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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):
Is twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Feel that Breathe that air. Breathe it Smellet smell that year.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I don't want to smell it that much.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
This happens to be some of the best of Gary
and Shannons.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Did you hear about Taco Bell They're going to release
a Mountain do Baja Blast pie.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Good?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It's oh, it's well aquamarine, well colored.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I do like a key lime every once in a while.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
That you do, and you wouldn't turned down some mountain
dew type flavoring and your pie depends. I think you
could get into that. And when I saw this piece
of pie, I thought about you right away.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Hey guys, Hey, Gary, you're really such a worst man.
Kenny two Big Max.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
You haven't met one dude in my life that could
not finish two of those little pig man such a
worse pantywaist.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I said, Shannon couldn't finish too big Max.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
That's true. Why are you playing such hateful messages today?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Listen, I've just made this decision. I need to make
sure that I keep myself.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I need to remind myself of the things I'm happy about.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Okay, So if this.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Guy thinks that I'm some fat slob and can't eat, no,
I am a no way if he.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Said you were a panty waste.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Oh so he thinks.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
I'm skinny or too skinny or too small to eat?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Too big Max? Is that what I don't quite? I
don't think so.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I think what he meant is that you're too proper.
You would probably only have I would mess up probably
four big Max.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I know that. Okay, well you know that.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
But I think sometimes is that.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
The measure of a man is that where we are
is that's the measure of a man is how many
big macs I know he would put to waste.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I think sometimes you come across as perfect, and I think.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
You know that that's not I know that's not true.
Everybody poops their pants.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I don't know, poop your pants. Did we already do
that money?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yes? Okay, you were still you're still high on that
monkey story. No, I was high on the key lime pie.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
That's mountain dew, Baja blast, Like, what is how much
sugar do you think is in a slice of that.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
How much sugar? Forty fifty grams of sugar?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I mean it would be loaf.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Well, desserts on the fast food restaurant, don't they're never
really large, That's true, so I would figure it would
be small, but it'd be concentrate.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Maybe I have a question for you the.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
About for perfect me or for panty waste me?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
The apple pie that you'd get in the sleeve at McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Do they still have that? I do not know? But
again then again, I'm a pantyway right sure?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
And would you consider that dessert or breakfast or just
a snack?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
You know what?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
That's a good point because it would be if you're
eating it first thing in the morning, right, I'd call
it a pastry and there exact breakfast exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I mean, I really don't know how to clare, like,
how to classify it.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Is it a pastry? Is it a side? You know?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Is it you get a big mac and then a
side of the of the warm apple pie slash pastry
slash puff thing?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Do you have to like that?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I love the box, I love the No.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I mean, do you have to put it in a
label like that? You have to write?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Do you have to label it.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I don't think you do.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
It's like a It's like a toaster pastry if you will,
or they know the pop tart. You ate it enough
in the morning, it's a breakfast pastry. But if you
ate it after dinner, that's a beautiful dessert.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Right.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I don't think I've ever had a pop tart as
a dessert.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Tonight is the night.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
What other breakfast delights could also serve as a domet donut?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
A bear claw?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
You heat up a bear claw and put a scoop
of ice cream on the top.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Oh stop, listen, it's just you are, isn't it the
same ingredient just reformulated into a pie of some kind,
and you just make this thing into a don't don't.
I was going to try to combine.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Now you got excited. You got excited. That's what happened
to luminaries. They get their creative juices flowing. They're coming
up with things like bear claw with ice cream on top,
and they get too excited. It's it's because you start
ide eating, you know what I mean, and it's almost
too much for you to to to get out all
at the same time, Like what else you got in there.
(04:42):
You know you got the bear claw? What else you
want to go with a cinnamon roll? You want to
throw a slight scoop of vanilla on a hot cinnamon roll?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yes, yeah, damn right you do.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
You want to take a sprinkled donut, throw a throw
a scoop of chocolate on the.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Buckle in here for a second.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
All right, I'm gonna go buy a box of those
old fashioned glaze entimens donuts, the ones that have been
on the store shelf for about seven.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Months at least at least that if you dropped on
your foot with cars, at least several fractures.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, I like the chocolate ones, but okay.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
To stay away from the chocolate because it's not going
to melt the same way. It's not real chocolate.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
You get that glazed donut, you put that on a plate,
You stick it in your microwave maybe twelve possibly fourteen seconds.
You don't need you don't need a lot of microwave.
Take it out, scoop of some sort of adulta de leche,
triple caramel, some sort of just not just vanilla.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
And it was great right in the hole in the hole.
Put it in the hole and then eat that. What
do you guys laughing about? Then you eat that donuts
for dessert.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Heated donuts with ice cream as a dessert should be
a new thing.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
How come restaurants don't do that?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Because even if you took the donuts that were cooked,
you know, twenty hours previous. You know, if you if
you have a restaurant and nearby is a little mom
and pop donuts shop, right by the end of the afternoon,
they're running thin on the fresh ones, right so, and
they don't want.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
To sell the stale ones. But if you took a stale.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Donut, popped it in that microwave, pop it in that microwave,
well the fourteen second maybe fourteen seconds.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
And then thosecuba right in the.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Hole, right in the right that's where it goes. That's
where it goes. I think you're onto something. There's a
lot of waste that goes on probably with donut shops.
And if you were able to repurpose that, if you're
able to repurpose.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Feels like we're solving a lot of problems there.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I think we are.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I mean, nobody asked for it. What what do you.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Guys think would be the best donut ice cream combination.
