January 2, 2026 • 28 mins
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
App the beginning of twenty twenty six, right, and I
feel like.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
There's a lot that's gone on.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
So what day is today?
Speaker 5 (00:14):
Today?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
It's gonna be Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Friday, the second second of January twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
I'm on a plane right now.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I'm still writing, like twenty twenty on my checks and stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
First of all, I'm still you write checks.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
I don't even know where a checkbook exists in my house.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
It was weird.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I did have to reorder checks. Rarely, rarely do we
write checks, but I had to write. I had to
reorder checks for the first time, probably in eight years.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, something like that. That's how rare it is.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I the last time I wrote a check, and I
can't remember what it was for. I have a check
book where you have the duplicate so you can see
where the all your checks have been, And the last
check I had written was like three years prior.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, it is really really weird. People don't do it
anywhere near as much as they used to. So today,
once again we have the day off, but we are
going to be doing some of the best of stuff
that you'll hear throughout the show today. All of our
social media still works, so if you want to throw
us some messages, we would love to hear them at
Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
You're already on a plane.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
On the way to Denver.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
To Denver, that's right now, you're but this weekend you're
not traveling with the team, at least not on your
way there because you have friends in Denver.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Oh, that's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yes, And also the team leaves tomorrow. The team leaves
on Saturday, and I was worried about not getting there
in time if there's any delay with the team at all,
to get there before the Niners kick off with the
Seahawks for the number one seed.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Mark that is.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I also to pull back the curtain a little bit.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, was invited to go to dinner with some people
from the Chargers organization. Who I should go to that dinner?
I should definitely go to that dinner. Yeah, it would
be nice and respectful and smart for me to go
to that dinner. However, the dinner is at Shanahan's Restaurant
in Denver. During the Niner Seahawks game right, and yes,
(02:11):
professionally it will be good for me to go to
the dinner. However, professionally it would be a disaster for
me to go to that dinner and have the game
on and potentially make a complete ass of myself inside
Mike Shanahan's restaurant while watching his son while having dinner
with the Chargers.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
That is a I don't know if that's an incredibly
mature decision or an incredibly immature decision, but I know,
but I have the same So because you can make
the arguments either way, like it's perfect, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
You, yeah, you know what it would look like. Yeah,
it's not good, not good.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I mean either way, if it's a great game and
the forty nine Ers win, it doesn't you're gonna make
a fool of yourself. Yes, if it's a great game
and they lose a close one or they start getting stomps,
that it's going to be a disaster.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I can't control my behavior.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
It is funny.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
My wife had asked me what I wanted for my birthday,
and I say this every year in previous years, when
when the NFL season was sixteen weeks or seventeen weeks.
It was that first week in of January was always
wild card weekend, and my request was just don't bother
me on Sunday, Yes, just let.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Me have Saturday.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I can work it out. Saturday, I can kind of
flit in and out about the game. But on Sunday,
I just want to watch a couple football games.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
That's it. Maybe have a.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Beer, undisturbed, me undisturbed, and just don't my ass rot.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, see that couch. We're gonna be friends. Yeah, we're
gonna be friends all weekend. But that that was my
argument this week. This year, she had asked me what
I want for my birthday, and I go, remember the
whole Sunday thing, Like I want to just watch football.
I'm like, Sunday doesn't matter as much. I want to
watch that game on Saturday night. Yeah, and that's it.
I don't want to go anywhere necessarily unless we're going
(03:57):
to go specifically to a place to sit at a
table where I can see the game.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
We can both watch.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Jen. Still, you're gonna have to make conversation with her
like now she's used to it.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yeah, my husband's used to it too.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
And the thing is, and I know you notice this.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I think with people who are not necessarily fans of
a sport or a game or a team, if you
get them, you can hook them early on in a game,
they'll watch the whole thing. I mean, it can be
compelling enough to even get people who are not fans,
because they will they will tap it into your certain interest.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
But there are certain games where I'm happy to be
an educator. I'm happy to answer questions, and there's certain
games where leave me the f alone and Saturday Night
is leave me the.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Flone, like, don't look at me, don't look at me.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
You know, I need to be in a safe house
where I will be with my girlfriends who I used
to travel for the forty nine ers with. I will
be in a safe space, safely esconced, padded doors rooms.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
There is a child in the house.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, but he's and he can grow out of any
sort of trauma at this point, you like, I feel
like he will grow out of the trauma that happens,
and I love him with my steel hearts.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
He's like twenty, he's gonna have these whispers of this.
One night, I remember Auntie Shannon was his mom. She
was crying and laughing at the same time, and I
don't know why.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Oh my god, I have a story about my mother
on Christmas that I can't even I can't even tell.
But but she've told a lot of stories already. She
gets she gets so mad, she gets so mad. She
even said it this Christmas. She goes, you go on
that show and you just laid me out that show,
but and you just you tell stories.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
And I'm like, Okay, the stories are true.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
The names have been changed, but the stories are true.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
She's like, you and Bellish, just like your father. I'm like,
I do not.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
That's I love it when people say that we and
Bellish stories.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah, bro, I really there. I'm an eyewitness to what happened, right.
