about Taco Bell adding chicken nuggets
to menus nationwide starting in two days. They said, Taco
Bells crispy chicken nuggets will feature tortilla breading and be
served with three sauces including I have no idea, including
the first ever hidden Valley fire ranch.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
Oh that sounds good.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yeah. The other dipping sauces include bell Sauce and Jullapeno
honey mustard. I love sauces like I love dipping sauces.
I like a selection of dipping sauces.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
I like to switch it up.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
I think you should be able to get all three
dipping sauces. Just like you know, one nugget, you try
one dipping sauce, and then you're onto the next nugget
and the next dipping sauce.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
That's Chick fil A right there for you. They'll give
you as many as you want.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
You're damn right.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
I don't know if Taco Bell will do that.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
I don't know if they'll do that either, but it's
worth a try.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
You can continue to let us know what your favorite
chicken tender, chicken nuggets.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Are, Chicken tenders, chicken nuggets, or chicken strips, chicken spears on.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
There's a place. I think it's Long John Silver Shannon.

Speaker 5 (26:28):
Great show as usual if you can find one.

Speaker 7 (26:31):
Long John Silvers chicken planks for sure, best plank, hands
down chicken.

Speaker 5 (26:37):
Chicken planks. Long John Silvers.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
That guy kind of sounds like Cole Hauser.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
You know, people are very serious about their chicken. Apparently
I found a copycat Long John Silver's chicken planks recipe.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
I love those coppycat recipes. When you were out and
doing the dancing thing, Okay, you know a million years
ago when like dance clubs, dance club the party itself
didn't start and I hated it.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
I hated it.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
I'm an early Yes, I'm an early person. I was
like the one that would get there at like nine
and have the whole dance floor to myself.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
You get there early enough, you didn't have to pay
the cover. There's that too, You as a girl, probably
didn't have to pay the cover.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
Ever, did you ever go to that dance club that
was on the way. It was right near the the
the studios at kfbk arden Way area, and it had
a light up dance floor. You probably didn't think because
you already had kids and stuff. No, I didn't kiss,
you didn't have Oh you went from Sacramento to Seattle.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
I wasn't any fun. But oh so that was the
I don't remember that.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
It was like a disco club, and I forget the
name of it. It was in that art and area,
and me and my girlfriend used to go there and
I just loved that light up dance floor. But we
get there early, and yeah, the things don't start popping
until midnight, eleven midnight. And I was never a late night,
stay out late person.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
There were some friends.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
Unless I was at a rave till five in the morning.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
Well, that was different. It's different. Probably hopped up on
some stuff, right.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
Laura Beginsky and Susie Lee got together again after their
thirty year high school reunion. Hadn't seen each other in
a long time and sort of rekindled this friendship and
they talked about their careers and talked about being moms
and their lives, and they said they totally missed going
out and they're both you know, late forties, early fifties.
They totally missed going out, hanging out, dancing, having a

(28:39):
good time with their friends because nobody wants to do
that before eleven o'clock at night anymore. And they're just
out of it. And they said, listen, we want to
be in bed by eleven because we got s to
do in the morning. And that is actually the tagline
for this new club that they started, called the Early
Birds Club.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
I feel like they could have had a cooler name
for it. The Early Birds Club sounds like the early movie. Yes, Yes, Bingo.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Next month, it's supposed to be coming to LA. They've
done it in Chicago, they've done it in New York,
and this is where they'll basically do a club takeover early.
So they started in Chicago, at a dive bar called
the Burlington that sounds delightful, blinding snowstorm, and it's still

(29:30):
about one hundred people show up, many of them they
don't even know, and they're just ready to dance and
sing with their friends. A cousin who goes by the
DJ h bomb handle handled all the soundtrack, playing eighties
new wave, et cetera, nostalgic pop records, female empowerment songs.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
They said, it's not it's my fight song, go on hello.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
They said, this is not a scene. Come as you are.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
You can wear sequins if you want, but you can
wear pajamas with ugs. Don't wear heels. You're going to
be in too much pain. There'll still be people in
heels there. So Early Birds Club will host its first
La parties January tenth at the Sardine in Sampedro. What's
a hotter name the Sardine or the Berlin? Okay, the
Virgil near Silver Lake on January eleventh. Admission is forty

(30:25):
dollars or just have your friends over and dance in
your kitchen.

Speaker 5 (30:30):
You could do that.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
Yeah, it's probably cheaper that way than renting out a
full club like that.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
It's going to get money.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
We should do that to your house. What do we
turn it into a club? Takeover early birds party if
you're not there by five forty five?

Speaker 3 (30:48):
The party starting with the bow.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
They said that in this current climate, this is where
you start to lose me a little bit.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
This can't just be fun. Oh god, okay to come
with a message.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yeah, in this current climate, a space like this feels
even more essential and almost political now, which we never
meant for it to be. Now it feels that way
as an act of resistance.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
See it sounded cool and then you had to work
politics into it and spaces as women.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
Aren't allowed into clubs anymore? Or wait, they still are
so weird? First we give them the right to vote?

Speaker 4 (31:30):
Is it?

Speaker 5 (31:31):
Sorry?

Speaker 1 (31:32):
You're going to get in trouble and I don't want
my fingerprints on that crime scene.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
It's not just women though, right? No, Well, I will
say this.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
They said that it is a joyous dance party for
middle aged Ish women, non binary and trans people who
want to go out but also.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
Want to be in bed.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
See men being invited to this?

Speaker 3 (31:52):
Nope?

Speaker 2 (31:53):
No, well let me ask you this as a person
of that ilk, a woman in one of those categories, right,
woman adjacent? Right, would you say that men were the
ones that ruined those clubs?

Speaker 1 (32:11):
No? I went there to meet men, you did? Yes?

Speaker 3 (32:15):
Interesting? Interesting, so would you? Okay?

Speaker 1 (32:18):
But now in the current but I'm also binary in
the autumn, right.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
You are binary? Okay?

Speaker 5 (32:25):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Right, yes, I'm trying to remember how. Yes, I'm picturing
the genderbread person right now, and yes you are the
binary sounds delicious in this current stage of your life. Though,
if you were to go out dancing, you would either
go with your husband or you'd go out with girlfriends.
You wouldn't go out scoping for men. No, and my

(32:49):
husband would not be caught dead dancing.

Speaker 4 (32:54):
No.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
So binary is relating to composed of or involving two things.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
Yeah, man, woman, male, female? That would be.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
That doesn't mean I like no, No, just you're one
of those two different things. I don't understand that word.
Would you like to have your jeopardy question now?

Speaker 3 (33:10):
Bodies of water for.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
Six hundred dollars in this frigid region, Russia's Lena River
rises near Lake by Coal and flows over twenty seven
hundred miles north to the laptev Z.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
I have no, I have no idea pick an area.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
In Russia, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, a desolate area Siberia.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Yes see teamwork and talk trending when we come back
to Gary and Shannon.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
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Speaker 2 (33:45):
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