If you were to put that ice cream there with
that donut, what flavor combination would you go for?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Don't try to don't try to do too much with it. No, No,
I'm overthinking it. Well, I mean there's there's a couple hours.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I'm I'm partial to the old fashioned glaist. Yeah, I know,
because it also brings with it sort of an opportunity
for the melted ice cream to kind of get into
the nooks and the craney.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Okay, to stay with me here for one moment here
when I go, I.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Think no one has stayed with us for these last
five minutes. They've all turned away.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
But go on, old fashioned maple donut.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Old fashion maple. Okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
With chocolate ice cream? Not too much. I know you're
a vanilla guy.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
That would be that would be the limit for me.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
There's just a little little bacon sprinkles on the top.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Now, okay, too much?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Too much?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
You went too far. I went too far. I know
I went too far. I went to Voodoo donut Land
and that was too far. Yeah, you don't need to
go there, right, Keep it simple, keep it simple. So
I think I think we go with the glazed and
also the cinnamon sugar type deal.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
That's also a good one.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Oh oh, what about this? You get one of those.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Twisty donuts, you know, like the long the twists with
the cinnamon and the sugar, or just it's it's just
a sugar donut.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Maybe that's a twist.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And what you do is it each twist you put
a little baby scoop of vanilla and chocolate and something
that's different on each little each little knot of that twist.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
You need holes. You need to put it in the hole.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
You got to have the hole, all right.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
So everyone's hungry, and yeah, everybody should be hungry.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Right now, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
So forty six percent of your gen Z employees are
ready to quit their jobs. Apparently majority of managers, according
to Forbes, are trying everything.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I okay.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
We do these studies when we would compare generations, right,
the gen X, the gen Z, the millennials, et cetera.
How their attitudes have changed over the sorry, how their
attitudes are different about things like work and bills and
all that sort of stuff. My question is, is this
a product of an actual delineation between those generations, or
(09:49):
are we taking surveys of people that we've never taken
surveys of before.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I think you hit on some some poignant questions there.
They say, you can spend millions on new products or
motivational gurus or company retreats, but that's not going to help.
They say, gen Z is not leaving your company or
job hopping because they're bored or lacking for entertainment. It's
not because they want quiddage tournaments, and I say that
(10:17):
right or a coffee bar or whatever. They say they're
looking for the nearest exit because this is a generation
that is try not to spit out.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Your food exhausted. Oh boy, they're exhausted.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
The main reason the lack of growth opportunities. Around one
third of those surveyed felt stalled in their careers thirty
four percent of millennials, thirty two percent of gen Z,
twenty eight percent of gen X. They say that there
is an overwhelming majority of them said that there is
a lack of employer support for further education or training.
(10:58):
So they're not seeing path forward, a future, maybe a
way of increasing their earning power down the line, and
frankly that would do it for me. And that's why
people That's why I left my job at the Delhi
or people leave their job at McDonald's. You know, that's
what those jobs are for, the ones where there's really
(11:19):
no pathway unless you're going to be like a manager
or you know, core go into the corporate route or whatever.
Like if they're if the road ends, if you can
see the end of the road and you're earning what
you're going to earn in that position, you probably leave
that job.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
That's the way I was. That's the way I.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Think human nature goes in those years, in those twenties
and thirties years. If you don't see a path to
earning more, why.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Would you stay at a place.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
I also think that there's a mentality that is different
than it would have been before. A lot of people
are probably younger. People are looking for the job to
be the fulfilled or to check a lot more boxes
than just provide a paycheck. And it's probably not the I'll.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Use it to what do they want? Well, I'll use
my Grandpa Dickerson as as an example.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I love it when Dickerson and Dixie make their way
into the program.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
So he's he's digging the California Aqueduct by himself. Maybe
not by himself, but that's the way he told the stories.
He wasn't going to work looking for it to be
a fulfilling, you know, mentally stimulating thing. It was a
way for him to provide for his family and any
sort of outside mental stimulation. He loved to read, for example,
(12:41):
Louis Lamore books. That's that kind of stuff he got
outside of work. He got that, he got that enjoyment
away from the thing he did to provide for his family.
And I wonder if people nowadays look more. They want
their job to be more holistic. They want their employer
to help take care of them in certain instances. Now, employers,
(13:04):
I think, do that to a large degree with the
benefits that they can offer depending on what company it is.
How far you know, do they have a gym on
the site. Are they going to pay your monthly membership?
How much do they cover do they contribute to your
four oh one k? All those things they can do.
And I think people have come to expect that much
(13:24):
from their place of work, as opposed to saying I
come here, I work, I go home, I play.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah, I mean, but what if there was no path,
you know, to making more money.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I mean, isn't that?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I mean, I guess if you use Dickerson here, you
know he's gonna make X amount of dollars and he's
going to make X amount of dollars for the rest
of his life.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
And he knows that.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
And that's okay, And there's always going to be dudes
like that or women like that. But for people who
want to keep going up the ladder, keep making more
and more and achieving and achieving, then why would they
stay in that job?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Well, then why did they take the job in the
first place?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Because it's a stepping stone? Why did you take the
job in Sacramento that wasn't on air?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
You know, we all take those stepping stone jobs. We
don't think we're going to stay in them. So why
That's why I asked a question. They say forty six
percent of gen Z plan to quit. How to stop them?