I don't need to embellish the story to.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Make we really don't. The stories are pretty damn good
on their own. Like that one time at my house
when you started rifling through the doors and drawers and
found the poultry seasoning, and then you like strip teasing
with the poultry season Like why the poultry seasoning? But
(06:25):
in that moment, like it made so much sense. I
still think it makes sense. Other people see the problem
that you ran into is that you strip teased the
seasoning in front of people who don't think like we do,
you know.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
What I mean, Like normal strangers.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I think like Oscar and his wife were there, you know,
just people who they're fun people, but they don't they
think that's crazy, right. I see you dancing with a
jar of seasoning and I'm like perfect, Like yeah, like
this is what I wanted for this night.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Again January second. It's Friday.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
We will be back doing the live show on Monday,
so we'll kick off the year the right way. But
one of the things that we talked about a little
bit yesterday and we'll hear about it a lot in
the next couple of weeks, of course, are these new
California laws that go into effect. One of the ones
we didn't really get to but I know is making
headlines right there at the end of the year was
adding folic acid to tortillas.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
This is a this is.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
An acknowledgment that a lot of people in California eat tortillas.
It's a staple food. The thing is, we don't need
to put folic acid in it. This is going to
be an added to store bought corn twee who lobbied
for this. This is a this is a public health
thing that health officials believed that we, you young Californians specifically,
(08:00):
are not getting enough folic acid in our diet. So
one of the ways they want to do it is
to sneak it in tortilla.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I don't even folic acid. What even is that? Doctor?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Well, like, what does that help me with? And how
did they know I was deficient? And why did they
get to decide what I'm putting in my body?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
No idea?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Remember, bodily autonomy was such a big f and deal
a couple of years ago, and now they're putting stuff
in your food.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I'm going to go to the black market for my tortillas.
Here's here's the that's permanently find my tortillas in an alley.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Buy them on the street.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I guarantee you they taste better, probably fresher. But they
said that they're going to add corn folic acid to
corn tortillas and corn massa products to prevent birth defects,
especially among latinas. Was was tortilla birth defects?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Was that an issue sweeping the nation? I had never
heard of this again. That's that's one of the things
that there's been a fiery reach. They're fixing a problem
that didn't really exist. John Cobalt know about this because
he'll do a whole week of shows about government overreaching
his tortillas and he's only going to eat five tortillas.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
I mean, hell, the carne sat up without the tortilla.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Well, there's a thing that's going on in response to
take fistfuls of meat tortilla.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Be damned, he doesn't need He'll just use his hand
as if you're damn right a hamtop palm that meat.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Wait, are you sure that's what you meant to say.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I'll let you thing changes in the new year.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Some of the stuff needs to needs to continue anyway.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That that you're going to see bullock acid in your
tortillas unless you are in a small business. They are
allowed to do it without the without the tortillas. Cats
must not be declawed. Really, you cannot declaw cats to
prevent them from scratch scratch?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Are you serious?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Because it's not just I didn't know this.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I've never had a cat declaud I've wanted to because
their nasty.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Little that she declawed the cat.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Well, for one thing, it's a protection fat.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
She didn't want him to scrape up her furniture from
nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Also, it makes sense, but kidding that to embellishing why
because it was nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Since her furniture has been updated.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Oh okay, But you can't declaw a cat to prevent
them from scratching because removing a cat's towbones.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah, but you can get around there because you can
say you don't want the clubs to get infected, like there's.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Around me infected. Oh, to get them removed. Oh, I
see disease injury. That was the other thing.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
So I would never declaw a cat, like if I
was going to get a cat, which I'm not going
to do, but if I was, that seems cruel, It
seems really cool.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Well, it's it can't protect themselves. That's one of the
main things.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
That's one of the main And you would argue that
if a cat's an indoor cat, it doesn't need to
protect itself. But it's not just that they're not just
there to it's part of you. Like if I if
I went over there and I, you know, pried off
your your fingernails the first I don't think it would
feel good.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Gary, Well, I feel this if I took a set up.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Fliers to your fingernails right now because I was worried
about them getting.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Infected, I think you'd be pissed. And then I think
you'd be an a hole for the rest of your life,
like all cats.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Walking around with no fingers.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
How to ensure your cat's an a.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Hole To claw it, cut its tobo ins off, cut
off its balls, and then cut off its nails.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
We're getting more information, more more legal backing to cut
down on deep fake pornography.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Penalties against companies that do not take down deep fakes
could go as high as a quarter million dollars.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Hey, I didn't know that there was still a spousal
exception to the definition of rape.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I thought that was like an.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Old school Houselifornia. That is really se Yeah, right.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
SB two fifty eight.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
It eliminates a spousal exception to the definition of rape,
makes it a crime to assault a spouse who is
unable to consent due to force, disability, or unconsciousness.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
I thought that had gone by the wayside.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I guess maybe It's still existed in law, it just
was never used as a defense.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
But this is one of those things. This is what
I would like a state legislator to pay attention to
those old laws that are antiquated. You can take your
donkey to the fair on a Sunday or something like that.
Like that that makes sentence, But this doesn't make any Well.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
It's not right that you that you can't take your
donkey to the fair on a Sunday.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
And the reason that they give you is is God.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
You know, they say that because of God, you can't
bring your donkey to a fair on Sunday. But let
me ask you, it's like trying to order a cocktail
in the South on a Sunday before noon.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
We came here away from Britain to drink on a
Sunday before noon, is what we do. We came here
to America to take our donkey to the Ferris Wheel
on a Sunday.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Why are we being shackled like we were in Britain? Here?
How many years later, four hundred years.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Later, two hundred and fifty, whatever.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Hasn't the time come for us to drink on a
Sunday before noon in the South and take your donkey
to a fair on a Sunday in California. Well again,
I don't know if that these are things we're going
to tackle this year. Okay, right here, Then finally we're
going to fight the fight.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Lock up your guns.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
There's another law that says that you have to lock
up your gun even if you do not expect children
to be present. And then when the bad guys break
into your home, you have to don't forget where your
key is ridiculous, forget where you stored your ammunition.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Who's going to enforce that?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Like, who's going to come into my childless home and
find my gun in my bedside table and be like,
you're arrested.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I don't know, somebody in law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
All right again, most you're right, most of the show
today is going to be best of stuff. So stick around.
Glad to hear that you're here, and you gotta work
on a Friday. Sorry, we will be back on Monday.
Gary and Shannon will continue listening.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
To Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
When Mom takes over your Dating Profile Danielle, we mentioned
Danielle's thirty one years old and has her family help
her out, and on Sundays after dinner they get together,
throw the old profile up on the big screen and
get to it now. Danielle's mom like we said Susanne
or Susan. She prefers career driven men. She does not
(14:33):
like spelling or grammatical errors. Danielle's sister is focused on
trying to find somebody for Danielle that could keep up
with her adrenaline junkie hobbies like one of her profile
picks is apparently her looks like repelling down a building
of some kind.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Dad Dad gets in on this.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Dad looks for signs that the match made butt heads
with her headstrong personality. Her brother tries to steal her
away from older men. Everyone from top to bottom in
the family says anybody who wants a non monogamous relationship
is off limits. She said very few people actually pass
all of those tests, but Danielle has then had the
(15:15):
opportunity for the final veto on some of the choices.
One match an entomologist, she said, seemed especially promising, but
when Mom went on to check into bumble to check
what logged into bumble to check in, he was gone,
and Mom said her heart was broken.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah, you can't get attached mom.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Some parents when you show them, and again I think
we would react the same way when you show them
what is on these dating profiles, parents are like, that's
a lot of drinking, or that's a lot of hunting,
or that's a lot of I.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Mean whatever they're leading.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Whatever they're leading. Yeah, it can be too much. For example,
I love van Keys. Mom offered to pay for a
premium tier of the Hinge dating?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Is that guys dating people? Is that a racket to
get the premium whatever it is? Yeah, but I don't
I mean, is it a racket? Like it's it's not
worth it. They get money, more money out of you
for no reason at all. You just think you're getting
a premium experience.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
It just provides you, I guess with like, it's it's
less limited, you know, like you would be able to
swipe through different profiles more as opposed to being limited
to like a few in a day or the twenty
four hour period.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Oh you're limited yeah, yeah to how many?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I do.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
Let's just say you have like thirty or forty so
you can go through You're going through them super quickly.
Some people would just like race three them if you're
really desperate, it's just I guess, yes, yes, but you.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Know what, also a few I want to say, about
a year or two back, you would be able to
swipe more frequent And then I want to say, in
the last few year or so, now it's to the
point where like, let's say I'm having a conversation with
five people, and I don't respond back to those five,
it won't allow me to respond to new people until
(17:14):
I respond back to that person.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
What.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
Yes, So they kind of want to make sure that
you're not just leaving people on red or you know, ignoring.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
That's really stupid.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah, because you got.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
To fill a whole bench, like, you know, you're not
looking for one substitute.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
You got to have a bench, does it? Do they
know that?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Come on? Man.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
One of the other one of the other aspects of
this of having your family involved with this is they said,
it takes the pressure off of one of those key
dating milestones, which is meeting the parents, because if they
know enough about you right away, that first meeting might
not be as a pressure packed Catherine Sturgel's mom helped
(17:58):
her curate her Hinge profile well, pushing for photos that
showed that she was family oriented, encouraged the twenty nine
year old to get back on the app.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
She went on a date with a golf pro.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Catherine actually confessed that it was her mom who suggested
that they go out on this date. And Ellen thought
that he dressed well and that's mom and his profession
would be a hit with her golf loving husband and son.
And the date took it as a compliment and said, well,
at least someone's in my court, someone's, you know, fighting
(18:30):
for me, even if it is his date's mom.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
That sounds like a complicated It's.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
The wrong reason I think for mom to suggest that
you need to get your husband and son a friend
by having him date your daughter, and then that seems
like a little bit mixed.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Priorities there.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Perhaps a little bit of mom meddling is good and helpful,
but too it's a delicate dance, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
I mean, moms, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I don't know how it works because my I can
just speak for what I've witnessed with my brother and
my mom my. By the time I met my my
husband's mom, and she loved everybody. I don't think that
she ever had a problem with me, but I can
speak to my my mom.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
And my brother.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
My brother has brought home a series of girls over
the years.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
We were just talking off the air about how like
my mom's got these like these little porcelain nameplates for
like the Christmas table, and you know, everyone's pretty much
sharp eat in there, you know, the family, aunt and uncle,
you know, since deceased grandparents, and Andy my brother.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
And then there's one that's been like, you know, it's
been white out. We've had to take white out to it.
We've had to, you know, because we had his wife,
and then there's been.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
There's been a handful of other ladies in his life.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
But my mom has never been anything but so welcoming
and so wonderful to every woman my brother.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Has dated in his adult life or his whole life.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
You know, she may have reservations or whatever she may
some things may pop up in her head, but you
would never know it.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
I mean, it was always just.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Open arms, welcoming into the family for whoever my brother
was dating. And I know that's probably not always the case.
Moms have opinions, you know, and they're usually.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Uh strong opinions, many they're usually.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
But I don't think my mom ever said to my
brother you know, this one's a problem or this one's
going to be a problem.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
I think she was always very supportive to him.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I did have one girlfriend that my brother, one of
my brothers in law, was not happy with.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
He didn't tell me until after we broke up. So
this is your sister's husband. Yes, one of your sister's
husbands did not like a girl you were dating.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
And he didn't never say, never said anything until we
broke up, and then he was like, yeah, she was
not the one.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Really what what did he say? What could he point
to or what?