Where I'm saying, why stop them? Let them continue on
their path, on their journey wherever they want.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
To got them? Why the next step?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Why hold someone back that doesn't want to be there
or wants to have greater earning power?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
That's what Isn't that what life's all about?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Right?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
I've been figuring all of that out.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
And that goes back to my original question, which is
did people have this same attitude in nineteen ninety. It's
just nobody thought to, you know, delve into the feelings
of a twenty six year old semi professional about what
they're what their next step is going to be.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I think nineteen ninety was probably the beginning of asking
that age group how they felt about things, you know,
when you think about like the real world generation, right,
like the first real world, and it was like a.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Bunch of twenty somethings.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
And I remember there, even though I was very very young,
too young to even remember this.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
But.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Thinking like, well, what do they think?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
And I remember there being a conversation of well, who
gives a crap? What's going on with young twenty somethings
and them all living together? Who cares what they think?
They're twenty something, you know, And I think that ever
since that, I mean, that may have been the beginning
of actually caring what somebody had to think when they
were a young person, and.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Then putting too much of an emphasis on, you know,
catering to those feelings right, as opposed to a letting
the feelings adjust to the situation that they're.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Everyone's feelings are out of control at twenty something, none
of those feelings should be paid attention to.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Should just keep ignoring them well into our fifties if
you don't mind.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Well, there it is another portion of the show that
apparently Ritchie and Elmer and Matt and all the producers
and everybody in the background, they all thought that that
was some of the best of I guess getting up
with this. Well, wow, exactly. Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Welcome to twenty twenty six. We are not here, but
we have prepared some of our best fixings throughout the
year for you to day.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Yeah, so enjoy this as we kick off the next
greatest year of the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Strange Science, Strange Science. It's like weird science, but strange.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
It's weird doing strange science on a Wednesday, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
It's not Wednesday. Screw me up. Stop it. I was
trying to go along with you. No, no need.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Okay, you want to start with black holes?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Oh boy, or or.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Do you want to talk about bees and their ability
to process time?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Let's do it alphabetically.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
You had to think about that for a second, didn't you. Yeah? Okay.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Researchers designed a maze to test the ability of a
b bee to distinguish between long and short flashes of light.
Bubble bees can process the duration of flashes of light
and use that information to decide where to look for food.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Who would think of this experiment?
Speaker 4 (17:25):
That's the part, that's the one that I'm most concerned about,
They said. The first evidence of such an ability in
insects is what they found. A discovery could help settle
this debate among scientists again, great party conversation, whether insects
are able to process complex patterns. To reach the finding,
(17:45):
they set up a maze through which individual bees would
travel when they left their nest to forage for food.
They presented the insects with two visual cues, one circle
that would light up with a short flash and one
that would light up with a long flash. And as
they approach those respective circles, they'd find sweet food that
they liked at one and then a bitter food that
(18:06):
they don't like at the other.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
The researchers say bumblebees are one of only a small
number of animals, including humans and macox and pigeons. Interesting group,
isn't it us bumblebees, macox and pigeons that have been
able to differentiate between short and long flashes, in this
(18:28):
case between point five and five seconds. This ability is
what helps us to understand Morse code, right, Okay, but
isn't that a weird grouping?
Speaker 4 (18:40):
That is a very weird grouping? And I don't know why.
I mean, where does it come from? How do we
develop that? Or was it just an absolutely.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Wonder the Bible says about that?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
About what about?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
I don't think it says much about time delineation based
on an experiment with bumble bees.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I haven't read the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I was just wondering if there's anything in there about
macoq and pigeons and bees and humans.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
I Ah, I'm at a loss.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I don't think there are monkeys that are talked about
in them. I don't think so either, but I'm gonna
look at it. I don't think pigeons are mentioned, although
they maybe, and I'm pretty certain bumblebees aren't. Well, I
don't know there's a lot of words in there could
be a lot. The other one is black holes.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Sciences have gotten to the bottom of a mystery of
an impossible merger between black holes detected via ripples in
space time called gravitational waves back in twenty twenty three.
The collision happened about seven billion light years away. That's
a measure of distance involved in a smashup of two
black holes. It seemed to be forbidden, which means shouldn't
(19:55):
physically be able to happen because there are enormous masses
in the incredible rate at which the were spinning. But
they said it shouldn't exist according to current theories of
how stellar mass black holes from form when massive stars
collapse and explode like a supernova. But the researchers now
said that at the Flat Iron Institute Center for Computational
(20:16):
Astrophysics great holiday party that recreated the evolution through the
lives of the progenitor stars all the way through their
supernova death.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Monkeys, pigeons, and bees are all mentioned in the Bible.
What monkeys talking about King Solomon's imports, of course, talking
about how wealthy that he was, and the kingdom was mentioned.
Pigeons excuse me, are mentioned in the Bible, particularly as
part of sacrificial offerings and ritual, and then bees, of
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course mentioned in the Bible to symbolize things like God's
blessings and provision, for example, the promised land flowing with
milk and honey, the ferocity of an enemy attack chased
you as bees do, also the swiness of God's wisdom. Right,
those are all Sampson finds a swarm of bees and
honey and the carcass of a lion he had killed.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Are you sure those were bees? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Okay, what did you think they were maggots? No?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Okay, I mean I don't. I didn't. I'm not familiar
with that specific story about the bees in it.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
It's like in Candy Man the movie.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
So I'm also not familiar with that. Those are all
Old Testament. That's funny that they're all Old Testament references.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
It makes sense though, right, yeah, yeah, The Old Testament
is vast, vast. The first book first half, Gary and
Shannon will continue more than half.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
It's a lot. How come we don't do Bible Thursdays?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
We could start Chukarasaurus dripienda. It's called a titanosaur. Estimated
at nearly one hundred feet in length. This is obviously
is a scientific breakthrough, not simply because of its dimensions,
but for the havoc it reeked during its extraction.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
They said the bones.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Were so massive that they actually fractured a paved road
during the transportation from the dig site to Buenos Aires.