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Just different personalities, different personality types that we had interesting
And I thought at the time, I was like, what,
thanks for telling me. Now I would have I would
have at least listened to him. I probably would have
ignored it.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
But right, well, that's always a question too, you know,
who do you listen to when it comes to.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
And the idea that's the weird part about this article
is that so few people would listen to their parents
if you brought.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Are their friends or anyone.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
But usually it's because they they bring around the boyfriend,
girlfriend or whatever after making their own decision. If mom
was involved in the original decision. You avoid that problem.
I suppose yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Some you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Your kids are of dating or ages. They're out there
living their lives. If they came to you and said,
can you run my dating apps?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
What would you say and what would you look for?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
I wouldn't run it.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
You would just give input.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I would give input, but I would There's no way
I would run it.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
What kind of input do you think you would? You
mean you would give input on bulls?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Don't lie?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Oh you swear? When you're a dad, you have to.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Oh, just don't lie?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
What do you mean like? Don't lie, like lie about
what whatever?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Don't use fake pictures, don't lie about what your interests are.
Don't don't try to make yourself look more interesting. You're
just going to disappoint people. And then you have to
try to live up to this fake profile that you made.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Are you talking about our pictures when Richie retouches them?
And sometimes it doesn't make you feel good when you
see what's in the mirror. You know what it's It's
not all lighting Richie, it's lies. It's lighting the word
of lighting is you see enough Richie pictures and then
you look in the mirror and you're like, I am
a piece of crap?
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Is that what you're that's what you're referring to.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I wasn't thinking about myself.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
No, sure, okay, okay, So don't look at you for
four hours? That's so true.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Oh my god, you have to look at me more
than you have to look at yourself. Think about that.
That's crazy. I'm sorry, I am sorry, especially after.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
You Richie's pictures.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
No, but.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Like, would you be worried that that would be you know,
crossing a lone like too much input?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
If you or you would just do.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Thing you asked me? No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I don't think it would, but I but I would.
I would never assume that they would want my input.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah, and then what would you tell that let's talk
about and just say your daughter, what would you want
her to run away from on those app What would
you see on those apps that would make you say, nah.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Not him.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
I think that she would probably have a pretty good
BS meter right away. Yeah, and that if there's a
whiff of inauthenticity, that that's what you would stay away from,
right Because I mean, I don't know. Here's what I
don't quite get. I mean, when you do that, when
(24:26):
you do online dating like that, it seems like you're
taking away some of what is a natural progression of
a relationship.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Well, that's why I was talking about earlier, all the
wasted time, because when you meet face to face, you
know if you're going to have chemistry with someone within
ten fifteen forty seconds. And that if you see someone
that looks good on an app, they could look great
in their pictures and you like what they're saying, but
when you see them, there's nothing there there well.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
And if you it gives you too many opportunities to
say no right away.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I think, oh okay, because if you.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
If somebody gives for example, if somebody gives too much information.
Let me say this early early two thousand's Shannon Farren
out in the world, and you see somebody wearing, for example,
RAMS gear.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Now I just got into a fight in the newsroom
with a Rams fan.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
But I mean, this is no, it's not that you can't.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
I would never.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
I would never. In fact, I dated someone in Seattle.
I was twenty three, twenty four. He was a Seahawks fan,
and I said this, just so you know, this is
never going to be long term. This is never going
to work out because you're a Seahawks fan. And he
thought that was ridiculous. He thought that, well, that's.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Well, it is a little ridiculous. But I would say
this that.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
That's the way I thought back then, right.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
But I'm and I'm saying that if if that was, uh,
you know, one of the criteria you immediately said no to,
or one of the reasons why you immediately said Notice, anybody.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Missing out on a what I'm missing out dating a
Seahawks fan out of here?
Speaker 2 (26:02):
You're missing out on the opportunity to to find something.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
You know, maybe maybe he's not.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I like closing the door too early. I think that's
good for some people. Sometimes you got to close the
door because you know what that is as your gut instinct,
Your gut is telling you that there's no way in
hell you're going to make a life.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
With the Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
My wife, my wife mauf, had she seen my dating
profile pick of me standing in overalls, yeah, move on,
that's what she would have said.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Even as good as I made those overalls, you.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Don't know that has she told I don't think she would.
I don't think she would say that. I think her
gut feeling would say, those overalls are trash. But that
looks like a nice human, that looks like a good guy.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna meet him, and I'm
gonna get rid of those overalls, which is what she did.
And I still feel the same did I still feel
(26:58):
like I still feel like if you're and my sister
is married to a rams fan, and I don't know
how she lives in that house, their their spawn, their child,
also a RAMS fan, I don't know how she lives
in that house.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Two rams fans.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
One you gave birth to You give birth to the child,
and what does he do? He becomes a rams fan,
walks away from I don't know how you do it?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Sometimes, just to be clear, mature, she didn't. She didn't
get rid of my overalls. I did.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
She just was very carefully nositatively reinforcing.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
It's clever of my she got rid of those overalls.
She just got you to do it. Now.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
That is expert Jedi mind trick. Right.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Yeah, thanks for spending your holidays with Gary and Shannon Show.
You're listening to some of the best of over the
last couple of weeks and months, and thanks to everybody
for putting this together for us so that we could
take a couple of days off. Can't do it, Yeah,
we can't do it, so we need other people to
do it. 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,
(27:59):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
App the beginning of twenty twenty six, right, and I
feel like.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
There's a lot that's gone on.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
So what day is today?