Physical Magnitude says it's one of the most imposing titanosaurs
ever recovered. It is the fossil's anatomy, they said, specifically
the proportions of its limb bones that caught the attention because,
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unlike other titanosaurs giants with these big pillar like legs,
they said, this one skipped leg day unusually slender appendicular bones,
suggesting a different evolutionary pathway to its extreme size.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Appendicular You heard me.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
That reminds me of a word we learned yesterday, galacterrhea.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Which is the it was two days ago business was it? Oh?
I can't forget it. Galactia.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
If you missed it, first of all, grab the podcast
because you don't want to miss what Galactia is. In fact,
you know what I'm not even gonna tell you. Go
back in check it out. It'll be worth it. It's
a perfect, perfect tease.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
First of January twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
We are away.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
But some fools in the back thought that this was
the best of so.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Here you go. Okay, it just smells like mango passion fruit.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Yes, that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Okay. Remember this is bridging the gap between you and yourself.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Oh what is it? What does it taste like? Does
it taste like positivity? Does it taste is your mood enhances?
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Well, it's it's green tea based. So I'm not a
huge tea guy.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
How's your stress just went way?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Whoa, I'm not that.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
You look a little bit more peaceful.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Have some more? No? What? No, No, it doesn't taste good.
I'm not a fan. I'm not a fan.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
It's it's it's it's not sweet enough to be a soda,
but it's also too sweet to be just like a
sparkling water with a whiff race happy medium.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
No, no, for me, it's not for you.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
No, no, ma'am. But what do you feel? Nothing? I
feel like you've tricked me. That's what I feel.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
All right, Los Angeles, they say is suffering a downturn
when it comes to tourism. As the La Times writes
it up, months of negative news have triggered a tough
summer for tourism. Tourist arrivals fell by close to ten
percent this season.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
They said.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Images of the destructive Eton and Palisades fires followed by
the immigration crackdown made global news and repelled visitors.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Do you think that's what it was? Or do you
think it is.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
The cost and the plight and the lack of any
sort of tourism friendly transit.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
There's that people come from other countries or large cities
where public transit works and works well, they come here
and they're.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Like just walk around, Like, where's a place where you
can walk around?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
And I know, I'm fresh off of coming out of
New York and taking the subway everywhere and it being
a walkable city and you can walk everywhere and it's
glorious and La is and not that is the.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Opposite of that. It is spread out, but like.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Where in la other than you know, maybe some of
the beach cities where you would go just to walk
around and enjoy yourself and it's pretty and it's cool.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
I don't know how you write an article like this
without actually talking to people who have canceled trips to
Los Angeles and ask them specifically, why don't you come
to LA.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah. Instead, they talked to a guy named Salim Ausman
who works for Ride Like a Star. What that company
is is you rent Ferraris and Porsches for about two
hundred dollars an hour. Salim says that this summer traffic
drop by nearly fifty percent. Now, Gary, you and I
(26:36):
we are both adults. We have traveled. Have you ever
gone to Austin, you loved Austin, Nashville, New York, anywhere?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
And said, you know what, family, You know what.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
We should do is rent a Ferrari and drive around
like that is not a typical tourist place. For the
LA Times to cite the most esoteric tourist experience as
their barometer for tourism is insane. If you want to
talk about tourism down go to Disneyland, go to Universe
Universal Studios, go to the go to Hollywood or whatever.
(27:12):
Talk to a guy who works as a magician or elmer,
the clown on the Walk of Fame and be like, hey,
have there been fewer people. That guy's word all take
more than a guy who runs a luxury vehicle tourism
rent my Porsche for two hundred dollars and drive around like,
who is that tourist?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
That's a good point.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
I was also fascinated by They said visitors from China, India,
and Germany avoided California, but surprisingly, tourists from Mexico didn't
stay away. That the tourists from Mexico went up five
point four percent. Despite ice raids, they said, which often
targeted Latino people. There was a dip in traffic to
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most LA airports as well, well part of them. I mean,
you've got La Burbank, Ontario, Long Beach, and Orange County, right,
John Wayne. Some of those are awful airports. LAX is
the one that everybody thinks of. Nobody knows how localized
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some of those others.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Are and how easy they are to get in and
out of.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
So yeah, I understand how traffic at airports in LA
is down. But again, I think that this article needs
to hear from the people who had planned to come
to California and decided not to and ask them, why
didn't you come to California?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Denzel Washington's name is in this article because they're talking
about the concrete hand prints outside the Chinese theater there
in Hollywood. Do you know that we've been pronouncing Denzel
Washington's name wrong our whole lives, and it's because of
his mother. I read this article last week. It's Denzil.
Denzil is his name, Denzel Washington. And the reason we
(29:03):
pronounce it Denzel, it's not because we're whitey Mick Whiderson.
It's because his mother had to differentiate between he and
his father. So Denzil is his dad, and she wanted
to differentiate when she'd call her son versus when she'd
called her husband.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
So she put the emphasis on zel Zell Denzel.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
That's funny.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
That funny.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
So so we've been saying it like we're calling.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
We've been saying it like his mother mom.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
So he's been in trouble with all of America in
the world for thirty years.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Rancho Palace Verdes maybe slipping into the ocean quickly quicker
than you thought.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
I thought you said there was any good news on
this program.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Gary and Shannon kfi Am six forty Live Everywhere on
the iHeart Radio app and that wraps up one of
our best segments of the year.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
About that? Wow, think about that.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Let's do better.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
We'll do better.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
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 iHeartRadio Lab
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):
Is twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Feel that Breathe that air. Breathe it Smellet smell that year.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I don't want to smell it that much.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
This happens to be some of the best of Gary
and Shannons.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Did you hear about Taco Bell They're going to release
a Mountain do Baja Blast pie.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Good?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It's oh, it's well aquamarine, well colored.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I do like a key lime every once in a while.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
That you do, and you wouldn't turned down some mountain
dew type flavoring and your pie depends. I think you
could get into that. And when I saw this piece
of pie, I thought about you right away.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Hey guys, Hey, Gary, you're really such a worst man.