Speaker 5 (00:14):
Today?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
It's gonna be Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Friday, the second second of January twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
I'm on a plane right now.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I'm still writing, like twenty twenty on my checks and stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
First of all, I'm still you write checks.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
I don't even know where a checkbook exists in my house.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
It was weird.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I did have to reorder checks. Rarely, rarely do we
write checks, but I had to write. I had to
reorder checks for the first time, probably in eight years.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, something like that. That's how rare it is.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I the last time I wrote a check, and I
can't remember what it was for. I have a check
book where you have the duplicate so you can see
where the all your checks have been, And the last
check I had written was like three years prior.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, it is really really weird. People don't do it
anywhere near as much as they used to. So today,
once again we have the day off, but we are
going to be doing some of the best of stuff
that you'll hear throughout the show today. All of our
social media still works, so if you want to throw
us some messages, we would love to hear them at
Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
You're already on a plane.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
On the way to Denver.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
To Denver, that's right now, you're but this weekend you're
not traveling with the team, at least not on your
way there because you have friends in Denver.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Oh, that's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yes, And also the team leaves tomorrow. The team leaves
on Saturday, and I was worried about not getting there
in time if there's any delay with the team at all,
to get there before the Niners kick off with the
Seahawks for the number one seed.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Mark that is.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I also to pull back the curtain a little bit.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, was invited to go to dinner with some people
from the Chargers organization. Who I should go to that dinner?
I should definitely go to that dinner. Yeah, it would
be nice and respectful and smart for me to go
to that dinner. However, the dinner is at Shanahan's Restaurant
in Denver. During the Niner Seahawks game right, and yes,
(02:11):
professionally it will be good for me to go to
the dinner. However, professionally it would be a disaster for
me to go to that dinner and have the game
on and potentially make a complete ass of myself inside
Mike Shanahan's restaurant while watching his son while having dinner
with the Chargers.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
That is a I don't know if that's an incredibly
mature decision or an incredibly immature decision, but I know,
but I have the same So because you can make
the arguments either way, like it's perfect, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
You, yeah, you know what it would look like. Yeah,
it's not good, not good.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I mean either way, if it's a great game and
the forty nine Ers win, it doesn't you're gonna make
a fool of yourself. Yes, if it's a great game
and they lose a close one or they start getting stomps,
that it's going to be a disaster.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I can't control my behavior.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
It is funny.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
My wife had asked me what I wanted for my birthday,
and I say this every year in previous years, when
when the NFL season was sixteen weeks or seventeen weeks.
It was that first week in of January was always
wild card weekend, and my request was just don't bother
me on Sunday, Yes, just let.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Me have Saturday.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I can work it out. Saturday, I can kind of
flit in and out about the game. But on Sunday,
I just want to watch a couple football games.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
That's it. Maybe have a.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Beer, undisturbed, me undisturbed, and just don't my ass rot.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, see that couch. We're gonna be friends. Yeah, we're
gonna be friends all weekend. But that that was my
argument this week. This year, she had asked me what
I want for my birthday, and I go, remember the
whole Sunday thing, Like I want to just watch football.
I'm like, Sunday doesn't matter as much. I want to
watch that game on Saturday night. Yeah, and that's it.
I don't want to go anywhere necessarily unless we're going
(03:57):
to go specifically to a place to sit at a
table where I can see the game.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
We can both watch.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Jen. Still, you're gonna have to make conversation with her
like now she's used to it.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yeah, my husband's used to it too.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
And the thing is, and I know you notice this.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I think with people who are not necessarily fans of
a sport or a game or a team, if you
get them, you can hook them early on in a game,
they'll watch the whole thing. I mean, it can be
compelling enough to even get people who are not fans,
because they will they will tap it into your certain interest.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
But there are certain games where I'm happy to be
an educator. I'm happy to answer questions, and there's certain
games where leave me the f alone and Saturday Night
is leave me the.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Flone, like, don't look at me, don't look at me.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
You know, I need to be in a safe house
where I will be with my girlfriends who I used
to travel for the forty nine ers with. I will
be in a safe space, safely esconced, padded doors rooms.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
There is a child in the house.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, but he's and he can grow out of any
sort of trauma at this point, you like, I feel
like he will grow out of the trauma that happens,
and I love him with my steel hearts.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
He's like twenty, he's gonna have these whispers of this.
One night, I remember Auntie Shannon was his mom. She
was crying and laughing at the same time, and I
don't know why.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Oh my god, I have a story about my mother
on Christmas that I can't even I can't even tell.
But but she've told a lot of stories already. She
gets she gets so mad, she gets so mad. She
even said it this Christmas. She goes, you go on
that show and you just laid me out that show,
but and you just you tell stories.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
And I'm like, Okay, the stories are true.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
The names have been changed, but the stories are true.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
She's like, you and Bellish, just like your father. I'm like,
I do not.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
That's I love it when people say that we and
Bellish stories.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah, bro, I really there. I'm an eyewitness to what happened, right.
I don't need to embellish the story to.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Make we really don't. The stories are pretty damn good
on their own. Like that one time at my house
when you started rifling through the doors and drawers and
found the poultry seasoning, and then you like strip teasing
with the poultry season Like why the poultry seasoning? But
(06:25):
in that moment, like it made so much sense. I
still think it makes sense. Other people see the problem
that you ran into is that you strip teased the
seasoning in front of people who don't think like we do,
you know.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
What I mean, Like normal strangers.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I think like Oscar and his wife were there, you know,
just people who they're fun people, but they don't they
think that's crazy, right. I see you dancing with a
jar of seasoning and I'm like perfect, Like yeah, like
this is what I wanted for this night.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Again January second. It's Friday.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
We will be back doing the live show on Monday,
so we'll kick off the year the right way. But
one of the things that we talked about a little
bit yesterday and we'll hear about it a lot in
the next couple of weeks, of course, are these new
California laws that go into effect. One of the ones
we didn't really get to but I know is making
headlines right there at the end of the year was
adding folic acid to tortillas.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
This is a this is.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
An acknowledgment that a lot of people in California eat tortillas.
It's a staple food. The thing is, we don't need
to put folic acid in it. This is going to
be an added to store bought corn twee who lobbied
for this. This is a this is a public health
thing that health officials believed that we, you young Californians specifically,
(08:00):
are not getting enough folic acid in our diet. So
one of the ways they want to do it is
to sneak it in tortilla.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I don't even folic acid. What even is that? Doctor?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Well, like, what does that help me with? And how
did they know I was deficient? And why did they
get to decide what I'm putting in my body?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
No idea?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Remember, bodily autonomy was such a big f and deal
a couple of years ago, and now they're putting stuff
in your food.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I'm going to go to the black market for my tortillas.
Here's here's the that's permanently find my tortillas in an alley.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Buy them on the street.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I guarantee you they taste better, probably fresher. But they
said that they're going to add corn folic acid to
corn tortillas and corn massa products to prevent birth defects,
especially among latinas. Was was tortilla birth defects?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Was that an issue sweeping the nation? I had never
heard of this again. That's that's one of the things
that there's been a fiery reach. They're fixing a problem
that didn't really exist. John Cobalt know about this because
he'll do a whole week of shows about government overreaching
his tortillas and he's only going to eat five tortillas.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
I mean, hell, the carne sat up without the tortilla.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Well, there's a thing that's going on in response to
take fistfuls of meat tortilla.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Be damned, he doesn't need He'll just use his hand
as if you're damn right a hamtop palm that meat.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Wait, are you sure that's what you meant to say.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I'll let you thing changes in the new year.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Some of the stuff needs to needs to continue anyway.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That that you're going to see bullock acid in your
tortillas unless you are in a small business. They are
allowed to do it without the without the tortillas. Cats
must not be declawed. Really, you cannot declaw cats to
prevent them from scratch scratch?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Are you serious?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Because it's not just I didn't know this.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I've never had a cat declaud I've wanted to because
their nasty.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Little that she declawed the cat.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Well, for one thing, it's a protection fat.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
She didn't want him to scrape up her furniture from
nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Also, it makes sense, but kidding that to embellishing why
because it was nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Since her furniture has been updated.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Oh okay, But you can't declaw a cat to prevent
them from scratching because removing a cat's towbones.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah, but you can get around there because you can
say you don't want the clubs to get infected, like there's.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Around me infected. Oh, to get them removed. Oh, I
see disease injury. That was the other thing.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
So I would never declaw a cat, like if I
was going to get a cat, which I'm not going
to do, but if I was, that seems cruel, It
seems really cool.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Well, it's it can't protect themselves. That's one of the
main things.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
That's one of the main And you would argue that
if a cat's an indoor cat, it doesn't need to
protect itself. But it's not just that they're not just
there to it's part of you. Like if I if
I went over there and I, you know, pried off
your your fingernails the first I don't think it would
feel good.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Gary, Well, I feel this if I took a set up.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Fliers to your fingernails right now because I was worried
about them getting.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Infected, I think you'd be pissed. And then I think
you'd be an a hole for the rest of your life,
like all cats.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Walking around with no fingers.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
How to ensure your cat's an a.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Hole To claw it, cut its tobo ins off, cut
off its balls, and then cut off its nails.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
We're getting more information, more more legal backing to cut
down on deep fake pornography.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Penalties against companies that do not take down deep fakes
could go as high as a quarter million dollars.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Hey, I didn't know that there was still a spousal
exception to the definition of rape.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I thought that was like an.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Old school Houselifornia. That is really se Yeah, right.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
SB two fifty eight.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
It eliminates a spousal exception to the definition of rape,
makes it a crime to assault a spouse who is
unable to consent due to force, disability, or unconsciousness.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
I thought that had gone by the wayside.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I guess maybe It's still existed in law, it just
was never used as a defense.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
But this is one of those things. This is what
I would like a state legislator to pay attention to
those old laws that are antiquated. You can take your
donkey to the fair on a Sunday or something like that.
Like that that makes sentence, But this doesn't make any Well.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
It's not right that you that you can't take your
donkey to the fair on a Sunday.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
And the reason that they give you is is God.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
You know, they say that because of God, you can't
bring your donkey to a fair on Sunday. But let
me ask you, it's like trying to order a cocktail
in the South on a Sunday before noon.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
We came here away from Britain to drink on a
Sunday before noon, is what we do. We came here
to America to take our donkey to the Ferris Wheel
on a Sunday.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Why are we being shackled like we were in Britain? Here?
How many years later, four hundred years.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Later, two hundred and fifty, whatever.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Hasn't the time come for us to drink on a
Sunday before noon in the South and take your donkey
to a fair on a Sunday in California. Well again,
I don't know if that these are things we're going
to tackle this year. Okay, right here, Then finally we're
going to fight the fight.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Lock up your guns.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
There's another law that says that you have to lock
up your gun even if you do not expect children
to be present. And then when the bad guys break
into your home, you have to don't forget where your
key is ridiculous, forget where you stored your ammunition.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Who's going to enforce that?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Like, who's going to come into my childless home and
find my gun in my bedside table and be like,
you're arrested.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I don't know, somebody in law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
All right again, most you're right, most of the show
today is going to be best of stuff. So stick around.