Kenny two Big Max.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
You haven't met one dude in my life that could
not finish two of those little pig man such a
worse pantywaist.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I said, Shannon couldn't finish too big Max.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
That's true. Why are you playing such hateful messages today?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Listen, I've just made this decision. I need to make
sure that I keep myself.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I need to remind myself of the things I'm happy about.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Okay, So if this.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Guy thinks that I'm some fat slob and can't eat, no,
I am a no way if he.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Said you were a panty waste.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Oh so he thinks.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
I'm skinny or too skinny or too small to eat?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Too big Max? Is that what I don't quite? I
don't think so.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I think what he meant is that you're too proper.
You would probably only have I would mess up probably
four big Max.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I know that. Okay, well you know that.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
But I think sometimes is that.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
The measure of a man is that where we are
is that's the measure of a man is how many
big macs I know he would put to waste.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I think sometimes you come across as perfect, and I think.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
You know that that's not I know that's not true.
Everybody poops their pants.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I don't know, poop your pants. Did we already do
that money?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yes? Okay, you were still you're still high on that
monkey story. No, I was high on the key lime pie.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
That's mountain dew, Baja blast, Like, what is how much
sugar do you think is in a slice of that.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
How much sugar? Forty fifty grams of sugar?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I mean it would be loaf.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Well, desserts on the fast food restaurant, don't they're never
really large, That's true, so I would figure it would
be small, but it'd be concentrate.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Maybe I have a question for you the.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
About for perfect me or for panty waste me?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
The apple pie that you'd get in the sleeve at McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Do they still have that? I do not know? But
again then again, I'm a pantyway right sure?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
And would you consider that dessert or breakfast or just
a snack?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
You know what?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
That's a good point because it would be if you're
eating it first thing in the morning, right, I'd call
it a pastry and there exact breakfast exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I mean, I really don't know how to clare, like,
how to classify it.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Is it a pastry? Is it a side? You know?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Is it you get a big mac and then a
side of the of the warm apple pie slash pastry
slash puff thing?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Do you have to like that?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I love the box, I love the No.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I mean, do you have to put it in a
label like that? You have to write?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Do you have to label it.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I don't think you do.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
It's like a It's like a toaster pastry if you will,
or they know the pop tart. You ate it enough
in the morning, it's a breakfast pastry. But if you
ate it after dinner, that's a beautiful dessert.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Right.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I don't think I've ever had a pop tart as
a dessert.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Tonight is the night.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
What other breakfast delights could also serve as a domet donut?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
A bear claw?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
You heat up a bear claw and put a scoop
of ice cream on the top.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Oh stop, listen, it's just you are, isn't it the
same ingredient just reformulated into a pie of some kind,
and you just make this thing into a don't don't.
I was going to try to combine.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Now you got excited. You got excited. That's what happened
to luminaries. They get their creative juices flowing. They're coming
up with things like bear claw with ice cream on top,
and they get too excited. It's it's because you start
ide eating, you know what I mean, and it's almost
too much for you to to to get out all
at the same time, Like what else you got in there.
(04:42):
You know you got the bear claw? What else you
want to go with a cinnamon roll? You want to
throw a slight scoop of vanilla on a hot cinnamon roll?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yes, yeah, damn right you do.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
You want to take a sprinkled donut, throw a throw
a scoop of chocolate on the.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Buckle in here for a second.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
All right, I'm gonna go buy a box of those
old fashioned glaze entimens donuts, the ones that have been
on the store shelf for about seven.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Months at least at least that if you dropped on
your foot with cars, at least several fractures.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, I like the chocolate ones, but okay.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
To stay away from the chocolate because it's not going
to melt the same way. It's not real chocolate.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
You get that glazed donut, you put that on a plate,
You stick it in your microwave maybe twelve possibly fourteen seconds.
You don't need you don't need a lot of microwave.
Take it out, scoop of some sort of adulta de leche,
triple caramel, some sort of just not just vanilla.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
And it was great right in the hole in the hole.
Put it in the hole and then eat that. What
do you guys laughing about? Then you eat that donuts
for dessert.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Heated donuts with ice cream as a dessert should be
a new thing.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
How come restaurants don't do that?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Because even if you took the donuts that were cooked,
you know, twenty hours previous. You know, if you if
you have a restaurant and nearby is a little mom
and pop donuts shop, right by the end of the afternoon,
they're running thin on the fresh ones, right so, and
they don't want.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
To sell the stale ones. But if you took a stale.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Donut, popped it in that microwave, pop it in that microwave,
well the fourteen second maybe fourteen seconds.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
And then thosecuba right in the.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Hole, right in the right that's where it goes. That's
where it goes. I think you're onto something. There's a
lot of waste that goes on probably with donut shops.
And if you were able to repurpose that, if you're
able to repurpose.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Feels like we're solving a lot of problems there.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I think we are.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I mean, nobody asked for it. What what do you.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Guys think would be the best donut ice cream combination.
If you were to put that ice cream there with
that donut, what flavor combination would you go for?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Don't try to don't try to do too much with it. No, No,
I'm overthinking it. Well, I mean there's there's a couple hours.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I'm I'm partial to the old fashioned glaist. Yeah, I know,
because it also brings with it sort of an opportunity
for the melted ice cream to kind of get into
the nooks and the craney.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Okay, to stay with me here for one moment here
when I go, I.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Think no one has stayed with us for these last
five minutes. They've all turned away.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
But go on, old fashioned maple donut.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Old fashion maple. Okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
With chocolate ice cream? Not too much. I know you're
a vanilla guy.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
That would be that would be the limit for me.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
There's just a little little bacon sprinkles on the top.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Now, okay, too much?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Too much?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
You went too far. I went too far. I know
I went too far. I went to Voodoo donut Land
and that was too far. Yeah, you don't need to
go there, right, Keep it simple, keep it simple. So
I think I think we go with the glazed and
also the cinnamon sugar type deal.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
That's also a good one.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Oh oh, what about this? You get one of those.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Twisty donuts, you know, like the long the twists with
the cinnamon and the sugar, or just it's it's just
a sugar donut.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Maybe that's a twist.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And what you do is it each twist you put
a little baby scoop of vanilla and chocolate and something
that's different on each little each little knot of that twist.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
You need holes. You need to put it in the hole.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
You got to have the hole, all right.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
So everyone's hungry, and yeah, everybody should be hungry.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Right now, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
So forty six percent of your gen Z employees are
ready to quit their jobs. Apparently majority of managers, according
to Forbes, are trying everything.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I okay.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
We do these studies when we would compare generations, right,
the gen X, the gen Z, the millennials, et cetera.
How their attitudes have changed over the sorry, how their
attitudes are different about things like work and bills and
all that sort of stuff. My question is, is this
a product of an actual delineation between those generations, or
(09:49):
are we taking surveys of people that we've never taken
surveys of before.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I think you hit on some some poignant questions there.
They say, you can spend millions on new products or
motivational gurus or company retreats, but that's not going to help.
They say, gen Z is not leaving your company or
job hopping because they're bored or lacking for entertainment. It's
not because they want quiddage tournaments, and I say that
(10:17):
right or a coffee bar or whatever. They say they're
looking for the nearest exit because this is a generation
that is try not to spit out.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Your food exhausted. Oh boy, they're exhausted.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
The main reason the lack of growth opportunities. Around one
third of those surveyed felt stalled in their careers thirty
four percent of millennials, thirty two percent of gen Z,
twenty eight percent of gen X. They say that there
is an overwhelming majority of them said that there is
a lack of employer support for further education or training.
(10:58):
So they're not seeing path forward, a future, maybe a
way of increasing their earning power down the line, and
frankly that would do it for me. And that's why
people That's why I left my job at the Delhi
or people leave their job at McDonald's. You know, that's
what those jobs are for, the ones where there's really
(11:19):
no pathway unless you're going to be like a manager
or you know, core go into the corporate route or whatever.
Like if they're if the road ends, if you can
see the end of the road and you're earning what
you're going to earn in that position, you probably leave
that job.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
That's the way I was. That's the way I.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Think human nature goes in those years, in those twenties
and thirties years. If you don't see a path to
earning more, why.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Would you stay at a place.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
I also think that there's a mentality that is different
than it would have been before. A lot of people
are probably younger. People are looking for the job to
be the fulfilled or to check a lot more boxes
than just provide a paycheck. And it's probably not the I'll.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Use it to what do they want? Well, I'll use
my Grandpa Dickerson as as an example.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I love it when Dickerson and Dixie make their way
into the program.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
So he's he's digging the California Aqueduct by himself. Maybe
not by himself, but that's the way he told the stories.
He wasn't going to work looking for it to be
a fulfilling, you know, mentally stimulating thing. It was a
way for him to provide for his family and any
sort of outside mental stimulation. He loved to read, for example,
(12:41):
Louis Lamore books. That's that kind of stuff he got
outside of work. He got that, he got that enjoyment
away from the thing he did to provide for his family.
And I wonder if people nowadays look more. They want
their job to be more holistic. They want their employer
to help take care of them in certain instances. Now, employers,
(13:04):
I think, do that to a large degree with the
benefits that they can offer depending on what company it is.
How far you know, do they have a gym on
the site. Are they going to pay your monthly membership?
How much do they cover do they contribute to your
four oh one k? All those things they can do.
And I think people have come to expect that much
(13:24):
from their place of work, as opposed to saying I
come here, I work, I go home, I play.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah, I mean, but what if there was no path,
you know, to making more money.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I mean, isn't that?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I mean, I guess if you use Dickerson here, you
know he's gonna make X amount of dollars and he's
going to make X amount of dollars for the rest
of his life.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
And he knows that.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
And that's okay, And there's always going to be dudes
like that or women like that. But for people who
want to keep going up the ladder, keep making more
and more and achieving and achieving, then why would they
stay in that job?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Well, then why did they take the job in the
first place?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Because it's a stepping stone? Why did you take the
job in Sacramento that wasn't on air?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
You know, we all take those stepping stone jobs. We
don't think we're going to stay in them. So why
That's why I asked a question. They say forty six
percent of gen Z plan to quit. How to stop them?