Glad to hear that you're here, and you gotta work
on a Friday. Sorry, we will be back on Monday.
Gary and Shannon will continue listening.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
To Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
When Mom takes over your Dating Profile Danielle, we mentioned
Danielle's thirty one years old and has her family help
her out, and on Sundays after dinner they get together,
throw the old profile up on the big screen and
get to it now. Danielle's mom like we said Susanne
or Susan. She prefers career driven men. She does not
(14:33):
like spelling or grammatical errors. Danielle's sister is focused on
trying to find somebody for Danielle that could keep up
with her adrenaline junkie hobbies like one of her profile
picks is apparently her looks like repelling down a building
of some kind.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Dad Dad gets in on this.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Dad looks for signs that the match made butt heads
with her headstrong personality. Her brother tries to steal her
away from older men. Everyone from top to bottom in
the family says anybody who wants a non monogamous relationship
is off limits. She said very few people actually pass
all of those tests, but Danielle has then had the
(15:15):
opportunity for the final veto on some of the choices.
One match an entomologist, she said, seemed especially promising, but
when Mom went on to check into bumble to check
what logged into bumble to check in, he was gone,
and Mom said her heart was broken.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah, you can't get attached mom.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Some parents when you show them, and again I think
we would react the same way when you show them
what is on these dating profiles, parents are like, that's
a lot of drinking, or that's a lot of hunting,
or that's a lot of I.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Mean whatever they're leading.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Whatever they're leading. Yeah, it can be too much. For example,
I love van Keys. Mom offered to pay for a
premium tier of the Hinge dating?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Is that guys dating people? Is that a racket to
get the premium whatever it is? Yeah, but I don't
I mean, is it a racket? Like it's it's not
worth it. They get money, more money out of you
for no reason at all. You just think you're getting
a premium experience.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
It just provides you, I guess with like, it's it's
less limited, you know, like you would be able to
swipe through different profiles more as opposed to being limited
to like a few in a day or the twenty
four hour period.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Oh you're limited yeah, yeah to how many?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I do.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
Let's just say you have like thirty or forty so
you can go through You're going through them super quickly.
Some people would just like race three them if you're
really desperate, it's just I guess, yes, yes, but you.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Know what, also a few I want to say, about
a year or two back, you would be able to
swipe more frequent And then I want to say, in
the last few year or so, now it's to the
point where like, let's say I'm having a conversation with
five people, and I don't respond back to those five,
it won't allow me to respond to new people until
(17:14):
I respond back to that person.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
What.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
Yes, So they kind of want to make sure that
you're not just leaving people on red or you know, ignoring.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
That's really stupid.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah, because you got.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
To fill a whole bench, like, you know, you're not
looking for one substitute.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
You got to have a bench, does it? Do they
know that?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Come on? Man.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
One of the other one of the other aspects of
this of having your family involved with this is they said,
it takes the pressure off of one of those key
dating milestones, which is meeting the parents, because if they
know enough about you right away, that first meeting might
not be as a pressure packed Catherine Sturgel's mom helped
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her curate her Hinge profile well, pushing for photos that
showed that she was family oriented, encouraged the twenty nine
year old to get back on the app.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
She went on a date with a golf pro.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Catherine actually confessed that it was her mom who suggested
that they go out on this date. And Ellen thought
that he dressed well and that's mom and his profession
would be a hit with her golf loving husband and son.
And the date took it as a compliment and said, well,
at least someone's in my court, someone's, you know, fighting
(18:30):
for me, even if it is his date's mom.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
That sounds like a complicated It's.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
The wrong reason I think for mom to suggest that
you need to get your husband and son a friend
by having him date your daughter, and then that seems
like a little bit mixed.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Priorities there.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Perhaps a little bit of mom meddling is good and helpful,
but too it's a delicate dance, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
I mean, moms, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I don't know how it works because my I can
just speak for what I've witnessed with my brother and
my mom my. By the time I met my my
husband's mom, and she loved everybody. I don't think that
she ever had a problem with me, but I can
speak to my my mom.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
And my brother.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
My brother has brought home a series of girls over
the years.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
We were just talking off the air about how like
my mom's got these like these little porcelain nameplates for
like the Christmas table, and you know, everyone's pretty much
sharp eat in there, you know, the family, aunt and uncle,
you know, since deceased grandparents, and Andy my brother.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
And then there's one that's been like, you know, it's
been white out. We've had to take white out to it.
We've had to, you know, because we had his wife,
and then there's been.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
There's been a handful of other ladies in his life.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
But my mom has never been anything but so welcoming
and so wonderful to every woman my brother.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Has dated in his adult life or his whole life.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
You know, she may have reservations or whatever she may
some things may pop up in her head, but you
would never know it.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
I mean, it was always just.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Open arms, welcoming into the family for whoever my brother
was dating. And I know that's probably not always the case.
Moms have opinions, you know, and they're usually.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Uh strong opinions, many they're usually.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
But I don't think my mom ever said to my
brother you know, this one's a problem or this one's
going to be a problem.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
I think she was always very supportive to him.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I did have one girlfriend that my brother, one of
my brothers in law, was not happy with.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
He didn't tell me until after we broke up. So
this is your sister's husband. Yes, one of your sister's
husbands did not like a girl you were dating.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
And he didn't never say, never said anything until we
broke up, and then he was like, yeah, she was
not the one.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Really what what did he say? What could he point
to or what?
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Just different personalities, different personality types that we had interesting
And I thought at the time, I was like, what,
thanks for telling me. Now I would have I would
have at least listened to him. I probably would have
ignored it.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
But right, well, that's always a question too, you know,
who do you listen to when it comes to.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
And the idea that's the weird part about this article
is that so few people would listen to their parents
if you brought.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Are their friends or anyone.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
But usually it's because they they bring around the boyfriend,
girlfriend or whatever after making their own decision. If mom
was involved in the original decision. You avoid that problem.
I suppose yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Some you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
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Speaker 1 (21:56):
Your kids are of dating or ages. They're out there
living their lives. If they came to you and said,
can you run my dating apps?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
What would you say and what would you look for?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
I wouldn't run it.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
You would just give input.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I would give input, but I would There's no way
I would run it.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
What kind of input do you think you would? You
mean you would give input on bulls?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Don't lie?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Oh you swear? When you're a dad, you have to.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Oh, just don't lie?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
What do you mean like? Don't lie, like lie about
what whatever?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Don't use fake pictures, don't lie about what your interests are.
Don't don't try to make yourself look more interesting. You're
just going to disappoint people. And then you have to
try to live up to this fake profile that you made.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Are you talking about our pictures when Richie retouches them?
And sometimes it doesn't make you feel good when you
see what's in the mirror. You know what it's It's
not all lighting Richie, it's lies. It's lighting the word
of lighting is you see enough Richie pictures and then
you look in the mirror and you're like, I am
a piece of crap?
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Is that what you're that's what you're referring to.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I wasn't thinking about myself.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
No, sure, okay, okay, So don't look at you for
four hours? That's so true.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Oh my god, you have to look at me more
than you have to look at yourself. Think about that.
That's crazy. I'm sorry, I am sorry, especially after.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
You Richie's pictures.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
No, but.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Like, would you be worried that that would be you know,
crossing a lone like too much input?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
If you or you would just do.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Thing you asked me? No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I don't think it would, but I but I would.
I would never assume that they would want my input.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah, and then what would you tell that let's talk
about and just say your daughter, what would you want
her to run away from on those app What would
you see on those apps that would make you say, nah.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Not him.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
I think that she would probably have a pretty good
BS meter right away. Yeah, and that if there's a
whiff of inauthenticity, that that's what you would stay away from,
right Because I mean, I don't know. Here's what I
don't quite get. I mean, when you do that, when
(24:26):
you do online dating like that, it seems like you're
taking away some of what is a natural progression of
a relationship.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Well, that's why I was talking about earlier, all the
wasted time, because when you meet face to face, you
know if you're going to have chemistry with someone within
ten fifteen forty seconds. And that if you see someone
that looks good on an app, they could look great
in their pictures and you like what they're saying, but
when you see them, there's nothing there there well.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
And if you it gives you too many opportunities to
say no right away.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I think, oh okay, because if you.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
If somebody gives for example, if somebody gives too much information.
Let me say this early early two thousand's Shannon Farren
out in the world, and you see somebody wearing, for example,
RAMS gear.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Now I just got into a fight in the newsroom
with a Rams fan.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
But I mean, this is no, it's not that you can't.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
I would never.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
I would never. In fact, I dated someone in Seattle.
I was twenty three, twenty four. He was a Seahawks fan,
and I said this, just so you know, this is
never going to be long term. This is never going
to work out because you're a Seahawks fan. And he
thought that was ridiculous. He thought that, well, that's.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Well, it is a little ridiculous. But I would say
this that.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
That's the way I thought back then, right.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
But I'm and I'm saying that if if that was, uh,
you know, one of the criteria you immediately said no to,
or one of the reasons why you immediately said Notice, anybody.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Missing out on a what I'm missing out dating a
Seahawks fan out of here?
Speaker 2 (26:02):
You're missing out on the opportunity to to find something.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
You know, maybe maybe he's not.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I like closing the door too early. I think that's
good for some people. Sometimes you got to close the
door because you know what that is as your gut instinct,
Your gut is telling you that there's no way in
hell you're going to make a life.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
With the Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
My wife, my wife mauf, had she seen my dating
profile pick of me standing in overalls, yeah, move on,
that's what she would have said.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Even as good as I made those overalls, you.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Don't know that has she told I don't think she would.
I don't think she would say that. I think her
gut feeling would say, those overalls are trash. But that
looks like a nice human, that looks like a good guy.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna meet him, and I'm
gonna get rid of those overalls, which is what she did.
And I still feel the same did I still feel
(26:58):
like I still feel like if you're and my sister
is married to a rams fan, and I don't know
how she lives in that house, their their spawn, their child,
also a RAMS fan, I don't know how she lives
in that house.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Two rams fans.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
One you gave birth to You give birth to the child,
and what does he do? He becomes a rams fan,
walks away from I don't know how you do it?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Sometimes, just to be clear, mature, she didn't. She didn't
get rid of my overalls. I did.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
She just was very carefully nositatively reinforcing.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
It's clever of my she got rid of those overalls.
She just got you to do it. Now.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
That is expert Jedi mind trick. Right.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Yeah, thanks for spending your holidays with Gary and Shannon Show.
You're listening to some of the best of over the
last couple of weeks and months, and thanks to everybody
for putting this together for us so that we could
take a couple of days off. Can't do it, Yeah,
we can't do it, so we need other people to
do it. You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
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