Where I'm saying, why stop them? Let them continue on
their path, on their journey wherever they want.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
To got them? Why the next step?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Why hold someone back that doesn't want to be there
or wants to have greater earning power?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
That's what Isn't that what life's all about?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Right?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
I've been figuring all of that out.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
And that goes back to my original question, which is
did people have this same attitude in nineteen ninety. It's
just nobody thought to, you know, delve into the feelings
of a twenty six year old semi professional about what
they're what their next step is going to be.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I think nineteen ninety was probably the beginning of asking
that age group how they felt about things, you know,
when you think about like the real world generation, right,
like the first real world, and it was like a.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Bunch of twenty somethings.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
And I remember there, even though I was very very young,
too young to even remember this.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
But.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Thinking like, well, what do they think?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
And I remember there being a conversation of well, who
gives a crap? What's going on with young twenty somethings
and them all living together? Who cares what they think?
They're twenty something, you know, And I think that ever
since that, I mean, that may have been the beginning
of actually caring what somebody had to think when they
were a young person, and.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Then putting too much of an emphasis on, you know,
catering to those feelings right, as opposed to a letting
the feelings adjust to the situation that they're.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Everyone's feelings are out of control at twenty something, none
of those feelings should be paid attention to.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Should just keep ignoring them well into our fifties if
you don't mind.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Well, there it is another portion of the show that
apparently Ritchie and Elmer and Matt and all the producers
and everybody in the background, they all thought that that
was some of the best of I guess getting up
with this. Well, wow, exactly. Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Welcome to twenty twenty six. We are not here, but
we have prepared some of our best fixings throughout the
year for you to day.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Yeah, so enjoy this as we kick off the next
greatest year of the Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Strange Science, Strange Science. It's like weird science, but strange.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
It's weird doing strange science on a Wednesday, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
It's not Wednesday. Screw me up. Stop it. I was
trying to go along with you. No, no need.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Okay, you want to start with black holes?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Oh boy, or or.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Do you want to talk about bees and their ability
to process time?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Let's do it alphabetically.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
You had to think about that for a second, didn't you. Yeah? Okay.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Researchers designed a maze to test the ability of a
b bee to distinguish between long and short flashes of light.
Bubble bees can process the duration of flashes of light
and use that information to decide where to look for food.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Who would think of this experiment?
Speaker 4 (17:25):
That's the part, that's the one that I'm most concerned about,
They said. The first evidence of such an ability in
insects is what they found. A discovery could help settle
this debate among scientists again, great party conversation, whether insects
are able to process complex patterns. To reach the finding,
(17:45):
they set up a maze through which individual bees would
travel when they left their nest to forage for food.
They presented the insects with two visual cues, one circle
that would light up with a short flash and one
that would light up with a long flash. And as
they approach those respective circles, they'd find sweet food that
they liked at one and then a bitter food that
(18:06):
they don't like at the other.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
The researchers say bumblebees are one of only a small
number of animals, including humans and macox and pigeons. Interesting group,
isn't it us bumblebees, macox and pigeons that have been
able to differentiate between short and long flashes, in this
(18:28):
case between point five and five seconds. This ability is
what helps us to understand Morse code, right, Okay, but
isn't that a weird grouping?
Speaker 4 (18:40):
That is a very weird grouping? And I don't know why.
I mean, where does it come from? How do we
develop that? Or was it just an absolutely.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Wonder the Bible says about that?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
About what about?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
I don't think it says much about time delineation based
on an experiment with bumble bees.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I haven't read the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I was just wondering if there's anything in there about
macoq and pigeons and bees and humans.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
I Ah, I'm at a loss.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I don't think there are monkeys that are talked about
in them. I don't think so either, but I'm gonna
look at it. I don't think pigeons are mentioned, although
they maybe, and I'm pretty certain bumblebees aren't. Well, I
don't know there's a lot of words in there could
be a lot. The other one is black holes.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Sciences have gotten to the bottom of a mystery of
an impossible merger between black holes detected via ripples in
space time called gravitational waves back in twenty twenty three.
The collision happened about seven billion light years away. That's
a measure of distance involved in a smashup of two
black holes. It seemed to be forbidden, which means shouldn't
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physically be able to happen because there are enormous masses
in the incredible rate at which the were spinning. But
they said it shouldn't exist according to current theories of
how stellar mass black holes from form when massive stars
collapse and explode like a supernova. But the researchers now
said that at the Flat Iron Institute Center for Computational
(20:16):
Astrophysics great holiday party that recreated the evolution through the
lives of the progenitor stars all the way through their
supernova death.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Monkeys, pigeons, and bees are all mentioned in the Bible.
What monkeys talking about King Solomon's imports, of course, talking
about how wealthy that he was, and the kingdom was mentioned.
Pigeons excuse me, are mentioned in the Bible, particularly as
part of sacrificial offerings and ritual, and then bees, of
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course mentioned in the Bible to symbolize things like God's
blessings and provision, for example, the promised land flowing with
milk and honey, the ferocity of an enemy attack chased
you as bees do, also the swiness of God's wisdom. Right,
those are all Sampson finds a swarm of bees and
honey and the carcass of a lion he had killed.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Are you sure those were bees? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Okay, what did you think they were maggots? No?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Okay, I mean I don't. I didn't. I'm not familiar
with that specific story about the bees in it.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
It's like in Candy Man the movie.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
So I'm also not familiar with that. Those are all
Old Testament. That's funny that they're all Old Testament references.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
It makes sense though, right, yeah, yeah, The Old Testament
is vast, vast. The first book first half, Gary and
Shannon will continue more than half.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
It's a lot. How come we don't do Bible Thursdays?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
We could start Chukarasaurus dripienda. It's called a titanosaur. Estimated
at nearly one hundred feet in length. This is obviously
is a scientific breakthrough, not simply because of its dimensions,
but for the havoc it reeked during its extraction.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
They said the bones.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Were so massive that they actually fractured a paved road
during the transportation from the dig site to Buenos Aires.
Physical Magnitude says it's one of the most imposing titanosaurs
ever recovered. It is the fossil's anatomy, they said, specifically
the proportions of its limb bones that caught the attention because,
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unlike other titanosaurs giants with these big pillar like legs,
they said, this one skipped leg day unusually slender appendicular bones,
suggesting a different evolutionary pathway to its extreme size.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Appendicular You heard me.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
That reminds me of a word we learned yesterday, galacterrhea.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Which is the it was two days ago business was it? Oh?
I can't forget it. Galactia.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
If you missed it, first of all, grab the podcast
because you don't want to miss what Galactia is. In fact,
you know what I'm not even gonna tell you. Go
back in check it out. It'll be worth it. It's
a perfect, perfect tease.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
First of January twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
We are away.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
But some fools in the back thought that this was
the best of so.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Here you go. Okay, it just smells like mango passion fruit.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Yes, that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Okay. Remember this is bridging the gap between you and yourself.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Oh what is it? What does it taste like? Does
it taste like positivity? Does it taste is your mood enhances?
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Well, it's it's green tea based. So I'm not a
huge tea guy.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
How's your stress just went way?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Whoa, I'm not that.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
You look a little bit more peaceful.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Have some more? No? What? No, No, it doesn't taste good.
I'm not a fan. I'm not a fan.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
It's it's it's it's not sweet enough to be a soda,
but it's also too sweet to be just like a
sparkling water with a whiff race happy medium.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
No, no, for me, it's not for you.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
No, no, ma'am. But what do you feel? Nothing? I
feel like you've tricked me. That's what I feel.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
All right, Los Angeles, they say is suffering a downturn
when it comes to tourism. As the La Times writes
it up, months of negative news have triggered a tough
summer for tourism. Tourist arrivals fell by close to ten
percent this season.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
They said.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Images of the destructive Eton and Palisades fires followed by
the immigration crackdown made global news and repelled visitors.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Do you think that's what it was? Or do you
think it is.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
The cost and the plight and the lack of any
sort of tourism friendly transit.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
There's that people come from other countries or large cities
where public transit works and works well, they come here
and they're.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Like just walk around, Like, where's a place where you
can walk around?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
And I know, I'm fresh off of coming out of
New York and taking the subway everywhere and it being
a walkable city and you can walk everywhere and it's
glorious and La is and not that is the.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Opposite of that. It is spread out, but like.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Where in la other than you know, maybe some of
the beach cities where you would go just to walk
around and enjoy yourself and it's pretty and it's cool.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
I don't know how you write an article like this
without actually talking to people who have canceled trips to
Los Angeles and ask them specifically, why don't you come
to LA.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah. Instead, they talked to a guy named Salim Ausman
who works for Ride Like a Star. What that company
is is you rent Ferraris and Porsches for about two
hundred dollars an hour. Salim says that this summer traffic
drop by nearly fifty percent. Now, Gary, you and I
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we are both adults. We have traveled. Have you ever
gone to Austin, you loved Austin, Nashville, New York, anywhere?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
And said, you know what, family, You know what.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
We should do is rent a Ferrari and drive around
like that is not a typical tourist place. For the
LA Times to cite the most esoteric tourist experience as
their barometer for tourism is insane. If you want to
talk about tourism down go to Disneyland, go to Universe
Universal Studios, go to the go to Hollywood or whatever.
(27:12):
Talk to a guy who works as a magician or elmer,
the clown on the Walk of Fame and be like, hey,
have there been fewer people. That guy's word all take
more than a guy who runs a luxury vehicle tourism
rent my Porsche for two hundred dollars and drive around like,
who is that tourist?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
That's a good point.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
I was also fascinated by They said visitors from China, India,
and Germany avoided California, but surprisingly, tourists from Mexico didn't
stay away. That the tourists from Mexico went up five
point four percent. Despite ice raids, they said, which often
targeted Latino people. There was a dip in traffic to
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most LA airports as well, well part of them. I mean,
you've got La Burbank, Ontario, Long Beach, and Orange County, right,
John Wayne. Some of those are awful airports. LAX is
the one that everybody thinks of. Nobody knows how localized
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some of those others.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Are and how easy they are to get in and
out of.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
So yeah, I understand how traffic at airports in LA
is down. But again, I think that this article needs
to hear from the people who had planned to come
to California and decided not to and ask them, why
didn't you come to California?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Denzel Washington's name is in this article because they're talking
about the concrete hand prints outside the Chinese theater there
in Hollywood. Do you know that we've been pronouncing Denzel
Washington's name wrong our whole lives, and it's because of
his mother. I read this article last week. It's Denzil.
Denzil is his name, Denzel Washington. And the reason we
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pronounce it Denzel, it's not because we're whitey Mick Whiderson.
It's because his mother had to differentiate between he and
his father. So Denzil is his dad, and she wanted
to differentiate when she'd call her son versus when she'd
called her husband.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
So she put the emphasis on zel Zell Denzel.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
That's funny.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
That funny.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
So so we've been saying it like we're calling.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
We've been saying it like his mother mom.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
So he's been in trouble with all of America in
the world for thirty years.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Rancho Palace Verdes maybe slipping into the ocean quickly quicker
than you thought.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
I thought you said there was any good news on
this program.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Gary and Shannon kfi Am six forty Live Everywhere on
the iHeart Radio app and that wraps up one of
our best segments of the year.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
About that? Wow, think about that.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Let's do better.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
We'll do better.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
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